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[00:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06University of Alberta Physicists Develop New Technique to Create Quantum Memory - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:34] <exec> 08└─Did you know that the plural of aircraft is aircraft? I just learned that today! Also: spacecraft tuna shrimp cod
[00:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta Physicists Develop New Technique to Create Quantum Memory - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:36] <exec> 08└─> store pulses of light (...) in clouds of ultracold rubidium atoms Yet another cloud storage provider, with a better marketing guy than the boring "platinum service" guys...
[00:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta Physicists Develop New Technique to Create Quantum Memory - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:38] <exec> 08└─This sounds somewhat like a revised version of the Williams storage tube idea that was used for early computer memory before being supplanted by magnetic core memory, but updated to the quantum era. :)
[00:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tencent is Launching its Own Version of Snap Spectacles - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:05] <exec> 08└─I wonder what it says about me that I had never even considered that? Even though it's really obvious. Of course, if the pron people don't take this tech up, it will fail yet again.
[00:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Something like that was once expressed during a committee meeting of a local breast cancer charity by the one man (an MD) in a committee of 15 or so women (and whatever you want to classify me as—I was presenting male and had said nothing about being trans or having breasts… many years bef...
[00:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:05] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that the two systems have to be mutually exclusive. For instance, some years I enjoy putting up drywall and cutting boards. Some years I enjoy database work. Some years I enjoy putting together robots. With that said, if no one feels like diving in sewage to clear a blockage [apnews....
[00:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:07] <exec> 08└─Growth is necessary because the banking system as constructed continually feeds a percentage of the society's wealth to the bankers. This percentage is roughly equal to the money supply times the interest rate minus the defaults on debt. In a steady state economy this ends up with all the wealth in...
[00:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:19] <exec> 08└─All well and good... as usual, could be better, and is 20 years late vs the technology that was in-place to make it happen back in the '90s.
[00:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:20] <exec> 08└─Modern systems are sophisticated enough not to be fooled by that. It was just one step in the arms race (I had several versions of it myself, was even built into some phones without answering machines...) The real challenge with modern phone harassment is free and very low cost international calling...
[00:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:22] <exec> 08└─But, can you prove that it really was candidate X, or was it one of their opponents trying to make them look bad?
[00:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:25] <exec> 08└─Back in my day, we walked uphill to school, barefoot, in the snow, fighting Godzilla all the way.
[00:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:31] <exec> 08└─Reason and humor reach not the xenophobics, but rather everyone else Exactly the point that wannbe censors prefer to ignore. It's the followers/believers that are dangerous. The xenophobes are just loudmouths. It is not their fault if other people choose to take them seriously and follow. Those who...
[00:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:32] <exec> 08└─Labeling and regulating the service providers as common carriers would fix this problem, so that nobody can be shut down for offending a person's sensitivities. You don't have to like what's being said on the internet, but nobody is forcing you to tune in.
[00:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:35] <exec> 08└─Ilhan Omar just got elected as a democrat. One of her tweets: "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel" She is now elected. She is an islamist from Somalia who MARRIED HER BROTHER. Seriously, WTF. She will now represent house district...
[00:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:37] <exec> 08└─I signed up, did one post and got advertised to by people 'posting comments and 'likes'' in order to get me to login and see the advertisement and haven't been back since.
[00:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:21] <exec> 08└─I prefer to say "It is wafer thin!", then run to get my alien vomit catching bucket.
[00:43:09] <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 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:09] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but the key here would be to give that extra military spendings to French industry or at least to EU industry.
[00:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:38] <exec> 08└─I do it fast. And plenty of people care about it, they just aren't depl0rables.
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[01:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netgear Introduces its First Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Routers - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:25] <exec> 08└─Router software and security though is shit. Too many exploits, and I don't think either of those two companies gives enough fucks to make a truly secure and decent OS for their routers. So unless it can be overwritten with open source, it's just another low end consumer product. I'll be interested...
[01:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netgear Introduces its First Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Routers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:27] <exec> 08└─> In the meanwhile Shoot the Anandtech editors ! Put a [sic] ! /triggered
[01:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tencent is Launching its Own Version of Snap Spectacles - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:03] <exec> 08└─> You marketed the device better than they ever could. Us ACs got strength in numbers!
[01:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tencent is Launching its Own Version of Snap Spectacles - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:05] <exec> 08└─> ... closeups of pillows, or ears... mmm, sexy! I think you just figured out how to get around the {name big video sites} censors. Pron innuendo. Or is soft core like that already a genre?
[01:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:31] <exec> 08└─Give us examples that lead you to that conclusion.
[01:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:33] <exec> 08└─I had my circumcision done at birth. I'm not missing all that much (no pun intended), and after hearing the stories about head cheese, and the lamentations of women dealing with unclean dicks, I think I'm out ahead. A cleaner dick is one that will be blown more. I'm pretty sure we don't need to cond...
[01:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:11] <exec> 08└─The real list of mental illnesses: - being french - being german - being japanese - being italian - being usian - being russian notes: chinese illness is a fake, they are not really into it niggers suffer from a strange syndrome, affecting them only when in groups. Prove me wrong. (don't be a hypocr...
[01:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:12] <exec> 08└─> older people have been complaining about the younger generation since the dawn of time And they were right. Every. Single. Time.
[01:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:14] <exec> 08└─free market creates lumps of success, conventionally called capitalists. capitalists want no more competition so they get in bed with the government you can call it socialism Do you need to read a book to conclude the same? It's obvious.
[01:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Pushes Carriers to Implement Caller ID Authentication by 2019 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:32] <exec> 08└─...or Russian hackers looking to have a laugh and stir up a little political mischief.
[01:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:43] <exec> 08└─It's a way for the rest of us to contain the virus by putting all of the infected in one place. This makes it easier to snuff out. I am OK with racist scumbags, incels, MRAs, gamergaters and outright Nazis to have a little clubhouse where they can do their thing. It makes watching them a lot easier....
[01:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:29] <exec> 08└─And then click here to reveal the one secret trick they won't let us talk about that invalidates Betteridge.
[01:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could 'Oumuamua be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:31] <exec> 08└─It's an IEM. Defined as an Intergalactic Espresso Machine. Yes, I am smokin' the good shit.
[01:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Plans 36 TB HAMR HDDs by 2022, 48 TB by 2024 - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:03] <exec> 08└─> Have you upgraded to 8K resolution yet? Bad idea, who wants to see every zit, blemish and wrinkle? If you don't let your imagination fill in (or gloss over!) some details, you might lose your imagination all together.
[01:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Plans 36 TB HAMR HDDs by 2022, 48 TB by 2024 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:04] <exec> 08└─Write the data to both sites at the same time. Or get SSDs. "Drives" includes SSDs and those are getting much bigger than 48 TB. With much higher read/write speeds.
[01:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Plans 36 TB HAMR HDDs by 2022, 48 TB by 2024 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:07] <exec> 08└─Indeed. That's why I specified 'new offsite backup.'
[01:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:02] <exec> 08└─The other MI ballot measures were far more interesting than weed IMO.
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[02:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netgear Introduces its First Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Routers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:29] <exec> 08└─Don't read one of their Anton Shilov articles, you might game end yourself.
[02:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netgear Introduces its First Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Routers - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:30] <exec> 08└─I have a good enough firewall between my cable modem and my internal GbE smart switch (Cisco 8-port; it's nice that I can manage the network to keep its traffic local). My best friend, however, has only wireless devices: phone, tablet, laptop, ... Next update cycle of those will likely include 'ax,...
[02:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netgear Introduces its First Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Routers - 2283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:33] <exec> 08└─I worked for a company in, um, '02 or so? They had video wireless tech that would let you shoot video from a server to your TV. Remember those commercials that indicated you could move your TV to the pool, or the garage, or wherever, and the cable would follow? Yeah, they bought that tech from this...
[02:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Support Foldable Devices; Samsung Announces 2019 Foldable Phone - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/11/7/18073580/samsung-infinity-flex-display-foldable-smartphone-specs-screen-size-features [theverge.com]
[02:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:42] <exec> 08└─And, you don't have much of a choice: Rationalize the situation as "I got the better end of the stick". Acknowledge that you had a part of his sexual organ surgically removed, and that this was probably a wrong thing. The same applies to women: Rationalize the situation as "My son/lover got the bett...
[02:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:25] <exec> 08└─In all honesty, I'm not surprised to hear that kind of a talk from a life form directly affected by Moore's law.
[02:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:50] <exec> 08└─Shirley you're not serious with that! Guess you're a fan of fiction, are you?
[02:43:26] <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 - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:26] <exec> 08└─> They didn't seem to have a problem with George W. Bush, who comprised those qualities also. [blink] [blink] Did you forget your appointment to talk to your doctor about your memory ? Let me give you a hint: "Freedom Fries".
[02:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Plans 36 TB HAMR HDDs by 2022, 48 TB by 2024 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:15] <exec> 08└─who wants to see every zit, blemish and wrinkle?
[02:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:00] <exec> 08└─I'm curious what is missing on the client config? My understanding is that the ipv6 autoconfig can supply a DNS server (i.e. at a ipv6 address).
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[03:38:23] <exec> 08└─I always thought it'd be useful to have lab goggles that could record my experiments. It'd also be useful when working on my car.
[03:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:32] <exec> 08└─After which Jesus was jolted from his nap by the sudden influx of devotion from his new followers, thought for a moment, and then said "I want to feel good about this, but something about it just doesn't feel right. Ahh well, bless you my child, I guess."
[03:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:33] <exec> 08└─It has to do with the very nature of money. If you'd like a short visual explanation you can find one here. [technocracy.ca] It's a multi-page presentation so be sure to step through it with the links underneath. This is why an entirely new form of economics is needed, one that does not depend on mo...
[03:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06My Time as an ICANN Fellow - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:54] <exec> 08└─I guess Judaism has Israel's TLD, and Islam has Saudi Arabia's, and Hinduism has India's.
[03:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:16] <exec> 08└─LOL I looked for it, but all I see right now is your sweaty fungus story waiting in the queue. The humor in this election as, both sides are trying to cast the results as a win for them. But, there was no blue wave, there was no red wave. The balance of power remains a pretty close thing, with the D...
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[04:39:56] <exec> 08└─Growth is necessary because the banking system as constructed continually feeds a percentage of the society's wealth to the bankers. This percentage is roughly equal to the money supply times the interest rate minus the defaults on debt. In a steady state economy this ends up with all the wealth in...
[04:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:03] <exec> 08└─How do you feel about suicide counseling made easy?
[04:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:05] <exec> 08└─lkjasdlkcjaspd as lc alsdjkn s
[04:41:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Gab is Back - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:55] <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.
[04:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:34] <exec> 08└─The Federal Reserve is privately owned. Doesn't apply to them either.
[04:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:35] <exec> 08└─GuardAmerican making fun of Beta for driving drunk, wasting millions, losing, and having ugly fat people in his audiences. Seriously why are right wingers hot, and lefties so dang ugly?
[04:44:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lester [6231] 02 - 06Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin - 744 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:30] <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...
[04:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062018 U.S. Midterm Elections - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:55] <exec> 08└─Need some moar time. The Rs have SCOTUS control for two years, and will be able to get other judicial nominees confirmed. And then they have the President. They are still in a great position.
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[05:38:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was thinking that too. Or how about delay-line memory.
[05:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:21] <exec> 08└─This report is from the UK, which moved away from the "fee for service" model to one of "free at point of use" seventy years ago. The title for the Soylent article's got things a bit wrong. From TFS: of those who had tonsillectomies, only 1 in 10 (11%) had met the guidelines of how many sore throats...
[05:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:11] <exec> 08└─...And god* said to Abraham, "You will kill your son, Isaac." And Abraham said, "I can't hear you, you'll have to speak into the microphone." And god said, "I'm sorry, Is this better? Check. Check. Check. Jerry, pull the high end out, I'm still getting some hiss back here." *This word should be repl...
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[05:40:12] <exec> 08└─Fans of Emily Dickinson [poets.org]. More's the pity.
[05:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:14] <exec> 08└─Fans of Emily Dickinson [poets.org]. More's the pity.
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[06:36:55] <exec> 08└─What a great season this was of Star Trek Discovery. Between Tardigrades and Mycelium. I was fully enthralled. When I saw "The Martian," I thought wow, the gut microbiome is really a thing. If you put these things together, you can grow entire buildings out of Mycelium. In all honesty, I think i...
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[06:38:27] <exec> 08└─And, you don't have much of a choice: Rationalize the situation as "I got the better end of the stick". Acknowledge that you had a part of his sexual organ surgically removed, and that this was probably a wrong thing. The same applies to women: Rationalize the situation as "My son/lover got the bett...
[06:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:47] <exec> 08└─Have you asked help from ... Russia?
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[07:37:27] <exec> 08└─Of course, the realization that mycellium are their own branch of the tree of life has many interesting implications. One of the most interesting is that the parasitic life-forms we so easily idolize in our video games, and mythology, and search for mind-bending substances, may in fact just be using...
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[08:37:39] <exec> 08└─[On a side note, this would explain much of the editorial behavior of the editors on SoylentNews of late. the Mycelium have taken control of the Central Processsing Unit, so as to insure that the SLS never comes to fruition, but the cheaper, and more mycelium friendly "SpaceX" is selected to fly the...
[08:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Drug May Boost Dwindling Treatment Options for Gonorrhea - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:48] <exec> 08└─Suddenly, for some reason, our resident loudmouth is silent? Runaway1956! Tell us all about your adventures with VD, or STD, or even just WTF! We cannot wait to hear about your experiences!
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[09:37:31] <exec> 08└─Be it RAID, encryption, rootkits (aka management engines, virtualization) and more, always use software, not hardware. Software can be verified, data formats can be reverse engineered or are documented. Not so much with hardware solutions.
[09:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:25] <exec> 08└─I think you give the so called bankers too much credit. It is true that there is accrual of wealth in a small subset of the population (co called 1%ers). This can be measured by the Gini index which is on the rise in most countries. However, the Gini index will stabilize eventually because a Gini in...
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[10:37:47] <exec> 08└─The actual press release from Radboud University, the Netherlands [www.ru.nl] and the preliminary report [www.ru.nl] (warning for PDF) both, though mostly the latter, point the public to Free and Open Source Software: The results presented in this paper show that one should not rely solely on hardw...
[10:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:49] <exec> 08└─which bit of "Microsoft", "proprietary" and "hardware encryption" wasn't enough to cause people to look elsewhere for data protection?
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[10:37:51] <exec> 08└─It was a quite a heartwarming scene to see an adult affectionately hugging a child. It was the sort of thing that would instantly brighten one's day. This applied even more so to the man, Erwin, who was doing the hugging. However, something was off. Yes, this situation appeared ordinary, but somethi...
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[10:37:53] <exec> 08└─All it took for me was "Microsoft" to run for the hills. To be fair though, this doesn't seem to actually be a Microsoft cockup. More that they assumed the underlying system was secure, which was a mistake (especially if they didn't give the option to the end user to state "No, screw hardware encryp...
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[10:37:55] <exec> 08└─We're not and have never been in an "openness era." The world is plagued by proprietary and malicious software. Android was never about user freedom, even if some of its components qualified as Free Software.
[10:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:05] <exec> 08└─On Banner Mountain, in the Sierra Nevadas near Grass Valley - RLY - and Nevada City, which I always found puzzling was in California. I figure the USAF, USN and USMC figured the mountains were so quiet that their residents would actually _appreciate_ the sound of a sonic boom. Mom told me the ear-sh...
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[10:38:18] <exec> 08└─One of the largest living things in the world is a single mycelium that spans several acres. It's DNA shows that it really is just one organism. I'd like you to amuse yourselves by contemplating the first humans on Mars being equipped with some of the Loompanics books. My own copy has a coarsely-tex...
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[10:38:19] <exec> 08└─"Nut-Sack Being Torn Asunder" is a rather more-accurate description. There's nothing itchy about it.
[10:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:21] <exec> 08└─My own idea for terraforming Mars doesn't involve human visits. Rather, I'd use a rail gun to hurl artillery-shell sized re-entry vehicles full of cow patties on a minimum-energy trajectory to The Red Planet. Keep this up for a few millennia and it would be just like the final scene of Total Recall....
[10:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:23] <exec> 08└─Do Not Let The Sun Go Down Again Before You Have Acquired A Copy Of Kurt Vonnegut's "The Sirens Of Titan". I personally regard that as Vonnegut's most-tragic work. It puts Slaughterhouse Five completely to shame.
[10:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Drug May Boost Dwindling Treatment Options for Gonorrhea - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:34] <exec> 08└─Dare you to imply that it's not I?
[10:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tencent is Launching its Own Version of Snap Spectacles - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:37] <exec> 08└─I always thought it'd be useful to have "lab" goggles that could record my "experiments". It'd also be useful when working on my "car".
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[10:40:11] <exec> 08└─Contrary to popular belief, you can obtain a "cleaner dick" by washing.
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[11:37:20] <exec> 08└─The dramatic tension already existed but "... is a valid observation in literally any situation" makes it still on topic. (large grin)
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[11:37:22] <exec> 08└─It was shocking to see. It was nothing short of shocking to see a grown man curled up on a sidewalk, bawling like a baby. Yet, that is exactly what dozens of people were witnessing. What tragic event could render a man into such a sad state? A nearby police officer ran to the scene to find out. The...
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[11:37:24] <exec> 08└─A clown stood in front of a group of six kids and a woman in an ordinary fenced-in backyard. If one were to observe the backyard, they would see balloons of various colors, party hats, cake, and toys. Yes, this was a small birthday party. The clown - who was clearly very passionate about his work -...
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[11:37:26] <exec> 08└─It's been pointed out that the resignation letter was submitted apparently without a date [emptywheel.net], meaning that it could have been on file for many months. Indeed, the content is generic enough that it can have been written any time during this current regime's reign. Someone on staff might...
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[11:37:41] <exec> 08└─All it took for me was "Microsoft" to run for the hills. To be fair though, this doesn't seem to actually be a Microsoft cockup. More that they assumed the underlying system was secure, which was a mistake (especially if they didn't give the option to the end user to state "No, screw hardware encry...
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[11:37:42] <exec> 08└─The fact Linux exists and is popular is proof that we are in an "openness era". That doesn't mean everything is open, just more open than before. I remember a time when you just accepted that the OS is a black box with no insight over what is going on inside (unless you paid a hell of a lot of money...
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[11:38:08] <exec> 08└─Still a minor something is to be achieved: the availability of "a substrate (like sawdust or agricultural waste)".
[11:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:09] <exec> 08└─Mmm... after reducing those oxidants in the regolith [space.com] and keeping the UV out**, it may work. Hardly self-sustainable, though, when you stop pooing on the roof, it will stop growing - not very much organic mater to degrade on Mars (there are some carbonates in some places [wikipedia.org] a...
[11:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netgear Introduces its First Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Routers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:41] <exec> 08└─Cool story bro! Thanks for the mindless chit chat at 4 am!
[11:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for an EU Army, 6 Arrested for Alleged Plot to Attack Macron - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:52] <exec> 08└─EU population is much aged than Russian population. So they can conscript much more soldiers. Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't see EU population becoming fierce warriors.Russia has much more natural resources than EU (oil and gas, to begin with). Tanks, jets fighters, bombers, helicopters and trucks don...
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[11:44:53] <exec> 08└─NATO was a cold war agreement that satisfied both parts. Europe wanted the security of a powerful ally against an aggressive neighbor. USA wanted proxy allies that allow it to deploy troops near its enemy and far from USA soil, move the potential battle field to the gates of enemy and far from homel...
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[12:37:09] <exec> 08└─Cerebellum Does "Quality Control" for Our Thoughts
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[12:37:10] <exec> 08└─'tis curious dat ze word "quantum" doesnt show up ... or is observed anywhere :)
[12:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:22] <exec> 08└─geez, girl, soylent isnt a substitute for your full diary. go and buy a new one already ...
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[12:37:23] <exec> 08└─see! this is what happens when the rigid and solid bars of reality TV cannot contain: it bleeds into reality and everybody is in danger of drowning in soap bubbles ..
[12:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:25] <exec> 08└─Aren't soap bubbles supposed to be clean, though? 'cause what I see resembles more the froth on top of a fermenting pond of pig manure. Similar stench too.
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[12:37:40] <exec> 08└─i think the "real" encryption is not off the shelf. costs beaucoup monies and can only be (hardware) accessed with a paper trail. thus it lives in the corporate environment only.(*) everything else is more or less accesible thus open and ... well... open. encryption for the masses is like a car u...
[12:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:04] <exec> 08└─On Earth it's currently used to create ... leather...
[12:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:05] <exec> 08└─PS - This isn't leather [mycoworks.com] - it's maybe a leather-like material.
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[12:38:07] <exec> 08└─search: mushrooms into leather Seems this is a real thing, substitute/ersatz leather, made from fungi.
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[13:37:07] <exec> 08└─The cat swallowed it, maybe perhaps. And now the cat is in an indeterminate state; until observed.
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[13:37:24] <exec> 08└─> [...] Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he looks forward to 'working with President Trump to find a confirmable, worthy successor so that we can start a new chapter at the Department of Justice'. > > Mr Graham, of South Carolina, had said last year there would be 'holy hell to pay' if Mr Sess...
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[13:37:26] <exec> 08└─That and the hurricanes
[13:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:28] <exec> 08└─That isn't the AG Trump wants and the AG serves at his pleasure. I've never understood the view that because folks don't like the president he can't actually use his legal authority (and arguably obligation) to staff with more appropriate (from his view) personnel. . Sessions made the calculation t...
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[13:37:30] <exec> 08└─dunno. never been to a politics farm ...
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[13:37:46] <exec> 08└─> More that they assumed the underlying system was secure I bet one encrypted porn video that they have been forced to assume that after a nice letter by a 3 letter agency. Yes I am justifying MS, because they are evil, not dumb.
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[14:37:28] <exec> 08└─We had a lady who used to keep files in the recycle bin. One day a tech came through and ran the disk cleanup utility and she freaked. She also didn't understand it was her fault for putting important documents in the trash.
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[14:37:29] <exec> 08└─...lack of frequent and reliable backups but you. it's 2018 and someone does't know this?
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[14:37:31] <exec> 08└─Me too! Me too! I knew a girl who kept pictures of her ex-es in the Trash Bin. She would occasionally take them out, view, and put them back with pleasure. Yeah, being the "fix my computer" guy, I tried to empty the trash and only noticed something is wrong when it took some time to count the conten...
[14:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:34] <exec> 08└─I disagree. The current trend is exactly the opposite: Don't backup, come to the Cloud™ where we keep it for you forever* * Terms and conditions may apply; mileage may vary; your pictures may be gone
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[14:37:45] <exec> 08└─dr. lectors cat was observed licking the plates clean ...
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[14:38:16] <exec> 08└─The actual press release from Radboud University, the Netherlands [www.ru.nl] and the preliminary report [www.ru.nl] (warning for PDF) both, though mostly the latter, point the public to Free and Open Source Software: The results presented in this paper show that one should not rely solely on hardw...
[14:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:32] <exec> 08└─It's not a secret cabal wearing hoods and robes meeting in secret and chanting 'Yog Sothoth Neblod Zin'. It's a natural and inevitable outcome of the way the money supply is set up. The US government borrows money from the Fed to operate. This money has to be paid back with interest. The only way to...
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[14:41:34] <exec> 08└─The Fed is a governmental body that can simply print money, which they did big time recently. With this money they buy the bonds of the government, job done, no banker gets a dime. The US can get away with this scheme as the dollar is the de-facto currency of international trade. Money expansion is...
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[14:42:52] <exec> 08└─Might be inclined to believe that were possible if I wasn't seeing the same behavior from politicians and their campaigns in person too. Just this week I had to report a local candidate to the election commission for illegal electioneering -- standing right in front of the door to the polling place...
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[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─"It's a weird situation that this very elegant proof of something that wasn't previously known was posted in such an unlikely place," Houston said.
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[15:37:10] <exec> 08└─Because "a very intelligent, and/or a well educated person" is likely to be at a university and post such an answer in those channels to be recognized for it.
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[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─I disagree. The current trend is exactly the opposite: Don't backup, come to the Cloud™ where we keep it for you forever* * Terms and conditions may apply; mileage may vary; your pictures may be gone
[15:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:22] <exec> 08└─This is irrelevant, the thing described here is still a bug, and giving by the hefty cost of this software an inexcuseable one.
[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:24] <exec> 08└─PS: Raw footage can easily chew through many TB's of space. Backing that stuff up isn't as trivial as backing up a handful of documents.
[15:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 1811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─Depending on which version of Windows they were using, there were some valid user interface issues. The original Windows 95 Explorer desktop did not have a "my documents" shortcut. Because there was no persistent menu like the Macintosh, there is no immediately discoverable way to create new folders...
[15:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:29] <exec> 08└─Even if the guy didn't realize it for a while, something like PhotoRec would retrieve a huge portion of his (apparently un-backed up, only copy of) important media files. What if his drive had failed? Would he sue Seagate or Western Digital or whatever? :facepalm:
[15:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cerebellum Does "Quality Control" for Our Thoughts: Study - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:39] <exec> 08└─which "has some sort of internal model about how the world should be,
[15:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cerebellum Does "Quality Control" for Our Thoughts: Study - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:41] <exec> 08└─Parabellum will do quality control on your cerebellum. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:37:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 1055 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:58] <exec> 08└─That isn't the AG Trump wants and the AG serves at his pleasure. I've never understood the view that because folks don't like the president he can't actually use his legal authority (and arguably obligation) to staff with more appropriate (from his view) personnel. . Sessions made the calculation t...
[15:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:00] <exec> 08└─> Sessions made the calculation that avoiding the whole Mueller affair was his best path, attempting to preserve job viability with both parties. The Trump administration seems to be so incredibly cynical that a statement like this is appropriate. > This generally leads to similar results anywhere O...
[15:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:02] <exec> 08└─I've never had a boss who wasn't a sociopath.
[15:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:04] <exec> 08└─There were Sessions boosters who insisted he was the "silent assassin" who was gonna finally bring justice to the land in one fell swoop. To everyone else it looked like a guy who preferred to use that nickname as an excuse to skate. Trump could replace him with a real pit bull, but now that he does...
[15:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:21] <exec> 08└─...this flaw affects multiple brands and designs of SSD, probably abstractable to most SSD and even HDD firmware encryption. Again, what I find interesting is that these flaws probably extend to HDDs as well. Yup. The Register:Your hard drives were riddled with NSA spyware for years [theregister.c...
[15:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately what you don't know can still hurt you. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:33] <exec> 08└─Nevada City, which I always found puzzling was in California
[15:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:36] <exec> 08└─Like you, I'm old enough to remember sonic booms. The small Missouri town in which I spent my early childhood was not far from an air force base. I remember the first time I heard a sonic boom. I was in the front yard observing honey bees gathering pollen from the dandelions. It was a warm, sunny da...
[15:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:55] <exec> 08└─Your sig "Google Search for Fuck MDC [google.com]. I get 470,000 hits; and you? " It's getting worse. I get 537,000.
[15:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:28] <exec> 08└─However, the Gini index will stabilize eventually because a Gini index of 1 is impossible (Gini of 1 means a single person own everything, 0: everyone owns the same).
[15:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:30] <exec> 08└─A nuclear war that wiped out all of humanity would certainly be one way to force it to stabilize
[15:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:33] <exec> 08└─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 than Jesus Christ!"
[15:45:38] <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 - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:38] <exec> 08└─Ahem, it is you who ought to have your memory checked. You're talking about France opting out of the "coalition of the willing." Also, that was the invasion of Iraq. Our allies were happy to go after the Taliban before then, because America had just been attacked and we were still the good guys at t...
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[16:37:05] <exec> 08└─I had to read it twice to get it, the question is about watching the fewer possible passages between each and every episode so, like focusing on travelling along all edges rather than the sequence of episodes. An actual meatbag looking at episodes just to appreciate the passage is weird, but in line...
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─In my time doing user support for products our tiny company produced, we came up with a term to resolve many issues. RRU = Remove and replace user. If I understand the situation correctly, (1) The guy points the software to a directory to hold temporary files, (2) he tells it to clean out the tempor...
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time I used clean offices in the evenings. Large offices, lots of bins and lots of hoovering. One night I got called over by the supervisor; she wanted to know if I had binned a large folder, from one of the offices from the night before, proudly I said I had. It was on top of a bin that...
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 1913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─My wife used Scrivener. Of course, she started out by using the tutorial, editing changes into it as instructed. Then went on to write her own text -- many kilowords in multiple chapters. Then came the day she got a Scrivener upgrade. All her writing disappeared. It turned out that Scrivener had upg...
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─I responded to a support call with a user who said she edited her spreadsheet, shutdown her computer, went home, came back and her changes were gone. I asked her if she saved her work before she shutdown. She got pretty snappy and said: don’t you ever ask me a question like that again, because I...
[16:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:29] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. If the data is worth, as the plaintiff claims, $250,000 then it should be worth it to the user to invest enough storage to make a back up copy. That's just basic common sense. Many professional photographers and videographers manage to do it every day. If your livelihood relies on it, it's...
[16:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:08] <exec> 08└─Vote Hurricanes: 2020
[16:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:09] <exec> 08└─"Sessions made the calculation that avoiding the whole Mueller affair was his best path, attempting to preserve job viability with both parties." Why do you think that was his main concern? Sessions certainly has not admitted as much and you, yourself, admit that his actions are inconsistent with th...
[16:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:11] <exec> 08└─"silent assassin" sounds like someone farted on an elevator
[16:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:13] <exec> 08└─> I've never had a boss who wasn't a sociopath. Don't give Trump excuses.
[16:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:16] <exec> 08└─Hurricanes vs. Giant Meteor [geekologie.com] Now that's a tough choice!
[16:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:18] <exec> 08└─If you're mad at the clintons then you've been watching the news for as long as 10 years. Not to say that I wouldn't mind all the crooked politicians to get the jail they deserve. But if the clintons are the standard then we won't have many people left in government. Bu bu bu the emails!! The rapes!...
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:12] <exec> 08└─It's not leather but it does have some eyebrow-raising uses: https://greenbuildingelements.com [greenbuildingelements.com]
[16:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven in Eight Children's Tonsillectomies are Unnecessary - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:56] <exec> 08└─UK - doesn't work like that...
[16:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:53] <exec> 08└─The Federal Reserve, despite the name, is a privately owned bank that has some rather complex relationships with the US government. Those bonds are part of the debt the government owes. Where do you think they get the money from to pay them when they fall due?
[16:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:54] <exec> 08└─The real list of mental illnesses:
[16:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:56] <exec> 08└─But how do we get that guy there to go unclog the sewer main for those people over there without a system of remuneration we have now?
[16:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:58] <exec> 08└─if you tell 9-1-1 that someone is suicidal, they will send the police, who may make the problem worse rather then bringing them back from the brink.
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[17:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:04] <exec> 08└─OK, China. Let's see your AI identify these people [youtube.com] by their walk!
[17:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:06] <exec> 08└─One tight shoe, the other normal. Or, an irritating pebble or something in one shoe. Instead of a pair of shoes, wear one shoe with a thick sole, the other a flat shoe. There are probably other ways to change your gait. I know that if my back hurts, I tend to slouch a little. (That's a vicious circl...
[17:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:08] <exec> 08└─I can't talk. The only thing about me is the way I walk.
[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:10] <exec> 08└─We've got a guy at work who wants to be in that video. I've never figured him out - is he just weird as hell, or is he weird as hell? His feet seem to start moving, then like some kind of rubber band man, his waist catches up, then his shoulders, and finally his head - but of course, by the time his...
[17:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:12] <exec> 08└─Capital punishment for moonwalking.
[17:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:14] <exec> 08└─Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk!
[17:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:17] <exec> 08└─Doubtless coming soon to your friendly western nation, if it's not already here. Once this sort of stuff takes hold, it's hard to see how any kind of meaningful democracy can exist again. You could try and set up your own nation of Luddites, but I'd imagine they might be at a massive technological d...
[17:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─What are those "very intelligent, and/or a well educated" people doing after they have moved on from university/college?
[17:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:29] <exec> 08└─You aren't seeing it either. You evidently like a particular narrative, that not all smart people go to college, so much that you are going way out on a limb to speculate that's the case here. Perhaps you don't appreciate how many barriers there are even after you manage to earn a bachelors. It neve...
[17:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:31] <exec> 08└─Not everyone wants to be recognized. A theme that runs through the various boards of 4chan is that the most insightful and important work is kept anonymous because it adds value to the work. People often come on and post "I'm a woman and this is what I think" or "I'm a parent and this is what I thin...
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─I had a friend in college who also worked part time in the college IT department and they had to roll out some software (back in the 90's, don't recall the name) that would manage the recycle bins of all the university PCs because professors were really bad about doing stuff like what you are talkin...
[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:53] <exec> 08└─I am not sure, because of rather than delete the "Media Cache" folder in his "Videos" directory
[17:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:55] <exec> 08└─PS: Raw footage can easily chew through many TB's of space. Backing that stuff up isn't as trivial as backing up a handful of documents.
[17:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:57] <exec> 08└─Rear Raped User when the fault was actually yours I guess.
[17:38:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:22] <exec> 08└─It's been pointed out that the resignation letter was submitted apparently without a date [emptywheel.net], meaning that it could have been on file for many months. Indeed, the content is generic enough that it can have been written any time during this current regime's reign. Someone on staff might...
[17:38:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:25] <exec> 08└─Aren't soap bubbles supposed to be clean, though? 'cause what I see resembles more the froth on top of a fermenting pond of pig manure. Similar stench too.
[17:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, the AG serves at the President's pleasure but the AG also serves the United States. If you were forced to choose loyalty to your Country or to your Boss, which do you pick? Looks to me like Jeff was fired for doing his job and not doing what Trump wanted.
[17:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:41] <exec> 08└─the president should be held to a higher moral standard for their behavior instead of just what they can legally get away with
[17:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:43] <exec> 08└─She's just frustrated because we haven't implemented the Exterminate Men Angelic Contract System yet.
[17:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:45] <exec> 08└─But if the clintons are the standard then we won't have many people left in government.
[17:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:47] <exec> 08└─Trump could replace him with a real pit bull, but now that he doesn't have the House anymore he's going to have a tough time using him. Everything he does, whether plainly legal or not, is going to incite another House investigation.
[17:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:49] <exec> 08└─The opposition party typically takes great pleasure in pointing out these questionably ethical decisions and it probably contributes to the motivation of the opposition party to vote and discourages the encombant party from voting. The lack of support and general distaste for Trump and Clinton, with...
[17:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:51] <exec> 08└─impose higher ethical standards (beyond just what is legal) on the behavior of elected leaders.
[17:39:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:02] <exec> 08└─which bit of "Microsoft", "proprietary" and "hardware encryption" wasn't enough to cause people to look elsewhere for data protection?
[17:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:11] <exec> 08└─Is the world 100% free and open?
[17:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:13] <exec> 08└─it involved the man's genitals and the little boy's anus
[17:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─When truecrypt fell, they specifically mentioned bitlocker as an alternative. So what are the alternatives now? Speaking of which have there ever been any cases of truecrypt being defeated? It was hypothetically insecure at the time of the announcement.
[17:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces "7nm" Vega GPUs for the Enterprise Market - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:10] <exec> 08└─Wish my job required cutting edge hardware so i could play with this stuff. Business application development blows. (okay, done venting, back to work!) Anyone here need tools like this? For machine learning, compute, password breaking, or whatever?
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[18:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:10] <exec> 08└─Well what else should they attempt, to tell Chinese apart by looking at the face? duh.
[18:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:11] <exec> 08└─Please, someone, give me some reason to have some small shred of hope about the future. I can't find any!
[18:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:13] <exec> 08└─> almost forgot this simple one - put a concealed weapon Flom the police lepolt: "then a stlange walking guy comes up, we stop him obviously. He had a funny pistol and no ammo, said it makes him invisible to sulveillance. We thlow a coin, head psych wald tail plison. We'll call him Pli Son Won.
[18:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:15] <exec> 08└─> millennials It seems the right time to ask again the question, professor, this time answer carefully: How about a nice game of global thermonuclear war?
[18:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:18] <exec> 08└─All very true, but if you have reached a point in societal development where your choices to not be constantly spied upon rely on you hobbling yourself in a different manner every time you go out for a walk, you have already lost.
[18:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:20] <exec> 08└─Please, someone, give me some reason to have some small shred of hope about the future. I can't find any!
[18:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─... and for his comrade: Soon Wah Kin.
[18:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:24] <exec> 08└─The more you deviate from average the easier identifiable you are. Walking like Monty Python is identifiable by everyone.
[18:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─almost some sort of math terrorist! i mean, the knowledge wasn't even properly hoarded by the establishment behind a fucking paywall. won't someone think of the hacks?
[18:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:39] <exec> 08└─What are those "very intelligent, and/or a well educated" people doing after they have moved on from university/college? In Trump's America? Getting as far away from the United States as possible. Next question?
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ingar [801] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:05] <exec> 08└─10.1 Unless stated in the Additional Terms, we are not liable to you or anyone else for any loss of use, data, goodwill, or profits, whatsoever, and any special, incidental, indirect, consequential, or punitive damages whatsoever, regardless of cause (even if we have been advised of the possibility...
[18:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cerebellum Does "Quality Control" for Our Thoughts: Study - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:18] <exec> 08└─That comment literally took the story, and substituted some kind of judgmental term, "prejudices". That's not worthy of an upmod, let alone "interesting".
[18:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cerebellum Does "Quality Control" for Our Thoughts: Study - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:20] <exec> 08└─So can Lady Antebellum [wikipedia.org].
[18:38:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, the AG serves at the President's pleasure but the AG also serves the United States. If you were forced to choose loyalty to your Country or to your Boss, which do you pick? Looks to me like Jeff was fired for doing his job and not doing what Trump wanted.
[18:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:59] <exec> 08└─Called Pelosi? He'd be safer french kissing a rabid bulldog. Or, sodomizing a king cobra. Or, being sodomized by a polar bear. Or, even standing on a street corner in Shitcago.
[18:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:01] <exec> 08└─All AG's please the president. Some when they come in the door, others when they exit through the same door.
[18:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:04] <exec> 08└─Rock you like a hurricane.... or rock you like a giant rock. Hmm....
[18:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:06] <exec> 08└─I agree with that. I was just pointing out that the lack of accountability (from both party members and the voting public in general) has been an issue for a long time. Maybe by dropping that pretense and exposing the ugliness of the process openly, the Trump administration will unintentionally make...
[18:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:08] <exec> 08└─Don't act like that's a special state of affairs. Sociopaths belong in a leper colony in the South Pacific, not running our banks, companies, or governments. As sociopaths go, however, this particular sociopath (accepting the premise that he is a sociopath, for the sake of argument) has done more of...
[18:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:10] <exec> 08└─I have always assumed that the prelude to being nominated to this type of position was giving the President an undated, but signed resignation letter so that he can "resign" you at any time.
[18:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:33] <exec> 08└─"they" are idiots. use linux and luks, ffs
[18:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:46] <exec> 08└─Not sure how a quiet supersonic plane will hurt people. Is it emitting gamma ray bursts?
[18:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces "7nm" Vega GPUs for the Enterprise Market - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:27] <exec> 08└─A GPU for machine learning? It's deepfakes [wikipedia.org] time!
[18:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Announces "7nm" Vega GPUs for the Enterprise Market - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:28] <exec> 08└─Not unless they support CUDA. It is annoying, but OpenCL does not cut it.
[18:42:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's almost like being xenophobic with a rigid class structure is bad for a culture.
[18:44:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Gab is Back - 732 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:58] <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...
[18:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:39] <exec> 08└─yes. the best defense is a good offense. :)
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[19:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:26] <exec> 08└─The latency in the messages and responses would be huge, though. Would we really wait for a round trip message/response over millennia?
[19:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:28] <exec> 08└─It's astronomical graffiti.
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─"Invade us, please!!!"
[19:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─I guess latency is always going to be the problem, what with the stupid speed of light constraint. I'm not sure it's a good idea, just because we don't know what we don't know and we know almost nothing about our neighbourhood really.
[19:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─You know what could also be done with a 2MW(optical!) laser pointed upwards? Hint: it involves smoldering hunks of metal formerly known as satellites. Does anybody honestly think that any of the US, Russia and China would allow any country on earth, including the aforementioned three, to build such...
[19:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:36] <exec> 08└─Aliens fashion a laser to vaporize a planet up to 20,000 light years away.
[19:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:38] <exec> 08└─Too late, mate. The Kardashian kind are already here. Or was the Cardassian?
[19:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─Not quite, more like "human invasion coming 300 years after this message" . Assuming earth makes it through the Fermi paradox filters, in about 100 years we'll be colonizing the solar system. In 300 years the Galaxy.
[19:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:43] <exec> 08└─What if, 65 million years ago, aliens observed that intelligent dinosaurs capable of building a civilization and exploring space had just evolved, and decided to cut them down before they could? I wonder if any conspiracy theorists have ever thought of that one. Probably a few have, but it doesn't s...
[19:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:05] <exec> 08└─Hard to have your gait analyzed if you don't walk... http://www.discovermymobility.com [discovermymobility.com]
[19:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes we know. But what are those boots really made for?
[19:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:09] <exec> 08└─I just assume this is somehow, or if not will be, linked with the Social Credit Score system. Just reading about it here is probably -1000 points (or whatever arbitrary number they like to deduct). Walking in a non-approved way is probably a deduction to.
[19:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:11] <exec> 08└─Walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm if you walk without rhythm, huh, you'll never learn
[19:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:27] <exec> 08└─It's interesting they mentioned the Assymetrics. This ancient empire was well known for its advanced mathematics, inventing skipping maths class as early as the late bronze age. They were conquered by the Egyptians, who figured out pi = exactly 3.0 which enabled them to ditch the chariot in favour...
[19:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:56] <exec> 08└─Yup. Been there, done that. I shrugged and carried on. Listed the issue as pebkac.
[19:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03garfiejas [2072] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cerebellum Does "Quality Control" for Our Thoughts: Study - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:13] <exec> 08└─The functional concept (SAS) has been around a while (1980) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and this (directly related) research a few weeks; but it's not until I saw the SN headline that I managed to put the two together, which is surprising (or not) si...
[19:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:56] <exec> 08└─Rock you like Hurriganes!
[19:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, yes. Because, as we all know, the one thing Republicans are deathly afraid of it is getting Democrat cooties by even being seen to talk to a Democrat in public. *Sigh* When will this country return to sanity?
[19:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:59] <exec> 08└─False dichotomy. If his perspective was preemptively that loyalty to his country and his president were opposing, then removing him was the right thing to do. It's unfortunate because he was very much not a bad AG or bad person and extremely competent. But he is not what Trump wanted in that pos...
[19:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:02] <exec> 08└─That isn't the AG Trump wants and the AG serves at his pleasure. I've never understood the view that because folks don't like the president he can't actually use his legal authority (and arguably obligation) to staff with more appropriate (from his view) personnel.
[19:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:04] <exec> 08└─That seems like a weird way to run a country. Surely you guys have rule of law? Maybe the law does not apply to some people.
[19:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:26] <exec> 08└─I have never successfully gotten the boot volume of a machine to use hardware encryption. There isn't (or wasn't when I looked earlier this year) a way to turn it on it a running OS built from a task sequence. (Second hard drives, yes. Boot drives, no.) Does anyone have this working? You can see it...
[19:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:04] <exec> 08└─If you make kombucha there is a mat of fungi and bacteria that grow on top called a "SCOBY". This material, when dried and "tanned" properly forms a leather-like material. It's an active area of R&D.
[19:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gab is Back - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:34] <exec> 08└─If you had to place MRA and racists in same sentence then you should place feminists in between, right next to racists. I have consistently found feminists to be the biggest racists. It is like they need to look like good people because they are aweful abusive shit heads and they know it.
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[20:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─How outrageous that they are putting data collection devices into the toys instead of directly into the children.
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:53] <exec> 08└─"HELLO THERE THIS IS PLANET EARTH TECHNOLOGY ENOUGH FOR TRAVEL SUB LIGHT VELOCITY POPULATION 6000000000 GROWING SOME SERIOUS POLLUTION PROBLEMS" Reply "HELLO THERE THIS IS ASTEROID XWJFIWG SUGGESTION TO FIGHT POLLUTION TURN THAT DAMN MEGAWATT LASER OFF"
[20:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─It's astronomical graffiti.
[20:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:56] <exec> 08└─They have names, but you do not know them. They are blind to your presence, unless you show yourself. The Androsynth showed themselves, and something noticed them. There are no Androsynth now, only Orz.
[20:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:58] <exec> 08└─And someone, 67 light-years away, just got the premiere of I Love Lucy.
[20:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:01] <exec> 08└─I found the optimist who thinks there could be something left here in 400000 years capable of receiving messages from the blinking shinies in the night sky - if they are even still visible. How good are the cockroaches at astronomy ?
[20:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:03] <exec> 08└─And they've already got to watch Hitler propaganda! Heil Aliens!
[20:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <exec> 08└─The beam won't get there before the "I Love Lucy" reruns. What will they think of us then?
[20:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:07] <exec> 08└─No. So, it's graffiti.
[20:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─Well, what do you suggest? Ansibles? Fatlines? HPG uplinks? Assuming FTL communication doesn't exist, civilizations that maintain communications with other, distant civilizations would need to be stable over millennia. Humans have a long way to go before achieving that kind of stability and long-ter...
[20:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:12] <exec> 08└─Bad, bad idea is bad.
[20:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:14] <exec> 08└─Probably would have been the energy drinks and alcohol that killed them first. And Doritos to go with their joint. Lots of Doritos to make 'em have heart attacks. "Imma gonna build this spaceship i just designed, but first i'll celebrate by swishing my long tail and eating Doritos while i smoke this...
[20:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─It seems that Cixin Liu has thought this through, just read The Three Body Problem.
[20:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:18] <exec> 08└─Doesn't have to be a big laser, a century ago a simple message they'd have gotten away with would be "for a good time, smash big hemispheres of plutonium together, promise nothing bad will happen LOL" "here assemble this genetic code per our instructions I promise it'll taste good" and it turns the...
[20:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:20] <exec> 08└─The trick is to mess with them and send propaganda films. A lightly remixed star wars making the point that one dude (and a droid) blew up the death star and we got six billion folks looking for death stars to blow up so please be nice.
[20:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:23] <exec> 08└─The math problem to solve is whats the statistical odds per year of round trip travel that the answer for "how do fusion reactors get made" is replied to would be interesting. I hope fun stuff isn't so rare that it takes 20Kyrs to get a response. Simpler shitposts like "find me a better programming...
[20:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:25] <exec> 08└─How about the ultimate Ringworld tribute shitpost into interstellar space "we got designs for five of the eight theoretically possible room temperature superconductor designs, you wanna send us the other three?" (numbers from memory, and probably wrong)
[20:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:27] <exec> 08└─Too late, mate. The Kardashian kind are already here. Or was the Cardassian?
[20:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:29] <exec> 08└─Anti-semitic scumbag.
[20:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─Take you hitlerian bullshit to Stormfront, asshole!
[20:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:01] <exec> 08└─Please, someone, give me some reason to have some small shred of hope about the future. I can't find any! Nah, just pray to your favorite deity for better luck next time.
[20:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:03] <exec> 08└─Hello citizen! You are being escorted to your local police precinct because today there is a 5.13% change in your step frequency. We had trouble identifying you until your face was observed on the CCTV. We suspect you are guilty of disguising your gait to conceal further illegal activity, and will p...
[20:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:05] <exec> 08└─You mean like a 1000000 (million) people re-education camp? e.g. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[20:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUwUDkjHRc [youtube.com]
[20:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:26] <exec> 08└─Because "a very intelligent, and/or a well educated person" is likely to be at a university
[20:39:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 767 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:47] <exec> 08└─I had a friend in college who also worked part time in the college IT department and they had to roll out some software (back in the 90's, don't recall the name) that would manage the recycle bins of all the university PCs because professors were really bad about doing stuff like what you are talkin...
[20:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:54] <exec> 08└─....blame others) AAAANNND, it should be worth his while to make a separate directory for files being worked on: one for the originals and one for the 'cache'. Idiot should ALWAYS back up important 'cannot lose no matter what FOREVER' files so that he does not lose them no matter what FOREVER. If th...
[20:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:56] <exec> 08└─Yup... can't fix stupid.
[20:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:58] <exec> 08└─#metoo In my last place of employment my boss had a plastic large map with a ton of markings on it. And it was kept on the bin. I even cautioned against that and what do you know, one day this valuable relic was gone. Boss not happy. Was kind of hard not to say SEE I TOLD YOU SO!!!!1
[20:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:00] <exec> 08└─I had a friend in college
[20:40:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:42] <exec> 08└─> Sessions made the calculation that avoiding the whole Mueller affair was his best path, attempting to preserve job viability with both parties. The Trump administration seems to be so incredibly cynical that a statement like this is appropriate. > This generally leads to similar results anywhere O...
[20:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:09] <exec> 08└─If you know a path that leads there gracefully we'll all love to hear it :-p
[20:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:11] <exec> 08└─The President can remove the AG at any time for any reason. There are many positions like this in the world and government and also many that have more job security. If the implication is that this should not be the case for the AG then there is a legal process to change the law. Noone is (co...
[20:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:13] <exec> 08└─Wow, so you built up the online-persona just for these time period? I had a feeling you'd turn this way, but wow it still surprises. I wasn't sad to see the TPP go, but now it seems likely that all it will do is cut the US out of a variety of trade deals and harm us economically in the long run. I c...
[20:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:15] <exec> 08└─Phoenix666 is full of shit, just another RWNJ pretending to be an ex-Democrat in order to sell their shit. That account has hammered on Clinton non-stop, which is forgivable except he should be calling from Trump and a variety of others to go to jail as well. Up above he praises Trump!!! The POTUS t...
[20:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:17] <exec> 08└─I had a post written up that disproved every single point you made while adding additional things Drumpf fucked up during his first 2 years in office but soylentnews took a dump. So rather than waste another 10 minutes I'll just point out the obvious: You're a fucking idiot if you actually believe y...
[20:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:19] <exec> 08└─Personally, I am disgruntled he has not made good on his promise to put Hillary in jail or to drain the Swamp.
[20:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:22] <exec> 08└─Provisions from the TPP are actually being inserted into the USMCA. So much for that.
[20:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:24] <exec> 08└─I understand that. It also seems like the US public have become so desensitized to corruption that this just looks normal. I mean even Spiro Agnew didn't go to jail, and he took bribes.
[20:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:26] <exec> 08└─Comments not inspiring. Sessions had other issues beyond "Lets talk about Trump" and "Muh fake Russia story". His weed law stuff was questionable. His civil asset forfeiture (legalized theft) was questionable. On the other hand his policies against invaders were reasonable, as was his "Dear Colleagu...
[20:41:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 1562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:37] <exec> 08└─All it took for me was "Microsoft" to run for the hills. To be fair though, this doesn't seem to actually be a Microsoft cockup. More that they assumed the underlying system was secure, which was a mistake (especially if they didn't give the option to the end user to state "No, screw hardware encryp...
[20:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:03] <exec> 08└─Don't feel too bad, the NASA obviously isn't sure either. Hence the guinea pigs. You do remember how things like x-rays, DDT and asbestos were all perfectly safe ... until they weren't?
[20:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Fungus and Sweat could Transform Martian Exploration - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Terence McKenna's stoned ape theory [steemit.com].
[20:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Drug May Boost Dwindling Treatment Options for Gonorrhea - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:38] <exec> 08└─Its OK bro I felt left out too. You feeling better?
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[21:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:03] <exec> 08└─The current smartphone & tablet generation is only teens anyhow. It's their younger siblings and offspring that are going to get the "I'm sorry your kid can't attend the enhanced math class since he didn't score high enough on Temple Run when he was 5" treatment.
[21:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:04] <exec> 08└─Libertarian retards will say to remove all governement regulations and that somehow, the free market will fix everything. Somehow, without governement regulations, corporations will not form monopolies, will not collect every piece of information imaginable on us and sell them to the highest bidder,...
[21:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:06] <exec> 08└─I would be amazed if my government (or the education dept run by them) were even nearly competent enough to be able to do that. Frankly I am sure they wouldn't even realise it was a possibility.
[21:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:09] <exec> 08└─Libertarians say a lot of stuff. sometimes they even speak in complete sentences, I am led to believe. The only people paying attention to Libertarians are the people who like having useful idiots.
[21:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:48] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, my years of Spy vs Spy fandom enabled me to read the department line, which was appropriately hilarious. However, there's some big problems with their proposal: 1. They have to aim directly at the alien's planet. That's really hard. How hard? Well, consider that aliens trying to reply to...
[21:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:49] <exec> 08└─In all likelihood you're right, however that assumes nobody is more advanced than we are doesn't it, which does show our own superiority complex as a race. Consider the possibility that while we certainly have to wait for -our- transmission to hit an alien civilization at the speed of light, what's...
[21:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:51] <exec> 08└─I don't watch moronic TV, nor pay much attention to so-called celebrities. I swear first time I heard about effing Kardashians years ago on radio, I thought What the fuck have Cardassians from ST DS9 to do with this bloody subject? Swear to Universe is true.
[21:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:53] <exec> 08└─The math problem to solve is whats the statistical odds per year of round trip travel that the answer for "how do fusion reactors get made" is replied to would be interesting.
[21:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:19] <exec> 08└─I disagree. The current trend is exactly the opposite: Don't backup, put your important files on someone else's server where we keep it for you, anyone willing to pay and the script kiddies who routinely crack our nearly non-existent security
[21:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:21] <exec> 08└─I set up a transfer directory at work that anyone could use to transfer files around, with the proviso that a) anyone and everyone could see what was in there and b) it could be deleted at any time. I made very, very sure people understood both parts. One day someone asked for help with their presen...
[21:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:23] <exec> 08└─I attempted to perform a tool upgrade. First step was to make an image of the hard disk just-in-case, so I deleted the Temp directory to speed up the image creation. That software upgrade failed. The software team depended on temp files from the previous upgrade. I know we don't write the best softw...
[21:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cerebellum Does "Quality Control" for Our Thoughts: Study - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:41] <exec> 08└─I have a friend who had magnetic shunts surgically implanted into his 4th ventricle due to hydrocephalus and a chiari malformation. He now has an amazing ability to guess peoples birthdays and says he can feel the shunt constrict when he is thinking of the right date.
[21:41:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 1323 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:22] <exec> 08└─Don't act like that's a special state of affairs. Sociopaths belong in a leper colony in the South Pacific, not running our banks, companies, or governments. As sociopaths go, however, this particular sociopath (accepting the premise that he is a sociopath, for the sake of argument) has done more of...
[21:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:38] <exec> 08└─No one is entirely good or bad, but Sessions was firmly in the realm of darkness. Possibly not according to his personal beliefs, but compared to today's standards he is an evil fuck. So are you, but I do wonder why you suddenly started making more reasonable posts instead of your "globalist jews er...
[21:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitLocker on Self-Encrypted SSDs Blown; Microsoft Advises You Switch to Software Protection - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:02] <exec> 08└─There are successors to the TrueCrypt codebase like VeraCrypt and CipherShed.
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[22:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:32] <exec> 08└─Is not even a statistical blip. Slow news day?
[22:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:33] <exec> 08└─They must be watching on some seriously old hardware. Where I live TV is not even broadcast in analogue any more, so your Philips K-9 would not work anymore anyway.
[22:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:35] <exec> 08└─Wrong terms, thats "AfroAmerican and Racist" television. Which, in the USA, is strangely accurate anyway.
[22:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:38] <exec> 08└─We all got digital to analog converters when digital was first mandated around here.
[22:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:40] <exec> 08└─According to google (well, their summary of some page somewhere) the color license costs ~3x as much (150 vs 50 pounds). So do you think these people really watch on old hardware? or are just being cheap?
[22:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:42] <exec> 08└─I suspect the anecdotes in the links are true, however, I also suspect based on experience with elderly relatives, that most are seniors in nursing homes who don't even have a TV and just auto-pay the bills. I have two elderly relatives paying $50/mon for legacy analog landline phone lines. Would no...
[22:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:44] <exec> 08└─The '60s came out with something for black-and-white to color conversion around here too, but subsequently declared it illegal. ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] )
[22:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:46] <exec> 08└─There were free deals for digital to analog converters in the US, but I was extremely glad to ditch my old CRT TV and my LCD TV already had Digital in addition to the Analog.
[22:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:48] <exec> 08└─I would love to get some high quality monochrome displays. I know extremely expensive medical equipment is available, however the consumer options are very limited. I had an Asus EEE Note with a monochrome LCD a number of years ago (sadly a trip smashed the hell out its screen, though my ribs were m...
[22:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:51] <exec> 08└─I bet they're all friends and relatives of public servants working in the department issuing those licenses.
[22:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:53] <exec> 08└─Do I understand correctly that they're paying £50 B/W or £150 Color for a yearly license to receive over the air broadcasting? That's not cable? That seems a bit crazy to me, but then again so does the consumption of snails.
[22:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:55] <exec> 08└─It's not crazy, you just get confused by things that are outside your experience.
[22:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:57] <exec> 08└─Considering how obnoxious the TV Police in the UK are, I expect they really are using old hardware. Those guys have the right to search your house for unlicensed TVs.
[22:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, a license fee is collected to fund the BBC, which is otherwise not assisted by public money. I believe it is also supposed to be remitted if you stream anything from the BBC's online service (iPlayer?). Or at least that is what I have gathered from the "Oi, you got a loicense?" meme.
[22:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:02] <exec> 08└─I assume, they have just as many commercials as their American counterparts? While I'm sure it made sense at some point, I'm curious as to what those costs are covering. Is this money that is directly funneled into the BBC? Then again, if it saved me $150 on my taxes, I would be quite happy to not r...
[22:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:04] <exec> 08└─It's all about the cheap - same as when people kept their rotary phones because touchtone cost an extra $3 per month...
[22:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:17] <exec> 08└─Tell us where you've discovered them in this real world. Hint: patents, copyrights, trademarks, tariffs, permits all are forms of - you guessed it - government regulations.
[22:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:19] <exec> 08└─Somehow, without governement regulations, corporations will not form monopolies, will not collect every piece of information imaginable on us and sell them to the highest bidder, will not turn our societies into a corporate fascist paradise.
[22:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:21] <exec> 08└─Because getting spied upon is not reserved for adults. Don't suspect a friend, report him. -- Terry Gilliam's Brazil
[22:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:23] <exec> 08└─Because governments have proven themselves to be honest, just and true? No government has ever profiled, tracked, spied upon, or abused those it is supposed to take care of, right? Likewise every government has done far more than pay lip service to regulations and laws it enacted, especially ones sp...
[22:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:25] <exec> 08└─Many U.S. states require mandatory blood test screening for all newborns. What is done with these samples is often buried in boilerplate smallprint, but unless the new parents are extremely diligent, all samples may be stored indefinitely [babysfirsttest.org] and used for whatever purpose the labs (...
[22:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:27] <exec> 08└─In the west, it will start with private schools paying for Google data analysis service; Move to charity foundations handing out scholarships; And finally reach public schools. In China it's probably already on the TODO list for the social score system.
[22:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─Got two under the age of 3, we have always asked friends and family to not share photos of our kids on Facebook and if part of group photo, not tag them. People seemed to think it was archaic but we stick to it. Also no smart toys, mostly just old school stuff. The new toys with recorded sounds and...
[22:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:13] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, my years of Spy vs Spy fandom enabled me to read the department line, which was appropriately hilarious.
[22:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:15] <exec> 08└─Fresh meat here! Come and get it!
[22:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:17] <exec> 08└─Hey if you see them as Jews, thats on you, not me.
[22:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03braddollar [5445] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:19] <exec> 08└─This seems like it could be problematic. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:21] <exec> 08└─I was starting to wonder if ANYBODY would notice the Dept line
[22:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:23] <exec> 08└─Lets just blow up the alien cigar shaped spaceship [soylentnews.org]. That will get their attention.
[22:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:25] <exec> 08└─All we need to do to build this is to put mirrors around the orange one's toupee
[22:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:27] <exec> 08└─Too late, mate. The Kardashian kind are already here. Or was the Cardassian?
[22:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:30] <exec> 08└─Killer Rabbits? Have you been playing Fluffy Horde [youtube.com]?
[22:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:32] <exec> 08└─Well, what do you suggest? Ansibles? Fatlines? HPG uplinks?
[22:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:05] <exec> 08└─Oh - almost forgot this simple one - put a concealed weapon in the small of your back.
[22:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:06] <exec> 08└─Right, because they'd never put license plates or tracking devices on personal vehicles
[22:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:19] <exec> 08└─What the Dems did during the Kavanaugh hearing seemed to really change Senator Graham, he has been out for blood ever since.
[22:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:20] <exec> 08└─Acosta is the only person in the media who I think is actually an enemy of the people. Acosta was yelling at Kim in the middle of the negotiations because he wanted a soundbite and could have seriously f'd things up.
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[23:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:07] <exec> 08└─It may be black and white, but is it worth watching?
[23:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:08] <exec> 08└─BBC is basically state run premium programming, with an optional tax to receive it or not.
[23:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:10] <exec> 08└─I don't even own a tv. What does that make me?
[23:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:13] <exec> 08└─> I don't even own a tv. What does that make me? A target for their spy vans.
[23:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:15] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, the Beeb is ad-free. The license fee is how they are funded and -in shaky theory- free of outside influence.
[23:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:17] <exec> 08└─Oh Hell! Just call it 'coon & cracker' TV. It even has a ring to it...
[23:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:19] <exec> 08└─I assume, they have just as many commercials as their American counterparts?
[23:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:21] <exec> 08└─Or are they just buying a B&W license? Enforcement of TV licenses is largely based on whether there is a license registered to an address. I doubt that there is an actual check on whether only B&W equipment is being used or not. This is a way to save a few pounds each year. I am actually surprised t...
[23:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:23] <exec> 08└─If you stream BBC on any device, you need a license.
[23:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:26] <exec> 08└─This guy [theonion.com].
[23:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:48] <exec> 08└─Your government isn't. It will outsource it to a company in the MIC*. [* That's the Mass Information Collectors, not Military-Industrial Complex.]
[23:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:50] <exec> 08└─And soon enough: IoH - Internet of Humans.
[23:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Are Being 'Datafied from Birth' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:52] <exec> 08└─Do you want YOUR child being laughed at for being the only one without a Disney Implant(TM)? We shape the scar like Mickey!
[23:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:44] <exec> 08└─All astronomers will do on the other side is claim its dust going in front of our sun or the star having a glitch or one of a thousand other excuses to continue believing they are alone and need more money to look for real signals.
[23:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:45] <exec> 08└─When you put them in the Nazi ((())) it's extremely clear what you are.
[23:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:47] <exec> 08└─All we need to do to build this is to put mirrors around the orange one's toupee
[23:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Study Suggests Laser Beacon to Attract Attention from Up to 20,000 Light Years Away - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:49] <exec> 08└─Apparently, it is on you. You used the triple parentheses. If it wasn't the widely acknowledged meaning [wikipedia.org], what were you trying to say? Do you have so little respect for other humans to think anyone would buy your trollish bullshit? https://knowyourmeme.com
[23:40:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:11] <exec> 08└─All very true, but if you have reached a point in societal development where your choices to not be constantly spied upon rely on you hobbling yourself in a different manner every time you go out for a walk, you have already lost.
[23:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:26] <exec> 08└─The 1968 Guinness Book of World Records called out a radar so sensitive it could distinguish a man from a woman by gait from miles away. There's been more recent research into that... A continuous wave (CW) radar has been used for the detection and classification of people based on the Doppler signa...
[23:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Premiere Pro Bug Ate My Videos! Bloke Sues Adobe After Greedy 'clean Cache' Wipes Files - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:23] <exec> 08└─Yes yes the user is a complete moron for not backing their stuff up. With that out of the way, its absolutely unacceptable for any program to delete files which it doesn't own, hasn't created, and wasn't explicitly directed to remove. Clearing a cache directory should ONLY clear out the files that p...
[23:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns, as Requested by Donald Trump - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:44] <exec> 08└─Yup, he suffers from CDS and Trump won him over with his "lock her up" chants.
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