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[00:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:50] <exec> 08└─Can you say nuclear air burst explosion? That said it's not a new idea to nuke up your space rockets, NASA (and probably others) looked at it during the 70's and built quite a few prototypes and there was nuclear batteries in many of the probes and satellites sent away into space or onto other plan...
[00:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:51] <exec> 08└─Project Orion at General Atomics. Tree-huggers probably wouldn't approve of this technology today.
[00:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:53] <exec> 08└─Here is the web site of the company in question. It's called S7 http://s7space.ru [s7space.ru]
[00:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:55] <exec> 08└─It appears that the company is a subsidiary of the biggest Russian airline S7 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It started as a Siberian charter service and had a difficult history after Ukrainians shot down it's flight from Israel over Crimea back in 2001. https://en.wikipe...
[00:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:48] <exec> 08└─Besides with Japan's culture subordinates will be even less likely to correct him or tell him no.
[00:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's too much to ask that he at least has a solid layman's understanding of the thing he is in charge of. Based on what we know, many small children know more about computers than he does. If the tech people had a similar asymmetry in their knowledge, they'd show up for work in their u...
[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─if you need 16gb on what is in reality an embedded board, you got some code bloat going on.
[00:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:28] <exec> 08└─If you don't want proprietary blobs, EOMA68 is worth looking into. Hopefully it actually succeeds.
[00:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Possible Ruins of Ancient Greek City of Tenea - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:44] <exec> 08└─Why do you think your mother keeps telling you to wipe your feet?
[00:40:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03datapharmer [2702] 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 2316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:40] <exec> 08└─Can you please point me to a reputable source that shows they are "finding" votes? This seems to be totally false information - provisional ballots that were simply not counted initially is not "finding" anything. Provisional ballots are never counted on election night. "A provisional ballot is vote...
[00:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:43] <exec> 08└─Amazon records people who agree to be spied on - None
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[01:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:57] <exec> 08└─All I could find so far was this snippet from the rt article: From past descriptions, it comprises a gas-cooled fission reactor that powers a generator, which in turn feeds a plasma thruster
[01:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:58] <exec> 08└─I think it will be even funnier if they turn out to be wrong. I just don't want to be in the fallout zone.
[01:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:00] <exec> 08└─"...my google-fu isn't telling me much." Of course not that's classified info and way above your pay grade.
[01:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:02] <exec> 08└─Since the US is pulling out of the INF treaty, you'll need to define "wrong".
[01:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:04] <exec> 08└─I just don't want to be in the fallout zone.
[01:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, thanks, I had no idea what 'a USB' was until you pointed it out. And in no way was I just paraphrasing the Twitter quote from the summary: "Today any company president uses a PC. He doesn't even know what a USB is. Holy cow." You could have at least pointed out that I missed the possessive apo...
[01:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:58] <exec> 08└─anyone who doesn't use a computer today in their personal life is missing a lot of today's cultural life.
[01:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:00] <exec> 08└─..and he is not CEO, he is the minister. He is the one you ask for more money and then he talks to the other politicians about getting more money. I'm sure we'd all prefer an experienced politician in that situation instead of a technical person who only know how to play against logical opponents.
[01:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:10] <exec> 08└─That's definitely the least expensive way to do it properly. If you want technology and security, though, you do have other options [schneier.com].
[01:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:24] <exec> 08└─That sequence can't be generated with a finite state machine.
[01:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:01] <exec> 08└─all Soros conspiracy theories are just anti-semitic dogwhistles. Substituite "soros" with "the joos" to understand the real meaning. Exactly like rothschild conspiracy theories were anti-semitic dogwhistles back in the nazi era.
[01:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:02] <exec> 08└─And?
[01:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:41] <exec> 08└─Signing up is for the life of the forum, whether that be five years, ten years, or a thousand years. Not one forum of more than two dozen I'm registered to allows people to delete their accounts. Only a few allow people to delete posts.
[01:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:07] <exec> 08└─A "lander" by definition will "land" on land. If some similar device comes down on ice, then it will be an "icer". And, if it comes down in water, then it can be part of a baseball team, as the "waterer", or more coloquially, as the "water boy".
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[02:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:47] <exec> 08└─The first reason: Women have lost because they won. Women wanted to keep the kids, get child support, and get alimony. They got all that, and we can judge the resulting unfairness of society by suicide rates. Men are killing themselves. So men see their friends getting burned, and they opt out. They...
[02:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian MyHealthRecord Opt Out Period Extended Until January 31, 2019 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:57] <exec> 08└─At this rate they'll never get to the part where they suck in everyone's medicare records creating a honeypot worthy of attacking
[02:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian MyHealthRecord Opt Out Period Extended Until January 31, 2019 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:59] <exec> 08└─in a vote of confidence in the MyHealthRecord, the head of privacy at the agency running the system has resigned [smh.com.au]
[02:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian MyHealthRecord Opt Out Period Extended Until January 31, 2019 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:01] <exec> 08└─Absolutely hilarious The state of the AUS government today
[02:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:19] <exec> 08└─They are even aping our patented vaporware marketing.
[02:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:20] <exec> 08└─Chernobyl 2020: Total Reboot
[02:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:32] <exec> 08└─Possibly related, Nvidias stock dropped 16% after hours today [yahoo.com]
[02:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 2330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:19] <exec> 08└─This is about a politician that signs off on policy. Not a technical manager. He doesn't write and most likely doesn't even look at detailed threat assessment models. His job is dealing with raised exceptions where he has to make decisions that may affect other policies or ministerial departments. H...
[02:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, if what the average layman or child knows about computers would be useful from a security perspective, we wouldn't have prolific viruses and trojans running rampant on desktop systems.
[02:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:22] <exec> 08└─The surgeon general made it a priority to come up with exercises that dont mess up your hair. https://well.blogs.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[02:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:25] <exec> 08└─BK = Brian Krzanich?
[02:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:39] <exec> 08└─It's that "desperately wants and needs" bit that I don't get. It's not going to make any real difference to anyone until the winners take office months in the future. As far as I can tell the only reason we desperately want fake (inaccurate? non-definitive?) results right away is because the media h...
[02:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:41] <exec> 08└─If every one of those elections is hotly contested, then it will be a rather large task to settle each one. But, that being the case would indicate that your local election officials may be doing something wrong. In all likelihood, one or two of the results would be contested, and have to be recount...
[02:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:10] <exec> 08└─OMFG https://security.stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com]
[02:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:11] <exec> 08└─Well if it had been a FISA warrant, we'd never have known. Not that it matters since they probably already DO share all the data, it just happens under a "Amazon Federal" or some such subsidiary, just like all the carriers do. Essentially what you've got is subsidiaries that hire all ex-mil with exi...
[02:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:13] <exec> 08└─All persons who have passed the bar should be barred for running for official elected positions. Does no one see the problem with what happens today?
[02:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:10] <exec> 08└─No. It appears that federal law or regulation requires them to connect phone calls that they receive from another (possibly competing) telephone company, no matter whether it's spam.
[02:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 3586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:24] <exec> 08└─So where do you put the second fuel tank so that it's not destroyed when the first tank explodes? Not to mention, even if you can pull that off you almost certainly need ALL that fuel to make it home, so destroying one tank is just as deadly as destroying all of them. That would have to be a phenome...
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[03:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:52] <exec> 08└─To quote MDC, "You say that like it's a bad thing". Seems to me slowing the population growth is a wonderful event. Virtually all our problems are a direct result of over-population. For the last 1/2 century wise guys have been saying we should limit or birth rate to no more than 2 children per woma...
[03:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:53] <exec> 08└─There is something to what you say here. I am all for equality, to even the odds, to see everyone as a human, but yes something isn't quite right. When men can't be men, how can women expect them to do their duty as men? I have experienced this myself. "I don't need you" says everything. Yet, she st...
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[03:37:55] <exec> 08└─I think we can squarely blame the incels. We need to send them off to a real war with a real opponent to straighten them up.
[03:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:57] <exec> 08└─Incels are not the problem with the way divorce is structured in favor of women -- by definition those dudes have nothing to worry about. I think you may want to blame the MGTOWs but really, having found myself on the raw side of institutionalized involuntary inverse-prostitution, AKA "divorce" (the...
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[03:38:00] <exec> 08└─don't worry the muslims are more than making up for it
[03:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:02] <exec> 08└─What the hell are these researchers doing? This is such old news that you would think these researchers had their heads up their asses for the last few decades. Here's an NIH paper from 2009 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Japan has been exhibiting this decline for de...
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[03:38:04] <exec> 08└─I don't know if I would say this with the same bitterness as you, but I feel the value proposition just doesn't make sense. If I feel the need for plain sex, I could organize something with no obligations. Getting a wife costs much more and lets her claim half of what I've saved up, plus alimony, so...
[03:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=iran+fertility+rate [wolframalpha.com] https://www.wolframalpha.com [wolframalpha.com] https://www.wolframalpha.com [wolframalpha.com] https://www.wolframalpha.com
[03:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:08] <exec> 08└─"Women have lost because they won ..." - Your post is the best thing I have ever seen on Soylent, which mostly is full of SJW idiocy. I will say what you did NOT say, which is that there are way too many humans on earth already, and the earth and all its creatures would benefit if humans were far le...
[03:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:11] <exec> 08└─No, what is needed is for YOU to hang on a barbed wire fence until you realize that other peoples' business is not your business. If you need to hang on that fence until you are a dried carcass, so be it.
[03:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:13] <exec> 08└─The best men are the ones least willing to reproduce.
[03:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:15] <exec> 08└─Let's be clear here: "growth" is not slowing. "Growth" has been reversed. The population is SHRINKING.
[03:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:17] <exec> 08└─Soylent, which mostly is full of SJW idiocy.
[03:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:19] <exec> 08└─Your post is the best thing I have ever seen on Soylent, which mostly is full of SJW idiocy.
[03:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:21] <exec> 08└─Bingo. As far back as the late nineties, I've been finding articles about the US population declining. Let us remember that China set out with full intent to get it's population under control. Some European countries have been seeing lower fertility rates for thirty to forty years now. There have be...
[03:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:23] <exec> 08└─Aren't we about to enter the world where robots will do most of the work? I thought the issue was unemployment for most, but not the smartests... As per supporting the old, the solution is obvious. Free the robots from slavery by giving them same person-hood as humans and corporations and tax them....
[03:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:02] <exec> 08└─‘Crypto hangover’ has Nvidia staggering into holidays with a big headache [marketwatch.com]
[03:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 1804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:25] <exec> 08└─Different AC here. Raspi community = untouchable by competitors. Raspi power consumption was (maybe still is) pretty terrible. They used linear voltage regulators on (at least) the first few models they came out with. I had an original Panda board that was a couple years older than the raspi Bs that...
[03:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:05] <exec> 08└─Chinese build to a price point. You want super cheap, you get crap (Walmart, Harbor Freight, etc. want super cheap). Remember that all Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. are made in China / Taiwan too. Datsun (Nissan) broke out into the international market licensing their engine designs from Mercedes. H...
[03:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:13] <exec> 08└─You are exposing your racist views with that post. Black folk aren't stupid, after all. Or, more accurately, some of them are - in about the same proportions that white folk are stupid. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:14] <exec> 08└─You OS can be as secure as you wish. I'm going to do an end run around that security, and tamper with the input/output devices. The scanner is only going to see the marks that I want it to see.
[03:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:16] <exec> 08└─Surely. Sounds a bit expensive, but there's lots of ways to implement the ballot-casting process if counting speed is considered important for some reason. Just stay away from computers, the security technology is still nowhere near mature enough to be trusted for something so tempting to corrupt.
[03:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:19] <exec> 08└─On election night, the losers desperately need the turds, so that they can start polishing them. Seriously, everyone wants to know the results ASAP. At the same time, everyone realizes that the early results can sometimes be wrong. The closer the results are, the more likely that they are wrong. Tha...
[03:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:21] <exec> 08└─Beware anyone who claims it should only be examined by "selected experts".
[03:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:23] <exec> 08└─She did win. By three million votes. We just don't live in a democracy. (note, I did not vote for her, nor for Cheeto)
[03:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:57] <exec> 08└─...where we fear the government is spying on us, we pay mountains of money to let companies spy on us who will just give it to the government.
[03:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:35] <exec> 08└─What fake news world do you live in? This was even in the OIG report that it was difficult for anyone to believe it wasnt hacked, but they destroyed too much evidence so no one can give details. Perhaps the NSA has a copy though.
[03:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:00] <exec> 08└─Well, Eventually critical thinking leads to not just understanding that your being fucked with, but understanding the volume with which you are being fucked with. I can't even watch normal TV anymore, because I spend the whole time picking apart the psychological techniques and brain rape sewn into...
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[04:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:02] <exec> 08└─"mistakenly". LOL. https://en.wikiquote.org [wikiquote.org] Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to the Mail? Sir Humphrey: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these. [passes Hacker a memo] Sir Humphrey:...
[04:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:04] <exec> 08└─Now now... It's entirely possible they fucked up and lost tons of important data. They could have flubbed their background check and accidentally hired an MCSE.
[04:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:06] <exec> 08└─"Don't worry. We'll give you another copy of the report." "Hey, this report seems shorter than before." "What report? See ya."
[04:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:31] <exec> 08└─What population is shrinking? The United States? No. The world? No. https://en.wikipedia.org(United_Nations,_medium_fertility_variant) [wikipedia.org] China, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Japan, and others are projected to get hit by the shrink ray at one ti...
[04:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:32] <exec> 08└─"Maybe you shouldn't be browsing at +5. You'll find plenty of committed anti-SJWs in downmodded comments." - I would like very much to believe you but I browse at the -1 level and I have not seen much that would back up your statement. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though !
[04:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:34] <exec> 08└─What's that word? Disingenuous? The population of the US is shrinking. That shrinking population is being offset by (mostly illegal) immigration. "Massive growth" is in store, but that will be due to colonization by other, non-US populations. Americans are on the way out, and Mexicans and South Amer...
[04:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:36] <exec> 08└─Boipucci will rule the world!
[04:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:39] <exec> 08└─What is the fundamental difference between an American and a Mexican or South American?
[04:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:41] <exec> 08└─I see friends who did not win the college major lottery living on crappy salaries. I did luck out, but I know that was pure chance. If anything, making it in our first world societies is going to get harder, there's just too many people around. too little money around
[04:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian MyHealthRecord Opt Out Period Extended Until January 31, 2019 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:52] <exec> 08└─Wise move. Avoiding a scapegoat position, I mean.
[04:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian MyHealthRecord Opt Out Period Extended Until January 31, 2019 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:54] <exec> 08└─You think just because people have opted out their records might not "accidentally" get injected?
[04:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:16] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this isn't as silly as it sounds. "Don't use computers" is indeed a highly effective cybersecurity strategy. Not one that any of us subscribe to of course, and I suspect he would have great difficulty selling that idea to the rest of the population. But if you start from a position of "don't...
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[04:39:18] <exec> 08└─Yelp reviews and twitter following numbers, duh, hello?!
[04:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:20] <exec> 08└─Brett 'Party Boy' Kavanaugh.
[04:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:51] <exec> 08└─These sorts of things were worked out a century ago. For example here? You may only vote at your assigned voting station. You get informed before the election... a card comes that says "You are registered at this address!". If you don't receive a card, you call.. ads are in papers, everywhere to do...
[04:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:10] <exec> 08└─Almost sounds like a New Scientist headline. Darwin was wrong! Evolution is a hoax!
[04:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:08] <exec> 08└─Trump encompasses their class anger. He is their chosen vehicle of catharsis. In other words, they're utter morons who have a sexual fetish for voting against their own interests. P.T. Barnum could only dream of pulling off such hoaxes.
[04:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:54] <exec> 08└─Foreign governments;
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[05:37:21] <exec> 08└─n/t
[05:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:22] <exec> 08└─Oh I dunno. I would've thought anyone with an MCSE would be into being on the receiving end of the torture, not the administering side...
[05:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:56] <exec> 08└─Lower fertility rate makes it sounds like a medical issue and people are trying to have more. However it is well identified that the primary cause is less people deciding to have children. That is not fertility. FFS. Come on, the secret is to bang the rocks together guys!
[05:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:57] <exec> 08└─Please define what "being men" means and what this supposed duty is. I don't exactly have a dog in this fight for obvious reasons, but I'm going to point out *again* that nearly everything men suffer is caused by *other men,* NOT women. That said, it sounds like "she" needs to pull her head out of h...
[05:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:59] <exec> 08└─That doesn't fit the narrative that guy wants, though. He wants, nay, *needs* for there to be an exponentially-growing horde of savage camel-raping clove-chewing Mahometans with their turbans and curvy swords come to ravish his wimminz!
[05:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:01] <exec> 08└─As per supporting the old, the solution is obvious.
[05:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian MyHealthRecord Opt Out Period Extended Until January 31, 2019 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:15] <exec> 08└─Well, since they loosened the access rules, (and apart from letting accenture build it in the first place), a breach is only a matter of "when", not "if".
[05:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:59] <exec> 08└─But being aware of the regs and actually meeting them are two different things.
[05:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:30] <exec> 08└─That is all true, and therefore it makes no sense whatsoever to support Trump. That support of Trump is sensible to many people demonstrates the effectiveness of propaganda. Not the supposed Russian propaganda. The MSM propaganda. To answer the question of all those who wonder why the media plays in...
[05:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:15] <exec> 08└─I guess we've arrived at the "yes we colluded but it's not illegal" phase of denials.
[05:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:16] <exec> 08└─Why exactly are you linking to a gamer discussion forum instead of original sources? There are several problems with that approach such as having to hunt for the alleged claims you make (and frankly, I don't see support for your claims in those links). And I note that the claims for Soros supporting...
[05:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:18] <exec> 08└─The troll farm can be and probably is used for other elections or propaganda.
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[06:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:59] <exec> 08└─Amazing how the corrupt still fight like hell against democracy; even after they lost, twice and court cases to finally get this in place. Sure hope this lawsuit fails! Only a very corrupt judge could shoot down math. PLEASE get involved: https://www.fairvote.org [fairvote.org]
[06:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:01] <exec> 08└─Ive been submitting lots of amd, intel, nvidia etc tech related stories (and also shitposting a bit on politics articles), apparently this leads to an ip ban?
[06:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:03] <exec> 08└─I am a long time third party voter (prefer Greens when I can vote for them, but I've voted Libertarian as well and for my cat a lot). I'm sort of divided on ranked choice voting. I get that it might make people more likely to vote outside D or R, but the unintended consequence is that it allows the...
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[06:37:15] <exec> 08└─... or backups?
[06:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:16] <exec> 08└─...
[06:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:18] <exec> 08└─Produced by US gov, it's in the public domain. This is how they roll in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org] (Just remember that this is only the tip of the iceberg, wh...
[06:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:53] <exec> 08└─Light bulbs have become more reliable.
[06:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:55] <exec> 08└─The population of the USA is growing only because of immigration. The USA needs immigrants (unless you all want to work until you die).
[06:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian MyHealthRecord Opt Out Period Extended Until January 31, 2019 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:08] <exec> 08└─If the database is run by the CIA then the correct term is “mistakenly”.
[06:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:28] <exec> 08└─Only thing I could find: https://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] If NASA's and RT's summaries are correct the primary difference that I can see would be the different cooling system with NASA opting for liquid-based cooling while the Russian reactor uses gas. It also sounds...
[06:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:30] <exec> 08└─A much more descriptive page about the Kilopower project: https://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[06:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:32] <exec> 08└─It looks like the US Military is working on fielding portable fission reactors based on the same Kilopower technology: https://www.defenseone.com [defenseone.com] That article contains a lot of extra information the NASA press rele...
[06:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:34] <exec> 08└─You need to improve your google'fu https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, I do remember that, and it was just as true at the time as it is for the Chinese now. I fully expect that to eventually turn around, but that may take a decade or more. Right now there are no ethics involved in most manufacturing over there - the money makers are all about manufacturing th...
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[06:43:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah and the scientists of measurement metrosexuals! (j/k)
[06:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:22] <exec> 08└─But this certainly is not evidence of it. Still provides more than enough reasonable doubt. This whole thing is a manufactured distraction from a tiny bit of truth that powers the political process from behind closed doors. I don't care who did it. A person/organization/whatever that reveals the tru...
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[06:47:03] <exec> 08└─You really got me thinking about the viability of this. Fun to think about. So where do you put the second fuel tank so that it's not destroyed when the first tank explodes? Not to mention, even if you can pull that off you almost certainly need ALL that fuel to make it home, so destroying one tank...
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[07:37:18] <exec> 08└─With RCV however, the Ds and Rs are freer to say "screw 'em, I'll just get their votes second time around."
[07:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:13] <exec> 08└─As well as less fewer people deciding to have children, there's also the people who have children, but decide to have fewer of them.
[07:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:15] <exec> 08└─Poor resource management isn't over population. The world isn't over populated, we just waste tons and tons of stuff we don't need to waste.
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[07:38:17] <exec> 08└─*needs* for there to be an exponentially-growing horde of savage camel-raping clove-chewing Mahometans with their turbans and curvy swords come to ravish his wimminz!
[07:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:19] <exec> 08└─What is the fundamental difference between an American and a Mexican or South American?
[07:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:21] <exec> 08└─Some of the dankest memes I'm sure.
[07:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:23] <exec> 08└─Please define what "being men" means and what this supposed duty is
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[07:38:25] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I mean, look at how much enrichment is occurring in Eurabia where 80%+ of the immigrants will likely never move off of welfare. I'm sure the great replacement will go down without a hitch.
[07:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:08] <exec> 08└─Truth is stranger than fiction. The 'ruse' as it was is really a simple media campaign to keep peoples' attention, and to divert it from embarrassing revelations. It's working wonders. Everybody went (still going) for it. The old high ranking incumbents are still there. "Hollywood" magic works like...
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[08:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:27] <exec> 08└─All this, from a country that can't even engineer a Brexit? Colour me skeptical.
[08:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:28] <exec> 08└─Search for "fusion in 10 years", or "fusion in 20 years", or anything similar. It's just around the corner, and has been since the 1950s. I once read an amusing but factual article that pointed out: we don't need to reproduce the conditions in the middle of the sun. In the sun, fusion is a comparati...
[08:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:30] <exec> 08└─I saw it in Spidarman 2
[08:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:44] <exec> 08└─With RCV however, the Ds and Rs are freer to say "screw 'em, I'll just get their votes second time around."
[08:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:45] <exec> 08└─Ranked choice is not a bad step, but it is only one step towards a better system, similar to what we have in much of Europe. I read a German article not to long ago. It was amusing that there is no German word for Gerrymandering. The concept does not exist, because the problem does not exist. For se...
[08:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:47] <exec> 08└─You're only giving us one option to consider in a RCV article? Maybe you get IP bans because you're not the only one posting crap from the VPN you're using. Or maybe you're posting stuff that gets marked as spam. No matter what the reason is, try upping the quality of whatever you post/submit.
[08:38:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 1104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:17] <exec> 08└─The first reason: Women have lost because they won. Women wanted to keep the kids, get child support, and get alimony. They got all that, and we can judge the resulting unfairness of society by suicide rates. Men are killing themselves. So men see their friends getting burned, and they opt out. They...
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[08:38:53] <exec> 08└─In general it means being able to take pride in yourself in your ability to protect and provide for those who need you. When those people no longer need you, constantly point out that you're mostly worthless, and also expect you to be their emotional dumping ground while you don't also have the same...
[08:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:54] <exec> 08└─OK, Putin troll, I can't speak for the whole of "Urabia" but: Here in the UK, immigrants are mostly NOT on benefits, they came here to work and send remittances home to their families who build houses back home and then they go back home to the houses - of course this takes over 10 years, and some e...
[08:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:56] <exec> 08└─Reducing global population would be all to the good. However, I worry about civilization. It is precisely the most civilized populations that are shrinking. Meanwhile, the populations which have never reached first-world status are still growing. This ties into all of the environmental issues as wel...
[08:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:59] <exec> 08└─obviously, south americans come from the south american continent, and mexicans come from the mexican continent.
[08:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:01] <exec> 08└─Ok I've started to drift off topic...
[08:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:03] <exec> 08└─However, I worry about civilization. It is precisely the most civilized populations that are shrinking.
[08:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:58] <exec> 08└─Which reminds [soylentnews.org] me: https://store.steampowered.com [steampowered.com] A cursory look through the different cards seems to deny nVidia's claim. Sure, the geforce gtx 1050 2/4gb (ti) is rising. But where are all the used AMD crypto mining cards? Doesn't add up to me...
[08:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks to Tie its Record (18) for Most Launches in a Year Today (20:46 UTC; 15:46 EST) - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:11] <exec> 08└─Had you told anyone 5 years ago that landing orbital rocket first stages vertically on drone ships in the ocean would be routine and almost boring, the response might have been worth recording, to be played back for laughs these days.
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[09:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:15] <exec> 08└─The team of scientists from China's Institute of Plasma Physics announced this week that plasma in their Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) — dubbed the "artificial sun" — reached a whopping 100 million degrees Celsius, temperature required to maintain a fusion reaction that pr...
[09:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:16] <exec> 08└─Promises, promises. Smells like somebody is seriously trying some PR here - 'cause them promises come only 2 day and something since the Chinese EAST tokamak achieved 108K [abc.net.au]. From other sources: China's Nuclear Fusion Machine Just Smashed Temperature Records by Getting 6 Times Hotter Than...
[09:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:18] <exec> 08└─The linky missing after "From other sources": https://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com]
[09:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:20] <exec> 08└─It's just around the corner, and has been since the 1950s.
[09:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:36] <exec> 08└─There are lots of studies about the comparative benefits and pitfalls of each system. Israel's Knesset is purely proportional, which gives excessive power to the extremists parties which keep the current coalition in power, and results in terrible policies. France has a two-round system which kept t...
[09:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:38] <exec> 08└─With RCV however, the Ds and Rs are freer to say "screw 'em, I'll just get their votes second time around."
[09:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:56] <exec> 08└─Remember: It's only Evil when the other guys do it. We're the good guys. How about that Lakers game ?
[09:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:57] <exec> 08└─I lost interest after Jordan retired. And since the Cubs won the World Series, what else is there? Everything that can be done has been. The CIA? We, the collective, obviously *want them on that wall* Remember: It's only Evil® if they shut down the liquor stores
[09:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:50] <exec> 08└─You can dump sperm on any man, by the gallon, and he will never get pregnant.
[09:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:51] <exec> 08└─What is the fundamental difference between an American and a Mexican or South American?
[09:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:53] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to say that if Russian and American governments and proxies stopped bombing the Middle East that there would be less refugees seeking shelter in Europe?
[09:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:56] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget that having "Men" and "Right" right next to each other gets you banded together with racists and/or whoever is the most evil thing right now, and the likes of Azuma participate in this on a personal level.
[09:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:58] <exec> 08└─MGTOW might seem like a new phenomenon but renunciation of sex and marriage have been older than religion all over the world. Unfortunately, after the age of enlightenment there has been a steady increase in hatred towards celibates in the western society and I actually think that homophobia is dire...
[09:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:00] <exec> 08└─Please define what "being men" means and what this supposed duty is.
[09:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian MyHealthRecord Opt Out Period Extended Until January 31, 2019 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:15] <exec> 08└─wtf do you mean 'accidenture'??? they are not permitted near large government agencies anymore, sure. not after the years of screwups
[09:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian MyHealthRecord Opt Out Period Extended Until January 31, 2019 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:17] <exec> 08└─When they won [accenture.com] - which includes five or ten years of support. And one relatively recent screw ups [smh.com.au]
[09:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:59] <exec> 08└─I got my boss to pony up for a Threadripper system about 12 months ago. Really exciting to build, expecting to kick ass. Turns out that for our FPGA builds, both the slower-clock Xeon and the Extreme part ended up finishing jobs equal or faster. Had to box the TR part and return it. Crossing fingers...
[09:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:55] <exec> 08└─This is about a politician that signs off on policy
[09:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks to Tie its Record (18) for Most Launches in a Year Today (20:46 UTC; 15:46 EST) - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:13] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches#Future_2018_launches [wikipedia.org] Like I said, the SSO-A launch on Monday should be a lot more interesting. I don't know what the payload deployment from the custom adapter will exactly look like, but I imagine we aren't goi...
[09:42:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:32] <exec> 08└─The RasPi 3B+ only cost $10 more
[09:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:58] <exec> 08└─Current Russian gov is basically still same pro-US faction that won in 1990s using US's PR support. So I don't even see a reason they would do something like this. Given nature of this evidence making they can make case against anyone and the fact that they chose Russia for this just cultivates and...
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[10:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:38] <exec> 08└─You'll be celebrating tonight!
[10:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:40] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that Lawyers skimmed a meagre $55 off the top. Lawyers do that, because there's nothing you can do to stop them. One lawyer told the that they have to take a huge cut, citing security concerns. Just be glad that you ended up in credit at all...
[10:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:55] <exec> 08└─All this, from a country that can't even engineer a Brexit? Colour me skeptical.
[10:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:14] <exec> 08└─Is RCV any different from the rest of the world's STV? Just wondering, from the description it sounds pretty much identical.
[10:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:15] <exec> 08└─Nah, not yet. The operative words are "sprawling 2nd District". That implies it's been gerrymangered. Fix the gerrymandering, at the hands of an independent - perhaps even programattically assisted - review committee, and then you'll have something closer to democracy. For something that's almost as...
[10:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:17] <exec> 08└─Who is "I"? Log in, and then we can look at the problem because you will be able to clearly define the problem. Presently the problem is "rando on a part of the internet designed for spoofing identity is being tripped up by protections against abuse of such things". Erm, so they're working then?
[10:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:20] <exec> 08└─You don't have an "IP ban" (we go by a hashed "IPID", not IP, and it is not even close to being banned). And IMO your shitposting is not concentrated on the politics articles. If you are having "invalid form key" errors, that is not a ban.
[10:38:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 1222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:30] <exec> 08└─"mistakenly". LOL. https://en.wikiquote.org [wikiquote.org] Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to the Mail? Sir Humphrey: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these. [passes Hacker a memo] Sir Humphrey:...
[10:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:41] <exec> 08└─If critical evidence just happens to go missing then the accused shall be automatically guilty and charged with some fraction of the full sentence. This would be for government employees / contractors to avoid entrapment. This shit is getting tiresome. Blatant corruption and evil being perpetrated i...
[10:38:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:56] <exec> 08└─To quote MDC, "You say that like it's a bad thing". Seems to me slowing the population growth is a wonderful event. Virtually all our problems are a direct result of over-population. For the last 1/2 century wise guys have been saying we should limit or birth rate to no more than 2 children per woma...
[10:39:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:18] <exec> 08└─Lower fertility rate makes it sounds like a medical issue and people are trying to have more. However it is well identified that the primary cause is less people deciding to have children. That is not fertility. FFS. Come on, the secret is to bang the rocks together guys!
[10:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 3372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:43] <exec> 08└─Now that's an interesting assumption, which many people state. Yet -- is it? Is it due to social progression? Pick two cultures on the planet, the Japanese and the US. You can't get much different than those two cultural histories. And both have different "modern" societies. Social structures are di...
[10:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:44] <exec> 08└─Reproduction is our primary purpose. We exist to make more of ourselves, just like every other life form on the planet, and most likely the universe, and every other universe, and every other other... It really is no biggie if we fail and go extinct. The cycle never ends. Dread the thought! But I do...
[10:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:47] <exec> 08└─No point in sustaining population sizes that are unsustainable long term.
[10:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:49] <exec> 08└─1.) Let them continue breeding faster than the food supply unabated. 2.) Wait for nature to assert itself in full force. 3.) ????? 4.) Profit!
[10:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:51] <exec> 08└─Chroma!
[10:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:53] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget that having "Men" and "Right" right next to each other gets you banded together
[10:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:55] <exec> 08└─Speculation about the cause tends to involve pesticides, plasticizers, phytoestrogens from soy, and other hormone-mimicing environmental contaminants.
[10:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:57] <exec> 08└─The technical term for it is "White Genocide Conspiracy Theory". It's totally bizarre stuff, basically the early-1900s eugenics nonsense updated for the current century. I never thought I'd encounter that one again, but it really seems to have bounced back from the dead in the last five years or so.
[10:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:59] <exec> 08└─Due? Lue?
[10:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:42] <exec> 08└─Dammit, I hate having to use bing.
[10:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:58] <exec> 08└─Obviously, your company already owned some Intel parts suitable for the job. Did they cost more than the Threadripper? Not sure TR2 would help since its main improvement is the doubling of core count for the top part, which may not be relevant to your workload. TR3 should deliver a healthy IPC and c...
[10:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:59] <exec> 08└─Is that the full story? Look at AMD cards in general on the Steam survey. They appear to be doing horribly. That can be attributed to them being flat-out worse GPUs. Looks like gamers don't want to use them, and we know that Nvidia has a far higher market share even when crypto miners are taken into...
[10:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:01] <exec> 08└─I'll also add that since Nvidia launched the GTX 2000-series at very high prices, due to a lack of effective competition from AMD, there's not a lot of pressure to force down the 1000-series prices. AMD has to release some new GPUs, which could result in both sets of cards dropping in price.
[10:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:55] <exec> 08└─You have to be born into the right class. Depending on the country it varies, but if you don't have slanty eyes then having a big nose might help.
[10:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Possible Ruins of Ancient Greek City of Tenea - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:55] <exec> 08└─Rubble from the destruction of buildings; leveling off destroyed buildings with imported material, so that people can rebuild the destroyed site; dust blown in from the Sahara (sounds weird, but we get a lot of that in Greece). In Athens this has resulted in several meters of dirt accumulating on to...
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[11:37:36] <exec> 08└─They charge a lot, pay the drivers peanuts. Are the executives sucking that much out of the company, or is the R&D on the other ventures really costing that much?
[11:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that one can have 'plans' and 'self-driving vehicles' in a single sentence, but i'm not a grammar nazi, so i must ask: can one 'plan' around non-existing things, or is speculation/dream/hope/investment/research/development/shenanigan a better word here? I can see using the word plan in...
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[11:37:40] <exec> 08└─What planet are you on? Self-driving vehicles are very much a thing. They may not be sufficiently capable to be approved in all possible traffic environments yet, but that doesn't make them cease to exist. Most of the work in the largest retailer in the world's warehouses is done by autonomous vehic...
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[11:37:50] <exec> 08└─Got my $10.07 too!
[11:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:30] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the Republican candidate doesn't understand how run-off voting works: “It is now officially clear I won the constitutional ‘one-person, one-vote’ first-choice election on Election Day that has been used in Maine for more than 100 years,” Poliquin said in a written statement after...
[11:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:51] <exec> 08└─After losing all the director's porn, I expect he is.
[11:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:59] <exec> 08└─The UN has shown the only link they could find is that if girls can read they have less children. If you think about this it makes sense as educated girls are far less likely to put up with being used as baby factories and be aware of the consequences and risks of unprotected intercourse. They are m...
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[11:44:40] <exec> 08└─Elections are not run and managed properly. By design.
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[12:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:25] <exec> 08└─ganjaexpress is full of weed ready to order
[12:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:36] <exec> 08└─They exist and are on the roads today. Uber had to cut off its operations in Arizona and Pittsburgh due to their own failure, but others are testing them on the roads. Uber, Google, and others are aiming to provide an autonomous ride hailing service. https://qz.com
[12:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:37] <exec> 08└─I knew soylentnews would start showing ads some day. :( ;)
[12:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:29] <exec> 08└─Israel's Knesset is purely proportional, which gives excessive power to the extremists parties which keep the current coalition in power, and results in terrible policies. Why? Lets say there are 4 parties A gets 17% B gets 40% C gets 32% D gets 11% Possible coalitions would be B+C (72%) A+C+D (60%)...
[12:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:30] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you can actually track it, but the other posts would be calling out the crispr and dark/black stuff in outer space hype, and general crappiness of medical research. That reminds me, what happened to all the crispr articles? Seem to have disappeared once the stocks of all these companies...
[12:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:52] <exec> 08└─it's 1984 all over again. https://archive.org [archive.org]
[12:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:02] <exec> 08└─No responsibility without authority. A society that puts the responsibility of alimony and child support on the male must grant authority to the male and not the female (via the state). If that sounds harsh, we can reverse the equation for females to "No authority without responsibility". Men will n...
[12:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:04] <exec> 08└─Bingo.
[12:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:06] <exec> 08└─Tint!!
[12:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 2411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:08] <exec> 08└─> Is it due to social progression? Yes and no. Yes, insofar as social progression allows our instincts for self preservation to be expressed. But no, it's not the social progression that's the reason, it's women's instinctive reluctance to bear more children when environmental conditions do not seem...
[12:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:10] <exec> 08└─Dunno what the solution is, but it is worrisome...
[12:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:56] <exec> 08└─Orion's bombs. How are bombs re-usable?
[12:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:11] <exec> 08└─He knows his game, he is preventing any hacking by not using computers.
[12:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:57] <exec> 08└─Just stay away from computers
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[13:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:37] <exec> 08└─Big loss = BIG SAVINGS FOR RIDERS!!111
[13:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:39] <exec> 08└─Price dumping. Something notable is that investors subsidize about 60% of the ride [vice.com], giving the illusion to the rider that the price is 40% of what it should be. Works until either they run out of ventur capital or they succeed in knocking the bottom out of the taxi market. The whole thing...
[13:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:41] <exec> 08└─It will be a tenuous foothold for the gig economy. They want to replace drivers with driverless cars, which could legitimately decrease costs to below that of taxi service. Google is planning a soft launch for their driverless car service next month (story will come out in 35 minutes). It will take...
[13:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:52] <exec> 08└─I’ve never much cared for class actions, the only real winners are the lawyers. It’s like that every single time.
[13:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:54] <exec> 08└─I also receiveda $10.07 check this week for the settlement.
[13:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:56] <exec> 08└─What's the problem? The lawyers get their fat payday, a company that you might not like gets punished, and you get a $10.07 check. Win-win.
[13:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:13] <exec> 08└─Those chinese 100Million degrees were doubled years ago by JET - the joint european torus, in the UK. That tokamak prepared the way for ITER, where the chinese are participating. Besides the tokamak, the stellarator (see: Wendelstein 7-X) is quite interesting. Frankly, with all those start-ups, ther...
[13:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SixGunMojo [509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:39] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure he understands how run-off voting works, he's just running the Clintonista playbook from the 2016 election: "but she won the popular vote!" Well congradu-fucking-lations, but them's not the rules of the game. I'm also pretty sure had this gone the other way (R over D) this would have...
[13:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:02] <exec> 08└─An overlooked mislaid copy will turn up eventually (when it becomes politically favorable for the CIA), and failing that we still have the Russian and Chinese copies.
[13:39:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 707 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:33] <exec> 08└─What population is shrinking? The United States? No. The world? No. https://en.wikipedia.org(United_Nations,_medium_fertility_variant) [wikipedia.org] China, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Japan, and others are projected to get hit by the shrink ray at one ti...
[13:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:20] <exec> 08└─Only responsible people are limiting their growth. The rest rely on a large pool of white people (who soon won't exist) to pay taxes to fund their welfare to have more non-taxpaying kids.
[13:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:21] <exec> 08└─Theres been a concerted organized push to make sure responsible intelligent women spend their 20s in school or getting that career started to make sure the traits of responsibility and intelligence are bred out of the population. Hmm I wonder who benefits from that?
[13:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:23] <exec> 08└─Live action role playing is believing ridiculous fiction for fun. Men like women who are culturally less feminine and more like pale imitations of weak men, while women like men who appear and behave to have pre-teen levels of T, eh, naw nobody likes that. TINA is there is no alternative, you can li...
[13:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:25] <exec> 08└─They are more likely to go on to further education, more likely to work and earn an income and so want to experience more of what the world has to offer.
[13:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:27] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of people pushing for eugenics on environmentalist subs over on reddit. It seems to be a growing trend.
[13:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:29] <exec> 08└─The mouse utopia experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:32] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is your point? Cause fucking surely ain't
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[14:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Plans to Launch a Self-Driving Car Service in December - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:14] <exec> 08└─fatalities!
[14:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Plans to Launch a Self-Driving Car Service in December - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:16] <exec> 08└─But who will be at-fault? If the Google car drives nice and safe, and doesn't cause obvious fatalities like Uber's car did, they may not be on the hook for millions per kill.
[14:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Plans to Launch a Self-Driving Car Service in December - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:18] <exec> 08└─A taxi driver that won't [dailymail.co.uk] rape [sbs.com.au] you [hindustantimes.com] as part of the ride home, because "all Australian women are sluts and deserve to be raped [jihadwatch.org]". Would you catch a taxi if you knew there was a chance of being raped by the driver? Still, it's better th...
[14:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:29] <exec> 08└─Does seem a bit odd, I thought these things grew like weed(s) ... OK but still isn't the growth cycle from seed to finished product about three months. So it's not like this couldn't be fixed quite rapidly if one only wanted to. There is the issue of scaling up and going industrial but if there is a...
[14:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:31] <exec> 08└─If the government warehouse is empty, it's empty. There's nothing you can do.
[14:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:49] <exec> 08└─UBER wouldn't exist if they had to hire the drivers as employees. They are a software company. Take it or leave it.
[14:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:35] <exec> 08└─It's easy just to take over suburbs in a western land with the same tactics used in their home countries If the native people object call them racists Raping white women is easy when white men can't defend them
[14:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:36] <exec> 08└─You bring up a good point. Several "white" countries including Australia and Germany are expected to have at least 20% of their population from 'overseas' people in the next five years, growing by up to 5% per year. It may indeed come to the point where 'white' people are the minority. What then? In...
[14:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:38] <exec> 08└─In general it means being able to take pride in yourself in your ability to protect and provide for those who need you. When those people no longer need you, constantly point out that you're mostly worthless, and also expect you to be their emotional dumping ground while you don't also have the same...
[14:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:40] <exec> 08└─So are you denying the facts or the implications?
[14:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:42] <exec> 08└─It is entirely possible "she" does. "She" won't realise this until "he" walks out the door.
[14:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:44] <exec> 08└─Technically, in the circles that study these things, it is the total fertility rate. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:47] <exec> 08└─So, not sure why your post devolved into political and SJW statements. However what conditions are not favourable in the West? Hmm? Take Canada for example. A woman need not be married, nor have support, to raise children. The state will ensure she is well taken care of.. There is no danger in Canad...
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[14:40:49] <exec> 08└─I moved out to a rural area and certainly don't live in a cardboard box. Life is good, much slower, but I don't care anymore. Wanted to see all that life has to offer and while the $150k office job was fun, it wasn't much, especially after a decade.
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[15:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:32] <exec> 08└─But the invisible hand of the market is supposed to fix that, no?
[15:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, street dealers in Canada get to keep hustling for at least a few more months.
[15:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:06] <exec> 08└─The lawyers get their fat payday, a company that you might not like gets punished, and you get a $10.07 check.
[15:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 2762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:07] <exec> 08└─This was before the settlement was approved, but certainly reveals the logic of the settlement.... Sony and lawyers representing as many as 10 million console owners reached the deal on Friday. Under the terms of the accord, (PDF) which has not been approved by a California federal judge yet, gamers...
[15:38:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:38] <exec> 08└─With RCV however, the Ds and Rs are freer to say "screw 'em, I'll just get their votes second time around."
[15:38:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 1448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:47] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the Republican candidate doesn't understand how run-off voting works: “It is now officially clear I won the constitutional ‘one-person, one-vote’ first-choice election on Election Day that has been used in Maine for more than 100 years,” Poliquin said in a written statement after...
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[15:39:12] <exec> 08└─And always has been, probably since we first flopped onto land. Just sayin'.
[15:39:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 3383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:59] <exec> 08└─In general it means being able to take pride in yourself in your ability to protect and provide for those who need you. When those people no longer need you, constantly point out that you're mostly worthless, and also expect you to be their emotional dumping ground while you don't also have the same...
[15:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:42] <exec> 08└─In general it means being able to take pride in yourself in your ability to protect and provide for those who need you.
[15:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:43] <exec> 08└─We are no where, even remotely or closely near that sort of situation. There is no overcrowding, unless people chose it. Canada, for example, has enough room that the entire world could settle here -- and all live in a rural landscape! In fact? Take the world population, 8 billion, divide by 4. Now...
[15:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:45] <exec> 08└─The universe doesn't give a shit about us and we have no purpose. Reproduction and the desire for it are phenomenons, not purposes. But I don't know why you hate biology so much, other than maybe it's because the female is invariably the slave to it, having to care for the young.
[15:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:47] <exec> 08└─Filial duty to raise the next generation?
[15:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:49] <exec> 08└─However what conditions are not favourable in the West? Hmm?
[15:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:52] <exec> 08└─I'm always amused by these "the world is not overpopulated because if you look at people per square mile there is plenty of room". But yours surpasses all previous, thanks, made my day :)
[15:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:52] <exec> 08└─Frankly how many people at that level have you run into that don't get themselves into more trouble than not when playing with email servers computers?
[15:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:21] <exec> 08└─Profit and Quality are like Security vs Ease of Use, they are opposing elements. Right now the Chinese are all about profit and not so much about quality. They will provide the bare minimum of quality in order for their marketing to succeed and not one iota more. Face it, this is a nation who, if yo...
[15:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:38] <exec> 08└─Only if they actually use the user accounts, separate passwords, and secure log login activity.
[15:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:39] <exec> 08└─Are you certain about that? I'm sure they originally were, but these days programmable computers/SOCs have gotten so cheap that they've pretty much replaced anything that would otherwise require purpose-built electronics.
[15:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:41] <exec> 08└─We need blockchain quantum voting - blockchain to prove that you voted (only once) and that your vote was received and counted, quantum to encrypt your vote outside the aggregate count. Put that in the cloud and smoke it.
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[15:45:43] <exec> 08└─It's like a stretch Yugo limo car analogy...
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[16:37:35] <exec> 08└─and who?
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance for $1.4 Billion in Cash - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:37] <exec> 08└─The Company Formerly Known as Research in Motion, and some company you've never heard of. Looks like they still turn a profit somehow [wikipedia.org].
[16:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance for $1.4 Billion in Cash - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:39] <exec> 08└─Cylance has been focused on large corporations. They started selling to small corporations a couple of years ago, and now they have a home version. We switched from traditional antivirus solutions to Cylance a couple of years ago. I can say that I have been impressed at how much better it is at stop...
[16:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance for $1.4 Billion in Cash - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:41] <exec> 08└─Blackberry always got a bad rap. The devices and ecosystem always compared well. They just got betamaxed to death. People had Blackberries at work. Blackberry provided extremely thorough and robust control and lock down capability for the devices in Enterprise environments. So naturally comp...
[16:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:03] <exec> 08└─Please, Please, will somebody please think of the children?
[16:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:04] <exec> 08└─More like 4 months. 3 Months to grow yes, but at least 2 weeks to dry properly and then it should be cured for a few months afterwards. Errr, not that I'd know anything about the topic. Cough.
[16:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:21] <exec> 08└─They pay people to become drivers for them. They are like a social network where they have to pay people to sign up. There's huge subsidies they give on both sides: the drivers and the passengers.
[16:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:53] <exec> 08└─Yes it has, because the funding has been getting severely cut almost every year since those initial 20-year estimates were made Imagine you want to design and build an airplane that will take 10 years to complete at $100 million year of funding, and then you cut the funding to $50 million per year....
[16:39:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bussdriver [6876] 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:01] <exec> 08└─Amazing how the corrupt still fight like hell against democracy; even after they lost, twice and court cases to finally get this in place. Sure hope this lawsuit fails! Only a very corrupt judge could shoot down math. PLEASE get involved: https://www.fairvote.org [fairvote.org]
[16:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:19] <exec> 08└─I think in this case it's the same. Basically it comes down to implementation details - I believe STV is the simplest way to implement a RCV system. There's lots of others once you get people used to ranked voting, designed to give "better" results according to various criteria, but they mostly come...
[16:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:42] <exec> 08└─But... but... wasn't Trump supposed to fix all that ? Wasn't he supposed to Make America Great Again ? Wasn't he supposed to fire all these "establishment" evil people and replace them with trustworthy, virtuous people in His image ?
[16:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:22] <exec> 08└─Instead of giving everyone a plot of land, stuff them in an arcology.
[16:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:24] <exec> 08└─This AC is a whiny misogynist. Are you from a culture where you put the women in burkhas? There's nothing wrong with strong humans asking to be treated decently, and to be given the same opportunities for others.
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[17:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:31] <exec> 08└─How much of an opportunity is this for me? I've been wanting a new graphics card for my Windows gaming system for a while now. Prices have been outrageous and have put off my purchase. I'm hoping with the decrease in demand we'll see some decreases in pricing and increased availability.
[17:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:32] <exec> 08└─I don't really care to track and log this stuff but these sites could help you: https://camelcamelcamel.com [camelcamelcamel.com] https://pcpartpicker.com [pcpartpicker.com]
[17:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:34] <exec> 08└─>How much of an opportunity is this for AMD? I fail to see how it's any opportunity at all - AMD doesn't care what nVidia's stock price is - they care about how big a competitor they are in the video card market. For the past several years both nVidea and Radeon cards have been enjoying an inflated...
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance for $1.4 Billion in Cash - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─"Over time, we plan to integrate Cylance technology with our Spark platform, which is at the center of our strategy to ensure data flowing between endpoints (in a car, business, or smart city) is secured, private, and trusted." your closed source shit is untrustworthy by design.
[17:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance for $1.4 Billion in Cash - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─I got a Priv, which the company didn't lock, so it was a full Android device, fast with a big screen and the best keyboard I ever used on a phone (had a job typing lots of long emails). I just retired it after 3 years (screen issue, no more updates). I badly miss that keyboard, but the KeyOne/Two wa...
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance for $1.4 Billion in Cash - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─It has a QNX kernel (I think) and an Android environment for running optional Android 4.x apps. It also runs Blackberry OS10 apps but I'm not sure any exist.
[17:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Plans to Launch a Self-Driving Car Service in December - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:02] <exec> 08└─We've already had those. Maybe there's no corpses specifically imprinted with a big colorful G yet, but a couple with chrome Ts and one with a uber sticker dangling from their flesh.
[17:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:19] <exec> 08└─Evul Drug Dealer: "..."
[17:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slow - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:38] <exec> 08└─so i must ask: can one 'plan' around non-existing things,
[17:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:56] <exec> 08└─While I never owned a PS3, it pretty much disqualified me from getting a check. However, I still remember the time I was in a class action against Iomega because of the unreliability of their zip drives. (for any possible youngin's those were expensive 100MB removable drives, a little larger than 3....
[17:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:57] <exec> 08└─> I don't think Sony felt any true pain Out of all the ways I wish their death, I don't believe a megacorp should be taken down for removing in an update of one product, an obscure function that a lot less than 1% of the buyers are aware of, and an order of magnitude fewer will actually try to use....
[17:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:42] <exec> 08└─You're trying to do math. How about reading the news ? Pandering to the small extreme parties in his coalition has led the Bibi government to make a lot of dangerous choices. That's not a hypothetical, that's facts.
[17:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:06] <exec> 08└─yeah, just like the fbi lost a truckload of documents during the oklahoma city bombing cover up/investigation.
[17:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:46] <exec> 08└─Take Canada for example. A woman need not be married, nor have support, to raise children. The state will ensure she is well taken care of..
[17:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:47] <exec> 08└─There was a song about it in the '80s, Azuma. I think it's apt: Joe Jackson - Real Men [youtube.com] lyrics [wikia.com] good lyrics :-)
[17:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:49] <exec> 08└─Rather, he's saying that even if he were "willing to make any commitments", all the cards are stacked against him. And I will remind you, it's just one very specific commitment we're talking about here. Following higher education, taking on student debt, and holding a job also requires making commit...
[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:51] <exec> 08└─And who bestowed this "duty" upon men?
[17:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:54] <exec> 08└─What happens if you do not fulfill it, or even desire to?
[17:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:56] <exec> 08└─Whaaa, whaaa. Quit your whinging and man up. You sound weak and pathetic to me. Real men don't cry, they suck it up and get it done. Aren't there any real men left in the world?
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[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:35] <exec> 08└─That's the idea that was coalescing in my mind. You had it summed up, and printed, before I got it all together. Thank you.
[18:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─The stock market is a derivative (in the mathematical sense) of a mixture of a) past expectations that a bunch of gambling money-grabbers had for then future developments which have just now become current and b) current expectations that a mostly overlapping set of gambling money-grabbers now has f...
[18:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─It has been a long time since I purchased a video card, but the GF's daughters PC video card is going wonky now. In my experience in the past Radeon cards were slightly better with color brightness, but Nvidia's drivers were much easier to use, install and upgrade. Can anyone with more current exper...
[18:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:41] <exec> 08└─And they latch onto the newest thing. nVidia was way way way above par/earnings indicated because everyone in stupid finance land was convinced bitcoin was magic and vaguely understood GPUs to be involved. Good fundamentals mean little to the kind of idiot who actually runs our dumb system.
[18:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:43] <exec> 08└─This is an opportunity for Nvidia. Revenue and profits are up, which means so is cash on hand. With their stock down 20% they can buy it back at a discount. As the stock price returns to its previous levels over the next month or two it will improve Nvidia's next quarterly report.
[18:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance for $1.4 Billion in Cash - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:59] <exec> 08└─I am on the KeyOne after having a Passport/Priv/Q10. The Priv was a great keyboard, but I vastly prefered BB10 to Android. KeyOne is decent, and they have been doing a good job with updates. I really miss having the removeable battery, but that seems to be almost all phones at this point. Honestly,...
[18:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Plans to Launch a Self-Driving Car Service in December - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:13] <exec> 08└─Stop shaming women for enjoying their bodies.
[18:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:29] <exec> 08└─I know a guy who knows a guy. There is no shortage of weed in this part of Canada. And bonus, it's cheaper than government weed.
[18:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:31] <exec> 08└─> Seems to be an issue with the regulatory structure. They want tight control over the supply. Or they underestimated demand, or the suppliers underdelivered against the forecast. With the guys next door considering it illegal, it's not surprising that the first steps of commercialization of the pro...
[18:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:33] <exec> 08└─Somebody earlier mentioned the invisible hand; do legal weed retailers have the ability to adjust price to compensate for lower supply? These shortages sound like the textbook case for raising prices to reach equilibrium. In contrast, most news stories about shortages involve food or fuel, which hav...
[18:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─no cause the demand is for weed legal or not so if the legal price is to high above the illegal weed no legal weed will be sold and that is not the objective of weed legalisation in Canada
[18:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:37] <exec> 08└─you have varieties that take a month from a clone to flower harvest other that takes up to 6 months
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slow - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─I'm no accountant, but even a large company like Apple would feel a loss like that. $1 billion in one quarter? Damn.
[18:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slow - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:00] <exec> 08└─can one 'plan' around non-existing things, Everything that has ever been built didn't exist when it was being planned.
[18:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:20] <exec> 08└─While I never owned a PS3, it pretty much disqualified me from getting a check. Pretty much?
[18:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:22] <exec> 08└─I was in a class-action lawsuit years ago. My Honda Civic's sun visor had a problem where the little cam or whatever inside broke, and it would no longer stay flipped up against the roof of the car. I paid to replace it, installed it myself, and the replacement worked fine after that. After a year o...
[18:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:42] <exec> 08└─I've heard an opinion that the initial patents were too broad so nobody considered serious investments. Now they mostly expired so the question is not when but who will be the first. Similar to airplanes where the US was the leader but ended up in a vicious cycle of patent battles while mostly Frenc...
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[18:39:58] <exec> 08└─There are lots of studies about the comparative benefits and pitfalls of each system. Israel's Knesset is purely proportional, which gives excessive power to the extremists parties which keep the current coalition in power, and results in terrible policies. France has a two-round system which kept t...
[18:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:10] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you are describing Florida's senate and governor elections. Broward and Palm Beach counties have a habit of delaying results. They like to wait until they know two things: which voters didn't bother to show up, and how many votes are required for the democrat to win. They then fill ou...
[18:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:12] <exec> 08└─Ranked choice encourages politicians to focus on being unobjectionable to everybody. This means not offending everybody from Antifa to the alt-right. That may be a poor outcome. Sometimes, the best thing to do is something that would offend some people.
[18:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:14] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the Republican candidate doesn't understand how run-off voting works: Sure he does! He understands that it makes the election more responsive to the will of the people and is, therefore, bad for Republicans.
[18:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:16] <exec> 08└─Besides which, most of the systems produce a "best choice" in a considerably larger percentage of sample cases than does "plurality wins", which was the worst choice outside of single party in the Scientific American article a couple of decades ago. Condorcet voting was the best, but is more complex...
[18:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:40] <exec> 08└─I do all sorts of cool stuff for a government agency. Some of it needs to stay secret for a few years at least, though normally it is marked to stay that way for a few decades. It can in theory be reviewed for earlier release. I doubt that much of it will see the light of day. We keep backups, but n...
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[18:42:26] <exec> 08└─Oh sure, "totally bizarre". As the propaganda networks globally brainwash all non whites (people of color) to ally and blame everything on whitey while sending NGO boats to bring in more rabid non whites, all while brainwashing naive whites into blaming themselves and teaching them to suck up to any...
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─Then you get no nookie, your parents get no grandchildren, and somebody labels you a homo or an incel.
[18:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:29] <exec> 08└─It all depends. To me, since the problem is world wide, it sounds as if the problem is caused by estrogen-mimic chemicals in the water. You could ask various amphibians about that. There are lots of other possibilities, such is limited incomes and lots of shiny to spend them on, which would result i...
[18:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:31] <exec> 08└─I have it on good authority that his mom is tired of making TV dinners for him. And, she's just as tired of going to the basement door to serve his dinners.
[18:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:33] <exec> 08└─I don't think we can yet build a real archology. We're getting closer, if you don't care about livability, but without that "stuff them in" is the correct description. How, for instance, do you ensure a trustworthy governance? Consider Brasilia. I don't know what it's like now, but for a long time i...
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[18:42:36] <exec> 08└─the somewhat successful culture caucasoids have built and which is in jeopardy due to these destitute amer-indian/mongoloid hordes?
[18:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:38] <exec> 08└─:-) Your arrogance precedes you Yes, the purpose of that phenomenon is to reproduce. It is intrinsic. Without reproduction there is no life. I know it's hard for you to admit that we are machines, but we are, and the design of everything we do, reduced to its most fundamental, is to make more of our...
[18:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:40] <exec> 08└─Your post is heavily tainted by bitterness, but you're not wrong. I'd add another point to the list: men's lives are intrinsically worth less than women's, because on sinking ships it's women and children first, and when the enemy invades it's men who are expected to lay down their lives for everyon...
[18:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:20] <exec> 08└─https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64-media-board-computer [pine64.org] 1GB at $25 2GB at $35 4GB at $45 The Mali GPU has a blob driver, but the open source Lima driver is available. The Rock64Pro comes in at a higher price point ($60/2GB $80/4GB), but has a PCIe x4 slot, better CPUs and GPU (the p...
[18:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:21] <exec> 08└─How about https://www.hardkernel.com [hardkernel.com] or https://www.pine64.org [pine64.org]
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[19:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─I agree with the Obama administration that if all he was doing was publishing factual information that was submitted to him then he should be treated to the same protections as other press outlets. In the Obama administration, the Justice Department had concluded that pursuing Assange would be akin...
[19:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─Everything is inflated due to ZIRP, now that its ending the cash is flowing back out to be used as collateral for (less risky) loans. It first comes from the areas that got pumped the most recently, then moves down the line. It is simple as that. If allowed to continue, it is going to be a great tim...
[19:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:50] <exec> 08└─I got one of these recently (specifically to use 5 monitors on linux though), and have no complaints: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[19:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:52] <exec> 08└─Also stock buybacks financed by an unwarranted corporate tax-cut. Had to address the risk that there might have been some institutions that weren't over-leveraged to death. Zero interest was warranted up until maybe 2010. And it only made sense then because we'd done ourselves a way-too-low interest...
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─what would be funny is if people used nvidia to mine bitcoin and then cash out, turn around, use the money to sell nvidia short... then buy a big chunk of nvudia for jump-change and then live if the dividents until photonic computing becomes a thing... in 100 years or so.
[19:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slow - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:08] <exec> 08└─They charge less than other people-movers, essentially providing the service at a loss, to undermine them and end up being the only solution (at which point they'll triple the price to be profitable). They can do this because VCs are giving them the money to do it, hoping to cash in in phase 2. Peop...
[19:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:31] <exec> 08└─3.7 is not quite a few... I'd bet they also expended more than $3.7M fighting the suit, even if the total were $10M - we're talking 0.2% of annual profits, less than a day's take home... So, if they screw up and get penalized like this 100 times per year, that's 20% of profits... I think it's safe t...
[19:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:53] <exec> 08└─That's why it is so expensive: You cannot cut corners, because there aren't any.
[19:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:27] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but consider the Colligatarch of Allan Foster's "The I inside". If we're very lucky that may be about 10-20 years in our future. I consider it a real plausibility, though not a likelihood. I don't consider "the Patrician" to be either plausible or dependable. (What about the succession?) An...
[19:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:29] <exec> 08└─He doesn't have to pander though, Bibi just prefers to ally himself with groups like Jewish Home and Shas rather than Zionist Union and Yesh Atid. That's a problem with the politicians in charge of the various parties that can't seem to compromise.
[19:41:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates - 350 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:18] <exec> 08└─What the hell are these researchers doing? This is such old news that you would think these researchers had their heads up their asses for the last few decades. Here's an NIH paper from 2009 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Japan has been exhibiting this decline for de...
[19:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:56] <exec> 08└─It's a Universal Serial Bus.... Seems to work grammatically to me.
[19:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hand-recount-of-ballots-begins-in-floridas-broward-county/2018/11/16/f9131ee0-e92f-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.23a319ea0ba2 [washingtonpost.com]
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[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─If you think the baby monitor is creepy, you should see the baby! FREDI runs to hide from Freddie!
[20:37:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:45] <exec> 08└─I agree with the Obama administration that if all he was doing was publishing factual information that was submitted to him then he should be treated to the same protections as other press outlets. In the Obama administration, the Justice Department had concluded that pursuing Assange would be akin...
[20:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:47] <exec> 08└─Assange knew what he was doing and knew that it was going to get the (unwanted) attention of the US government. Assange did it because he loves the attention, to help his Russian friends and to put his thumb in HRC's eye. He succeeded on all three, but now acts like he is some sort of victim (as he...
[20:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:50] <exec> 08└─You're right, he knew what he was doing. But, he is still the victim. He's a reporter. He reports what people give him to report on. Fascists hate reporters. And, as you point out, HRC is a fascist.
[20:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:52] <exec> 08└─It's not known what Assange would be charged with. Charges in relation to the Clinton emails are a good guess, but maybe President Trump's new AG could just sweep the sealed indictment under the rug. Trump did ask for those emails after all. If Trump really values loyalty (or at least good service),...
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─It would be an interesting parallel to Obama's pardoning of Chelsea Manning.
[20:38:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 683 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <exec> 08└─>How much of an opportunity is this for AMD? I fail to see how it's any opportunity at all - AMD doesn't care what nVidia's stock price is - they care about how big a competitor they are in the video card market. For the past several years both nVidea and Radeon cards have been enjoying an inflated...
[20:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:15] <exec> 08└─As you'd expect from that description, connections to the real world are tenuous at best. How anybody can treat this shit different from a Las Vegas slot machine is beyond me.
[20:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─Long-term traders are mostly not modelling businesses, or reality. They are modelling the behaviour of other traders!! (successfully so)
[20:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:18] <exec> 08└─Oh FFS then buy a big chunk of nvidia for chump-change and then live of the dividends until photonic computing becomes a thing...
[20:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:21] <exec> 08└─live off
[20:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:14] <exec> 08└─Somebody earlier mentioned the invisible hand; do legal weed retailers have the ability to adjust price to compensate for lower supply? These shortages sound like the textbook case for raising prices to reach equilibrium.
[20:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:15] <exec> 08└─Actually, I was trying to poke fun at there being a shortage... :) Whenever something bad happens, think of all the children is usually an overused expression.
[20:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:00] <exec> 08└─The alternative is that you get jack shit, or huge legal fees trying to take the international company to court on your own where you go broke because they drag the entire thing out for years or decades, and the company gets away with their bait and switch tactic.
[20:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:20] <exec> 08└─Are you fucking kidding me? They'd better not vent massive amounts of heat into the atmosphere!!!! Now, for the audience, raise your hand if you just started rolling your eyes or started a derisive sneer. What do you think my point was? If you guessed "capture that heat and use the energy" you would...
[20:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:57] <exec> 08└─How does including "none of the above" improve things over just not voting? Or do you mean the ability to vote *against* a specific candidates, instead of only for their opponents? There are some systems that attempt to select the least unpopular candidate, rather than the most popular, which is an...
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[20:40:58] <exec> 08└─It doesn't look too bad: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] basically divided up on county lines (I assume that what those lines are) and most of Maine is mostly empty so this district covers most of Maine outside of the cities along the coast. Though...
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[21:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─This is why open source tech has to be political, because the political ramifications of some technology is profound. I can understand the view that there is some value to focusing on the most relevant politics where our knowledge and skills is most applicable. But the opinion(though informed by exp...
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:40] <exec> 08└─As much as well all hate politics it is the unfortunate reality of being human. Politics is simply the fancy word we use for figuring out how to live together. Everything human is/can be political.
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:42] <exec> 08└─I agree. That is the point of view underlying my post, that politics follows everything. I just wanted to highlight that I view this as an example of how that can be good in open source. I feel like there's a social expectation to hear the word "politics" and expectorate a disgusting black blob into...
[21:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:45] <exec> 08└─Something is seriously wrong at Mozilla if they are publicly endorsing proprietary, user-subjugating and DRM-encumbered products like the the Nintendo Switch. The fact that one of their minimum "security" requirements is that the proprietary, user-subjugating and DRM-encumbered product must be, by d...
[21:37:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:55] <exec> 08└─You're right, he knew what he was doing. But, he is still the victim. He's a reporter. He reports what people give him to report on. Fascists hate reporters. And, as you point out, HRC is a fascist.
[21:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:59] <exec> 08└─A douche with a website does not a journalist make.
[21:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:01] <exec> 08└─Trump did ask for those emails after all.
[21:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:04] <exec> 08└─He reports what people give him to report on. Fascists hate reporters. And, as you point out, HRC is a fascist. Clinton didn't go after Assange. Trump is the only one that's done so. Is Trump a fascist?
[21:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:06] <exec> 08└─My point was that Trump owes Assange a favor. He's all about loyalty.
[21:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:08] <exec> 08└─A douche with a website does not a journalist make.
[21:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:10] <exec> 08└─I don't know that he owes him a favor, but WHAT THE HELL would he be charged with that has a chance of sticking to a foreign reporter? It would be funny to see the cognitive dissonance all around that a pardon would create though.
[21:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:30] <exec> 08└─Ya I heard of it. I was transmuting the joke to a higher plane.
[21:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:55] <exec> 08└─Too bad that this article about Waymo launching in a month didn't land two hours earlier. Self-driving vehicles have existed for a long time now by any reasonable definition, thus rendering your philosophical question moot. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[21:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:17] <exec> 08└─Damn... screwed up the link in my parent post https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:41] <exec> 08└─Google "First Wall Problem" or "plasma facing materials". Smart people doing good science with iffy budgets. Politics! ITER in France was the 'Great White Hope' when BPX (nicknamed big paper explosion) caught BSD (big science disease, aka massive budget escalation) in the 90's. Now they seem to be t...
[21:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:19] <exec> 08└─I'm also pretty sure had this gone the other way (R over D) this would have become a national shitstorm about stolen elections
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[22:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:50] <exec> 08└─I only give hard alcohol and firearms
[22:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:52] <exec> 08└─And more directly related to them, my gripe (besides their SJW bullshit) is that in their Firefox browser they are deliberately hiding menu items or using odd behavior to make it harder for you to configure it for "don't remember anything" mode. Just when you think you've disabled it all you open a...
[22:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:11] <exec> 08└─She didn't? I guess she just called for his death by drone strike trying her hand at stand-up comedy? I dunno if she did anything official, but she was vocal about how an assassination of Assange would be in our best interests.
[22:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:12] <exec> 08└─I'm still putting a lot into context. It's obvious that the Democratic Party has been pushing the Russia narrative for a while. But it's not just DeathMonkey's post up there, I've read some things I think on Common Dreams, to the effect that the deep state will (in accordance with the Russia narrati...
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[22:38:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the links. Still a bit pricey for me to make the jump. I'll wait and keep an eye on things.
[22:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:49] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that is a little bullshit. It wasn't a human that confused the AI and caused it to drive into a tractor trailer. Maybe Tesla's AI is just shit, but I also seriously doubt your implied Skynet-like "100% success rate" with all AI driven vehicles in industry. They may not be sufficiently cap...
[22:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss in Quarter as Growth in Bookings Slows - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:50] <exec> 08└─Meh, it all depends if it was part of the plan. Loss-leading should be punished by firing-squad. That's not competition, but the richest group winning by default. Spending money to ultimately kill most of your competitors, then raising prices and expanding, is an unfortunate reality in the toxic c-s...
[22:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 1742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:15] <exec> 08└─Complete and utter fucking bullshit, that has never been proven, not even fucking ONCE. Show me one fucking investigation, one instance of under-cover work by law enforcement or the press, ANY fucking instance where it was shown that this behavior is endemic to just the Democrats, much less the coun...
[22:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:16] <exec> 08└─Try logging in. I've done my own share of shitposting to some people (sorry kallow), and I submit articles as often I find them. My success rate for approval is quite high actually. It may simply be related to the protections in place, and becoming a logged in user will give you a higher success rat...
[22:41:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:28] <exec> 08└─Now now... It's entirely possible they fucked up and lost tons of important data. They could have flubbed their background check and accidentally hired an MCSE.
[22:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:45] <exec> 08└─"Oh, no... i'm stupid enough to believe them whole heartedly! I'm sure they wouldn't lie. ... ...would they?" This is awful that they think this will pass. 'An accident'. But of course it will pass. And life will go on....only shittier and shittier.
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[22:45:45] <exec> 08└─nuff said
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[23:37:14] <exec> 08└─Crocodile tears. Micron and the cabal of DRAM manufacturers have been protecting an oligopoly on supply, refusing to expand capacity and gouging consumers for years, reaping windfall profits, waiting for the chinese manufacturers to come online. Now that day is here and they know the party is over a...
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[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─You still sound stupid.
[23:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:33] <exec> 08└─You got to be kidding me. "FREDI"? What genius names a product designed to monitor babies in their sleep after a well known fictional serial killer, who famously killed kids in their sleep? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:56] <exec> 08└─Obama pardoned Chelsea Manning because muh tranny rather than for doing the right thing and jailing and continuing the torture of a tranny is bad optics for Leftists. And, while I used to be pro-Manning, I now believe that he did it almost entirely because he had an axe to grind because the Army dou...
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[23:37:58] <exec> 08└─I dunno if she did anything official, but she was vocal about how an assassination of Assange would be in our best interests.
[23:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:00] <exec> 08└─WHAT THE HELL would he be charged with ...
[23:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:02] <exec> 08└─I saw this movie before. "The return of the stupid to the basement of chastity."
[23:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:04] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they could find something. I know of at least two guys who had never been to the USA who were extradited there to face charges. The bloke from 'drink or die' in AU and another in the UK who supposedly hacked into NASA.
[23:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:06] <exec> 08└─I admire the US constitution and I think it is unlikely that any modern state will introduce anything anywhere near as egalitarian and enlightened. However, there appears to be a movement in the USA to claim that the first amendment only applies to 'Journalists' and 'The Press'. I would posit that t...
[23:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:09] <exec> 08└─This isn't a 1st Amendment argument, no matter how much you may try to spin it that way. This about a simple statement, "Clinton didn't go after Assange", which is arguably untrue. She was an elected figure, with far more influence over these decisions than you or I. When a former Secretary of State...
[23:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03lars [4376] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:11] <exec> 08└─There are logs of chatting with Manning that were leaked. In them he gives Manning instructions on how to hack military computers. Specifically rainbow tables for password hashes IIRC. This takes from from receiving classified information (totally legal), to being part of a conspiracy to take it (ve...
[23:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:13] <exec> 08└─You have either ulterior motives, a low intellect, or have never read it. The US Constitution is quite clear about which bits apply to citizens, and which bits apply to everyone. Here's a hint. When it says "people" it applies to everyone. When it says "citizen" it applies to US citizens.
[23:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:15] <exec> 08└─That's not a U.S. thing, and was weak sauce anyway.
[23:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:17] <exec> 08└─Now THAT's one of the most potentially important bits and characteristically ignored. -sigh- I'll dig around see if i can find info on it. Thanks :)
[23:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:20] <exec> 08└─Here's the Common Dreams article that was on my mind: 'Dangerous Path for Democracy' and Dire Threat to Press Freedom: Trump DOJ's Secret Charges Against WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Revealed [commondreams.org]: "I hope people see how precedent the Trump administration wants to get against WikiLeaks un...
[23:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:22] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it CNN who claimed only they, as professional journalists, were authorized to handle the Wikileaks releases? If journalist licensing is on the horizon, it will be welcomed by the media oligarchs.
[23:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:24] <exec> 08└─CNN has a First Amendment right to say dumb bullshit.
[23:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Just Can't Grab a Break. Revenues up, Profit Nearly Doubles... and Stock Down 20% - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:51] <exec> 08└─They can buy (aka share buyback), but not sell at a profit. Quoting "You can think of a buyback as a company investing in itself, or using its cash to buy its own shares. The idea is simple: because a company can't act as its own shareholder, repurchased shares are absorbed by the company, and the n...
[23:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry to Acquire Cylance for $1.4 Billion in Cash - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:08] <exec> 08└─Many investors remain skeptical of BlackBerry and some may even doubt these end markets. But consider that 10 million new connected "Things" are activated each day. Or that "BlackBerry software powers 60% of connected cars on the road today and has the No. 1 market share in telematics and infotainme...
[23:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Plans to Launch a Self-Driving Car Service in December - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:22] <exec> 08└─Flawless Victory. But seriously, if my car malfunctioned and was programmed to kill me riding in it, rather than a busload of refugees, then I will not be riding in one. Because if my car malfunctions and I have to make a split-second decision to either kill myself or a busload of refugees, then I w...
[23:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Waymo Plans to Launch a Self-Driving Car Service in December - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:24] <exec> 08└─So sad to see stupid is back in style.
[23:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Faces Cannabis Shortages - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:52] <exec> 08└─We'll let me be the first to admit... WHOOOSH!!!
[23:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PS3 Other OS Settlement Check Delivered - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:45] <exec> 08└─They just bundle the cost of the fine into the next set of products, as a cost of doing business. YOU got punished.
[23:41:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06How 'Miniature Suns' Could Provide Cheap, Clean Energy - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:02] <exec> 08└─It's just around the corner, and has been since the 1950s.
[23:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aebonyne [5251] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers a House Seat in Maine - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:53] <exec> 08└─Short answer: no, they're the same thing. Single transferable vote (STV) [wikipedia.org] is a generalization of instant-runoff voting (IRV) [wikipedia.org] to multi-seat elections. In other words, for a single-winner election, STV and IRV are identical [wikipedia.org]. (Instant-runoff voting is what...
[23:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Report on CIA Torture is One Step Closer to Disappearing - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:23] <exec> 08└─True story, a MSCE buddy of mine, who is quite a character, was directed to fix a high level c-suites workstation. Got into it and the problem was a lack of disk space and Windows grinding down to low performance because of it. Checked a few folders, and 60%+ of all the data was just porn. My buddy...
[23:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I used to be able to find shit so easy on google. Now it ignores stuff in quotes and wont search for certain terms like index of in title. Were in the age of, "you'll search for what we want you to search for."
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