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[00:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:56] <exec> 08└─Firefox is still a damm good browser, but not the release version. I use Firefox nightly and I prefer it to Chrome
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:58] <exec> 08└─I just a couple weeks ago discovered that my T-Mobile business plan includes free Netflix, but not by default: I have to request it by calling T-Mobile or visiting a shop. That _almost_ gives me a good reason to get my phone reconnected, but really, I'd rather spend my singing tips on Hookers and Bl...
[00:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:00] <exec> 08└─Now this is a feature I've wanted for a long while. This will save users bandwidth and reduce my need to hunt for the dang stop/pause button on every friggin' page with a video I don't want to watch. Other features I'd like: Bring back the ability to see where links actually point to when you hover...
[00:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:02] <exec> 08└─Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see where it would prevent the video from downloading, only from playing, so I don't see where it will save bandwidth. The article* did state it would allow muted video to play. As to the three bullet points at the bottom, YES, YES and YES!!!! *I'm sorry, I read...
[00:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game Developer Uses DMCA Notice to 'Free' Its Game from Steam Publisher - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:25] <exec> 08└─If you're crazy, are you sure you're really you?
[00:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:02] <exec> 08└─I say we collaborate on a business plan and present it to Shark Tank.
[00:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:20] <exec> 08└─These platforms hold a monopoly on much of the the monetization of social media. . From my non creator perspective, of these, Google and Youtube would be inconvenient to lose, but there are options for them. Facebook and Twitter wouldn't bother me to lose a single bit. . . . Google - yeah, annoying...
[00:36:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 680 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:31] <exec> 08└─> that twisted moral code in which security officers trained to protect the interests of their people against foreigners I assert that "good or bad" trumps "foreign or not". Are you saying that one should support an (ethically) bad person in their own country over an (ethically) good person from ano...
[00:36:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:36] <exec> 08└─So did you try to be a walking, breathing example of exactly the type of evil on discussion here or did it just happen naturally?
[00:39:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:00] <exec> 08└─The love of money is one manifestation of an underlying tendency: the tendency to objectify people and personalize objects. That is the root of all evil right there, subjugating agents to objects. It's what I've been calling people out on this site for since the beginning, and they're not getting it...
[00:39:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 1338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:23] <exec> 08└─I think the tipping point for America that took it fervently in the direction of Empire was the refusal to listen to the warnings of Eisenhower. When WWII ended and we were handed a world in complete ruin, except for us, without any remaining superpowers able to project forces, except for us, we did...
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[01:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─we burn way too many cycles on "is she mad at me for something?", "what did I forget?", "why the silent treatment?", and especially "not seeing anything wrong in our relationship, dafuq?". Constant use burns out brain cells, especially coupled with heightened alcohol use while relegated to the couch...
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:52] <exec> 08└─I thought that there are no physiological differences between men and women and that your gender all depends on your mood when you wake up?
[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─I love Firefox nightly
[01:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Developer Uses DMCA Notice to 'Free' Its Game from Steam Publisher - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:31] <exec> 08└─LOL: Solipsism [warplife.com].
[01:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:09] <exec> 08└─What if the very first optical element exposed to the enemy were a bundle of parallel tubes.
[01:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:10] <exec> 08└─Countermeasure
[01:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:12] <exec> 08└─There's a way one can take a slomo clip of a bullet in flight "heading" towards the camera - it's called a mirror. Inexpensive and easy to replace, really.
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[02:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:54] <exec> 08└─Women of all ages have to stay sharp to keep fending off men.
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:55] <exec> 08└─It's not the years, it's the mileage.
[02:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─No, after 34 that is no longer an issue unless they're really hot.
[02:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:59] <exec> 08└─"Women of all ages have to stay sharp to keep fending off men." Funny, at my age I'm staying blunt to fend off women.
[02:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:02] <exec> 08└─And, don't forget... Nagging makes men want to die sooner.
[02:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:16] <exec> 08└─Or A new blowup girlfriend
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─Pluggins that control page content still work, right?
[02:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:32] <exec> 08└─I haven't read the case, but targeting hospitals makes it worth a decade in prison. Otherwise, I agree with you. The real problem with network security is, no one takes security seriously. Hospital business shouldn't be on the internet, at all - it should be a separate network, inaccessible to those...
[02:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:02] <exec> 08└─Duuude! You do have a brain? What, it's normally soaked in alcohol or something? Yes, we've known about this for centuries. Doing something about it is a while different exercise in optics management
[02:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:04] <exec> 08└─Is "50 mph" fast? Down Under over here you can drive in a straight line at the max legal limit for a day straight and not run out of road
[02:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:06] <exec> 08└─Why would a female willingly move to the UAE to live? Isn't that pretty much within the definition of "asking for it" (eg bad things to happen)
[02:39:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 707 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:56] <exec> 08└─Putting 1913 aside as the distal cause, and not Hoover, I think it's far more useful to find a proximal cause. And that's the QEs, and the artificially-low interest rate. The govt "experts", "economists" I think they call themselves, for some unknown reason, don't seem to realise that keeping lendin...
[02:40:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:04] <exec> 08└─LOL the story doesn't sound like easily ignorable propaganda at all. (sarcasm)
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[03:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:48] <exec> 08└─There is a row for AV1 on the compatibility chart, but no support yet: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:49] <exec> 08└─We've been playing audio visual stuff for decades now. Meaning, of course, that we've played AV on some rather lame hardware. As a rule, if you have decent speakers, and a decent monitor, playback quality is satisfactory, good, or excellent, even with ancient computers. Now, a "CPU-based encoder req...
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:03] <exec> 08└─There are physiological differences between idiots and good people, but does that mean we should force legal classifications around those physiological differences?
[03:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:05] <exec> 08└─older women let people on their lawn.
[03:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:07] <exec> 08└─But do they mow?
[03:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:09] <exec> 08└─Normally, idiot, we don't make special laws for you. We do try to prevent you from driving, or doing other dangerous things, but you resent every effort in your behalf.
[03:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:12] <exec> 08└─Only so they can trap them in a five-hour conversation about nothing.
[03:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:14] <exec> 08└─What does this study offer? We already knew that women tend to outlive men. All they seem to have accomplished, is to confirm that women age more slowly than men. Does this open some other line of research that might slow aging, either in men, or in women, or in both? As an aside - we have a woman w...
[03:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe us men can extract their brain fluids and use it to stay young.
[03:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:32] <exec> 08└─Stop clicking me there ... hey, don't touch my scroll bars ... if you look at my preferences you'll see that you are not listed in any of them ... don't clear my cache, cookies and history! that's a browser roofie!
[03:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:47] <exec> 08└─" if someone is running (literally) vital stuff on a non-redundant unreliable system like a public internet connection, it shouldn't get dumped on the moron who triggers a DDoS" - What utter bullshit. Only an idiot would accept your "reasoning". What you wrote is similar to blaming a person who didn...
[03:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:49] <exec> 08└─"I would not equate that to physical intrusion and damage. It is not worth 10 years in jail." - A DDOS against a HOSPITAL is a serious crime. Most people are perceptive enough to recognize this is the case. You ? You're just a stupid waste of skin spewing your idiotic poorly reasoned opinion on the...
[03:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:40] <exec> 08└─How big was this target that was 2km away? A typical range target 2 km away is very hard to hit with a sniper rifle. Anything else, forget it. This is not a very compelling test scenario for a “secret weapon” that’s supposed to make you miss a target...
[03:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:48] <exec> 08└─The real question is how AI is going to prioritize in life/death situations. Is it going to save me, the owner and occupant, or a child illegally running across the street? That's especially interesting since the "child" might be a racoon. Do I have a say in this prioritization perhaps by adjusting...
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[04:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Posts Starship Raptor Rocket Engine Test - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:49] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1092270756715737088/video/1 [twitter.com]
[04:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:59] <exec> 08└─These early software encoders are for those who really need it, like big companies handling lots of video or needing to test out the codec. They can afford two 28-core Intel CPUs or a 64-core AMD Epyc. Video compression becomes more computationally complex as we attempt to get lower bitrates for a g...
[04:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:01] <exec> 08└─Your guess is as good as mine. I'm expecting AMD APUs to include it as late as 2021 since they have lagged behind the desktop CPUs and GPUs.
[04:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:03] <exec> 08└─CPU-based encoder
[04:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:24] <exec> 08└─That brings a whole new meaning to "swapping body fluids". I much prefer donating my fluids to her though.
[04:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:26] <exec> 08└─for idiots perhaps the idiots are older men?
[04:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:28] <exec> 08└─What does this study offer? We already knew that women tend to outlive men. All they seem to have accomplished, is to confirm that women age more slowly than men.
[04:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:46] <exec> 08└─Turn off the ability to auto-load completely different URLs when scrolling a page.
[04:35:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02 - 06Game Developer Uses DMCA Notice to 'Free' Its Game from Steam Publisher - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:10] <exec> 08└─Would have been nice to put that in the TFS. The said publisher have also been blacklisted in Steam.
[04:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Game Developer Uses DMCA Notice to 'Free' Its Game from Steam Publisher - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:14] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Before going to TFA, I thought Ammobox was in dispute with Steam (or Valve).
[04:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:39] <exec> 08└─UAE != Saudi Arabia. The Emirates are a fairly progressive place compared to many Muslim majority countries, especially for foreigners. Foreign women are treated reasonably well, at least no worse than they would be in most non-Islamic countries. The UAE is like the Las Vegas of the Middle East, whe...
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[05:34:05] <exec> 08└─Okay, so its a lot of samn work to do in realtime, but not everything needs to be encoded in real time. If I throw it on an old PPC to reencode a DVD to a tenth its size, do I care if it takes a few weeks?
[05:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:47] <exec> 08└─I still want all autoplay stopped. Even if it's silent
[05:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:49] <exec> 08└─Turn off the ability for videos to follow you as you scroll down a page.
[05:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:19] <exec> 08└─My point is that if a reporter gets tipped off about the Prime Burger sting, and gets spoon-fed a story, that is not "sunshine", but rather propaganda. And the last time the media helped bang the drums against an adversary, we got the disasterous Iraq War. Were those WMD stories sunshine, too?
[05:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:21] <exec> 08└─Investigative journalism doesn't magically have journalists just appear at the right time, right place, over and over. You might want to look into the history [wikipedia.org] of the FBI [wikipedia.org] if you don't see a major problem with what seems to be probable collusion between the mainstream m...
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[06:34:07] <exec> 08└─The broadcasters/carriers who need it done in real time are shelling thousands of dollars for a few channels of h.264 or JPEG2000. Today.
[06:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:32] <exec> 08└─Don't stand so close to the strawman, or you'll burn alive when someone lights it up...
[06:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:53] <exec> 08└─A browser option I used in the 90s when many were stuck with slow dial-up connections was "do not download images". Might still work today, though the web has evolved greatly since then. It should still be not just possible but even fairly easy to stop all video.
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[07:34:16] <exec> 08└─You'll still need a system beefy enough to run a real-time encoder if you want to record TV, participate in video chat or screen sharing, etc.
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[07:34:41] <exec> 08└─So true. My mom spent 2 hours talking about how her ATM card doesn't work at 1 gas station. "Get a new card, Mom!"
[07:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:42] <exec> 08└─You collected a troll mod, but your point is valid. Any mention of potential gender-based differences in the brain is immediately branded as sexist, unless the difference is to the advantage of women. Remember Lawrence Summers? [theguardian.com] He referred to a difference that is perfectly well doc...
[07:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Developer Uses DMCA Notice to 'Free' Its Game from Steam Publisher - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:32] <exec> 08└─Next time, if you really want to prove authorship, register your works at the US Copyright Office [copyright.gov].
[07:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:14] <exec> 08└─Stage lights flashing, the feeling’s smashing... We just need the SDF1.
[07:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:38] <exec> 08└─My point is that if a reporter gets tipped off about the Prime Burger sting, and gets spoon-fed a story, that is not "sunshine", but rather propaganda. And the last time the media helped bang the drums against an adversary, we got the disasterous Iraq War. Were those WMD stories sunshine, too?
[07:41:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 880 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:17] <exec> 08└─My experience of libertarians is that they are completely fine with state violence provided that they know for certain the state violence won't be directed at themselves or somebody they can identify with. For example, I've met more than a few libertarians who are not on board with or actively oppos...
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[08:36:12] <exec> 08└─If it just made the troops want to boogie down and get funky, it might fly. But alas, it gave them an irresistible urge to re-do their barracks in harvest gold and avocado while singing in falsetto, and that's a war crime.
[08:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:14] <exec> 08└─Pink Floyd had one of those for their Division Bell tour.
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[09:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:50] <exec> 08└─the demise of a beloved retail chain
[09:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:52] <exec> 08└─I dunno about beloved but I'm quite fond of them. I've no burning need to get a game the day - or even the year - it comes out, so they save me quite a bit of money.
[09:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 1809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:25] <exec> 08└─But, it depends on the quality of what you are encoding, as well as the compression rate (as previously mentioned.) 10 years ago (roughly) it took a beefy machine to run Handbrake and encode a DVD down to a roughly 750MB file in realtime. My current (2-yr old) laptop can do the same in less than 1/2...
[09:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:27] <exec> 08└─Dude, you know not whereof you speak. Yes, MPEG2 videos work just fine on ancient hardware. And they take up a fuckton more space to store or bandwidth to stream for the same quality. They're not a little bit smaller, they're less than a tenth the size at the same quality. This actually matters sinc...
[09:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:29] <exec> 08└─You'll still need a system beefy enough to run a real-time encoder if you want to record TV, [participate in video chat or screen sharing], etc. No you don't. For recording for later viewing, all you need a system capable of storing the bitstream for later processing. Or even a system capable of par...
[09:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:56] <exec> 08└─Fountain of Youth? I thought that was just an Age of Empires 3 campaign. More to the point, could this mean that women's brain develops at a slower rate than men's brain? This could be an evolutionary result of women choosing above their strata and vice-versa.
[09:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:31] <exec> 08└─Is it all three, or any two, to make it a crime?
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[10:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evaluation of the First Two Years of the Net Neutrality Enforcement Situation in the EU - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:46] <exec> 08└─It's always been my opinion that in the future we'll have two Internets. The dumbed down and controlled consumer version, and the much smaller but much more useful "hacker homebrew" version. I wonder if they'll make it illegal to communicate computers bypassing the "real" Internet. I think the same...
[10:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:31] <exec> 08└─Subject to the terms and conditions of this license, each copyright holder and contributor hereby grants to those receiving rights under this license a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except for failure to satisfy the conditions of this license) patent lice...
[10:34:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 794 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:58] <exec> 08└─You collected a troll mod, but your point is valid. Any mention of potential gender-based differences in the brain is immediately branded as sexist, unless the difference is to the advantage of women. Remember Lawrence Summers? [theguardian.com] He referred to a difference that is perfectly well doc...
[10:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:38] <exec> 08└─IF you follow proper practices, a DDoS is a temporary, if costly at the time, inconvenience.
[10:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:37] <exec> 08└─Why was the disco dude the only one in the squad to get shot? Cause when the sergeant told them to "get down" he got up and boogied.
[10:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:38] <exec> 08└─Would "Staying Alive" be appropriate? Ha, ha, ha, ha!
[10:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, I had a brain. Then I tried to parse this sentence: Doing something about it is a while different exercise in optics management
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[11:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:23] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I usually use Firefox inspect element Dev command and delete the offending node. Great for getting rid of shielding divs.
[11:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:24] <exec> 08└─When Firefox implements this crap [theregister.co.uk] and you can no longer manipulate the DOM.. what then?
[11:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:43] <exec> 08└─Sic the IRS on them if that's the only trick you have left. Worked on Al Capone.
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[11:35:44] <exec> 08└─That's completely immaterial unlike the fact he's Israeli, a protected class. They usually enjoy free range from prosecution, even in rape and murder cases. Israel is the holy cow. Do note I said Israeli, not jew...
[11:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:45] <exec> 08└─Hell yeah! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If somebody has their dad's cool 70s specs around, push a photo to wikimedia commons. They were not the least bit uncommon.
[11:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:02] <exec> 08└─...There may be some debate among milky way residents as to which way is up or "above" the center of the disk. Hopefully no other races agree with Australia as to which way is up.
[11:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:33] <exec> 08└─Forget the US you can drive 12 and a half hours at the speed limit on highways in one direction and not even leave the state of Florida. (Pensacola to Key West)
[11:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:13] <exec> 08└─Is this the same Bloomberg that made hard to believe claims about the China pwning stuff by embedding pencil tip sized stuff between motherboard layers? Instead of doing far more plausible stuff? https://www.bloomberg.com
[11:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:03] <exec> 08└─However, a series of autonomous cars might travel at highway speeds almost touching bumpers to cut down on wind resistance. Relying on reading the brake light signals instead of the lead car telling all the other cars it plans to slow down seems like a lost opportunity. Roundabouts and other junctio...
[11:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:05] <exec> 08└─Pedestrian bridges, tunnels, or simply cow traps on the front of all cars. Pedestrians become less of a problem when people don't own cars. Cars drop you to a pedestrian zone then go away to park. Much lower congestion means much less infrastructure, means roads can be covered, buried or bridged eas...
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[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:47] <exec> 08└─Not a problem. Pipe the floods of water in Queensland [theguardian.com] down to Tassie to put the fires out [abc.net.au] and she'll be right mate.
[12:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:48] <exec> 08└─Great news headline, but it looks to me like a Shark was startled by the crocs sudden lunge-for-food movement and happens to jump out of the water. It seems odd that a shark would be able to see through the muddy water and identify the prey hanging off the guide's lines. Happy to be proved wrong.
[12:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─We love Florida. But, it's very dangerous. Beautiful ocean but it's full of horrible sharks. Many people dieing of Shark attack. And Crocodile attack. Which, we don't call them Crocodile. We call them Alligator -- very special type of Crocodile. If you can tell the difference, you're much too close!
[12:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:06] <exec> 08└─I almost completely gave up buying games on physical media when they started shipping with DRM that needed online registration. If you can't play it without it phoning home to some server that will undoubtedly get shut down at some future date, what's the benefit of owning a physical copy? Think I'l...
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[12:36:52] <exec> 08└─:D
[12:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:54] <exec> 08└─All you get is a PDP-11.
[12:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─If the conditions were the same with and without this gadget, then it's a valid test (given a large enough amount of repetitions). Let's Science baby! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[13:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:47] <exec> 08└─if they find out they are only the second most intelligent species on earth, we are all done with.
[13:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:48] <exec> 08└─Now was this a seal seal, or a naval special operations seal seaman (well, I know they reported the sample was poop but poop, semen, whatever)? Those seals will do anything to hide their bitcoin vault in a steagonographically secure cold vault. Look at the least significant bits of those "holiday sn...
[13:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:59] <exec> 08└─Build a net to keep the sharks out. Problem solved. Credit me later.
[13:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:01] <exec> 08└─they'd probably eat the net :(
[13:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:03] <exec> 08└─Poisonous spiders? Check. Poisonous snakes? Check. Dropbears? Check. Sharks AND crocs in the river. Right. I'm out.
[13:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:06] <exec> 08└─Spider bites Australian man on penis again [bbc.com]
[13:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:08] <exec> 08└─You said it. Simply put, nets work and nets save lives. Australia, so famous for their beautiful beaches. They have the net, you go for a swim and the sharks -- of which they have many -- go hungry. And they also have, they call it the barrier. Shark barrier or barrier net. You can call it what you...
[13:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:10] <exec> 08└─What do you expect from a black widow?
[13:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 2757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:26] <exec> 08└─I was at a GS last weekend; my son is into console gaming (multi-player with friends etc) GS gave up on PC, thats steam only now. Merely a vestigial amount of PC gaming stuff if any. A couple sq feet at most. Much like Barnes and Noble used to be 99% books and now is down to less than 50% books and...
[13:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:27] <exec> 08└─Based on FauxNews credibility, I'm inclined to believe to shop chain may actually be doing fine.
[13:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah this. I'll be sorry to see them go. They're the only game store chain left. Wal-Mart and its kin do not compare. There has been a sort of revival in my region of mom-n-pop game stores thankfully.
[13:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact with MarCO CubeSats Lost - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:41] <exec> 08└─I had assumed this dude was going to be an amsat project and I kinda waited for news from amsat about freqs, lazily of course, and now the mission is over I see it was never an AMSAT project to begin with; oh well. https://directory.eoportal.org [eoportal.org]...
[13:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:06] <exec> 08└─It just means more patents can be added to the Alliance for Open Media pool, and you don't infringe on them by using the codec.
[13:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:35] <exec> 08└─Race works the same way too, both biologically and in leftist culture, unfortunately.
[13:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:36] <exec> 08└─This difference could be why women tend to stay mentally sharp for longer than men Facebook addiction will compensate for that; presumably they corrected for lifestyle mistakes like that in their data.
[13:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:01] <exec> 08└─I never want any webpage to record audio or video from my device, what setting is that?
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[13:38:43] <exec> 08└─This will be pretty much the same way
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[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─Be more worried about the kid and mother from the video. Last I checked leopard seals are cunning bastards that tend to drown humans by dragging them to the bottom of the sea before eating them.
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─They used to have the very special watch. If anyone remembers watches. And they were very rough with that one -- amazing commercials for it. They said it could take a licking. And keep on running. This Stick Cyber, this USB, took a licking. It took so much more, the pooping and the everything else....
[14:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:05] <exec> 08└─BUILD A NET AND LESS CRIME WE WILL GET!
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[14:34:13] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they'll make it illegal to communicate computers bypassing the "real" Internet.
[14:34:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 315 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─I almost completely gave up buying games on physical media when they started shipping with DRM that needed online registration. If you can't play it without it phoning home to some server that will undoubtedly get shut down at some future date, what's the benefit of owning a physical copy? Think I'l...
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[14:34:39] <exec> 08└─CubeSats are probably going to switch from radio to laser communications at some point. Apparently, laser systems can use less power [nasa.gov] while hitting much higher data rates. Hams could always launch their own CubeSats if they want. It could cost as low as $50,000, well within the reach of cr...
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[14:35:06] <exec> 08└─A good compromise is to run a fast lossless compression algorithm on the raw bitstream.
[14:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:07] <exec> 08└─Say you borrow one DVD per week, and you have only one machine on which to transcode with no opportunity for parallel speedup by using multiple cores. Then "a few weeks" to transcode each one causes the backlog to pile up.
[14:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─What would you use instead if a friend requests voice or video chat with you, and the video chat application that the friend uses happens not to be available as a native app for your device's operating system?
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[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Fly Larvae Really Know How to Demolish a Pizza - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─Big whoop. I can kill half of one in under fifteen minutes all by myself.
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─Any metadata on the pics/videos? Date/time/location?
[15:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─Good God! I cannot imagine the kind of kink on that fucking memory stick!
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─I think ^ swallowed a goatse flashdrive
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─Dolphins are the second most intelligent species, humans are third. I don't know where seals rate.
[15:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:23] <exec> 08└─Oy saw a snike. Eat head beeg blow oys and a huge tile.
[15:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:43] <exec> 08└─They're predictably incredible, same as CNN or RT. If you want the straight dope on Putin, I'd avoid RT. For truth on anyone/anything running counter to far left policies, avoid CNN. For truth on anything running counter to establishment Republican agendas, avoid FNC. Otherwise you have passable odd...
[15:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:27] <exec> 08└─They can afford two 28-core Intel CPUs
[15:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:28] <exec> 08└─Some codes are asymetric. It takes massive power to encode the video into a high quality compact format, which can then be easily and cheaply decoded.
[15:35:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:36] <exec> 08└─we burn way too many cycles on "is she mad at me for something?", "what did I forget?", "why the silent treatment?", and especially "not seeing anything wrong in our relationship, dafuq?". Constant use burns out brain cells, especially coupled with heightened alcohol use while relegated to the couch...
[15:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:59] <exec> 08└─Ponce de Leon, among others, took the idea seriously. He thought he would find that fountain in Florida. https://www.history.com [history.com]
[15:36:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:06] <exec> 08└─Every time I go there I futilely try to scroll through looking for those 3 pixels on the entire damned screen that don't kick off a blaring computer generated preview of a show until I finally break down and silence the tab. This will be very welcome and make Netflix much much less annoying.
[15:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:26] <exec> 08└─and certainly do not make friends use it
[15:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:27] <exec> 08└─The videos that follow you as you scroll are the worst.
[15:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:10] <exec> 08└─They have absolutely no power, other than what is given to them by the users of their services.
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[16:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These Fly Larvae Really Know How to Demolish a Pizza - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:52] <exec> 08└─Did you know that the FDA allows 1 maggot per 100 grams of pizza sauce in your pizza?
[16:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These Fly Larvae Really Know How to Demolish a Pizza - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:53] <exec> 08└─it is strange how we are put off by the thought of having to eat a "vegetarian maggot" but not by eating a "cannibal cow" ...
[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─2 girls 1 [seal] pup
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─FFS, Donny - you could get the spiel right. Takes a lickin, and keeps on tickin. Watches didn't "run" back then - you wound up the clockwork spring, and the watch would run until the spring lost all it's energy. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Some of them said tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick. But wat...
[16:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─They don't always need to see. They can sense magnetic fields and disruptions in them. At least that's the only decent explanation we have so far for why magnetic shark repellent works.
[16:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:30] <exec> 08└─Related bit of trivia: Over the past thirty years or so, you're statistically more likely to piss off a Clinton and die under circumstances that the cops/feds deem completely innocent or at least unrelated than you are die by shark.
[16:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:32] <exec> 08└─Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our Country. I mean that very "sincerely."
[16:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evaluation of the First Two Years of the Net Neutrality Enforcement Situation in the EU - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─I don't see anything there about communications outside of the "real" internet. All I see is a mechanism for restricting access to sites inside the "real" internet.
[16:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evaluation of the First Two Years of the Net Neutrality Enforcement Situation in the EU - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:44] <exec> 08└─You can't "bypass" the "real" Internet while tethered to an ISP.
[16:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:58] <exec> 08└─If you're a bad boy and buy physical media, you click on the icon and search the living room for 5 minutes trying to find and insert your original minecraft disk and the game is slower because it'll look at the inserted disk occasionally.
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:59] <exec> 08└─I used to drop by GS on a regular basis to browse the bargain bin. I don't need to play games when they first come out or the fancy packaging they come in; it's a much more engaging and cost effective entertainment option than any video, movie, or show. I picked up the original Mass Effect trilogy t...
[16:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contact with MarCO CubeSats Lost - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:15] <exec> 08└─Though wouldn't a laser-based communication system in deep space need even more accurate pointing to be able to send the signal? I wonder how many arcmins or arsecs resolution you would need to point at Earth from, say, Mars for laser vs radio communication.
[16:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contact with MarCO CubeSats Lost - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:16] <exec> 08└─Lasers do become diffuse over astronomical distances. https://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] The wavelength of the laser light is orders of magnitude shorter than radio waves, meaning the energy is not spread out as much as it travels through space. For example, a typic...
[16:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:47] <exec> 08└─112 logical cores, aka threads. 2 CPUs * 28 cores * 2 threads per core = 112 threads.
[16:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:30] <exec> 08└─Only what is freely given. No force or coercion is involved. You take away the power by turning your back, that easy.
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[17:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, he only paid half as much for the same item at the Hi Fi store.
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter. Enough people still buy their overpriced products and they still make billions. They do buybacks and at the end of the day their stock still goes up. I have a smart cousin. He loves Apple. He wastes money on Apple products and makes it right back on Apple stock.
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─That's what you get from "geniuses".
[17:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─Doesn't sound all that smart. Why not waste money on better, less overpriced kit and still make money on the stock?
[17:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─He's not that smart
[17:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:56] <exec> 08└─Depends on the Apple product. For better or for worse (probably worse), Apple makes the best tablet computers. Have you looked at Android tablets lately? They're all terrible at best.
[17:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 1610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─At our local Sears, which was always understaffed (especially at the registers), the cashiers would always try to get people to sign up for a Sears card. And if you didn't want one they made the checkout process slow. They did this because they earned an extra little bonus ($5 - $10) per person they...
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─I sympathize with the father from the story. I would have done the same thing, or never even attempted to go into an Apple Store at all. Apple as a brand reeks of pretension. It is the closest thing to a techno cult there is and its customers are the closest thing to brainwashed zombies (yes, yes, I...
[17:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they were after something called Average Purchase Value or whatever the equivalent name is. If that's what the mothership tracks then better no deal than low-cost deal for them.
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─Only a retard would try to get into the walled garden, then refuse to be walled off from the world! If you want to be part of the world, just get your ass out of here, back into the world! THIS IS APPLE!! NOT SPARTA!!
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:07] <exec> 08└─Apple makes the best tablet computers. Have you looked at Android tablets lately? They're all terrible at best.
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─With the way that some salespeople act I can only assume the average person has the constitution of a wet rag and most people cave to the most outlandish shit. I was helping a friend buy his first car. We wanted to look at the cheapest Kia that existed as a baseline but the sales guy didn't like the...
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Fly Larvae Really Know How to Demolish a Pizza - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─Only one? I feel cheated.
[17:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMDtibc13fc [youtube.com]
[17:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:38] <exec> 08└─Rule 34 https://www.google.com [google.com] But I think the legal bit is off-topic.
[17:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:40] <exec> 08└─The real question is ... do seals have an autoplay feature? If not, they were safe from any malware on the device. /s
[17:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:42] <exec> 08└─Well, that's a matter of dialect. We always said "tick-tock" was the sound made by clocks, watches, etc. Note that *NONE* of them actually really sounded like tick-tock, but all of them made two separate distinctive sounds. (Though watches were, admittedly, pretty close to the same. Perhaps the diff...
[17:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:03] <exec> 08└─Me too. Huge fan. Voted for her six times.
[17:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:05] <exec> 08└─what the literal hell?
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:31] <exec> 08└─While this was somewhat true a while ago, specifically for Console games. I have to question whether that is true, today. With how huge e-bay and amazon are, it wouldn't be surprising, if Gamestop's pricing on used games is more expensive by comparison. Sad fact, Half-Price Books is a better source...
[17:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─There has been a sort of revival in my region of mom-n-pop game stores thankfully.
[17:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Posts Starship Raptor Rocket Engine Test - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:56] <exec> 08└─Now, THIS is a proper flamethrower !
[17:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─Live streaming is such a major source of content today software encoders are very relevant. Even with H.264, people streaming Twitch will use software encoders instead of hardware encoders because of the higher compression rates. With streaming bandwidth is a major obstacle, so AV1's better compress...
[17:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:23] <exec> 08└─I think you are missing the point. If you have a 'raw' bitstream, it is not MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 AVC encoded. If you have a bitstream that is already compressed, you are not looking for an encoder, but a transcoder. If Apple don't want to support open standards, shrug. AFAIK they support WebRTC by suppo...
[17:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:22] <exec> 08└─permissions.default.microphone and permission.default.camera Look to be the right ones. Though, I believe they already default to 0 which is off/disabled.
[17:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:08] <exec> 08└─If nothing else, then lobbying. It's about time for Big Tech to lobby as much or even more than the {MPAA | RIAA} holes of the world.
[17:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:38] <exec> 08└─#metoo
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[18:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:48] <exec> 08└─10Gbps Internet for $400 a month can be yours if you move to Vermont [arstechnica.com] Chattanooga: The first 10-gigabit internet city [zdnet.com] This Guy Has the Fastest Home Internet in the United States [vice.com] South Korea getting 10 Gigabit per second internet and targets 50% 10 Gbps coverag...
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:49] <exec> 08└─The Brits are using half of the internet in just one little village!!
[18:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─What is it good for, unless you are torrenting without vpn or you are bandcamp? It won't speed up loading websites, it won't affect you watching newest netflix garbage and spotify plays mp3s.
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:10] <exec> 08└─I recently purchased a Samsung tablet and am quite pleased with it. I got one with a built-in spot for the stylus and it is quite nice for drawing as well. I mostly got it for my wife to try out drawing.
[18:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─This may come as a shock to you, but not everyone knows or cares about electronics manufacturers. Apple's sleek image works so well because what else is an ignorant shopper going to judge them on? "Apple's stuff looks good, people rave about it, their store is fancy and futuristic, and not to mentio...
[18:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─It is probably the same for all voice assistants, but Samsung lost a lot of faith when my new phone had their proprietary voice assistant that turns itself back on after I force it to stop, and it is recording audio at all times. I'd check your tablet for such crapware like Bixby. On that note, any...
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─I did that: had a salesman following me asking "Can i help you find something?" "Are you looking for a car or a truck?" "What price range?" etc etc. I kept telling him i was just looking. Finally i said "I'm just looking...if you don't stop following me i'm leaving." He stood in one spot for a while...
[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─Of course it is subjective. But fanboy? Hardly. iPads are the only Apple products that I have ever used. I am currently typing this on an Android smartphone. I am just calling it as I see it.
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─That is one point in Apple's favor. One of the first things I do when I get an iPad is disable Siri. It stays disabled. On my Sony Xperia Compact smartphone, I have to periodically disable Google Assistant after it re-enables and updates itself.
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─"and purchased the same item from a JB Hi Fi store" I'm sure Apple are really hurting, then, from him buying it from a third-party rather than direct from themselves where they'd have to process returns in the case of faults, etc. What an idiot. If the company teach/allow their staff that they don't...
[18:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─You know the history of this company? They were the hippies going up against the system. A lot of those people went "full circle" and are quite conservative now. Whenever I see the Apple logo next to the world "Pay", I think about that. What better way to inadvertently state that you are now all the...
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─You forgot "it just works, or the nice boy in the store will help me set it up", which is far from a small thing for my mom's friends. And, as much as I hate Apple, their update policy, and their unwillingness to share their precious spy data with others, is better than their competition.
[18:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:29] <exec> 08└─The trouble is, even if I knew (and cared) nothing about the technology, I've never personally liked Apple's aesthetics. Something about the sparseness, the light colors, the excessive thinness, style over substance. The endless rounded rectangles. It's hard to put a finger on it, but it just doesn'...
[18:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─Now I need to get stickers shaped like commas, to add between the logo and the word pay. Should I get a period or an exclamation point to put after ?
[18:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─To protect the photo's subjects, it was all sealed.
[18:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:03] <exec> 08└─What the heck brand is that thing, to go through all of this and still function?
[18:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:06] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't recall distinctive sounds in any but large clocks. Smaller alarm clocks, like three or four inches around, maybe. Larger alarm clocks, five inches and larger, definitely. Large wall clocks, case clocks, etc, no question, very distinctive. Maybe that's just me though - my hearing...
[18:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:08] <exec> 08└─Because they live in cold environments and hunt in the sea like penguins, they use linux and don't have to worry about windows viruses.
[18:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:10] <exec> 08└─*groan*
[18:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:12] <exec> 08└─Good God! I cannot imagine the kind of kink on that fucking memory stick!
[18:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:14] <exec> 08└─Well, it did get the tech industry's seal of approval
[18:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:17] <exec> 08└─The seal wanted to backup the data and used dump.
[18:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─FYI, PC games at GameStop have been that way for 10+ years. At least, anywhere I've been. That would include one I visited on a semi-regular basis in a very large metropolitan area. Kids like going to game stores and they have used games at decent prices. Sure, it's all well and good to wait 3 to 7...
[18:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:07] <exec> 08└─This makes a lot more sense for why they are struggling and why I've seen a recent independent game store come up in my (fairly small, rural) area.
[18:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:09] <exec> 08└─For newer consoles I find the digital downloads are a killer feature. I hate juggling disks. What GameSpot should have negotiated, if they could, was some kind of detail with Sony and Microsoft and maybe even Steam and EA and so forth to put games onto USB flash drives with an embedded code. You bu...
[18:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─Look around for private game shops, I've noticed quite a few popping up even in some smaller towns around my own area.
[18:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:14] <exec> 08└─They are trying to survive when they can't compete with digital downloads. That's what the higher-margin "culture" crap is for. I personally still prefer to buy the Switch games with a physical cartridge. Works better as a gift, and I can actually lend them to others to try in a few minutes even off...
[18:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:03] <exec> 08└─a lot more shows scheduled to capture and transcode to SD for playback on offline mobile devices.
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─I thought that there are no physiological differences between men and women... Maybe you should try listening to the reality based media, then. Have you noticed the complete absence of anyone making that claim in the last two threads about biology?
[18:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─Had TFA said that men's brains aged more slowly, we would have seen the same outrage. Only in your imagination.
[18:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:25] <exec> 08└─If a hospital gets into a critical life-threatening situation because they lost their main access to the internet, they really need to rethink the way they are doing things. Internet access is never guaranteed. The US reserves the right to shut it down any time. Many countries have done that many ti...
[18:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aod [7310] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:29] <exec> 08└─Id call it "TRUMP TWEET"
[18:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poor Sleep at Night, More Pain the Next Day - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:32] <exec> 08└─A solid 3mg dose of melatonin will help with that if you're not too far gone. Just be warned that it can cause some weird dreams: my first melatonin night included a dream of being back in the Bronx, in an unfamiliar apartment, swearing my head off in Spanish at a glass of water on the table. It mad...
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[19:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen the need to upgrade my home network from 1G yet, and it's been 1G for 2 decades. Indeed it's fairly rare to use 10G at work for end devices other than a few specialist devices like hypervisors. 8G would allow a few uncompressed HD video streams with appropiate timing considerations, b...
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─No, but it would make it much nicer for sharing a connection. While 10gbps is likely overkill even for a four or five person houshold, I would prefer overkill to what I get now. What I'm getting now, is nearly unusable garbage. Would be nice, if there was reasonable service available in my area. Sat...
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─ssd on sata3 can go ~550 MB/sec. 10 Gbps devide by 8 is 1.25 GB/sec? getting a decent cheap 10 Gbps NIC and switch is still difficult and expensive. most wireless cannot relay the incoming 10Gbps. and if it could not when everybody and their neighbour tries to do it? then there's the "passive" part...
[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm getting old. Most of my life, I delighted in doing outrageous shit. Stuff so far off-the-wall that there was no appropriate answer. I often left salespeople with insults, or left purchases on the counter after they pissed me off. (Pizza Hut zombie couldn't sell me a pizza if I didn't give...
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:27] <exec> 08└─It's been a good long while since I left the house, intent on shocking someone/anyone.
[19:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─A lot of companies apparently do this: give their cashiers the job of signing customers up for a customer card, credit card, or whatever. Too often, the cashiers are given quotas that they have to meet, "or else". I've always felt sorry for the poor cashiers. It's bad enough having to deal with nutt...
[19:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─LineageOS (formerly CyanogenMod) is the probably the most common non-Google Android ROM: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.lineageos.org [lineageos.org] You can easily install Lineage without any of the Google stuff.
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:34] <exec> 08└─Pretentious is right. When the Apple Watch first came out on the market, I was at an Apple store (in the Seattle area) and asked one of the employees if they would ever make the Apple Watch compatible with Android. I kinda figured they eventually would, as (at the time) roughly 40% of smartphone own...
[19:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:36] <exec> 08└─Again, *yawn*
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─yes and these same lazy minded, willfully ignorant suck ass slaves also love paying income tax and voting for the seditious tough on crime sheriff so foreign kids can get bombed by a drone for going to their uncle's funeral and the neighbors son can get kidnapped by pigs for a fucking plant. am i su...
[19:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06These Fly Larvae Really Know How to Demolish a Pizza - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:49] <exec> 08└─Maggot Pizza? Leopard seal poop flash drives? Apple store sales tactics? What kind of shit is all this? rDJT submissions? On the Front Page? Oh, SoylentNews! You had such promise! You could have been something wonderful. Now it has come to this!
[19:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Fly Larvae Really Know How to Demolish a Pizza - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:51] <exec> 08└─Damn, I was looking (hoping?) to Snopes that one but it appears to be true. CPG Sec. 585.890 Tomato Products - Adulteration with Drosophila Fly Eggs and Maggots [fda.gov]
[19:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:20] <exec> 08└─..and its probably some poor seal's bitcoin wallet. Is that where the "Kiss from a Rose" royalties are as well?
[19:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:22] <exec> 08└─For once they'll need to "acid wash" the OUTSIDE of the drive, eh Donny?
[19:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contact with MarCO CubeSats Lost - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─Wow, I didn't even realize Ka-band could be that tight. It means that navigation precision will matter a lot in the future, resulting in much more efficient communications.
[19:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─Have you considered waiting for someone to actually make the statement you're trying to rebut?
[19:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:10] <exec> 08└─or you take your clicking business elsewhere instead of continuing to reward stupid motherfuckers or wait on your browser to meddle in how websites are rendered b/c people are such lazy sycophantic slaves.
[19:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:11] <exec> 08└─A phone. Zoom is for all OS though isn't it?
[19:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:14] <exec> 08└─I don't see those in my version of firefox (for android).
[19:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:34] <exec> 08└─not society, but scum. bankster scum, medical industry scum, government scum, news media scum. they should just be glad they are not being dragged down the street by hooks.
[19:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:40] <exec> 08└─I believe that question is still the subject of some controversy.
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[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─End stage capitalism.
[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─I've been in stores before where I saw a product that retails for near $150 going out the door for $15. Some things are clearly an error, and maybe it is me, but I can't feel good about profiting off their mistake. I walk up to the manager and ask if it priced correctly. I've also corrected many a c...
[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:57] <exec> 08└─People on sites like Slickdeals pile on whenever a price mistake is found, but usually the retailer ends up cancelling all of the orders. I guess Coles is just dumb or slow to notice because they have a large inventory.
[20:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─The Vice article has a guy who started out with 1 Gbps and moved to 10 Gbps. He said his family managed to max out the 1 Gbps connection with stuff like 4K streaming on multiple displays while at the same time he would use it to receive and review 3D mammograms (ascended level internet porn) for his...
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─There's NVMe SSDs that can do 1-3 GB/s [anandtech.com] (note the 1.7 GB/s in TLC mode for the 1-2 TB models). The content could also go into RAM first. If you do get 10 Gbps to your entire house and not the block, you could easily be sharing it with 4+ family members, housemates, business associates...
[20:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─It's called the Up Sell. And that guy did it perfectly. He didn't want to sell the Rio. That's the one that brings folks in. Then he sells them the other one. The one that makes the money. He didn't sell to you. And that's O. K. He has it on the lot. So he can put it in next week's ad. Bring in a bu...
[20:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─I remember reading somewhere that car salesmen typically have a very poor income, and work on rotation - someone comes on the lot, the next salesman in line gets to deal with them. Then they're back to waiting in line until their turn comes up again. Strong motivation to hound the customer - the sal...
[20:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:53] <exec> 08└─They're all terrible at best. I buy used ones and lick the screens for the cocaine
[20:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:55] <exec> 08└─You're my hero. Well done.
[20:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:57] <exec> 08└─Did Apple already register as religion? I mean, they wouldn't miss an opportunity to save taxes, would they?
[20:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:00] <exec> 08└─Nope. Mine's a windows 8 tablet. Don't judge, it was given to me because the giver didn't want it either. Works fine for porn when I'm not at my desktop, which is all the use I have for a tablet.
[20:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:02] <exec> 08└─Easily install, yes. Easily use, that's another story. You do lose a bit of convenience but whether your convenience is worth that much and your privacy is worth that little is a decision for you once you've tried it out and can make an informed decision.
[20:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:04] <exec> 08└─"Given to you" oh pleeeease We realize you know better, just come out and admit you're doing this to get back at the snooping bastards who think they'll get some blackmail worthy video :P
[20:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:06] <exec> 08└─Then the time-old real question is... do we NEED these new gadgets in the first place?
[20:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:09] <exec> 08└─This story is as old as humanity, you must be young.
[20:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:11] <exec> 08└─Apple Pay means YOU pay Apple, while Apple NO pay taxes around the world. YOUR taxes would be lower if these giant conglomerates paid their fair share.
[20:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:13] <exec> 08└─AC questioner here, I used CM and the only convenience lost was with the shitty wifi manager that I hope has been changed, and removing Google services kept me from being able to use Uber or some other services that require Google's map API. You can still keep Google services, and there are plenty o...
[20:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:15] <exec> 08└─I buy used ones and lick the screens for the cocaine
[20:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:53] <exec> 08└─I prefer disks. They have much higher read speed than my Internet connection can pull down. They also work just fine when it's raining and the cable's being wonky again since I don't play online games. And when you get tired of them you can wag them to GameStop or a pawn shop and let someone else en...
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─"They're the only game store chain left." Well, if Gamestop didn't bankrupt or buy out every other major game store chain we wouldn't have this situation. For my part the only reason I'll be sad to see them go is because now it means I'll pretty much have to buy the games I like from amazon since I...
[20:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GameStop's Future in Question after Failing to Secure Buyout - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:56] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Microsoft tried to destroy the secondhand market. That's why people had a hissy fit. It was a shitty idea that the majority disliked along with the other crap they pulled on the xbone's launch which is why they lost close to half their preorders after announcing it and have been playing...
[20:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/06/ocean_city_md_makes_law_bannin.html [lehighvalleylive.com] "The "equal protection clause does not demand that things that are different in fact be treated the same in law, nor that a government pretend there are no physiological differences bet...
[20:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:45] <exec> 08└─we just need internet plans with equal down/up bandwidth. then anonymizing dapps can be made to make hosting your own stuff super easy and the powers that be wouldn't be able to do shit.
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[21:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:47] <exec> 08└─Labels lost the monopoly on the music distribution/promotion. Don't know about TicketMaster chokehold on concert venues, though.
[21:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:58] <exec> 08└─Treat others like you would want to be treated. Taking advantage of others in this way is just a form of sociopathic behavior, that is albeit, engendered in us because that's what rises to the top. I wouldn't call the fact a social media platform allows this kind of mass sociopathic behavior a redee...
[21:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:59] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, ordered mine! But seriously, there are retailers (ALDI) that will mark items down by 75-80% routinely. Given that most big retailers will squash online price mistakes and cancel orders, I find it hard to care about this incident. $3.30/kg steak? Bah! Coles [wikipedia.org] is no mom-and-pop...
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:01] <exec> 08└─I get your point, but I was speaking to the context of it being a redeeming situation for social media. Yeah, big corporations are a pox on all our houses and I have zero sympathy for them. Big corporations are shitty sociopathic creatures, but this seems to be a situation in which it's starting to...
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I make a value judgement - what sort of entity am I ripping off? If Amazon, Elisa, Telia, Nordea, or Barclays Bank made a fuck-up in my favour, I'd keep schtum, because they owe me for wasted hours of my life dealing with their shit - as you say, fuck'em. If any of my local pubs or shops made...
[21:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:06] <exec> 08└─If you don't do it, somebody else will. Social media, deal sites, whatever, people catch wind of these mistakes (or any exploits) and they spread virally. If you make an order, you're initiating a process that could be cancelled/not honored by the retailer. It's not theft, and it required no illegal...
[21:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:08] <exec> 08└─But you know the law around here. If the price is clearly a mistake, like the 150 thing sold at 15, then the store does not have to sell it to you. If it was like 150 being sold at like 120 by mistake, then they would have to sell it.
[21:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:10] <exec> 08└─The capitalist solution is simple: BAN social media, BREAK UP big corporations, and TAX sociopathic behaviour. Also, BAN OR TAX cigarettes, alcohol, and all other unhealthy food, drugs and activities like consuming meat and sportsball. Finally, enforce proper hygiene via IoT-connected toothbrushes,...
[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─Coles is in Australia, and so it is constrained by the law. If they advertise a price they have no choice but to honour it. They are also arseholes, so of course they will attempt to wriggle out if they can.
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─The "if their order will not be filled in full" made me think that Coles considers no contract has been made. The shelf price, and the displayed price on a webpage by analogy, do not make a contract, obviously, they are offers for tender. However, by the time you've checked out, and they've offered...
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03woodcruft [6528] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─Social media, deal sites, whatever, people catch wind of these mistakes (or any exploits) and they spread virally.
[21:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:20] <exec> 08└─If the Oz system is based on the UK system, which would be far from surprising, then they do not have to honour advertised prices, as advertised prices are an "invitation to treat" - i.e. they are giving you the opportunity to offer that amount of money for the good/service, and when you do, they ge...
[21:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:34] <exec> 08└─No, but it would make it much nicer for sharing a connection.
[21:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:36] <exec> 08└─How? Unless I am doing the math wrong here 1 Gbps = 125 MB/s. I see recommendations for 4K streaming between 15-40 Mbps, which should be roughly equivalent to 3-5 MB/s. So that 1 Gbps connection should theoretically support 25 screens at 4K each. This dude was really maxing his connection? I sincere...
[21:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:38] <exec> 08└─In the future sharing will be illegal.
[21:35:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:04] <exec> 08└─You know the history of this company? They were the hippies going up against the system. A lot of those people went "full circle" and are quite conservative now. Whenever I see the Apple logo next to the world "Pay", I think about that. What better way to inadvertently state that you are now all the...
[21:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:29] <exec> 08└─Radio Shack did a similar thing, forcing their cashiers to try to get the name and address of every customer, even if they were just buying batteries. I know this because the last time I was in a Radio Shack, I simply refused to give the guy any info, and he declined to sell me a pack of batteries f...
[21:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate the power of being able to simply walk away from a store.
[21:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I hate Apple. I have two iPhones, a Macbook, and two iPods (still working). Because while I hate Apple, I hate all the other companies even more.
[21:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:35] <exec> 08└─... removing Google services kept me from being able to use Uber or some other services that require Google's map API.
[21:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:37] <exec> 08└─With Lineage OS, you choose whether or not to install the Google crap. In addition, you can always add it (or desired portions of it) later.
[21:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Didn't they file for bankrupcy ? Piss off your customers, go tits up. This has been a fundamental rule of commerce for like forever. And yet, I'm sure Sears' CEO behind this policy will be well off with a generous bonus. Note to investors and shareholders: If you keep rewarding administrators...
[21:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:41] <exec> 08└─And I know exactly when this change happened. It happened when Steve Jobs died.
[21:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:43] <exec> 08└─Heh. In Apple's famous "1984" commercial, Apple is now the figure on the large screen, oppressing the mindless people bowing down to them. There is no one throwing any hammers anymore.
[21:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:46] <exec> 08└─I am just calling it as I see it.
[21:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:48] <exec> 08└─It happened before that. Not exactly when, but approximately the time that Steve Jobs came back to Apple.
[21:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:50] <exec> 08└─Long long time ago when I was around 22 or 23 I bought my first set of floor standing speakers. I went to the store and I listened to every single set of speakers on display to find the ones with the characteristics I liked. This did not make the salesdroid happy as I was quite thorough and it was t...
[21:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:53] <exec> 08└─most people cave to the most outlandish shit.
[21:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:55] <exec> 08└─No, but that would be a brilliant move.
[21:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:57] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of this business meeting I was in with a big company execs we were trying to integrate with. Our Data Scientist just got a new Apple watch, they were fairly new then, so kinda novelty item. One of the execs complimented her on it with a usual White Supremecist smirk. She thanked him him a...
[21:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Fly Larvae Really Know How to Demolish a Pizza - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:10] <exec> 08└─One feeds for about five minutes on average and then stops for about another five. As a group of thousands, though, they flow continuously like a living fountain splashing up against the edge of their food
[21:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:41] <exec> 08└─You mean "or or or..."
[21:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:43] <exec> 08└─You're forgetting Whales, which puts humans at #4 in intelligence. If you were to count rocks, humans at #5.
[21:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:45] <exec> 08└─Octopus and birds are both cleverer than Whales.
[21:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Australia the Sharks Go Up Against the Crocs for a Chicken Lunch - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:07] <exec> 08└─I was going to comment on the original post saying it's not that bad, etc, etc, but then I realized here on the farm where we live we have tiger snakes around the house and in the shed. If one of these buggers was to bite our 4 year old she'd be in a lot of trouble if we didn't get her to hospital i...
[21:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Open Source Encoder for AV1 Codec - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:35] <exec> 08└─Apple is a founding member [aomedia.org] of the Alliance for Open Media. So it's a sure bet that they will support AV1 when they are ready to do so.
[21:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:33] <exec> 08└─I begin to fear that the documentary Idiocracy informs us of how well that would work.
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[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:49] <exec> 08└─... but they've done it by using a mechanism that syphons less and less money to the majority of the actual artists, the creative ones. So it might be sunny for Evilmegacorp, but it is still as bad as it's always been for the musicians. That's not a good thing. Support your local, and visiting, band...
[22:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─Musicians making money are socialist. Their alcohol quota should be assigned by state capitalists, and sharing should be banned.
[22:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:53] <exec> 08└─And if you see a band member in a pub - tell him how much you liked the gig and buy him a beer, band members are *always* thirsty, I think it's an inherited trait.
[22:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─So it might be sunny for Evilmegacorp, but it is still as bad as it's always been for the musicians. That's not a good thing.
[22:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:57] <exec> 08└─How about buying/streaming via Bandcamp instead? They give the artists a much bigger cut.
[22:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:59] <exec> 08└─You should have complained to them. The least they should do is send you a replacement CD (and know that their fans can't play/rip their music on their computer).
[22:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─I wish they didn't show Google captcha on login, though…
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:22] <exec> 08└─The Australian consumer protection laws are not based on the UK system. Source: I live in New Zealand, and we based our Consumer Guarantees Act on the Aussie model.
[22:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:23] <exec> 08└─Finally, enforce proper hygiene via IoT-connected toothbrushes, showerheads, mirrors, and washcloths.
[22:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:26] <exec> 08└─...is Oz as anti-consumer-protection as those two are?
[22:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Online Shopping Site Glitch Slashes Prices for Happy Social Customers - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:28] <exec> 08└─I gave you a related warning in another comment, I don't know how seriously you take your own words but I think you meant them as such. So while some might feel that it's stealing, others are going to feel that it's a completely legitimate transaction. Which it is. Are we all morphing into sociopath...
[22:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:45] <exec> 08└─"Would you like to watch my 4K camera live feed ? Lossless compression, HDR, and you can rotate it to point at the mountain, the bees in the garden, or the neighbor's wife"
[22:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:47] <exec> 08└─I maxed out a 500Mb/s fiber connection with a Windows update. Granted, it was only for one minute, because Microsoft isn't totally insane. Other application: high compression adds lots of latency. The people who want to move your gaming rig into the cloud need low-latency high-bandwidth solutions.
[22:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:49] <exec> 08└─Setting up a RAID array of ssd on sata3 will multiply that bandwidth. Different factors for different kinds of arrays, but you can certainly double that 550 MB/sec.
[22:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:51] <exec> 08└─I'd still pay for it, if it only cost $60/month. It's likely more expensive, but I would like to have my cake and eat it too. Really, as a rural user, I would love an easy choice that didn't involve me spending an exorbitant price for them to run a direct line to me.
[22:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:54] <exec> 08└─Ohh, if it was $60, I would purchase it too. Keep 1000 Mbps to myself, and dedicate the rest to a TOR exit node :)
[22:35:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:02] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, he only paid half as much for the same item at the Hi Fi store.
[22:35:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 830 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:13] <exec> 08└─With the way that some salespeople act I can only assume the average person has the constitution of a wet rag and most people cave to the most outlandish shit. I was helping a friend buy his first car. We wanted to look at the cheapest Kia that existed as a baseline but the sales guy didn't like the...
[22:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:59] <exec> 08└─take the hint and spend twice as much on a competitor that does.
[22:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:01] <exec> 08└─Yesterday I walked into the Apple Store in Bellevue Washington. Walked up to a salesperson and asked them for the item I wanted. They gave it to me. I handed him my credit card, and he processed it on his handheld device. I got a receipt via email. Not once did he ask me to use Apple Pay. Or if I ev...
[22:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Fly Larvae Really Know How to Demolish a Pizza - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:16] <exec> 08└─The relevant Youtube search keywords are "BSF time lapse". Watching them devour food waste is entertaining. A few data points from the last time I looked at these: 1. The Larvae ready to pupate will naturally climb away from food sources and their brethren to avoid being eaten. That means a clever e...
[22:36:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:37] <exec> 08└─To protect the photo's subjects, it was all sealed.
[22:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:51] <exec> 08└─That's the narrative put forward by the mice.
[22:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests That Aging Female Brains Have More Youthful Metabolism Than Aging Male Brains - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:18] <exec> 08└─"So when you write a law telling all of the men they have to wear bras to cover that up, then you can write a law telling me to wear a bra," she said." Yeah, the woman who is opposed to a topless ban for women but not men is claiming that boobs don't exist.
[22:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:50] <exec> 08└─Same as I do now. "No.i don't have Facebook. No. I won't sign up. " "No. I don't have snapchat" "No. I don't yammer" "No. I don't use Google services" (sick and tired of ducking captchas) "I have a phone. Call me if you like"
[22:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:52] <exec> 08└─I can in mine. Don't upgrade. I am using V52 Firefox mobile on a galaxy 4.
[22:41:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 1456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:46] <exec> 08└─Yes it did. It went exactly the way they wanted it. They ignored the results, blamed hackers for problems, refused to provide evidence, and only now are having troubles in court providing actual explanations for their actions. That has nothing to do with public comments, since the comments didn't in...
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[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:46] <exec> 08└─If the New York Times says the world is heating up, I'll begin preparing for an Ice Age.
[23:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─“We’re no longer talking about a situation where global warming is something in the future. It’s here. It’s now.”
[23:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:50] <exec> 08└─We're all dead. Right?
[23:33:51] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:52] <exec> 08└─Why? Is that what Fox News told you to think?
[23:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─No, the models are saying that climate change will cause colder temperatures now: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[23:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:56] <exec> 08└─Interesting that 11 years is one solar cycle, and we are just now about to begin cycle 25. Further, cycle 25 has been predicted for a number of reasons to be the start of a ~50 year grand solar minimum. Past GSMs have corresponded with extreme geo-climatic events. Coincidence?
[23:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:59] <exec> 08└─Well, good thing it's NASA telling you it, then.
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:01] <exec> 08└─Translation: If it doesn't affect me in my lifetime, I don't give a fuck. Also, fuck the children. Fuck the granchildren.
[23:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, according to all the scientists that live only in your head, global warming will kill all humans.
[23:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─Middle school math is far too advanced for climate change deniers. Let's say it together... AVERAGE global temperature is rising.
[23:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:08] <exec> 08└─Interesting that 11 years is one solar cycle Sure... and it's also interesting that the planet is warmer than 11 years ago, 22 years ago, 33 years ago, etc...
[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─Also, fuck the children. Fuck the grandchildren
[23:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─You should probably have a look at historical trend lines and pay special attention to what they did leading up to ice ages. It's relevant.
[23:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:14] <exec> 08└─Fuck em. I never liked them much anyway.
[23:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:17] <exec> 08└─For example: https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
[23:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:19] <exec> 08└─You should probably have a look at historical trend lines and pay special attention to what they did leading up to ice ages. It's relevant. Why yes, in an unchecked warming scenario the increase in cloud albedo could end up triggering an ice age. Thanks for reminding us what a serious threat global...
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:21] <exec> 08└─AVERAGE global temperature is rising
[23:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:23] <exec> 08└─Are you saying 11 years was just a random number? I thought it was based on climate models: https://www.usatoday.com [usatoday.com]
[23:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:26] <exec> 08└─Those spikes are highly correlated with mass extinction events. [scientificamerican.com]
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─They are not new.
[23:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: 2018 Was the Fourth-Warmest Year on Record - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:30] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem is no one wants to take the real threat of climate change (obviously many very bad climatic shifts have occurred in the past) seriously now since it has been mixed up with this CO2 nuttiness. They don't want to be associated with people like that.
[23:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:44] <exec> 08└─The record labels don't understand the business they are in. Everyone who ever dialled up to the net on their 56k modem to look for mp3's to download has always known that the music labels could have made an absolute killing if they had just offered their customers what they wanted at a reasonable...
[23:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:46] <exec> 08└─My sons band opened for Pantera, toured the states, CD's... not even $0.02 from the record label nazis. They switched to YouTube.
[23:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:48] <exec> 08└─Best thing about bandcamp for me is that I can find music I'm actually interested in. The megacorps aren't putting out any 80s style synthpop instrumental music these days, but there's lots of it on bandcamp.
[23:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Saved the Record Labels - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:50] <exec> 08└─Standard practice is you make fuck-all by selling CDs as an artist. You get an advance that may or may not be paid back by CD sales. If you blew your advance and want to be other than broke and famous, you have to tour your ass off.
[23:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Media Tests 8Gbps Broadband - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:36] <exec> 08└─1000Mbps is $90 here - though they tried *really* hard to upsell for DirectTV even sending out a dish and *Everything*. I showed the engineer the house - no TV. So I have just internet now... PS. Squirrels chewed through the fibre - how is this a thing?!!!
[23:36:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 1157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─Long long time ago when I was around 22 or 23 I bought my first set of floor standing speakers. I went to the store and I listened to every single set of speakers on display to find the ones with the characteristics I liked. This did not make the salesdroid happy as I was quite thorough and it was t...
[23:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:44] <exec> 08└─I have a small business and on the backend I use linux servers for all our data needs -- on the front we use macs. I can run Apple's Darwin Calendar Server on my linux machines and the calendar is a key application for my business. I've tried other calendar systems in the past (last time probably si...
[23:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:46] <exec> 08└─Radioshack wanted to collect name, address and phone number for all sales. Since Radioshack was usually the easiest place to buy a transistor with out any warning I got very used to saying no. Not everyone behind the register understood that not every customer wants to provide such information thoug...
[23:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:48] <exec> 08└─"without any of the Google stuff" was the qualification in the comment I replied to, so that's what I answered. I assumed that meant background services, playstore, and the like as well as the standard gapps. The background services are the ones that will cause you the most headaches if they're miss...
[23:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:50] <exec> 08└─Sorry AC, you're deliberately misconstruing Apparition's comments in order to start a platform war. Apparition just confirmed in his post that he was making a subjective statement, so you just look foolish replying without reading properly. Here - try me instead. I, Mykl, make the following statemen...
[23:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Fly Larvae Really Know How to Demolish a Pizza - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:05] <exec> 08└─First, fuck you for sharing. Second, for the Americans that means a 16oz can of sauce can have 4 1/2 maggots in it. They should get down to parts per billion, but that's the FDA for ya.
[23:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Stick Found in Frozen Seal Faeces in New Zealand - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:41] <exec> 08└─"Whales" are not a species, you lose.
[23:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evaluation of the First Two Years of the Net Neutrality Enforcement Situation in the EU - 1472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:16] <exec> 08└─In the modern Net, this, as you call, "Hackers" internet is not eliminated by making it illegal, it's eliminated by absorbing its users into totally unconstructive things. Most really useful sites in terms of knowledge are covered with a kilometer deep of e-commerce's feces (link SEO pages), forums...
[23:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Posts Starship Raptor Rocket Engine Test - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:07] <exec> 08└─Because the comment count is only at 2 and the article is about to fall of the page. Wouldn't be good for Elon's money-guzzling ventures if investors start to think people are losing interest.
[23:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:06] <exec> 08└─Liberia is what America would be if it were full of niggers.
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