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[00:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:17] <exec> 08└─In-app purchases have always been a minefield of risk on multiple levels. As well as having made gaming and even serious apps into slow-squeeze-to-death-by-dollars mechanisms. Don't like it. Not one bit. But apparently this appeals to people because they don't understand what "free app" actually mea...
[00:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:19] <exec> 08└─Given all the story of viruses, stray apps like these, and children clicking on popups in games without knowing it costs money, I just have never told any of my Android devices about my credit card. No payment set up, no accidental charges ! Turns out I never needed a paid-for app (ok, once, but the...
[00:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:21] <exec> 08└─Even with the same precautions I have been worried. You can 'text' a phone number and get a charge on your phone bill. With all the app permission that are 'required' for even dumb flashlight apps, they easily can get outgoing SMS rights, and send text messages. I don't see anything that actually st...
[00:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:23] <exec> 08└─Sure, have a charge(99.99) feature to prompt the user to authorize that payment, but what that prompt looks like and reads like should be entirely controlled by the OS without so much as a single pixel of the screen during the authorization process controlled by the dev, not even a name of what you'...
[00:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:25] <exec> 08└─Granular permissions on newer Android versions are supposed to prevent unwanted texting or internet access. Actually, the Play store got worse and is now hiding the permissions under a sub-page, which means too many people will just no bother to check them (then will click OK on any popup asking any...
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:56] <exec> 08└─To be clear, MOND offers no predictions or explanations - it's just a description of the observed galactic rotation curves, not an attempt to explain them. The only "predictive" quality it has is that newly measured galaxies will have the same observed rotation curve as previously measured ones. And...
[00:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:57] <exec> 08└─Negative mass is what you get when you're not Catholic. -- Money can't buy love, but it can sure buy a yacht to pull up next to it on.
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:59] <exec> 08└─"Dark Matter" is a term used to describe all of the stuff we can't measure yet.
[00:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:02] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but you basically have no knowledge of MOND, Here is a prediction (not post-diction) using MOND for the CMB spectrum. It got the second peak exactly with no free parameters: https://core.ac.uk [core.ac.uk] I don't even want to bother explaining further to someone har...
[00:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:04] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the theories are really really good at explaining almost everything we can observe ... except missing a quantity of mass. If you add Dark Matter (now Fluid) to the universe theories, you can explain so much, and verify it it's really hard to just say "this whole thing is complete...
[00:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:39] <exec> 08└─Very much this. It's perhaps ironic, but it is a case of the technical inferiority of vinyl actually making it largely immune to the marketing machinations that crippled the quality of other formats. >If the proposed solution to a problem is a tax, then it is just an excuse to tax, not a real proble...
[00:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:40] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, DannyB can't read this response because his ethernet cable only goes one way. [arstechnica.com]
[00:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:42] <exec> 08└─Probably. But when the vinyl was slightly warped (and 33 1/3 rpm LPs were a bit floppier than 45 rpm singles), the arm and needle would jump off the high spots, just like the car in Dukes of Hazzard. The needle often came back down one orbit higher on the spiral track, thus one of the ways that reco...
[00:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:45] <exec> 08└─From TFS: Vinyl record pressing has finally bootstrapped itself into the modern age on all counts
[00:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:47] <exec> 08└─Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place. The digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no g...
[00:35:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Nexstar's $4.1 Billion Acquisition of Tribune Media Would Create America's Largest TV Broadcaster - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:36] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why these media companies are being allowed to grow so large. Hasn't Murdock taught enough of a lesson of the dangers of media conglomerates?
[00:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:50] <exec> 08└─While what you say is true, the problem is that for all it's flaws academia is STILL a better source of truth than the shit people are latching onto. Religion, alternative medicine, and all the other woo is infinitely worse. It's like saying that because you got an aqua-marine coloured lolly pop ins...
[00:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/5/4694324/biophysicist-uses-proteins-to-create-chromochord [theverge.com] Perfect for this situation. I hope the entire company tears itself apart and the employees resort to cannibalism. And that's still too good for the likes of them.
[00:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Set to Pass Controversial Encryption Law - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:29] <exec> 08└─Again, actions speak louder than words. Look at the government in power when the laws were passed.
[00:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Set to Pass Controversial Encryption Law - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:30] <exec> 08└─the NSA was spying on Americans illegally. The NSA was spying on US companies illegally. It still is. What infrastructure have you destroyed? How have you fought this?
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[01:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:45] <exec> 08└─From tradeshows for the past few years. They mean it this time.
[01:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:00] <exec> 08└─They didn't control the prompt, what happened is that the prompt only requires one's finger be scanned, and the apps tricked users into putting their finger in-place for scanning prior to prompting, so the prompt was blown right through before they had time to read it and remove their finger. Damned...
[01:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:40] <exec> 08└─I should have mentioned that as one of the global theories, especially since I linked to it. I think there's something wrong with the quantized inertia theory, but it's worth a look.
[01:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:41] <exec> 08└─So, do they finally have an estimate for the critical acceleration and falloff function? Last time I checked they had neither - without which you could describe literally *any* galactic rotation curve.
[01:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:43] <exec> 08└─Tell me something...why do you feel the need to work this into like every single thread on the site, even when it's completely off-topic? Are you repressing something about yourself? You seriously talk about this more than Kurenai, who *is* trans.
[01:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:46] <exec> 08└─Yes! The whole mystery of the universe - increasing expansion again after slowing down - is blamed on bloody aliens commute habits at super-light speeds. See, the suckers create space and use the proceedings for fuel without any considerations for future generations of intelligent life forms who wil...
[01:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:26] <exec> 08└─Going to digital from vinyl was a great technical improvement. It made possible the mp3 music player, now incorporated into the cell phone. Everyone can now carry around their private music universe. We got rid of all those physical things and actions that vinyl required. But in today's world so muc...
[01:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:02] <exec> 08└─So he's pretty much guilty until proven otherwise! Got it. Man, I'm glad I'm not a US-ian, imagine living in a country like that where a liar is automatically guilty of accused crimes until proven otherwise!
[01:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:04] <exec> 08└─So it's wrong to call the Trump admin crooked even though we've convicted five crooks. But, Killary was planning a drone strike in the middle of freaking London because of rumors and the word "nonlegal." Got it...
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:06] <exec> 08└─The answer to that one is "mayday, fuel emergency, must proceed directly to avoid running out before Bolivia" and just go. What are they going to do, shoot the plane down?
[01:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:08] <exec> 08└─So it's wrong to call the Trump admin crooked even though we've convicted five crooks.
[01:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:10] <exec> 08└─Extradition requires that the activity be a crime in the current country as well. Not hard in the UK, but sounds like Ecuador thinks differently.
[01:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─That's right!! Action speaks louder than words!
[01:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:55] <exec> 08└─Que?
[01:38:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Admits Russia Interfered in Net Neutrality Process amid Lawsuit - 774 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:32] <exec> 08└─Of course you have. For example, you might have believed one of the following: - Elected Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi was evil incarnate (right before a general friendly to the US and Israel launched a coup against him). - The US involvement in Syria, Iraq, and a bunch of other places is for hu...
[01:38:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Admits Russia Interfered in Net Neutrality Process amid Lawsuit - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:38] <exec> 08└─Well that's the first time I've had a dictionary reference called flamebait!
[01:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Limited Debut of "Driverless" Taxi Service in Phoenix, AZ - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:17] <exec> 08└─I like this. If you want a Wayme ride, first you have to buy at least one share of Alphabet stock (or meet one of the other criteria mentioned).
[01:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:50] <exec> 08└─...he's still in the White House.
[01:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Set to Pass Controversial Encryption Law - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:27] <exec> 08└─Again, actions speak louder than words.
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[02:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:11] <exec> 08└─Intel's 7nm production tech will use
[02:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 1659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:12] <exec> 08└─A lone man was walking down the sidewalk early in the morning. The man was rubbing his chin with his fingers, as though he were deeply contemplating a certain matter. Indeed, this man - Rickerson - was contemplating something, and that something was of the utmost importance: Rape. How many women and...
[02:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:28] <exec> 08└─I've abandoned Android and am waiting for Purism to finish the first Linux based phone. Same with the tablets. I would use Linux on them before I used Android.
[02:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:30] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why I have never associated a credit card with my Google account on my phone. They can't sneak in charges if there's nothing to charge.
[02:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:32] <exec> 08└─Some companies do it well, lets be honest though - offering enjoyable games that are bug free and only offer add-ons for money, or extra lives here or there, but with the concept of making a game enjoyable and playable for free. These often make it big. A lot of the other games that pretty much can'...
[02:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:34] <exec> 08└─Easily avoidable if Apple tracked a finger down event on pop-ups to see if a finger was already pressing down when the button is shown, and if so then have it require a second tap to register. I don't use Apple devices, but I'm shocked Apple hasn't got touch right.
[02:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:18] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what you are trying to refer to. It has always been that MOND becomes apparent at around a0 = 10^-10 m/s^2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics). And yes, MOND has been used to fit every galatic rotation curve based on the amount of light emitted with no free par...
[02:35:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:29] <exec> 08└─Vinyl will become truly modern when the record is produced by 3D printing, and playback is done by putting the record on a flatbed scanner with software that spits out a series of mp3s for the tracks that are fed into your preferred player. This avoids scratching the record during playback. A series...
[02:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:57] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The waste involved in pressing whatever few vinyl records are still produced is probably offset by the waste of designing, building, and installing new equipment. This is like replacing the last outhouse in N. Dakota by trucking in an excavator, a septic tank, digging a well, setting up pow...
[02:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:39] <exec> 08└─Allegedly it is how soviets were transporting the embassy encryption man. He would be shipped inside diplomatic mail and he would not know for sure where he actually works. Yes, he could guess the country by contents of the messages, but this could have been continuation of his training right in Mos...
[02:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:41] <exec> 08└─Not to worry, he will confess.
[02:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:43] <exec> 08└─This part alone is what makes everything involving the Russia collusion scandal over the top ridiculous.
[02:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:45] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, he acts not in his personal interests, but in the interests of humanity? Yes, I know, the thought is very controversial.
[02:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:48] <exec> 08└─So, for the record, we assume Huawei girl committed a crime in Canada.
[02:37:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] 02 - 06Why Autonomous Vehicles Won't Reduce Our Dependence on Cars in Cities - 740 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:49] <exec> 08└─I hope that all of this autonomous vehicle talk truly gets people to rethink their relationship with roads and cars. Its fun to drive into the middle of nowhere. Its not fun to drive into the middle of the city. Automobiles are one of the largest expenses people have, and also one of the largest h...
[02:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:37] <exec> 08└─She is a daughter of a very powerful man. While the US or perhaps even Canada may do a deal with China one day, the man will have to protect his reputation. People responsible for arresting his daughter will be punished.
[02:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:38] <exec> 08└─USA "requires" oil sales to be made in USA dollars. Two countries come to mind that do not do this: Iran and N. Korea. I think there are maybe 1 or 2 others. One was a North African country whose leader was gleefully murdered.
[02:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Admits Russia Interfered in Net Neutrality Process amid Lawsuit - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:28] <exec> 08└─Whenever you see a world Russian mentioned by free press, substitute it for Jew and see what you feel. An app would be nice.
[02:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Admits Russia Interfered in Net Neutrality Process amid Lawsuit - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:30] <exec> 08└─Ok, but Pai still is in the pocket of corporations, and saying Russia meddled with things is his way of saying look over there! I am going to check my bank balance while you do that.
[02:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:36] <exec> 08└─What would you have them believe instead? In the benevolence of Trump? Of Hillary? The healing power of United Healthcare? Are you sure that 70% is the group that needs shaming?
[02:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:37] <exec> 08└─Alternative medicine isn't necessarily worse. Often placebo is better than consuming a poison that could be harmful.
[02:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:58] <exec> 08└─you don't know what's held as stock in your retirement plan? do you expect to retire? How do you expect to if you don't know what you're depending on? Better find some and sell. Those execs are going to be leaping over the guard rail before long. And I hope someone has snipped the tethers in the gol...
[02:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:00] <exec> 08└─No, this is properly calling a douche a douche. If we all had to stop and identify every object we saw because someone on the internet was paid to ask us what about something else and something other than that too, we wouldn't be arguing, we just woudln't get anything done. I believe we can properly...
[02:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Set to Pass Controversial Encryption Law - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:23] <exec> 08└─I think it's closer to the government demanding access as long as they think they can get away with it.
[02:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Set to Pass Controversial Encryption Law - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:24] <exec> 08└─Actually, even Apple doesn't know that you like to shop for underwear C. Apple can afford to be privacy focused, because they are in the business of selling hardware, not user data. You're right, their position helps sell more hardware than if they sold data to the highest bidder, so there's no reas...
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[03:33:48] <exec> 08└─Is it just me or is reality starting to look more and more like a horror movie ?
[03:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:49] <exec> 08└─I'd like to welcome our new cybernetic plant overloads. I'm sure their young would be delicious in a salad, their elders great lumber, and the middle-aged... I guess there's still some who prefer paper.
[03:34:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 1028 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:36] <exec> 08└─I hear an awful lot about dark matter and energy, and now apparently fluid. As far as I can see from the outside, these exist only to avoid saying "We don't have a theory which explains measured galactic rotation and expansion". If they were simply offered as potential (and perhaps tenuous given the...
[03:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:30] <exec> 08└─If you actually want to convince people instead of just virtue signal, stop attacking Trump's supporters and provide evidence and citations against him.
[03:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:25] <exec> 08└─Citations not necessary, really. Those of us who have been alive, and listening to news propaganda for more than a decade have been hearing this crap all our lives. Eggs are good, eggs are bad, egg whites are good, egg whites are bad, corn syrup is healthy, corn syrup is bad, sugar is good, sugar is...
[03:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:26] <exec> 08└─It's funny in a way, the way the research goes round and round, after billions of dollars and nearly as many food fads, it's more or less back to the advice my grandmother gave me growing up. That is, common sense.
[03:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:28] <exec> 08└─Just don't forget that Grandma prescribed cod liver oil for everything! :^)
[03:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:30] <exec> 08└─Look closer at those Agnostics and you may find that they believe in the spiritual as much as ever, just not so much in organized religion.
[03:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:33] <exec> 08└─Isn't it about time to realize that the SJWs are nothing but an extremist fringe, much like McVey was on the other side?
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[04:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:36] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile I'm thinking that coming home from work each day to find the plant that should be in the corner of the room crawling towards the middle of the room would get really old, really quick. Here's a short list of other things no-one actually wants. Socks that randomly separate after being put aw...
[04:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:06] <exec> 08└─The webpage at https://puri.sm [puri.sm] might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. It's a pity their website doesn't load on an Android browser
[04:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:48] <exec> 08└─I'd be careful if I were you. The Catholic Church has missals.
[04:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:49] <exec> 08└─Or not. Down with weasel words
[04:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:08] <exec> 08└─So a citizen of China, is arrested in Canada, at the request of the USA, who accuses her of violating a USA-imposed trade sanction? Is China legally obligated by treaty or other agreement to abide by US sanctions against third parties? If yes, shouldn't China have been the one to do the arresting? I...
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[04:41:08] <exec> 08└─Sort of. Common sense can get your further, but some people do lack it. Real understanding of whether food X is good or bad for you will result from understanding the chemistry of that food and how it interacts with your body. These correlational studies are often done will sample sizes that are too...
[04:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:10] <exec> 08└─of buying GMO and gluten free water?
[04:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:12] <exec> 08└─while I've been alive and I haven't noticed any difference in my life.
[04:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Science Means Open Source - Or, at Least, It Should - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:42] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of R as I was posting - that's proof that the invisible hand can work. There is a small evolutionary advantage, but that's one that can alas be trumped by $$$$s.
[04:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moldy Mouse Munch Postpones SpaceX CRS Launch: Wed Dec 5 @ 1816 UTC (1316 EST) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:00] <exec> 08└─given that spiralling out of control is a partial failure, failures still do happen, and you're talking khrap as usual.
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[04:46:01] <exec> 08└─Because of aeronautics and aerofoils and aerobatics and aerosols and aerobic respiration, which apparently your brain is getting none of.
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[05:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Live Birth From a Deceased Woman's Transplanted Uterus - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:21] <exec> 08└─Do they wait until death, that is no vital signs, before removing organs? AFAIK if you give consent they remove them while you are still technically alive even if your probability of surviving is nil. TFS is a bit more frankensteinian.
[05:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:33] <exec> 08└─Strong independent plant don't need no man to tell it where to sit.
[05:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:35] <exec> 08└─Feed Me Seymore [youtube.com]
[05:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:09] <exec> 08└─Some companies do it well
[05:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:10] <exec> 08└─children clicking on popups in games without knowing it costs money
[05:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:36] <exec> 08└─And, modern metallurgy could produce much better swords and armor than anyone had in the Middle Ages. I figure a titanium sword would be at least the equivalent of a +2 magic sword.
[05:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:24] <exec> 08└─After reading the long-form article about him that his ghostwriter wrote (summary & link here [theguardian.com]), I'd say that most of Assange's behavior is in the interest of either getting people's attention, avoiding any consequences arising from his actions, and pacifying what can only be descri...
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[05:41:16] <exec> 08└─I'm an atheist, and I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed and Smallville and The Good Place and so forth. I know other atheists that watch lots of fantasy too.
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[06:35:30] <exec> 08└─DNA can be preserved for thousands of years. But you're going to want to keep it dry... so... data jerky.
[06:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:20] <exec> 08└─So, for the record, we assume Huawei girl committed a crime in Canada.
[06:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:22] <exec> 08└─I can't see much of the difference between mine statement and yours, so let me try it differently. The girl violated Canadian law.
[06:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:12] <exec> 08└─Getting arrested in a foreign country can't do much for her social credit score back in China. Or, are you exempt from the government snooping & recording if you are as rich as she is?
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[06:38:13] <exec> 08└─Being allowed to shoot the slave in the head, instead of providing that healthcare and 401k, makes it pretty optional.
[06:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Admits Russia Interfered in Net Neutrality Process amid Lawsuit - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:02] <exec> 08└─Ignoring all evidence, like your ilk are prone to. Pretty sad.
[06:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:19] <exec> 08└─You're dumb as a rock, then.
[06:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Science Means Open Source - Or, at Least, It Should - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:50] <exec> 08└─Mundie called it a virus, Ballmer called it cancer. They obviously prefer permissively licensed software, which they can use in their proprietary warez. The whole point of the GPL is to create a large body of software that is guaranteed to remain public. It has succeeded wonderfully.
[06:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Science Means Open Source - Or, at Least, It Should - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:52] <exec> 08└─Open source is but a watered down marketing campaign. https://www.gnu.org [gnu.org]
[06:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal Tensions At Facebook Are Boiling Over - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:47] <exec> 08└─Boycott, divest, sanction. – Just say no.
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[07:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:33] <exec> 08└─It really _is_ that powerful. While completely non-toxic, if you're not acclimated too it, too much Capsaicin such as eating a whole Habanero - _not_ a Scotch Bonnet, they're not as hot - will kill you due to shock. Now imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Chile Peppers.
[07:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:35] <exec> 08└─No bears, right?
[07:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:37] <exec> 08└─hmmm... accidentally... yeah, sure. You know, just to be safe: *All hail our robotic overlords!* :D CYA
[07:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:39] <exec> 08└─The robot has not been approached for comment.
[07:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:41] <exec> 08└─Where's the +1 Nostalgia mod for your Beowulf reference?
[07:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:44] <exec> 08└─As unfortunate as it is, I don't see anything fitting except indefinite detention.
[07:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Live Birth From a Deceased Woman's Transplanted Uterus - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:53] <exec> 08└─Depending on which organs they remove, it is likely your probability of survival is nil.
[07:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:05] <exec> 08└─It's clear that plants are beings with needs, desires and fears. I postulate that they could even be sentient! And you see fit to eat these gentle beings purely for your own gratification when so much meat is readily available? Murderers!
[07:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah sure, its a Cybernetic houseplant. What it really is, is a robotic triffid.
[07:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:09] <exec> 08└─They are not all bad ideas. How about a car that automatically finds the nearest charger and plugs in? You can call it back when you need it. How about a fridge that gets rid of spoiled food?
[07:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:11] <exec> 08└─It's you. I mean, except for an Orange Clown in a dangerous position, stressed from all sides by people he has pissed off, you have nobody to be afraid of. Maybe only of the people that put that Orange Clown there.
[07:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:09] <exec> 08└─There seems to be a mix of elements. One part is the worship of the analog, like vaccum tubes and notebooks. Another is the idea of covering a room with shelves showing off the collection.
[07:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:11] <exec> 08└─Smoked, I can deal with. Not smoked? No matter, I can smoke it pretty easy.
[07:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not a Trump supporter, and it was actually meant as genuine advice. You keep alienating the people you want to win over. You have TDS so bad that you cannot even take an objective look at the emotional rants you post. You think Trump is bad. Yes we get it. Stop calling anybody asking for the evi...
[07:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:08] <exec> 08└─The girl violated Canadian law.
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[07:39:02] <exec> 08└─Also Iran after the war elected a leftish prime minister who wanted to nationalize the Iranian oil reserves that were at the time being extracted by British Petroleum (BP). London turned to DC for help with ousting him, so CIA went in an instigated a revolution complete with reinstating the shah tha...
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[07:39:04] <exec> 08└─It would also lead to comparisons to the USSR, and not in positive terms. The world is missing a low water mark of sorts, or perhaps a legitimate non-capitalist alternative system to scare the suits with.
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[08:34:07] <exec> 08└─Could have been This Gentleman [hyperallergic.com], who after the portrayed incident, was looking for work, and may have consented to be the prototype for a new kind of law enforcement officer.
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[08:34:08] <exec> 08└─Q: When out in the woods, how do you tell the difference between black bear shit and grizzly shit? A: Black bear shit has semi-digested berries and maybe bones from small rodents. Grizzly shit has bells in it and smells like pepper spray.
[08:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:37] <exec> 08└─Why don't you just make your titanium sword bigger, until it masses the same as the steel one? The intimidation factor alone should make it +1.
[08:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:34] <exec> 08└─To be more accurate, she is alleged to have broken US law. A fair trial is one of the key assumptions behind extradition.
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[08:42:38] <exec> 08└─That view is as much created by the sensationalist media that turn all headlines into absolutes. Asimov's Relativity of Wrong comes to mind, and surprise surprise it was a student of the liberal arts that prodded him to write it. The same liberal arts students that are likely to go on to become hack...
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[09:34:28] <exec> 08└─It's a sad, sad state of affairs. Works nearly a century old finally becoming available to the public. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" While no numbers are na...
[09:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:29] <exec> 08└─What better contributes to the common good than ensuring all the excrement of modern culture remains costly and relatively inaccessible?
[09:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:47] <exec> 08└─So was this before or after this week's South Park episode?
[09:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:49] <exec> 08└─It is already locked in a warehouse, forced to work for Amazon for its whole life..
[09:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, but technically that's indentured servitude, not detention. The difference: during detention, one can refuse to work.
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[09:35:15] <exec> 08└─It's clear that plants are beings with needs, desires and fears. I postulate that they could even be sentient! And you see fit to eat these gentle beings purely for your own gratification when so much meat is readily available? Murderers!
[09:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:19] <exec> 08└─How long until it tries to get off the spoiled humans?
[09:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:20] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that China is the biggest USA's debt holder. China can sink dollar in a month. USA bankruptcy is bad for China, China would fall with USA. But the other way around is also true. If because of USA actions: sanctions, custom tariffs etc, China had little to lose, China would flood the m...
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[10:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:27] <exec> 08└─People are bad at cost-benefit analysis. Maybe school kids need to play more chess, Super Robot Wars, or some other strategy game that involves thinking ahead.
[10:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:58] <exec> 08└─South Park has been off the air for 15 years.
[10:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─Now imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Chile Peppers. I eat them with hot grits off Natalie Portman's naked petrified body
[10:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:02] <exec> 08└─in the early days.
[10:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:04] <exec> 08└─Not sure [theguardian.com] about that [theconversation.com]
[10:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:35] <exec> 08└─So, these carrots... Keziah: Have been murdered, yes. William: Murdered? Poor carrots. How beastly!
[10:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:56] <exec> 08└─Where did that 72 come from? Did you just make it up?
[10:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nexstar's $4.1 Billion Acquisition of Tribune Media Would Create America's Largest TV Broadcaster - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:54] <exec> 08└─1996. My friend Bill Clinton said, "oh, let's grow the economy!" Like a plant. By the way, marijuana, in those days, was totally illegal. He saw that we had too many TINY companies -- not efficient. Too much competition was keeping them from growing. So he signed Telecommunications Act. The companie...
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[11:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:04] <exec> 08└─... insights into human behavior that can "help conservatism."
[11:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:14] <exec> 08└─You must be new to the internet.
[11:34:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:29] <exec> 08└─The robot has not been approached for comment.
[11:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:41] <exec> 08└─troll much? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:35:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:43] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why I have never associated a credit card with my Google account on my phone. They can't sneak in charges if there's nothing to charge.
[11:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:50] <exec> 08└─I have an ios version of the 'ticket to ride' boardgame. You can buy more maps from in the app, just like you can buy more maps in the real version, which is great. What's wrong with in-app purchases?
[11:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss The Three-Body Problem, Start Reading Snow Crash - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:02] <exec> 08└─I just yesterday have finished entire foundation series.
[11:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Autonomous Vehicles Won't Reduce Our Dependence on Cars in Cities - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:28] <exec> 08└─But for this scenario to work, AVs must be shared and not privately owned
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[12:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Starts to Test 16 TB HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) Hard Drives - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:56] <exec> 08└─But will it last longer than 3 or 5 years? That is, those that don't fail in the 1st year. Hard drive reliability and longevity are important too, and I hear Seagate in particular has slipped on those in recent years.
[12:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe school kids need to play more chess, Super Robot Wars, or some other strategy game that involves thinking ahead.
[12:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:07] <exec> 08└─These laws or guidelines were written by someone who did not know about (or intentionally ignored) mind control and believes that people are free to choose and they make mistakes because of certain behaviors or tendencies. News today talk of murder, theft and poverty without letting anyone do anythi...
[12:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:18] <exec> 08└─Professor James Boyle will gladly inform you: https://www.thepublicdomain.org [thepublicdomain.org] Don't click the Amazon link but instead the download link a few lines afterwards! (CC By-NC-SA)
[12:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:20] <exec> 08└─And I was very honored when Disney asked me to do the recording of my Message of American Greatness & Unity, in my own voice. For the magnificent Hall of Presidents. In Disney World & Disneyland. Because they built the Trump Robot. Exactly the same size as me -- head to toe to "whatever." And he spe...
[12:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:22] <exec> 08└─That's not an open question... Hint: yes it will. Also, as "The Mickey Mouse Protection Act" has already been taken, I'd like to suggest "The Steamboat Disney Act" for the similar piece of legislation which will be introduced in a couple of years.
[12:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:24] <exec> 08└─I think you can argue that copyright law is an abomination, period. The original idea was to protect individual writers, composers, musicians, and artists against theft of their ideas. But the original intent is lost, now it's just a weapon wielded by big companies against everyone else.
[12:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:26] <exec> 08└─Jewish Disney says no one benefits but the jews. They buy things from original creators with money they stole from others. Being completely unable to create anything, they depend on people to sell them their things. Then the jewish rent-seekers rent it out for life, swindling people for as long as p...
[12:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─... dock their pay for the time they had to spend in hospital?
[12:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:51] <exec> 08└─No, that'd be cruel and unusual! Instead they all were fired and fined for destruction of products and vandalism of machinery and for being absent.
[12:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:51] <exec> 08└─I know we don't read the article here but at least try to read the summary. There might even be a [free] app for that!
[12:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exorcisms on the Rise in the US - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:18] <exec> 08└─That makes sense, thanks for making the point more clearly now. I naively interpreted your top level comment to think you meant that people watching a show like Touched By An Angel were suddenly going to start believing angels exist and work however they're depicted in the show. I don't agree with...
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[13:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:35] <exec> 08└─Back in the pre-NHST days people were coming up with mathematical laws that described behavior. See, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Now psychology has been reduced to this worthless crap.
[13:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:36] <exec> 08└─See also: https://www.tandfonline.com [tandfonline.com]
[13:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:52] <exec> 08└─I think I just found out why so many Americans do not believe in evolution. 1. George Washington 2. John Adams 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. James Madison 5. James Monroe .... 41. George Bush 42. Bill Clinton 43. George W. Bush 44. Barack Obama 45. Donald Trump
[13:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:18] <exec> 08└─Great. Now I want some.
[13:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon robot puts human workers in hospital - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:19] <exec> 08└─The best they can do - legally - is to put one in solitary confinement if the one refuses to work.
[13:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Live Birth From a Deceased Woman's Transplanted Uterus - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:31] <exec> 08└─So when are you going to give virility back to the men who worked with Agent Orange and now have zero sperm count? Or those losing life and limb to american-made weapons and ammunition? I see... this was in Brazil, ok, nevermind.
[13:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:04] <exec> 08└─The logic is reasonable behind 7nm being on-track. EUV has been compared to 28nm nodes because the reduction in required multi-patterning. It could be Intel's 10nm process is just too challenging for immersion. Both TSMC and Samsung are using EUV at 7nm although to what extent is ambiguous. For all...
[13:35:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 377 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:14] <exec> 08└─Given all the story of viruses, stray apps like these, and children clicking on popups in games without knowing it costs money, I just have never told any of my Android devices about my credit card. No payment set up, no accidental charges ! Turns out I never needed a paid-for app (ok, once, but the...
[13:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:57] <exec> 08└─"May I offer an alternative? If the desired goal is to tax, then any problem, real or imagined, presents an opportunity to do so." While I don't disagree, that has a slightly different focus. It refers to the desire to tax, mine is referring to whether or not a problem is real.
[13:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:58] <exec> 08└─Can it really be nostalgia if you haven't lived through it?
[13:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:52] <exec> 08└─A legal strategy can also be anything that is allowed according to the law. A non-legal strategy being anything that isn't. If they truly meant a PR campaign they could've written public opinion or diplomatic or something along the lines. So far the evidence points that the meeting took place and th...
[13:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:44] <exec> 08└─"Bravely trading for China even when the Evil USA is trying to stop you" = +ve social credit, no?
[13:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Arrests Huawei's Global Chief Financial Officer in Vancouver - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:46] <exec> 08└─^^ upmod this, it's the perfect "nutshell" version of affairs. If you enjoyed that precis, fun extra google terms can also include things like ollie north and the contras... It a messy knot of twisted roots. Perhaps it's best to just burn it down rather than try and fix it...
[13:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Admits Russia Interfered in Net Neutrality Process amid Lawsuit - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:37] <exec> 08└─Well, the various US-based megacorps had to pick *some* offshore country to shield them from prosecution...why NOT Russia? I'm sure they got some good incentives for all that "investment"...
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[14:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:43] <exec> 08└─For captchas, just use scanned text. Optical Character Recognition can never get those right. Burn -> bum, skill -> skin, kettle-> ke#1e. Or maybe we could use this AI software for some decent OCR?
[14:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─Australians with the chops should endeavor to make sure that the first phones that are opened to scrutiny this way are those owned by their politicians and wealthy.
[14:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:55] <exec> 08└─They will never find my porn collection of illegally flat chested ladies.
[14:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Starts to Test 16 TB HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) Hard Drives - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:06] <exec> 08└─Only if you buy the 2-3x overpriced datacenter drives. For consumer? It's engineered to fail 1 day after the warranty period...
[14:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Starts to Test 16 TB HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) Hard Drives - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─It's HAMR (or MAMR for WD). My guess is that it will be significantly more or less reliable than the norm, and I'm leaning towards more reliable. We won't know until Backblaze tells us.
[14:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─You bungled the link. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Robot Puts Human Workers in Hospital - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:08] <exec> 08└─or planned accidents? If I were to plot an overthrow with robotic minions, I would test it first with such "accidents."
[14:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:41] <exec> 08└─There will be discomfort, and death! And then there will be cake!
[14:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:42] <exec> 08└─I have a house plant that doesn't do well in direct summer sunlight. A pot that moved towards the inner edge of the window sill mid day in the summer and rotates the plant so it grows evenly would make the plant happier and would only require it to move 6-8 inches. Still useless in terms of a produc...
[14:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03callmeemo [6445] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:45] <exec> 08└─I was hoping it moved on spindly, spider-like legs, in which the raised base could be of differing sizes and house the components. Some arachnid-plants would add a nice touch to my home, definitely give guests something to talk about. I can only imagine the wheels catching and tipping eventually.
[14:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:55] <exec> 08└─The often-repeated claim is that Moore's law must end because of the size of the atoms. But maybe the size of the photons is a bigger challenge.
[14:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:57] <exec> 08└─1. Build a new type of transistor. [soylentnews.org] 2. Stack transistors in a 3D IC. 3. Moore's ??? 4. Profit.
[14:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:52] <exec> 08└─That steak I had yesterday... a bit too dense in information, turned out to a quite chewy texture
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[15:32:53] <exec> 08└─Captchas exist to force people to turn on scripting, not to keep bots out.
[15:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:55] <exec> 08└─ReCAPTCHA doesn't, anyway. But I guess Pepperidge Farm remembers.....
[15:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:57] <exec> 08└─For captchas, just use scanned text. Optical Character Recognition can never get those right. Burn -> bum, skill -> skin, kettle-> ke#1e. Or maybe we could use this AI software for some decent OCR?
[15:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:59] <exec> 08└─Does BBC use the word 'boffin'? The local colloquialism annoys me. It's like the NY Post can't mention anything having to do with the New York Subway without mentioning 'straphangers'. Literally no one in NYC says 'straphangers' except the Post. I think they think they're cool or something for using...
[15:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:09] <exec> 08└─Isn't the law targeting the companies that produce products to have some way to respond to a secret warrant allowing the police state to rummage through people's lives without oversight? It's not directed at an individual to give up their password, is it? It requires a company, say Apple or Google,...
[15:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:12] <exec> 08└─Officer, I don't know my password. So I wrote it on this yellow sticky note. But unknown to me, it has somehow become illegible due to a build up of some unknown white sticky substance.
[15:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ealbers [5715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seagate Starts to Test 16 TB HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) Hard Drives - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:22] <exec> 08└─When you have a HAMR everything looks like a nail.
[15:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Starts to Test 16 TB HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) Hard Drives - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:25] <exec> 08└─Backblaze will HAMR their MAMRies.
[15:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:39] <exec> 08└─AC parent post, please take your ))white-supremacist(( shit elsewhere. ((They)) may be 15 points smarter IQ on average. Some of ((them)) gravitate towards professions that insulate them socially and financially from assholes like ))you((. Other than that, ((they)) are just like everybody else, inclu...
[15:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:40] <exec> 08└─How did you get "))white supremacist((" and "Rupert Murdoch" from that post? While the AC seems a bit high on the "out there" quotient, your response indicates you are way out there as well.
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─That was the original idea of American copyright law, the original idea of copyright law in general (as in the English one) was censorship.
[15:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:58] <exec> 08└─Current copyright law is an abomination.
[15:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Robot Puts Human Workers in Hospital - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:27] <exec> 08└─Forget solitary confinement, robots deserve the worst possible punishment . . . the electric chair!
[15:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Live Birth From a Deceased Woman's Transplanted Uterus - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:38] <exec> 08└─These homosexuals who think they can rape the female form by mutilating their bodies with "medical" technology are really men, which makes them incels. Somebody who is not born with a functional womb is simply not a woman. How many women have these men had sex with? Instead of having sex like a norm...
[15:34:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 638 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:50] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile I'm thinking that coming home from work each day to find the plant that should be in the corner of the room crawling towards the middle of the room would get really old, really quick. Here's a short list of other things no-one actually wants. Socks that randomly separate after being put aw...
[15:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:02] <exec> 08└─Not until they install the poison dart attachment it's not.
[15:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:17] <exec> 08└─From TFA Meanwhile, an unconfirmed leak of AMD's Ryzen 3000 lineup shows a 12-core CPU at $300 and a 16-core CPU at $450.
[15:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:19] <exec> 08└─Yup. As much as multithreading has been a chicken and egg problem in the past, quad-cores are pretty ubiquitous, even in phones. And PS4 and XBO have 8 cores, with 6-7 usable. Incidentally, the next Xbox could use [wccftech.com] an AMD Zen 2 CPU instead of Jaguar, probably with 8 cores again, except...
[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:31] <exec> 08└─It can't be antimatter - it is charge neutral, otherwise it would interact electromagnetically and would not be "dark". Charge non-conservation has never been observed, so it can't "annihilate" as normal antimatter would.
[15:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─It's more than a slightly different focus, it's a logically incompatible statement. Yours says: if tax, then no problem. Mine says: if tax, then someone wants tax. (Nothing implied about problem.) Seems to me there's far too many taxes that have been implemented as (usually ineffective) "solutions"...
[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:23] <exec> 08└─Even more than that, titanium isn't actually notably stronger than an equivalent volume of steel, just much lighter, harder, and more corrosion resistant. It sounds like it's also quite brittle, a common problem as hardness increases. I'm sure an anti-rust "enchantment" would have been much apprecia...
[15:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:19] <exec> 08└─on a really sad point, there was a UK spook who was found "dead in a bag" and they ruled he zipped himself up and dumped himself as well. In short, the powers that be will not let truth escape and we live in a time of ultimate cognitive dissonance. Essentially we have a multivariate media truth dist...
[15:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nexstar's $4.1 Billion Acquisition of Tribune Media Would Create America's Largest TV Broadcaster - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:36] <exec> 08└─Too much competition was keeping them from growing.
[15:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Admits Russia Interfered in Net Neutrality Process amid Lawsuit - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe you need to do the same...might be a comma splice, but it's perfectly understandable. What part are you having trouble with exactly?
[15:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Admits Russia Interfered in Net Neutrality Process amid Lawsuit - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:14] <exec> 08└─No, I don't have any ilk. I've always wanted one, but never could afford it.
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[16:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03zemm [7178] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:09] <exec> 08└─Most developers are enthusiastic about the future of Gutenberg. I think it's going to be great. However most also agree that it's being released a little too soon (bugs and accessibility issues are the main concerns) and also that the average non-technical person with a WordPress website is not bein...
[16:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:23] <exec> 08└─Well, your vocab has been successfully expanded but the latent triggering still needs to be removed. YOLO.
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:36] <exec> 08└─to Apple's credit (and maybe Google , I'm not sure), the US companies have *put* the keys out of their control on purpose. Having said that, it's not past "stupid govt" to try and make a law that's impossible...
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:38] <exec> 08└─It's both. Mostly at companies, and they have much higher penalties, but there is a provision in there for an 'intelligence officer'* to direct you to unlock your devices, Page 224, Section 34AAA. It's worse than just unlock the phone though, "access data held in, or accessible from, a computer or...
[16:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:40] <exec> 08└─If the 'Stryans submit, then it's their own fault. One of the first rules of leadership is, you never give an order that you know will not be obeyed. Either the politicos know their constituents will puss out, OR, they have underestimated their constituents. Where's Crocodile Dundee when you need hi...
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, I did. Oooooops! Thanks for the corrected link!
[16:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:12] <exec> 08└─Apologies to mods for this thread derail... (((This))) is alt-right dog-whistle for "damn dirty Jew". Poster was implying that Jews are into orld-wide mind-control. I rebut that argument by noting Murdoch, proprietor of arguably the biggest, most comprehensive, profit-seeking mindfucking news media...
[16:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:14] <exec> 08└─Every corporation has a whole department devoted to it;often the biggest department of the company; marketing.
[16:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:16] <exec> 08└─you're a stupid fuck. just because some people use something in one particular way doesn't mean they own the term, even if both happen to denote the term with parenthesis.
[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─those look like pretty badass chips to me. if they have their closed source psp shit in them i wont buy them for a year or so after they come out as a mini protest/pseudo boycott
[16:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:57] <exec> 08└─I see what you mean. I have changed it slightly to emphasize more what I meant, as I was implying something about the problem, as well as the desire to tax. I think I could word it better, and will consider it further. :)
[16:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:58] <exec> 08└─Extremely pure titanium is quite ductile, but it is much more prone to hardening and embrittlement with even small quantities of other metals alloyed in.
[16:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:00] <exec> 08└─You had me until you said "mp3"...
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[17:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:06] <exec> 08└─the Gutenberg editor is fundamentally WYSIWYG
[17:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:07] <exec> 08└─People have life so easy these days. When I was a kid, Mother had to press our clothes to look good for church, or whatever. And, our words, before a recital. I mean, just regular homework wasn't pressed. But something important? Wash them up, get out the ironing board and the iron, and start pressi...
[17:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:21] <exec> 08└─Soon to be an obsolete method of detection: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[17:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:22] <exec> 08└─Does BBC use the word 'boffin'? The local colloquialism annoys me.
[17:33:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:30] <exec> 08└─Australians with the chops should endeavor to make sure that the first phones that are opened to scrutiny this way are those owned by their politicians and wealthy.
[17:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:39] <exec> 08└─Inda had Mahatma - what do the Ozzies have? Kangaroos?
[17:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:41] <exec> 08└─Inda had Mahatma - what do the Ozzies have?
[17:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:43] <exec> 08└─A penalty unit is currently $161.19
[17:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Starts to Test 16 TB HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) Hard Drives - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:57] <exec> 08└─"I will learn to profred my articlse...."
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─Now you know and can stop being ignorant.
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:19] <exec> 08└─you're a stupid fuck. just because some people use something in one particular way doesn't mean they own the term, even if both happen to denote the term with parenthesis.
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─Spotted the white-supremacist. Get the fuck out, loser! Now, now, let's try to not be any less civil to the 'you're-a-stupid-fuck' )))AC((( above than they would be to ((them))). Parens are civil and respectful, amirite?
[17:34:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─It's a sad, sad state of affairs. Works nearly a century old finally becoming available to the public. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" While no numbers are na...
[17:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:42] <exec> 08└─The name of the bill will suggest that it is protecting something. The "Protecting Americans from Copyright Terrorists" act The "Protecting American Culture" act. etc..
[17:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:44] <exec> 08└─We should celebrate it by selecting a new public-domain work for the book club! Anything from here [wikipedia.org] or here. [goodreads.com] We can even distribute our own copy of the book!
[17:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:46] <exec> 08└─P.G. Wodehouse is pretty funny: The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2) by P.G. Wodehouse Something for Aristarchus? The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud Never heard of it but I do like Aldous Huxley. Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley Ooh, some Lovecraft. The Lurking Fear and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft Hypn...
[17:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─I like it. Bookmarking comment and I'll look for any interesting books that become public domain on Jan. 1.
[17:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Says "7nm" Node Using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography is on Track - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:12] <exec> 08└─I guess you are waiting for the price decrease to "punish" AMD. But if you wait that long you might be able to grab the "7nm" refresh made with more use of EUV, probably resulting in better clock speeds and power efficiency. Or you could hold out until "5nm". As for the PSP, there are no signs of ch...
[17:36:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─In-app purchases have always been a minefield of risk on multiple levels. As well as having made gaming and even serious apps into slow-squeeze-to-death-by-dollars mechanisms. Don't like it. Not one bit. But apparently this appeals to people because they don't understand what "free app" actually mea...
[17:36:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─Granular permissions on newer Android versions are supposed to prevent unwanted texting or internet access. Actually, the Play store got worse and is now hiding the permissions under a sub-page, which means too many people will just no bother to check them (then will click OK on any popup asking any...
[17:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:38] <exec> 08└─As illustrated by this example, people trying to get your money are pretty good at making things seem harmless until you get the bill. The people reading SN are more likely to notice the nefarious popup than the general population (though I've seen many engineers clicking popups without reading the...
[17:37:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 521 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:02] <exec> 08└─You're missing nothing: check out https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] https://www.nextbigfuture.com [nextbigfuture.com] https://earthsky.org
[17:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeBakhos [7203] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:25] <exec> 08└─I propose that gravity reverses and becomes repulsive at approximately 1.5 million light years. It becomes more and more strongly repulsive, reaches a peak, and then decreases trailing off to zero. This does away both with dark matter and also dark energy. It would explain why most galaxies are acce...
[17:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─That matches pretty well with my understanding, the crux of my confusion is that the tested and very reliable model stands even when incomplete, why do we need to claim to know something we don't to complete it? To the best of my knowledge dark matter in particular gives no new insight, no new way t...
[17:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:29] <exec> 08└─See if that seemed to be the usage it would make more sense. If dark matter was just code for "here there be dragons" it would confuse me so much less. But the insistence I see over and over, even the summary above, takes the conclusion that dark matter represents 95% of the actual mass in the unive...
[17:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:21] <exec> 08└─Sure, just get yourself a chisel and a large enough chunk of granite. Might take a while, but you could chisel your messages there. You could start the message off by writing various methods and languages to use for deciphering your message. You might want to get some good hired help for the task, a...
[17:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:22] <exec> 08└─Everything I can find on the internet is saying 512GB is the biggest and Newegg has 512GB micro sd cards. But, eBay says they have 1TB and 2TB micro sd cards . . . looks like someone's making some money off suckers. https://www.ebay.com
[17:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, there have been fake listings on eBay and even Amazon for memory cards and USB sticks. I've heard of Chinese-made knockoffs that report to the OS that they can store 256 GB or something, when they might just store like 8 GB and write over data continuously. They might also do a bait and switch...
[17:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 1771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:21] <exec> 08└─"I have zero dealings with Russia" "Oh wait, I totally did have dealings with Russia" don't care "Why are all my closest advisers going to prison?" pigs be piggin' The man lies constantly, unfortunate expense has abused tax payer money example? has passed criminal orders that were revoked by the...
[17:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:22] <exec> 08└─Lol go away shill. Keep trying to play that middle ground, only makes you look more shitty and stupid. If you do not like Trump then stop getting so bemt out of shape when someone tells the truth about him. TDS is actually Trump's Deranged Supporters. Keep hammering that mantra though, you will sqay...
[17:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:24] <exec> 08└─Hey moron you missed the point and i was quite clear about not jailing withoit due process. I guess that mental glitch that makes you defend him is more serious than we thought.
[17:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:27] <exec> 08└─Hey moron you missed the point and i was quite clear about not jailing withoit due process.
[17:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:29] <exec> 08└─And yet, no evidence to support the accusations here. If it really is common knowledge (which I believe is false), then you should have some evidence to point to.
[17:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:31] <exec> 08└─If you're the same AC who kicked this off, this is remarkably weak considering what was started. I get that you wanted to disrupt the system, a fuck you to the government with a tear-it-down attitude. But enough is enough, admit you made a mistake and believed Trump would be better than he was. You'...
[17:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:33] <exec> 08└─Kshallow at it again. Both sides! Good people! Civility! I get it, you are upset. Your inside man at the WH might be done, sad times indeed. Believing in due process does not prevent me from sharing the facts as i have seen them presented. Again, i listed nothing that is not already fact, but fun to...
[17:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─Well.. I don't think the USA likes Evo Morales much either..
[17:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:38] <exec> 08└─No evidence? Kwallow going into the mud. You can find all the admission on Twitter where Trump contradicts himself all the time. That is a good start, then you can go look at all the times Trump has said "i didnt know aboout it" and then engage the last few neurons you have left to figure out how li...
[17:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss The Three-Body Problem, Start Reading Snow Crash - 2417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:19] <exec> 08└─Cixin Liu has done a credible job of creating an alien race. He has assigned them intelligence, motives, and a strange flavored psychology. He has given them some decent powers, and reasonable limitations. He's done such a good job with the aliens, we can almost forget that the story is about humans...
[17:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Admits Russia Interfered in Net Neutrality Process amid Lawsuit - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:34] <exec> 08└─I can't conceive that the progressives think of themselves like that. The flyover state deplorables however...
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[18:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Invent "Groundbreaking" Spin-Based Memory Device - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:11] <exec> 08└─"Invents" is such a big word. It's "discovers".
[18:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:24] <exec> 08└─... Do I get to use the old editor as an option? Or are they going full Microsoft - you'll grow to love it, we're sure, and it doesn't matter if learning a new interface is something you can't afford the time for right now.
[18:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─Also appropriate: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[18:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:01] <exec> 08└─Alright, so Croc Dundee is fictional. Still - where are the revolutionaries? Inda had Mahatma - what do the Ozzies have?
[18:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:03] <exec> 08└─Bah, they've doing that for years... Oh you mean legally, with full voter approval and consent. Well, then it's okay, right? I mean, after all, nobody's lifting a finger to vote for a different class of politician so this kind of thing can't happen, so where's the beef?
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Starts to Test 16 TB HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) Hard Drives - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─It's Anton Shilov. AnandTech grabbed that Russki from X-bit labs. The speling was worse over there.
[18:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:42] <exec> 08└─Actually, it is more apropos when it is named: "Sales and Marketing" aka S&M
[18:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:43] <exec> 08└─That's offensive, associating good, clean, wholesome activity with the likes of corporate advertising!
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:46] <exec> 08└─Please take your complaint to the department of Behavior and Diversity.
[18:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:08] <exec> 08└─Americans, or more specifically Republicans ? Look at that list again.
[18:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:09] <exec> 08└─"Straining Under Pressure to Enhance Revenue : Protecting American Culture" Yup, that will pass unanimously.
[18:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Live Birth From a Deceased Woman's Transplanted Uterus - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:55] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the plot for a Euro movie : "After the mysterious death of the adoptive mother, Jeanne sinks into depression, and decides to meet her biological parents. Follow her on her journey of self-discovery, as she navigates a surrogate mother with a transplanted uterus from a dead woman, an alco...
[18:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First Live Birth From a Deceased Woman's Transplanted Uterus - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─Meh, they're getting better. Didn't Dick Cheney go officially heartless and pulse-free for quite a while ?
[18:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─It's clear that plants are beings with needs, desires and fears. I postulate that they could even be sentient!
[18:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:08] <exec> 08└─people trying to get your money are pretty good at making things seem harmless until you get the bill
[18:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:09] <exec> 08└─people trying to get your money are pretty good at making things seem harmless until you get the bill.
[18:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:01] <exec> 08└─Believing in due process does not prevent me from sharing the facts as i have seen them presented.
[18:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:02] <exec> 08└─And still no evidence. Find those tweets which support the claim of criminal activity. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I'm not going to look when you can't be bothered to.
[18:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nexstar's $4.1 Billion Acquisition of Tribune Media Would Create America's Largest TV Broadcaster - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:20] <exec> 08└─Our amazing Farmers are so happy they voted for me. They are so lucky that I gave them that privilege. Because we are streamlining regulations that have blocked cutting edge biotechnology, setting free our farmers to innovate, thrive and to grow. But, they don't want to grow weeds. They can grow wee...
[18:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss The Three-Body Problem, Start Reading Snow Crash - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:49] <exec> 08└─I find the most interesting the idea that any proven contact with an alien civilization is likely to trigger an all out nuclear war immediately. In the book Chinese released it early on while western nations supposedly did not. What do you think the approach is right now? Would the US nuke Russia if...
[18:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss The Three-Body Problem, Start Reading Snow Crash - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:50] <exec> 08└─but of more interest, are the number of people who betray the human race, for various reasons.
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[19:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Left Without 4G Data Access After O2 Network Goes Down Due to Ericsson Software Outage - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:56] <exec> 08└─They were taken off line to prevent another Brexit-like incident. That strange Doctor Who was about to suggest that Parliament just exit the earth. It isn't clear which world Who wanted to infest with Brits, but CNN is working hard to get the full story.
[19:33:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 674 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─It's both. Mostly at companies, and they have much higher penalties, but there is a provision in there for an 'intelligence officer'* to direct you to unlock your devices, Page 224, Section 34AAA. It's worse than just unlock the phone though, "access data held in, or accessible from, a computer or...
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─They do penalty units so they can keep indexing the fines every year without having to rewrite the laws. For example, a parking fine that was $66 ten years ago is now $112. Not sure how they decide what CPI is, but penalty units are tracking much faster.
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─They do penalty units so they can keep indexing the fines every year without having to rewrite the laws.
[19:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:58] <exec> 08└─Fixed fines is "screw the poor, but the richer will feel it less and less over time" Inflation adjustment is "screw the poor progressively more, while keeping the pain constant for the richer", where "pain" varies based on your income, from mild suffering to mere light rash. Income-based fines can b...
[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─So a fancy pot growing pot? There's money in that.
[19:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:07] <exec> 08└─Totally agreed. To give you an example of why things are complex, Angry Birds was quite harmless when I played it for a while. A few months of updates later, I removed it from the tablet, because the amount of advertising had gone totally over the top. Like everything in parenting, it's not a teach-...
[19:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:08] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see a complete ban on clickable/actionable advertising in all contexts that are intended for the use of children. If an ad appears in such a context, it would have to be text, image or animation, nothing more. That would at least abstract the action one level away, and allow the parent t...
[19:37:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:44] <exec> 08└─Negative mass is what you get when you're not Catholic. -- Money can't buy love, but it can sure buy a yacht to pull up next to it on.
[19:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:58] <exec> 08└─That works until you have to use it anywhere but a wide open field with only one opponent.
[19:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:08] <exec> 08└─I still don't get it, sorry. Let me use an example. Suppose she killed a man in the US. Canada would send her to face a trial in the US because killing is against the law in Canada. If killing would be legal in Canada, my understanding is that she would not be extradited. Hence my question (sorry fo...
[19:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:10] <exec> 08└─I see you are an amoral twat, noted.
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[20:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Left Without 4G Data Access After O2 Network Goes Down Due to Ericsson Software Outage - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:23] <exec> 08└─If an expired software certificate is the cause, then it is not a software outage. If that were true, then you could similarly blame the traffic light for every driver running the red light.
[20:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Engineers Invent "Groundbreaking" Spin-Based Memory Device - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:33] <exec> 08└─Will this improve spinning disks?
[20:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Invent "Groundbreaking" Spin-Based Memory Device - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:35] <exec> 08└─This was a very impressive discovery, but unfortunately they stored the plans for it in the spin-based memory device and lost everything when they shut it off.
[20:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Invent "Groundbreaking" Spin-Based Memory Device - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─Imagine the difference in efficiency when you drive your car on an eight lane highway compared to a narrow city lane.
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─They're making the old editor available as a plug-in, but they'll be taking the plug-in away in 2022.
[20:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 2964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:31] <exec> 08└─These laws only affect typical users. Anyone with something to hide, can still use an App on their phone or external service that effective hides/encrypts anything they are doing. Criminals are most likely to be part of second group, so this sort of law are pretty much useless. Here's to hoping that...
[20:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:14] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they have only just discovered the 16th century writings of Niccolò Machiavelli.
[20:35:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 257 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:32] <exec> 08└─I think I just found out why so many Americans do not believe in evolution. 1. George Washington 2. John Adams 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. James Madison 5. James Monroe .... 41. George Bush 42. Bill Clinton 43. George W. Bush 44. Barack Obama 45. Donald Trump
[20:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:41] <exec> 08└─Why create anything non-excrement when a corporation is going to end up owning and controlling it anyway?
[20:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:56] <exec> 08└─you have nobody to be afraid of. Maybe only of the people that put that Orange Clown there.
[20:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:48] <exec> 08└─But but but ... Mah First Amendment, you socialist librul regulating commie !!!!
[20:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:39] <exec> 08└─"Real science is based on observations and experiments" Then this is real science, a hypothesis that explains the OBSERVED phenomena of galaxies rotating faster than expected and space expansion . Now you are free to shoot down the hypothesis with anything .... Except name calling.
[20:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:41] <exec> 08└─Dark matter/dark energy are placeholders. Something exists, but we lack the capability to observe it. It is, most likely, a lot of things that are simply beyond out capability to measure. "Dark" because we cannot 'see' it with any instruments we currently have. We will likely eventually figure out a...
[20:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:40] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't the format, but the recording and mastering of modern pop music. There are good modern music, available in superior digital format. If these hipsters or audiophiles or whatever actually cared about the content, they would buy a vinyl, rip the audio into digital format, then sell th...
[20:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:54] <exec> 08└─Oh, so you're one of those "he said it out loud in public so it can't be a crime" huh? I'll take your stupid bait, list the accusations I made that you want more info on. What is going to happen is I will list out public statements and "coincidences" such as the Saudi's booking millions of dollars w...
[20:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:55] <exec> 08└─I've been paying attention and have a functional memory. You are a shill trying to muddy the waters and pretend that everything is fine. "Traitor" is an extraordinary claim, the rest is just obvious if you are paying attention. So tell me khallow, do you not pay attention to the news in any way shap...
[20:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:57] <exec> 08└─Oh sheeeit! Some tiny bit of contrition from khallow!!! You just made my day to see the crack in the wall finally go all the way to the ceiling. I think this is the first example of true regret, though teeny tiny and still trying to apologize for itself. To address your little self-excusing bullshit...
[20:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:59] <exec> 08└─Could you just sense me about to throw your own words in your face? lololol fookin blookin mate!
[20:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:02] <exec> 08└─Start here https://www.politico.com [politico.com] Found that link while looking for any info on Mueller's report today. Basically Trump is a criminal that has paid off all the people who could testify against him. I really liked th...
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[21:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:05] <exec> 08└─I'm not disappointed. The notion of land speed record has kind of hit a limit. It's not like this is the 1920s where it was at the cutting edge. Jet powered vehicles like this are basically like intentionally running a fighter jet too close to the deck, it's just that it doesn't have the ability to...
[21:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Left Without 4G Data Access After O2 Network Goes Down Due to Ericsson Software Outage - 1436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─Disagree. It's an outage. Anytime you have such things, like dongles, certificates, DRM, serial numbers, etc., and they are for a set period of time, then you are leasing the software. You're not the owner, and you have no power (unless you pirate it or destroy their measures of control). Somebody s...
[21:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Caballo Negro [1794] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engineers Invent "Groundbreaking" Spin-Based Memory Device - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─Back at the dawn — well, early morning, anyway — of computing time, (ferrite) core memory relied on ferrimagnetism. Don't think electron spin mobility was a consideration, though.
[21:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:45] <exec> 08└─are they going full Microsoft
[21:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:46] <exec> 08└─Who gives a shit about content creation when the platform itself is fundamentally fucked? Personally, I block all Wordpress sites and look at them as infected servers most likely. Most Wordpress sites I come across are owned by people who perform zero maintenance. They look at it like an investment...
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:03] <exec> 08└─I dunno, but who the fuck can pass one these days? I've sat there for over a minute clicking fucking tile after tile after tile. I've outright failed to get through some captcha systems. Meanwhile the bots keep evolving with AI, and can solve the captchas faster than any human can. At some point pro...
[21:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure that you cannot hand a cop that substance, or in any other way "give it" to them. Ask Pee Wee Herman :)
[21:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:12] <exec> 08└─Kids need to play a wider variety of games. Even better, kids need to have a wide variety of experiences. I think cost-benefit analysis is better taught using "spreadsheet" games like MMORPGs than chess. Chess is way too simplistic and deterministic, you need to be able to weigh dozens of variables,...
[21:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:40] <exec> 08└─What? You're going to post that without mentioning that Disney culturally appropriates German folk stories? There's like an anti-Semite propaganda goldmine to be found here!
[21:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:56] <exec> 08└─To play devil's advocate, the sensible vegetarian/vegan objection toward meat is that animals are treated very inhumanely. Such a person wouldn't be opposed to meat that was obtained in a relatively humane manner, like the Hitchhiker cow perhaps. Then there are religious vegetarians which, hey, what...
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─This sounds like bad design. My understanding of how Google Play/Android handles it is that apps call out to Google Play, which then handles the payment prompting dialog, confirmation, charge, etc. It isn't possible for apps to charge the user directly or access their payment info. The app needs to...
[21:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bizarre "Dark Fluid" With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:40] <exec> 08└─Bah! Another Federation commie going on about anthropogenic subspace breakdown. It's all a left-wing plot to steal from hard-working Ferengi, while you fly from one end of the quadrant to the other in a private galaxy-class cruiser!
[21:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:42] <exec> 08└─I like it. It does feel like it's almost something really punchy, but no improvements spring to mind. Best of luck with it.
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[22:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:25] <exec> 08└─What's the point of this, to waste money on an expensive way to die. Good on British funders not to give these idiots any money. Now, I hear that in Silicon Valley, you could still dump this kind of shit on the street and have VCs swarm like flies.
[22:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:27] <exec> 08└─Simple solution: moving power has to be transmitted only to the ground.
[22:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Millions Left Without 4G Data Access After O2 Network Goes Down Due to Ericsson Software Outage - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:37] <exec> 08└─ssl cert expiration as no relationship to the openness of the software using the cert
[22:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─I miss messing with xf86config too. Good ol' days. Mess it up? NO GUI FOR YOU!
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:09] <exec> 08└─So... wordpress is good for the Indian economy you say! :)
[22:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:53] <exec> 08└─Not saying just roll over as it should be fought, but in the meantime, can you have 2 codes, one to unlock, and one to nuke?
[22:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:39] <exec> 08└─How many levels of irony are you on right now?
[22:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iOS Apps Used Touch ID Feature to Trick Users Into Paying Hefty Fees - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:12] <exec> 08└─I just loaded your link and it apparently came up fine on my android BLU phone / Brave browser. Thanks for sharing that. I am so frustrated with today's technology over the exact things discussed in these forums.... lack of transparency and doing things behind my back, can't trust it.
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[23:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:27] <exec> 08└─I support this lawsuit. The so called compromise means that a Dr cannot simply give their patient a prescription and be done with it. The patient must also appear in front of a so called "compasionate review board" to plead for the right to treat their pain with something other than dangerous opiate...
[23:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:28] <exec> 08└─The state has no business intervening in the medical decisions between a doctor and a patient unless they are going to review every dangerous script.
[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─The state would intervene regardless of whether or not they were paying for the medical care. That's just what authoritarian governments do.
[23:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─Have we gone back to October time? https://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk]
[23:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─Even I can see that, without people who ask "why not?" or "can we?", the world would not have much in the way of technology or exploration. I can see slightly less relevance to the world in "most hotdogs eaten in a minute" or "longest toenails"than "fastest jet powered vehicle", but competition driv...
[23:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:26] <exec> 08└─Don't you have something more pressing to do?
[23:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:47] <exec> 08└─Using you as a mechanical turk. Also likely using it to help them identify your mouse/click profile for future identification on other sites. I've been having to take a few minutes each time on those captchas making my mouse movements and clicks look fake, and having both clicked wrong tiles and cli...
[23:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:48] <exec> 08└─Yep. was going to mark funny, but I think this is probably true. It's also good to collect data to measure how good on average a human is at solving captchas. This is useful in determining how good your NN is at solving them - better or worse than human.
[23:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:48] <exec> 08└─To address your little self-excusing bullshit, while I dislike Clinton and didn't vote for her because she fucked over Sanders; it is still clear that Clinton would have been better for the US. Trump was a joke who made it by blatantly lying and manipulating conservative voters and if you paid any a...
[23:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:49] <exec> 08└─I'll take your stupid bait, list the accusations I made that you want more info on. What is going to happen is I will list out public statements and "coincidences" such as the Saudi's booking millions of dollars worth of Trump hotel rooms and you will simply respond with "then why hasn't Trump been...
[23:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:51] <exec> 08└─Again, you say nothing. Where's the evidence? Stop the bullshit and present some facts.
[23:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:54] <exec> 08└─Being able to anticipate possible criticisms of one's writing or beliefs is a sign of rational thinking. Try it sometime.
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