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[00:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:33] <exec> 08└─Parent is completely correct. Articles published in the Army Times by Blackwater recommend so called "blended metal" rounds, and say the reason regular soldiers should not use them, rather than just the mercs, is that a self-inflicted wound could be fatal. So instead of this ad for a war-crimina...
[00:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:34] <exec> 08└─What is a horrible wound ? Well, when you're shot with a 7.62mm NATO round, it makes a hole in your body not much larger than the diameter of the round. The illegal ammo blows a hole in you the size of a pot roast, with ONE shot.
[00:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:36] <exec> 08└─It costs a ton of money to keep an occupying force in a country (make no mistake, we're the occupying force). Currently it's paid for by the US taxpayer with a lot of cloudy accounting to hide how much it's really costing us. If you hire a bunch of mercenaries they want to be paid, probably by the A...
[00:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:38] <exec> 08└─The Geneva Convention doesn't have much to say about small arms ammo. You mean the "Hague Declaration concerning the Prohibition of Dum-Dum Bullets" -- or at least, that's what you would mean if you had half a clue, anyway.The US didn't sign and isn't bound by that Declaration. They generally issue...
[00:44:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 1138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:54] <exec> 08└─At first I was thinking "wtf" but on reading the complaint, it makes sense -- see paragraphs 20 & 21 at the second link: https://drive.google.com [google.com] Paragraph 20 cites Kovacs v. Cooper: https://supreme.justia.com [ju...
[00:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:02] <exec> 08└─You are required to acknowledge you have received it before your device is returned to your use which is a type of forced speech.
[00:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:04] <exec> 08└─LG X Power, bought Feb of '17. Trust me, there's no way to disable the alerts on this phone.
[00:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:06] <exec> 08└─I thankfully had no problem disabling the Amber & Emergency Alerts on my phone (Moto E4), but surprisingly that wasn't enough to prevent the far louder Presidential Alert, which also apparently is designed to trigger the maximum-vibration setting. When it went off, I was taking a nap, so the combina...
[00:46:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 1836 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:12] <exec> 08└─The difference is that that was based on racism, at no point did Obama do anything that could reasonably suggest he'd break that norm. If anything, he was far too generous offering to cut social security for a grand bargain on the budget that was only averted when the GOP got greedy and demanded a c...
[00:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:28] <exec> 08└─Garland was nominated to be a palatable choice for the Republican Senate. However, Republicans were too cowardly and conniving to even hold Garland's confirmation hearings. By making it an election issue, they may have gotten more evangelical turnout in 2016. Either way, the bet paid off. Now they g...
[00:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:29] <exec> 08└─The tweet says nothing about FBI involvement in a conspiracy. The White House dictated who the FBI could or could not talk to. [nytimes.com] People were already worried about that the day before the investigation began.
[00:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:32] <exec> 08└─Write-ins have decided elections. Lisa Murkowski won re-election in 2010 purely from write-ins. Vote third-party or write-in. It shouldn't take you much longer than an hour every 2 years to vote. That's much less commitment needed than any demonstration you could attend.
[00:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:34] <exec> 08└─The Democrats are fine with Kavanaugh's positions (he and Merrick Garland voted together well over 90% of the time)
[00:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─> question of whether a thirty six year old high school clumsy grope matters. If he was 18 or older at the time, it matters, so say the laws of the United States, which a Supreme Court nominee should know better than most. Also, a crime is universal in that it doesn't matter what age the perp is, a...
[00:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:38] <exec> 08└─the only option left is to declare hunting season on corrupt politicians. Realistically, I don't see much of an alternative at this point as they just made it clear that what the voters want isn't even remotely of interest to them
[00:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:40] <exec> 08└─The tweet says nothing about FBI involvement in a conspiracy.
[00:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:42] <exec> 08└─Again, the White House decided who the FBI could interview. They were in charge of the whitewash.
[00:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, nothing. Neither of those two links support the idea that he was planning on setting himself up as President for life. Bush enjoyed much better press coverage than he did, even when he was doing things that were known to be illegal. And that bit about the IRS is rather ridiculous. That's part o...
[00:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:47] <exec> 08└─And that has absolutely nothing to do with her claims that she was sexually assaulted by soon to be Justice Kavanaugh. OK, not technically absolutely nothing, it was the reason for her going to therapy, but that's a rather ridiculous basis for concluding that she was lying when Kavanaugh was telling...
[00:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:49] <exec> 08└─What they did was take another goose step towards an outright dictatorship. I'm not violent, but the reality here is that we're dangerously close to the point where the only way to have a grievance heard or taken seriously is via terrorism. If you can't see that, then you're a fucking moron. The onl...
[00:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:07] <exec> 08└─The church did NOT perform an act of government here. It is decidedly NOT the government's job to suggest how people should vote.
[00:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 2151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:08] <exec> 08└─Article is very wrong, among other things the new bill expressly prohibits edibles. Tinctures are allowed as far as things you can put in your mouth, but that's it. Put a couple drops of tincture in your brownie mix to make them happy brownies and you're breaking the law. Also wax is only allowed wi...
[00:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:46] <exec> 08└─Looks like someone "mistakenly" coded COPY all files to Redmond as MOVE all files to Redmond.
[00:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:47] <exec> 08└─being abused by microsoft in the past was accepted as collateral damage required to enjoy state of the art GPUs for games like Battle Field 3. Shame on them. But continuing to use after Windows 7 & 8 embrace and extinguishment and the obamanation of windows 10 spyware.. sorry, shame on you.
[00:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder what exactly is causing these file deletions? I'm guessing that as usual they stuffed some fancy half-baked new feature in there that backfired.
[00:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:51] <exec> 08└─Be careful reporting stuff like that. When I did that for the web servers of a large scale production website I ran (900+ days, load average 1%), users started using an application which had an imagick bug causing the system to totally melt down. Because the application had been installed a year pri...
[00:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Weak Passwords to be Banned in California - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:05] <exec> 08└─Simply setting the password to the device serial number is vastly superior to any default password. California is right: default passwords *should* be outlawed. Even if a serial number is easily predictable, an attacker would still have to guess it for each device they want to pwn. With any default...
[00:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe has Nothing up its Sleeve - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:55] <exec> 08└─A neutron star doesn't have charge -- "neutron" - the star is so dense that distinct atoms and protons and electrons can't exist. Accordingly there's no real electromagnetic force, or at least not like we know it. If that is included in the calculations, then it's different from all other matter and...
[00:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068-Year-Old Girl Pulls Ancient Sword From Lake, is Our Ruler Now - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:06] <exec> 08└─Your friends who aren't white tolerate you. That doesn't make you not a racist. I tolerate my boss, I tolerate all kinds of shit, doesn't turn it to not-shit. You're Dunning-Krugering on race and not realizing it. No biggie as long as you're not making public policy or getting violent.
[00:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068-Year-Old Girl Pulls Ancient Sword From Lake, is Our Ruler Now - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:07] <exec> 08└─PS - "I have friends " is a dog whistle for "I'm a self-unaware racist", and "hey I don't use offensive terms like " is how you get big nods from other un-self-aware racists, and incredulous looks from everyone else. You probably haven't noticed those incredulous looks because you're too flushed wit...
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[01:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:57] <exec> 08└─"In short, you're regurgitating info on a subject you know nothing about" - I was in Fallujah. You weren't. My post was accurate with respect to the wounds caused by the liquid metal rounds. We all know the 5.56 round tumbles. But the exit wounds caused by the 5.56 are small in comparison to the gia...
[01:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:58] <exec> 08└─What is a horrible wound ? ... blows a hole in you the size of a pot roast, with ONE shot. Visualize that wound and imagine what you'd think if one of your buddies suffered such a wound.
[01:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:01] <exec> 08└─Not quite. The entry hole is the size of a pencil. The exit wound, on the other hand, is much bigger. This is kinda how bullets work. Ideally there won't be an exit wound, cuz that means wasted energy. You want the target to absorb as much energy as that bullet has, which means there is no exit woun...
[01:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:03] <exec> 08└─Erik Prince is not a former SEAL, he washed out of the training program, and became a mercenary. Much like his sister, in that regard. (Mercenaries=Charter Schools)
[01:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:05] <exec> 08└─My post was accurate with respect to the wounds caused by the liquid metal rounds.
[01:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:30] <exec> 08└─One word: Hawaii. "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL."
[01:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:32] <exec> 08└─...would be the first whiney fucks to sue the government in the aftermath of a disaster because they weren't warned. They should get their heads out of whatever warm, dark place it's in.
[01:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:04] <exec> 08└─With Kavanaugh on the court, the composition of the body will reflect the domination of the financial oligarchy over the political process like never before. Four of the nine justices will have been nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote (George W. Bush and Donald Trump). Including the tw...
[01:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:05] <exec> 08└─The difference is that that was based on racism,
[01:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:07] <exec> 08└─Well, fuck. Obama ... refuse to allow Obama's inauguration.
[01:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:10] <exec> 08└─I bet most of them don't perjure themselves
[01:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:12] <exec> 08└─> they just wanted to create some hot-button issue to camouflage Have you considered maybe they truly believed he is not trustworthy, based on evidence? I know, Occam's in politics, but still.
[01:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:14] <exec> 08└─Then you'll hear people whining that the cities are taking over the country, ignoring the rural voters.
[01:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:16] <exec> 08└─Goddamn tripfag [urbandictionary.com]. Though come to think of it, UID 6614 is getting old. Why not register your code as a username, tripfag?
[01:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:18] <exec> 08└─> based upon what the law says, not what he feelz in his heart he will base what the law says upon what he feelz in his heart FTFY
[01:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:20] <exec> 08└─... Plus American Samoa: I was not permitted to vote in November 2004, November 2011 and August of this year because there were problems with my registration. At most of these links you enter your first and last names, your birthday and sometimes the last four digits of your Social Security Number:...
[01:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:23] <exec> 08└─You missed anther critical point: the judge is misleading the public and gaslighting a victim. If instead he said "yeah, I'm really very sorry, and I'm so glad to have learned how wrong some of our actions were. It's past the statue of limitations, and I'm not the dumb teenager I was. I hope we can...
[01:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:25] <exec> 08└─He's not being paid anything; he just thinks he's going to get some kind of payoff from this. The stupid fool. The stupid goddamn self-destructive pig-ignorant fool.
[01:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:27] <exec> 08└─> dedicated to amassing power at the expense of all else. dedicated to dismantling power held over citizens FYFY
[01:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:29] <exec> 08└─Ironically, if he did do it, admitting so would have tanked his nomination. He said that no job was worth what he and his family were put through. But is doing the right thing worth losing the job and being tarnished forever?
[01:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Battle of the Bagel Emoji - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:30] <exec> 08└─Why on earth should there be a Unicode character devoted to a food item that is not available all over the world?
[01:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Isn’t on His Twitter Leash Yet, So He’s Taunting the SEC - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:06] <exec> 08└─It's All About MEEEEEEEEEEEE! [warplife.com]
[01:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universe has Nothing up its Sleeve - 4559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:40] <exec> 08└─This would not be a "dimension". This may be localization of effects, but consider what a dimension is. It's an index into the universe. You have a dot. Zero-dimensional. You can't go up, can't go left, you have a dot and you have a dot. Add a dimension. Now you go, Hey! I can move! Cool! ... put a...
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[02:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:11] <exec> 08└─Ah, an argument from expertise fallacy. The obvious rebuttal is that there's no excuse for your ignorance then. Your comment about making rules the mercs would have to follow proves what a dumbass you are. In a war zone, there are no rules when the only reason you're there is to earn money. If you'd...
[02:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:42] <exec> 08└─There are two problems with the lawsuit. First, no standing. Just because your client gets a text message doesn't mean they have grounds to sue. Second, there are existing grounds for use of such messaging systems contrary to assertion. In addition to existing public warning systems, we also have s...
[02:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:44] <exec> 08└─I shut mine off after being woken at 3AM one night for an alert on the other side of the state. It's one of the first things I do with a new phone now.
[02:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:46] <exec> 08└─I don't know why I find that so funny, but if it happened I'm pretty sure I would die laughing.
[02:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:48] <exec> 08└─As old as it is, I was expecting a message like "Just wanted to say good luck, we're all counting on you" or "So long and thanks for all the fish"! I was actually in Walmart when the message hit and I told one of the guys in electronics, take a look around at all the people staring at their phones....
[02:46:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 1430 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:59] <exec> 08└─Ah, jmorris one of our resident jackasses posting more bullshit. We don't know that Dr. Ford's allegations are false, nobody looked into it. There were dozens of people who were willing to be interviewed by the FBI with regards to the various allegations against Kavanaugh and none of them were inter...
[02:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:37] <exec> 08└─Well, with some politicians it would be credible that he was talking about his re-election.
[02:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:38] <exec> 08└─Then why did they not pursue proving perjury with the fervor they had for the alleged and likely unprovable sexual crimes? Sexual crimes got a day-long hearing. Perjury did not.
[02:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:40] <exec> 08└─I guess I'd prefer to think that these people are being paid, because that makes at least some modicum of sense and is an easier problem to solve.
[02:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:43] <exec> 08└─As it stands, his reputation is in tatters and he's likely to be impeached and removed from office the first chance the Dems get at it. He's a bit lucky in that the Dems will have to pick up like 20 seats in the Senate as well as win the house in order to make it happen, but any decisions that he ma...
[02:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:45] <exec> 08└─The FBI could have interviewed more people, and could have investigated new information about Bart O'Kavanaugh's past.
[02:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:47] <exec> 08└─We don't know that Dr. Ford's allegations are false, nobody looked into it. There were dozens of people who were willing to be interviewed by the FBI with regards to the various allegations against Kavanaugh and none of them were interviewed. Even Ford and Kavanaugh who were at the center of this we...
[02:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:49] <exec> 08└─Because I know that the last thing I want is for all the gang rapes and sexual assaults I've committed to prevent me from getting a job where my credibility and integrity are the main thing people are looking for in me. Dumb ass
[02:48:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vbMv9gbmM [youtube.com]
[02:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:46] <exec> 08└─quality control appears to be what they dropped.
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[03:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Doorstop Turns Out to be Meteorite Worth $100K - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:33] <exec> 08└─Would you suck me off? Well? Got your Klondike Bar right here!
[03:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, but the US government is gonna pay for them? Yeah, you thought Kavanagh was a shit storm. Just wait until the bill for a bunch of mercenaries shows up on the evening news.
[03:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:29] <exec> 08└─We have amber alerts, which are an attempt to conscript the public in a police investigation. Strangers in vans snatching children is practically an urban legend, and custody disputes do not constitute public emergencies. Why can't we receive something non-political that affects everybody in a certa...
[03:46:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:38] <exec> 08└─And there it is. There is your naked, unmasked, cackling nihilism apparent for the world to see. People like you are the reason we've come to this. Well, you'll get your civil war at this rate. And die in it. And fry in Hell. And if it still happens to be going on by the time you get out of Hell, pu...
[03:46:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:56] <exec> 08└─The Democrats are fine with Kavanaugh's positions (he and Merrick Garland voted together well over 90% of the time)
[03:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds that Vitamin D Supplements Don't Improve Bone Health - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:31] <exec> 08└─Doc Bruce Banna pelted by gamma rays turns into the hulk. The ever loving hulk.
[03:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 068-Year-Old Girl Pulls Ancient Sword From Lake, is Our Ruler Now - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:50] <exec> 08└─Good boy, Fido!
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[04:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:06] <exec> 08└─Natural selection, bitches.
[04:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:08] <exec> 08└─"and nothing of value was lost". If I end up going out in a blaze of misadventure it's going to be something way cooler than taking pics of myself making duck lips. It'll also probably involve a lot of fire.
[04:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:10] <exec> 08└─What problem?
[04:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doorstop Turns Out to be Meteorite Worth $100K - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:20] <exec> 08└─I know they are a click-bait PR bullshit site, but when I enabled javascript for that site to see if they display the rock's image, firefox froze. What a toxic garbage.
[04:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:42] <exec> 08└─No wonder such libertarians with their obvious rebuttals are so ignorant of law, and especially the ius gentium or law of peoples otherwise known as international law. When you think, as does Prince and/or DeVoss, that the market is the best solution to anything, then of course law is nothing but a...
[04:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:44] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal to that is "woosh".
[04:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:46] <exec> 08└─If it costs less to occupy the country with mercenaries, the US may consider doing so.
[04:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:48] <exec> 08└─Ignorance does not "whoosh" make, khallow! Once again, you should know when your obvious rebuttals are just stalling, and admit you do not know what you are talking about. Otherwise you just display your ignorance to the world.
[04:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:50] <exec> 08└─Ignorance does not "whoosh" make, khallow!
[04:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:25] <exec> 08└─Um, what? You don't know what you're talking about. You can disable them.
[04:45:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 2018 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:51] <exec> 08└─So much was wrong with this nomination process it is hard to know where to start. 1. #DiFiChiSpy Feinstein should be punished for a) sitting on Dr. Ford's letter until after the hearings were completed and b) leaking its existence. 2. Dr. Ford should have never been allowed to testify, certainly not...
[04:45:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:58] <exec> 08└─Allowing the Democrats to call for yet another pointless FBI investigation is a failure that will haunt the Republicans. It showed weakness in the face of an enemy that is implacable, highly chaotic evil and will not stop.
[04:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Weak Passwords to be Banned in California - 1663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:29] <exec> 08└─This is just about the last forum where I expected people to be whining about manufacturers being legally barred from setting the default credentials of hundreds of millions of internet connected devices to something stupid like admin/admin or root/password. We're talking about devices that are not...
[04:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Weak Passwords to be Banned in California - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:30] <exec> 08└─remote exploits have trouble reading bits of paper.
[04:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universe has Nothing up its Sleeve - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:24] <exec> 08└─This experiment just rules out energy leakage and the higher dimensional capabilities of gravity waves and photon waves that we have so far conceptualized to the point of being able to physically verify. So 3+1 is our best model of reality, giving us the most accurate explanations of past events, an...
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[05:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:13] <exec> 08└─So many beautiful young lives being lost to Photography. Horrible "carnage" in Canada this summer. When 3 Vloggers died in the Canada waterfall (RIP!!!). They heard water falling -- tinkle tinkle -- they thought streaming. We love streaming, right? And we don't know if they were vlogging when they d...
[05:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:14] <exec> 08└─Researchers at the US National Library of Medicine recommend that 'no selfie zones' should be introduced at dangerous spots to reduce deaths. These would include the tops of mountains, tall buildings and lakes, where many of the deaths occurred.
[05:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:16] <exec> 08└─Horrible "carnage" in Canada this summer. When 3 Vloggers died in the Canada waterfall (RIP!!!).
[05:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:19] <exec> 08└─So we are dealing with people so effing stupid they are doing things so dangerous they are dying. But they won't do it if we just put up some signs. You know how this will work out. We will spend millions and millions arguing over where the signs should go, buying signs and paying to maintain the si...
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[05:44:21] <exec> 08└─Not a selfie, she was posing for a professional wedding photographer, I expect with a medium format camera. She stood near the edge of some rocks next to Butterfly Cove in Monterey, fifteen or twenty feet up from where the sea surface would be on a calm day. Which it was not. I expect that's why she...
[05:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:57] <exec> 08└─Convention Against the use of Mercenaries: http://www.un.org [un.org] I usually recommend the Minnesota http://hrlibrary.umn.edu [umn.edu] Human Rights Library. Really, khallow, it does no good to actually read what you write, when 1. you know not of what you write,...
[05:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:33] <exec> 08└─Sure there's a way. Drop the phone into a Faraday cage.
[05:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:34] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your beautiful beautiful support. Many people are saying that God likes me a lot. That my agenda is God's agenda. That God is doing a lot for me -- and I'm doing more for God than anybody. Ever!!!
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[06:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:32] <exec> 08└─Garbage in, garbage out.
[06:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:51] <exec> 08└─I think we on the contrary need to setup designated selfie spots in the most dangerous visually stunning of places to encourage this phenomenon.
[06:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:52] <exec> 08└─@FoxNews [twitter.com] is great, they say it in 1st. sentence. Shannon Falls. They call that one Shannon Falls. Possibly Shannon fell, I don't know. Megan definitely fell. And Alexy and Ryker. They died HORRIBLY. 3 beautiful young lives lost to Social Media. To Videography. Sad!!
[06:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:55] <exec> 08└─You don't say what happened. But I'm thinking, eaten by Great White Sharks. Monterey Bay is infested with them terribly. Big problem there. Monterey Bay Aquarium, they captured some Great White Sharks, they were showing them to everybody. But, no more. People got too scared. Well, they should be sca...
[06:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:57] <exec> 08└─Around these parts a tourist died while she tried to do a selfie with a wild bear. The bear was not amused.
[06:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:34] <exec> 08└─And now a non sequitur since that was irrelevant to my previous two posts. Let us note that the four "contractors" weren't mercenaries by the document you quoted, aristarchus. A mercenary is any person who: (a) Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict;...
[06:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:11] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Anonymous. So many folks don't get it. You get it. My Presidential Alerts are for my MOST IMPORTANT messages. The ones I want ALL AMERICANS -- all Americans that have Cell Phones -- to get. About the nuclear, about ISIS, about Hurricane & Earthquake. Alt-left violence, BIE riots. Flu. And...
[06:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:27] <exec> 08└─Of course it is the governments job to tell you how to vote, go to this polling station and take this ballot and make a clear mark in the circle beside the candidate of your choice. What the government shouldn't tell you is which circle to mark, just to clearly mark it.
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[07:44:49] <exec> 08└─People, this isn't hard. You're don't want something, you're done with it, you flush it. Not the babies -- we'll be getting very tough on that one. And a lot of you know this, I'm talking to the ones that don't. Keep America Beautiful!!!
[07:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:50] <exec> 08└─It's a growing problem internationally.
[07:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:52] <exec> 08└─No, none of them came out..
[07:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:14] <exec> 08└─Should we ban people from mountains altogether?
[07:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:32] <exec> 08└─Owning a cell phone is not a right.
[07:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:34] <exec> 08└─two years when Obama was president. I can only imagine the praise he would receive for testing this warning system.
[07:46:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:53] <exec> 08└─The good news is, this load of bullshit has been used up, consumed, processed, and turned into human waste. The bad news is, there will be a new load of bullshit arriving within the week.
[07:48:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 426 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:07] <exec> 08└─With Kavanaugh on the court, the composition of the body will reflect the domination of the financial oligarchy over the political process like never before. Four of the nine justices will have been nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote (George W. Bush and Donald Trump). Including the tw...
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[08:44:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snufu [5855] 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:46] <exec> 08└─Garbage in, garbage out.
[08:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:50] <exec> 08└─I laughed out loud at this. Probably a good metaphor for human pollution and all, but the image of Yellowstone spewing garbage several feet into the air made me chuckle heartily. Reminds me of that meme, "I hope whatever bad thing happens is at least funny".
[08:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:12] <exec> 08└─they did not die at the tops of mountains, tall buildings and lakes
[08:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:16] <exec> 08└─When there are thousands of files, certain operations can become slow. Trying to bring up a listing in a web browser would be one. Doubly so if it's a network share. Image/photoalbum programs that want to load a thumbnail of every image will be busy for a while and eat lots of memory. There's also t...
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[09:44:14] <exec> 08└─So in effect, it may not even be a Chinese factory thing. But simply a weakness in the IPMI of that particular model. And IPMI is basically a remote console that is supposed to be accessible via a different path than the main network traffic, so that in the event of network issues on the main path (...
[09:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:16] <exec> 08└─The IPMI idea is a little worrisome. Except - I just unplugged my IPMI, so it has no dedicated network path. If you're not actually using IPMI, just turn it off, unplug it, or whatever. If you USE IPMI, then obviously, you have a potential problem.
[09:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:18] <exec> 08└─The companies doth protest too much, methinks.
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:53] <exec> 08└─Warning labels on chainsaws, "Not for internal use." What does NOT have warning labels today? That is a fairly recent development. Looking back, I'd have to say it's more than thirty years ago, but definitely less than fifty, probably around 40. Child proof medicine caps? When the elder two of my th...
[09:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds like something a merc would say. "Security Contractor"! "Auxillary Forces". "Training and advising". Yeah, right. Bad faith, khallow, the obvious rebuttal is mercenary bad faith.
[09:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:07] <exec> 08└─Expect more and more of that to appear on Linux as well, as systemd spreads its tentacles ever wider. The core of it is that so many programmers these days start out as webdevs, and thus have internalized the "devops" way of doing changes. This in contrast to the retiring generation that cut their t...
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[09:49:09] <exec> 08└─Would not surprise me if it is related to the "storage sensor" that they added back in April. Its job is to clear out certain areas of the FS under criteria that are not disclosed. Likely the update, being the typically large kind that they are, triggered said sensor, and it in turn had a flaw that...
[09:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:11] <exec> 08└─Would not surprise me if it is related to the "storage sensor" they added in April, that is supposed to clear out temporary files (ok), recycle bin (ok), and the downloads folder (WTF?!?!), when certain criteria is met (low free space is clearly one of them, but who knows if there are others).
[09:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:13] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, NTUSER. another gotcha with that, is that the registry has its own internal ACL that is independent of the underlying files. Got burned by that when trying to transfer a user between Windows installs via a simple copy job...
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[10:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:22] <exec> 08└─Except - I just unplugged my IPMI, so it has no dedicated network path.
[10:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:23] <exec> 08└─i can see legions of servers having their IPMI interface unplugged and going back to the days of Insight and DRAC boards being plugged into expansion slots again. . Not that this couldn't be done on those as well. And to top things off the next-generation of this attack places the malicious componen...
[10:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right, there's no winning with your kind: if they don't protest, they accept they are guilty; if they protest, then they doth protest too much, so they are guilty.
[10:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:28] <exec> 08└─Stuff like IPMI is indeed pretty much a backdoor, but supposedly it can be secured. This chip provides replacement firmware. It phones home under some circumstances. We don't know what else it does, but an obvious choice would be to add a hardcoded second password.
[10:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:42] <exec> 08└─Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash
[10:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:43] <exec> 08└─Not quite. Yellowstone doesn't produce new trash.
[10:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:09] <exec> 08└─Yup. The headline should really read: Nowhere Near Enough People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017
[10:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:11] <exec> 08└─This is utterly retarded. 259 over a seven year period is less than 40 people worldwide per year.
[10:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:13] <exec> 08└─Like this couple [cloudfront.net], you mean?
[10:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Good candidates for Darwin Awards [wikipedia.org]
[10:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:28] <exec> 08└─They ran out of hard disk space to store all their telemetry data.
[10:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battle of the Bagel Emoji - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:32] <exec> 08└─how bout https://finland.fi [finland.fi]
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[11:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:55] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, China's great. And Xi is a great gentlemen. President Xi has MASSIVELY UPPED the sanctions against #NoKo [twitter.com]. Said he wants them to denuclearize. Progress is being made -- we're making great progress TOGETHER!!!!
[11:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 4569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:56] <exec> 08└─N. Korea is becoming somewhat less of a hermitage, isn't it? If things progress a little further, they'll require a new moniker. Had to think a few moments - N. Korea is supposedly a Communist nation. But, in some ways, they don't seem very Communistic. Just to check, I did a search for "type of gov...
[11:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:10] <exec> 08└─but the really sad thing is, it's plausible and quite believable.
[11:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:12] <exec> 08└─Well, I should clarify that my board is an old board - it isn't even under consideration here. But, I don't use IPMI, so I unplugged the IPMI. In my case, IPMI is a card, which plugs into the board through a PCI interface. If I'm using IPMI, it MUST be plugged into the first PCI slot, but if I'm not...
[11:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:14] <exec> 08└─the next-generation of this attack places the malicious component between layers of the circuit board. If true, an x-ray would be required to spot the additional part Depending, of course, on the level of workmanship. A relatively bulky device, and/or poorly installed, would leave a bulge between th...
[11:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:16] <exec> 08└─Strange things happen when you don't properly close quote tags, lol.
[11:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:56] <exec> 08└─They were only taking pictures. If they'd been taking video, we could better educate people on the real costs of narcissism.
[11:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:14] <exec> 08└─The bravery Obama showed in the face of discrimination. Letting all those racist know, that no matter how much they hate him, he will be heard.
[11:48:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 1044 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:41] <exec> 08└─> question of whether a thirty six year old high school clumsy grope matters. If he was 18 or older at the time, it matters, so say the laws of the United States, which a Supreme Court nominee should know better than most. Also, a crime is universal in that it doesn't matter what age the perp is, a...
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[12:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:36] <exec> 08└─What is dosh?
[12:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:39] <exec> 08└─dragged her out to sea. I expect there was some rescue effort. There's a coast guard station not far from their but in seas that rough, also being fully clothed in a long dress doubtlessly she would have drowned in just a few minutes.
[12:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:19] <exec> 08└─Well, you could always look instead of just saying stupid things? Every story has the contractors in question escorting a convoy, allegedly of food. It has some degree of military value since it's supplies for the US side, but the guys weren't there to fight in the war. And training and advising of...
[12:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 1703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:16] <exec> 08└─"Once the state gets a taste of the weed money" You hit the nail squarely there. And the reason Federal legalization is less than a decade away IMHO. It's far too late for the government to shut down now. My state made $317 million last year in taxes and there are recreational stores everywhere. On...
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[13:43:47] <exec> 08└─What is dosh?
[13:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:48] <exec> 08└─Context? Dinero, bread, cash, coin, clink, dead presidents, bucks, cabbage, change, green, moola, scratch, tender, wampum, scrip, clams, dough, lucre, moola, simoleons, scratch, loot, and probably a helluva lot more.
[13:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe the eager US warmongers who started the story managed to get far enough down the rabbit-hole for someone to realize they were tracing the implants right back to themselves and thus the boot came down. That's what's likely given the NSA documentation Snowden released. 17 anonymous sources... LO...
[13:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:12] <exec> 08└─Read the Apple statement carefully. It is not incompatible with Bloomberg. Maybe there was no "reaching out" if Apple and the government were already talking for other reasons. In the middle of ongoing discussions an Apple person could have said, by the way, we found some odd server behavior. Or may...
[13:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is a regular report that Apple sends the Feds about foreign hacking. If they included this particular hack in a report, that's not "reaching out".
[13:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:58] <exec> 08└─Makig such a big deal about an insignificant percentage of the population engaging in stupid behavior is equally as stupid. Some people are always finding reasons to limit other peoples freedom and treat them like children. Also, a significant percentage of the population takes selfies, an even grea...
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[14:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:08] <exec> 08└─Summer of '83, we had black and white cameras and a darkroom for half the day, and PCs with Logo for the other half. And even with two halves spoken for, there were somehow breaks and lunch left over. Those were mostly spent listening to music by the fence. I had "Wierd Al Yankovic" and "Speaking in...
[14:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:23] <exec> 08└─It's communist in the worst sense: the hereditary dictator's organization is the only owner of most things, therefore the people are sort of "all in it together" like in Communism, but otherwise screwed.
[14:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:24] <exec> 08└─Well, communism has many flavours. North Korea is a derivative of the Marxist–Leninist more typically seen, but (almost?) all of the communist governments seen have been autocratic with different methods of choosing successors. In North Korea the state does control the methods of production so in...
[14:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:26] <exec> 08└─Andrew Jackson continues to be on the $20 bill. I’m a big Andrew Jackson fan. Obama wanted to do Harriet Tubman. Not on my watch, folks!!!
[14:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:33] <exec> 08└─Warming labels have absolutely NOTHING to do with preventing injury or death, and EVERYTHING to do with liability. Everyone knows you can't fix stupid, but you sure can try not to lose your business to it in costly, endless judicial litigations.
[14:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:16] <exec> 08└─One of the things to come out of the investigation of Fallujah: Erik Prince views himself and his company as modern day Christian crusaders out to kill every Muslim they can [economist.com]. That not only is bad from the "genocide is wrong" department, it's also bad from the strategic and operationa...
[14:47:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:40] <exec> 08└─With a conservative Supreme Court, it now becomes possible for the Trumpster to declare the 2020 elections process to be suspended, and to appoint himself Leader for Life! Women will be confined to the bedroom, and the kitchen. Blacks will be deported to Africa. Jews will be processed for dog food....
[14:47:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:51] <exec> 08└─The party that spent the past 6 months claiming the FBI was above reproach was left screaming the FBI was involved in some Republican conspiracy.
[14:48:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:10] <exec> 08└─That just supports my conclusion. The FBI could have interviewed more people, and could have investigated new information about Bart O'Kavanaugh's past. Youthful indiscretions are fine, perjury is not.
[14:48:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:18] <exec> 08└─Fuck that. I want the shitstains on the hill to be afraid of those they govern. Left, right, I don't give a damn. They all need to be quaking in their boots so maybe they'll remember why oppressing Americans was a bad idea back in the 1700s and is still a bad idea now.
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[15:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 1970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:47] <exec> 08└─"Now on Twitter, folks have found the source code for the LOGO program used on Apple II computers" Twitter didn't even exist back then. But I guess 128 characters per line is a reasonable limitation for a confused turtle trying to make graphics with a low bandwidth connection. I guess it IS slow and...
[15:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:49] <exec> 08└─Back in kindergarten there were some Apple IIe machines in one of the rooms. First time I remember actually using a computer, rather than just banging at the keyboard on my father's when he brought me in to work one morning, was that one. And it was running LOGO. And I was one of those wise-ass kind...
[15:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:30] <exec> 08└─The whole thing stinks: "17 anonymous sources—both in US intelligence agencies and at affected companies ..." The companies suck but the "evidence" sucks too.
[15:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:21] <exec> 08└─For example, there's vastly more deaths on mountains from bad weather, falls, etc than selfies. Should we ban people from mountains altogether?
[15:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:46] <exec> 08└─what kind of pitiful fuck gets permission from the government to marry and produce slave children for the state? and they want to have me ratting these pitiful fools out because the wrong "guardian" has the slave child? fuck you, pigs!
[15:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:47] <exec> 08└─Really, what is the the point of a "Presidential Alert"? What kind of message would there be that does not already fall under a national emergency? Altert!: "My fellow Americans, I am currently taking a shit! Yes, on the pooper. Major diarrhea. Too many tacos. Must get that wall built." At least wit...
[15:48:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:47] <exec> 08└─Silly rabbit, you presume democrats oppose militarism, torture, and police-state practices.
[15:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:04] <exec> 08└─your religion is hilarious. congrats.
[15:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Weak Passwords to be Banned in California - 2531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:08] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with keeping a paper notepad or notebook with complex passwords and lists of accounts and so on. It worked for me and others for years and years when calling BBS's. It made it very easy to have a different password for every board -- some SysOps were not above logging in a user...
[15:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Isn’t on His Twitter Leash Yet, So He’s Taunting the SEC - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:34] <exec> 08└─Tesla's only chance of surviving is through fast growth. Going slow allows the incumbents to catch up.
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[16:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:13] <exec> 08└─Would that be Apple to fund their walled garden? Surely it's not Alphabet and its tricky subsidiary letters.
[16:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:15] <exec> 08└─I don't know about Toronto. But I know New York. And I'll tell you, in New York, you want to build something -- if you want it built right -- you're going to be dealing with certain guys. With a certain group of guys. For the concrete, for the everything. Anything big that happens, they're in it. Ge...
[16:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:26] <exec> 08└─>But I only read the summary, and I took it literally! You are supposed to base your comments exclusively on the title, reading TFS or TFA is akin to cheating.
[16:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:07] <exec> 08└─This is why Intel's ME is a stupid idea that needs to go away. IPMI itself is fine in it's older form where the BMC had (essentially) a null modem connection to a serial port on the board, and to a USB hub so it could emulate a keyboard, mouse, and DVD drive. Better ones can even snoop the video out...
[16:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doorstop Turns Out to be Meteorite Worth $100K - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:04] <exec> 08└─[It] is the sixth largest meteorite found in Michigan
[16:47:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 1205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─I thankfully had no problem disabling the Amber & Emergency Alerts on my phone (Moto E4), but surprisingly that wasn't enough to prevent the far louder Presidential Alert, which also apparently is designed to trigger the maximum-vibration setting. When it went off, I was taking a nap, so the combina...
[16:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:18] <exec> 08└─You use Steam? Go ahead and try to change the save game folder. Or easily stop their cloud sync process that you disabled but runs anyway. Just check out that cloud.log file in the steam application folder... I wish it would let us pick a folder for our saves--I'd aim it at some of the redundant sto...
[16:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:19] <exec> 08└─I say both; some things are worth repeating!
[16:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:21] <exec> 08└─Agreed on all points mentioned. I was thinking more along the lines of system errors or problems that might result. Here's an example using Windows 7 Pro x64 in a command window (cmd.exe): REM Make a clean place to start and go there: MKDIR fluffy CD fluffy REM Create 999 temporary files: fluffy_1.t...
[16:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outpatient Antibiotic Overprescribing Rampant - 1650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, and puppies and kittens are also getting over drugged and can carry MRSA and other very difficult to treat bacteria as part of the purchase. Antibiotics saved us; ignorance will doom us. It is wrong to phrase the over-prescribing issue as being dwarfed, though, because awareness can help lead t...
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[17:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:57] <exec> 08└─In the below quoted snippets, emphasis has been added by a secret recipe. Now on Twitter, folks have found the source code for the LOGO program used on Apple II computers.
[17:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:59] <exec> 08└─4-digit letters
[17:45:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe the eager US warmongers who started the story managed to get far enough down the rabbit-hole for someone to realize they were tracing the implants right back to themselves and thus the boot came down. That's what's likely given the NSA documentation Snowden released. 17 anonymous sources... LO...
[17:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:41] <exec> 08└─In 2018 in both cases it's true, though.
[17:46:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 1087 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:13] <exec> 08└─So we are dealing with people so effing stupid they are doing things so dangerous they are dying. But they won't do it if we just put up some signs. You know how this will work out. We will spend millions and millions arguing over where the signs should go, buying signs and paying to maintain the si...
[17:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─And yet Erik's headquarters are in Dubai. You'd think they'd be opposed to having an open Crusader living in their midst. I believe that this is seriously being considered because nobody (other than illegal Mexicans looking for easy citizenship) is going to enlist until we get the real stories of ev...
[17:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you thought Kavanagh was a shit storm.
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[18:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:52] <exec> 08└─Banksy did it again. Let me buy more of his paintings!
[18:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:54] <exec> 08└─According to the artist, a shredder was secretly installed into the frame a few years ago in case the painting was ever put up for auction.
[18:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:56] <exec> 08└─It should have gone up in smoke. That would have been a real statement about the "commercial art-scene". Then, at least, it would have literally smoked 1 million Pounds as a good kick in the ass.
[18:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:21] <exec> 08└─The one I remember before morning coffee, sorry @_@
[18:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:22] <exec> 08└─Too late, you spewed Apple pie all over everyone's mom. It's been a while since I last used an Apple II, but I used to know them pretty well. It was customary to place the disk controller in slot 6, and 256 byte bootstrap code there would be automatically executed when the machine was powered on or...
[18:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:40] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, China's great. And Xi is a great gentlemen. President Xi has MASSIVELY UPPED the sanctions against #NoKo [twitter.com]. Said he wants them to denuclearize. Progress is being made -- we're making great progress TOGETHER!!!!
[18:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:08] <exec> 08└─I really dont see the Chinese doing this. Sure, they are as rouge as the rest of us, but if they got caught doing something like this it could collapse their entire economy. Risk is too high.
[18:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:09] <exec> 08└─As an Anonymous Coward ex-amazon employee I can confirm that this is true.
[18:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:25] <exec> 08└─https://imgur.com/a/LtL6PM1 [imgur.com] https://imgur.com [imgur.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:59] <exec> 08└─> Cracked.com was first hit on my little search - but noscript had a long list of sites that wanted approval, so I just shut it down. So... a warning label? :D
[18:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:00] <exec> 08└─You're shooting for funny, but I'll treat it seriously. Not warning labels, per se. I've already told noscript that it should refuse scripts on a large number of sites. Noscript then informs me when one of those sites are trying to run a script on my computer. In turn, I must either forego the "plea...
[18:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:46] <exec> 08└─I see you are back and crazier than ever.
[18:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:32] <exec> 08└─Obama authorized the presidential alerts and the very same arguments, from the other side, were flying around at the time. Same Shit Different Shitheads.
[18:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:41] <exec> 08└─I did have an entire 2tb odd month backup drive getting erased under Linux, when SystemD was unintentionally getting pulled in during an update. The drive was mounted under tmp, and that shit software probably felt it was righteous to clear tmp, but failed to check for device boundaries.
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[19:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:16] <exec> 08└─They aren't here because it is a hard argument to win if value is added instead of taken away. It wasn't even cross cut. It will be worth more money after this stunt.
[19:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:17] <exec> 08└─Property was delivered and as TFS states, it might be more valuable now. On a slight tangent, in the 'art world' people are willing to pay millions for a painting that consists of the 'artist' throwing paint at a canvas. Any five year old can do that, but somehow it becomes 'art' when done by a grow...
[19:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:19] <exec> 08└─But it's not about "worth", it's about ownership and consent.
[19:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:21] <exec> 08└─With the shredder there is 99 percent chance of no harm to others. That number drops precipitously for combustion. Furthermore the shredder was likely far less volatile and far more reliable than combustible materials would have been.
[19:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:24] <exec> 08└─How was the shredder activated, I wonder? I suppose someone, most likely Banksy, activated a transmitter placed near the auction site. Or maybe it was the other way around, a dead man's switch. Has to receive the correct signal every minute, or the shredder activates. The device in the frame had to...
[19:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:26] <exec> 08└─If the buyer is a Big Media executive, serves him right!
[19:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:28] <exec> 08└─Still better than eBay's international shipping program. That fragile collectible you bought... it was supposed to be jigsaw puzzle wasn't it?
[19:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:30] <exec> 08└─They realize that utilitarian values don't apply to something that isn't utilitarian in nature. The value of a tool is in how well it conforms to the owner's needs. The value of art is how well it conforms to the artist's vision. So no, the art self shredding increased it's value. A tool dropping a...
[19:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:32] <exec> 08└─A photo posted on the private Instagram account of Caroline Lang, the chairman of Sotheby’s Switzerland, showed a man in the salesroom operating an electronic device hidden inside a bag. Ms. Long said that she later saw a man being removed from the building by Sotheby’s security staff. [...] But...
[19:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:35] <exec> 08└─But Sotheby’s said in a statement on Saturday: “The successful bidder was a private collector, bidding through a Sotheby’s staff member on the phone. We are currently in discussions about next steps.”
[19:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:46] <exec> 08└─the repeated conflation of copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets under a single, misleading moniker
[19:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, "IP" is the abbreviation used to refer to the term "Intellectual Property", however ambiguous, misguided, incorrect, or whatever a concept it may be. "Intellectual Property" is quoted exactly as it appeared in the source story, so the "[sic]" has been removed. Also, noticed that some links got...
[19:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:49] <exec> 08└─And a lot of times, the guns do come out. Look at Big Paul Castellano. I knew him. Terrible thing that happened to him!
[19:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:51] <exec> 08└─Some don't get it. Some people are just stupid: i'm kind of bugged that this is going on in Canada and people are 'gushing' over this happening. WTF, people? Who would want to live in a '1984' surveillance city state? This is just wrong and people don't see the future is coming down their throats un...
[19:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:54] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are bad people on both sides!
[19:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:10] <exec> 08└─It was customary to place the disk controller in slot 6
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:12] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of words to say "I want to disagree so bad I'm willing to contort common understanding of the language to do it. In the same spirit, why exactly do you enjoy spanking yourself with rosemary bushes at midnight?
[19:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:32] <exec> 08└─Dear sir or Mabam: I am we the King of korea and woub like your help gettin my moneies out of country. All iwill needd rom you is bank acount info
[19:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:18] <exec> 08└─Jimmy Hoffa? Carrot Top's career?
[19:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:54] <exec> 08└─The clean-up costs money.
[19:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Isn’t on His Twitter Leash Yet, So He’s Taunting the SEC - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:19] <exec> 08└─Hasn't spent enough time taking a good hard look at just how fucked up both American society and our duopolist partisan political system have become. Both parties need to be purged from the system just like they should have been ~150+ years ago when they were founded as the Democratic-Republican par...
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[20:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:33] <exec> 08└─Officially, trades are finalized when money AND goods are exchanged. Credit cards actually started out as low commission mail order escrow services to address this. Unofficially, these sort of consumer rights have long since been nullified and even if you just placed the order, without giving money,...
[20:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:35] <exec> 08└─My question is who changed the battery. This *smells* like a stunt.
[20:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:37] <exec> 08└─Indeed, or Banksy and friends have some secret super supply of batteries that lasts for years and years -- or wasn't it strange that they somehow demanded that the "frame" was connected to an outlet. Perhaps they had a little lamp installed in the frame that demanded power and the shredder was just...
[20:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds like something he specifically didn't want done with it and had experience with people ignoring his wishes. . Was the painting sold originally with the stipulation that not happen?
[20:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:41] <exec> 08└─a piece of art destroying itself
[20:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:43] <exec> 08└─There's actually a method in the madness which can be perceived: https://blogs.uoregon.edu [uoregon.edu] Is that of any value to me? Absolutely not. But, my (and most) 5 year olds probably can't reproduce it.
[20:45:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:12] <exec> 08└─In the below quoted snippets, emphasis has been added by a secret recipe. Now on Twitter, folks have found the source code for the LOGO program used on Apple II computers.
[20:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:18] <exec> 08└─You forget, people get paid for mentioning Twitter(R)(TM). Don't you watch the TV news? Every major event is announced on Twitter(R)(TM) and they are proud to provide the detail of precisely and exactly where it was announced - on Twitter(R)(TM)! Every major scandal revolves around saying something...
[20:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:20] <exec> 08└─Meeting the ridiculous with the hyper-ridiculous is just another free service I offer (people also got tired of the free sarcasm). Out of curiosity, are you making a particular argument against rosemary, or just asking?
[20:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:04] <exec> 08└─I would rather have anonymous sources from intelligence agencies than have no information at all. Now that the claim has been made, more snooping around Apple and Amazon could prove it. Or someone could find the hardware in question.
[20:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:05] <exec> 08└─Yep, my bet it's NSA as well.
[20:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:22] <exec> 08└─The Silver and Amber alerts are regionally targeted and can be disabled on my LG phone. The emergency notifications are a much wider scope but I can still disable them, Only the Presidential warnings offer no way to disable or control them to my knowledge. Here in the SW US, I get more Silver alerts...
[20:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outpatient Antibiotic Overprescribing Rampant - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:03] <exec> 08└─Infections that the body won't clear up itself given time are also exceedingly rare nowadays. You're likely to end up with not even half a dozen in your adult life unless you live a good bit longer than average.
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[21:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight (Oct 7, 10:22PM EDT; Oct 8, 02:21AM UTC) - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:13] <exec> 08└─I'll be driving down to Lompoc to watch it, assuming it doesn't get scrubbed. My plan is to be somewhere around 34°40'13.9"N 120°33'39.3"W which is about 6.3km away from Launch Complex 4. I don't know if the road will be closed but even if I have to watch from just outside Lompoc that's still only...
[21:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight (Oct 7, 10:22PM EDT; Oct 8, 02:21AM UTC) - 3373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:14] <exec> 08└─It looks like SpaceX will fall short of its goal of 30 launches for 2018, hitting maybe 24 launches. Compare to 18 launches in 2017. The market for Falcon 9 or greater capabilities is leveling off (don't expect many Falcon Heavy launches at all). SpaceX will have to attract smallsat customers if it...
[21:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:45] <exec> 08└─Tell that to Google Voice, which bricked our phone with an "update" and had little to say beyond: "oops, sorry, it's out of warranty, would you like to buy a new one?"
[21:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:46] <exec> 08└─And you sheep fell for it hook, line and sinker.
[21:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:48] <exec> 08└─As soon as you possess it, it destroys your data.
[21:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:50] <exec> 08└─[...] Perhaps the shredded "Girl With Balloon" might eventually also prove a lucrative investment. Banksy pronounced the painting "going, going, gone" on his Instagram account, quoting Picasso: "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." (The quote is often attributed to Picasso, but also to Mikh...
[21:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:06] <exec> 08└─This is just wrong and people don't see the future is coming down their throats until it chokes them?
[21:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:07] <exec> 08└─If the middle class is wiped out by automation with no effective safety net, you'll get disgruntled people with too much spare time on their hands
[21:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:09] <exec> 08└─Even with the Musky railroad to Mars, it would be a lot cheaper to send those people to war. Maybe in sub-Saharan Africa instead of the Middle East for a change in pace.
[21:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:31] <exec> 08└─A PDP-10 seems like it would be ancient by the time the Apple II was released. Wonder why that system was used?
[21:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:33] <exec> 08└─You forget, people get paid for mentioning Twitter(R)(TM). Don't you watch the TV news?
[21:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:35] <exec> 08└─LOGO for APPLE2 descended from PDP LOGO most likely. Also likely is that the APPLE2 wasn't released yet when the project to port LOGO to it started. It was probably announced as some spec set in order to get early ports. The hobbyst community was different back then and apple was part of the hobby h...
[21:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:24] <exec> 08└─a) They did it. B) No one really cares because everyone gets caught doing things like this all the time.
[21:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:25] <exec> 08└─As if Intel hasn't already given the NSA a gold-plated access key. They don't need to waste their time on fake signal conditioning filters.
[21:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:27] <exec> 08└─So of course Apple and Amazon are going to deny it.
[21:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:24] <exec> 08└─You city dwellers keep thinking mountains are cute, but Paul Bunyan flattened them for a damn good reason. They cause harm, both directly to humans and indirectly by killing our livestock. We even blew up Mount Monadnock just to wipe out a mountain range. The mountain is still blown up 2 centuries l...
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[22:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:02] <exec> 08└─The "art world" cares nothing about art. The fact that the value of a painting depends so much on who painted it shows that art only has a passing connection to the "art world".
[22:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:21] <exec> 08└─Look who comes out as a pessimist at the end of this weekend. Welcome down to reality. (grin)
[22:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:22] <exec> 08└─Then you said: They're basically the same as you or me.
[22:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:24] <exec> 08└─Dear Kind Sir, As long as the modern surveillance state can keep MOST people that core group of know-nothing don't-cares reasonably mollified without becoming outright draconian, people will ignore it.
[22:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:49] <exec> 08└─Some would have been horrified at the idea of the disk controller being placed where it would fire off without a command ...
[22:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:09] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Ho Chi Minh was never really a Communist, he was a Nationalist. After WWI he was one of the Vietnamese party at the Versailles peace talks trying to get independence from France. During WWII the OSS supplied and funded his fight against Japan, in exchange for independence, which was ne...
[22:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:11] <exec> 08└─Wow King of Korea! Is that more powerful than the Nigerian prince? How much dosh do you need?
[22:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:40] <exec> 08└─It will take miners many decades of work, but they are working hard today to do exactly that. Plains states from sea to shining sea! :) Well, assuming the mountains can be resold for more than it costs to level them of course.
[22:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:41] <exec> 08└─vs. the longer term drag on the rest of humanity for these darwin award winners? I don't think so...
[22:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:26] <exec> 08└─Come on now A/C, that rant is hilarious. Ethanol-fueled is back baby, and funnier than ever.
[22:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:14] <exec> 08└─It just pops up as a text notification that looks like a regular text message except with a different colored border and maybe a silly little seal to show it is official. While this is a nuisance it is really just a further example of how much control Americans have given up over their devices as we...
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[23:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:58] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree with you. Any company that sends updates should have a mechanism in place to rollback the updates. No exceptions. Still, I'm having a hard time seeing a rollback mechanism for that Bansky.
[23:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:59] <exec> 08└─soneone...but probably not the artist. what a way to punk everyone. kudos to Banksy. For the "poor" buyer, I'm sure Sotheby's has a "purchase protection plan", but no one ever does it. Auctions are still a caveat emptor market. "fair warning!..."
[23:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:23] <exec> 08└─Core group [mnemonicdictionary.com] implies a small number of people. I think you'll find it to be the majority insted.
[23:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 1430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:49] <exec> 08└─The Disk II interface card "customarily" resides in slot 6. I/O addresses are at $C0E0-C0EF ($C080+$10*slot). $C0E8/9=motor, C0EA/B=drive, C0EC:read latch. C0E0..C0E7: phases 0..3 of the stepper. Forget to turn the phases off (or worse, turn on all phases), and you're eventually in for a bit solderi...
[23:46:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:24] <exec> 08└─Except - I just unplugged my IPMI, so it has no dedicated network path.
[23:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:31] <exec> 08└─It would be funny if it wasn't playing the latest tune emanating from the White House [twitter.com] playing the 'loyalty to Trump' chorus. The only way Trump can stand long enough is to create crises he can blame others for them. See, it isn't Trump's fault the Chinese retaliated with taxes in the t...
[23:48:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 1238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:54] <exec> 08└─Don't want to hear from any president poking a message at my phone, now or later, daytime or night time. Who cares if all the planes are grounded, anyone that is actually scheduled to fly at that time will find out soon enough, if nothing else their airlines will notify the actual people that are af...
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