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[00:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:50] <exec> 08└─Corporate psychopaths!
[00:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:05] <exec> 08└─Wait for your turn, buddy. It's gonna happen, and soon.
[00:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:07] <exec> 08└─Turn? At what? Are you telling us, Ethanol_fullered, that you have once been covered in human shit? TMI, dude, TMI!
[00:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:09] <exec> 08└─Runaway the rocket scientist! So refreshing to see new ideas, like from 2001, A Space Odyssey, instead of the stale things the faceless bureaucrats at NASA and the IRSO actually do! Tell us more, Runaway!! Please?
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[00:33:11] <exec> 08└─Your post has been brought to the attention of the FBI, who take matters involving sexual abuse of children VERY seriously.
[00:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:13] <exec> 08└─Chimps go to space so they can fling their poo farther. They should be happy playing gorilla.bas
[00:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:15] <exec> 08└─Is India’s ISRO the most successful Space Agency after NASA? [youtube.com] (8m29s) SpaceX Vs. Blue Origin Vs. ISRO, Who will dominate the Future of Space? [youtube.com] (10m2s) A couple of videos about ISRO. Most here probably know about them due to their cheap Mars mission, but it turns out that...
[00:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:18] <exec> 08└─I am also wondering what is going to happen to me soon? Apart from Christmas of course. That is going to happen soon, but maybe there's something else?
[00:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 1525 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─So these ISPs (really just dying cable media providers) want the government to take money from sites providing the media and give it to them instead. Normal ISPs (ie. not cable companies masquerading as ISPs) already benefit from these media sites since they are the proverbial 'killer app' that will...
[00:33:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 521 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─Now if the FCCs reason for this is that these sites are 'bad' and this is really just a disguised 'sin tax', then by all means tax it. But, don't give the proceeds of the tax back to the ISPs. Earmark it for something useful like schools or hospitals so it actually benefits everyone and not just pad...
[00:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:51] <exec> 08└─Little Ajit Pai hasn't forgotten who his real masters are! He may roll at Trump's feet, and lick Trump's anatomy, but his real masters are the telecoms.
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:53] <exec> 08└─Little Ajit Pai hasn't forgotten who his real masters are!
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:55] <exec> 08└─Then again "never attest to malice that can be adequately explained by incompetence".... No, please, you have that backwards [cia.gov]
[00:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:58] <exec> 08└─The telecoms are Trump's masters also. They told him to appoint Pai. This happens because people vote for (reelect) telecom puppets [gq.com] instead of seeking out somebody else.
[00:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Hold Off on Selling Facial Recognition Technology - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:16] <exec> 08└─If nothing else, because that means only the government would be able to use facial recognition.
[00:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union Established for Video Game Workers in the UK - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:54] <exec> 08└─Agreed. IT is pretty much the production line these days, with more opportunities for getting specifically called out for extra overtime without anybody needing to call out the whole shift - but then you also have things like on-call rotations where it's just assumed that you're going to be availabl...
[00:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars InSight Lander Seen in First Images from Space - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:02] <exec> 08└─A link to an article of the dailymail by a moron who understands nothing about color balance
[00:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars InSight Lander Seen in First Images from Space - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:04] <exec> 08└─I should have known better than to try to argue with a fucking flat-earther.
[00:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purdue University Researchers Identify Molybdenum Ditelluride as a Material for Next-Gen Memory - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:20] <exec> 08└─Wait for it! https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[00:39:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CZB [6457] 02 - 06Netflix’s Biggest Competition Isn’t Sleep — It’s YouTube - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:01] <exec> 08└─Does Netflix have daily news shows from indie reporters? Are there hit serial dramas on YT? I'm not interested in what netflix sells.
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[01:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:04] <exec> 08└─Sure, those babies may have gotten cancer while using talcum powder, but who's to say the disease wasn't actually caused by their two pack a day smoking habit?
[01:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:05] <exec> 08└─Your post has been brought to the attention of the FBI, who take matters involving sexual abuse of children VERY seriously.
[01:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:07] <exec> 08└─Well, if you remember, babies used to spontaneously combust with all the flammable clothing they had on. The asbestos probably saved their lives! We should be grateful to J&J! Now, with that in mind, I respectively request all you dealers out there not to cut your coke with J&J baby powder. Thank yo...
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─You're getting sidetracked. Let's go with a specific example. If SN had to start paying this tax, the community would really be the ones having to pay it. We'd have no choice but to pass the cost increase on because we don't have huge piles of cash that we like to roll around naked in. So if a busin...
[01:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Hold Off on Selling Facial Recognition Technology - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:23] <exec> 08└─The swill of stupidity is strong in this one.
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Hold Off on Selling Facial Recognition Technology - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:25] <exec> 08└─I am annoyed at the begging letters, Trump this, Trump that, but they are pandering to their donating base. Their state groups still seem to do good work, standing up for poor people against the government.
[01:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars InSight Lander Seen in First Images from Space - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─The first images from space didn't show the Insight lander. Just kinda grainy views of Earth [airspacemag.com]mostly
[01:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Ocean Monitoring Instrument Found After Five Years at Sea - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:44] <exec> 08└─Continental Drip Theory.
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[02:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:18] <exec> 08└─Typical Pizzagate, Spirit cooking Trumptard response. You people are mesothelioma even without the asbestos exposure!
[02:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:19] <exec> 08└─til: baby powder is made of asbestos. not ground up baby.
[02:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:40] <exec> 08└─They could have even had indoor parking for the Soyuz capsules.
[02:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:42] <exec> 08└─Ever watched a broadcast from the space station? There's so very little room, it seems. Just come up with a method to attach those things to the station, and people can "stand up", stretch, and exercise a little. Hook them together in a circle around the station, put a little spin to the whole mess,...
[02:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:22] <exec> 08└─It's so much fucking worse though. They're partly talking about giving it to the ISPs, but the bullshit reason they cloak it in is offensive as fuck. All the telephone calls are already charged USF fees, and they're talking about the same bullshit system. It was supposed to help out libraries, rural...
[02:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:04] <exec> 08└─Why does it have to be one or the other? Competition has both its upsides and its downsides. Yes it can provide more choice (in some ways) to the consumer and often (but not always) help keep prices down, but that doesn't mean that these people's complaints aren't legitimate. For an example look at...
[02:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:06] <exec> 08└─Epic's main product, the global sensation known as Fortnite, is not officially supported on Linux (it is on Android). That alone should tell you how much they care about Linux. All of Valve's major games as well as an upcoming one, In the Valley of Gods, support Linux. And they've contributed to Lin...
[02:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix’s Biggest Competition Isn’t Sleep — It’s YouTube - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:45] <exec> 08└─There's always the "Netflix socks": https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] http://makeit.netflix.com [netflix.com]
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[03:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:44] <exec> 08└─It takes a very special kind of stupid to not expect thermonuclear blowback from asbestos in a baby product.
[03:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:45] <exec> 08└─baby powder is made of asbestos. not ground up baby.
[03:34:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 627 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:35] <exec> 08└─the thing is , every time I read something palpably annoying I also think "is this just to seem reasonable later on? What else is being hidden?" The problem (IMHO) is not that this government is corrupt or incompetent - they *ALL* are, and depending on your social place, appears better or worse depe...
[03:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:46] <exec> 08└─Try this on for size: AFTER they have provided broadband to the community in question AFTER it has been tested and approved by a third party auditing body that has to include observers from the targeted community, demonstrating bandwidth, nondiscriminatory network delivery, high uptime and tight SLA...
[03:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:31] <exec> 08└─Fortnight, Fortnight, Fortnight, it's the only game that exists!
[03:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix’s Biggest Competition Isn’t Sleep — It’s YouTube - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:15] <exec> 08└─What? Do You mean like making a character in a fantasy setting dark brown where the rest of her race is white as lily flowers and think the viewers won't be distracted? Lime as in wtf is a Dark Elf doing living with the surface elves? How about making a white main character in a series black where o...
[03:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix’s Biggest Competition Isn’t Sleep — It’s YouTube - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:16] <exec> 08└─This is inspirational. Could be a book. A world where the disabled, redundant and the unwanted at discarded. Hit by a car? Crippled? Born with a disability? Prove your worth to society or die horribly. Choose between a quick death paid for by your family or a sponsor, or entry into the Game of Games...
[03:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix’s Biggest Competition Isn’t Sleep — It’s YouTube - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:19] <exec> 08└─Netflix credit can be purchased at stores now. Buy the card, it is activated at the counter, enter the info to update the credit on your Netflix account. Easy. Netflix don't need to do credit card processing. I don't need to put my credit card info across the Internet. The local store gets a cut. Ev...
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[04:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:15] <exec> 08└─The asbestos business started a long time ago, when it was minimally controlled. J&J made baby powder with asbestos since 1975, and it was legal enough for several decades. As this article says [epa.gov], the following happened: In 1989, EPA attempted to ban most asbestos-containing products by iss...
[04:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:16] <exec> 08└─J&J has their rebuttal up. Fake news or corporate greed? https://www.jnj.com [jnj.com]
[04:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:19] <exec> 08└─Wait until you hear about the Girl Scout cookies and what they're not made of...
[04:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:21] <exec> 08└─Notice that the news story repeated mentions asbestos detection, but never once mentions asbestos in concentrations that warrant concern. This is a typical legal troll to generate business for lawyers. There's all this talk about how Johnson and Johnson "knew" that there was asbestos in their talc...
[04:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:23] <exec> 08└─That's the law. But even back in the '70s we all knew asbestos == bad. Angry mothers don't give a damn what the regulations say if they find out something everyone knows is bad is in a baby product. They should probably start the process for writing off their baby products division now.
[04:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:25] <exec> 08└─Some poisons have a very flat dose/response profile. Asbestos is one of those, with even a single exposure increasing cancer risk significantly. This is for mesothelioma in particular, a lung cancer. It's caused by an aberrant immune reaction to the asbestos fibres that become embedded in the lungs....
[04:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Finding the Titanic with ROVs and Navy Funding - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:44] <exec> 08└─Twenty three men in the rear compartments survived the explosion and sinking of the Kursk, but it was too deep to safely use the escape hatch, and they couldn't reach the lifeboat in the conning tower. They all died when an emergency oxygen generator caught fire, but it is known that they lived for...
[04:37:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Ohio Congressman: We Can Fund Border Wall with “WallCoin” - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:59] <exec> 08└─Can you spend it on Burritos?
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[05:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:10] <exec> 08└─The CEOs and money behind this company and military industrial outfits like it must be full of psychopaths with a fetish for anything unethical.
[05:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:11] <exec> 08└─"Non-lethal" should have a "sic" behind it. There's no such thing as non-lethal weapons (except perhaps Nerf guns, but those are generally classified as toys not weapons). Tear gas et al are always labeled as less lethal by everyone with any sense, like the military. "This tear gas grenade is less l...
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[05:33:14] <exec> 08└─unethical? Sorry, they don't know the word. Psychopaths just wanna get their rocks off. They are the reason we actually do need a death penalty. There's no reason to keep them alive.
[05:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:35] <exec> 08└─It's called "being led by the aged." Not only do they not give a flip what happens 10 years from now, they also know the shit they've gotten away with for the past 70 and fully expect that the trend can and will continue for a few more years. It's sort of the psychopath's logical extension of "it's...
[05:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:37] <exec> 08└─Something very similar happened with arsenic in treated wood about 15-20 years ago. Oh, it's harmless. Oh, we've done it this way forever and 'taint never hurt nobody. Then, a neighbor of mine led a study of the arsenic content of playground soil.... he, and his masters, knew full well what they wou...
[05:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:39] <exec> 08└─J+J has that special stupid, alrighty. Contemplate their jeering, lying response that because they could not possibly have conspired to keep this problem covered up for 40 years, it couldn't be true. They're so full of shit.
[05:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:04] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-fueled, was not like this. Quite the opposite! He was young, with a passion for positivity, filled with hopes and dreams to see the world. But one sad day, in his inebriated state, poor Ethanol-fueled lost his way and found himself in a gutter. Instead of ISRO, where he always wanted to go,...
[05:34:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:34] <exec> 08└─Also ignoring the fact that they have already been paid (by taxpayers) to supply internet access to rural areas, but then often don't supply it. Is this regulatory capture?
[05:34:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 1914 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:42] <exec> 08└─It's so much fucking worse though. They're partly talking about giving it to the ISPs, but the bullshit reason they cloak it in is offensive as fuck. All the telephone calls are already charged USF fees, and they're talking about the same bullshit system. It was supposed to help out libraries, rural...
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[06:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:57] <exec> 08└─Since this judge wants to deny oil to the people, he should be denied it himself. Make sure that nothing in his household is made from oil or with use of oil. Remove parts of his house that offend the judge, disconnect it from the grid, cancel fuel contracts, confiscate his medical supplies, forbid...
[06:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:59] <exec> 08└─So he denies a small percentage of the oil but we take away all of his oil? What about non-oil sources of grid electricity? Nice revenge fantasy, loser.
[06:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:01] <exec> 08└─My problem with Judgery is that Judges present themselves as these non-political, ethereal beings who rise above bias to keep social interaction moving solely along proper, lawful, procedural lines; yet, a "judgment" is almost always just a euphemism for a personal "gut feeling". Why doesn't this j...
[06:33:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:10] <exec> 08└─"Non-lethal" should have a "sic" behind it. There's no such thing as non-lethal weapons (except perhaps Nerf guns, but those are generally classified as toys not weapons). Tear gas et al are always labeled as less lethal by everyone with any sense, like the military. "This tear gas grenade is less l...
[06:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:13] <exec> 08└─The irony in your statement most likely escapes you. You would execute human beings but you don't like tear gas being used ? It's truly a shame an idiot like you was ever born.
[06:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:15] <exec> 08└─Protesters who don't understand that their violent behavior will result in unpleasant consequences are living in a dream world. Those in power are not going to allow mass violence, and that IS the bottom line. What it takes to suppress mass tantrums is as much up to the protesters as it is up to the...
[06:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:17] <exec> 08└─If the protesters were really motivated, they would cause much more violence and overthrow the government.
[06:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:20] <exec> 08└─Those in power organize, finance and direct protesters against other people in power. Without massive financial support all protesters would be eventually rounded up. But they are back each time, none the worse, ready for another round of violence.
[06:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:22] <exec> 08└─How about dum-dum ammunition [wikipedia.org], banned in international war since 1899, but allowed for use against your own population by police forces [soylentnews.org]?
[06:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:24] <exec> 08└─"If the protesters were really motivated, they would cause much more violence and overthrow the government." - You have the mind of a child, and a very stupid child at that. The US government ( and most other governments also ) has weapons which are not available to the civilian population, among wh...
[06:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:26] <exec> 08└─How about the many more peaceful protesters it gets used on, like those kids at UC Davis [wikipedia.org] who were violently sitting on the ground when Sgt. Pepper walked up to them and gave each one an individual blast to the face? Or the many instances where bystanders who are simply walking home f...
[06:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:28] <exec> 08└─If you get mugged and end up paralyzed or watch a female you care about get gang-raped, you'll come to understand why lethal weapons which can neutralize a threat quickly are necessary. No rational person will claim that such weapons are "nice". But the people who make the existence of such weapons...
[06:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:53] <exec> 08└─Cancer and death likely caused by this product. Lawyers required because voluntary application of "standards", in the absence of regulation, has failed.
[06:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:54] <exec> 08└─"with even a single exposure increasing cancer risk significantly" Dose of what size? There are lots of things that with a single large enough dose will increase risk measurably. NDMA, for example. However it's present in trace amounts in cooked foods. What constitutes a risk raising dose? You've al...
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[06:34:19] <exec> 08└─Always happy to hear from the Soylent Oddity. Please, keep posting.
[06:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:20] <exec> 08└─There's a whole community of people in California who identify as deltaV. If they won't take the job, we can just kidnap them to get the job done.
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[07:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:32] <exec> 08└─Oh please! Don't be such a baby! We're talking about psychopaths, not human beings. You can put your self righteous indignation in the shitcan.
[07:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:34] <exec> 08└─We're talking about psychopaths, not human beings.
[07:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:36] <exec> 08└─No, I just recognize the grave threat they present to the species, while you dummies keep voting them into office. They are deadly mosquitoes that must be exterminated, or we will all die. There is no other way
[07:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:38] <exec> 08└─If you get mugged and end up paralyzed or watch a female you care about get gang-raped, you'll come to understand why lethal weapons which can neutralize a threat quickly are necessary.
[07:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:32] <exec> 08└─Neverending stupidity is not a character trait to be nurtured.
[07:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:34] <exec> 08└─Fun fact. Back when the Space Shuttle was being developed there was a serious suggestion that the external tank (huge one between the side boosters) could be carried into orbit instead of being released and burning up. With a few small design changes, like adding an external hatchway, making two of...
[07:34:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:47] <exec> 08└─The ISP's ALREADY charge *extra* for business users.
[07:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:16] <exec> 08└─So Google/Netflix/etc. just start their own separate ISPs, or better yet they band together, buy out a small one and expand it, so they pay money to themselves with a side effect of carving out chunks of the cable dinosaur's territory.
[07:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:18] <exec> 08└─Here in Canada, there is a push by the media companies to have an internet tax on any traffic over 15 GBs a month, because you know, only (legal) streamers use over 15 GBs a month and it seems the streaming companies aren't paying the artists enough, so a tax to go to industry to theoretically pay t...
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[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:45] <exec> 08└─Outsourcing to the private sector. This is what happens all to often. It's just cronyism with, all to frequently, a side order of corruption.
[08:34:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 726 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:15] <exec> 08└─How about the many more peaceful protesters it gets used on, like those kids at UC Davis [wikipedia.org] who were violently sitting on the ground when Sgt. Pepper walked up to them and gave each one an individual blast to the face? Or the many instances where bystanders who are simply walking home f...
[08:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:22] <exec> 08└─I expect you will start whining about "Posse Comitatus" but I can tell you that if the shit hits the fan, all that stuff won't stop the military from doing whatever is necessary to suppress a rebellion.
[08:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:24] <exec> 08└─who were violently sitting on the ground when Sgt. Pepper walked up to them and gave each one an individual blast to the face?
[08:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 6237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:55] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is the difference between the laboratory and implementation. For example, asbestos used in insulation? Well, it *is* safe, but only if used precisely and without deviation from instructed installation and maintenance procedures. And here's another thing. It's replacement? It's no...
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[08:35:22] <exec> 08└─India-StandingRoomOnly?
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[09:33:26] <exec> 08└─No. Do you feel that way?
[09:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:36] <exec> 08└─I worked at a government agency where they tried to issue new ids. It required everyone to visit three different buildings sprawled throughout the campus to fill out various forms and wait in lines, a process that wasted 1-3 workdays of each employee. Then you got to the "last line" to get your new...
[09:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:37] <exec> 08└─Interviewer: Will you treat people poorly, search through their belongings and digital devices, violate their privacy, threaten them with detention or incarceration, and use fear to intimidate them? Applicant: Is this a trick question? Interviewer: No. Applicant: No, I will not do those things. Inte...
[09:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:50] <exec> 08└─I also appreciate the concern for the environment, but, isn't a judge supposed to judge according to laws? Is it the body of laws so big and confusing that a judge can rule whatever because something to support him will crop up? Very Italian of you.
[09:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:51] <exec> 08└─The US system is quite different than the Italian system. It seems "laws" are less important in the US than in any non-anglo system.
[09:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:51] <exec> 08└─Story at-a-glance I wrote a thesis
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[09:37:54] <exec> 08└─https://www.soccermanager.com/crypto/ [soccermanager.com]
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[10:33:24] <exec> 08└─> 20-dimensional hypercube so that each processor would only need to talk to 20 others directly I'm not sure if I'm glad or disappointed that the old TIS-100 only went as far as four interconnects per node ("4-dimensional" in the article's parlance?). Programming for and debugging that CPU was a pai...
[10:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:37] <exec> 08└─Your project will always succeed with Accenture. We don't sign contacts with a losing scenario. For us that is.
[10:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:39] <exec> 08└─You have to understand that corruption is a necessary evil - without it, how would the government high-ups have friends?
[10:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:41] <exec> 08└─Now that I think about it Im not sure about the one person per hour, the line was probably mostly moving due to people giving up rather than getting processed.
[10:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:47] <exec> 08└─I can't wait that long.
[10:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:48] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I could not find the +Cynical mod.
[10:35:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 1110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:03] <exec> 08└─The correct solution to get more living space is known. Put up a Bigelow inflatable module. The largest design would have over double the volume of the entire ISS: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The more modest design, which should be built around 2020, will be about 1/3 of th...
[10:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:58] <exec> 08└─Google Fiber [google.com]. Not available in most areas.
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[12:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:30] <exec> 08└─We've seen this right established/affirmed in the Fifth and Third circuits lately. Maybe more if I wasn't paying attention. Now this did exist in the First Circuit (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and Rhode Island) due to Glik v. Cunniffe [wikipedia.org], but only for "open recordi...
[12:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:31] <exec> 08└─If they're not doing anything wrong, they've got nothing to hide.
[12:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:43] <exec> 08└─You mean this TIS-100 [eviltrout.com] processor? You sure you haven't got the wrong acronym? If you meant the TRS-80 Model 100, there's apparently Virtual T [sourceforge.net] for all your leave-the-hardware-in-the-garage needs...
[12:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:57] <exec> 08└─Accenture. Beats working for a living. Boy, do the contracts team earn their money, though!
[12:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:11] <exec> 08└─In a sense I agree, however, you are shooting the messenger. The judicial systems all over the world are designed to employ inane judges who talk out of their asses. The assumption is that by having a hierarchy of courts, the inaneness can be kept down to a bearable limit. Then there are the cases w...
[12:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:13] <exec> 08└─... now it's basically a mythic Keystone.
[12:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:15] <exec> 08└─Aren't legal decisions supposed to be based on the law rather than what the judge believes? Did I sleep through that bit in social studies? I am not a Keystone Pipeline fan but neither am I a fan of judges massively overstepping their authority. There's some extremely good reasons we built in limits...
[12:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:41] <exec> 08└─I was working in France and walking home from work on a Friday night. It was already dark, so it took time for me to notice the hazy cloud I was walking into. I was obviously at the edge of the affected area, but it works as described: burning sensation in your nose and throat and your eyes start wa...
[12:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:42] <exec> 08└─The author lost me on the first paragraph by invoking Ferguson to switch the piece from imparting information to evoking emotion. I dislike people trying to emotionally manipulate me and I dislike seeing someone do a job poorly even more.
[12:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:14] <exec> 08└─It's called "being led by the aged."
[12:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:16] <exec> 08└─You've almost certainly been exposed to "some" asbestos. Almost everyone has in small quantities.
[12:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:18] <exec> 08└─There is literally nothing as a replacement, that works well, that isn't a health risk.
[12:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:20] <exec> 08└─Damned right. Think of the children you baby-burning bastards!
[12:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union Established for Video Game Workers in the UK - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:31] <exec> 08└─It's cool to have a ping pong table at the office but it might not be so cool after all to have a mattress on the floor of your cubicle...
[12:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union Established for Video Game Workers in the UK - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:33] <exec> 08└─How is that different from any other IT job? I mean, I have never worked in the video game industry, and I have had all the above happen to me, with regularity.
[12:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union Established for Video Game Workers in the UK - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:36] <exec> 08└─I think the attenuation of microwave radiation in water will make software development in a submarine impractical.
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[13:35:36] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus is older than dirt. I happen to know that dirt existed before the 1980's.
[13:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:53] <exec> 08└─The bureaucracies bloat to the point that they cannot do their jobs. So they outsource even simple activities, like hiring new people. But the contracting process itself is an opportunity for cronyism. I wonder who got a new, high-paying job at Accenture, a few months after this contract was awarded...
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[13:36:34] <exec> 08└─An iron spear needs a wooden shaft. Every sharp or blunted weapon must have an agreeable end to be held by the wielder. Each instrument of killing and men wielding them rely on countless others providing logistics, and that others are civilians, aka "the people". If civilians don't cooperate, don't...
[13:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:13] <exec> 08└─Asbestos is one of those, with even a single exposure increasing cancer risk significantly.
[13:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:15] <exec> 08└─Cancer and death likely caused by this product.
[13:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:17] <exec> 08└─All this drama about being "being led by the aged" and you can't even show there is a relevant problem. What exactly is wrong with trace amounts of asbestos in talc powder?
[13:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:19] <exec> 08└─Contemplate their jeering, lying response that because they could not possibly have conspired to keep this problem covered up for 40 years, it couldn't be true.
[13:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:21] <exec> 08└─J&J made baby powder with asbestos since 1975
[13:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:17] <exec> 08└─Platform exclusives should DIAF.
[13:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:18] <exec> 08└─poor Joe Gamer will have to keep track of which service contains which game.
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[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered by Yahoo Mail and Gmail - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:09] <exec> 08└─No type of regular password based security is going to prevent people from stupidly entering their real password on a fake site if they've ended up there. Relaying a second authentication factor back to them and having them actually enter it without thinking is going to work if you've tricked them i...
[14:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered by Yahoo Mail and Gmail - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:11] <exec> 08└─Now teach a man to phish...
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[14:36:13] <exec> 08└─You want a much better world? Ignore the "normal" people; build only for the worthy, who are (mercifully) self-selecting. The regular folk can tag along if they wish. Obviously, as you imply, the abstract solution is personal responsibility. Technology should help people engage in personal responsib...
[14:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:24] <exec> 08└─"Go ahead and appeal it!" is a great idea if you're confident in a win. The Supreme Court currently has a conservative majority, which has tended to be less willing to be expansive of Bill of Rights issues beyond things mentioned in the text and/or existing Supreme Court precedent, and b.) even when...
[14:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:37] <exec> 08└─What happened to N-cube architectures? And furthermore what happened with massively parallel computers of any architecture (except graphic cards)? Why they fell out of fashion?
[14:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:39] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus is older than dirt... dirt existed before the 1980's.
[14:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:56] <exec> 08└─You cant. The right thing is to have the government responsible for only those things related to its legitimate use of aggression (police, borders, military etc) and keep it out of everything else. Second best to leaving it out is to have any other tasks run by smaller local governments so there is...
[14:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:14] <exec> 08└─He's talking out of his ass; his judgment may as well be a Facebook wall post.
[14:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:16] <exec> 08└─Morris is a former justice on the Montana Supreme Court and is considered a “very moderate judge,” Parenteau adds. “He’s hardly a radical environmentalist.
[14:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:18] <exec> 08└─When Obamacare was ruled unconstitutional on Friday, The Washington Post called the ruling "raw judicial activism and impossible to defend." Yet this nutjob halts the pipeline because the legal product that it supplies hurts his climate change feelings. Where are all the media reports on this ruling...
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 2054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:20] <exec> 08└─First thing I'd point out about the Keystone XL pipeline is that it was championed and pushed by the Obama administration, with Hillary Clinton as one of its main cheerleaders. TFA wants to use it as another club to beat on Trump by mentioning his name several times. That part of the story is stupid...
[14:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 2322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:34] <exec> 08└─No, the evidence is against them. Corporations have concealed problems for decades. Smoking was known to cause health problems in the 1960s, and tobacco companies were forced to put warning labels on their products in the 1970s, but in 1994, they were still lying. Every one of them said that they be...
[14:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 1980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:35] <exec> 08└─Perception is all there is. It doesn't matter if there are zero negative health impacts of that amount of asbestos in talcum powder, or even demonstrable positive health benefits, what matters is the public perception of it. Rather than getting out in front of the issue with solid, publicly believab...
[14:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:37] <exec> 08└─Can you come up with anywhere near that many examples of corporations being responsible and voluntarily ending the use of problematic substances and methods long before public outcry and new regulations would have forced them to?
[14:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:39] <exec> 08└─Errata - they ignored option 2 for decades, pursued option 1. No more commenting before the sun is warm.
[14:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:53] <exec> 08└─I'd pay extra for privacy. They do not seem to provide that as a service.
[14:40:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Apparition [6835] 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:28] <exec> 08└─No, but distributing games is all that Steam does well.
[14:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:42] <exec> 08└─There's only two things all gamers hate: * Change * The Way Things Are Right Now If either of those comes up in a conversation they find complaints.
[14:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:44] <exec> 08└─You can't even download Steam game without their client. DRM'd or not. Sounds pretty DRMy to me.
[14:40:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Union Established for Video Game Workers in the UK - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:54] <exec> 08└─because all those jobs are fake. Your X-Box title? Bestowed upon you by God Almighty Himself. There are no jobs. Fuck MDC.
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[15:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:52] <exec> 08└─They built rockets in order to perfect the intercontinental delivery of nuclear warheads. That is, the public reasoning is always a disguise for the ulterior motive. Similarly, this has nothing to do with recognition. Rather, the purpose of these systems is to gather faces in a way that allows for d...
[15:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:53] <exec> 08└─Science for the purpose of war is still science. Facial recognition for the purpose of tracking everyone is facial recognition.
[15:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03splenolymph [5495] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:55] <exec> 08└─I loathe to think that we might try and build what has been built in China....
[15:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:57] <exec> 08└─The OP never said otherwise. If you told people that the government was going to spend their money building systems for world-wide destruction, there might be a more robust discussion about that. If you told them their money was being used to spy on them, and to gather their faces for such analysis,...
[15:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:59] <exec> 08└─is a surefire way to land into trouble with the fuzz in a hurry.Better wear anti video surveillance makeup [cvdazzle.com] to evade surveillance and be left in peace.
[15:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but I don't think so. There's a lot of precedent to ignore. To my knowledge, all of the district courts that have looked at this issue, with the exception of the Eighth Circuit [krcgtv.com], have sided with the right to record. And there are many cases of police misconduct being captured by p...
[15:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:24] <exec> 08└─"Go ahead and appeal it!" is a great idea if you're confident in a win.
[15:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:39] <exec> 08└─Feynmann wasn't half-wrong, as computers with millions of processors are still completely impractical for general computing purposes. Only very specialized tasks that lend themselves well to massive parallelization benefit from such architectures - and only after careful design and optimization.
[15:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:40] <exec> 08└─Try to parallelize a program to solve even a relatively simple problem (something any half-decent programmer can do on a home computer with multicore CPUs these days) and you'll know why they didn't just fall out of fashion, they were never in fashion in the first place outside of academia.
[15:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:42] <exec> 08└─Of course, one of those massively parallelizable problems is MonteCarlo simulation, widely used in nuclear physics...
[15:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:44] <exec> 08└─Feynmann wrote in one of his memoirs that he felt fortunate that he didn't get sucked into "computer disease" that some of his colleagues succumbed to.
[15:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:46] <exec> 08└─OK, fair, but around that time there actually was a yet another renaissance of artificial neural networks, which kind of promised parallelism for tasks both complicated and simple, and today we see ANNs in favor again. After all, quantum computing hope seems to be something like "infinitely parallel...
[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:23] <exec> 08└─Pipelines leak. These leaks can go unnoticed for extended periods, leaking tremendous volumes of oil.
[15:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MikeVDS [1142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:39] <exec> 08└─It looks like science to me and the article looked like fluff. I was an asbestos worker / engineer at a plant for years. We liked to take samples of different places for reference. There are levels that are considered "safe". It's in your car brakes, it's in the dust in the air (especially in Califo...
[15:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MikeVDS [1142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:40] <exec> 08└─It's also in your car brakes, dust in the air (at least here in California where it is the state rock). As a former asbestos worker / engineer, I have done testing, and on our freeways here, the levels are high enough that one should wear a HEPA respirator. Higher by a stopping train. Levels through...
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─... If they were regulated as Title II Common Carriers. But they're not, are they, Ajit?
[15:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Hold Off on Selling Facial Recognition Technology - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:15] <exec> 08└─"We will work through policy and technical matters which will, in the end, fully support our selling this technology to whomever we choose to. In the meantime the delay in producing these policy reports will cool down the public concern, and we'll keep dipping our toe into the waters of employing fa...
[15:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MikeVDS [1142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Union Established for Video Game Workers in the UK - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:00] <exec> 08└─I agree with you and have seen many of the same situations you describe, however, that does not have to be the case. There are many unions that are getting their act together, and seniority becomes a tiebreaker, and the contract is only the minimum someone can receive. This means that the hard worki...
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[16:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:51] <exec> 08└─First tested by Britz [wikipedia.org] open-sourced to you by Adam Harvey [cvdazzle.com]. You will look rindindiculous stylish and pay higher taxes to support the next 20 trial of facial recognition technology by the London police. Alternatively, don a niqab and sun glasses [wikipedia.org]
[16:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:53] <exec> 08└─A spokesman for the Met said "We have not tried this before, and it did not work then either!"
[16:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:55] <exec> 08└─Even cross referencing against two data points is rather small thinking. Every time I try to explain any kind of electronic tracking to people, regardless it is Facebook, facial recognition, store "loyalty/discount" tracking cards, or whatever they can only see the immediate information in front of...
[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:57] <exec> 08└─A picture of the Guy Fawkes mask can be found here [wikipedia.org] for those that haven't seen one and not watched V for Vendetta with Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman.
[16:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:59] <exec> 08└─Seems like cvdazzle may be busted [newscientist.com]. However some tortoise-shell like spectacle frames may make you look as Milla Jovovich [newscientist.com]. Alternatively, some reading IR lights embedded into your glasses may be enough [nii.ac.jp] Or keep calm and carry a LED umbrella [sentientci...
[16:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:01] <exec> 08└─Burqa's become an unexpected fashion hit for both men and women in London.
[16:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:25] <exec> 08└─Best case scenario, the court's political leaning remains exactly the same for the next 10-20 years all the current members of the court are forcibly retired and replaced by legislative fiat during an all-liberal phase of congress and the executive.
[16:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:27] <exec> 08└─...freedom of speech protections have NOT eroded despite frequent attacks
[16:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:46] <exec> 08└─Try to parallelize a program to solve even a relatively simple problem (something any half-decent programmer can do on a home computer with multicore CPUs these days) and you'll know why they didn't just fall out of fashion, they were never in fashion in the first place outside of academia.
[16:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:48] <exec> 08└─The Connection Machine (iirc) was SIMD, single instruction, multiple data. They wrote their own compiler(s) which handled parallel operations. As others note below, very good for certain calculations. In particular I remember a demo of a 2D wind tunnel (early CFD) that ran nearly realtime...in 1980....
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:24] <exec> 08└─If I read it correctly the judge is judging based on the law. The law says that the government has to take the environment into account when making certain decisions. Basicly he said that writing 'we don't care' in their decision was not good enough according to said law. We can debate who has inter...
[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─If you're talking about TFA, you don't read it right. No legal basis for the ruling is cited or even alluded to.
[16:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:56] <exec> 08└─If all this is true, why are they still fighting over there?
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the first time it was considered, either. There was the whole wet/dry workshop stuff with the Saturn upper stages.
[16:39:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:48] <exec> 08└─Then again "never attest to malice that can be adequately explained by incompetence".... No, please, you have that backwards [cia.gov]
[16:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:58] <exec> 08└─Hahahhahahahahhahahahhahhahahahahahhahahahhah!!!!!! No, seriously, they'll really, actually, truly, build it out, this time. It won't be like all of the other times where they took all the money, made a minimum of effort and pocketed the rest. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, fo...
[16:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:59] <exec> 08└─You realize, that we already paid for it at least once, if not more than once. This is just them asking for more money, because they'll actually do it this time. "Promise"
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:02] <exec> 08└─That would mean they would be held accountable for the funds they take. They don't want any of that pesky accountability.
[16:40:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:39] <exec> 08└─There's always gog [gog.com] for your non-DRM gaming needs.
[16:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:53] <exec> 08└─Shareware trial is a different paradigm, not like listing your game on multiple vendors, so you don't choose your customers platform for them.
[16:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:55] <exec> 08└─In their defense, it would be quite difficult to support a bunch of random Linux distributions. I don't know of any game outlet that supports your random Linux flavor. They all state specifically this one distribution, if you're lucky it'll support two or three of the major players. Otherwise, there...
[16:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:57] <exec> 08└─I'd be surprised, if they are phasing support for Linux out. As opposed to mainly focusing on what the majority of their users have and use. Admittedly I would be quite put off, if they stopped supporting Linux, but I can't very well expect them to provide parity of service for something that most g...
[16:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:59] <exec> 08└─I would be happy, if all Android games suddenly vanished and their contribution to the gaming world removed retroactively. Since, the main thing they introduced / popularized is microtransactions / free to play / devilry.
[16:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:01] <exec> 08└─Fortnite is the name of the game, and yes it's quite popular with the kind of gamers I try to avoid.
[16:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:03] <exec> 08└─The game services I care about are GOG and Steam, any others are annoying oddities that I'm likely to forget about. While, you'd have to "keep track" of what series goes to what hardware, at least your generally limited to 3 companies. As opposed to the online storefront thing could splinter into te...
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[17:35:20] <exec> 08└─Hookahs? No, no! I said find me some hookers! -- The things that come to those who wait may be the same things left by those who got there first.
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─You need The Juice! https://medium.com [medium.com]
[17:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─According to the 2011 Census, the largest religious groupings are Christians (48.4 per cent), followed by those of no religion (20.7 per cent), Muslims (12.4 per cent), no response (8.5 per cent), Hindus (5.0 per cent), Jews (1.8 per cent), Sikhs (1.5 per cent), Buddhists (1.0 per cent) and other (0...
[17:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:32] <exec> 08└─There is a 'clobber by statistical churning' method of science that is popular. Whatever gets the funding so you don't have to look for an off-campus job, I suppose.
[17:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:34] <exec> 08└─Nah, he didn't mean data piling/simulation research, but getting sucked into computers/programming instead of focusing on their own fields.
[17:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:51] <exec> 08└─How could we build it in?
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:15] <exec> 08└─Just the usual conservative all-or-nothing black-and-white my-way-or-the-highway thinking.
[17:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:17] <exec> 08└─Where are all the media reports on this ruling that aren't cheerleading?
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─https://genius.com/Jefferson-airplane-rejoyce-lyrics [genius.com] ... War's good business so give your son And I'd rather have my country die for me
[17:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 2250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─> and then a problem with a substance in a product is discovered. And then? Sometimes that's the timeline, but not always. Such as, lead. They knew it was a problem before modern industry sunk a lot of investment in it. And, they have plenty of perfectly acceptable alternatives. Brass does not have...
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[17:39:54] <exec> 08└─Grosjean v. American Press Co., 297 U.S. 233 (1936). Minneapolis Star Tribune Company v. Commissioner, 460 U.S. 575 (1983). "The First Amendment does not permit applying different taxes to different sectors of the press unless there is a countervailing interest of compelling importance that cannot b...
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[18:36:04] <exec> 08└─rare photo [nocookie.net]
[18:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:05] <exec> 08└─Or are they talking shiitake?
[18:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:07] <exec> 08└─I believe they're the only creature that spawns in the mushroom biome.
[18:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─PBS Eons has a great YouTube video [youtu.be] on these giant fungi.
[18:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─The presentation in the video makes me think that jellyfish and mushrooms have a lot in common: simple body that focuses on digesting everything in reach, and reaching as far as possible.
[18:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:32] <exec> 08└─Makeup? Why? This is London, maybe they have still "traditional" air quality? In Cracow, some people with more sensitive lungs wear these small (mostly against particle pollutants) masks. This should be sufficient for some simple identification. This won't make much difference if other biometrics su...
[18:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:34] <exec> 08└─Do you have to wear clothes under the Burqa? It would make it easier to moon the cameras.
[18:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:36] <exec> 08└─wow, that's way too many goddamn muslims, but i guess if you want to con brits (and later everyone else) into accepting facial recognition and social scores, you have to let some retarded rapists and "religious" zealots in to stir up shit.
[18:36:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:59] <exec> 08└─If they're not doing anything wrong, they've got nothing to hide.
[18:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:14] <exec> 08└─Hold on here - this would take a huge number of people working on concert to make it happen. Do you mean to tell me that you honestly believe that there could possibly exist a group of people that large who can competently do such a thing? Have you never seen a committee in action? Or a functional D...
[18:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:15] <exec> 08└─wow, you're ignorant of this matter. look into it and you will see the op is right and i thought this was more commonly known. i guess you think all the shows and movies depicting law enforcement and gov agencies as the good guys (all all the other points they weasel into everything) are just good f...
[18:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 4800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:46] <exec> 08└─The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen, trying to destabilize Iraq’s fragile attempt at democracy, supporting the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, propping up Animal dictator Bashar Assad in Syria (who has killed millions of his ow...
[18:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:38] <exec> 08└─It looks both honest and deceptive. They were quite specific about the kinds of cancer that weren't shown to increase, and it was largely "ovarian cancer". What comes into contact with the talc is mucous membranes, skin, lungs, etc. They also left out the dates of those studies (though one lasting 3...
[18:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:40] <exec> 08└─Lead was a bad one, but you have to roll back to when lead was really introduced into the various industries... the 1920s were a VERY different time than today, and that's the kind of world that started building internal combustion engines that "ran better" with lead in the fuel. Even in the 1950s,...
[18:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:12] <exec> 08└─So you can drill holes and play whodunnit without anyone having to suit up and go outside?
[18:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:02] <exec> 08└─I.e. the government cannot impose an Internet tax.
[18:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard Shifts Developers away from Heroes of the Storm - 2212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:07] <exec> 08└─I have played a lot of MegaTF/TFC/TF2. Bought TF2 the day of release. My hats are probably considered ancient relics from a bygone era. So believe me when i say that OW is very different. The key differences between the two is that TF2 is class based. OW is character based (29 of them so far). The r...
[18:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blizzard Shifts Developers away from Heroes of the Storm - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:08] <exec> 08└─I've played both. Overwatch gets boring after a while.
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[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─AKA platonic solid space junk. Oh sure just because they have no ability to maintain charge for long periods, no radio or scientific equipment with high utility, no purpose other than vanity projects for people who want their name in space, I shouldn't be so mean to them.
[19:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:29] <exec> 08└─older photo [dosgamesarchive.com]
[19:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:30] <exec> 08└─focuses on digesting everything in reach, and reaching as far as possible. That's what we all do... We are all jellyfish. The body is an exoskeleton.
[19:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:54] <exec> 08└─Funny that because I can count on one hand the number of Burqas I've seen in London in the last 2 years.
[19:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:56] <exec> 08└─No need to put on a full burkah. Why not just use a Shemagh (or something similar) that doesn't look like you are about to rob a bank?
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:42] <exec> 08└─and working at Los Alamos. I remember well all the stories with Feynman and Connection Machines. Later on Inmos and the transputer.
[19:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:00] <exec> 08└─yeah, iow like it was designed and expressed in the constitution. the federal gov is not supposed to be doing 95-98% of the things it does now but once they started educating/raising the children somehow nobody knows this anymore.
[19:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─And as we all know it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process. Last time I had a problem with Verizon it totally didn't take waiting in several different queues to talk to several different people on several different continents.
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:29] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but from what I understand the law says that the government is required to do an environmental study before allowing a project such as this to go through. The Trump Administration tried to do this by "phoning it in". Not good enough. To speak for myself, I'd much rather have judges who rule f...
[19:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─i wonder how cheap it would be (or economical given the situation) to install sensors at every joint. i'm assuming they leak at the joints and not rust out in the middle of the pipe.
[19:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─The key difference being that the Obama administration performed it's legally required due diligence.
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─isn't a judge supposed to judge according to laws?
[19:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:37] <exec> 08└─I also appreciate the concern for the environment, but, isn't a judge supposed to judge according to laws? The law requires a scientifically based environmental impact analysis. Pretending that global warming is a Chinese hoax does not meet that standard. The judge ruled appropriately.
[19:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─First thing I'd point out about the Keystone XL pipeline is that it was championed and pushed by the Obama administration, with Hillary Clinton as one of its main cheerleaders.
[19:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:12] <exec> 08└─exactly. and all we need to do to get the federal government in check is to stop sheepishly funding it. watch the ticks shrink.
[19:38:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:37] <exec> 08└─Some poisons have a very flat dose/response profile. Asbestos is one of those, with even a single exposure increasing cancer risk significantly. This is for mesothelioma in particular, a lung cancer. It's caused by an aberrant immune reaction to the asbestos fibres that become embedded in the lungs....
[19:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:26] <exec> 08└─people need to stop registering their businesses with the government like dutiful fools and start accepting cryptocurrencies. screw their taxes. everyone could easily set aside would-be tax money and create a national response force that deals with any leaches that come knocking.
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[19:40:28] <exec> 08└─by "schools" you mean huge, centralized, government-controlled slave training centers? no thanks.
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[20:35:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.space.com/34324-cubesats.html [space.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Most of what you said isn't true. Or was it a "joke"?
[20:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Mission for NASA Successfully Launches 13 CubeSats - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah you can get some low-grade utility from them, but, from your own article Some space industry experts worry that the popularization of CubeSats will create a lot of junk in low-Earth orbit, as companies and researchers race to get their ideas into space without considering the long-term conseque...
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[20:35:50] <exec> 08└─IDK the specifics, but it seems that a radar retro-reflector would be a reasonable thing to require a cube-sat to implement, making their radar signature MUCH larger than their actual size. I also feel that it is past time to start a space junk collection and disposal initiative, either collect it a...
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[20:35:52] <exec> 08└─It's not that it can't be done, but I feel like your solution is simplistic and has unanswered questions. Changing orbits with discrepancies measured in the 10s of thousands of kph using solar ion engines? And where's the particle source for this ion engine? Are we launching a dozen Olympic swimming...
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[20:36:07] <exec> 08└─Jellyfish are massively successful, having been around in more or less the same form for perhaps as long as 700 million years. As humans are in the process of stripping the oceans of everything even remotely edible, they will soon be the apex predator again. Fungus may well have been around for up...
[20:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:09] <exec> 08└─"As your eyes sweep the landscape, you notice more of the giant toadstools. There must be hundreds of them. Some sprout in clusters, others grow in solitude among the trees. Their numbers increase dramatically as your gaze moves westward, until the forest is choked with pale domes." - Infocom's "Tri...
[20:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:11] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that before the dinosaurs, there were fungus among us? What's next? Will we find that King Koopa was the leader during this epoch and they found that plumbing wrenches were used by early humans to open turtle shells after first stomping on them?
[20:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:39] <exec> 08└─Agreed. You're right on track. But, fall back just a little bit, and ask another question, which will lead off onto a new tangent. Why is the government busily importing immigrants with totally different religion, values, and expectations from government? Why is the government apparently trying to d...
[20:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:40] <exec> 08└─Once they've got the face recognition working to their satisfaction, they're going to implement buttock recognition.
[20:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:42] <exec> 08└─It doesn't hide your face, unless you intentionally pull a fold or two down over your face - then you look like you're on your way to a bank robbery.
[20:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:44] <exec> 08└─Similarly, this has nothing to do with recognition. Rather, the purpose of these systems is [. . .] determining exactly where everyone is at any time;
[20:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─...I can count on one hand the number of Burqas I've seen in London in the last 2 years.
[20:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:49] <exec> 08└─*Crazy person warning* Your anti-immigrant conspiracy theories are nothing new, for thousands of years the more cowardly humans have long feared anyone and anything different from their daily experience.
[20:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:51] <exec> 08└─what makes you think that isn't their final goal? China didn't get where it is now in a single step. Chains are forged one link at a time. And as each link is forged there is less chance of escape.
[20:37:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02 - 06Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered by Yahoo Mail and Gmail - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:02] <exec> 08└─No type of regular password based security is going to prevent people from stupidly entering their real password on a fake site if they've ended up there. Relaying a second authentication factor back to them and having them actually enter it without thinking is going to work if you've tricked them i...
[20:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:19] <exec> 08└─Somebody's found a new tag! I like it. [youtube.com]
[20:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:45] <exec> 08└─renaissance of artificial neural networks
[20:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:46] <exec> 08└─Thinking Machines was a decent company killed because of the asshattery of it's incompetent CEO. Her degree was in interior design and despite that, DARPA threw money at them for a decade. Then the cold war ended. Daddy DARPA stopped writing checks and the CEO couldn't navigate the new waters and th...
[20:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─Clearly, wealth is the problem here. Let's abolish wealth and beuracracy will fix everything!
[20:39:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Blymie [4020] 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 6237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:42] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is the difference between the laboratory and implementation. For example, asbestos used in insulation? Well, it *is* safe, but only if used precisely and without deviation from instructed installation and maintenance procedures. And here's another thing. It's replacement? It's no...
[20:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISRO Will Attempt to Repurpose the Final Stage of a Rocket as a Satellite - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:36] <exec> 08└─Heh, ok, but really, you can find a community identifying as most ANYTHING there :-P
[20:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Discord and Epic Games Pose a Challenge to Steam's 70/30 Revenue Split - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:28] <exec> 08└─"Also, unlike Steam, Epic Games Store doesn't add its own DRM. A few of the games on the Epic Games Store are completely DRM free, while others use their own DRM. The problem is that Epic doesn't advertise which games are DRM free and which aren't." You do realize that not every game on Steam actual...
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[21:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:04] <exec> 08└─Bluetooth was designed to be low-power, short-range, and to play nice with a crapload of other bluetooth devices in close proximity. It's the perfect protocol for IOT devices. Instead of screwing around with wifi to try to make it do what it wasn't designed to do, work on improving bluetooth.
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:06] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree. And when we need more range than bluetooth, we use ultra low power LoRa Wan AVRs like this one: https://wisen.com.au [wisen.com.au] (which really will run on a battery for months) to solve that same problem. Of course, we then have to cont...
[21:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:08] <exec> 08└─Or... use wired WiFi. (grin)
[21:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:10] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Bluetooth_5 [wikipedia.org] Bluetooth 5 provides, for BLE, options that can double the speed (2 Mbit/s burst) at the expense of range, or up to fourfold the range at the expense of data rate, and eightfold the data broadcasting capacity of transmissions, by in...
[21:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:12] <exec> 08└─I would think most classes.
[21:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:14] <exec> 08└─Really? $38 for a uC board? Man, the shrimpy [shrimping.it] way [raspberryalphaomega.org.uk] with a good regulator [pololu.com] is cheaper - you should be able to find the components and put them together in a true DIY for less than half the price.
[21:37:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 1444 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:00] <exec> 08└─Even cross referencing against two data points is rather small thinking. Every time I try to explain any kind of electronic tracking to people, regardless it is Facebook, facial recognition, store "loyalty/discount" tracking cards, or whatever they can only see the immediate information in front of...
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:19] <exec> 08└─I take it then, that you approved of the Nazis. And, Imperial Japan. And, you are accepting of Sharia law, and chop-chop square.
[21:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─Genitals are as unique and varied as faces.
[21:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered by Yahoo Mail and Gmail - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:31] <exec> 08└─No. Emails can contain an image as base64 or an attachment, but that wouldn't allow spying by remote systems. What they are referring to is html email that references an image on a web server, which is then automatically loaded by an (idiotic) email reader. This story illustrates one of the reasons...
[21:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:49] <exec> 08└─Somebody's found a new tag!
[21:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:51] <exec> 08└─+1 Informative ... +1 Informative ... +1 Informative +1 Informative Bugger, it's stopped working.
[21:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:20] <exec> 08└─As I recall, she got the job because of Harvard & MIT connections? Lots of people from those schools wind up doing something other than what they majored in. She may have had something do to with the external styling of their cabinets? These were pretty cool, back in the day when the number and arra...
[21:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:22] <exec> 08└─One of the coolest things I've seen was a Y-MP installation. The machine was in the center of a small mat black room with black raised floor panels. It was florescent pink fuchsia illuminated by a ring of track lights and in the corner was the SGI Crimson terminal graphics display. It had a mind blo...
[21:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:48] <exec> 08└─I've made a lot of promises to the American people. And kept so many. More than anyone expected. And frankly, more than I expected. In fact, I've kept some promises I didn't even make -- incredible! Boarder Patrol, I've been working very hard on that one. So important -- if you don't have a Boarder...
[21:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 2171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:49] <exec> 08└─the reason it's hard to remove deadwood in government exists for a reason, though: The main alternative to the systems of civil service protections that exist in many civilized countries is the "spoils system", where the new leader of the government executive determines who gets to keep their jobs b...
[21:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:51] <exec> 08└─And as we all know it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process.
[21:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:54] <exec> 08└─All government departments are in complete chaos right after an inauguration, and even after the dust settles the new people who just came in only kinda know how to do their jobs competently. (Of course, there was probably chaos and incompetence before this, but the spoils system absolutely guarante...
[21:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:56] <exec> 08└─GO bak tweet crazy stuff orange "the tarrif" one
[21:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─And as we all know it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process. Who argues this?
[21:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:33] <exec> 08└─What if Trump supported the judge's green inclination? Now he only needs to obey the official decision.
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[22:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─WTF is "NPM"
[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:44] <exec> 08└─These plans include identifying known vulnerabilities and advanced reporting and visualization of dependency trees, in order to gain a better understanding of what is being used in deployment.
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─meaning they maintain interest for a weekend, then onto the next shiny.
[22:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, they are shutting down?
[22:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:51] <exec> 08└─NPM == "Naked Purple Mole", there's a picture on Wikipedia, here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Check out the picture then re-read the first paragraph, that's definitely what they're on about. Probably a another political story ..
[22:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:53] <exec> 08└─Of course "weekends projects" don't turn out much better
[22:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:56] <exec> 08└─Smart move! It's inherently more secure because millennial programmers don't use it.
[22:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:12] <exec> 08└─The board I linked to is a LoRa device. It's a long range, low-powered wireless black box that has performed well (so far) for us in external environments. But thanks for the Shrimpy link, that's a cool, bare-bones Ardiuno at a very nice price.
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:13] <exec> 08└─"sleepy" Zigbee sensors can be very energy-efficient. One brand we work with (Nyce ( http://nycesensors.com [nycesensors.com] )) has a door sensor running on a CR2032 that lasts for about 4.5 years. I saw Eurpy ( https://www.eupry.com [eupry.com] ) giving a talk a few years back about how...
[22:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:15] <exec> 08└─There's already a wireless protocol designed for this kind of low power - Zigbee. I'm sure I haven't replaced the batteries in my wireless thermostat for over a year, which uses this. Though with being a different protocol to wifi or bluetooth (64-bit MAC addresses for example!), if a device really...
[22:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:17] <exec> 08└─Wake up every fifteen minutes to take a reading and send it over MQTT, then back to sleep. I've got a project that's been running like that for months on an 18650.
[22:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Mission for NASA Successfully Launches 13 CubeSats - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:29] <exec> 08└─Or do we have some magic space-based recycling program that chops the space debris into atom-sized pieces and ionizes them and ejects them?
[22:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Mission for NASA Successfully Launches 13 CubeSats - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:31] <exec> 08└─I like it, but my own list of megaprojects that require several percent of world output (each) isn't short: *eradicate worldwide poverty *solve the upcoming antibiotic failure *create worldwide managed fisheries *cut energy-based-carbon emissions to zero in 20 years(cows and concrete are followups),...
[22:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:50] <exec> 08└─Even older picture [wikipedia.org].
[22:37:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:22] <exec> 08└─...I can count on one hand the number of Burqas I've seen in London in the last 2 years.
[22:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:27] <exec> 08└─There could be many reasons to wear a ski mask other than attending or being late to a bank robbery. * you are ashamed to be seen in public * you are shy * you have a skin condition that makes it uncomfortable to be outside without something covering your face * a ski mask really is a fashion statem...
[22:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:29] <exec> 08└─The mask would be too visible. It's winter now, so wear a ski cap and a street medical mask. You might skip not only being recognized, but also being infected. A thick gauze mask will hide the key points of your face that recognition systems use. Add a pair of sunglasses. Let them recognize that. An...
[22:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:31] <exec> 08└─These aren't just people immigrating through voluntary interaction. Rather, the native population is funding the re-location and welfare of these people who otherwise wouldn't be able to integrate on their own, and these people are also extremely fertile relative to the native population. There was...
[22:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:34] <exec> 08└─Computer, Where is Computer: At [his mistresses]. ... Really? Hard to imagine? Access will be biased - whoever is in power has access, and those without don't. Now, if it was all perfectly open and acessible, and everyone had equal access to the data, and computing power to process it, then it might...
[22:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered by Yahoo Mail and Gmail - 2905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:45] <exec> 08└─The premise of multi factor security is that the authentication is performed in a way that guarantees each factor is an orthogonal channel. Ie. Something you know (ie. information), something you have (a physical device), and something you are (your physical body). Sending something out of band to a...
[22:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if I'm glad or disappointed that the old TIS-100 only went as far as four interconnects per node ("4-dimensional" in the article's parlance?).
[22:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:07] <exec> 08└─Usually the Republican pretending they are against "big government"
[22:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:08] <exec> 08└─Ron Paul is literally a shape shifter: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:10] <exec> 08└─Holy shit: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:47] <exec> 08└─Nahh, it's not that at all. I just have an overdeveloped belief in Napoleon's Dictum: "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence." There's no huge conspiracy - they can't hold together, people just aren't wired that way. It's FAR more likely that it's a bunch of...
[22:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Trade in Tear Gas is Booming - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:24] <exec> 08└─If there is such a huge global trade in tear gas, then maybe tear gas should exchanged as a form of currency rather than used as a weapon of gas destruction?
[22:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:46] <exec> 08└─Sue? That's normally what you do when government does illegal stuff. Since I operate a website I would be affected. I have no quarrels about taking it to court if the government wants to impose an illegal tax on me.
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[23:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:32] <exec> 08└─I've long said that you never remove functionality from your software, especially if it's commercial. You never know how people are using it. I know this from both a developer and end user point of view. I think it's ok to move some features that are not used much but be prepared to educate your use...
[23:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:33] <exec> 08└─Why is TECH in caps? Does it stand for something. Also, in my experience the way google treats the handicapped is the worst. They are constantly changing around the design and placement of settings and the settings themselves. I used to work with someone who was visually handicapped and every update...
[23:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics [acm.org]
[23:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:52] <exec> 08└─I like the vitriol in the comments here. Nice. No javascript allowed, fuck off!
[23:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:53] <exec> 08└─Story updated with explanation.
[23:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:50] <exec> 08└─Quite which step covers these geometric designs (oops, snigger), I forget, but it's pretty early on in this series: https://www.youtube.com Ooooh - a new episode's appeared since I last checked...!
[23:37:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 565 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:11] <exec> 08└─Seems like cvdazzle may be busted [newscientist.com]. However some tortoise-shell like spectacle frames may make you look as Milla Jovovich [newscientist.com]. Alternatively, some reading IR lights embedded into your glasses may be enough [nii.ac.jp] Or keep calm and carry a LED umbrella [sentientci...
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:34] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ... 12.4% of brits admit to being Muslim? No wonder they have terrorism attacks every week over there.
[23:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─As varied as mutilated faces, considering what Muslims do to their female children's genitals.
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:37] <exec> 08└─The EU exit is a necessary precursor. While still in the EU it would be pointless to talk about limiting immigration as the EU rules didn't allow the UK to do so. The EU has free movement across its member states. Being able to control their borders again was a massive part of why Brexit passed.
[23:38:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:04] <exec> 08└─...freedom of speech protections have NOT eroded despite frequent attacks
[23:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:46] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Detectors notice as soon as oil is missing. It's not like Hillary's email server where the leaks can go unnoticed for extended periods.
[23:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:48] <exec> 08└─The key word there would be "before" no? Like the one that was done long ago? I don't dislike taking the spirit of the law into account but that needs to be done very carefully. "They bloody well meant $blah and you know it" is fine but creating whole new law out of thin air just because it agrees w...
[23:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:38] <exec> 08└─As a good southern boy, I'm hard pressed to disagree with the "shoot the revenooers" strategy of economic reform.
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