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[00:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Finds Earth's Oldest-Known Asteroid Strike Linked to `Big Thaw' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:01] <exec> 08└─And since we're suffering the opposite problem now I suggest the new slogan "Send it back!"
[00:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Research Finds Earth's Oldest-Known Asteroid Strike Linked to `Big Thaw' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:02] <exec> 08└─Everyone who sees big piles of snow at the end of winter notices how dirty they are. As the white snow melts, small concentrations of dirt near the surface become concentrated, and the top layer gets ever dirtier, causing it to melt faster.
[00:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Finds Earth's Oldest-Known Asteroid Strike Linked to `Big Thaw' - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:04] <exec> 08└─Dirty until it snows again.... The asteroid is a one time event, the dust will settle. Snow happens frequently.
[00:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:31] <exec> 08└─This is Retail! It's enlightened if they don't periodically punch you in the nuts while you're there!
[00:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:33] <exec> 08└─Probably more like the company does not want to see an Instagram of an apple-logo shirt employing messing around with their Samsung Galaxy or Windows/Linux laptops.
[00:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Created in Only 5 Million Years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:56] <exec> 08└─Oh, and his website can be found here http://www.halos.com [halos.com]
[00:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:18] <exec> 08└─MIPS powered SGI workstations at the same ARM powered Newton. But then Itanic and Jobs happened...
[00:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Lidar Makers are Coping with Slow Progress of Self-Driving Tech - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:38] <exec> 08└─Velodyne's top-of-the-line lidar units traditionally cost $75,000 or more. ... The result: in 2018 Ouster was able to offer its first lidar sensor, a 64-laser unit called the OS-1, for just $12,000. Since then, Ouster has expanded its product line. The company's products now range from a low-end 16-...
[00:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'One More Episode, Please?' Why We Can't Stop Binge-Watching on Netflix - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:45] <exec> 08└─Cliffhangers at the end of episodes. Like in the Chernobyl series when they go inside to open the sluice gate in the dark and all their flashlights shut off leaving an abrupt blackness and silence perfect for rolling credits. Pretty hard to stop just there when you have all the episodes available to...
[00:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'One More Episode, Please?' Why We Can't Stop Binge-Watching on Netflix - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:47] <exec> 08└─Did you make Big Harry roar and gargle like Chewbacca?
[00:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With MWC Barcelona 2020 Canceled, Most New Android Phones Face a Tough Debut - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:27] <exec> 08└─Damn autocorrect censorship is fucké. And for the curious, that alternative spelling is because without the é, autocorrect changes it to "duck". What's interesting is that even 40 years ago, the word fucké was considered something that French speaking grandmas could say because it wasn't real Fr...
[00:27:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Huawei Fires Back, Points To US’ History Of Spying On Phone Networks - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:49] <exec> 08└─Yea, that's my initial reaction as well - Huawei can point to all sort of other entities committing the crime all they want, but that doesn't really absolve them from the allegations.
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[01:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:53] <exec> 08└─that coindesk link is causing major glitch
[01:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details Pour in from New Horizons’ Visit to a Kuiper Belt Object - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:00] <exec> 08└─This is proof that the flat-earthers know what they are talking about! Pancakes FTW! /sarcasm
[01:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details Pour in from New Horizons’ Visit to a Kuiper Belt Object - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:02] <exec> 08└─There's nothing much more to say. It's one of the best and most clear examples of a contact binary ever, and we basically found it by random chance. KBOs should be more "pristine" than asteroid belt objects, with less impact craters, since they are further from the Sun and from each other. The best...
[01:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Finds Earth's Oldest-Known Asteroid Strike Linked to `Big Thaw' - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:17] <exec> 08└─Even if it snows, at many latitudes the new snow vanishes every summer by melting to reexpose the dirt. Dropping a global layer of dirt on snow permanently changes the annually averaged albedo. Once the melting starts, albedo drops even further. Besides, snowball Earth is a dry-atmosphere Earth with...
[01:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:47] <exec> 08└─Homophiliac slur on Tim Cook's sexuality is homophiliac. This ain't reddit.
[01:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 1604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:48] <exec> 08└─I remember when a Walmart droid wanted my sales receipt and to search my shopping bags even though we were something like 30 feet from the checkout. "No, and if you insist I'm calling the police." That is the wonderful thing about consent - they can have a policy posted somewhere saying I agree to t...
[01:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, joking aside, that, getting drunk in a bar, etc.
[01:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:52] <exec> 08└─If I have to wear a Microsoft logo, I will insist on hazardous duty pay There is no way I want to attract those hordes of Microsoft users with their tech problems...especially in the days following a forced upgrade.
[01:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:54] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, those are the very people Apple tells me are absolutely trustworthy when it comes to my valuable data and privacy. So which is it Apple, are they absolutely trustworthy beyond reproach or are they a rabid pack of thieves who just haven;t been caught yet?
[01:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Created in Only 5 Million Years - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:19] <exec> 08└─The rest was filling in the paperwork.
[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─The Debian wiki suggests it's a vivante GPU, also found in the librem 5. Should be just a matter of compiling the etnaviv driver?
[01:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Lidar Makers are Coping with Slow Progress of Self-Driving Tech - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:03] <exec> 08└─As you and others say I think Lidar should be part of the solution. I think the problems need to be tackled from multiple angles. The use of Radar, Lidar, perhaps the car should have various microphones in it to search for audio cues as well, cars should also communicate with each other when possibl...
[01:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Fires Back, Points To US’ History Of Spying On Phone Networks - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:32] <exec> 08└─What isn't true in my post? Was it the laying of the first transatlantic cable? (1854-1858) The founding of the NSA? (1952) Or the founding of the Cipher bureau? (1919) Please, educate me dickhead. What's that? Everything is accurate? What? There are other people and events and organizations you're...
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[02:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:55] <exec> 08└─That's because the link installed a trojan in your computer to mine and mix bitcoins... expect the FBI to visit you soon.
[02:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:57] <exec> 08└─This indictment underscores that seeking to obscure virtual currency transactions in this way is a crime
[02:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:59] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin laundering
[02:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:01] <exec> 08└─I can be anonymous with cash, unless I'm tracked some other way. They're essentially arguing that financial anonymity is illegal if it happens on the Internet. Absurd.
[02:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:03] <exec> 08└─I can be anonymous with cash, unless I'm tracked some other way. They're essentially arguing that financial anonymity is illegal if it happens on the Internet. Absurd.
[02:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:05] <exec> 08└─Well, Mr Harmon can, for the low price of a couple $10k, stand up in court and have someone make that argument for him over a year or so. Perhaps a judge will agree with him. Or he can just plead guilty and sit off a year in a low security prison camp and get on with his life.
[02:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:07] <exec> 08└─Axumas central motor is that they are entirely emotion-driven, while at the same time are conditioned to believe that everyone *else* is and that they and they alone are logical and rational.
[02:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:06] <exec> 08└─Committing crimethink on youtube wearing an Apple shirt...
[02:28:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Huawei Fires Back, Points To US’ History Of Spying On Phone Networks - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, right. Those secure enclaves which authorize updates peripheral firmware and processor microcode are locked with a key given only to the hardware purchaser. And never used for security or performance updates with something only Huawei-signed. And right, they're violating Chinese law by not only...
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[03:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:50] <exec> 08└─" What old games are Soylentils still invested in? Starcraft? Half Life?
[03:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:05] <exec> 08└─Financial anonymity is generally legal if it's below a certain level. Above that level, you can't have your anonymity. That's what money laundering laws are all about, and these laws apply whether it happens on the Internet or not. If you're dealing in small amounts, maybe $10,000 or below in the Un...
[03:24:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:51] <exec> 08└─Different court and Ca state law verses the Federal policy of "throw 'em to the wolves". Also, Ca's courts haven't been stacked by cheap labor conservatives the way the federal courts have been. The idea that if you're not free to leave, you're on the clock seems quite obvious to anyone who has EVER...
[03:25:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:02] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, those are the very people Apple tells me are absolutely trustworthy when it comes to my valuable data and privacy. So which is it Apple, are they absolutely trustworthy beyond reproach or are they a rabid pack of thieves who just haven;t been caught yet?
[03:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:52] <exec> 08└─Kodi menu animated transitions look a little unsmooth even on Pi4B, but probably better than Zero I'd imagine. I think I saw an explanation for it on the forums, related to the graphics pipeline or something. There is a setting somewhere to turn off animated transitions. I'm using 2 GB Pi4Bs for Lib...
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:53] <exec> 08└─By the way, has anybody tried obtaining the Raspberry Pi accelerator license keys? Do they make any noticeable performance improvements? Video playback is already smooth in the non-accelerated system, but the Kodi menu rendering is pretty slow/laggy. I don't mind the cost of the keys, but I would mi...
[03:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Lidar Makers are Coping with Slow Progress of Self-Driving Tech - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:16] <exec> 08└─> Ahem, that's not what I call cheap, whe considering a Toyota Corolla is in the $20,000 range. As long as prices are like this, Lidar will be a luxury car option only. Imagine that you drive under a low entryway to a drive-thru and knock it off your roof (self-driving isn't likely to navigate in th...
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[04:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:52] <exec> 08└─All other old games are shit except the one featuring Jim Cummings with the hamster in his pocket.
[04:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:54] <exec> 08└─Having owned a few hamsters in his childhood, they're no joke. You piss em off and those saberteeth are going halfway through your fingerflesh and drawing blood that only a band-aid can stop. That could easily take out an eyeball or two. They train all night while you're asleep, honing their teeth b...
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[04:24:10] <exec> 08└─Well if any burgeoning crooks heed your advice, perhaps they should watch out. [wikipedia.org] Also, LOL smurfing
[04:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:12] <exec> 08└─Its because all the law enforcement officers who try and stop this look like Gargamel.
[04:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:14] <exec> 08└─If you walk around with $10K+ in cash, you're hardly anonymous - you are photographed and tracked everywhere you are seen with that much cash. Ever notice how thick a stack of 100 $100 bills is? That's not an accident, the higher denominations used to exist but were intentionally eliminated. Old day...
[04:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:16] <exec> 08└─In 1957 $10,000 was a lot of money.
[04:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:04] <exec> 08└─My major motivation for the PiZero is to keep the power consumption down - it will be the media server for both movies and music, in music mode there's no screen to drive but it can run for 4+ hours at a shot on battery so I'd really like it to draw as little power as practical. There's also the siz...
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[04:26:06] <exec> 08└─This just in from the department of redundancy department: Steve Jobs insistence.... That was an ego thing.
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[05:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:57] <exec> 08└─Faerie Tale Adventure The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
[05:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:59] <exec> 08└─Thief 1 and 2
[05:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:01] <exec> 08└─maelstrom legend of the red dragon operation overkill ][ advent escape velocity marathon alpha centauri wolfenstein, doom, quake neverwinter sim everything I challenge any of you to substantiate a claim that any one of these is not better than the majority of games put out in 2020.
[05:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, it was. In 1986, when that law was passed, $39k would buy you an equivalent amount of stuff. Now you'd have to spend $92k of today's money.
[05:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:19] <exec> 08└─Please look up the word homophiliac. It means the opposite of homophobic, and then some. It isn't limited to sexual attraction. [wikipedia.org] it's the tendency of groups to be homogeneous, rather than heterogeneous. Think of whites only policies as an example. Someone like Trump would be a homophi...
[05:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:20] <exec> 08└─I can understand WalMart doing this...I hear way too much talk of how easy it is to rip off WalMart. I sure can't blame em for trying to stop this. It's almost like a modern rerun of that old three stooges and their electrical goods store.
[05:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:22] <exec> 08└─So they should wear a black T-shirt under their Apple shirt, with "SUX" in big white letters. It'll show through. And if the bosses complain say it means Software Usability eXpert, same as Web UX crappiness.
[05:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:24] <exec> 08└─Nobody else does it - must be the fault of having shitty upper management. Too cheap to hire or train mystery shoppers. Most theft is aided by or committed by employees, not customers. Letting employees know that there are mystery shoppers among the real clients keeps them at least partly in check....
[05:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:26] <exec> 08└─Funny how it's always the people in the lowest paying jobs who have to put up with suspicion that only crooks want to work for them.
[05:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:18] <exec> 08└─I've got two Pi Zeros doing nothing, one with a nice HAT that adds a bunch of ports including 3.5mm. I might turn that one into an Internet radio player. Pi Zero is not expected to get an update for a long time, but maybe they will launch a new one before January 2026 when they end production of the...
[05:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'One More Episode, Please?' Why We Can't Stop Binge-Watching on Netflix - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:49] <exec> 08└─Allow me to hand wave all that away. Stargate Universe ended on a cliffhanger. There may have been some extra story material in the novels that is considered canon, but the franchise's timeline is effectively over now. The communication stones appeared in seasons 8 and 9 of SG-1. They allowed Daniel...
[05:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andy Rubin's Smartphone Startup, Essential, is Dead - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:34] <exec> 08└─You might have autism if you couldn't tell that was a JOKE.
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[06:24:03] <exec> 08└─Nexiuz Saurbraetan Open Arena :P
[06:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:04] <exec> 08└─"I challenge any of you to substantiate a claim that any one of these is not better than the majority of games put out in 2020." Why would anyone argue that a selection of the greatest hits of all time aren't better than the majority of anything put out in this year? Even so, I disagree with about h...
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[06:24:07] <exec> 08└─The only time an animal should be allowed in the house is when it is on a plate!
[06:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:27] <exec> 08└─They're trying [savings.com.au]
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[07:24:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.wasabiwallet.io/ [wasabiwallet.io] problem solved.
[07:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:31] <exec> 08└─Ah the sound of white privilege, so fresh.
[07:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:33] <exec> 08└─> The idea that if you're not free to leave, you're on the clock seems quite obvious to anyone who has EVER been on the clock, but apparently SCOTUS was a little fuzzy on that issue. If you're ever on the cock, you better not leave until the fuzzy scrotus issues its verdict.
[07:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:35] <exec> 08└─That's why Apple needs to crack down on them to sell you on their hardline discipline. That's how you can trust the damn slimeballs. Pour motiver les autres.
[07:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:37] <exec> 08└─That, definitely ^ ! Few times in my life has anyone searched my belongings, and more than half of those were during my Navy days. (Seabag inspection - if you're missing a pair of socks, or a windbreaker, you have to replace it in short order.) Quite simply, no one has the authority to go poking thr...
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[07:26:30] <exec> 08└─Well generally you put a fan with switch on the right side of the Apple II as it did run hot. I would have thought there was similar for the ///
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[08:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:49] <exec> 08└─At one of my previous phone tech jobs our bosses had our backs. They were mostly non-technical and any escalations to supervisors were pure customer appeasment. If you wanted your problem solved, you needed to be put back on the phone with a tech agent. As for "firing" a customer I can think of at l...
[08:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:51] <exec> 08└─Over the years demographers have coined various terms for groups based on generation and/or life status (e.g., empty nesters, sandwich generation, boomers). For that very small slice of the demographic that has to be "fired" as a customer, I think of them as being in their own little group: The Insa...
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[08:24:12] <exec> 08└─X-Wing->X-Wing Alliance Battle of Britain Ace of Aces (Commodore 64, Atari, not PC) At least half of the door games out there. Anyone remember ShadowBoard, or the various hacking games? Uplink, just for the fucking metagame they ran alongside it. The Wizardry series. Jagged Alliance 1, DG, 2, UB. If...
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[08:24:36] <exec> 08└─...in the view of the government. That's why there was so much pressure on Switzerland to get rid of banking secrecy. Here, the government has no right to see your banking data without a warrant. The US has the fourth amendment, which states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, h...
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[08:25:45] <exec> 08└─More like the sound of someone who's never heard of shopkeeper's privilege [wikipedia.org] and is complaining about Canadians violating a U.S. privacy law (HIPAA, not HIPPA and the nearest equivalent is PHIPA) that only applies to "covered entities" and their "business associates" [hhs.gov], not any...
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[08:25:46] <exec> 08└─More like, "If I were paid a nonliving wage and constantly crapped on by my employer, I'd either leave or steal from them. So, they must be stealing from us since they aren't leaving."
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[09:23:56] <exec> 08└─We call a similar person a "Karen" around here.
[09:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:19] <exec> 08└─Is Dwarf Fortress considered an "old game"? Honestly, the nostalgia is much more vibrant than the reality ever was. I've tried Star Control 2 again and it just did not stick to me. I've tried the vanilla WoW and burned out in about 3 months. Tried Diablo 1 and switched to Path of Exile. Tried Master...
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[09:24:21] <exec> 08└─Gaimes? Childish pursuits, pastimes of those with not real purpose in life? Is this a Windows thing?
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[10:23:58] <exec> 08└─Working onsite as an IT contractor, the customer giving us abuse was expected, and my employer threw us under the bus as standard operating procedure. It's part of the onsite contractor business model! In a particularly egregious case of customer abuse, I had to fire my EMPLOYER. Some employers just...
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[10:24:00] <exec> 08└─When you work for a diversity nigger you know he got yo back. But when you don't, a cracka gotta git one. SHeeeit, nigga.
[10:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:02] <exec> 08└─These things happen because your system is not as advanced as the one in southern Italy. - this is unacceptable, you imbecile - b.. but... - let me talk to your manager - oh ok... DAAAD! somebody for you!
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[10:25:59] <exec> 08└─How are you going to continue living with this unhealthy Trump obsession into his second term?
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[11:24:01] <exec> 08└─Go home, Eth, you're drunk.
[11:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:26] <exec> 08└─"real purpose in life" Found your problem right there, meatbag.
[11:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:27] <exec> 08└─Diablo 2 is the game people play for nostalgia, not Diablo 1. Except that you can add Median XL and PlugY to it to get a new experience.
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[11:26:54] <exec> 08└─When they add support for punched card readers and punches, will they change their name to ICL?
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[12:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:51] <exec> 08└─* huawei entered the chat cisco:wtf doj DOJ: hm huawei, you spy! huawei: one sec, afk * innocent_looking_asian_intern left the chat huawei: me no spy DOJ: hm huawei, you racketeer! mighty-m$: hey cool down DOJ let's not create precedents shall we haha apple: haha MAFIAA: haha
[12:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:52] <exec> 08└─>a badge listing his employer as 'Weihua'... once again reality beats satire huehuehue
[12:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:54] <exec> 08└─Chinamen put their last name first, first name last.
[12:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:56] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the Chinese have created a fibertap at the NSA fibertab where NSA backdoored cisco and juniper equipment have been employed. And then the Americans have created a fibertunnel through the great firewall, which bends its ways around and listens in on the competition, just when an army of ke...
[12:24:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:07] <exec> 08└─These things happen because your system is not as advanced as the one in southern Italy. - this is unacceptable, you imbecile - b.. but... - let me talk to your manager - oh ok... DAAAD! somebody for you!
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[12:24:09] <exec> 08└─At work we have a low level QA employee with a heart of gold and a brain of mud. The rest of the team spends more time supporting him than it would take us to accomplish everything he does. But he's friendly and forever polite, so we frankly shield from upper management how unproductive he is. ...of...
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[12:28:36] <exec> 08└─Some people say there was a so-so 5th season and a couple of spin-offs - but only the same nuts that insist that there were sequels to The Matrix... Point is, B5 was one of a few shows that (re)-popularised the ongoing story format outside of soap operas. Yes, it helped tremendously that (unlike cer...
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[13:23:52] <exec> 08└─If your child is smarter than you, call the cops.
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[13:23:54] <exec> 08└─Since the police started requiring university degrees, it appears they've attracted people so completely retarded they don't even know what policing is. [bbc.co.uk]
[13:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:56] <exec> 08└─How much of WMROCU's funding comes from Apple and Microsoft?
[13:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:58] <exec> 08└─Our Government for the People [theguardian.com] wants to give Ofcom the power to monitor and regulate what we put on the Internet [independent.co.uk] which is a bit scary given that we have no written constitution and no legal right to free speech, Oh, and they also want to end the independence of t...
[13:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:00] <exec> 08└─But according to ZDNet [zdnet.com], the police deny being involved with the poster. It is as if someone has put police logos on it to give it weight, but without their permission.
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[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─given that we have no written constitution
[13:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:04] <exec> 08└─Thanks. So I'm legally not allowed to heckle a Nazi. Great...
[13:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:06] <exec> 08└─Update 17.58 GMT: WMROCU told us: "This poster was produced to raise awareness among teachers, parents, and guardians to help them advise children how to stay safe online. The poster highlighted some of the digital tools their children might be using at home. The software mentioned is legal and, i...
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[13:24:30] <exec> 08└─It should go without saying that this sort of toxicity is very unhealthy and unhelpful. I've done many jobs now in my life, starting out putting out vegetables in a supermarket when I was a teenager. The customer wasn't "always right," the customer, "came first." There was a subtle distinction. The...
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[13:24:31] <exec> 08└─One of my bosses was dealing with a cuntstomer in San Diego's East County and finally had enough. He told the customer to take interstate 8 west all the way to the end, get out of the car and walk 200 feet to the nearest beach, and pick up a handful of sand and pack it up his ass. Another boss that...
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[13:24:33] <exec> 08└─While Pioneer Service is in the USA, author of the fine link wears a headscarf...photo at the link.
[13:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Make Human Organs Transparent to Allow 3D Maps at Cellular Level - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:41] <exec> 08└─Don't they really want to work on a "tricorder" instead, so the same kind of imaging could be done on live people?
[13:25:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 1269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:19] <exec> 08└─If you walk around with $10K+ in cash, you're hardly anonymous - you are photographed and tracked everywhere you are seen with that much cash. Ever notice how thick a stack of 100 $100 bills is? That's not an accident, the higher denominations used to exist but were intentionally eliminated. Old day...
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[13:25:24] <exec> 08└─...in the view of the government. That's why there was so much pressure on Switzerland to get rid of banking secrecy. Here, the government has no right to see your banking data without a warrant. The US has the fourth amendment, which states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, h...
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[13:25:26] <exec> 08└─So I guess if Zerocoin or Zcash or whatever the hell the anonymous transaction cryptocurrencies are (Monero?) - if they start to gain popularity, they'll be attacked directly? I'm not interested in obtaining illegal drugs, guns, or other content and believe it or not I don't cheat on taxes either. B...
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[13:25:28] <exec> 08└─They're secretly tracking all your cash purchases too. Why else would there be a serial number on every dollar bill?
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[13:25:37] <exec> 08└─There's nothing much more to say. It's one of the best and most clear examples of a contact binary ever, and we basically found it by random chance. KBOs should be more "pristine" than asteroid belt objects, with less impact craters, since they are further from the Sun and from each other. The best...
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[13:26:40] <exec> 08└─But I think we're dancing around the core problem here: it's a supply and demand labor market, and demand is less than supply. So Apple and Walmart can treat their employees terribly and get away with it. If an employee doesn't like it, they're cheap and quick to replace. The capitalist response is,...
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[13:26:42] <exec> 08└─self styled security Ayatollah That is what you get for hiring a self confessed liar as security. From a people well known to be thieves and proud of it.
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[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─I was once asked "Don't you feel guilty for using encryption?" I had to laugh. What a silly question. Of course I don't feel guilty for using encryption. I want my mother to be protected by encryption. There's no reason to not be safe on the internet. The bad guys are all using encryption to protect...
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[14:24:00] <exec> 08└─Thank God this same organization is in charge of our healthcare. Totally competent and upstanding people, the gov.
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[14:24:02] <exec> 08└─Probably classed as a "non-crime hate incident" now. You are allowed to heckle "a Nazi", you are not permitted to harass people or cause public order offences. It'd also be a good idea to make sure you're reserving the "Nazi" label for National Socialists because slander is a civil tort.
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[14:24:30] <exec> 08└─"We reserve the right to refuse service to ASSHOLES like YOU"
[14:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:32] <exec> 08└─I know out of personal pride you stayed on to finish the project, but all you did was show the customer that your employer was good to do business with. You kept the cycle going. And it's not like you ever planned on going back to work there, so... I guess you used that as a bragging point in your i...
[14:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:34] <exec> 08└─It's okay to tell a customer to fuck off for any reason under the sun that isn't prohibited by law. Whether it's wise is another story entirely.
[14:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:36] <exec> 08└─If you want to see what firing customers is like read this http://www.actsofgord.com [actsofgord.com] And the door is to your left if you do not like it :)
[14:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:38] <exec> 08└─Life noob.
[14:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:40] <exec> 08└─I thought I'd broken the cycle, and I thought some of the management wanted to do things better, but at the end of it the company went back to its bad old ways. Not hiring enough staff, lying to customers about work done etc. Yes, it's good to be able to say you achieved something. People call me a...
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[14:24:42] <exec> 08└─I occasionally am a boss like that. Unless you've got a very small customer pool, losing a good employee is a lot tougher on the business than losing a bad customer. They have to be a good employee though. An average employee that the job is just a job to and who doesn't give a shit if the company d...
[14:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:44] <exec> 08└─Understandable, and a balance can be hard to find in some situations. My position was "tier 3" tech support, end of the line. We were all the best troubleshooters you could get, so it was incredibly rare that an employee was fired. When we did fire someone it was almost always because the employee l...
[14:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:46] <exec> 08└─Right but being lazy and profligate with other people's money is only mud icing on a turd cake. Involuntarily taking money that someone else has earned and giving it, however directly or indirectly, to someone else that you think needs it still ain't right. Need is only need, it does not turn wrong...
[14:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:14] <exec> 08└─That's miniature giant space hamster, yo.
[14:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:15] <exec> 08└─Eye of the Beholder Secret of Monkey Island Lemmings Settlers The Elder Scrolls: Arena Might & Magic Ultima + Ultima Underworld
[14:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth Created in Only 5 Million Years - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what to believe myself. While personally I'm a Christian I try to separate my Christian beliefs from scientific interpretations but I find that no one really has a good scientific explanation of our origins (including myself). It's as though the scientific evidence is meant to be mystif...
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[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─It's even more distracting than cats pictures in Category Theory.
[15:23:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:56] <exec> 08└─If your child is smarter than you, call the cops.
[15:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:07] <exec> 08└─Thank God this same organization is in charge of our healthcare. Totally competent and upstanding people, the gov.
[15:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:09] <exec> 08└─I don't have insurance or government healthcare. Both are scams.
[15:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:11] <exec> 08└─Nazi, fascist.. you say "tomato" I say "tomato."
[15:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:13] <exec> 08└─"Mid police station, how may I help you?" "Orifice, I want to report that my son has just installed Kali Linux on his laptop." "Well, Sir, may I have your name and address, and your son's name? And, don't you mean, "Officer"?" "No, Orifice, I don't think so. You see, I helped him to install Kali Lin...
[15:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:15] <exec> 08└─Be alert if you find your local law enforcement official, or one of their assistants or advisors, is using any of the following on their computer: Word processing software such as MS WordPresentation software (including MS Word, Publisher and Powerpoint)Other so-called "Desktop publishing" toolsColo...
[15:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:17] <exec> 08└─Ah. Alt-Wrong reasoning. Bravo, encore!
[15:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:19] <exec> 08└─So your healthcare is handled by an idiot?
[15:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:29] <exec> 08└─Huawei raped me.
[15:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:31] <exec> 08└─when will Microsoft be Company 2?
[15:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:33] <exec> 08└─The theft of US intellectual property is happening in hardware on literally an industrial scale, and it is 100% enabled by the “victim” companies themselves every time they decide to have volume manufacturing in China. Manufacturers get nearly complete drawing packages including schematics which...
[15:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:00] <exec> 08└─Watch out in case that diabolical Bernie Sanders comes along and redistributes some of Trump's wealth in your direction.
[15:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 2819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:01] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, I've fired bosses. Often enough, the very term "boss" gets the particular human in that role thinking the wrong way about things. Start lording it, making the relationship more of a master and slave relationship, get very disrespectful and accusatory, and, of course gaslight and lie, and fo...
[15:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Created in Only 5 Million Years - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:34] <exec> 08└─So we know "the beginning" already existed. The earth came later. Agreed - no mention of how long either of those took.
[15:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Created in Only 5 Million Years - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:36] <exec> 08└─> Turns out, figuring out exactly what was going on 4 years ago is kinda hard. Go figure! FTFY
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[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─We can't have pesky checks and balances to keep our politicians on the straight and narrow now, can we? Well, if the voters can't be bothered to do basic background checks on the people they elect and reelect, why should the judge stick his neck out? Just go with the flow and collect a nice pension.
[16:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─Script kiddies are smart?
[16:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:20] <exec> 08└─So judges shouldn't be there to see that justice is done? I see.
[16:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:02] <exec> 08└─So what? If you had read the accompanying text, you'd know that she co-owns the business - she can wear whatever she wants.
[16:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:03] <exec> 08└─"When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer?" When that customer stands any likelihood of affecting your business. Sorry, but you're a customer. I can choose not to deal with you at any point. All you can wave in my face is some theoretical future business, but I should always have enough customers in any v...
[16:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:59] <exec> 08└─Calling bullshit on your good old days memories of everyone buying houses for straight cash. If that were true then the realty office would need armed guards instead of the bank.
[16:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andy Rubin's Smartphone Startup, Essential, is Dead - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:28] <exec> 08└─Only joke I see here is you & you're not funny: Now, what DID make ME "lmao"? Was when PEDrO NOT TOO Bright got "wise" w/ me & I floored his IRC server + RAN ALL HIS ArsHOLEtechnica CRONIES out of his chatrooms too via a floodbot I wrote & THEN? He came CRYING to NTCompatible.com where everyone LAUG...
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[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:59] <exec> 08└─Antonia Groneberg's choreography, inspired by zebrafish larvae,
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─At your nearest In-Spot East.
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grumpy al Amriki [9490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─This is in tune with the zeitgeist, i.e. blurring the line between science and fashionable ideology.
[17:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyoplankton [wikipedia.org]
[17:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─When I was still a teenager, someone explained to me that you could use a pencil to draw your own porn - probably because I asked him to buy me a top shelf magazine. Being terrible at drawing, I decided I could write it instead. The great thing about PCs is that you can delete it afterwards. And, si...
[17:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─"Smarter." Not smart in the absolute sense, just relatively "smarter."
[17:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:36] <exec> 08└─And yet, you consistently rail against freedom, including freedom of speech. Why is that? Are you /sure/ you're not a Nazi?
[17:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─*sigh* no, you don't see, maybe you don't want to, that's not what I said... The judges are being frustrated by people who don't care enough to see a ruling enforced. They can't do their job without public support.
[17:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:51] <exec> 08└─This is the correct response. Not new, but I find it quite interesting that the DoJ is potentially interested in enforcement. Chinese theft of trade secrets has been business as usual for a very long time. Moving manufacturing to China generally results in 1) Cheaper products, shortly followed by 2)...
[17:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:53] <exec> 08└─It's a western business culture issue. Even worse is when they put all the family IP jewels on the table for the Chinese to steal in a "joint venture", in exchange for a bit of hospitality and stroking of egos, while they get all starry-eyed with dreams of "billions of customers". It's what we get f...
[17:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:55] <exec> 08└─Nobody is stopping the companies who have all the great intellect to sell their products to poor countries when their production has becomes cheaper and it has become profitable. Instead, the are happy selling it to only rich countries because that means higher profit margin i.e. Bigger war chest. I...
[17:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:57] <exec> 08└─This was always allowed by the US and not only for China. For example, we had no problem with Soviets copying IBM-360. The reason was that copying takes time and effort away from development and the thief is always somewhat behind, while the real creator takes the next step. What happened now is tha...
[17:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─In college I worked for a car rental lot, was just me and the owner. I fired several customers when I was there with his backing. If someone shows up and acts like a jerk they will act that way the whole rental. Had some guy sign up for a rental for a 09 dodge caliber. Nothing special but he gets to...
[17:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:30] <exec> 08└─I work for an elite university. With the students paying around $100k/year, the customer is *quite* right. A student complains about their grade or cheating sanction, and management will try to rectify things with the professor. Even having tenure does not seem to be much protection, if a student is...
[17:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:25] <exec> 08└─Conversely, if the judge does not agree, get sentenced to 20 years on even a single count of money laundering.
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[17:27:39] <exec> 08└─>going to continue living That's optimistic.
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:41] <exec> 08└─Does Walmart actually do this somewhere? I've never seen this. Is it a regional or local thing? I'm not a big fan of the place, but I do go there sometimes, mainly because my local one has a RO water dispenser. I never see anyone checked at the door. The only places I've ever seen this are Costco an...
[17:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:43] <exec> 08└─What really has me confused is that I thought Apple was one of those "enlightened" companies that supposed to treat its employees with respect. Instead, they treat their store "geniuses" like they are petty thieves. Apple is just a very hypocritical company that knows how to make a huge profit by ly...
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[18:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Open Access Journals Get A Boost From Librarians—Much To Elsevier's Dismay - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─There is nothing more nazi than a libertarian who wants to take away your roads.
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Access Journals Get A Boost From Librarians—Much To Elsevier's Dismay - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:53] <exec> 08└─Emily [wikipedia.org], Is that you?
[18:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:05] <exec> 08└─The immature offspring of fish are called "fry", not "larvae." Anyone who actually raised tropical fish as a hobby would know that. Not my fault if someone was stupid enough to write an article without any actual firsthand knowledge of the subject. Same as some people still claim that spinach is hig...
[18:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:06] <exec> 08└─Considering the low economic worth of some PhDs, pole dancing is a better option. Or leaving if off your resumé entirely.
[18:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─In our family, we always cook spinach with a fat milk or creme. It is much better smooth and tasty too than regular spinach. My grandfather was a food chemist, an expert in analytical chemistry. He provided to us hundreds of such simple treatments for common food.
[18:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:10] <exec> 08└─You are aware that Doctors have the lowest unemployment rates and highest income level of any members of any society? Enough of your mercenary mercantile American anti-intellectualism!
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:13] <exec> 08└─Don't mind Barbara. She's elevated talking out of her ass to a high art. It's actually pretty awe-inspiring. We should all be very proud of her. You go, girl!
[18:24:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─Thank God this same organization is in charge of our healthcare. Totally competent and upstanding people, the gov.
[18:24:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pe1rxq [844] 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─So your healthcare is handled by an idiot?
[18:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:45] <exec> 08└─Well, they did under the European Commission on Human Rights, but then they Brexited. Best be careful what you say, Royal Subject, or the Queen or Her Primal Minister may lock you in the Tower.
[18:24:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 379 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:58] <exec> 08└─The theft of US intellectual property is happening in hardware on literally an industrial scale, and it is 100% enabled by the “victim” companies themselves every time they decide to have volume manufacturing in China. Manufacturers get nearly complete drawing packages including schematics which...
[18:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:03] <exec> 08└─In China it's pronounced weiweiwei
[18:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─Hello, soldier of the 50c army. You are among friends. Most of us are acutely aware that what china is doing now is exactly what the USA did, copying ideas and stuff from the europeans. Europeans stole the silk from the Chinese. The smarter among us also know that the current state of affairs (Sovie...
[18:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:35] <exec> 08└─For one thing, operating a bank is a privilege and not a right. They can attach whatever condition they want there and not run against the requirement for a warrant. Too bad about Switzerland. They traded centuries of independence and moneymaking to be an American vassal. For what, just the chance t...
[18:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Finds Earth's Oldest-Known Asteroid Strike Linked to `Big Thaw' - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:01] <exec> 08└─Did it happen before or after the Great Oxidation Event https://www.sciencedaily.com [sciencedaily.com]
[18:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:53] <exec> 08└─Walmart must have gotten enough people pissed off because they don't seem to be doing it the last couple of years, but for the longest time it was a thing. As for Costco, they are checking for theft, not that you're being overcharged. And you can still tell them to pound sand - even a private membe...
[18:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:55] <exec> 08└─I'm amazed that anyone actually puts up with this bs. Especially since it can be financially rewarding to take them to small claims and get punitive damages. And any attempts to bar you from the store for standing up for your statutory rights won't end well for them .:.
[18:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Must Pay Store Employees for Bag-Search Time, Court Rules - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:57] <exec> 08└─It's probably the always on always pinging their servers Facebook and Messenger shit. Same as it kills Android. The only real option is to remove them, and any other crap. And turn off both background refresh and internet access to anything you're not using at the moment. Your battery will thank yo...
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[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─If Emily were to come out here, and start rolling up my road to haul it away, I really don't know that I'd do. But, I don't think I'd tell her that she's a Nazi! You really don't want to provoke a woman that mean, and that tough.
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Access Journals Get A Boost From Librarians—Much To Elsevier's Dismay - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─So, we have one gateway to knowledge fighting the other gateway to knowledge. I think there's a quote somewhere about someone who wishes to deny people access to knowledge... I've not paid to access any articles, but I've definitely hit paywalls when trying to get more information on a subject. Anyt...
[19:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Access Journals Get A Boost From Librarians—Much To Elsevier's Dismay - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:59] <exec> 08└─Expensive journals seem like they were a legitimate thing when the only way to share scientific info (study details, etc.) was via print. The circulation would have been relatively low for most journals, and so actual printing expenses would be correspondingly high. Today, however, with the web, the...
[19:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Access Journals Get A Boost From Librarians—Much To Elsevier's Dismay - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─Well, let us consider school children. Pre-teens, maybe, but teens definitely. Whether they take on a project, or an assignment, or they're just curious, school kids should be able to research just about anything. Are the school kids around you welcome at the library? I know that I was made very wel...
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[19:24:03] <exec> 08└─Expensive journals seem like they were a legitimate thing when the only way to share scientific info (study details, etc.) was via print.
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Access Journals Get A Boost From Librarians—Much To Elsevier's Dismay - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─Fair point, and that's part of why I left my comment ambiguous. Leaving a little bit of thinking up to the reader can be helpful. The librarians are stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. They only have budgets to support bringing in $X dollars of new material. If Elsevier is sucking up...
[19:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:22] <exec> 08└─A PhD is not the same as a medical doctor. A PhD in comparative religion is pretty useless outside of academics - in other words making money off others who hope to get a job teaching others the same useless degree subjects. And then we have all the PhD in theology granted by non-accredited institut...
[19:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:56] <exec> 08└─this is silly. how many botnets is kali linux powering? i'd wager a bet that its alot less then what windows is providing ... the post should really warn people about using proprietary closed source and (who knows) for what profit operating system like m$ windows ... i have come to believe that m$ i...
[19:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:57] <exec> 08└─You're looking at this from the wrong angle. They aren't worried about the kids using insecure software. They're worried that the kids are the hackers.
[19:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:17] <exec> 08└─i think the translation for "huawei" is "copied all blueprints on a nortel office printer and travelled to china the next day after the first dot-com bubble"
[19:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:19] <exec> 08└─China went ahead with creating new and better technology and it does it faster than the US.
[19:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:52] <exec> 08└─Operation Varsity Blues?
[19:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:22] <exec> 08└─As there are no old books, there are also no old games. However, Mass Effect epoch is over, for me. ME2 was excellent. But after ME3, ME died for me with Andromeda, boring and uninspirative when played. Too declassed, apparently for the purpose of widening the audience. And necessity of buying stuff...
[19:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:23] <exec> 08└─Never heard that one before, Aristarchus.
[19:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:53] <exec> 08└─stfu, you stupid fucking slave bitch.
[19:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:54] <exec> 08└─that piece of shit needs to be ammended or abolished.
[19:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:56] <exec> 08└─use monero if you want the best privacy. zcash is likely a honeypot. If you're an American citizen: "Cheat" on taxes? just how brainwashed are you? Only idiots, cowards and sell-outs pay the federal income tax.
[19:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:15] <exec> 08└─ah so? i thought newton was jobs brain child ... there was big debate back then between cisc and risc. both mips and arm are risc chips. just saying that networking needs chips toooooo. so i'll wager a bet that a mips powered network router is better at its job then a arm based one?
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[20:24:05] <exec> 08└─The peer reviewers aren't paid. The editors are often pushing their own agendas as to what is worth publishing - a study that disproves what they personally have a financial interest in won't see the light of day. The Review on Antidepressant Withdrawal That Cochrane Won’t Publish [madinamerica.c...
[20:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:23] <exec> 08└─You have two applicants for a job. The job doesn't require a PhD (like the vast majority of jobs outside academia). One applicant has no job experience, but two post-doc degrees (they pursued a second when the first didn't get them a job). The second applicant has a lesser degree and 6 years job exp...
[20:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:25] <exec> 08└─A PhD is not necessarily a medical doctor. A PhD in theology from an unaccredited mail order diploma mill even less so.
[20:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 3362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:01] <exec> 08└─But wait, instead of emotionally reacting let's just see where would it lead us and should anything be done with it. Such meme "hacking==bad" is conveyed all over again recently over the media. It's not about cracking, it's not even computer-related hacking, it's about all hacking, all tings around....
[20:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:23] <exec> 08└─yes, cheap metal is a big way they cheat on everything they sell. it's going to be interesting if there's ever a war and all of america's chinese made stuff falls apart.
[20:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:25] <exec> 08└─yes, i've been complaining about this since i first heard people whining about "IP theft" and especially "forced technology transfer". No one is forcing you to be vapid whores. I don't blame china for the latter. sounds like they are doing their jobs for their people. i wouldn't make your shit if i...
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[21:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:54] <exec> 08└─It looks like the earth is embedded in a ring of glowing substance. Gark matter?
[21:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Access Journals Get A Boost From Librarians—Much To Elsevier's Dismay - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah. But if I'm remembering correctly Elsevier is the company that took money to print a journal for the pharmacological industry that hid the fact that all the reviewers were paid for by one particular company. Having the name Elsevier on it doesn't raise my level of trust anymore. Each journal ha...
[21:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_larval_ecology [wikipedia.org]
[21:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:32] <exec> 08└─Did you get your PhD from Trump University?
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:34] <exec> 08└─Nah, I just print 'em up as needed.
[21:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:11] <exec> 08└─Idiots with a large bank account (from saving thousands of dollars each year) getting 50-99% off what you get billed for? Or are the idiots the ones that pay organizations they hate and distrust to take care of their health?
[21:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:12] <exec> 08└─What if your chikd is smarter than the cops? Who do you call?
[21:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─People who still paying for health insurance at this point are like those paying for AOL and watching cable Tv. You do get something, but it is way overpriced.
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:16] <exec> 08└─But to draw your own porn you need a model, not so easy for a teenager to find, unless it is tentacle porn when you just use imagination.
[21:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:18] <exec> 08└─The Council of Europe is not the EU.
[21:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:42] <exec> 08└─First thing I did when I got my first EEPROM reader and SOIC8 adapter was to read and mount my ISP provided router's flash on my linux workstation and notice it's all FOSS, BusyBox and barely obfuscated OpenWRT bits and pieces. Btw, second thing I did was to publish the undocumented telnet user name...
[21:26:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 660 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:07] <exec> 08└─I occasionally am a boss like that. Unless you've got a very small customer pool, losing a good employee is a lot tougher on the business than losing a bad customer. They have to be a good employee though. An average employee that the job is just a job to and who doesn't give a shit if the company d...
[21:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:17] <exec> 08└─You know you're out of touch when . . .
[21:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:19] <exec> 08└─There is a professor I know who told a student that was high and disrupting the class to leave. The professor had to apologize to the student publicly after the student called daddy and daddy threatened to pull his million dollar yearly donation to the school.
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[22:24:18] <exec> 08└─There are a few problems with the web system as it exists. Peer review is one of them. Prestige is another. These need to be fixed. That said, the current system has done a lot over the last few decades to discredit itself as any better. Fake journals and reviewers pushing agendas are only a couple...
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[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─https://forbetterscience.com/2020/01/24/the-full-service-paper-mill-and-its-chinese-customers/amp/ [forbetterscience.com] 54 papers in Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 15 in BioFactors, 15 in Journal of Cellular Physiology, 5 in Phytotherapy Research (Wiley); 42 in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 26...
[22:25:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 1465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:03] <exec> 08└─Be alert if you find your local law enforcement official, or one of their assistants or advisors, is using any of the following on their computer: Word processing software such as MS WordPresentation software (including MS Word, Publisher and Powerpoint)Other so-called "Desktop publishing" toolsColo...
[22:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:23] <exec> 08└─They're certainly better equipped. You don't have to understand how a nuke works to turn the key, lift the trigger guard, and press the fire button. For example, as a child I understood nothing about electricity. Oddly enough, that assisted me in blowing out the power for my whole block.
[22:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:24] <exec> 08└─In America yes, health care is handled by idiots too stupid to understand that sometimes capitalism doesn't work. A blind market where nobody knows what's being charged for or why is just retarded.
[22:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:26] <exec> 08└─Uh, the government paid for like $1 trillion of healthcare expenses in the US last year. It has nothing to do with capitalism. It is crony corporatism
[22:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:26] <exec> 08└─Do NOT serve Bill Shakespeare. He's been bard.
[22:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorpigal [6061] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:58] <exec> 08└─nethack Is it an old game if it's still being regularly updated?
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[23:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Fool Yourself With Confirmation Bias...and 49 Other Cognitive Biases - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:54] <exec> 08└─I'll admit to this one - (1) crappy font and colour selections that make articles like this one unreadable to me aren't worth the time bias. At least not my time. Same as (2) articles that stretch out over 10 separate pages aren't worth my time bias. And (3) articles with mostly ads aren't worth th...
[23:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch the Winner of this Year's `Dance Your Ph.D.' Contest - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:42] <exec> 08└─One applicant has no job experience, but two post-doc degrees (they pursued a second when the first didn't get them a job). The second applicant has a lesser degree and 6 years job experience.
[23:24:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Call Us Immediately if Your Child Uses Kali Linux, Squawks West Mids Police - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:53] <exec> 08└─Our Government for the People [theguardian.com] wants to give Ofcom the power to monitor and regulate what we put on the Internet [independent.co.uk] which is a bit scary given that we have no written constitution and no legal right to free speech, Oh, and they also want to end the independence of t...
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[23:25:52] <exec> 08└─China is Big Endian and the Western Worid is Little Endian? That explains a lot. America should remember what the Big Indian did to the little indian on his way from 'Sea to Shining Sea' :)
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[23:25:53] <exec> 08└─Microsoft was caught back in 2014 trying to insert Hamas supporters [ukmediawatch.org] into a US Army "Serious Games" training program that they had found out about by getting jobs in the State Department. There was a suspected Saudi spy on the Microsoft board, a Microsoft attorney was working for Q...
[23:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US is Charging Huawei With Racketeering - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:55] <exec> 08└─It would be doing a copyright infringement suit in international court against china for all the open source software, demanding the GPL required distribution. If this was done across China's technology industry with import bans for any technology failing to meet the requirements, it would do effect...
[23:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Does Your Boss Have Your Back? When is It OK to "Fire" a Customer? - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:33] <exec> 08└─Seems like there's always a group of customers like this - they buy the cheapest thing to get their foot in the door then start demanding freebies, upgrades, special treatment - also things like not buy the service contract but demanding all the perks from it anyway. The sad thing is that management...
[23:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:06] <exec> 08└─I disagree with about half your list. I mean where is Star Control II ? Master of Orion II ? Fallout 2 ? Diablo ? Wing Commander (Privateer?!)
[23:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Community Still Obsessing over "Mass Effect 2" 10 Years Later - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:07] <exec> 08└─ShadowBoard, or the various hacking games?
[23:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth Created in Only 5 Million Years - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:28] <exec> 08└─"You're missing the obvious - nobody we know was conducting scientific observations back then. Everything has to be puzzled out indirectly from peculiarities we observe today." I would say that our understanding of science and our models have evolved since then but to say that no one made scientific...
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