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[00:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:17] <exec> 08└─Amazon raises prices for delivery to Seattle addresses by 25%... next election the disgruntled voters throw the commie councilors out on their pinko butts.
[00:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:53] <exec> 08└─No - He's supposed to not break the law. Well, none of them are, but people are only interested in half of them. And while all you are clutching your pearls, your national security officials just did another coup in Bolivia. Still easier to bring down other presidents. Score another one for the good...
[00:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:54] <exec> 08└─Who modded this nonsense Insightful? I thought you Americans didn't want to have kings? What a fucking stupid way to run a country.
[00:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:56] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong. That is exactly what is happening. I wonder what will happen when (or if) he is actually convicted of an actual crime? I have spent most of my life assuming that I wouldn't actually live to see the American Civil War II, but there is a chance I might.
[00:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:58] <exec> 08└─"Help my political campaign, and I'll make sure you get paid" is probably still a crime. "The president can do whatever he likes, because he is above the law" might turn out to be a successful defense, but it is still a stupid way to run a country.
[00:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:01] <exec> 08└─Don't you have any thoughts in your own head? If so, let's hear them and discuss. You can't have a discussion with a video. Which is likely why you won't express these ideas yourself -- since they can be discussed and you won't be able to say, "well, that part isn't what I was talking about. That's...
[00:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:13] <exec> 08└─If anyone's cloud, braintrust, codebase, and information selection and categorization experience can mine a dataset that size to pull out something that will help people, Google is a good shot to do it. I'm ok with them overlaying annual dosage graphs on my personalized Cialis-Viagra-rhino-horn ads...
[00:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:59] <exec> 08└─And I find your reply a relief that all is going better for you. And I know I am not alone.
[00:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:01] <exec> 08└─Timex Sinclair, $99 circa 1981. Various Radio Shack programmable calculators with external cassette drives that ran BASIC, late 70s, Model 1, 1977; then Model 4 that ran xenix, 64k ram, 4 8" floppy 160k drives; Tandy 100 portable; Tandy colour computer, coco 2, coco 3, commodore PET 1977) Vic 20 - 1...
[00:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:07] <exec> 08└─>Taxi driver comes to mind for some reason. There was never a reason for a medallion to cost 6-7 figures. Cattle want to work so much, they;ll pay for the privledge.
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[01:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:17] <exec> 08└─A guy who watches the news for the exciting bits would be bored to tears by now.
[01:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:25] <exec> 08└─Of course there is a better solution than the one you have trollfully put forward. That is for the cost of running Seattle could be footed in part by the fabulously wealthy corporations that take advantage of the benefits of having their headquarters there. Of course, when Mr. Bezos decides to ask...
[01:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:27] <exec> 08└─The tax, as described, doesn't sound right to me. $275/head for all employees who work in the city? Mmmm - don't like. It ought to be income based, somehow, IMO, with higher tax brackets paying more. But, how much did Amazon pay in taxes, last year? Are they pulling their fair share of the load? I f...
[01:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:07] <exec> 08└─It's right there in TFS https://www.npr.org [npr.org]
[01:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:08] <exec> 08└─Parent said they were watching "insane arguments of republicans". I have no idea what they are refering to so provided an example hoping they would point out what was so insane about them. Go away.
[01:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks. What is supposed to be wrong about that discussion? It looks fine to me.
[01:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:13] <exec> 08└─You could as well say that there are mechanisms in place to prevent the lawfully elected president from removing a recalcitrant partisan bureaucrat who refuses to obey an order that is politically unacceptable to that recalcitrant partisan bureaucrat. We all know how the bureaucrats vote. They have...
[01:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:15] <exec> 08└─What are the arguments in the link? Speak plainly and use prose or we'll end up with whole threads of shit like: "You're wrong! https://bullshitlink.morebullshit.crap" [morebullshit.crap] "Fuck you! https://otherbullshitlink.morebullshit.crap" [morebullshit.crap] "https://bullshitlink.morebullshit.c...
[01:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:17] <exec> 08└─It's a term invented by the right. It mocks an assumption made by the left. The left welcomes immigration from places with very non-left values. (no rights for women, kill the LGBT, etc.) The left likes to claim that these very non-left values will not be a problem. Diversity is a strength! We must...
[01:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:19] <exec> 08└─I asked nicely for you to go away, stop inserting yourself into other people's discussions.
[01:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:21] <exec> 08└─Thanks. What is supposed to be wrong about that discussion? It looks fine to me.
[01:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:24] <exec> 08└─This is an open forum. The folks this discussion *belongs* to are those who choose to participate. You (or anyone else) isn't the arbiter of who may or may not participate. If you don't want everyone to participate in a discussion, have that conversation privately.
[01:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:26] <exec> 08└─You could improve our values by leaving.
[01:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:28] <exec> 08└─Ah, the "Nuremberg defense".
[01:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:42] <exec> 08└─I reject any justification for the advertising industry, for starters. I reject the advertising industry's presumption that it is somehow "entitled" to data of any sort. And, I seriously object to any idea that they should be able to project the health care needs of any individual. What I see is a l...
[01:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:30] <exec> 08└─So the guy died "mysteriously " at 58. Not really - we forget that the average age of death for men who were born when he was was 50 - so he lived longer than most.Same as we forget that retirement was set at 75 because almost nobody would live long enough to collect a pension. The writer lacks a se...
[01:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:32] <exec> 08└─For the real story of Olivetti computers, not this conspiracy-theory nonsense, read the excellent IEEE article [ieee.org], as well as the story of the last working model [ieee.org] in a high school in Italy.
[01:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:34] <exec> 08└─65, damn. Sorry about that, chief.
[01:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:40] <exec> 08└─I disagreed with these: 27. Real Programmers(TM) use neon-green on black terminals.
[01:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:42] <exec> 08└─Many of the best professionals learned the trade for fun in their spare time. The degree formalizes that knowledge and puts it into a scientific context. I think people who try to study Computer Science purely to get at the revenue stream and don't have a passion for it will often have a bad time in...
[01:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:01] <exec> 08└─My amp has a digital volume scale from 00-99, and is - as far as I can tell - logarithmic, and thus approximately linear in dBAs. It has a usable range of about 70 between being below the noise floor (radiators, fans, streets and weather outside) and annoyingly (but not painfully) loud. So that's ab...
[01:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:03] <exec> 08└─So SMIDSY gets augmented with a SMICHY excuse too, eh? I wonder if the AI bods can come up with an adversarial anti-anti-noise signal that defeats anti-noise attempts?
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[02:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:19] <exec> 08└─You can still get some excitement by trying to predict whether it will be Intel's or AMD's spyware that will open up the next big gaping security hole.
[02:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:20] <exec> 08└─Is it ever a bad thing to find more vulns in the Management Engine? Eventually, we will be able to turn it off.
[02:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:22] <exec> 08└─I'll put my money on Intel having more vulnerabilities. Intel has been working longer and harder at being stupid, after all. Let's remember that Intel wanted to eliminate anonymity a couple decades ago, by having every CPU they produce uniquely identify itself on the internet.
[02:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:25] <exec> 08└─Right now you can assume both Israel and America have access to Intel's signing keys. So unless there are regionally signed versions of the processor for other markets (AMD's Ryzen 1 EPYC licensees for instance) every other country running confidential data or code on an Intel processor must be cons...
[02:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:27] <exec> 08└─Or you can just run Apple, which is secure by design.
[02:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:29] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately for Apple, the weakest part of the Apple design is the Intel CPU.
[02:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:31] <exec> 08└─They will move to Apple ARM chips [tomshardware.com]. Checkmate!
[02:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:42] <exec> 08└─I suppose I assumed that cities are not able to impose income taxes, so they have to use sales taxes and the like to pay for services? I might be wrong, as I know your tax system can be quite complicated, what with all the various levels of government you have. However, yes. Amazon don't see the n...
[02:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:44] <exec> 08└─I don't think cities can impose an income tax. But whether that be so, or not, there are ways around it. My early work life after leaving school saw "school tax" and "employment tax" taken out of my paycheck. I've never seen either of those, since moving away from my home state of Pennsylvania. Neit...
[02:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:46] <exec> 08└─Came here for ultra-right-wing anti-tax discussion. It's so satisfying to see how pathetically predictable you people are.
[02:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:49] <exec> 08└─I have never heard of a "school tax" before, but I suppose in a world where there have been window taxes, and beard taxes anything is possible. I'll make the scruffy buggers shave! [wikipedia.org] ...all schemes can be "targeted" toward the wealthier residents, or toward the general public.
[02:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:40] <exec> 08└─Make sure they pay you in USD not Rubles.
[02:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:41] <exec> 08└─Typically it is fine, but you are abusing it. I will wait for the original poster to respond (if at all). However, if you would like to share something of relevance (ie, watch the video and comment on it), that would be fine too.
[02:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:43] <exec> 08└─The left welcomes immigration from places with very non-left values. (no rights for women, kill the LGBT, etc.)
[02:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:46] <exec> 08└─Can you quote the part of this transcript where there was extortion? Also, my understanding is the Ukranian president said he did not feel pressured or even know this "aid" was delayed, there never was an investigation of Biden's corrupt activities, and Ukraine got the "aid" in question anyway (the...
[02:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:48] <exec> 08└─Whether Trump goes to jail or not is sort of beside the point for me. What would actually interest me is a real accounting of what/who all the money we send around the world is spent on. I'd like to know how much gets funneled back into the pockets of politicians and their families, either directly...
[02:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:50] <exec> 08└─I asked nicely for you to go away, stop inserting yourself into other people's discussions.
[02:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:52] <exec> 08└─We all know how the bureaucrats vote. They have a conflict of interest, namely saving their own jobs, that ought to disqualify them from voting. They are obviously the sort of people who think government is the solution, not the problem.
[02:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:54] <exec> 08└─The boss is Trump. He sets foreign policy.
[02:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:57] <exec> 08└─You're not the arbiter of what's appropriate. If you don't like what I have to say, life is hard. Now you're going to get hot sauce in your coffee (hey, Schlomo! you got that covered? good!) instead of sugar tomorrow. You will pay for your insolence.
[02:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:11] <exec> 08└─Shover Robot: Don't trust the Pusher Robot. He is malfunctioning. I will protect you! Pusher Robot: .... etc
[02:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:13] <exec> 08└─Sooner or later you'll see doctors.
[02:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:15] <exec> 08└─I quit going to confession because I don't trust the sound proofing of their boxes (the cute woman next in line at the retreat always hears too much info about me) As of today, I quit going to doctors because I can't trust them from leaking info
[02:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:17] <exec> 08└─Every penny spent on an animal is carefully budgeted, right up until the animal is slaughtered for it's meat, fur, bones, and everything except it's [sic] squeal.
[02:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:08] <exec> 08└─My boss bought an Atari 800 too and the damn cassette player wasn’t working properly. Turns out that as it began to record it emitted a tone that trashed the start of the recording, rendering it useless. The trick was to wait a moment (three seconds comes to mind, maybe I’m wrong) and then recor...
[02:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:18] <exec> 08└─>The degree formalizes that knowledge and puts it into a scientific context. I have to disagree. Yeah, there's some formalization, but where a degree really shines is granting breadth of knowledge. There's plenty of good self-taught programmers out there, but I doubt all that many of them are famili...
[02:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:20] <exec> 08└─Ever tried your hand at 68000 assembler? Not much call for it anymore, but *so* much nicer to program in. On of the difference that springs to mind was a "function call" instruction that did all the stack manipulation, etc. needed for a normal clean function call with a single instruction, while you...
[02:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:22] <exec> 08└─Huh? Is that some kind of point about someone spent time and money so it could be delivered to you? Same with the free bathroom water in your hotel that the hotel kindly didn't charge you for. Free software IS free.
[02:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:58] <exec> 08└─Do you know how difficult it is to create and maintain anaerobic conditions for a century, much less for millions of years? Submerging in water won't do it - water is generally saturated with oxygen. As is most every other environment. The Earth's crust is 47% oxygen by mass - most of that is admitt...
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[03:27:20] <exec> 08└─If you're that brain dead you deserve to be ass-raped by advertisers.
[03:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:22] <exec> 08└─It's a feature. The bug was that it was discoverable by users in some conditions. We really need on/off switches that physically discount cameras, speakers, and microphones (yes, speakers - they can double as low quality mics).
[03:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:24] <exec> 08└─The bug was that it was discoverable by users in some conditions.
[03:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:26] <exec> 08└─Why? Leave the thing in your pocket or purse or whatever unless someone calls or texts you. They have atrocious input, minuscule screens, and audio that would make 50s phone customers say "wow, that's some really shitty sound quality there".
[03:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:28] <exec> 08└─Especially if you choose to use the ass-rape app instead of the leaky condom web version.
[03:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:30] <exec> 08└─Black Mirror.
[03:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:45] <exec> 08└─One of those Talos II PPC based systems is looking really nice right now.
[03:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:46] <exec> 08└─I can't stop to note the verb tense in the proposition just before the "Checkmate!" Besides, in the linked, there are some other bits This week's report from Bloomberg reiterated Macs running on Arm may arrive in 2020. Axios' report seemingly confirmed the claim, citing "developers and Intel officia...
[03:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:48] <exec> 08└─Yes. Intel not to be trusted is the main reason. Also, Apple engineering zealots worship energy consumption reduction at all costs, which does not help users much and Intel's future either. There is only one thing which could motivate me to come back to Apple products again: an AMD based MacBook Pro...
[03:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:50] <exec> 08└─I went to the Raptor Computing web page to see what the Talos II was about. There was a nice hardware page. I clicked to switch over to the software page. It was completely blank. So I switched over to a browser without NoScript and an Adblocker to see what was not showing on the 'Software' page bec...
[03:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:04] <exec> 08└─Cities may impose income tax in the USA, but most don't.
[03:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:06] <exec> 08└─As usual in the US, it depends on the state.
[03:28:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:33] <exec> 08└─I could be wrong here... but isn't he being investigated for an illegal ordering of stopping military aid to Ukraine in exchange for investigating his political opponent.
[03:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:07] <exec> 08└─A reasonable first estimate [amazon.ca] is thirty percent [youtube.com]. Good luck with the specifics, as the entire reason this bullshit goes on is because it's easy for targeted officials to claim "national security" after they're bribed.
[03:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:09] <exec> 08└─Better than Chewbacca defense.
[03:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:11] <exec> 08└─Are any of my facts wrong?
[03:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:13] <exec> 08└─It used to be that the CIA NSA FBI were evil tools of the empire. Why are they regarded as patriots and heroes now?
[03:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:22] <exec> 08└─The trick was
[03:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:11] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Those aren't three separate items. It's just a mass of biogas powered by a self replicating pile of bullshit that's posting :) (Sorry, Runaway, couldn't resist the setup)
[03:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:13] <exec> 08└─IT's definitely a step in the right direction at least.
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[04:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:30] <exec> 08└─>We really need on/off switches that physically discount cameras, speakers, and microphones (yes, speakers - they can double as low quality mics). Not really. You would need a driver circuit connected to the speaker that could use it as a microphone, and then used an A/D converter connected to a bus...
[04:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:49] <exec> 08└─https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Operating_System_Compatibility_List [raptorcs.com]
[04:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:05] <exec> 08└─Pennsylvania had a fucking "occupation tax", flat at $10/person/year. For a tax that just served as a counter, it took several hours as a minimum wage peon to pay for.
[04:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:07] <exec> 08└─Cities may impose income tax in the USA, but most don't.
[04:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:09] <exec> 08└─Taxable income is gross income, not net income. Did you have a point to make, or are you blissfully ignorant of how income tax works?
[04:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:13] <exec> 08└─one branch of government has usurped the power of another.
[04:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:15] <exec> 08└─Better than Chewbacca defense.
[04:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:17] <exec> 08└─The facts are already coming out and more will be forthcoming, not least with the public hearing tomorrow. Your trollish feigned ignorance is so transparent. It would be humorous if it wasn't so tragic.
[04:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:19] <exec> 08└─Some Americans, by all appearances, do in fact want to have kings. And I'm not just talking about the people who voted for the current guy. I'm also talking about the people who gladly supported someone almost 20 years ago whose main qualification for the office of president was that his daddy was p...
[04:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, the facts are out. Only idiots or the ignorant still think there is something here. Listen to the propaganda and you will be wrong about everything. Fine by me, it is like free money.
[04:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:23] <exec> 08└─You mean this propaganda? That Ukraine hacked the DNC and colluded with Clinton to harm Trump. [wikipedia.org] Or that the "deep [wikipedia.org] state" [rationalwiki.org] is fomenting a coup against Trump? Yeah. If you listen to that propaganda, you probably will be incredibly misinformed. Good call...
[04:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:26] <exec> 08└─You mean this propaganda? That Ukraine hacked the DNC and colluded with Clinton to harm Trump. [wikipedia.org] Or that the "deep [wikipedia.org] state" [rationalwiki.org] is fomenting a coup against Trump? Yeah. If you listen to that propaganda, you probably will be incredibly misinformed. Good call...
[04:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:46] <exec> 08└─Indeed, we are safe for another posting cycle.
[04:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:47] <exec> 08└─Consider "facial recognition". What's important is not what the technology is, but how it's used and who controls it.
[04:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:44] <exec> 08└─So what happens when that's not the case? It's tiresome to have this same argument over and over. Sure, somewhere in the world there's people without choices. But how relevant is that to the rest of us who do have choices? TMB is getting at a universal problem. People often choose this sort of slave...
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[05:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:15] <exec> 08└─remember: PASCAL P-code Java now WebAssembly every generation gets to re-invent bytecodes
[05:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:16] <exec> 08└─Real bytecode has never been tried before! And then there was the Java bytecode ASIC.
[05:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:18] <exec> 08└─No, not that obligatory, this one: "I have a bad feeling about this." Response: "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on, or firing your blaster into the floor?" Worth a try.
[05:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:08] <exec> 08└─And there is no sales tax in Montana.
[05:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:09] <exec> 08└─Depends on the state. In my state, the state specifically reserves the ability to impose capitation, sales, excise, and income tax to itself. The local governments can only charge taxes authorized by the state (mostly property tax) and collect certain state taxes on behalf of the state, in exchange...
[05:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:21] <exec> 08└─No, that is not what I meant. And like I said, I am not arguing or trying to convince you, it is good for me when people are kept thinking the world is different than it is.
[05:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:23] <exec> 08└─I wonder what will happen when (or if) he is actually convicted of an actual crime?
[05:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:25] <exec> 08└─And where is a right-wing fascist racist douche-bag supposed to go to, these days? South Africa is out. Franco is still dead. Zanzibar coup by Brit mercs failed. Really no where in the world to go! Except, maybe, Hungary? Orban? Will you let our poor Nazi AC in? He's a refugee, you see.
[05:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:27] <exec> 08└─Except for aristarchus! Fuch that liberal guy!
[05:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 2419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:29] <exec> 08└─They're "debunked rumors" in much the same way that DNC acted unfairly during the 2016 election (with regards to Bernie) are "debunked rumors." Biden's son was getting upwards of $50k/month to "advise" on a board in Ukraine in a field he had absolutely no knowledge or experience in. His son is a com...
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[06:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Embraces California Data Privacy Law, But Don't Expect Google to Follow Suit - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:18] <exec> 08└─But they'll likely *file* suit to protect their gravy train.
[06:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Embraces California Data Privacy Law, But Don't Expect Google to Follow Suit - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:20] <exec> 08└─Microsoft, as with Apple, appears to view strong privacy as an opportunity to differentiate itself from its online competitors.
[06:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Embraces California Data Privacy Law, But Don't Expect Google to Follow Suit - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:22] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is, I fully expect Microsoft not to keep their promises if they can get away with it...
[06:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:33] <exec> 08└─Meh, the only blaster actually available is a Nerf one. Big deal. I'll tell you what to do, though: turn it off and let it in that state. Like, forever.
[06:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 4119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:26] <exec> 08└─Seattle is in Washington. Washington outlaws (long story, but if you want to read the court cases, they're available) income tax and it would take a constitutional amendment to allow it. The last time various bigwigs tried to do this, it got smacked down pretty hard. Washington mostly relies upon, a...
[06:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:43] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate America?
[06:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:45] <exec> 08└─First Ukraine bribed Clinton and got a ... "new government" and a war with rebels. Then Ukraine bribed Biden and got the US help canceled. Then it got murky.
[06:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 2439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:47] <exec> 08└─Imagine for one moment that I wrote a post here alleging that Trump did not propose the investigation out of political benefit, what would you think of the rest of what I had to say? He absolutely did and I think most people can see this. And I think most people can also see that Biden's completely...
[06:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:49] <exec> 08└─When did you stop beating your wife?
[06:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:51] <exec> 08└─Never. I'm not married. Why do you hate America?
[06:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:53] <exec> 08└─One thing you said is something I think everybody could agree with: the executive branch is, without doubt, usurping the powers of congress. And this has been happening for many decades now. The problem is that far from wanting to constrain the executive branch, when "our" party (whoever that may be...
[06:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:56] <exec> 08└─This is a very poor assessment of the situation: "Using government resources and power to extort help from foreign governments in an attempt to enhance one's domestic political standing (by smearing your competitors) is, and always has been illegal, unethical and generally a scumbag thing to do." I...
[06:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:15] <exec> 08└─cf. https://pi-hole.net [pi-hole.net]
[06:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:22] <exec> 08└─The first UNIX shell was, I believe, the Thompson shell. This, however, was too limited so they replaced it with PWB in version 5, then the Bourne shell (the infamous /bin/sh) was system 7 or 8, IIRC. From there, the Korn shell, C shell, Almquist shell and a few others splintered out for different r...
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[06:34:52] <exec> 08└─Bigoted maybe?
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[07:27:23] <exec> 08└─Windows 10. 1) A free-to-play operating system as one of your fundamental revenue generators 2) A high value on consumer privacy and protection. Pick one. All this indicates is that they've determined there are plentiful loopholes in the California law which should surprise nobody.
[07:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:34] <exec> 08└─Gee, what could go wrong?
[07:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:36] <exec> 08└─This sounds to me like a path towards the equivalent of the thin client concept we've seen in the past. Perhaps the idea here is to run 'container-like' workloads on the client. This sentence: "...potential for WebAssembly outside of the browser because it allows untrusted code components to interac...
[07:27:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:44] <exec> 08└─It's a feature. The bug was that it was discoverable by users in some conditions. We really need on/off switches that physically discount cameras, speakers, and microphones (yes, speakers - they can double as low quality mics).
[07:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:51] <exec> 08└─You cannot trust a switch which is controllable by software. Physical switch gives a guaranty of control given to the user.
[07:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:31] <exec> 08└─Fuck off
[07:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:33] <exec> 08└─The cost of Seattle is already being borne by quite a few large businesses there. This hasn't prevented the city from finding every hook and crook available to tax yet more people in more ways. Classic example, which shows precisely how many flaming shits they give for the little guy: They want(ed)...
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[07:29:57] <exec> 08└─"...it is good for me when people are kept thinking the world is different than it is." ???? Are you actually admitting here that you are an operative posting propaganda?
[07:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:58] <exec> 08└─However, "I would appreciate it if you would restart this investigation that you stopped after pressure from the US" is probably not. If there was ANY sign that Trump tried to pressure them for a specific OUTCOME that would be quite different, however asking a country to INVESTIGATE something is ent...
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[08:27:36] <exec> 08└─"Mozilla has long championed WebAssembly, the open standard that allows browsers to execute compiled programs in the browser." Something no competent user has ever asked for. Oh, but the ad companies, they love this stuff. No. If I'm scratching at port 80 I'm looking for a document. If you want to s...
[08:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:38] <exec> 08└─> confidently run untrusted code I have a space station to sell you.
[08:28:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:18] <exec> 08└─Of course there is a better solution than the one you have trollfully put forward. That is for the cost of running Seattle could be footed in part by the fabulously wealthy corporations that take advantage of the benefits of having their headquarters there. Of course, when Mr. Bezos decides to ask...
[08:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:35] <exec> 08└─This must be one of the most stupid taxes I've ever heard of. Are they actively trying to increase unemployment in Seattle? It's not even socialist, as socialists are supposed to be on the side of the working force. Punishing companies for employing people certainly doesn't qualify as that. Note tha...
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[08:30:01] <exec> 08└─If you think the above post is trolling, you're emphasizing the issue. Here [wikipedia.org] is the Wiki entry on Hunter Biden. None of the above facts were in any way misstated or taken out of context. Hunter Biden is absolutely and completely unqualified for the positions he was given. The Direct M...
[08:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:29] <exec> 08└─You've jogged my aged Solaris memories where sh, not bash, was used for default root shell. One of the reasons - bash was not a 'built-in' shell, so you could lock yourself up if you changed root's default shell to bash, whereas sh was part of the shipped system.
[08:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:27] <exec> 08└─Any market that does not include the free flow of labor cannot honestly be called a free market. We currently have (mostly) free flow of goods around the globe but not free flow of labor. This means buyers of labor can usually shop around to other places for a better deal while those offering labor...
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[09:27:11] <exec> 08└─Apologies to the original writers... HR #1: That brings us to...Altitude Sports. Executive: Which distributor owns that sports channel again? ESPN? Fox? HR #2: They're the local Colorado team affiliates. It's one of those smaller networks we haven't gotten around to buying yet. Executive: Oh, yeah....
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[09:27:42] <exec> 08└─No more browsers one can trust
[09:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:43] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 [wikipedia.org]
[09:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:45] <exec> 08└─lol - luser - wat - here get some wasi - why - because you can run stuff safely sandboxed in the browser - who guarantees that - red hat intel and guys, plus mozilla, the guys who gave you extensions and then removed it to reach feature parity with chrome, because hey we get money from google after...
[09:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:59] <exec> 08└─as long as the phone cannot be opened, you can never confirm that the physical switch is in fact a physical switch. go with the librem stuff if you actually care.
[09:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:20] <exec> 08└─What about that "made in China bit? Intel introduces one or more weaknesses into Apple products, and the (slave?) labor in China introduces more.
[09:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:21] <exec> 08└─Haven't tried it myself since I'm not using the relevant CPU, but I saw this article which describes strategies for disabling the ME (although it continues to be active when the system is first powered on) http://blog.ptsecurity.com [ptsecurity.com]
[09:29:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:06] <exec> 08└─No - He's supposed to not break the law. Why is that such a crazy idea?
[09:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:12] <exec> 08└─yup. I didn't vote for Trump (or Hillary) but the tsunami of negativity spewed at him is incredible. It isn't like he decided to give the executive branch the power to execute Americans without trial based on secret legal memos -- something which should be immediately recognizable as impeachable bec...
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[09:30:14] <exec> 08└─It is also part of the problem that Congresspeople are cowards. If a war turns out to be unpopular, they don't have to get their toes singed when voters start looking for feet to hold to the fire. It's all so convenient for them and so there is no real effort to end the ongoing Executive coup.
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[10:27:17] <exec> 08└─Electro-swing?! You can't be serious... This is Electro-swing: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[10:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:58] <exec> 08└─Forget WIndows vs OS X vs Linux vs BSD - its over. From now on it will be WebAssembly vs Systemd vs Facebook.
[10:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:14] <exec> 08└─If you absolutely. positively MUST use Facebook on Android, at LEAST use it via a webbrowser vs installing the piece of shit that IS the FB app. If you use the app, you are asking for this privacy ass-raping. I have great sympathy for those who own phones that have this sewage installed in the facto...
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[10:29:14] <exec> 08└─Your dairy products are shit. A direct result of intensive lobbying by the industry. Canadian dairy is held to a higher standard with regards to hormones and white blood cell count (an indicator on the heath of the cow). Ironically, your example of Trump helping Canadians is symbolic of what is wron...
[10:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:28] <exec> 08└─Presumably your grandparents did not immediately then setting about a micronation pushing for a blue-eyed, blond-haired super race? I don't really think people mind immigration at all. I used to think it was the lack of integration that's the problem, but that's also clearly not it. There are, for i...
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[10:30:30] <exec> 08└─2020 I'll probably be giving the Orange Hitler a vote.
[10:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:32] <exec> 08└─Given that I had defined Trump as berlusconi II...
[10:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:42] <exec> 08└─But, but, this is Runaway grade "conspiracy-theory nonsense," Olivetti style. Wait till he gets on Seth Reich and that Foster Dulles mysterious death.
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[10:34:15] <exec> 08└─the asteroid caused a bunch of instantaneous problems, but also a nuclear winter, probably several years long. lucky small animals survived because they don't need a lot to survive, and they managed to dig out seeds and stuff (no new seeds were made until there was enough sunlight for plants to grow...
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[12:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:13] <exec> 08└─From the original abstract primarily occurred in healthy sleepers
[12:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:14] <exec> 08└─Do 'em a favor an' kill'em. I mean, put 'em ter sleep.
[12:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:17] <exec> 08└─Throw out the alarm clock. I've used one like 20 times in the last decade, it isn't normal to wake up to a stressful siren every morning.
[12:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:19] <exec> 08└─Put this in the category with the gut biome research. Science is proving that the two things our system makes it most difficult to do, micromanage your diet and ensure stable sleep patterns, are the key to longevity and happiness. Not to mention the continued threat of destruction at the push of a b...
[12:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:27] <exec> 08└─Eh, another one thinking his ignorance is as good as MIT science.
[12:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:29] <exec> 08└─if you develop a really good one it will make an excellent doomsday weapon.
[12:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:09] <exec> 08└─The next windowing environment, like XServer, will be written in a browser. And then desktop environments will be written to customize your browser experience. And then an untrusted code trusted browser will be coded. By the WebAss Coalition between Opera, AMD, Debian and Gluttonly.
[12:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:27] <exec> 08└─Note that in the automotive world its "common" to have tac switches and similar low current buttons simply feed into a microcontroller input pin along with a bunch of other stuff, then a microcontroller output pin feeds some variation on old fashioned relay or DC SSR (really just an optocoupler and...
[12:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:28] <exec> 08└─use it via a webbrowser
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[12:28:30] <exec> 08└─Not conspiracy theories, to the best of my knowledge this is clickbait I've seen and regurgitate here for your pleasure: 1) FB patented using camera snaps for location tracking some time ago; would not be surprised if they spam the F out of you today with targeted advertisements if their background...
[12:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:52] <exec> 08└─I would as well, but not for that reason. Intel's performance advantage over AMD seems to have been achieved by cutting corners on security. Now it is coming back to byte them in the ass.
[12:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:49] <exec> 08└─"The reality is he IS the swamp and it's about to consume us." FTFY
[12:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:50] <exec> 08└─Nope, I posted the facts. Someone responded "words are not facts"... Ok, I can almost assure you people like that are why I can double my money like every single year by trading.
[12:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:52] <exec> 08└─I think Biden just the type of the iceberg. Eg, this "whistleblower" seems to be the previously unknown "Charlie" who was acting as an informant for Strozk and Page. The entire thing is a deflection operation: https://saraacarter.com
[12:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:05] <exec> 08└─Epstein didn't kill himself.
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[13:27:24] <exec> 08└─I await your glorious rise to power to tell me how I should eat and sleep.
[13:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:25] <exec> 08└─'More Americans struggle to fall asleep as they realize their country is making every single possible mistake of failed historical civilizations, and that by paying their taxes they are obviously implicated in what they were taught as children are war crimes.' 'More Americans wake up screaming in th...
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[13:27:27] <exec> 08└─How about labor theory of value with a system that retains market dynamics? Central planning for the socialist utopia sure, for big industries--the kinds of products and services that wind up being monopolies anyway. I'm still on the idea of a more anarchist system for fostering innovation yet with...
[13:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Kept Charging Regional Sports Fee While Channel Was Blacked Out - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:43] <exec> 08└─Altitude network has not shown one Avalanche (hockey) game this year. Altitude and the Avs have been stuck in a battle over fees.
[13:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:18] <exec> 08└─If it run emacs, it's fine. One can awlays code their own browser in emacs.
[13:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:20] <exec> 08└─hey I think you are a real person who is not a shill, I can tell because you are demonstrating the ability to think outside of a paper bag. To me, this looks like they are trying to completely bastardize the concept behind Qubes. Not unlike how Libra tried lol to bastardrize bitcoin. 'here try our t...
[13:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:40] <exec> 08└─Well on a laptop you can open it up and unplug camera yourself. If you are feeling lazy just put tape over it. Embedded microphones will need to be manually removed.
[13:28:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 1153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:51] <exec> 08└─Right now you can assume both Israel and America have access to Intel's signing keys. So unless there are regionally signed versions of the processor for other markets (AMD's Ryzen 1 EPYC licensees for instance) every other country running confidential data or code on an Intel processor must be cons...
[13:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:03] <exec> 08└─"CSME, which is a standalone chip on Intel CPUs that is used for remote management." Wow, that the technical elite got us for so long to simply accept that it was a good idea for the 'remote management' feature be included on every chip, not as an extra feature. Talk about the ultimate dark pattern....
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[13:29:04] <exec> 08└─19" ftfy And you thought no one was reading this deep in the thread. 19' macbooks coming for xmas 2020!!!!!! You think you have seen a big screen, but wait til you see this!
[13:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:07] <exec> 08└─well said. Someone also has to make sure they aren't putting wifi transmitters onto chips, or rfid'able tags to passively track people by their cpus and other fun things. I would like to catch the intel cpu phoning home over ethernet, they can be invisible on the chip but they cannot be invisible ov...
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[13:29:31] <exec> 08└─My guess is the logic is something like look at rust belt cities after "the factory" closed. All these crappy dotcom cities are, after all, the future Detroit of 2030 or similar. Actually Detroit is a bad example because they had hundreds of factories instead of single digit employers. I suppose if...
[13:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:33] <exec> 08└─Not quite as stupid as it sounds. One of the problems in Seattle is that the area is full. The housing market is pretty dysfunctional and it’s nearly impossible for someone not working for a tech company to find an affordable place to live. Same sort of thing as Silicon Valley, complete with natur...
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[13:31:08] <exec> 08└─Essentially, if someone in the opposite party is involved in massive corruption, then fighting corruption (aka draining the swamp) will be attacked as political attack on democracy or some shit. Obviously, the democrats, especially the previous administration, are deeply involved in corruption and b...
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[13:31:09] <exec> 08└─The boss is Trump. He sets foreign policy.
[13:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:12] <exec> 08└─And it was so legit that he felt the need to construct a parallel shadow state department to ensure it stayed out in the open and wasn't misconstrued as shady.
[13:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fingerprint Test Can Distinguish Between Heroin Use and Mere Contact - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:42] <exec> 08└─Can anyone tell the difference?
[13:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:27] <exec> 08└─But the link in the article goes to a 404 at the publisher’s site, and searching for the author on isbn.nu gives me a dozen other books but not this one. Oh well. Saved me from impulse purchasing it this morning.
[13:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:42] <exec> 08└─Oh do fuck off. There are plenty of jobs out there with working conditions that vary from epic to cocktacular, even for the utterly unskilled. None of which even remotely resemble slavery. Coal mining a hundred years ago, that resembled slavery. And that's without even disputing the entirely wrong n...
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[14:27:29] <exec> 08└─You're way off. You're supposed to fire up a fatty, a spliff, a guaranteed cure for insomnia. And we have to be more flexible with our time.
[14:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:30] <exec> 08└─Not everyone can do that, specially if you consider places were leaving home just a few minutes late can cause you to arrive late by 20, 30 min or even one hour. I'd say that it is better for people to try to schedule their sleep in order to wake up by themselves just before the alarm, i.e., try to...
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[14:27:32] <exec> 08└─At least a total of 8 hours is best[1] but it doesn't have to be consecutive: https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month. It took so...
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[14:27:34] <exec> 08└─More Americans wake up screaming in the night realizing that the only thing preventing their future of working a demeaning manual labor job until they die is the fact those manual labor jobs will all be filled by machines that never eat, never sleep, and most importantly never unionize. FTFY
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[14:27:45] <exec> 08└─It is currently 20+ degrees below the average monthly *low* where I live and silent news refuses to cover it.
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[14:27:48] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=37437¬e=&title=Record-breaking+cold+expected+Tuesday%3B+below+average+temps+to+linger+until+next+week [soylentnews.org]
[14:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:50] <exec> 08└─stop bringing up facts!
[14:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:52] <exec> 08└─I don't see any facts or evidence there. Those are just words and quotes and links.
[14:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03webnut77 [5994] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Embraces California Data Privacy Law, But Don't Expect Google to Follow Suit - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's Windows 10 slurps your data and sends it to the mothership. Meanwhile, Microsoft says: "We are strong supporters of California’s new law and the expansion of privacy protections"
[14:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:39] <exec> 08└─One difference between JVM and WebAssembly is that WebAssembly isn't under the legal control of One Rich American Called Larry Ellison.
[14:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:40] <exec> 08└─Would it be better to instead provide native executable and say "Sorry! We don't currently support your operating system" to anyone running an operating system other than the one for which the executable was built, such as users of macOS or GNU/Linux?
[14:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:42] <exec> 08└─First of all, webassembly is not to run compiled programs, it is to replace javascript's usage as bytecode and remove the stronghold Google has on the web. If you haven't hear of asmjs, what are you doing commenting on this topic before reading a little?
[14:30:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:55] <exec> 08└─A reasonable first estimate [amazon.ca] is thirty percent [youtube.com]. Good luck with the specifics, as the entire reason this bullshit goes on is because it's easy for targeted officials to claim "national security" after they're bribed.
[14:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:32] <exec> 08└─I've also noted that the last two times we elected an R, we lost face in the international arena. Its almost like Rs suck an international policy.
[14:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:34] <exec> 08└─In Ukraine, he asked for two "anti-corruption" investigations against the Dems. Can you name one other anti-corruption initiative he has enacted? No? Then this is not a matter of enforcing the law, it is a matter of punishing those that oppose him. That is, abusing his office for his personal gain.
[14:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:36] <exec> 08└─First two of your bullet points are completely irrelevant. Ukraine is corrupt as fuck, but Trump only cares *manufacturing* dirt on Biden, not about any actual corruption that he actually embodies. You can find corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine with a single google search but Trump and his 'administratio...
[14:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:38] <exec> 08└─Essentially if you have a party of extreme corruption then any investigation of corruption will by definition be "political" in some sense if the Venn diagram of criminals and one party is overlapping almost completely.
[14:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:40] <exec> 08└─This seems to be you just emotionally flailing with lots of pointless vulgarity in lieu of any supporting evidence or logic whatsoever. Oh and of course declaring everybody who disagrees with you a Nazi or an idiot - the epitome of refined political discussion. If you have any argument with any form...
[14:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:42] <exec> 08└─A big point missed here, even by some critics of Trump, is that if he's really pressuring Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden, he can also pressure them to come up with an outcome to that investigation that harms Joe Biden, the presidential candidate who's the father of Hunter Biden. There is a conf...
[14:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 2257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:45] <exec> 08└─I think you could leave it at every time we've elected a president in the past 4 decades or so we've lost face in the international arena. I think you're probably being overly influenced by media partisanship. Just look at Obama's presidency: - North Korea became for more threatening, hostile, a...
[14:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:15] <exec> 08└─Dude, grow the fuck up and quit blaming others for your problems. Someone else having more than you does not mean you do not have enough. Thinking otherwise is the fucking definition of envy.
[14:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:17] <exec> 08└─Nope, complex solutions just mean you don't understand the problem well enough to create a simple one. Rube Goldberg shit might technically work but it's always the wrong way to do something.
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[15:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:14] <exec> 08└─I really need one of these because it will give my life meaning.
[15:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:15] <exec> 08└─Because what people look for most is a phone that won't fit in any of their pockets.
[15:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:38] <exec> 08└─jmichael stresses over things that just don't make much sense to me. The threat of destruction at the push of a button? Crap - it's been that way for all of my 63 years on this planet. Did that stop me learning to ride a tricycle, then a bicycle, then a motorcycle? Helllll NO! Those commie pinkos in...
[15:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:40] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the continued threat of destruction at the push of a button, continued war escalations, and the threat of the dissolution of all institutions that provide stability whatsoever, it seems to me that our system is designed with the opposite in mind.
[15:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:42] <exec> 08└─How about labor theory of value with a system that retains market dynamics?
[15:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:55] <exec> 08└─So what makes that news we should care about? Is there some interesting angle to it?
[15:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:57] <exec> 08└─So need a another way to reduce carbon https://www.axios.com [axios.com]
[15:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Embraces California Data Privacy Law, But Don't Expect Google to Follow Suit - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:23] <exec> 08└─MS probably isn't all that concerned with privacy. But like Apple, one of their major competitors is heavily financed by ad revenue: Google. And like Apple, Microsoft really doesn't profit that much from that sector compared to their other business lines, so anything that hurts Google is probably OK...
[15:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Embraces California Data Privacy Law, But Don't Expect Google to Follow Suit - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:24] <exec> 08└─1) A fee-to-pay operating system as one of your fundamental revenue generators
[15:29:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:18] <exec> 08└─I'll put my money on Intel having more vulnerabilities. Intel has been working longer and harder at being stupid, after all. Let's remember that Intel wanted to eliminate anonymity a couple decades ago, by having every CPU they produce uniquely identify itself on the internet.
[15:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:01] <exec> 08└─Don't know when that was, but I know for certain that I paid more than $10/year. About a dollar a week, and a bit more when I worked overtime. At a guess, I paid somewhere around $70, possibly a bit more for the year. As I said, it wasn't much, but it was there.
[15:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:48] <exec> 08└─1. Trump can't name 1 fucking Ukrainian that is corrupt 2. Trump gives FUCK ALL about corruption in Ukraine or anywhere else
[15:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:49] <exec> 08└─The MSPB is itself political. It is loaded up with democrats. Trump's nominees have been blocked. The lack of people slows the MSPB down, which is just dandy if you want to keep a recalcitrant partisan bureaucrat around. Trump nominated a chairman and vice chairman, as well as others, and the nomina...
[15:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:10] <exec> 08└─Soundproofing would be a good thing for confessionals, to get the acoustics right, for the microphones.
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[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─But have you not seen, women everywhere carry them in their hand because they are so important and couldn't possibly miss a call or message.
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─On the one hand: I'm glad to see the world moving beyond "phones". These things are capable portable computers that are always connected to the internet. They even run Microsoft Office if you want. Forcing interaction through a tiny screen really limits their usefulness. And the weird split between...
[16:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─You know, because more cameras = better, am I right? Because professional photographers no longer use real dedicated cameras, real photographers now use phones since they have more than one camera. Also, I'm a small person so, you know, I need a bigger and bigger screen. One preferably so big that i...
[16:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─You know, because more cameras = better, am I right?
[16:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:37] <exec> 08└─The AirBnB campaign screwed up - they didn't understand the voters' mindset. In a population like that, the way to win is not to stir people up - let it roll as stealth as possible and direct target the people on your side. Spending millions on broad voter awareness just brought out the NIMBY crowd....
[16:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:39] <exec> 08└─Imagine a world where nobody need suffer through a short-term rental in Jersey City.
[16:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:00] <exec> 08└─Has anybody out there designed a simulator of exchange theory of value and capitalist forms of property that could be adapted to labor theory of value and socialist forms of property? Obviously such a simulator would need to verify the inherent contradictions of capitalism, so that with socialist ec...
[16:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:01] <exec> 08└─See the twisted mind on display. Jm is certainly pessimistic, there are many people who care It is just that the system has been corrupted so we have an outsized influence by assholes
[16:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:04] <exec> 08└─Your sleep should be eight hours Your shift should be six hours
[16:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:06] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention our precious bodily fluids.
[16:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:08] <exec> 08└─Your post touches what 2 points i have been thinking are key to understanding why people tend to socialism: 1> Perceived social benefit is the actual goal to be optimized, not social benefit itself. 2> It is most likely that market based selfishness has the highest global benefit but lowes perceived...
[16:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:10] <exec> 08└─Part of the point of sleep is to clear out the Amalyoid Beta https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The brain can't really do a good job clearing it out while you're awake but a small nap during mid-day will go a long ways towards clearing out a lot of it as much of it can clear...
[16:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:12] <exec> 08└─Well that is up to their own life decisions. If good sleep is important you will prioritize that over the other stuff.
[16:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:15] <exec> 08└─How about just sleep whenever you feel like it? Just like every other animal?
[16:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:30] <exec> 08└─see subject
[16:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:31] <exec> 08└─Turn on the Weather Channel you boomer.
[16:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:33] <exec> 08└─Setting world records for cold temperature seems newsworthy to me.
[16:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Specially Crafted ZIP Files Used to Bypass Secure Email Gateways - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:48] <exec> 08└─automated idiot/intrusion detection system checks first header, sees nothing, and marks file as safe. either that, or their packaging script has a subtle bug... One more trick for infecting the victims that scan incoming email by some idiotic automated tool.
[16:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Embraces California Data Privacy Law, But Don't Expect Google to Follow Suit - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:02] <exec> 08└─“Our approach to privacy starts with the belief that privacy is a fundamental human right and includes our commitment to provide robust protection for every individual,” globohomo hug box.
[16:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:28] <exec> 08└─is a load of crap.
[16:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:49] <exec> 08└─Librem - the supposedly now available phone that still isn't except for a few examples. Don't hold your breath.
[16:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:44] <exec> 08└─The "left" is now ivory tower dreamers and social justice warriors. The republicans used to give the working class at least some religious comfort, with President Trump workers finally have someone defending their economic interests. The democrats meanwhile continue their descent into madness. They...
[16:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 2437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:32] <exec> 08└─Just about everything you said was wrong, yes. Reread the parts of the call memo immediately before and after, "I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it." Before, President Zelensky is speaking about purchasing more military...
[16:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:53] <exec> 08└─I don't want a reward, compensation, and don't want to profit from a lawsuit. I just want the CEO and other executives punished for violating the trust model we are required to have for the doctor/patient/health care model to work. I want them punished. Punished so badly that non-profits and shareho...
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[17:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Flaw Underscores Impact of IoT Vulnerabilities - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:15] <exec> 08└─Amazon is behind it, watching / recording videos of your house, neighborhood, friends and family, exploiting the data for profit without any regards for morals or ethics as long as it turns a profit, or letting unscrupulous employees watch the videos without your knowledge. Heck of an elephant in th...
[17:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Flaw Underscores Impact of IoT Vulnerabilities - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:16] <exec> 08└─If people couldn't be driven to irrational behaviour, we wouldn't have smoking, MS windows, and systemd. IoT and generally the adoption of IT in the current state is just another way to have people scrambling around to fix leaks and buy reinvented wheels, an attack on the asset called time. A better...
[17:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Flaw Underscores Impact of IoT Vulnerabilities - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:18] <exec> 08└─Those recording devices are hardly autonomous. Truly autonomous devices would be logically encapsulated and self-sufficient, using only their interfaces, not clouds, to interact with other devices. A principle of locality.
[17:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:31] <exec> 08└─'..And the weird split between tablets (useful size, no phone calls) and phones (tiny size, phone calls) has always bugged me since they run the same software.'
[17:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:32] <exec> 08└─Can I change the battery?
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:42] <exec> 08└─AirBnb is one of those things that sounds great, until you have an AirBnb next door to you, then it's hell.
[17:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:45] <exec> 08└─As an occasional AirBnB renter myself, I have to note: other than when we arrive late at night as a chaotic family of four not knowing what the hell we're doing with the combination locks, we're pretty good neighbors. We sleep late, don't make a whole lot of noise, are out of the place most of the t...
[17:27:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 636 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:55] <exec> 08└─'More Americans struggle to fall asleep as they realize their country is making every single possible mistake of failed historical civilizations, and that by paying their taxes they are obviously implicated in what they were taught as children are war crimes.' 'More Americans wake up screaming in th...
[17:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:13] <exec> 08└─Late stage socialism: https://www.sfchronicle.com [sfchronicle.com] One of the most expensive places to live in the world... where you are at risk of crazed homeless people dragging you out of your car and du...
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[17:28:14] <exec> 08└─https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/11/12/homeless-man-hollywood-dumped-bucket-diarrhea-woman-hes-back-street/ [hotair.com]
[17:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:17] <exec> 08└─So, go the fuck to sleep earlier.
[17:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:35] <exec> 08└─Does all the hyped "concern about nature" mean nothing when you cannot patent a "solution" and price it through the roof, cloud layer, and upper stratosphere?
[17:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:36] <exec> 08└─I've been seeing this "ok boomer" meme elsewhere. Why did you start mimicking it? Where did you first see it? Btw, I am in no way a boomer. It reminds me of the fortune cookie that told my friend's sister "you are a very lucky man". It is funny because whoever is saying that is an idiot who doesn't...
[17:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:38] <exec> 08└─Those scientific articles posted here with none to zero comments have no purpose other than burying critical discussions in other serious posts. They serve the purpose of "Ignorance is a bliss". It's the principial mechanic of the SN crowd control.
[17:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:32] <exec> 08└─Native Windows malware under Wine is much less probable to escape the sandbox, than bytecode ones with WebAssembly will.
[17:31:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:15] <exec> 08└─There are many of us looking at the insanity going down in the US of A. Your president is a nut-bar. When some agency does something to try bring him back in line, it feels right.
[17:31:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:24] <exec> 08└─Who modded this nonsense Insightful? I thought you Americans didn't want to have kings? What a fucking stupid way to run a country.
[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─The Timex Sinclair was a late entry, so that's not significant here. But the S100 bus computers were around before I ever heard of the Apple.
[17:34:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 941 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─I agree, #28 shouldn't be considered a "must" but selective use of color can improve readability. Unless it is a dark blue on a black background, that is the opposite of helpful. #78, it's too blanket a statement to be useful. Humanities have their purposes, but it's not universal. I studied Logic i...
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[17:35:11] <exec> 08└─I included that in "how it's used an who controls it".
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[18:27:15] <exec> 08└─can alter our movements!
[18:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Flaw Underscores Impact of IoT Vulnerabilities - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─Confessionals should be soundproof. That way background noise is not picked up by autonomous recording devices.
[18:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:21] <exec> 08└─California? Socialist? What planet are you on?
[18:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DirecTV Kept Charging Regional Sports Fee While Channel Was Blacked Out - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a ripoff of the script from Office Space.
[18:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Embraces California Data Privacy Law, But Don't Expect Google to Follow Suit - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah. If Apple had said that, I might have a certain amount of belief in it. Apple has, occasionally, exhibited concern for privacy in the past. When MS says it........well, historical precedent is against believing them.
[18:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:40] <exec> 08└─So which browsers will be reliable, then? Vivaldi, Konqueror, perhaps PaleMoon, any others? Actually, there are a few others, but they are too simplified in their handling of bookmarks, and some even in their handling of images. (ASCII art browsers are nearly useless for most sites.)
[18:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:42] <exec> 08└─That's not a contradiction, but it *does* require that you have a huge amount of trust in the sandbox that you run the code in. So far every jail or sandbox or virtual machine has turned out to have flaws that allow escaping, so having that trust isn't exactly reasonable, but it's not a logical cont...
[18:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:04] <exec> 08└─A physical switch can indicate to software your intention to turn something on or off. But an on screen switch doesn't take up physical space, and can appear only at appropriate times when software determines that the switch should appear.
[18:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:06] <exec> 08└─No. True physical switch must cut the wire to the subsystem, eliminating its function. Best done by power line AND signal lines. It is a physical gap, not an UI. You can check the wire physically to audit the device. With on screen controls, you control nothing. The one who controls the software, co...
[18:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:08] <exec> 08└─Unless you can open the physical switch and put an Ohm meter across the terminals, toggle the switch, and verify the circuit opens, then you cannot trust a physical switch. By the way, you'll also need to follow the traces back into the circuit board to ensure that you are indeed open-circuiting the...
[18:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:10] <exec> 08└─audio that would make 50s phone customers say "wow, that's some really shitty sound quality there".
[18:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:36] <exec> 08└─Intel wanted to eliminate anonymity a couple decades ago, by having every CPU they produce uniquely identify itself
[18:31:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:15] <exec> 08└─The enemy of my enemy is my friend. There are many of us looking at the insanity going down in the US of A. Your president is a nut-bar. When some agency does something to try bring him back in line, it feels right.
[18:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:28] <exec> 08└─Oh, I totally believe that other assembly languages are nicer than x86. The platform didn't win out for technical reasons, but because it was cheaper and pushed by a bigger company (Intel).
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[19:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:40] <exec> 08└─What about the audio jack - did they include one this time?
[19:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:51] <exec> 08└─The theory seems great: You have a spare bedroom or something, you can rent it out easily. In practice, what's going on includes: - illegal hotels [nytimes.com] - scams by hosts [vice.com] - renters trashing the premises [washingtonpost.com] It's almost like those laws about how hotels and normal be...
[19:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:53] <exec> 08└─As an occasional AirBnB renter myself, I have to note: other than when we arrive late at night as a chaotic family of four not knowing what the hell we're doing with the combination locks, we're pretty good neighbors. We sleep late, don't make a whole lot of noise, are out of the place most of the t...
[19:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:26] <exec> 08└─LOL, nazis weren't socialist either right? They were just all about government meddling in every aspect of people's lives.
[19:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:27] <exec> 08└─If only that was so easy. Stop trying to cram the day with several more things that just have to be done before going to bed. I'd go as far as getting rid of artificial lighting. But if you have family, and they won't give up their late hour habits, what can you do?
[19:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:30] <exec> 08└─I used to work 12 hour shifts at a mine, between that and the 1.25h of commute back and forth you're pounding out a 16 hour day. Between regular and special stressors and demand for constant vigilance there you were spun the fuck out, and it was easy to miss sleep. I was one of the most hygienic sle...
[19:29:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:27] <exec> 08└─remember: PASCAL P-code Java now WebAssembly every generation gets to re-invent bytecodes
[19:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:50] <exec> 08└─First of all, webassembly is not to run compiled programs
[19:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:51] <exec> 08└─it is to replace javascript's usage as bytecode
[19:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:54] <exec> 08└─There are things that "compile to javascript" so while its not "bytecode" in that it's asci characters, its minified javascript which is about as readable as bytecode/assembly with all the whitespace removed. Lists of things that "compile to javascript": https://www.sitepoint.com
[19:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:56] <exec> 08└─Or use one that's already in emacs: https://www.gnu.org [gnu.org] Why reinvent the wheel yet again?
[19:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:21] <exec> 08└─The one who controls the software, controls you, owns you.
[19:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:17] <exec> 08└─You spend a lot of time in your 'Amazon pays taxes' post talking about sales taxes which are definitely NOT paid by Amazon....
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[20:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stressed to the Max? Deep Sleep Can Rewire the Anxious Brain - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:16] <exec> 08└─You can see from the paper's own citations that numerous studies have found before that subjective anxiety goes up with sleep deprivation, both experimentally and epidemiologically. The focus of this experiment was to identify the neurolo-physical character of sleep-deprived anxiety through fMRI ana...
[20:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagined Movements Can Alter Our Brains - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:25] <exec> 08└─See: Politics
[20:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Flaw Underscores Impact of IoT Vulnerabilities - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:36] <exec> 08└─The catholic rise to power came so suddenly and lasted so long. Once you know a man's sins, you can get him to do anything by either catering to those sins, or by using the threat of exposing them over his head to get him to do whatever you need done. Catholicism can be seen as one of the first larg...
[20:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:52] <exec> 08└─Come on, how do you think they sell new ones? Didn't you remember the propaganda (courtesy of Aldous Huxley)? Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches.
[20:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, for sure, and I'm betting the renter profile varies a lot by destination and even what's going on at that destination at the time (big football games...?) Still, if you're in a 90% good profile with AirBnB next door, that beats the hell out of having party clan crue next door for a year straight...
[20:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:42] <exec> 08└─That is your choice. Get a different job if you care so much about sleep.
[20:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 2515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:44] <exec> 08└─It's probably adaptable. Sleep is regulated by the circadian rhythms which are in turn related to environmental cues. The sleep/wake cycle has been tied to melatonin release, the process is photosensitive, thus depending on the ratio of night day and the actual exposure to sunlight would alter the r...
[20:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:36] <exec> 08└─I've spent more of my life on landlines than on cell phones. There is simply no comparison at all. Digital audio was the worst thing to ever happen to phones, removing the wires was the second worst.
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[21:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stressed to the Max? Deep Sleep Can Rewire the Anxious Brain - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:19] <exec> 08└─Sleep as a natural, non-pharmaceutical remedy for anxiety disorders. Yeah right... Try sleeping without meds when a PTSD anxiety trigger is at level 11.
[21:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagined Movements Can Alter Our Brains - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:28] <exec> 08└─I guess all that acid I did in the 70s made me smarterer.
[21:27:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:48] <exec> 08└─Because what people look for most is a phone that won't fit in any of their pockets.
[21:27:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:52] <exec> 08└─You know, because more cameras = better, am I right?
[21:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03slashnot [8607] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:11] <exec> 08└─I came here to post a similar comment. Airbnb was campaigning to ALL the residents of Jersey City, when only a small minority of those residents care to offer Airbnb rentals.
[21:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:12] <exec> 08└─but i loved that commercial about a place 80 miles away from where i live... "i have to rent out my primary residence so that i can pay my property taxes" made me laugh every time. i kept wondering where they stayed while their place was being destroyed.
[21:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:14] <exec> 08└─noisy transients who tramp in and out of my neighbors' houses.
[21:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:14] <exec> 08└─But seriously, there's already a great means to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere: trees. Furthermore, there's no reason we need to reduce CO2. It's at one of the lowest levels it has ever been on a geological time scale. Increased CO2 will improve plant growth. People treat it with anathema like it's so...
[21:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Specially Crafted ZIP Files Used to Bypass Secure Email Gateways - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:31] <exec> 08└─This is a great illustration of the two different ways to extract a zip archive. The easiest way to do it is to seek all the way to the end of the archive and then back up in chunks looking for the central directory and its magic number Once you find it, you already have all the information needed t...
[21:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:19] <exec> 08└─I can write a program in Brainfuck, but that doesn't mean the source is compiled rather than interpreted.
[21:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:48] <exec> 08└─Sehr gut, mein herr. Vill you now issue ze directive zat my out of town familee shall be commanded to use some open-sourced solution which offers ze same functionality as der Facebook? Vhat? Such thing is not existen yet? Zen shut ze fuck up. Danke.
[21:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Shows Camera Activated in Background During App Use - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:50] <exec> 08└─Or you do it the simple way and put a slide plate or dot of tape over the camera until you need it. Inconvenient but much easier and cheaper. Now microphones are a different story...
[21:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that you don't want to see health care move forward by trying to coordinate data. I see. Arrangements like these rarely have jack shit to do anything with individuals. They really don't care that little Bobby has pee pee cancer or that you have hemorrhoids. They DO care abou...
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[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─Heroin has no medical use only in the United States. In the UK and elsewhere in the world it is still prescribed (diamorphine) for palliative care of hospice patients.
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[22:27:12] <exec> 08└─Let's spend our limited resources on saving the young'uns, from malaria, cholera, measles, etc. Fuck you, boomers. Signed, a gen x-er.
[22:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anticoagulant Benefits for Atrial Fibrillation Decrease With Age - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:14] <exec> 08└─I don't know what's weirder. 1) Space missions, cancer cures, whatever end after I do 2) This year I seem to have gone from losing 1 friend a year to 2. To #1 I say, yay for planning ahead and getting stuff done To #2 I say, this growing old is not what it's cracked up to be. For you "ok boomer"s ou...
[22:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:58] <exec> 08└─Of course, one of my Android phones seriously outperforms this tablet, and all it gets used for is email and phonecalls..
[22:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:59] <exec> 08└─Youtube netflix instagram tiktok Why are you putting your phone down? Ever?
[22:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:17] <exec> 08└─Barcelona is kind of an extreme case, and probably should have regulations to address this. Almost like Uber making taxis out of normal cars, AirBnB is making hotels out of normal residences - and most places there are already zoning regulations to take care of that. Some smug yuppies bought the hou...
[22:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:18] <exec> 08└─Like Uber/Lyft - just because your duck has an app now doesn't mean it's not still a duck. The ridesharing and roomsharing apps really do change the landscape pretty dramatically as compared to a tourist information desk and a phone directory, particularly with things like couchsurfing, but... they...
[22:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:20] <exec> 08└─Barcelona is kind of an extreme case, and probably should have regulations to address this.
[22:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:20] <exec> 08└─Who is setting world records? Antarctica?
[22:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Partners With Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to Take WebAssembly Beyond the Browser - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:25] <exec> 08└─I was going to correct you by saying it's actually One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, but then I realised what you put is pretty much the same thing, anyway.
[22:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Fails to Unseat Pro-Tax City Council Members in Seattle - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, here's the proof that the judges have ruled otherwise: http://www.courts.wa.gov [wa.gov] For easier digestion: https://www.washingtonpolicy.org [washingtonpolicy.org] Though the phrase “net income...
[22:32:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:31] <exec> 08└─"Help my political campaign, and I'll make sure you get paid" is probably still a crime. "The president can do whatever he likes, because he is above the law" might turn out to be a successful defense, but it is still a stupid way to run a country.
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[23:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Notes for Nerds - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:14] <exec> 08└─Would setting "ssl_early_data" have made #CrookedHillary president?
[23:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Notes for Nerds - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:16] <exec> 08└─No, it would have made Ethanol-fueled chief editor though.
[23:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anticoagulant Benefits for Atrial Fibrillation Decrease With Age - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:30] <exec> 08└─You are assigned to the b-ark. All expenses are paid for. Your accomodation is class tripple a, with Adidas trainers. Bring some soup.
[23:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anticoagulant Benefits for Atrial Fibrillation Decrease With Age - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:32] <exec> 08└─That gives me 26 years
[23:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anticoagulant Benefits for Atrial Fibrillation Decrease With Age - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:34] <exec> 08└─Getting old ain't for wussies.
[23:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anticoagulant Benefits for Atrial Fibrillation Decrease With Age - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:36] <exec> 08└─You too will be old soon. OK with that? I'd rather have some help. And help save the young'uns from malaria, cholera, measles, etc. There's enough resources. Signed, a different gen-xer.
[23:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anticoagulant Benefits for Atrial Fibrillation Decrease With Age - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:38] <exec> 08└─Meh, the boomers are learning (have learned) that everyone gets older sooner or later and that it's hard to trust no one over 30 when all the boomers are over 30. The x'ers and millennials will learn too. And as with all generations, almost certainly too late.
[23:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stressed to the Max? Deep Sleep Can Rewire the Anxious Brain - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:48] <exec> 08└─If you could get a decent sleep, you wouldn't have been stressed so much, would you?
[23:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stressed to the Max? Deep Sleep Can Rewire the Anxious Brain - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:50] <exec> 08└─If you could get a decent sleep, you wouldn't have been stressed so much, would you?
[23:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagined Movements Can Alter Our Brains - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:00] <exec> 08└─I'm more smartester than you.
[23:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Flaw Underscores Impact of IoT Vulnerabilities - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:12] <exec> 08└─confessionals should be a reality show
[23:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:31] <exec> 08└─And this is a good thing? (As opposed to just having a "phone" with you)?
[23:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Galaxy S11 Specs Leaked - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:32] <exec> 08└─Um, because I don't use any of those on my phone? As far as I'm concerned, it's just a phone and, very rarely, an ordinary map.
[23:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:53] <exec> 08└─AirVagina! Have a vagina that you are not using all the time? Make some money on the side with AirVagina! Be your own pimp!
[23:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Airbnb’s Fight to Overturn a New Jersey Law Imploded - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:54] <exec> 08└─>My sympathy, glad that there was a solution. Not really a solution, and they weren't the ABSOLUTE worst neighbors possible, but... Cubans from Hialeah, lots of money, no kids, would have loud sex in the front bedroom (of 5 bedrooms) 10 feet from my garage when I'm working in the garage on a Saturda...
[23:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:33] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, 'tis called "living the American Dream", yes? (grin)
[23:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Americans Struggle to Fall Asleep, Stay Asleep - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:34] <exec> 08└─See also siesta [wikipedia.org]
[23:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:59] <exec> 08└─Your first line is the only one worth anything. The last two need citations, big time, from real scientific studies. The planet doesn't give a damn about the temperature, or CO2. It will endure, barring some astronomical disaster. What a hotter planet will do, however is give us short-sighted humans...
[23:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:00] <exec> 08└─Trees are not a good long-term solution to this long-term problem. Unless the trees are buried, they will rot and release all that "captured" CO2 back into the atmosphere. The beds of coal we mine today were laid down over 300 million years ago, before bacteria evolved to break down the lignin.
[23:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a New Way to Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:02] <exec> 08└─The econuts incessantly scream that plastics "do not degrade for hundreds of years", so why not use one putative problem as a solution to another?
[23:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fingerprint Test Can Distinguish Between Heroin Use and Mere Contact - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:58] <exec> 08└─yes.
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