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[00:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:35] <exec> 08└─The Hooknosed Harpies from the Star of David, written by Lev Sheckelzoid (not his real name) He even wrote a children's book, The Loud, Lethal Legumes from the Lowlands
[00:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:36] <exec> 08└─That's an odd way to say "the right hated seeing minorities in sci-fi stories and built an astroturf campaign to manipulate votes." I mean, it's a technically true, but it's the exact same "right spitefully burns everything down over perceived slights. followed by people asking why are we so divided...
[00:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:38] <exec> 08└─'nough said
[00:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:41] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty powerful recommendation.
[00:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:43] <exec> 08└─This is not going to end well! Or, alternatively, That degenerated fast! So the question is, will the lack of politics mean that the Poor Boys/Sad Puppies/Eurovolk/alt-right will have total control over this? Because when eds here talk about politically neutral, the usually mean "bury the aristarch...
[00:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:45] <exec> 08└─Come on America! You're all grown up now, why can there only be two of anything over there? All your friends have lots of political parties, and any number of different points of view, but you guys can only ever muster two. I believe in you, I know you can do better.
[00:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:47] <exec> 08└─but not with my dick.
[00:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:07] <exec> 08└─Sadly I cannot unsolder the i7 my high-end "gaming" laptop came with and solder in a Ryzen. I might if I had the option, but cannot be. Intel might gag the distros, but not the users... So far, my own experience with several machines, 3 or 4 i5-based an i-3 and two i7 machines is this: boot times ar...
[00:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:08] <exec> 08└─"Their CEO is quite clickable"?
[00:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:10] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Intel's lawyers did think of that: "You ... will not allow any third party..." But I expect a contract agreement can't oblige one of the parties to become a vigilante. Does Intel seriously expect recipients of their patches to monitor and restrain thousands of users? Did they even think...
[00:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:00] <exec> 08└─Only if you accept that to be true. Part of reality? What does that mean? I can't live without Twitter, I can't conduct my daily affairs without Tweeting, Twitter is as important as air? I would argue that oxygen is a reality, water is a reality, eating every day is a reality. Isn't there something...
[00:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:02] <exec> 08└─Oh god, this one is even better than the notorious "This is a lighthouse. Your call". I wonder how long it'll take to reach meme status?
[00:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:04] <exec> 08└─Oooh, as a necrophiliac it's time for me to do my thing ... giggity
[00:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:38] <exec> 08└─I told khallow to stop visiting the cave on the other side of the valley! But would he listen?
[00:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:57] <exec> 08└─I think your suggestions are a step in the right direction, but what would such a product look like? Imagine an internet connected toaster with a microphone so you could set the toast darkness by voice; and a camera so it can burn your face onto your toast because hey, dumb gimmicks sell -- lets say...
[00:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:32] <exec> 08└─I'll second the AC in pointing out that your responded mostly out of topic. To address the offtopic fire department problem, the problem stems from the Federal government allowing wireless spectrum auctions without mandating that the bid winners have to provide true unlimited data to emergency servi...
[00:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:33] <exec> 08└─All of the lanes would carry all of the traffic in a neutral system.
[00:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:36] <exec> 08└─Well, apparently the author of the bill also believes in the free-market of spreading AIDS. [nbcnews.com] Every. Fucking. Time.
[00:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:07] <exec> 08└─it's not secure to a geek worried about geeky things that only geeks care about
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[01:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:55] <exec> 08└─Only over time.
[01:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Disagree) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 2184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:56] <exec> 08└─TFS fully believes the claims of the "Sad Puppies" or whoever they are now, who decided that the reason why a certain author's books weren't being nominated for Hugos had nothing to do with their quality and everything to do with some sort of discrimination against him because he was a right-wing wh...
[01:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:59] <exec> 08└─Watch that Chinese guy. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] That guy may have done his best work already - or he may blow us all away with something bigger and better one day soon. If Hollywood were to cut a deal, the Remembrance trilogy could become the next huge Star Wars or St...
[01:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:01] <exec> 08└─I think this is a great idea. But rather than just judging new books I'd love to see other Soylentils views of any SF title, like a SN Rotten Tomatoes. If, before I fork out for the next Great Thing, I could see how other readers of this site rated it, I'd be that much more confident. I am always lo...
[01:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:03] <exec> 08└─I haven't read much recently written scifi, and I would love to be introduced to some authors who aren't dead or close to it. I tried to read Liu Cixin but the writing style didn't appeal to me, which might have been a product of poor translation, or maybe because I was comparing to Le Guin and Cher...
[01:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can organize a book club in the journals and submit reviews to the main page under a "Community Review" section?
[01:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:08] <exec> 08└─Apparently, you don't know what "science fiction" is, or you would be on the Sad Puppie's side. Space opera and science fiction have some things in common, but they are not the same thing at all. Sci-fi can stand on it's own without drama. Those other types of story that depend on drama are somethin...
[01:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:10] <exec> 08└─Mod parent up. Liu Cixin has more talent in one book than you'll find in a whole trilogy by the SJW Hugo Best SciFi by Black Transexual award winner.
[01:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:12] <exec> 08└─That's exactly what the Community Reviews nexus is for. We would also be willing to put a book club thing on the front page in that nexus. For example, 1 post at the start of the month telling you to read a book, and another post after 1 month discussing the book and picking another one. In between,...
[01:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:14] <exec> 08└─Reality Winner just got five years. There's a good chance Elizabeth Holmes will be joining her before then, so we can forget about boring SciFi books if we can figure how to smuggle in a camera for that hot prison lesbian action.
[01:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:17] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Zombie, but that just isn't going to happen ... especially in the current political climate. We have to be able to blame someone, and it's always easier to point the finger at one enemy. If we are in power, then they are the opposition - the obstructionists! If they are in power then we are t...
[01:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:19] <exec> 08└─Suck my tits and twat.
[01:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:21] <exec> 08└─I say let that creepy spammer have the award (along with the Soylent News Spam Award).
[01:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:23] <exec> 08└─Some awards can only be won posthumously.
[01:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:25] <exec> 08└─Okay, I haven't kept up much with SF literature since the 90s. I was really hoping for some recommendations from others! However, I can list a few of my favorites: Lord of Light, Doorways in the Sand, This Immortal, by Roger Zelazny. Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asim...
[01:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:27] <exec> 08└─What is odd, is that you on the left cannot recognize any minority on the right. Remember Doctor Carson, a successful black guy who made a bid to be president of the United States? To you, he was just an Uncle Tom. No minority can be conservative, or independent, or libertarian - they all "owe" thei...
[01:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:30] <exec> 08└─No, sorry you are wrong and history clearly shows that - you seem to be WAY too focused on semantics. I suspect you also have not read much space opera.. Space opera is a common form of Science fiction - and many of the Science Fiction greats have written it.. As in Hard Science fiction - another co...
[01:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:32] <exec> 08└─A few of the authors I have read in the last 12 months (some of which are also on your list). Listing books? thats a lot of work, I tend to read an authors complete works, or at least skim them. Ian M.Banks Frank Herbert James Corey Kim Stanley Neal Stephenson Stephen Baxter Gary Gibson David Brin A...
[01:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:56] <exec> 08└─sudo apt-get remove --purge intel-microcode fuck it, I'm outta here. I'll take NO microcode to the bullshit they are shoving our way. the fact that they gag us says it all. I don't need to see numbers. I'm done buying intel cpus at this point. its not just that they fucked up the silicon (and they h...
[01:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:57] <exec> 08└─As a Linux User, and part of the worldwide Linux Users Group, I don't exactly answer to anyone. Whatever I do, is not by "permission". Linus Torvalds does not "permit" me to do much of anything. I can run benchmarks all day long (or all month long) and publish the results wherever I wish. My readers...
[01:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:59] <exec> 08└─There is little to nothing that is "open source" about Intel. To them, minimal cooperation with open source seems to be good for business. At such time that they might determine that open source costs more than it is worth, they'll ditch open source.
[01:43:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 406 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:10] <exec> 08└─She reached out to me with an unnecessary apology which I heartily accepted and returned with my own. After talking to her, I am certain she deserves a position in the aerospace industry and I'm doing all I can to secure her one that will be better than she lost. I have also talked to the folks that...
[01:43:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:22] <exec> 08└─It it's private free speech, no problem. The moment she explicitly associated herself with NASA, they have the right to an opinion.
[01:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:54] <exec> 08└─Why don't you post your name and address so we can meet and discuss this in person. I would like to see whether you can back up your mouth when you're not hiding behind a keyboard.
[01:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:55] <exec> 08└─college age is still very young. why have someone be punished for something so stupid, when you can forgive and she'll have learned her lesson well enough. the whole thing could be made into a big positive, depending on how you handle it. they used to call it a 'teachable moment'.
[01:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:57] <exec> 08└─That's how that cunt's friend talk.
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[02:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:25] <exec> 08└─Why shouldn't the American public know this (the leaked info) ?
[02:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:26] <exec> 08└─Cause we might get upset and demand reform which plugs all the holes being used to game the elections. While that happens people just might get pissed enough at the two party system to vote in a 3rd. Now that I think about it I wonder how many 3rd party votes have been trashed in the past?
[02:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:28] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Assange's good buddies just happened to out the source of a leak that helped Clinton...
[02:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:30] <exec> 08└─Ask this clown. [soylentnews.org]
[02:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:33] <exec> 08└─The goal of the those in charge is to hide the truth. For them the truth is a variable and subject to whatever spin they want to apply to it. This woman did something good that helped us see the truth. As a result she will pay with jail time. Meanwhile flag pissing scum like Joe aperio and others wi...
[02:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:35] <exec> 08└─Peasants are to stupid to know these things. As evidence, I present this "Reality Winner" character who was caught almost before her "evidence" could be read by the people she leaked it to. It would have been a kindness if some teacher in Reality's past had taught her, "Do not meddle in the affairs...
[02:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:37] <exec> 08└─No need to be bigoted. You do realize that the clown is a bigoted representation of those of Irish descent.
[02:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:39] <exec> 08└─because it changed a "success" into a "fail"? consider the fact that it didn't leak. how would the world look today? would there be a trial? would there be witch hunting tweets?
[02:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:41] <exec> 08└─Huh? I don't recall that Assange had anything to do with this chick being caught. She printed stuff on a "company" printer, which put those yellow dots on the printed sheet. When published, those tell-tale dots identified her. How does Assange figure into this?
[02:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:44] <exec> 08└─WikiLeaks Accuses The Intercept of Outing Alleged NSA Leaker [soylentnews.org] FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks [soylentnews.org] The Intercept doesn't look like such a great buddy to WikiLeaks anymore. In fact, it doesn't look like it's such a great outlet fo...
[02:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:46] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_protection_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org] I'm pretty sure the laws only protect whistleblowers who make a complaint to the appropriate government office, not a media outlet. And you can still face rejection or other consequences when going through th...
[02:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:48] <exec> 08└─want some real fake news? trump is going to pardon her ... muahahaha
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:50] <exec> 08└─The zombie bitch is still muttering obscenities about 2020 . . . someone needs to drive a stake through her heart. Oh wait - she has no heart.
[02:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:52] <exec> 08└─Considering it's a 5 year sentence, even if a Democrat was elected in 2020, Reality Winner is not getting out early. Obama waited until the last week of his Presidency to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence. No way is a Democrat going to pardon someone convicted of a national security violation durin...
[02:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:25] <exec> 08└─Do you have any interest in military stories? David Drake wrote the Hammer's Slammers series, and a fairly large number of other books. All of his writing is filled with violence, including senseless violence, so if that doesn't appeal don't bother. Tom Kratman writes in a similar manner, with the d...
[02:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:26] <exec> 08└─That is one of the stupider things you've written recently. +5 impressive
[02:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:28] <exec> 08└─Huh, in a twisted way this whole left/right fight might end up with conservatives broadening their horizons as they find solidarity amongst other cultures. The Lord of Pasta works in mysterious ways.
[02:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:30] <exec> 08└─Please, you give me too much credit. I borrowed that stupidity from the left. It all belongs to them.
[02:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:33] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/journal/3477 [soylentnews.org] Have at it.
[02:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:35] <exec> 08└─SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating the Thought Police [amazon.com] by Vox Day
[02:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:37] <exec> 08└─You are so stupid you had to borrow more? Time to live up to your name.
[02:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:39] <exec> 08└─Electoral math means things eventually collapse to two parties. But we currently have a crapload of warring factions in the runup to what increasingly looks like a hot civil war to thin it back to a couple of survivors. On the "Progressive" side you have Socialists, Democratic Socialists, Communists...
[02:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:41] <exec> 08└─As an outsider who is neither a Democrat or a Republican, I can tell you that Dr. Ben Carson is viewed as neither a doctor, or a successful black man, but as a total fuckwit. America dodged a bullet when he dropped out of the race.
[02:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:44] <exec> 08└─So, uhhhhhh - Carson didn't really perform neural surgery on any patients? And - he didn't make any money doing so? Or, are you arguing the allegation that he is black? Do your views make him un-black, maybe? I think I'm beginning to understand - he's a white guy in the closet, and he should come ou...
[02:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:10] <exec> 08└─their network cards (still among the best if not the best) are fully open. no binary blogs and I don't remember there ever being any. their i3/5/7 graphics are open. the video from the old atom series was not open, but the i-series is. nvidia is the closed one, in video space. they release specs on...
[02:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:11] <exec> 08└─It appears to me that you are all chickenshit bastards.
[02:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:14] <exec> 08└─Too Late, buddy.
[02:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:16] <exec> 08└─You should stop looking at the world through your chickenshit colored glasses. Try those silly rose colored glasses. Lev Sheckelzoid recommends them!
[02:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:12] <exec> 08└─It hasn't been hard for me to find someone who wants the "points", or whatever else the stores are shilling. I do agree with you and I'm sure the grocery powers that be (and pharmacies, etc.) are thinking of ways to prevent people from doing that. The clerks don't mind that the name on the screen is...
[02:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:13] <exec> 08└─Young? Yes. The best time to learn such a lesson. A lifetime to not make the same mistake. If she were to do this when she was later in her career the consequences could have much more weight. Wish I had learned, when I was young, what I know now. And some of the best lessons we experience in life a...
[02:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:52] <exec> 08└─He was just looking for some animals skins so he could add some nice straps to his boots.
[02:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:53] <exec> 08└─or many guys will fuck almost anything.
[02:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:55] <exec> 08└─That sounds like disrespect for early property rights. He should hunt an animal, tan some leather, and fashion his own bootstraps.
[02:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─the only real solution is not to have them.
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[03:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:49] <exec> 08└─"hi, I'm larry, this is daryll and this is my other brother daryll"
[03:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:51] <exec> 08└─I used that one on job sites from time to time. It was funniest when neither Daryll nor Daryll had ever met me before.
[03:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:54] <exec> 08└─No need to be bigoted. You do realize that the clown is a bigoted representation of those of Irish descent. Oh yeah? Well, if clowns are Irish, then why does Ronald McDonald have a Scottish name? In all seriousness, clowns have been around since the middle ages (think the Jester), and references to...
[03:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:38] <exec> 08└─I see him as a once successful and brilliant neurosurgeon who happened to be a total fuckwit as a politician.
[03:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:40] <exec> 08└─Apropos of nothing, I will seize this opportunity to drop the opening lines of the Operating Thetan Level III materials from Scientology: The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250...
[03:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:42] <exec> 08└─I really enjoyed The Peripheral by William Gibson, although some fans of his older works aren't so keen on it. I also loved Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.
[03:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:45] <exec> 08└─Ahhhh, that's better than the above. Carson may or may not be a fuckwit as a politician, but you do give him credit for being a smart mofo who managed to save a lot of lives.
[03:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:47] <exec> 08└─Splitting Science Fiction from Sci-Fi is the part where the fist fights will break out. Fantasy is usually easy enough to push off into a different genre but even stuff written as hard science fiction can quickly look like Sci-Fi as events march on. Science fiction is always a projection from a pres...
[03:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:49] <exec> 08└─Come on America! You're all grown up now, why can there only be two of anything over there? All your friends have lots of political parties, and any number of different points of view, but you guys can only ever muster two.
[03:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:52] <exec> 08└─Interesting, informative, and insightful all in one post... thank you!
[03:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:54] <exec> 08└─Conversations about Dr. Carson tended to go something like this: "That Ben Carson is a brain surgeon" "Oh, the guy running for president? Must be a smart cookie" "He doesn't believe in evolution" "Ha, yeah whatever. Wait, really? What a fuckwit".
[03:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:56] <exec> 08└─Don't be derivative
[03:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:58] <exec> 08└─Can only subscribers nominate volunteer offer to kill someone?
[03:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:00] <exec> 08└─I'm always told "it's first past the post", but the UK has FPtP also, and currently has 8 parties in parliament, so I don't buy it. According to Wikipedia, the US has had two parties since the Civil War, and has never had three parties or more for more than a few years. You're exactly right about...
[03:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:03] <exec> 08└─Scifi channel became SyFy and things like Sharknado and Buffy get played, because they need a place to put "alternative reality fiction" By extension, they could even show Brady Bunch re-runs. Wince the channel didn't go back, it must rate better than it did when it was SciFi.
[03:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:31] <exec> 08└─Worked for President Trump.
[03:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:33] <exec> 08└─Quick, subpoena him to congress, make him invest $100k in legal counsel, and then perhaps indict him for felony picking up a seashell in violation of any foreign law, then lying about it, or both!
[03:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:35] <exec> 08└─Not being radical enough in SJW dominated orgs can get you PNGd in your entire industry.
[03:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:10] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia the Internet neutralizes YOU
[03:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain From Knowing When to Stop Eating - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:40] <exec> 08└─Do I dare to eat a peach?
[03:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:08] <exec> 08└─I changed /usr/bin/firefox to call the original binary 'su'ed to a neutered user whose shell is /sbin/nologin That user has its own partition with web browser configuration files, etc. under it. All plugins activated by the browser are owned by that same user. /home and other important personal part...
[03:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:09] <exec> 08└─How do you download files that you wish to keep? (Presumably a separate download manager but I am interested in your setup)
[03:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How's That Encryption Coming, Buddy? DNS Requests Routinely Spied on, Boffins Claim - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:48] <exec> 08└─We've been running our own authoritative DNS servers with DNSSEC and several other goodies for years. Surprisingly few clients query for signed responses. Even though DNS over TLS has been proposed for recursive servers, we're tempted to add support on port 853 on our authoritative servers. Would be...
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[04:41:21] <exec> 08└─Doctorow: Yeah, I really need to get working on that one. I’m working on a story about “burners” — people who go to Burning Man — who experiment with a 3-D printer that they can leave on the playa — on the gypsum desert — that harvests gypsum dust and turns it into a yurt over the coup...
[04:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:46] <exec> 08└─is setup an email server in her closet and email those docs to herself. When caught she could've just pointed her finger to a certain presidential candidate.
[04:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:48] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I wonder what exactly triggered you into a spamcrazy meltdown?
[04:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:50] <exec> 08└─Probably because if you're a Republican, you hate Hillary. If you're a Democrat, there's still a good chance you hate Hillary. She appeals to both sides like that.
[04:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:52] <exec> 08└─What you have to realize is that you only get Federal Govt whistleblower protection if you "out" someone the govt doesn't like. It's really no protection at all in the general case. It's meant to protect someone who exposes a person who is ripping off the govt or breaking govt policy.
[04:42:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:10] <exec> 08└─Watch that Chinese guy. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] That guy may have done his best work already - or he may blow us all away with something bigger and better one day soon. If Hollywood were to cut a deal, the Remembrance trilogy could become the next huge Star Wars or St...
[04:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:49] <exec> 08└─I wasn't that keen on Hammer's Slammers, but have read a fair few of his other stuff, and they're always rollicking (that's a good thing). Flint's great, Lackey's great, Weber's great, Ringo's pretty good, and IMO Massa is a bit patchy. My library is full of Baen books.
[04:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:50] <exec> 08└─Watt do you mean?
[04:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:52] <exec> 08└─Muslims and Christians are a political class now? Put down the pipe you've had too much.
[04:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:54] <exec> 08└─But then how will we change?
[04:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:56] <exec> 08└─You've just described all politicians.
[04:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:26] <exec> 08└─I thought the microcode got loaded by BIOS (or EFI-BOOT) or by the kernel? [trundles off to check...] Yep, right there in kernel config. So just make your own kernel, or grab an older microcode and compile it into a newer kernel. May be easier said than done...
[04:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:29] <exec> 08└─Hey, you can still disagree with the idea of using taxes to fund universal health and education. We already mostly have education anyway, so it isn't some wild stretch of the imagination. All I'm saying is get your facts straight.
[04:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:31] <exec> 08└─I guess I parsed GP's words differently than he had intended, but the game is that anyone willing to work with Trump will be dragged into the meat grinder of politicized justice. Besides possibly getting fucked over by Trump too.
[04:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:33] <exec> 08└─it's not part of mine except when I see this kind of thing on the news
[04:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:35] <exec> 08└─A few profane words should not disqualify anyone from being hired for any job, if those words were not said during the job interview or while working at the job.
[04:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:56] <exec> 08└─That you are ignorant of the evidence, and when presented with it you actively ignore it to remain ignorant, is not proof that there is no evidence.
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[04:48:15] <exec> 08└─Mass migration does not solve the underlying problems. It just moves the problem. These people claim that they need protection. They fear being shot, raped, murdered. They fear thieves. Yet, when they move to another country this is what they do there. Europe is screwed. If they had allowed a small...
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[05:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:23] <exec> 08└─Pay more. It's shitty work, nobody wants to do it. So pay more. Yeah, prices at the local megamart will go up. Don't like it? I'd like to say write your local congresscritter, but unless you can donate the max amount to their campaign fund you'll be ignored. I'd also say tighten the rules for welfar...
[05:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:25] <exec> 08└─If the pay goes up, the incentive to automate that job goes up. Obviously, there is already a lot of automation in big agriculture, but there could be even more.
[05:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:27] <exec> 08└─If the pay goes up, the incentive to automate that job goes up.
[05:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:29] <exec> 08└─Famed dancer, pop star, and television personality Paula Abdul is the daughter of an immigrant from Syria and Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham is the son of a Syrian immigrant. One of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, was the son of a Muslim immigrant wh...
[05:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:31] <exec> 08└─If automated, then my food isn't getting touched all over by humans. This change would improve food safety. If automated, then there is less temptation to import uneducated people who hate my culture, values, and more.
[05:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:33] <exec> 08└─Hispanics immigrants as a rule are hard workers. They are Christian and, while their countries are poor, are Western societies in the main sense, albeit corrupt ones. They aren't looking to overthrow our culture. Yes a small number are criminal, but the vast majority are not. They are here to work,...
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[05:41:43] <exec> 08└─I heard there was a guy at burning man who was on mushrooms for a month. People would just leave out food and water in the desert and hed come grab it like some sort of biblical age prophet. At the end he had quit all his addictions (booze, cigarettes, etc).
[05:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building Bricks on the Moon from Lunar Dust - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:45] <exec> 08└─I'm by no means a rocket or moon scientist, but, if we're going to put structures on the moon made of bricks, what about meteors/meteorites? The moon is supposedly hit over 100K times per day by various sized objects, and there is no atmosphere to burn them up like on Earth. I'm thinking buildings a...
[05:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks on the Moon from Lunar Dust - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:48] <exec> 08└─Micrometeorites also hit the ISS. You just need enough shielding to deal with the problem. Make it thicc. Probably the correct way to deal with it is to build underground on the Moon, or even in a lava tube [soylentnews.org]. This could also help with maintaining the right temperature. You might sti...
[05:42:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:31] <exec> 08└─Come on America! You're all grown up now, why can there only be two of anything over there? All your friends have lots of political parties, and any number of different points of view, but you guys can only ever muster two. I believe in you, I know you can do better.
[05:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:20] <exec> 08└─Didn't you see The Last Sharknado: It's About Time? All six films are now a perfectly science fiction time loop story thing now. (snerk) No it isn't science fiction but it was at least funny as hell at least some of the time. It was listed as a "science fiction disaster comedy" so ok. When Science F...
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[05:43:21] <exec> 08└─It's strange to see muslims randomly walking through sci fi scenes. Can anyone explain the black elf [wikia.com] in the Shannara Chronicles. Is this supposed to be a Dark Elf or something?
[05:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:23] <exec> 08└─Huh. With a name like that I always thought she was a he. Live and learn. Thanks. Still not much of a fan of the writing though, tbh.
[05:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:25] <exec> 08└─Does The Mote in God's Eye count as military? If you want more explicitly and wholly military SF, I've read Starship Troopers, Ender's Game, Stirling and Drake's The General series, Drake's The Voyage, A Hymn Before Battle (because it was in the Baen free library), and Saberhagen's Berserker, and I...
[05:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:27] <exec> 08└─Of all of the time travel fixes I know of, this was the best. Pity they had to destroy their only means of escape to do it, but hey, it's not like they were going to leave anyway. Real shame there are no more Pern books after Anne left us. Time for a series re-read I think. After I finish this Wheel...
[05:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:29] <exec> 08└─May his noodly appendage reach out to you in your moment of need. Pasta-man.
[05:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:32] <exec> 08└─I just want to chime in that I'm not making fun of you for decent comments. You make a good point, too many people mock Carson but it is crazy hard to stand up in front of the entire country.
[05:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:34] <exec> 08└─No, it is simply another salvo in the war against racism. Why are there no black elves? Why are all the dark skinned creatures in LOTR the baddies? I love LOTR, but you can't deny the rather significant racism even if it was unintentional.
[05:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:36] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, the white genuinely mentally unwell asshole we got instead was so much better. Also we weren't "spared" cain, he's secretary of housing and urban development, and there's been some scandals quietly swallowed up by the ongoing fuckstorm that is trump.
[05:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, many of the greats indulged in it, especially in the pulp days, for one very good reason: It pays. Many of the old masters were pure mercenaries like that. Some apparently enjoyed doing it, and why not? There should be an audience for a variety of stories, including space opera. A lot of storie...
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[05:44:02] <exec> 08└─sudo apt-get remove --purge intel-microcode fuck it, I'm outta here. I'll take NO microcode to the bullshit they are shoving our way. the fact that they gag us says it all. I don't need to see numbers. I'm done buying intel cpus at this point. its not just that they fucked up the silicon (and they h...
[05:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:10] <exec> 08└─their network cards (still among the best if not the best) are fully open. no binary blogs and I don't remember there ever being any.
[05:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:18] <exec> 08└─The only downside to socialism, taxes, is completely nullified by the benefits to individuals and societies such as education and healthcare.
[05:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:19] <exec> 08└─Yes-menning can be dangerous, because you then start to see censorship of other views. Like you see right now with Social Media shutting down "hate speech". Who decides what that hate is or where the line is drawn... slippery slope to Adolf's Dream part the next (left or right, extreme regimes are b...
[05:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:59] <exec> 08└─The animal owned its skin, khallow was trespassing and should be shot. /joking_for_you_serious_buggers_don't_worry_the_libs_aren't_out_to_get_you
[05:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Seattle’s Smoke Clears, Experts Weigh What’s Ahead for Pacific Northwest Skies - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:41] <exec> 08└─I had a goof in my last reply to this paragraph. Argument from authority isn't a fallacy when the people engaged in the argument have no other evidence or expertise to fall back on. More to the point, if you're going to contradict the relevant authorities on a subject, you'd better have something pr...
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[05:48:43] <exec> 08└─So by your own line of reason, increases in wildfire frequency isn't evidence that changes in how wildfires are treated have lead to increases in wildfire frequency because there is another theory that also predicts it.
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[06:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:34] <exec> 08└─That means a major shift in demographics towards Hispanic immigrants is a major shift away from the founding principles of a small, explicitly limited government whose sole role is to protect each individual citizen's natural, innate rights, chief among which are the rights to life, liberty, and the...
[06:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:36] <exec> 08└─It is hard dirty work, and anyone who claims it is unskilled labor is a fool. They pay the farm workers here in the Yuma area upwards of $20.00/hour to harvest lettuce, cabbage, dates, citrus and pick cotton. In the central valley a skilled berry picker can make even more. They are paid by the pound...
[06:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:38] <exec> 08└─That means you've got to learn the language, learn the local culture, learn the way people here dress and interaction, etc. We want future Americans, not balkanized foreigner invaders grown on taxpayer money. This is especially true of Islamic foreigners, among whom there exists a very real dogma of...
[06:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:40] <exec> 08└─If the pay goes up, the incentive to automate that job goes up.
[06:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:42] <exec> 08└─It is not true that "a small number are criminal". First of all, 100% of the people who illegally crossed the border are criminal. Many of the rest are also criminal, getting to stay here by various kinds of visa fraud: sham marriages, falsely claimed refugee status, etc. Second of all, one doesn't...
[06:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:44] <exec> 08└─You are aware that the USA has no official language, right?
[06:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:46] <exec> 08└─You are aware that culture exists in the absence of (or even despite) "official" declarations, right? Look at them goalposts go...
[06:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks on the Moon from Lunar Dust - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:57] <exec> 08└─Imagine a Moogloo. An igloo built from blocks of lunar dust. Nanook of the north would laughing if only he was still alive.
[06:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:38] <exec> 08└─Well she wasn't one of these modern feminist authors that try to make that the center of their career but if you read _The Pliocene Companion_ "10th book" in the series that has interviews and such with her it isn't a mystery. That and it shows in the writing. Very few authors can avoid it, whether...
[06:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:39] <exec> 08└─I guess they all look alike to you, but Herman Cain and Ben Carson are two different black Republicans. One is a world famous neurosurgeon (retired) who is now leading the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the other is a pizza baron turned talk radio host.
[06:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:41] <exec> 08└─However, I find the premises implausible.
[06:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:43] <exec> 08└─Because elves are part of the myths invented by Europeans. And Tolkien was explicitly creating a myth cycle for his people, the English. If one is reading a African myth it would be a bit silly if there were random people from other areas unrelated to the setting for the story. Don't remember protes...
[06:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:45] <exec> 08└─It's up to you, IMHO. When you post your suggestions, you can write Science Fiction, Sci-Fi or Fantasy. We will disagree, certainly. Is "Ender's game" science fiction or sci-fi? See, I understand your comment, I simply don't want everything including the kitchen sink labeled as Science Fiction, whic...
[06:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:18] <exec> 08└─What if you just find one of these computers with the patch at a garage sale or whatever?
[06:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:26] <exec> 08└─I'm saying "I don't want to take anything from you." You are saying "Pay your fair share, Comrade", while you point a gun in my face. We can't just agree to disagree. This is a serious dispute, and you're the one making things dangerous.
[06:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:26] <exec> 08└─Is there anything useful in the field of smart home technology? I played around with it 20 years ago and have automated a lot of things (arduino, rpi and many others). Other than the geewhiz factor, have not found anything even remotely useful. I guess I don't feel that turning a key in a mechanical...
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[07:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:28] <exec> 08└─I came, I saw, I laughed. Now I’ll save everyone else the trouble of a comparison. In one word: No.
[07:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:29] <exec> 08└─the AK-47 is a rifle, not a machine gun.
[07:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:31] <exec> 08└─I would say that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but... I chuckled. Then again, if its as reliable and easy to manufacture (and purchase) as an AK-47 it could still become a serious hit.
[07:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:52] <exec> 08└─There's a specific number they have to hire. Canada has this too. I looked into it a while back - I could go back to Canada to stay if I hired fifteen Canadians. I don't think there's any particular requirement they be highly paid. It would cost a whole lot less to hire fifteen burger flippers to st...
[07:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:53] <exec> 08└─Sure, no new jobs are being created, but a new competitor is being created, which helps the consumer. Sure, those jobs aren't paying particularly well, but that wealthy person is now going to be spending his resources in this country rather than that country. As said before: Immigration is just find...
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[07:42:05] <exec> 08└─Moogloo
[07:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:35] <exec> 08└─There's not a whole lot to do in the slammer. Sometimes someone in my pod got the Columbian. He would share it so I could read every word of every pad even the ads. Except for the Sports section. I remain flummoxed that anyone likes to read about Sport. You'll need her inmate number to your gift mai...
[07:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:54] <exec> 08└─I guess you haven't read much of the recently late Harlan Ellison [wikipedia.org], or Robert A. Heinlein [wikipedia.org] then. If it is a genre you want to learn more about, try reading the anthology Cybersex. It's not something that floats my boat, but writing well about sex is difficult, even for...
[07:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:55] <exec> 08└─I would add Charles Stross [isfdb.org] and Ken MacLeod to that list, and note that it is Iain M. Banks [isfdb.org], and Peter F. Hamilton [isfdb.org]. You might also want to add in Harry Harrison [isfdb.org]. If you are a completionist and read all their works, it'll take a while.
[07:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:57] <exec> 08└─Inevitably Over time
[07:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:59] <exec> 08└─I vividly remember reading that story as a kid and loving it. But I never paid attention to the author and had no idea it was by Fritz Leiber. The same Fritz Leiber who wrote the worst book to ever receive a Hugo award, The Wanderer [wikipedia.org]. God, that book is horrible.
[07:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:33] <exec> 08└─Are any benchmarks showing the performance hit out yet?
[07:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:34] <exec> 08└─That would be two additional "c"s.
[07:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:22] <exec> 08└─This is probably already being exploited, alerting people as soon as possible allows those in sensitive positions to stop using the software, or at least use it in knowledge of the risk. Doing otherwise exposes people to greater harm than releasing this information. Immediate public disclosure only...
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[08:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:43] <exec> 08└─Cervical cancer is almost a sure sign of a slut.
[08:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:55] <exec> 08└─... they want their car design from the 1980's back.
[08:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:56] <exec> 08└─Coffin on wheel.
[08:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:58] <exec> 08└─A design classic. Reliable vehicles, engineered to withstand the Siberian freeze and retro-futurism is still a thing. [honestjohn.co.uk]
[08:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:00] <exec> 08└─Even if cost of ownership and repairability for the box on wheels were orders of magnitude more favorable?
[08:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:02] <exec> 08└─I sooo want this car! I've always wanted to buy a Soviet-era car for shits and giggles, and I've been wanting an electric car for quite some time also. This is both. Brilliant!
[08:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:25] <exec> 08└─... is a major shift away from the founding principles of a small, explicitly limited government ...
[08:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:26] <exec> 08└─There are 3 - 5 million illegal immigrants here from Europe who have overstayed their visas or otherwise blended into our society. These are not people taking jobs picking crops, washing dishes or mowing lawns. They are taking good paying, skilled labor jobs away from Americans. These are the people...
[08:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:28] <exec> 08└─Disagreeing by downmodding just means you lose automatically.
[08:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:30] <exec> 08└─You have to choose:
[08:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:13] <exec> 08└─Inmates have their mail screened and withheld for arbitrary reasons. It might be less bad for female/federal prisoners though. Don't send her Wired magazine. It has hackers on steroids.
[08:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:15] <exec> 08└─Thoughts and prayers to her siblings Tony and Emmy, dad Oscar and his mom Grammy.
[08:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:39] <exec> 08└─Ender's Game is a great story. Probably fails the Science Fiction test for lack of an identifiable "what if" element, everything in the story is just there to drive the character development of Ender. The sequels (the ones with Ender, never got around to the others) are closer but still more charact...
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[08:46:25] <exec> 08└─1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
[08:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:26] <exec> 08└─How many socialist countries have you visited?
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[08:46:28] <exec> 08└─But that's not what was said.
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[09:41:47] <exec> 08└─Surely this is the biggest, most relevant question in 2018? I didn't see it addressed in the summary and can therefore only conclude that the USPTF are trans exclusionary bigots.
[09:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know, I quite like the look of it. It has a retro-futuristic vibe going. I never liked the look of Teslas quite frankly, finding them rather bland and cheap looking. I don't know what the dashboard of the Kalashnicar looks like, but I hope they don't make it as bad as the dashboard of a Tesl...
[09:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:04] <exec> 08└─kalashnikov is basically a russian icon, they could not have retrofitted a foreign car. If I could pick, I'd retrofit an NSU Prinz or a Bianchina. It would be fun with the torque of an electric motor at the lights.
[09:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:06] <exec> 08└─Quite! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[09:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:08] <exec> 08└─Only need to paint it Ferrari red and put a yellow sickle and hammer on the hood. I used to know a person who drove exactly such Lada 20 years ago.
[09:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:10] <exec> 08└─A design classic? I'd rather say a recognizable design. And Lada as a reliable vehicle? No! My uncle had a "classic" Lada and spent every single weekend nursing it, repairing whatever faults had appeared during the week. A lot of people I knew that had Ladas complained about the quality and the high...
[09:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:37] <exec> 08└─I've done farm harvests and did fruit picking on sabbatical in my younger years, the failure here is that the students were lazy. You cannot make a success of your life if you've never experienced hard work or have some appreciation of how your food gets onto your table. If we moved to a system of l...
[09:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:38] <exec> 08└─Modern would-be "socialists" don't understand mutual exclusivity or wealth creation at all. They've not arrived at their political position via any process other than parroting the emotional pandering of other dangerous idiots.
[09:43:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 558 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:08] <exec> 08└─WikiLeaks Accuses The Intercept of Outing Alleged NSA Leaker [soylentnews.org] FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks [soylentnews.org] The Intercept doesn't look like such a great buddy to WikiLeaks anymore. In fact, it doesn't look like it's such a great outlet fo...
[09:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:48] <exec> 08└─And that is exactly how it should go.
[09:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:49] <exec> 08└─I too like Joules Verne, he's always so ... energetic! *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Joule [wikipedia.org], Jules Verne [wikipedia.org]
[09:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:51] <exec> 08└─Many US election rules seem to assume Two Parties. So outsiders tend to be more disadvantaged. Many US voters seem more religious-minded about their party affiliations too.
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:53] <exec> 08└─If it is preaching a message for political change today it is not science fiction.
[09:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:55] <exec> 08└─Eww, all his characters are yellow skinned and slant eyed. DO - NOT - WANT! (for trolling the RWNJ only, have not read his work)
[09:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:58] <exec> 08└─Cuz ya work for NASA?
[09:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:33] <exec> 08└─- observed" Might that be because observation is prohibited? Joking aside they're just lying and apparently quite a lot. I think such a crazy gag says much more negative things about intel than any report of performance degradation. As long as my old computers keep working I will not buy new from th...
[09:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:34] <exec> 08└─- "hello sir, is this seat taken?" - "errr....i run oracle on wintel" - "oh, sorry i didn't meant to..." - "no offence taken" two armed police officers surround the guy and take him away just in case
[09:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:47] <exec> 08└─And the situation itself is different. You are all crazy in your 'Murrika a little bit.
[09:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:50] <exec> 08└─Russia
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[10:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 2233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:29] <exec> 08└─So, how many bits of entropy does a good password need? For crypto, we can assume that 128 bits are borderline acceptable. Now try to get these 128 bits into something Joe Q. User can remember. Salted hashes try to come to the rescue: if the hash is complex enough, even the NSA couldn't break a simp...
[10:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:57] <exec> 08└─I find it interesting to see the difference between this Russian concept car and American concept cars. This car is unapologetically retro styled, unfortunately not with positive connotations for most Western people, I gather. Look at the shape of the car, the moveable cover for the fresh air intake...
[10:42:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:49] <exec> 08└─The goal of the those in charge is to hide the truth. For them the truth is a variable and subject to whatever spin they want to apply to it. This woman did something good that helped us see the truth. As a result she will pay with jail time. Meanwhile flag pissing scum like Joe aperio and others wi...
[10:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:10] <exec> 08└─Look the problem is most of us aren't schizophrenic enough for that to count as publication.
[10:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:39] <exec> 08└─Buffy season 4 definitely had a sci-fi angle, and is far more appropriate for that channel than WWE and some of the other crap. Who's gonna complain about Merlin or Earthsea or something being on Sci-Fi? I can't believe that there is a Sharknado 6 already. I've only seen the first 3.
[10:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:40] <exec> 08└─Technopagan, s02e11, the entirety of season 4... I'd say Buffy is at home on a science fiction related/tangential channel.
[10:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:42] <exec> 08└─Tarnation! I forgot the link to Ken MacLeod's oeuvres [isfdb.org] . Sorry.
[10:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:45] <exec> 08└─Splitting Science Fiction from Sci-Fi is the part where the fist fights will break out. Fantasy is usually easy enough to push off into a different genre but even stuff written as hard science fiction can quickly look like Sci-Fi as events march on. Science fiction is always a projection from a pres...
[10:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:22] <exec> 08└─As a Linux User, and part of the worldwide Linux Users Group, I don't exactly answer to anyone. Whatever I do, is not by "permission". Linus Torvalds does not "permit" me to do much of anything.
[10:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:37] <exec> 08└─Agreed, fuck NASA. And what i find laughable is the god damn sensoring of e.g. songs with profanity, but no action is taken when using regular words to say things that are clearly even worse than "shit" or "fuck" or whatever.
[10:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Rules Warrants are Needed for Cops to Access Smart Electrical Meter Data - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:48] <exec> 08└─.... where utility companies use scare tactics to try and bully people into installing their invasive, unreliable 'smart' meters. Electric Co. : Your meter is obsolete and is being phased out! You must book an appointment to install one of our new Smart Meters! Do it now! Me: Why is my meter obsolet...
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[11:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:10] <exec> 08└─Nevermind fucking up the untouched arctic nature...
[11:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:20] <exec> 08└─What prize do these outstanding individuals win?
[11:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:22] <exec> 08└─Bits, schmits, I'm using hunter2 because it wasn't on their list! Security for the win!!
[11:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:24] <exec> 08└─The reality is that we need something better than passwords for identification/authorization. People cannot be expected to remember the vast number of passwords required, even just counting the systems at a single place of employment. I counted about 6 for work (they've worked hard to consolidate) -...
[11:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:26] <exec> 08└─I hate to point out the obvious, but Pasword123 meets the following password criteria: Greater then eight characters in length.Contains one or more uppercase characters.Contains one or more lowercase characters.Contains one or more numbers. If the requirements were "meet three of these four requirem...
[11:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:36] <exec> 08└─There will be new guidelines saying that testing blood pressure and heart rate need only be done once every ten years if under age 40 and never once oyu reach age 50. This will save oodles of money AND help thin the herd.
[11:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:59] <exec> 08└─This "sleek" car may not look fancy, or be very luxurious, but it may be completely functional. Based on it's lack of digital ornaments it may actually be better on batter life than Tesla's, which is adorned with all sorts of futuristic technology.
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[11:42:07] <exec> 08└─Pay more. It's shitty work, nobody wants to do it. So pay more. Yeah, prices at the local megamart will go up. Don't like it? I'd like to say write your local congresscritter, but unless you can donate the max amount to their campaign fund you'll be ignored. I'd also say tighten the rules for welfar...
[11:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:28] <exec> 08└─Second of all, one doesn't just live in this country without documentation.
[11:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:30] <exec> 08└─Hispanics immigrants as a rule are hard workers.
[11:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Drake_Edgewater [780] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:51] <exec> 08└─I'm still listening to classical music from an old SN story (I must be old here ;), so I look forward for book recommendations from my fellow Soylentils!
[11:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:53] <exec> 08└─Why are there no black elves?
[11:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:46] <exec> 08└─You seem to be an emotionally intelligent, entitled millennial. NASA won't miss you either. Enjoy your fulfilling career as a Starbucks barista or Chipotle burrito artist.
[11:47:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:38] <exec> 08└─"The amount of people who know or care about the issues you raised is pretty low. More high-profile cases involving smart speakers hitting the news might raise some awareness." The trouble is that people are looking to "fix" the issue instead of recognizing that its fundamentally intractable and the...
[11:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:49] <exec> 08└─Well, we sure are enabling them by the kind of technologies we embrace! The kind of stuff we make today is defective before it even leaves the design lab... Why in all blue blazes are we shipping stuff with built-in remote access? We aren't just asking for problems, we are downright begging for th...
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[12:41:41] <exec> 08└─I've seen large business systems being secured with smart cards (and keyboards with a reader), but these are probably impractical in everyday use.
[12:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:43] <exec> 08└─If the requirements were "meet three of these four requirements: uppercase, lowercase, number and special character" then Pasword123 is a perfectly cromulent password. And it really pisses me off when I can't use 9cba85bfc0a59571084224659fae60e5 as a password on these sorts of sites
[12:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:53] <exec> 08└─Don't be an idiot. These decisions are made weighing the likelihood ratios of detention vs. false positives and the benefits/lack of benefits for early detection.
[12:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:55] <exec> 08└─Boring. You didn't even mention 10145 genders.
[12:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:18] <exec> 08└─This "sleek" car may not look fancy, or be very luxurious, but it may be completely functional. Based on it's lack of digital ornaments it may actually be better on batter life than Tesla's, which is adorned with all sorts of futuristic technology.
[12:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:20] <exec> 08└─And Lada as a reliable vehicle? No! My uncle had a "classic" Lada and spent every single weekend nursing it
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[12:42:52] <exec> 08└─This is very unfair. Do you think it's a piece of cake to turn around a country with hundreds of years of history and culture? It also takes money and power to do that. Tell me, are you mad at West Virginians who leave the holler for another state to make a living and that send money back to the rel...
[12:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:54] <exec> 08└─It's always a gamble as to how the next generation turns out. If they are born in the US, they are automatically citizens, so they can access all services, join the military (which many do), and attend college. They will speak and write English well too.
[12:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:56] <exec> 08└─There are some differences, but they aren't as big as you think. As another poster has said, native American culture has already shifted away from what you are espousing! The real danger to our culture comes from radical Americans at this point (whatever their ethnic origin). It's too bad our social...
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[12:43:41] <exec> 08└─suppose the illegal whistle blowing helped protect the constitution? mmmh?ahhh?errrr?
[12:44:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:17] <exec> 08└─Do you have any interest in military stories? David Drake wrote the Hammer's Slammers series, and a fairly large number of other books. All of his writing is filled with violence, including senseless violence, so if that doesn't appeal don't bother. Tom Kratman writes in a similar manner, with the d...
[12:44:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:31] <exec> 08└─Splitting Science Fiction from Sci-Fi is the part where the fist fights will break out. Fantasy is usually easy enough to push off into a different genre but even stuff written as hard science fiction can quickly look like Sci-Fi as events march on. Science fiction is always a projection from a pres...
[12:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:10] <exec> 08└─This is a phenomenon born of SJWs and their mob justice. They have created a monster and I see no end to it. They have weaponized outrage and now even those with common sense fear association with anything said by anyone which might offend somebody that might call the monster down upon them. As long...
[12:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:53] <exec> 08└─At least modern homo sapiens have started to realize that egalitarian societies are better all around and thus you backwards conservatives are getting "out competed" ideologically.
[12:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:54] <exec> 08└─That's not what I said at all. I said the ISP doesn't care what YOU are running through their pipes. However all ISP's have to manage their resources and prioritize their traffic. If I'm serving a residential area with a 10GbE link and 2% of the users there are gorging themselves on 80% of that pipe...
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[12:49:05] <exec> 08└─It was Intelligently Created! Cuz I'm an anti-science bible basher.
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[13:41:13] <exec> 08└─If you spit on a really hot surface it makes a really rank smell--I've always assumed it was the proteins in the saliva burning. Learned this when welding as a teenager, testing to see if a piece was cool enough to handle. Now I keep some water around in an old mug or something, dip my fingers and f...
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[13:41:15] <exec> 08└─They're using the term "nano" a bit loosely, IMHO. You could say that spray paint on a car with aluminum flakes for the metallic look is nanoparticles. But that aside, think of it more as both an insulator and water repellent for clothing, like ScotchGuard. When you drip water on a very hot surface,...
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[13:41:24] <exec> 08└─It's been frozen since the last ice age. Nothing screw up. There's not even a fishery there. However shaving that many miles off the trip saves an enormous amount of fuel which also reduces emissions and helps keep the overall environment healthier. Hurray for Global Warming! I can't wait until you...
[13:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:26] <exec> 08└─I'm all for finding the peanuts in the turd, but this just feels wrong. The same companies and practices that caused this calamity are profiting off the end result of nature's destruction. There's no words to describe how disgusted I am.
[13:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:28] <exec> 08└─There is not much nature in the arctic. It's snow and ice and sea water and bare rock. Also, if there had been any nature to fuck up in the arctic, then the Soviet Union had surely done it before they were through. A container ship full of frozen fish or even plastic widgets from China could hardly...
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[13:41:31] <exec> 08└─As someone from Arizona, where the summers routinely reach 120F, I'm... less thrilled.
[13:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:33] <exec> 08└─Had to look at a map to see where Vladivostok is -- turns out it's a few hundred miles west of the northern Japanese islands and not all that far north of the Koreas. Maybe Maersk are looking ahead to the lifting of sanctions on N. Korea?
[13:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:35] <exec> 08└─C’mon, you know you’ll end up paying the same or more for all the plastic shit. It’s going to make it cheaper for the vendor, the shipper, and the manufacturer. Not for the end consumer. I think we’re all familiar enough with the MBA decisions that get made to know how this all goes by now.
[13:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:50] <exec> 08└─I see that as Bits, schmits, I'm using ******* because it wasn't on their list! Security for the win!!
[13:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:51] <exec> 08└─Stick to the classics.
[13:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, they'll obviously need screening too.
[13:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he should let feminists be idiots. When the WHO released guidelines suggesting that mammograms should only be done once every two years, feminists went bonkers. In my neck of the woods, the belief developed that all men were denying women healthcare and trying to control their bodies. I expect...
[13:42:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aim [6322] 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:28] <exec> 08└─This "sleek" car may not look fancy, or be very luxurious, but it may be completely functional. Based on it's lack of digital ornaments it may actually be better on batter life than Tesla's, which is adorned with all sorts of futuristic technology.
[13:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:31] <exec> 08└─I'm all in and ready to collude; I'll take a car, a mech and an AK-47!
[13:42:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:46] <exec> 08└─It is hard dirty work, and anyone who claims it is unskilled labor is a fool. They pay the farm workers here in the Yuma area upwards of $20.00/hour to harvest lettuce, cabbage, dates, citrus and pick cotton. In the central valley a skilled berry picker can make even more. They are paid by the pound...
[13:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:05] <exec> 08└─They are Christian
[13:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, and in the real world what you mean is that due to runaway success and increases in standard of living and human rights laws it is now simply uneconomical to grow food America and it all must start being imported until the standard of living reduces far enough for people to be interesting in wo...
[13:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:09] <exec> 08└─Holy fuck, you know fuck all about immigrants. Such idiotic dribble.
[13:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:55] <exec> 08└─I guess an Intercept subscription would be in poor taste? :D
[13:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:09] <exec> 08└─Scene 0: Make a product, ship a billion, then have the world find out they have a wee problem. Scene 1: Get the lawyers to prevent benchmark publication. Amounts to Intel themselves publicizing that the benchmark results are as bad as he who must not be named. This is probably worse that the actual...
[13:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:26] <exec> 08└─Guess what? Diversity is NOT a strength; rather, agreement is a strength, and agreement tends to imply homogeneity.
[13:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bone Fragments of a Neanderthal-Denisovan Hybrid Found - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:09] <exec> 08└─You've actually spoken to some neanderthals?! What were they like?
[13:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:10] <exec> 08└─you can rawhammer / spectre / meltdown with anything right into the kernel space.
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[14:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:32] <exec> 08└─I agree, but it's part and parcel with everything else. Many people who decry oil companies and their destructive role in the environment want to keep driving their turbo-charged ICE cars, and do it with no sense of irony at all. Many people who worry about the Pacific Garbage Patch run right out to...
[14:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:33] <exec> 08└─Yup! Next year I should have a whole mess of asparagus now that I've kept the squirrels out. Squishing lots of asparagus bugs, though. Gonna grow more potatoes next year.
[14:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:35] <exec> 08└─Do what the birds do, migrate north. In truth though, Global Warming should turn Phoenix into a lake again. Lagoons will get deserty, but the deserts should bloom
[14:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:37] <exec> 08└─I talk about how I grow my own fruit and veg because, wait for it, it might have dirt on it Don't you have sinks in Brooklyn? My courgettes this year were a dismal failure - slugs have found us.
[14:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:39] <exec> 08└─Trying to see how is to squish those [wikipedia.org] next?
[14:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:42] <exec> 08└─I despise articles like this that do not include a map! It's no wonder that so many people are ignorant of geography. I mean, I have a rough idea of where Vladivostok is located and where Saint Petersburg is, but a lot of people don't. Sure, I can open up another tab or window and pull up Google map...
[14:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:58] <exec> 08└─Hey! How'd you know my password was Bits, schmits, I'm using ******* because it wasn't on their list! Security for the win!! ?
[14:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nofsck Ingcloo [5242] (Score: 1) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:00] <exec> 08└─XKCD did, indeed, get it right, but in a different cartoon: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[14:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:15] <exec> 08└─These decisions are made weighing the likelihood ratios of detention vs. false positives and the benefits/lack of benefits for early detection.
[14:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:16] <exec> 08└─To be fair, when you've been told for years that mammograms are very important to get regularly because early detection has an incredible impact on disease pathology, then it is reasonable to expect pushback. Hell, people get angry when trivial things change like whether Pluto is a planet, eggs or m...
[14:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:19] <exec> 08└─From TFS: These latest recommendations continue the trend of decreasing participant burden by lengthening screening intervals, making the "annual Pap" a historical artifact
[14:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:21] <exec> 08└─Oh. I had heard from the politicians and NPR and such that if we mutilate boys genitals at birth, HPV could no longer be transmitted to women, and cervical cancer would be cured for all time.
[14:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:47] <exec> 08└─It reminds me of a Trabant. That made me recall and smile at all the old West German jokes about that car. Well, some will like the design. "Comrade Detective" (brilliant show, BTW) has helped make Iron Curtain fashion chic again, so who knows? Maybe Kalashnikov is on to something here.
[14:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:48] <exec> 08└─and it all screams repairable FTFY.
[14:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03easyTree [6882] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:50] <exec> 08└─I know that in the past our products have been used to murder millions of people but now we're all about saving the world.
[14:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:52] <exec> 08└─Quite. I think this might be the GNU/Linux of cars, Nice way to try and market to Free Software fans. Next you'll try to talk us all into buying old East German Trabis. Which might make sense, as we can always replace a dying motor with one from the push mower in the garage. I'd take a Tesla over th...
[14:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03easyTree [6882] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:55] <exec> 08└─Cutting edge design from 1965...
[14:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:31] <exec> 08└─Without indentured servants who will harvest the fields?
[14:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 3785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:33] <exec> 08└─I've been on both sides of this. As a teenager I did some of these "jobs no one wants to do", including harvesting fruit, skinning mink, processing meat etc. I worked side by side with the LATAM migrants and I found them to be exceptionally hard working. This was during the early 1990s and I was pai...
[14:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:35] <exec> 08└─And, which part of "assimilation" did you gloss over, so that you could pull out a not very relevant fact?
[14:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to argue your "facts". I will offer you my own. When Bill Clinton was in office, it was estimated that there were 20 million illegals in this country. When Bush was in office, that number didn't change - still 20 million - DESPITE the fact that some estimates said a couple thousand wer...
[14:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:39] <exec> 08└─Fuck unfair. Stop whining, stop making excuses, and get the job done.
[14:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:41] <exec> 08└─Did you ever really LOOK AT Steve Jobs? I'd have put him up for adoption too! "No, honey, we're not keeping this one! We'll try again next year. You want some HUMAN children, don't you?"
[14:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks on the Moon from Lunar Dust - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:54] <exec> 08└─I lean more to the moon-tunnel than the moon-tower habitat myself. It's all very well stacking bricks up, but how are you going to keep your atmosphere in? I'd be more interested in a way of turning lunar silicate into some kind of airtight sealant / paste / covering that can be used to seal up any...
[14:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:30] <exec> 08└─What is it about authorities that makes them so overzealous when information or tech is involved? Trumped up charges, kangaroo courts, show trials, excessive harsh punishments .... They're like Professor Umbridge from the Harry Potter stories. Got to keep these authoritarians on tighter leashes, or...
[14:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03easyTree [6882] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:31] <exec> 08└─I'm eagerly awaiting the time when 'running a police state against the interests of your citizens' is a crime. The jack-boot will be on the other leg then ^_^
[14:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:07] <exec> 08└─Given your titles, it seems that like myself, you've read a heckuva lot of books that are dated now. Have you read Laumer's Bolo books? They are notable, in that, the aliens aren't exactly the evil aggressors. If I remember correctly, there are about a half dozen alien races. We kicked ass on a cou...
[14:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─And you do know that Drake's The Voyage is just the Greek classics with the serial numbers lightly shaved off, right?
[14:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:49] <exec> 08└─it's what I did to restore performance to a machine that infrequently touches the internet except for the occasional update. which of course reminded me to check the updates more thoroughly before applying them, after I was unhappy with the result. I had to get the microcode file from an old backup;...
[14:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:06] <exec> 08└─If this was SpaceX, that would be true...but since NASA is a US federal agency it's not that simple. NASA can't fire you just because you said something that they disagree with, because they're required to comply with the First Amendment right to free speech. Of course, as soon as she starts mouthin...
[14:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:07] <exec> 08└─The fact that she used profanity is not the issue. NASA, as a US federal agency, has no legal right to fire someone for their speech. However, she specifically used her employment at NASA to justify that profanity. That kinda crosses the line from being her own speech into something which could appe...
[14:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:09] <exec> 08└─Meh, that wouldn't necessarily be a problem if it was confined to Twitter where it belongs. The stuff that goes on there is really no worse than the gossip you'll hear in the parking lot of my apartment complex. The problem is that news agencies like CNN have decided that this kind of crap needs to...
[14:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:53] <exec> 08└─How do you use rawhammer or meltdown with a language that doesn't allow explicit memory addressing nor indices? How do you gain information via spectre with a language that neither supports timing? Not to mention that you would have a hard time to get on any information you might have gained from yo...
[14:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched Ghostscript Flaws Allow Remote Takeover of Systems - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:55] <exec> 08└─Well, the obvious way would be to download it to the browser's partition, and then copy the files to your normal user account with your normal user's tools.
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[15:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improved Thermal-Shock Resistance in Industrial Ceramics - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the coating has the same high temperature capabilities as the base ceramic? Didn't get any sense of this in the summary or when reading at the link. I realize the coating is not actually ScotchGuard or any organic coating, because that would evaporate or boil off long before the limiting...
[15:41:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 1029 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:36] <exec> 08└─I agree, but it's part and parcel with everything else. Many people who decry oil companies and their destructive role in the environment want to keep driving their turbo-charged ICE cars, and do it with no sense of irony at all. Many people who worry about the Pacific Garbage Patch run right out to...
[15:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:42] <exec> 08└─Here you go [ocean-insights.com] (I was hoping to find a stupid projection for this, and am only a little bit disappointed by the inclusion of those balloons)
[15:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:44] <exec> 08└─Diatomaceous earth is the solution to slugs. Sprinkle some all the way around the plants they are eating. Cuts up the slugs and bugs. Or small containers of beer if I remember correctly.
[15:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:46] <exec> 08└─Asparagus bugs try to hide on you by moving to the other side away from you so I found sometimes it's best to just smack your palms together to squish them. The 'slugs' they come from.....just squish them. Gross but effective. The Late (4th) instar stage of larva, before pupation for the potato but...
[15:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation by using that password!
[15:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:24] <exec> 08└─Glad my wife got hers done: if she'd waited another year or two she might be dead or dying now. But who cares if poor/not rich people die as long as it saves money and rich people can get all the PAPs they want.
[15:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:25] <exec> 08└─We need to show those incels that it's not right for them to deprive women of healthcare. But we mustn't go after doctors. As we know, the medical field is diverse. These doctors are being forced at gunpoint by Russian incels in IT to recommend more infrequent screenings, because they hate women bec...
[15:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:57] <exec> 08└─Really, laughing out loud here. Parent post is marked as "insightful" for thinking a car that obviously has terrible aerodynamics might actually have better battery life [I assume poster really means range] than a Tesla. Get a grip folks.
[15:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─If a rifle is automatic, like the "Automatic Kalashnikov" (AK), the media will call it a machine gun.
[15:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:01] <exec> 08└─Old style door handles too, photos here, https://en.kalashnikov.media [en.kalashnikov.media] ...sticking out in the airstream and requiring a thumb-press on the button at the same time as a finger-pull to open the door. If their chrome p...
[15:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:44] <exec> 08└─There's absolutely zero indication that recent immigrants are assimilating any slower than earlier immigrants. It generally takes about 2-3 generations to go from "We're trying to live a lot like the old country, but in America" to "We're English-speaking Americans who may have some family recipes f...
[15:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:45] <exec> 08└─This is not the thought at the church I go to. Every church does things in the way it believes is best (how could it not?), but many churches also have the humility to know there is more than one way to get there. Our understanding is not perfect. The differences are not enough for one to make it to...
[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, those immigrants ARE getting the job done--it's just not the job you want them to do.
[15:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:49] <exec> 08└─So how many illegal immigrants do you think are in the USA now? 100M? 150M? Perhaps you are an illegal immigrant and you just don't know it? It's not like immigrants (legal and illegal) die or return to their home countries. Oh, wait. They do! I won't defend them. They broke the law? Catch them, pro...
[15:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:51] <exec> 08└─If they are so great, why don't they make their countries great?
[15:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, those people who came from Germany a century or more ago should have learned English immediately and not spoken German for 3 generations. The USA was built by a lot of people who didn't speak English. You are benefiting from the work that those non-English speakers did and do now.
[15:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:56] <exec> 08└─Mexico has developed massively since NAFTA. I find that since then, it is almost unrecognizable to me (for the better). Still, I think you are really downplaying the violence. It has gotten much, much worse over the past 20 yrs due to drug cartels. I won't bother listing some of the grisly murders a...
[15:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:58] <exec> 08└─If they are so great, why don't they make their countries great?
[15:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:00] <exec> 08└─Bad examples. A great example would be TEXANS.
[15:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─We ought to clear this up: There are 2 hot questions in this immigration debate. 1. Are immigrants (esp. illegal ones) dangerous? 2. Should we continue to not enforce immigration law, i.e., let everyone sneak in and stay here? Many commenters are conflating the 2 issues. In my posts, I addressed #1...
[15:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:04] <exec> 08└─I used fifty million above - that's what I think it is. But, the whole point of this little exercise, is that NO ONE KNOWS! The talking heads have been stuck on that 20 million number for more than 30 years now. It is an established talking point. Where else have we seen an established talking point...
[15:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:06] <exec> 08└─Correct. I don't want them working as tools to undermine the US economy.
[15:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:13] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see the results of 'dmesg|grep -i bogo' before & after the patch. I trust that as much as any other benchmark.
[15:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:33] <exec> 08└─is f*king dead .. FTFY.
[15:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:35] <exec> 08└─Can't say I've visited any Socilaist Countries, but I have visited Ex-Socialist Countries. They seem to be doing much better now, thanks.
[15:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:37] <exec> 08└─If this was SpaceX, that would be true...but since NASA is a US federal agency it's not that simple. NASA can't fire you just because you said something that they disagree with, because they're required to comply with the First Amendment right to free speech.
[15:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:39] <exec> 08└─There's Raspberry Pi. It's ARM, running Linux, and can be used for various IOT kinds of projects.
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[16:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Just How Rigged is America's Broadband World? A Deep Dive Into One US City Reveals All - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:08] <exec> 08└─Download the PDF. It's only 18 pages. As a "read", it's only five minutes or less. There are more maps than anything in the PDF. Grab the PDF, read what little there is to read, then just kinda scroll up and down to see what the various maps are. It's pretty shocking, unless you've followed this non...
[16:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:15] <exec> 08└─you're losing that one year off of the tail end of your life. So, at least you're not losing that all-important first year. And, you're not being put into deep-freeze, and losing a year somewhere in the middle. It's just the last year or so of your life. That time when life is little more than aches...
[16:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:17] <exec> 08└─Dying of lung cancer really sucks. It's not as crazy as going from Ebola and drowning in your own fluids, but it's longer and more debilitating.
[16:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:29] <exec> 08└─But who cares if poor/not rich people die
[16:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:31] <exec> 08└─I dont see how this is a response to my post. Think about it this way: What was the procedure to get annual pap screening adopted in he first place? Was the decision "made weighing the likelihood ratios of detention vs. false positives and the benefits/lack of benefits for early detection "?
[16:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:33] <exec> 08└─But who cares if poor/not rich people die as long as it saves money and rich people can get all the PAPs they want.
[16:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:35] <exec> 08└─"New tools" from the title of the scientific paper implies that the additional test couldn't have been included in the guidelines because it didn't exist, for one. The second part is that the recommendations have been and are continually being revised in light of new and historical data. All therapi...
[16:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─Looks like half wanna-be muscle car, half grandmas diaper. But if cheap I might hit that!
[16:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:11] <exec> 08└─And they would be right. For purposes of federal law, a machine gun is defined as: [A]ny weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manually reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
[16:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:13] <exec> 08└─Parent post is marked as "insightful" for thinking a car that obviously has terrible aerodynamics might actually have better battery life
[16:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:15] <exec> 08└─Based on the body of a Soviet hatchback Izh, Kalashnikov's CV-1 electric vehicle's 90 kilowatt hour battery gives it a range of 350 kilometers. The arms company says the car can accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 6 seconds.
[16:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:18] <exec> 08└─No sure aerodynamics matter too much at the speed this car reach. On the other hand they have a wide interior. Nevertheless, I agree its aesthetics is horrible. I suppose, as someone said, in Russia such retro-look may look the top of style. If they have an efficient engine, it could be installed in...
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:20] <exec> 08└─For purposes of federal law, a machine gun is defined as
[16:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:22] <exec> 08└─Free Software fans
[16:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:19] <exec> 08└─So, you recognize that neither the English nor the Spanish are typical "immigrants" - but you still deny that "Latinos" might be invaders? BTW, you kinda lost your thread in the last part of the last sentence. You meant "foreign to the Americas". "Foreign to the US." is demonstrably false.
[16:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:20] <exec> 08└─While your comment is true, I would say that sort of behavior from the US hasn't happened since 1990. Those happened during the US era of "colonialism" and the Cold War. Since 1990 we have been in the era of "globalism" without US hegemony.
[16:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:22] <exec> 08└─Who the hell modded my post as Flamebait? Did someone see themselves on the receiving end? This just underscores my last point.
[16:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:24] <exec> 08└─You need to direct your anger at those who made and continued to make this possible: the businessmen and the politicians. Why get mad at the immigrants? I would probably do the same in their shoes.
[16:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:26] <exec> 08└─Correction: "Imperialist" is a less confusing term than "colonial".
[16:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:29] <exec> 08└─Since 1990, the US has: - Forced Haiti to change its government, twice (in 1995, and 2004) - Fought in the now-sorta-finished civil war in Columbia - Backed Mexico's government against the Zapatista Rebellion against NAFTA in 1994 - Backed and quite possibly were directly involved in the 2004 coup a...
[16:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:31] <exec> 08└─Let me understand this. I can be justifiably angry at the businessmen, AND the politicians, AND the illegal aliens, all at the same time. But, my anger is misdirected? I am angry with every single congress since about 1950. When the US did it's Operation Wetback, there was no followup. There were pr...
[16:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:33] <exec> 08└─I don't think I'm downplaying it at all. These events make the news, because they're notable and newsworthy. One or two people are killed each week in larger cities and towns no matter where you are. I lived in Salt Lake City for years and nearly took a bullet from drive bys on two occasions. Gang b...
[16:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:35] <exec> 08└─Foreign to the land that is currently the US, in case that wasn't clear. As for recent Latin American immigrants, the folks most likely to come to the US are darker-skinned folks who are descended from the people that were living in Central America before the Spanish showed up, who've already adapte...
[16:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:37] <exec> 08└─Living in Mexico is killing my English skills though. Apologies for the typos.
[16:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:39] <exec> 08└─And, I'll point out that the Spanish were largely conquered by Muslims a little earlier in their history. It was those conquered Spaniards who conquered the Americas. Fine example you're painting. Those conquered Central and South Americans are now coming here to get revenge, just as the Spaniards d...
[16:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:42] <exec> 08└─This is especially true of Islamic foreigners, among whom there exists a very real dogma of global domination over the non-believers by any means necessary.
[16:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:44] <exec> 08└─So, what could your point possibly be?
[16:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:36] <exec> 08└─The zombie bitch is still muttering obscenities about 2020 . . . someone needs to drive a stake through her heart. Oh wait - she has no heart.
[16:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:38] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the laws only protect whistleblowers who make a complaint to the appropriate government office, not a media outlet.
[16:47:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 591 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:30] <exec> 08└─They can lose too. Contract law is not an absolute and cannot trump other laws. People cannot be held to a contract that enslaves them, forces them to break other laws, or recklessly endangers others. People also cannot always be held to NDAs and non-compete agreements. But this one was lost in the...
[16:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:20] <exec> 08└─Where did you get the idea that if you're a government employee, you can tell your boss to "suck my dick and balls" and not get fired?
[16:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you just described the entirety of Politically Correct speech.
[16:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:26] <exec> 08└─The PC is Dying, it shall be soon be replaced by PC Junior. Long Live ARM! Ermm..., something like that?
[16:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, for DIY hobbyist projects, sure a raspberry pi is a wonderful thing. But if you base a an iot appliance off the pi, and sell it by the thousands, and you attach a mic and camera to it then its likely going to get pwned eventually. Basically, for anything appliance-like (ie IoT) related to the...
[16:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. Certain traffic wants high throughput but is insensitive to latency. Other traffic wants low latency but is largely insensitive to bandwidth.
[16:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California's Resurrected Net Neutrality Bill Just Passed a Hurdle - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:09] <exec> 08└─Being stupid, trolls or Republican are not mutually exclusive.
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[17:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H.P. Lovecraft Stories: An Intro to Cthulhu, Necronomicon, Dagon & More - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:27] <exec> 08└─
[17:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Just How Rigged is America's Broadband World? A Deep Dive Into One US City Reveals All - 1564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:35] <exec> 08└─It seems the problem is the FCC "If an ISP can provide Internet service to at least one premise in a census block, the FCC marks that entire census block as having access to Internet service at the speed the ISP claims is available." The FCC should re-define service as being available only once its...
[17:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Just How Rigged is America's Broadband World? A Deep Dive Into One US City Reveals All - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:37] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai is working on a directive stating that a State has sufficient broadband coverage if at least one person in the State has 5/1 access. The Twitter-in-chief will then announce that his administration has brought Broadband to all Americans, and Fox News will repeat that until the elections.
[17:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:48] <exec> 08└─I can't disagree with you - but, how many "good ways" are there to die? Few of us are likely to die in battle, thus earning the Valkyrie's attention, and a free trip to Valhalla.
[17:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:50] <exec> 08└─Some people [wikipedia.org] find better ways than others.
[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:52] <exec> 08└─And as mentioned, it's an average. One person dies 20 years early, in agony, and 20 people live their normal lifespan.
[17:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:54] <exec> 08└─Snu-snu?
[17:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:57] <exec> 08└─*sigh* My wife won't allow me to keep a 30 year old mistress.
[17:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improved Thermal-Shock Resistance in Industrial Ceramics - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:07] <exec> 08└─They're using the term "nano" a bit loosely, IMHO. You could say that spray paint on a car with aluminum flakes for the metallic look is nanoparticles. What do you mean? A nanoparticle [wikipedia.org] is just a particle that's between 1 and 100 nanometers in size. The delivery medium has nothing to...
[17:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improved Thermal-Shock Resistance in Industrial Ceramics - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:08] <exec> 08└─And in a completely on-topic example of how it'll work when deployed in the real world, Pyrex(tm) used to mean american made borosilicate glass up to the turn of the century; you could thermally abuse the hell out of it in the kitchen and it wouldn't break, not Pyrex(tm) was sold to China and is che...
[17:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:32] <exec> 08└─I suspect domestic Russian routes are more lucrative. I'm not very familiar with Russian import/export laws but I suspect there is significant motivation to trade domestically. Connecting the Russian Far East to population centers like St. Petersburg is really difficult. Over land there is the Trans...
[17:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:33] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised it's only 10 days shorter with Suez , Singapore, and Gilbrater bottlenecks.
[17:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:35] <exec> 08└─The Northern Route is shorter, which could save lots of cash, and does not include pirates, the strait of Malacca, the Suez Canal, or insane congestion (yet) which pose significant risks to your ship. As long as you don't let DiCaprio board your ship, and you have enough coats for your cheap crew, i...
[17:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:38] <exec> 08└─the danes must be middlemen for trump's COLLUSION! :)
[17:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:40] <exec> 08└─Don't you have sinks in Brooklyn? They have the sinks. It's actually the dirt to grow stuff in that most of them are missing.
[17:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:00] <exec> 08└─Cute, but none of those would be valid passwords. Stay out of the dictionary, you slacker!
[17:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:02] <exec> 08└─It's a problem if you travel to non-qwerty countries.
[17:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:04] <exec> 08└─fat ass government leaches who purposely (when your lazy, stupid ass chooses a lame password, you're doing it on purpose) put the tax payers systems at risk should at least be fired. sensitive stuff should get the sacks of shit charged. there is no accountability for these criminals though. yet.
[17:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:29] <exec> 08└─Sigh....
[17:44:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:20] <exec> 08└─If the pay goes up, the incentive to automate that job goes up.
[17:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:19] <exec> 08└─I've studied both Christianity and Islam, and you know what? Islam is scary as fuck compared to Christianity.
[17:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:20] <exec> 08└─Let me clarify then and say, "The worst is over." ;-) I don't agree with some of your examples because those were where the US extended aid to a govt in putting down a guerrilla war. I don't think too many Colombians for example had a soft spot for the FARC in the past 20 yrs.
[17:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:22] <exec> 08└─No hay de qué. But as for your remark: "Also in Mexico this is illegal..." So that means it doesn't happen, then. ;-) This is Mexico. You have the criminals and then you have the govt/police and it is sometimes hard to tell them apart. (Apologies to the honest ones.) I have lived in many Latin Ame...
[17:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:24] <exec> 08└─The big flaw in your reasoning is "people A coming to place where people B are currently living" always equals an invasion, rather than new folks in your neighborhood. It's an impulse that goes as far back as the Know-Nothing Party, but still hasn't been shown to be true.
[17:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:26] <exec> 08└─I know the US is not immune to corruption, but everything is a matter of degree. Overall, I don't think you will find too many who will say that the US is not ahead of Mexico on this.
[17:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:28] <exec> 08└─How many people do you think cross the border illegally every day? 1000? Let's run with that. That's 365,000 border crossings per year. What's the average time an illegal spends in the USA? Some are quickly caught, so their time is effectively zero. For others, let's assume an average age at which t...
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[17:45:43] <exec> 08└─All except Shrooms?
[17:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks on the Moon from Lunar Dust - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:44] <exec> 08└─I'm also much more in favor of the moon-tunnel concept. It seems a whole lot more reasonable to retrofit a cave / tunnel on the moon and / or bore out a tunnel of reasonable size, than to create a structure on the surface. Sure, I don't see why there can't be both, but to start it would be very good...
[17:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:25] <exec> 08└─Why is this modded "interesting"? I suppose the alternate reality you live in must be interesting.
[17:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:05] <exec> 08└─None of these series are complete as far as I know. I know I'm waiting on the next release of Spinward Fringe. The other two, I've not read all of the books, yet. And apparently, I accidentally skipped to book 4 on the Big Sigma Series. Which makes a whole lot of sense now. I seemed to be missing qu...
[17:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:07] <exec> 08└─If it is just projecting political trends for the "what if" it isn't Science Fiction, it is Political Fiction. or just a drop the pretense and call it a political tract packaged as fiction. Atlas Shrugged comes to mind.
[17:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:09] <exec> 08└─Point being that taking any broader message about conflict with aliens from that book is a real stretch since the aliens are also just Greek mythology with the serial numbers lightly sanded down. Fun read, not science fiction by any stretch.
[17:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel 'Gags' Linux Distros From Revealing Performance Hit From Spectre Patches - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:51] <exec> 08└─noone in the whole world means wireless anything when they say "network cards". i said, goddamn! goddamn the pusher man!
[17:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:17] <exec> 08└─Well, you know, except for the serendipitous introduction (via F-bomb) of a young person to someone on the National Space Council and film inspiration, who is now personally helping said person with their career. Or post-disaster coordination. Or laying bare just how divided the U.S. as a nation act...
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[18:41:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.gog.com/game/cultist_simulator [gog.com] Give it a try. Just don't read any guides or look up things in wikis aside from whatever the game manual provides. The discovery and flavor text is the whole point. Without it, it's just another shitty card game.
[18:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H.P. Lovecraft Stories: An Intro to Cthulhu, Necronomicon, Dagon & More - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:39] <exec> 08└─Don't call upon the Ancient Ones, or those whose names shall not be spoken. We have enough trolls on the net, and the last thing we need is an Ancient one as a ghost in the shell :)
[18:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:03] <exec> 08└─Please take 1991 away. That one sucked. But so did 2004, so we could sub that one instead. I think I'd keep the rest. thanks.
[18:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:45] <exec> 08└─Well said, it's amazing how often the map is missing. People don't know and this way they won't learn either... If some journo out there is wondering where to get a map, one good answer is https://osm.org [osm.org]
[18:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:47] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the hilarious dialog between God and St. Francis on lawn care? http://www.comptechdoc.org [comptechdoc.org] Another totally nutty thing is that somehow it's okay to spend your leisure time playing computer games (but even now, not everyone views games as an acceptable use...
[18:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:11] <exec> 08└─I can't believe nobody has suggested 12345 yet. Especially if you ROT13( 12345 )
[18:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:13] <exec> 08└─My password is "impervioustodictionaryattacks", you insensitive clod !
[18:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:15] <exec> 08└─For some reason, whenever someone uses the word cromulent, I think think of some british dude eating a tasty crumpet. The really hilarious thing I just found on https://en.oxforddictionaries.com [oxforddictionaries.com] is this: "Origin 1990s: first used in the US animated telev...
[18:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:41] <exec> 08└─A simple story on updated recommendations for diagnostic screening with more than half the replies trolls, off topic political crap, and conspiratorial nonsense. I haven't been coming here that often because of the declining quality of comments, but this is a particularly bad.
[18:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:43] <exec> 08└─So they made overconfident pronouncements before and are now onto the next thing...
[18:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Pap Test May be a 'Thing Of The Past' - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:45] <exec> 08└─I was trying to figure out why there was a sudden uptick in trolling. My best guess is that Trump's downfall is triggering a wave of anxiety as the fools realize that he actually is a bad guy. To deal with this they fall back on attacking liberals, women, and minorities. Any other ideas? Perhaps it...
[18:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:28] <exec> 08└─I think you hit the 'post anonymously' box by accident there, Donald.
[18:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:29] <exec> 08└─How does Federal law define a tomato? Fruit or vegetable?
[18:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:31] <exec> 08└─don't drive it through austin, tx. you'll get jacked by spoiled, retarded posers
[18:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:34] <exec> 08└─I would love to rent one for a day, if it looks like that yet can silently smoke all the idiot posers (giant pickups, fakexotics, or souped-up rice burners) at the traffic lights. 6s 0-60 is not quite enough to make them rethink their stupidity, though.
[18:44:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:57] <exec> 08└─... is a major shift away from the founding principles of a small, explicitly limited government ...
[18:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:49] <exec> 08└─Those numbers are from 2015 [oecd.org]. Given the enormity of the United States in terms of population, diversity of population, diversity of climate and geography, etc., the U.S. has a spectacularly small government. Also, just because the government has grown doesn't mean it's OK to let it fatten...
[18:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:50] <exec> 08└─Pay more.
[18:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:52] <exec> 08└─Slaves was item 2. There is a reason America didn't fall into ruin when we freed the slaves . . . Item 3 immigrants. You fail to mention item 4 . . . who will do the job if we don't have immigrants? Are American employers going to pay Americans an actual fair, let alone a livable wage to do what wa...
[18:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:55] <exec> 08└─Sure, no new jobs are being created, but a new competitor is being created, which helps the consumer. Sure, those jobs aren't paying particularly well, but that wealthy person is now going to be spending his resources in this country rather than that country. As said before: Immigration is just find...
[18:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 2143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:57] <exec> 08└─It all depends on which form of Islam, and which form of Christianity. Some forms of Islam: Sufis? Not scary at all, they mostly just want to sit around doing mystical stuff and writing poetry. Wahabists? Very scary, those are the guys that are responsible for ISIS, Al Qaida, and most of the other M...
[18:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:59] <exec> 08└─and how do you know that the mongoloids that inhabited mexico didn't invade and kill the real indigenous peoples of mexico many years before? people like to assume (through indoctrination) that these obvious mongoloids are the poor victims of evil whitey, but their is (hidden) evidence that whitey w...
[18:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:01] <exec> 08└─Mexico has developed massively since NAFTA.
[18:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks on the Moon from Lunar Dust - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:18] <exec> 08└─If we can build bricks on the moon from lunar dust . . . then we can build bricks on Mars from lunar dust! Oh, wait. Nevermind.
[18:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building Bricks on the Moon from Lunar Dust - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:19] <exec> 08└─> line the walls with a nice thick layer of sealant A robotic system could "easily" drop Bigelow Fabric down a lava tube that doesn't look too pokey, and then inflate it. As long as you remember to put the door facing the exit, you're done with "build base" step 1.
[18:47:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 535 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:12] <exec> 08└─That's an odd way to say "the right hated seeing minorities in sci-fi stories and built an astroturf campaign to manipulate votes." I mean, it's a technically true, but it's the exact same "right spitefully burns everything down over perceived slights. followed by people asking why are we so divided...
[18:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:41] <exec> 08└─Come on America! You're all grown up now, why can there only be two of anything over there? All your friends have lots of political parties, and any number of different points of view, but you guys can only ever muster two. I believe in you, I know you can do better.
[18:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:52] <exec> 08└─I'm saying "I don't want to take anything from you." You are saying "Pay your fair share, Comrade", while you point a gun in my face.
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[19:41:22] <exec> 08└─In this graph [google.com], you can see that the word "foundational" was basically nonexistent until the 1980s, when it saw an exponential rise in usage. I suspect that's because the word "fundamental" became associated with the word "fundamentalist", as in "fundamentalist Christian"; the rise of t...
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[19:41:24] <exec> 08└─china thinks the "internets" need to be CLEAN and facebook will ban all mention of nudity?
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[19:41:26] <exec> 08└─hey BOT, can you smack some contextual sense into your friend here?
[19:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06H.P. Lovecraft Stories: An Intro to Cthulhu, Necronomicon, Dagon & More - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:36] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus is a harmless ghost.
[19:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Just How Rigged is America's Broadband World? A Deep Dive Into One US City Reveals All - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:47] <exec> 08└─How do other countries handle this? I hear stuff about universal high speed access, but all traffic is metered ... ?
[19:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:02] <exec> 08└─Let us eschew our modern ways! We should all go back to living in sod huts and on the average dying even more prematurely of easily preventable communicable diseases like our ancestors. I kid, I kid. It's not exactly a shocking conclusion that breathing crap isn't good for you. It does make me glad...
[19:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improved Thermal-Shock Resistance in Industrial Ceramics - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:15] <exec> 08└─Okay, okay, you win, I give. I know the terms "nano", pico, femto, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I see the word "nano" usually used in reference to something active, rather than a simple passive coating. I know it's colloquial, but language is ever evolving. OP was...
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[19:42:16] <exec> 08└─I have seen this before and am curious: why do Americans assume that borosilicate glass can't be bought anymore just because it isn't called Pyrex? There's plenty of true borosilicate glass under other brands.
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[19:42:18] <exec> 08└─PS: I wish I could respond privately to the one poster. I often write in context, and others, such as yourself, have broader knowledge and understanding. In other words, when I try to explain something to someone, I try to understand and adapt to that person. But I'm learning how this works...
[19:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks very much for posting that!
[19:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the opening of the northern sea routes is mighty small as silver linings go.
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[19:43:19] <exec> 08└─tried it. doesn't meet the following criteria; First character not a numberLast character not a symbol
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[19:44:34] <exec> 08└─Car aerodynamics is notoriously counter-intuitive. This Maserati [wikipedia.org] is worse than this old Tatra [wikipedia.org] according to this list. [wikipedia.org]. I read somewhere that the first engineer to wind-tunnel test cars discovered that a "sleek design" actually had a better Cd going bac...
[19:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:57] <exec> 08└─Farmer here. Yea, and amen. The good field workers turn up their noses at the proverbial macjobs, because they know that they can make way more by working hard for a shorter part of the year, and hitting something else the rest of the time - or relaxing with their families. I have had many city folk...
[19:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:58] <exec> 08└─Their cheap labor helps the US economy. The US citizens ? Maybe not quite as much. But many people profit from cheap hands, and that slows down the outsourcing, saving whole towns in the process. Shades of dark grey... I'm pretty sure most Latin America immigrants would really love to see the US sto...
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[19:46:01] <exec> 08└─"And yet for some reason the US is allied with the Wahabist Saudis, a move that I still don't understand outside of personal business relationships between the Bush and ibn Saud families." uhh, this is what allows the US and Israel to do what it wants to do?
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 1808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─and burning people alive, and taking sex slaves. And, they're doing this on a geopolitical level; we're not talking about some weirdo cult outside Seattle. Sorry, bud, but Christian wackos are not in the same league, and I can't understand why you insist on pretending that they are. If you look back...
[19:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:00] <exec> 08└─Her little sister Lottery left and never looked back.
[19:47:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:45] <exec> 08└─As an outsider who is neither a Democrat or a Republican, I can tell you that Dr. Ben Carson is viewed as neither a doctor, or a successful black man, but as a total fuckwit. America dodged a bullet when he dropped out of the race.
[19:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:43] <exec> 08└─So the Hugos started out with authors giving each other awards? Then the Nebula awards are presumably today's equivalent to the Hugos back then.
[19:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:44] <exec> 08└─When a story uses a futuristic setting as a vehicle for social commentary about the present, nope, out of bounds. And there goes another huge tranche of Star Trek episodes.
[19:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:47] <exec> 08└─I liked the Wheel of Time. But ... By the third book so much had happened that I completely lost track of the plot and gave up. A volume-by-volume summary would be welcome; each summary to be read after the corresponding volume, and used for reference during the next. -- hendrik.
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[20:41:30] <exec> 08└─[Spyfone exposed] the data of thousands of its customers
[20:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:31] <exec> 08└─In the Soviet UK, Halogen bans EU!
[20:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex, Religion and a Towering Treatise on Anatomy - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:42] <exec> 08└─Why the clickbait headline? The summary is about a treatise on anatomy. Why can't we call it what it is?
[20:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex, Religion and a Towering Treatise on Anatomy - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:44] <exec> 08└─According to the Hippocratic Collections the liver had five lobes. This concept was adopted by Galen and also became the concept of the medival physicians and teachers of anatomy. Still in his Tabulae Anatomicae from 1538, Andreas Vesalius illustrated the liver with five lobes, but in his public ana...
[20:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex, Religion and a Towering Treatise on Anatomy - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:46] <exec> 08└─Another is that the pious found the figures' necessary nudity scandalous, and felt impelled to weigh in with ink and scissors.
[20:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06H.P. Lovecraft Stories: An Intro to Cthulhu, Necronomicon, Dagon & More - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:57] <exec> 08└─Have you not seen his article submissions? They will make you a believer in the altichrist.
[20:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:10] <exec> 08└─I've thought about growing asparagus, but everyone says they're difficult. What's your experience been?
[20:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:54] <exec> 08└─How, indeed? For those who did not read the question as being rhetorical: The Federal Tomato Standards [usda.gov] don't mention fruit or vegetable, but the USDA Inspection Instructions For Tomatoes (PDF Warning) [usda.gov], which do not have the rule of law, say in part (page 20) things like, "Abnor...
[20:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:56] <exec> 08└─I think it's beautiful. It looks simple yet quirky. Everything old is new again. See the new VW electric van?
[20:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:24] <exec> 08└─We may have to. But the cost increase will drive automation and tool development. Just like it has in every other industry where they were forced to pay a living wage.
[20:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─First off. Their is a long and well documented history of discrimination. While I cannot simply state, "America is ready and willing to harvest its own food 100% by itself" we know for a fact that American agricultural workers have been covertly harrased and prosecuted for a long time. Change that,...
[20:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:11] <exec> 08└─It was more that the authors and fans were a relatively small and tight-knit group, and were also the only ones who cared enough to vote on the awards early on. So it wasn't like, say, the Golden Globes, where it's explicitly actors & directors awarding actors & directors, it's more that the authors...
[20:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Soylentils Award for Best Science Fiction Book - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:12] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. Although the idea of time travel in it was the seed for a lot of other authors, and it is certainly a pivotal literary work, it is not itself Science Fiction. It was entirely a vehicle for social commentary on the time of the author. Science Fiction as such really hadn't been invented y...
[20:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use of Profanity Costs Twitter User an Internship at NASA - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:22] <exec> 08└─This person didn't "admit that they were wrong" until they found out whom they were talking to and the fact that it cost them a great deal in life. Perhaps go back to square 1: don't be an absolute asshole in the first place. The lesson should be that you can _not_ lash out without regard for others...
[20:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Next 50 Study - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:32] <exec> 08└─So many problems with the intel cyber. Which, I assume, they're working very hard to fix. To make it PERFECTO. And maybe that's how they got hacked. I don't know. But it says, not found. It says page not found. Where there was supposed to be an article. Or a Press Release. And possibly, nobody cares...
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[21:41:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:38] <exec> 08└─[Spyfone exposed] the data of thousands of its customers
[21:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:41] <exec> 08└─Ok who is running the shitty chat bot?? Either this person can't tell the difference between slashdot and soylentnews or it is a shitty bot. Not sure I understand why someone would program a bot to post the above.
[21:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:43] <exec> 08└─I concur; there is no honor among those that profit from violating others.
[21:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:45] <exec> 08└─What about their spouses etc who were exposed to the malware?
[21:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:47] <exec> 08└─because it's not a bot and just was some dude that wasn't funny to you? the internet is full of people that can be replaced with simple scripts, that doesnt mean they have benefitted from it yet.
[21:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:50] <exec> 08└─Incorrect, this joke is meant for slashdot which at this moment has the story 2nd from the top. The EU halogen ban story has not run on SN yet. I made that point already, am I arguing with a bot now?
[21:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:52] <exec> 08└─Is this some shit marketed to parents to install on their kids' phones? If so, how much CP is stored out in the open on Amazon?
[21:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex, Religion and a Towering Treatise on Anatomy - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:04] <exec> 08└─Not a single mention of consensus in that article summary. Methinks you are trying to make an "alternate" "point"? What holds science back are the defenders of the status quo who reject new ideas as preposterous. It is dangerous to toss out ideas without any real consideration.
[21:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex, Religion and a Towering Treatise on Anatomy - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:06] <exec> 08└─Don't donate to the catholic church. Unless you approve of priests raping alter-boys and such, and you want to pay them to continue to do so. It's not a few isolated cases like the church tells you.
[21:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex, Religion and a Towering Treatise on Anatomy - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:08] <exec> 08└─It is likely that the lag was partly due to belief in the ancient authorities
[21:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex, Religion and a Towering Treatise on Anatomy - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:10] <exec> 08└─The summary is about the censorship of reproductive organs from a 16th century anatomy book by its contemporary readers. You're asking Soylent's editors to remove "sex" from the title of Nature's story since it's "clickbait". You know, you're walking a thin line between being ironic and being stupid...
[21:42:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Just How Rigged is America's Broadband World? A Deep Dive Into One US City Reveals All - 296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:31] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai is working on a directive stating that a State has sufficient broadband coverage if at least one person in the State has 5/1 access. The Twitter-in-chief will then announce that his administration has brought Broadband to all Americans, and Fox News will repeat that until the elections.
[21:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution is Shaving a Year Off Our Average Life Expectancy - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:50] <exec> 08└─I'm at no risk: I don't breathe. ///// Hey, if that Indian wacko can get all his nourishment from air, I can get all my oxygen from pizza.
[21:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improved Thermal-Shock Resistance in Industrial Ceramics - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:07] <exec> 08└─Can't handle the dynamics of a changing free market.
[21:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:26] <exec> 08└─I think you missed this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone Tesla - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─You're right; the Supreme Court is an agency of the Federal government. Clearly not a knowledgeable one, but one with authority nonetheless.
[21:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:57] <exec> 08└─Try naming something El Presidente Trump *isn't* trying to destroy. I agree with you. It's an investment not just in economics but also regional stability.
[21:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:59] <exec> 08└─My point of criticism is this: No matter what label you slap on it, any time you get into the mindset of "We're the Good Guys, they're the Bad Guys, and we must destroy them using whatever means available, period, end of discussion", bad things start to happen. If your reaction to "We recently kille...
[21:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:01] <exec> 08└─Why was that busload of kids being bombed? There is a geopolitical war going on. This is no joke; this is not mere bigotry. The inherent tension between Islam and the West is at the core of it all; Islam is not compatible with the West—it has been an adversary since its very inception, and it has...
[21:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:03] <exec> 08└─I'm all for automation and robots putting people out of work. Now, what we do with all the people whose jobs are replaced by machines? I'm saying this problem is insurmountable, nor that we shouldn't have more robots. But it is a problem we need to solve. One idea I heard is a "robot tax". Like ever...
[21:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:05] <exec> 08└─Typo: I'm NOT saying this problem is insurmountable.
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[22:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:26] <exec> 08└─What WON'T they do? Fuck with elections, fuck with minds...fuck after getting peed on...
[22:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:27] <exec> 08└─So this is what soylent is now. Trolling for comments. I have a idea everyone here will like. Do not watch the news. Now before you roll your eyes and get pissed off or start snarking. Hear me out on my hypothesis. The news is designed to piss you off. These guys have perfected a skinner box. News...
[22:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:29] <exec> 08└─I'm more pissed at Leftist scumbags who point at the Russians, and yet they openly sow discord with a weapon way worse than vaccine discussion -- identity politics.
[22:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:31] <exec> 08└─Both the RNC and DNC have been known to support kookery on the opposite side to debase their apponents. And frankly if this was done as a PAC, I've not seen any law that actually makes it a crime. It can't reasonably be a conflict with the emoluments clause, because if it were so, then any political...
[22:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:33] <exec> 08└─Do you want to live by what someone you have never met tells you to think?
[22:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:36] <exec> 08└─Over 40,000 cases of Rubella in Europe so far this year. Wonder why? [telegraph.co.uk]
[22:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:51] <exec> 08└─The UK isn't Soviet at the moment, it's fascist.
[22:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:52] <exec> 08└─spouses etc who were exposed to the malware?
[22:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:54] <exec> 08└─No, it just was some dude that wasn't that bright to you?
[22:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:56] <exec> 08└─So anyone got a torrent link? :P
[22:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:59] <exec> 08└─Aw crap, now I notice the post above screws the context of my joke. The point is this data is certain to contain lots of stuff that could be used for blackmail, embarrassment, fraud, or such, and THIS TIME there is only the grace of the researcher that prevents this data from being downloadable in b...
[22:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:01] <exec> 08└─But they have to install it to protect the children, you can't be too safe!
[22:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06H.P. Lovecraft Stories: An Intro to Cthulhu, Necronomicon, Dagon & More - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:29] <exec> 08└─I haven't read any Lovecraft, but it seems I hardly need to. Lots of references to the Elder Gods in other works of fiction. The gist of it appears to be extremely powerful and ancient aliens with mysterious agendas in which mere humans are vermin and pond scum of no account. They do not care that s...
[22:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improved Thermal-Shock Resistance in Industrial Ceramics - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:13] <exec> 08└─Well, is there an easy test to see if glass cookware is made of the good stuff or some lower quality substitute? As I understand it, the reason original Pyrex(tm) is good is because it has near zero thermal coefficient of expansion over the working temperature range. Thus thermal shock does not caus...
[22:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:48] <exec> 08└─Ooooh, so THIS is what the 4D chess is actually all about!! So Trump is still conning the US, but the actual end goal is to get his base so worked up that when he announces universal healthcare they'll lap it up. I can get behind this.
[22:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Biggest Shipping Firm to Test Russian Arctic Route - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:50] <exec> 08└─I bought the grown plants from a nearby market. Plant them and PROTECT THEM (squirrels or something like to dig them up/trash them) and water them well (i have a garden box). I also sprinkled clover seeds and let them take over because they 'fix' nitrogen or somethig into the soil which the asparagu...
[22:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:19] <exec> 08└─We use RSA SecurID, which is fucking wonderful (in before NSA hacked lolz) because you can use the number pad to type it all in with one hand, with none of the infuriating bullshit password requirements which cause users to use passwords like "Password123" etc.
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[23:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:28] <exec> 08└─not only leftists [soylentnews.org]
[23:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:29] <exec> 08└─Ignore reality at your own peril.
[23:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:31] <exec> 08└─You realize that your racist garbage is the peak of identity politics right? Maybe that is why you sad little trolls are so upset by anyone else using similar tactics to exclude you. We humans tend to be irritated the most by flaws in others which mirror our own.
[23:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:33] <exec> 08└─There is nothing new, or shocking, or even unknown here. It would have been almost inconceivable that the vaccine 'debate' would not be targeted by them. The same analysis could be made for gun rights/control, abortion, religious persecution, religious tyranny, immigration, reverse/discriminatio...
[23:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:36] <exec> 08└─This is only known by old people who lived through the cold war.
[23:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:38] <exec> 08└─That obvious?
[23:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:40] <exec> 08└─Try telling that to some our users and anons. We could be living the events of Red Dawn (1984) and they would still be skeptical. At least #726052 [soylentnews.org] has a more creative response. Acknowledge it, but downplay it. And if you look at the Russian Facebook ad buys and various trolling gro...
[23:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:42] <exec> 08└─But if that is so, you'd have to arrest all of congress, and all of the respective CEO's of multinational conglomerates.
[23:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:44] <exec> 08└─Well, we trolled them with blue jeans, cars, houses, rock and roll, and grocery stores full of food. http://englishrussia.com [englishrussia.com]
[23:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:46] <exec> 08└─And yet, it's the old people that have a low inflammation threshold and thus mostly react to trolls.
[23:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:49] <exec> 08└─Could this strategy be based in game theory and the best results are obtained playing both sides at some given proportion, rather than just playing the side one wants to win. Or they objective just were creating chaos?.
[23:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:51] <exec> 08└─Trolls at George Washington University, in Washington DC, made the discovery while trying to improve social media communications for public health workers, bots said. Instead, they found scientists and researchers skewing online debate and upending consensus about vaccine safety.
[23:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:53] <exec> 08└─The Mueller investigation has had far more of a bang for the buck,
[23:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Social Media Accounts Played Both Sides of the Vaccine Debate - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:55] <exec> 08└─Why did identity politics become a big thing after about 2000? For older generations it was drilled into our heads that people were all the same and labeling was evil. Now it seems to be a virtue. Was everyone just wrong about being equal and we should have spent efforts on establishing hierarchies...
[23:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061,464 Western Australian Government Officials Used `Password123' as their Password. Cool, Cool. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:32] <exec> 08└─Origin 1990s: first used in the US animated television series The Simpsons."
[23:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When The U.S. Government Tried to Replace Migrant Farmworkers with High Schoolers - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:26] <exec> 08└─I think it was Ivanka Trump got some well-deserved crap for a presentation in Asia in which she explained to some rich folk that they could come in live in the US by hiring some people who already had really good jobs.
[23:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA Leaker Who Mailed Doc Outlining Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years in Prison - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:27] <exec> 08└─You can look up the inmate number at https://www.bop.gov [bop.gov] with a name search and get the address of her prison once she's assigned to one.
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