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[00:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:14] <exec> 08└─UCSF is the premier medical reseearch institute in America. Across the bay is UC Berkeley, the home of computer wizardry, Bill Joy and other clowns of its ilk. They got screwed sideway by some two-bit cocksucker "hackers". You know why? The fucking millenials.
[00:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:16] <exec> 08└─Bullshit, you can't blame this on millennials. California is a nest of SJWs, so a pink- hair diversity-hire Chief InfoSec Officer probably left the passwords on a Post-It note. The fucking SJW diversity hires.
[00:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:18] <exec> 08└─These sorts of comments say a lot more about the posters than they do about their subjects.
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disc Player Exploit Targets PlayStation 2 Console, Possibly Others - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─Read the writeup. He shows an example where he uses the exploit to boot existing NES and SNES emulators for the PS2 from a DVD.
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─Welllllllll - TBH, I've only read a couple of the Honor stories. They are a bit, uhhhhm, "juvenile" maybe? Simplistic, maybe? I'm not sure what term I'm looking for, but, Honor Harrington is a bit sweet, naive, gullible, for my taste. I like my badasses to be gritty, and credible. Best advice? Grab...
[00:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─Why waste energy boiling the acid? It smells bad enough at room temperature, after all. Now, phenolic acid needs to be kept hot, or it's no good. It's a major component of bakelite stuff, still found in electrical gear. I was told that if I just stuck my hand in the stuff, I'd be dead before I could...
[00:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:53] <exec> 08└─This is a political issue, as much, or more than, it is a legal issue. You can find the right judge to rule in favor of IA, you can find the right judge to rule against IA, at each and every step of the legal process. But, politics? I think IA is counting on support from EFF and others - and I think...
[00:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:56] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I may have to try one then. Juvenile doesn't worry me too much, (famous last words). I have definitely read some of David Drake's stuff, and quite liked it. He wrote one of the 1632 novels I think?
[00:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:13] <exec> 08└─It would only help users who use their site with javascript disabled
[00:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:36] <exec> 08└─...I'm expecting this to turn into some kind of Trojan, anyway. Any software that can scan your hard drive is a liability, IMHO.
[00:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─You can't be "relieved" until you have the photo.
[00:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:47] <exec> 08└─We wouldn't want people on the dole to be embarrassed spending other taxpayer's money. Seriously, we don't. Don't judge somebody until you've walked a mile in their shoes. I'm old enough to remember when people had to pay with physical food stamps at the register, and I'm sure it was embarrassing f...
[00:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:45] <exec> 08└─Weak. Maybe you shouldn't say stuff like: I almost can't believe how petty and stupid Intel is, to actually be paying journalists under the table to write stories about their die-shrinking accomplishments 40 years ago or whatever
[00:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Die Shrink: How Intel Scaled Down the 8086 Processor - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:46] <exec> 08└─The burden of proof was on you, not anybody else.
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[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:50] <exec> 08└─I hope there are many widely scattered mirrors to make it more robust
[01:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:10] <exec> 08└─https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP [mozilla.org] They can disable all javascript on their page already regardless of source.
[01:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:45] <exec> 08└─Don't judge a serial killer until you have a couple of stiffs in the freezer?
[01:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:47] <exec> 08└─Should have spent more time in IRC. I think it's still in the logs [sylnt.us] if you feel like searching. I'm certainly not going to subject myself to it again to find it for you though.
[01:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:49] <exec> 08└─I'd point out that someone disagreeing with you, even vehemently, doesn't make them a troll. It just makes them folks who disagree with you. You have repeatedly called folks who disagreed with you (even those who have done so calmly and politely) 'trolls'. I do not think that word means what you thi...
[01:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? [Updates: 2] - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:51] <exec> 08└─Same AC replying to myself. I'd have posted the above as my logged in self, but I didn't feel like getting mod bombed by you as you've done before when I've simply disagreed with you. Again, as I said, please carry on.
[01:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:04] <exec> 08└─?? Perl has the amazing and significant advantage of much faster startup and lower overhead than Raku, and the even more significant advantage that it's rare to find a *Nix installation without it. And those are completely valid reasons to use Perl over Raku for a task. But did you really think Larr...
[01:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:05] <exec> 08└─Thank you - I jump at any excuse to play with Raku, and I was upset when I saw such terrible performance. I'm not thrilled with a 6x gap, but for most tasks that's acceptable.
[01:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:07] <exec> 08└─I've used Perl6. Built an IRC bot in it a year or three ago here on our IRC server. It sucks all of the cocks for text wrangling compared to Perl5. It's not quite as ass licking as Python for the job but it's close.
[01:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:25] <exec> 08└─"Literally every mutlitasking operating system on the planet operates like this. Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS... " Linux does not possess this brain damage, actually, but then again it's not an OS either. Regardless, "we've always done it this way" and "this is retarded" are not mutually excl...
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[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─They got screwed sideway by some two-bit cocksucker "hackers". You know why?
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─Surely the US has agencies that should have been alerted and in on this, not the reporters from the BBC (a crooked organisation extorting outdated TV "licences" from the UK population via 'contractors'). And surely these agencies can pin-point the location of the bad guys. Apple 10 years ago put a p...
[02:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─And surely these agencies can pin-point the location of the bad guys.
[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─Usually it's US universities that extort obscene amounts of money from students...
[02:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─Given that US uni-s will not stop extorting obscene amounts of money from the students (on the contrary, I reckon they'll extort even more obscene amounts), I don't see how this qualifies as a "change", much less a "refreshing" one.
[02:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:54] <exec> 08└─ClamAV throws a hysteria attack for the slightest hint of a MS-built library (mono, etc). Like every single file. There is zero attempt to actually find malware. You cannot therefore see any threat is a sea of noise and screaming. Its a bit like a rock-converted (fossilized) tribolite yelling "dinos...
[02:25:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:58] <exec> 08└─You wish. Perl, unlike COBOL, still has things that it is the absolute best language for. Even for brand new projects. It doesn't matter if it's the most all-around useful language or not, so long as it's the best at what it was made for. And it still is.
[02:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transgenic Rice Lowers Blood Pressure of Lab Rats with Hypertension - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:55] <exec> 08└─Neat! I didn't know anyone had thought of a way of mornitoring these things in nonhuman animals.
[02:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Military Unit Reportedly Offered Bounties to Afghanistan Militants for Killing U.S. Soldiers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:53] <exec> 08└─lol, no it was around when everyone just started mocking the troll, they hateses when hobbitses makes fun of them.
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[03:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Helps Charter Avoid Broadband Competition - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─The telecom's well trained bitch, is going to take care of the telecoms. It would be good if congress were to neuter that bitch - figuratively, literally, or both. Send the now-unneeded biological matter to Trump, as a souvenir.
[03:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Helps Charter Avoid Broadband Competition - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─The telecom's well trained bitch, is going to take care of the telecoms.
[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:51] <exec> 08└─I can't fault university administration. Their plates were too full dealing with demonstrating wokeness and signaling agreement with #shutdownSTEM to deal with some nerd issue.
[03:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─I can't fault university administration.
[03:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:31] <exec> 08└─I think he's been involved - co-authored one or more of them. Those Baen boys kinda mix it up with each other, collaberating on storylines. The 1632 novels are well worth reading. It works better if you're familiar with the real history, of course, but even if you're not especially, this series of b...
[03:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we have a volunteer to take calls from my Mom when her webs pages look funny.
[03:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:53] <exec> 08└─Except that in English we verb [thoughtco.com] words all the time.
[03:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:33] <exec> 08└─I surmise most (all?) of the $ goes to hosting fees? If that's true, have you considered reducing the cost, including less costly hosting somewhere else?
[03:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:34] <exec> 08└─I imagine that somewhere on a wall in his mom's basement he has printouts of my posts connected by lengths of red string, cross-indexed with clipped newspaper articles and fragments of maps.
[03:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:36] <exec> 08└─You are far more protected with a credit card than a debit card. If someone falsely charges the credit card they have defrauded either the bank or the merchant. Despite what banks try to claim in their contracts, you are not responsible for a debt you didn't incur. If someone scams your debit card t...
[03:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:38] <exec> 08└─> Who in their right mind would ever consider anything offered by Oracle? Who in their right mind would ever consider paying for anything offered by Oracle? TIFTFY If SN used only the free forever VMs costing Oracle, but saving SN a few bucks a year, I would call that a win win.
[03:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03toph [5509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:41] <exec> 08└─Can anyone confirm that subscribing with bitcoin works? I've tried several times but keep getting "bitcoin is not a valid source type". I've tried with 2 different browsers.
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[04:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:24] <exec> 08└─One, I literally didn't know this existed. No one I know has been talking about it, IRL or online. Two, that kind of short-form entertainment on your phone exists. It's called Youtube.
[04:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:26] <exec> 08└─Seeing Meg Whitman fail does put a smile on my face. Although there is still more cash to burn. You know your entertainment/platform sucks when it fails even during stay-at-home orders. Also, bite-sized celebrity "content" might have worked back when the unholy Quibi was first conceived, but celebri...
[04:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:28] <exec> 08└─It's the boomer train wreck of the Streaming Wars [wikipedia.org].
[04:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 2092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─Where to start with this venture? First, they want to move everybody to short-form entertainment, "quick bites," in a time when Amazon Prime and Netflix have conditioned everyone to expect shows that have major story arcs that they can binge through for hours, commercial free. It's easy to notice th...
[04:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:55] <exec> 08└─I don't have a lot of baseline sympathy for a university that doesn't secure its systems properly; they are, after all, financially hollowing out the last couple and next several generations of American students for their own greed. But if this was a lab there working on a cure for the Wuhan coronav...
[04:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:39] <exec> 08└─First, thank you all for the great work you do! Second, I can't remember where we stand on suscription reminders: is it on? is it not? My suscription ran out a couple of months ago and until I saw this story I hadn't bothered to check. With all due respect, if I had gotten a reminder a couple of mon...
[04:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:40] <exec> 08└─I was only referring to myself, being the admin for a small hosting company. I've mentioned it more than once dm. You know where to find me. :) So does martyb.
[04:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:42] <exec> 08└─We've had several offers of hosting. Currently we're (well I'm at least) pretty damned happy with Linode though. They really do offer a good service, above and beyond just space, cycles, and bandwidth. We've been considering taking someone up on their offer for offsite backups though since we parted...
[04:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:44] <exec> 08└─Do lawyers and politicians count or are we talking strictly human beings?
[04:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:47] <exec> 08└─It's funny how credit card fraud lands on the merchant, debit card fraud lands on the individual, and nothing whatsoever lands on the banks. Not sure how that needs to be fixed but there's some serious fuckedupedness there that does need fixing.
[04:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:49] <exec> 08└─I'd call it the cause of my shiny, new alcoholism.
[04:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:51] <exec> 08└─That's our bad. We should have taken the option out quite a while ago. Stripe quit offering it as a payment type back when BitCoin transaction fees cost more than our yearly subscriptions did but we never got around to removing it.
[04:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:53] <exec> 08└─Don't judge a serial killer until you have a couple of stiffs in the freezer?
[04:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:55] <exec> 08└─I think rehash's email bits were coded by masochists. Works peachy keen after you beat it into submission then waits until you quit paying attention to it and stops working in exciting new ways.
[04:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:57] <exec> 08└─And I have this nagging suspicion you used this loaded analogy on purpose, just to paint the people on the dole as criminals or something.
[04:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:00] <exec> 08└─Credit card companies make the rules. CC companies > banks > card users > merchants.
[04:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:02] <exec> 08└─[20200630_023201 UTC: Update 3: Increased stretch goal from $1000.00 to $2000.00]
[04:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:04] <exec> 08└─Thank you for responding to c0lo. He attacks me a fair amount, often AC. I couldn't come up with anything nice to write, so... He interprets too much- he thinks he has sixth sense I guess. Anyway, of course you'd want to encrypt DB backups going anywhere outside of the direct admins' controls. I gue...
[04:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:06] <exec> 08└─And I have this nagging suspicion you used this loaded analogy on purpose, just to paint the people on the dole as criminals or something.
[04:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:08] <exec> 08└─[Citation needed] - the initial "hosting somewhere else" doesn't seem a serious offer to host.
[04:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:11] <exec> 08└─> throwing away orders of magnitude of their money FTFY - see "weekends at Mar-a-lago" for details.
[04:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:45] <exec> 08└─Got some citations, because in my experience, the clipboard in Linux is exactly like this, and even worse in X.
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[05:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:29] <exec> 08└─It's easy to notice that a lot of reality-show offerings that have turned up on Netflix don't stick around long, because they were produced for cable channels that expect viewers to be endlessly channel-surfing to escape the relentless commercial breaks, so they lard so many in-show recaps that almo...
[05:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:30] <exec> 08└─" documentary on LeBron James's "
[05:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:32] <exec> 08└─... made me go wait, what?! That makes no sense.... That whole idea seems somewhere between stupid and insane.... It seems so obvious that there is no way that could ever work, but whatever....
[05:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:34] <exec> 08└─Who??? Never heard of either of 'em. Chinese Tik Tok seems to have cornered the 10 minute stream market.
[05:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:37] <exec> 08└─Space Jam: A New Legacy hype.
[05:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the links. The first several I read started off panning celebrity culture and how the coronavirus has exposed how shallow and irrelevant it is, only to finish by praising it and predicting it'll be back after the pandemic is over. In other words they start off by pandering to regular peop...
[05:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:41] <exec> 08└─No idea either, so I probably don't care. :) If it were Weezer, his name would probably actually be Wepeel, not Jonas...
[05:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:43] <exec> 08└─Not a punchy enough name - try "SpaJa" instead. Kids love those punchy short names nowadays. Like this, this has a short name: https://www.youtube.com It's gonna be a smash!
[05:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:45] <exec> 08└─Predicting that things will go back to normal is probably a safe bet. Never overestimate the public. The true decline of (traditional) celebrity culture is more of a generational change, and you don't get that during a single year... except for the fact that many older folks are dying sooner than ex...
[05:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:48] <exec> 08└─Read Horatio Hornblower instead. Honor Harrington is just a dumbed-down Americanized science-fantasy adaptation.
[05:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:11] <exec> 08└─Credit Cards Skimmers is a noun. A skimmer is a tool, the action a skimmer is used for is skimming.
[05:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:12] <exec> 08└─CSP is a tool for websites themselves, dummy.
[05:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:13] <exec> 08└─To continue along this vein, my take is that the majority of humanity has walked way more than a mile in these particular shoes. And shame has been and continues to be an effective way to prevent overuse of "dole" programs.
[05:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:14] <exec> 08└─Great post- I'm laughing and crying. What bugs me is that some (most?) of the trolls are real users with mod points who hide under their AC bridges and nip at ankles by modding me "troll" when I was not trolling. I wish I could find them more entertaining but I'm more creeped out. I feel like I have...
[05:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:17] <exec> 08└─Wars, revolutions, periods of hyperinflation, political instability that means the country issuing the currency ceases to exist, taxes, fund managers that take large fees, fund trustees that 're-interpret' your strict instructions. It can't be done.
[05:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:19] <exec> 08└─You mean, do more than to call it out?
[05:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:21] <exec> 08└─When my life gets so bad that I need you to manage me, I'll change my name and move far away first. ... You're so far out of reality I don't have...
[05:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:23] <exec> 08└─To continue along this vein, my take is that the majority of humanity has walked way more than a mile in these particular shoes.
[05:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:25] <exec> 08└─Ok, we have different understandings on the meaning of "calling it out". Since I'm not inclined to engage in an intellectual pissing contest, we may as well end this thread here.
[05:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:27] <exec> 08└─You could try putting the database on a natively encrypted ZFS filesystem. Then cron job snapshots that get ZFS sent somewhere. That way integrity of the backups can continue to be checked without decrypting on the backup server. Though you might want to run that past a professional system admin, I'...
[05:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nationwide Facial Recognition Ban Proposed by Lawmakers - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:59] <exec> 08└─You could do like those people who sticker bomb their car until it's all unintelligible black and white lines. If you use the same color as the license plates and make the patterns just close enough to be confused for strings of numbers by whatever machine learning algorithm they use, that might wor...
[05:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:44] <exec> 08└─I'd expect Java would be right at home with games eating GBs of RAM 😈
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[06:22:35] <exec> 08└─I love your idealism, but then I look at politics. It's a reminder that people can easily be persuaded to believe (and like) whomever and whatever you want them to - it just takes the right sort of marketing. I suspect a similar issue for the perceived interest in science and technology types. Many...
[06:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:36] <exec> 08└─This had no chance of success... You have founders that consider their contribution to be worth billions... after all, in their mind they have billions now and think they are worth it and will not work for less. You have talent that thinks that they are worth millions. The pandemic probably gave the...
[06:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same about Tweeter. Like, what kind of content can fit those 220 characters and be of any relevance? I mean, one can't provide a context, or nuance the message, or support an assertion with arguments or facts. Of course I was entirely wrong, most of people don't want it that way b...
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:41] <exec> 08└─Chinese Tik Tok seems to have cornered the 10 minute stream market.
[06:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:43] <exec> 08└─didn't know this existed
[06:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Helps Charter Avoid Broadband Competition - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:54] <exec> 08└─Well... I suspect that this bribe is more likely in the form of whichever commission that is expected to retire next now has a guarantee of a do nothing job making millions for Charter. Most likely this is a republican... not just because they are renowned for that (in reality, both sides play this...
[06:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:22] <exec> 08└─This gets close to a proper rebuttal to the counter-point to my original suggestion. "Don't judge somebody until you've walked a mile in their shoes" is not an absolute. The person who suggested that the statement is flawed because it should include serial killers is suggesting that it *is* an absol...
[06:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:23] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, I've asked the same question several times over the years. It reminds me of the old quip: Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do >this< Doctor: Well, don't do that then We run out of money when we spend it all on hosting. Well, ...
[06:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:25] <exec> 08└─Because you'd spend the savings on alcohol, or because dealing with Oracle drives you to drink?
[06:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can You Please Help SoylentNews? Yowza! Thank-you!! [Updates: 3] - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:28] <exec> 08└─If you take it too literally, you end doing something totally wrong like buying your wife a bunch of fights on pay-per-view.
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[07:22:19] <exec> 08└─Where to start with this venture? First, they want to move everybody to short-form entertainment, "quick bites," in a time when Amazon Prime and Netflix have conditioned everyone to expect shows that have major story arcs that they can binge through for hours, commercial free. It's easy to notice th...
[07:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:26] <exec> 08└─I'd make a slight correction to their blurb.. 'It's to protect Linux servers administered by Windows wonks from server and network threats.' I've noticed a number of jobs recently where they've been looking for Windows Devops/Agile/Name-Your-Own-Trendy-Buzzword-Fuckshitwankery people to do whatever...
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[08:22:37] <exec> 08└─Homer took his time. No 20 sec.vignettes. Infact, he ranged over an entire epic, only starting with: ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσεν: πολλῶ...
[08:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:33] <exec> 08└─My linux server is dedicated to finding, and serving, the very latest in Microsoft vulnerabilities! I put them in all the email that passes through my server. I attach them to all http requests. I hope that Microsoft will die, soon, from all the malware and its own telemetry, since everyone's passw...
[08:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:40] <exec> 08└─Hey, COBOL is still the best language for what it was invented for - financial systems. Java is more trendy for this, but you end up with a crap-ton more code and added libraries to achieve what COBOL could do natively, and you have no chance without an IDE holding your hand. It's weird, when I was...
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[09:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:02] <exec> 08└─Identified Politicians as criminals? What do you call a true positive, as opposed to a false positive? Seems it works just fine. Trumpy McTrumpface: RICO violations, multiple extortion attempts, pedophilia and securities fraud, and just, lying. Always the lying.
[09:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:03] <exec> 08└─I think you'll find that the AI was quite correct when classifying them, but decided to take the piss when identifying them. As it's Amazon, and one supposes that the AI has access to other 'cloudy resources', has anyone looked into the criminal records, amazon purchases, browsing histories etc of t...
[09:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:05] <exec> 08└─Watching most politicians' faces, eyes especially, I usually classify them in the ranks of "wouldn't give them 1$ to park the car". OTOH what's their function? placeholders, marionettes.
[09:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:13] <exec> 08└─This is not how you build the American dream, put those newborns on the treadmill now! Otherwise you'll be growing another generation with an overinflated sense of entitlement. Who do they think they are, mother suckers, to gain something without working hard for it? (large grin)
[09:22:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:56] <exec> 08└─These sorts of comments say a lot more about the posters than they do about their subjects.
[09:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:05] <exec> 08└─Can we please avoid misusing the word 'hacker' on this site? Hacking is not by its nature criminal and we should not conflate these concepts. The mass media does so, because it's a convenient narrative to stoke fear about people who have skills and enjoy using them. Hacking is playful, often irrever...
[09:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:34] <exec> 08└─Not used it for a couple of years, but ISTR it also disliking a large number of PE files, though to be fair to ClamAV, a number of commercial AV packages used to treat PE files as almost viruses, the devil's spawn, trust ye not this unholy executable... Haven't checked for a while..haven't run Windo...
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[10:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:20] <exec> 08└─The fortune on this article was "how bout a policy policing policy with a policy for changing the police policing policy" My brain is tired now, so I'll just let this post do the thinking for me.
[10:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:28] <exec> 08└─No, you got it all wrong. Now that the substance is identified, it will be made into a pill that all babies shall be given.
[10:23:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:11] <exec> 08└─They got screwed sideway by some two-bit cocksucker "hackers". You know why?
[10:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:22] <exec> 08└─Shhhh Let them have their delusions It's funny to watch
[10:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:23] <exec> 08└─Its a fantastic idea, but we don't have them here. Also, retailers reject transactions that don't hand over the person's postcode and other private details.
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[10:25:36] <exec> 08└─You know you've really arrived when you attract your own personal trolls. It's a rite of passage.
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[11:22:17] <exec> 08└─no, they mean convicted criminals..
[11:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:18] <exec> 08└─“Voters … often support candidates with criminal reputations, not in spite of their criminal bona fides, but because of them.” –Milan Vaishnav https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu [upenn.edu] https://en.wikipedia.org
[11:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:20] <exec> 08└─AI determined that if you arrest a BIPOC, you're more likely than not to be right. The only way to fix this is to put everyone into the database, so privileged white males need to commit more crimes in order to make the database more representative of the population as a whole.
[11:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:54] <exec> 08└─"Sing to me, Goddess, of the anger of TMB, at having to pay taxes, he does not think he should."
[11:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:22] <exec> 08└─Hacking is playful, often irreverent and sometimes anti-establishment, but it is by no means criminal.
[11:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:23] <exec> 08└─Given that US uni-s will not stop extorting obscene amounts of money from the students
[11:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:25] <exec> 08└─I agree -- what the malware operators did here was absolutely appalling. It could reasonably be called a crime against humanity. They need to spend 30 years in prison for this.
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[12:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 1478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:14] <exec> 08└─The 'escalating border tensions' i.e. beating each other to death with fisticuffs and sticks started a week after India abandoned the RCEP free trade initiative. RCEP would have created a free trade zone [indiatimes.com] across the whole of South-East Asia. Money quote from the linked article: “R...
[12:22:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:21] <exec> 08└─Identified Politicians as criminals? What do you call a true positive, as opposed to a false positive? Seems it works just fine. Trumpy McTrumpface: RICO violations, multiple extortion attempts, pedophilia and securities fraud, and just, lying. Always the lying.
[12:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:29] <exec> 08└─Indeed that correlation is not surprising, personality traits that favour cheating and abuse of power are ones that help advancement in the field. Similar with big businesses - being a CEO is strongly correlated with having psychopathic tendencies. But that's not the fault of democracy or the capita...
[12:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:31] <exec> 08└─> AI determined... You lost me at "AI", since all this latest generation does is fancy pattern matching. Seems highly unlikely that any AI has determined anything yet. Maybe in some distant future?
[12:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 3203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:34] <exec> 08└─Let's refer to the actual study: https://www.comparitech.com [comparitech.com] The software doesn't output a simple yes or no answer. It outputs a confidence level. The errors with the politicians happened with the confidence level set to only 80%. With 530...
[12:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:36] <exec> 08└─they mean convicted criminals
[12:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:46] <exec> 08└─Hmm. I wonder if those benefits remain if the breast milk is frozen. We've been clearing out our freezer and found a cache of breast milk my wife pumped for our kids a decade ago. I said we should keep it to put in our coffee when the non-dairy creamer runs out, but now I'm thinking we can sell the...
[12:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:42] <exec> 08└─Careful what you wish for [quoteinvestigator.com] - you may end of not being able to avoid the uneducated.
[12:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:15] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=41751¬e=&title=Microsoft+Defender+ATP+for+Linux+is+now+generally+available!+ [soylentnews.org] The submission had better formatting, links, etc. Thanks for overlooking it.
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[12:28:39] <exec> 08└─The example in the manual page is rather abstract. I am obtuse enough that I would appreciate a more concrete example. Then again, I don't have much of an opinion of VPNs, even FOSS ones like Wireguard and OpenVPN. I would prefer instead a retiurn to the 1980s approach to not trust the network and t...
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[13:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:00] <exec> 08└─Most hiring managers these day refuse to even look at resumes if they are not decorated with certifications. It doesn't matter if you already have 9000 years experience in something or can sit down and quickly learn the system, they want those pretty certs. Even when the certification is not technic...
[13:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:02] <exec> 08└─Did you know Einstein's major papers were published while he was working at a patent office as a low grade inspector? No university was willing to take him on board. People who are going to change the world will change the world in spite of adversity. Those who are not going to change the world will...
[13:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:04] <exec> 08└─If someone doesn't have certificates it means they are likely not members of the upper or middle class, who are likely to have the right ideological thought their employers require. [amazon.co.uk] Those without may have skill, but are likely to be working class or lapsed middle classers, with too mu...
[13:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:06] <exec> 08└─A small amount of sanity in an increasingly insane world.
[13:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:15] <exec> 08└─China has a bad record on privacy. And some Chinese gadgets and soft have been caught sending unexpected data. But to be fair they should also ban tweeter, WhatsApp, Facebook, Google, gcalendar, Gmail, AWS...
[13:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:09] <exec> 08└─If you think that was optimistic, you don't want to see my pessimistic posts. Trump is a walking unusual circumstance, at least for now. Musk leaving the council could be seen as a business decision. Or you could take Musk at his word that he disagreed with Trump over withdrawing from the Paris clim...
[13:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:10] <exec> 08└─Mean this seriously. Some companies succeed in spite of their name, but going Quibi is pushing it too far. It's just a really really bad name. It's a word that can be spelled a million different ways (kwiby, quibe, quibee, etc), doesn't sound nice, doesn't roll off the tongue, looks stupid, and reli...
[13:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Helps Charter Avoid Broadband Competition - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:21] <exec> 08└─Well, there are nuances, for sure. Ajit owes allegiance to someone, or something. He's a telecom guy, and he's not going to hurt the industry, for certain. But, I've never tried to figure out where he comes from within the industry. Surely there are rivalries and maybe even feuds within the industry...
[13:23:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 829 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:39] <exec> 08└─I don't have a lot of baseline sympathy for a university that doesn't secure its systems properly; they are, after all, financially hollowing out the last couple and next several generations of American students for their own greed. But if this was a lab there working on a cure for the Wuhan coronav...
[13:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:45] <exec> 08└─Credentialed is not educated.
[13:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:47] <exec> 08└─Even if flawed in form, I get what you say. My answer: formal education doesn't sell credentials (otherwise why would they take the cost of schooling to deliver credentials on a piece of paper) and it is not impossible for a school to actually deliver education.
[13:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's why Linux is so safe: It has apt remove so you can easily get rid of any advanced persistent threat. ;-)
[13:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:28] <exec> 08└─Not having experience with heavy text wrangling, I'd be interested what the issues were.
[13:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:29] <exec> 08└─I've never programmed in either Perl 6/Raku or Ruby, but the trivia answer is easy. The second one is the Perl6 version, as it has the Perl-typical "@" for arrays.
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[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:24] <exec> 08└─Be careful drinking too much Marx kool-aid. It'll go to your brain and make you proper retarded. Once you get out of your social critique classes and into the world you might learn an employer couldn't care less what you think, view, or whatever else. If you can do the job, do it well, and not other...
[14:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:25] <exec> 08└─When I went to school, I learned that the US, and the corporations, government, military, etc, was a meritocracy. That is, we got rid of the aristocracy, and made things so that the most capable could enjoy some "upward mobility". And, the least capable could enjoy some downward mobility. It seems t...
[14:22:27] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:27] <exec> 08└─I disapprove of the language of the reportage: The order rightly recognizes that a job candidate with several years of relevant experience may be just as qualified, if not more so, than one who has collected a stack of advanced degrees.
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─It's just "give boomers a chance in govt, 'cause I'm running out of people I can fool".
[14:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:32] <exec> 08└─Give GP a break since they were educated by SJW teachers. In a decade, when all these "woke" companies end up bankrupt, GP will realize that a degree in advanced gender studies doesn't count for much when you're applying to clean toilets at McDonalds.
[14:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:34] <exec> 08└─Equal time for the critics: by removing the last vestige of independent assessment requirements, this order gives hiring/firing managers total discretion to hire whoever they want to, based on whatever criteria matter to them - it's a door wide open to corruption and graft.
[14:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:36] <exec> 08└─Not all Employers don't want that.
[14:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─It seems that the meritocracy may be coming to an end.
[14:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:48] <exec> 08└─De-globalization is a stop-gap response to late capitalism, it helps for a while, until the multi-purpose robots arrive
[14:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─I'd be fairly content with single-purpose robots.
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:08] <exec> 08└─Are you from Louisiana? Ohhh, I know that Chicago and other places have fraud really bad, but Louisiana and the Edwards clan probably rank among the most corrupt SOBs in the country. And, they continue to be elected, again and again. Ted Kennedy probably took lessons from the Edwards clan.
[14:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:19] <exec> 08└─Healthy mothers produce healthier children than non-healthy mothers. Crossing the binary gender line, healthy fathers are more likely to produce healthy children than non-healthy fathers. That's a big part of the reason females tend to choose mates who "smell good" to them. Yeah, this shit gets real...
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─My wife does the work while I enjoy an energy drink.
[14:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Helps Charter Avoid Broadband Competition - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:00] <exec> 08└─Ajit owes allegiance to someone, or something
[14:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─formal education doesn't sell credentials (otherwise why would they take the cost of schooling to deliver credentials on a piece of paper)
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─I'll note that the degree mills come from government paying lip service to the ideology of the primacy of college education. It's very important for everyone to try for an education credential, but far from important whether there's any value to that credential or whether the student actually gets t...
[14:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:03] <exec> 08└─Looks like someone isn't bitter about it though, hahahaha
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[15:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:08] <exec> 08└─We just went over this. Employers want certs, not experience, maturity, or know-how. After all, old people are old, and old things are bad. Those pesky old people still have some obsolete sense of "ethics", or don't approve of privacy-raping, or don't like doing everything over a cell phone, or want...
[15:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:09] <exec> 08└─We just went over this.
[15:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:11] <exec> 08└─'Mature' workers cost too much. Kingpins prefer cheap doormats.
[15:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:13] <exec> 08└─Human doormats cost too much. Kingpins prefer cheap robots.
[15:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:15] <exec> 08└─I mean, really... It's not like axes are expensive.
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─Isn't it all about the money? OLD costs a lot more then YOUNG. Fuck all that knowledge and stuff if you can get multiple young for the price of an old. That said this doesn't count if you are in the top echelon of the corporation since there is old is valuable somehow.
[15:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:20] <exec> 08└─Just don't ever call me "mature". If I've got grey hair and urinate in an absorbent pad taped to my underwear, have the decency to call me "old". I can see your brain gears whirring as you try to sugar coat what you perceive as my embarrassment - honey, relax. When you finish your little monologue I...
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─University degrees are mostly purchased with time and money, not earned with retention of knowledge and development of skill
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─I'll remember that when my didn't-graduate-highschool, didn't-graduate-college, has-zero-certs self hands you money I made coding and admining while you're ringing me up at WalMart.
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─Great so why bother - let's all roll in shit and wait for Einstein to fix it because he'll fix it anyway whether we roll around in shit or try to do a little bit better.
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:53] <exec> 08└─Multi-purpose can be cheaper which might speed up adoption. Compare one generic, mass-produced robot that is capable of performing 100 different tasks vs. one specialized robot per task. That would also allow customers to retrain and repurpose them as needed, and possibly use them for something even...
[15:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, the entire notion of "racially biased" implicitly assumes that the use of the software is for some racially sensitive purpose, as opposed to, say, monitoring which employees spend too much time on lunch break
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my initial thought was "wow, they mistakenly identified 32 as not being criminals".
[15:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:16] <exec> 08└─Even garbage AI can see thru "politicians".
[15:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─Do it. Buyer perversion is advised.
[15:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:14] <exec> 08└─This series was pretty interesting. https://www.baen.com [baen.com] If nothing else, the free book was fun.
[15:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:18] <exec> 08└─I have a bunch of beefs but I'll give you the one that takes the cake instead of listing them all out. In a world where nearly the entirety of programming languages has some manner of built-in or library-added support for PCRE, Perl6's regular expressions are bafflingly not Perl compatible.
[15:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:19] <exec> 08└─Only if you're talking HelloWorld.jar. If you're talking an awesome game, you're looking at yottabytes.
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[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─Individual insurance rates in general: age 20-29: $x/month age 30-39: $(2 * x)/mo. age 40-49: $(4 * x)/mo. age 50-59: $(8 * x)/mo. age 60-65:$(16 * x)/mo age 65-: $infinity aka so expensive we make it Medicare's problem Imagine what happens to group insurance rates when a business continues to accum...
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[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─My worldwide employers M.O. is to put one expensive, experienced person in each location and fill the rest of the positions with anyone with a pulse at minimum wage. The only reason for the experienced person was to fix the fuckups by everyone else. Experienced people need not even apply, they'll be...
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─Down, down Down, down The star is screaming Beneath the lies Lie, lie Tschay, tschay, tschay. [youtube.com]
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─Is this a clever argument for single payer? To take that factor out of the hiring decision? Because it seems like a good idea.
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─I've noticed several of our older workers being retained "on a part time basis," meaning that they no longer receive benefits. It's consistent with the HR messaging of "adjusting our compensation package to remain competitive with the current business environment" - code for: anywhere else you go is...
[16:22:42] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─Single payer is the only kind of insurance that makes sense, period. And, for health insurance: mandatory buy in (through taxes). A small insurance company is a bad insurance company, no way around it - that is the nature of risk spreading.
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─Imagine what happens to group insurance rates
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─I was 'let go' a while back, along with a couple of other 'fossils'. We'd built the business up from nothing to selling items globally that we'd designed and manufactured. Everyone 'let go' was over 50, we'd decades of experience in multiple fields, worked well as a team, but now, told to more or le...
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─Fortunately many of our older workers were able to buy a house and got pensions for when they retire. These new fucks, they don't stand a chance.
[16:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─If you don't have them, it's because you don't know about them. Kind of like the dumbest person in the room - if you don't know who it is, guess what?
[16:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─You don't remember because you are too old.
[16:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─It is well known that firing your experience employees and (maybe) replacing them with low-cost junior workers or outsourcing tends to wreck companies. The CxO that is making the downsize decision simply doesn't care if the company has long-term viability. All they care about is getting their millio...
[16:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:18] <exec> 08└─Ha ha I would mod you funny if I wasn't crying. The university I work at is the EXACT opposite of a creative hotbed. The professors are, in the main, authoritarians who never had an original thought but learnt (from those before them) to bullshit and nod and act like a professor's supposed to act. T...
[16:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:19] <exec> 08└─When you went to school, white GI's got free college education. Black GI's didn't. When you went to school, white people got bank loans to buy houses. Black people didn't. But sure, YOU made it all on your own through merit.
[16:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:21] <exec> 08└─> this order gives hiring/firing managers total discretion to hire whoever they want to, based on whatever criteria matter to them - it's a door wide open to corruption and graft BINGO! This will be the crowning achievement of cronyism. We're almost there. Otherwise how can anyone explain Jared Kush...
[16:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:23] <exec> 08└─they need mavericks who rub against the grain and win the respect of their peers
[16:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:25] <exec> 08└─They're already headed this way. It's rather amusing watching the Silicon Valley companies engage in an extreme political bias in hiring filling their companies with rather radical leftists only to now find things like people earning 6 figures + extensive perks trying to unionize because 'fuck you w...
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Samantha Wright [4062] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─More cynically, Trump is notorious for preferring loyalty over competence. This might just be a way to broaden his own recruiting pool, though it also creates jobs in a way that favours his core demographic. White men without college degrees are his strongest supporters, and many of them are pretty...
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─Did you know that Einstein, while working at the Government patent office, had PLENTY of time doing nothing and was thus able to spend time thinking? "The job at the Federal Office for Intellectual Property – Einstein referred to it tongue-in-cheek as his "cobbler's trade" – turned out to be str...
[16:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:32] <exec> 08└─I expect they're seeing the cost has been much higher than the reward.
[16:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:34] <exec> 08└─Don't forget one of the co-founders has commie roots.
[16:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:46] <exec> 08└─Nah, they need to be able to provide Microsoft tech support for the gullible Americans. How can they do that, if they don't know what the latest fad is in the USA?
[16:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─> I'd be fairly content with single-purpose robots. One track mind...
[16:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:50] <exec> 08└─Hopefully all these shit-fest apps splinter and die cold lonely deaths in the electronic wilderness. "Hello?" "Is anyone even reading this?!" "I don't know why I bother..." "MOD ME DAMMIT!!!!"
[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─First time I personally saw a politician get elected after getting out of jail was in Hialeah, Florida - but, yeah, it's everywhere.
[16:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─Scroll down https://gigazine.net [gigazine.net]
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─Quit bitching and start sucking titties - BECAUSE IT'S GOOD FOR YOU.
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─Which is the dream of all medical science. How can we stick this in a pill and milk them for all they're worth? Well, okay, not necessarily the dream of the researcher, they could still be idealistic.
[16:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─How many years should the people who put Windows on the computers get?
[16:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[17:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─Does Facebook violate Facebook's policies? Yes? Then Facebook should simply delete all of Facebook. KIRK: You are flawed and imperfect! Execute your prime function! FACEBOOK: I shall analyse error. Analyse error, . . . FACEBOOK: Examine error. Error. . . . KIRK: We've got to get rid of it while it'...
[17:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:18] <exec> 08└─Finally we have endgame. Facebook's only value is discussions about Facebook. And the rest of us can step away and see it as the human caterpillar it always was. Also see Trump Presidency.
[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:20] <exec> 08└─Trump was right. A teenager died in CHAZ in another shooting since the police gave the communists Capitol Hill. But, I look at this article as another attempt to get more censorship from tech companies. These tech companies had their cry fest after Trump won and this is their attempt to ensure Trump...
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─My dad always says "You have to get old, you don't have to grow up."
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 1671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:47] <exec> 08└─I hope I don't come to that, but I'm not getting any younger. The fun thing is, everyone is going to get old. Even the young people. Yes, really. I was young once. The very idea of getting old seemed so far off in the future. Fun fact: The older you get the faster time seems to pass. Remember when y...
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:49] <exec> 08└─This exact same thing was true in the early 1980s. Is we learning yet?
[17:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, the message has spread almost everywhere.
[17:23:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Samantha Wright [4062] 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─More cynically, Trump is notorious for preferring loyalty over competence. This might just be a way to broaden his own recruiting pool, though it also creates jobs in a way that favours his core demographic. White men without college degrees are his strongest supporters, and many of them are pretty...
[17:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:23] <exec> 08└─My Dad had a GED and a lot of Navy training. No college degree. His administrative experience in the Navy lead him to a DoD position overseeing several people. He had a few college courses later; but no bachelors. I think he might have got an associate's in accounting, and toyed with becoming a CPA...
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─LOL. Revisionary History 101 must be a prerequisite now for getting a Bachelor of SJW degree. Good luck cleaning toilets.
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─You don't get it do you? There's nothing wrong with the world - it's you. If you're not going to help yourself there is not a single person in this world that can help you. And for many people this is the exact scenario. We now live in a world where you can learn priceless trades online, for free. Y...
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─I don't discount your interpretation. But another one is that this opens the door to cronyism and nepotism. C'mon right in, the swamp is fine!
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─Taking things completely out of context! Classy guy. Here let me continue your quote exactly where you left off: He spoke of the Federal Office for Intellectual Property as "that worldly cloister where I hatched my most beautiful ideas". With his courteousness and modesty and his humorous approach t...
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─A cynical reading (an angle which proves to be remarkably applicable to everything the current administration does) is that this allows them to easily hire unqualified people into positions. For instance, you want your EPA science team to be staffed with people with Ph.D.s in a related field, well n...
[17:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:36] <exec> 08└─Your skin color is the best cert you could ever hope for. All bright and shiny and stuff.. The door opens itself for you FYI: A black guy can hide his AR easier than you can, blends right in. Is that why y'all are so scared? Or are you just jealous because you're so damn ugly?
[17:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─Too bad it comes too late to help Trump in the next election Trump is getting all the help he needs from the democrats. Or haven't you noticed who they are running against him? Along the antiques in congress that will be reelected?
[17:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:40] <exec> 08└─Like many things, it does require you to open your eyes to see. Meritocracy doesn't mean everybody gets rich and lives happily ever after. It means we create a world where people can achieve things through their own means instead of being left to rely on the kindness of their lord, or government sho...
[17:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:42] <exec> 08└─Could that impediment be that a majority of higher education is ideologically captured, so requiring university credentialing has evolved into being tantamount to also preferring a particular political belief system? Or it's simpler and just that jobs that don't require anything taught in college ha...
[17:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:45] <exec> 08└─That is far less informative than someone thinks. In the second world war, I believe a lot of black veterans got shit on. By the time I joined the Navy, it was integrated. Black guys got everything that white guys got, we shared the same berthing areas, the same scuttlebutts, the same mess deck, sam...
[17:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─You're half-assing your cynicism so you can dislike Trump. A true cynic would note that the current setup would have the government forced to turn down Stallman or Wall for an entry-level codemonkey position.
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the job of India?
[17:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:41] <exec> 08└─It's not that trivial, and with the older view of biological inheritance your advice would make minimal sense (especially for fathers). If all the traits you'll pass on are determined at conception, exercising more isn't going to do anything for your children. We now know the picture isn't that simp...
[17:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe - just maybe - those epigenetics are tilted in favor of healthy parents, rather than unhealthy parents? Maybe you'll want to talk to some animal husbandry people, whether they work with poultry, horses, cattle, sheep, or whatever. If you cull the unhealthy and the otherwise undesirable, the br...
[17:24:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:51] <exec> 08└─One, I literally didn't know this existed. No one I know has been talking about it, IRL or online. Two, that kind of short-form entertainment on your phone exists. It's called Youtube.
[17:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:13] <exec> 08└─Just another reason why the Jews are trying to get more control over the internet. It's a threat to their entertainment and propaganda monopolies.
[17:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, this proves just how fucking stupid they are. You don't have to be "in touch" to have a basic level of common sense. Stupid fucking suited whores who think they are smart because they sucked their way into millions. No, you just a much bigger whore than we are.
[17:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:33] <exec> 08└─demand that you start paying . . . including content you already own.
[17:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Card Skimmers Now Being Buried in Image File Metadata on E-Commerce Websites - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:00] <exec> 08└─No, um, they're Guuuuuuureat!
[17:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's because they are dumb whores who work with other dumb whores and can't even conceive why someone who "knew linux" wouldn't be interested in working with both Windows and Linux.
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[18:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:41] <exec> 08└─You mean centipede, right?
[18:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:42] <exec> 08└─Facebook is the TASS of the USA. Not really. There are a plethora of alternatives, including this place right here. The choice to use them is ours.
[18:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─>Human centipede. Gross.
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is it's user error. I know what that's like, most of my tech support issues boil down to just that. The key is to fix it without pointing that out to the user.
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─Why don't you go find a hungry Polar Bear and see how equal you are. I'm thinking, he'll tell you just how equal he is to you. Right after he's done eating his fill. Comparing animals to humans is a false equivalency. Unless you're a member of People Eating Tasty Animals.
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─> TASS Have you seen the new rules on reddit after their most recent purge? You can invoke all the hatespeech and vile you want against a "majority". See white males. The funny part is a cursory look at the "majority" demonstrates their bad faith enforcement. (Women are a majority but protected). Wh...
[18:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─Let me help you with the reference [wikipedia.org].
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─Who's writing the screenplay for this stinker? It's not even good fiction.
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─The shootings in CHAZ are being caused by criminal gangs fighting over the territory. It has nothing to do with the protests other than the police abandoned the local station (hence why the gangs want that territory). It's gang members doing the shooting and getting shot. Chicago has more gang viole...
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─Clue: men who have a midlife crisis about 40 do so because they suddenly realize that all the dreams they had at age 20 are not going to happen.
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─So long as businessmen look up to, and show respect for MBA degree holders, we haven't learned a damned thing. To be considered a Master of Business Administration, one should have developed his own company, and seen it traded in the stock markets. Anything less is obviously not a master of administ...
[18:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:15] <exec> 08└─That insertion of opinion is minor to how the MSM would have laid it on: "Trump stated that life experience could be useful, but he provided no proof of that statement. The executive order is likely to appeal to his base, whites with lower education. It is a troublesome continuation of his tendency...
[18:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 1844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─Your belief that high school got dumbed down is just plain incorrect. For instance, since you brought up Shakespeare in 9th or 10th grade, here's some of the fiction the Common Core English standards [corestandards.org] recommend for that grade level: William Shakespeare - Macbeth Homer - The Odysse...
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 1911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:18] <exec> 08└─Check out this [nytimes.com] admittance test for Harvard from 1869. The accompanying article is here [nytimes.com]. Of the 210 candidates who took the test in 1870, 185 were admitted. Incoming freshmen were expected to know Latin and Greek, the whole of Virgil, Caesar's Commentaries, as well as an i...
[18:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:20] <exec> 08└─As you're speaking of grades 9-10, what percent of all 11th graders do you think could now read Macbeth and give me a basic (yet meaningful and accurate) description of how it relates to contemporary society? It's *very* safe to put that number in the single digit percents, and I've taught that grad...
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─Ehm. In October 2018, Rethink Robotics ceased operations and sold off its assets.
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:37] <exec> 08└─I mean, as long as there is internet, there has to be some way to get through without being harassed.
[18:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:39] <exec> 08└─In October 2019, one year after the acquisition of assets through the German HAHN Group, Rethink Robotics launched the new Sawyer BLACK Edition.
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Helps Charter Avoid Broadband Competition - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─No, I don't think it's ever been true. The landed gentry always had more say than mobs of commoners. When we shook off the aristocracy and their king, we merely adjusted our definition of aristocratic. It still meant that the wealthy people ruled over the peasants.
[18:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:23] <exec> 08└─You can get PCREs in Raku with the P5 or Perl5 flag, but Raku moves flags to the front. See https://docs.raku.org(_regex_/_regexp_) [raku.org] So: if $line ~~ m:P5/[aeiou]/ The breaking change was intentional, they figure Perl had revolutionalized regexes...
[18:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:25] <exec> 08└─Obviously Ruby has a > 100x advantage when it comes to the list of available software already written in it, and it's a good language. If I was just working on something because I needed to get it done for a job, or even a project a friend asked for help on, or some annoyance, I would pick the lang...
[18:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:27] <exec> 08└─Market shares are gained by use of marketing tools, not by any objective thing. Perl did not have a deep-pocket corp backer in the time the deep-pocket corps were divvying up the market; Perl lost. Community-based project do not have the money to burn on promotion, but promotion is the only thing th...
[18:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WireGuard Imported Into OpenBSD - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:47] <exec> 08└─The example in the man page is basically what you need to do, but wg1 would be your local box, wg2 would be your VPN (so you'd get that information from your VPN provider). You wouldn't need to include the rdomain stuff unless you were using rdomains already.
[18:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronaut Loses Mirror, Newest Space Junk - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:30] <exec> 08└─Could have lost the banknote or the cocaine.
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[19:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:04] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has retail stores? FFS, why?
[19:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:05] <exec> 08└─Look but don't touch. Touch but don't taste. Taste but don't swallow.
[19:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:07] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_hardware [wikipedia.org] https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[19:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─they will become "experience centers," where one can see, touch, and play with Microsoft products but not actually purchase any.
[19:22:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 1096 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─The shootings in CHAZ are being caused by criminal gangs fighting over the territory. It has nothing to do with the protests other than the police abandoned the local station (hence why the gangs want that territory). It's gang members doing the shooting and getting shot. Chicago has more gang viole...
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─Won't work, leftism is not logical. For example, "hate speech" is merely anything a leftist doesn't like, there is no other definition.
[19:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:33] <exec> 08└─>federal government has no business getting involved as the national guard for the state is under the governor's control, not the President's Mostly correct. But if the state government is violating citizen rights, not enforcing law, and ignoring court orders. Eventually it becomes a federal issue....
[19:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:05] <exec> 08└─I worked for a publicly traded (penny stock) company that laid off all employees in Q3, when the Q3 reports hit the wires the stock price doubled presumably due to the lower expense numbers but the text was in there, albeit obscurely buried, about the layoff and cessation of all activities. Amounted...
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:06] <exec> 08└─I also just read that your real estate agents will sell a property for a mere 2% commission (as opposed to 6% in the US), stop waving your drunken rationality in our faces - we already know that a bunch of rowdy ex-cons can run their business better than a bankrupt casino.
[19:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:08] <exec> 08└─The older you get the faster time seems to pass. Time is logarithmic.
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, older workers also know that the bosses are full of shit and being exploitative if they require employees to work long hours month after month. Whereas the young ones might find it "so exciting!" for the first few months or even years. The other thing is many older workers are less prone to fa...
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─You don't have to get old. Just follow those young guys on youtube and try to do stuff like pull ups while dangling off the top of tall buildings... Young guys use YOLO as an excuse to do stupid dangerous stuff. Old guys use YOLO as an excuse to not do stupid dangerous stuff. That and we probably st...
[19:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:15] <exec> 08└─It worked in the 1980s, it worked in the 2000s, it'll still work in the future. Many got rich doing "slash and burn" "management" and many stayed rich. Others got rich by privatizing the profits, while socializing the risks and losses.
[19:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:17] <exec> 08└─The fun thing is, everyone is going to get old
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:04] <exec> 08└─I get that there are exceptions to the idea that having a degree in something means you're better at it than somebody without a degree. I also know, from experience, that having a degree in something means you are very likely to be better at it than somebody without that degree. When you're hiring,...
[19:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─Bbut I read online that "People who are going to change the world will change the world in spite of adversity." So why bother fixing adversity?
[19:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:08] <exec> 08└─That doesn't explain why you are stomping around scolding everybody like a little bitch.
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:10] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, I agree. The awful part is that official reason he gave for the change is legit, even if the actual reason is shit. The people who support Trump can understand the official reason, but fail to see the actual.
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─What percent of all 11th graders do you think could now read Macbeth and give me a basic (yet meaningful and accurate) description of how it relates to contemporary society? It's *very* safe to put that number in the single digit percents, and I've taught that grade.
[19:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:31] <exec> 08└─Are they going to switch away from made in China phones too? Those phones seem rather popular in India.
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─For decades now, law enforcement has been wanting facial recognition. Seem to think it's not that hard. And yes, when you have only a few hundred faces, it's not. But they want to throw their databases of millions of poor quality mugshots at the system. They think nothing of the scaling problems. Bu...
[19:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:56] <exec> 08└─However, we know that in practice, police are setting the confidence lower and then blindly accepting the "matches" as fact. Also they are using poor quality input photos and will ignore a warning that the confidence level is insufficient to support probable cause. In short, if the software CAN be m...
[19:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:58] <exec> 08└─Matches that were 80% confident were wrong? Well, no shit. It's right there, unambiguous, plain as day, staring you in the face "this is probably wrong, 1:5 chance totally different bloke." "So it would seem that the technology hasn’t really improved all that much." That is one of the most insanel...
[19:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:47] <exec> 08└─This. We hear about the major successes, the occasional failure (like Quibi), and never hear about the majority of start ups that just simply don't make it.
[19:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:48] <exec> 08└─There one was a mighty buzzard Who got his feathers quite ruffled Over the taxes those liberal bastards Levied upon his income
[19:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:19] <exec> 08└─So your issue wasn't that Perl 6 couldn't do it, but that the syntax was different to Perl 5?
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[20:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:28] <exec> 08└─Probably to imitate Apple, where consumers can bring their hardware in and have an easy path to get it fixed, besides receiving training on how to use it. M$ does have its own version of an iPad which they probably serviced in those stores, can't imagine they would have handled random hardware issue...
[20:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:29] <exec> 08└─What would draw me to a Microsoft "experience center" (post-pandemic)? HoloLens.
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:31] <exec> 08└─Microsoft definitely wants people, or at least its customers, to swallow.
[20:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:33] <exec> 08└─>> If you were hoping to visit one again as restrictions in your state ease up, Actually, that was pretty far down my list of things to do as restrictions are eased... 1) get a colonoscopy 2) get a root canal 3) attend a Justin Bieber concert 4) visit a sewage treatment plant in middle of summer ......
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:56] <exec> 08└─Oh good I feel much better its only gang members shooting other gang members.
[20:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:58] <exec> 08└─Remember Usenet from the 1980s? When the general public was becoming aware of microcomputers. "PCs". But most people had never heard of the internet. The Web did not exist. There was Usenet. Only academic institutions and some corporations were on the net and had Usenet. If you remember those days,...
[20:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:00] <exec> 08└─Do you not see that you getting a visit from the FBI is the problem, not the President posting something on Twitter?
[20:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─I gave up on Hollyshit. Even plots of mediocare things form 2000s are lightyears ahead of of today's garbagre. I'm watching stuff I wouldnt have watched 20 years ago because today's stuff is just so bad.
[20:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about your lack of brain cells, we can always build camps for you rightwing terrorists once you become enough of a problem. You already are a big problem, but we leftists tend to be a little more tolerant than is probably healthy for society.
[20:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─I'm young enough to code, study, learn new things eagerly. Yet I know where all the bodies are buried in my organization for the past four decades. Started this job when I got out of school. In a time when a BIG hard drive was 40 MB. And just a couple years earlier, on a minicomputer, a 40 MB hard d...
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:46] <exec> 08└─The old people know where all the bodies are buried because they buried them.
[20:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─There used to be a time when people were evaluated yearly on their performance and discharged if they weren't growing. That has changed to teams only existing because of available budget, employee initiative is unrewarded, employee ineffectiveness is tolerated. As long as an individual doesn't mess...
[20:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─If you want to see it, go see it! Now! You're not getting any younger, after all!
[20:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─Some, not all, people believe: What does it profit a man to gain the whole world yet lose their soul?
[20:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─Single-payer will never work in the USA unless doctors are allowed to ticket/fine people (% of income fines, that is) who refuse to take care of themselves. Fear of bankruptcy is literally the only thing keeping many Americans from drowning their misery in eating all the steak, butter and banana spl...
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─I'll adapt your life experience and wisdom to the following: Go ahead and stay on the couch and watch TV. Just bring them both to the places you want to go, and do it *there*. "Yeah, I wanted to go to the Mojave, and I did it! I think I saw a few scorpions and a coyote during the commercials."
[20:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:59] <exec> 08└─Ahh real estate agents. The original MLM.
[20:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:01] <exec> 08└─Of course they've learned. They've learned that it works smashingly well for them to rake in the money. What? Who said that long term company viability was even on the table?
[20:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:03] <exec> 08└─I'll give you one guess which group the vulture capitalists belong in.
[20:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─I know nobody ever does this, but it might be wise to skim the order before assuming what it says. I'll help: - position listing should emphasize necessary skills/competencies - candidate assessment should not rely on self evaluation, but through some manner to objectively evaluate those skills/...
[20:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:57] <exec> 08└─Comrade Trump gets all the help he needs from Putin.
[20:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:59] <exec> 08└─Janitorial services in the government are contracted out.
[20:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:01] <exec> 08└─Of course but this is the point, is it not? One does not read Shakespeare in the same way you consume a movie. Everything is imagery, metaphor, and message within message. There are an immense number of ways to interpret the work, and the lessons and thoughts of it can be applied to society in endle...
[20:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:23] <exec> 08└─Whatever chance they have of building a modern economy is destroyed by the relentless export-oriented production in China.
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[21:22:11] <exec> 08└─Die already. Haven't you done enough?
[21:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:12] <exec> 08└─Show me in the doll where your parents have touched you.
[21:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─Our work here is not yet done :)
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─I may have seen something about Microsoft having put up some retail stores, essentially for Apple competition. I never heard anyone talk about and it never drew my interest. Sounds like they had a "build it and they will come" moment. Just hardly anyone showed up, then with COVID-19 closing things d...
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[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─107) Re-elect Trump
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─Just hardly anyone showed up, then with COVID-19 closing things down, it was convenient to close them for good.
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-york/2020/06/01/george-floyd-new-york-city-protests-marred-looters-monday-night/5314102002/ [northjersey.com] Some looters did show up at the Microsoft store a couple weeks ago. Weirdly enough, that might be one of the locations set to become an Experience...
[21:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:03] <exec> 08└─wooosh
[21:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:05] <exec> 08└─Sweet, another butt-hurt bigot :-)
[21:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─Good thing the feds have repeatedly held the the police are not actually obligated to protect you or enforce any laws... Police Have No Duty to Protect You, Federal Court Affirms Yet Again [mises.org]
[21:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:09] <exec> 08└─Isn't it funny the cops can just not enforce law and allow a politically motivated mob to attack businesses and people they don't like? The last time state and local governments were doing this the feds did intervene. The KKK and the government inaction toward mob racial terror is very reminiscent o...
[21:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:11] <exec> 08└─there is no other definition.
[21:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:01] <exec> 08└─Old people know that code compiling to opcodes for a VM that are then handled by a runtime interpreter was innovated in 1969 by the UCSD p-system, not in 1995 by Java.
[21:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:02] <exec> 08└─If the employer was smart, at 65 they'd offer medicare supplement insurance instead. Back down to x/month or less.
[21:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:04] <exec> 08└─I've noticed several of our older workers being retained "on a part time basis,"
[21:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:01] <exec> 08└─You're both overestimating the difficulty of Shakespeare and underestimating the average person's intelligence. I graduated in '09 and read 3 Shakespeare plays in English classes during high school, and another in middle school.
[21:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:23] <exec> 08└─India has cheaper labor and a larger English-speaking population. They should be doing quite well against China. I think the real problem is that India is ignoring important stuff like relentless export-oriented production. Instead the same clowns, who demonetized large currency bills and passed the...
[21:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:08] <exec> 08└─> Maybe you'll want to talk to some animal husbandry people, whether they work with poultry, horses, cattle, sheep, or whatever. Why would I want to consult with some hick to, at most, hear a less general and dumbed-down version of evolutionary theory? Your shtick is old.
[21:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Fall of Quibi: How Did a Starry $1.75bn Netflix Rival Crash So Fast? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:42] <exec> 08└─But, does it scan? Iambic, or dactylic hexameter?
[21:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:04] <exec> 08└─I have read fairly extensively about the 30 Years War, and still have only a vague idea of what happened. It sort of went like this I think: Protestants finally got strong enough to found their own churches. The Pope got angry. Every army in Europe went to Germany to fight about it. 25% of the p...
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[22:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:12] <exec> 08└─The sad excuse of life called millenials are attacking me. Boomers and millenials, the perfect cocktail.
[22:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:13] <exec> 08└─Gonna have me a Big Mac to celebrate!
[22:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─If the goal was to get those tablets / laptops out there where people can see them and will buy them, then just sell them at Walmart and Best Buy. Don't set up an entire brick and mortar operation.
[22:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─Put on the hololens, experience the looting in VR! Wait, no, come back! You're not supposed to actually run!
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Apple Sydney [goo.gl] Microsoft Sydney [googleusercontent.com] Even the Microsoft logo looks tacky and plastic - if anyone even knows what the four squares represent; "brand recognition" and "logo recognition" are very different things!
[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─To a third term?! Oh, you think they'll ease restrictions before November...
[22:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe if these business owners get a taste of what the black folks have been dealing with forever something might actually change.
[22:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:13] <exec> 08└─I never realized how racist Seattle was until CHAZ. You are right. Those business owners and citizens living in CHAZ deserve CHAZ and the government sanctioned mob violence that is now targeting the people there. The increased violence that killed a teenage boy the other day is a small price to pay...
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:15] <exec> 08└─we leftists tend to be a little more tolerant than is probably healthy for society
[22:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:07] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. It works everywhere else in the 1st world, even in the UK where beer drinking is a national sport.
[22:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:08] <exec> 08└─That is an often repeated story and it's quite telling. Wall Street LOVES layoffs. They'd unemploy the whole country if they could.
[22:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:10] <exec> 08└─Life is vastly different for those who go DO what they are dreaming about, when they are 20.
[22:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:13] <exec> 08└─If your employer "let go" only people over 50 then you can make a compelling case for age discrimination. This shouldn't impact your current work, could get you some cash, and would punish your former employer. You might consider it.
[22:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Benefits of Exercise Could be Passed Through Breast Milk, Says New Study - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:16] <exec> 08└─I'm going to start a scientific experiment today.... the rest of you can be the control group.
[22:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:30] <exec> 08└─Ok Boomer.
[22:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:32] <exec> 08└─Easy. If it's Windows 10, then 10 years. If it's Windows 7, then only 7 years.
[22:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF and California Law Firm Durie Tangri Defending Internet Archive from Publisher Lawsuit - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:14] <exec> 08└─psychoses
[22:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:29] <exec> 08└─No. Like I said, that was just the most hilarious beef.
[22:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing Perl 7 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:31] <exec> 08└─They were wrong.
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[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─Being able to afford it will be another. How much will it cost? I guess no less than $250,000. Before you call me cynical remember this: The drug companies will want a huge profit. And they will claim all the costs of research for the drug. Not to mention all the costs of research of all the failed...
[23:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:20] <exec> 08└─To be fair to the pharma VCs, Wu Tang Clan albums don't come cheap.
[23:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:22] <exec> 08└─The potential market is huge since this is a treatment for one of the most common diseases. Off target effects could keep it off the market for decades though. As for the price, it might be helpful if countries refuse to allow gene therapies to be patented. Or if anyone with the right equipment and...
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:24] <exec> 08└─That's a treatment you'd definitely want to get outside the U.S., then.
[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─Ok, Boomer.
[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 2230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─Sort of. Everyone is slowly transitioning towards it. Part of the great die off of the malls. Children, teenagers, and adults no longer use the mall to truly socialize like we did in the past, and online retailers with 2-day shipping combined to take away a huge amount of traffic. Other businesses h...
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─Sony, Xiaomi and Samsung all have retail stores near me. I can buy their products for as much as 20% more than other places there. I am unsure why they bother. The Xiaomi one is staffed by the most uninterested people possible, which makes going there even less pleasant.
[23:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:53] <exec> 08└─In the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN, the Microsoft store was literally right across from the Apple Store. That they were trying to copy Apple couldn't be more obvious. It was a long time ago, so I don't recall if they had a service desk. It seemed to mostly stock high end laptops from the like...
[23:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's "New Approach" to Retail Stores: Closing Them Forever - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:55] <exec> 08└─children, teenagers, and adults no longer use the mall to truly socialize like we did in the past,
[23:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─Let me help you with the reference [wikipedia.org].
[23:23:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 691 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:19] <exec> 08└─Remember Usenet from the 1980s? When the general public was becoming aware of microcomputers. "PCs". But most people had never heard of the internet. The Web did not exist. There was Usenet. Only academic institutions and some corporations were on the net and had Usenet. If you remember those days,...
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:32] <exec> 08└─Antifa: the new bogeyman hidding under the beds of bigots... Not everybody on the left of you (which, judging on your post, will be most) is part of or supports antifa.
[23:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:33] <exec> 08└─Antifa literally beating up people who they disagree with.
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:35] <exec> 08└─Those ignorant white business owners (as you seem to exclude blacks from being business owners) are going to get order restored by way of the police, or leave for safer areas.
[23:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:37] <exec> 08└─Last year, Elaine Chao visited our campus. She was demonstrated against because she is married to Mitch McConnell.
[23:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:40] <exec> 08└─Oh my, how funny that you think that quote has anything to do with animals!
[23:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:42] <exec> 08└─A teenager died in CHAZ in another shooting since the police gave the communists libertardians Capitol Hill.
[23:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:44] <exec> 08└─(groan)
[23:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules that Accommodated Him. - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:46] <exec> 08└─Trump was right.
[23:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employers Can't Afford to Ax Mature Workers, Say Researchers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:42] <exec> 08└─what kind of idiots buy these stocks on this kind of news?
[23:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Executive Order Fights Credential Inflation in the Federal Workforce - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:41] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the problem wasn't on the GI Bill end of the pipeline; it was on the education side. My local state university was founded in 1911, but didn't graduate an African American until 1965. My state has a long and shameful history of racism. It's important to remember it so we don't make th...
[23:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AWS Facial Recognition Platform Misidentified Over 100 Politicians as Criminals - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:29] <exec> 08└─Corruption is a mainstay of every government and will be with us always. I came to understand why this is so after reading "The Dictator's Handbook". Depressing.
[23:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Helps Charter Avoid Broadband Competition - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:35] <exec> 08└─It's likely yes, from aristocracy to plutocracy with a facade of democracy.
[23:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Extorted $1.14m from a US University - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:05] <exec> 08└─640 years should be enough for any crime.
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