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[00:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wins Reversal in University of Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit; US ITC Will Not Ban iPhone Imports - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:11] <exec> 08└─They shouldn't have any ability to hide income.
[00:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:05] <exec> 08└─but they can't raise prices because so many businesses are run by cheap, greedy bastards that refuse to pay what the work costs to provide
[00:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:06] <exec> 08└─Customers walking into your store with an added incentive to spend money they haven't got without even feeling the thickness of the wad of virtual cash they're handing over: priceless.
[00:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:08] <exec> 08└─...retailers are not allowed to store the name on the card...
[00:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oppo Likely to Release the First Smartphone With 10 GB of RAM - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:38] <exec> 08└─An Android phone's flash memory often contains gigabytes of (possibly abusive) F2P games and trialware. And the partition they're in is marked as read-only so that they remain available even after a factory reset. If an application gets updated, the user ends up with two copies: the older version in...
[00:49:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:27] <exec> 08└─Celebrations taking place in Redmond! More reasons to prevent users from disabling secure boot, leading to more problems installing Linux.
[00:49:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 2224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:29] <exec> 08└─Actually there are several 'root' problems here. 1. UEFI runs at ring -1 while your OS runs, it runs ACPI and other runtime services and, as this exploit demonstrates, leaves hooks open for arbitrary 3rd party code to also run in ring -1 along with it. 2. Worse still, if infection is to occur the i...
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[01:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Can Now Peek Inside Mummies in a Whole New Way - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:56] <exec> 08└─I was peeking inside your mummie
[01:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wins Reversal in University of Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit; US ITC Will Not Ban iPhone Imports - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:07] <exec> 08└─In short, there is not substantial evidence to support WARF’s theory that, in Apple’s LSD predictor, a prediction (by way of a load tag) is at least sometimes associated with a single load instruction. And, given that only 4,096 load tags are possible, and that Apple’s operating system alone c...
[01:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Holds Hearing "Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy" - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:21] <exec> 08└─I almost never buy anything I see advertised unless I was planning on buying anyway. Perhaps people would be better off to learn to control themselves to avoid marketing tricks.
[01:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Prevented DoJ From "Wiretapping" Messenger Voice Calls - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:39] <exec> 08└─But if they're not required to go through all due process to do so, sudden't the entire population will become "possible members of MS-13" for the purposes of spying.
[01:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Prevented DoJ From "Wiretapping" Messenger Voice Calls - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:40] <exec> 08└─What about when they come for the mommies?
[01:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:02] <exec> 08└─...The "cash price" was generally about 5% lower than the other price. The Credit card companies challenged that practice, and successfuly stopped it. Credit card customers get the exact same price as cash customers...
[01:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:03] <exec> 08└─there is a simple solution, let retailers charge a surcharge to the consumer equal to the fee the issuer charges, if they use a credit card. They can still use their credit card but they pay the fee themselves. People who pay with cash are unfairly pay higher prices to subsidize the use of cards and...
[01:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 BMW i3 Gets 30 Percent Bigger Battery, 153-mile Range - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:00] <exec> 08└─My car has auto wipers and headlights too, but I still fairly frequently flash my high beams and spray my windshield. Flashing the high beams, in particular, seems like a safety feature (almost as important as the horn).
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[02:44:52] <exec> 08└─He dreams about coming for Mommy every night, he's not scared of that.
[02:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field Ever - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:54] <exec> 08└─Anytime you're working with bare relays (or other coils) this is why you have to put a flyback diode in parallel with the relay, cathode toward the high-side. Because when you de-energize the coil, the collapse of the electromagnetic field induces a surge of up to thousands of volts, which fries all...
[02:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy 35th Birthday GNU! - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:10] <exec> 08└─Trust me, as soon as the audit’s finished, it will be released.
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[04:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Can Now Peek Inside Mummies in a Whole New Way - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:27] <exec> 08└─I don't clearly remember how they work, but all the real biologists use them. We had a few in Bio 1 at Caltech. Rather than staining your slide, the microscope visualizes the different refractive indices of the various transparent materials under observations. That leads bacteria to light up all the...
[04:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wins Reversal in University of Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit; US ITC Will Not Ban iPhone Imports - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:41] <exec> 08└─Judges are frequently ignorant. However, I'd put my money on corrupt in this particular case.
[04:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:38] <exec> 08└─And the settlement was rejected a few years later? https://www.creditcards.com [creditcards.com]
[04:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:39] <exec> 08└─It never has been illegal to state a cash price. You're confusing civil (typically common law in most US states) with criminal law. What happens, is that the credit card company forces the merchant to *sign an agreement* to not charge a different price for card, versus cash. And further, to not adve...
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[04:47:07] <exec> 08└─no one needs more than 640k.
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[05:44:19] <exec> 08└─I thought that fart yesteryear was rather strong. *Whew!* A sample size of __TWO__ is meaningless.
[05:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Wins Reversal in University of Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit; US ITC Will Not Ban iPhone Imports - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:53] <exec> 08└─Judges are frequently ignorant. However, I'd put my money on corrupt in this particular case.
[05:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Holds Hearing "Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:08] <exec> 08└─"Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy"
[05:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:59] <exec> 08└─There's a vast difference between a small deposit charge for depositing cash from a *thousand* consumers, and paying 3% on every dollar earned to credit card companies. All of your additional "costs" to the merchant, such as getting the money to the bank certainly do exist, but they are trivial in c...
[05:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 2230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:00] <exec> 08└─Prices won't drop overnight, you're right there. An example? In the 90s, Canada changed how it taxed various goods. Prior to the "GST", the "goods and services" tax, there was an "MST", the "merchant sales tax". The difference? The MST was applied not at the retailer level, but at the manufacturer/i...
[05:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:02] <exec> 08└─My accountant, a very stoic and reserved man, once became VERY very animated and started gesticulating wildly whilst describing income taxes payments on each pay period. He claimed that it was the "biggest victory" for all governments, everywhere, when income tax payments were made on each pay stub,...
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[06:43:42] <exec> 08└─A. It's a sample size of 5, read the summary to the end B. A sample size of 1 is enough to prove a theory insufficient which does not provide for that event Yes, they're not done yet. Not at all. But it's a damn good start if I've ever seen one.
[06:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:43] <exec> 08└─I thought that according to Alex Jones it was Al Gore's cosmic death ray. ;)
[06:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:46] <exec> 08└─-s, but we do not yet know in what was it is wrong When I was at cern in 1993 some really cool froods were searching for neutrino oscillations by shooting neutrinos through a Jesus big pile of dirt-covered photographic film then right down Main Street in St Genis At the time the Standard Model didn'...
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[06:43:48] <exec> 08└─No it's the people inside the hollow earth that are communicating with someone.
[06:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Can Now Peek Inside Mummies in a Whole New Way - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:05] <exec> 08└─Learn to write, the cirrect speling is "Poking inside your tummie"
[06:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wins Reversal in University of Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit; US ITC Will Not Ban iPhone Imports - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:23] <exec> 08└─And I eagerly await October's Food Stamps on the third. Also on the third I'll be able to pick up my monthly food box at st Vincent de Paul. They also gives away clothes; I could use a pair of pants.
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[07:44:22] <exec> 08└─Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email admin@soylentnews.org with your MD...
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[07:44:23] <exec> 08└─Well, given that we eat ourselves alive for oil and resources in five continents, while we keep the sixth one untouched because science or whatever, the "earth is hollow and something fishy going on in antarctica" theory is a viable contender against "the standard model is utterly wrong".
[07:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Prevented DoJ From "Wiretapping" Messenger Voice Calls - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:25] <exec> 08└─Not online Rather I do that in meatspace. So to speak.
[07:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Hopping Rovers Capture Amazing Views of Asteroid Ryugu - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:43] <exec> 08└─Did not know hayabusa2 was a tie fighter, and if is flitting all the way out there alone ... would have to say that is no moon. Oh and the hopping droids are so last trilogy, is the 9kg model with blue trim?
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[08:43:47] <exec> 08└─A milestone release At least Libreoffice works Only XGA
[08:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:05] <exec> 08└─People?, well, I suppose the Old Ones are/were people of sorts...though the nightmare scenario is that a shoggoth has accidentally activated one of their 'intricate devices employing unknown principles of energy.' HPL, what a knowing old card, eh?
[08:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:07] <exec> 08└─Since they are high energy particles I guess that rules out any source within the earth or changing direction due to interaction with terrestrial particles/forces. But what if two cosmic rays approaching earth from different directions at a tangent (passing through a small sliver of the earth's crus...
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[08:45:21] <exec> 08└─Looks like to this guy the problem with a Mexican rapist is that he is Mexican.
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[09:44:11] <exec> 08└─"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" But then, you knew that, didn't you? Only other option is a pyramid left by the Predators to hunt Alien Zenomorphs who have acid for blood, like Republican members of the Senate Judicial Committee. Did you not ever think that Grassley, or Lyndsey...
[09:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is a downwards traveling particle going backward in time.
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[09:44:14] <exec> 08└─"50.131.69.18"
[09:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Can Now Peek Inside Mummies in a Whole New Way - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:33] <exec> 08└─"Peaking inside you Mother" is not remotely like poking inside anything, or peeking into anything, either. Although, they are not mutually exclusive. Molesting corpses, however, is best left to Republican nominees to the Supreme Court, so that they can produce a calendar and insist it never happened...
[09:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field Ever - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:34] <exec> 08└─Screw that. I'm not doing extra work to protect snowflake components.
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[10:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Partners with Red Pocket Mobile to Pair a Low-Cost Wireless Plan With Every Phone Sold - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:25] <exec> 08└─"[...] Red Pocket’s most popular plan, by contrast, is just $30 per month. That plan provides 5GB of LTE data plus unlimited data at slower speeds, along with unlimited talk, text, and international calling to over 70 countries." I currently live in Europe, where I pay EUR 15 a month for 5GB [mobi...
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[10:43:52] <exec> 08└─"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" But then, you knew that, didn't you?
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[10:46:25] <exec> 08└─Card issuing banks use reward schemes to incentivise consumers to pay with the cards providing the highest fees to the bank. Maybe they do the same with retailers? There is a huge difference between the US and the EU here: in the European Union, debit card fee per transaction is something around 0.0...
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[10:46:27] <exec> 08└─Throughout this conversation it's implicitly stated that a merchant who decides to accept e.g. Visa in their business gets to pay a variable swipe fee, depending on the bank that issued each individual Visa card a customer might use to pay. Is that true? If so, don't you all think that sucks on gene...
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[11:43:44] <exec> 08└─I remember when European landline phone calls were charged by the minute and US calls were unlimited within the calling code.
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[11:43:45] <exec> 08└─You are correct, the US is struggling to shed the legacy of contract carriers. I hope that plans will become similar in price and as full-featured as Europe soon, but for the time being Red Pocket is competitive. What is interesting is you choose your network when purchasing, and I don't see any pri...
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[11:43:47] <exec> 08└─Is this an ad or a study into how crap the american market is? $15 / month 1.5GB data with rollover ; no international calls ; unlimited standard calls ; unlimited SMS and MMS $25 / month 4GB data with rollover ; unlimited to ultd-international-countries / 100mins international calls to other count...
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[11:44:16] <exec> 08└─after all it's almost like they have claimed everything else
[11:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Could Pay Apple Up to $12 Billion in 2019 to Remain the Default Search Engine on iPhones - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:26] <exec> 08└─Especially when the browser doesn't let you add new search engines or change the default How is it that when we upgraded to mobile computing devices we stepped back two decades in user interface, security and control?
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[11:44:39] <exec> 08└─islam has an obligation to destroy idols Kill! Crush! Destroy! Rule the planet!
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[11:44:55] <exec> 08└─The linked documents is one of the clearest explanations of some of the complex parts of branch prediction that I've read. The particular optimisation in question is interesting because it's largely a power-saving modification: it lets you predict things where speculative execution is probably a bad...
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[11:44:56] <exec> 08└─Doesn't this just give more weight to the idea that software should not be patentable How is this progress?
[11:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Holds Hearing "Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy" - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:11] <exec> 08└─That's the old-fashioned use of advertising -- to tell people that want a certain kind of think where they can get it. The modern use is to create associations in your unconscious mind so that someday later, you suddenly realize that you want it. Then you look for ads that tell you wht's available a...
[11:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:06] <exec> 08└─There was a study on the green site a few years ago that compared the cost of accepting cards versus cash a few years ago. There was a cut-off point in turnover above which it was cheaper to accept cards. I forget the exact number, but I remember that it was around the point at which you're employin...
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[11:47:07] <exec> 08└─The cap on transactions is very recent and it killed off a lot of reward cards when it came in. I was getting 1% cash back before the rule change without any shopping around for a good deal. Now no one offers more than 0.5% except for some very short-term deals (e.g. 5% for 3 months in the hope that...
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[12:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:25] <exec> 08└─$20 million???? Now you know why most CEOs speak like brain-dead animatronics. There must be a lot of people at the SEC shorting Tesla.
[12:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:27] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever asks "Who exactly is getting paid?" If it's a settlement with the SEC, then I suppose it's going into the coffers of the SEC. Great. Government facilitates another transfer of wealth from people who create wealth to a bunch of a paper-pushing, know-nothing Vogons.
[12:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:29] <exec> 08└─Amusingly, it's almost a plus for Musk. The guy's overworked as it is. Now he has one less job, but retains day-to-day regardless. $40 million is nothing. Tesla has billions in the bank, so does Musk. "had $2.2 billion in cash on hand at the end of the second quarter," -- refers to Tesla in the arti...
[12:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:12] <exec> 08└─You can't focus them, but if you shoot a high energy beam on a target, the stuff that interacts and creates a bunch of particles all go off generally in the direction of the original beam. If you put a bunch of absorbing material in that path, it stops most of the stuff except for the neutrinos, whi...
[12:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Wins Reversal in University of Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit; US ITC Will Not Ban iPhone Imports - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:54] <exec> 08└─WTF? Whatever happened to 'jury of your peers'?
[12:46:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:24] <exec> 08└─Credit cards have a transaction cost.
[12:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:06] <exec> 08└─Australia Post does this. When they first bought out their 24/7 Parcel Locker service it only required a minimum amount of information. Then they spent millions from the government to create the MyPost system which is yet another large database with people's real names, DOB, licence and passport inf...
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[12:47:07] <exec> 08└─Hidden? Here in Australia they now whack it on the bill as you pay. Not hidden at all. Expect 1% to 3%.
[12:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:10] <exec> 08└─In many cases that 3% is the profit the business makes. For a lot of cases the business is making 5% to 10% profit on a transaction so 3% is a lot.
[12:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:12] <exec> 08└─PAYG has saved the Australian government billions. When you are paid a percentage is taken out as tax and paid to the ATO. These days people would be mostly unable to pay $20,000 to $30,000 at the end of the financial year.
[12:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:14] <exec> 08└─In Australia it is illegal to display a non-GST price. The price displayed must be inclusive of GST. If you have ever shopped in America or the EU with VAT etc you'd understand why.
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[12:47:16] <exec> 08└─They do this in Australia It's why people actively hate banks. They are reminded of how crappy banks are every single time they buy something.
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[13:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:28] <exec> 08└─I think part of the fine was a voluntary payment in exchange for not having to listen to Vogon poetry.
[13:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:29] <exec> 08└─Which is: "independent chairman and add two new board members," Generally board members are major stock holders. The question here is: Who names the 3 parties? This constitutes a pretty significant change in the voting power of the board, and may result in Tesla being less agile.
[13:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:31] <exec> 08└─If this supposed agility loss causes Tesla to stumble and die, who do we blame? The government or Musky's toked-up tweeting?
[13:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Partners with Red Pocket Mobile to Pair a Low-Cost Wireless Plan With Every Phone Sold - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:44] <exec> 08└─Because eeeeeverybody absolutely must have a cell phone/privacy invader, or they are considered a non-person.
[13:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:16] <exec> 08└─i love that idea although it's a bit hard to imagine. Wouldn't that mean the tachyon started out each at the balloon's antenna, or, more likely, above it? This makes me want to know how they determine the direction a cosmic ray striking the antenna. Looking at the photo here [wikipedia.org], it's an...
[13:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Could Pay Apple Up to $12 Billion in 2019 to Remain the Default Search Engine on iPhones - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:26] <exec> 08└─Let me search for that for you. https://www.lifewire.com [lifewire.com] https://macreports.com [macreports.com]
[13:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Could Pay Apple Up to $12 Billion in 2019 to Remain the Default Search Engine on iPhones - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:28] <exec> 08└─It looks like not a lot of people are changing their default search engine if Google is willing to toss around billions of dollars per year to prevent Apple from creating its own Google clone or switching to Bing. That or iOS users are very susceptible to Google's advertisements.
[13:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wins Reversal in University of Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit; US ITC Will Not Ban iPhone Imports - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:01] <exec> 08└─I'd thoroughly recommend reading the full opinion. I don't agree with the conclusion, but it clearly explains the thought process.
[13:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. There's also that, for small shops, cash could find it's way to the owner's pocket without being reported as income, thus resulting in a lower tax. Entirely illegal, but I'd be a fool to assume that THAT never happens! OTOH, in large department stores with, say, 50 or so registers,...
[13:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Letter in Attempt to Address Shortage of "14nm" Processors and "10nm" Delays - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:27] <exec> 08└─EOL for Windows 7 is January 14, 2020, 15 months from now.
[13:49:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:52] <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...
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[14:43:54] <exec> 08└─The man's seedy-looking nutsack slithered across the child's exposed, defenseless anus, leaving a trail of sticky white slime in its wake. "Now then..." the man muttered, as he contemplated the day's earnings. What is this man's destination!?
[14:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Haiku OS Releases R1 Beta 1 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:30] <exec> 08└─Little has changed In a decade sine I last Booted a VM
[14:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Holds Hearing "Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy" - 2955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:52] <exec> 08└─Or further to induce fear of security of something that would cause you to buy something. You see this all the time in medical advertising, but also in everything else. Some off the cuff examples I can think of: Bayer: "You are going to die today" asperin commercial. This is the most insideous comme...
[14:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Hopping Rovers Capture Amazing Views of Asteroid Ryugu - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:38] <exec> 08└─Am not. Obviously don't take the message too seriously, it was a semi-joke, but i really do wonder is there anything valuable in those picture? They are pretty bad imho, for the price that's paid for the project and with current tech.
[14:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Hopping Rovers Capture Amazing Views of Asteroid Ryugu - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:40] <exec> 08└─They get enough good imagery from the main spacecraft. But maybe they could combine the images to refine 3D modeling of the object. There's also another MINERVA rover that seems to have different cameras than the first two, and a bigger MASCOT [wikipedia.org] rover that will be dropped about 3 days...
[14:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:02] <exec> 08└─Let me just double check what seems obvious. Here in the states, we have "Post Office Boxes", which you can use as a mailing address. You're given a key to fit the mailbox, and as long as you pay the periodic fee, you can continue to pick up mail as it arrives. It seems almost obvious that your "Par...
[14:49:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06Oppo Likely to Release the First Smartphone With 10 GB of RAM - 366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:16] <exec> 08└─Agreed, the thing I absolutely hate about smartphones is how it's virtually impossible to run anything but some flavor of android on 99% of them. Then there's a very sizable portion that not only will only run the stock ROM, but won't give you root access. Evil. Android has twisted Linux into someth...
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[15:43:48] <exec> 08└─hijacking of millions of Facebook user profiles by a political consultancy ahead of the 2016 election.
[15:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:01] <exec> 08└─This stupid rhetoric needs to die. It doesn't matter that Tesla/Musk have a lot more where that came from. It's still the case that $20 million represents a shitload of possibilities, and those possibilities are now not in the hands of creative, wealth-producing people like Musk and the people of T...
[15:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:03] <exec> 08└─$20 million???? Now you know why most CEOs speak like brain-dead animatronics.
[15:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:05] <exec> 08└─Aha, do you mean the new board members could be from Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler, and put pressure on the company to produce novelty electrically-driven propeller hats instead of cars? A bit like when Microsoft injected Stephen Elop into Nokia.
[15:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:07] <exec> 08└─What about SCO? SCO did far, far worse in the day. From my recollections and opinions... Fraudulently boosting their stock to many times its value, up to over $20. Then when the court started pointing out their complete lack of evidence, it all crashed down to 2 cents, kicked off Nasdaq, and on pink...
[15:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:03] <exec> 08└─Not embarrassed at all. I would just leave again. Do you maybe see a pattern? I am not embarrassed at all. My family would do the same thing. Sure the store would get exactly the kind of customer it wants. Ones with the 'special cards' and 'cash'. The rest of us would just skip ever going back.
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[16:43:01] <exec> 08└─Amazing, thought the man, this electric saw cuts through coconut in no time. The man wiped his hands, grabbed an ice cream scoop, and scooped the brain from the dead child's skull. Popping out the lifeless eyes, the man eagerly raised the child's empty eye sockets to the level of his own eyes. The m...
[16:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:02] <exec> 08└─I doubt that with a combined effort they could spell TCP/IP. Expect them to ask the people who are committing the crimes to write the regs to insure that the perpetrators are protected from litigation. SSDD.
[16:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:04] <exec> 08└─Hi Kurenai. You can get your post seen by more people by logging in, and you sure as hell aren't fooling anyone by typing AC since you have an...ahem...very distinct writing style. Also, if you're going to blame the 53% of white women for Trump, you can't then accuse *every single ciswoman in the na...
[16:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:22] <exec> 08└─They should have made Musk pay $20,420,000 to as a nod and wink to Musk's MJ reference.
[16:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:23] <exec> 08└─We won't be reading about Tesla 5x/week?
[16:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's ludicrous, $20M is 0.1% of Musk's net worth and less than 0.05% of Tesla's market cap. An equivalent fine for a "middle class" 47 year old in great financial shape with a little put away in IRAs, say $500K net worth, would be a $500, basically two speeding tickets. And remember: that 0.1...
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[16:43:28] <exec> 08└─those possibilities are now not in the hands of creative, wealth-producing people like Musk and the people of Tesla
[16:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:30] <exec> 08└─Ever try to extract blood from a turnip? Justice isn't blind, potential payout analysis is performed long before starting basic research into a case.
[16:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:32] <exec> 08└─one year of their annual compensation would be enough for a mere mortal to retire on
[16:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:34] <exec> 08└─Agreed, it's a slap on the wrist fine. However, and perhaps I'm giving the SEC more credit than due here, perhaps they thought that Tesla without Musk might implode and wanted to try and ensure that didn't happen. Are members of the SEC investigating a company allowed to have shares in that company...
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[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─If he lived in CA, he would be wrong about the tracking. In CA, retailers are not allowed to store the name on the card -- only the number. So, his card could be tracked, but seriously, who cares? Yes, the data is valuable, but, if the retailers can't track it to a name, who cares?
[16:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seattle Throws Out Cannabis Convictions - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:21] <exec> 08└─Except white people usually got let off with confiscation, a wagging finger, and a stern warning along the lines of "If I see you again tonight, I'm gonna have to do paperwork. Got it?"
[16:50:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:35] <exec> 08└─Another victory for the tinfoil brigade, UEFI does nothing more than adding attack surface.
[16:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First-ever UEFI Rootkit Spotted in the Wild - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:03] <exec> 08└─As a thank you, you might abandon the phrase "tinfoil brigade." Warnings were clearly laid out, based on real-world experience and cogent reasoning.
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[17:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:31] <exec> 08└─His daddy jacked off in a flower pot, and grew a blooming idiot. Not much thrusting involved there.
[17:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:34] <exec> 08└─My car is covered in tree sperm for weeks each spring.
[17:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:36] <exec> 08└─Better to be dead than to be as stupid as Runaway.
[17:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:38] <exec> 08└─...can sometimes extend up to 30 cm, depending on the anatomy of the flower.
[17:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:41] <exec> 08└─No worries, mate. You're as stupid as an earthworm, but GP is as stupid as a spider. You'll never rise to that level of stupidity. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:54] <exec> 08└─The battle for privacy is a lost cause, and we'd be better served fighting a different battle, for fairness and against prejudice. For example, for a job interview, the employer is not supposed to discriminate on the basis of race or gender, but keeping that info private, to hide that from an interv...
[17:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:55] <exec> 08└─Just implement GDPR please.
[17:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:58] <exec> 08└─women being Beacons of Incorruptible Pure Pureness (TM)
[17:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:00] <exec> 08└─Um...you DO know I work with computers for a living, no? (Or, to be fair, will be again starting mid October; got a niiiiice offer!) I may not be a coder beyond a little Bash, but I never had an aversion to math and have a degree in a hard science, that being geology, not that I ever got to use the...
[17:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:27] <exec> 08└─Do you understand why we have traffic tickets? Why some people go to jail? Of course you don't, you are a brain dead Vogon, errr what is the Earth term again? Oh ya, Libertarian. Evolve already.
[17:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 1723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:29] <exec> 08└─Having hung out with the rich for a while, I'd say about a quarter of the rich are total assholes, and another quarter are feeble minded enough to go along with their asshole peers. Another quarter are not so bad, actually have hearts, but they also have this "White Man's Burden" complex that has th...
[17:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:25] <exec> 08└─In Australia it is illegal to display a non-GST price.
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[18:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:24] <exec> 08└─Even sexier than Logans Run!
[18:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:42] <exec> 08└─Given current trends, I fully expect the first draft of such a bill to consist of little more than "All Your Base Are Belong To Anyone Who Pays Us." The responses to the inevitable anger of the portion of the public who can be bothered to pay attention will be first to ignore them, then to try and q...
[18:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─wanted to try and ensure that didn't happen.
[18:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haiku OS Releases R1 Beta 1 - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:36] <exec> 08└─It was in alpha for like five or six years. A lot of the delay is adding new drivers, but there's also lots of stuff like experimenting with UI concepts. A while back I contemplated choosing a nightly based on its stability then selling laptops with Haiku preinstalled. The developers encouraged me t...
[18:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haiku OS Releases R1 Beta 1 - 2425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:38] <exec> 08└─With the future of Linux now uncertain, it is more important than ever to encourage these other efforts. The few times I have tried it over the years have been interesting experiences. It "works" pretty darned good, it is fast, etc. But what they don't have is support for any real hardware that I ha...
[18:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Holds Hearing "Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy" - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:03] <exec> 08└─"Why do you like advertising, Mrs. Salzman?" "It tells me what to buy." I Swear I'm Not Making This Up. It happens that I once worked for a Direct Mail company. The software I wrote was simply a vehicle for their Direct Mail: they'd rent - always rent, never buy - a list of names from some _direct_...
[18:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:15] <exec> 08└─I'm getting 4 plane tickets and a hotel room each year for using my credit cards. I would pay everything in desiccated turds if they paid rewards like that. When I don't want to be tracked I use cash or a prepaid debit card. I could be wrong but I feel like having a large amount of boring data is g...
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[19:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:05] <exec> 08└─Why does it seem like every day you're pestering someone for posting AC? Go start your own fucking news aggregation website without anonymous posting and stay there if LARPING as little cartoon girls is so important to you.
[19:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:06] <exec> 08└─if you're going to blame the 53% of white women for Trump, you can't then accuse *every single ciswoman in the nation* of being the reason he got elected.
[19:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:34] <exec> 08└─You will, because Musk is going crazy Howard Hughes-style. Pictures of him running around naked on his front yard during an ayahuasca binge will be posted on TMZ, and during interviews he will make comments about "The Jews running everything." In another few years, he will be found dead on his bed w...
[19:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Partners with Red Pocket Mobile to Pair a Low-Cost Wireless Plan With Every Phone Sold - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:50] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, you are not impressed because you pay less money for a worse plan, and use that to conclude that your country|region|whatever is much better than the U.S. whom you call "years backward". Now, here in the years-backward U.S. I am paying $20 (about EUR17) for unlimited calls, unlim...
[19:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06eBay Partners with Red Pocket Mobile to Pair a Low-Cost Wireless Plan With Every Phone Sold - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:51] <exec> 08└─Luddite. If you don't have a smart phone in 2018, you are a business and social outcast. And I don't mean you have to be glued to FB and Instagram all the time. I use my phone extensively to make money. Good luck in the dark ages. Because I'm sure no one is tracking you on the computer you posted th...
[19:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06eBay Partners with Red Pocket Mobile to Pair a Low-Cost Wireless Plan With Every Phone Sold - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:53] <exec> 08└─Which carrier? I'm sick of T-Mobile. I pay ~$130/month for 2 lines with unlimited calls/text/data. That amount does not include any device fees, the phones were purchased separately.
[19:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:30] <exec> 08└─Theories are cheap, so here's one. Maybe something makes a part of the core less dense and permits these to get through. Test it by looking at the North pole and see if they also get through the other way.
[19:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Senate Holds Hearing "Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:33] <exec> 08└─Bayer also invented Heroin. Perhaps you've heard of it. Bayer Aspirin Commercials Tell the Most Sadistic Story on Earth I'll send you my bill in the mail.
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[20:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06UCF Selling Mars, Moon, and Asteroid Soil Simulants - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:26] <exec> 08└─The girl in the Sailor Moon TV shirt screamed. The man pulled on her legs as he forced his erect penis into her preteen vagina. The girl screamed again. "Shut. Up!" the man bellowed and shoved a Mars bar into the girl's mouth. She sobbed and choked as the man pounded his erection into her. "I'm so c...
[20:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:01] <exec> 08└─I think the safest thing is for the current administration to just do nothing. Have rallies, military parades, etc, but I think we should just wait for the next administration to do anything substantial if you don't mind. It won't be long.
[20:44:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 1723 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:29] <exec> 08└─Having hung out with the rich for a while, I'd say about a quarter of the rich are total assholes, and another quarter are feeble minded enough to go along with their asshole peers. Another quarter are not so bad, actually have hearts, but they also have this "White Man's Burden" complex that has th...
[20:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:32] <exec> 08└─It may not be about getting fines, it may be about justice. At the very least sending a message to others who would do the same.
[20:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Partners with Red Pocket Mobile to Pair a Low-Cost Wireless Plan With Every Phone Sold - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:48] <exec> 08└─It's a study of how crap the american market is has been, but is finally ever so slowly improving.
[20:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Could Pay Apple Up to $12 Billion in 2019 to Remain the Default Search Engine on iPhones - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:35] <exec> 08└─On my old jailbroken iOS I can't change the default SET of search engines, but I could change my default to Bing, while I keep a bookmark for Duck Duck Go.
[20:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards -- Retailers Hate Them - 2181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:37] <exec> 08└─There is a fee that can be charged called a Convenience Fee. What will happen is that your grocer will charge you a convenience fee instead of not accepting your card. So you'll pay a buck extra, or two. Suddenly those valuable rewards don't seem so valuable any more. I've expected this for quite so...
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[21:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:11] <exec> 08└─This study sounds like its right up the alley of the Ig Nobel crowd. Obscure, slightly rude, involves the word 'thrust'.
[21:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:12] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that not every female plant has a pollen tube, or can thrust.. Some female plants have sperm housed in their pollen.
[21:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:37] <exec> 08└─You seem upset. Here's a tube of preparation H. Sit tight (harr) and take a few deep breaths.
[21:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Settlement: Elon Musk Resigns as Chairman of Tesla, Stays as CEO, $40 Million in Fines Paid - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:08] <exec> 08└─People lose sanities and fortunes from marihuana addictions.
[21:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Partners with Red Pocket Mobile to Pair a Low-Cost Wireless Plan With Every Phone Sold - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─My phone is on H2O (http://h2owirelessnow.com [h2owirelessnow.com]), which is prepaid service for AT&T phones. The store where I got the sim card says that Net 10 Wireless (https://get.net10wireless.com/byop/ [net10wireless.com]) works with phones from more carriers with similar/comparable pricing.
[21:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haiku OS Releases R1 Beta 1 - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:38] <exec> 08└─As a formerly very happy Be-OS user, I have been interested in Haiku for a while. I have not had a lot of success installing it on anything until recently, and am about to try this beta without a lot of confidence. Until someone with very deep pockets gives this team the resources to put more effo...
[21:45:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 1237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:49] <exec> 08└─-s, but we do not yet know in what was it is wrong When I was at cern in 1993 some really cool froods were searching for neutrino oscillations by shooting neutrinos through a Jesus big pile of dirt-covered photographic film then right down Main Street in St Genis At the time the Standard Model didn'...
[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:03] <exec> 08└─When I was at cern in 1993 some really cool froods...
[21:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:05] <exec> 08└─The rays have been frozen in ice with all the woolly mammoths and are just now thawing/escaping. : p
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[22:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Continue to Threaten Orcas Decades After They Were Banned - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:32] <exec> 08└─We're trying to clean up the environment and orcas are full of PCBs? Seems like the best thing to do is to kill all the orcas, haul their carcasses out of the water and store them in large glass jars.
[22:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Continue to Threaten Orcas Decades After They Were Banned - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah. The only thing orcas are good for is being sex toys. I could really fuck an orca right now.
[22:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:23] <exec> 08└─But the next administration is Trump's second term... why would anything change? And then President Ivanka's probably going to keep most of her father's policies going from 2024-2032.
[22:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:54] <exec> 08└─I'm an idiot in physics after what I vaguely remember was called "physics 3", but I do read a lot of garbage on the crapper. ... ... Does this mean we are able to focus and change direction of neutinos?
[22:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays of Antarctic Origin Said to Hint at a Particle Not Found in the Standard Model - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:56] <exec> 08└─RTFAing a bit, it looks like they are detecting the shower of secondary particles when one of these hits. So, an energetic particle moving backwards in time comes down from space, hits something and gets knocked into normal time. Conservation of momentum means the collision products are going up. I...
[22:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oppo Likely to Release the First Smartphone With 10 GB of RAM - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:46] <exec> 08└─There is no goddamn 256 GB of ROM. It's flash storage.
[22:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oppo Likely to Release the First Smartphone With 10 GB of RAM - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:47] <exec> 08└─If I could write three million dollars worth of code with sixteen megabytes in 1992, why can't we _all_ do so in 2018?
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[23:43:34] <exec> 08└─I'd clap for you but I only have one free hand.
[23:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Continue to Threaten Orcas Decades After They Were Banned - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:35] <exec> 08└─How much does the other one charge?
[23:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:03] <exec> 08└─BBC's /Crowd Science/, episode "Do Plants Talk About Sex": https://www.bbc.co.uk
[23:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex in Plants Requires Thrust - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:05] <exec> 08└─Some have serious allergies being tentatively impregnated by plants.
[23:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Unveils First Step Toward New Online Privacy Rules - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:31] <exec> 08└─"The battle for privacy is a lost cause" I imagine a lot of people said similar things while they were chained up in blackbirders. Lost cause for YOU maybe, pussy. "fairness and against prejudice" That is misdirection.
[23:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haiku OS Releases R1 Beta 1 - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:34] <exec> 08└─is this the Year of the Alternative and Ancient OSes? I had never heard of TempleOS until the recent news of its creator's passing. Then this Haiku, an open source BeOS clone, reaches beta status. There's also news a few days ago that M$ has released source for MS-DOS 1 and 2. (FreeDOS released vers...
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