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[00:43:43] <exec> 08└─Setting the world record for real-time imaging speed, T-CUP can power a new generation of microscopes for biomedical, materials science, and other applications porn. This camera represents a fundamental shift, making it possible to analyze interactions between light and matter at an unparalleled tem...
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[00:43:44] <exec> 08└─It's really just 1 trillion fps upconverted.
[00:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:00] <exec> 08└─I wanted to mod the first paragraph "insightful" but the second paragraph detracted from that, so I tried "underrated" but you hadn't been modded yet, so "touche?" Anyway, I am particularly bad at remembering names. I once worked with a person for 1.5 years before I learned that person's name (in a...
[00:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:01] <exec> 08└─Could you maybe reword all of that in English? I honestly don't understand what the hell you're saying.
[00:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Novel Vaccine for Lassa Fever and Rabies - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:14] <exec> 08└─Hello NPC! [wehuntedthemammoth.com]
[00:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:53] <exec> 08└─The only other drug I have experience with is pot, and I do not understand why that isn't also legal.
[00:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─Particularly stupid: the Democratic politicians. The issue could be portrayed as one of States' rights: make it legal in those states that have chosen to legalize and regulate it. States can choose to make it legal or not. Everyone wins. Why the Dems don't jump on this bandwagon, I really don't unde...
[00:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:30] <exec> 08└─Mostly I'm suggesting that you redefining a word so that a law means what you want it to mean is some extremely unethical bullshit.
[00:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:31] <exec> 08└─That argument would simply invoke the Commerce Clause from the other side. Anything considered interstate commerce falls squarely and constitutionally under the federal government's authority and is actively forbidden to the states and people.
[00:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:33] <exec> 08└─You're a decade or three behind the times in your criticisms of Republicans. The only one still valid is the minimum wage bit and that's just them disagreeing rather than trying to force states to keep a low minimum wage.
[00:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fifth-Century Child's Skeleton Shows Evidence of "Vampire Burial" - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:57] <exec> 08└─In Chinese cultures where Taoism is popular, these kinda of stuff is pretty standard. As per the TFS, but it got the term wrong. K'uei just means ghost, the right term is Jiangshi. Also, there's the both the folklore mythical interpretation, i.e. actual fanged corpse hopping around sucking folks dry...
[00:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agreeable People Who Place Less Value on Money at a Financial Disadvantage, Study Says - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:39] <exec> 08└─Jokes are not necessarily untrue or non-serious. Take the writings of Mark Twain, for instance. Overthinking them is still ridiculous though.
[00:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agreeable People Who Place Less Value on Money at a Financial Disadvantage, Study Says - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:40] <exec> 08└─You don't budget medical, transportation (and maybe eventually retirement) into expenses? Seems like those would be pretty basic expenses, and medical is a big one for everyone.
[00:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agreeable People Who Place Less Value on Money at a Financial Disadvantage, Study Says - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:42] <exec> 08└─On the flip side of that, isn't someone who owes $30E3 and hasn't defaulted yet, basically the same as the lender holding a bond for that amount? That's like an investment, which is worth mumble time value of money mumble something with accompanying risk.
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[01:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06INRS Develops a 10 Trillion FPS "Camera" - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:16] <exec> 08└─Your premature ejaculation is quite extreme if it happens in tenths of femtoseconds.
[01:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06INRS Develops a 10 Trillion FPS "Camera" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:18] <exec> 08└─Can it spot the exact moment when a woman's heart breaks on a TV soap opera?
[01:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:36] <exec> 08└─You mean to say some zillionaire was so desperate to prove to some lady that she did actually mean something to him that he funded an entire study to prove his innocence? Get a life!
[01:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:37] <exec> 08└─Names? Shit, I have some difficulty recognizing faces, it's called "face blind". Not full-blown, not as bad as the artist Chuck Close, who said that he failed to recognize a woman at a party, and a couple of years earlier they'd been lovers and lived together. But enough so people may look vaguely f...
[01:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Speaks Out Against Australian Anti-Encryption Law; Police Advised Not to Trigger Face ID - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:10] <exec> 08└─But to use your face or fingerprint, they need some sort of action from you. Effectively conscripting you to perform some action for them that grants them access to your papers and effects.
[01:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:01] <exec> 08└─Really? So they're no longer in favor of the federal war on drugs?
[01:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 2395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:29] <exec> 08└─It is weird, but we're living in weird, weird times. When CNN started I watched the channel constantly. Now I can't bear to watch it for five seconds. I used to read the New York Times every day, then one day they decided to cheerlead the invasion of Iraq under the phony pretext of "Weapons of Mass...
[01:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agreeable People Who Place Less Value on Money at a Financial Disadvantage, Study Says - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:14] <exec> 08└─This relationship appears to be driven by the fact that agreeable people simply care less about money
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[02:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06INRS Develops a 10 Trillion FPS "Camera" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:30] <exec> 08└─Do not look into 10 Trillion FPS flashbulb with remaining eye.
[02:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06INRS Develops a 10 Trillion FPS "Camera" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:31] <exec> 08└─At what resolution does it get 10 trillion fps?
[02:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:53] <exec> 08└─Information on processes, procedures, users, tricks etc. - it's common jargon in the computer industry.
[02:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:55] <exec> 08└─I don't even bother trying to remember the names of students, eventually I'll learn the important once such as the once that produce interesting work while the rest just fade away into oblivion.
[02:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Novel Vaccine for Lassa Fever and Rabies - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:07] <exec> 08└─trick forcing us to RTFA in order to find out what the novel treatment is. . Out of protest for this inhumane and unfair treatment I hereby paste in the relevent bits from the article so no one else must attempt this unusual act. The inactivated recombinant vaccine candidate uses a weakened rabies v...
[02:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:55] <exec> 08└─We are being wholesale manipulated. We have been for years. The people conducting it have been studying it for years. http://www.americantable.org [americantable.org] [americantable.org] If they can do that with something as simple as bacon w...
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[02:47:57] <exec> 08└─I think you're conflating Breitbart with InfoWars. Jade Helm was an InfoWars conspiracy. It didn't seem likely to me, but post-Snowden I don't sniff at accusations of government crimes, malfeasance, or ill-intent any more. As a publicly elected official now (albeit of the lowest possible rung) I say...
[02:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane News - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:47] <exec> 08└─Yep, but tropical rain is not the same as a hurricane.
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[03:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:13] <exec> 08└─So they're no longer treating it as malicious?
[03:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:15] <exec> 08└─One thing is for certain. We know that it was the Russians and their meddling!
[03:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:17] <exec> 08└─*Russians and their vodka
[03:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:56] <exec> 08└─I don't speak Jive, but I speak Hacker! Let me try: Years back, I managed to transfer to another division. Feckless and unappreciative old boss "let me" transfer, in exchange for uploading my state to the loudmouth leech that remained.
[03:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Novel Vaccine for Lassa Fever and Rabies - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:11] <exec> 08└─There's already a functional rabies vaccine. It was one of the first. IIRC Pasteur developed one.
[03:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:53] <exec> 08└─How does a lab worker"inadvertently" consume a sample of the stuff they're working on? "Hmmmm, this white powder sure looks tasty, uugglllpp" I wonder how often this happens. Maybe he had a joke witha co-worker to try some while drunk.
[03:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:55] <exec> 08└─> How does a lab worker"inadvertently" consume a sample of the stuff they're working on? It's easy when you have no idea of the potency. Typical dose is 100 micrograms (1/10000 of a gram -- almost "nothing") and it can get into your body through skin contact. From: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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[03:48:07] <exec> 08└─“Internet media should spread positive information, uphold the correct political direction, and guide public opinion toward the right direction,” the state-run Xinhua news service reported in April, summarizing the instructions of Mr. Xi, who “stressed the centralized, unified leadership of th...
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[03:48:08] <exec> 08└─The European tradition used to be "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it", as attributed to Voltaire's philosophy.
[03:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:10] <exec> 08└─Agreed with all of that except the part about Breitbart being the least bad of the lot. Other than that you're spot on. I have not taken what any news outlet tells me at face value since 9/11, and was skeptical beforehand too. Money ruins everything, authoritarianism ruins everything, and it can be...
[03:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agreeable People Who Place Less Value on Money at a Financial Disadvantage, Study Says - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:57] <exec> 08└─I sure as hell would not give you one thin dime, and I'm as generous a person as you'll ever find. Your attitude sucks, it's no wonder you're unemployable. Your also likely a prime example of the Dunning Kruger effect. I would let MDC stay with me, and give him the shirt off my back to help him get...
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[04:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopp [2833] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:23] <exec> 08└─Archive.org has John's article here: https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[04:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:25] <exec> 08└─Came here to say the same thing, the link on medium.com to the India edition of PC Magazine is broken, but the Wayback Machine has a copy: https://web.archive.org [archive.org] While I haven't read Dvorak in years, I us...
[04:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:27] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about wireless protocols? And now Dvorak is thrown under the bus for the same thing, Curious, do not you think? Of course, much worse to be a journalist critical of the House of Saud, or the Trump of Putin. But still. It is only my ignorance of communication standards that makes me...
[04:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:39] <exec> 08└─Could be worse. If tensions escalate, they might deploy bear cavalry to space to fight the US Space Force!
[04:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:41] <exec> 08└─The greatest thing about rockets, is when things go wrong, they are described as "ballistic" and "explosive."
[04:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:43] <exec> 08└─Too early for that. Someone could have maliciously over-tightened a bolt or maliciously loosened a control wire. Or maliciously spilled vodka.
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[04:44:21] <exec> 08└─thing is that yet one more article promotes butthurtness and provokes unrest and unease in some way... i see a conspiracy here... /zug
[04:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Novel Vaccine for Lassa Fever and Rabies - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:37] <exec> 08└─I can't understand why...
[04:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:18] <exec> 08└─Russia?
[04:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Speaks Out Against Australian Anti-Encryption Law; Police Advised Not to Trigger Face ID - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:03] <exec> 08└─Some phones support NFC. You can use NFC to trigger tasks: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] https://www.androidauthority.com [androidauthority.com] The real problem is Google - they seem to be reducing what you can...
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[04:46:04] <exec> 08└─they need some sort of action from you
[04:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fifth-Century Child's Skeleton Shows Evidence of "Vampire Burial" - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:21] <exec> 08└─Pretty much every culture on Earth has some version of a vampire (or proto-vampire) myth. Chinese folklore has the k'uei, which are reanimated corpses that rise from the grave to prey on the living; one type has sharp fangs, the better to bite into the neck of said prey. Russian, Albanian, Indian, a...
[04:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:31] <exec> 08└─Then what do you call this? https://townhall.com [townhall.com]
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[05:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:09] <exec> 08└─Here we go. TFA says it's better to receive an ownership stake. Explain to me exactly what is different between providing someone income (which they can buy shares with) and shares (which they can sell for income)? The article also seems to imply that people will be forced to buy that dirty money ha...
[05:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:11] <exec> 08└─UBI really just turns us from stakeholders or even citizens to mere consumers.
[05:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:37] <exec> 08└─I prefer "safely landed".
[05:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:17] <exec> 08└─I worked for 15 years with two older gentlemen, named Doug and Dave. As I'm horrible with names in general, I try to consciously tie people's names to their appearance. However, Doug and Dave both looked quite alike. So for 15 years, I couldn't remember which one was which. This was resolved when Do...
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[05:44:18] <exec> 08└─Here's a weird one for you, back when I had to put up with undergrads on a daily basis normally I couldn't tell you the names of most of them, the exceptions being the Tamil and Thai students. I assumed that the relative 'complexity' of their names tripped one of those perverse mental 'interesting b...
[05:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Novel Vaccine for Lassa Fever and Rabies - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:34] <exec> 08└─It's not the poor guy, living out in the bush, or a ghetto, that I fail to understand. He cannot spend money that he does not have. It's his government, and the governments of the world, that I fail to understand. Those people who are responsible for the health and welfare of the people of the their...
[05:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:22] <exec> 08└─Because the Dems don't want to decentralize power. If they could, they would revoke the 10th Amendment and leave the states with nothing more than the ability to organize trash pickup, and that only while supervised.
[05:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:23] <exec> 08└─A few of those cases should be wending their way through the courts by now. If it's not against the law to indulge, then what business is it of the boss? The test is illegal, in and of itself, unless a judge issues a warrant. No one has the right to pry into my private life, or to force or coerce me...
[05:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:25] <exec> 08└─From memory, he inhaled some. The drug he was actually trying to create was to help with labour contractions (he was synthesising compounds similar to the active component in a native American plant used for that purpose), so he wasn't treating the chemical as potentially dangerous and so wasn't 'su...
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[05:47:31] <exec> 08└─Wait - give that last one a couple more second's thought. If the sea level rose by 10 meters - isn't that a "global flood"? As has been pointed out somewhere above, civilizations have always congregated along the coasts. Our own does. All of our largest cities sit on a coast - even Chicago sits on a...
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[05:50:09] <exec> 08└─There's a shop in town that specializes in refurbishing old (i.e.: repairable) appliances. Given the 8 year life expectancy of current appliances I'm expecting to be paying them a visit sometime in the next couple of years. When we bought our new LG washer and dryer we had a problem with the dryer a...
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[05:50:32] <exec> 08└─Up here on the west coast of Canada, tropical rain is a regular occurrence in winter, called the pineapple express, usually straight from Hawaii, nice warm rain. Get hit by the odd tropical cyclone too, though they're usually pretty spent by the time they get here. There was also hurricane Frieda ba...
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[06:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:23] <exec> 08└─Wow, a progressive actually understands that UBI is a stupid idea. Of course, he then comes up with a different giveaway that's even dumber. What assets, exactly, does he want to give away, and how are these different from the money they can be exchanged for? Oh...
[06:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:24] <exec> 08└─The logic here has more twists and turns than the Paso de los Caracoles. Couldn't come up with a car analogy, so a road analogy will have to do....
[06:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:27] <exec> 08└─UBI will necessarily reduce economic competitiveness of the country. There goes all our might, power, influence, prosperity, etc. We don't exist in a vacuum. Other countries exist. UBI makes border control a much bigger monster than it is. Every sort of "easy life" feature attracts low-achieving use...
[06:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:29] <exec> 08└─The following sentence is telling: Why bother signing up for the revolution if our bellies are full?
[06:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:31] <exec> 08└─UBI for a country can not be done in isolation, and that is a death blow to the idea
[06:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:43] <exec> 08└─The only thing surprising here is that he had the balls to write such an article in the first place. This really does go to show how much power the cell phone companies have. The archived article does sound a bit like unsubstantiated fear mongering. It reads like "G5 is going to fry your brain", but...
[06:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:38] <exec> 08└─I once worked with a person for 1.5 years before I learned that person's name (in a rather embarrassing and obvious manner right in front of that person). I liked the person as a work acquaintance
[06:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:39] <exec> 08└─I thought he was screwing the extroverted person over by "forgetting" to tell him some of the details.
[06:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:21] <exec> 08└─Non-American here, but it seems odd that a federal branch can interpret the law in such a significant fashion... isn't that the sole domain of the judicial branch?
[06:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:22] <exec> 08└─I quite admire the US constitution, and I think you are misreading it. ... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; ... To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, b...
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[06:47:52] <exec> 08└─Why would a bot think atheism is illogical? A bot knows who it's creators are and that they are not divine.
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[06:50:32] <exec> 08└─You can't reasonably expect a company to provide warranty to a product that has effectively been destroyed by a botched repair.
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[07:43:34] <exec> 08└─Except that it is actually being used successfully in other countries right now (northern Europe).
[07:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:36] <exec> 08└─UBI isn't a stupid idea. As productivity and automation continue to improve the only viable alternative to the UBI is mandatory busywork. There's only so much you can do with cutting back on the number of hours that people are allowed to work in a given month and not everybody will be suited for the...
[07:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:38] <exec> 08└─It is always wise to think twice. The article has many harsh words in all directions and seems to be valid on the surface but also ignores lots of factors, influences and ways things work. The article should be put through the Baloney Detection Kit before taking any word at face value. Please go and...
[07:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:40] <exec> 08└─*pacifying
[07:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:42] <exec> 08└─Give the newly printed money to the poor. The inflation will act as tax, doesn't even matter if the trillions are hidden away.
[07:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:44] <exec> 08└─There goes all our might, power, influence, prosperity, etc.
[07:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:47] <exec> 08└─No, income is nothing but a booby prize.
[07:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:49] <exec> 08└─I don't know... When I see my cat living its life blissfully unaware of how the food gets in its bowl with perfect regularity, how the electronic catflap keeps on working, and why it has a warn bed to cuddle onto every night, I find the thought of letting myself be turned into a pet by the state str...
[07:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:51] <exec> 08└─... UBI will free us all up to pursue our creative interests. I think he must have a trust fund or something because he does alright despite never having had a job in the sixteen years I've known him. However lots of people if they had UBI would never get out of bed. They'd just put a palette load o...
[07:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:53] <exec> 08└─The thing is, it's already the case: most people, even at the bottom rung of society, dream of a revolution but will never actually do it, because the state provides just enough handouts to make them think again. That's what social security is for: it's not meant to help the poor, it's meant to prev...
[07:44:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hopp [2833] 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:03] <exec> 08└─Archive.org has John's article here: https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[07:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:08] <exec> 08└─CNN has been reported by many different sources to have 90-92% of their coverage of Trump has negative, the president likes to call them Fake News. Fox News has been reported as having 52-60% of its coverage as negative and he says they are doing a pretty good job. So half of the time Fox covers him...
[07:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:10] <exec> 08└─So the suck-up Auzzie Nazi, Rupert "sheep-dip" Murdock, only covers Trump negatively 52-60% of the time, in spite of strict orders from the top for 100% positive? And you think this shires against the 90-92% by actual journalism? Sulla, you are not even fooling yourself anymore. Fox is a Russian Agi...
[07:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:12] <exec> 08└─Can't wait until the next (real) American President starts pounding the table in the UN, with his shoe, and declares "We will bury you with health care for everyone!"
[07:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:26] <exec> 08└─The article did specifically bring up collusion (Russians have a history of swapping u's for i's in government documents). I dont know how the various stages can collude, but that doesnt mean Drumph isnt btfo must impeach
[07:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:10] <exec> 08└─It could be that, I've personally got serious issues with recognizing people, but it's not really face blindness, it's that I can't visualize, which means that if I don't see the person in a place that I expect them to be and they look different in any way, then I'm likely not going to recognize the...
[07:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:55] <exec> 08└─The left has really been digging its own grave over the states rights issue. I was having a conversation with my uncle yesterday about Trump repealing a bunch of enviro laws and told him that we should just repass those laws at the state level and empowet the states to excercise their power. He was...
[07:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clues That Suggest People are Lying May be Deceptive, Study Shows - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:03] <exec> 08└─Most people have an aversion to lying even if they are "free to lie at will". It's a learned reaction, but it's embedded in the lower brain, so not something you can consciously override, unless you're a sociopath or weren't brought up properly.
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[08:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:10] <exec> 08└─UBI really just turns us from stakeholders or even citizens to mere consumers
[08:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:12] <exec> 08└─The author is a revolting person.
[08:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:14] <exec> 08└─The difference is your pets don't get to vote and their reproductive rights can be regulated/removed by you. As long as you can in theory vote the government out, stand for election etc you are not a pet. That said, if the economy isn't good enough, reproductive rights might eventually need to be re...
[08:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 2345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:16] <exec> 08└─While modded troll, I am going to assume you weren't actually trolling. So, yes, pets seem to have a very comfortable life, with all the core things provided. However in return for that, pets lose their freedom. While cats in particular seem to have an air of being the master and you the servant, th...
[08:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:18] <exec> 08└─The only Northern European country I know that attempted UBI was Finland, and that was a failure. And even then, it wasn't "proper" UBI, which was supposed to go to everyone, but went just to the unemployed (making it basically just another form of low-income support/unemployment benefit, with a tre...
[08:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:20] <exec> 08└─Long ago many of the Greek citizens had slaves working for them so they could come up with bullshit, epic level bullshit or actually insightful/useful stuff that people remember and use many centuries later, while not having to toil their own fields. So if automated factories, mines and robots take...
[08:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:23] <exec> 08└─That made me think, would it be better if the masses were living a comfortable, complacent life, or if they were miserable and thus overthrew the ruling class? History has shown that overthrowing the ruling class doesn't create utopia, just a period of instability that gets filled with a new ruling...
[08:44:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 1054 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:34] <exec> 08└─The only thing surprising here is that he had the balls to write such an article in the first place. This really does go to show how much power the cell phone companies have. The archived article does sound a bit like unsubstantiated fear mongering. It reads like "G5 is going to fry your brain", but...
[08:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 2228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:40] <exec> 08└─No... scaremongering got him fired, most likely: For instance, in the UK the 5G spectrum auction has already had at least one round ("5G Spectrum Auction Results Summary (5th April, 2018)") The categories were: 2.3Ghz Spectrum Won and 3.4GHz Spectrum Won Yet his article starts with: "If you read the...
[08:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:38] <exec> 08└─The only people I've met who seem to have a supernatural ability to remember names, are sales types. I hate sales types especially when they say my name every third sentence -- it feels manipulative.
[08:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fifth-Century Child's Skeleton Shows Evidence of "Vampire Burial" - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:54] <exec> 08└─All that Venture (Vampire?) Capitalist (Succubus?) Peter Thiel needs is a stone in the mouth, instead of the body parts of eager young men? Who would have thought! That should keep him from rising again. But, oh, he is getting the elixir of live via transfusion, not by the alimentary canal. So it wi...
[08:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:05] <exec> 08└─One does not simply "strawman" Brietbart! Brietbart was created as an alt-right propaganda outlet, no one needs to accuse it of being such, this is established fact. some of its content has been called misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist by liberals" just read like badge of honor to me.
[08:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:07] <exec> 08└─The user making the request.
[08:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:09] <exec> 08└─I have a modest proposal, how about actually reading the leaked document and commenting on that? For example, let me cite some stuff from the document that no one has read yet. "What's driving this furore around free speech and censorship online?" "According to Freedom House, only a quarter of the w...
[08:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 0645 Out of 50 Electronics Companies Illegally Void Warranties After Independent Repair, Sting Reveals - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:41] <exec> 08└─The problem is that there's no cost to the consumer for claiming that they didn't break it. The manufacturer eats the entire cost. Cars are expensive, smartphones are cheap: less profit that a manufacturer can lose to false claims. It's much easier to accidentally break microelectronics than a car....
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[08:51:42] <exec> 08└─> Lots of equipment will rapidly fail if it is so much as a micron out of specifications Very few things require that level of precision. Even microelectronics don't require that level of precision (although modern semiconductor fabrication might). However, electronics definitely requires more preci...
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[09:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 1834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:32] <exec> 08└─"Explain to me exactly what is different between providing someone income (which they can buy shares with) and shares (which they can sell for income)?" Here we go, indeed. Your comment completely misses the point. a) providing someone just enough income to eat and shelter means they won't have mone...
[09:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:34] <exec> 08└─It's bad because merely being fed and entertained isn't enough. Merely existing isn't enough. People need purpose in life and pride in themselves and their achievements. People don't like being utterly dependent upon others, and denied the ability to achieve, it's psychologically devastating. There'...
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[09:44:36] <exec> 08└─The perfect designation for career welfare recipients. However, as with abandoned pets, the alternatives are either inhumane, or a danger to the public.
[09:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:38] <exec> 08└─I hope you aren't serious. Have you not seen the numbers of barely literate unemployables migrating for the benefits even in the absence of UBI, and the results of several decades of unfettered migration? It's an economic and demographic disaster, and it will only become worse with time.
[09:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:40] <exec> 08└─Allow me to rephrase what I see in your post: With automation taking over, you don't know how people will be employed in the future. Because you can't see any source of income other than traditional jobs, you believe that there can be no other sources of income than jobs or welfare. Since there are...
[09:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:42] <exec> 08└─Pretty much what I recalled as well.
[09:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:45] <exec> 08└─The difference is your pets don't get to vote and their reproductive rights can be regulated/removed by you.
[09:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:47] <exec> 08└─People need purpose in life and pride in themselves and their achievements.
[09:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:49] <exec> 08└─Pretty much everyone has the capacity to create. Most of us are not "dumb criminals". Work is a creative outlet for most of us. In its absence, many would be denied to opportunity to make any difference to the world. We already see the destructive effects for people trapped on welfare dependency, an...
[09:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:51] <exec> 08└─Explain to me exactly what is different between providing someone income (which they can buy shares with) and shares (which they can sell for income)?
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:53] <exec> 08└─It is an interesting way to look at it. One problem is that USA doesn't have the level of poverty that is seen in many third world countries. Really, if you are qualifying for food stamps you are better off than millions of people already. The other problem is that poorer people don't revolt, they s...
[09:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:55] <exec> 08└─people aren't going to voluntarily starve to death.
[09:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:58] <exec> 08└─It's bad because merely being fed and entertained isn't enough. Merely existing isn't enough. People need purpose in life and pride in themselves and their achievements. People don't like being utterly dependent upon others, and denied the ability to achieve, it's psychologically devastating. There'...
[09:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:00] <exec> 08└─My dream job, especially now since marijuana has been legalized in my state.
[09:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:02] <exec> 08└─However lots of people if they had UBI would never get out of bed. They'd just put a palette load of Cheetohs next to their beds then hook up their TV to their alarm clock.
[09:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:20] <exec> 08└─PC Mag has John's article here [pcmag.com]. Note that that's not an archive of PC Mag India, that's PC Mag USA, live right now. Looks more like a linking error than anything malicious.
[09:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:22] <exec> 08└─I'm still somewhat unsure about the long-term effects of microwave radiation. There are lots of people who will tell you that it's perfectly safe because it's such low power. And for the most part I'm sure they are correct. However, interesting science is always in the edge cases. What about constru...
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[09:45:39] <exec> 08└─Or maliciously drilled a hole into it [fortune.com].
[09:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:41] <exec> 08└─The greatest thing about rockets, is when things go wrong, they are described as "ballistic" and "explosive."
[09:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:43] <exec> 08└─AFAIK the Soyuz OGB SAS was not used. The timeline of a normal Soyuz launch is here: RussianSpaceWEb.com: How Soyuz rides into orbit [russianspaceweb.com] Milestone................................Elapsed time Liftoff..................................0.00 (Note, this is liftoff, NOT engine start) Eme...
[09:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06INRS Develops a 10 Trillion FPS "Camera" - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:56] <exec> 08└─It was mostly Greek to me. Something about translating from the temporal to the spatial domain using shearing. It sounds like this is basically one photo, with some kind of optics setup that causes light arriving later to arrive at a different area of the sensor. So the image contains data from mult...
[09:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agreeable People Who Place Less Value on Money at a Financial Disadvantage, Study Says - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:51] <exec> 08└─In a way, yes. But bonds have a much lower risk and that is reflected in their lower yield. The loan has greater risk and pays accordingly.
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[10:43:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 2345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:34] <exec> 08└─While modded troll, I am going to assume you weren't actually trolling. So, yes, pets seem to have a very comfortable life, with all the core things provided. However in return for that, pets lose their freedom. While cats in particular seem to have an air of being the master and you the servant, th...
[10:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:54] <exec> 08└─What else do people want other than comfortable life?
[10:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:55] <exec> 08└─Your cat is your slave. It is your property, you own it.
[10:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:57] <exec> 08└─This is why Saudi Arabia wasn't revolting before they found oil, and aren't revolting after they found oil.
[10:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:00] <exec> 08└─The difference is your pets don't get to vote and their reproductive rights can be regulated/removed by you.
[10:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:02] <exec> 08└─This would explain the high rate of alcoholism among all the retired people around me and in the soviet union.
[10:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:04] <exec> 08└─Repeat it enough and it becomes true.
[10:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:06] <exec> 08└─Your cat is your slave. It is your property, you own it.
[10:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:08] <exec> 08└─Pretty much everyone has the capacity to create.
[10:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:11] <exec> 08└─Some people, only some people. Many go through life (if they are lucky) just content of getting through life. The Americans call it "pursuit of happiness", it's the basis of their dream. There's a reason why a lack of purpose is a prime cause of drug addiction and suicide due to a sense of worthless...
[10:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:13] <exec> 08└─Isn't that backwards?
[10:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the article can be boiled down to a complaint that "UBI bad, because it removes moral hazard!" and a typical logically upsidedown assertion that giving more money to the poor will only end up making the rich richer. What makes the rich richer is tilting the playing field to favor them, and...
[10:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:17] <exec> 08└─As for people getting bored, and doing "something of value" - maybe you can cite statistics - significant statistics - or proles or welfare recipients doing things of value. The entire 60's music movement in the UK (British invasion, Beatles, etc, in the USA) was the result of the teens being on the...
[10:44:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 2228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:32] <exec> 08└─No... scaremongering got him fired, most likely: For instance, in the UK the 5G spectrum auction has already had at least one round ("5G Spectrum Auction Results Summary (5th April, 2018)") The categories were: 2.3Ghz Spectrum Won and 3.4GHz Spectrum Won Yet his article starts with: "If you read the...
[10:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:36] <exec> 08└─Usually, it is other people who don't like my breath, because it smells bad.
[10:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:39] <exec> 08└─What he said. Also, university (particularly the first year thereof) is the classic example of superficial over-socializing. To the researchers :- Do the study again, somewhere other than a university, and then come back to us.
[10:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:41] <exec> 08└─The only people I've met who seem to have a supernatural ability to remember names, are sales types. I hate sales types especially when they say my name every third sentence -- it feels manipulative.
[10:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:08] <exec> 08└─Free speech requires that people you dislike also get to speak. If you disagree with that, even in the slightest, then you do not believe in free speech.
[10:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:09] <exec> 08└─Er, I think what really happened is that Forbes doesn't want people pissing all over its property like it's a public urinal. Nasty private corporation Forbes may be, but that is their right - just like it's Breitbart's right to publish whatever they feel they want to publish in their own paid-for sp...
[10:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:11] <exec> 08└─Well, I suppose even a stopped clock is right a couple times a day. They're right for the wrong reasons
[10:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:13] <exec> 08└─Replace 'Breitbart' with 'Stormfront' and there'd be no argument, would there.
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[11:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:24] <exec> 08└─"feeds...allow users to consume web content...without triggering the dozens or even hundreds of analytics scripts lurking on web pages" Also, without seeing ads, or auto-playing videos, or any other crap. These are the real reasons that RSS is dying. I still have maybe half-a-dozen websites I read v...
[11:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:26] <exec> 08└─I never used RSS. Most things I don't want to automatically update. Not websites, not news feeds, not email, and definitely not OSes. It's one of my least favorite uses of JavaScript, the script that never stops running, as too well demonstrated by the green site. I also do not like text being pushe...
[11:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:28] <exec> 08└─There's also the fact that RSS was, generally speaking, built a really dumb way. Typically, you got however many articles were placed in the feed by the website. They put 20 in and you've already seen 18 of them? Too bad, you still get all 20. Haven't checked that feed in a while, missed 100 article...
[11:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:38] <exec> 08└─Does making demonstrably false claims like that attach liability for a publicly traded company? "The company's official position on content moderation remains political neutrality" - that's been shown to lean left with search/recommended results as well as bans/de-monitization you youtube. (i.e. Goo...
[11:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:49] <exec> 08└─Think of it: The government prints more money or perhaps — god forbid — it taxes some corporate profits, then it showers the cash down on the people so they can continue to spend. As a result, more and more capital accumulates at the top.
[11:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:51] <exec> 08└─Exceptions don't prove the the end result which has been multi-generational welfare dependency on sink estates throughout the country. A guitar would cost a weeks wage, how did people on the dole afford that? And most of the electronics skills you mention were picked up during the war and passed on...
[11:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:53] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter either way. No UBI or "shares" until the borders are secure. Feeding and clothing the entire world's poor isn't something the productive people of our economy can do. Too much dead weight.
[11:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:55] <exec> 08└─What else do people want other than comfortable life?
[11:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:57] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, are you arguing that it isn't causing an uncontrolled migrant problem in Europe? Because it is. It's exactly the reason why a UBI _REQUIRES_ secure borders. A basic lifestyle in Europe or the USA is living like a king in most of the rest of the world.
[11:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:59] <exec> 08└─"run out"? They weren't doing anything the robots weren't already taking care of so.... I don't think "running out" of them would be a danger. Obviously, writing this from the ruling class's perspective. I don't think they honestly fear losing population, and in fact spend significant time trying to...
[11:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:01] <exec> 08└─The Fed prints money, not the government. And they are already doing so. They just give the money to banks, instead of directly to Joe Sixpack.
[11:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:04] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, are you arguing that it isn't causing an uncontrolled migrant problem in Europe? Because it is. It's exactly the reason why a UBI _REQUIRES_ secure borders. A basic lifestyle in Europe or the USA is living like a king in most of the rest of the world.
[11:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:23] <exec> 08└─Is this ... an illiterate American racist thing?
[11:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agreeable People Who Place Less Value on Money at a Financial Disadvantage, Study Says - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:49] <exec> 08└─What I do hate is seeing it pissed away on fatuous academic research such as this.
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[12:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:25] <exec> 08└─what if pale moon and waterfox and especially seamonkey keep the code as its maintenance is not as arduous, as the mozilla foundation, receiver of million dollars, depicts? there ought to be some rss reader implemented in javascript and local storage already, if there isn't one is a good project to...
[12:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:26] <exec> 08└─What's really needed is an RSS 2.0 spec. First off, ditch the XML, it's not needed, JSON can do the job and can it in literally half the number of bytes. Secondly, there needs to be a "days of" mechanism, allowing you to fetch the feed for a group of days, even if that's 1 day at a time. Example if...
[12:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:29] <exec> 08└─IMHO, this is a feature that doesn't belong locally in the browser anyway. I use multiple devices on a regular basis, and would be annoyed if I got to see every news item from every feed on all of them, if I already checked them elsewhere. That's why I use my own TinyRSS instance on my own webserver...
[12:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 1770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:31] <exec> 08└─... ruining Firefox one release at a time. All I can say is, I still make use of RSS feeds, I love the fact I have a relatively clean way of getting data from a website that doesn't involve writing a scraper to do it for me (which gets quite tricky with modern JS based websites). I don't have to dea...
[12:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:33] <exec> 08└─I used to use a web based RSS, I can't remember what it was. Anyone here use one, if so what's a good one?
[12:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:35] <exec> 08└─> change XML to JSON As far as RSS is concerned XML and JSON are the same sort of shit. Useless change with no gain.
[12:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 1993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:02] <exec> 08└─"As productivity and automation continue to improve the only viable alternative to the UBI is mandatory busywork." Nonsense. You know, there's a reason that we don't work from sun-up to sun-down on the farm anymore. It's called industrialization, and it reduced the average working hours from "all of...
[12:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:03] <exec> 08└─I don't think they honestly fear losing population, and in fact spend significant time trying to figure out how to do just that.
[12:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:05] <exec> 08└─and it reduced the average working hours from "all of them" to maybe 60-70 hours per week. Further increases in industrial productivity have now reduced this to around 40 hours per week.
[12:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:07] <exec> 08└─The wealthy don't keep their riches locked up in fiat money. They have it in real estate, precious metals, gem stones, stocks. Inflation only taxes those who are bound to fiat money.
[12:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:10] <exec> 08└─So instead of letting citizens vote, and giving them a monthly "UBI" check... You're going to give them a non-transferable share, which entitles them to vote, and to receive a monthly "dividend" check. I don't see any difference in function, only in what you choose to call it. There can be other rel...
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[12:45:49] <exec> 08└─AFAIK the Soyuz OGB SAS was not used. The timeline of a normal Soyuz launch is here: RussianSpaceWEb.com: How Soyuz rides into orbit [russianspaceweb.com] Milestone................................Elapsed time Liftoff..................................0.00 (Note, this is liftoff, NOT engine start) Eme...
[12:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure you even bothered to read the summary beyond the headline. Its not really about forgetting casual acquaintances names, its more about forgetting about them in daily life.... But there were also broken commitments ("My friend was supposed to meet me at the library today"), dramatic exclu...
[12:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop Novel Vaccine for Lassa Fever and Rabies - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe if those poor communities didn't have rabies to worry about, then they wouldn't be quite so poor. Illnesses like rabies aren't just bad for the person who catches it and their families, they impact the entire local economy. Eradicate rabies, and you make it a little easier for poor people to e...
[12:47:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:13] <exec> 08└─Abolish the DEA
[12:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 788 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:21] <exec> 08└─"new tax money," My state made $319 million last year in new tax money, Cannabis Retailers are nearly as ubiquitous as espresso stands, and those are damn near on every corner. (I pass 11 espresso stands and 8 weed stores in a ten mile drive to work.) They won't give that up easily or willingly. Plu...
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[12:47:55] <exec> 08└─his lab is now preparing to take on two new goals. "One is to restore color vision to people that are colorblind," he says. What his lab is learning, he says, could help speed an existing effort to use gene therapy to cure colorblindness.
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[13:43:18] <exec> 08└─I read somewhere the battery in the surface is glued in. Non replaceable battery is a deal breaker for me.
[13:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:19] <exec> 08└─The quest for thinner and lighter may not be your friend. A dab of glue is cheaper and lighter than a couple of screws, just don't expect the cost reduction to be reflected in the price of the product because .... profit. Oh, don't buy anything from Apple for this very reason, but you know that alre...
[13:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:22] <exec> 08└─What, exactly, is wrong with a "flat market"? I can understand that a flat market isn't going to make huge, dramatic profits from one quarter to the next. But - it's still a market. It's worth investing in, because it isn't going away. "Flat" is almost synonymous with "stable". No one sensible inves...
[13:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:24] <exec> 08└─Because Marketers would be out of a job if they can't show constant growth.
[13:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:40] <exec> 08└─Tiny Tiny RSS - install on your linux server and access from a web browser - best thing out there. https://tt-rss.org [tt-rss.org] I use it to browse about 200 different sites with RSS every day. I couldn't function without RSS.
[13:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:41] <exec> 08└─There sure has been an intense push to sell "RSS is dead" but I've had roughly the same 100 to 200 feeds since before Google Reader, and now I use Newsblur (and pay the premium, because its a good project). The numbers aren't dropping. Maybe its categorical and its dying in the My Little Pony subcul...
[13:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:43] <exec> 08└─Hey I still use rss feeds even from Soylent. Do you know anybody willing to go through the RFC hoops and can program a wordpress plugin. Maybe start a tip jar? Do you have an idea for a budget?
[13:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:46] <exec> 08└─I literally came here from inoreader.com, which is how I read news from lots of sites, including this one. Has a web client and an android app.
[13:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:56] <exec> 08└─"Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was. I'm still pissed about the bait and switch they pulled by telling me I'd be working on Chrome, then putting me on this god forsaken piece of shit on day one." Morgan Knutson of Google. twi...
[13:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Yesterday's Agriculture Feeds Today's Water Pollution - 1298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:04] <exec> 08└─My parents put a pond on their farm in Ontario in the 1960s before I was born. As a kid, we swam in the pond every summer. By the 1990s the pond was becoming covered with algae and the water was no longer clear due to agricultural runoff. We bought a farm a few years ago. It has a pond on it that we...
[13:44:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:21] <exec> 08└─The following sentence is telling: Why bother signing up for the revolution if our bellies are full?
[13:44:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 772 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:24] <exec> 08└─UBI isn't a stupid idea. As productivity and automation continue to improve the only viable alternative to the UBI is mandatory busywork. There's only so much you can do with cutting back on the number of hours that people are allowed to work in a given month and not everybody will be suited for the...
[13:44:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:29] <exec> 08└─There goes all our might, power, influence, prosperity, etc.
[13:44:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know... When I see my cat living its life blissfully unaware of how the food gets in its bowl with perfect regularity, how the electronic catflap keeps on working, and why it has a warn bed to cuddle onto every night, I find the thought of letting myself be turned into a pet by the state str...
[13:44:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 453 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:53] <exec> 08└─It's bad because merely being fed and entertained isn't enough. Merely existing isn't enough. People need purpose in life and pride in themselves and their achievements. People don't like being utterly dependent upon others, and denied the ability to achieve, it's psychologically devastating. There'...
[13:45:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 861 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:07] <exec> 08└─As for people getting bored, and doing "something of value" - maybe you can cite statistics - significant statistics - or proles or welfare recipients doing things of value. The entire 60's music movement in the UK (British invasion, Beatles, etc, in the USA) was the result of the teens being on the...
[13:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:22] <exec> 08└─They weren't doing anything the robots weren't already taking care of so....
[13:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:23] <exec> 08└─Many things. Agency. Purpose. Pride and a sense of place and belonging in society at large. Friendship. A future for you and your family. Comfort isn't the be all and end all of life; once you've got a bare minimum of needs met, like a roof over your head, other factors are more important.
[13:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 1697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:25] <exec> 08└─"Most of the populace hides it quite perfectly." I find your attitude regarding your fellow human beings revolting. Given the opportunity, most of us have the aptitude to make something of ourselves. All of us can contribute something to society at large, no matter how small or insignificant. You do...
[13:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 1757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:28] <exec> 08└─> And how would UBI make humans unwilling to create purpose in their lives? How many hours a week does a guy like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos work? They have the means to never work another moment again. Forever. > Why do they do it? Because they create purpose and drive themselves forward. Most of us d...
[13:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:30] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it can benefit some individuals. However, I don't think you can generalise the success of a few to something which is of benefit to the whole of society. They are exceptions.
[13:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:32] <exec> 08└─That's interesting - without a welfare system, we wouldn't have had the Beatles. But, that doesn't say much for statistics. Millions on welfare, or the dole, and we have the Beatles to show for it? I'm going to be cooperative. Let's say that the vast majority of artists have either arisen from the w...
[13:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:34] <exec> 08└─Only at the most superficial level. It is your property, and you are responsible for it in every meaningful way.
[13:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:36] <exec> 08└─> And if you think at the amount of people that worth mentioning on a larger scale than their family/friends circle or be remembered longer than their life time, you realize that more than 99.9% of all of us that will achieve exactly that: go though an unremarkable life, different from any other onl...
[13:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:38] <exec> 08└─Anyone not raising prices enough would be stupid.
[13:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:41] <exec> 08└─Maslov's pyramid says that food and shelter, and safety are more important, though.
[13:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:43] <exec> 08└─"I ain't comfortable enough if I can't make your life miserable" or "I ain't rich enough if you aren't deep into poverty", which of the two you reckon?
[13:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:45] <exec> 08└─b) providing somone shares, doesn't imply they can be 'sold' per se. Giving them shares which can be sold would in fact be counter productive, because everyone at the bottom rung could (would) be forced out of their holdings the minute they had a bad month, leaving them with nothing. And they'd be a...
[13:46:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 1017 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:05] <exec> 08└─I'm still somewhat unsure about the long-term effects of microwave radiation. There are lots of people who will tell you that it's perfectly safe because it's such low power. And for the most part I'm sure they are correct. However, interesting science is always in the edge cases. What about constru...
[13:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:08] <exec> 08└─The only way America can defeat the post-Soviet Russia
[13:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:10] <exec> 08└─He is 66, and could interpret the whole thing as a "F you I retire" type of tantrum. I've read the guy and seen the guy on shows more than I want; always kinda brings the heat without much backup; sizzle not steak. For a guy who's been in the biz for as long as I have, he has to portray himself as n...
[13:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:13] <exec> 08└─What about constructive interference patterns, long-term cell damage and indirect effects?
[13:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:15] <exec> 08└─that was critical of the forthcoming 5G system
[13:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fifth-Century Child's Skeleton Shows Evidence of "Vampire Burial" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:38] <exec> 08└─Double, double toil and trouble
[13:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fifth-Century Child's Skeleton Shows Evidence of "Vampire Burial" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:39] <exec> 08└─...only atheism is downright illogical because it negates its own religious nature.
[13:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 0645 Out of 50 Electronics Companies Illegally Void Warranties After Independent Repair, Sting Reveals - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:39] <exec> 08└─Cars are more robust than smartphones. Leaving your car under the sun is fine; leaving a phone in the sun will very likely cause the battery to explode, and good luck proving it wasn't due to a manufacturing defect. Even the small nudge during repair could cause a short in a battery cell leading to...
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[14:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:26] <exec> 08└─Most stock markets require X% growth per year or they consider the business failed, even if it is making money. Of course, with the market saturation of PCs; they only way they can do it is by building in planned obsolescence or intentionally shoddy hardware.
[14:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:28] <exec> 08└─From the surface pro link: The black looks fantastic, but it's almost....
[14:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:57] <exec> 08└─No such thing!
[14:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Yesterday's Agriculture Feeds Today's Water Pollution - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:05] <exec> 08└─Click the article and found this summary "Water quality is threatened by a long history of fertilizer use on land, Montreal scientists find in new study." Which is really old news
[14:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:35] <exec> 08└─See, the mind is the second thing to go
[14:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:36] <exec> 08└─For every pet happy in a home and well taken cared for, there are probably 100 that end up killed because nobody wants them, and many more treated poorly or abused.
[14:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:38] <exec> 08└─I have owned cats before (mostly manx). If your pet owns you, you are a weak person which is believable.
[14:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:41] <exec> 08└─As productivity and automation continue to improve the only viable alternative to the UBI is mandatory busywork.
[14:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:43] <exec> 08└─You seem to be missing the point of UBI: a basic income that provides the freedom/opportunity to choose how to spend your time. Think of the alternative options: the “welfare trap” you spoke of was because welfare is means tested and if you get a job to improve your situation, you start losing a...
[14:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:45] <exec> 08└─Many industries have developed out of hobbies - PC's, most things electronic, aeroplanes, rockets, drones, SCUBA. travel, GNU, linux.
[14:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:47] <exec> 08└─you are responsible for it in every meaningful way.
[14:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:49] <exec> 08└─That's missing the point though...What's important is that you felt *within yourself* that your life has meaning and purpose.
[14:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:52] <exec> 08└─Be top dog.
[14:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:54] <exec> 08└─Citizens are not allowed to create assets without incurring debt to the federal reserve and it's banks
[14:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:56] <exec> 08└─I find your attitude regarding your fellow human beings revolting.
[14:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:58] <exec> 08└─Psychologists have shown these to be the most destructive traits to the self. Philosophers and religions generally look down on these.
[14:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:00] <exec> 08└─Given the opportunity, most of us have the aptitude to make something of ourselves. All of us can contribute something to society at large, no matter how small or insignificant.
[14:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:02] <exec> 08└─Think of the alternative options: the “welfare trap” you spoke of was because welfare is means tested and if you get a job to improve your situation, you start losing all the support - food, housing, income, that has been helping you to get by. With UBI you keep it when you take on additional wo...
[14:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:05] <exec> 08└─I never understood how UBI doesnt' lead to runaway inflation. If everyone has more money, the price of everything will go up, or at least for the goods and services that people on UBI use.
[14:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:07] <exec> 08└─Riot Index [ssrn.com]
[14:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, "top dog" wannabes unfortunately exist in non-neglijible amounts.
[14:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:11] <exec> 08└─What about those of us who prefer Toyotas over Fiats?
[14:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:13] <exec> 08└─so you think the purpose and justification of life is work for the ruling class which decides who's worthy?
[14:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:39] <exec> 08└─Just you wait until the exciting new marketing campaign for the fantastic new 6G!!!
[14:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:40] <exec> 08└─How about this marketing campaign: With 5G, you can reach your arbitrarily imposed bandwidth cap 5x faster!
[14:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─I've read some articles correlating the spread of cell towers with insect population decline.
[14:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:01] <exec> 08└─Now if only NASA or the NTSB could conduct investigations that fast. NTSB: our conclusion is that something went wrong with the plane during flight, but we can assure everyone it has nothing to do with management interference in operations or in cutting costs.
[14:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:02] <exec> 08└─If they have to de-crew the station, can Dragon dock? If Dragon's docking procedure is to fly near and have the arm reach out, grab, and bring it in. Can that happen if there is no one on board?
[14:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:04] <exec> 08└─The greatest thing about rockets, is when things go wrong, they are described as "ballistic" and "explosive."
[14:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06INRS Develops a 10 Trillion FPS "Camera" - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:20] <exec> 08└─...because it doesn't make porn any better. Oh right, it won't make anything better except for maybe some niche research stuff. So that's cool, carry on.
[14:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:53] <exec> 08└─Why do you think we apologize in the first place? We innately know it's insulting. We can hear that annoyance in your voice when you tell us your name for the second or third time. Personally, I've just learned to speak in a way that doesn't use the person's name that often (or at all), even with pe...
[14:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:55] <exec> 08└─Obviously not an English teacher, LOL.
[14:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:57] <exec> 08└─If you are around the person enough, eventually you'll hear enough other people use the name that it will stick and the problem will resolve itself.
[14:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:42] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that argument. It hasn't held up thus far. Mind you, I'm not saying what's right or wrong in interpreting the constitution, just what is going to happen.
[14:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fifth-Century Child's Skeleton Shows Evidence of "Vampire Burial" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:14] <exec> 08└─Move inland. You won't miss the coastal cities much once they are gone. That said there is only so much ice cap to melt and it ain't enough to get Colorado wet let alone submerged.
[14:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fifth-Century Child's Skeleton Shows Evidence of "Vampire Burial" - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:15] <exec> 08└─LOL, this is prehistoric. If all the ice in the world suddenly melted, and flowed into the sea, there isn't enough to make it go up all that very far. Most of the lowlands were flooded before our oldest cultures started keeping records. That would be China, India, Egypt. Sumeria, which apparently pr...
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[15:43:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know if that's where it'll head. It'll definitely head to destroying hundreds of "suspicious" hobbyist drones, and zero actually dangerous drones.
[15:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:05] <exec> 08└─Firstly, not drones, RC aircraft. Breathless clickbait BS language like that should not be normalized. Secondly, they can shoot *people* if they are thought to be a threat, why would there need to be special authorization to shoot down an RC aircraft that was thought to be a threat? Thirdly, I thoug...
[15:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:07] <exec> 08└─FAA doesn't typically do any kind of police enforcement. For a while, Sky Marshals were FAA and did armed enforcement, but as of 1984 2001, they're part of the department of homeland security, and the FAA is an almost entirely bureaucratic organization managing flight plans, safety inspections, rada...
[15:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:09] <exec> 08└─Now that corporations are legally people, the old definition of people can be legally labeled as drones. Look at all those drones milling about...clearly a credible threat to corporations 'people'.
[15:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:11] <exec> 08└─"So we're basically talking about militarizing a civilian agency." I'm not convinced of that. What I'm seeing in the reporting might well be intended as a signal to do just that, but it also seems possible it's misdirected alarm. If there's nothing more than what's literally written, it's not much o...
[15:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:26] <exec> 08└─Awwww, don't be mean to Microsoft. They don't do it intentionally, it's just the best they can do.
[15:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:27] <exec> 08└─They're paid to say nice things about the Surface and... well.... black is the new 'shiny'? Advertising: making something out of nothing.
[15:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:49] <exec> 08└─I use ustart.org, although it's more of a replacement for iGoogle than a strict RSS reader style app.
[15:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:51] <exec> 08└─You're reading way too much into this. Mozilla just doesn't want to keep it as a core feature when there's perfectly good extensions and third party software doing much same or better: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] IMHO,...
[15:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:53] <exec> 08└─I have made better experience with Waterfox. Yes, it has a newer interface, but it supports the extensions to restore the old one. But still I care about Firefox because it's the browser I use at work.
[15:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:55] <exec> 08└─They probably will but anyone using RSS for news feeds in their browser (not for social bookmarks and such) is doing it wrong anyway. No browser has RSS functionality worth a damn compared to dedicated feed readers.
[15:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:57] <exec> 08└─We have a couple people who might be willing to write some javascript for a WP plugin. I, however, am not one of them. I suggest emailing chromas [mailto] three or four times a day until he surrenders and writes you one.
[15:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:08] <exec> 08└─They are trying to pass that phrase off as something similar to "fair and balanced" from Fox. They want you to believe that they don't have, don't want, a party affiliation. And, if you're naive or gullible, that's how you might read the phrase. Think back, over the years in history. What ideology d...
[15:44:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 359 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:47] <exec> 08└─The thing is, it's already the case: most people, even at the bottom rung of society, dream of a revolution but will never actually do it, because the state provides just enough handouts to make them think again. That's what social security is for: it's not meant to help the poor, it's meant to prev...
[15:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:08] <exec> 08└─The cat's opinion such as it stands is irrelevant. It is your property by law, and you bear legal responsibility for it, both for its actions and its welfare.
[15:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:10] <exec> 08└─That's a European concept, I think. Everyone belonged to Royalty, and your purpose was to somehow enrich the Royal Landowner. It seems that we've just adapted the concept, so that in the US, you "belong" to a corporation, so long as you enrich the corporation. My own view is, you need to give someth...
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:12] <exec> 08└─Let us be honest about work -- most of the work done by the vast majority of people merely provides income, not purpose. Flipping burgers, filing documents, raking leaves -- it's just some necessary maintenance but isn't going to provide people with a great sense of purpose like they'd get from send...
[15:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 2322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:40] <exec> 08└─His whole article makes about four points: *we don't know the long term problems *consumers are suckers to marketing *a lot of people suspect problems with it, go look *there is no real benefit All are valid points to consider "Epidermis" and "cornea" as scary medical words. Come on, as a non medic...
[15:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:02] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the arm can be controlled from the ground?
[15:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Speaks Out Against Australian Anti-Encryption Law; Police Advised Not to Trigger Face ID - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:50] <exec> 08└─They may need you to look at the device.
[15:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:46] <exec> 08└─Mostly I'm suggesting that you redefining a word so that a law means what you want it to mean is some extremely unethical bullshit.
[15:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:48] <exec> 08└─No, it's not ethical to bypass congress's constitutionally granted exclusive authority. Not ever. Not for any reason.
[15:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:41] <exec> 08└─Okay... Except that publishing whatever articles you want or not is not remotely what I was talking about or what Forbes was talking about...
[15:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:43] <exec> 08└─What if they are? There's no law against being bat-shit crazy or desiring bat-shit crazy results.
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[16:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:01] <exec> 08└─I think the request came from firefighters who had to dodge when idiots don't realize that their drone taping flames is in the way of the tanker plane or helicopter. Will it be abused? Most likely. But I won't cry when a cop shoots down those particular idiots. In most cases involving drones actuall...
[16:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:41] <exec> 08└─Yet nobody has offered an actual better version of it. The alternatives are: Getting email alerts (generates a huge pile of emails) Checking on each site individually (tedious for anything that doesn't have a fixed update schedule) Giving in and subscribing to the new school content aggregators like...
[16:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:53] <exec> 08└─Profit, first, everything else be damned. Yes, that's what "politically neutral" means. Being "politically neutral" is very profitable. Besides, most people who preach politics (and religion) really do so for profit. Behind it all is, *what's in it for me?*
[16:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:54] <exec> 08└─So "Senators Demand Answers" about some tech company (which they do not understand) and the breach (which they do not understand) of a platform (which they do not understand) so they can ... well ... ask mark Zuckerberg more softball questions? Yes, yes, Zuck has nothing to do with this, but the sen...
[16:45:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 1065 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the article can be boiled down to a complaint that "UBI bad, because it removes moral hazard!" and a typical logically upsidedown assertion that giving more money to the poor will only end up making the rich richer. What makes the rich richer is tilting the playing field to favor them, and...
[16:45:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bobs [1462] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 1108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:38] <exec> 08└─You seem to be missing the point of UBI: a basic income that provides the freedom/opportunity to choose how to spend your time. Think of the alternative options: the “welfare trap” you spoke of was because welfare is means tested and if you get a job to improve your situation, you start losing a...
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─Fox is a Russian Agit-prop front running on Compromat! You people are hilarious! But what's sad is to see it all taken so seriously.
[16:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:27] <exec> 08└─I need line-item modding. Eth and TMB are usually the specialists of the "insightful paragraph followed by grade-school flamebait" comments.
[16:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:29] <exec> 08└─> history has shown plenty of things which were considered safe in their day which were later shown to be rather dangerous You look anxious about something. I'm all out of leeches, but I can recommend some radium suppositories. We can follow them, the mercury ointment, and the lead pills dissolving...
[16:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─You win. I'll ask the secretary to shred my own posters, which were the more realistic "Almost drained you of 4G per year, now aiming for 5G"
[16:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:34] <exec> 08└─I see you are new here. Enjoy your stay.
[16:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Speaks Out Against Australian Anti-Encryption Law; Police Advised Not to Trigger Face ID - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:40] <exec> 08└─They may need you to look at the device. Or they can move it to wherever you prefer to gaze. It sure seems like... something that they can reasonably seek a warrant for.
[16:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Speaks Out Against Australian Anti-Encryption Law; Police Advised Not to Trigger Face ID - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:42] <exec> 08└─So if I close my eyes and the face ID wants them open, they're cool with that? Seems that what we need is Face ID where if you wink, it does a secure delete.
[16:49:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 917 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:51] <exec> 08└─If the FCC only has oversight of telecommunications then of course it can't apply net neutrality rules to broadband if broadband is only data. But that should also mean the FCC cannot prevent states from enacting their own laws regulating broadband. But, what about VoIP? Isn't that telecommunication...
[16:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:38] <exec> 08└─The only way to change the definition is to have Congress amend the law. Changing the definition does not mean bypassing Congress' authority.
[16:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:40] <exec> 08└─The only legal way to change the definition is to have Congress amend the law.
[16:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Leak: The Good Censor - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:33] <exec> 08└─It should not matter, especially in this case where it is a dump of a document that nobody disputes the authenticity of. How many articles per month does Soylent put up for discussion from World Worker's Party and whatever other openly Communist organization? So no, attacks against the source are st...
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[17:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:14] <exec> 08└─I know of a case, an example of many, of how offshore money keeps moving around the world. Some years ago, Mexico passed a law regulating companies with headquarters in “fiscal paradises” (i.e. countries with low or no taxation for foreign companies). Immediately, the offshore companies establis...
[17:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:16] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck thinks Trump is anything but an artifact of increasingly terrible material conditions for most people plus stupid as fuck voters who can't see who actually caused their problems? And if it were just the US, there's lots of excuses, but extremist political parties are rising everywhere....
[17:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:18] <exec> 08└─"Because the rich are awful greedy fucks who no one holds to account, us regular people are gonna end up killing each other." That's a shitty way of looking at it, and clearly untrue. Many of the rich may indeed be awful greedy fucks - but so are many of the poor. Don't fall into the fallacy of the...
[17:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:27] <exec> 08└─"Seriously, we need more competitors trying everything they can to win bids" says a joint press release of the DC lobbying association and Congress.
[17:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:41] <exec> 08└─I can envision them shooting down "harmless" drones that are filming police protests from the air. ...and I am also envisioning that in 100% of those cases, the independent "sovereign" reporters will be flying those drones above the heads of innocent unaware protestors, and that at any moment someth...
[17:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:43] <exec> 08└─On that third point, I'd be careful, the second that takes off they will decide that they are finally willing to attempt enforcing the law against shooting at aircraft. Just because they haven't enforced it to date won't stop them from deciding that they are finally willing to do so.
[17:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:58] <exec> 08└─Black is beautiful! *ducks*
[17:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:26] <exec> 08└─RSS *doesn't* update automatically. It's just the same content as the website, delivered through the same mechanisms, but in a more machine readable format. RSS is awesome precisely because it lets you ignore all of the Javascript and all of the auto-refresh and auto-movement and obnoxious styleshee...
[17:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:27] <exec> 08└─Can someone clarify exactly what is being removed here? It sounds like it's a full RSS feed reader...which I didn't even know Firefox had, so if that's all it is, I don't particularly care. Get a real feed reader. On the other hand, I *do* regularly view RSS feeds in Firefox. If you just load a feed...
[17:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:29] <exec> 08└─No browser has RSS functionality worth a damn compared to dedicated feed readers.
[17:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:44] <exec> 08└─One of my big pet peeves. In other news: Google is run by SJWs who are self-professed communists, and a special report at 11: Doublethink: How humanist Communists overlook the millions upon millions more dead caused by their ideology than fascism.
[17:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Yesterday's Agriculture Feeds Today's Water Pollution - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:55] <exec> 08└─The nice thing about eutrophic is nothing will nibble at your toes, and you could open a spa and convince people the pond is what their skin craves (the smellier, the better). The nice thing about Canadians is you're complaining that people do have a 5-year plan.
[17:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:22] <exec> 08└─there is something WROOOOONG with you
[17:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:24] <exec> 08└─I miss those days. Everything in computers now is boring, especially computers since computers are more about who you voted for for president than transistors.
[17:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:26] <exec> 08└─Leeches are actually pretty safe. And maggots are often better at safely debriding than any other current approach. But there's little profit in them, and people find them disgusting. Just because a treatment fell out of fashion, don't assume that it was ineffective or dangerous. *Sometimes* that wa...
[17:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06INRS Develops a 10 Trillion FPS "Camera" - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:07] <exec> 08└─1x1
[17:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06INRS Develops a 10 Trillion FPS "Camera" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:08] <exec> 08└─Darn millennials counting their "performance" in video frames ! (Does fitbit post your stats on tinder automatically yet?)
[17:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:46] <exec> 08└─Saying the name every third sentence is *why* they can remember your name. It's called reinforcement, and it generally is a technique artificially learned. But it's the same approach used to remember anything. Repeat, repeat, repeat. The person they're most directly trying to manipulate is themselve...
[17:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:48] <exec> 08└─Who the hell is Bill?
[17:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:50] <exec> 08└─I still remember the etiquette advice I got from an business-etiquette "expert" (not sure her credentials) early in my career as a consultant. "If you forget somebody's name, just politely ask them for a reminder. There's no need to be embarrassed. If anything, they'll be internally thanking you, be...
[17:49:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Scientists Develop Novel Vaccine for Lassa Fever and Rabies - 699 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:02] <exec> 08└─trick forcing us to RTFA in order to find out what the novel treatment is. . Out of protest for this inhumane and unfair treatment I hereby paste in the relevent bits from the article so no one else must attempt this unusual act. The inactivated recombinant vaccine candidate uses a weakened rabies v...
[17:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:52] <exec> 08└─Otherwise, same way that the first researchers of Radiation and it's effects, "inadvertently died from exposure". Research can be dangerous stuff.
[17:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:54] <exec> 08└─While true, it abstracts incorrectly. Those in power at the Federal level don't want those at the lower levels to have power. This is also true at the state level, where state laws override city laws. To some extent this is necessary for a workable civilization. But in every case it needs to be limi...
[17:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:46] <exec> 08└─How about we fix the law instead of redefining words so that the law now means what we want it to? Defining the words used by the law is an important part of the law itself. Here's all the definitions. [cornell.edu] This one sounds an awful lot like the internet to me: Telecommunications:"the transm...
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[17:52:21] <exec> 08└─That's what happens after you eat that stew they're working on.
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[18:43:05] <exec> 08└─I know of a case, an example of many, of how offshore money keeps moving around the world. Some years ago, Mexico passed a law regulating companies with headquarters in “fiscal paradises” (i.e. countries with low or no taxation for foreign companies). Immediately, the offshore companies establis...
[18:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:09] <exec> 08└─Many of the rich may indeed be awful greedy fucks - but so are many of the poor.
[18:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:11] <exec> 08└─The middle fucking sucks, and is how we got here.
[18:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:13] <exec> 08└─"Offshore' just means not here; elsewhere." Cloud banking.
[18:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:15] <exec> 08└─Looks like you fell into a trap as well. There are plenty of progressives and other more left leaning people who have a much more nuanced understanding. They know there is a trend for the very wealthy not coming about their wealth honestly. Most recognize that there are also greedy poor people, but...
[18:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:24] <exec> 08└─Level3 should sue the fuckers.
[18:43:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:32] <exec> 08└─Yup, this is where it's heading.
[18:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:43] <exec> 08└─Thirdly, I thought it was kind of neat to see that RC aircraft are now available for ridiculously low prices. They're just about cheap enough to use for targets deliberately.
[18:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:46] <exec> 08└─> I'm a second amendment guy, but I don't think it should be legal to shoot guns into the air, either. My thoughts exactly. And it is not legal to fire bullets into the air. I remember a few years ago someone being killed by a falling bullet which was fired into the air for a 4th of July, or New Yea...
[18:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:03] <exec> 08└─Feel free to throw it into the sun at the end of the concert.
[18:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03magamo [3037] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:35] <exec> 08└─So sad, as this IS my method of consuming SoylentNews, and a few other sites.
[18:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:52] <exec> 08└─"The company's official position on content moderation remains political neutrality" - that's been shown to lean left with search/recommended results as well as bans/de-monitization you youtube. (i.e. Google takes sides in a particular election. Negative search results are buried for the supported c...
[18:48:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names - 993 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:19] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I can't take this more than half seriously. You forgot my name? No problem, I'm Runaway1956. You're bad with names? No problem, I'll remind you until I get tired of reminding you. Stop apologizing - I don't really give a shit. I have problems with names myself. I understand - we've all met...
[18:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:56] <exec> 08└─Why the Dems don't jump on this bandwagon, I really don't understand. Dems did. Most of the states that have legalized it are blue states.
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[19:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Serialized Fiction Review: DeathWorlders - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:51] <exec> 08└─I've read the first few paragraphs, and I'm interested. Doesn't appear to be bad so far, anyway. Thanks for the rec.
[19:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:06] <exec> 08└─What's been made abundantly clear to the super-rich is that most governments will not subject them to the same laws and customs that control everyone else. And why not? These folks have learned that governments need their support, and thus their support for the laws and the concept of government is...
[19:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:08] <exec> 08└─More specifically, it means "Not wherever a tax collector is looking."
[19:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:10] <exec> 08└─For the last 229 years, most of the powerful have learnt to let enough crumbs fall off the table to help keep their privileges and necks intact. We are reaching another high point of discontent, and the move to misdirect the anger is still working (spearheaded by one of the privileged, can't blame h...
[19:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:12] <exec> 08└─But we gotta virtue signal and keep the class war going!!! Virtue signalling, not just for hair dying liberals.
[19:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:14] <exec> 08└─A lot of times, the tax collector is looking. In most cases, there's just not much she can do, and in some cases, she's just learning the best tricks before going private.
[19:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:16] <exec> 08└─I am gonna go buy stock in Grey Poupon, you just know the rich taste better with it.
[19:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:02] <exec> 08└─FTFA : it suggests that Microsoft's PC division is heading in the right direction
[19:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:04] <exec> 08└─The battery is glued in, but a bit of clever work with Dental floss makes it easy to remove. That isn't the hard part. You have to remove the screen to get to the SSD or the battery. That has me sweating, as removing it requires gingerly guitar-picking the 0.4mm thick glued in glass screen. It's tak...
[19:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:38] <exec> 08└─It's one of my least favorite uses of JavaScript
[19:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:39] <exec> 08└─I'm using Feedly since Google killed Reader. But that's only because I'm too lazy to install TinyRSS. Someday...
[19:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe its categorical and its dying in the My Little Pony subculture
[19:46:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam - 242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:11] <exec> 08└─Think of it: The government prints more money or perhaps — god forbid — it taxes some corporate profits, then it showers the cash down on the people so they can continue to spend. As a result, more and more capital accumulates at the top.
[19:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:40] <exec> 08└─> I need line-item modding. We all do, but since we don't have it, the next best thing is to be specific about which part of the post you are replying to...when you post an objection.
[19:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on, does a Eurpopean have to be the one who posts this? http://youtube.com
[19:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fifth-Century Child's Skeleton Shows Evidence of "Vampire Burial" - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:38] <exec> 08└─That's fair, a 10 metre sea level rise is a global flood, I'm arguing it's not the Biblical flood, based on the fact it's way too distant in time. I had a quick look at the Wikipedia article on Sumer, and it appears that they didn't invent writing until ~3000 BC and that is listed as proto-writing....
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[20:43:11] <exec> 08└─The revolutions of 1848 began because of just these problems. (At least partly) In many parts of Europe the very wealthy Church paid no taxes, neither did the very wealthy aristocracy. People decided they had had enough and revolted. Although the revolutions failed, change did happen. I would hate...
[20:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:13] <exec> 08└─It seemed for a while that the class war might be over. However, the 60s happened, and all was not well, so certain people decided to begin the disinformation campaign of a new class war with the Kerner Commission report. Few months later in June, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. Finally, in August,...
[20:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:15] <exec> 08└─Be a 'progressive' who can't believe anyone with more money than him could possibly have gotten it without stealing it
[20:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:17] <exec> 08└─The only proper way to handle them is to ignore them or kill them. You will not change them.
[20:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:19] <exec> 08└─But what if you get rich that way?
[20:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:21] <exec> 08└─And in other cases the tax collector is man.
[20:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:45] <exec> 08└─From those days of yore when the rallying cry was "f*ck beta", there was another contender for the slot that SN currently fills. Check out the "Feed" page on Pipedot.org -- I have one tab (in Firefox) open to my Feed page which is automatically populated by the headlines/subject lines from a bunch o...
[20:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:40] <exec> 08└─Or could we have a -1 Weird mod?
[20:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:11] <exec> 08└─> Personally, I've never touched the stuff - ... Sorry to hear about your friends. I wouldn't touch it now, for just the reason you mentioned, street sources aren't pure, or "trace-able". I feel fortunate that I was able to try some windowpane acid (a ~2mm square of gelatin, paper thin) when that wa...
[20:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells Court it has no "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:06] <exec> 08└─Adding to an existing definition is still changing the law without congress getting its constitutionally mandated say in the matter. I don't particularly agree that congress even has the authority to regulate communications in any way but if it's going to be done it needs to be done in the least une...
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[21:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:50] <exec> 08└─See corporate America? You don't NEED to be evil. I've heard complaints about Ubisoft but at least this is one good deed.
[21:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:51] <exec> 08└─They have machine learning, pseudo-roseta stone based translation, with human provided updates in google translate. Way back in 2010ish they showed up to an academic "translate a made up language" challenge and won with their production software. So maybe ubisoft just payed google to add one more la...
[21:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:53] <exec> 08└─Wow! I thought I was a cynic, LOL. Regardless of the tech used the ability to put it out there and crowd source the input is pretty cool. Hopefully this will end up being very useful to those who study hieroglyphics once it's released.
[21:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:55] <exec> 08└─Words are cheap, show us the code! And then show us the license!
[21:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:31] <exec> 08└─Yup. Propaganda is a helluva thing. I still have hopes that the internet will help us fix things, but until people realize that centralized control is the problem we won't get any solutions. The only way a private corporation can fix this is by creating a decentralized network with a central backbon...
[21:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:32] <exec> 08└─Totally accurate. I think the reason CEOs get such massive payouts is due to the criminal-capitalist corporate ethics. They are the ones that get the rope around their necks if something goes wrong, and with the sheer number of shitty things these massive corporations do it becomes a serious liabili...
[21:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:34] <exec> 08└─Hey, I eat all-organic so I bet I taste better than all of them! I'm no hypocrite, but I'll eat my extremities first so I don't die before enjoying myself. Will need a little help after my hands go.
[21:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 1703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:37] <exec> 08└─We are already quite far into the tipping point. We need drastic changes NOW or it will happen. With all the technological progress it will be interesting to see how this plays out. When even highly paid workers can barely achieve middle class status you know there is a real problem. The hordes of p...
[21:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:39] <exec> 08└─Nah, not that many of them are actual psychopaths. People frequently turn shitty when they get disproportionate wealth and power. There is no need to change anyone, simply vote out the baddies and hold the new politicians to specific campaign promises that curb corruption. Corporations have become m...
[21:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 6305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:41] <exec> 08└─I think my grandmother was murdered for around $100,000, by her own daughter - my mother. When people will lie, steal, and kill each other over petty amounts like $100K, what will they do for larger amounts? I was just writing to bar associations, this morning ... ===== snip ===== Dear Bar Associati...
[21:44:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:29] <exec> 08└─The battery is glued in, but a bit of clever work with Dental floss makes it easy to remove. That isn't the hard part. You have to remove the screen to get to the SSD or the battery. That has me sweating, as removing it requires gingerly guitar-picking the 0.4mm thick glued in glass screen. It's tak...
[21:44:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:38] <exec> 08└─"feeds...allow users to consume web content...without triggering the dozens or even hundreds of analytics scripts lurking on web pages" Also, without seeing ads, or auto-playing videos, or any other crap. These are the real reasons that RSS is dying. I still have maybe half-a-dozen websites I read v...
[21:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03djh2400 [725] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:06] <exec> 08└─For a web-based RSS reader, I regularly use and certainly recommend Inoreader [inoreader.com]. After the chaos when Google Reader was shut down [slashdot.org], this was the one web-based RSS reader I found to deliver an experience most closely matching that of Google Reader (it's one of the layout...
[21:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:07] <exec> 08└─Thats the entire problem. RSS is not tied to a single powerful centralized company like Twitter. So of course it has to go in the shitcan to appease the corporate overlords.
[21:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:23] <exec> 08└─Does making demonstrably false claims like that attach liability for a publicly traded company?
[21:47:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:47] <exec> 08└─What about constructive interference patterns, long-term cell damage and indirect effects?
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[22:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:12] <exec> 08└─Because Angel Adams (and her 15 children) the welfare queen(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcn_1n6Am14) needs a Ferrari ad, right?
[22:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:14] <exec> 08└─So ... does that mean more coarse-grained data, or more fine-grained data? I never quite understood that descriptor.
[22:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:16] <exec> 08└─It's about a quantum leap better.
[22:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, but failing on the promise is much worse then never offering in the first place. This isn't their game source code so I believe they will follow through. Try to save the cynicism for when reality matches up.
[22:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:28] <exec> 08└─It also shows how well we can replace a lot of these centralized services. Need input? Crowd source it! That is what so many big tech companies have done, that is how open street maps works, let us create our own shit and drop the evil buggers.
[22:43:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 624 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:45] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck thinks Trump is anything but an artifact of increasingly terrible material conditions for most people plus stupid as fuck voters who can't see who actually caused their problems? And if it were just the US, there's lots of excuses, but extremist political parties are rising everywhere....
[22:43:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:59] <exec> 08└─Be a 'progressive' who can't believe anyone with more money than him could possibly have gotten it without stealing it
[22:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:10] <exec> 08└─Dumbfuck MRA incel got triggered by the word 'she'!
[22:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:11] <exec> 08└─There are very few rich people. Rounding to the nearest percentage, 0% of the population is rich. There are no rich people. There are lots of poor people. The ones who are awful greedy fucks are actually making an impact through violence and destruction. A non-trivial percentage of the population (p...
[22:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:22] <exec> 08└─They are missing the opportunity to put that confusion fully behind them. Instead of just dropping the L3 name, it'll be "L3 Harris". Ugh. How about Larris?
[22:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:23] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure defense contractors would welcome some confusion about their names and origins. The people who need to know will know, and the public knowing who they are is just a nuisance.
[22:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:44] <exec> 08└─Consider setting up the RSS feed from SN to go to a "Feed" page on Pipedot.org (see another post about Pipedot nearby.)
[22:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:45] <exec> 08└─To those claiming killing RSS because advertisment and control/centralization, another proof you aren't wrong, Mozilla pushes their own Pocket as replacement. https://support.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] Other alternatives Content discovery and styling Mozilla...
[22:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:44] <exec> 08└─If memory serves, he was one of the first magazine people to say "Hey, you should try this Linux thing: it's damn good!" No one else in PC-Mag said that (that I know of) because of MS advertising dollars. Kind of surprised he wasn't fired long ago.
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[23:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:48] <exec> 08└─The last 67 ads in a row (at least, it was so blatant I started a record) have been for female empowerment products. As a straight guy, I was having trouble trying to figure out what they are trying to sell to me. Or do they know something I don't? Am I due for a sex change?
[23:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:50] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[23:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:52] <exec> 08└─According to the pink-hair CoC crowd at Mozilla everyone is due for gender reassignment. So your browser is just showing you the ads Mozilla wants you to see, in an attempt to hypnotize you into joining their multi-gender freakshow.
[23:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:54] <exec> 08└─I like to think that the ads I see on side-bars and popups have no affect on me. But I am not sure. I can't say I can remember having clicked on an ad and then completed a purchase because of it. What I often see are ads for the same thing I already purchased on Amazon or elsewhere and thus are no l...
[23:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:56] <exec> 08└─Haw haw haw, tell us another one pa!
[23:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:58] <exec> 08└─Better be careful, your entropy seems to be increasing exponentially.
[23:44:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:29] <exec> 08└─Many of the rich may indeed be awful greedy fucks - but so are many of the poor.
[23:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:53] <exec> 08└─https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_OqPRhGVtVw [youtube.com] Go to about 1:30
[23:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:55] <exec> 08└─Greedy non-rich people are sucking on the welfare teat.
[23:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:57] <exec> 08└─I think the reason CEOs get such massive payouts is due to the criminal-capitalist corporate ethics. They are the ones that get the rope around their necks if something goes wrong
[23:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:09] <exec> 08└─Raytheon proudly makes missiles, beam weapons, 0-day exploits, robotic gun turrets, and bombs. `MURICA, FUCK YEAH!!! I work on some of that stuff. It's lots of fun. We aren't one bit ashamed about the business. (Name: Raytheon. Origins: vacuum tubes.) Want shame? That would be the entire business mo...
[23:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:30] <exec> 08└─This is the US fucking A. Who needs IEDs? We can be whatever ordinance we need from the local sporting goods store next door to the toy shop where we bought the RC quadcopter! Yeehaw!!!!
[23:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:32] <exec> 08└─True, it's so easy to do, and has been for at least 10 years at minimal cost. And we need these laws because this type of terrorist attack is happening every second day at all manner of otherwise happy and safe gatherings in the comfortable USA, as evidenced by the shear huge number of terrorists st...
[23:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:33] <exec> 08└─the knucklehead said that he never used rss; how's he supposed to know that javascript and rss are unrelated?
[23:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:34] <exec> 08└─Here's another example of things going downhill after the pink-hair CoC crowd took over at Mozilla. Instead of spending R&D on improving RSS, they spend the money on special bathrooms for this week's newly discovered gender.
[23:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:54] <exec> 08└─Is there a browser setting that neutralizes that by just always opening a PDF link as a new tab (both Chrome and Firefox have a built-in reader)? It seems like something you would not want to allow the website to control.
[23:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:39] <exec> 08└─Resembles the propaganda against Communism taught in 70s-80s schools far more than Soviet Russia ever did. It's a sad day when the bastion of freedom and democracy resembles communism just as much as the two communist superpowers resemble capitalism.
[23:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06INRS Develops a 10 Trillion FPS "Camera" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:25] <exec> 08└─640k ought to be enough for anybody!
[23:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:18] <exec> 08└─We can only hope for a day when good sources will be available again(??)
[23:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:20] <exec> 08└─Personally, I've never touched the stuff - I've seen a few friends get very messed up on it, including one who went completely MIA for 3 months when taking a mix of LSD and Ecstasy.
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