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[00:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:40] <exec> 08└─An Anonymous Coward writes: Facebook was happy to take $25,000 in ads to get the followers, then wipes it all out including spitefully destroying the owner's personal account. https://www.westernjournal.com [westernjournal.c...
[00:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:41] <exec> 08└─https://ballotpedia.org/2018_ballot_measures [ballotpedia.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[00:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:44] <exec> 08└─Styx beating NBC [youtube.com] - 25000 viewers for a guy in his bedroom.
[00:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:46] <exec> 08└─I recognize that tuber. Don't remember what he's about, though.\ As for 24-25K beating NBC... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] 29K watching. And that's just on YouTube, they might have it on their site, and there's always the teevee.
[00:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:48] <exec> 08└─CBSN has this guy from The Intercept on: https://theintercept.com [theintercept.com]
[00:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:58] <exec> 08└─"We have too many people in poverty!!" Let's get them some power to lift them up "But we have too much CO2!!!" Let's build some dams, so the poor people get power, flood protection, and water safety, without the constant CO2 emissions "But dams are an unsustainable ecological disaster!!!!' Me gonna...
[00:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:00] <exec> 08└─Solar++
[00:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:03] <exec> 08└─Use your browser's Search In Page to find "90%".
[00:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:05] <exec> 08└─Literally inside my town, near the center, there are two little hydroelectric power plants, the second one is only a few hundred mt. downstream of the first, using the same small canal, no need to flood anything. Residents, mice and ducks tolerate them no prob, fish I dunno. Barbieri power plant [50...
[00:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─If your country has cliffs and low value land adjacent to the ocean there's always salt water pumped hydro [reneweconomy.com.au]. In South Australia the proposed 225W 1770 MWh Cultana project would store 14 times the electricity of Elon Musks megabattery, and would serve existing and future adjacent...
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation Join "Plan S" Open-Access Initiative - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─They already got their greedy tendrils in the funding of research, and now they are going to control publishing, too. You're putting government in control of the entire stack. That's really stupid.
[00:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:55] <exec> 08└─VLM isn't crazy just super inbred? I wonder if we can get him a disability placard or something.
[00:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:17] <exec> 08└─All the gamers who bought into that crap, paid exorbitant fees with their parents money, are responsible for the shitty state of gaming today.
[00:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:15] <exec> 08└─Kind of like "Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
[00:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:06] <exec> 08└─I tried to put windows on a computer once: I didn't have a driver disk for the modem. Windows asked me if I wanted to download the driver. I thought "Okay!", smiled and clicked 'Yes'. Installed Linux without a problem.
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[01:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:07] <exec> 08└─There should be an option "against all" and if this option gets more than 50%, all the participants should be banned from at least the next round.
[01:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:09] <exec> 08└─9 polling locations in Harris County, Texas will remain open for an extra hour. FiveThirtyEight now forecasts a 19 in 20 (95%) chance of Dems taking the House, up from 7 in 8 (87.9%) this morning. They forecast a 5 in 6 (83.5%) chance of Republicans keeping the Senate, up from 4 in 5 (80.9%).
[01:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:11] <exec> 08└─Who do you vote for in the next round, then? Write-ins?
[01:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:13] <exec> 08└─Where I live (California) the news can't even start reporting results until the polls close. Which is something like 8 PM for me. Hellifino, I mailed my ballot in 2 weeks ago. Anyway, why? You can't report results. You can show lines outside polling places, interview voters, and report on various po...
[01:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:15] <exec> 08└─If more than 50% of voters bothered to explicitly reject all the people on the ballot, you have grounds for organizing a new election with new candidates. That would be democratic.
[01:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-03/twitter-study-finds-coordinated-pattern-in-vote-fraud-messages [bloomberg.com] Promoting mostly Republican talking points.
[01:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:19] <exec> 08└─News is on in the background, cut the cord months ago so no DVR.
[01:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:22] <exec> 08└─News is on in the background, cut the cord months ago so no DVR. Group of folks are upset to find out they aren't on the voter rolls. They went to vote, and found out they weren't registered. And let the world know, they are truly and loudly outraged.
[01:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:36] <exec> 08└─10% of "more than a third of the total electricity currently being generated in Africa" is an absolutely massive amount of power. Unless you haven't noticed that Africa has some pretty impressive cities and industries. Wikipedia tell me it's 39GW nameplate capacity (52x750MW). Since the locals don't...
[01:39:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 1778 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:38] <exec> 08└─Ubisoft, and their ilk, ruined gaming for me long ago. I refused to continue to fight bullshit DRM, and I wasn't impressed with all the online bullshit. Evercrack put the writing on the wall for me, illustrating that it was no longer going to be possible for multiplayer to escape paid walled-gardens...
[01:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:33] <exec> 08└─No, not sure what it's running, but it's white and has its own answering machine built in. My wife keeps twisting the phone, though, when she talks on it and the cord always wins up twisted aaaallllllllll to hell.
[01:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:32] <exec> 08└─Multinationals are paying ~40% of USA rates for engineering and skilled technicians in China. I didn't know hard sciences were that bad in comparison.
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[02:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:06] <exec> 08└─I don't live in WI so have no skin in the game. But I predicted Foxconn (eat your young to get ahead) execs would outwit the WI folks (don't get caught and I might make it to National office!). It's amazing how close to crying laughing is.
[02:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:08] <exec> 08└─It looks like Wisconsin got fleeced. They gave away way too much without any real guarantees. Foxconn pulled a fast one before in Pennsylvania, but WI wanted to please Trump so badly that they gave Foxconn a $3B deal. I guess the fine print in the agreement doesn't stipulate jobs for US workers, and...
[02:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:10] <exec> 08└─"Foxconn is struggling to find enough skilled workers for its planned facility in Wisconsin that are willing to work for poverty wages."
[02:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─The WSJ report says they can't find enough engineers. They don need them to design the screens, they need them to design the machines that make the screens. The only way Foxconn could find them in the US would be to cannibalize their own suppliers.
[02:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:14] <exec> 08└─If I did I wouldn't get enough sleep
[02:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:16] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I haven't been getting enough sleep
[02:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:18] <exec> 08└─I'd give my left kidney for $CANDIDATE to win!
[02:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:21] <exec> 08└─Promising not to rob someone is not the same as giving someone money.
[02:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:44] <exec> 08└─https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2018-election-results-coverage/ [fivethirtyeight.com] Now they have 57.7% chance for Dems to take House, 95+% chance for Republicans to keep Senate.
[02:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:45] <exec> 08└─Bernie Sanders reelected. He'll be 83 years old by the end of his term.
[02:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:47] <exec> 08└─Voting rights will be restored to most former felons in Florida: Amendment restores the voting rights to felons not convicted of murder or a sexual offense after completing their sentences, including parole or probation. A “YES” vote restores felon voting rights. A “NO” vote does not restore...
[02:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:49] <exec> 08└─Better to have this post out early. There's plenty of stuff to discuss already, such as Florida approving a constituional amendment to restore voting rights to most former felons. https://thehill.com [thehill.com] Under the new...
[02:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:02] <exec> 08└─> governments were blindsided by the prospect of cheap electricity This is incorrect. The leaders were blinded by the giant piles of money from their World bank loans. The multi-nationals responsible for building these facilities were very studious to make sure the suppliers that happened to be the...
[02:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 1726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:49] <exec> 08└─Your post is informative - common wisdom is that the human population was extremely low during most of mankind's history. At the same time, I wonder how accurate that common wisdom is. This particular study, for instance, seems to have a flaw. There are few places in the world where large numbers of...
[02:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:51] <exec> 08└─Southern illinios is worse.
[02:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:53] <exec> 08└─But they shure can play those fiddles.
[02:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:14] <exec> 08└─This is Ubisoft [wikipedia.org] we're talking about. The only boundaries they want to push are monetary in nature.
[02:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skin Gel Allows Wounds to Heal Without Leaving a Scar - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:39] <exec> 08└─Boob jobs (etc--all kinds of cosmetic surgery) with no scarring -- porn stars (real or wannabees) will have one less thing to keep them from investing in their marketability. More generally, eliminating scarring after all kinds of surgery will be welcomed by anyone that can afford it. Depending wher...
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[03:38:05] <exec> 08└─I'd give my left kidney for $CANDIDATE to win!
[03:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:08] <exec> 08└─I've been having a hard day but you brought a smile to my weary eyes.
[03:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:10] <exec> 08└─Go on A/C, tell us about the violently imposed monopoly again! That one always gets a good laugh.
[03:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:12] <exec> 08└─That might be true, but I fail to believe Foxconn didn't know they would have this problem.
[03:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:39] <exec> 08└─John Culberson somewhat behind Democrat Lizzie Fletcher in the Texas 7th Congressional district. Culberson is one of the biggest proponents of the Europa Clipper [wikipedia.org] mission. George H. W. Bush was the Congressman for this district from 1967-1971. Could November elections scramble a contr...
[03:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:40] <exec> 08└─Just because you are White Nationalist, does not make your seething crud, a GOP value. GOP is the party of Lincoln, and your hate fuel bigotry has no place in the honoured party. All is see the "NEW" GOP red colour on maps relect that Soviet style hate, like BUILD THE WALL!! Just like BERLIN. Reag...
[03:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/ballot-measures [cnn.com] Voter ID measures passed in Arkansas and North Carolina. Michigan's ballot initiative to legalize recreational cannabis is polling well, not called yet. The losers at the Detroit NAACP oppose it [mlive.com]. Alabama likely to pass a constit...
[03:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:44] <exec> 08└─Dude - WTF are you trying to say? You've been hitting the bottle, or what?
[03:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:46] <exec> 08└─First openly gay governor: Jared Polis in Colorado (cue identity politics whining).
[03:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:48] <exec> 08└─The news feeds are a mess. Every talking head in the country has a comment, but it's too early to call much of anything. One of the races I'm interested in is O'Rourke vs Cruz. I've never much liked Cruz, but this fruitcake from El Paso with the silly nickname? I truly detest this piece of shit. His...
[03:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:50] <exec> 08└─They called it in favor of Cruz a few minutes ago. Another 6 years of the human snake.
[03:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:53] <exec> 08└─Politico reports GOP wins Senate.
[03:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:55] <exec> 08└─Ahhhh - that much is good. Some of the other races are equally important, but I have less interest in any of them. Does that make me a "bad citizen"?
[03:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:57] <exec> 08└─Alabama approves Ten Commandments amendment: An amendment to the Alabama Constitution authorizing the display of the Ten Commandments on state, public and school grounds, prohibiting the spending of public funds to defend the constitutionality of this amendment, and providing for certain religious r...
[03:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:59] <exec> 08└─Just remember to swing by my ballot initiatives story tomorrow.
[03:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:05] <exec> 08└─How many methods in this test suite [pineight.com] does AutoplayStopper block, and how many get past it?
[03:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:07] <exec> 08└─These are called "exit intent pop-ups". The Better Ads Standards page for pop-ups [betterads.org] links to an interpretative advisory [betterads.org] stating that the following experiences haven't yet been tested properly: Exit pop up ads that occur after a user has ceased active engagement with con...
[03:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:22] <exec> 08└─...waits for you to stop choking on your drink... Sorry about that, I'll buy you a new virtual monitor to go with your new virtual drink. =-)p I had one of these once. It came with XP but was so underpowered I Nuke&Paved it, gave it Ubuntu, & had a device that was awesome for what it was. Email, tex...
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[04:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android's lack of DHCPv6 support frustrates enterprise network admins - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:41] <exec> 08└─That's two major releases ago. Desktop Macs have supported IPv6 for eons. I recall quite a while ago the Airport Wireless Access Point disabled IPv6 by default but it was still available as a configuration option. Comcast as far as I can tell supports it. Dan Bernstein is _never_ going to get his ma...
[04:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android's lack of DHCPv6 support frustrates enterprise network admins - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:43] <exec> 08└─The only reason "macOS" has had it so long is that it used to be developed by ideologues, you know, before Apple started making serious money in the modern era. They've all left or been pushed out. Android, however, was always total trash. Just look through AOSP for yourself.
[04:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android's lack of DHCPv6 support frustrates enterprise network admins - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:45] <exec> 08└─Psst. Hint... Read the article CAREFULLY and understand what it is trying to say.
[04:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:03] <exec> 08└─Actually, to "get" enough qualified workers a business must not only pay well, but provide training, help with education, good medical, and long time job and income protection such as pension plans and unions support. Then, may be, a sizable business could secure the labor. That's the difference bet...
[04:38:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:19] <exec> 08└─There should be an option "against all" and if this option gets more than 50%, all the participants should be banned from at least the next round.
[04:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:42] <exec> 08└─Would it be fair to expect a late run in favor of the R's as their voters have jobs to finish before they go vote, or in favor of the D's because their voters sleep in until after lunchtime?
[04:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:44] <exec> 08└─ABC projects Democrats will take the House.
[04:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:46] <exec> 08└─We have vote-by-mail here in the Pacific North-Left. The elections commission said it had not been returned so I am reasonable to expect it was stolen from my mailbox. Happily the commission had no objection to giving me a replacement. It happens that this area has a Republican House Representative...
[04:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:48] <exec> 08└─Never should have relied on fb to begin with.
[04:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:50] <exec> 08└─He wasn't arrested for burglary he was arrested for criminal trespass. The crime of Burglary requires that one have criminal intent at the point in time one enters a _structure_ - I think anything with a roof would apply. He was arrested for unlawfully climbing a fence. The owner of the property he...
[04:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:52] <exec> 08└─I'm a democrat, and I've always taken time off from work to vote. The only times I haven't voted there were problems with my registration that I didn't discover until it was too late. I work far longer hours than the typical salary or hourly worker.
[04:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:54] <exec> 08└─Culberson lost. If one of the space-related publications follows up on this, I will submit it.
[04:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:19] <exec> 08└─Just playing devil's advocate, but it's also possible that the defaults have got much better, and people see no reason to change them.
[04:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:21] <exec> 08└─A final factor is that (at least back then) MS expects a royalty on every PC sold (unless there are special agreements) and will claim "piracy" and threaten to withdraw the wholesale pricing deal with any vendor who ships PCs without Windows, even if they still pay MS the royalty.
[04:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Neutral Solution for Desalination: Tapping into Geothermal Sources - 1899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:56] <exec> 08└─TFA is about doing as much work as possible while RETAINING heat which is then pumped back into the geothermal pocket. Remember this is DRY ROCK geothermal they're talking about - the water has to be pumped into the pocket and allowed to heat before extraction. They're just trying to reduce the amou...
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[05:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Previews Zen 2 Epyc CPUs with up to 64 Cores, New "Chiplet" Design - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:02] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/amd-outlines-its-future-7nm-gpus-with-pcie-4-zen-2-zen-3-zen-4/ [arstechnica.com] Zen 2 will also address certain weak aspects of the original Zen. For example, the original Zen used 128-bit data paths to handle 256-bit AVX2 operations; each operation was spli...
[05:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:37] <exec> 08└─They need to learn English. They need to come over with all relatives, and all of them need to fully get rid of Chinese citizenship. They need to renounce collectivist thinking. They need to renounce racism. They need to side with freedom of speech. They need guns.
[05:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:38] <exec> 08└─anyone who actually knows what collectivist means and uses it in complete sentences in the way you do is completely out of their trees. Ayn Rand was insane. That she built a substantial cult following is due to the propensity of charismatic psychotic people to become cult leaders. But I'm criticizin...
[05:39:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-03/twitter-study-finds-coordinated-pattern-in-vote-fraud-messages [bloomberg.com] Promoting mostly Republican talking points.
[05:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:26] <exec> 08└─takyon's journal
[05:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:27] <exec> 08└─People get coordinated. This is what humans do. Is this unacceptable when done by people who love America?
[05:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:29] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, you have a need for some things. The interesting one is medication to keep you stable, plus right now I guess you need antibiotics and possibly some pain medication. You're voting to lose all that. Don't believe me? Nobody thought they would lose access to medication when they vo...
[05:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:31] <exec> 08└─Get outta my journal.
[05:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:33] <exec> 08└─Overall a lot of common sense ballot results... I thought the several ballots to create independent redistricting was also a real positive development. The Florida ballot ... what the fuck was wrong with that state that it was even ever like that. Glad to see they fixed it. Expanding medicaid etc. T...
[05:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:35] <exec> 08└─Sadly, a really good republican was defeated. He came close. Oddly, there was nearly a media blackout on him. This is suspected to have something to do with the fact that his race breaks the leftist narrative of Republicans supposedly being just old white males. He made a pretty respectable attempt...
[05:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:38] <exec> 08└─While they have taxes, we have the increased prices of products and services sold by companies that provide insurance to their employees. Canada has a longer life expectance. I didn't have to pay a dime for my operation, yet received excellent care.
[05:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not about to stop now because of things like "truth" or "facts"
[05:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:15] <exec> 08└─You're making one fundamental mistake here: the guy's signal to noise ratio is in the shitter. It's actually negative, as in, you become less well-informed simply by reading his posts. I don't mind disagreeing with people, but this shit's a waste of electrons.
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[06:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android's lack of DHCPv6 support frustrates enterprise network admins - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:45] <exec> 08└─It makes them much easier to track.
[06:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android's lack of DHCPv6 support frustrates enterprise network admins - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:46] <exec> 08└─Bah, they should just all use IPv4. If it was good enough for Dennis, Brian, Ken, and Rich (W.Richard), it should be good enough for let-me-take-a-selfie phone user.
[06:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:58] <exec> 08└─So the incumbent doesn't have to actually win re-election, just get enough people disgusted with the whole process.
[06:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:00] <exec> 08└─I'll weep for this country if SCOTUS isn't 9-0 to tell Alabama where they can put their 10 commandments.
[06:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:02] <exec> 08└─Canada is lucky to have the USA paying for things. When the USA overpays for drugs, that supports the companies. Canada barely covers production cost. When the USA overpays for NATO and FIVEEYES and more, Canada is protected. It must be nice being Canada. It won't be nice after the USA collapses and...
[06:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:18] <exec> 08└─I just laughed really fucking hard thinking about taking down Hoover Dam. It's done, it's over, it's never going anywhere. Draining it would be something that could literally take years at full effort, and may not be possible without catastrophic failure. I know they accounted for the weight of the...
[06:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:03] <exec> 08└─This is true of any blacklist.
[06:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:05] <exec> 08└─So what information is Chromium leaking?
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[07:37:47] <exec> 08└─Had dual armed platers on IBM mini in the early 1980's. Yeah the total capacity was 200MB, and 15in platers in 19in rack mount case, that wieght 40+ lbs... But still daul independent arms tto access data across the whole platers... There was even talk of 3 arm model, but I never saw one. Problem dri...
[07:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Plans 36 TB HAMR HDDs by 2022, 48 TB by 2024 - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:49] <exec> 08└─Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology [soylentnews.org] Seagate's multi-actuator technology is a simple concept, and the idea certainly isn't new. In fact, the company has already developed drives with multiple actuators in the past, but they weren't economically viable due to...
[07:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Previews Zen 2 Epyc CPUs with up to 64 Cores, New "Chiplet" Design - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:58] <exec> 08└─https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP4341.html [ibm.com] This had 5"x5" 'chips' that housed up to 100 actual chips. Each module had a water cooled jacket and up to a 56 layer "back plane" the chips talked through. It was build to increase the speed and size of 270 family...
[07:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Previews Zen 2 Epyc CPUs with up to 64 Cores, New "Chiplet" Design - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:00] <exec> 08└─AMD's CEO Lisa Su used to be Director of Emerging Products at IBM. Ryzen uses simultaneous multithreading [wikipedia.org], which was developed at IBM way back in 1968.
[07:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Previews Zen 2 Epyc CPUs with up to 64 Cores, New "Chiplet" Design - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:02] <exec> 08└─Yup everything old is new again. Now if INTEL and AMD will get multiple byte (256 to 32k) in a single instruction charged with a single clock "tick". That was nice of earlier IBM ASM. Reality it was microcode running a loop, but it was set up and ran ran as single assembly instruction (like MV(255)...
[07:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android's lack of DHCPv6 support frustrates enterprise network admins - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:14] <exec> 08└─Apple was losing MAJOR, MAJOR market share. I said, you have to make the IPhone screen bigger. Because it was too small for a Grown Man's hands. They listened. Now it's MAGNIFICENT. And very successful. Trillion Dollar Company -- because of me!!!!
[07:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android's lack of DHCPv6 support frustrates enterprise network admins - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:16] <exec> 08└─Then they'd be better off on IPv6, where you don't end up with infernal aliasing of internal addresses all the !&#^ time due to NAT.
[07:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android's lack of DHCPv6 support frustrates enterprise network admins - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:18] <exec> 08└─My understanding of it is that Google knew how ephemeral IP numbers would be as Android mobile devices transit across multiple networks, during the course of a day/week/month they knew they'll change them multiple times and that they'd probably be NAT'ed (and my mobiles always seem to get IPv4 addre...
[07:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:39] <exec> 08└─Thank you Foxconn, for investing $10 BILLION DOLLARS with the potential for up to 13K new jobs in Wisconsin! MadeInTheUSA 🇺🇸
[07:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:36] <exec> 08└─Even better, look closer at "Beta". While railing against "The Rich" like a good socialist Dim, he is married to a billionaire heiress. Guess where Daddy's fortune is from? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) REAL ESTATE
[07:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:37] <exec> 08└─So the Blue Wave didn't happen. But the forces of sanity only beat back out and proud Communists by a point or two in GA and FL so the future looks dark. Especially since FL just put over a million new Democrats on the next set of voter rolls. Now we get to watch the raving loons shout "Impeach 45!"...
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[08:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:02] <exec> 08└─These chips aren't easily stolen, so they could provide some rather good security. Possibly better than a fingerprint scanner, and could be made cryptographically secure.
[08:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:04] <exec> 08└─It's better than a fingerprint because if it is compromised, you can replace it. Might be nice to be able to change crypto keys noninvasively though.
[08:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:06] <exec> 08└─4000-5000 people isn't really that many people over a population or 9.95 million. That's about .00005% or so. If they would give it a few more years, facial recognition should take care of this for them if they really want to be tracked everywhere.
[08:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:08] <exec> 08└─5000 / 10000000 = 0.0005 = 0.05% = 1 in 2000 people.
[08:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:15] <exec> 08└─Marrying into money is a form of competency, or good looks if a woman does it.
[08:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:17] <exec> 08└─It was a blue wave. 1. The House of Representatives is a better measure of the mood of the country, since all of them are up for reelection every 2 years. And the Democrats picked up around 26-30 seats. Even with Republican-led gerrymandering in effect [wikipedia.org]. 2. The Senate races were stack...
[08:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:19] <exec> 08└─Thank God! ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE USE THEM TOGETHER USE THEM IN PEACE
[08:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:21] <exec> 08└─Is this unacceptable when done by people who love America?
[08:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:49] <exec> 08└─"All true, but (initially) they made up for that by being ridiculously, impulse-purchase cheap and got the job done for people who wanted an email, web browser and simple word processor." While I agree with all of what you are saying, there was another big advantage to the EEEPC: they are incredib...
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[09:40:00] <exec> 08└─So, in summary: this particular issue is a hot-button topic for these ~200 people, we don't really have any conclusive evidence but buzzword salad AI big data yada yada, therefore reptilians. There is nothing in this article but wild speculation over highly circumstantial data. Most people who hold...
[09:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, until you find out solar is also "unsustainable" according to their metrics. Fact is, the matter of "sustainability" is one of scale. Those micro/mini hydro plants are fine, they don't affect the environment too much. However once you scale up to massive hydroplants capable of providing baselo...
[09:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:20] <exec> 08└─There's significant room for improvement for solar. I'm thinking of the lower efficiency panels that are thinner, flexible, much cheaper, cheaper to install, etc. Maybe they could be made with graphene. They could be stored as huge carpet-sized rolls and loaded into a truck. For the rest, we will pr...
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[09:41:37] <exec> 08└─Cutting out anything because moral authoritarians pressure the artists is wrong not because of the nature of the art but because people are being forced to do things against their will by intolerant zealots whose only interest in the work is denying it to others.
[09:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:34] <exec> 08└─Just as an add-on comment, I owned both a 7" and 10" EEE. They were cute, but dear God were they an Operation Hairshirt. The 7" model had a barely-usable screen, barely-usable keyboard, and minimal storage space crammed with a Linux distro hacked up to fit into it. It was barely upgradeable/expandab...
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[09:43:36] <exec> 08└─Just playing devil's advocate, but it's also possible that the defaults have got much better, and people see no reason to change them.
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[10:37:57] <exec> 08└─Then get on with it! Europe really needs a EU force. We don't want the continent disintegrating because of populists again.
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[10:37:59] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the plot of the Star Wars prequel trilogy?
[10:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:13] <exec> 08└─These chips aren't easily stolen
[10:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:14] <exec> 08└─The microchip can be inserted in a bracelet, or the strap of your wristwatch, and it would be as handy and convenient as under your skin. But the most important, I want to be able to disconnect/connect it. I don't want anybody with RFID reader reads data. My credit card has a RFID microchip that ca...
[10:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:54] <exec> 08└─So, why use DHCPv6 rather than IPv6 autoconfig and anycast/multicast, other than admin's familiarity with DHCP in IPv4 networks? Way back when I learned about IPv6, DHCPv6 wasn't done yet, and as I haven't been deeply involved with IPv6 networking since, I honestly want to know.
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[10:40:26] <exec> 08└─How would you describe the taste of Putin's cock?
[10:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:28] <exec> 08└─"enlightened" (smokes weed) cousin Clyde?
[10:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:30] <exec> 08└─What are the actual results though? All I can find are projections.
[10:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/results/house [cnn.com] 222 for Democrats (218 needed for control) 199 for Republicans 14 remaining 435 total
[10:43:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 1912 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:49] <exec> 08└─It isn't any of those things, it is just Microsoft. EEE proved that, put ANY non-Windows unit in stores that has minimal fit and finish work and they will sell. The only reason the EEE project was even allowed to occur was as a research project based on the success of OLPC, Asus and Intel were tryin...
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[11:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an extraterrestrial solar sail? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:27] <exec> 08└─Betteridge says no. [wikipedia.org]
[11:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an extraterrestrial solar sail? - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:28] <exec> 08└─Nah [arstechnica.com] At the end of their paper, however, the authors, present "a more exotic scenario" in which they speculate that ‘Oumuamua may be "a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization." In recent days, some media have seized upon this single l...
[11:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:38] <exec> 08└─If there is a way to break up the EU, this is it. The member states will never agree its terms of reference, and will never agree to involve it in any action. Moreover, the major military force of the UK won't be in it. The EU has allowed itself to be invaded by Muslims, so what is the point of an a...
[11:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:41] <exec> 08└─Wow, not sure where to begin with this troll. So better not. Go back to kissing puttin's ass.
[11:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:53] <exec> 08└─These chips aren't easily stolen, so they could provide some rather good security.
[11:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Previews Zen 2 Epyc CPUs with up to 64 Cores, New "Chiplet" Design - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:14] <exec> 08└─In workloads using AVX2, this gave Intel, with its native 256-bit implementation, a huge advantage
[11:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Previews Zen 2 Epyc CPUs with up to 64 Cores, New "Chiplet" Design - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:15] <exec> 08└─This amd vs intel story is like a textbook argument in favor of competition. Simultaneously, it also shows how a monopoly position naturally leads to stagnation, which in turn opens the door to competition. I think it is also a good case of c-level actual "diversity" (merit based) vs c-level lipserv...
[11:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:34] <exec> 08└─Leases and reserved addresses. It's not a question of how a machine gets an address, that's easy. It's a question of knowing what machine got what address and how you talk to that machine and what if you want that machine to have a very particular address without having to make it use a (manually en...
[11:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:36] <exec> 08└─Typically to push out DNS and/or NTP settings, and updating internal resolvers (if mDNS is not in use). These days there's also RFC8106, where DNS settings can be carried in the Route Advertisements, further reducing the need for DHCPv6.
[11:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:38] <exec> 08└─To allow fixed addresses according to a network's acceptable range. Better auditing and configuration of systems to use the network. And better anonymity of incoming/outgoing packets since they aren't based on a real or partially obfuscated hardware address. If we wanted hardware addresses in our ne...
[11:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:12] <exec> 08└─Since we didnt elect the right people, Trump will not be releasing the free energy and cancer cure patents he had promised as a reward. Good job everyone. Now instead, all new immigrants, legal or otherwise, will get a free 60 day subscription to netflix upon entering the US.
[11:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:13] <exec> 08└─If the President's popularity doesn't increase before then, that becomes a really bad omen.
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[12:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:10] <exec> 08└─The only reason it is though to be "cigar shaped" is because of the change in light observed. It could alternately be black on one side.
[12:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:11] <exec> 08└─Iapetus https://en.wikipedia.org(moon) [wikipedia.org] The plot of 2001
[12:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:13] <exec> 08└─They are here to rid us of our meat infestation: https://www.schlockmercenary.com [schlockmercenary.com]
[12:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:15] <exec> 08└─So, fully functional, but paper thin? And if it was sent to Earth's vicinity on purpose, but just did a drive-by like a high school kid cruising past a girl's house, why did they waste their time and effort?
[12:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:29] <exec> 08└─There are things wrong with continuing with NATO, but if some frog thinks it would be better with French and Germany calling the shots then i don't know what the hell he is thinking.
[12:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:45] <exec> 08└─Might be nice to be able to change crypto keys noninvasively though.
[12:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:02] <exec> 08└─Without a proper foil (you can only whine about Retired Obama and Heart(?)broken Hillary for so long in 2018), Trump made the election a referendum on his own performance. He explicitly encouraged this [time.com]. Polling showed an increase in Republican enthusiasm following the Kavanaugh hearings....
[12:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:04] <exec> 08└─It was a blue wave.
[12:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:06] <exec> 08└─Most of the -R losses seem to be neocons, which is good news. I see Walker lost a re-election in Wisconsin. Better to see the (bad) history of the party lose than the future. Lose a neocon Walker, gain a modern Greg Pence, etc. Cruz bent the knee at the last minute to barely win which is a lesson to...
[12:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:08] <exec> 08└─Losing the Senate too would leave them out of power
[12:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:10] <exec> 08└─The -D center is gone, so ...
[12:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:12] <exec> 08└─I see, from the forecast on the morning of the 6th: 80% chance Democrats gain 21 to 59 seats
[12:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:32] <exec> 08└─"i lost my whole family today" said one fish to another in the fish-bar, one evening. "was it because of the dam?" the second fish asked. "yeah, it's f...king terrible. my son and daughter would either run up or downstream when the fisher man came. now we can't go anywhere. he got us going in circle...
[12:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 2284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:34] <exec> 08└─There is significant room for improvement in all kinds of technologies. Problem is (a) can that improvement be achieved, (b) if it can, anytime soon, or will we be waiting decades, and (c) can the improvements be applied in a cost effective way. Thing is, now we are talking "what if" scenarios. Sure...
[12:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:30] <exec> 08└─It didn't block GIF and other image based 'video', which is strange because it does block those annoying animated GIF's on Twitter. That was originally the reason why I installed it in the first place. For a quiet, static, readable experience instead of dozens of stupid annoying animated GIF memes i...
[12:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:55] <exec> 08└─As to your Wine/ycombinator remark: you can run any windows version, and applications, on OpenBSD, using qemu. You will be limited, though, in the amount of RAM you can use in that case. A better (technical) example of a compromise might be wireshark, the network sniffing tool, which was permanently...
[12:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:53] <exec> 08└─You're kinda making my point for me, AC. IF the supply is X times greater than the demand, then you don't need everyone to do the economically rational thing, you just need 1 in X people to do something a little extreme. Career experience is worth so much in over populated fields that people WILL wo...
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[13:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:32] <exec> 08└─The real story is that millions of these things are zipping in and out of the solar system annually. Our ability to detect nearby asteroids has advanced tremendously in recent years. So we managed to spot this object and notice its unusual trajectory. In a decade or three we'll be detecting a lot mo...
[13:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:33] <exec> 08└─Why did our probe just fly by Pluto instead of staying around?
[13:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:35] <exec> 08└─Since we're talking SciFi plots, besides the obvious parallels with the "Rama" books by Arthur C. Clarke, another one is the method the protomolecule was originally sent to our solar system onboard Phoebe in the plot of "The Expanse" series by James S.A. Corey. In that scenario we very literally jus...
[13:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:37] <exec> 08└─It all makes sense! The aliens have no budget for planetary science! They would have slowed down only if they had a military spacecraft!
[13:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:51] <exec> 08└─Then get on with it! Europe really needs a EU force. We don't want the continent disintegrating because of populists again.
[13:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:52] <exec> 08└─What he's thinking is blindingly obvious: He no longer sees the USA as a reliable ally, probably because the leader of the USA comes off as a bit crazy, stupid, and remarkably friendly with enemies of his country. Based on that, he wants a Plan B in case the Yanks are completely unable or unwilling...
[13:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:54] <exec> 08└─Nah. It's a scared young Frenchman trying to look tough in the wake of the assassination plot against him.
[13:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:09] <exec> 08└─Remember this? https://mashable.com [mashable.com]
[13:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:34] <exec> 08└─She's 85 right now. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] She stated she has a new "model" to emulate in former colleague Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired at age 90 after nearly 35 years on the bench.
[13:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:15] <exec> 08└─Do feel the need to point the innocent reader to Michael W. Lucas' Absolute OpenBSD, as the article mentions some weird things (doas as OpenBSD's version of sudo? bumping up resource limits to run a feckin' web browser?? insulting fvwm ?!!?). The emotion is nearly starting to get to me.
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[14:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:36] <exec> 08└─First, Robert Monster looks like an opportunist to drum up business for his registrar. Ok, whatever. But he took the same bullshit stance like GoDaddy did in silencing gab.com. "Let freedom rein"? All they are suppose to do is manage registration of domains names for the .com and other registrars. T...
[14:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry but we need the big tech companies like godaddy working together to shape the conversation we won't make progress with all the hillbillies in the flyover states without their help
[14:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:39] <exec> 08└─I signed up for a Twitter account when they first started years ago. I never sent a single message or logged in once. The breathless excitement about it coming from the press was enough to repel me. Likewise I had little use for Gab. It's another copycat social media play to the eyes of one who has...
[14:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:41] <exec> 08└─No. In order for society to survive, we must never tolerate the intolerant. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:43] <exec> 08└─"The breathless excitement about it coming from the press was enough to repel me." This was the big one for me and why i never even looked at it at the time. "But virtual lynch mobs who want to destroy free speech must be opposed." * drinks to that *
[14:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:01] <exec> 08└─See headline.
[14:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:02] <exec> 08└─> Iapetus The difference is that for Iapetus is tidally locked, so that one can define a "front" and "back" and the front picks up dust/etc. It is hard to imagine a mechanism for a similar asymmetry to arise on a spinning object.
[14:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:19] <exec> 08└─The EU has allowed itself to be invaded by Muslims,
[14:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:21] <exec> 08└─What he's thinking is blindingly obvious: He no longer sees the USA as a reliable ally
[14:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:23] <exec> 08└─They didn't seem to have a problem with George W. Bush, who comprised those qualities also. I think they're mad Trump has demanded they pull their weight with NATO's funding. Building their own EU force, however, will cost a lot more than ponying up for NATO and will create confusion in lines of com...
[14:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 2053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:25] <exec> 08└─This is so odd and unrealistic it's hard to tell what the point of the proposal would even be. First of all most of the EU members are already in NATO, but apparently that isn't good enough. Instead there should be the creation of a new layer by form a single EU army. While a lot of the individual n...
[14:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:27] <exec> 08└─but a army needs weapons. today that is more then a sword, bow and arrows and emergency rations also known as a horse. a modern army needs ... geez ... a whole specialized industry and research? it would also mean that europe would have to go to war with someone else these industries would have noth...
[14:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:44] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they somewhat easily could be read and cloned onto another chip. That could be entertaining if said chip is the only security feature used and you just got yourself an instant double that can't be told apart from you since your only security feature is a chip you implanted into your hand...
[14:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:06] <exec> 08└─In other words, what usually happens in midterm elections happened again--the opposition party gains. The Republicans strengthened their firewall against Trump's removal via impeachment. They gained Senate seats and purged Never Trumpers from their ranks who might have joined with Democrats in a bip...
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:23] <exec> 08└─It didn't block GIF and other image based 'video', which is strange because it does block those annoying animated GIF's on Twitter.
[14:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:25] <exec> 08└─The point that one notorious Anonymous Coward on the green site appears not to get is that this is less true of a wildcard blacklist than a single-hostname blacklist.
[14:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:27] <exec> 08└─There's also Vivaldi, if you don't mind that they aren't FOSS.
[14:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenBSD on a Laptop - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:57] <exec> 08└─You sure you just didn't allocate enough swap?
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[15:37:30] <exec> 08└─> DNS is compromised of a network It easily can be but is not always the case :) /joke I guess you meant "comprised" but it still makes sense. Anyway, thank you for what you're doing!
[15:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:38] <exec> 08└─Qualifying it with "illegal" would suggest that there must be "legal" robocalls. Given Ajit's stance on those other "important issues", I can imagine a scenario like this. (call me crazy, paranoid, biased, cynical, crazy, unrealistic, crazy, etc. There is no crazy mod. Yet.) * We must stop ILLEGAL r...
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[15:37:40] <exec> 08└─Fixing this problem has been trivial for decades. The fact that it took this long, says more than the attempt to fix it. People have been deprived of their peace of mind by design, not by accident. The fact that they should pay attention to this, now that the FCC is deep in law suites it is unlikely...
[15:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─If I remember correctly there are carve-outs in the regulations for political callers and collections agencies. So there are legal robocalls, and they are entitled to use the telephone you pay for, to deceive, harass and abuse you.
[15:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:44] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they have to pay for the privilege? (Not pay the call receiver, but pay those who make the rules?) After all, isn't that the reason they seek election and/or appointment?
[15:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:46] <exec> 08└─Of course there are legal robocalls. A robocall is "a phone call that uses a computerized autodialer to deliver a pre-recorded message, as if from a robot". So that call to remind you of your doctor's appointment? Legal robocall. The call to let you know your kid's school is cancelled due to Godzill...
[15:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:49] <exec> 08└─People have been deprived of their peace of mind by design, not by accident.
[15:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:51] <exec> 08└─bringing somebody up for air for a moment during water boarding.
[15:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:53] <exec> 08└─Introducing the distinction of LEGAL and ILLEGAL robo calls helps segregate the calls you mention. It's a simple filter. Those to give money to the FCC leadership, and those who do not. Those currently legal robo calls have a mechanism by which they can remain legal.
[15:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:55] <exec> 08└─"Shouldn't they have to pay for the privilege" That is what 1-900 is for.
[15:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:57] <exec> 08└─I'm sure a lot of people have been getting those political robocalls lately. The worst thing about those, at least the ones I get, is they are rarely actual campaigns but rather "research firms" that want you to answer a bunch of automated (probably privacy invading/scammy) questions and there never...
[15:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:59] <exec> 08└─Out of the goodness of their hearts they will deploy that system at no further cost to the consumer, right? Right???
[15:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:01] <exec> 08└─In the 90s my answering machine (remember those) message started with the SIT tones. You know, the ones before any telephone error message. It was effective at getting the robo calls to mark my number is bad. I want a way to send the modern version of that kind of error message! Or, on older phones...
[15:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:16] <exec> 08└─Either we believe in free speech, or we don't. There is no middle ground. It's time to stop tolerating the hypocrites who believe in free speech, only as long as it doesn't offend anyone. This, in my mind, is why "common carrier" was defined all those decades ago. The phone company had no business m...
[15:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:17] <exec> 08└─We're losing a lot of very special people because of internet. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them. About closing that internet up in many ways. Somebody will say, "oh, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Speech." Thes...
[15:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:19] <exec> 08└─The picture is more complex as you say. I want to point out: the telephone is, and especially more so in the past, a one to one communications medium. So what one says in private to another person or small group was not quite the same thing as the internet, which can be both a broadcast medium and a...
[15:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:22] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we can import them to the tune of several million a year instead.
[15:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:24] <exec> 08└─It's policy of governments to police content of websites. It may be their policy, but the government had no right to meddle with content either. The government needs to police the service providers, not the content providers.
[15:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:26] <exec> 08└─I got a Twitter account some time ago mainly to make sure no one else took my handle. Not that I've ever had any problem with anyone trying to or wanting to impersonate me, or just coincidentally coming up with the same handle, as far as I know. I feel I don't have to concern myself too much about i...
[15:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:28] <exec> 08└─So gab is basically 4chan but you have to have an account to post. How I miss the days with spammers couldn't post inline video.
[15:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:30] <exec> 08└─You don't have to tolerate them, but you have no right to silence anybody. That is the working rule of all communication medium, or it should be.
[15:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─Don't blame the site, blame individual users who are the ones engaging in such activity. Hear Hear! The real danger comes from the followers and believers, but it's much more expedient to silence the speakers, being a singular focal point and all. But make no mistake, the blame is on the crowd.
[15:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:52] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really matter what we think, it matters what we know. And we don't know anything. Which is why somebody should go take a look. :-)
[15:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:53] <exec> 08└─If there are intelligent aliens who know about our existence and are interested in us, you can be sure they are likely to be far more technologically and scientifically advanced than we are. The big question is, would they want us to know about them, or not, and I would guess not, for several reason...
[15:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:16] <exec> 08└─First, Brexit must be cancelled. We all know the consultation (not a vote!) was heavily influenced by outside forces with an interest in weakening the EU.
[15:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:36] <exec> 08└─It's better than a fingerprint
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:38] <exec> 08└─If the thief cannot resist the urge to eat the severed appendage prior to extracting the chip, then they never get around to using the chip. It's true. Jeffry Dahmer gives this post five thumbs up
[15:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Plans 36 TB HAMR HDDs by 2022, 48 TB by 2024 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─I am going need to increase the size of my porn collection.
[15:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:48] <exec> 08└─But they ARE giving someone money. It's not just future tax abatements. The state is sinking state taxpayer money RIGHT NOW into roads and infrastructure - money that Foxconn doesn't have to spend on construction that Foxconn doesn't have to construct.
[15:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:08] <exec> 08└─Greed is an understandable human trait, which has been a constant since humanity became human. At least the R's are relatively honest about their greed. The other gang? Just as greedy, but far less honest.
[15:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:10] <exec> 08└─Most of the -R losses seem to be neocons
[15:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:12] <exec> 08└─Who told you that vindictiveness was a flaw? Unless it was a Sunday School teacher, then it had to be a liberal.
[15:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:23] <exec> 08└─These are called "exit intent pop-ups".
[15:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:50] <exec> 08└─Tragically, customization is not a thing any more. It is one of the FOSS desktops' strengths but not one that can be mareted any more due to the public being so subdued into accepting the defaults.
[15:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:52] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, I've been using Linux on and off since the mid-90s, and I can definitely say Linux had significantly more issues for the average computer user until just a few years ago. Sure, Windows would gradually accumulate crap over time, eventually forcing a reinstall if you wanted a functional sys...
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[16:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:15] <exec> 08└─> DNS is compromised of a network It easily can be but is not always the case :) /joke I guess you meant "comprised" but it still makes sense. Anyway, thank you for what you're doing!
[16:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:16] <exec> 08└─This michael is ncommander?
[16:37:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 955 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─Qualifying it with "illegal" would suggest that there must be "legal" robocalls. Given Ajit's stance on those other "important issues", I can imagine a scenario like this. (call me crazy, paranoid, biased, cynical, crazy, unrealistic, crazy, etc. There is no crazy mod. Yet.) * We must stop ILLEGAL r...
[16:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:40] <exec> 08└─The call to let you know your kid's school is cancelled due to Godzilla attack? Legal robocall.
[16:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:03] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that you can't get platform shoes at Walmart? Are they out of style - again? What does Walmart have to do with anything, anyway? Walmart shouldn't be able to de-platform anyone. Freedom of the sole is guaranteed in the constitution, or something, isn't it?
[16:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:04] <exec> 08└─EDO, or Early Dementia Onset is a thing with orange people, isn't it?
[16:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:06] <exec> 08└─Exactly. As much as I loathe the foaming-at-the-mouth white supremacists over at Stormfront - I've never considered trying to shut them up, or shut them down, or even organizing a girlcott. (Why is it always a boycott? Hell, they name hurricanes after boys these days, right?)
[16:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:08] <exec> 08└─I have my own philosophy and that is that Karl Popper is an idiot. Humour is a sufficient method to cope with intolerance. Human psychology is more advanced than Karl Popper can imagine. I can tell by experience that the most annoying thing for the people I have talked to, who have intolerant views...
[16:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:10] <exec> 08└─Actually - I think maybe 4chan has more intelligent trolls. Certainly more imaginative trolls. And, 4chan has actually managed to accomplish a few cool things. Minor, but cool. Gab, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have accomplished anything to date, unless we count survival, and pissing off the p...
[16:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:12] <exec> 08└─So, we should not tolerate those who are intolerant of the intolerant? Free speech means everybody gets to talk, even, and most especially, those we disagree with. That is a core American value we can never relinquish nor equivocate on.
[16:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:15] <exec> 08└─Pissing off the politically correct crowd is an accomplishment. Every lover of freedom ought to strike that blow at every opportunity. I don't use racial epithets because I am not a racist. It is a worldview alien to me, and none of it resides in my heart. But I'll be damned if I'll tell some guy wh...
[16:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─That works up to a certain point. If someone is calling for $GROUP to be exterminated on a public platform, it's safe to say no amount of engagement with either reason or humor is going to persuade them otherwise. Should the Jews, Roma, gays, Communists etc in Nazi Germany have attempted satire on t...
[16:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:19] <exec> 08└─Same thing I said in my journal post: you don't get to give our freedoms away piecemeal to private business and then complain when one of them does something you don't like. And it would help to actually study the Constitution: first amendment says the *government* can't limit your free speech, and...
[16:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─Collision or joining with a lighter darker object.
[16:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:42] <exec> 08└─Who named it, "Ooo, mama?" They need to go back to the drawing board. Given its shape, it should have been called, "Oh my goodness!" or something.
[16:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 4480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:05] <exec> 08└─I'm a clean-hands freak; and dislike shaking hands. One of the curses of American society is the simple act of shaking hands, and the more successful and famous one becomes, the worse this terrible custom seems to get. I happen to be a clean-hands freak. I feel much better after I thoroughly wash my...
[16:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:07] <exec> 08└─Revoke the free democratic choice of the British people? Form a military coalition with the goal of colonizing other states? Suppress political dissenters? Holy crap I hope you're being sarcastic.
[16:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:09] <exec> 08└─United States of Europe - that's what we need.United States of Europe - that's what we need.
[16:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:11] <exec> 08└─I'm sure we already have a first rate military. Post the enemy on the bulletin board and planes will take off from all European countries. I think we should have went with another plane than Joint Strike Fighter. The Swedish Gripen was cheaper and better (it works).
[16:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:01] <exec> 08└─Alabama puts pretty much everything in their state constitution. It's extremely long. No other state puts anywhere near as much stuff in their respective consitutions. This is something that's rather problematic as a constitution is supposed to be relatively constant, only being changed when there's...
[16:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:03] <exec> 08└─Georgia? You mean the same Georgia that has a pattern of elections fraud by Republicans looking to suppress the votes of anybody that isn't likely to vote for them? The same Georgia that just a couple weeks ago go slapped for illegally preventing tens of thousands of people from voting because the S...
[16:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, nothing is a flaw anymore. Greed, vindictiveness. Also racism, bigotry, misoginy. Not flaws, just "differences in opinion". Soon, thiefs, pedophiles, rapists and murderers will no longer be considered criminals, just people with a "different" way of interacting with society. And those who will...
[16:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:07] <exec> 08└─There's a huge difference. Obama didn't have the Democratic members of congress refusing to investigate things up until that point. We know that Trump is crooked and there's been numerous instances where the House or Senate would normally issue subpoenas of him and close associates to try and determ...
[16:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:09] <exec> 08└─The results havent been updated on that page since this post. There are also still 4 senate seats undetermined it looks like.
[16:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:11] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't the incumbent be one of the people on the ballot? In which case if >50% None of the Above, he's barred from running same as the rest.
[16:43:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Early Humans Had Skeletal Deformities Linked to Inbreeding - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:08] <exec> 08└─It sure is ornery in here. Election rage containment zone in ~2 hours.
[16:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:51] <exec> 08└─While I agree with all of what you are saying, there was another big advantage to the EEEPC: they are incredibly small and light.
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[17:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:21] <exec> 08└─In a nation with declining birth rates and limited immigration, their futures would have been bright.
[17:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:23] <exec> 08└─Via decades of inflationary Keynesian "economics", the government has turned Japan into a nation of slaves, stealing their productivity only to squander it on propping up the slowly failing status quo.
[17:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:25] <exec> 08└─if they're anything like the angst ridden teenagers of the US it's because they have been raised to have screwed up priorities and world view. too much tv and SM in the US. maybe it's more to do with pressure from family and peers in japan, idk much about japan. kids need to be raised in small decen...
[17:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's never going to happen. The Japanese education system is highly organized and ingrained to stratify everyone according to their test results. In middle school exams determine if you're going to go to an academic high school to learn to be lawyers, doctors, and scientists, commercial high...
[17:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:29] <exec> 08└─BOJ is top-10 shareholders in 40% of listed companies https://asia.nikkei.com [nikkei.com] It's peaceful transition to Socialism in progress executed by capitalists themselves exactly as predicted by Carl Marx. Here is how the actu...
[17:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:40] <exec> 08└─As the person who tested SoylentNews' implementation of Unicode / UTF-8 support, I can attest that this area is (1) important and (2) challenging. Turtles all the way down is a fair description of the layers of abstraction, representation, and presentation that apply here. I'm pressed for time atm,...
[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─They used to run their web server on the top-level domain. The URL was http://va [va] of course, and then also with the www. Lots of buggy software had issues with this. It's a shame the old URL had to go. It was special.
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:06] <exec> 08└─"legal" robocalls are limited to businesses you have an existing relationship with.
[17:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:08] <exec> 08└─I also let Google to transcript whatever my phone has to say. If it can't or I don't like what I read - forgetaboutit. Which makes me wonder, what king of screwed information all that "opinion pools research" or whatever they are called are getting. Political, economical, social - it's all bullshit...
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:10] <exec> 08└─Well, given that the industry just got a MAJOR giveaway from the FCC on costs and (despite FCC assertions to the contrary) they have decided NOT to use that money to benefit consumers in any way," [soylentnews.org] I'm sure they'll realize "they owe us" and do this for free. Since telecoms so often...
[17:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:12] <exec> 08└─this is what pisses me off. these pieces of shit are trying to use my phone service or bandwidth to call me about things i don't want to hear about and which are not my fault. that should be illegal period. it's theft. doing it in a way that doesn't make things worse in regards to privacy is another...
[17:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:14] <exec> 08└─same thing goes with snail mail. why do i get to throw away/recycle junk mail so the usps can make money off of scammers and spammers? politicians are suited whores and so are the dumb asses who just elected a whole bunch more of them.
[17:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:16] <exec> 08└─So you think your doctor is secretly giving money to the FCC chair? Is that your theory?
[17:38:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Gab is Back - 954 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:28] <exec> 08└─I signed up for a Twitter account when they first started years ago. I never sent a single message or logged in once. The breathless excitement about it coming from the press was enough to repel me. Likewise I had little use for Gab. It's another copycat social media play to the eyes of one who has...
[17:38:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Gab is Back - 939 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:31] <exec> 08└─Either we believe in free speech, or we don't. There is no middle ground. It's time to stop tolerating the hypocrites who believe in free speech, only as long as it doesn't offend anyone. This, in my mind, is why "common carrier" was defined all those decades ago. The phone company had no business m...
[17:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:49] <exec> 08└─4chan has actually managed to accomplish a few cool things
[17:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:50] <exec> 08└─What a profoundly stupid comment! Your open hostility to the working class is what set the stage for the resurgence of white nationalism.
[17:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:53] <exec> 08└─I'm seeing lots of intolerance in the responses realDonaldTrump gets on Twitter. So much hate for our president! You'd support banning that, yes? Anti-semitism is now running rampant in the Democratic party. What should be do about it? There's Linda Sarsour, Louis Farrakhan, Rashida Tlaib, Keith Ell...
[17:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:55] <exec> 08└─Mockery might work, but it only works if widespread and it reaches more people.
[17:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:57] <exec> 08└─Either we believe in free speech, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
[17:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:59] <exec> 08└─Pissing off the politically correct crowd is an accomplishment. Every lover of freedom ought to strike that blow at every opportunity.
[17:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:23] <exec> 08└─Says no. The only thing we can say... high probabilty extra-solar system object.. Is it light and wide enough to get a boost from solar radiation ...may be. I like to quote Calvin of Calvin and Hobbs... The proof that there is intelligent life out there is that they have not tried to contact us !
[17:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:24] <exec> 08└─Click here to discover the three shocking things they don't want you to know about Betteridge's law of headlines.
[17:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:26] <exec> 08└─The real story is that millions of these things are zipping in and out of the solar system annually. Our ability to detect nearby asteroids has advanced tremendously in recent years. So we managed to spot this object and notice its unusual trajectory.
[17:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:53] <exec> 08└─i know you know this but, no they're not being sarcastic. they are really that stupid. they mentioned poland and hungary, likely because poland and hungary have the goddamn balls to protect their people from this globalist scam and it's hordes of invaders. this stupid bitch thinks a bunch of unelect...
[17:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:54] <exec> 08└─First of all most of the EU members are already in NATO, but apparently that isn't good enough.
[17:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:14] <exec> 08└─If that chip becomes mandatory, I'm going to get into the business of making RF blocking gloves. Anyone else into chainmail? http://theringlord.org [theringlord.org] Another option, instead of putting the chip into a ring or watch, it could also be in a glove.
[17:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:16] <exec> 08└─What is this wrist watch thing you speak of?
[17:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:18] <exec> 08└─it's probably closed source too. skynet client id.
[17:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Previews Zen 2 Epyc CPUs with up to 64 Cores, New "Chiplet" Design - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:43] <exec> 08└─and they won't sell you an epyc chip without their closed source management BS/backdoor.
[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:05] <exec> 08└─The Internet of Things is a buzzword, but I have never seen an IoT device that needed a public IPv4 IP. And I have never seen a user who signed up for an internet connection just to get their IoT device online. The crunch is not effected in the slightest by IoT marketing wank. There isn't a single m...
[17:41:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:16] <exec> 08└─"Foxconn is struggling to find enough skilled workers for its planned facility in Wisconsin that are willing to work for poverty wages."
[17:41:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, to "get" enough qualified workers a business must not only pay well, but provide training, help with education, good medical, and long time job and income protection such as pension plans and unions support. Then, may be, a sizable business could secure the labor. That's the difference bet...
[17:42:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─In other words, what usually happens in midterm elections happened again--the opposition party gains. The Republicans strengthened their firewall against Trump's removal via impeachment. They gained Senate seats and purged Never Trumpers from their ranks who might have joined with Democrats in a bip...
[17:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:59] <exec> 08└─Who holds the office while the new election is organized? You've gotta get all new candidates, they've gotta have time to run a campaign, then you have to have the actual election. Meanwhile, the incumbent probably stays in power even if everyone friggin' despises them. And what happens if people vo...
[17:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:01] <exec> 08└─Cue outrage meter. You just now found out you had issues with voting? You did not notice you never got your sample ballot? You never noticed you didn't get that big-ass cheap paper thing that describes the initiatives?
[17:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:03] <exec> 08└─Walker can only blame himself for his loss. They pulled the same election fraud when he ran eight years ago. Then they did it again in his recall. And yet again when he ran for reelection the first time. All three of those times he was clever enough to outwit them and win anyway but eventually clev...
[17:43:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Hydroelectric Dams Are Unsustainable - 577 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:17] <exec> 08└─> governments were blindsided by the prospect of cheap electricity This is incorrect. The leaders were blinded by the giant piles of money from their World bank loans. The multi-nationals responsible for building these facilities were very studious to make sure the suppliers that happened to be the...
[17:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:40] <exec> 08└─Eh, still pointless whining from incels.
[17:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:22] <exec> 08└─I agree with you that exit intent pop-ups are a scummy practice. I was explaining why Google hasn't yet blocked them in Chrome and deranked them in Search.
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[18:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:14] <exec> 08└─THIS IS ON TOPIC. In the United States, it used to be common to bring young boys in for "top and bottom"; they'd tell the boy he was going to have his tonsils taken out, but then he'd wake up having been circumcised, too. The Anglo-Saxon world is crazy for surgery. This can be seen, ironically, in S...
[18:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─All hail Carl Marx
[18:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:31] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Would be curious to see a breakdown of the suicides by both time : before or after testing, and testing results. Are people killing themselves before the tests, or after doing poorly on the tests? These would indicate different causes and mitigations. FYI: In the USA, suicides are r...
[18:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:16] <exec> 08└─Did you mean lawsuits? I just can't imagine staying in a law suite.
[18:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─Nor should invaders be tolerated. Of course, when Germany tried to defend their country from enemy moles, the international Zionist banksters who controlled the recently conquered Russia, the British monarchy and the US treasury decided to teach them a lesson. Ever since then, the Jewish controlled...
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─If someone is calling for $GROUP to be exterminated on a public platform, it's safe to say no amount of engagement with either reason or humor is going to persuade them otherwise.
[18:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:00] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure dead jews can be classified as victims.
[18:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:26] <exec> 08└─IIUC, it was on a hyperbolic orbit, so it hasn't been sticking around. Investigating it from close up would be extremely difficult, as you need solar escape velocity. And since it keeps getting further away, and less well lit, investigating it remotely isn't likely to provide new information. The ti...
[18:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:27] <exec> 08└─They would definitely don't want to contact us simply because any contact would immediately trigger all out nuclear war. As per the rock, it could be a long lost part of early ship - junk nobody bothered to collect.
[18:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:57] <exec> 08└─I think he just wants every other country to defend France from being taken over again and again and again.
[18:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 2432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:58] <exec> 08└─The EU's major military threat is the Russians. Trump is very friendly with the Russkies, George W Bush was not. Hence it's perfectly reasonable for the EU to consider Trump less reliable than Bush as far as coming to their aid should trouble start. By the numbers, on paper, the Europeans have what...
[18:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:00] <exec> 08└─The EU manufactures most of its own military equipment, including fighter aircraft, tanks, troop transports, and a wide variety of ships. They also definitely know how to make small arms. The idea that the Europeans are unable to supply their own militaries hasn't been true since they recovered from...
[18:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:02] <exec> 08└─Historically, France is the friendliest western state to Russia along with Germany. That's because they tried to invade Russia already and remember the consequences. Especially French that is where the most popular dining out is bistro (means quickly in Russian). That's what Russian solders screamed...
[18:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:05] <exec> 08└─Yep, even Russians were buying (well, building together) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Perhaps the cooperation can be extended - French ships in exchange for Russian air defense rockets. Turkey is already on the board. https://www.cnbc.com
[18:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:28] <exec> 08└─Jeffry brought new meaning to the phrase "Finger licking good"
[18:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzarko [5697] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:29] <exec> 08└─... is all that someone who tries to put something under my skin will get.
[18:42:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1034 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:46] <exec> 08└─It was a blue wave. 1. The House of Representatives is a better measure of the mood of the country, since all of them are up for reelection every 2 years. And the Democrats picked up around 26-30 seats. Even with Republican-led gerrymandering in effect [wikipedia.org]. 2. The Senate races were stack...
[18:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:16] <exec> 08└─Oh. Yeah, good points. I mean the entire idea is a bit infeasible because people are still going to be locked into the 2-party system enough that you're never going to get a 50% "fuck them all" vote. A plurality, maybe, but I can't imagine a majority until the system gets a lot worse. Other than tha...
[18:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah actually I'm quite fond of the idea as well...it just needs a bit more work :) Ranked choice is probably the best realistic proposal though -- but only if the counts are reported the right way. By which I mean that if 20% of people vote for [third party], then those votes won't count and their...
[18:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:20] <exec> 08└─Going back to the "none of the above" idea...actually in a lot of situations you probably *could* just leave the position vacant until a new election is held. We probably don't want to go six months without a national President, but plenty of towns have survived longer than that without a mayor. And...
[18:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome 71 Will Punish Sites with "Abusive" Ads - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:40] <exec> 08└─I do appreciate your explanation--I modded you "informative"--and was arguing against the world in general, not with your helpful and correct information.
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[19:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:09] <exec> 08└─I didn't spend a decade studying surgical medicine for nothing. Now, open your mouth, and pay up.
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:11] <exec> 08└─It's all about the money. When the American Academy of Pediatrics defends ritual male genital mutilation, it's just doing the needful to defend a potentially $100,000,000 per year genital mutilation industry, and when that same AAP recommends allowing ritual female genital mutilation, it's again jus...
[19:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:13] <exec> 08└─Most states force taxpayers to fund the circumcisions of completely healthy children; whenever a state has dropped support for circumcision, the rate of circumcision among newborns has dropped significantly. Ain't nobody gonna pay fer dat outta pocket! Plus, forcible circumcision is kind of a violat...
[19:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:15] <exec> 08└─Until medicine moves away from the "fee for service" system, it will be perpetually dogged with this question of how many procedures and tests are performed out of a desire for profit rather than an honest need. Mammograms and prostate exams should be done every year starting at age 40, or every 2 y...
[19:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:17] <exec> 08└─It's silly, because you have to account for resources; you can't move away from a fee-for-service system. Secondly, it's wrong, because all of these problems are caused by the very attempt to move away from a fee-for-service system. The UK has its NHS, where people don't have to think all that much...
[19:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's almost like being xenophobic with a rigid class structure is bad for a culture.
[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─Is Carl some American relative of Karl?
[19:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:16] <exec> 08└─This is one of the reasons why people are moving to smartphones. Recent versions of Android will allow you to only have the phone ring for starred contacts. Mr. Number is great for hanging up on phone numbers that are likely to be scams. I'll hear like one ring and then it'll be sent to voice mail....
[19:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:17] <exec> 08└─Which makes me wonder, what king of screwed information all that "opinion pools research" or whatever they are called are getting. Political, economical, social - it's all bullshit at this point. We should expect more "surprises" similar to Trump election.
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:19] <exec> 08└─Considering that Congress seems to be the major offender here, what reason do we have to think they'll actually be willing to allow this kind of regulation? I've been getting robocalls to my cellphone (which is illegal) from candidates in different states a thousand miles away (potentially illegal -...
[19:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:21] <exec> 08└─The size of the loopholes is really a large part of the problem. For a period of years, the only robocalls I'd get were from people who had one of those exemptions. Never wanted to hear from them and didn't have any choice in the matter. Robocalls should be limited to situations like appointment rem...
[19:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:24] <exec> 08└─When I have the time... I like gving them bogus and condictor answers. LOVE screw with them and WASTE THEIR time. AFter going arround or two with press 7/92 to opt out. I press the 1 and waste 15+ minutes of them selling to me. I even got one guy to false information into the US Gov website for St...
[19:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:26] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree, but you would agree there are legitimate uses for robocalls, yes? And I know for myself, even with the election going on, 99% of the calls I get are for scams using spoofed numbers, not even companies that would fall into the loose definition of being legal under current law.
[19:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:28] <exec> 08└─Relationship only exists for 90days and only with the original company, it cannot transferred to another, from the time when YOU CONTRACTED them. They must stop when you verbally request it. They are not entitled to call on your cell phone. Also you must not be in the Do-Not-Call database, the phon...
[19:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:11] <exec> 08└─Because you understand the reason for Free Speech. On an even halfway level field the Truth usually wins arguments. Our current world is the result of a century of horribly biased debate. Communists held all of the "commanding heights" of mass media, entertainment and news, education, etc. and even...
[19:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:12] <exec> 08└─McCarthy didn't you die???? Maybe you found the Satanic ritual to convey your soul into a younger vessel?
[19:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:14] <exec> 08└─gab is kinda like /pol/ with more social media youtube streaming alt-lite people. I can't remember any interesting memes coming from gab, or really anything interesting at all. Gab is definitely more a "meetooo" "I luv your stream show" level of conversation than 4chan, 4chan is fairly serious most...
[19:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:16] <exec> 08└─The domain registrar problem has been solved for now. Hosting providers are available, Hell you have "bulletproof" hosts who will take on known criminals, questionable porn (even by porn standards), spammers, scammers, etc. The app store block is even being worked around, sideloading for Android and...
[19:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:18] <exec> 08└─In your dark ignorance and malice you malign a good if misguided man's memory. History has issued a verdict, his only sin was a failure of imagination. What he thought a controllable infestation at State was already fully metastasized into the very Committee he called into being, thus it almost inst...
[19:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 3404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:21] <exec> 08└─I think its very telling that the discussion is entirely about if Nazi Germany propaganda would theoretically require heavy handed censorship as a straw dog, but the people actually being censored are civ-nat alt-lite alex jones info wars and Milo Y and /r/The_Donald tier people. I'd say I'm to the...
[19:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:53] <exec> 08└─Seriously. I was waiting for some "Oumuamua's so fat..." jokes.
[19:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:30] <exec> 08└─You could say they already invaded Europe. 77% of the Russian population is living in Europe (25% of Russian soil). We're not enemies. yah европеец
[19:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:56] <exec> 08└─My bet is it will soon be required for crossing the border similar to pet's chips https://www.petrelocation.com [petrelocation.com]
[19:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Plans 36 TB HAMR HDDs by 2022, 48 TB by 2024 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:08] <exec> 08└─Have you upgraded to 8K resolution yet? How about 32K 360°?
[19:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Previews Zen 2 Epyc CPUs with up to 64 Cores, New "Chiplet" Design - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:26] <exec> 08└─"Move the memory controller inside the chip" "Okay, I put it on the die" "I want more of them" "Okay, but it's gonna cause you to have a huge chip, bad yields" "Fine, use multiple chips" "Now you get asymmetric latency" "Ok, let's pull th controller back off-die" "Can I keep it in the chip?" "Sure,...
[19:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:46] <exec> 08└─From what I understand the Foxconn boondoggle hurt him a lot. Good riddance to bad rubbish I say. You are correct that evil prospers when good people do nothing, but I'm going to disagree with you on who occupies either position. Voter turnout was high, which tells me that good people were out doing...
[19:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:47] <exec> 08└─Strange I live in seattle and my ballot is rejected for not matching my DL signature every single year. I have handwriting problems that are related to adhd. I could write neater but it's slow and it looks generically like everyone's handwriting when they try hard. I have a few characteristics that...
[19:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:49] <exec> 08└─The one that stunned me...that is the very fact that the law allowed this in the first place...is this: https://ballotpedia.org [ballotpedia.org] So now they require unanimous jury verdicts for felony convictions wh...
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[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Mammograms and prostate exams
[20:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:39] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else read the above and just sit in stunned silence for a minute?
[20:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:59] <exec> 08└─Anyone who’s seen a high school slice-of-life anime knows these statistics are bullshit.
[20:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:00] <exec> 08└─There's pressure. But is it justified? Which one of those outcomes is the bad, shameful one? (A salesman or a clerk? イヤ) If a kid goes to industrial high school and gets high scores relative to their peers, how hard is it to find a job?
[20:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:02] <exec> 08└─When you have systems like this in place, it makes it extremely hard for people that have a change of mind in life to alter their course. Because you need a 4-20 year degree to even be considered in many fields, once people are out of a field, it is nearly impossible to strike out in another direct...
[20:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:04] <exec> 08└─yeah they're probably not real suicides, the kids are just temporarily missing while they fight against evil in interdimensional/intergalactic/subterranean/prehistoric/future/cyberspace warfare. or --spoiler-- she didn't jump, she went out on that ledge to talk down her friend and then slipped and f...
[20:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─random question -- do any of the other major religions have TLDs? How about other large non-government organizations (NGOs)? Then there is the gray area of "semi-religions", I can see Bob Dobbs and the subgenius wanting .slack with obvious commercial collisions (Dobbs was using SLACK in the 1970s)....
[20:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:18] <exec> 08└─As an unseasoned NOC Technician who has edited a small handful of comparatively unimportant A records for websites whose names I cannot name-drop effectively,, DNS has always* interested me**, especially before I worked for that datacenter. The Wikipedia entries on the early internet are well-writte...
[20:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:57] <exec> 08└─My problem isn't the legal robocalls from CVS to remind me about prescriptions. My problem is that some asshole decided that it would be technically possible to spoof your number, because one guy somewhere may want to spoof instead of blocking, and now all the asshole robocalls are using random numb...
[20:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:58] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself, I rode my TS 185 to highschool, in snow and ice storms (for real). It was actually a lot of fun, I was laughing when a huge gust blew me off the road into a snow bank (no injury).
[20:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:00] <exec> 08└─You only had to fight Godzilla? Sheeeit son, God would suspend time and have us fight the Holy War every frickin' Wednesday. Kept talking about making us appreciate Hump Day, felt a little sacrilegious but I didn't want to bring it up.
[20:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:50] <exec> 08└─Are you seriously defending gypsies?
[20:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:52] <exec> 08└─Holy shit Arik what happened to your font?
[20:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:54] <exec> 08└─You can be assured that platform shoes will never go out of style. The same can be said for flared trousers with stars 'n' stripes pockets. Also anything recorded by Yes between 1969 and 1978. I have a list.
[20:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:04] <exec> 08└─The what ?
[20:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:05] <exec> 08└─I, for one, have never read one of your posts. I sure as hell ain't gonna read a wall of text.
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[21:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:37] <exec> 08└─>you can't move away from a fee-for-service system. The fact that the Chinese medical system was traditionally NOT fee-for-service says otherwise. You paid your doctor when you were healthy, and stopped paying him when you were ill. Gave him a direct economic incentive to practice preventative medic...
[21:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:38] <exec> 08└─Those people were paying for services that would keep them healthy, such as the production of herbal teas. Naturally, when you get sick despite drinking herbal teas, you take your business elsewhere.
[21:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:40] <exec> 08└─Just disappointed by the lack of references. Ill-informed conclusions on biomedical topics seems to be the norm here.
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:43] <exec> 08└─that 3rd ferrari isn't going to buy itself
[21:37:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 1052 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's never going to happen. The Japanese education system is highly organized and ingrained to stratify everyone according to their test results. In middle school exams determine if you're going to go to an academic high school to learn to be lawyers, doctors, and scientists, commercial high...
[21:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they're probably being spirited away by shinigami-sans, or secretly murdered by yandere-chans.
[21:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:07] <exec> 08└─Notwithstanding popularity of Keynes, academic economists in Japan today no longer want to call themselves Keynesians. Their outlook is very similar to the American economic academia in which dynamic stochastic general equilibrium theory looms large.
[21:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:09] <exec> 08└─>> Carl [sic] Marx A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist "Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater...
[21:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:11] <exec> 08└─Pffft what a bunch of generationalist garbage. Learn history sometime, older people have been complaining about the younger generation since the dawn of time. It just shows that you prefer simplistic reasoning over critical thinking.
[21:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:28] <exec> 08└─Yes [linkedin.com]. He is. [github.com]
[21:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:29] <exec> 08└─The reason why the Vatican gets a TLD is because they are their own independent country. Hence, ".va" is the ccTLD for the Vatican City, and can be used however the government there wants.
[21:38:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:45] <exec> 08└─Of course there are legal robocalls. A robocall is "a phone call that uses a computerized autodialer to deliver a pre-recorded message, as if from a robot". So that call to remind you of your doctor's appointment? Legal robocall. The call to let you know your kid's school is cancelled due to Godzill...
[21:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:13] <exec> 08└─Yup, my phone too has become useless in its native form, as has many web pages, as unwanted factions take it on themselves to impose onto everyone else. Why can't the phone company deal with robocalls and CNI spoofing like they handled blue boxing? Sure didn't take them long to fix that!
[21:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:14] <exec> 08└─If our Congress passes law considering sharing a song as theft, then why aren't robocalls not considered theft, as many people pay by the minute. I would love to be able to hit a couple of buttons on my phone to reverse the charge... Even a dime...to the account of the faction that called me. I am p...
[21:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there are reasons to keep spoofing in place. So that the legal robocallers (which are usually in another state from the actual business that hired them) can pass along the caller ID of the client who hired them so that this is the number the person calls back when they see it on their caller I...
[21:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:09] <exec> 08└─Because if it IS ok for trillion dollar publicly traded corporations to impose political tests for who can buy and sell goods, host Internet sites, etc. then it goddamned well be one rule for all.
[21:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:11] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean Tail-Gunner Joe, the guy who lied about his war service? Or maybe the "good if misguided man" who drove Senator Lester C. Hunt to suicide because his son was gay? Or maybe the "good if misguided man" who was censured by the Senate? Because that's almost unheard of. By the way "Blackl...
[21:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:13] <exec> 08└─...when Germany tried to defend their country...
[21:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:15] <exec> 08└─So, we should not tolerate those who are intolerant of the intolerant?
[21:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:47] <exec> 08└─Devil's advocate: maybe they sent these probes out a long time ago, before we began broadcasting radio static into the abyss. In that case they might not have known we existed, and a probe like this could be a cheap way of scouting planets for resources and signs of life. Staying hidden might just n...
[21:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:48] <exec> 08└─...offhand speculation about them being alien spacecrafts will inspire epic clickbait.
[21:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:50] <exec> 08└─So...definitely aliens then? Thought so.
[21:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:28] <exec> 08└─The unspoken, but real, point of having an "EU army" is not to complement NATO, but to get rid of it. This is a proposal to get the US out of Europe. As an American, I support the proposal wholeheartedly.
[21:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:29] <exec> 08└─Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
[21:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:31] <exec> 08└─They've been freeloading militarily speaking off everyone else since their spirited showing in WW2, and their heroic defense of their population in Vietnam. France has been first in line to sell military to anyone, now they are looking to the rest of Europe to foot the bill for their defense. The US...
[21:42:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins - 1024 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:43] <exec> 08└─Leases and reserved addresses. It's not a question of how a machine gets an address, that's easy. It's a question of knowing what machine got what address and how you talk to that machine and what if you want that machine to have a very particular address without having to make it use a (manually en...
[21:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:47] <exec> 08└─If we wanted hardware addresses in our network ids we would still be using IPX after all.
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[22:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Google Will Support Foldable Devices; Samsung Announces 2019 Foldable Phone - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:40] <exec> 08└─Nice try, Trump traitors.
[22:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tencent is Launching its Own Version of Snap Spectacles - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:48] <exec> 08└─more amateur first-person pron is coming to an app/site/?? near you
[22:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tencent is Launching its Own Version of Snap Spectacles - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:50] <exec> 08└─You marketed the device better than they ever could. You'd look like a douche fucking with sunglasses on, which may be a plus. Next stop: Beer Goggles Mode.
[22:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:10] <exec> 08└─...would have fudged enough to say 7 of 9 It is just a more appealing statistic.
[22:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's almost like being xenophobic with a rigid class structure is bad for a culture.
[22:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:39] <exec> 08└─we 4chan nao
[22:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:41] <exec> 08└─--nomsg
[22:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:43] <exec> 08└─I agree, and the gap between that and what we have now constitutes the vast untapped human potential in the world that is being squandered by a system set up to enrich a very few at the expense of all, even those few themselves. Even most of us who are blessed to live in the first world rely upon co...
[22:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:01] <exec> 08└─Thanks for representing the small guys and non-profits. The contributions you are making sound pretty cool. Looking forward to that blog post.
[22:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:02] <exec> 08└─That’s the problem with namefagging; it’s trivially easy to get doxxxexd.
[22:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 3542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:45] <exec> 08└─Slow down there! First off, there is the traditional system, PSTN, and the "new hotness", VoIP. Unless you were somebody that could directly tap into the telecom carriers network with sophisticated knowledge of the SS7 protocols and exploits, you spoof calls with VoIP. VoIP cannot really work at all...
[22:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:46] <exec> 08└─You're looking at it the wrong way. The Telcos can always figure out who to send the phone bill to. If they don't, fat chance your calls will go through for long. "I'd like to reach Bill" "Sure, I'll connect you as soon as I know I'm getting paid" Whoever is authenticated as paying should get their...
[22:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:48] <exec> 08└─If you get them on your cell phone, an Android phone, then you can block them and report them as spam.
[22:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:51] <exec> 08└─Not currently. My theory is that is what Ajit would like to happen. If you want to make RoboCalls then you should have to pay your phone company. The phone companies would pay Ajit for these rule changes.
[22:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:49] <exec> 08└─> Are you seriously defending gypsies? If gypsies/Roma break the law, the authorities ought to be able to deal with it the same as if anyone else broke the law. No need for all the hate and mob action.
[22:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:50] <exec> 08└─I wish I could believe you are trolling. Jmorris and McCarthy sitting in a tree G E N O C I - DING! First comes fear then come stupid Next is a man baby committing homicide Ya ya the last bit didn't rhyme that well, this isn't News For Poets, Stuff That Makes Jmorris Feel Like A Man
[22:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:29] <exec> 08└─...what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity. Case in point: *Woooooooshes silently in space* - hello there planet, what's your name? - they call me earth - nice name what does it mean? - it's the brown shit the living thingies thrive on - oh, cool... i guess - they also gave you a name - oh r...
[22:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:30] <exec> 08└─>"It would be a trivial matter for them to keep us unaware of their existence while observing us in as much detail as they wish." That is probably false.
[22:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:15] <exec> 08└─Never. I'll never turn to the Dark Side. You've failed, your highness.
[22:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:16] <exec> 08└─They'll see what good, caring friends the US is, when they tell the US to stop interfering with their continued observance of a treaty that all those parties concluded with Iran.
[22:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:42] <exec> 08└─Mass adoption of IPv6 will happen only when the 128-bit address space is far too small to be usable.
[22:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:52] <exec> 08└─I recognize that tuber
[22:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:53] <exec> 08└─At least the R's are relatively honest about their greed. The other gang? Just as greedy, but far less honest.
[22:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:55] <exec> 08└─Who do you vote for in the next round, then? Write-ins?
[22:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Sanitizes Rainbow Six Siege for Global Release - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:30] <exec> 08└─I switched to buying games from HumbleBundle Now I have a large backlog of games to play through. So happy.
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[23:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Support Foldable Devices; Samsung Announces 2019 Foldable Phone - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:26] <exec> 08└─How many times can you fold a phone in half? You can only fold paper supposedly 7 or 8 times. I swear to Google that if you fold paper 103 times it is thicker than the observable universe. What about a foldable phone? Let's ask Mr. Owl, he knows everything!
[23:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Support Foldable Devices; Samsung Announces 2019 Foldable Phone - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─Apple started it. [theverge.com]
[23:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Support Foldable Devices; Samsung Announces 2019 Foldable Phone - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─You misread. I don't want a screen that folds in half. I want a screen that could fold to about 45 degrees, such that it mostly flexes a few degrees to match my not-flat pants pockets, or to resist a bad incident without shattering.
[23:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Support Foldable Devices; Samsung Announces 2019 Foldable Phone - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:32] <exec> 08└─Pfft! This is Apple we're talking about, if anything breaks then clearly the user must have been folding it wrong.
[23:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tencent is Launching its Own Version of Snap Spectacles - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:44] <exec> 08└─most guys in porn look douchey anyway, what does it matter? Real FPV with these would have lots of closeups of pillows, or ears... mmm, sexy!
[23:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:08] <exec> 08└─Sign on Rabbi's door: WEDNESDAY SPECIAL TODAY ONLY: Circumcision HALF OFF !!!
[23:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:09] <exec> 08└─if my kid had four to six infections of the tonsils in a single year I would be seriously considering tonsillectomy
[23:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:11] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine was circumsized when he was twelve. It resulted in him having a painful Woodie for a solid - so to speak - week.
[23:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:42] <exec> 08└─It depends on which of those outcomes is that which the parents and the child's teacher did not expect. If they wanted the boy to become a doctor, and he only tested into a commercial high school, then it's a lot different than the kid whose parents are fine with that. There are other layers of cour...
[23:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:43] <exec> 08└─Bullying and physical abuse are contributing factors, too. "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down" is a saying in Japan because bullying and peer pressure are that institutionalized. Physical abuse is rampant in schools also. Teachers and administrators beat the hell out of students. There was...
[23:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:45] <exec> 08└─I fail to understand what could possibly be bad about a per-capita growth rate of zero. Yet whenever the growth rate really is zero, the economy sucked. The parents of me and all my friends were more prosperous than I and my friends.
[23:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:47] <exec> 08└─Get them to talk - about anything - by asking "leading questions", that is, questions which do not have a Yes or No answer. Listen carefully then respond so as to make transparently obvious that you really heard them. During my six week suicide hotline training course, we spent most of our times doi...
[23:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:52] <exec> 08└─If only EMAIL had an FCC.
[23:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:54] <exec> 08└─They will of course retail the profits from the call completion fees for the robocalls. That's theirs due after all, right?
[23:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:56] <exec> 08└─Most edible mushrooms love cellulose. Maybe the snailmail spammers try to convince you to pick up this hobby?
[23:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:54] <exec> 08└─I have zero fucking sympathy. Everyone gave the control to Silicon Valley, so much so, that we look at them now as these monolithic entities that unilaterally shape our world. No sympathy. You all dug the graves you stand in. Tiny violin here :) Yet, there is still the Internet beyond them. What a f...
[23:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:55] <exec> 08└─It's funny, based on snippets of speech, signs and behavior I noticed in passing, I actually thought 'ANTIFA' meant ANTI-First-Amendment for like a year before I found out it meant ANTI-FAscist. There is a very strong sentiment propagating that is quite favorable towards restricting the first ame...
[23:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:57] <exec> 08└─You know, you misspelled Cory Borker, right?
[23:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:59] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry you had such an urgent need to speak from admitted ignorance. Education cures ignorance but not stupidity so lemme put ya some knowledge on and see it it cures your problem. :) I'm not sure what the big fucking deal is either, or why it took Gab so long to come back up, or why it even went...
[23:41:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:13] <exec> 08└─The real story is that millions of these things are zipping in and out of the solar system annually. Our ability to detect nearby asteroids has advanced tremendously in recent years. So we managed to spot this object and notice its unusual trajectory. In a decade or three we'll be detecting a lot mo...
[23:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:36] <exec> 08└─Trivial for us? No. Trivial for a species that has mastered interstellar flight? Probably.
[23:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:37] <exec> 08└─All those jokes got sucked into Oumuamua's gravity well.
[23:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:39] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't be so sure if it's not a possibly discarded alien sail or even an operational one, see Oberth Manuver or Effect, and it's rather unlikely we will see zillions of interstellar objects zipping by. https://www.centauri-dreams.org [cent...
[23:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:41] <exec> 08└─Is it a water heater? ...a snow cone maker!
[23:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 1562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:29] <exec> 08└─Today's Russia has a population of 144 million. The EU has a population of 513 million. The average life expectancy of a Russian man is 66 years. In the EU it's 79 years. The GDP of Russia is $1.58 trillion dollars. The GDP of the EU is $17.28 trillion. In short, Russia is not the threat to the EU t...
[23:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─I think he's just mad that Trump is asking him to pony up more money for defense instead of spending it on national healthcare, free university education, and programs like that. But it really is cutting your nose off to spite your face to think that the answer to spending more money on your militar...
[23:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:32] <exec> 08└─there was a PR event in which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hit a giant restart button to signal a fresh, warmer relationship with Russia under Putin
[23:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Plans 36 TB HAMR HDDs by 2022, 48 TB by 2024 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:11] <exec> 08└─Drives are becoming so big that creating an new off site backup will complete around the time of the heat death of the universe....
[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─Sunday school it was. There's a Christian teaching about forgiveness. The vindictiveness is the Scots-Irish in me. Sometimes useful when fighting revolutions against the British crown, but most often a drawback.
[23:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:00] <exec> 08└─Where do you get the energy to write and cite so much stuff nobody actually gives a fuck about?
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