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[00:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bird Flu Viruses in Ducks After Vaccines Largely Prevented H7N9 in Chickens - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:43] <exec> 08└─Not surprising about this.
[00:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bird Flu Viruses in Ducks After Vaccines Largely Prevented H7N9 in Chickens - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:44] <exec> 08└─If I'm going to die in a global pandemic, I don't want it to be called Duck Flu.
[00:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bird Flu Viruses in Ducks After Vaccines Largely Prevented H7N9 in Chickens - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:46] <exec> 08└─We've got another swine flu strain for you.
[00:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bird Flu Viruses in Ducks After Vaccines Largely Prevented H7N9 in Chickens - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:48] <exec> 08└─Still working on higher propagation of Mad Cow disease, too.
[00:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bird Flu Viruses in Ducks After Vaccines Largely Prevented H7N9 in Chickens - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:50] <exec> 08└─Why didn't they predict this? Because its unpredictable according to them but they still need more money?
[00:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:04] <exec> 08└─Help the poor die faster: trick them into eating diseased duck while you eat the healthy chicken.
[00:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:05] <exec> 08└─> Nearly two-thirds of the patients randomly assigned in the study to get antibiotics for > an uncomplicated appendicitis didn't end up needing surgery in the follow-up time Obviously, not for everyone.
[00:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:08] <exec> 08└─You're just looking for another way to infect children with autism via Big Pharma products. If God decides to give my children appendicitis then they're going under the knife... if it was good enough for Isaac, it's good enough for them.
[00:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:10] <exec> 08└─So the outcomes of - Waiting for lifesaving surgery in a socialized medicine country and - Treatment considered ineffective for a life threatening condition before now now are the same?
[00:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:30] <exec> 08└─Yup... https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[00:45:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because when I think of Italians and Vietnamese, the first names that come to mind are "Rosenberg [wikipedia.org]", "Ames [wikipedia.org]", and "Hanssen [wikipedia.org]".
[00:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:24] <exec> 08└─This stuff should be leaked anyway. I'd like to see every single one of the NSA's secrets uncovered. Fuck that corrupt, anti-constitutional organization.
[00:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:52] <exec> 08└─You seem to believe that Greaseblocks inc is a marxist enterprise that charges costs plus a small markup for its products. No business does this. Prices are unrelated to costs except for the condition that Σprices must exceed Σcosts. (or the company will go broke.) In a non-competitive area their...
[00:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:53] <exec> 08└─I was starting to think you had hijacked his account. Maybe it was someone else.
[00:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:29] <exec> 08└─What does music have to do with power? Nothing. These are entirely artificial restrictions.
[00:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:31] <exec> 08└─Linemen aren't getting paid for work their grandfather performed. But yes they are getting compensated for work they could have performed before you were born, and will continue to collect a decent retirement that will allow the to live their twilight years in peace and happiness. There is also a di...
[00:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, we can vote for a decent minimum wage and safe working conditions, and a clean environment should the desire arise. And we can vote away rent seeking license holders. The choice is ours
[00:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:35] <exec> 08└─Keep dreaming. Humans are utterly incapable of agreeing long enough to ever consider achieving that last goal.
[00:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kids as Young as 7 are Finding Ingenious Ways Around Apple's Screen Time Controls - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:55] <exec> 08└─A brother or a sister -- one person. That's unambiguously a singular subject. Not a brother and a sister, or every brother and sister in town one by one.
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[01:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:41] <exec> 08└─"how do you do, fellow memphis people?"
[01:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:42] <exec> 08└─So, all those friend requests aren't just from Nigerian men who suddenly turn into white blondes if you look at their profile history? Whoa, mind blown.
[01:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:44] <exec> 08└─It should be permitted for the cops to infiltrate Facebook just as they infiltrate situations in real life. If Facebook forbids cops making undercover accounts, Facebook is effectively siding with criminals. This is not a smart move for Facebook. Facebook will discover that the government has the po...
[01:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:46] <exec> 08└─If Facebook forbids cops making undercover accounts, Facebook is effectively siding with criminals.
[01:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:48] <exec> 08└─Facebook has a problem
[01:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bird Flu Viruses in Ducks After Vaccines Largely Prevented H7N9 in Chickens - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:03] <exec> 08└─1 vote for Drakh plague here.
[01:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bird Flu Viruses in Ducks After Vaccines Largely Prevented H7N9 in Chickens - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:04] <exec> 08└─It looks to me like chicken farmers are just sharecroppers, taken advantage of by the big guys. This is an interesting read. [theguardian.com] No wonder the farmers in the Carolinas left their chickens to drown. They probably can't afford to do anything else, and if their insurance is not adequate...
[01:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:21] <exec> 08└─I dunno...I'm guessing the price of antibiotics just went up, because....why the hell not! PROFITS!
[01:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:41] <exec> 08└─And idiots like MDC will continue to defend Facebook's abominable practices because their moms find it easy to use. Convenience at the cost of your and everyone else's privacy.
[01:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:11] <exec> 08└─Yes. I realize this is what you're trying to say,
[01:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Letter Reveals Galileo's Attempt to Avoid the Inquisition - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:06] <exec> 08└─One thing that would cause suspicion is being smart or lucky enough to avoid various afflictions. People would wonder what you knew that they didn't know. Did you have supernatural allies, perhaps? This kind of thinking still exists today, but it's much less crude. Today, instead of witches, it's ha...
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[02:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:36] <exec> 08└─I don't think this offers any details not covered by last year's story [soylentnews.org]: There are four proposed missions – three orbiters and a fly-by of Uranus, which would include a narrow angle camera to draw out details, especially of the ice giant's moons. It would also drop an atmospheric...
[02:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:49] <exec> 08└─What a sad attempt at a counter-argument. Instead of posting a URL and running away like little bitch, why don't you try to write your own argument. Do explain how NOT catching criminals by using undercover police work is a benefit to society. Do explain how Facebook can morally justify not working...
[02:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:51] <exec> 08└─Do explain how Facebook can morally justify not working with the police.
[02:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:53] <exec> 08└─Did you even read the summary? The PD was gathering information on activists, not criminals. Essentially they were taking advantage of the difficulty of connecting a fake account to a real person to skip that whole probable cause/warrant thingy (it's Sooooo inconvieniant). Perhaps the PD should poli...
[02:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:55] <exec> 08└─So Facebook openly tells governments how it is going to be. Nice to see we aren't pretending the vestigial elected portions of the Deep State are still meaningful, we are admitting the old formal government is being cast off now and the vastly more powerful and intrusive corporate arms of it are goi...
[02:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:57] <exec> 08└─Blackstone's formulation. No, it's not my own argument, but it's a reasonable argument, often debated, and well understood. Your position seems to prefer a police state over a state that can tolerate ten guilty escaping justice, but cannot tolerate an innocent being unjustly punished. The whole idea...
[02:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:00] <exec> 08└─Very SMART work by our Memphis Law Enforcement, they're working SMARTER not HARDER. It's modern day police work, very 21st Century. They've come a long way since Officer Earl Clark took out MLK. Love it!!!
[02:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:32] <exec> 08└─I dunno. When I woke up from my surgery, I felt the best I ever have in my life.
[02:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:33] <exec> 08└─Not long ago, Finland was one of the richest Countries on Earth. Today, socialism has bankrupted the nation and driven its people into abject poverty. Virtually everywhere socialism or communism has been tried, it has produced suffering, corruption, and decay. Socialism’s thirst for power leads to...
[02:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:36] <exec> 08└─Are you now a man or a woman?
[02:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:38] <exec> 08└─Chromosomes never lie.
[02:48:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 1597 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:05] <exec> 08└─May I suggest that you change your perspective? Let us go back to the origins of the idea of minimum wages. Congress, the senate, and hordes of talking heads debated the issue, and the country was pretty much sold on the idea. But - some rich ranchers, and rich hotel owners, and rich restaurateurs h...
[02:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:19] <exec> 08└─I think local reputation management would come into play. You might have to subscribe to a service that tracks and recommends good local services. You would need to know and trust the service. Could be very interesting, these services would be devastated by any breach of your trust. Having local org...
[02:49:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 1104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:36] <exec> 08└─That is not the whole story. The gas extraction will end in 2030 but it has already been significantly reduced, to levels that are supposed to be less problematic. It's hard to totally stop extraction because this gas field has a different caloric value from gas available for import, so the country...
[02:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:42] <exec> 08└─Interesting... but I doubt their claims of "safe levels". For example, it's been 10000 years since the last ice age. Or more? Anyhow, we get earthquakes here in Northern Canada, on the Canadian Shield, that are *still* due to the land rebounding, the crust rising, after the weight of the glaciers is...
[02:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:44] <exec> 08└─With gas I find it's usually more a braaarrrpp!! than a boom.
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[03:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:21] <exec> 08└─I approve the title line. Probe deeper into uranus. Hehehe. So gay.
[03:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:22] <exec> 08└─Needs a +1 Beavis and Butthead heh heh heh heh heh
[03:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:24] <exec> 08└─Why is this so hard? Why can't we build a dozen, or two dozen, identical satellites and launch them into orbit around Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and a few other interesting moons (Europa, Ganymede) or KBO's? Build them with identical optics for planetary study, perhaps wit...
[03:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:27] <exec> 08└─I have often wondered the same thing. There must be some reason no-one does this, but I can't think what it might be.
[03:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:29] <exec> 08└─Scientists are sick of that joke so they've changed the name. It's now called Urectum.
[03:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:31] <exec> 08└─Hehehehe urectum hehehe
[03:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:51] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confusing entrapment with undercover operations. The situation being discussed is related to undercover operations, where a cop establishes some sort of fake persona, in order to infiltrate criminal operations. Entrapment is when the police do something to entice someone to break the...
[03:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:52] <exec> 08└─Actually I understand the real way things are done in the US a lot better than you do. If you think criminals deserve protection, I sincerely hope you are soon the victim of a violent crime that leaves you weeping in a puddle of your own piss.
[03:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:54] <exec> 08└─"The PD was gathering information on activists, not criminals." - What your tiny little brain doesn't seem to understand is that activists can ALSO BE CRIMINALS. A proper police investigation would clearly distinguish between the people who were only activists and the people who were also criminals....
[03:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:35] <exec> 08└─I've had five surgeries, three of which required general anesthesia. It's somewhat frightening, on looking back, to experience floating in a black void of barely being conscious and hearing the recovery room nurse yelling at you to remember to breathe... and after a while of thinking about the pros...
[03:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:36] <exec> 08└─The study mentions use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics - 7 days of oral levofloxacin. Having had an adverse reaction to this family of drugs (that just keeps on giving), I'll take laproscopic surgery any day of the week. 2-3 weeks of recovery from gallbladder removal was nothing compared to dealing w...
[03:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:38] <exec> 08└─That's why they turn you upsidedown and smack your sorry ass. :)
[03:46:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Mitsubishi Recalls 68,000 SUVs Over Bad Software - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:03] <exec> 08└─If the 68000 SUVs are this bad, I'd hate to see the 8086 ones.
[03:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 1850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:07] <exec> 08└─I'm all in favor of trying things to learn. And goodness knows these guys need to learn a LOT, looks like from the comments on their own page they are already being educated by their users a bit. So it is good. But instead of emailing them a comment (which ya hafta do there) I'll just post a few of...
[03:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:28] <exec> 08└─0.000001% of the United States population is three people. Perhaps you could name those three.
[03:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:29] <exec> 08└─You appear to think that companies know what price levels will maximize their profits. It is to laugh. Big, complex companies are run by people with a variety of motives. Profit is the motive that economists point at, and politicians tend to point at the profit motive also. There's more going on.
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[04:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:09] <exec> 08└─Phone is an ancient protocol with too many limitations and vulnerabilities. What replaces it should be decentralized like bittorrent and run on top of UDP with mandatory high-grade SSL. Wish I had time to write something like that. The world needs it.
[04:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:10] <exec> 08└─I emailed her TFA. Mom has a special hatred for RoboCallers, as did my beloved father when he was still with us.
[04:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:12] <exec> 08└─What replaces it should be decentralized like bittorrent and run on top of UDP with mandatory high-grade SSL.
[04:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:26] <exec> 08└─The proposed missions could be comparable in cost to Cassini. So, in the $2-3 billion range. Obviously, we need to fund SLS/Orion pork rather than science. https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] But in 2015, NASA asked a group of s...
[04:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 1461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:51] <exec> 08└─You know, after the last police beating I witnessed I'm really not going to accept anything like that would actually result unless both the lack of accountability and the arrangement that built it this way are meaningfully fixed. If police misconduct and corruption is so rampant that someone as milk...
[04:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:04] <exec> 08└─" For one Piracy is still rampant. Even bit-torrent is still a sizable bulk of net traffic, despite being the "out of date" method of piracy nowadays." What's the up-to-date method??
[04:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:06] <exec> 08└─"the HTML 5 tolerance for unclosed (or implicitly closed) tags." Wait, now we're emulating IE4 ??
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[05:44:12] <exec> 08└─Mosquitos Are Evolving Resistance to the CRISPR/Gene Drive Technique [soylentnews.org]
[05:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:25] <exec> 08└─One Billion Dollar Fine. Get the out-of-work CA bail bond hunters to go after these vermins.
[05:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:26] <exec> 08└─But my FCC just did a MUCH BIGGER one. Possibly the biggest they've ever taken. We're doing an $82 million fine on a guy from NC called Philip Roesel. Big robot caller out of NC. That's $120 million to make my military much stronger. To make the American people much safer. But you won't hear about t...
[05:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:28] <exec> 08└─Can you add "blockchain" to your elevator pitch? Because then you'll have financiers tripping over themselves to give you money.
[05:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe because when NASA landed on mars they found an american flag already there enclosed with a note explaining how beards mimic cranial nerve damage to defeat lip reading.
[05:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:47] <exec> 08└─So far each probe has been custom-designed for its target, because each target has a very different set of problems and things we'd rather focus on. If you do a Voyager/Pioneer-style flyby, then you can use common hardware. As soon as you try going into orbit, the worst parameter of each planet woul...
[05:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:14] <exec> 08└─So I wonder, now that Facebook has made its decision, with what force does it intend to enforce its edicts? If a local PD sets up a facebook account and arrests some local perv or drug dealer will Facebook have the officers involved arrested somehow?
[05:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:15] <exec> 08└─What is your problem? Did you experience something terrible? Or are you just genetically predisposed to fascism? Agreeing with what Runaway wrote, I strongly uphold the Founding Fathers' principle that it's better for 10 criminals to be loose than one innocent in prison. It's a concept that should b...
[05:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:17] <exec> 08└─Here I'll leave you another link to ponder. COINTELPRO [wikipedia.org]
[05:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:19] <exec> 08└─My problem is that I can't take a baseball bat to your skull and spray your grey matter all over the sidewalk.
[05:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:22] <exec> 08└─Given the plethora of obviously fake accounts on FaceBook, from literal sock puppets, cartoon characters, cats & dogs, to non-individual-person accounts for such "people" as white supremacist hate groups, all it would take is the PD to file a discrimination suit to force FB to defend itself in court...
[05:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 1714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:03] <exec> 08└─I had my appendix removed back in 1975, just south of my teenage years. After several years of mysterious intermittent pains, the thing finally went for the 'big one' early one afternoon and within hours I went under the knife, sure, they removed the inflamed appendix but fucked up the internal stit...
[05:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:23] <exec> 08└─No, legitimate interest is more limited than you think. Read this [gdpreu.org] .
[05:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earthquake Fear Ends Dutch Gas Boom - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:17] <exec> 08└─At a high enough pressure, the carbon dioxide might liquefy. For example, carbon dioxide in a fire extinguisher is liquid. https://commons.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
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[06:43:52] <exec> 08└─i dislike mosquitoes as much as the next guy errr... person but mosquitoes dont only drink blood. before being fertilized both sexes acctually live from nectar from plants, which, it seems, the plant make and "give away free" for a reason. ofc mosquitoes are also great as a natural SA used with zone...
[06:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:09] <exec> 08└─I've been called many times from phone numbers that one digit off from mine. Usually the penultimate digit. Any many others with the same exchange, just a few digits off. Scum...
[06:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:27] <exec> 08└─They should probe Neptune instead just to avoid the jokes. It's almost the same as Uranus.
[06:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:28] <exec> 08└─> Then you make 10+ copies of this telescope, build them as fast as possible, with the intention of launching all of them into low-Earth orbit. Don't test them for years on end like JWST, but build in the capability for manned or robotic servicing. Even if a couple of them fail, it should be fine. W...
[06:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fennec [7053] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:04] <exec> 08└─I think you're doing the opposite of what you think. By hiding the ad, and clicking "not interested" you're just giving them more data, the is no bad data for Facebook. Hiding the ad proves you've looked at it, and clicking only the ones related to your real life may by analysed as "you already boug...
[06:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:01] <exec> 08└─The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. -- Leia Organa Maybe we could organize crowd funding for the gentleman for leveling the playing field?
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[06:48:22] <exec> 08└─RFC1149 [wikipedia.org]
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[06:48:41] <exec> 08└─And then because as if things weren't horrible enough, along came JavaScript in web browsers, the ultimate evolution of the autorun technology...
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[07:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Air Live Coverage of International Space Station Crew Landing - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:47] <exec> 08└─NASA and Roscosmos Release Joint Statement on ISS Leak Amid Rumors [soylentnews.org]
[07:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Air Live Coverage of International Space Station Crew Landing - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:48] <exec> 08└─I don't watch the NASA channel often, but I would suspect that landings are typically covered in their programming.
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[07:43:59] <exec> 08└─Get that through your heads.
[07:44:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 1060 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:28] <exec> 08└─Why is this so hard? Why can't we build a dozen, or two dozen, identical satellites and launch them into orbit around Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and a few other interesting moons (Europa, Ganymede) or KBO's? Build them with identical optics for planetary study, perhaps wit...
[07:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:37] <exec> 08└─Because NASA engineers can estimate the risk of failure or at least come up with a list of things that can go wrong. They could test spacecraft in some ways without adding years of delay prior to the launch date. They could launch them one at a time as they build them. Without the unfolding mirror d...
[07:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:39] <exec> 08└─Why did it take so long to get rid of the shuttle? Or build a re-usable rocket?
[07:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:10] <exec> 08└─What they actually mean is Antifa terrorists. (Violence to cause a change in government policy..)
[07:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:54] <exec> 08└─For civilised countries, an antibiotic in place of incredibly expensive invasive surgery is a fabulous advance that will save the country millions which can be put into helping more patients. But then, those countries don't *charge* people on the basis of how unlucky / predisposed to illness they mi...
[07:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:58] <exec> 08└─Fast food is a high volume, very low margin industry. They charge a small markup over their (tightly controlled) costs because if they don't, they tend to lose business and go down. So, yes, that's a business that counts its costs very carefully, and then charges a rate that is marginally over that....
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[08:44:15] <exec> 08└─Sigh, ... they seem to be able to only remember one sentence at a time. ... at least in the lab, causes mosquito populations to collapse.
[08:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:52] <exec> 08└─NSA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Ur Anus than Ever Before Came in expecting the usual article about NSA surveilance expanding cavity searches.
[08:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:54] <exec> 08└─Soylent News, the place where old jokes of 9 y.o.s go to die. Then they are raised as zombies by local population.
[08:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:56] <exec> 08└─2. PROFIT
[08:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:09] <exec> 08└─I recently travelled to Finland. The poverty was atrocious. There were tramps on every street corner, the roads were broken and failing, people were afraid to walk from one place to another because they were worried about being violently assaulted or even shot and killed. Ah, my bad, that was the US...
[08:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:35] <exec> 08└─His name is Zuckerberg — think of an iceberg: The danger is in the large part you don't see.
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[09:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/premarket [nasdaq.com]
[09:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:31] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk, lucky visionary, got a little ahead of himself. We have things like SEC partly to prevent bullshit communication and other unstable leaders in public companies. Elon these days looks like someone looking for a fight with everyone. Accusing people of being pedophiles because they called hi...
[09:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:54] <exec> 08└─What is the projected effect on other species that eat mosquitos and their larvae? Frogs, birds, spiders, bats?
[09:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:10] <exec> 08└─You joke but i wouldnt mind if this issue became an election talking point. It seems like something the president can actually do.
[09:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:09] <exec> 08└─I see that you had your police brutality training, Mr Bob Smith
[09:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:56] <exec> 08└─So true. You saw mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities. Rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our Nation. An education system flush with cash, but which left our young & beautiful students deprived of knowledge. And the crime and gangs and drugs...
[09:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:21] <exec> 08└─GDPR makes large fines possible. Facebook can, literally, be fined into the turf. This is even in EU's interest because they don't pay taxes and provide very little of value. They can't fine, e.g. banks or utilities into the ground because the modern world would not function without them.
[09:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:07] <exec> 08└─like all sociopaths, they ONLY learn through personal pain.
[09:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:09] <exec> 08└─Jeff Bozos, Bill Gates and Carlos Slim?
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[10:43:33] <exec> 08└─How is GNU Hurd? Can the FSF and GNU projects create a freedom preserving covenant to protect against authoritarianism and the ever more pervasive CoC of death?
[10:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:35] <exec> 08└─I really admire Stallman, Linus, ESR, and the many, many FLOSS creators out there. It's a fine legacy to have created something that has changed the world, and to have changed it without sullying it with a profit motive. Stallman has a certain reputation as an individual, but his achievement is epic...
[10:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:37] <exec> 08└─Fortune: No yak too dirty; no dumpster too hollow.
[10:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:39] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately interest in things like BSD and GNU's Mach kernel hurd pretty much lost interest as Linux took over the world While we had a benevolent meritocratic (if crass) dictator of Linux kernel development that was dandy. (interestingly a dictatorship is both potentially the best and potentiall...
[10:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:49] <exec> 08└─Nothing to see here, move along.
[10:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:14] <exec> 08└─the best thing would be to modify them so they don't bite humans anymore. they can bite other animals all they like.
[10:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:29] <exec> 08└─Anyone know of any tools, hardware or software, that the average joe can use to try and track down the real source of the calls? I get enough of these nightly that I'm fed up with it. Per the FCC site: https://www.fcc.gov [fcc.gov] "When is spoofing illegal? U...
[10:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:31] <exec> 08└─I like to hold them on the line, pretend to be interested and about two minutes into the call have my wife yell "We've got them!." At that point I tell them they are required to remain on the line until the authorities arrive. They hang up quick, and I rarely get a call back from that particular sca...
[10:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:33] <exec> 08└─And I learned a new word. Penultimate. Thank you.
[10:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:58] <exec> 08└─Soylent News, the place where old jokes of 9 y.o.s go to die
[10:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:59] <exec> 08└─I think I read somewhere once that liquid oceans are possible on the gas giants. Life on earth evolved in the oceans, so it's wild to think that there might be such a medium there also. I wonder...would intelligent life evolving on gas giants ever reach for the stars they have never seen?
[10:45:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 1461 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:23] <exec> 08└─You know, after the last police beating I witnessed I'm really not going to accept anything like that would actually result unless both the lack of accountability and the arrangement that built it this way are meaningfully fixed. If police misconduct and corruption is so rampant that someone as milk...
[10:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former NSA Employee Nghia Pho Sentenced to 66 Months in Prison for Retention of Documents and Code - 2386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:35] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? Comey most certainly did interfere with the election by making grave accusations against HRC a few days before the election. Anyway, this whole discussion about government security sounds naive. Every low level worker with a security clearance is keenly aware that the government has...
[10:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Allows Crossplay with Other Consoles on the Playstation - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's how I kept reading the title in glancing down the page. It's why I avoided it 'til now, because I shy away from Furries.
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[11:43:19] <exec> 08└─I would not be wrong to say that there isn't a single proprietary piece of software that anyone is still using from 35 years ago... I got Nerd Sniped [xkcd.com] by that pretty badly. Sigh. DYOR, but the number of counter-examples are legion.
[11:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:20] <exec> 08└─All because Linus has been a foul mouthed asshole.
[11:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:22] <exec> 08└─3) I wouldn't be surprised to see the kernel move to GPL3
[11:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:24] <exec> 08└─there isn't a single proprietary piece of software that anyone is still using from 35 years ago
[11:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:27] <exec> 08└─Confirmation.... 10 CLS 20 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?" 30 INPUT B$ 40 PRINT "YOU STINK, ";B$ 50 GOTO 40
[11:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:29] <exec> 08└─I remember this guy, I saw him before. I was on a drive with my daughter Ivanka. I told the driver, stop. And I said, "see that bum? He has a billion dollars more than me." That's how deeply in debt I was. I owed a billion dollars. And now I have more than $10 billion. Incredible turn-around. Like I...
[11:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:41] <exec> 08└─Hey gen x and millennials, pretty nice possible futures you have there... shame if something happened to it...
[11:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kiffer [3153] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:05] <exec> 08└─This was my understanding of the general goal. Rather than use a chemical to basically kill all the insects in an area you only target the ones that bite people. You don't waste time and money to remove non-problem insects. You wouldn't even have to remove all human biting mosquitoes, only the speci...
[11:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:06] <exec> 08└─What is the projected effect on other species that eat mosquitos and their larvae?
[11:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:09] <exec> 08└─I think they're going for the smallpox level of effectiveness. Kind of like shooting buffalo a bit more than a century ago didn't result in the evolution of naturally bullet-proof buffalo hides. Also there's a lot of mosquito species competing with each other and disease carrying effectiveness varie...
[11:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:21] <exec> 08└─You would need to know and trust the service.
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[12:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:33] <exec> 08└─more than 100,000 followers
[12:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:34] <exec> 08└─the site has over 430 million monthly active users — more than the combined population of the U.S. and the U.K.
[12:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:36] <exec> 08└─Comments blocked "throughout the site"? Not just on that one blogger's personal page? Really, Weibo, WTF are you thinking to even assume you'll need a trial phase to figure out how well (or not) it works? There's no way this isn't going to get abused to promote agendas and suppress opposing views, e...
[12:43:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:47] <exec> 08└─I really admire Stallman, Linus, ESR, and the many, many FLOSS creators out there. It's a fine legacy to have created something that has changed the world, and to have changed it without sullying it with a profit motive. Stallman has a certain reputation as an individual, but his achievement is epic...
[12:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:56] <exec> 08└─the best code will no longer be the prime consideration
[12:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:58] <exec> 08└─It will become necessary to excise all of the code of the holdouts and replace them with equivalents that can be proven in a court of law to not be derivative of the original code
[12:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:01] <exec> 08└─Richard Stallman had a printer whose code he could not see. So he began to tinker and set the software free.
[12:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:03] <exec> 08└─35 years is bullshit because of the PS/2 keyboard standard being 31 years old. I'm typing this at 100 WPM on a genuine original edition IBM Model M with a birthdate on the bottom of 06JAN88 so my keyboard is 30+ years old now. I've been using it since the 90s when I got it from a previous employer (...
[12:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:05] <exec> 08└─Or this was all a setup by Linus to show everyone why Linux had the Code of Conflict in the first place. Probably not but I'll laugh my ass off if it turns out that way.
[12:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he's a dirty hippie but he's our dirty hippie.
[12:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:09] <exec> 08└─I know of multiple instances of industrial controller code that's been in service so long that they have to have spares and rebuild if one breaks because they're no longer made. They're going over to Beta Raven mostly in new stuff but they hate losing money and would be out millions even if it was a...
[12:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:11] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately interest in things like BSD and GNU's Mach kernel hurd pretty much lost interest as Linux took over the world Interest can be rekindled. The hard bit is separating politics from an engineering project. Unfortunately, wherever there are humans, there is politics, and the result is usual...
[12:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:14] <exec> 08└─My company has an important part of its business running on a mainframe with a proprietary OS dating from the 70s. That would be more than 35 years.
[12:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:16] <exec> 08└─Do find out https://archive.org [archive.org] (rms bio)
[12:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:18] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately not. [bbc.co.uk] I find his reasoning paper thin, he doesn't want to be falsely associated with shitheads [wikipedia.org] but doesn't identify those who would make false accusations as the problem?
[12:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:30] <exec> 08└─Given the length limitation, I've always regarded twitter as utterly useless in transmitting any ideas of value. That simple fact is apparently lost on the SEC. Perhaps they should do their press release via twitter eh? See how that goes. In a nutshell, what the SEC is saying here, is that a message...
[12:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:32] <exec> 08└─Tesla competitors are now the major auto companies, and these have much more experience in all aspects of the business.
[12:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:17] <exec> 08└─Come to think of it, it's not the biggest we've asked for. Because we asked for $120 million from one guy. From Adrian Abramovich and his companies. Nice little chunk of CHANGE. fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-120m-fine-robocaller-illegal-spoofing [fcc.gov]
[12:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:18] <exec> 08└─Fancy word, sounds like it would be the ultimate penis, right? Wrong, it means the one that comes before the ULTIMATE. Like Obama came before me.
[12:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:21] <exec> 08└─Phone is an ancient protocol with too many limitations and vulnerabilities. What replaces it should be decentralized like bittorrent ......
[12:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:23] <exec> 08└─Then you obviously never saw the Monty Python "The Penultimate Supper" sketch.
[12:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:25] <exec> 08└─For one, much harder to spoof.
[12:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:45] <exec> 08└─streamripping seems to be the most popular at the moment, as well as these "third party" streamer sites that have KODI Plugins, and which keep getting shut down. I don't consider it a "better" method, just one that is more popular now (and hence why the IP industries have taken to prosecuting stream...
[12:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:46] <exec> 08└─Danny and I are just friends, just friends. He's a good man, doing well. We've been friends for a long time. Somehow there are comparisons made so often, which is interesting, comparisons between Danny and myself. I don’t quite get it. He’s said some very nice things about me in the past, and he...
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[13:44:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LaminatorX [14] 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:04] <exec> 08└─Richard Stallman had a printer whose code he could not see. So he began to tinker and set the software free.
[13:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:14] <exec> 08└─I am not aware of any successful means of insulating scientific and engineering projects from political influence - if there were one, I expect it would be insanely popular.
[13:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:16] <exec> 08└─Bugger, I'd forgotten Micro Computers for a reason, now I've just spent hours playing chuckie egg on an emulator and desperately trying to resist trying Elite...
[13:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:30] <exec> 08└─"We have things like SEC partly to prevent bullshit communication and other unstable leaders in public companies." That was a joke, right?
[13:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:31] <exec> 08└─Read the SEC complaint. Tesla submitted a form saying that Musk's Twitter was an official source of company news.
[13:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:33] <exec> 08└─Another Musky parrot.
[13:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:22] <exec> 08└─> "This is Windows calling... Lucky you, may they leave you in peace going forward. We got one yesterday, seems we get a couple of these per week.
[13:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:21] <exec> 08└─Thank you. That's the point exactly. Too much power, secrecy, secret power, corruption. That the cops think it's okay to violate Facebook's terms of use is itself troubling. I don't know what "criminals" they were trying to catch, but when the cops stop following the law, we're all in trouble.
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[14:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:08] <exec> 08└─My car has this great feature where it parks right at my house. So when I want to drive somewhere, it is right there ready for me. If I use a ride sharing service, the car will need to travel to my position to pick me up.
[14:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:09] <exec> 08└─But but... the gig economy... work when you want, make as much money as the crook convincing you to work for him. The gig economy will ensure maximum employment! Everyone is a winner!
[14:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─This tends to have the opposite effect on voters though. My experience is that people who grow up in strict households tend to be more lenient. It's a documented phenomena as well. I suspect we can extend this to speech, humans desire balance. If they perceive the world as censored, they will seek o...
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe you want to fuck a blue whale...
[14:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:25] <exec> 08└─Not so different from Facebook and for all the same political goals on behalf of the ruling class too. If a user with vastly more "friends" reports another user, Facebook won't even check that the post being reported falls afoul of its community standards. If that happens a few times, the target acc...
[14:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:27] <exec> 08└─They're intelligent mammals that seem to have the capability of language. They are capable of giving consent!
[14:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:30] <exec> 08└─It's a documented phenomena as well.
[14:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:03] <exec> 08└─Recycle your code Like plum trees new visions here Just dump the cruft, please.
[14:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:04] <exec> 08└─While Linux will be around for a very long time, I think, Linux is showing its age. Linux will be around for a very long time for the same reason as Java, or COBOL, or even Windows. The economic value of the code created for it is so huge that it simply won't disappear overnight. Something can have...
[14:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:06] <exec> 08└─Well it wouldn't be much of a strategy if he went and said it was a week later, now would it? You're probably right that it's not though.
[14:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:22] <exec> 08└─"Read the SEC complaint. Tesla submitted a form saying that Musk's Twitter was an official source of company news." Thank you for that info. That's a shame. I think of Twitter as a place for people to blurt things at random will. As such I don't take tweets so seriously. I thought Musk's tweet was o...
[14:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:24] <exec> 08└─I just read the complaint. The part I like is where they claim the stock rose by 10% and then 5 lines later claim that stockholders experienced a loss. Really? A 10% gain... is a loss? Who knew? They also acknowledge in the complaint that the shorts typically weren't stockholders, and that Musk had...
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[14:44:50] <exec> 08└─You cannot achieve that through genetic manipulation of a subpopulation. I give you that after H-bombing, say, all of the Americas on a very small grid, there will not be any mosquitos left on said continent, nor will they magically reappear unless imported.
[14:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:52] <exec> 08└─There's *lots* of species of mosquitoes. As I recall only one or two of them target humans, with the dominant people-biter being an invasive organism that has spread across the globe thanks to modern transportation systems. If we could successfully eliminate just that species (as a gene drive is int...
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[14:45:17] <exec> 08└─Do the number calls change from calls per day to days per call? My guess is not because the only way to fix it is at the carriers.
[14:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:18] <exec> 08└─Especially with blockchain.
[14:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:46] <exec> 08└─That's a very interesting question. My knee jerk is to say yes and cite Gurren Lagann, but we only have one example of the sociology and psychology of an intelligent, technological species. That species has been looking up at the stars ever since it gained the capability to wonder about what the lig...
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[14:45:47] <exec> 08└─The problem is power. That far away from our star, there's not much energy for life to harness. It's possible that there might be some form of life living off of the internal heat of a planet like Uranus or Neptune, but it's going to be hard to peer through that much atmosphere to find it. You can't...
[14:46:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:03] <exec> 08└─Did you even read the summary? The PD was gathering information on activists, not criminals. Essentially they were taking advantage of the difficulty of connecting a fake account to a real person to skip that whole probable cause/warrant thingy (it's Sooooo inconvieniant). Perhaps the PD should poli...
[14:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:19] <exec> 08└─I'm not real sure about that. Remember those Muslims in Syracuse? Pretty much everyone who knew them agreed that the bunch of them didn't have the brains to build a bomb, lacked the savvy to come up with any kind of meaningful target, and probably couldn't even find their way to a target if they had...
[14:47:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 1124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─Really? I came across this "news" on another site, and decided not to submit it t SN, because I figured at least Soylentils wouldn't consider this newsworthy. But in case people didn't know yet: Yes, Facebook collects and keeps as much information about everybody on the planet as possible (this is n...
[14:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:32] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg isn't a congressman. He doesn't need your vote. Due to the nature of communication monopolies, he also doesn't need your custom.
[14:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:52] <exec> 08└─Ah. For a moment I feared we were back to speeding station wagons.
[14:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:53] <exec> 08└─And... I forget if it was Proctor & Gamble, or Johnson & Johnson, or ? & ?, but some company of that size and general type.... who as a test pulled ALL their ads for six months, and observed NO change in sales. Meaning at least in their sphere, where everyone needs their products and any store "adve...
[14:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:55] <exec> 08└─I am reminded of Dune. They had some very advanced tech. Applied sparingly. They seemed almost technophobic. Especially no computers, but instead Mentats.
[14:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:22] <exec> 08└─There will always be negatives and adjustments to any big change. However, the problems you've mentioned are already problems now, and there are already partial solutions now. Electricians at least in Ontario have to be licensed. In order to get licensed they need qualifications. I can get a rubbish...
[14:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:23] <exec> 08└─I don't think we seriously disagree here. Your example is almost what I meant by local. A mix of known personally and web-of-trust. Eventually people like the uncle will form the nucleus that becomes a reputation company. These will of necessity stay small and local. Almost 'tribal' you could say. I...
[14:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:26] <exec> 08└─No doctors, no meds, no drugs, licit or otherwise. Still the same old asocial asshole. This asshole has always had a problem with sons of bitches who think they are better than anyone else. Typical shit from a Californian, if you should have a disagreement with him: "How much money do YOU make? I ma...
[14:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:28] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if the US spent half as much as it does now on the military, it would still be the largest spender in the world and it would free up $300M, or 1.5% of GDP, for other projects. Thanks to WIkipedia, some other spending figures: - Social welfare programmes: $927B in 2010 so likely ea...
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[15:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:22] <exec> 08└─A "paint" that causes surfaces in direct sunlight to become cooler than the ambient air? Now that's impressive, especially if it has the potential to be produced cheaply. The first question that springs to mind though is - how do you keep that micro-porous surface clean? Seems like it would be a hug...
[15:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:23] <exec> 08└─I live in Phoenix, AZ, and would be remarkably interested. A common building technique here is to use a flat roof with a white elastomeric coating on it for rainproofing. When you don't have to worry about snow loads, there's no real reason to build a pitched roof, donchaknow. Anyway, the roof is e...
[15:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:36] <exec> 08└─It's not about fewer miles. It's about folks in dense cities not needing the space and expense of owning a car. It's about folks in other areas being able to do things public transit would make too cumbersome or impose time constraints that make it not worth it. It's about efficient use of the capit...
[15:44:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:07] <exec> 08└─3) I wouldn't be surprised to see the kernel move to GPL3
[15:44:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:08] <exec> 08└─there isn't a single proprietary piece of software that anyone is still using from 35 years ago
[15:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:27] <exec> 08└─Linus has the right to be a foul-mouthed asshole. That doesn't mean that being a foul-mouthed asshole is good for Linux or good for Linus. By all appearances at least, nobody forced Linus to take a step back from Linux, nor did anyone say "stop being a foul-mouthed asshole or you'll be off Linux for...
[15:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:29] <exec> 08└─What about proprietary software that is, in some form, descended and evolved from 35 years ago? 1980's: p-System, Pascal, MPW Pascal 1990's: the p-System wrapped inside a DOS EXE, Some Turbo Pascal, later FoxPro 2000's: Visual FoxPro, some PHP 2010's: Web application in Java Each of those transition...
[15:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:31] <exec> 08└─10 CLS 20 PRINT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?" 30 INPUT B$ 40 PRINT "YOU STINK, ";B$ 50 GOTO 40
[15:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:33] <exec> 08└─SCO's C.E.O. Darl McBride To the Press, he repeatedly lied Linux stole our I.P.! G.P.L.'ed it for FREE! But no evidence could he provide spell out acronyms, except pronounce SCO as one sylable. I wrote that more than a decade ago.
[15:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:35] <exec> 08└─Amending the GPL to prevent takeover of projects by individuals demanding adherence to some political dogma may be possible.
[15:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:37] <exec> 08└─> I am not aware of any successful means of insulating scientific and engineering projects from political influence... On a small scale there is someone called "a good boss". The definition of a good boss (or group leader) is a politically savvy & empowered person with enough understanding of the en...
[15:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:56] <exec> 08└─Not hard. Tesla makes the announcement on a Friday (i think....) Next trading day stock jumps 10% higher. While correlation ain't causation, I don't know anybody seriously arguing that it wasn't Tesla's tweet that did that. So you have Tesla's high price at $354.98 on August 6 from a $345 start, an...
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[15:44:58] <exec> 08└─Which is more plausible? The story coming out of the mass media, or mine?
[15:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:00] <exec> 08└─Another Anonymous Coward who is so stupid that I'm amazed they figured out how to use a computer well enough to even post. Heaven forbid you go past your pathetic tribal knee-jerk reactions and look at the actual facts.
[15:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:02] <exec> 08└─This is how you contort your mind to be a Musk fan? You do realize that Twitter is a bathroom wall but that Musk is writing on it all the time and also PGP signing it and putting the Tesla corporate logo on it?
[15:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:04] <exec> 08└─Musk's announcement and tweet, sorry. (Musk is Tesla CEO, so it's not entirely wrong to suggest "Tesla" tweeted it... who doesn't think of them as one and the same? - the whole point of why it's an SEC enforceable problem anyway.) And it was a Tuesday, not a Friday, my bad. But the point still holds...
[15:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:06] <exec> 08└─"I don't know anybody seriously arguing that it wasn't Tesla's tweet that did that." A gain in stock price, isn't a loss. In fact increasing the stocks value is the CEO's job. And if the stock has been sliding since then so what? Fluctuations are normal. Crashes are engineered.
[15:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:03] <exec> 08└─For one, [voice over TLS is] much harder to spoof [than the public switched telephone network].
[15:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:04] <exec> 08└─Are all these outfits run by Jews?
[15:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:06] <exec> 08└─We'll need more clean coal to fuel our blockchain.
[15:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:35] <exec> 08└─Let's grow up people. It's pronounced more like: URINE-us Donald Trump would Apprive this massage
[15:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:08] <exec> 08└─Fascism it is, then, Mr. Brown Shirt.
[15:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:10] <exec> 08└─What your tiny little brain doesn't seem to understand is that activists the police can ALSO BE CRIMINALS.
[15:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:57] <exec> 08└─The US healthcare system is one of the most backward things I've ever witnessed among a supposedly intelligent population.
[15:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:58] <exec> 08└─Please return all the removed appendixes. hands up. step away from the index
[15:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can be Enough - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:01] <exec> 08└─You could make the government run much more smoothly and efficiently. 1. get rid of congress 2. get rid of SCOTUS 3. get rid of elections. (voting machines can be hacked, thus possibly flipping the outcome, which would undermine our democracy) 4. who needs a constitution anyway? Protect democracy by...
[15:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:28] <exec> 08└─may by analysed as "you already bought the stuff" so ad targeting was actually relevant but too late.
[15:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:52] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I would be be very happy to be informed of any positive things I may have unintentionally said about you.
[15:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:08] <exec> 08└─OK so I think you are overpaid, where can I vote to reduce your income?
[15:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Bill Modernizing Music Royalties Only Needs the President's Signature - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:10] <exec> 08└─So, it's still part of the cost. Don't I, the entitled consumer, get a say in EVERYONE'S compensation? Not just musicians?
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[16:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─with the increased battery size comes 60% increased price! No electric windows available!
[16:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:12] <exec> 08└─I prefer glass windows anyway. :-)
[16:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:23] <exec> 08└─I wonder which side the eco-folks will come down on for this. Pro because it leads to energy reduction or Con because it requires chemicals produced by companies they spend most of their time hating on?
[16:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:24] <exec> 08└─I'm probably pretty far on the eco side of your eco to (what is the other side, exactly? polluter?) whatever scale, and I think technologies like this are fantastic as long as they don't become some awful poison as they degrade. Which seems unlikely to be honest. People can't maintain a decent quali...
[16:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:26] <exec> 08└─http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/cheap-plastic-film-cools-whatever-it-touches-10-c [sciencemag.org] This could be nice. Wonder if it could be used to generate water in arid areas.
[16:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:29] <exec> 08└─It really feels like a dupe, but I can't find the original.
[16:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:31] <exec> 08└─Very easy and you don't have to wait for this one. You go to your hardware store. And you ask for the Solar Reflective Paint Additive. Trust me, you'll save BIG on your AC with that one. And it works with every color of paint -- even black!!!!
[16:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:33] <exec> 08└─Eerily similar concept, but described as a different technique: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[16:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:35] <exec> 08└─I hope there's a special place in hell for you. There aren't any beachfront properties or golf courses where you're going, you sick bastard. What good will solar reflective paint do you in the eternal fires of damnation? How's that going to save you when they throw you in the lake of fire? I hope it...
[16:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:47] <exec> 08└─From the No Shit Sherlock department at MISPWOSO By surveying passengers, Henao learned that a combined 34 percent of his ride-hailing passengers would have taken transit, walked, or bicycled if ride-hailing hadn't existed
[16:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:49] <exec> 08└─> Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled > 34 percent of his ride-hailing passengers would have taken transit, walked, or bicycled if ride-hailing hadn't existed. Where's the increase in "miles traveled"? Is this one of those new 21st century redefinitions of a word, and "travel" doesn't mean...
[16:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:51] <exec> 08└─Did you intentionally skip over the word "vehicle" ? A slave-cab ride is two or maybe four people in a vehicle, one of which will stay in and keep driving after reaching destination."transit, walked, or bicycle" involve either no vehicle, or a vehicle which can carry up to 90 people at peak times (a...
[16:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:06] <exec> 08└─Unless they're drunk.
[16:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:46] <exec> 08└─Richard Stallman had a printer whose code he could not see.
[16:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:48] <exec> 08└─The code of conduct affects the organization creating code, not the code itself.
[16:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:50] <exec> 08└─An interesting piece on Linus Torvalds [bbc.com] on the BBC published today, talking about the CoC, which Linus thinks is way too much. A good read.
[16:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:15] <exec> 08└─"acted on it in a rush and lost because Musk was lying" If you acted on it in a rush, then your a speculator, not an investor. Really there should be different rules for day traders. If 50% of your portfolio is held less than 6 months, you should get less protection. The SEC shouldn't be in the vega...
[16:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:17] <exec> 08└─And it's not like the facts are complicated. He made a tweet stating openly a source of money for investors that didn't exist. As an aside, Tesla would probably have been fine in the long run if he hadn't brought the Silicon Valley attitude of "growth of less than 100% per year is bad for startup, a...
[16:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:19] <exec> 08└─until somebody puts some facial recognition to work on wallstreet, and discovers news executives having conversations with brokers, right before stories like this one break.
[16:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:21] <exec> 08└─Tesla stock is down? Time to buy! I wouldn't mind doubling my money again : )
[16:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:48] <exec> 08└─Depends on your perspective. From my point of view all sunlight is free.
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[16:46:19] <exec> 08└─in my opinion, the carriers should also be fined since they allow thus practice -- a college student could easily write software to recognize the criminal behaviour and auto alert the fcc -- they wouldn't make money from shutting down these criminals though
[16:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:20] <exec> 08└─I prefer antepenultimate. As in "with her antepenultimate breath".
[16:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:51] <exec> 08└─ Satellite control Reaching out into other worlds Thrust telescopic Deep thrust telescopic probe Shucks howdy! [youtube.com]
[16:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─Liquid oceans at what temperature and pressure? Maaaaaaybe microbes can stake out an existence somewhere in a gas giant. But I don't see life ever evolving within a gas giant and becoming able to escape (with rockets, right?).
[16:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─The world cannot take the shit load of bad jokes that would follow from exploring Uranus
[16:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:28] <exec> 08└─If Facebook forbids cops making undercover accounts, Facebook is effectively siding with criminals.
[16:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Minimum Wage Increases in Six US Cities are Working as Intended - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, you're definitely right there. I mean the ones that DO learn, out of that group, will only learn from personal suffering. As you said, many others will simply plug their ears further and beat the same old tired drum harder.
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[17:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:23] <exec> 08└─Yes! Until the electrical power infrastructure, which isn't being upgraded to cope with the extra load, becomes overloaded and comes crashing down... Then you'll see people going back to gasoline in droves - including power generators to power their homes.
[17:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:24] <exec> 08└─Meh. The electrical grid gets added to all the time. I've seen the inner workings of a major grid operator's planning process - it's fairly extensive, data driven, and has a long time horizon. Yes, things like new lines, substations, and plants take time to spin up. But the shift to electric vehicle...
[17:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─Most EVs are charged overnight, when the grid infrastructure has plenty of excess capacity to cope with a lot more EVs. The number of EVs isn't going to jump overnight. There is plenty of time to expand the grid as required.
[17:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:28] <exec> 08└─If you only knew.
[17:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:31] <exec> 08└─Perhaps only diehard BMW owners? It's almost as expensive (the 2018 model] as a Model 3 with the Long Range battery and premium interior. The Model 3 is overall a much better vehicle. Faster, longer range, more charging options for long trips. With the bigger battery, its price will probably match t...
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[17:42:48] <exec> 08└─As someone who's definitely among the eco-folks, you'll have to do the math to demonstrate that not only does this work, but that it's better from a keep-the-carbon-in-the-ground standpoint than alternatives like: - Painting rooftops white, or installing "green" plant-based rooftops. - Existing stan...
[17:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:50] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't last more than one season in an area that gets weather, it isn't going to be any more cost effective than air conditioning. It reminds me of the convention center here. They planted one of those roof gardens to help keep temperatures down. Unfortunately the garden causes a leak that ru...
[17:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:07] <exec> 08└─There is a tradeoff, though. While you need some individual cabs to go efficiently on awkward trips, most people actually have similar enough trips (work to home, home to fun, fun to work) that the city overall is better off with a dial-a-van service (requiring you to walk up to a quarter or half a...
[17:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:09] <exec> 08└─Actually I missed "vehicle" after reading it 3 times. Shouldn't post before coffee.
[17:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:27] <exec> 08└─Is MDMA OK? [soylentnews.org]
[17:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:28] <exec> 08└─You do not want to try to get the whale drunk. Really, you do not want. Their mouth can hold up to 90 cubic meters (per wiki) of liquid. That's one hell of a bar tab.
[17:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:15] <exec> 08└─These many copyright holders must all agree on a sweeping licensing change such as that, and I seriously doubt that any movement will get them all to agree.
[17:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:16] <exec> 08└─I am not aware of any successful means of insulating scientific and engineering projects from political influence
[17:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:19] <exec> 08└─RUN 60
[17:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:21] <exec> 08└─Correct but no one person could maintain it.
[17:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:23] <exec> 08└─That's no Limerick.
[17:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:25] <exec> 08└─muh uppreshun!!! they are tryin to mahk me talk guhd! oh noes my neo nazi friends might think i got cucked
[17:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:27] <exec> 08└─TempleOS by Terry A. Davis. The CIA niggers finally got him.
[17:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:29] <exec> 08└─The really telling part is how the most toxic users on SN are the ones crying the hardest. What ever happened to personal responsibility? Can't handle the consequences of being rude to other people? I guess we'll have to wait and see how many OSS contributors get blackballed through the CoC. My bet...
[17:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:32] <exec> 08└─Otherwise, FreeBSD wouldn't have known better, and wouldn't know which good parts to steal instead. There are 2 kinds of Operating Systems: Those people bitch about, and those nobody uses.
[17:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:34] <exec> 08└─You are very delusional. Seems you just can't make a living writing code so you'll yell about everyone you feel misled you? Grow up buddy boy.
[17:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:06] <exec> 08└─Please know, I'm very grounded in reality and I get what you're saying. I'll just repeat myself: "I wish people would stop being so absolute and literal and think about context more in life." Perhaps a limitation I have is that I have a good friend who really "gets" things. He understands context. H...
[17:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:08] <exec> 08└─I'll add: if SEC presses this, forces Musk out, maybe even imprisons him, I'm worried about the domino-effect. A lot of people will lose jobs, stock / investment money gone, overall productivity lost and resources / factories will be wasted, and it will be yet another big hit to the US and somewhat...
[17:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:10] <exec> 08└─> And it's not like the facts are complicated. He made a tweet stating openly a source of money for investors that didn't exist. The Tweet: "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured." People keep forgetting the most important word, because of the other two important words. There...
[17:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:12] <exec> 08└─> "I wish people would stop being so absolute and literal and think about context more in life." The problem is that if you're in for a few hundred millions shorting TSLA, when the CEO announces that he's got "funding secured" to raise the price one final time by 20%, you HAVE to react.
[17:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:14] <exec> 08└─> A gain in stock price, isn't a loss. It'a loss if you're shorting. Shorts add no value, but they are still "holding". Now, that's not actionable, but that makes them angry, and they have money to pay lawyers to retaliate. > In fact increasing the stocks value is the CEO's job. Indeed, but with hyp...
[17:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 2020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:16] <exec> 08└─Commenting on both of the above.... I really do agree with you that people should learn to chill more, have better critical thinking skills, and that Twitter is a hyper-poor medium for communication of... well, anything, but particularly things which affect peoples lives including markets. Your take...
[17:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:18] <exec> 08└─BTW, I reread and got that you got that bit about the 8K already -- didn't reread your parent and wanted to get the link to the actual 8K as well. But I do know you're capable of reading parent posts. ;) Again, you're right, though that it is a waste. It should be an object lesson to all large publi...
[17:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:47] <exec> 08└─Or, introduce some trait which simultaneously makes them more likely to survive, and less of a pest to humans :)
[17:46:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:00] <exec> 08└─Can you add "blockchain" to your elevator pitch? Because then you'll have financiers tripping over themselves to give you money.
[17:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:53] <exec> 08└─Oh my, yes.... that was Good News! But you can bite my shiny metal Schmidt-Cassegrain!
[17:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:54] <exec> 08└─I heard that the probes would deploy very, very fine metal flakes to study atmospheric dispersion. It should be quite the golden shower.
[17:47:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 860 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:20] <exec> 08└─What is your problem? Did you experience something terrible? Or are you just genetically predisposed to fascism? Agreeing with what Runaway wrote, I strongly uphold the Founding Fathers' principle that it's better for 10 criminals to be loose than one innocent in prison. It's a concept that should b...
[17:47:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:26] <exec> 08└─Thank you. That's the point exactly. Too much power, secrecy, secret power, corruption. That the cops think it's okay to violate Facebook's terms of use is itself troubling. I don't know what "criminals" they were trying to catch, but when the cops stop following the law, we're all in trouble.
[17:48:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 943 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:31] <exec> 08└─The real question is not whether facebook has shadow profiles of their registered users, but whether they, illegally, have shadow profiles of people who did /not/ register with facebook. It has long been speculated upon, and known informally, that facebook has shadow tracking. But when they do this...
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[18:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:20] <exec> 08└─The difference being that you will get the full federal money on the i3 for a long time to come. They are both nice cars.
[18:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 1610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:22] <exec> 08└─Sure, the tech's impressive (and, at the software level, terrifying) but I'm still not all that excited about electric cars. I'm sure they'll eventually get it to work, sort of, because that's the political will. That part isn't exciting really, it's kind of disappointing. But there is certainly a b...
[18:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:24] <exec> 08└─Improved range from 115 to 153 miles, huh? That's good. So, what's the recharge time, life expectancy and replacement cost of the batteries? Maybe 30 minutes to reach 80% capacity? Does a fast charge shorten battery life? One very aggravating thing about cars is getting the facts. Manufacturer websi...
[18:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:26] <exec> 08└─Agreed with most of that. I haven't visited the sites to see how accurate your claims are. But, practical. I'm not about to buy a new car, for any reason I can think of. I'm happy with older cars. But, that range is getting within shooting distance of my minimum requirements. For me to consider an e...
[18:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:46] <exec> 08└─So let me make a wild guess here. Bill Spaulding is a golfing pal and/or you own a bunch of RPM stock.
[18:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:48] <exec> 08└─I lived in the Arizona desert for close to two decades. As a teenager a door-to-door sales guy sold us a polymer insulated roof coating for our mobile home as well as a microfiber sunscreen for our windows. It did indeed help keep things cooler indoors. So I'm having a hard time understanding what i...
[18:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:50] <exec> 08└─how do you keep that micro-porous surface clean?
[18:44:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he's a dirty hippie but he's our dirty hippie.
[18:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:22] <exec> 08└─This is no different from your printer manufacturer saying you aren't allowed to fix problems yourself no matter how much you want to, and if you don't like it you can buy another printer.
[18:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:24] <exec> 08└─The movement started by Richard Stallman has been so successful that here we are today watching Microsoft tripping all over itself trying to embrace open source. Something not to be believed in the mid 90's when Microsoft dominated everything and it looked like it might never change. That open sourc...
[18:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:03] <exec> 08└─THat's what I thought about crypto in May! Surely it must come back! Surely!
[18:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:04] <exec> 08└─No, the critical words are absolutely "funding secured", since, you know, that's the fabrication.
[18:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:06] <exec> 08└─"Hey, I talked to Apple because they want to take us private at $420. They have money." The money part is not the important part.
[18:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:09] <exec> 08└─"The money part is not the important part" is a very strange sentence to say with respect to capital investments. I cannot fathom what mental steps led you to make up a new quote that would also be fraud, and think it explains anything.
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks for a great discussion. I agree on all points. As I've mentioned elsewhere on SN, and gotten downmodded (??), I'm a bit of a freedom of speech advocate. But for freedom of speech to work, listeners have to be less reactionary, and that's all I'm saying. I don't read twitter at all, other than...
[18:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─I'm pointing out that "funding secured" does not mean for The Street what it means for someone who puts "considering" in their announcement. The street reads "funding secured" as "papers signed, approvals finalized for purchase", while the word "considering", and all his follow-up communications, cl...
[18:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:44] <exec> 08└─Ever seen a orb weavers spider web? Beautiful are they not? Now, break a single thread. Depending on which one you pick the result can range from being barely noticeable to the near total collapse of the web. Which thread is the mosquito?
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:19] <exec> 08└─You're just so In Famous!
[18:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:21] <exec> 08└─You're welcome! I also give grammar lessons, lol! My son comes in and steals words from me when I type and changes existing ones, hehehe.
[18:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:23] <exec> 08└─The president can't go a day without stepping on his own dick. I have very little faith that he can do anything that does not benefit him directly, and he can barely do that.
[18:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:37] <exec> 08└─Do explain how letting police violate the law is a good idea. As far as I know the CFAA doesn't have a Law Enforcement loop hole in it. knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the i...
[18:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:38] <exec> 08└─I would not use those words, but this is true. Terms of Service does not override laws, or even bylaws. Judges would almost certainly find that police have a legal right to go undercover and the obstructing them is breaking the law.
[18:49:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 571 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:40] <exec> 08└─I've posted two of Soggy Jobs' three openings on Facebook. Each time I was prompted to select the genders of the people who would see the ad. While I selected "Both" I expect that it's very very common for hiring managers to select only "Men". While sex discrimination is unlawful, it's not in many o...
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[19:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antennas that You Install with a Spray-Can - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:30] <exec> 08└─No-asbestos version if you're gonna cover lots of square feet: https://basiccopper.com [basiccopper.com]
[19:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antennas that You Install with a Spray-Can - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:32] <exec> 08└─How would you be able to get your neighbor's WiFi?
[19:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antennas that You Install with a Spray-Can - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:34] <exec> 08└─these antennas are sprayed like ink or paint onto a surface.
[19:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antennas that You Install with a Spray-Can - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:36] <exec> 08└─Conductive paint is some decades old for EMI-RFI suppression and you won't really enjoy the price. You can get tiny little bottles of higher quality paint for repairing car rear window defrosters at a price per mL that would make a printer ink mfgr blush. I vaguely recall ham radio guys discussing t...
[19:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antennas that You Install with a Spray-Can - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:38] <exec> 08└─All conductors carry their current on the surface.
[19:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:58] <exec> 08└─The current shorter-range i3 is pretty popular in places where a short car and commute is commonplace. That's most of the non-USA places. Which barely get any Model 3 anyway. Adjusted for the income required, and the ability to charge, that's still a whole lot of people.
[19:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:00] <exec> 08└─As my daily X5 is currently in service, I am driving a 330e loaner, a gas/electric hybrid. I used to drive a 330 a decade or so ago, so I am familiar with that model. The loaner says the battery is at 10% and I just put a full tank of gas in it for under $40 (I think the tank is maybe ~50% smaller t...
[19:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:02] <exec> 08└─Can we make a simple rule that the outliers with 50-mile-each-way commutes have to specify it in the first sentence of electric car discussions ? That's not a ding at your comment or yourself, since you did present your use case correctly. But there are so many others who express their opinion witho...
[19:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:04] <exec> 08└─Given that my last full time commute (before work at home) was 20 miles, I suspect I'm not getting a shorter range version for 13% of list price. Eventually the "tyranny" of marketing driven range anxiety will crack the market, and people will be like "fuck $45K for something that drives 7 commutes...
[19:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:06] <exec> 08└─This is not rocket surgery, just go to harbor fright and buy a gasoline generator to charge your electric car.
[19:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:08] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong - I like the design of some of many BMWs, and I used to drive an E46 330Ci. But, as beautiful as I find the highly expensive i8, as ugly the i3 is to me, and appears very small for the price (I get to see some in the neighbourhood). Considering the limitations of an electric car,...
[19:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:11] <exec> 08└─If you want a commuter car, buy a Nissan Leaf instead of this ugly monstrosity.
[19:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:13] <exec> 08└─For weird property tax reasons we can never have electric train tracks on a large scale for long distances in the USA without overthrowing like multiple levels of government. Maybe after the revolution we can have Euro-style electric trains. However... right now we could stuff a boxcar full of batte...
[19:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:15] <exec> 08└─One real world data point: I have a leaf with one of the original 83 mile batteries from 2012. It has over 50k miles on it and on a full charge it reads something in the low 70s for range (depends on ambient temperature -- in the heat of last summer I've seen it show 81). The car informs me it gets...
[19:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:38] <exec> 08└─Read again: This (and the previous one I linked) not only reflect most incoming light, they also radiate heat in the infrared faster than you'd expect. In the end, the small incoming heat is less than the outgoing heat, so the result is a coated object which stays at ambient despite being in the sun...
[19:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Increases Vehicle Miles Traveled - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:57] <exec> 08└─... The other 66 percent would have driven, or not traveled. I think if they weren't able to travel, that's by definition not good. So let's assume most of them would have driven instead. How many vehicle-miles would have been traveled looking for parking at the destination? If you go from suburb to...
[19:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:13] <exec> 08└─You now have any changes done by all those Linux nannies with their annoying CoC, and you also have any changes you did without being subject to a CoC.
[19:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:14] <exec> 08└─Can't handle the consequences of being rude to other people?
[19:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─Gonna have to level with you: that's dumb as hell, words mean things.
[19:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:02] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's indeed dumb as hell: words mean different things to people who specialize in different things. To a big-picture guy who specializes in missing deadlines, "secured" means "I know how to make it happen, eventually". To The Street, it means "locked down and signed" That confusion of normal...
[19:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah the problem with that analogy is species go extinct all the time. Even big stuff like passenger pigeon or for all practical purposes the buffalo. I think we'll be fine without some bloodsuckers. One way to look at it, is no ecology has a wild improvement via random swarms of random mosquitoes....
[19:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:51] <exec> 08└─You think that the legal definition won't be stretched and broken by FB and other actors to suit their own interests? Subject, of course, to the standard risk assessment of "If or when we're caught, is the fine likely to be higher than the profit?"
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[20:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:56] <exec> 08└─If the firmware gets compromised thats usually the only option. I knew eventually the uefi would fail. Its a pain in the ass is what it is.
[20:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:57] <exec> 08└─UEFI is an overly complex replacement for BIOS, Ridiculously complex, for something that should just in it the hardware and hand over control.
[20:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:59] <exec> 08└─Another victory for the tinfoil brigade, UEFI does nothing more than adding attack surface.
[20:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:01] <exec> 08└─Overly complex is an understatement. There's a full blown driver/service/app model, a priority based scheduler, GUI specification, a global key/value store, text editor, a shell, shell scripts... it's closer to a single-user OS than anything. It's well architected, or at least seemed to be when I wa...
[20:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:03] <exec> 08└─It does add some quality-of-life things for hardware vendors or firmware-facing OS people. But, yes, it's probably not worth the complexity.
[20:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antennas that You Install with a Spray-Can - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah maxwells simplification if you assume all conductors have zero resistance. In practice of course its a bit different.
[20:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Antennas that You Install with a Spray-Can - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:20] <exec> 08└─Larry Niven writes spray on anntennas (and cameras) into his Ringworld series. They are called 'webeyes'. This spray on antenna, together with the '2D' cameras being built by Dr Ali Hajimiri of the California Institute of Technology gives some 'interesting' possibilities.
[20:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:50] <exec> 08└─Your analysis does not take into account regeneration. 1. A lot of the energy lost in accelerating the larger battery is recaptured during regenerative braking. 2. Bigger batteries generally allow a higher regeneration power (you can energy into a larger battery at a faster rate). The impact of larg...
[20:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was closer to $550 to install the fast charger, either that or the current price has risen -- it's been 2.5 years since I installed it. Anyway, this is my charger and it works great: https://www.amazon.com
[20:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:54] <exec> 08└─18 inches shorter, turn radius 2 feet shorter, taller drive position, better acceleration, and some people oddly like the notice-me look. I'm the first one to rant that buying a Lexus is stupid given the performance, comfort, and power of Toyotas, but still the world fails to listen to me.
[20:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:56] <exec> 08└─Charging an electric car take a matter of seconds. That's how long it takes to plug in the charger (EVSE) connector in the evening and unplug it in the morning. Who cars what happens while it is sitting in a garage or driveway overnight? Can you park your ICE car at home in the evening and wake to a...
[20:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:58] <exec> 08└─I had one of the first gen i3s for 3 years. No noticeable decrease in range over that time. I primarily charged using L2 (240V, though my home charger was only rated for 20A when I think the car would take 30A), which from 0-100 is about 5.5hr (again, my experience), my i3 had either a 6.6 or a 7.2K...
[20:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:00] <exec> 08└─2018 Leaf, not the first-gen models.
[20:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:02] <exec> 08└─I'm holding out for the i7. It has a higher core and thread counts and integrated graphics processing.
[20:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:27] <exec> 08└─I'd be more concerned about how much polluting went into creating and applying them if I were you. I'm not a chemist, so it's not something I can speak with authority on but I would be interested in finding out the environmental cost start to finish. If it's greater than the cost of the additional p...
[20:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:28] <exec> 08└─I don't particularly care from an eco standpoint. There's no need to consider it. I'm going to care about anything that reduces my bills anyway and this sounds like it would. Also, I think it's perfectly reasonable to question whether Phoenix, Houston, and other cities in the southwest are larger th...
[20:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:04] <exec> 08└─No! You date rapist! I thought we covered this! MDMA has no other use [nytimes.com] than date rape. It was developed [wikipedia.org] by an incel conspiracy in 1912, because they hate women because they can't get laid.
[20:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:04] <exec> 08└─Please get off your magic unicorn and do remember the sizable amount of work that Gentoo, Slackware, Devuan etc. teams now have to do to unfuck the parts of system deliberately twisted to "require" a systemd infestation.
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[21:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:28] <exec> 08└─A moment of sanity.
[21:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:43] <exec> 08└─What's even more fun is that flashing the firmware is almost certainly going to require going through the firmware (unless you're the motherboard vendor). This one may not have guarded itself against flashing, but it theoretically could have with a bit of work.
[21:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:44] <exec> 08└─Spot on. Code-bloat hits at all levels. I remember when the OS made BIOS calls, the way system structure was supposed to happen. As CPU / RAM / bus speeds increased, slow BIOS ROMs were "shadowed" and cached, but were still slow, and better OS-level drivers became the norm.
[21:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antennas that You Install with a Spray-Can - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:00] <exec> 08└─That would imply that the US National Electric Code is incorrect when it specifies the ampacity of wire based on cross-sectional area, not on circumference of the conductors. AWG 10 wire has the same cross-sectional area regardless of whether it's solid or stranded, even though the stranded version...
[21:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:40] <exec> 08└─Seems that just like EPA estimates, EV mileage estimates are often way off: https://www.cbc.ca [www.cbc.ca]
[21:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:41] <exec> 08└─I'd really prefer electric windows if they were still transparent and strong enough to keep out rain, bugs, wind and most road hazards... of course the energy requirements would probably be quite high for that.
[21:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:43] <exec> 08└─The best pricing I have seen on practical batteries is around $0.50/Watt-hour, and as for weight: about 35 Watt-hours per pound. If you like to drive at 100kph, that's roughly 18kW engine output in a 1976 VW Golf I diesel [iea.org] If you want to drive 250km at that speed, that will be (very roughly...
[21:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:46] <exec> 08└─I have 2 use cases: a commute that's 38 miles one way, unless I detour to avoid traffic which easily blows that up to 40 miles, and the occasional road trip. A 76 mile round trip is pushing it for the shorter range electric cars. Can't guarantee a place to charge up will be available at work. A big...
[21:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:48] <exec> 08└─:confused: I was comparing Leaf and i3, and new vs old model doesn't matter for what I listed the i3 as having over the Leaf.
[21:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:15] <exec> 08└─The title is the same. And, they put the Link. Which is the same.
[21:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:55] <exec> 08└─When I say "system" and you bloviate about kernel it's disingenuous at best. From a technical standpoint. But when you start telling me how I'm "not affected" by how and by whom the kernel of the OS that I run is made - you get firmly into the realm of the crazy. Go tell Windows users they're "not a...
[21:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:57] <exec> 08└─Not sure about ESR - the Halloween Documents triggered the movements collective lizard-brain, and it suddently became about defeating Microsoft rather than making world of I.T a place where individuals (both users and coders) and NOT companies had the power. It was around this time that Google, Amaz...
[21:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:19] <exec> 08└─of Mosquitoes
[21:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Hangs Blockbuster $37.5 Million Fine Over Robocaller Accused of Spoofing Real Numbers - 1774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:57] <exec> 08└─I used to work for AT&T before they outsourced practically every job overseas... Every call record that we collected (I was in international message processing systems) had 3 phone numbers of record. All had to be there or we dumped the record as invalid. From number, to number, and billing number....
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[22:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:09] <exec> 08└─I hate people who think it is their business what I do to myself in my own home. Kind of fine drinking alcohol, big no to maryjean. With all the other shit going 'round the US of A, I'm happy to see some sanity regarding the possesion of a drug. Had some mj in his pocket, must be a criminal! As the...
[22:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:10] <exec> 08└─Not quite. These people have been convicted of a crime, retroactively removing these convictions cause you are pushing agenda is a very slippery slope. I'm sure these clowns think this will buy them votes. But they should know that for most people who smoke weed, the conviction is not what keeps the...
[22:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:12] <exec> 08└─What
[22:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:14] <exec> 08└─That's good for them, but I bet they don't get their tree-fitty back.
[22:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:17] <exec> 08└─A very brief moment, at least until reparations are offered to offset the damage done by the arrests and sentences. In many cases these people had their possessions confiscated.
[22:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:19] <exec> 08└─Why should we offer reparations? Except in cases where the drugs were planted or the convicted was tricked into carrying them by the police, there shouldn't be any reparations as they were found guilty of something that was criminal at the time. The fact that they're wiping a lot of these conviction...
[22:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:21] <exec> 08└─I don't personally like possession charges, at bare minimum the prosecutor should have to be able to prove that the defendant was aware of the possession and didn't get rid of the contraband or that the accused intended to acquire or distribute it. That being said, in Seattle the law against marijua...
[22:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:23] <exec> 08└─Why should they? They broke the law. This is more about wiping the current consequences of what's no longer criminal conduct. Barring a time-machine there isn't much that can be done about any harm in the past, nor should there. People dumb enough to get pinched in Seattle for marijuana crimes deser...
[22:44:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:34] <exec> 08└─If the firmware gets compromised thats usually the only option. I knew eventually the uefi would fail. Its a pain in the ass is what it is.
[22:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:41] <exec> 08└─Guarding against flashing is one thing, but what if it decides to instead let you THINK that the flash occurred? Spoofing the version reply to make it look like the reflash worked would be pretty simple....
[22:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:43] <exec> 08└─Guarding against flashing is one thing, but what if it decides to instead let you THINK that the flash occurred?
[22:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:45] <exec> 08└─So... does this exploit work if the UEFI is configured in "secure boot" mode?
[22:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:44] <exec> 08└─Interesting article on the Chinese market: https://cleantechnica.com [cleantechnica.com] Look at those ranges and sales numbers. The US market is definitely a lot more challenging than the old continent.
[22:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:46] <exec> 08└─Yes it does, because the 2018 Leaf is not as ugly and is much faster. Thus some of the advantages you claimed for the i3 over the Leaf are not true. For example: 2018 Leaf 0-60 time: 7.4 seconds -- very comparable to the i3.
[22:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:48] <exec> 08└─Not good to be scrambling to get out to door and rush off to work only to discover that I forgot to fill up.
[22:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:50] <exec> 08└─The best pricing I have seen on practical batteries is around $0.50/Watt-hour,
[22:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:52] <exec> 08└─Ah. "notice-me look" referred to the i3. The Leaf is a bit unusual, but I think most people got used to it quickly. The i3 is downright weird.
[22:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:54] <exec> 08└─Where can a non-manufacturer buy these sub $0.20/Watt-hour battery packs? The 18650s we're putting in our commercial device these days cost us ~$10 each for ~10Wh. Tesla's power wall is spec'ed at 13.5kWh for ~$5900 ~$0.44/Watt-hour. Not surprising that manufacturers have >100% markup, but that's no...
[22:46:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isj [5249] 02 - 06Weibo’s Most Influential Users Can Now Silence their Critics - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:47] <exec> 08└─the site has over 430 million monthly active users — more than the combined population of the U.S. and the U.K.
[22:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Probe Deeper Into Uranus Than Ever Before - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:39] <exec> 08└─Too many jokes. Must mock NASA...
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[23:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Letter in Attempt to Address Shortage of "14nm" Processors and "10nm" Delays - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:07] <exec> 08└─Which are the best comments, amirite? I have to wonder if the shortage is because they can't ramp up their smaller processes. The way Intel ramps up smaller processes is by shutting down a factory and updating it. So far it's been a smooth process, but I think they might have encountered a brick wal...
[23:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Letter in Attempt to Address Shortage of "14nm" Processors and "10nm" Delays - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:08] <exec> 08└─If you spent as much time planning production as you do in creating Intel Management Engine spyware, you wouldn't be in this mess.
[23:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Letter in Attempt to Address Shortage of "14nm" Processors and "10nm" Delays - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:10] <exec> 08└─No, reality is that the NSA asked Intel to delay production a few weeks so thst NSA could finish coding some hot new IME features.
[23:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Letter in Attempt to Address Shortage of "14nm" Processors and "10nm" Delays - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:12] <exec> 08└─This has everything to do with Linus "taking a break" and the fifth-columnist transsexual Chicoms having their way with the kernel while he's out. Intel's "random" number generators just weren't good enough for Linus, and they took offense to that, so Linus had to go away for a little while. Working...
[23:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:29] <exec> 08└─These sudden outbursts of reason are quite pleasant to learn about, but all too rare.
[23:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:30] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, logical man. People of color who were repressed by drug laws deserve reparations. #BLM
[23:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 2183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:32] <exec> 08└─I was probably 18 as my parents didn't know anything about it, which would be '76. Me and 2 buddies in Centennial park (now under the 125, right next to the Davis YMCA) smoking before heading to the miniature golf place (also now under the 125) to spend some money. Something we did 2-3 times a week...
[23:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:34] <exec> 08└─s/people dumb enough to get pinched/negroes who existed. FTFY
[23:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:37] <exec> 08└─#ALM Plenty of non-black people have had their lives ruined this way too.
[23:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:39] <exec> 08└─Responsibility for thee but not for me!! Asshole ignorant conservatives, regardless of their political affiliation, implemented these laws and it is now quite famously public info that the Nixon administration did it specifically to punish black and mexican communities. So no consequences for this a...
[23:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:41] <exec> 08└─Stop appropriating. #BLM, honky.
[23:44:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:53] <exec> 08└─UEFI is an overly complex replacement for BIOS, Ridiculously complex, for something that should just in it the hardware and hand over control.
[23:44:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheFool [7105] 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 803 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:55] <exec> 08└─Overly complex is an understatement. There's a full blown driver/service/app model, a priority based scheduler, GUI specification, a global key/value store, text editor, a shell, shell scripts... it's closer to a single-user OS than anything. It's well architected, or at least seemed to be when I wa...
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:03] <exec> 08└─Nope : ) "Since UEFI rootkit is not properly signed, users can protect themselves against LoJax infection by enabling the Secure Boot mechanism, which makes sure that each and every component loaded by the system firmware is properly signed with a valid certificate."
[23:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:05] <exec> 08└─So what we need is a Supreme Extensible Firmware Interface, which can oversee the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface which oversees your system. SEFI will be able to rebuild the UEFI when it gets corrupted. Next year: Absolute Extensible Firmware Interface which will supervise the SEFI's oversig...
[23:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:12] <exec> 08└─Bah, integrated graphics is only good for a mobile device.
[23:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:13] <exec> 08└─I really don't understand why your price of Lithium batteries has any relevance to the discussion of EVs built by large OEMs.
[23:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:15] <exec> 08└─The Model 3 is a much worse vehicle from an ergonomics standpoint. Unfortunately, it looks like Tesla's touchscreen fetish is only getting stronger over time, since the 3 is much worse for it than the S is. I also happen to loathe center console clusters (why a Mini is out of contention for me) and...
[23:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:18] <exec> 08└─The controls in the Model 3 are easy to use. With automatic headlights, wipers and voice controls your need to touch the center screen is quite rare.
[23:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:44] <exec> 08└─" They used a solution-based phase-inversion technique "
[23:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:45] <exec> 08└─It gets a "3" on the German WGK (water hazard class) scale... ie. the highest - severe.
[23:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polymer Coating Cools Down Buildings - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:47] <exec> 08└─Ref: https://www.chemicalbook.com [chemicalbook.com]
[23:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:30] <exec> 08└─, doesn't that make it inherently anti-Semitic to criticize Linus?
[23:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:32] <exec> 08└─Gee, you say that as though it were a bad thing
[23:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:34] <exec> 08└─It's feeling GNOLD. Or at least a mid-life crisis: it'll buy a Mustang, get hair transplants, and stay out too late.
[23:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:36] <exec> 08└─which piece of GNU software do you think is in-use unmodified from 35 years ago?
[23:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:26] <exec> 08└─Causing gains by lies is not a CEO's job. Spin that how you like it's still true - causing an unwarranted gain in the stock is still not legal. The point being anyone who bought stock on Musk's comment bought into a lie by Musk, and that is prosecutable.
[23:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Accused by SEC of Misleading Investors in August Tweet [Updated] - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:27] <exec> 08└─"We have things like SEC partly to prevent bullshit communication and other unstable leaders in public companies." That was a joke, right?
[23:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:05] <exec> 08└─Sure would help keep DoD budget under control if it did...
[23:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controlling Mosquitos With a Gene Drive That Makes Females Infertile - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:06] <exec> 08└─Could they modify that chemical so that we could target Muslims who are jihadis? Then we could spray all the Muslims, the jihadis would die and the good ones would get to live. More humane than our current methods of Muslim control.
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