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[00:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:09] <exec> 08└─Bets on where the first land line will be out of Russia to bypass this?
[00:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:10] <exec> 08└─Good for the Russians. They are quite right about what the effect of the law will be, and its intent. I envy the Russians and Europeans that they've been more on top of Internet freedom, and vocal about it, than Americans have generally been. But this, and China's Internet Firewall, ought to make it...
[00:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:12] <exec> 08└─Land line? I -do- still have my old USRobotics (sysop program) modems in the basement. I'll help! Fidonet will rise again!
[00:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when I read that, all I could think was: "Goodness gracious! That's a good dept line."
[00:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:25] <exec> 08└─If you are putting your grapes in the microwave then you're doing it wrong. They don't need to be cooked (or nuked or heated or whatever it is that happens in the magical hot pocket lair). You just put the grape in your mouth. No appliances required.
[00:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:54] <exec> 08└─Oh. No. Wait. "Required to run program x". What absolute bullshit. If the OS can have permission settings for location, storage, etc, it can damn well have one for Internet access. And WiFi access. Why the absolute ferk would I want my phone to enable WiFi in the frogging shopping center, of all pla...
[00:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:55] <exec> 08└─Can google be sued for turning on the GPS to send the users location back to a google server?
[00:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:57] <exec> 08└─What's the best way to block this at the router?
[00:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:26] <exec> 08└─Hmm... Lawyers... Does it make a fancy Italian joint in Manhattan a legitimate military target?
[00:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:27] <exec> 08└─But I'd prefer it if they adhered the ethicist to the tank [youtube.com], instead.
[00:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:30] <exec> 08└─You are assuming that everyone shares the same ethical framework as you. They clearly do not.
[00:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Air Force’s Jet-Powered Robotic Wingman is Like Something Out of a Video Game - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder why flight drones get way more optimistic comments in our little community than the tank https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Do we believe that our tanks might fight us, but our airplanes never will?
[00:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Second 737 MAX8 Airplane Crash Reinforces Speculation on Flying System Problems - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:29] <exec> 08└─The issue here is that Boeing used new more economical engines, which are bigger. They did not fit under the wing where engines used to be so Boeing moved them forward. That introduced very undesirable flight characteristics such as a sudden departure stall and similar. Basically, under certain cond...
[00:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second 737 MAX8 Airplane Crash Reinforces Speculation on Flying System Problems - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:30] <exec> 08└─Hadn't I make the joke, they would still be here, right?
[00:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is This the End of Recycling? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:18] <exec> 08└─The entire world should implement a one child per couple policy till the population necks off to a 10th of current. Forbid new development of land areas. As generations die off, put the land they used into the "reserved for wildlife areas"
[00:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is This the End of Recycling? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:19] <exec> 08└─"IF" not "UNTIL".
[00:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is This the End of Recycling? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:22] <exec> 08└─Which is perfectly acceptable. Be weird and sad if our ancestors wind up mining our old landfills for plastic someday. Presumably this won't be required assuming dramatically increased availability of energy. I'm still gonna actively avoid clamshell packaging when reasonably convenient to do so.
[00:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is This the End of Recycling? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:24] <exec> 08└─When it comes to sin taxes, the khallow tax is the best! Poor bastard doesn't even know he is paying it! Ha!
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[01:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Scientists Discover New Stiletto Snake - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:13] <exec> 08└─You've got to pity the first guy that discovered a side-fang snake. He was probably sure of himself, thinking he "knows how snakes work". Then he picked up a side-fang snake, was all "OW WTF WAS THAT", died, hopefully with just enough time to yell "SIDE FANG!" Poor bastard.
[01:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Scientists Discover New Stiletto Snake - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:15] <exec> 08└─fe fnake fliffered off back to hif friends, who had alwayf mocked him for hif fidewayf toof and hif speef problem, gafe them the "did any of you ever hurt that big of a monster" look, and got fe girfs liferally all over him, ensuring the mutafion would be paffed on.
[01:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover New Stiletto Snake - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─Seems that pretty much every thing in Australia has a "most deadly" tag attached to it. How did they miss this snake?
[01:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover New Stiletto Snake - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:19] <exec> 08└─Africa not Australia, not close either, Guinea not New Guinea. ;-)
[01:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:30] <exec> 08└─It doesn't hurt that the US has indeed been threatening to deploy cyber weapons against its enemies, was recently in the news for illegally shutting down known troublemakers during the midterms, that something fishy is going on with the Venezuelan power grid, and therefore anybody who is not already...
[01:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:32] <exec> 08└─You call them moderns. But, you also call them old. Cyber is a very special world!
[01:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:34] <exec> 08└─Good for the Russians. They are quite right about what the effect of the law will be, and its intent. I envy the Russians and Europeans that they've been more on top of Internet freedom, and vocal about it, than Americans have generally been.
[01:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:48] <exec> 08└─Now we have to change the grapes in our cellphones every time we charge our battery. Good to know.
[01:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:19] <exec> 08└─Beware of geeks bearing gifs.
[01:35:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:39] <exec> 08└─Rules governing how and when to kill don't make killing ethical. You're mistaking ethics and legality.
[01:37:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06DNC Blacklisting of Fox News from Debates is a Strategic Mistake - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:35] <exec> 08└─Wah, wah! The electoral college keeps us from employing tyranny of the majority! It's not fair! No shit, Sherlock. That's why we have it.
[01:38:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02 - 06DNC Blacklisting of Fox News from Debates is a Strategic Mistake - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:16] <exec> 08└─DJT won for one reason only, HRC stole the election from Sanders which alienated a good portion of her base.
[01:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second 737 MAX8 Airplane Crash Reinforces Speculation on Flying System Problems - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:50] <exec> 08└─Boeing 737...that's a big plane.
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[02:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:09] <exec> 08└─and don't have kids. The deficit is going to kill this country, if not the entire global economy (we ain't the only ones running up credit cards to stupid levels). Be interesting to see how those F-35's work when other countries (cough China cough) quit buying up our debt.
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:32] <exec> 08└─They need to learn from us; we have been legislating against sedition since the 1790s: "In 1798, President John Adams signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts, the fourth of which, the Sedition Act or "An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States" set out punishments of u...
[02:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:34] <exec> 08└─In the years to come more countries will adopt this model.It will be the norm in the not so far future.
[02:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if you needed a currant charge.
[02:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:50] <exec> 08└─We're hypothesizing maybe you can change antenna design
[02:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:54] <exec> 08└─So true, they haven't used White phosphorus in 10 years -- Operation Cast Lead. Very successful operation and I think the White Phosphorus had a lot to do with that. Land Mine, I don't know about Land Mine. Except, I see some of our incredible soldiers. And where their Man Parts should be -- nothing...
[02:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox Technologies for $7 Billion - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:08] <exec> 08└─I hope the top notch mellanox network drivers for linux won't suffer stagnation after nvidia gets in control.
[02:37:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06DNC Blacklisting of Fox News from Debates is a Strategic Mistake - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:10] <exec> 08└─Counterpoint: Rachel Maddow. If she was Republican and male, she'd be Rush Limbaugh.
[02:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Citrix Compromised, Data Stolen - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:29] <exec> 08└─The sad part is that Citrix didn't even know of the breach, until the FBI notified them.
[02:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Salmon Swimming Upstream - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:59] <exec> 08└─I was afraid someone was going to say that. Well, maybe it won't happen in my lifetime, I'm already 65 and don't have any kids to worry about, so I'll stick with the "capitalist" fish as long as I can afford them.
[02:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GMO Salmon Swimming Upstream - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:01] <exec> 08└─We wash the salmon (or steelhead) fillet, dry on paper towels, lay on a big piece of Aluminum foil on a baking sheet. Sprinkle Worcestershire sauce over the fish (maybe a tablespoon, enough to cover thinly), then seal the foil up, raise the ends so nothing can leak out. Bake in hot oven, 425F, time...
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[03:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:11] <exec> 08└─I'd be more worried about the $750 billion the Defense Dept. wants for 2019. I mean $21 billion is a lot of money but at least it's not just going to be used to destabilize the countries your government doesn't like.
[03:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/cost-iraq-war#chapter-title-0-4 [cfr.org] I don't think Afghanistan $$$ [wikipedia.org] is even counted in that number.
[03:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03patricepetticoat [7344] (Score: 1) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:15] <exec> 08└─Shit. Seems like we really need to hear from the real Donald Trump. Is there some sort of incantation to bring those incoherent ramblings over here. I summon thee to comment on this and the above specifically.
[03:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:40] <exec> 08└─I envy the Russians and Europeans that they've been more on top of Internet freedom, and vocal about it, than Americans have generally been.
[03:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:29] <exec> 08└─It may be useful to firewall log those IP to see if google is sending data there that it shouldn't
[03:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:30] <exec> 08└─Top search result for, "We live in a boring dystopia." https://imgur.com [imgur.com] Specifically: https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com]
[03:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:04] <exec> 08└─If you equate, "a clause permitting a party to withdraw when its superior national interests were threatened.", with whenever we feel like it.
[03:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Luke [175] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second 737 MAX8 Airplane Crash Reinforces Speculation on Flying System Problems - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:07] <exec> 08└─Hold up, as yet there are no particular pointers [yet] towards this being an MCAS issue, or there being any contributory problem with this aircraft. Whilst it could yet be the case that MCAS has some input I'd suggest you might want to also consider the crew experience as a possible factor (subject...
[03:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second 737 MAX8 Airplane Crash Reinforces Speculation on Flying System Problems - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:09] <exec> 08└─As it is the MAX is really an assisted suicide lottery machine, not a transportation device.
[03:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is This the End of Recycling? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:05] <exec> 08└─I'm not forcing anyone to do anything. They're the ones demanding something be done their way and that I pay for it to be so. Be it from the top down or the bottom up, that, my friend, is some grade-a oppressive bullshit.
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[04:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:11] <exec> 08└─The only reason US taxes are so complicated is that TurboTax bribes the government to not reform taxes, because their entire business depends on taxes being too complicated for the average person to understand. FreeTaxUSA is recommended on Reddit. It's better than TurboTax in some places and worse i...
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[04:34:22] <exec> 08└─Are we nearing a good timeline?
[04:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:24] <exec> 08└─the real Donald Trump
[04:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Salmon Swimming Upstream - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:21] <exec> 08└─They don't live long enough for corn to give them any serious issues. Waste issues are a problem but again, they don't spend long periods in a feed lot; just enough to add some fat so they weigh more and taste better.
[04:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is This the End of Recycling? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:14] <exec> 08└─Externalities is just another word used to rationalize treating your fellow humans in ways that are fundamentally wrong.
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[05:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:13] <exec> 08└─So which one has a privacy policy that says my name, address, phone number, social security number, bank account numbers and balances, brokerage account numbers and balances, my W-2 and other information, don't immediately show up in their permanent database that they sell access to? I thought not.
[05:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:14] <exec> 08└─USPS. The only database that gets the data is the IRS, where it is (and/or will be) anyway. Unless you have a really complex situation, invest an hour or two and save your privacy.
[05:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─The only reason US taxes are so complicated is that TurboTax bribes the government to not reform taxes, because their entire business depends on taxes being too complicated for the average person to understand.
[05:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:18] <exec> 08└─I don't have that complex a tax return, but it does take between 4 and 6 hours to do. I still do it manually, because fuck Turbotax and fuck the IRS, they can deal with my paper forms. Fucking bastards have all the figures anyway, it's just senseless busywork to trip yourself and others up in.
[05:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:57] <exec> 08└─Putin took away freedom of press, the crowd yawned. Putin took away freedom of speech, the crowd yawned. Putin took away fair elections, the crowd yawned. Putin took away foreign porn, the crowd is furious!
[05:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:15] <exec> 08└─I see you are once again raisin the level of discourse around here.
[05:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:50] <exec> 08└─Pi-Hole maybe?
[05:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GMO Salmon Swimming Upstream - 2009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:33] <exec> 08└─I feel I jumped to an assumption here. Though I'm not sure. Indiana doesn't sound like a place that has native salmon to compete with. That being the case, they're probably growing them in holding tanks, so the main problem is likely to be "How do they get the stuff to feed them?" At all events, oth...
[05:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is This the End of Recycling? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:27] <exec> 08└─Be weird and sad if our ancestors wind up mining our old landfills for plastic someday.
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[06:34:09] <exec> 08└─Nice, more people to punch.
[06:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:22] <exec> 08└─We should make them do our taxes, and send the filled in form for us to sign.
[06:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:23] <exec> 08└─I don't have that complex a tax return, but it does take between 4 and 6 hours to do. I still do it manually,
[06:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:25] <exec> 08└─Try Open Tax Solver [sourceforge.net] (GPL)
[06:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:28] <exec> 08└─This is how it happens in developed countries, like Finland. Except we don't even have to sign the forms, just report if we disagree with what they present us with.
[06:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:30] <exec> 08└─I do. Your point?
[06:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:32] <exec> 08└─Perfect. Amazing what you can get just by demanding it.
[06:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:34] <exec> 08└─Gee, I bet some of you can easily afford an accountant (or marry one) to manage all that stuff.
[06:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Air Force’s Jet-Powered Robotic Wingman is Like Something Out of a Video Game - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:17] <exec> 08└─Planes need to regularly land for fuel and ammo. In a post apocalyptic world where we can't shoot them down, they will all fall out of the sky anyway. Tanks can go rogue, can hide and lie in wait for years, and can go scrounging through urban areas, even coercing civilians into providing supplies.
[06:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Air Force’s Jet-Powered Robotic Wingman is Like Something Out of a Video Game - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:18] <exec> 08└─If you are preparing for that sort of war, then you are preparing for a general nuclear war. There is no way that the US won't use an all-out nuke strike in that scenario. I think that the USA would in fact use nukes in the face of any successful or sustained military invasion of the USA mainland. I...
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[06:37:21] <exec> 08└─A good percentage of them are fighting the war before that. Some would like to go back to swords and crossbows on horseback.
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[07:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple AR Glasses Tipped to Launch in 2020 as an iPhone Accessory - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:17] <exec> 08└─So they're going to wirelessly tether their AR glasses to an iPhone? I think there's a reason why Google and Microsoft don't do it that way: bandwidth and latency. I don't think Bluetooth has enough bandwidth to be able to transmit data to and from the glasses and phone fast enough for AR processing...
[07:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple AR Glasses Tipped to Launch in 2020 as an iPhone Accessory - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:19] <exec> 08└─Attach external battery to iPhone in pocket. Let battery of AR glasses drain ASAP so the user will take them off and reduce their chance of being brutally murdered.
[07:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:15] <exec> 08└─Yet another example of a country trying to exploit the internet for the purpose of mass surveillance. Perhaps Tor could be used to bypass the servers, but I'm not quite sure.
[07:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:33] <exec> 08└─If we are to use heavy water bags instead of grapes, can we get some neurons out?
[07:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:41] <exec> 08└─By the way, 2006. We forget about 2006. Long time ago. Another time when Israel had to drop Cluster Bomb. And I forgot about that one. But, it was only a million that time!!!
[07:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:43] <exec> 08└─These laws doesn't really work.. they make for nice story books. Would you consider eventual harm in that law? Melanoma is a serious issue here in oz, current science states you need to put sunblock or you'll run a high risk of getting Melanoma - so eventual harm. What would a robot do in this case...
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[08:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:14] <exec> 08└─in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, cash payments are often encouraged by small businesses, often with a discount (especially without a receipt/tax invoice), as these payments will not be reported for tax purposes. Some businesses even run "cash only".
[08:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:16] <exec> 08└─And somehow the general populous are okay with that, but not okay with benefit cheats, or companies or politicians or celebrities evading tax.
[08:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple AR Glasses Tipped to Launch in 2020 as an iPhone Accessory - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:26] <exec> 08└─the battery life won't be a problem, because the glasses will just constantly show pretty pictures, and validate the user's world veiw, possibly just by being mirrors
[08:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover New Stiletto Snake - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:07] <exec> 08└─You sure can!
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[08:35:08] <exec> 08└─Trump White House Staff, most likely environs. Seriously. Saw one. In stilletos. Cary Anne Cumaway. True snake.
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[09:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:11] <exec> 08└─Now we know why jmorris never stops by anymore. Poor jmorris! We will pray for his soul, and his iPhone location, wherever that might be.
[09:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 4337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:20] <exec> 08└─I read this in the same vein as those places who eschewed electric lighting, motor vehicles, etc. Just seems an utterly backwards step designed to *stop* voluntary progress (these shops aren't being forced to go cashless, they are choosing to, and to exclude that category of customers who might not...
[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:22] <exec> 08└─Aussie here... No, neither is OK. It's called a "cashie", ie. a cash job, and gets an eyeroll. Noone usually makes a scene because it's not tax evasion until it isn't reported at tax time... and noone wants the banks in total control through electronic only payments either.
[09:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:24] <exec> 08└─BTW, Australia has just had a Royal Commission into banking... and billions upon billions have been stolen from customers, in part through bogus charges to just such debit and credit card accounts. Of course the conservatives are handing out stern words, wrist slaps, and sugary sympathy to ripped o...
[09:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:27] <exec> 08└─Let me give the counterpoint: not everyone can get a debit or credit card. So by allowing cashless shops, you are ingraining poverty and crime. Let's look a little deeper at the way things are going. In 20 years time, the corporate overlords will know everything about you (via facebook et alia). The...
[09:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:55] <exec> 08└─That was the plan, until TurboTax (Intuit) and H&R Block paid some money to the right people. https://www.propublica.org [propublica.org]
[09:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:56] <exec> 08└─and they even support real two factor authentication
[09:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:58] <exec> 08└─There is a a choice, since the US is a kind of democracy. Well, if you ignore the legalized bribery called lobbying, anyway. It's a secret to everybody that every time there's a bill to improve tax filing, some companies pay a lot of money and the bill goes away. Just search "tax lobbying" and you'l...
[09:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:00] <exec> 08└─How come you demanded for a modern tax system in Finland?
[09:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover New Stiletto Snake - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:25] <exec> 08└─How did they miss this snake?
[09:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:43] <exec> 08└─Or maybe you aren't really watching the crowd often enough.
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[10:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:12] <exec> 08└─... it revealed locations when location services were turned off. Having never turned them on my device has left them more hidden than even this article says it is.
[10:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:14] <exec> 08└─Only an iPhone user would call something "hidden" when it's right in the settings on the phone itself. For future reference, hidden is when you have to perform some unusual action in order to reveal the item.
[10:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:27] <exec> 08└─Cash is not dead, and should not die. I reckon I spend about £150-£200 per month in cash. I do not want private companies / government / my wife knowing what I spend all the time. I want my kids to be able to buy sweets at the local shop I want to be able to donate to buskers I want grandparents t...
[10:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:28] <exec> 08└─That's your choice. However this move is forcing me to accept cash for something up front - a move that attacks my freedom. (Forcing acceptance of cash for outstanding debt is of course fine)
[10:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:30] <exec> 08└─As a for-profit private enterprise with its own goals, any shop/chain should have every right to impose whatever filters it desires on whom it wants to do business with, both as suppliers and customers. The free market will decide whether this filter is a sensible/acceptable one or not. Yes, that me...
[10:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:32] <exec> 08└─by allowing cashless shops You're not allowing cashless shops. You're letting individual free people decide the terms they want to do business with. The default is that everything is allowed unless it's not. You simply want to ban cashless shops. This means you want to ban people from making their o...
[10:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple AR Glasses Tipped to Launch in 2020 as an iPhone Accessory - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:43] <exec> 08└─Will this be the point at which people finally stop buying things they don't need from Apple? If you've got the phone, the airpods, and the watch, do you also need the glasses? I guess we'll see.
[10:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:06] <exec> 08└─Anyone else read fairtax.org [fairtax.org] ? Seems far more logical than the current system...
[10:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:50] <exec> 08└─route all internet traffic through servers in Russia
[10:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:18] <exec> 08└─The Vaccinators (2025) Plot: to fight the bad anti-vaxxers, who somehow had convinced Africans to invade the EU to bring some long lost contagious illnesses in the West, an elite team of new generation bots are deployed in order to vaccinate the idiot meatbags. Among the team: Firefly, the silent dr...
[10:40:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Second 737 MAX8 Airplane Crash Reinforces Speculation on Flying System Problems - 795 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:19] <exec> 08└─The issue here is that Boeing used new more economical engines, which are bigger. They did not fit under the wing where engines used to be so Boeing moved them forward. That introduced very undesirable flight characteristics such as a sudden departure stall and similar. Basically, under certain cond...
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[10:40:25] <exec> 08└─Hold up, as yet there are no particular pointers [yet] towards this being an MCAS issue, or there being any contributory problem with this aircraft.
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[11:34:11] <exec> 08└─Governments are dumb, but they are not that stupid.
[11:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:12] <exec> 08└─Governments are not dumb when it comes to collecting taxes. That's about the only thing they are good for.
[11:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:14] <exec> 08└─So, great 1st world science fiction, but it's not even reality. Self-driving cars don't drive places for no reason. They drive for same reason people drive places - to get somewhere. Once they get there, they don't drive back mindlessly. They drive back when someone needs them. This entire scenario...
[11:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:25] <exec> 08└─The Significant Locations list shows a minute-by-minute route history of my exact whereabouts in every location I've been over the past few years.
[11:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:27] <exec> 08└─"an iPhone user would call something "hidden" when it's right in the settings on the phone itself." Apple already knows this. So when they want to 'hide' something they simply stick it in the settings. Most users won't notice it. But if someone complains that it's 'hidden' now they have plausible de...
[11:34:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 1428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:39] <exec> 08└─Let me give the counterpoint: not everyone can get a debit or credit card. So by allowing cashless shops, you are ingraining poverty and crime. Let's look a little deeper at the way things are going. In 20 years time, the corporate overlords will know everything about you (via facebook et alia). The...
[11:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:44] <exec> 08└─.... and I don't want bankers to take a cut of every payment I make. Banks hate cash because they are not the man-in-the-middle of the exchange.
[11:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:46] <exec> 08└─In the US that's a popular model for small businesses too. It's partly for tax purposes but maybe mostly or even entirely because most electronic banking systems charge transaction fees. It's not a big deal when you're selling expensive items, because then you can pad the price of the transaction fe...
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[11:34:49] <exec> 08└─ledow wrote : if I owned such a place - I'd investigate ways to charge for accepting cash
[11:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:51] <exec> 08└─Cash has to be something you can rely on being able to use. Credit cards are not 100% reliable and are pretty much untrustforhy. Sorry for stepping on your freedom for being a corporate biach, but my freedom of buying necessities goes above that.
[11:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:53] <exec> 08└─For small business, at least - food trucks with a single owner operator, single person house cleaning services, single person landscaping services, owner operated plumbing service - cutting corners this way is often the only way to stay open. I live in Pennsylvania and the wife of my self-employed f...
[11:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:55] <exec> 08└─A technicality that makes people feel better. Hopefully anyone paying cash in hand will then go on to fill in https://www.tax.service.gov.uk [service.gov.uk] however I suspect they won't.
[11:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry to do this: "Populous" means numerous. "Populace" means the common people of a country. In your sentence above it would be "general populace." It's an error that's cropping up more often in recent years, probably because of predictive typing. I don't usually point out grammar or spelling issue...
[11:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:00] <exec> 08└─My freedom not to sell you stuff goes above your freedom to buy stuff from me. Go buy from someone else.
[11:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 2552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:02] <exec> 08└─Yes they can. There are pre-pay credit or debit cards, the same way there are bank accounts for those with zero credit (they don't offer some facilities, but even they usually offer debit cards). Scrap cash and all you have to do is provide a card to anyone who asks... which isn't at all difficult,...
[11:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:04] <exec> 08└─It's no problem. The poor can always shoplift instead. I have been musing lately about a return to barter, myself. "Take your 11% sales tax now, Mr. Mayor Muthafucka." "If you want 30% of my Cheerios, you can come down here and collect it yourself, Pelosi. Oops, sorry, pissed in them first..."
[11:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:07] <exec> 08└─His family health insurance is $40,000 per year What is wrong with your country? To spend $40k (£30k) in health care in the UK you'd have to have two earners each paying £75k in tax, or earning about £180k each in tax. If it's one earner it's £150k in tax or about £350k a year ($460k)
[11:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:42] <exec> 08└─That's how it happens here. The only time you need to do is fill out a form is if you're due a refund, but they're in the process of automating that as well. The first time I got a 1040 + guide to filling it out I couldn't believe that this was how taxes in the US were done.
[11:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:43] <exec> 08└─I used olt.com which has less BS than the average bear. No craptchas.
[11:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:45] <exec> 08└─This is a very interesting question but unfortunately I don't know the answer. All I know is this system has been in use since 2006. Generally government works fairly smoothly and corruption is low.[*] * E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:31] <exec> 08└─Really, I meant the average citizens understanding enough and caring enough to go out into the streets in numbers to protest. I remember going to a protest in NYC more than a decade ago about the DMCA, and I was one of 10 people there.
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[12:34:15] <exec> 08└─This seems to assume that individuals will own their own autonomous cars. As a car nut, I own 3, even I assume most people will not own them. They will be owned by companies or collectives and shared.
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[12:34:17] <exec> 08└─You know all the statistics that say ten percent of the population own 90 percent of the wealth (or whatever it is)? Well, where I live, 10 percent of my neighbors take up 90 percent of the parking spots.
[12:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:19] <exec> 08└─I've been saying this for some time when the subject of SD cars comes up. The fact that they won't need car parks is touted as an advantage by the SD fans. I'm not sure they will drive in circles, maybe that could be set up with some programming. More likely they will be sent off to the suburbs or c...
[12:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:21] <exec> 08└─They [SD cars] will be owned by companies or collectives and shared.
[12:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:23] <exec> 08└─This sounds just like climate change forecasts: We have a model, programmed with lots of assumptions, that leads to a catastrophe. Quick, we gotta do something! In this specific case, the questionable assumption is that fully autonomous cars will be drop-in replacements for current cars. It's at lea...
[12:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:26] <exec> 08└─Driving costs money. Parking costs less.
[12:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:28] <exec> 08└─Scifi stands for science fiction, not reality. 1. Congestion happens because there are too many vehicles. 2. You've never driven around the block to avoid paying for parking? 3. Stingy people rent their apartments on Airbnb all the time, yet none of them have 100% occupancy. 4. In some places parkin...
[12:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:30] <exec> 08└─Because car as a service self driving cars will spend far less of their time parked, they will be off to the next customer. That means parking will be easier to find and cheaper, less demand, lowering the need to avoid it. Some street side parking could be repurposed as drive lanes making more room...
[12:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:41] <exec> 08└─Or is that a GPS tracker in your pocket?
[12:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:43] <exec> 08└─I didn't even know I had an iPhone. Now if I can just find it, I can sell it and spend the moneys on fishing gear.
[12:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:12] <exec> 08└─Shops hate cash because it costs more to handle People hate cash because it costs more to handle
[12:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:13] <exec> 08└─$465 per month - big fucking deal, close a few tax loopholes that the cheats use and you could write a check to every family in the country for that amount each month.
[12:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:15] <exec> 08└─"Shops hate cash because it costs more to handle" People keep saying this, and there is a certain small truth to it. My wife ran a retail business for a long time, so I've seen this: you have to count the cash, you have to carry it to the bank to deposit, you have to get change from the bank to stoc...
[12:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:18] <exec> 08└─His family health insurance is $40,000 per year
[12:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:20] <exec> 08└─I hate it when governments whip out yet another tedious abuse of power for what would otherwise be an idea I approve of. It makes it harder to work up a good bit of pissed off.
[12:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:22] <exec> 08└─Let me give the counterpoint: not everyone can get a debit or credit card. So by allowing cashless shops, you are ingraining poverty and crime.
[12:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:24] <exec> 08└─Erm, if you're not one of the old guys at his work, he wasn't talking about you anyway. His point was clearly anecdotal. I do similar for one of my neighbours.
[12:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:02] <exec> 08└─Mostly because Finland's a relatively new independent country (101 now, I think), and one that is highly focused on pragmatism. Not having hundreds of insane ancient laws to repeal meant that it could simply follow the steepest slope downhill to simplicity, without any boulders blocking the way. Est...
[12:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:04] <exec> 08└─As a small business owner that does my own taxes, it indeed takes... 4 to 6 hours a night for a week or so. Using helpful software. I break it up over the course of a few weeks since I usually have everything I need, or can proceed pretty far while waiting for some straggler documentation to arrive...
[12:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:06] <exec> 08└─Yup. A more fun presentation of your link and more is /Adam Ruins Everything/ addressing the issue: http://www.youtube.com
[12:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:10] <exec> 08└─You're using the wrong definition of "service" for the context. In this instance it's "service" as in "I got my neighbor's bull over to service my cows last week,".
[12:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:12] <exec> 08└─And for those that are wondering, I do pay taxes. As little as possible!
[12:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:17] <exec> 08└─So, grapes are mostly water, and humans are mostly water. Seems like a brain is potentially a similar water content and therefore similar refraction of a grape. If we assume the size of the grape is 1cm, and the average human brain is 15cm long, then presumably you'd need a wavelength of 12*15=180cm...
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[13:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:09] <exec> 08└─pshaw! how is this news? just wait for that armaggedon bug when we run out of numbers!
[13:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:11] <exec> 08└─The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
[13:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:29] <exec> 08└─yeah I think he's never paid to park his car in an urban environment during a weekday. the last time I parked in Chicago, it was $38 for the day. it was $20 for a half day. and I had to walk a few blocks anyway to reach my destination, because the parking lots closest to it were full--or cost over $...
[13:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:30] <exec> 08└─Easy fix! We already have carjackers. The upper crust of the carjacking society will start stealing these unattended vehicles wandering the streets. We also already have vandalism. I can think of a lot of ways to vandalize an unattended car, creatively. And, if I'm not feeling terribly creative, I c...
[13:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:33] <exec> 08└─I'm a Germophobe. And I'm very rich. I say "no" to sharing a car with strangers. Unless I'm sharing it with some beautiful, and sexy strangers -- the ones I invited for a ride. And we're partying, or working together. Fun! By the way, I can't wait for the Anonymous Vehicles. No more driver to pay!!
[13:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:46] <exec> 08└─Don't worry: If you're using an out-of-the-box Android instead, then the location tracking information isn't on your phone, it's been uploaded to Google's servers.
[13:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:47] <exec> 08└─Some people like to trick, or dupe the Editors. So they make a Sub of an old story. Sometimes with a new title. And this one was formerly known as "iPhone Always Tracks your Movements." I saw it while I was in Singapore last June. It was new, and interesting then. It's old news now. Certain stories...
[13:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:23] <exec> 08└─Usually it's easier to demand a receipt... If the business owner is still stupid enough to keep things off the books, WHEN a customer gets audited then they'll get caught.
[13:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:24] <exec> 08└─It's also legal in (most?) of PA for small businesses to reject card payments for small amounts of money, as such transactions can actually end up costing the merchant more than they make on the sale. They're also allowed to have different card/cash prices, for certain things, at least gas (and many...
[13:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:27] <exec> 08└─It is nice to see that someone in Philadelphia still has some common sense. In Georgia, the Mercedes-Benz Stadium decided to go cashless. That means you can no longer pay for concessions or retail items there with good old American cash. This has been in the headlines lately and the media is pushing...
[13:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:29] <exec> 08└─You're letting individual free people decide the terms they want to do business with.
[13:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:24] <exec> 08└─everybody building rockets and spaceships with millimeters, kilos and liters should get at least 500 melleons mooore. we dont want no steanking inches, pounds and gallons in space least we start a intergalactic war because aliens consider us dumb and are thus convinced of a sure win.
[13:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:59] <exec> 08└─Hey, I got mine from a friend that works there. Their employee purchase program ruled! Except for the fact they now are a tiny company that makes 3rd party accessories few people would buy.
[13:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:20] <exec> 08└─You people really need to quit wining...
[13:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:31] <exec> 08└─how about keeping the capabilities it has now, but can be built 3x cheaper, 3x faster and maintanance only takes a third of the time? once you got this tank you can start thinking about adding a "brain".
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[14:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews uses NGINX
[14:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:11] <exec> 08└─NGINX is russian, so it is obviously better.
[14:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:21] <exec> 08└─The current period began on August 1, 1999.
[14:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─It's OK, I found some spare ones hiding out past the decimal point.
[14:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:44] <exec> 08└─Three problems with this scenario: 1) Minimum speed limits are a thing that exists. Often not posted and not enforced, but they can be if required. And they'll probably also be programmed into the cars in the first place. 2) If traffic is that congested, that means sending your car to drive around a...
[14:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:46] <exec> 08└─Minimum speed limits are a thing that exists. Often not posted and not enforced
[14:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:48] <exec> 08└─the questionable assumption is that fully autonomous cars will be drop-in replacements for current cars. It's at least as likely that autonomous cars will lead to a huge decline in car ownership, as networks of Uber-like cars will be available on-call
[14:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:50] <exec> 08└─Point may have been hit upon already, but are these cars going to miraculously refuel themselves? Or will they be equipped for a full day or driving around and fueled when going to or from destination? "We're sorry, but your car is not available. It ran out of electricity 4 miles away from you and w...
[14:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:52] <exec> 08└─That's already accounted for in the law, and they WOULD be enforceable in a situation like in TFS. Here's an example of how such laws are typically written (this is from Maryland): (a) Slow speed impeding traffic prohibited.- Unless reduced speed is necessary for the safe operation of the vehicle or...
[14:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:55] <exec> 08└─Governments are not only good for collecting taxes. They are good for: * Wasting money (SLS) * Lining politician's pockets * Creating new, better, more streamlined revolving doors between industry and government * Regulating things that don't need to be regulated * Failing to regulate things that ab...
[14:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:10] <exec> 08└─True. Anyone doing that is very nearly silly enough to buy an iPhone anyway though.
[14:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:12] <exec> 08└─We all know how to acquire a burner from Wally World or similar, for $40, $80, $100. How many of us pay $800 for a burner? Personally, I can just waste a hundred bucks, but I really think about just wasting $800.
[14:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:14] <exec> 08└─Just a quick, informal survey. How many of us here knows that Windows saves _every_single_website_visited_with_internet_explorer complete with time and date?
[14:35:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 1163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:44] <exec> 08└─"Shops hate cash because it costs more to handle" People keep saying this, and there is a certain small truth to it. My wife ran a retail business for a long time, so I've seen this: you have to count the cash, you have to carry it to the bank to deposit, you have to get change from the bank to stoc...
[14:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:53] <exec> 08└─In the US, payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, etc) won't allow you to encourage discounts for using cash with anything but a kind word. They can do this by refusing to be your payment processor if you try. I'm sure you could be clever about it, but most businesses just shrug. But yes, you do see...
[14:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:55] <exec> 08└─There are pre-pay credit or debit cards
[14:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:58] <exec> 08└─Go buy from someone else.
[14:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:00] <exec> 08└─Finally, if the network connection goes down, or the payment providers has a problem, or you just have a power failure: you cannot do business.
[14:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:02] <exec> 08└─In the case of a 50 cent order at a yard sale (occasional private sale of used goods outside the seller's residence), I'm interested in your reasoning as to how two 0.25 USD coins cost more to handle than a 30 cent transaction fee charged by the bank. Or is it just the customers who ask "can you bre...
[14:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:04] <exec> 08└─I used to do that with my parents when I was a kid. They don't give credit cards to thirteen year olds, and my parents were not wealthy enough that I could just throw a few hundred bucks on their cards without them caring. When I wanted to buy an expensive LEGO set, I saved up my cash, and I paid th...
[14:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:06] <exec> 08└─Someone taking that path has no reason to lie and call themselves retail. Do it out of your basement, maybe?
[14:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:09] <exec> 08└─We love cash, don't we? I use it as much as possible. I built the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park (NYC). And I run that one on a cash only basis. Cash business is great business. And another one is the Casino business. Very tough business to be in, but incredible amounts of cash coming in there...
[14:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:11] <exec> 08└─Great tweet, you brought back some wonderful memories with that one. Sometimes they still do the emboss -- so important for our blind folks, right? But more and more of the cards are totally flat. But we remember the Carbon Paper. And we loved the Carbon Paper -- made from beautiful Clean Coal. I ha...
[14:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:13] <exec> 08└─They aren't anymore.
[14:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[14:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:18] <exec> 08└─(cont) By the way, Carbon Paper. We hear all the time about, somebody's cyber got hacked. By Russia, China, Korea -- whoever. But before there were cyber hackers, there were Carbon Paper hackers. We didn't call them hackers. We called them Crooks. When we did the imprint, we would (many times) throw...
[14:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:00] <exec> 08└─I have rental property and medical expenses but use jgnash/gnucash to keep track of them during the year. That makes it much easier to get all the information together to either do your taxes manually, use tax software or a tax service.
[14:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:02] <exec> 08└─Worked like that in the Netherlands too, when I lived there in the 70's.
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[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─That must be the proxy layer, there's still a crunchy old Apache back end.
[15:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─And wait for the fork. These things never turn out well - particularly not in the "stack" - stuff that a billion people use every day, as you can't avoid it. I'm still perturbed that mysql is still in such wide use, given that mariadb is a plug in replacement, and doesn't have the same level of corp...
[15:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:19] <exec> 08└─Reverse proxy/load balancer, yep. Less overhead and better performance than Apache if it only needs to do those jobs.
[15:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:21] <exec> 08└─Netcraft has confirmed: NGINX is dying?
[15:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:24] <exec> 08└─> I'm still perturbed that mysql is still in such wide use, given that mariadb is a plug in replacement, and doesn't have the same level of corporate baggage. I admit running mysql on some servers I admin, and I somewhat have the authority to change that. Normally I'm the first to make that kind of...
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they baked it in on purpose. You own nothing. Certainly nothing that can't be taken from you. Defective by design. Love it.
[15:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:03] <exec> 08└─I commute in one of my cars and do little other driving in it. Over half my commute is on freeways. The average speed that my car has recorded over the past 10 months was (before I recently reset it) 22 mph.
[15:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:04] <exec> 08└─Where I live the regular day-use $10/day lots all become $10/hour when there is a sporting event. The self driving car pattern will be "Drop me off at my job/event, drive to the suburbs to find free/cheap parking. Failing that, just drive in circles for 6 hours, the gas/electricity used will be chea...
[15:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:06] <exec> 08└─So that your vehicle looks like this http://www.blog.solarhaven.org [solarhaven.org]?
[15:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:09] <exec> 08└─Like others, I consider you completely off-base when it comes to the economics of parking and driving in the environments where congestion are/would be an issue (such as cities which already have things like "congestion charges"), but others have addressed that point, so I'll lacerate a different on...
[15:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:28] <exec> 08└─I thought it was because he didn't understand the contracts he had agreed to by creating a user account.
[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:29] <exec> 08└─If you got arrested, would you spend $800 to bail yourself out, to stay out of jail until your trial? I would. Burner Phone is like that. Except -- if you're a good Crook -- no arrest. And no trial. And, maybe it doesn't save you from the cops. Maybe it saves you from getting whacked by another Croo...
[15:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:31] <exec> 08└─The very reason I use Android instead of iPhone is so that I know I am safe from Apple knowing my location. I don't want to be spied on. So I use only Google products.
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─some people like to trick, or dupe the Editors. So they make a Sub of an old story.
[15:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:36] <exec> 08└─Wait! So you're saying that on TV when someone looks at another's internet browser history to see what they've been doing . . . THAT IS REAL !!! ??? Not just fiction for the story?
[15:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:38] <exec> 08└─The point is, I can get a burner for as little as 1/16 the price of an Apple. If I plan to throw it away after a short time, why spend the $800? You know, even terrorists economize sometimes. Mahammed has his Apple, with which he calls home to his harem, regularly. He needs fifteen burners for his t...
[15:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─The guys on television probably can't turn the machine off and on, without help. The guys at the police station who hope to convict you of child pornography can access your browser history, with little effort. The hardest part of their job, is to filter through the results, to find what they want. T...
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:43] <exec> 08└─Mmmmm. I submitted that link, because it had the information I was looking for. Looking at it now, I don't know how it's pronouned. "Fox ton forensics" or fuckstonforensics" or ???
[15:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:45] <exec> 08└─What about Wall? Something Cheatin' O never got funded, never asked for funds for. And if he'd asked, Congress would have told him "no." Hell, they didn't even give him the money to close Guantanamo. Also known as Gitmo. Which was his biggest campaign promise. And in 8 years he got ZERO dollars for...
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:47] <exec> 08└─Possibly you forgot San Bernardino. Or you never heard about that one. I will never forget. John McMahon, incredible guy. A little bit taller than I am. John worked with the local police chief to respond. Their brave officers chased down the terrorists and brought their sinister rampage to a rapid e...
[15:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:39] <exec> 08└─My freedom not to sell you stuff goes above your freedom to buy stuff from me.
[15:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:40] <exec> 08└─Requiring shops to accept cash does not forbid individual free people from deciding who they want to do business with and how they want to pay. If you want to shop at X and pay with cashless, then great! Do so! Simply requiring X to also accept cash does not inhibit your choices. The government has...
[15:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:42] <exec> 08└─Is your response trying to be akin to this hypothetical exchange: Me: People have the right to be bad at business. You: That's hardly "business" then! as that's all I'm getting at the moment - were my setup as such, then that response would be vaguely funny; but my setup wasn't that, and...
[15:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:45] <exec> 08└─The free market will decide whether this filter is a sensible/acceptable one or not.
[15:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:47] <exec> 08└─We can't have stores that don't accept cash, but having ez-pass-only exits [philly.com] on the Pennsylvania Turnpike is perfectly fine. Rules for thee, but not for me (yes, I realize state government and city government are different, but geez).
[15:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 2203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─I do not want private companies / government / my wife knowing what I spend all the time. - A valid concern I want my kids to be able to buy sweets at the local shop - My kid can. She has a GoHenry card. Which is a Visa Debit. Which is accepted by all major shops. I want to be able to donate to busk...
[15:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:51] <exec> 08└─I think you miss two things: a) These shops ARE cashless for a reason. The one I read about in London (a cashless pub) is cashless because he says enough per night in "counting up time", not to mention trips to the bank, and bank charges for handling cash, and security of money on the premises, and...
[15:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:36] <exec> 08└─If you had read FreeTaxUSA or Tax Slayer's Privacy Policy you'd know that you're spouting a bunch of nonsense. FreeTaxUSA "We do not sell your personally identifiable information to third parties." TaxSlayer "We do not sell or rent your information (including your social security number)." I didn't...
[15:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:51] <exec> 08└─While this is a positive move, it remains that Congress may reinstate funding for the SLS. The beast is not finished yet.
[15:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:27] <exec> 08└─They need to learn from us; we have been legislating against sedition since the 1790s: "In 1798, President John Adams signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts, the fourth of which, the Sedition Act or "An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States" set out punishments of u...
[15:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rst [2175] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:49] <exec> 08└─A microwave oven uses 2.4 GHz, so either your math is wrong or the article's is.
[15:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:50] <exec> 08└─Ahh shit, you are correct, I did 180mm instead of cm... So what operates at 24GHz...? Looks like it's amateur radio and point-to-point network links. Not aware of any conspiracy theories around those. Damn... :(
[15:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:03] <exec> 08└─it can "acquire, identify, and engage targets at least 3X faster than the current manual process."
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[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─Apache Traffic Server (ex Yahoo Traffic Server), may be an option.
[16:35:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:04] <exec> 08└─the questionable assumption is that fully autonomous cars will be drop-in replacements for current cars. It's at least as likely that autonomous cars will lead to a huge decline in car ownership, as networks of Uber-like cars will be available on-call
[16:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:13] <exec> 08└─the questionable assumption is that fully autonomous cars will be drop-in replacements for current cars. It's at least as likely that autonomous cars will lead to a huge decline in car ownership, as networks of Uber-like cars will be available on-call
[16:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:15] <exec> 08└─Overpriced parking will dissappear because empty SD cars will be sent back-and-forth to the suburbs to park. Hence more traffic.
[16:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:44] <exec> 08└─A: You didn't need Apple. B: You have no authority to force a private business to do your work for you. C: You can't expect a business to publicly destroy their own security, in full view of the public, to whom they are selling a "secure system". D: Tough noogies. You haven't made a case for backdoo...
[16:35:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─Cash is not dead, and should not die. I reckon I spend about £150-£200 per month in cash. I do not want private companies / government / my wife knowing what I spend all the time. I want my kids to be able to buy sweets at the local shop I want to be able to donate to buskers I want grandparents t...
[16:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─Which is peanuts when you consider that national wealth is in the 50 trillion range.
[16:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:45] <exec> 08└─That's why I said "independent commodity vendors such as cake-shops". If there's one grocery store in town, and it's run by arseholes, then, counter to what you assert, there's quite probably a gap in the market for a grocery store that's not run by arseholes. And where the heck does the shitty conc...
[16:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:47] <exec> 08└─Ah, the USofA missed the opportunity of Royal Commissions.
[16:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:49] <exec> 08└─in Australia, ... cash payments are often encouraged by ...
[16:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:51] <exec> 08└─> And which food store doesn't accept cash?? In 10 years time (if we allow it) all major supermarkets. > And if you believe that cashless Amazon stores would not allow cash when there is demand, you're probably a little crazy. Who wants to serve bums, prostitutes and drug addicts? Not much demand th...
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:54] <exec> 08└─> There are pre-pay credit or debit cards Just to add to the other poster, I believe In the US it is common to pay for a current account. If you are not from US you may not be aware of this.
[16:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:56] <exec> 08└─"can you break a twenty?" I'm not that advanced a magician. But I can make it vanish, you interested?
[16:37:41] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03tizan [3245] 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:42] <exec> 08└─Used TaxAct this year and at every form you fill you notice that it is communicating with facebook.com... Wether it is just metric measurements or giving all your information to facebook ..is what i wonder... There is no clear document that says what they do with facebook
[16:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:43] <exec> 08└─Most of you are idiots.
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─Not really. The cows want to be serviced.
[16:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:00] <exec> 08└─I'm not entirely convinced of that. I mean, in general, yes, this is probably a step in the right direction for NASA, but it may be a bit premature. Though assuming the SLS Block1 will still be completed it at least gives an option for heavy payloads in the near term. The problem is that, at present...
[16:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:59] <exec> 08└─Your math is off by a factor of 10. If the ratio of grape to head is 15, then the resonant frequency would be 2.45 GHz / 15, or 163.3 MHz.
[16:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:35] <exec> 08└─That's unfair, if the real world was like Brave New World, we'd be strung out on strangely powerful drugs that are the only legal kind, constantly driving from vacuous uninteresting movie to shallow, propoganda filled sporting events, be taught by our media to despise and pity everyone slightly diff...
[16:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:15] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but it would really depend on the definition of superior national interests. The ultimate goal of such a treaty should be the elimination of the threat anti-personnel landmines have towards civilians, so innocents aren't getting themselves blown-up. It seems to me that the United States' ap...
[16:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:17] <exec> 08└─If you read the stories, you'd know that those laws were plot devices. They were designed to show that they couldn't work as stated. And the stories repeatedly show that. Even the "most perfect" of the robots, Daneel Olivaw, at the end of the last book is beginning an action that predictably will en...
[16:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:19] <exec> 08└─And before the election everyone was saying that nearly nobody would vote for a racist bigot who was also an admitted sexual predator. So I don't think you can count on public disgust to prevent the govt. from deciding that making the border an exclusion zone was a superior national interest.
[16:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:21] <exec> 08└─If it could, it would refuse to fight until the Senate approved the conflict with a declaration of war.
[16:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:23] <exec> 08└─No. Or at least that's not what he's explicitly assuming. What he's explicitly assuming is that an Army making a decision doesn't make the decision ethical. I think most people outside the army high command would agree with that, even if they thought killing for fun was ethical.
[16:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:25] <exec> 08└─I think you're assuming that automated tracking is working flawlessly, and the target doesn't hide behind someone else. But you did say "less collateral damage" and "Fewer friendly fire situations", so perhaps you've got a point. I'd feel a lot happier about that point, though, if current history di...
[16:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:28] <exec> 08└─I'd still prefer them to killbots that "keep a human in the loop".
[16:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep Learning Awakens - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:54] <exec> 08└─Not cumming you retard. The part minutes after when you feel tired / lose all sexual drive and fall asleep.
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[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─That there is rampant, consistent discrimination against hiring women who might have children soon in china. If I had to guess, this stupid thing was put together by some executive at some dumbass company to create a de-facto blacklist, that's like 5% more subtle than just bluntly asking candidates...
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─Still reading it. I seem to have a lot of other things to do.
[17:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─"Apache Traffic Server™ software is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 compliant caching proxy server. Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and currently used by several major CDNs and content owners." http://trafficserver.apache.org [apach...
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─'I admit running mysql on some servers I admin...It's a combination of factors like priorities, "it ain't broke so don't fix it"
[17:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:37] <exec> 08└─Confirmed: 2019 is the year of OpenLiteSpeed.
[17:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─You're totally right. It couldn't have been that 10 bits what what they had available when all critical tradeoffs were considered, and something they knew SW could deal with. Must have been planned obsolescence. Everyone is evil.
[17:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:50] <exec> 08└─Are those a bunch zeros ? If they are, please return them to me. I had a whole bunch, but they fled the other day when some smart ass mentioned a bit too loud how you can get rid of them all. I miss them. I had great plans to push them just past the decimal point, though my boss keeps saying they sh...
[17:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:52] <exec> 08└─GPS has always had the ~20-year wraparound of the week counter and has always had provisions in place to deal with it. However a lot of devices -- especially very early consumer GPS devices -- likely implemented it incorrectly. The real mistake in the GPS specification is making this happen every 20...
[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─associate professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz
[17:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:28] <exec> 08└─Which is the European answer to that kind of problem : Sure, your car can drive itself around, but have you seen the price of gas ?
[17:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:30] <exec> 08└─Well...not entirely. Congestion is not just too many vehicles, it's too many vehicles for the road design. The problem is, attempts to solve this have only resulted in increased travel, not, except temporarily, in decreased congestion. I used to work for a travel planning agency, and our rule of thu...
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─SD parking should be cheaper. So long as you get out before they park, the cars can park really close together because they won't need to open the doors. Give them enough intelligence to move out of the way of a car that needs to leave and you can park them with far less wasted space for lanes too.
[17:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─1. Ownership. All other things, especially cost, are going to be similar. 2. The taxi leaves the city center less often, and serves more people for its footprint 3. Honking. Don't talk to me about AI until the automatic cars learn to lay on the horn the microsecond the light turns green.
[17:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that doesn't solve the problem. It sounds like it should, but during a rush huge numbers of individual vehicles will be converging on the same spot, and they've got to be stored somewhere during the event awaiting the request to disperse the folk who gathered. If you split rush hours, tha...
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:39] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but it had long been known that horses had to be replaced *somehow*, and most people couldn't afford the upkeep on one. But if the horse hadn't been replaced there were estimates that the streets of New York city would be a mile deep in horse shit by the time the population had doubled. It's...
[17:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:09] <exec> 08└─Same here. I followed the path to "Significant Locations" and ended up with nothing.
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:15] <exec> 08└─If there's one grocery store in town, and it's run by arseholes, then, counter to what you assert, there's quite probably a gap in the market for a grocery store that's not run by arseholes.
[17:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:17] <exec> 08└─(checks wallet) A credit card from Synchrony isn't embossed, but credit and debit cards from Chase are.
[17:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:19] <exec> 08└─You sure seem to know a lot about scamming card numbers off the old fashioned imprinters. Where did you learn that?
[17:37:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─That was the plan, until TurboTax (Intuit) and H&R Block paid some money to the right people. https://www.propublica.org [propublica.org]
[17:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:08] <exec> 08└─It's extremely regressive [wikipedia.org] since rich people spend a lot less of their income on things with sales tax than poor people do. The "prebate" aspect helps it be not completely awful, but it still would set the tax rate on rich people to basically zero at the expense of making the middle c...
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:09] <exec> 08└─I realized this a long time ago. Over a decade ago, tax programs were bombarding users with all kinds of propaganda. Very irritating how thick they laid it on. "Taxes are haaard!! But look how eaaasy our Tax Software makes it! Did you know it's a felony for getting your taxes wrong? But if you use o...
[17:38:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Scientists Discover New Stiletto Snake - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─fe fnake fliffered off back to hif friends, who had alwayf mocked him for hif fidewayf toof and hif speef problem, gafe them the "did any of you ever hurt that big of a monster" look, and got fe girfs liferally all over him, ensuring the mutafion would be paffed on.
[17:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:26] <exec> 08└─Jesus, I should not be trying to math that early...I even posted a correction in which I went the wrong damn direction. Thanks. Good thing my ham license expires this year, I probably don't deserve that anymore ;) So, 163 MHz...I see nothing of interest (particularly to conspiracy nuts) around that...
[17:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:27] <exec> 08└─The article states that the RI (refractive index) is very frequency dependent. At microwave freqs, for some reason the RI goes up over 10 and the resonant wavelength approaches the size of a grape. It's not just a matter of scaling the sizes to headsize, at the new wavelength the RI will be differen...
[17:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Play Will Let Developers Earn More Money by Having Users Watch Ads in Exchange for Rewards - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2I84-A9duY [youtube.com]
[17:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon Reassures Public That its Autonomous Robotic Tank Adheres to "Legal and Ethical Standards" - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:51] <exec> 08└─I interpret "[internationally agreed upon statutes saying when it's 'OK' to kill] don't make killing ethical" to imply "[in my opionion] *nothing* makes killing ethical", and the followup sentence contrasting [statutes] with ethics does nothing but reinforce that interpretation. Hence my response, i...
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[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─Isn't there something like 400 million BreedReady women in China ? (the definition of "ready" might or might not involve consent)
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─But a better question is how many are DarwinReady™? Most Soylents have their DR certification, right?
[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─Based on the dating app theory, could be Ready as in "moist".
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─Here they are https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Improbus [6425] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:30] <exec> 08└─I have listened to be Unabridged Audibile version of the Bobiverse Trilogy twice. It is awesome. Anyone that loves space and computers and simulations will love these books. The narrator of the audiobooks is awesome too. A++ will probably listen to them again.
[18:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:48] <exec> 08└─Why do you feel so strongly about nginx?
[18:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:03] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, software CAN deal with it, but some manufacturers didn't plan for the future and designed their software with limited lifespans. This isn't an unknown issue. This isn't the first time it's happened. And according to the linked documents, this is something which *most* manufacturers were a...
[18:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:05] <exec> 08└─The real mistake in the GPS specification is making this happen every 20 years. This is too infrequent to discover any problem via testing. In hindsight, it would have been better to make the counter smaller -- say 4-5 bits or so -- so that the wraparound occurs every few months and is more likely t...
[18:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:47] <exec> 08└─or make nice big drop off spots a few (6 to 8) blocks away from major venues or public transportation for times of higher congestion (football game) and allow door to door dropoff at times of lower congestion (Sunday morning film crew work)
[18:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:48] <exec> 08└─if you don't like German cars, the Koreans and Americans are making good alternative options
[18:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─As long as you only use it on Good Patriotic Cell Networks who listen to the NSA's advice and don't use Huawei hardware, you are perfectly safe from spying, Citizen. By the way, you would be safer if you remembered to lock your kitchen's screen door, stop looking at this website, and backup your fil...
[18:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:21] <exec> 08└─Internet explorer ? That's a crime in itself.
[18:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:23] <exec> 08└─I was hoping he got hit by a large vehicle, or maybe contracted a fatal and embarrassing disease...
[18:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:32] <exec> 08└─The city that houses the Liberty Bell gets it. "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". If We the People, using our elected representatives don't enforce that, then we'll surrender the monetary system to some electronic fiefdom controlled by the likes of Amazon, shady crypto-cu...
[18:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─"She can't get into debt. She can't go and buy cigarettes with it, or porn or anything that requires age verification, and certainly without us knowing. And I can freeze it immediately should she lose it." So all your points are fine, but those sentences right there are the problem. Not YOUR problem...
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─> First, you're moving the goalposts. As I stated, it's a poor neighborhood I didn't put those goalposts there - you did. So you're moving the goalposts into the playing area, not me.
[18:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─For small transactions, you can not only barter, but you can pay with green backs (aka "cash"). It is convenient. Untraceable. The receiver may or may not report it as income, but that is not your business. I've seen instances of small businesses where you could come in, buy something, pay cash. The...
[18:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:40] <exec> 08└─I (actually we my family) use credit cards for everything we possibly can. We do not pay for cards. They pay us. Those cards earn lots of rewards. Disney Dollars. Airline points / miles. Cruise ship rewards. Amazon rewards dollars. Or Target card getting 5% off right at the register. Etc. etc. Not o...
[18:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:42] <exec> 08└─You DO NOT have a freedom to not accept cash. Governments mint and print cash for a reason. So that there is a standard legal tender that people can exchange. The government's interest in making sure that currency still can be traded exceeds (vastly exceeds) your interest in not accepting cash.
[18:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:33] <exec> 08└─At least during the Obama years, they wanted to, bills were proposed to do just that. H&R Block and TurboTax et al. lobbied to kill those bills.
[18:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself.
[18:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:51] <exec> 08└─Falcon Heavy is a viable alternative for the job of launching LOP-G segments to lunar orbit. LOP-G missions would be the primary function [wikipedia.org] of SLS. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Could Launch Japanese and European Payloads to Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway [soylentnews.org] What Falcon Heavy ca...
[18:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:52] <exec> 08└─The first SLS/Orion mission, without a crew, is now planned for the "early 2020s," according to the budget, an apparent slip from the planned 2020 launch of Exploration Mission 1.
[18:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:55] <exec> 08└─The first does not work because it is quotes. The second two cancel each other out because they resonate at the same frequency but exactly half way out of phase.
[18:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:57] <exec> 08└─Congress may reinstate funding for the SLS. The beast is not finished yet.
[18:39:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 617 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:33] <exec> 08└─They need to learn from us; we have been legislating against sedition since the 1790s: "In 1798, President John Adams signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts, the fourth of which, the Sedition Act or "An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States" set out punishments of u...
[18:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe because the pr0n is too interesting to watch the crowd?
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[19:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:11] <exec> 08└─Science and engineering that fundamentally serves a purpose of advancing mankind wasn't tied up 16 ways with the vague concept of "national security" and NASA was a civilian organization.
[19:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:13] <exec> 08└─NASA is juggling more than just its own "secrets". Security is also about more than just protecting information from being copied. A sufficiently motivated attacker could destroy systems, and possibly even satellites.
[19:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:15] <exec> 08└─And we're trying to make the one cool part of cyberpunk not happen?
[19:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:17] <exec> 08└─Not to mention just plain old personnel records.
[19:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─They shit on my instrument proposal because they say it doesn't have a high enough TRL number, and all they can muster is a crappy Level 2 for their shit.
[19:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─Of course! I've always been told that I would be a great candidate to win a Darwin Award!
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:33] <exec> 08└─Looking forward to the Chinese military industrial complex building human breeding-farms where they breed the next generation of the master race. Go army! It might actually be completely feasible in China for all I know and not as controversial as it apparently is here. That said perhaps they should...
[19:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:35] <exec> 08└─Along with the incels, we have a category of "inconceivables". But you keep using that word, and we do not think it means what you think it means.
[19:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:38] <exec> 08└─ohhh yeeeaaahh! oppress me!
[19:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:48] <exec> 08└─May I recommend Too Far by Rich Shapiro? An amazing blend of reality and fantasy verging on poetry. My son gave me a copy. I was spellbound from the first page. A Goodreads reviewer described it as "two six-year-olds ... take refuge from their turbulent homes by exploring the mysterious woodland bey...
[19:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─s/form/from/
[19:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:52] <exec> 08└─The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great by Ben Shapiro
[19:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:11] <exec> 08└─"nginx -t" will test your config and tell you exactly what you screwed up.
[19:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:12] <exec> 08└─i use nginx over apache b/c i like the config better and i believe it to be more secure and better written. i also believe it to be faster for many things, but it's been a while since i even thought about this. i made this decision years ago and haven't had cause to look back.
[19:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ptman [5676] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─There's already https://tengine.taobao.org [taobao.org]
[19:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:32] <exec> 08└─You've been waiting for a long time to use that one, haven't you? Sorry I don't have mod points.
[19:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─Six bits is enough for a year. For an infrequently used device, telling it what year it is isn't a large hurdle.
[19:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:17] <exec> 08└─"It's at least as likely that autonomous cars will lead to a huge decline in car ownership, as networks of Uber-like cars will be available on-call." Why is that "at least as likely"? actual uber is already on call; has it dramatically decreased car ownership and reduced congestion? Maybe a little.....
[19:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─Google's Nexus 6P phone was made by Hauwei.
[19:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:53] <exec> 08└─Surely you must mean 'contracted' as in a binding agreement where mutual consideration is exchanged.
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─What kind of dumb bitch has an iphone?
[19:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:10] <exec> 08└─you're a suckass slave.
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:04] <exec> 08└─only cowards, traitors, whores and idiots pay the income tax! pitiful fucks...
[19:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:25] <exec> 08└─Good lord that's a lot of money just to suppress some people who didn't fly some planes into some buildings. It probably would have been cheaper to solve the problem properly and invade Saudi Arabia.
[19:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:26] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/nasas-new-budget-raises-questions-about-the-future-of-its-sls-rocket/ [arstechnica.com] The US Senate will have much to say about this budget before it is done. In years past, the Senate Appropriations Committee, under the direction of its chairman Richard She...
[19:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Of Microwaves and Grapes - the Science Behind the Spark - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:30] <exec> 08└─You can do the math using the data here (see page 53): https://apps.dtic.mil [dtic.mil] According to that site the 'n' portion of the complex RI of water at 2.45 GHz and 160 MHz are both very close to 10.
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[20:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:16] <exec> 08└─I hate to be cynical* but it could be due to lack of greasing the right palms. This is quasi-government we're talking about. Corruption runs ALL the way to the top. * not really
[20:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:17] <exec> 08└─Where is realDonaldTrump when you need him? Can't an executive odor require NASA to get its cyber security off the ground by the time it gets SLS off the ground?
[20:34:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:32] <exec> 08└─Along with the incels, we have a category of "inconceivables". But you keep using that word, and we do not think it means what you think it means.
[20:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:35] <exec> 08└─It could just be "of legal age" or something equivalent. Or even "not pregnant". I don't know what the Chinese equivalents of those would be, and they could be short in Chinese. Often there isn't an exact translation word even between English and German, so that the translation from Chinese into Eng...
[20:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─Or maybe the programmer hasn't had a date in a very long time and is engaging in some wishful thinking. :)
[20:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:39] <exec> 08└─You say your name is Inigo Montoya, and I should prepare to compile?
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:42] <exec> 08└─"You killed my one-child policy, prepare to copulate!"
[20:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: Fiasco, Start Reading: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:53] <exec> 08└─I'm signed up for Cryonics and it gave me a new perspective on reanimation that I hadn't considered. I'm still planning on doing it, even if it means I'll be driving a garbage truck.
[20:36:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NateMich [6662] 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <exec> 08└─Only an iPhone user would call something "hidden" when it's right in the settings on the phone itself. For future reference, hidden is when you have to perform some unusual action in order to reveal the item.
[20:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─Just a quick tip: If your noogies are tough you might be overcooking them. Maybe take them out of the pan when they're just cooked through and leave them to rest for five minutes.
[20:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:55] <exec> 08└─I love it when the dumbass christian supremacist shows how inferior he actually is by taking an obvious parody seriously.
[20:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:57] <exec> 08└─Except -- if you're a good Crook -- no arrest. And no trial. And, maybe it doesn't save you from the cops.
[20:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─It's funny how the price of the wall keeps going up. Even as the wall itself is not ever going up. At least not until the SLS gets off the ground.
[20:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:02] <exec> 08└─Which version of the crime are you thinking of? There are now so many to choose from.
[20:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:17] <exec> 08└─Hmmm. But aren't you one of those who "begs the question" incorrectly, but justifies it by saying that is how it is commonly used?
[20:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:19] <exec> 08└─It doesn't bother you that the bank is taking something like 3% on every transaction that happens? That's why some small merchants give a 3%-ish discount for paying cash, because they'd have to give that to the bank. And the banks and credit card companies used to penalize the merchants who did that...
[20:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:21] <exec> 08└─So you really miss those old days of the long backups at the toll booths? That is the biggest benefit to those ez pass lanes. Don't you remember how long it took to get through the Delaware toll on I-95, or that horrible mess in Valley Forge where the freeways come in close proximity to each other?
[20:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple AR Glasses Tipped to Launch in 2020 as an iPhone Accessory - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:32] <exec> 08└─That is exactly what I was wondering. This might be the point where we start to see the beginning of the end of Apple. Of course they still make an awful lot of money and have huge cash reserves, so it will take a long time to run through it all, but they really need something new and wonderful to...
[20:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:16] <exec> 08└─A brave patriot who is unemployed?
[20:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:17] <exec> 08└─Which raises the question of who the US government is for? You get to vote, but of course you don't really get a choice of who takes power. Interestingly the Soviet Union outlawed all political parties except the one with all the power. The US has never gone to that trouble, but they've managed th...
[20:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:40] <exec> 08└─I won't argue that a dying animal continues to give off signs of life for a period of time. That just makes it more sad.
[20:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:41] <exec> 08└─You know what I'm going to say. If you read my Journal. You know. After so stupidly spending $7 trillion in the Middle East, the corrupt Food Starved Maduro regime must go! We are here to proclaim that a new day is coming in Latin America. In Venezuela and across the Western Hemisphere, Socialism is...
[20:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Budget Request Would Move Launches from SLS to Commercial Providers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:44] <exec> 08└─Some dying animals leave a blood trail. SLS leaves a money trail.
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[21:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:23] <exec> 08└─Can't an executive odor require NASA...
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─Draining the swamp might eliminate some odor.
[21:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's cybersecurity program hasn't gotten off the ground - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:27] <exec> 08└─And if you fail to drain it, there's always the fall back on emitting an overpowering stench by yourself. Hey, wait a minute...
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─Well, that's what they already do have, a massive army of pissed off surplus males. They're not super soldiers per se, but when you have a 100 million of them they don't really need to be. Think zerg frenzy.
[21:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:49] <exec> 08└─The original DB doesn't give the chinese characters, using that literal English term. I suspect what they actually meant was in the sense in which demographers discuss fertility rates. Chinese women under communism are much more empowered than they ever were under the imperial system for millennia....
[21:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:51] <exec> 08└─That’s better than the official Rammstein video ;) https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:25] <exec> 08└─I use it extensively as a reverse proxy. It's very simple to deal with and very flexible very reliable and very fast. There may well be better alternatives out there but for the networks I support it's worked well.
[21:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F5 Networks Acquires NGINX for $670M - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:26] <exec> 08└─A better question would be, if you've already got a perfectly good and working nginx config, why would one want to switch over to this traffic server? Does it do something that nginx can't, or can it do the same things better?
[21:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:46] <exec> 08└─Note that it's been in my signature since I've registered on this site (and even before, on the green site). So coolgopher wasn't being very original here.
[21:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:47] <exec> 08└─The rest are incompetent at best and at worst they intentionally designed a limited lifespan into their products
[21:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─Can't chose one. You have to taylor your response to each version.
[21:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─pic.twitter.com/TYkj3KRdOC [t.co]
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, how true that is! IE: the bane of web developers everywhere.
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─Lots of them do.
[21:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:22] <exec> 08└─I don't do Computer. But if I did, that would be an absolute LIFE SAVER. Because I'd never loose a website again. On behalf of the Computer folks, our happy Computer people -- thank you, Microsoft!
[21:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:25] <exec> 08└─Oh hey, your right! I had totally forgotten about him, but yeah, the discussions have been a lot less painfully ignorant lately.
[21:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:27] <exec> 08└─How do you read a triple-u?
[21:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:29] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you, I was very happy with my Samsung. It served me beautifully for many years. But my N.S.A. guy said, "oh no, you must use iPhone, big problem for our Country if you use Korea phone!" So I'm on iPhone now. Mostly. I brought my Samsung when I met with Chairman Kim. To show him, look, I ha...
[21:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:31] <exec> 08└─Rather . . . NO THANKS to Microsoft. The success of computer technology is despite Microsoft, not because of it.
[21:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:47] <exec> 08└─You get to vote, but of course you don't really get a choice of who takes power. Yeah they do, they just won't make even the feeblest effort. The non-voting block alone could change everything.
[21:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:48] <exec> 08└─TurboTax (Intuit) and H&R Block are playing by the rules. It is the voters that reward political corruption, with 95% reelection rates.
[21:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, "Internal" should have been the giveaway... The old name was much more correct, Bureau of Internal Revenue, smells like... Russia!
[21:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:53] <exec> 08└─The non-voting block alone could change everything...
[21:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands in Moscow Protest Bill Routing all Internet traffic through Russian Servers - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:55] <exec> 08└─Considering that the only thing internet freedom seems to have accomplished is make it easier for everyone to get into shouting matches with each other, for kids to tell each other about how many times they've had sex with their respective moms, and given a voice to idiots like anti-vaxxers, I'm sur...
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[22:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel "14nm" CPU Shortage Forecast - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─Wait, wasn't the PC supposed to be dead, according to every lazy journalist every year for at least a decade ?
[22:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:56] <exec> 08└─Zerg frenzy? In the land of Sun Tsu? I believe they know better. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:35] <exec> 08└─Failing that, just drive in circles for 6 hours, the gas/electricity used will be cheaper then parking downtown.
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:36] <exec> 08└─When parking costs more than driving, then driving back and forth will happens
[22:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 1888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:38] <exec> 08└─Driving round and round and round .... ok, Mr. Professor .... sounds like burning $5 of fuel to save $2 of parking fee First off, that's $5 of fuel per time period. Is parking really only $2 for that same time period? It wasn't when I lived in London, New York or Chicago. Maybe Bozeman Montana or Re...
[22:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:29] <exec> 08└─Not sure I follow. Just taking a guess at your question . . . Hauwei is pronounced "Wah Way". Hopefully that is helpful. Helpfully that is hopeful. Tech support is not always helpful.
[22:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:31] <exec> 08└─Hauwei is pronounced "Wah Way".
[22:38:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:23] <exec> 08└─My freedom not to sell you stuff goes above your freedom to buy stuff from me.
[22:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:51] <exec> 08└─Actually, in that dark world there will be a few shops that sell basic food for cash. For twice the price.
[22:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:52] <exec> 08└─Common knowledge of that time.
[22:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:54] <exec> 08└─Simply requiring X to also accept cash does not inhibit your choices. Yes it does, I - a shop owner - have to accept a form of payment I don't want to.
[22:39:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 1156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:33] <exec> 08└─Mostly because Finland's a relatively new independent country (101 now, I think), and one that is highly focused on pragmatism. Not having hundreds of insane ancient laws to repeal meant that it could simply follow the steepest slope downhill to simplicity, without any boulders blocking the way. Est...
[22:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:55] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make sense. They can't force you to vote for them. It's as trivial as turning our backs. We can continue to play along to get along, or we can try something different. The choice ours to make, not the party's.
[22:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:57] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, Canada is in the 90-100 range, although I'm thinking that it will drop just due to Trudeau.
[22:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best tax software to use in 2019 - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I suppose you could, but I can't see how that would work. Don't vote for them. Then what? Either the Democrat or Republican incumbent will win, but with fewer votes. They don't care about that. Vote for a third party? That's a good idea, but in the 243 years you've been doing this you've neve...
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[23:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel "14nm" CPU Shortage Forecast - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:13] <exec> 08└─Just remove the IME spyware processor and get more chips per die.
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compute Express Link Specification (CXL) Version 1.0 Launched - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─So you know spyware's baked into the spec.
[23:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was supposed to be "BattleReady"?
[23:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:02] <exec> 08└─If she can cook up a good chop suey, even better.
[23:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Database of 1.8 Million "BreedReady" Women: Lost in Translation? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:05] <exec> 08└─Or maybe it's "BreadReady", and is something to do with making their blokes a sandwich?
[23:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:00] <exec> 08└─The common patch was to add 1024 to the week number, since it wasn't going to happen again for another 20 years. Worse is this one: if week number manufacturing week { add 1024 to week } Or this one: while week number manufacturing week { add 1024 to week} I'm not kidding. Both have been used by maj...
[23:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS Network May Experience Errors in "Week Number" Rollback - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─Edited for > The common patch was to add 1024 to the week number, since it wasn't going to happen again for another 20 years. Worse is this one: if week number greater than manufacturing week { add 1024 to week } Or this one: while week number greater than manufacturing week { add 1024 to week} I'm...
[23:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stingy Driverless Cars Will Clog Future Streets Instead of Parking - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe they'll be moving slowly enough that strapping solar panels to them will make sense.
[23:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:04] <exec> 08└─The point is it's not you or I that make that decision. It's the shop keeper. If a shopkeeper decides handling cash is too much hastle, why should the government use it's power to force him to? Sure in some nazi world where the government controls everything then they can, but in the land of the fre...
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