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[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:45] <exec> 08└─do people leave their ballots on their porch for collection?
[00:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─Uhuh. Well the hardware voting machines are also, Too Easy, Too Simple, and Too Hackable.
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:48] <exec> 08└─trackable? In Australia, you line up, have your name marked off a roll, and get handed your paper ballot sheet/s.. which you put in a box, when you are finished marking off your preferences.. or not. No one checks you ballot, and there is nothing to tie your ballot to you.. all that is recorded is t...
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[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─American exceptionalism includes a libertarian freedom not to be fined for not participating in democracy. Just don't complain when an overweight geriatric B-grade actor from a B-grade 'reality' TV show with a fake tan and bad combover becomes emperor-demigod because you couldn't be bothered voting.
[00:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:13] <exec> 08└─Oh...so it's for the Buggalo Boies then.
[00:23:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:40] <exec> 08└─If you are afraid of the risks involved in being a police officer then don't become one. As long as you are being paid by the taxpayers then taxpayers have every right to know who you are. We employ you. My work requires everyone to wear an identifying badge at all times. Those that refuse can lose...
[00:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:25] <exec> 08└─Someone who is poor and desperate. A homeless kid escaping abuse who is too young to work legally. Stupid kids who have not matured enough (science says not until 25 years old) to properly weigh the consequences of their actions. etc.
[00:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:27] <exec> 08└─Not really true, sorry. I'm in a profession where bad apples exist, too. IT-Security. The difference is that we ostracise them. We hang them out to dry in the desert sun and ensure that they don't work in that field anymore. And lo and behold, in general we have a pretty decent reputation.
[00:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─It's Klan, not Clan. Unless you're referring to some group that's not obvious to me.
[00:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:31] <exec> 08└─I recently had a conversation with an instructor in the criminal justice program (cop training) at the junior college where I work. We were talking about police violence and other criminal activity by the police. I finally dropped the bomb that, "I believe that all cops are bad because they never tr...
[00:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frog Eats Beetle, Beetle Escapes Alive through Frog's Butt - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:09] <exec> 08└─I came here to say the same thing, and I would upvote you if I could. :)
[00:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:28] <exec> 08└─Look, well all well know that any missing time TMB may, or may not, have experienced is due to high quality hooch.
[00:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:29] <exec> 08└─Ignore them. Don't feel bad, the stresses are getting to all of us. I have printed checklists to keep me from fucking up, and boy did I fuck up recently. Fucked up enough that I offered to take the financial hit. It happens, and one event does not define a sysadmin. These are difficult times, and I...
[00:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06England to Revise DOWN its Covid-19 Death Toll by Up to 10 Percent after Bizarre "Counting Mishap" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:19] <exec> 08└─Hospitals do not issue bills for reimbursement to the government.
[00:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06England to Revise DOWN its Covid-19 Death Toll by Up to 10 Percent after Bizarre "Counting Mishap" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:20] <exec> 08└─There is some sort of accounting. I don't care what the labeling for it is called.
[00:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06England to Revise DOWN its Covid-19 Death Toll by Up to 10 Percent after Bizarre "Counting Mishap" - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:22] <exec> 08└─You got it half right. Part of the problem is that the RT is a state broadcaster, the other part is that it's a state broadcaster for Russia. I got burned by them back in 2003 during the Iraqi invasion and I haven't looked back.
[00:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:26] <exec> 08└─My father was a heroin-addicted pathological liar who beat me and threatened to kill my mother. He did the disrespecting all by himself. You on the other hand, anon, are a corrosive turd of a human being. Every genuine neo-Nazi I've ever met has been a piece of shit. It's pretty hard not to make a c...
[00:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:28] <exec> 08└─The US owned company I work for has a whole bunch of manufacturing sites in China. I don't think management would agree with your idea, at all.
[00:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:30] <exec> 08└─The real truth here though is that this Great American Firewall is just pushing hundreds of thousands of duplicate firewall rules to our "network edges". Fuck you China? In my case it's Fuck you Amsterdam. I have like 80% of Amsterdam's networks blocked from accessing my network because of the bad...
[00:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:32] <exec> 08└─Yes I’m voting for Biden too
[00:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:14] <exec> 08└─No, you silence critics because they aren't contributing anything but confusion while trying to force their ideas to be afforded equal weight. If they were actually doing valid work, that would be different, but it's just antiscience bs, the same sort that antivaxers use and it causes problems.
[00:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:15] <exec> 08└─You're a fuckin' principal, you buffoon! You can't enforce a simple rule in your school? Can someone please replace that joker with a competent person?
[00:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:17] <exec> 08└─Be honest, if you could get out of Texas, wouldn't you go to ... oh... Never mind.
[00:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:19] <exec> 08└─Some people may have genuine difficulty breathing through a mask, epically when it is 98 degrees and 100% humidity.
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[01:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─There isn't a whole lot of time left to find the bugs, produce the fixes, update everything, and retest. Maybe they should have done this a year (or ten) ago?
[01:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─That's all well and good but the downside is that you live in Australia! The UK has the same system. Meanwhile in the US, the Democrats are pushing mail in ballots [nbcnews.com] and want to remove signature verification. [reviewjournal.com] I expect my grandfather, a life-long Republican will be vot...
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[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers.
[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─We will all vote Democrat, one day . . .
[01:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:59] <exec> 08└─Print paper ballots!
[01:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:38] <exec> 08└─There is nothing wrong with Parttimezombie. He simply sounds like he is more informed than you. We do not have rule of law in the United States. If you are rich/powerful, the laws do not apply. If you are a cop, the laws do not apply. If you are poor or black, there many more laws that are enforced...
[01:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:39] <exec> 08└─I work for a school. I'd be sent home for wearing that mask. There is a very strict no political statements on clothing rule (regardless of the statement). I have a hard time believing that wearing symbols associated with white supremacists is considered OK for cops. Really the guy should not just b...
[01:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:41] <exec> 08└─What "team"? Liberal democracy is built on the rule of law...
[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei to Cease Production of Kirin Smartphone SoCs Due to U.S. Sanctions - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─Every "secret" your company owns, is co-owned by the Party. Not directly, of course, but indirectly. Your company doesn't own 20 manufacturing sites in China, it co-owns those sites with sister Chinese companies. Your company can be booted from China entirely, and the party, working with those siste...
[01:28:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 551 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:00] <exec> 08└─I don't care if Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Uber, and my employer block China, or Russia, or for that matter Luxembourg or Morocco. What I don't like is the idea that the US government enters the business of deciding what foreign websites are safe for American citizens to access. Th...
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[01:28:38] <exec> 08└─did learn recently that the swastika is actually a symbol of eurpean people representing the big dipper moving through the four seasons, I never used to know that. I would have thought that would be a critical thing to teach in ww2 history, which as a teenager I was obsessed with.
[01:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:24] <exec> 08└─How to enforce mask or vaccine mandates is something that ought to be open for discussion. However, requiring masks or vaccines to protect against dangerous diseases is not authoritarian. I'll just quote an article from reason.com [reason.com], which is a libertarian site: One could make a libertari...
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[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─I never understood your party names. Only Republicans believe in a republic, only Democrats believe in democracy?
[02:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:01] <exec> 08└─The guys on those ballots aren't eligible anymore. But you know what? The Constitution doesn't say anything about that!
[02:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:43] <exec> 08└─And the reason that you run them out like the vermin they are is because they will utterly ruin you if you allow the least degree of tolerance. Because even one bad apple will spoil the bunch.
[02:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:44] <exec> 08└─Usually people who are particularly desperate. Drug addiction, less often those who have a sense of being trapped in poverty and crime being an (imagined) escape.
[02:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei to Cease Production of Kirin Smartphone SoCs Due to U.S. Sanctions - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:48] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you're right, but those are the terms the company agreed to when they set up in China, and presumably they thought those terms were reasonable at the time.
[02:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:45] <exec> 08└─I don't think management would agree with your idea, at all.
[02:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:32] <exec> 08└─Criticism only causes problems because you know your viewpoint is absolute garbage.
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[02:29:33] <exec> 08└─"trying to force their ideas to be afforded equal weight." So you acknowledge that you want to dishonestly force your ideas to have more weight instead of allowing both ideas to be fairly presented and allow the students to decide for themselves which idea makes the most sense and carry the most wei...
[02:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocall Legal Advocate Leaks Customer Data - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:06] <exec> 08└─I would guess that successfully suing a telemarketer that's breaking the rules would get oneself on a list like that. The problem is most telemarketers are overseas scammers and there's really no effective way to sue them, or collect from them for that matter. But if you get someone like a debt coll...
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[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return of the Zombie Cicadas: Team Unearths Manipulative Qualities of Fungal-infected Flyers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─The noisy mofos tells me it's the summer. Probably edible, too.
[03:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a Scottish Clan? University team around here use the name the Clan for their sports teams, the university is named after a Scot, Simon Fraser, and Clan refers to Scottish clans. It still causes all sorts of issues and last I heard, they were changing their name.
[03:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:48] <exec> 08└─Which is also why we lock up criminals... or used to.
[03:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:50] <exec> 08└─"Wealthy people commit less crime and can afford bonds and lawyers when they do". OMG - call the cops!
[03:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei to Cease Production of Kirin Smartphone SoCs Due to U.S. Sanctions - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:54] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's true. I don't think anyone would be stupid enough to agree to terms on the basis of "they don't really mean it" or "they say they're going to take all our stuff, but I don't really think they will".
[03:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, in the last 3 years we've had to restart the DB at work twice because of "high-availability" clustering getting out of sync. These are the only fatal DB software failures that we have had. Seems the more dependencies you add the more brittle things become.
[03:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06England to Revise DOWN its Covid-19 Death Toll by Up to 10 Percent after Bizarre "Counting Mishap" - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:45] <exec> 08└─That's a great observation and I bumped you up a point for it. Nevertheless, I think my point still stands for a good reason. People tend to think that marriage as a single thing. It's not. It's a legal thing, it's a religious thing, and / or it's a personal thing. If four people say they are marrie...
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[03:28:55] <exec> 08└─One of the comments on the Slashdot discussion points out that a common thing to do, especially for smaller sites, is to block traffic from China, Russia, and Brazil because the majority of it tends to be hack attempts rather than legitimate traffic.
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[04:23:14] <exec> 08└─Election Systems and Software (ES&S), whose products include electronic ballot boxes and voter registration software
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[04:23:16] <exec> 08└─It makes perfect sense when you realize all of modern American politics can be summed up with "All marketing, All the time."
[04:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:18] <exec> 08└─Speaking at this year's online Black Hat USA conference, CISO Chris Wlaschin outlined a number of steps his biz has already or will soon take to overhaul its relationship with bug-bounty hunters.
[04:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows Print Spooler Zero-Day Flaws Harken Back to Stuxnet - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:57] <exec> 08└─Which part of Windows is not exploitable?
[04:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HAWT Wind Turbine is Mostly 3D Printed - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:18] <exec> 08└─looks like it was done in MSPaint.
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[04:27:11] <exec> 08└─We have identified and developed a number of critical stability and performance improvements for our infrastructure. These include fixes for a potential crash, general performance tweaks, and enhancements to networking throughput. After implementing, testing, deploying, and gaining confidence in the...
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[04:29:15] <exec> 08└─No one's forcing you to use TikTok. Heck, I never even heard of TikTok until recently when it became a political issue. There are other chat apps out there. Feel free to use WeChat it you want to talk to someone in China. Not all the internet backbones are run through the States; in fact, last I hea...
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[05:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:40] <exec> 08└─M. Denault, my Junior Achievement / business teacher in grade 7 taught us about this kind of basic math.... You don't even have to technically cheat (although that is easy in many cases, as well...) If you're the mob, or you have enough money, you can just buy all the lottery tickets and always win....
[05:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:41] <exec> 08└─I guess you didn't listen to the rest of Mr. Denault's lesson, which is that yes, you win the prize if you purchase all the lottery tickets, but the prize is what you invested in the tickets minus what the organizer pockets (usually 50%) - i.e. you always lose money. Unless the lottery isn't a redis...
[05:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:44] <exec> 08└─he "won" $2,1 million how much did he spend?
[05:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:46] <exec> 08└─Most people who buy lottery tickets are not buying a statistically insignificant chance to win the big prize. They're buying enough hope to get through the week.
[05:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks Passwords for 900+ Pulse Secure Enterprise VPN Servers - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:00] <exec> 08└─Ok, I know I don't always run all the most up to date and 100% secure stuff in every place, on every server, but.... Geez, man!! What is up with that?!! Seriously, like..... WTF? Is nobody even pretending to try anymore?!! (facepalm)
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[05:23:30] <exec> 08└─Republicans are from the North Democrats are from the South Then, in 1968, somebody stirred the pot and mixed them all together into this blue/gray swirly mix, the republicans went loony toons, and the democrats all turned dyke
[05:26:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:40] <exec> 08└─Personally, it's a disappointment that things happened when they did. But, it looks good now! Only lost a few hours, as opposed to 3 days!!
[05:26:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:58] <exec> 08└─Funny how the db clustering system that's supposed to save us headaches has caused significant data loss twice now when boring old master/slave replication never did, ain't it? I'd have to do the math to see if occasionally restoring from backups has cost us more downtime than actually having to dow...
[05:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:25] <exec> 08└─The other admins have better sense than to talk to users. I'm the dumb one.
[05:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:26] <exec> 08└─Thanks TMB, and good job on the recovery.
[05:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:29] <exec> 08└─Now I am confused. Where are the SQL/management/data nodes located? Are both data node machines also management nodes? Which is the arbitrator or is a third machine involved? If your layout is what I think it is, you may want to double check your deployment, as I don't think it is in line with the b...
[05:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:31] <exec> 08└─No worries, I ain't stressed about him. I was raised with good manners but also an outstanding command of English profanity. My time in the Army only honed that skill to a razor's edge. If tone of voice came through in text a lot less people would think it means I'm wound up when I say "fuck"; it's...
[05:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:33] <exec> 08└─It's probably not but we can't afford a whole bunch of servers just for the DB. We have two. Both are management and data nodes. If you babysit them any time anything unusual is going to happen, they're great. If you don't, you're in for headaches.
[05:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:35] <exec> 08└─In my younger days...
[05:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:37] <exec> 08└─I don't seem to recall the actual adventure part of the gameplay. Just the space battles. Maybe I only played Urquan Masters? Beats me, all I remember doing were the skirmishes. I liked the Earth Vessel, whatever it was called. (Earthling Cruiser according to duckduckgo-fu.) Though, I seem to recall...
[05:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:39] <exec> 08└─Two nodes is plenty for our purposes. Our network load vs. the bandwidth between our boxes makes replication essentially instant unless you have to completely restore a node, so mostly what we need is for the web frontends to not have to give a shit what db server they're dealing with in the event t...
[05:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm sure there must be cluster ninjas out there that know every pitfall ahead of time and never have these problems but there aren't any on staff here.
[05:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:44] <exec> 08└─Eh, passable but I still ain't happy with it. That was a recoverable if sneaky crash. If I'd spent more time with clustered databases I might have caught it without data loss this time. I damned well will next time.
[05:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:46] <exec> 08└─80 years it takes the little grey guys to come back and steal a few hours of database? they need to tune up their spaceship. And upgrade their storage.
[05:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, if you really want to know the detailed network setup, drop me an email to remind me (I don't care if it's a real address. Throwaway is fine.) and I'll post it up as a journal entry when I get time. I've been running on busy days and four hours or so of sleep a night for what seems like about th...
[05:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but we didn't pay for-- wait, what am I saying??
[05:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:52] <exec> 08└─Come to think of it, the DB boxes are the only systemd boxes on our network...
[05:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:55] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when you lead by example, bein' yerselves a cut above. Thanks for keeping the lights on.
[05:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:59] <exec> 08└─I don't use TikTok and also didn't really know anything about it previous to this crap coming up. I do understand it is popular with some segments of the population and believing in freedom of association, I don't like seeing heavy government interference in basic rights. I'm not up on my backbones...
[05:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:49] <exec> 08└─Simpple line is: Your rights stop at the tip of my nose. Translate to you yell at any one over anything, but you can not assault them (punch in nose). In the case COVID, your rights stop when you to assault me. (give me COVID) That is what not wearing boils down to simply assault. Startign hauling t...
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[06:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:42] <exec> 08└─RTFA much? And while it is not known how much he spent in total, it’s safe to say he came out on top
[06:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:43] <exec> 08└─yes, Hence my question. did he risk $100,000? $200,000? $1,000,000? He didn't buy all the tickets, only 40 stores' worth - and the tickets would have been on sale for a while before he started his journey; further, he only bought from one part of the state, not every store that sold the tickets. He...
[06:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:46] <exec> 08└─Buying just 1 ticket is still enough to win for some people. This guy probably bought an insignificant portion of the tickets as surely there were many other stores that sold tickets including ones sold before this guy started buying them. Even if he bought 10% of the tickets, there is still a 90% c...
[06:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:48] <exec> 08└─You tax lottery wins? If the AU gov tried taxing gambling winnings they'd be dangling from the gum trees.
[06:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return of the Zombie Cicadas: Team Unearths Manipulative Qualities of Fungal-infected Flyers - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:57] <exec> 08└─>get to be a grub for 17 years >get your genitals eaten by fungas >forced to break with biological desire and "mate" with other males Verily a femenists dream.
[06:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:01] <exec> 08└─There's built for scale and there's built for viral scale.
[06:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:02] <exec> 08└─We need to get these incels under control. Lock up all people who can't give birth and don't have a current endorsement from somebody who is capable of giving birth.
[06:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:02] <exec> 08└─It was a dumb policy. It should have just recinded all students who are themselves or the offspring of CCP members. Piss off the CCP that they cant get the education they want for their kids and they will push their party in a better direction. People from SE asia, africa, south america should not b...
[06:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry to poke a hole in your narrative https://www.aclu.org [aclu.org] That is some terrible shit for people to spew on Twitter, but if we play your game conservative racist nazis Republicans are gonna come out a LOT worse than the extremist libe...
[06:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:47] <exec> 08└─I understand the concerns about adding or moving servers, but I'd strongly suggest adding another management node on one of your existing machines. The resources required are minimal and it would help quite a bit with your cluster availability.
[06:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06England to Revise DOWN its Covid-19 Death Toll by Up to 10 Percent after Bizarre "Counting Mishap" - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:41] <exec> 08└─Yes. I await the end of the negotiation phase in December with curiosity. There'll probably be a last-minute flurry of activity to get something done by the deadline. The last UK election demonstrated that a majority wanted the whole process to be over and done with, and the current Government seem...
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[06:30:44] <exec> 08└─It is hilarious what the anti-maskers will pull out to defend their idiotic point of view. Trump strikes again, makes idiots double down on being stupid.
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[07:22:37] <exec> 08└─"Just buy a new phone" kind of flaws. What is still unknown is what exactly the impact will be. It might be something that most people can live with, like the Intel bugs, or it might be something that really hurts. No way to know until they release details.
[07:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:39] <exec> 08└─*laughs in PinePhone's Allwinner A64*
[07:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:54] <exec> 08└─Be assured that in AU the lottery win is taxed as well. It's just that they do it more intelligently: They get the tax directly from the lottery company, so as winner you don't see the tax deduction. All you ever get to see is the win after taxes.
[07:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:55] <exec> 08└─Seems like he had some kind of inside information, or figured out their ticket distribution formula or something. Beating the system is either cheating or some sort of massive sloppiness on the part of the lottery designers.
[07:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:40] <exec> 08└─In the words of Arnold J. Rimmer: "Death isn't the handicap it used to be" .
[07:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:06] <exec> 08└─Cub scouts will be better at some transmissions, though. (Where's my facemask?)
[07:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:34] <exec> 08└─Of course nobody wants to be a criminal. If you offered the Mafia to legalize their actions, I strongly doubt they would disagree (although they might ask for having a legally enforced monopoly on those practices).
[07:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:35] <exec> 08└─A “justice system” where you only get justice if you have enough money is not a justice system.
[07:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:54] <exec> 08└─Speaking of which, thesesystemsarefailing.net/ (a domain I will soon lose as no one has contributed to my work, you think ideas and knowledge just should appear for free around here all of the time, and have no interested a movement to change anything, you just enjoy commenting from the upper decks...
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[08:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:37] <exec> 08└─Apple updates their phones, a couple times, anyway. Android? A buttload or two of those are specced by the telcos, then sold cheap to rope you into a service contract. And, never updated. This could get interesting. A billion consumers demanding a update/upgrade of their phones? I don't think the te...
[08:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:54] <exec> 08└─Australian lotteries return a minimum of 80% in prizes. The top income tax rate is 49%, but the winner gets the whole prize regardless of other income. That's a bit different to the IRS and state governments taking up to 45% of the alleged prize. https://www.cnbc.com
[08:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:55] <exec> 08└─That hope wouldn't exist if they didn't believe subconsciously (and incorrectly) that they had a statistically significant change to win. They could get the same hope by giving their cash to me if I convinced (defrauded) them there was a chance of something good happening, or even better, depositing...
[08:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:57] <exec> 08└─I'm kind of with you here. Believe it or not, there are lottery geeks. I remember reading about a mathematician and his daughter who found a flaw in scratch-offs, used it to win a few modest prizes, and reported the flaw to lottery officials. IIRC, they were Indian immigrants. Anybody else remember...
[08:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:59] <exec> 08└─That's false hope, not real hope. The chance of victory is so infinitesimal that they'd be better off spending that money elsewhere, probably on a Snickers. At least then they'd be guaranteed to get something out of it. False hope is inherently dangerous. It's better to be hopeless than deluded. At...
[08:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:58] <exec> 08└─The ways of the Arilou are obscure.
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[08:28:52] <exec> 08└─The trade negotiations have already started. The first formal meeting was in January, and since the arrival of CV-19, have mostly been conducted via teleconferencing. There is currently an impasse. The EU still want the UK to be bound by European Law as a result of any future agreement, and the UK i...
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[09:23:01] <exec> 08└─Australian lotteries return a minimum of 80% in prizes.
[09:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:02] <exec> 08└─Stop mugging me, Blaise! I won't fall for your tricks!
[09:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:05] <exec> 08└─IDK why this was modded as Troll. That he figured out that the winning ticket would be sold in a particular part of the region made me wonder immediately if he had inside info. Evidence against that is that he seems to have bragged about it, extremely unwise if he'd had inside info. It was not wise...
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[09:23:07] <exec> 08└─Most people who buy lottery tickets are not buying a statistically insignificant chance to win the big prize.
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[09:30:16] <exec> 08└─it still compares well to our handling of the last big pandemic, the 1918 influenza epidemic.
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[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─Can we hear you now? Or is calling not implemented?
[10:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:48] <exec> 08└─Not sure where you live, but in Modern Times, most new Android phones are patched monthly. This is true of all Oneplus, Google, Samsung, Blackberry phones, as ones I have direct experience with. Why are you spreading disinformation?
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[10:22:50] <exec> 08└─But only for 2-3 years? My 2017 model hasn't received an update since Feb 2019. If by "Modern Times" you mean let's cross our fingers and hope OEMs really actually mean it this time with Project Mainline. Otherwise, it's back to installing a custom ROM such as LineageOS. Despite its underwhelming sp...
[10:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:15] <exec> 08└─It's either that or "Lucky Man Gets Lucky".
[10:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return of the Zombie Cicadas: Team Unearths Manipulative Qualities of Fungal-infected Flyers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:24] <exec> 08└─People put Leviticus in doubt one bit and look what happens.
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[11:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Closest Fast Radio Burst to Earth Yet - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:33] <exec> 08└─This may be a silly question, but does a magnetar vacuum up all the iron from its neighborhood? If so, how big a neighborhood? From all directions or just an imaginary disk?
[11:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:11] <exec> 08└─They never say how many tickets he bought, or what percentage of the total it was, but I doubt he came anywhere near buying any significant percentage of the total. So a generalised form of the headline is: Man Wins $X Million in Lottery after Buying Lots of Tickets: 0.01% probability
[11:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return of the Zombie Cicadas: Team Unearths Manipulative Qualities of Fungal-infected Flyers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:21] <exec> 08└─Otoh I now know while males dressed up as females are called traps.
[11:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:22] <exec> 08└─And who fuels these "Chicken Little obsessions" and helps them grow, continue, and spread? Social networking and the echo chambers of Chinese, Russian, and other bot nets setup by foreign states that benefit from the internal disruption and fear within the U.S.
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[11:31:14] <exec> 08└─last I heard if you have ever been diagnosed with cv, you are disbarred from joining the military. With 50% false positives and any coronavirus counting as The coronavirus
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[12:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:43] <exec> 08└─Hence the orange clown refusal to endorse masks, he'd rather reign over a population of apes and sacrifice the siglec species. His fault though, the sapiens refused to inject themselves with bleach and they do wear a mask. I bet Trump is immune to Alzheimer's, not enough neurons [twitter.com] subjec...
[12:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:45] <exec> 08└─Thing is, the actual sapients are able to count and to reason, while your conspecifics behave like constitutionally incapable of either.
[12:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:47] <exec> 08└─Asthma was quite rarer some decades ago, dunno about Alzheimer's. Therefore the environment plays a key role.
[12:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:49] <exec> 08└─Thing is, the actual sapients are able to count and to reason, while your conspecifics behave like constitutionally incapable of either.
[12:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:09] <exec> 08└─Allwinner is next [soylentnews.org] - it's fabless [wikipedia.org].
[12:23:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 624 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:22] <exec> 08└─Buying just 1 ticket is still enough to win for some people. This guy probably bought an insignificant portion of the tickets as surely there were many other stores that sold tickets including ones sold before this guy started buying them. Even if he bought 10% of the tickets, there is still a 90% c...
[12:23:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 546 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:27] <exec> 08└─That hope wouldn't exist if they didn't believe subconsciously (and incorrectly) that they had a statistically significant change to win. They could get the same hope by giving their cash to me if I convinced (defrauded) them there was a chance of something good happening, or even better, depositing...
[12:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:51] <exec> 08└─Hmm fascism or incels. I pick incels, it's much more entertaining reading.
[12:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei to Cease Production of Kirin Smartphone SoCs Due to U.S. Sanctions - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:28] <exec> 08└─Insightful up until Most likely by stealing the code from US software developers. Something China is very, very good at.
[12:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei to Cease Production of Kirin Smartphone SoCs Due to U.S. Sanctions - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting that your company is doing tear downs. From what I understand on the whole doing business in China thing, is that you sign in to the Party's terms or you don't sell to a billion people or the world's second biggest economy. It's that sight of treasure that makes companies sign virtually...
[12:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:56] <exec> 08└─All you open source devs from all around the world can meet at my servers instead. I'm not from China or the US... oh and you Iranians, you're welcome too, almost forgot. You should consider that China has a great firewall and you don't visit chinese sites. The US is going to have a great firewall a...
[12:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:58] <exec> 08└─If we look at your points, two are outright irrelevant. It doesn't matter who was affected more or that covid isn't the flu. And we aren't as dumb about masks as you would like, so point 2 is wrong. This is exactly the Chicken Little bullshit I was speaking of. And unlike 1918, there is no fucking l...
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[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:37] <exec> 08└─I believe that's because while growing up, our immune systems don't get challenged as much as before. Contrary to what commercials are trying to sell us, a squeaky clean house may not be the best environment for your kids.
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─There's also the extremely high rate of urban living and very bad air pollution in many cities. Was anybody measuring asthma during early industrialization when air pollution was supposed to be much worse?
[13:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─I think there are arguments to be made on both sides. For example most bacteria that switch on their antibiotic resistance traits will often eventually revert back to their prior states if the antibiotic is removed from the environment. While the bacteria can make adaptations to fight the antibiotic...
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[13:23:02] <exec> 08└─Agreed, same here. I have several Android phones, the newest with Android 7, and no updates have been available to any of them in the past 2-3 years. Haven't tried LineageOS yet. The PinePhone is looking better and better. IMHO, manufacturers (including Microsoft) should be forced to provide updates...
[13:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:03] <exec> 08└─They tend to only support the phones for a somewhat short time, a few years at best, then your phone is usually out of spec and no long supported. There are a lot of those phones out there, even if they wanted to update them the phones might not be able to be updated (lack of memory, storage etc). S...
[13:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:30] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily, there a lot of stupid people around that brag about things they shouldn't be bragging about. There are other parts of the story that seem more weird such as how he visited 40 stores in just 4h, unless the stores are just next door to each other and there are no other customers anywh...
[13:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:32] <exec> 08└─Brit, thought the same. You "won" $7m, but only get to take $2.1m. Just advertise the $2.1m and stop faffing around.
[13:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:34] <exec> 08└─When your lottery win is considered small change by the 1%
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[13:26:20] <exec> 08└─Exactly: An arrest is a punishment, one cops can currently dole out completely arbitrarily without any consequences whatsoever. It amounts to cops being able to give somebody a bit of jail time without them being guilty of anything. And, as an added bonus, if the person they're arresting for no reas...
[13:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:21] <exec> 08└─My work requires everyone to wear an identifying badge at all times. Those that refuse can lose their jobs.
[13:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:59] <exec> 08└─And who fuels these "Chicken Little obsessions" and helps them grow, continue, and spread? Social networking and the echo chambers of Chinese, Russian, and other bot nets setup by foreign states that benefit from the internal disruption and fear within the U.S.
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[14:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─Therefore the environment plays a key role.
[14:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, and if lockdown and other excessively sanitary measures continue for long enough what will happen? The people hiding in their homes and behind masks are going to be screwed when forced to return to the real world as food and power shortages begin. The people out living, or even better "protesti...
[14:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:54] <exec> 08└─We have this policy in the US of letting businesses that pay taxes make consumers pay the tax. So no products have taxes factored into prices in the front of the store. It's a very effective system for making consumers hate taxes since it's now the surprise expense at the end. In both Australia and...
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:56] <exec> 08└─Actually, what he said was if you were going to do that, you go to the organizers and just cut a deal with them in the usual shady back-room deal like all the big scammers do... :) You don't even have to buy all of them in most cases, especially lotteries, to be able to pull off the scam over multip...
[14:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:58] <exec> 08└─He tried this, risked $1M (plus a lot of work) and got a net $2M payoff. I believe the odds of that happening in most state lotteries are 1:4 - he could do better playing roulette in Vegas, if he can find a casino that would let him bet $1M on red or black. For the effort he put into buying all the...
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[14:24:00] <exec> 08└─Does AU lie to their retail customers about VAT as well (concealing it from the receipt), or is that only Europe?
[14:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:17] <exec> 08└─.... The real problem is using a spreadsheet for data that should have been contained in a database. A not uncommon sin.
[14:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:49] <exec> 08└─Right up until your ass is being pounded into the ground. Or you get into a traffic accident and the other guy jumps out and starts pounding on your car. Or you get into a high speed collision. Or.....
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[14:26:50] <exec> 08└─Less often? Many people commit crimes for drugs/drug money, but I think you'll find poverty a far greater motivator than you think. When your choices are working for minimum wage in a factory with horrible conditions, working for less than minimum wage + tips, or selling drugs, selling drugs isn't t...
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[14:29:18] <exec> 08└─Johnny Cash DID have a double. I met him. Maybe?? April, 1982. Was driving through Colorado Springs. Stopped for gas. Had trouble with the pump. (This was back when self-serve was still somewhat newfangled and nothing like standardized.) Guy comes out of the shack to help. He's wearing coveralls, bu...
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[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─Now we have some idea where fire ants came from, right? If you've ever met the things, you probably hate them. Odd, though - one of my sons isn't bothered by them. He can literally stand on, or even sit on, a fire ant mound, and they won't eat on him. I wish I had whatever he has to prevent them bit...
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─Are you sure he doesn't just have an immunity to pain?
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─Pain is one thing. Not being bitten or stung is something else entirely. Typically, I can be bitten a few times, and not realize it - a single bite doesn't hurt much. It's later, though, when the bite blisters up, burns and itches, that you really regret your carelessness. The son doesn't get bitten...
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─Christian-based names are so last Millennium. God particle, Hell ant, Satan's demon seed.
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:44] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough fire ants make great captive colonies. If that's your thing.
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─I agree I vote to change the names to be: Mass Effect Particle. Edward Scissor Mouth. and ... A weekend at the Epstiens.
[15:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─Humans are much more susceptible to oxidative stress due to loss of L-gulonolactone oxidase.
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─Regarding "protests", bandanas as asks they all wear spread covid just as much or even more than no mask. https://advances.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org]
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:05] <exec> 08└─Then Hawaii should be investigated, if historical data indicates a rise, for correlation with recent habits in food lifestyle and vaccine policies.
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─What building materials do they use in Hawaii? Mostly the same as on the mainland? Plywood, chipboard, particle board all give off formaldehyde, over time - it's a major component in the resins that hold it all together. Carpeting is impregnated with nasty stuff. Glues and resins, and plastics are a...
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[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─No wonder we lost that one: -organism -wat -did you remember to synthesize oxidase? -wat, which -the glucolacton.. gluoulac...gulagolact... -the wat -aaaah screw it
[15:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:12] <exec> 08└─Environment, but also most certainly lifestyle & diet play a role. Junk food, obesity, fast food, and being sedentary (especially for kids & teens) were also rare decades ago. Most people ate only during the three regular meal times. Maybe a light lunch in the middle of the afternoon. Once supper wa...
[15:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:14] <exec> 08└─There was an interesting study I read last year that speaks to the effect of cleaning chemicals. It exposed baby animals to industrial solvents like sodium laureth sulfate which are often present in household cleaning products, even sometimes baby wipes, soaps, and lotions. Then it exposed them to c...
[15:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:16] <exec> 08└─"Researchers previously speculated that this mutation was selected for in humans to make it harder for..." Nope, there's no "to make it ..." at all. Selection does not drive traits, traits drive selection. The food on the menu of a gourmet restaurant doesn't taste good because it's on the menu - it...
[15:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe he was lucky -- maybe he had inside info. I would guess that 40/NumberOfStoresInWV is a pretty small proportion so either he knew something, or isn't great at math.
[15:24:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06US Voting Hardware Maker is Improving Bug Bounty Program - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─Election Systems and Software (ES&S), whose products include electronic ballot boxes and voter registration software
[15:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:02] <exec> 08└─If you're scared to publicly BE a police officer, you don't need to be one.
[15:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:04] <exec> 08└─"one bad apple spoils the barrel."
[15:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:06] <exec> 08└─I get it. But in general, though, people really don't want to be criminals and it requires a greater level of desperation than you think. Highly addictive drugs make reaching that point of desperation easier. And, as the GGP implied, a good solid third of convicted criminals are sociopaths with poor...
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[15:27:09] <exec> 08└─As the other AC said, NO REASON is needed to ask for a police officers’ identity. They are legally required to identify themselves.
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[15:28:17] <exec> 08└─Why would they? The US continues to throw money at them like there's no tomorrow. Until domestic manufacturing becomes a thing again, China doesn't even have to put any effort into it. Everyone else willingly teabags the tightening vice while shouting "harder daddy!"
[15:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:35] <exec> 08└─Then it's good news. I wouldn't trust a universe where systemd boxen work flawlessly.
[15:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:37] <exec> 08└─I figured it was caused by us self-selecting to come here from /. for the reasons we did.
[15:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:39] <exec> 08└─Cheers, I'll see if I can find a suitable place to put one or two more. Like you said, if it's just the management daemons it doesn't take up much space or memory.
[15:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:51] <exec> 08└─>I don't like seeing heavy government interference in basic rights. The government has every right to interfere in basic rights. If the people don't like it, they can vote for different leaders. The American people voted for this government. >While I don't expect Trudeau to be interested in a great...
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[15:31:53] <exec> 08└─Well if the Conservatives get in, it'll be because the Canadian people voted for them, so the Canadian people will be getting what they want and what they voted for.
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[15:32:46] <exec> 08└─Your whole first paragraph is exactly why the United States is the world leader in coronavirus infections. Your whole second paragraph is why people die from it. Not just talking about schools, but society at large. In schools, however, enforcement of a mask-wearing mandate is very, very easy to ach...
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[15:32:48] <exec> 08└─Amazing. Every word of what you said was wrong after your first paragraph. There are a pile of reasons they can't just mandate masks. Just off the top of my head (some might not apply as much to this situation): Some people may have genuine difficulty breathing through a mask, epically when it is 98...
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[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─So, we're converting a mild toxin that we've got strong biological reactions to into a severe one that is a silent killer and then discharging that silent toxin into the atmosphere? Seems.... unwise to scale this particular process up.
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─So, we're converting a mild toxin that we've got strong biological reactions to into a severe one that is a silent killer and then discharging that silent toxin into the atmosphere? Seems.... unwise to scale this particular process up.
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─If you're attempting to breathe the pristine Martian atmosphere, you've got bigger problems than a little carbon monoxide.
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─A silent killer in the martian atmosphere? If you are breathing in the martian atmosphere methinks you have bigger problems to worry about than a minuscule amount of CO. Also, the amount of CO being produced by these things even at full scale on an industrial level would be unnoticeable.
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dale_dmanny [11756] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─From wikipedia: It is primarily composed of carbon dioxide (95.32%), molecular nitrogen (2.6%) and argon (1.9%)
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─Terraforming is probably a waste of time. Rocket tanks and indoor humans can use the oxygen.
[16:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─[...] Plain water will clean most things; [...]
[16:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:25] <exec> 08└─Selection does not drive traits, traits drive selection.
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─Leftist: the guy strongly believing CO2 is the root of all evil, unless you breath it. I wouldn't need to delve into mask good mask bad issues, we will have a definitive response in a matter of months.
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─Might be different if it was your kids that died, eh?
[16:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:32] <exec> 08└─Having lived in Hawaii, I can assure you that there is periodic stress to the respiratory system from clouds of volcanic gases and seasonal burning of sugar cane fields (a declining industry now).
[16:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closest Fast Radio Burst to Earth Yet - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─Oh good, the aliens are almost here.
[16:24:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─Most people who buy lottery tickets are not buying a statistically insignificant chance to win the big prize. They're buying enough hope to get through the week.
[16:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:32] <exec> 08└─The fuck you on about? The taxes are clearly listed in the receipt every place i've been in Europe, including the part where i live. This example receipt i'm looking at right now lists the items with tax price, total and also tax percent, total without tax, amount of tax and total with tax. What mor...
[16:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:34] <exec> 08└─While I can't speak for all of Europe, since I doubt it's shown exactly the same way in each and every country, that is not a thing I have noted and I have been to most of the countries on the continent and there have been shopping. These days more or less all of them, that I can recall, show the ta...
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─That hope wouldn't exist if they didn't believe subconsciously (and incorrectly) that they had a statistically significant change to win. They could get the same hope by giving their cash to me if I convinced (defrauded) them there was a chance of something good happening, or even better, depositing...
[16:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:38] <exec> 08└─Lotteries are just a tax on the mathematically ignorant.
[16:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:04] <exec> 08└─Heh... on the rare occasions I visit the Green Site, I have similar thoughts... starting with, " *what* are they drinking??"
[16:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:05] <exec> 08└─+10, Underrated. All of you in the back room there, keepin' the wheel a-spinning.
[16:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:07] <exec> 08└─Look on the bright side... thanks to your efforts, we never get to see the same fuckup twice. I realize this makes it hard on the slow learners, but such is life.
[16:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:17] <exec> 08└─Depends on the teacher. When I was in 5th grade, they were experimenting with a revival of corporate punishment. Each teacher was issued a paddle, like a 2x scaled up ping pong paddle, to use on students' behinds. Some teachers displayed it prominently, while others tucked it away, out of sight. Was...
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[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's almost untrue to even call what Mars has an "atmosphere." Atmospheric pressure on Mars is LESS THAN ONE PERCENT that of Earth's. By engineering standards, this is considered a vacuum.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─Terraforming Mars would be cool. What would that even look like though? Given, that we could actually convert all of the atmosphere to breathable air, is that what it would equate to? Just the fact that you could walk outside and not be dead in short order? I mean that would be great, but then, you'...
[17:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─I dunno. That alien one used in Total Recall (the first one--I never saw the remake) worked pretty darn fast. You could take your helmet off and not have your head explode only minutes after turning it on.
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:47] <exec> 08└─uhm ... carbon monoxide reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide so if they are releasing the oxygen and carbon monoxide back into the atmosphere wouldn't it simply react with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide again? Or I guess they are exhausting the carbon monoxide into the atmosphere and stori...
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:49] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine they plan to use the oxygen to burn hydrocarbons for fuel with ...
[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─>the ant's prowess or the cockroach's ineptitude.
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─They were both inept. They both ended-up dead in amber, didn't they ?
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:33] <exec> 08└─Back away a little bit and see that we haven't really
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─Their theory is that these solvents break down the outermost protective barrier of the skin, and the infant immune system categorizes as dangerous whatever it sees getting past that missing barrier.
[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Closest Fast Radio Burst to Earth Yet - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:44] <exec> 08└─but it's magnetars.
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:59] <exec> 08└─...or buy back the device at the original sale price. Hit them where it hurts, and they'll find a better solution.
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─...can I softroot my phone yet? I've got some apps I've been waiting to nuke, and factory image won't let me. I'm looking at you, Facebook.
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:03] <exec> 08└─One can only dream of such a world... Realistically I understand the economic implications of such laws/rules. Pretty much everything software / firmware is done under the "release something now, update someday later" and radically changing that would cause economic disaster. It would have to be pha...
[17:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks Passwords for 900+ Pulse Secure Enterprise VPN Servers - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:58] <exec> 08└─After being volunteered as safety inspector for our district and finding out a manager was altering my inspection results to make himself look glorious, somebody got hurt from a safety violation that was documented many times. I gave up that unpaid position after stating... "It's not my job." It's b...
[17:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows Print Spooler Zero-Day Flaws Harken Back to Stuxnet - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─I too had this issue when reading.
[17:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows Print Spooler Zero-Day Flaws Harken Back to Stuxnet - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered how they did that, did they have several boards queued up and just cycle through them in that instant to find the first that isn't a mine? Or do they develop a map with one empty slot and just put that empty in wherever you click*. For instance: a 10x10 map has 99 spaces defined...
[17:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:39] <exec> 08└─Interesting how the act of Boycott is made equivalent to Lynching in this analogy. "I will spend my time and money elsewhere and encourage others to do the same," is not the same as, "I will string you up and watch you hang from this tree."
[17:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info. Semi-educated but otherwise pure speculation here: I wonder if they could have a spare machine, build it up with the new hypervisor updates, and migrate customer's VMs to the new machine, minimizing downtime. Then update the machine that was just migrated from, and move VMs from...
[17:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:25] <exec> 08└─What makes you think the universe looks designed? A big thing missed here is the anthropic principle, namely, that whatever universe we're in will be a universe that supports us. A lot of stuff will look designed because we wouldn't be here otherwise.
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[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─The reason why the fuels we use are convenient and useful is because of their energy density. To convert a whole lot of carbon dioxide to oxygen and carbon monoxide may require a whole lot of energy so you might have to start out with an energy dense source to begin with ... which it would probably...
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:07] <exec> 08└─True enough, but if we're going to terraform, I'd rather be starting that from a primarily CO2 atmosphere than one that is a mix of CO2 and significant amounts of CO. I might compare this to the gold miners of the 1800s who polluted the land with mercury and other nasties so they could extract a lit...
[18:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─(well ... I guess they would have to bring up the hydrocarbons/fuel to mars but not the oxygen so they supposedly save on the cost of transporting the oxygen to Mars ... but they still need something to power the conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide into usable oxygen. Perhaps someone should do...
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─Certain Mars rockets want methalox (methane + oxygen). You can get the energy to make that from the Sun.
[18:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:14] <exec> 08└─Your Oxygen has been cut off until your Oxygen bill is paid in full. Please stop by anyMoxie service center to restore your Oxygen service.
[18:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:16] <exec> 08└─but then you need hydrogen ....
[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─Water ice. There's a lot of it [wikipedia.org] on Mars, including nice accessible deposits like this one [wikipedia.org].
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─I see. Let’s send a bunch of holywood people to mars and see what happens.
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─Internet service is not yet available in your area. Please fill out this online form with your email address so we may contact you once internet service becomes available in your area. Oxygen is not yet available in your area. Please continue to hold your breath while on hold to this Justin Bieber m...
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─Speaking of rocket tanks. SpaceX Raptor engine burns methane and lox. If we can produce oxygen from Mars' atmosphere, then we could possibly make lox. Now if we can find underground ice or water, can we then use some of the C's from the CO and some of the H's in water to produce methane for fuel?
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─"Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." ...
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─True enough, but if we're going to terraform, I'd rather be starting that from a primarily CO2 atmosphere than one that is a mix of CO2 and significant amounts of CO.
[18:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─And lo and behold, one of the primary reactions used for industrial production of hydrogen gas here on earth is the reaction of carbon monoxide with water (the water-gas shift reaction).
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:33] <exec> 08└─Consider it found [wikipedia.org]. They picked methalox in part because it can be made on Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[18:23:48] <exec> 08└─You’ll free the hell cockroach upon the world
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:20] <exec> 08└─This was apparently true for polio. I read something about how while it had always been a thing, it wasn't that common because toddlers played in the dirt. If you're a toddler it's apparently less likely to kill you. Then people moved in to situations where they played outside less, or in streets th...
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:22] <exec> 08└─Rightists: People who are so scientifically ignorant they think humans breathe C02 and not Oxygen.
[18:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Closest Fast Radio Burst to Earth Yet - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:32] <exec> 08└─FWIW, I believe it's assumed that such neutron stars form from normal giant stars at the end of their lifespan. The cores of such stars would have a lot of iron and nickel. Given how much energy is radiated by a magnetar, I don't know if they would vacuum anything up after the initial supernova form...
[18:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:53] <exec> 08└─I love my dumb ass Tracfone.
[18:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:54] <exec> 08└─This seems to be a common theme in big tech: Corporations run by Jews but staffed by Indians, and now whoa there's a gazillion backdoors in their products! And the genius aspect of that strategy is that you don't know whether or not the backdoors are malice on the part of the Jews or incompetence on...
[18:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:37] <exec> 08└─Last time I did much shopping in Europe was in the 1990s, at that time it was not customary for VAT to be listed on store receipts, maybe times have changed.
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:38] <exec> 08└─I guess it's changed since the 1990s - at that time VAT was rather softly spoken most places. Sure, everybody knew it was 22% or whatever, but the store receipts just showed what you paid. I suppose the 'Murican difference is that we don't put the post-VAT (here called Sales Tax) price on the shelf...
[18:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:40] <exec> 08└─It probably has, I don't exactly recall how receipts looked 30 years ago. The thing tho were it might be weird is if you are in a business establishment of some kind of buy different items that have different tax-rates; one such example might be a restaurant where the food is 12% while if you decide...
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[18:28:38] <exec> 08└─Odds are approximately 100% that you're a criminal, albeit one who has either paid your debts to society or wasn't caught or wasn't punished to the full extent of the law. I mean, have you ever: - Parked in a metered spot without feeding the meter? Or parked in a spot that said "2 hour parking" for...
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[18:28:40] <exec> 08└─It's not really a diversion to talk about racism in policing when one of the ongoing problems in policing for decades has been avowed white supremacists joining the police force and/or recruiting police to join them, and those avowed white supremacists using their authority as police to beat, kill,...
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[19:23:05] <exec> 08└─uhm ... interesting stuff. Might actually have use one day.
[19:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─I thought it was the offspring of Hellboy and Antman.
[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─I imagine Bot is referring to the elevated CO2 levels one gets from breathing through a mask. I incidentally wear a mask because I don't want to spread covid which I think is worse than mask wearing.
[19:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:27] <exec> 08└─Stupid words come from stupid people.
[19:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:29] <exec> 08└─only idiots buy an iSlave brand SlaveTracker.
[19:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:13] <exec> 08└─"What more do you want?" maybe for people to not be such suck ass slaves to be paying vat in the first place like the dipshits in the US who pay the income tax?
[19:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:14] <exec> 08└─So you are starting your own church?
[19:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:17] <exec> 08└─Lie? While in the past it was unusual that it was explicitly listed on the receipt, there was never a claim “there is no VAT paid”, which would need to have been written there for it being lying. The receipt tells you what you paid for, and how much. That's what matters. Do you also need the rec...
[19:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:19] <exec> 08└─Was it only a single large prize or was it like most scratch-offs -> a single large prize and also a bunch of smaller ones? If so, it'd be interesting to see how much he won in total (big main prize+lots of smaller ones.)
[19:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:21] <exec> 08└─Actually the advertised win was $5 million; the $7 million was the sum converted to Australian dollars because it was an Australian news site. Really, the headline here on SN should have been changed accordingly, as no one outside Australia would read $7 million as 7 million Australian dollars.
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks Passwords for 900+ Pulse Secure Enterprise VPN Servers - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:39] <exec> 08└─A Cracker, not a Hacker. What is a good metaphor to compare how stupid this use of the word hacker is? After so long.... A cracker is to a hacker, what a thief is to a _______ a. acrobat b. scientist c. researcher d. locksmith e. overly curious person f. trespasser I dont have all day to sit here, c...
[19:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:38] <exec> 08└─So an awful evil company ruining the world had something bad happen to it, what is the problem here? I am surprised actually they are not being accused of terrorism, given how stupid these companies and their legal departments are. Expect them to change the eula to include this sort of thing as a cr...
[19:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Windows Print Spooler Zero-Day Flaws Harken Back to Stuxnet - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:00] <exec> 08└─Having spent countless hours watching the windows print spooler fuckup this is hardly a surprise. But also I am quite certain they put these things in there to make sure their spy tech has plenty of options to comprimise your system and read your mind. Not like the nsa motherboard wifi chip and inte...
[19:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:24] <exec> 08└─what are you talking about, slave? i can defend myself and my family. i don't need some constumed thief to do it for me. you can shove that thin blue line shit up your ass.
[19:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:25] <exec> 08└─selling drugs is not "being a criminal". it's none of the government's business unless there's fraud or force involved. Also, it's not just the $x% who are power mad sociopaths that are the problem. it's the overwhelming % who are just lazy minded idiots who enforce whatever unconstitutional shit th...
[19:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:15] <exec> 08└─If that is all you have to say about the issue, then you are truly dull in the brain. Draw the big dipper in 4 directions with the handle towards the center, then a sortof swastika appears. A child could do that. Your points about other uses of the symbol are irrelevant and simply punt on the real i...
[19:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 2827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:16] <exec> 08└─You are slinging terms around, shutting down modes of thought with label/cancel culture, and in a way that is really offensive. I am not calling you any names last I checked, calling or comparing someone to a neo-nazi is a slur. If im not advocating for a new "reich" and I am not, I am defending my...
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[20:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:49] <exec> 08└─That is how much money people had to waste on a silly idea. "We want a taxi that isn't a taxi. We just want someone to come get us whenever we want, and we want to throw them some chump change for picking us up. We don't mind handing over billions of dollars to some fool who promises to manage these...
[20:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:51] <exec> 08└─Yellow Cab is on the brink of failure.
[20:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:53] <exec> 08└─It would have worked if GoogUber had kicked those pesky drivers into the gutter to die and rolled out the robot cars. Corona came just a little too soon.
[20:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:32] <exec> 08└─It's the lack of oxygen that will kill you, not the carbon monoxide.
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:34] <exec> 08└─SpaceX intends to concentrate its resources on the transportation part of the Mars colonization project, including the design of a propellant plant based on the Sabatier process that will be deployed on Mars to synthesize methane and liquid oxygen as rocket propellants from the local supply of atmos...
[20:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:36] <exec> 08└─What does it do with the glucose it creates?
[20:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah,... and how can you be sure that it's not a fake memory somebody planted in your brain?
[20:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:40] <exec> 08└─Carbon monoxide kills by defeating the oxygen carrying capacity of hemoglobin, so if you get outside air contaminating your habitat air - you can have a highly oxygenated atmosphere and still die from lack of oxygen reaching your cells.
[20:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─This is nearly nothing like a tree. It does not sprout from a seed. It does not grow larger over time. It does not produce fruits or nuts. It is not a suitable home for birds, insects, mosses, small mammals or ape-like creatures. All it has in common with a tree is that it consumes C02 and produces...
[20:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─You are correct. However, the topic is about Mars, which has insignificant atmospheric oxygen. Mars also has very low atmospheric pressure (less than 1% of Earth's), so a habitat there will need to be pressurized. Should the seals on that environment fail, the pressure will send air outwards (aka po...
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:47] <exec> 08└─Given, that we could actually convert all of the atmosphere to breathable air [...]
[20:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amber Fossil Reveals Hunting Prowess of Ancient 'Hell Ant' - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, the guy that coined "god particle" wanted to call it the "goddamn particle".
[20:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:01] <exec> 08└─Hope need not be real to be effective. If "false" hope keeps someone from blowing their brains out, isn't it real enough, for that person at least?
[20:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:03] <exec> 08└─That hope wouldn't exist if they didn't believe subconsciously (and incorrectly) that they had a statistically significant change to win.
[20:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:05] <exec> 08└─Grocery here is pretty crazy that way - many items aren't taxed, but: surprise! a lot of them are, and there's precious little mention of that on the shelf tags - if there even is a shelf tag... stores have gotten kind of lax about having any kind of pricing on the shelves I find about 1% of what I...
[20:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:07] <exec> 08└─Do you also need the receipt to tell you how much of the price you pay goes to the supplier of the goods, how much is used for the shop staff, how much goes to the shop's gross profit, and how much tax is deduced of that gross profit? If you pay by card, does your receipt also tell you how much was...
[20:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:09] <exec> 08└─Indeed. This is how some (lots?) of prosecutions proceed since the law-breaker brags (even if to another criminal comrade) about what cool/stupid thing they have done. The comrade then turns their buddy in to the fuzz. Bazinga.
[20:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:11] <exec> 08└─They do something similar here in that they have recently (last half-decade or so) started to change the weight/volume of items (usually foodstuffs). They used to be fairly standardized as in 1kg, 500g, 250g etc but now they can more or less have them at any weight they want it seems and then they s...
[20:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:31] <exec> 08└─"Or"? Who says are they mutually exclusive? For some reason, all the incels around here are fascists. At least, they spew propaganda and endless "alt-right" talking points.
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Windows Print Spooler Zero-Day Flaws Harken Back to Stuxnet - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:53] <exec> 08└─When I originally analyzed Minesweeper on Windows, my analysis showed that when it is drawing the board, it randomly selects a layout to use. Once you made a click, it would check if it was the first move, if not it would do the normal routine. If it was the first move, a special routine was activat...
[20:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:19] <exec> 08└─I agree with everything you've just said and don't quite grasp why it's posted in tone as if I contradicted any of it.
[20:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:20] <exec> 08└─My point is that you're never going to solve the problem trying to give cops sensitivity training or by creating politically protected identities. The problem, under the current reality, is that they are given the power to violate anyone's rights. Take that shit away and it gets fairer for everyone...
[20:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:22] <exec> 08└─Lol. Nice troll attempt. OK... be my guest and move to someplace that doesn't have police. I hear there are rural areas in Somalia that might be to your taste. Some favelas in Rio might also work for you. Black lives certainly matter. But no, I don't really care if you can defend yourself. I can def...
[20:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Prosecutors Drop Charges Over Tweeting a Cop’s Photo [Updated] - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:24] <exec> 08└─Unless you subscribe to the view that the whites never had legal claim to the land in the first place? Just sayin'.
[20:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:59] <exec> 08└─Boy, won't aristarchus be annoyed to find out that three of his stories were approved, as-is with no edits to them, but unfortunately were released in that window!
[20:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:17] <exec> 08└─I didn't mod you troll, that wasn't me, but after that bilious diatribe of yours, now I'm modding you flamebait. I ask you for evidence, I leave an open door to respond with useful information, which is far more than anyone else here will give you, but instead, you respond as if I personally attacke...
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[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─$1.8 billion quarterly loss is fairly standard for Uber, and they have been quite open in the past about having no actual plan for ever making money. At some point the shareholders are going to figure out that no-one is quite stupid enough to buy their worthless shares and Uber will close down.
[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─The only people that will get screwed are those that invested their own real money. The rest will be bailed out by the fed (you and me)
[21:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─Which Yellow Cab company? According to this, the company was split into many smaller ones in the last ~5 years, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:40] <exec> 08└─Will they? In the sillycunt valley economy, founders keep all the voting shares, and Nasdaq index funds have to buy the shares because the inflated market cap.
[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─Problem with "disruptive technology": lack of control. Like Skynet, it might just turn around and disrupt its creator.
[21:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:44] <exec> 08└─New York, where they've been hit hardest.
[21:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:31] <exec> 08└─That checked out on several links. This is one of them: https://meyerweb.com [meyerweb.com]
[21:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:33] <exec> 08└─IIUC, CO is rather unstable as a gas, and in any case this won't generate much of it. If you're talking about plans to use it to replenish a base's atmosphere or for rocket fuel, the CO will probably not be emitted, but saved for some particular use. Purified chemicals are often rather useful.
[21:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:35] <exec> 08└─...or (with credit to Douglas Adams)... This device is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a tree.
[21:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─You made that up! There's no way someone that stupid could ever be the Vice-President of a major country. Hang on, wow. He really was that stupid. That might be what they call "failing up".
[21:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they take a whole lot of energy. But the benefit of doing this on the ground is that you don't need to carry the weigh required for some of the processing steps, and can accumulate the energy slowly. (If that's not your point, see the prior reply.) I'm still a fan of some sort of skyhook, but...
[21:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:41] <exec> 08└─Quayle may have been dumb, but he was only vice president, not the president, who actually makes decisions. Joe Biden, on the other hand... /shudder/... Oh, who are we kidding, Biden's so dumb they won't let him make any decisions, it'll be the vice president who does that. A fearful symmetry of stu...
[21:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:44] <exec> 08└─Terraforming Mars would be a wasteful extravagance, because any atmosphere you add will drift away. Perhaps if you put a UV/solar wind shield around the entire planet it would be reasonable, but WHY? If you can do that kind of engineering you can build much more livable space habitats a lot cheaper....
[21:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:46] <exec> 08└─My guess is that it's shaped roughly like a tree, with solar panels instead of leaves. But that *is* just a wild guess.
[21:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:48] <exec> 08└─We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
[21:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:50] <exec> 08└─I feel like that's saying: it's o.k. if we piss in this river, it already has parasites - you shouldn't drink it anyway. Then you can say: it's o.k. if we dump paint in this river, people piss in it anyway. Sooner or later the river catches on fire and people stop to think about choices they have ma...
[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─Ha, ha! Runaway thinks you can OTA update hardware! What a Maroon! Or, he's babbling off-topic, again.
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─It worked for you. They fried your brain out with microwaves from miles away, and replaced them with an oversize vaccuum tube.
[21:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:11] <exec> 08└─“I consider this information interesting” is a very different statement from “not providing that information is lying”. BTW, with VAT you can just calculate the amount yourself, so you're not even withheld that information; declaring it explicitly just saves you from having to use your brain...
[21:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:12] <exec> 08└─The orange juice here finally set me off, we no longer shop at the big chain that used to sell fresh juice at $2.99 per 64oz, then they started running "sales" so that only one (rotating different every week) brand was $2.99 per 64 while "regular" price went up to $3.69 per 64. Then the 64oz contain...
[21:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:00] <exec> 08└─You really only need one more. That way you still have a quorum in case one fails. With that in place, the database nodes should be able to survive a rolling restart without "babysitting" them the whole time. However, the one located on its own machine should be the arbitrator. It might also help to...
[21:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Announces That Great Firewall for the US - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:20] <exec> 08└─You can't be dissuaded or proven wrong about conspiracies that never existed in the first place. Only you can prove to yourself you're believing in fantasies.
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[22:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:46] <exec> 08└─This is what the GOP hath wrought.
[22:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:48] <exec> 08└─Didn't the same thing happen here on SN but years ago and still going on unchecked?
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─So this time around its going to be an orange version of the Goatse guy vs a sock puppet. Such wonderful choice.
[22:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:52] <exec> 08└─Run Biden against him. That should work Will the democrats say, "No $400 dollars for you! It's a violation!"?
[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─*looks around* Yea. Those GOP cities that are on fire wrought with crime, violence, and vandalism. ... ... Oh. Well at least those GOP states that are reversing civil rights law. ... ... Oh [dailywire.com]. Well those GOP are a bunch of doo doo heads.
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but it was Hillary doing her dirty work.
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:58] <exec> 08└─Because vandalism really generates sympathy, right?
[22:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:01] <exec> 08└─"...Russia, if you're listening..."
[22:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:03] <exec> 08└─It's all a false flag thing. The Russians paid the Jews to do it, who subcontracted it to the Chinese, who then made extensive use of Nairobi prince's networking. Once CNN approved the operation proposed by Putin, there were no Americans involved here. Trump just stood in the corner, grinning like a...
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─Recently went on a Lyft ride. Where previously a driver would have arrived in seconds or minutes, we had to wait 40 minutes just to be picked up. Driver told us that he came out from afar and that nobody's driving anymore because they were all making way more on unemployment + extra goodies than dri...
[22:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─And good riddance. Yellow cabbies (hell, all cabbies) were fucking worthless before ridesharing, in fact they were so fucking worthless it made me wonder if they were cover for a CIA or other globalist money-laundering operation using bulbheads to provide cover or smuggle arms or something. All they...
[22:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─I keep wondering how long it's going to be until venture capitalists stop throwing money at businesses that can't turn a profit and lack a business model. Disruption is not a business model and it's rather ridiculous that they keep being funded.
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─one can only hope...
[22:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:26] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit surprised that none of the cab companies have filed an antitrust lawsuit against them. They barely pay the drivers, don't pay for the cars, they lacked licenses and insurance and they're running huge deficits quarter after quarter.
[22:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:28] <exec> 08└─You mean other than the cabbies that have to deal with the unfair competition, right? We need to start prosecuting businesses that are running on a business model where they can run a deficit for many years in order to undercut the competition. If you're going to undercut the competition, then you'd...
[22:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:30] <exec> 08└─Taxi service is OK here in the Italian NE. Back in the day in Rome, there was a column of taxis patiently waiting for me and family to drag our cases towards their parking spot. They had seen us and made no effort to come get us. An empty cab passes by, asks us if we need a ride, we say yeah indeed,...
[22:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:33] <exec> 08└─I believe they did fight to keep their own unfair monopolies, but the governor and mayor of this city let Über and Lyft operate illegally, commanding the PUC to not enforce the laws. They were hoping for them to open R&D offices in their taxing jurisdiction.
[22:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:35] <exec> 08└─You mean other than the cabbies that have to deal with the unfair competition, right?
[22:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:37] <exec> 08└─>We need to start prosecuting businesses that are running on a business model where they can run a deficit for many years in order to undercut the competition. quite true. Before widespread credit and banking you had your shop, adjusted prices based on those around you, the end. I know some old lady...
[22:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─There *may* be a company in NYC called the "Yellow Cab Company," but they don't own/control the ~14,000 yellow cabs. Your ignorance is showing. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:41] <exec> 08└─As long as you have people with Stupid Money they didn't earn, you'll get people making stupid gambles - sorry, investments - and talking loudly about the ones they won.
[22:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:39] <exec> 08└─The engineering on domes could be tough. I think it will be a "tent city" for a long time, with various buildings, ice homes, caverns, stainless steel grain silos, etc. strewn about. Keep things separate/redundant and a failure or deranged Martian can only do minimal damage. The suit should be devel...
[22:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:40] <exec> 08└─"You can build more livable space habitats much cheaper" is true for everything about Mars, not just terraforming.
[22:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Might be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:33] <exec> 08└─"Back away a little..." Hah! Another covid-phobe is unmasked!
[22:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 2218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:09] <exec> 08└─Oh please stop with this silly Apple-fawning... With Android things work more like they work in PC (that is personal computer, not politically correct) land: get an device which is supported by one of the AOSP-derived distributions and you'll be able to keep it updated for at least as long as Apple...
[22:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:06] <exec> 08└─>Key word: ALMOST >It might be them. That's why it's a stupid tax. It WON'T be them, period. Other than tautologies, nothing has an absolute zero percent change of happening. There is a non-zero chance of all of the atoms in your body existing five feet to the left spontaneously. But it won't happen...
[22:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Sigh - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:55] <exec> 08└─Consider me interested. :) If I may suggest, it you follow through in writing up something... put it up on the Wiki and then link to that in your journal. (There's probably some stuff up there to start from, anyway!) /me wishes there were a way to auto-explore and document (textually and graphically...
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[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:46] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, actually vandalism does generate sympathy. When I see vandalism, I feel sorry for the woman who had to raise the idiots doing the vandalism.
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─However, Republican State Sen. Ling Ling Chang, who was born in Taiwan, slammed the amendment as codifying discrimination to supposedly fight discrimination, comparing it to the Chinese Exclusion Act.
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─I'm more wondering why she didn't drown the fuckers when she bathed them. But maybe she didn't.
[23:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─The orange version of goatse is willing to take one up the.... The sock puppet will wreck someone else's rectum.
[23:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:53] <exec> 08└─Grand Old Perverts
[23:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─Baby alligators are cute!
[23:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:58] <exec> 08└─Ivan speaks again! Listen to Runaway, he totally has the best interests of the US at heart. Totally.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─This is why we never shoulda let Polacks into this country. Once they get here, a few generations later, they all remain stupid and become racist. Shut up, Runaway!
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:02] <exec> 08└─Runaway, if you're listening, . . .
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds about right. Probably some /pol/tards who did it. Kinda pointless though. I have the best promotional material for Donald Trump right here [youtube.com].
[23:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:06] <exec> 08└─As usual you have a pro-Trump slant to your "both sides" herpderping. Boring trolls the last few weeks.
[23:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:08] <exec> 08└─Vandalism, like shit posting racist right-wing Fox News crap on a perfectly good news aggregation site . . . We all feel sorry for Runaway's Momma.
[23:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:11] <exec> 08└─The guy has dementia, and the press is giving him a free pass. At this point, Biden could be running around naked in his basement shooting bottle rockets out his buttcheeks and he'll still beat Trump. As long as he doesn't have to, I dunno, show up for a news conference. Or a debate. Or any kind of...
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─Only one side, babe
[23:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:15] <exec> 08└─of course pro-trump posts stand out, reddit is basically occupied by a coordinated army of obedient globalist leftists. A handful of moderators control almost the entirety of the top communities on the social media network, Reddit. These moderators include Cyxie, Awkwardtheturtle, Gallowboob, Merari...
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone is sure triggered about living in a welfare state instead of a booming economic powerhouse of Capitalism like California. Its ok little country bumpkin, we're not going to hurt you or even take away those monies propping you up. You will have to raise taxes on the wealthy and pro...
[23:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:20] <exec> 08└─Aww awwwwww, poor Bot facing consequences for his actions awww soo saaaad awww awwwwwww.
[23:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Biden's got about as much remaining intelligence as a microwaved gerbil, but I'd still rather have Biden than Trump. It's sad that an intensely senile old creep is much more appealing than the sitting President of the United States. I suppose in a way, we're voting for whoever he picks as Vice...
[23:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:24] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone is sure triggered about living in a welfare state instead of a booming economic powerhouse of Capitalism like California.
[23:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:26] <exec> 08└─Biden's got about as much remaining intelligence as a microwaved gerbil
[23:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:28] <exec> 08└─August Biden is not November Biden.
[23:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Hijacking Spree Takes Over Subreddits to Promote Donald Trump - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:30] <exec> 08└─>Biden sat in his corner, wondering WTF was going on. There was a scratch and sniff sticker in that corner according to an anonymous source. That same source advised to hide your kids. Hide your wife. Biden is out tonight. -sniff sniff sniff-
[23:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:59] <exec> 08└─If I were an Uber investor (and I am not, it sounds like a terrible idea), I would take this not as a loss but a demonstration of Uber's ability to shift. In one quarter, their core business dropped, but the Uber Eats business more than doubled. Uber is large and flush with cash, so there is little...
[23:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:00] <exec> 08└─I for one am thankful that there are people willing to throw their money away. We will be able to build great things off the back of their write-offs. Governments are no longer interested in spending billions researching things that will advance humanity. Think of the billions spent on space researc...
[23:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:02] <exec> 08└─That's only because the same leeches are bribing them to prioritize war and tax cuts over long term investments in things that will benefit mankind. It's beyond fucked up that philanthropy covers things that are genuine problems of societal importance. Things like homelessness and poverty should be...
[23:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:04] <exec> 08└─Super markets had other issues that required people to shop there. Going to a butcher, a baker, the fruit stand and the rest really doesn't work very well if you have to work, back then it was more reasonable for people to be able to afford to buy a house on a single income meaning that you could ha...
[23:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:07] <exec> 08└─FFS, EF, you're in SAN FUCKING DIEGO!! One of the lesser fiefdoms of Californication. Your experiences do not reflect life in the United States.
[23:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:09] <exec> 08└─I would have thought this isn't much of a problem for them, because the drivers are subcontractors. If no customers, then no contractors. That part of the business is just in hibernation, no income, no/low liabilities. Meanwhile they continue to make money delivering food cold, then making the resta...
[23:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Clobbers Uber, Leading to $1.8 Billion Quarterly Loss - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:11] <exec> 08└─if you work a shit job like grocery or Lyft making pennies to deal with assholes all day, even getting 75% of what you were making is preferable to working and nobody should be chastised for wanting to be unemployed if they are making more doing nothing than working.
[23:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into O2 to Mars - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─you wouldn't be venting the CO into the atmosphere anyway. Which would be O.K. - contrary to the current experiment.
[23:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon Chip Flaws Put >1 Billion Android Phones at Risk of Data Theft - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:39] <exec> 08└─You know what else has no Facebook? My brand new Nokia 2.3 I got exclusively for work. Great update guarantee, relatively speaking: 2 years of build updates, 3 years of security updates, and that'll keep me ahead of the OS version policy for a good while. But if I want anything else on the market fo...
[23:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:38] <exec> 08└─That money could go further, if they just saved it. Sorry, I don't buy that the hope per dollar ratio is very high with that sort of thing.
[23:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:39] <exec> 08└─Lying is a bit of a stretch, puffery as they say in real-estate is closer - psychologically slipping it under the rug, as compared to providing a civics lesson on taxes at every single transaction would be more accurate.
[23:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:41] <exec> 08└─I'll occasionally buy a ticket if the prize is above a certain point, but in general, It's far better to put the money into some sort of an investment. These days there are fintech outfits that will take as little as $10 and invest it in a small portion of stocks and bonds. Put $5 a week in and over...
[23:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:43] <exec> 08└─The odds are probably better than the politicians making real systemic change that allows the bulk of people a real shot at success.
[23:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:46] <exec> 08└─It is very doubtful that it is truly “logical” as it may negate other options for getting out of the “poverty trap” you mention. Studies show that low income folks tend to spend ~10% of their income on lottery tickets. (I’ve seen numbers anywhere from 7-13% from various sources.) 10% of yo...
[23:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Wins $7 Million in Lottery after Buying [almost] Every Single Ticket - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:48] <exec> 08└─That's true, although it's worth noting that these days it's possible to invest that same amount in a diversified stock portfolio. Whereas even 5 years ago you really needed a few grand to start investing with, these days the buy in can be as little as a few dollars lent to a financial tech firm whe...
[23:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks Passwords for 900+ Pulse Secure Enterprise VPN Servers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:07] <exec> 08└─If you live in a trailer park, you're probably a cracker, if you like to play with computers, you're probably a hacker. If you steal money from people, you're a piece of shit.
[23:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Movements are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:10] <exec> 08└─Usually it goes like this. That guy is a nazi we should do something fascist to suppress him. That's just hilarious. If you don't like bad guys, you should give 'em a hug, not become one.
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