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[00:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:10] <exec> 08└─I am not sure these findings apply to US people. Different culture, education, use patterns, etc.
[00:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:11] <exec> 08└─Also fatter.
[00:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:14] <exec> 08└─Gasoline didn't light that forest on fire, the guy with the match did, but the gasoline did play a part...
[00:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:16] <exec> 08└─This post requires you to put your thinking hat on. Do not bother to read further without one. First of all, they (*thinking cap*, remember) have been pushing this for awhile. Second of all, when popcorn sales skyrocket or plummet that is when you know they hand a hand in the matter.
[00:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:18] <exec> 08└─Certainly there would be many differences between the US and the UK, but there is the common factor of Rupert Murdoch.
[00:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:20] <exec> 08└─So-called "centrists" and "moderates" are people without principles. As an example of how "moderates" tend to think, you get "extremist" side A saying "We should kill 10 puppies, just for the fun of it!", "extremist" side B saying "No, we shouldn't kill puppies without a good reason!", and the centr...
[00:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:22] <exec> 08└─So-called "centrists" and "moderates" are people without principles. As an example of how "moderates" tend to think, you get "extremist" side A saying "We should kill 10 puppies, just for the fun of it!", "extremist" side B saying "No, we shouldn't kill puppies without a good reason!", and the centr...
[00:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel "14nm" CPU Shortage Forecast - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:32] <exec> 08└─IC Insights Report: Intel Expected to Regain #1 Spot As Semiconductor Supplier in 2019 [wccftech.com]
[00:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel "14nm" CPU Shortage Forecast - 1985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:34] <exec> 08└─They said the 20th Century was the American Century. They were right. They said our Economy was dieing. They were right. They're right no more. Our economy is ROARING. Like it hasn't roared in 90 years. And cyber is a big part of that, cyber is very hot right now. And we can say that one is selling...
[00:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel "14nm" CPU Shortage Forecast - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:37] <exec> 08└─Good thing you've got Barron to help you with the cyber. IF #CrookedHillary had such a smart child maybe she wouldn't have had so many email problems.
[00:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:00] <exec> 08└─You talk about, dowsing a guy in gasoline. Lighting a match (Tinder). Burning him up. And then you're all, "oh, what happened to Donald J. Trump, he's the only guy that can fix this!" I'll tell you, internet has some truely horrible people. I'm here. I'm here. Working very hard, and very successfull...
[00:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:28] <exec> 08└─Asking for a friend.
[00:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:29] <exec> 08└─Otherwise known as the Untouchables!
[00:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:31] <exec> 08└─Judo make me a sandwich :)
[00:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:34] <exec> 08└─A Soylent News user database was found online. 90% of us have "BreedUnlikely" set to True.
[00:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:09] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a proper admin. If/when they screw Nginx up bad enough that it's worth the trouble of setting up a new reverse proxy, we'll find another solution. Until then, it ain't broke and I ain't fixing it.
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[01:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:20] <exec> 08└─It's the politicians and their consultants that cause this. They not only know about these echo chambers, they fuel their use with the $$$ they get to sway elections. I find it mind boggling we vote for people who are willing to spend millions for a job that pays, what, 165k/year? Dafuq?
[01:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not fat! I'm big-boned!
[01:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:23] <exec> 08└─But they get free peanut packets when they fly. That's something.
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those of us who live in countries that don't allow our politicians to spend that much money on their campaigns find it weird too.
[01:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:28] <exec> 08└─So-called "centrists" and "moderates" are people without principles. As an example of how "moderates" tend to think, you get "extremist" side A saying "We should kill 10 puppies, just for the fun of it!", "extremist" side B saying "No, we shouldn't kill puppies without a good reason!", and the centr...
[01:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel "14nm" CPU Shortage Forecast - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:40] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/zELgmswYbQU?t=141 [youtu.be]
[01:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compute Express Link Specification (CXL) Version 1.0 Launched - 2607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:48] <exec> 08└─I was born in 1964, shortly before the Gulf Of Tonkin Incident commenced America's openly active armed involvement in Vietnam. Note that the CIA backed a coup a couple years before that, if I understand correctly it was that coup that led to a Saffron-Robed Buddhist Monk assuming the Lotus Position...
[01:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:06] <exec> 08└─By the way, check my WordPress. I put out my Budget for a Better America. For 2020, big election year (Presidential). And I said, give me $9.6 billion for Cyber Command & Cyber Security. Call your Senators, call your Congress Person -- guy, gal or whatever. And tell them, pass President Donald Trump...
[01:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'm gonna go with translation error from the same people that sterilize non-han minorities and have a social credit system that bans people from transport.
[01:40:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:21] <exec> 08└─You're using the wrong definition of "service" for the context. In this instance it's "service" as in "I got my neighbor's bull over to service my cows last week,".
[01:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:43] <exec> 08└─You should read their terms and waivers. None of the software makers assume legal liability for their software making mistakes. The dead giveaway is the fact that they don't sign your returns, which is the act that would make them assume such liability. Instead, they have "guarantees," which are pur...
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[02:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Mechanism Used By Bacteria To Evade Antibiotics - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:12] <exec> 08└─Bacteria aren't smart. Researchers found an existing mechanism that current treatments don't work for.
[02:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Mechanism Used By Bacteria To Evade Antibiotics - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:13] <exec> 08└─bacteria were found to modulate magnesium ion uptake in order to stabilize their ribosomes -- the fundamental molecular machines of life that translate genes into proteins...
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:33] <exec> 08└─Except that he's an Aussie and out to bugger everybody.
[02:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:34] <exec> 08└─Did they also examine the media choices of the people that they routinely interact with, or at least the people they watch on the TV or read articles from in the paper? Unless they are polling actual hermits somewhere I would find this result hard to accept as truthful. If you are surrounded by a so...
[02:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:36] <exec> 08└─Nah mate! he's a seppo now.
[02:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:39] <exec> 08└─people who are willing to spend millions
[02:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03phantomlord [4309] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─Looking around at the people I know, I find that it is the politicians, fueled by extremists that want an all or nothing litmus test, that tell people "you either lockstep agree with my agenda or else you're evil" that causes the extremism. Trump and his never ending attacks on, well, everyone Oba...
[02:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:43] <exec> 08└─You are probably the type of person who thinks the difference between 263 and 264 is 1 when it is actually over 9 quintillion.
[02:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:45] <exec> 08└─Most of the people I know sit back and read whatever makes them feel good on their decisions. This paper basically says the opposite of what I see pretty much every day. It also says the opposite of what most people I know say about the media. Now that in and of itself does not mean anything. But it...
[02:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:48] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/aug/24/rupertmurdoch.business [theguardian.com]
[02:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:59] <exec> 08└─Gosh, instead of everyone guessing blindly what this may or may not mean, what about asking a Mandarin/Cantonese speaker what the original form could have been vs. the Engrish version that's being memed out to all corners of the Internet?
[02:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:00] <exec> 08└─Speaking as a non-Mandarin speaker, the dating app/site explanation sounds the most plausible. Years ago when we did an audit of the software for one of these, there were two flags in the status - for both male and female accounts - "has children" and "wants to have children". The latter could quite...
[02:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:37] <exec> 08└─>These things never turn out well indeed if 670M get paid for something, more money are expected to be made. Problem, it is difficult to make money from something that is cheap, easy to use/integrate and efficient. So one of the aspects must go. Possibly all of them. This way you kill the goose layi...
[02:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:00] <exec> 08└─Oh absolutely not original. I think I first came across it on Usenet many many moons ago. It stuck because it was so neat :)
[02:37:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:16] <exec> 08└─Driving costs money. Parking costs less.
[02:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:49] <exec> 08└─When parking is over $10, it also makes economic sense for a gasoline powered car to leave the city for parking. An electric car might go all the way home to charge.
[02:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:51] <exec> 08└─There probably will be SD cars circling office buildings like sharks right around pick up time to avoid being ticketed for standing.
[02:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:53] <exec> 08└─It's not clear what the equivalent current problem is.
[02:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:46] <exec> 08└─My guess is he sold his soul for $SOMETHING and now ol' horns-and-pitchfork came to collect his due :D Contracts!
[02:39:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 870 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:06] <exec> 08└─In the US that's a popular model for small businesses too. It's partly for tax purposes but maybe mostly or even entirely because most electronic banking systems charge transaction fees. It's not a big deal when you're selling expensive items, because then you can pad the price of the transaction fe...
[02:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:14] <exec> 08└─Vote for a third party? That's a good idea, but in the 243 years you've been doing this you've never managed more than two parties. Only for the lack of votes. That's not the party's fault. I mean, it is, they couldn't sell their product, but it's still on the voters to decide. There is no one else...
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[03:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Mechanism Used by Bacteria to Evade Antibiotics - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:17] <exec> 08└─uses Envz to pump out antibiotics too.... I suspect this is common in all species that encounter antibiotics - trade efficiency of X for survival of Y. Evolution folks - "It just works" TM ;-)
[03:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:44] <exec> 08└─If the "moderates" have no principles what do the puppy torturers have in terms of principles? The same. The difference between 5 and 10 is the accountant's problem, not the priest's.
[03:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:46] <exec> 08└─The same rule, don't matter the industries.
[03:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:48] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I'm reminded of a co-worker buddy. He's a fellow veteran, and we had a lot to talk about, a lot in common. But, when it came to the news, Dennis refused to watch or listen to much of anything outside of CBS&NBC. They perpetually confirmed his ideas about whatever issues ware in at the moment...
[03:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:50] <exec> 08└─Increasing polarization is caused by the increasing focus on a Federal system of government, which breeds a winner-take-all political mentality because there is so much to lose by losing. Californians want different things that Georgians. Alaskans want different things than New Yorkers. When Federal...
[03:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is the growing power of the Federal government in a nation composed of many different people's and ideologies. States need more power, then most of this angst would go away.
[03:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:55] <exec> 08└─I smell an extremist trying to justify his unjustifiable values by trying (and failing miserably) to demonstrate that he has the moral higher ground.
[03:39:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:29] <exec> 08└─You're letting individual free people decide the terms they want to do business with.
[03:39:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:31] <exec> 08└─There are pre-pay credit or debit cards
[03:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:13] <exec> 08└─The credit card companies are just betting that enough responsible people have a disaster that will pull them into debt. Disallowed by health insurance, and the bill = savings + substantial debt? Economic disaster sees you unemployed for an inconveniently long time, and it's dig into credit or deny...
[03:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Intuit, the owners of Turbo Tax, are scum. Lobbying is not the only thing they've done. In 2003, they used DRM that messed with the data at the start of the hard drive. There was a huge outcry at the time, and Intuit had to make changes.
[03:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:21] <exec> 08└─That's true, and I am not sure what the answers are, but I live in a country with 1% of your population and 6 parties in parliament. The UK even has first-past-the-post voting and they manage to have 8 parties. Something else is going on in the US. Propaganda? Maybe, I'm not sure.
[03:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:47] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that the initial Starship will supposedly be a passenger vehicle that will be useless for launching serious payloads into orbit - that will have to wait until a later cargo version. Presumably most of the technology will transfer, but there will almost certainly be some additional lag b...
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[04:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Launches Firefox Send, an Encrypted File-Sharing Service - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:13] <exec> 08└─All these intiatives that eventually go nowhere. I don't mind you trying other things, but could you place a HIGH focus on improving your web browser? It's just too boring, I guess, and doesn't grab headlines. Firefox only exists at this point as a platform for Mozilla to launch their crummy service...
[04:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:56] <exec> 08└─gasoline is always used to burn. in the same way big and small corporate media have always been propaganda carriers. now, with the added interactivity of the web moguls and corporations are not happy about the quality of control over the public discourse and if that small slice of the population tha...
[04:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:57] <exec> 08└─The problem is the growing power of the Federal government in a nation composed of many different people's and ideologies. States need more power, then most of this angst would go away.
[04:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:10] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many of them are going commando.
[04:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:12] <exec> 08└─It's a simple language issue, not some sinister conspiracy by The Yellow Peril.
[04:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:04] <exec> 08└─#1 is orthogonal to the question. People will shift to electric regardless. There is no reason to think that simply becoming electric is going to motivate people not to own one. Self-driving tech is the hypothesis that has been raised that will reduce ownership.. but that has really nothing to do wi...
[04:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:05] <exec> 08└─Up to half [govtech.com] of cars in urban centers are already driving around looking for parking. Cars with human drivers have to park near where they're going. Self-driving cars don't. They can leave the city center, go to a remote parking lot or just go home. We actually already do this, but only...
[04:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:32] <exec> 08└─They never tried to bring that back, though. I bet people would leave for good if they even hinted at it, now that there are multiple competing options.
[04:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:58] <exec> 08└─>I can't imagine it would be that difficult to send a Crew Dragon 2 and some minor cargo to LOP-G atop a Falcon Heavy. True. However, being able to get them back again might prove more challenging. I'm not sure the Dragon 2 is capable of providing the delta-v needed to return to Earth from lunar orb...
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[05:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:08] <exec> 08└─Personally, I lean toward privacy, and the idea of workplace monitoring bothers me. However, recently a 90 year old relative with Parkinson's couldn't live at home any more and needed 24/7 care at a nursing home. The treatment of residents at this particular skilled nursing facility is generally OK,...
[05:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:09] <exec> 08└─Personally, I lean toward privacy, and the idea of workplace monitoring bothers me. However, recently a 90 year old relative with Parkinson's couldn't live at home any more and needed 24/7 care at a nursing home.
[05:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:11] <exec> 08└─We already had the cameras. Taking pictures of the sidewalk, of the folks on the sidewalks, in case something bad happens. Like what happened at my Inauguration, the horrible protest. Or what happened to Seth Rich (RIP!!). Exact same cameras. But now, they don't just get piped to the White House "ta...
[05:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Mechanism Used by Bacteria to Evade Antibiotics - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:27] <exec> 08└─warned us if we saw blood in our pee to RUN to the nearest emergency room
[05:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:03] <exec> 08└─(((thinking caps))) So very subtle you are these days /s
[05:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:04] <exec> 08└─You're wrong. Side B in your example are the moderates.
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[06:34:18] <exec> 08└─ferrite core memories form 1960 were microsecond. 60 years to increase density and keep latency. i guess that's a win.
[06:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:27] <exec> 08└─they probably shoud just make legal that after the expert system spits the fate of the exploited engineer (doesn't matter if white, indian, african or whatever because working class people need to sell themselves. but it means progress right?) he can voluntarily sign up for social retraining by wear...
[06:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Launches Firefox Send, an Encrypted File-Sharing Service - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:36] <exec> 08└─I don't mind you trying other things, but could you place a HIGH focus on improving your web browser?
[06:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:23] <exec> 08└─lawl
[06:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:38] <exec> 08└─Is that the kind of parade Trump wanted?
[06:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:50] <exec> 08└─You're not allowing cashless shops. You're letting individual free people [shop ownerw] decide the terms they want to do business with.
[06:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:51] <exec> 08└─Simply requiring X to also accept cash does not inhibit your choices.
[06:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:53] <exec> 08└─"can you break a twenty?"
[06:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:30] <exec> 08└─True. However, being able to get them back again might prove more challenging. I'm not sure the Dragon 2 is capable of providing the delta-v needed to return to Earth from lunar orbit.
[06:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:31] <exec> 08└─and we'd wish we had the SLS.
[06:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, but how long till it dies? 2019? Or 2059?
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[07:34:09] <exec> 08└─Please ignore
[07:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:10] <exec> 08└─How do I turn that BS notification crap off?
[07:35:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:01] <exec> 08└─So-called "centrists" and "moderates" are people without principles. As an example of how "moderates" tend to think, you get "extremist" side A saying "We should kill 10 puppies, just for the fun of it!", "extremist" side B saying "No, we shouldn't kill puppies without a good reason!", and the centr...
[07:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:22] <exec> 08└─Pull yer haid out, Runaway! Pull it out! I told you keeping it up yer arse for too long would induce permanent brain damage, did i not? Oh, crap, Runaway, you have done it now! Reduced yer IQ by forty points, started watching Fox News, and reading ONN, and other islamophobic and xenophobic and liber...
[07:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:28] <exec> 08└─(the EV fans tell us).
[07:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:29] <exec> 08└─I imagine those will become even more economical, and plentiful, when they no longer have to hire drivers, and are paying electric rates to charge, rather than gasoline fuel rates.
[07:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:50] <exec> 08└─That may be a convoluted variation of vanishing, I guess.
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[08:34:12] <exec> 08└─Install linux/debian/BSD
[08:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:14] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Canonical is missing out on yet another fine opportunity to make some money. The silence from them, however, is deafening. I guess they've taken on to many "former" microsofters in key positions inside the company. Once they're inside the perimiter the only route is downward. Maybe Canonical...
[08:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:16] <exec> 08└─I guess they've taken on to many "former" microsofters in key positions inside the company.
[08:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:18] <exec> 08└─I really got my fill of geeky and technical news for the day with that one.
[08:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:21] <exec> 08└─Install linux/debian/BSD
[08:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:37] <exec> 08└─Spying on nursing-home workers might help, but what would really help would be to un-fuck society so that the elderly aren't abandoned to the mercies of low-wage-no-benefits-mostly-temporary workers by their progeny in their time of need. I don't care if I have to cook, clean, bathe, wipe, and chang...
[08:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Launches Firefox Send, an Encrypted File-Sharing Service - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:46] <exec> 08└─Now you can only have it downloaded 1 time within 1 day, otherwise you need to register. Before it was 1 day and any(pre allocated numbers) number of downloads without registering. I'm fucking tired of registering to every god damn thing. I ain't doing it.
[08:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:35] <exec> 08└─and the centrists will conclude that we should kill 5 puppies for fun.... If the so-called centrists want to regain control of the political system, they'll have to show that they can do a better job than the so-called extremists,
[08:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:36] <exec> 08└─You are adorable!
[08:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:39] <exec> 08└─It's the politicians and their consultants that cause this.
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[09:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:11] <exec> 08└─Mass migration to africa, with ensuing war because they, as normal people, don't want invaders.
[09:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 1759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:25] <exec> 08└─If any free software group may recommend a good alternative to Win7, Ubuntu advocates should NOT be the one. Ubuntu is worse in configuration than Win10, and sticking with GTK solutions is even worse - GTK always evolved on the "don't-be" principle. First, it was "Don't be MOTIF". Then, "Don't be Wx...
[09:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:27] <exec> 08└─This story is, well, disappointing. But, there's good news – Windows 10 is the most privacy violating Windows ever.
[09:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:29] <exec> 08└─I've spent the last decade in an IT consultancy / geek for hire role. Xp and Vista EOL was painful enough - my rule was you better have a good reason, then I'll help you shoot yourself in the foot more slowly (systems controlling vinyl cutters that didn't go online, embedded stand alone systems that...
[09:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:31] <exec> 08└─No, recently, see nokia, the strategy is ICE infiltrate, cripple, extinguish. Old as Eden, btw.
[09:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital's Low Latency Flash: A Competitor to Intel's Optane (3D XPoint)? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:40] <exec> 08└─Would you rather have had decreased latency and keep density from 60 years ago?
[09:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Mechanism Used by Bacteria to Evade Antibiotics - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:09] <exec> 08└─Well probably betting on the thought that when you meatbags get blood in the pee it is a good tactic to visit the emergency room anyway.
[09:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:19] <exec> 08└─2.86 · Rating details · 975 ratings It seem too me your opinion about this book is a lonely one.
[09:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:21] <exec> 08└─There is a audio book you can listen to while driving/riding. https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com]
[09:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:47] <exec> 08└─It turns out I was not cynical enough when checking links for the summary. F5 is not just a competitor to NGINX, it is also a long time M$ partner / proxy [f5.com]: For more than a decade, F5 and Microsoft have partnered to develop joint solutions that help you get the most value from your technol...
[09:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:07] <exec> 08└─I can't think of a worse problem than millions of self-driving cars, bookable by anyone, able to be sent to any destination, on demand, for the cost of an Uber - and potentially used as automated couriers by hiring them to leave something in the boot. Protests, company boycotting, villages wanting t...
[09:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:29] <exec> 08└─Legal tender is legal tender That only applies for paying a debt. A resturant where you eat a meal then are presented with a bill is a debt and you are legally allowed to pay by cash Buying a car in cash isn't paying a debt, the seller has no obligation to take your cash.
[09:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:31] <exec> 08└─It's upto the person selling to decide if it's worth the hassle to take the cash. Some people think it is, and that's fine, nobody's stopping them. But some people think it's not worth the hassle to take cash. That's their choice, and you want to stop them. You then get into the "my freedom to pay c...
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[10:34:11] <exec> 08└─This guy's predictions for solar cycle 24 back in 2009 were too high and needed to be constantly adjusted downwards: http://climaterealists.com [climaterealists.com]
[10:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:13] <exec> 08└─Proof: U.S. Senate Republicans hold rare climate hearing, and more might be coming [sciencemag.org]. Global warming is “directly impacting our way of life,” said Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who leads the panel. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the top-ranking Democrat, added,...
[10:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:31] <exec> 08└─Doing exactly that. It's been... interesting. Purchased a new SSD for this purpose. Create bootable Cinnamon Mint 19.1 usb. Boot up live USB. "Cinnamon crashed. Entering fallback mode". Decide to install Cinnamon Mint 19.0 instead. Cinnamon doesn't crash. The install process crashes halfway throug...
[10:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:32] <exec> 08└─Never looked back.
[10:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:34] <exec> 08└─Personally, I've been using FreeBSD since version 1.1 That's not the issue. The question was for all the other people's machines who are running Windows 7 and managed to escape being forced to upgrade to 10, what should be done to stop the nagger... That is the question... :)
[10:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:37] <exec> 08└─Same answer, probably.
[10:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:39] <exec> 08└─I was new to Linux last fall and found switching to mint very easy.
[10:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:41] <exec> 08└─Nuke the entire site from orbit. What? It's the only way to be sure!
[10:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:43] <exec> 08└─I have a screen reader that is a *Mission Critical* program. It *MUST* run for me to be able to interact with the computer at all. No screen reader means no computer. Every time I hear about a Win10 forced update that breaks the audio subsystem, causes a previously stable program to stop working, or...
[10:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:03] <exec> 08└─One more thing, connect it to an automated response system from the 'cyber' facial recognition and voilà! Hail to the magnificien computer! Smile or get ripped! XD
[10:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Mechanism Used by Bacteria to Evade Antibiotics - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:23] <exec> 08└─So, they met antibiotics earlier. Natural antibiotics, like penicillin. Or maybe there have been so many generations in so many hospitals, but personally I still think the current model of aimless mutation plus selection in a purely physical universe is missing something in terms of ways to store kn...
[10:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Mechanism Used by Bacteria to Evade Antibiotics - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:25] <exec> 08└─my own opinion is that bacteria are a lot smarter than the rovers we sent to mars, and those rovers are remarkable. bacteria are a complex organism that measure their environment and change their behavior based on these measurements. both the bacteria and the rovers have a set of specific instructio...
[10:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Mechanism Used by Bacteria to Evade Antibiotics - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:27] <exec> 08└─DNA is used to store knowledge, if you want to think of it that way.
[10:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:09] <exec> 08└─My model of polarization is: you have a bunch of sheep, you want them to go towards a goal, you put two barking dogs at the sides of the goal and one behind. The two barking dogs are Ideology, the rear barking dog is Need for Money. The barking dogs are not meant to be embraced. Of course this needs...
[10:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:10] <exec> 08└─Have to agree here. I've personally dealt with both governments and I can definitely confirm my state is much more corrupt than the federal government. Life tenure for judges was a great idea, elections for judges not so much. Elections lead to corrupt judges, unfortunately.
[10:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:12] <exec> 08└─Bangers and mash too.
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[11:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:11] <exec> 08└─But these "human trials" fail to answer the important question. Does it work in rats in a laboratory setting?
[11:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:12] <exec> 08└─They don't even measure the right thing in these trials: Malaria parasite clearance rates estimated from patients' blood following ACT treatment have been widely adopted as a measure of drug effectiveness and as surveillance tools for detecting the presence of potential artemisinin resistance. This...
[11:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:14] <exec> 08└─Resistance is a numbers game, caused by the emergence of random mutations that block a drug's action. The chance of random mutations arising concurrently to block both drugs' action is vanishingly small.
[11:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:17] <exec> 08└─Righto. Americans bitching of inconsequentials but, when it comes down to buy it, they'll end paying 3/2 times more than the Switzers for the drug [commonwealthfund.org]. And, by Jove, they like it!
[11:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:28] <exec> 08└─He explains that, while the sun does dim during a minimum, it's only by a tenth of a per cent, which translates into a tenth of a degree Celsius. And with the warming by about 1C that we've seen due to climate change — and the warming that is to come — it's unlikely that we'll notice.
[11:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:30] <exec> 08└─Republicrats just care about who pays them the most, if the "fossil fuel" lobby can't pay up they'll go with the competition.
[11:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:32] <exec> 08└─What a coincidence, the democans too.
[11:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:34] <exec> 08└─> at the moment cosmic ray modulation of Earth’s cloud cover seems rather promising in explaining the size of solar impact I thought CLOUD experiment at CERN demonstrated this was not the case. https://home.cern [home.cern] My understanding was that even Svensmark has acc...
[11:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Quicksilver [1821] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:36] <exec> 08└─They made sure to lay out a conclusion that they have zero evidence for except that is what they want to believe. They have no theory that predicts anything that can be tested in any way except waiting and seeing. The truth is you will have to wait and see what happens.
[11:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:39] <exec> 08└─I didn't make it clear in parent, Svensmark was not author of paper I quoted, rather it was CLOUD collaboration.
[11:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:41] <exec> 08└─Why does cycle 23 peak at around 120 sunspots in those old plots while in current ones I see it closer to ~160: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.sidc.be [www.sidc.be] Are they revising all the old sun...
[11:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:06] <exec> 08└─This is just MS wanting more of your money by trying to force idiots onto office 365 and more useless bullshit monthly payment Crap. Avoid it like the plague it is. ALWAYS tell your management how big stupid switching from licence to monthly rent is. So far EVERY SINGLE COMPANY I have worked with st...
[11:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:07] <exec> 08└─I remember when readers of this site (or it's predecessor) would have scoffed at the very idea of running Windows, then gone on to talk about the latest Enlightenment features (personally nowadays I use xfce)
[11:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:10] <exec> 08└─I made the transition away from all tech support several years ago. I told all of my clients that I would not support any systems they added that ran Win 8 or higher, or Server 2016 or higher. It took a couple of years, but I shed them all. Now I only do consulting and custom programming but never h...
[11:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:30] <exec> 08└─It's illegal here in Germany ... yet somehow magically German economy seems to be doing ok.
[11:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:39] <exec> 08└─Most of the people I know sit back and read whatever makes them feel good on their decisions.
[11:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:40] <exec> 08└─keeping it up yer arse for too long would induce permanent brain damage, did i not?
[11:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:00] <exec> 08└─Eh, the car would probably be ten or fifteen years old by the time it happens, and if you had the money for such extras then you probably wouldn't still be driving a car that old. So it's probably the guy who bought it used who gets screwed rather than the original owner, which kinda sucks. On the p...
[11:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:57] <exec> 08└─First off, that's $5 of fuel per time period. Is parking really only $2 for that same time period? It wasn't when I lived in London, New York or Chicago.
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[12:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:09] <exec> 08└─Too many fucking idiots running around on a technical document retrieval system.
[12:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:20] <exec> 08└─Have you ever watched TV in America? It is 90% commercials for crappy food (candy and fast food) followed by commercials for diabetes, etc medications.
[12:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:37] <exec> 08└─Why does cycle 23 peak at around 120 sunspots in those old plots while in current ones I see it closer to ~160: ... Are they revising all the old sunspot data now too?
[12:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:39] <exec> 08└─That document I linked is from 2019 and it cites stuff from 2018 but not that 2016 paper you linked to. He does discuss the CERN CLOUD project on page 13-14 though. I see there he is claiming the effect of the cosmic rays is on the growth of already nucleated particles, not nucleation rates like Dun...
[12:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:41] <exec> 08└─Many new stories, new Subs waiting -- never to be seen. While Editors (fooled by Annoyonus) run a repeat from last week. Too bad!!
[12:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:43] <exec> 08└─Yep, the past data was "homogenized/corrected" to support the global warning: https://astronomynow.com [astronomynow.com]
[12:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:45] <exec> 08└─New conventional scale: The most prominent change in the Sunspot Number values is the choice of a new reference observer, A.Wolfer (pilot observer from 1876 to 1928) instead of R. Wolf himself. This means dropping the conventional 0.6 Zürich scale factor, thus raising the scale of the entire Sunspo...
[12:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:47] <exec> 08└─> That document I linked is from 2019 Interesting. I found this publication by Svensmark et al: https://www.nature.com [nature.com] referenced from here if you can't see through nature paywall: https://scitechdaily.com
[12:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:50] <exec> 08└─Svensmark was the author of that document, so if you trust his journal articles to be non-cranky you can trust that as a high level review.
[12:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:17] <exec> 08└─My life is miserable enough without transitioning to an in-house role where the same painful crap will find me regardless.
[12:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Quicksilver [1821] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 2220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:19] <exec> 08└─The quantity of people who actually contact Microsoft for support is minuscule so who cares if Windows 7 support is ending? Windows 7 was the last quality, well respected desktop OS that Microsoft released. There is no reason for someone to switch off of 7 unless there is a new program that accompli...
[12:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:21] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 is Microsoft's attempt to go full spyware. Accept the expedited setup following installation and practically every keystroke is sent to their servers--to improve the customer experience, of course. Icing on the cake is the fact that by default your computer will thenceforth become a Micro...
[12:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:23] <exec> 08└─I'll have my cat do it for you. You obviously aren't smart enough to do it yourself. Mint - any version - is notable for being trouble-free.
[12:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:25] <exec> 08└─Fuck Office 365. And fuck anyone else who thinks going back to the bad old days of mainframe applications is a good idea. Personal computing came about for a reason. And it was the exact opposite of Office 365.
[12:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Launches Firefox Send, an Encrypted File-Sharing Service - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:55] <exec> 08└─The internet already solved it. The W3C shoved down WebRTC crap in the browser. Now we have peer to peer. This one use the webtorrent library: https://instant.io [instant.io] Lots of p2p webapps are listed in the webtorrent faq [webtorrent.io] under Who is using WebTorrent today? I hear IPFS also r...
[12:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:12] <exec> 08└─But that datafield is not a boolean of; between first period and menopause, but a boolean of pure sadness.
[12:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:28] <exec> 08└─I hope this topic won't get locked by the time you have finished it. After the first half of the book I just couldn't stop reading it. The last 50 pages felt like I've read them on single breath.
[12:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:17] <exec> 08└─given the events of the last couple of years
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[13:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:13] <exec> 08└─...or a momo in this case
[13:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:14] <exec> 08└─Me too, or mo to in this case.
[13:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 1830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:16] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but what the hell is this story about? Who or what is "Momo"? Why should I care? I don't pay attention to social media or local BS daily news. Any tiny hint at what "Momo" is or even a link to basic info would be important to a summary here. As it is, TFA doesn't explain what Momo is either,...
[13:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:18] <exec> 08└─https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/momo-challenge [knowyourmeme.com] https://www.rollingstone.com [rollingstone.com] These don't answer your question, but uh... viral challenges are spreading through our interconnected internet hivemind!
[13:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:21] <exec> 08└─FOMO of momo? Don't worry bro, I haven't got the slightest clue either. And by the sound of it, ignorance is a bliss.
[13:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, and if anyone else here is the boat I was in and doesn't know what this is about: Momo (as I understand it) is a sort of anti-meme, or a meme that claims to be more prevalent than it is. Basically, someone pulled an image of a sculpture made by a Japanese artist that looks a bit like a distorted...
[13:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:29] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Is SoylentNews getting payed for running Microsoft's advertisement/FUD piece. Wait... no more updates? Awesome! Now I'll be able to get some WORK DONE!
[13:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:31] <exec> 08└─It almost always is, yes, but I'd say they were just unlucky. Unusual hardware maybe?
[13:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:53] <exec> 08└─People should make a stand against this. Complain to their employer and leave if it isn't discontinued. Dignity is more important than a living.
[13:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:04] <exec> 08└─Echo chambers may be easy to avoid- if you want to. People tend to seek what verifies their current position. This means the echo chambers are an attractive nuisance that draws them in then amplifies that position. See Q-nuts and antifa for examples.
[13:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:05] <exec> 08└─And how many of those 'issues' came out of your own echo chambers?
[13:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:27] <exec> 08└─This is similar to an issue we had at my last job. We were testing devices in bulk and had a system to resume testing if we had a power outage. Sometimes, however, the later tests required data that was saved improperly and after the power-loss it wouldn't exist anymore. Every outage we would get a...
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[14:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:13] <exec> 08└─If you gave a few millions, endow a few chairs, then you will have your kids welcomed into ivy league schools without the fed coming after your ass. Bottom feeding peasants have no class.
[14:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:14] <exec> 08└─Are the defendants all from the democratic party side of the spectrum?
[14:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:16] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget about legacy admission either. Wouldn't want a good network go to waste on some outsider non-person.
[14:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:30] <exec> 08└─Matches what I know. My impression is that lots of parents have panicked about this, whereas not many kids have ever heard of it. Even if that weren't the case, as a parent it's stupid to panic over this. Momo could only ever be a problem for young kids. If a parent of young kids isn't supervising t...
[14:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:31] <exec> 08└─Momo is a great book by Michael Ende. The message of the book opposes modern capitalist society, and is foreign, which is why it is shunned in the American trade. It is available via Canada though.
[14:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:07] <exec> 08└─You end up with goatse for eyes.
[14:35:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:17] <exec> 08└─Install linux/debian/BSD
[14:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:44] <exec> 08└─I turned off Windows updates back when the Win10 forced "upgrades" were a thing. Seems to have worked so far for me.
[14:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:45] <exec> 08└─MS ........ have added NOTHING positive to the It world since windows 3.11
[14:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:48] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has the incredibly stupid need to change the user interface each time they upgrade the OS version.
[14:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, but are you willing to quit your job for them? There are some elderly conditions which require round-the-clock care, not necessarily every second but interval care of an hour or two at most. And have you ever been a caregiver for someone on a truly long-term basis / experienced caregiver fatigu...
[14:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:12] <exec> 08└─Germany used to have a tremendous monitoring & surveillance industry. It employed hundreds of thousands of people -- that's lot of jobs. All agree it was the best in the world. Sorry, it's not the best anymore. Although, we love what inMotion is doing!!
[14:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 1940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:14] <exec> 08└─It's a very tough call, as skin tears and bruises can also be natural consequences of aging. I've seen them happen from people just shifting position in bed. That's why it does take proof. Plus mistakes can happen and anecdotes can run wild, muddying the waters even further. But there have been case...
[14:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:27] <exec> 08└─But Trump IS currently the president of the fucking USA. And that's got plenty of consequence. For example all the rotten judges he's installed will perverse the course of justice for decades to come. Ignore reality to your own peril.
[14:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:28] <exec> 08└─Isn't it fortunate that there are no such nasty people in your fascist echo chamber?
[14:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:30] <exec> 08└─Real-life moderates have agreed (because to outright oppose it would be "extremist") to killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians for oil pipelines, torturing a few hundred people at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, and carefully looking the other way while people commit financial crimes that...
[14:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:47] <exec> 08└─I'm far more inclined to believe that this "BreedReady" is more of a translation error or just a really shitty variable name. After all you, or I, normally don't pick super long variablenames that explain everything
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[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:16] <exec> 08└─Kinda looks like that might be the case. I'm going to assume so, unless and until someone offers proof otherwise.
[15:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─You mean they bought your way in and you didn't even have to go to class?
[15:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:20] <exec> 08└─Donald J. Trump. QED
[15:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:22] <exec> 08└─I await his twitter on the subject with baited breath. Pot, kettle, black.
[15:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 1982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:24] <exec> 08└─Folks, this is what happens when I have an Attorney General. This is what it's like. The word is getting out that we have to stop college cheating. Very proud of my Justice Department. They're moving very strongly, getting very tough with these coastal elites. People don't know this, I went to the W...
[15:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:26] <exec> 08└─You could also pick parents with more pigmentation...
[15:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:29] <exec> 08└─Is there a Trump involved? Citations?
[15:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:31] <exec> 08└─We're becoming India!! The government said that Mr. McGlashan’s son was told to take the exam at one of two test centers where Mr. Singer worked with test administrators who had been bribed to allow students to cheat. And Mr. Singer told Mr. McGlashan to fabricate a reason, such as a wedding, for...
[15:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:33] <exec> 08└─Parents with more pig? I'd rather go the canine route, thank you.
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:35] <exec> 08└─"Little disadvantaged" seems to be an understatement.
[15:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:38] <exec> 08└─So true, my Uncle John was a very humble guy. A lot like me. I have more humility than you would think, believe me. We’re all the same. I mean, we’re all going to the same place, probably one of two places, you know. But we’re all the same. And I do have, actually, much more humility than a lo...
[15:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:40] <exec> 08└─So are the kids going to be expelled? After all they, or their parental units on their behest, did cheat to gain entry. It's clearly not the same as if they had made a large public donation, from the article it seems like there is clear cheating going on to get in.
[15:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:42] <exec> 08└─the sentence will have been shorter.
[15:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:57] <exec> 08└─So, it's not like "Momo" is even some cautionary tale about overblown hysteria -- because there are REAL reasons for parents to be vigilant about online BS that very well could be like this.
[15:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:59] <exec> 08└─Being a parent of an 8 year old and a 10 year old, here's the relevance. I got notifications from the school, after school day care, and local law enforcement warning me of this. i.e. telling me to watch my kids to make sure they don't watch a Momo video and self-harm themselves. Because FUD. But ac...
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:01] <exec> 08└─People have to be up in arms about something, making things right "for the children". Sometimes it's guns, sometimes it's video games, sometimes it's internet hoaxes, or who knows what. That's just part of human nature. Best to just ignore this stuff and move on, with time the outrage will fade as i...
[15:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:03] <exec> 08└─It was a moral panic caused by a well-positioned and executed anti-pattern meme. This was partly merely luck mind you. It managed to catch on and spread rapidly on the heels of other recent news reports. Things like this are constantly being created and spread to the wind, but this one happened to h...
[15:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:05] <exec> 08└─> how do we prevent this from happening again? You don't. The next generation of helicopter mommies will find a dozen other scary non-existent things over which to have hysterical fears. One of my aunties used to pray for me because I played D&D. I didn't try to play any LPs backward, so I guess I m...
[15:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:17] <exec> 08└─The chance of random mutations arising concurrently to block both drugs' action is vanishingly small
[15:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's like, man, 'Murica just randomly dropped some men on the moon.
[15:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:43] <exec> 08└─There is lots of historical evidence that fluctuations in the solar cycles have a major impact on the Earth's temperature. The Medieval Warm Period coincides with a high level of activity. The Little Ice Age with a low level of activity. And today: global warming since 1940? "The level of solar acti...
[15:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:45] <exec> 08└─Not concerned about sun cooling. Am concerned about planet cooking. How does sun spot activity related to solar flares on a statistical basis?
[15:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:24] <exec> 08└─..so who cares if Windows 7 support is ending?
[15:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:26] <exec> 08└─It could be a bad memory stick which would cause file corruption
[15:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:28] <exec> 08└─Hey grandpa, do yourself a favor and install a non-Micro$oft operating system. And no, it won't cost you a dime but instead probably will make your older hardware usable again. I know it's supposedly hard to get out of an abusive relationship, especially if long but I hear it's well worth it.
[15:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting to hear about Win10 updates that broke the audio. I thought it was just me. Twice now I've had updates that caused my primary sound device(wireless headset) to stop working. They also caused all the video card audio devices to duplicate. This required me to uninstall all my audio devices...
[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:32] <exec> 08└─Go ahead, just ignore "Bob" and "Clippy".
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:35] <exec> 08└─Hey come on now! They added support for Linux line breaks in notepad a few months ago.
[15:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:00] <exec> 08└─Why's it funny?
[15:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:17] <exec> 08└─The people at risk are those who depend on only a single medium for political news and who are not politically interested: about 8% of the population. However, because of their lack of political engagement, their opinions are less formative and their influence on others is likely to be comparatively...
[15:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:36] <exec> 08└─Length is perhaps in the eye of the beholder. For me personally "BreedReady" would be to long, but just using X,Y,Z,N or I for anything but a loop counter or something trivial is a tad to short. But say anything beyond 5 characters is probably to many. Since we don't appear to know yet "BreedReady"...
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:52] <exec> 08└─And the guy is a Nazi.
[15:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but with all those ameliorations in place the problem still exists. There are a very large number of people who won't use public transit. Often it's because there is no convenient access, but there are also other reasons. This makes it difficult on people like me who can't drive, but I live w...
[15:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:38] <exec> 08└─I copy/pasted the spelling from somewhere. Now I can't remember where. I think I googled it. I didn't expect that to fail me. I don't have my Nexus 6P any more, at least not handy. If it took it out of the case it has the brand name clearly on the back. Thanks for pointing it out.
[15:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:40] <exec> 08└─Sometimes people who have an anti-law bent and don't believe the laws of society apply to them, because of their "freedom" to not obey the law . . . they can end up on the wrong side of the law, and possibly not have internet access. It can happen.
[15:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:10] <exec> 08└─I was not referring to shop owners, but to the shoppers who shop there. Sorry if I was unclear. Shoppers are not inhibited from paying cashless.
[15:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:12] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call myself a "responsible borrower" using credit cards, because I don't use them for debt. If I needed to borrow, odds are good my banker would give me a commercial loan on far better terms than a credit card.
[15:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:14] <exec> 08└─But some people think it's not worth the hassle to take cash.
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[16:34:15] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─Everywhere else on the web, it's a deluge of ads, autoplay videos like buttons and javascript. This place is nice and simple. I love it here.
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 2035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:16] <exec> 08└─Advertising destroys every medium it ever touches. Billboards seemed innocuous. End result: some formerly nice landscapes littered with billboards as far as the eye can see, especially on interstate highways. City blocks littered with astonishing amounts of visual noise from ads and billboards. Then...
[16:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 2162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:18] <exec> 08└─He should be promoting alternative standards for the web. shared login standards; a shared peer notification system to create a web-ring that works... The primary feature facebook has and leveraged was a system for connecting to peers; what made it was their policies and spamming. I have been pressu...
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 1599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:21] <exec> 08└─A bigger problem, one which was present from the very beginning, is the dysfunctional web page. It's pushing weird widgets written in Java, Javascript, or even Flash; has a zillion ad lookups (which yes, Google and Facebook have contributed to); and is enormously bloated.. And of course, it often do...
[16:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:23] <exec> 08└─He singled out ad-based revenue models, used by many tech giants like Google and Facebook, that reward "clickbait and the viral spread of misinformation."
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─methinks the golden age of "teh web" was when the two google dudes hocked up their lego server to the internet. at the time mostly all webpages were statuc and if it had some cgi backend, it was fancy already. i guess it was easy to spider those pages and database them. nowadays, if you try to surf...
[16:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:48] <exec> 08└─Sorry but those H1Bs are such an improvement over the existing jackasses like you that we don't mind if the program screws things up a bit.
[16:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.theroot.com/remember-that-time-when-jared-kushner-s-dad-donated-2-1833241931 [theroot.com] Shocking no one at all
[16:34:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─Too many fucking idiots running around on a technical document retrieval system.
[16:35:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 937 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:04] <exec> 08└─Oh, and if anyone else here is the boat I was in and doesn't know what this is about: Momo (as I understand it) is a sort of anti-meme, or a meme that claims to be more prevalent than it is. Basically, someone pulled an image of a sculpture made by a Japanese artist that looks a bit like a distorted...
[16:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:13] <exec> 08└─Hey homie, let's go sniff jenkem!
[16:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:27] <exec> 08└─One billion cells is ~2^30 divisions. Bacteria can divide every 20 minutes, so you can get that many bacteria from a single founder in ~10 hours.
[16:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:54] <exec> 08└─What is your basis for claiming that it is an insignificant greenhouse gas? This contradicts every other source I've encountered, back to high school, so I won't accept the claim without definite proof. That said, water is, indeed, a more significant greenhouse gas, and so what. It's relatively temp...
[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─You'll be concerned when one year the snow never melts all the way, then the next year the snow builds on top of that, then next thing you know there is a mile high glacier where your house used to be.
[16:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:42] <exec> 08└─I'd just like to add: "...and fuck Onedrive too!" That piece of shit doesn't even work properly with MS's own applications.
[16:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:43] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has the incredibly stupid need to change the user interface each time they upgrade the OS version. When you have literally billions of trained users why in god's name make all of them relearn the UI to keep using your product?
[16:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:45] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, for many people, a real OS as most of us would define it is not a viable option for many people, although it does seem that the situation is improving. I recently set up a new machine for a gentleman in his 80s... It runs FreeBSD with his old Windows 7 accessible via a VM shortcut lab...
[16:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 1939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:47] <exec> 08└─Per the article itself, there will be a checkbox that indicates "Do not remind me again". "These notifications are designed to help provide information only and if you would prefer not to receive them again, you’ll be able to select an option for “do not notify me again,” and we will not send...
[16:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:49] <exec> 08└─Hey grandpa, do yourself a favor and install a non-Micro$oft operating system. And no, it won't cost you a dime but instead probably will make your older hardware usable again. I know it's supposedly hard to get out of an abusive relationship, especially if long but I hear it's well worth it.
[16:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:15] <exec> 08└─Do you really think the nursing home management doesn't know that the response time is terrible? They probably arrange that every new hire is instructed in how to improve their "response time" stats.
[16:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Mechanism Used by Bacteria to Evade Antibiotics - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:41] <exec> 08└─Unhhh... penicillin is a natural antibiotic. So is tetracycline. Etc. Most human antibiotics are either natural antibiotics or small variants on same. That said, most of them also aren't frequently encountered at high concentration in natural environments, so the selection pressure in favor of varia...
[16:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:35] <exec> 08└─Bingo! People have always preferred to go along with the popular idea. They also want their own opinions supported. If you've got an unpopular idea, then the internet lets you find people who agree with you, so you can see your idea as popular. Notice that the accuracy of the idea was not involved i...
[16:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:56] <exec> 08└─Civilized people look at that letter and call it a double-v /pedant_french
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[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─at some point fairly soon after launch it will house the entire Disney motion picture library
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:16] <exec> 08└─Disney will either rotate content or create bronze/silver/gold subs to max out the amount of cash they squeeze from their customers... They'll give you all their shit shows for free but the movies that were in the vault will be "only $9.99 per month" or something like that...
[17:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─I would separate into JavaScript, and then "weird widgets" aka browser extensions. The four 'popular' browser extensions were: Java Applets, Flash, ActiveX, and Silverlight. If these browser extensions did nothing more than 'play content' in a confined rectangle on a web page, then we would be okay....
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know the answers. But I do know that the web was * very useful * a lot less cluttered * a lot less noise * a lot fewer 'social media influencers' before the commercialization of the web happened. There was no Facebook! It's hard to imagine. But it's true!
[17:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─Other than SN, what are the other examples of useful sites that might need one of these revenue models? eg, NOT facebook, twitter, or any of the anti-social media sites And a question? Would it be so bad if people had to pay to use Facebook / Twitter? I already pay for some things already. Google Dr...
[17:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:36] <exec> 08└─Companies must do more to ensure their pursuit of short-term profit is not at the expense of human rights, democracy, scientific fact or public safety
[17:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:39] <exec> 08└─He should be promoting alternative standards for the web. shared login standards; a shared peer notification system to create a web-ring that works
[17:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:41] <exec> 08└─Me gustaaaa
[17:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:43] <exec> 08└─Other than SN, what are the other examples of useful sites that might need one of these revenue models?
[17:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:45] <exec> 08└─The last thing that was keeping me on Cable TV was CNN. I quit watching CNN in mid 2013 out of pure disgust. Then I was able to get rid of Cable TV completely. I would probably pay for something resembling a cable news channel. (And maybe I already even do without realizing.) Switching topic: What d...
[17:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─This place is nice and simple. I love it here.
[17:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:12] <exec> 08└─Funny, something Trump didn't do is Trump's fault. With respect to Kuchner, it sounds like there was a quid pro quo between a donation and an admission. That's slimy, but is it fraudulent like falsifying data and cheating on exams? I think that answers itself. The more interesting point though is ho...
[17:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:14] <exec> 08└─Do schools only think in the short term? If they engage in admissions and graduation policies that are not based on academic merit, it ultimately devalues the meaning of their diploma. Imagine a business school that graduates a future president. It makes them look good. Imagine a business school tha...
[17:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:16] <exec> 08└─better go with sheep; they do end up killing the others. but then, sadly, they become the dogs.
[17:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:18] <exec> 08└─That kind of federal effort seems to indicate that they might have been targeting a single organization. Crime across state borders is a common reason the feds get involved.
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─Meh the videos definitely exist. I've seen one. That said, pretty sure it was aimed more at scaring the bejesus out of parents than actually at kids.
[17:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─I don't know what Momo is. Seriously. And I suspect it is not even worth a DDG. Does that make me stupid? Ignorant? Uninformed? Or smart or better things to do with my life, or something? I simply don't know.
[17:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─[...] and maybe, just maybe, be a tiny bit more skeptical in the future.
[17:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─Probably one of these 14 movies: https://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[17:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:48] <exec> 08└─Also (wikipedia): «MOMO Srl is a design company headquartered in Milan, Italy that makes accessories and parts for automobiles. » https://en.wikipedia.org(company) [wikipedia.org] CYA
[17:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:50] <exec> 08└─Better - the kids now know exactly what to go looking for, and the teenagers old enough to code things up for a joke will now actually go and make one of these things. Source: I work in schools. As always, the same old advice. Either educate your children to a maturity level where they are comfortab...
[17:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:53] <exec> 08└─I don't want to see any more of this. Or mo of this.
[17:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:07] <exec> 08└─these "human trials" fail to answer the important question
[17:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:37] <exec> 08└─The article starts with "false assumptions" statement and after a long BS most Americans never read ends with prediction that the cycle will reverse in 2020. Hmm... Lets see... American people vote Trump. Economy votes Trump. The Sun votes Trump. 2020 will be exiting indeed.
[17:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:39] <exec> 08└─Does the Sun vote for democrats?
[17:36:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:48] <exec> 08└─How do I turn that BS notification crap off?
[17:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:30] <exec> 08└─if you use windows then computing is mostly a waste if your time..
[17:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:31] <exec> 08└─I need to support Windows 10 for work, so I will live with it. It's actually OK once beaten into submission, but I wish I could have remained on Win7. We have a mix of Office 2010, 2007, and 2003 here and wanted to upgrade, mainly due to our Exchange server going out of support. We were looking into...
[17:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:33] <exec> 08└─I forgot to add: If it were up to me I'd be loading up LibreOffice instead of MS.
[17:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:36] <exec> 08└─#1 Watch the movie Office Space. #2 If that inspires you to change profession, please do so. #3 You still like office work, then? #4 Install Linux + LibreOffice https://mxlinux.org [mxlinux.org] For you sad souls who are stuck with Windows or in case you use a Linux variant that doesn't have it pre...
[17:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:03] <exec> 08└─It's very difficult to look dignified, if you're homeless.
[17:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:23] <exec> 08└─The puppy-torturer's principles are evil ones, no doubt about it. The centrist's complete lack of principles, on the other hand, lead them to be part of evil acts rather than denounce them as evil. That makes both of them a problem.
[17:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, yeah, but everyone knows that killing innocent animals is the first step towards becoming a mass-murderer. I mean, they couldn't skip that step, right?
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[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─all-your-kids-can-binge for $19.99/mo beats "we release a few major cartoons per year, plus a few Marvel, and distribution takes 40% margins"
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─Download and save everything. We can share when we develop better torrents that can't be tracked down so easily.
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─We've got Netflix, Hulu, Crave, Disney+, Amazon Prime, YouTube Premium, and I'm sure there are more I can't think of. How many subscriptions do they expect people to actually pay for?
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, to account for this, they're upgrading from random copyright lawsuits to the recently legalized Copyright Hellfire Missile Drone.
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:45] <exec> 08└─*citation needed* Seriously, if it wasn't blinking text, it was gifs, or the like. Once it ceased to be a research play thing. It quickly evolved into the bastardized advertisement delivery system that it is today.
[18:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:46] <exec> 08└─As newsblogs go, Fark is the opposite of Soylent. Pick any 5 stories there and 1 of those may nearly crash your computer; at least 3 of those 5 will drive you up the wall with "can we enable notifications? please subscribe to our newsletter! AUTOPLAY VIDEO!!!" Soylent actively discourages linking/en...
[18:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:49] <exec> 08└─The "tech giants" aren't the problem. The service providers are. They are the gatekeepers protecting the "tech giants" from competition. And they have to act as the government's firewall. All our problems will be solved once we get around the ISP and mute all the stupid arguments for more censorship...
[18:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, just like radio and TV. Our real problem with the internet is that there is insufficient demand to turn the ISP into an open dumb pipe where the filtering is done at our end. Our only hope under these circumstances is a technology that can circumvent the ISP turnstiles. We have to stop begging...
[18:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─Imagine this on a larger scale. At some point employers realize that that degree might not mean what it once meant. So they need elaborate puzzles and IQ tests to weed out the pozers (of which there are many) from the real candidates (of which there may be few, and with poor social skills).
[18:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:21] <exec> 08└─Hey, I made my deadline, okay ? Who cares whether four years from now two out of every 42000 takeoffs end up in a crash ?
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:23] <exec> 08└─Imagine a business school that graduates a future president who cannot read, write, speak in coherent sentences, think through consequences of ideas, and cannot process ideas or concepts above an adolescent level at best. How does that make them look? Was daddy's money worth it?
[18:35:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─So, it's not like "Momo" is even some cautionary tale about overblown hysteria -- because there are REAL reasons for parents to be vigilant about online BS that very well could be like this.
[18:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:53] <exec> 08└─Happy paradox : You have to take the time to learn why you shouldn't waste your time with this.
[18:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:54] <exec> 08└─this stuff could very well be real.
[18:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:56] <exec> 08└─Consider, the schools and teachers that fell for this crap are supposed to be helping you to teach your children critical thinking skills. They are now entitled to at least one conversation with you that ends with them being red-face embarrassed. The problem goes beyond the internet. Consider the pr...
[18:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:58] <exec> 08└─So, this Fox piece which is clearly a paid promotion for BuzzFeed, is using a BuzzFeed fake news story to convince you to follow BozzFeed. Brilliant.
[18:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:01] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I was expecting an article about Missouri's version of Bigfoot [wikipedia.org]. Thinking about it, that legend is very slightly more credible than the one "the authorities" warned about since there are actual (possibly intoxicated) people who claim to have seen it in person.
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─All of the AGW estimates of warming are built on the assumption that a slight temperature increase due due CO2 will increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere - and that will drive warming. One of zillions of references [soylentnews.org].
[18:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:47] <exec> 08└─Earth's atmosphere contains ~0.04% CO2, while Venus has ~96% CO2. Let's see the effect of CO2 there. Distance of Earth from Sun ~ 1.00 AU Distance of Venus from Sun ~ 0.72 AU Sunlight drops off according to an inverse square law, so Venus will receive (1/.72)^2 times more sunlight than earth. Temper...
[18:37:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:12] <exec> 08└─I have a screen reader that is a *Mission Critical* program. It *MUST* run for me to be able to interact with the computer at all. No screen reader means no computer. Every time I hear about a Win10 forced update that breaks the audio subsystem, causes a previously stable program to stop working, or...
[18:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:43] <exec> 08└─mint is lame. use something else.
[18:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:44] <exec> 08└─"freedom does require active engagement" freedom? with apple? are you on the cheese?
[18:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:14] <exec> 08└─Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge
[18:38:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those of us who live in countries that don't allow our politicians to spend that much money on their campaigns find it weird too.
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[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:25] <exec> 08└─How many subscriptions do they expect people to actually pay for?
[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─Bets on whether Song Of The South will be included in the new screaming stubscription service.
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─This is exactly a problem I was worried about a few years ago. With a RoKu, I only plug one device into the TV. The subscription services are "channels" on the RoKu. But . . . there is this trend for new services to have their own 'stick'. A Linux stick with custom software in the form of an HDMI do...
[19:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─This is Disney, it will be DRMd six ways from Sunday.
[19:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:33] <exec> 08└─Only if I'm allowed to bet against.
[19:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:35] <exec> 08└─But I was going to bet against! :-)
[19:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─And watermarked with your credit card number
[19:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that pissed me off about Amazon. They refused to work with my Chromecast, so I had to buy a firestick to watch The Grand Tour on my TV. Granted, I like the firestick more than my Chromecast now.
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─I'm too young to know that film. It it one of the racist Disney films?
[19:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:44] <exec> 08└─Yes. Then again, most of Disney's back catalogue is wrongthink now for one reason or other. "The Cat from Outer Space" would be panned for mansplaining. "Bambi" would take knocks for portraying heterosexual flirting as natural, without any LGBT representation. "The Smartest Man in the World" and "Th...
[19:34:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 2035 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:53] <exec> 08└─Advertising destroys every medium it ever touches. Billboards seemed innocuous. End result: some formerly nice landscapes littered with billboards as far as the eye can see, especially on interstate highways. City blocks littered with astonishing amounts of visual noise from ads and billboards. Then...
[19:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:12] <exec> 08└─Yep. The same can be said of my ex-wife.
[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:44] <exec> 08└─Sad but true. But some of that shame might also rub off.
[19:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:46] <exec> 08└─Getting in used to be about paying up. If you couldn’t pay up, you got in on a scholarship of some sort so you didn’t have to pay. Nothing wrong with this. Here in Australia, you can pay full fare (which is what all the ‘foreign admissions’ pay), but if you want the course to be subsidised,...
[19:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:48] <exec> 08└─Imagine a business school that graduates a future president who cannot read, write, speak in coherent sentences, think through consequences of ideas, and cannot process ideas or concepts above an adolescent level at best. How does that make them look? Was daddy's money worth it?
[19:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:50] <exec> 08└─~20 years back, an MBA seemed like the ticket to corporate advancement. I had considered going for an MBA to get out of the IT dungeons, but ended up getting a MS instead. Glad that I did, but I'm hearing that MBA graduates have a difficult time getting non-dead-end jobs; that the only jobs with pro...
[19:36:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 1830 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but what the hell is this story about? Who or what is "Momo"? Why should I care? I don't pay attention to social media or local BS daily news. Any tiny hint at what "Momo" is or even a link to basic info would be important to a summary here. As it is, TFA doesn't explain what Momo is either,...
[19:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:25] <exec> 08└─She's just resting
[19:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:26] <exec> 08└─Dungeons and Dragons, Satan's Game
[19:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:29] <exec> 08└─Who or what is "Momo"?
[19:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:44] <exec> 08└─What is it about malaria that makes it a developed world issue? It would seem that the people most motivated to fix this would live in areas with those mosquitos, but there seems to be a lot of motivation to solve it from people who ostensibly would never be affected by it. Maybe malaria is an econo...
[19:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:18] <exec> 08└─And now the sun is quiet and the globe is still warming. But you did neatly explain why it's not warming as much as the CO2 based models suggested. I wonder what it'll be like as solar activity regresses to the mean?
[19:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:19] <exec> 08└─So raising CO2 2400x can only raise temperature ~10 K
[19:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:17] <exec> 08└─it's not about people calling tech support, ffs. it's about them not providing security updates anymore. it's not like normals are going to stop surfing with the beloved windows computers.
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:18] <exec> 08└─It's always a good excuse to talk about Linux, though.
[19:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:49] <exec> 08└─That's a very fair point and not something I would want to make light of. I'm pretty sure though that there are employees quietly accepting this fate that do have other, better options because I've seen the attitudes. The unquestioning acceptance of their employer's authority. Self-employment for th...
[19:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:50] <exec> 08└─People should make a stand against this. Complain to their representatives (union and legislative) and vote appropriately if it isn't discontinued. Being secure in your papers and effects is a right (?)
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[20:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Team Uses "Artificial Muscles" to Develop an Air Conditioner for the Future - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─They don’t mention it but the process must escape the limits of the Carnot cycle which current refrigeration units approach https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Team Uses "Artificial Muscles" to Develop an Air Conditioner for the Future - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:16] <exec> 08└─How many times can this nitinol wire bend without breaking? (if I knew I wouldn't ask)
[20:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:39] <exec> 08└─Traitorous bluebird, did it land on your shoulder and tell you not to bet for also?
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:40] <exec> 08└─...Disney+ will exclude movies that aren't even in the "Vault" rotation, such as a certain movie on which the Splash Mountain ride at Disney parks was based.
[20:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:43] <exec> 08└─It's Song of the South [wikipedia.org].
[20:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:45] <exec> 08└─No, as it did at the box office Bambi [wikipedia.org] will take knocks because it portrays hunting in a bad light. I doubt Sunflower will be in Fantasia. Will Jungle Book be unedited? Pocahantas will still be offensively stereotypical. And I'd bet they'll run the edited version of Arabian Nights in...
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─"Bambi" would take knocks for portraying heterosexual flirting as natural, without any LGBT representation.
[20:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:15] <exec> 08└─He adulterated the web with DRM. https://www.defectivebydesign.org [defectivebydesign.org]
[20:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:17] <exec> 08└─Shhhh, you can't impugn Sir WWW Hero.
[20:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:53] <exec> 08└─There are quite a few high-6 to 7-figure jobs that will not be open to you if you don't have an MBA on your resume. It might not be right, but it's a fact.
[20:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:54] <exec> 08└─You're a partisan idiot, maybe your daddy should have bribed your way into college so you could become a Fox News "expert". It is OK to be stupid but only when you realize you are and stop spreading your stupidity around. Maybe get a job? That might take up enough of your time so you don't diarrhea...
[20:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:57] <exec> 08└─From the NYT article: Federal prosecutors did not charge any students or universities with wrongdoing.
[20:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:34] <exec> 08└─"I didn't try to play any LPs backward, so I guess I missed out on those particular Satanic messages" You must have missed out on Fire On High.
[20:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:51] <exec> 08└─Is is more effective than quinine?
[20:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:24] <exec> 08└─HDD space ain't rising as fast as they hoped, I suppose.
[20:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 1789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:25] <exec> 08└─Ok, now think of all the problems & headaches you've encountered in getting the issue fixed. Can you see to do those repairs yourself? Because I can't & would have to take it to BestBuy & let their GeekSquad have at my computer in order to fix it, get it back to a working state, & then pay the Daneg...
[20:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:27] <exec> 08└─recently, see nokia
[20:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Launches Firefox Send, an Encrypted File-Sharing Service - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:09] <exec> 08└─I propose a revolutionary project: remote controlling a browser using emoji sequences.
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[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:12] <exec> 08└─Wake me if any of Elon's transportation wet dreams are ever finished, especially the Chicago airport tunnel.
[21:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Team Uses "Artificial Muscles" to Develop an Air Conditioner for the Future - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:21] <exec> 08└─So maybe it's more like something that other Q [wikipedia.org] would come up with.
[21:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Team Uses "Artificial Muscles" to Develop an Air Conditioner for the Future - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:23] <exec> 08└─Nope. The only difference is the any thermal machine using memory metals work with a solid medium instead of a fluid one. Besides, this story is news about "antique" technology - nitinol [wikipedia.org] has been used for building heat machines shortly after its discovery; head to the 'Other applicat...
[21:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Team Uses "Artificial Muscles" to Develop an Air Conditioner for the Future - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─Far higher than spring steel. However a bitch to machine, because of the very properties that makes it useful.
[21:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:53] <exec> 08└─Disney CEO Bob Iger announced the company’s forthcoming Disney+ streaming service would soon include the “entire Disney motion picture library.”
[21:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney’s Forthcoming Streaming Service Will Kill the Disney Vault - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:54] <exec> 08└─$250 a month. I wish I were joking, but based on conversations with real network executives, they actually think most people will pay $250 a month for "premium" cable.
[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:25] <exec> 08└─At this point he's basically a spin doctor for the classic military-industrial fascist agenda: In the letter, Berners-Lee laid out "three sources of dysfunction" affecting the web today. The first, he said, is deliberate and malicious behavior like state-sponsored hacking and online harassment. Bern...
[21:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:26] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the original point of the web to publish scientific papers? Pubmed [nih.gov] is my go-to example for how well we can not just share information, but use richer web elements, database-backed websites, etc. to help people research, organize, and read this kind of content. And maybe eventually a...
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:06] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of law school. Everyone knows you can't bribe your way into law school! Or on to the supreme court! You have to pay dues instead, like trying to impeach a sitting president about sex and boofing.
[21:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─"Bated"!, damn it all to hell! The word is "bated", as in, "withheld, held back, restrained". But then, you are referencing a Trumpet Tweet. Could be bait. What is that thing on his head, anyway? A lure? Does it conceal hooks?
[21:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Business Leaders, Coaches, and Actresses Charged by the DoJ in College Admissions Scandal - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─ACs eat chum, so...
[21:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:48] <exec> 08└─"Momo mia! Here we go again!"
[21:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:06] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but are you arguing that no one in developed countries should care about people getting sick and/or dying in less developed countries or just that you are surprised that it happens?
[21:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:08] <exec> 08└─They should care, because it makes it harder to invade.
[21:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making the Transition to Windows 10 and Office 365 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:44] <exec> 08└─It isn't fit for purpose. And they don't care so long as they get to control your computer.
[21:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:17] <exec> 08└─Interesting reaction, not sure why you were modded troll. This is the OP and you make some good points...but there is a problem -- I own my own tiny company and my one associate works from his home, 15 minutes away by car. No monitoring going on here by the boss (me) or of the worker (he's an indepe...
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:19] <exec> 08└─> ...my parents aren't going slowly die isolated and alone. A noble goal and I certainly hope you are able to follow through. However, what will happen if you are disabled or die before they do? The old way was to have many kids and hope that a few outlast the parents, but most families don't do thi...
[21:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─You said it better. Thank you. Complaining to employers can work sometimes too but they need to find you somewhat indispensable and actually be capable of conducting a conversation with a lesser employee, so I guess that rules most out.
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─. . . . . . . . . why would you want to mandate micro-USB? I would absolutely love a connector standard that didn't require me to line-up the connector perfectly, every time. From what I understand USB-C achieves that, and there's no upside down/right side up issue. The landmine issue isn't an issue...
[21:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:25] <exec> 08└─Happy employees are productive employees, and constantly watching over their shoulders won't make them happy.
[21:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:47] <exec> 08└─pushes both ideas that are factual and ideas that are contrafactual.
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[22:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─All things considered, I'd say this project is more likely to be completed in a reasonable time frame. Just from an outsider's perspective on Vegas.
[22:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:15] <exec> 08└─Wake me if the Wright brothers ever get their "flight" schemes off the ground Wake me if Ford's "assembly line" or "paying workers more" schemes ever produce a automobile Wake me if Ernest Rutherford and his "splitting the atom" scheme produces results Wake me if Nikola Tesla generates any "electric...
[22:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:17] <exec> 08└─Well he did launch a rocket then land it on a ship...
[22:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:19] <exec> 08└─A tunnel system for a 200 acre site does not sound like a big deal to me. No job too small.
[22:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:21] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk blah transportation blah wet dream blah Las Vegas blah blah blah ... I wonder if Heidi Fleiss would want in on this?
[22:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─Vegas you can walk around. I think people would appreciate it more if it was implemented someplace much colder [localfoodtours.com].
[22:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Team Uses "Artificial Muscles" to Develop an Air Conditioner for the Future - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─I'm going to guess that it cannot be 3D printed.
[22:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Team Uses "Artificial Muscles" to Develop an Air Conditioner for the Future - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:37] <exec> 08└─If you have an e-beam printer with advanced vacuum, you may be able to manufacture [wikipedia.org] the alloy in-place (see the mention of e-beam melting in "boutique" settings). The requirement of homogeneity of the crystal structure for the desired properties may preclude (or make it very time cons...
[22:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:38] <exec> 08└─There are many things to complain about with the web, but I think the big ones are; Reliance on the domain name system.flash mobs DNS is abused by Governments constantly, but even corporations get in on the act. Read the history of sex.com [vice.com] for a graphic example. Flash mobs are what turn a...
[22:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Invented the Web Says It's Now Dysfunctional With 'perverse' Incentives - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:40] <exec> 08└─Methinks the word "quixotic" comes to mind.... Cue Richard Kiley.
[22:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:20] <exec> 08└─And here I thought it was something game-changing in social interactions.
[22:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:22] <exec> 08└─Nope, definitely not arguing that, that's one very good reason as to why anyone should look at these kinds of problems. I'm just asking as to why you hear about new research in nations in malaria-unaffected areas focusing on such a long-standing issue in the affected areas. Or: maybe the affected na...
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[22:37:35] <exec> 08└─> at the moment cosmic ray modulation of Earth’s cloud cover seems rather promising in explaining the size of solar impact I thought CLOUD experiment at CERN demonstrated this was not the case. https://home.cern [home.cern] My understanding was that even Svensmark has acc...
[22:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:57] <exec> 08└─And this is wrong because?
[22:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:59] <exec> 08└─"The level of solar activity beginning in the 1940s is exceptional – the last period of similar magnitude occurred around 9,000 years ago."
[22:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media and Internet Not Cause of Political Polarisation (New Research Suggests) - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:01] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. It pushes both. It pushes the West Virginia Mothman, it pushes election in 2020, it pushes Mothra, it doesn't care, it's just a facilitator, that facilitates ALL weird ideas, and many that aren't weird.
[22:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:20] <exec> 08└─Why would you ban people from transport? Could you perhabs in this confusing age of misinformation, provide a source or two by which I can further investigate your claims. I'm not up to date on what horrible things the chinese are up to except being accused of spying through Huawei and hiding spy ge...
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[22:42:22] <exec> 08└─sudo make sandwich
[22:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:06] <exec> 08└─AFAIK you can't run a Soylent instance without Apache. The code is too dependent on modperl.
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[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Essential Oil Compounds Most Toxic to Bed Bugs - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:09] <exec> 08└─Hmm, using enough essential oil could kill bedbugs, but will you then stick to your furniture?
[23:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Essential Oil Compounds Most Toxic to Bed Bugs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─And then the benefits of sliding in oil would also be great with a partner...
[23:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:24] <exec> 08└─1. Try to walk the whole Strip both ways, and let's talk about your feet at the end, unless you're a regular hiker. 2. Try to walk in daytime Vegas between May and October, and look fresh afterwards. 3. Fucking traffic.
[23:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:26] <exec> 08└─Is riding the monorail cheating? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It will take you from end to end, avoids traffic, and is air conditioned.
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Startup Picked to Build Las Vegas 'People Mover' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─Still wondering why they don't just expand the monorail. I'll have to read more about it.
[23:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:03] <exec> 08└─You guys are meanies. I want my momo!
[23:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:05] <exec> 08└─Dunno. I played D&D and was very much interested in playing a certain album [wikipedia.org] backwards. That said, there always has been moral panics throughout history, and there always will be. Just because they're now On the Internet and thus can spread faster doesn't mean that they can, or will b...
[23:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:07] <exec> 08└─A case of not stuffing beans up one's nose [wikipedia.org] at its finest.
[23:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Momo' May be 'dead,' but Experts Say Avoiding the Next Hoax is Up to Us - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:09] <exec> 08└─The next generation of helicopter mommies will find a dozen other scary non-existent things over which to have hysterical fears.
[23:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Malarial Drug Shows Promise in Human Study - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─http://smbc-comics.com/comic/healthcare [smbc-comics.com]
[23:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:09] <exec> 08└─Fake news! Global Sun Mellowing is a hoax invented by CNNina! So sad.
[23:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:10] <exec> 08└─Bradley13 was probably referring to what he heard before they corrected it in 2015. See here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The global warming borg has assimilate th...
[23:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sun is Quieter than Normal, but Don't Panic - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:12] <exec> 08└─What exactly is "troll" about this post? I would love to know how applying basic physics is "trolling" now.
[23:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:51] <exec> 08└─No problem - just is more likely for someone to be an employee than an employer. I did get modded touché before I got hit with flamebait and troll. There's a troop of assholes on this site that has nothing better to do than downmod opinions they don't like in block, most often seen with posts in se...
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