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[00:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:50] <exec> 08└─You get your twitter account banned for being a nazi? How about: https://thehornnews.com [thehornnews.com] the BLM leader who made fake threats against black students in order to incite violence. Sounds not only neo-Nazi but like terrorism. But it's...
[00:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:51] <exec> 08└─Naturally they still have their twitter account active. They are the "good" guys, even tho they have a massive banner image on top that says "The only good Fascist is a dead one!", and they are all dressed up in standard AFA outfits with skimasks or hoods. Still not enough apparently. So I would ass...
[00:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:53] <exec> 08└─Well you won't find any argument from me or probably many other liberal types on here. The double standard is fucked, very likely just another salvo in the culture wars.
[00:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:55] <exec> 08└─But it's OK to discriminate against white people, I forgot
[00:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:58] <exec> 08└─Try reporting the accounts. I wonder if a large portion of this lopsided behavior is simply that there is a larger community reporting on the alt-right and not so many reporting all the other violent/hateful accounts.
[00:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:00] <exec> 08└─The amount of hammer and sickle people are scarey, they all represent an ideology that wants armed rebellion and uprising and mass-murder on an epic scale
[00:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:02] <exec> 08└─Why do you think that is, exactly?
[00:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:04] <exec> 08└─Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party? Seriously, when you have to make a list of who you can affiliate with, something is dreadfully wrong. I get it, these guys are scum, but can we at least pretend for a moment that we have already learned the answer isn't witch hunts...
[00:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:06] <exec> 08└─You sound like a witch, or at least a heretic. The inquisition will be in touch.
[00:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:09] <exec> 08└─show me on this doll where the inquisition touched you...
[00:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─Aha! Voodoo* practitioner! To the stake with you! *) I actually know very little of the actual religion, I'm relying on TV portrayal here - apologies...
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:13] <exec> 08└─Right in the pussy!
[00:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:16] <exec> 08└─Burning people at the stake, but being PC about it. Holy shit, perhaps Faux News has been reporting the failure of society correctly.
[00:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:18] <exec> 08└─1. She posted anonymously so there's no account to ban. 2. She was charged for making those threats and eventually pled guilty. [independent.co.uk] So no, you aren't being persecuted here.
[00:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:20] <exec> 08└─Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
[00:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:23] <exec> 08└─Triple Stadard, please: There's the violent extremists from the right (Boo! Out!), from the left (Yuck!), and then the Orange one (UNLIMITED TWEETS!!!!!)
[00:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:25] <exec> 08└─Why do you think that is, exactly? I think it's because the far right is much more violent than the far left. Antifa hasn't shot up any churches or schools lately...
[00:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:27] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/realira?lang=en [twitter.com] Also Sinnfeinireland are there any Basque or Catalonian twitter accounts?
[00:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:29] <exec> 08└─You keep trying to associate the alt-right with neo-Nazis, white nationalists, assorted racists, fascists... Let's see: the Nazis supported gun control, large government, forced union membership, blocking free speech like Twitter does, animal rights, a non-capitalist economy, strong government contr...
[00:13:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:40] <exec> 08└─These findings were made by the independent, nonpartisan FCC Office of Inspector General an Inspector General. However, the findings were not made public prior to Thursday’s vote.
[00:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:11] <exec> 08└─It doesn't break video streaming, because those streams are already very encrypted for copy-protection purposes. Streaming has always been throttled by where it's coming from, not what the content looks like.
[00:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:12] <exec> 08└─I said NOTHING about net neutrality itself (which, for the record, I am pro-net neutrality). I'm focusing more on the way most people view political issues: not for the content of the issue itself, but for who is or is not against it. Google, Twitter, Facebook et al. came out as pro-left, and now th...
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─Gotcha, guess all your points are on topic and not flamebaiting. It is good to give the context with your initial comment so people don't assume the rest.
[00:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:16] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should read the constitution.
[00:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:19] <exec> 08└─"This is the same kind of dysfunction that doomed the Soviet Union." Your description of the Soviet kleptocracy is correct, but the Soviet system also had to arm itself into bankruptcy thanks to American defense spending. The Joneses were impossible to keep up with.
[00:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:48] <exec> 08└─Apple... fuck!
[00:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The US Pushed Sweden to Take Down The Pirate Bay - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:13] <exec> 08└─and they all lived happily ever after (except for TPB and sweden and canada)
[00:15:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 556 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:39] <exec> 08└─The Federal Aviation Administration routinely includes the following language when approving anything related to aircraft software: In addition, the operating systems for current airplane systems are usually and historically proprietary. Therefore, they are not as susceptible to corruption from worm...
[00:16:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Analysis of Microfossils Finds that Microbial Life Existed at Least 3.5 Billion Years Ago - 3449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:26] <exec> 08└─Cool, have to update my History of the Earth. One thing, is "primitive" really such a good way to describe the photosynthesis of those times? Especially when they just said it was "surprisingly sophisticated". There was no oxygen in the atmosphere then, and so photosynthesis had to be different. I c...
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:38] <exec> 08└─And then in that emulated Linux, you could run an alternative PDF viewer in order to safely read PDFs. ;-)
[00:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:40] <exec> 08└─Thunderbird doesn't seem to, at least using what I believe is the default of displaying simplified HTML (perhaps I set it to this years ago) and of course text. No idea about if you choose original HTML. Same with images.
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[01:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:42] <exec> 08└─Some ads are more equal than others :)
[01:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:44] <exec> 08└─So, ublock origin survives another stay of execution. Hey Google, guess what? I don't want any ads that aren't static. I don't want autoplay video. It pisses me off when I block an autoplay video but the video keeps loading, taking up my bandwidth. I have pirated CDs and movies I have to fit under m...
[01:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:46] <exec> 08└─People do need to get paid. That said, Web advertisers (and websites) need to lose the impression that consumers can be bombarded with ads without reacting. Cable TV subs are dropping, adblockers are becoming common, BECAUSE some assholes don't want to understand that the only time when people tune...
[01:12:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 890 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:57] <exec> 08└─Naturally they still have their twitter account active. They are the "good" guys, even tho they have a massive banner image on top that says "The only good Fascist is a dead one!", and they are all dressed up in standard AFA outfits with skimasks or hoods. Still not enough apparently. So I would ass...
[01:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:15] <exec> 08└─Finally... The ban hammer falls on the right after hundreds of non-mainstream-left were banned as Russian trolls (eg. Charlie Peach [medium.com]. The doubt about Trump Russia came from the left originally, but now it's being spun as a right talking point.... and there aren't many still around to a...
[01:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:16] <exec> 08└─The Alt-right (by definition) is just a group of people who voted wrong. I am not saying none of them are violent, but I have never heard any any popular organization/talking head who ever promoted violence and they are far down the statistics ladder on violence compared to ISIS affiliated people an...
[01:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─Well, for example, you see organized, loud, temper-tantrum protests by the loony-left whenever speakers like Milo or Shapiro whenever they are scheduled to speak. All they are doing is giving different opinion and they often get silenced by the protesters. You don't the right protesting in the same...
[01:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:21] <exec> 08└─Twitter does not in general ban people for breaking the law of being an awful human being. only breaking its rules and/or having the wrong opinions.
[01:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:23] <exec> 08└─Serously, Dude! Are you trying to get our beloved SoylentNews banned from Twitter? Citing references like miser.org and conservopaediaphile are almost guaranteed to get us added to that list of hateful violent sites that should be hidden from sight. See? Three different "cites".
[01:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:25] <exec> 08└─Did it ever occur to you, that this whole thing might be a ruse, a ploy, an "operation"? First, we make it look like Twitter, held in awe by Trump-voter types, is going to ban the alt-not-so-bright. Then they will moan and object, crying sensors chips of their "different opinion". So Twitter...
[01:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:27] <exec> 08└─Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
[01:13:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 359 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:53] <exec> 08└─- All areas of public policy are blatantly for sale to the highest bidder. Yes, including matters of war and peace. Nobody even pretends otherwise anymore. And no, that's not a partisan thing, because both major parties are doing exactly that, to the point where about 2/3 of a Congressman's job thes...
[01:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:13] <exec> 08└─It is simply incorrect. While a treaty may give the federal government some power, it cannot override the Constitution itself. If a treaty's terms required that the government blatantly violate the first amendment. that would not suddenly be constitutional.
[01:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:14] <exec> 08└─Well, the first time I saw a post like this, I thought that somebody was posting insight into a position that I could not understand, so I modded it up. It's now pretty clear that you're either trolling or completely delusional. You do realize that now that we don't have net neutrality, Google and T...
[01:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:45] <exec> 08└─CPUs do slow down when they start to overheat. Hard drives start failing and slow down as they have to rewrite data to different sectors behind the scenes. Etc... When XP came out people were upgrading computers every couple years. No one would have expected a laptop to be used for 15 years. There...
[01:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dexcheque [4758] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:14] <exec> 08└─We're looking at a crossfire of epic proportions here. Between those hard-right fundamentalists (but no one ever points a camera at them anymore), feminist-postmodernists (who believe sexual preference, along with everything else, is social construction in its entirety), and LBGTQRSVP (who believe t...
[01:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:36] <exec> 08└─It's my understanding that gmail's servers load and cache all embedded images when an email is received. When you view the email in gmail's web interface, it loads the cached images from google's server. Thus any tracking images will see exactly one ping, with no relation to when the user opens the...
[01:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:37] <exec> 08└─I avoid it. As much as I can, I avoid it. I don't have a computer. My son, Barron, is amazing with computers. But give me good old FAX. Give me goddamned FAX! You give the documents to your girl, she FAXes it, she tells you if it went or if it didn't go. And the machine keeps trying. It keeps trying...
[01:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amtrak Derailment Kills at Least Six in Washington State - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:47] <exec> 08└─In the UK we decided against building new level crossings years ago. We still have 1500 of them as the rail infrastructure dates back 150 years (and another 5000 which aren't public highways -- footpaths, farm tracks etc), and have a policy to replace where possible. We do have trams running on stre...
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[02:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:43] <exec> 08└─Because... right to free speech as long as it is paid for? (grin)
[02:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:45] <exec> 08└─Why not all ads? Some ads are more equal than others :)
[02:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:47] <exec> 08└─Some people are willing to pay for advertising. People are willing to be paid to display advertising. Some advertising has been proven to have positive return on investment. Even if all advertising(drugs/guns/___) is banned/illegal, we will still observe advertising(drugs/guns___). Because there is...
[02:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:49] <exec> 08└─I will do what I want with it, including removal of all ads. I did not enter a contract to accept your ads. Put your HTML behind a paywall. You won't do that because it will reveal the true market value of your 'content'. If this is how you 'get paid' find another line of work. Do not allow advertis...
[02:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:51] <exec> 08└─Hmm, "Coalition for Better Ads"? Sounds like it IS advertisers. Could be a good or bad thing, I mean if you think about it advertisers wan... [---------------------] It appears you have an ad blocker enabled. To read the rest of this insightful comment, you must disable your ad blocker, turn off sys...
[02:13:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:16] <exec> 08└─Why do you think that is, exactly? I think it's because the far right is much more violent than the far left. Antifa hasn't shot up any churches or schools lately...
[02:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:27] <exec> 08└─Naturally they still have their twitter account active. They are the "good" guys, even tho they have a massive banner image on top that says "The only good Fascist is a dead one!" Then we have the fuckton of various islamic groups that want to murder all the jews they can find and don't mind telling...
[02:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:28] <exec> 08└─The Alt-right (by definition) is just a group of people who voted wrong. I am not saying none of them are violent, but I have never heard any any popular organization/talking head who ever promoted violence The way I remember it, the alt-right people in Charlottesville were armed with assault rifles...
[02:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:31] <exec> 08└─Antifa and other window smashing may-day ragers certainly would never need worry about being included
[02:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:33] <exec> 08└─So don't bitch about it, join Operation Tittietwister. If you still have a live twitter account you log in, pick someone, prog, cuck republican, random cat lady, doesn't matter, and start keyword searching their timeline. The new rules don't have a time limit so find where they post something that c...
[02:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:35] <exec> 08└─How about: ... the BLM leader who made fake threats against black students in order to incite violence. "This account has been suspended." [twitter.com] How about that?
[02:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:37] <exec> 08└─Take your fake news away and join in a chorus of Amazing Grace to keep the Trump truth train a chuggin!
[02:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:40] <exec> 08└─That is nonsense, where do you get your facts. It is well documents that the originators of that alt-right event continually called for non-violence. Antifa openly admits that they went to the alt-right event to assault the alt-righters. There is no equivalence there. You cannot murder by accidental...
[02:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:42] <exec> 08└─You don't the right protesting in the same degree when extreme left speakers come to talk.
[02:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:44] <exec> 08└─Well, for example, you see organized, loud, temper-tantrum protests
[02:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:46] <exec> 08└─My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth.
[02:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:49] <exec> 08└─The way I remember it...
[02:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:36] <exec> 08└─When the first round of NN change proposals went around, I spent some time looking for/at definitions because I felt confused. Had to take a bit of reading just to find basic definitions because there was so much obscuring going on. I believe it goes back to: the harder a group is trying to sell som...
[02:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:37] <exec> 08└─they're too dumb and/or lazy to forge a path for themselves.
[02:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:39] <exec> 08└─Did the internet get any better after 2014? Or did everything continue to get worse year after year? Regardless of whether net neutrality is in place, comcast will get away with doing whatever they want to do. Every year that passes will mark a worse internet. Net neutrality might have stemmed the t...
[02:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Really Understand how Bitcoin Works? Ars Has a Gentle Primer - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:10] <exec> 08└─To me the ingenuity of bitcoins, and the genius stroke from Satoshi Nakamoto, isn't the tech. It is equilibrium of creating an economy (coins through mining) that feeds the operational underpinning of the decentralized network (through verification via the mining activity) with the strong anonymity....
[02:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Van Allen Belt Electrons Measured Using CubeSat - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:30] <exec> 08└─Your (or in this case Van Allen's) Momma's belt line so big, it can only be measure with CubeSats from orbit!
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[03:12:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snufu [5855] 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 363 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:47] <exec> 08└─I will do what I want with it, including removal of all ads. I did not enter a contract to accept your ads. Put your HTML behind a paywall. You won't do that because it will reveal the true market value of your 'content'. If this is how you 'get paid' find another line of work. Do not allow advertis...
[03:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:49] <exec> 08└─Everybody in politics, everybody in business, has a message to get out. If nobody knows about you, you're nobody. Cambridge Analytica. Last year, I got my message out very well. With some help from Cambridge Analytica. Who made Brexit happen. Amazing results, amazing company. But politically correct...
[03:12:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:58] <exec> 08└─Antifa and other window smashing may-day ragers certainly would never need worry about being included.
[03:13:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:16] <exec> 08└─1. She posted anonymously so there's no account to ban. 2. She was charged for making those threats and eventually pled guilty. [independent.co.uk] So no, you aren't being persecuted here.
[03:13:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 1140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:31] <exec> 08└─So don't bitch about it, join Operation Tittietwister. If you still have a live twitter account you log in, pick someone, prog, cuck republican, random cat lady, doesn't matter, and start keyword searching their timeline. The new rules don't have a time limit so find where they post something that c...
[03:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:39] <exec> 08└─First thing I came to, not precisely what you asked about (I don't use the dirty bird enough to know how to effectively search it, but I've seen screenshots of kill-the-Jews-in-the-name-of-Islam type posts), but interesting for the numbers: http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]...
[03:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:41] <exec> 08└─And the alt-right hasnt poured concrete on train tracks to derail and stop oil and gas shipments
[03:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:44] <exec> 08└─Antifa and other window smashing may-day ragers
[03:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:46] <exec> 08└─Uh... you can't really argue that he didn't unprovoked drive into a bunch of protesters, which had the direct result of one person dying and several injured. Whether the protesters where antifa nutters, alt-right nutters, religious nutters or any other variety of nutter (or even non-nutter) doesn't...
[03:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:48] <exec> 08└─You keep trying to associate the alt-right with neo-Nazis, white nationalists, assorted racists, fascists...
[03:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:50] <exec> 08└─Well here are a few... https://twitter.com [twitter.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.com] But that's not "hate speech," according to Twitter, or they would have removed it all and banned the associated accounts.
[03:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:52] <exec> 08└─When a far-left person visits a far-right school: https://www.c-span.org [c-span.org] When a far-right person visits a far-left school: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:54] <exec> 08└─Shriners are Freemasons. You can't be a Shriner without bfirst becoming a master mason. The Shriners are what they call an appendant body. Other appendant bodies are the Scottish Rite, York Rite, and Royal Arch.
[03:14:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:32] <exec> 08└─It was an idea promoted by Obama, but to call it a bipartisan issue prior to that is just as silly, because it wasn't an idea that anybody had particularly claimed. Well, other that G W Bush also claiming it as noted in the summary. That's kind of the definition of bipartisan...
[03:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:45] <exec> 08└─If net neutrality keeps Google/Twitter/Facebook in check, why do they all want net neutrality? It seems contrary to their interests.
[03:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:47] <exec> 08└─the Soviet system also had to arm itself into bankruptcy thanks to American defense spending Yup. (You forgot to put "defense" in quotes.) USA has been a aggressor nation for over a century. ...but it wasn't USA alone on the offense. A Major Cause Of The Failure Of Socialism In The USSR Was The Mili...
[03:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:49] <exec> 08└─but they are not going to win some elections, not even in a medium run now: it's quickly becoming a demographic impossibility.
[03:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:51] <exec> 08└─That was Gore. (Dumb bastard deserved to lose.) Hillary actually won the popular vote. ...and there were some votes in the Electoral College in 2016 that challenged the winner-take-all thing. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[04:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:41] <exec> 08└─"other self-healing materials often require heating to induce their bonding behaviour. " Those who forget the word 'welding' are condemned to characterize it poorly.
[04:13:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 468 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:27] <exec> 08└─The Alt-right (by definition) is just a group of people who voted wrong. I am not saying none of them are violent, but I have never heard any any popular organization/talking head who ever promoted violence and they are far down the statistics ladder on violence compared to ISIS affiliated people an...
[04:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:52] <exec> 08└─Very little is proven or even known about the incident. A car hit some people, and an onlooker died of a heart attack. No one has of yet provided evidence of any intent (flight, accident, assault, murder). If the intent had been premeditated murder, cars are capable of driving fast enough to do so,...
[04:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:53] <exec> 08└─But they weighed the same as a duck [youtube.com]! Or was it a Black Swan? Anybody? Rupert?
[04:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:56] <exec> 08└─And, you're making stuff up, twice. The Charlottesville crowd weren't "alt-right", They were genuine Nazis and/or neonazis. Secondly, the Nazis were attacked by your peaceful left crowd - physically attacked. Oh - third. If they were armed with assault rifles, why is it that the guy drove his car ov...
[04:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03iru [6596] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:58] <exec> 08└─Desire to know more intensifies.
[04:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:00] <exec> 08└─But the serve the Father of Lies so they like to make em complex.
[04:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe the so-called alt-right is more tolerant?
[04:14:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 791 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:24] <exec> 08└─> seriously though, what is going to happen to the republican party in 4 years time? They're going to win some elections, and lose some. As usual. The sheer insanity of the party hasn't hit a lot of their voters, and probably never will. In other countries, that's when the moderates would give the w...
[04:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:28] <exec> 08└─Reading between the lines I'd guess it isn't a question of battery life. Internal resistance increased with age beyond tolerance, voltage dropped too far and voltage regulation was failing under heavy load leading to the phone shutting down. Downclock a bit, max peak power drain drops dramatically a...
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[04:18:29] <exec> 08└─bitcoin doesn't have strong anonymity or even a very intelligent design. Other coins, such as monero or ethereum, are far better designed.
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[05:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:41] <exec> 08└─And those who forget that it is "hammer forge-welding", where the temperature alone is not enough, but repeated whacks of a very heavy hammer are also required to get the iron to heal itself. Or end up on the scrap heap! But actually, "polymers"? So, not glass, then?
[05:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:42] <exec> 08└─welding usually involves some additional filler material added to the joint (but not always). There's also the question of contamination of the joint surfaces (higher quality welding is often done in vacuum or with inert atmosphere surrounding the hot zone)
[05:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:45] <exec> 08└─But actually, "polymers"? So, not glass, then?
[05:12:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:58] <exec> 08└─Hmm, "Coalition for Better Ads"? Sounds like it IS advertisers. Could be a good or bad thing, I mean if you think about it advertisers wan... [---------------------] It appears you have an ad blocker enabled. To read the rest of this insightful comment, you must disable your ad blocker, turn off sys...
[05:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:01] <exec> 08└─Here's a message to the advertisers: fuck you and fuck your so-called "sustainability". The "web ecosystem" got along just fine before you started bombarding us with ads. We didn't need them then, and we sure a hell don't need them now! You content producers/website owners want to get paid? Try sell...
[05:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:03] <exec> 08└─I think this is an entirely reasonable position to take. There are some sites that have paywalled content. A few of these sites actually make money on the deal too. My biggest complaint with advertisement money is that it incentivized so much trash and pollution in the world wide web. The internet a...
[05:13:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:14] <exec> 08└─You get your twitter account banned for being a nazi? How about: https://thehornnews.com [thehornnews.com] the BLM leader who made fake threats against black students in order to incite violence. Sounds not only neo-Nazi but like terrorism. But it's...
[05:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:05] <exec> 08└─The alt-right is more tolerant.
[05:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:06] <exec> 08└─the direct actions of a select few members.
[05:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:09] <exec> 08└─The label alt-right was created to wrap up anyone with arguments you do not wish to address honestly into a tidy compartment. Now everyone that is placed into this compartment can be safely demonized and ignored. It's a very dishonest tactic. It's counterproductive if your goal is to achieve and mai...
[05:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:11] <exec> 08└─Not a problem. We were moving to ban Twitter anyway.
[05:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:13] <exec> 08└─So alt-right is anyone that does anything bad ever, that holds a view anything right of Antifa? How convenient.
[05:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:15] <exec> 08└─Members? Members of what? Stop talking about these things like their are two football teams. "A select few members are shitheads..." doesn't make sense when talking about either "side" or team or whatever. These people are our countrymen and neighbors. We disagree on a few key points. We are being l...
[05:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:17] <exec> 08└─Well, we know exactly where Twitter stands on free speech and the open expression of ideas: squarely in opposition, and to the detriment of a free and civil society. I'm not surprised. Twitter has always been trash.
[05:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 1906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:20] <exec> 08└─Spanish Antifa or whatever that scum is. Attacking, from behind like a true "brave", someone because the victim wore suspenders with the national flag colors makes him scum, and then kicking the head while in the ground, resulting in death. Maybe Chilean/Italian scum as from reports he is grandson o...
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[05:14:22] <exec> 08└─Your narrative needs a lot of work
[05:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:24] <exec> 08└─I think I have tried to make that exact point - and my post above supports your view. There is no "alt-right". The term was made up by one right extremist, and latched onto by the left, and applied to fully half the population of this nation. Trump was elected by about 1/2 of the voting public, and...
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[05:14:26] <exec> 08└─“It is a peculiarity of the development of American fascism that at the present stage it comes forward principally in the guise of an opposition to fascism, which it accuses of being an “un-American” trend imported from abroad.” – Georgi Dimitrov, in his report delivered at the Seventh Wor...
[05:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:28] <exec> 08└─If they don't run you over with a "muscle" car from foreign manfacturer and kill you and then try not to take any responsibility. In other words, for severly negative values of "tolerant".
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[05:15:23] <exec> 08└─I don't see Ford pardoning Nixon as the watershed moment. By then, Nixon was already history, powerless and completely disgraced, and had no further role of any significance to play in politics. The pardon wasn't for Nixon's sake, no. Nor was there anything left to cover up. In the 4 decades since,...
[05:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:25] <exec> 08└─J-Mo posted a long diatribe somewhere in this thread, IIRC, where he gets this shit *completely* ass-backwards, and at considerable length as well. He also admits to being on Gab and reading the Daily Stormer in it.
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[05:18:58] <exec> 08└─It does compared the other existing payment mechanisms when it first came on the scene. Those that you mentioned came after standing on the shoulder of the giant.
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[06:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:38] <exec> 08└─Role-playing grenades.
[06:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:40] <exec> 08└─Tank hunting we will go... [wikipedia.org]
[06:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:42] <exec> 08└─I prefer rocket propelled games.
[06:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:44] <exec> 08└─Wow, RPG. One of my first potential jobs I got lined up was a place that used RPG II. Now THAT dates me!
[06:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:46] <exec> 08└─"You put stuff up in the right place and it works" Another RPG coder confirmed this
[06:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:49] <exec> 08└─Finally we know why they explode so often! They've been role playing grenades all this time. Don't pull their pin and definitely don't release their trigger!
[06:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:22] <exec> 08└─I would think all auto playing video should be nixed. That's my bandwidth you're commandeering.
[06:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:23] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the Brave [wikipedia.org] browser: Brave Browser Hit with "Cease and Desist" from Newspaper Publishers [soylentnews.org]
[06:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:25] <exec> 08└─That will qualify as a derivative work. Adblock gets away with it for a couple of reasons, that doesn't mean that if 90% of the internet does it that the powers that be wont decide to file a lawsuit just because they didn't sue adblock. First, adblock is something YOU have to install on your compute...
[06:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:39] <exec> 08└─But you are a lying moron.
[06:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:41] <exec> 08└─The label alt-right was created to wrap up anyone with arguments you do not wish to address honestly into a tidy compartment.
[06:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:43] <exec> 08└─Why would that be, unless it is actually the case that everything the alt-right does, from supporting Trump, harassing actors and real estate agents on line, running over people with their penis-compensators, holding Naziesque torch-light rallies, and being generally anti-American, is in fact, bad?...
[06:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:45] <exec> 08└─Nice to see you just come right out and admit the kind of shit you're into. Ya know, I must agree that you are correct. I know I know, me agreeing with JLo?? Crazy. But still, over/incorrect use of racist and nazi has definitely diluted the terms and caused many conservatives to disregard the very r...
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[06:14:47] <exec> 08└─They held their fire because they understood the danger. The State of Virgina (Democreep gov tied to the Clintons of course) had the National Guard mustered to the North of the park ready to swoop in and massacre the lot of them at the first sound of gunfire.
[06:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:49] <exec> 08└─Because the bigots spend so much time spewing hate they probably don't even think of reporting anything. It is hard to actually DO something, even clicking some buttons, when there is so much hate to spew. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the alt-fuckers deliberately don't report violations s...
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[06:15:46] <exec> 08└─That was the other political story, but yes it was nice to see him finally out himself. Can't believe it took a whole year of Trump for him to get comfortable enough to stick his head out.
[06:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:48] <exec> 08└─"Did the internet get any better after 2014?" At the very least there were fewer large stories breaking about underhanded tactics being used by ISPs and the like to throttle/manipulate/etc the internet.
[06:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:50] <exec> 08└─A government run internet utility would kick fucking ass as long as we put strict NN rules on them. For good measure include provisions for random inspections and transparency reports. The government is quite awesome at doing a lot of things, you just never hear about them because no one bitches whe...
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[06:16:37] <exec> 08└─Copyright infringement is not IMHO the problem. We put broadcasts on tape and taped TV shows and the entertainment industry was stronger than ever. The problem is the P2P nature of the early internet. Which meant YOU could pick ANY song from ANY one without leaving a trace. In other words, the propa...
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[06:16:46] <exec> 08└─Interesting taste to call the life in burgerland a happy one.
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[07:12:49] <exec> 08└─Raving Pun Generator
[07:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:50] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it RPG one of the ones that you could run stuff on the Wang VS series? I think the processor instruction set on the VS was originally a clone of the System/360.
[07:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:52] <exec> 08└─Just like life, eh. Well, sometimes.
[07:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:47] <exec> 08└─If they took that statement seriously they'd ban all members of the military. There's no particular reason that this should be seen as an attack on either the left or the right, it's purporting to be an attack on violence and advocation of violence. But it appears this only applies to violence that...
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[07:14:49] <exec> 08└─It fits. Antifa is fascist.
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[08:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy for Retinal Dystrophy Approved by the FDA - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:38] <exec> 08└─I lift my lamp beside the golden door
[08:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:10] <exec> 08└─Incorrect, or that is to say, wrong. You are thinking either of brazing or soldering, involving dissimilar metals that bind, either brass or tin, with lead or silver, or even gold. Welding is always same to same. Or mostly same to sort of same. Oxidation is only a problem with metals that oxidize, a...
[08:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:32] <exec> 08└─Because I actually like watching some ads? May Thai ads are entertaining even though I don't understand Thai: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.yout...
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[08:13:34] <exec> 08└─The "work" you describe is just a list of instructions for a browser to interpret. There is no law regarding *how* to interpret those instructions, only a set of suggestions from W3C and the like. If my browser of choice decides not to download any 3rd party resources (containing instructions for re...
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[08:14:56] <exec> 08└─Your twitter is as powerful as your tiny hands, you twit! Will not someone relieve us of this intolerable moron?
[08:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:58] <exec> 08└─Shut up, Crafoo, you are Crafoo, and you have always been Crafoo, and it has not been all that long, actually. Crapoo. (You're not fooling anyone, you know.)
[08:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:00] <exec> 08└─Thanks for confirming what anyone with three sparking neurons already knew about you. You will meet your "father of lies" in person and sooner than you think.
[08:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:02] <exec> 08└─Don't like Twitter? Don't use it. It's a private company, and as we all know from Citizens' United, speech is money. You don't dare argue with The Invisible Hand (TM) do you, blasphemer? What's that I hear you say? It's too big? It has much too much influence over world events? Ignoring it is danger...
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[08:15:04] <exec> 08└─Oh I bet most people are fooled into believing he isn't an alt account
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[08:15:06] <exec> 08└─Wait! From this entire post I cannot tell which jackbooted thugs we are talking about, except that it was not the Antifa. Right wing militia, who hold their fire, since fire would be, well, at least assault with a deadly weapon, or attempted thereof, or actual murder in America. And some cretian ass...
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[08:15:09] <exec> 08└─Fuck man, a woman gets murdered and you downplay by saying some people only got bruised so its no big deal? Get the fuck out you propagandist shill / moron.
[08:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:11] <exec> 08└─"they're takin' mah guuuuns" This is the stated goal of gun control organizations. It is a real threat; Hitler disarmed the Jews. It has happened in the USA; after hurricane Katrina the police went around to registered gun owners and illegally confiscated guns. "death panels!" These exist all around...
[08:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:13] <exec> 08└─So are you saying we should call for the Twitter banning of the appendant bodies, or that frojack is up to his usual tricks? The Scottish Right has always been suspicious to me, they might have tiny cars and funny hats.
[08:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:15] <exec> 08└─Or driving a car into them. And yes, the Jews broke their windows too, right??
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[08:15:17] <exec> 08└─Franco-ist spotted! I recommend repeated viewing of "Pan's Labyrinth", for perspective. Fucking Fascists.
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[08:16:17] <exec> 08└─It's not like we needed him to explicitly say it though, is it? I could tell from almost the first time he posted here.
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[08:18:49] <exec> 08└─As far as I can see current human science has little idea on what consciousness is. Currently there's no real test we have to determine whether something _experiences_ consciousness or not. Determining whether something is "awake" and responsive to stimuli on the other hand might be simpler. There's...
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[09:12:35] <exec> 08└─Good god we knew this would happen! He is firing all of the IT staff and replacing them with cheaper Russian agents! They will hack petition results and change them to benefit Putin in his goal to conquer the world and destroy the united states. This has to be stopped we must impeach now and fire a...
[09:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:36] <exec> 08└─Not to mention removing all the bad words like "science" and "evidence".
[09:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:38] <exec> 08└─"Disruption of communications can only mean one thing." Yoda: "Begun, this clown war has."
[09:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:40] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as to what they will try to replace Drupal with. You can't get much easier or cheaper than that. Given the general lack of competency and the overall high levels of corruption in the incumbent regime, I expect that the stated savings estimates are completly fictitious. They haven't res...
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[09:13:03] <exec> 08└─In my first computer-related job, I worked for a company that had a couple of PDP 11s [wikipedia.org] (I'm dating myself, too!) running RSTS/E [wikipedia.org]. Although we did most of our programming using BASIC Plus 2 [wikipedia.org], a rather neat structured programming language with its roots in...
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[09:13:44] <exec> 08└─VentureBeat? Content? Never heard of 'em! Well, there's a failure of advertising right there! I should have been saying, "Oh, yeah, VentureBeat! The ones that derailed the train in Washington State!" Or, "Wow, VentureBeat! The serial killers that killed 23 people and was only caught because the vent...
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[09:14:22] <exec> 08└─The Alt-right (by definition) is just a group of people who voted wrong. I am not saying none of them are violent, but I have never heard any any popular organization/talking head who ever promoted violence The way I remember it, the alt-right people in Charlottesville were armed with assault rifles...
[09:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 2043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:17] <exec> 08└─It would be difficult for Twitter to ban appendant bodies based on political speech, since Freemasons come from all walks of life. In fact the strictest rules in Freemasonry are that you cannot talk about religion or politics in lodge meetings; nothing can get you kicked out faster. The only guy I e...
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[09:15:19] <exec> 08└─None of those behaviors are exclusive to the alt-right. The alt-left does too, though not very much in the United States because the country has been purging true leftists at every level since the turn of the century. There are now almost none left here. You can easily think of alt-left people who h...
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[09:15:21] <exec> 08└─Because their numbers are few, I'd say. If they were more numerous, they'd feel they could escalate. It's in their interests with the numbers they have to come off as looking more calm and reasonable than their political opponents. That's why David Duke doesn't deliver his remarks with anger and a c...
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[09:15:23] <exec> 08└─Isn't all this supposed to be secret? Phoenix, I haven't even shown you my ring, or given you the secret handshake! But on the other hand, I respect the charitable work these societies do, no matter how strange their gay apparel. I cannot imagine the alt-right, or Milo or Steve Bannon, or Spenser,...
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[09:15:25] <exec> 08└─In Aristarchus's defense, he's freaked out by Trump's election and his rhetoric. A lot of people are, too. To me, it sounds very similar to the hysteria the right experienced with Obama and his rhetoric, particularly around immigration. The divisive effect of all of it is the same. That's why I'd ag...
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[09:15:27] <exec> 08└─. I know I know, me agreeing with JLo??
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[09:16:04] <exec> 08└─And yet they brought us to where we are today: the GOP in majority control of all elected bodies, pushing through their GOP agenda, handing control of (the internet / tax policy / healthcare / national parks / international trade) to the web of corrupt public-private partnerships also known as THE S...
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[09:19:53] <exec> 08└─Runbox does not load images by default
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[09:19:55] <exec> 08└─> I don't like the label 'M$', I think it's childish. You must be new here. When web forums were a relatively new phenomenon M$ had its own search engine to key into the presence of the string 'microsoft' anywhere in a reply. If you used the string, shills woud turn up within minutes and find ways t...
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[10:12:51] <exec> 08└─Whoever modded that post informative probably missed the sarcasm font . . .
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[10:12:53] <exec> 08└─Whoever modded that post informative probably missed the sarcasm font . . .
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[10:12:55] <exec> 08└─To comply with incoming transparacy rules the new URL will be fuckthepeople.gov
[10:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:57] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as to what they will try to replace Drupal with. You can't get much easier or cheaper than that.
[10:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:00] <exec> 08└─To comply with incoming transparacy rules the new URL will be fuckthepeople.gov
[10:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:02] <exec> 08└─Of course we knew it would happen. After all, the site was set up by Obama. Trump's #1 goal is to undo anything Obama did to the maximum extent possible.
[10:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:45] <exec> 08└─You're running your mouth without engaging brain. Again. Just how many righties have killed people, as a political statement? I'll let you go back as far as you like, the only restrictions are, you stay in the US, and they have to have made some sort of political statement, before, during, or after...
[10:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:46] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your Twitter while it lasts, mwa-ha-ha
[10:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:48] <exec> 08└─There was a brilliant Toast of London episode about the Freemasons. I'm sure it was really a documentary...
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[11:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:36] <exec> 08└─Let us double the number of parts to fail! Honestly, double actuators for the same track would make more sense. That way if you started having a head failure with one, you have a backup to offload your data before the drive fails completely. This way, you just have more of a chance of losing half th...
[11:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:38] <exec> 08└─You make a good point that it /could/ lead to longer living drives on top of the better througput. Unfortunately I can't help but see this as a late in the game attempt by Seagate to remain relevant. If you care about perfoance in a drive you're likely picking a Samsung or Intel SSD over the lacklus...
[11:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:40] <exec> 08└─If I understand the concept correctly, each individually operated actuator + set of heads can cover the entire drive surface anyway, which covers your scenario of a single head failure. If anything, if designed correctly, I see doubling of parts as creating redundancy inside the drive, not adding mo...
[11:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:42] <exec> 08└─Not according to the animation. One actuator arm covers the top half of the platters, and the other arm covers the bottom half. If you lose a head, you still lose access to the platter.
[11:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:59] <exec> 08└─wewontnotfuckthepeople.gov ?
[11:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:00] <exec> 08└─First, kill the site, and fire anyone who works on it. If the maintainence and the salaries of the fired don't add to $1,000,000, keep firing. Woo hoo! Saved $1,000,000 per year! Now, find that guy you know who said he could do it. Get his company to do it Pay for it out of a different cost centre....
[11:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:41] <exec> 08└─Can't wait for the stained glass style, press and hold graffiti.
[11:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:06] <exec> 08└─First, adblock is something YOU have to install on your computer. Chrome is installed automatically.
[11:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:48] <exec> 08└─Twitter have a BLM emoji, if they applied their rules fairly they'd be deleting their own platform.
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[12:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:37] <exec> 08└─Congress can barely let NASA stick to a 4 year plan, no way will a 50 year plan come to fruition.
[12:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, funding for a launch date in 10 presidential elections time certainly will work. I suspect that Apollo would have been shelved had JFK not got killed in 1963.
[12:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:41] <exec> 08└─An arrival date of July 4th 2075 might work - play heavilly on the jingoism and 'patriotism'. That would require launching in 2035 at 0.1c.
[12:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:43] <exec> 08└─About 40 years travel time (assuming the vehicle achieves .1c quickly, and can brake quickly, which is unlikely, so add a couple years for accel and decel) then we wait about 4 years for any radio transmissions to come back to us. That isn't quickly enough to make me happy, but at least people are t...
[12:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:45] <exec> 08└─At 0.1c max speed, it'll take longer than 45 years - if it doesn't whizzes by at destination and needs to break for an orbital insertion, it's more like 70-something years in an acceleration-decelleration travel.
[12:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:47] <exec> 08└─2076 even :) Why can't I edit - I can on hackernews!
[12:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:50] <exec> 08└─2075? One of us read the summary wrong. Please see my post below. .1c or 1c???
[12:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:52] <exec> 08└─That isn't quickly enough to make me happy
[12:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:43] <exec> 08└─(I'm dating myself, too!)
[12:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:08] <exec> 08└─Fascism in common usage refers to violent authoritarianism and Antifa meet that criteria. Antifa was founded in Germany as an offshoot of the communist party after two failed revolutions. Fascism was a doctrine started by Marxist, Benito Mussolini who decided international communism was never going...
[12:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:09] <exec> 08└─But it appears this only applies to violence that isn't sanctioned by a government body.
[12:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:13] <exec> 08└─greal declarations in George Orwell's "1984"!
[12:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:13] <exec> 08└─"The man who promised to 'Drain the Swamp' now appears to be 'The Creature From the Black Lagoon'" - Mark Meckler, Tea Party cofounder ...which leaves me in the uncomfortable and unusual position of agreeing with someone associated with the Tea Party.
[12:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 1585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:15] <exec> 08└─You're out of your mind. 1. Net Neutrality doesn't hurt Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Netflix. They're multi-billion dollar companies with recognized names, they can push back when Comcast or Verizon try to squeeze them or their end users for extra money. Net Neutrality fucks the next Google, Faceb...
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[13:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:43] <exec> 08└─I guess there is oil to be found on Alpha centauri... or the native inhabitants need freedom, but shouldn't we actually try to get our asses to Mars (or even a bit further) first?
[13:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:44] <exec> 08└─Now and then, something makes me smile, if not really happy. https://pics.me.me [pics.me.me]
[13:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:47] <exec> 08└─We've already got cameras on Mars. Let us assume that it takes fifty years to get our asses there, after we plant some cameras and other hardware. This is great news! There may be people studyint the Centauri systems by 2200!!! Alright, so I'm being overly optimistic. Sue me.
[13:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:49] <exec> 08└─All good until you realize that this is only incidental. By the example you chose as an feeble attempt of a rebuttal, you implicitly admit that even what you are making (and over which you should have a modicum of control) is not making you happy. Merry Christmas, old sod, may your next year plastic...
[13:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:51] <exec> 08└─Sue me.
[13:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:53] <exec> 08└─This is great news! There may be people studyint the Centauri systems by 2200!!!
[13:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:46] <exec> 08└─A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games
[13:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:05] <exec> 08└─Congratulations! You seem to have a grasp of 'welding!' There will be a pop quiz in your future on 'glass' however.
[13:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:31] <exec> 08└─People should be paid for being productive. Ads have little to do with that. In fact, they may cause productive work without ads go to waste. Online advertisements, as currently implemented, are a fake, non-sustainable economy that is detrimental to economical development as a whole. The best ad, fo...
[13:15:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:56] <exec> 08└─Don't like Twitter? Don't use it. It's a private company, and as we all know from Citizens' United, speech is money. You don't dare argue with The Invisible Hand (TM) do you, blasphemer? What's that I hear you say? It's too big? It has much too much influence over world events? Ignoring it is danger...
[13:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:17] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org] I won't even comment, Runaway. You're just almost completely wrong this time, instead of completely wrong.
[13:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.c-span.org/video/?436059-1/alt-america [c-span.org]
[13:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:21] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/1357/ [xkcd.com]
[13:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:23] <exec> 08└─seriously though, what is going to happen to the republican party in 4 years time?
[13:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:25] <exec> 08└─Because it will cost them money to send content. They can afford it.... but it still costs them. On the other hand, the little guy probably can't afford it. Whoever has monopoly rights on the pipes now gets to control the content by way of charging.... based on content not data usage.
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[14:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:52] <exec> 08└─There are babies being born today who might live long enough to see headlines about newly discovered planets in the Centauri systems.
[14:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:54] <exec> 08└─Also many unknown other factors into play. For example, a possible scenario is the probe returning ahead of time at approx. 5c with "KEEP YOUR DAMN JUNK ON YOUR OWN SIDE, CARBONBAGS" hastily engraved over it.
[14:13:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─Whoever modded that post informative probably missed the sarcasm font . . .
[14:13:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:18] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as to what they will try to replace Drupal with. You can't get much easier or cheaper than that.
[14:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:24] <exec> 08└─No, the Trump admin hasn't taken the petitions seriously. But then, neither did the Obama administration. The petition site has one purpose, and only one: It gives people a place to vent. Many people feel a need to do something, so they enter their opinion on this site, and then go quietly on their...
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:50] <exec> 08└─I was working on a product on IBM's AS400 (now iSeries). The project was produced using C++, Java, and RPG. It turned out that the easiest way to write an installer for the AS400 that actually looked like an AS400 installer program was to use RPG. It was an odd, primitive language, but it was Turing...
[14:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:28] <exec> 08└─demographics? yeah, nothing to do with lurching off the right-wing cliff
[14:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:30] <exec> 08└─Donny Orange will go to prison but it could be Pence the Virtuous? Not sure if he could win an election though... I doubt he even grabs his own pussy.
[14:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gottabeme [1531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:32] <exec> 08└─The parent comment is double-modded as flamebait, and also modded as troll. In fact, it is the opposite, being interesting, insightful, observant, and an example of critical thinking. The people who modded the parent comment down should permanently lose moderation privileges. They are dishonest, and...
[14:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dexcheque [4758] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stanford Scientists Use Electric Jolts to Prevent Impulsive Behavior - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:34] <exec> 08└─Yay...
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[15:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:35] <exec> 08└─I would have thought that it would be permissible for Google to publish its wares on the Microsoft Store. It's not like Microsoft bothered with an internet explorer for android. and if they did then fine advertise it on the play station network or whatever its called for free installation like any o...
[15:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:37] <exec> 08└─No. Just die.
[15:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:39] <exec> 08└─An important bit of explanation, unmentioned in the summary, is that Windows 10 S is quite different than Windows 10. 10 S only runs apps from the store. It boots fast. In short, it is intended to be like a Chromebook. It is unclear what the S in 10 S stands for. Maybe "sucks" perhaps. Or some other...
[15:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:02] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the dangerous wooshing by of the probe in a crazy return path at 40c, and 9 year after that, a radio announcement coming from outer space: "ZERO FIFTEEN, HAHAHA"
[15:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:03] <exec> 08└─Was working for Kennedy to ensure the space program went through!
[15:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:05] <exec> 08└─Current plans by NASA would have humans in Mars orbit sometime in the 2030s. SpaceX plans would have humans walking on Mars by sometime after 2024 (add years of delay for realism). I am pretty sure we will get to Mars before 2069, and the 2069 mission would be an unmanned probe at best, or a Breakth...
[15:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:16] <exec> 08└─OTOH the force needed to move each arm is halving (or so). So maybe that is a good thing.
[15:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:17] <exec> 08└─Not sure I would tie this so closely to Seagate. Once Seagate does something, WD is sure to follow, and vice versa. Even Toshiba still has skin in the game, miraculously. WD/HGST moved to helium-filled drives, Seagate followed, and later Toshiba [anandtech.com]. Both companies had been working on it...
[15:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─That would be like how the UK rolls: https://petition.parliament.uk [parliament.uk] We’ll only reject your petition if it’s:
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─They've just announced that the new go-live date will coincide with the release of Trump's tax returns. So soon. Keep watching this space.
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─You'd think 25 year old excuses would be too worn out to play any more. They're shutting down the website, temporarily, because it's too costly to run?!? $1 million per year, if that can be believed? Oh, what a budget buster! I read that a carrier strike group costs about $6.5 million per _day_. Bal...
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─to increase click conversions
[15:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:54] <exec> 08└─Suddenly adding adblock without consent sounds like a third party modification to the page content, that's a problem
[15:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:52] <exec> 08└─are you serious? This place has such a conservative slant I had to laugh when you blamed leftists for the moderation. No, I think people are pissed. you don't have to wear a hipster che gueverra shirt for that.
[15:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:17] <exec> 08└─Planes routinely send maintenance / alert info via Sat links, not sure if those are bi-directional.
[15:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:25] <exec> 08└─Shhh, don't let Fabrice Bellard hear you.
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[16:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:42] <exec> 08└─maybe the lack of net neutrality will usher in an age of not even being able to leave the AOL network and there will be no internet?
[16:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:44] <exec> 08└─unmentioned in the summary
[16:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:46] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there once an antitrust case because Microsoft tied their browser to their operating system? And now they do it again, openly? How come they get away with it?
[16:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:48] <exec> 08└─This. Fuck the Windows Store. Fuck it with a big, fat splintery wooden dick. The Windows store is for idiots who don't know how to download directly from a web site or install from physical media because they were raised by iPhones.
[16:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:50] <exec> 08└─The Windows store is for idiots
[16:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:53] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there once an antitrust case because Microsoft tied their browser to their operating system? And now they do it again, openly? How come they get away with it?
[16:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:19] <exec> 08└─It's been 45 years since humans walked on another world; we've moved backwards, not forwards, since then. Unless there are terrorists there, it won't happen.
[16:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:20] <exec> 08└─or the native inhabitants need freedom
[16:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:22] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to read the article, but assuming that 0.1c is going to require something other than fire for propulsion. Whatever is providing the propulsion would likely distort long range sensing apparatus, but nothing says that it has to "burn" 100% of the time - if there's a 5 year decel period, they...
[16:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:24] <exec> 08└─Future plans are good, even if they extend beyond the next milestone.
[16:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:27] <exec> 08└─There could be terrorists there, and we need to go spread the word of Peace, Love and Smallpox to them before they get their act together and send probes to our planet.
[16:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:29] <exec> 08└─There are questions of what percentage of the voyage is accelerating, what's the power source, etc. Chemical rockets won't be taking anything to Mach 88,000.
[16:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:31] <exec> 08└─That's assuming something resembling an "accelerate halfway there, then start decelerating" flight path that only peaks at 0.1c, which is probably very unlikely, since it involves carrying a huge amount of reaction mass, and the supply power to accelerate it (assuming ion drive, every other proven t...
[16:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:33] <exec> 08└─You can't give the natives smallpox using a telescope. Many things require a physical presence, and even if the first mission doesn't do all the things, it will be establishing that physical presence capability.
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─That's assuming something resembling an "accelerate halfway there, then start decelerating" flight path that only peaks at 0.1c, which is probably very unlikely,
[16:13:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 629 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:57] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as to what they will try to replace Drupal with. You can't get much easier or cheaper than that. Given the general lack of competency and the overall high levels of corruption in the incumbent regime, I expect that the stated savings estimates are completly fictitious. They haven't res...
[16:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 425 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:05] <exec> 08└─First, kill the site, and fire anyone who works on it. If the maintainence and the salaries of the fired don't add to $1,000,000, keep firing. Woo hoo! Saved $1,000,000 per year! Now, find that guy you know who said he could do it. Get his company to do it Pay for it out of a different cost centre....
[16:14:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 638 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:07] <exec> 08└─No, the Trump admin hasn't taken the petitions seriously. But then, neither did the Obama administration. The petition site has one purpose, and only one: It gives people a place to vent. Many people feel a need to do something, so they enter their opinion on this site, and then go quietly on their...
[16:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:12] <exec> 08└─I would add: +Sarcastic, +Inciteful, +Cynical, +SadButTrue.
[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:14] <exec> 08└─Syntax problems in your post there are.
[16:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:16] <exec> 08└─The petition site has one purpose, and only one: It gives people a place to vent.
[16:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:19] <exec> 08└─To comply with incoming transparacy rules the new URL will be fuckthepeople.gov
[16:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as to what they will try to replace Drupal with. You can't get much easier or cheaper than that
[16:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:23] <exec> 08└─Reminder: Trump's son is good with the cyber.
[16:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:25] <exec> 08└─Security doesn't explain SLS. But you are on the right track.
[16:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:53] <exec> 08└─I've pretty much made a career out of RPG. It was a recommended CS course at my college in 1985 and I took it. I really liked the fact that it was not wordy, like COBOL. What might take 50 lines of code in COBOL would only take four lines of code in RPG. My first programming job was on an IBM System...
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 1881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:54] <exec> 08└─Hey, that could have been me too. When I got out of school things were transitioning from punched cards to interactive terminals, and early microcomputers. I could have gone with RPG and Cobol. But these new Microcomputer thingies were just too cool compared to the big dinosaurs. Even an under $10,0...
[16:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:56] <exec> 08└─Oh, My, the Wang! That brings back memories. Not the VS. But the PCS. 2200 if I remember. A single stand alone system in the enclosure of a "terminal". Ran a very nice dialect of BASIC. My high school got one of these for about $8000 in 1977. It has 8K RAM and BASIC with a printer. I learned everyth...
[16:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:16] <exec> 08└─No, I'm thinking of welding steel -- several common methods use filler material: + oxy-acetylene gas welding - steel rod added to the molten puddle (I still have my old rig, bought c.1970, works fine for thin steel) + heli-arc / GTAW - electric arc shielded by inert gas (with steel rod added t...
[16:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:45] <exec> 08└─I don't block ads so much because ads are annoying. I block ads because I don't want malware. I hate web sites that say, "We get it. You don't like ads. But we promise that our ads are not annoying." No, you don't get it. I'm not blocking ads, I'm blocking malware. Really, the whole argument that t...
[16:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:46] <exec> 08└─Yep. I read it that way and had to do a double take.
[16:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─There are a number of things that are blatantly unconstitutional, but they aren't legally so unless the Supreme Court says so.
[16:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:45] <exec> 08└─As then-Congressman John Conyers put it in an interview with Michael Moore: "Uh, we don't read most of the bills ... Do you really know what that would entail if we were to read every bill that we passed?"
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[17:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:37] <exec> 08└─Accurate and thorough labeling is a good thing. People should be able to know what it is they are buying.
[17:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:38] <exec> 08└─I thought Republicans were against any kind of regulation? The same kind of arguments for regulating homeopathetic products would apply to regulating polluters of our air and water. Or regulating those causing climate change. Or regulating abuses of internet access by ISPs. Is some regulation is mor...
[17:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:41] <exec> 08└─Well, if you dilute the regulation, say, 1to 100, it becomes even more effective, because of the "memory" of regulation. Republican regulation. Just wait 'til this Congress applies the same thinking to Social Security!
[17:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:43] <exec> 08└─The labeling should make purchasers aware that the product does not work and may actually be harmful. Or is the leading cause of lung cancer.
[17:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm two dents. I had to google to grasp the 10 vs 10 S difference. Or maybe caffeine levels critically low.
[17:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:00] <exec> 08└─The 'S' in Windows 10 S stands for so many things. Senescence, perhaps?
[17:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:03] <exec> 08└─The real reason Microsoft got a wrist slap is George W. Bush. At the end of 2000, the U.S. elected a Republican President. The Republican Party has long favored a trickle-down approach [wikipedia.org], arguing that supply-side policies that reduce tax and compliance costs for business owners will ev...
[17:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:05] <exec> 08└─If a school issues a Windows 10 S computer to each student, is each student an idiot? If a company issues a Windows 10 S computer to each employee, is each employee an idiot? If a relative buys a Windows 10 S computer as a gift for someone, is the recipient an idiot? Is every owner of an Xbox One co...
[17:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:07] <exec> 08└─Why, yes! Why do you ask?
[17:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:09] <exec> 08└─is each student an idiot?
[17:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:12] <exec> 08└─The 'S' in Windows 10 S stands for so many things. Senescence, perhaps?
[17:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 2442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:47] <exec> 08└─Walking on another world was a publicity stunt - walking was about all we could do at the time, as our technology wasn't remotely ready to do anything useful there. *Especially* not for a price tag that would make it worth the opportunity cost. It was a statement of potential, made before we had the...
[17:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:49] <exec> 08└─There are questions of what percentage of the voyage is accelerating
[17:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:51] <exec> 08└─At a guess, the fastest way to do it, would be to use a YUGE conventional rocket array at this end, and reach max velocity pretty quickly. Deceleration would take vastly more time, using solar sails and something like an ion engine. But, that's just a guess. I haven't read the article either. ;^)
[17:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:53] <exec> 08└─Nitpick, you do not have mach numbers in vacuum, as the mach number is dependent on the speed of sound which is dependent on fluid density which is irrelevant in the vacuum.
[17:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:06] <exec> 08└─The added IOPS (IO per second) is nice, but the driver is probably more to do with reducing device test time. Formatting can be done in half the time if you are doing it twice as fast. When drives are getting into multiple TB range, this is a surprisingly big savings.
[17:14:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:14] <exec> 08└─Not to mention removing all the bad words like "science" and "evidence".
[17:14:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─"Disruption of communications can only mean one thing." Yoda: "Begun, this clown war has."
[17:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:27] <exec> 08└─This is how modern technology destroys technology. Electricity has made actual welding arcane. Take a look at pattern-welded Saxon swords, or Japanese katana. "Rod-welding" is kind of the "duct-tape" of metalwork. I await instruction by Arik on Roman glass.
[17:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:27] <exec> 08└─When the battery degrades, just leave the phone plugged in to the wall all day, like a landline. Or, you know, the phone could, like, slow down, to conserve battery, dude, bro, like, whoa.
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:22] <exec> 08└─The Sat link is to send maintenance and alarms from the plane. If it ain't bi-di, you ain't gettin' in.
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[18:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:41] <exec> 08└─There are existing laws throughout Europe that applicable to transport services, particularly regarding safety and licensing. Uber, Lyft et al have claimed that they were not bound by such laws but the EU Court's decision makes it clear that they are, and henceforth they will have to comply with the...
[18:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:52] <exec> 08└─Homeopathic remedies getting held to clinical standards. Oh, and look, the Washington Post got it all wrong: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] TL;DR: so-cal...
[18:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:53] <exec> 08└─http://archive.is/kFiIp [archive.is]
[18:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:55] <exec> 08└─Thats a really interesting read and to me makes a lot of sense. If you are trying to convince someone to fund you it is going to get you a lot further if you provide the details of the science instead of saying it is "science based" or to provide the facts instead of saying "fact based". Science-bas...
[18:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:20] <exec> 08└─If a school issues a Windows 10 S computer to each student, is each student an idiot? If a company issues a Windows 10 S computer to each employee, is each employee an idiot? If a relative buys a Windows 10 S computer as a gift for someone, is the recipient an idiot? Is every owner of an Xbox One co...
[18:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:21] <exec> 08└─Or conversely, ISPs may effectively ban encrypted traffic by not zero rating it and setting low caps with expensive overage.
[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:23] <exec> 08└─If a school issues a Windows 10 S computer to each student, is each student an idiot?
[18:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─yes it is, but its one of those things people that use their computers to do things besides facebook youtube and fox news would notice. few others would know that windows 10 s prevents you from doing something besides what some curator permitted--for your own safety. perhaps the poster unwittingly r...
[18:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:28] <exec> 08└─yeah i've already been told by AT&T uverse support people that 'only pirates use vpns'
[18:13:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 1433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:38] <exec> 08└─About 40 years travel time (assuming the vehicle achieves .1c quickly, and can brake quickly, which is unlikely, so add a couple years for accel and decel) then we wait about 4 years for any radio transmissions to come back to us. That isn't quickly enough to make me happy, but at least people are t...
[18:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:08] <exec> 08└─Not much point in planning beyond the singularity.
[18:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:09] <exec> 08└─the three-star Alpha Centauri system
[18:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(star) [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikip...
[18:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:13] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, we've got a long way to go on the closed eco-system front. And it doesn't get anywhere near the attention it deserves. With a real closed eco-system (probably impossible) you could send mice anywhere in the galaxy...at, admittedly, and extremely slow speed. But it would need to mainta...
[18:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:16] <exec> 08└─Conservatives hate family planning, especially abortion. Now the truth comes out. They like family planning just fine when applied to liberals only! Anyway, we need longer lifespans. If all goes well with that plan, it'll be 2113 before any data comes back. Even today's 9 year olds probably won't be...
[18:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 2052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:18] <exec> 08└─Assuming we plan to actually insert into a stellar orbit, rather than making fly-by observations, then there's no need real advantage to remote control - space is empty, planetary motion predictable, and orbital navigation simple. We already know fairly accurately the mass of the star based on the o...
[18:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:20] <exec> 08└─I should have finished that last thought more clearly - you only need a small transmitter if the frequency it's transmitting on is dark AND you have a big honking high-power telescope pointed at it for purposes of receiving transmissions. Which is also helped by communicating in rare short bursts, s...
[18:14:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─Not according to the animation. One actuator arm covers the top half of the platters, and the other arm covers the bottom half. If you lose a head, you still lose access to the platter.
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 1835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─First, I didn't read TFA, so I don't know if this drive is designed so that the heads act in parallel on the same data, or different data. If it's different data (meaning, the data is not interleaved between the upper platters with their R/W heads and the lower platters with their separate set of R/...
[18:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know about that. But there is a blank line between troll and spam. Wonder what that does?
[18:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:07] <exec> 08└─Evidently the public is still fucking stupid about this sort of thing, or they wouldn't think they could pull off an idiotic scheme like this. The cost of building a new system to replace the existing system will dwarf the maintenance costs of keeping the existing system running. The only way this w...
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─Nothing. I just tried.
[18:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, shit. That was an early Christmas present. God bless you, AC.
[18:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:43] <exec> 08└─My first programming language was RPG II on a PDP-8. Memories indeed.
[18:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:35] <exec> 08└─I would think all auto playing video should be nixed. That's my bandwidth you're commandeering.
[18:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:36] <exec> 08└─After years of trying to convince my family, I finally got them to install adblockers on their machines. They insisted they didn't need need one because they only went to "safe websites"; which was despite my insistence that there is no such thing. The last straw? They got hit twice by malvertising...
[18:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:38] <exec> 08└─Even then, they can just make it an opt-out option that appears with a bunch of others on the first time you run/install it on a platform.
[18:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:41] <exec> 08└─This "Coalition for Better Ads" needs to deal with a serious problem that ads are causing in aggregate: wasted bandwidth on auto-playing video ads. Seriously. It's not just a problem for people on slow networks. It degrades the whole internet for everybody. It puts lots of unnecessary strain on the...
[18:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:43] <exec> 08└─Is that not how the US government works? None of these tactics are new. The difference is that the behaviors are old--the millenials these are mostly targeted at don't have that experience to know this yet. Eventually they will wisen up, but then next generation will fall victim to the next test of...
[18:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 2738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:42] <exec> 08└─GP here. It could be the case that the D team periodically takes up positions that happen to be in line with liberal (as in liberty, not SJWs) ideals because they know that left-wing authoritarian followers are not a stable power base. Left-wing authoritarian followers pop up every now and then, but...
[18:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:44] <exec> 08└─Read the Constitution. Search for "law of the land". In fact search for "Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land". Here's a place to look: https://www.usconstitution.net [usconstitution.net] I'll grant that...
[18:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:46] <exec> 08└─No, bipartisan is the kumbaya joining of hands in wide agreement to achieve a shared goal. Things like cutting off ISIS's access to financial services, that's bipartisan. Congresscritters running around like ants after someone kicked the nest, getting confused about the terminology and sometimes run...
[18:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:48] <exec> 08└─OP/GPP here. Thanks for the kind words, dude. Or dudette. Whatever. As of right now, that post was downmodded three times (twice as flamebait, once as troll) and upmodded three times (twice as insightful, once as interesting). It's said you can tell a good idea by the enemies it makes. I think this...
[18:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:16] <exec> 08└─If someone has the resources to go find security flaws in a little-used mostly-offline operating system, then they have the resources to exploit the unpatched flaws in common operating systems. TFA and some of us discuss the cost problem of updating plane computers, meaning that you can have a plane...
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Email Bugs - Tracking 'Email Open' State at Present: 1 in 5 are Doing it. - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:26] <exec> 08└─It's not a great situation for the AV. Don't follow the hyperlink, customer complains that PDF with link to malware was missed by the AV. Do follow the hyperlink, customer complains that people can track emails around their mail servers. The first is likely to cause more customer complaints.
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[19:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:44] <exec> 08└─The upside for Uber is that unpleasant behavior and harassment are expected, and probably legally grandfathered as tradition, for major metropolis and South Europe taxi drivers.
[19:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:45] <exec> 08└─Of course they are essentially a taxi / limo for hire company. They've just been trying to circumvent existing rules and regulations in the latest round of "But, but, but... On a COMPUTER!!!" :facepalm:
[19:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:47] <exec> 08└─I can see a hypothetical taxi service that fulfills the dream of Uber. It would be the app sold as a service in a competitive marketplace. Independent operators, who would contend with local regulation on their own, would buy into the app as a way to get customers. Then the app could sell additional...
[19:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:01] <exec> 08└─I'm sort of stuck on the fact that heomeopathic anything are actually classified as "drugs". What if I diluted a placebo?
[19:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 1318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:03] <exec> 08└─Uh hey did you not notice that *all* of the department of Stuff are adhering to the conservative agenda in order to keep their funding and protect against the chopping block? Ignorance may be bliss--but with significantly smaller tax revenue forcasts, ignorance won't pay for anything. They have to b...
[19:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:05] <exec> 08└─Too much negativity in this world, we have to put those things in a positive light...
[19:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:07] <exec> 08└─I know you omitted sarcasm tags. But that is the fallacy. We should not be concerned with whether information is negative or positive, but rather whether it is true or is false. I would rather have the truth, even if it is 'negative'.
[19:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:09] <exec> 08└─This drug will positively kill you.
[19:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:39] <exec> 08└─if it is for students, perhaps its an S for Sophmoric? It'd be soperific if it was... most students I know that have had to use it express disappointment with it because of the limitations. You never hear that about books, but I guess when you use the same tool for one thing, and then the powers tha...
[19:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:40] <exec> 08└─I just love it that there are still things that Soylentils can all agree on, both bloodthirsty antifa and involuntarily celibate alt-righties. Windows brings us all together!
[19:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:42] <exec> 08└─If anyone gave me a Windows 10s computer, they would get a fist in their face because that would be totally useless to me.
[19:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─[Are students, employees, gift recipients, and living room gamers idiots for receiving a device locked down to Windows Store?]
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─It should be illegal for schools to force students to use non-free proprietary user-subjugating software, since it does not allow education, independence, or freedom
[19:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:49] <exec> 08└─a list of practical measures that you expect people in each situation to take in order to demonstrate that they don't have "idiocy"
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:35] <exec> 08└─there's a problem: "conventional socio-economic" technology, like reaction-mass engines, that require to mine a earth-bound resource, or a part of the earth itself and then eject or dump it into some general direction of outerspace is not going to cut it (for the distance). one could re-phrase it as...
[19:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:37] <exec> 08└─But, that's just a guess. I haven't read the article either. ;^)
[19:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 2669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:39] <exec> 08└─True. We have a long way to go on truly closed ecosystems, but also no particular need for them when colonizing resource-rich planets or large asteroids. Mars is such a desirable target specifically because it's incredibly rich in easily accessible water, CO2, and nitrogen. That, some imported trace...
[19:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:41] <exec> 08└─Make it a congressional fact-finding trip and I'll be happy.
[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─The source of the underlying problem was mentioned: Simultaneously aligning all the heads on all the platters isn't possible because of the incredibly thin data tracks on the platters,
[19:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:31] <exec> 08└─Don't forget adding $2 trillion in federal debt to pay for a tax cut for the rich!
[19:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy for Retinal Dystrophy Approved by the FDA - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:40] <exec> 08└─At least we can still breathe free. Nah, they're fucking with the EPA too...
[19:17:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─Antifa and other window smashing may-day ragers
[19:17:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Twitter Has Started Its Messy 'Purge' Of Neo-Nazi And 'Alt-Right' Accounts - 942 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:52] <exec> 08└─Uh... you can't really argue that he didn't unprovoked drive into a bunch of protesters, which had the direct result of one person dying and several injured. Whether the protesters where antifa nutters, alt-right nutters, religious nutters or any other variety of nutter (or even non-nutter) doesn't...
[19:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:05] <exec> 08└─The Tea Party is full of people whose heart is almost in the right place, but are too dumb to avoid being co-opted by the worst hucksters around. The alt-right is the same. They all have a habit of falling for corrupt establishmentarians like Trump based on emotional manipulation and empty promises....
[19:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:07] <exec> 08└─My point was not about who would win. My point was that there was controversy that threatened to destabilize the country. But yeah, SCOTUS picking a 2000 presidential victor out of their ass was done for the same reason. And now to take the bait. Not sure why Gore deserved to lose. He would have bee...
[19:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:09] <exec> 08└─Trump and Bernie are far, far from being centrists. Those were the examples I was referring to. It might be fair to say that most politicians are centrists who are just playing the partisan game. But even such politicians probably have a few unorthodox positions that better match their district than...
[19:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:11] <exec> 08└─An unconstitutional law is null and void from its inception, and must be resisted fiercely at every turn and by any means necessary. The People should ignore such laws. Juries should refuse to convict people who violate such laws. Police should refuse to arrest people who violate such laws. And so o...
[19:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:13] <exec> 08└─> but somebody on their staff donating money damn well better be reading writing everything FTFY
[19:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:46] <exec> 08└─I use iPhones for two years in between upgrades...our iPhones seem to last far longer than Id've expected them to... and I'd guess this is why.
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[20:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 leak leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:43] <exec> 08└─Why are giant databases containing private information on most of the voting population actually legal and unregulated in the US? Maybe we do need a real violent dictatorship takeover for a few years, to teach Americans that the proliferation of databases conveniently allowing you to mass-scale sort...
[20:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 leak leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:45] <exec> 08└─Why are giant databases containing private information on most of the voting population actually legal and unregulated in the US?
[20:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:56] <exec> 08└─Do you think this ruling is limited to just Uber/Lyft-type of services, or does it have much broader significance for the "we're just middlemen bring people together" type of "new economy" business model?
[20:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:58] <exec> 08└─Right, the whole reason uber (etc) exist is because of laws set up long ago to force central dispatch of cabs. And doing it On A Computer was specifically outlawed in many places. Had the cab companies jumped up and adopted computerized dispatch with all the features (rejecting some drivers, rejecti...
[20:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 2426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:00] <exec> 08└─No, they're *not* a taxi company. But "limo for hire", yes, that describes them pretty closely: limo for hire using a smartphone app. The distinction is important, because at least in some jurisdictions, the laws for the two are very different. Uber (and Lyft) gets flak because they don't obey laws...
[20:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:02] <exec> 08└─There are apps like that - sometimes very localized. http://instantcab.com [instantcab.com] But I have to ask, How were cabs dispatched before radio? Before telephones? They roamed the the streets waiting to be hailed. You sent your butler out to hail one. And if they didn't roam your neighborhood,...
[20:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:04] <exec> 08└─There is lot to say about Uber's use of untrained, non-professional drivers and other abusive practices.
[20:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:07] <exec> 08└─Wrong. With Uber, the unpleasant behavior is supposed to be confined to the ranks of the executives. They don't want the drivers harassing people, because that's bad for business. But if the executives harass female employees, that's OK (at least until it makes news headlines...). My solution: use L...
[20:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:09] <exec> 08└─Under the court ruling just given, it is only applicable to companies such as Lyft and Uber. But conceivably, anyone trying to skirt around existing legislation by claiming to be a 'technology company' when it is obvious to everyone that their profit does not come from the technology itself but from...
[20:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:11] <exec> 08└─They've just been trying to circumvent existing rules and regulations in the latest round of "But, but, but... On a COMPUTER!!!"
[20:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:13] <exec> 08└─Milk deliver is still a thing in some places. Especially if you have a house full of kids. But Taxi Companies have made themselves obsolete by refusing to adopt App based hailing. Cities haven't helped by propping up old tech and old rules in the interest of taxing and licensing fees. There is still...
[20:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:16] <exec> 08└─But conceivably, anyone trying to skirt around existing legislation by claiming to be a 'technology company' when it is obvious to everyone that their profit does not come from the technology itself but from those paying for transport, will have to face the equivalent laws.
[20:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:18] <exec> 08└─The 'huge proportion' that you talk about is only a small fraction of those using road transport facilities. All of the other facilities are regulated particularly with regards to passenger safety and fair practices for both drivers and passengers - which are also things that people here want. If th...
[20:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:20] <exec> 08└─There is probably still a case for a slight artificial scarcity in rides, so that people can make a living at it slightly better than a seasonal crop picker.
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:23] <exec> 08└─And if they didn't roam your neighborhood, you probably couldn't afford them anyway.
[20:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─Is some regulation is more equal than other forms of regulation?
[20:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:43] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of homeophobes.
[20:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:46] <exec> 08└─The dietary supplement industry lobbying [theatlantic.com] must have passed its expiration date. I distinctly remember this going down during the early days of the Clinton administration. At the time I was much more conservative and living among more left-leaning people in a college town. I expresse...
[20:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:48] <exec> 08└─Orin Hatch was, and still is, the well-heeled champion of the "dietary supplement" industry. He's very vigorously defended them for decades. Coincidentally, his family is in the dietary supplement business.
[20:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:50] <exec> 08└─If you dilute a placebo, then you'd have a perfectly servicable homeopathic remedy for whatever arbitrary problem you want to market it for. Homeopathic solutions are diluted to the point where there's at most one molecule of the active ingredient and usually none at all.
[20:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:52] <exec> 08└─...homoepathic drug...
[20:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:28] <exec> 08└─Yep, only pirates. Pirates and small businesses. But you didn't get the $500/month small business connection, did you, you pirate? </sarcasm> Well, I'm not being sarcastic about the part where VPNs will be completely banned unless you have the small business package, which will be prohibitively expe...
[20:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:29] <exec> 08└─It has begun.
[20:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:32] <exec> 08└─For this purpose, does Android/Linux count as Linux? Does Chrome OS/Linux? Or do you refer specifically to GNU/Linux? Because I haven't seen GNU/Linux laptops in showrooms for a long time.
[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:34] <exec> 08└─>> I would have thought that it would be permissible for Google to publish its wares on the Microsoft Store. It is. Microsoft, Apple, and Google all publish apps in each other's stores. The problem in this case is that Google broke one of the rules. For Browsers, Apple's rules say that you have to u...
[20:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:36] <exec> 08└─The Windows store is for idiots who don't know how to download directly from a web site or install from physical media because they were raised by iPhones.
[20:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:38] <exec> 08└─Tying the browser to the OS was only part of the problem. At the time, there was a thriving market of commercial web browsers (Netscape, Opera, various Mosaic derivatives, and so on). Developing a web browser cost money, but Microsoft used money that they got from selling Windows to finance developm...
[20:15:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:20] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(star) [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikip...
[20:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:30] <exec> 08└─Assuming we plan to actually insert into a stellar orbit, rather than making fly-by observations, then there's no need real advantage to remote control - space is empty, planetary motion predictable, and orbital navigation simple.
[20:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:32] <exec> 08└─"conventional socio-economic" technology, like reaction-mass engines, that require to mine a earth-bound resource, or a part of the earth itself and then eject or dump it into some general direction of outerspace is not going to cut it (for the distance).
[20:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:49] <exec> 08└─> when you wanted track 342, you need to seek head one to 338, and then read with head 5 When you need to read from track 342, go to track 342 and read/write using all 8 to 16 heads, with the data split between platters, multiplying throughput. Bit interleave gives the fastest latency to first word,...
[20:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:26] <exec> 08└─You don't actually believe there will be a new system rolled out next year, do you?
[20:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:27] <exec> 08└─Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016 Deport everyone that signed a petition to withdraw their state from the USA Nationalize the Twinkie industry Deport Justin Bieber and Revoke His Green Card Establish new legal system of motorcycle riding "judges" who serve...
[20:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:29] <exec> 08└─This was my thought as well. When it first opened, and it wasn't yet a total farce, I went on to vote and was immediately met with the need to identify myself. This seemed like a really bad idea to me and I went no further. Given the tepid level of responses, (i.e. here's a response from the head of...
[20:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:31] <exec> 08└─I believe that the White House expects most people to believe such ridiculous claims, and that makes me sad.
[20:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Institutes of Health 3-Year Ban on Viral "Gain of Function" Studies Lifted - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:11] <exec> 08└─"Government ok's research on Zombie Virus!"
[20:17:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:22] <exec> 08└─Incorrect, or that is to say, wrong. You are thinking either of brazing or soldering, involving dissimilar metals that bind, either brass or tin, with lead or silver, or even gold. Welding is always same to same. Or mostly same to sort of same. Oxidation is only a problem with metals that oxidize, a...
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[21:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:47] <exec> 08└─If folks would like to take it literally a liberty tree still stands in Randolph, NJ and the clone of one in Acton, MA.
[21:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:48] <exec> 08└─Why do you believe that these types of databases - illegal and unregulated as they may be - don't exist for European citizens? If there's a profit to be made off such a database, someone, somewhere is compiling it, legality be damned.
[21:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:50] <exec> 08└─Consider the problems face by closeted gay Senators: 127.0.0.1 hosted-pixel.com # I Am Absolutely Serious
[21:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:53] <exec> 08└─Who gives a shit about the latest creative way they found to fuck themselves? Here's a halfway decent solution: http://www.legislation.gov.uk [legislation.gov.uk]
[21:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:55] <exec> 08└─I'm right down the road from Randolph, NJ. I'll take care of that pesky tree this weekend. Thanks for the heads-up.
[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:20] <exec> 08└─Nope. They get paid by the people they custom-carry around. The fact that robot Marvin is better at getting you matched to a ride than human Greta is not relevant. They don't sell that algorithm to other companies, they sell transportation to people. Taxi companies didn't become tech companies when...
[21:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:22] <exec> 08└─The 'huge proportion' that you talk about is only a small fraction of those using road transport facilities.
[21:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:24] <exec> 08└─The fact that robot Marvin is better at getting you matched to a ride than human Greta is not relevant.
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:26] <exec> 08└─Many cities are restricting cab numbers as an incentive to push people to public transport, have less cars adding traffic around hot spots all day long, and to avoid cabs literally fighting each other over the customers.
[21:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─It would be the app sold as a service in a competitive marketplace. Independent operators, who would contend with local regulation on their own, would buy into the app as a way to get customers.
[21:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:31] <exec> 08└─Europe total population: 743.1 million. 62/743=8.3% Nope, not enough to impose on the rest of 90+% the (lack of passenger safety) rules the rest of 8.3% are Ok with.
[21:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:33] <exec> 08└─> Many cities are restricting cab numbers as an incentive to push people to public transport Um, taxis _are_ public transport.
[21:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─> The fact that robot Marvin is required in order for the model to pull a profit is relevant. Not. at. all. If Greta got all the street intersections of customers and got them all a ride, or if Marvin was completely incompetent and people cancelled in droves, causing the company to lose even more bi...
[21:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─Nitpicking. Chosen to ignore "have less cars adding traffic", haven't you? Let me put forward the "mass transit" substitute for "public transport", a substitute which encompasses "less traffic".
[21:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:40] <exec> 08└─No, they're *not* a taxi company. But "limo for hire", yes, that describes them pretty closely: limo for hire using a smartphone app.
[21:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:42] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I'll also add that cities need to do better in building and operating mass transit. More people should be in trains rather than cars, but that also requires the city to do a good job of planning, building, and operating the train systems, something most of them in this country seem to do poo...
[21:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:44] <exec> 08└─Your attempt at semantics fails because you equate taxi with hackney carriage, but that is only one use of the word. Private hire vehicles are also taxis. No, that depends on the jurisdiction. Wikipedia is not the arbiter for legal definitions that can be particular to a certain city. Those definiti...
[21:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:46] <exec> 08└─That depends on the definition of "employee" in that particular jurisdiction. There's other industries where workers just show up "when they feel like it", that's nothing new. Uber/Lyft do handle that more gracefully and automatically than older industries (where they might not be given a job that d...
[21:13:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:56] <exec> 08└─Well, if you dilute the regulation, say, 1to 100, it becomes even more effective, because of the "memory" of regulation. Republican regulation. Just wait 'til this Congress applies the same thinking to Social Security!
[21:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:53] <exec> 08└─didn't read the article so I'm just going from the summary. First impression is that Microsoft is using it's monopoly control of OS market and the Windows app store to prevent competition with it's Edge browser. Second impression isn't any better.
[21:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:55] <exec> 08└─Because I haven't seen GNU/Linux laptops in showrooms for a long time.
[21:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:57] <exec> 08└─Then watch high school graduates not be able to find a job to pay their way through university because people with LibreOffice experience technically "don't know Word."
[21:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:51] <exec> 08└─I heard somewhere that within a few months of Kennedy's speech about America going to the moon he and his advisors were discussing how they could do joint mission to the moon with the USSR due to the cost of America going it alone. If Kennedy had lived things would have likely been very different, e...
[21:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:52] <exec> 08└─Why wait until 2069? Warp drive is invented in 2063.
[21:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 3396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:54] <exec> 08└─Do you have any idea how hard it is to pass close enough to a planet to have your path substantially modified by its gravity? Especially something as tiny as Pluto? Meanwhile we're already beginning to directly image planets around other stars, and have telescopes in the works that will actually be...
[21:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:52] <exec> 08└─The site was contracted out to liberals. For conservative petitions, votes would sometimes disappear. Something like this ought to be handled in-house, or at least with a contractor that is trusted by the current administration.
[21:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─CPU thermal paste dried up : ( Easy fix on a desktop!
[21:22:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06 DHS Reports Boeing 757 Vulnerable to Remote Hacking - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─demonstrated that a commercial aircraft could be remotely hacked in a non-laboratory setting
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[22:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Improve Background Noise Filtering for Quantum Sensors - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:46] <exec> 08└─The one trick scientists don't want you to know about that can block quantum background noise! Find out how!
[22:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:02] <exec> 08└─You think these are new? I can tell you these existed more than 15 years ago (and probably few years before that). Look up Lexis Nexis.
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:03] <exec> 08└─I am not familiar with S3, and I wonder why they even have such a misleading access group. Is it done intentionally, to catch the unwary? I would think, not knowing much, that "authenticated users" belong to my domain, and not to the whole system. What is the legit purpose of a group with such a wid...
[22:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:05] <exec> 08└─Thomas Jefferson, great president, great president. Who had it easy in some ways. He didn't have to deal with Nazis, with grammar Nazis. And he had no problems getting laid. He had his wife, he had Sally Hemings -- he made 6 children with her, folks -- he had a lady in France. But he had big problem...
[22:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:07] <exec> 08└─I wonder how long that "right to prevent processing for purposes of direct marketing" would last if Comcast, Verzion, AT&T, Time Warner ("Spectrum"), etc. were to set up shop in the UK. Your telecom companies just aren't evil enough, yet. Or at least they haven't been exposed. Also, how are those ca...
[22:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:10] <exec> 08└─Misspelled 'All' in the title. Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves All American Households Exposed
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:14] <exec> 08└─Projecting much? Typical bird brain.
[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─The positive truth? You can't handle the truth in it's positive form, nobody can. As an example of the partial truth in the positive form [wikipedia.org]: - this solution is fat free - this solution contains no added hormones, preservatives or colours - this solution is more than 99.99% natural - no...
[22:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:17] <exec> 08└─I agree Regulation should be as limited as possible. But not absent when it is necessary. Any necessary regulation should be strong enough to accomplish its purpose, and be for the public good.
[22:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that, I never bothered to look into it and just assumed homeopathy and herbal medicines were basically the same thing.
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 1800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─I do want ISPs to be regulated. There shouldn't be "fast lanes" paid for by destinations. Fast Lanes should be something that the ISP sells to their own customers. But the necessity of offering suggests that the ISP isn't doing its job of building out its infrastructure to support its customer base....
[22:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:24] <exec> 08└─The truth in its positive form, as you say is not the entire truth. Which is another name for an alternate fact. From the father of alternate facts.
[22:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:09] <exec> 08└─They may not be idiots but they're certainly receiving abuse. "A desktop application downloaded from some website can see, disclose, and modify everything in the user's profile.* By contrast, a UWP application is sandboxed to see only those documents that the user chooses to make available to it, ma...
[22:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:10] <exec> 08└─It was a playground for malware for the same reason the current versions are. Because the focus is on adding features rather than getting the core functionality correct. Downloading arbitrary binaries and running them is simply an additional risky practice added on top of a fundamentally insecure sy...
[22:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:12] <exec> 08└─"Should it also be illegal to force students in a literature class to read post-1922* novels, short stories, or poems? Those are typically just as non-free, proprietary, and reader-subjugating." You would think so, but ironically they aren't, really. We still tolerate libraries lending books, also r...
[22:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:15] <exec> 08└─"For Browsers, Apple's rules say that you have to use the Safari components WebKit and JavaScript Core. Microsoft's say you have to use the Edge components. Not Edge itself, but the underlying rendering engine. Anyone can make a browser on either platform within the boundaries of those restrictions,...
[22:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:17] <exec> 08└─What should the operator of a lesser-known website from which desktop applications can be downloaded do to make the website and applications appear trustworthy?
[22:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:19] <exec> 08└─Because I haven't seen GNU/Linux laptops in showrooms for a long time.
[22:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:21] <exec> 08└─You would think [that proprietary cultural works are as user-subjugating as proprietary computer programs], but ironically they aren't, really.
[22:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:24] <exec> 08└─. It's called drivers. Otherwise you get things like the ASUS Transformer Book T100TA [debian.org] where half the stuff is broken after GNU/Linux is installed.
[22:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:20] <exec> 08└─If editing is allowed it should track the changes so everyone can see what someone changed.
[22:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:40] <exec> 08└─http://www.instructables.com/id/Hard-Drive-Speaker/ [instructables.com]
[22:16:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 323 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:47] <exec> 08└─Good god we knew this would happen! He is firing all of the IT staff and replacing them with cheaper Russian agents! They will hack petition results and change them to benefit Putin in his goal to conquer the world and destroy the united states. This has to be stopped we must impeach now and fire a...
[22:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:21] <exec> 08└─> Disruption of communications can only mean one thing two things, if systemd manages something somewhere along the communication path.
[22:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:22] <exec> 08└─> I'm curious as to what they will try to replace Drupal with. You can't get much easier or cheaper than that. I know I should not be giving them ideas, but a pipe to /dev/null IS easier and cheaper.
[22:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:24] <exec> 08└─> And there's plenty trying to make thugs look like boy scouts This is genius. My AI says this would cut the number of criminals down to 2% which BTW is the percentage of thugs who are actual boy scouts and well beyond salvation anyway.
[22:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:20] <exec> 08└─Is she holding a class? Where can we sign up?
[22:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:05] <exec> 08└─Gore (a senator's son) volunteered for military service during the USAian assault on/occupation of Vietnam. (He was in the propaganda corps.) I don't think he would have been better WRT military aggression in the Mideast. USA hasn't elected a non-Neocon (non-warmonger) since 1960[1] nor a non-Neolib...
[22:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:07] <exec> 08└─It's really too bad that intelligence has an inverse relationship with humility
[22:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Anti-Net Neutrality Narrative Is False - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:09] <exec> 08└─Oh for sure, but some of the moderate conservatives may not have seen it. At least now there is no wondering. Please bookmark his comment, it will be required for future references ;)
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[23:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:48] <exec> 08└─Encryption lets TERRORISTS do bad things, and statistics enables RACIST government actions. The only solution is to ban the study of numbers. It's just too problematic.
[23:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Researchers Improve Background Noise Filtering for Quantum Sensors - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:56] <exec> 08└─We can't trust those tricky scientists.
[23:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:55] <exec> 08└─"hailing" a taxi vs "Pre-booking" a limo. Taxis have moved into pre-booking, but you never know if they are going to show up, or even which company will turn up. Basically, in most juristictions, limo drivers can't tout for business, or pick-up passengers from the kerb. Uber and lyft *are*, by defin...
[23:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:57] <exec> 08└─Uber and lyft *are*, by definition, all pre-booked, but, in some cases, only minutes before the trip. So, it all comes down to semantics, which is what happens with most legal arguments. That's correct: you can pre-book a ride hours or days ahead of time (good idea if you're traveling and need a rid...
[23:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:30] <exec> 08└─After seeing what FoxNews started as, and how CNN and others later became equally as bad, I'm not sure I can trust any of them to be good actors in presenting or even recognizing what is fair.
[23:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:32] <exec> 08└─Active ingredients: fuck all. There, done.
[23:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─Take it up with the FDA, I used their words.
[23:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:27] <exec> 08└─I would extend that to "Windows is for idiots": it is a gaming system only. Anything beyond games? Idiotic.
[23:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:28] <exec> 08└─It's called drivers. Otherwise [...] half the stuff is broken after GNU/Linux is installed.
[23:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:30] <exec> 08└─What new, non-broken 10.1" or 11.6" laptop is good for running GNU/Linux and the applications I use regularly (some of which are free applications for Windows that run correctly in Wine)?
[23:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:33] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Windows Store, Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon and the rest. They all suck. The problem isn't that the idea is bad, because having a convenient and uniform way to purchase and install software isn't inherently awful. The problem is that none of them can resist the lure of corporate co...
[23:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:30] <exec> 08└─Or not actually post the comment until the editing period ends.
[23:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:29] <exec> 08└─There was mention of a pop quiz. It is a cruel teacher who gives a pop quiz without first presenting the material, in this case silicon dioxide, that is to be quizzed upon.
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