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[00:00:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, on cold, damp mornings, I've had a minor issue with the windshield fogging up. Fortunately, it takes only about 15 seconds of heat to clear it. Don't have to keep the heat on, and lose 20% of your range. The piggy back battery idea sounds very interesting. I fear the upcoming summer heat may fi...
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[00:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:22] <exec> 08└─All pain killers have a risk profile. Tylenol is OK as long as you aren't taking high doses or for a long time (or have a weak liver). Ibuprofen works great, but it thins the blood and has different risks. I tend to think it is safer than Tylenol all-in-all. You can alternate between Tylenol and ibu...
[00:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:18] <exec> 08└─Other options: Put wood under water: https://news.nationalgeographic.com [nationalgeographic.com] Put wood in a desert: https://www.textures.com [textures.c...
[00:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:19] <exec> 08└─Dunno if it's another Theranos, but the backing by fossil fuel companies has nothing to do with them believing it and everything to do with them greenwashing their images for pocket change. Which would actually be a good business model, come up with some vaguely-plausible tech that attracts greenwas...
[00:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 1903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:21] <exec> 08└─Lets recap: 1) You start with a CaOH solution. The CaOH has to be produced chemically which requires energy. 2) You pump large volumes of air through this solution to extract some of the CO2. This requires energy. 3) You heat the resultant precipitate (CaCO3) to 900C to release the concentrated CO2....
[00:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:24] <exec> 08└─It can also be pelletized or sequestered underground. The fuel stream is just one possible output (and one that takes more effort.) Pulling carbon out of the air to burn it and put it back in the air is ~'carbon neutral', which is significantly less impactful than pulling that same carbon out of se...
[00:57:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:04] <exec> 08└─The US is starting to look more and more like a third-world country.
[00:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:40] <exec> 08└─I got rid of quite a few of my "treasures" this exact same way. Earlier this month, it was an old Tektronix 535 lab scope. Have not even powered it up for over ten years. My little battery powered digital scope does it all now. That thing was so heavy I was lucky to get it to the curb without help f...
[00:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:25] <exec> 08└─So... Assange says the charges were BS and manufactured to get him into custody and potential extradition AS HAS SUBSEQUENTLY PROVED TO BE THE CASE (actually, it was also known at the time... One of Australias premier investigative teams [abc.net.au] went to Sweden, and discovered exactly how shady...
[00:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:26] <exec> 08└─Luke HARDING rather...
[01:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah -- I've never used a public charging station except at a Nissan dealer (level 2, free) once when I forgot to do a recharge (a full battery will get me home to town to home to town ... it just won't get me back home on the 4th leg). This is interesting if it comes to the US: a refurb battery pac...
[01:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:40] <exec> 08└─We already have some unrealized capital gains taxed at supposedly mark to market. Namely real estate taxes are going up as values are assessed by the local government. Note that when prices are going down, no adjustments are made. In my case I am still a quarter million down, while my taxes are up....
[01:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:42] <exec> 08└─Fair Taxation is an oxymoron. There is nothing fair about a tax.
[01:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:44] <exec> 08└─You truly do not understand how interconnected everything is. That's fine; things move nice and slow until suddenly they don't anymore. You'll find out. And when you do, you will envy the dead, who by that point I sincerely hope will include me. Ignorance must truly be bliss...
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[01:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:21] <exec> 08└─I did some digging when I looked at this article. I went in thinking Aspirin would be the safest in this regard despite it's bad rap, but it turned out Ibuprofin ran away with it and was significantly harder to reach toxic levels with than Aspirin.
[01:55:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:41] <exec> 08└─Now, if only we could get the world to cooperate and work together and make this all happen quickly and effectively! This should not be JUST JAPAN: this should be China, U.S., what.... India now? Wasn't Pakistan doing something??///can't remember...too old, Canada (okay, laugh if you want but we got...
[01:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:45] <exec> 08└─Perfectly valid. Deserts and glaciers are both far more hospitable than Moon or Mars. You don't die in either of those places within a minute if someone opens a window.
[01:57:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:20] <exec> 08└─The problem is that there appears to often *be* no safe and efficient way to recycle. FWIW, GoodWill Industries has stopped training people to repair things. And they won't even resell things that are visibly used. Much of what is put in "recycling" is just dumped into a garbage dump AFTER spending...
[01:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:39] <exec> 08└─Jails and prisons usually will take books, and they need them badly.
[01:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, nobody's gonna be growing plants underground on Mars - they'll be using GMO yeasts and reprocessing waste to produce food.
[02:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:43] <exec> 08└─...but I think there are quite a few folks who make the bulk of their money from this who are really getting a break they don't need...for example that growing group of the 1% who aren't entrepreneurs, but just entitled children of entrepreneurs.
[02:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:45] <exec> 08└─Assholes, all wanting to build businesses and retire and shit. Who the fuck do they think they are anyway?
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[02:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but hospitals will still prefer paracetamol because it is not a NSAID, and doesn't carry their baggage.
[02:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:29] <exec> 08└─NSAIDs in general are dangerous though. There's always a risk of GI bleeds or worse with non-selective COX inhibitors (aspirin especially) and most of them do *not* have the positive side-effects aspirin does. The selective COX-2 inhibitors, the *coxibs (remember Vioxx?) are even worse, as it turns...
[02:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:31] <exec> 08└─New Therapy Target for Drug Acetaminophen-Induced Liver Failure
[02:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UMD Researchers’ Wood-Based Technology Creates Electricity From Heat - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:42] <exec> 08└─did not read TFS
[02:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry, someone had to say it
[02:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:35] <exec> 08└─If we could use this method to sequester a high percentage of the CO2 from coal, nat gas, and diesel plants it would make the transition to an electric transportation system much less burdensome.
[02:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:10] <exec> 08└─and how does all this work if someone puts a photo with you in it on facebook, or any other place on the internet, when that photo gets run through facial recognition software ?
[03:01:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 986 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:18] <exec> 08└─Many people, especially socialists, forget that. For us little guys, we need to explain how that works. You get a pretty good job, and you're putting money into a savings account for a home, a car, or whatever. At the end of the year, you're doing your income taxes. A new line on the form asks "How...
[03:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:58] <exec> 08└─Government bonds are thd main cause of wealth inequality. It allows the rich to get richer by doing nothing.
[03:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:00] <exec> 08└─In which case the owner never received any actual money from the "asset" - so what are you taxing?
[03:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:02] <exec> 08└─You truly do not understand how interconnected everything is.
[03:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:04] <exec> 08└─Idiot. The change itself isn't what I'm talking about; it's the systems that depend on certain parameters staying within a certain range. You don't know what the hell you're talking about, as usual. I'm not even going to bother explaining to you how buffer solutions work and how this relates to the...
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[03:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:25] <exec> 08└─i know many deride GNU/Linux varieties as being "difficult", but at the point that a company has users do stuff as described in TFA, you have to ask: are all windows users masohists?
[03:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch with Arabsat Reset for Tuesday - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:32] <exec> 08└─This launch uses Block 5 boosters and an "octoweb" structure, making it substantially different in some ways. The first launch was great PR, but we have had talk in recent weeks of shifting work from the Space Launch System to Falcon Heavy. Non-U.S. countries [soylentnews.org] were already talking a...
[03:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UMD Researchers’ Wood-Based Technology Creates Electricity From Heat - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:55] <exec> 08└─TFAbstract [nature.com] After infiltrating electrolyte into the cellulosic membrane and applying an axial temperature gradient, the ionic conductor exhibits a thermal gradient ratio (analogous to the Seebeck coefficient in thermoelectrics) of 24 mV K–1—more than twice the highest value repor...
[03:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:12] <exec> 08└─"A 7-ton autonomous backhoe went through its paces at the site" Wow. We'll be ready for cutting fiber optic lines on the moon even before they're installed.
[03:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:13] <exec> 08└─What color is the backhoe robot and does it "push" or "shove"?
[03:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:52] <exec> 08└─Well, we certainly could get rid of technology. Then we could all discuss better methods of subsistence farming without technology like plows, composting and seed selection here on the Soylent website via the internet. ... Oh... Wait...
[03:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:54] <exec> 08└─I've seen pictures of that electric powered vehicle Opportunity and I don't remember it being green.
[03:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:56] <exec> 08└─Some of them are green. But I've noticed that they come in many other colors as well.
[03:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:58] <exec> 08└─There's one additional processing step after the shovel, though: ... for carbon sequestration, we need to temporarily store it for 500 to 1000 years...
[03:58:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 1417 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:02] <exec> 08└─Funny, from my point of view, it was Communism that caused the corruption, not the other way round. Had the communists not banned private sale of such goods, the black market would not have existed. The fact that high level party members were involved just showed that even the government didn't beli...
[03:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:02] <exec> 08└─To play partisan politics? Seriously? Assange went after Hillary and the DNC to point out that the Democrats are no better than the Republicans. That isn't partisan politics, it's exposing the world to reality.
[04:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:27] <exec> 08└─The HFT firms only make a move when they have both a buyer and a seller lined up and it's advantageous to them to act as a middle man. They don't hold onto any stock long term, just long enough for them to complete the transaction which can be as fast as a fraction of a second. As such they provide...
[04:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:20] <exec> 08└─This. It's so sad but true. We see lots of ads all the time saying, same amount of protein, taste, smell, texture, blah blah blah. However, one missing information is always how our body process it. It processes animal protein different than non-animal protein (i.e. digestion, absorption, etc.) and...
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[04:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:26] <exec> 08└─> are all windows users masohists? They are small, scared people who fear computers and hackers, and want Uncle Bill to keep them safe, even if he abuses and neglects them, and increases their exposure to the very dangers that sent them running into his embrace.
[04:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Luke [175] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:27] <exec> 08└─Seemingly still no way to turn the bloody thing off >:-( I support a system that uses older software to interface with lookout. It will run on earlier versions of Win10 (better still Win7 but let's not go there), however one of the enforced updates breaks it. In order to deal with this we actively b...
[04:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:29] <exec> 08└─They're just people who view computers as appliances for their practical use.
[04:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:32] <exec> 08└─I just use a Windows Update blocker on my one laptop that runs Windows 10. It's a machine that I don't use that often, and it had gotten annoying that every time I turned it on, it insisted on doing an hour of 'updates' before I could use it. There are simple to install .EXE applications that you ca...
[04:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:51] <exec> 08└─In the UK, you can get Ibuprofen and acetaminophen in a gel form over the counter. Rub it on the skin and it is absorbed. Useful if you have stomach issues. In the USA, you could probably get a compounding pharmacy to make such a gel for you, but it would be expensive.
[04:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:02] <exec> 08└─Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Joel Salatin: Cows, Carbon and Climate https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Managed "rotational mob grazing" has been tested for decades on all co...
[04:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Luke [175] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:38] <exec> 08└─Successfully growing vegetables requires sunlight, exposing your plot to various drones, satellites, and other surveillance machinery. I'll bet there's some effing database out there that will match you to the layout of your plot and the type of veges you've chosen - you'd need to use some sort of r...
[04:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snacks Included: Newly-Opened Egyptian Tomb has Mummified Cats, Falcons, and Dozens of Mice - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:24] <exec> 08└─Not that long ago, lots of Egyptian cat mummies were imported into England [blogspot.com] to be used as fertilizer.
[04:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces Printed 3D Habitat Winners - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:47] <exec> 08└─Dynamite doesn't need oxygen for it's chemical reaction, does it?
[05:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:08] <exec> 08└─I'd move there immediately would they have not fucked the NBN.
[05:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:10] <exec> 08└─Not sure where you heard that, but Victoria (the South-East state on the Australian mainland) is primarily powered by brown coal, which is as dirty as it comes. Huge health problems for towns in the main coal mining and power generating areas. They're trying to wean themselves off it at the moment.
[05:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:12] <exec> 08└─The batteries are largely recycled now and
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[05:55:34] <exec> 08└─Call me cautiously optimistic about the progress, but I'm waiting to see how this will all shake out and what issues may arise.
[05:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:35] <exec> 08└─Just a couple of weeks ago, I got a new device [amazon.com] with Windows 10 pre-installed. I plugged it in and powered it on and, yes, Windows 10 was waiting for me like a beacon of light in the dark, dark, night. But I knew that it was important to keep my computer updated, to keep the bad people a...
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[06:55:29] <exec> 08└─"It's a new kind of thing. It's what I call a knowledge-based language, it's a language where a vast amount of knowledge about how to do computations and about the world is built right into the language," he said. "So, right within the language there are primitives for processing images or laying ou...
[06:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:21] <exec> 08└─All of this climate change crap is nothing more than a thinly disguised attempt to transfer billions of dollars from the US to third world countries so the globalists can steal it. This article is from 2013 but it's still relevant. Scare the sheep so we can steal their money! https://www.forbes.com
[06:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:58] <exec> 08└─If you have professional mercenary types after you...
[06:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:59] <exec> 08└─Doesn't have to be in the ghetto. If you have cash, a lot of states auction property for back taxes. After a certain number of years delinquent, you don't even have to pay the back taxes. All you do is bid on the current tax bill and if the sale isn't redeemed within a year or two, the place is your...
[06:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:31] <exec> 08└─He could have exposed shit from both parties if he wanted to show them as the same.
[07:04:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 807 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:16] <exec> 08└─Settling on Summer time makes sense to me, because of the example of Western Europe, where most countries are at GMT+1 in winter and GMT+2 in summer, rather than the GMT they would geographically belong to. Being at +2 feels great in summer (really late evening sun, especially with the higher latitu...
[07:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:21] <exec> 08└─'nuff said.
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[07:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:28] <exec> 08└─Has Wolfram ever heard of a thing called a library? Functions from libraries are indistinguishable from functions built into the language... except the library can the upgraded or replaced by a better library in the future. Large amount of built-ins are the sign of someone who doesn't know language...
[07:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:29] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this will be just as revolutionary and game changing as A New Kind of Science. ;)
[07:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:50] <exec> 08└─The only progress I've seen from Microsoft during the last decade has been the dark theme and their attitude towards open source
[07:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:51] <exec> 08└─The only problem was, you paid Microsoft for software you never used. How lucky they are to have such a loyal customer paying them for nothing!
[07:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:53] <exec> 08└─Windows Update is one of the worst pieces of software on the planet and I'd estimate it has managed to collectively waste millions of hours of peoples time and patience. Do any of these new updates fix the issue where "feature" updates fail if you have GRUB installed in your MBR? I'm betting that th...
[07:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:55] <exec> 08└─The only problem was, you paid Microsoft for software you never used. How lucky they are to have such a loyal customer paying them for nothing!
[07:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:58] <exec> 08└─For my home PC I keep my Linux on a separate disk connected via USB3, so whenever I want to run Win10 (games, CAD) I can keep the Linux disk powered off to stop Windows from possibly monkeying with it. Again.
[07:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UMD Researchers’ Wood-Based Technology Creates Electricity From Heat - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:29] <exec> 08└─The Matrix gives me a woody!
[07:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:31] <exec> 08└─I knew Forbes was bad but I didn't know they were pure shit. For the greedy morons by the greedy morons.
[08:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Democrat Proposes Annual Tax on Unrealized Capital Gains - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:12] <exec> 08└─Depends on how they invest. Most people would probably use a 401(k), 403(b), employer-provided DBP, IRA, ILIT, Roth accounts, (and a few other limited instruments), or a combination of the above. They are already exempt from CGT or have all sorts of special rules already for when they can be taxed....
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[17:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:03] <exec> 08└─Why not say the Telephone is an information service? Television? Lettuce consider things on them intarweb tubes which might not seem like an "information service" to most people: * Skype * Netflix * Spotify * iTunes * Google Play Store * Amazon shopping * Facebook * FoxNews Furthermore some things o...
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:07] <exec> 08└─Wow...I know I'm not a rocket scientist like (supposedly) a lot of the people that frequent this site but, gosh, that headline took me a while to parse! Couldn't it have been "House Commerce Committee Votes to Restore Net Neutrality" instead of all the double-negative nonsense? [/pedant]
[17:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:09] <exec> 08└─VETO!
[17:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:11] <exec> 08└─But I'm fairly sure both sides are trying to rape the consumers, in slightly different ways.
[17:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:14] <exec> 08└─One side wants Net Neutrality. One side doesn't want Net Neutrality. Those are OPPOSITE positions. Both sides are NOT THE SAME and you are just rationalizing your support for the side that wants the opposite of what you do.
[17:06:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:22] <exec> 08└─but not from anyone who disagrees with me. Got it. This will end badly.
[17:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:31] <exec> 08└─how far back do you have to go before the candidate for either party was clean of such issues?
[17:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:33] <exec> 08└─Came here to say that^ Now that they have the ethics thing checkmarked, and tossed aside, they can get on to the really profitable work they wanted to do that the ethics board would have stopped.
[17:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:35] <exec> 08└─Democrats are the opposite of criminals. They fight for justices and fairness while republicans only care about hoarding their criminal profits and visiting criminal websites like breitbart and fox news.
[17:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:39] <exec> 08└─I wish Google would just haul their stinking SJW-infested carcass to the dump already?!!
[17:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:42] <exec> 08└─So an ethics committee overlooking Google's AI work would have been a bad thing? I mean, they could just have removed Kay Coles James from the committee instead of dissolving it completely.
[17:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:44] <exec> 08└─Because obviously an ethics board is the least worthy google project. Ethics are for the weak. Real men rape and plunder and are proud of it. /s
[17:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:46] <exec> 08└─What is this, a strawman for the right to destroy? Of course the dems have evil fuckers populating their ranks. Tons of them. Maggots on the shitpile of power. The trick to getting rid of corruption has always been demanding policies that can't coexist with corruption, not pretending there's a good...
[17:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:49] <exec> 08└─Was this the fastest lifecycle for a Google project ever? One week from new and shiny to the garbage dump.
[17:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:51] <exec> 08└─Dig the tomb, boys!
[17:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:53] <exec> 08└─how far back do you have to go before the candidate for either party was clean of such issues?
[17:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:55] <exec> 08└─Ethics in AI is mostly an excuse to centralize and control. In this case, it was just some PR for the company to use to try to justify continued cooperation with the government.
[17:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:58] <exec> 08└─Corporations are people too! And they can get their poor feewings hurt. Ethics, Principles and Integrity, like any marketable commodity should be sold to the highest bidder. Any true capitalist knows that. Once any company goes public, this end result is inevitable. Greed and Shareholder Value becom...
[17:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah but that was exploiting* the bend-ability of the wood used in the construction. This is like plastic, totally different. *Just like those white boys to exploit something like that.
[17:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:11] <exec> 08└─> significant boost in aircraft production, flight, and maintenance efficiency It's a just a critical flight element which will be controlled by complex software ... let's ask Boeing about that. > which are bolted together to form an open, lightweight lattice framework, are then covered with a thin...
[17:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenFenner [4171] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:15] <exec> 08└─Even more history: The French were using wing warping well before the Wright brothers because it was more stable. There were plenty of other things that made flight more stable that the Wright brother purposefully avoided (like placing the thrust in the wrong place, along with the elevators). You'll...
[17:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:18] <exec> 08└─For high dynamics flight, quick rolls, etc. it's nice to keep the fuel near the center of mass, but for commercial carriers the opposite applies. Maybe the new wings will have wingtip tanks?
[17:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Event Horizon Telescope May Soon Release First Black Hole Image - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:38] <exec> 08└─Guess what? Your digital camera also generates an image from the data received from the CCD.
[17:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Event Horizon Telescope May Soon Release First Black Hole Image - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:39] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure I've seen this one. Had Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne in it. You DO NOT want to see pictures.
[17:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Event Horizon Telescope May Soon Release First Black Hole Image - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:42] <exec> 08└─My monitor imploded into the photo of the black hole you posted.
[17:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Event Horizon Telescope May Soon Release First Black Hole Image - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:44] <exec> 08└─Guess what? I can easily confirm the image the camera takes by looking at the scene myself, therefore the images are reliable. There is no gold standard here.
[17:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:01] <exec> 08└─^^ We call this whataboutism.
[17:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:03] <exec> 08└─Then I'll give you a real whatabout to chew on: If your physician's office breaches your personal information.... The civil penalty tier system for healthcare organizations is based on the extent to which the HIPAA covered entity was aware that HIPAA Rules were violated. The maximum civil penalty fo...
[17:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:05] <exec> 08└─And fortunately there's an easy solution for most companies: don't store the data in the first place - you can't have a data breech if you don't have the data.
[17:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:07] <exec> 08└─Accountability of CXOs is never going to happen because corporations and their lobbyists make large financial contributions,
[17:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:09] <exec> 08└─Politicians are not going to bite the hand that feeds their campaigns.
[17:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:25] <exec> 08└─and have no choice but to use gmail
[17:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Porphyromonas Gingivalis a Contributor to Alzheimer's Disease - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:38] <exec> 08└─Dental bacteria that makes you forget to brush. Priceless.
[17:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porphyromonas Gingivalis a Contributor to Alzheimer's Disease - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:39] <exec> 08└─When I floss once a day consistently, my dental cleanings are much shorter and involve a lot less blood. When I only brush, no matter how well I do it my cleanings pull a lot of gunk out and are somewhat painful.
[17:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Porphyromonas Gingivalis a Contributor to Alzheimer's Disease - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:41] <exec> 08└─Except, there is no conclusive, world-wide, accepted consensus that flossing actually does anything.
[17:08:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 552 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:54] <exec> 08└─Just a couple of weeks ago, I got a new device [amazon.com] with Windows 10 pre-installed. I plugged it in and powered it on and, yes, Windows 10 was waiting for me like a beacon of light in the dark, dark, night. But I knew that it was important to keep my computer updated, to keep the bad people a...
[17:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:08] <exec> 08└─So you mean I can uninstall portions of updates? So if, for example, an update that includes updated crypto components ends up hosing my interfaces, I can disable just that portion of the update? No? They are still massive monolithic 700MB+ update files that you can either install in its entirety or...
[17:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:09] <exec> 08└─Probably not, but that does not mean this shouldn't be the ultimate goal.
[17:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:11] <exec> 08└─Every debian from sarge through wheezy, for me (on PPC hardware). Potato too, before that, but woody to sarge was a skill-testing question.
[17:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 1991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:14] <exec> 08└─I worked at a windows/IBM iseries shop. They for some reason thought linux was some buggy kids project. This was in the late 2000s. My boss made comments that he thought getting a support contract for linux was impossible. Basically the reason we didn't run linux is that they don't pay enough money...
[17:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:16] <exec> 08└─[The Tick] Soo...... NotSanguine was Sanguine with a Fedora replacement for the OS. Was not Exsanguinated over Win10 being on the machine but resanguinified an otherwise fine piece of hardware...... But is sstill NotSanguine. Hmmm...... [/The Tick]
[17:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:18] <exec> 08└─But... but...... but.......... They're telling you about all the stuff out of your control. That's something, isn't it? Isn't it? *crickets*
[17:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch with Arabsat Reset for Tuesday - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:29] <exec> 08└─If true, I'd like to see SpaceX update their official pricing [spacex.com].
[17:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:47] <exec> 08└─How about: Don't take Acetaminophen(Tylenol), and don't take anything that contains Tylenol. Look for safer products instead. Many things are needless mixed with Acetaminophen, but one can find alternatives that are not.
[17:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─Newsflash, Dogs and Cats aren't very bright, will eat things they shouldn't. Just like a toddler. Recommend, keeping poisonous substances/drugs in proper containers and out of reach of children/pets. Lots of things are dangerous/can kill you, if used/destroyed/consumed improperly. Chocolate is reall...
[17:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:12] <exec> 08└─And when this fuel is burned, what are the resulting emitted combustion products?
[17:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:13] <exec> 08└─No, actually the original sin was long before humanity, when plants started to produce that poisonous gas known as oxygen, and caused a mass-extinction. Life really should have stopped that instead of developing methods to not only survive that oxygen, but to even use it for more efficient energy pr...
[17:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:15] <exec> 08└─Nitpick: I think step 6 is exothermal. Wiki says: "One litre of water combines with approximately 3.1 kilograms (6.8 lb) of quicklime to give calcium hydroxide plus 3.54 MJ of energy. This process can be used to provide a convenient portable source of heat, as for on-the-spot food warming in a self-...
[17:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:17] <exec> 08└─When cereal crops begin to fail on more and more years, because of draught and overheating, then you'll find out that you can't eat money.
[17:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:20] <exec> 08└─It would be kind of annoying just standing there being back in the stoneage on the cut-off day when there is no more oil. No matter what our beliefs are, trees are the best tech we have for regulating the climate and renewable energy is our best bet on a sustainable energy source.
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[18:06:11] <exec> 08└─Lettuce
[18:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─"Lettuce consider things ..."
[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─The internet is so important that it deserves a distinct category. We shouldn't be lumping it in with obsolete tech like hard-wired stock tickers. That said, yes indeed every web site is obviously an information service.
[18:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─did you notice the "on them intarwebs" thing afterwards? i'd say it was on purpose. and if it wasn't, we need a browser plugin that can do it.
[18:06:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zoward [4734] 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:30] <exec> 08└─So if you need to create a board to oversee something you don't want overseen, make sure you include a controversial member so you have an excuse to dissolve the board a week later without looking hypocritical. Got it.
[18:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:44] <exec> 08└─And the men that believe this are deserving of nothing but death.
[18:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:45] <exec> 08└─Clearly the right answer is "splunge [urbandictionary.com]".
[18:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:48] <exec> 08└─Both parties have some evil fuckers. It's just noise in the signal. Democrats have an evil party platform. They hate America, Americans, American values, and American culture. They want to tear it all down. They can cause medium-term damage by trying socialism again, cratering the economy for a cent...
[18:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:50] <exec> 08└─If Google has to pass up on killer AI, the contract will just go to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, whatever. Also watch for the government to ban unsanctioned "AI" (the "strong" kind).
[18:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:52] <exec> 08└─Trump had criminals in his campaign, everyone who voted for a criminal is a criminal. Therefore all republicans in congress plus the rank-and-file voters are criminals. QED.
[18:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:54] <exec> 08└─It depends on who you think was a crook, of course, but I think there can at least be a reasonable distinction made based on the counts of administration officials facing indictment or being convicted of crimes. By that standard, Obama was remarkably clean, while Trump, George W Bush, Bill Clinton,...
[18:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:57] <exec> 08└─If we continue blathering on about "The Economy" *this* century, then the next century we won't be discussing "cratering the economy for a century". We will be discussing "what's the best seasoning for long pig".
[18:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:59] <exec> 08└─The foxes truly run the henhouse there. Once the Chinese competition decides to enter the US market, they're going to take over with US companies held back by all this SJWery.
[18:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:13] <exec> 08└─And sailors were doing the same to navigate their ships for hundreds of years prior.
[18:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:14] <exec> 08└─This is just a lab model the researchers prototypes with 3D printer and put together by hand, wiring included, to have something to run in the wind tunnel and satisfy the grant and publication requirements. For actual production the pieces will be a fraction of the size which will render fuel capaci...
[18:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:00] <exec> 08└─What I see here is a win for both parties. Democrats get a win by making a proposal that sounds like it would be tough on "evil corporate shenanigans." Republicans get a win by fighting back and stopping "critically flawed legislation" that wouldn't have passed anyway. Democrats get to say, "We were...
[18:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:02] <exec> 08└─And? They are both trying to implement the policies they believe in. Now, as a voter, you get to choose which policy most closely aligns to your beliefs and vote for the people trying to implement it. What you don't get to do is simply proclaim that both sides are the exact same when the actions the...
[18:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:04] <exec> 08└─I, for one, typically do not store data in my breeches, but to each his own ;)
[18:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:06] <exec> 08└─Oh? Where are your gonads and all the DNA data they contain? Wait, I get it-- your significant other keeps them in a box. I'm sorry.
[18:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:23] <exec> 08└─The University I work at, requires the use of the internal e-mail address. It's a Microsoft Outlook server, but at least it's not like they're using Gmail/other 3rd party e-mail provider. Unfortunately the stock on windows is very applicable here, as they are fully bought-in to the MS ecosystem. I w...
[18:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:24] <exec> 08└─Like most things Pi it is pointless, like the Pi. So we have an otherwise smart guy putting out a press release hyping a language with an extensive set of library functions in 2019 like CPAN didn't exist or some shit. Doofus! Then, knowing that hype wouldn't be enough to get traction from wire servi...
[18:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Porphyromonas Gingivalis a Contributor to Alzheimer's Disease - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:40] <exec> 08└─"and see your dentist regularly. " yeah, right. what kind of idiot goes to a dentist past youth? just brush your teeth and gargle, ffs.
[18:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:12] <exec> 08└─exactly. my immediate family and many of my extended family run arch linux and ubuntu. when people tell me about their windows problems i like to say "enjoy your windows".
[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:42] <exec> 08└─True, I would say the gel-caps are somewhat more candy like. Sudafed is even more candy like as it has a nice pretty red coating, like a lot of candies. Still, if your kid isn't old enough to know the difference between candy and medicine, they shouldn't be able to get to that medicine. *Easier said...
[18:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Space Agency Working on Robotic Moonbase Construction - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:19] <exec> 08└─Mars vs the Moon. Who actually cares? Just pick one and STICK TO IT. This bullshit where we completely change direction in the US every time a new president gets elected needs to stop!
[18:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:11] <exec> 08└─It would be kind of annoying just standing there being back in the stoneage on the cut-off day when there is no more oil.
[18:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:53] <exec> 08└─I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
[18:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:42] <exec> 08└─Another dumb Tweet by Muffin Girl. I'll tell you, I'm no Dictator. If I was, Jeff Bozo wouldn't be the richest "person" in the World, believe me. I would. And, I wouldn't be meeting with Mitch & Nancy, I'd just sign my name, so beautifully, to very special Documents and whatever I wanted would happe...
[18:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In San Francisco, Making a Living from Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:44] <exec> 08└─Mark's going to be 35 years old next month. He's a Billionaire. And he was born in the State of New York. So he will, very soon, qualify to run for President. And I don't read the story in the Corrupt Failing Fake News New York Times. Normally I don't. But if Mark runs I'll have my Campaign people l...
[18:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 1760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:34] <exec> 08└─Or were the tweets by Wikileaks legitimate because high level sources did in fact leak that he was going to be evicted for purposes of system manipulation and neither you nor I can see all the players involved or why such a false flag should be planted at this time. (Other than discrediting Wikileak...
[18:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:35] <exec> 08└─They give The People an opportunity to fundamentally alter their corrupt governments. Opportunities are important, but if The People fail to use them, that is on them. This does not mean that whistleblowers should no longer blow the whistle.
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[19:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:05] <exec> 08└─Borene would work, except for the obvious homonym.
[19:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:06] <exec> 08└─Graphene isn't quite strong enough to make a space elevator possible on Earth (it would work on Mars). Is Borophene enough stronger? That said, since the stuff is still quite difficult to make, it would be a long time until "the Vanilla Needle" or some equivalent was built. And space would need lots...
[19:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:08] <exec> 08└─So you proposed a worse name? How about BP?
[19:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:10] <exec> 08└─wikip sez: In terms of mechanical properties, borophenes exhibit in-plane elasticity and ideal strength that are comparable to those of graphene, but they are extremely flexible against bending; moreover, borophenes undergo novel structural phase transition under in-plane tensile loading due to the...
[19:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:12] <exec> 08└─Brophene (no homo).
[19:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLOAQmZbZs [youtube.com]
[19:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:17] <exec> 08└─Seeing as it's sheets of the fifth element, why not just call it Leeloo?
[19:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:33] <exec> 08└─Both sides ADVOCATE for opposite positions. The value of this vote is simple: Dems get to say they "DID SOMETHING" about Net Neutrality. Nothing will change as nothing will clear the Senate. Let's say a miracle happens and you get that as well. RdT above is actually channelling what the President w...
[19:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:34] <exec> 08└─One side PRETENDS to want net neutrality, just like they pretended to want universal health care, until they got their majority. The other side simply doesn't pretend like yours does. Why do you cling to such obvious phonies?
[19:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:36] <exec> 08└─One sire ALREADY IMPLEMENTED Net Neutrality.
[19:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:38] <exec> 08└─Dems get to say they "DID SOMETHING" about Net Neutrality.
[19:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:40] <exec> 08└─Hell, they can't override Trump's veto on the biggest Presidential Power Grab since 9/11
[19:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:43] <exec> 08└─Even if this idiotic fallacy were true actions still speak louder than words. If they're pretending so hard that they succeed in creating Net Neutrality then it's still a success.
[19:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:45] <exec> 08└─Truly a stupid statement, but I expect nothing less these days from this site's ENLIGHTENED CENTRISTS!@!
[19:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, i'm a rocket surgeon and i had to read it couple of times also. I'm sorry god damn it that i didn't take the scientist course. I know it was only 2 weeks course, but surgeoning rockets is not that easy. What do you people want from me?!?!
[19:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:23] <exec> 08└─John Brennan has said Obama was responsible for ordering the FBI to attempt entrapping the Trump campaign. Time will tell if something comes of that.
[19:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:24] <exec> 08└─What is this, a strawman for the right to destroy?
[19:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:26] <exec> 08└─HAhahahahahhahahahahahhaha! Google isn't dying anytime soon. I would say most of their troubles, they've inflected on themselves. Yahoo is all but a memory, most people don't even know that WebCrawler exists, and AOL isn't an ISP. The only real competitors to Google are DuckDuckGo, and Bing. One of...
[19:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:29] <exec> 08└─No need, already covered. https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[19:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:31] <exec> 08└─Corporations are people too!
[19:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:33] <exec> 08└─Is this a markov chain bot?
[19:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Event Horizon Telescope May Soon Release First Black Hole Image - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:13] <exec> 08└─Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them? (with apologies to Red dwarf)
[19:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:58] <exec> 08└─Just what I was thinking! Now, I did appreciate A New Kind of Science on another level, as more confirmation of the importance of Computer Science. Maybe grade school education should have "'Rogramming" added to the 3 R's, that's just how important and foundation Computer Science may be. But yes, Wo...
[19:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porphyromonas Gingivalis a Contributor to Alzheimer's Disease - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:16] <exec> 08└─https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1601-5037.2008.00336.x [wiley.com] "In light of the results of this comprehensive literature search and critical analysis, it is concluded that a routine instruction to use floss is not supported by scientific evidence."
[19:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─Have you tried running the app in ReactOS?
[19:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─I really liked how When Windows 10 devices are at, or will soon reach, end of service, Windows update will continue to automatically initiate a feature update;
[19:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:53] <exec> 08└─It's more concentrated, but it's also more limited. Sure, you can set this up at the output of a nat gas plant...and probably get cheaper results when it spins up...but they don't generally keep those things running 24/7. And if the plant closes, so does the carbon capture. And more importantly, is...
[19:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:54] <exec> 08└─If you get the energy from renewable sources, then it's carbon-neutral. You capture CO2, create oil, burn the oil and re-release the CO2. But "neutral" does not mean it's worthless. Hell, even lossy (ie, powered by carbon-generating sources) doesn't necessarily mean it's worthless. It turns oil from...
[19:12:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps - 477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:24] <exec> 08└─- "Hey everybody! look! I vanished! o wait..." Behold, How to make an Italian vanish in 15 easy steps: 1. lend him 1000 euro 2. from now on he disappears 3. obviously you needed one step only 4. but the reader would spot the joke too soon 5. so i fill up all the rest 7. even cheating 8. after all wh...
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[20:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:01] <exec> 08└─Crazy source-based distro user here. Doesn't that GUID go in some file [man7.org] in /etc (looks like /etc/machine-id)? I just remember that because every time I boot up, some service OpenRC (fuck systemd) starts complains that file is blank. Seems to be fuck systemd related. Maybe it's eudev compla...
[20:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:02] <exec> 08└─For some reason, I am getting vibes that you may have some reservations with regards to systemd. Sounds like you found an alternative though. It also sounds like OpenSUSE users might be better off with something that doesn't create automated tracking data.
[20:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:04] <exec> 08└─And Windows or MacOS don't do this and much worse? Someone with an agenda is picking on a Linux distro based in the EU to damage them. The "money trail" is well obfuscated...
[20:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:07] <exec> 08└─You, the Luser, should decide who has a "legitimate interest" in your data. That IS, after all, one of the many reasons Lusers turn to Linux, instead of Windows. If we enjoyed being raped for data, then many of us would have remained with Microsoft. Suse must understand that, at some level.
[20:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:09] <exec> 08└─Perhaps to make GDPR count we should all be more active in lodging complaints.
[20:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:22] <exec> 08└─"Comparable strength" probably isn't sufficient for a space elevator (on Earth). But perhaps stronger forms can be created. (Not the way I'd bet, but a possibility.)
[20:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:24] <exec> 08└─Exxon and Texaco approve this name. Maybe BPeen?
[20:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:48] <exec> 08└─It forces the Senate and president to admit to doing the opposite of what a clear majority of the people want done. No more hiding behind an unelected bureaucrat.
[20:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:50] <exec> 08└─did you notice the "on them intarwebs" thing afterwards? i'd say it was on purpose.
[20:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:52] <exec> 08└─That was NOT net neutrality. It's as phony as a three dollar bill, like the ACA that was supposed to be single payer. This is why the democrats can't motivate people. They don't oppose the austerity. They only pretend, play their rotating villain game, and gullible people fall for it every time. And...
[20:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:33] <exec> 08└─Corporations use one of the toilets that are intended for various subsets of the other 87 (or was it 89?) genders.
[20:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:40] <exec> 08└─Once more unto the breech! But, y'know, just for the fun of it and between consenting adults.
[20:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:01] <exec> 08└─The Pi is not pointless. It's the only reason you can buy a $5 computer (Zero W) for DIY with good software support.
[20:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:02] <exec> 08└─Well, I agree that this certainly has problems. You mention CPAN though, and I cannot abide Perl. You have proposed a cure that is worse than the disease. I say that in full confidence and everything I know about Wolfram is in the summary and comments.
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[21:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:03] <exec> 08└─Some users are more annoying than others. Maybe openSUSE should ban them, not just erase their ID data? Also, not sure what that dude is talking about. You only need to provide your Name and email. And you can even provide a fake name. But yes, definitely someone with too much time on their hands. M...
[21:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:05] <exec> 08└─Probably, but they are not opensource. Just, it is sad. The concept that OSS gave total control to users about what they run is over.
[21:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:07] <exec> 08└─"you have legal choices"
[21:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:48] <exec> 08└─in 2015 Dems IMPLEMENTED NET NEUTRALITY. That is a lie! They did NOT implement net neutrality. They implemented "net neutrality", defined politically, not technically. You know, all you so-called "moderates" are much better off working from the republican side. Just move yourself and all your "moder...
[21:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:49] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. An interesting paradox is that the law always likes to consider precedent, all the way back to the US Constitution (and further), which is often good wisdom- no need to reinvent the wheel, right? But like you said, the Internet is unique, so rather than do proper studies, test case...
[21:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:52] <exec> 08└─That's how politicians actually think and communicate. Why don't you think that nothing never doesn't get done?
[21:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:54] <exec> 08└─The old version I read about, maybe a month or 6 weeks ago, had 2 issues I figured would pop up somewhere, but didn't: 1) The FCC could decide what large ISPs could charge each other to talk to each other, which sounds bad to me; and 2) ISPs were required to comply with warrantless wiretapping and m...
[21:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:36] <exec> 08└─Classify buses, cars, storefronts... Boring Put the face of a celebrity on the body of a pornstar... Degrading Finally, there crops up some satisfying use for AI, namely blowing meatbags up, and those jerks at Google say no. Wake up, the victims will be shot anyway, only with more effort and waste o...
[21:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:45] <exec> 08└─I've made no such claim "that both sides are the exact same." Perhaps I could have phrased it better, but I don't think they're trying to implement anything in this particular case. This is showmanship and hand-waving legislation at its best. I don't believe that either side thinks this has any trac...
[21:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:46] <exec> 08└─Hah, exactly. I was going to ask if this law is going to apply to, oh, the head of the OMB as well.
[21:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:02] <exec> 08└─I was trying to say that this thing you call eco-hysteria (and I'm probably on of those in your eyes) and what it produce is something that we are all going to need. I don't see why any of us could be against this development. It is very important to have one thing in the clear. We are not saving Ea...
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[22:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:56] <exec> 08└─I don't think this tech will be showing up on the heads of a platoon of grunts any time soon. The field logistics of all the telemetry and ECM you'd have to deploy on the ground makes my head spin.
[22:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:58] <exec> 08└─What if an enemy takes a helmet? Is it like maphack mode where you can see all the enemy?
[22:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:00] <exec> 08└─This game sucks. - Dead Grunt
[22:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:02] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about the telemetry... that's Microsoft's area of expertise.
[22:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:04] <exec> 08└─Always have to be more careful in Hardcore mode.
[22:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:07] <exec> 08└─Don't worry they'll be integrated in time for our Space Force to face down the first onslaught of bug attacks.
[22:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:21] <exec> 08└─And Windows or MacOS don't do this and much worse?
[22:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:23] <exec> 08└─No, it is not. Everyone is free to take OpenSUSE, modify it to not include the unique ID, and distribute the modified version to anyone who cares. While you cannot do the same e.g. with Windows.
[22:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:25] <exec> 08└─my machine works fine without fuck systemd
[22:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:27] <exec> 08└─Every company assures me they have a legitimate interest in my data. It enables them to improve their revenue product.
[22:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:29] <exec> 08└─- there are no tools for one to control one's personal data as the GDPR mandates (download, erase, restrict processing etc)
[22:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:31] <exec> 08└─"Microfocus"
[22:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nivieru [4889] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:47] <exec> 08└─We've been hearing about the wonderful things graphene could do for more than a decade, yet the only practical, commercially available graphene product I know of is the one made of a stack of many layers of graphene, usually coated with an insulator, making a very efficient writing instrument (that...
[22:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:48] <exec> 08└─Graphene isn't quite strong enough to make a space elevator possible on Earth (it would work on Mars). Is Borophene enough stronger?
[22:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:20] <exec> 08└─Cabbage we not engage in such displays of pendulums here on Soylent News? Yes, we all are Functionally Illiterate on a spectrum of some sort. But at least we do not have to up with put submissions a la Norse.
[22:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:21] <exec> 08└─VETO
[22:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:23] <exec> 08└─I'll have you to know the correct quote was "on them intarweb tubes". That would be on porpoise.
[22:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, dear. They did so over the kicking and screaming of the Republicans. Then they got their comeuppance. Now they are passing legislation that doesn't have a hope in hell of getting signed by this President. Instead of the legislators actually doing their jobs, which is to find meaningful compromi...
[22:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:28] <exec> 08└─Oh. Is that the Senate that is also elected by the people but still has a Republican majority? A small majority, but a majority? And the President that lost a popular vote but was still elected by the representational compromise that is the electoral college? How interesting.
[22:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:30] <exec> 08└─Yep. You have the government you deserve.
[22:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:13] <exec> 08└─You know DuckDuckGo is just a front-end to Google, right?
[22:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:30] <exec> 08└─I was about to say the same thing. Basically a sail is a wing where the shape is controlled with the sheets and other lines.
[22:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT and NASA Engineers Demonstrate a New Kind of Airplane Wing - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:31] <exec> 08└─Agree...way too many moving parts. We used to have a firm design principle called KISS.
[22:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Event Horizon Telescope May Soon Release First Black Hole Image - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:58] <exec> 08└─No, space is not black. Rather, it is perfectly transparent.
[22:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Event Horizon Telescope May Soon Release First Black Hole Image - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:59] <exec> 08└─The "Sagittarius" is silent?
[22:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Event Horizon Telescope May Soon Release First Black Hole Image - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:01] <exec> 08└─You want to distinguish it from Alpha Sagittarius (Rukbat), the star with the Bayer designation for the constellation, by explicitly using the Latinate "A", and by putting it after instead of before the constellation name.
[22:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elizabeth Warren Wants Jail Time for CEOs in Equifax-Style Breaches - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:31] <exec> 08└─And? They are both trying to implement the policies they believe in.
[22:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 0610 Projects to Try on Your Raspberry Pi Using This Unusual Programming Language - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe 4 R's now... Well, I think R is a useful language that personally, I think any STEM students should be introduced to early in their studies.
[22:10:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Luke [175] 02 - 06Improving the Windows 10 Update Experience with Control, Quality and Transparency - 914 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:20] <exec> 08└─Seemingly still no way to turn the bloody thing off >:-( I support a system that uses older software to interface with lookout. It will run on earlier versions of Win10 (better still Win7 but let's not go there), however one of the enforced updates breaks it. In order to deal with this we actively b...
[22:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:48] <exec> 08└─However unlike burning fossil fuels, it also won't add CO2 to the atmosphere.
[22:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Denies That Julian Assange Will be Evicted From Embassy in London - 1 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[23:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:02] <exec> 08└─That should lead to interesting diplomatic discussions.
[23:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:04] <exec> 08└─So what is "harmful" and who gets to define it? How long before we all have to be locked in a cell where we can only hear the current government/religion's propaganda?
[23:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:06] <exec> 08└─Some say "Don't shoot the messenger" others pass laws requiring it ...
[23:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:08] <exec> 08└─About a week before that tech becomes illegal.
[23:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Wants to Punish Social Media Platforms for "Harmful Content" (Again) - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:10] <exec> 08└─Great Britain has a long tradition of government controlled media. https://www.britannica.com [britannica.com]
[23:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:23] <exec> 08└─Forget about the telemetry, how will they manage Windows updates in the middle of a combat situation? The enemy has learned the perfect time to attack is on Tuesday nights. :P
[23:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Army Shows Off Demo of HoloLens 2 System - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:24] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has also doubled the mixed reality field of view, making the holographic overlay less like a floating reticle and more like a (virtual) display that's useful.
[23:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:03] <exec> 08└─How about barfene?
[23:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stronger and More Flexible than Graphene -- Meet Borophene - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:04] <exec> 08└─will it write in a different color?
[23:07:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:16] <exec> 08└─One side wants Net Neutrality. One side doesn't want Net Neutrality. Those are OPPOSITE positions. Both sides are NOT THE SAME and you are just rationalizing your support for the side that wants the opposite of what you do.
[23:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:42] <exec> 08└─did you notice the "on them intarwebs" thing afterwards?
[23:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:44] <exec> 08└─If Republicans stood for nothing, dear, then why shouldn't the Democrats have been able to stop a declaration of a non-emergency? Whether the Dems WANT to put it back is completely irrelevant. What matters is what they CAN do. And getting this bill enacted is something they CAN'T. You may not like h...
[23:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03saturnalia0 [6571] (Score: 1) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:46] <exec> 08└─Surely that will end the predicted internet-apocalypse we're all living in right now.
[23:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:48] <exec> 08└─We will not have net neutrality until we have the dumb pipe, priced by bandwidth, not content or anything else. Anything less is political bullshit.
[23:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:51] <exec> 08└─The old version I read about, maybe a month or 6 weeks ago, had 2 issues I figured would pop up somewhere, but didn't:
[23:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Commerce Committee Votes to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:53] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. An interesting paradox is that the law always likes to consider precedent, all the way back to the US Constitution (and further), which is often good wisdom- no need to reinvent the wheel, right? But like you said, the Internet is unique, so rather than do proper studies, test case...
[23:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Dissolves AI Ethics Board Just One Week After Forming It - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:37] <exec> 08└─Wake up, the victims will be shot anyway, only with more effort and waste of ammo.
[23:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change: 'Magic Bullet' Carbon Solution Takes Big Step - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:09] <exec> 08└─and what it produce is something that we are all going to need.
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