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[00:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:30] <exec> 08└─That's what you get if you vote for socialized medicine, the state has an excuse to put every aspect of your life under a microscope.
[00:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:32] <exec> 08└─I worked at a VA and had full access to it. So, yes I have.
[00:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:34] <exec> 08└─Utah is poised to be the first state where pot is legal and alcoholic beverages effectively aren't. It will be interesting to compare with other similarish states where booze is legal but pot isn't, and of course with Colorado where both booze and pot are legal.
[00:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:36] <exec> 08└─Funny, marijuana has been illegal for more than fifty years. I guess we've had socialized medicine all along. I'm against authoritarianism. Socialism doesn't have to be authoritarian.
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order." I hope the jury box succeeds.
[00:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:41] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with socialized medicine and everything to do with the Controlled Substances Act.
[00:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─Funny, marijuana has been illegal for more than fifty years. I guess we've had socialized medicine all along.
[00:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─Not every socialized medicine country acts with the same lack of discretion.
[00:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:57] <exec> 08└─No. That report was written when the project went into administration. What's happening now is that it is clear that the project will never exit administration and the assets are being sold.
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:58] <exec> 08└─Did they run out of people willing to give them money, or idiots to climb into their deathtraps and try to survive 1,000 mph on less than the lowest bidder? As in, we can't meet your spec but this is what we can do... I hope it's the latter, but am afraid it's the former. Face it, record the dude dy...
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[00:35:03] <exec> 08└─So says the AC from the land of hamburgers, hotdogs and twinkies.
[00:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:30] <exec> 08└─I'm probably just being pedantic about the wording, but does the law apply to Australian Citizens, or anybody - i.e. foreigners too - within Australia?
[00:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like 81.
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[01:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:20] <exec> 08└─That's not socialized medicine. It's a goddamn travesty, but it ain't socialized medicine. It is the go-to reason to rail against socialized medicine in the US, because the opposition always points to the VA and says, "This is what it looks like when government takes control". Bullshit. It doesn't h...
[01:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:22] <exec> 08└─wat
[01:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:24] <exec> 08└─Utah is controlled by Republicans. Is there any greater example of authoritarianism than going against the wishes of the population as expressed through a ballot measure? Yet, time and time again, people post here that the authoritarians are on the left.
[01:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:26] <exec> 08└─Good argument. Very persuasive. I've lived under socialised medicine. And yes, the government did use it as an excuse to be intrusive, and to make limited-formulary decisions based on expedience, cost and moral decisions. I was lucky and didn't suffer personal damage as a result. Family members were...
[01:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─Soap: free expression on the internet and electronic privacy are under attack. Ballot: our votes do not meaningfully affect the policies our governments pursue. this news is only the latest example of that. Jury: jury nullification has been nullified by the system. Ammo: keep your eyes on France, GM...
[01:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:31] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately for your narrative, Utah is controlled by highly atypical republicans that trend heavily to the nanny state idea. They're more republicans because they hate the democrats than because their hero is Reagan. If there's any one state where you could get republicans to nod soberly, rub the...
[01:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:33] <exec> 08└─"No true Scotsman". Look it up.
[01:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:35] <exec> 08└─There is a huge difference between a limited formulary and the government intruding into your individual healthcare. My family's experience of socialized medicine is that it is better than the privatized scheme that exists in the USA.
[01:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:38] <exec> 08└─Republican/Democrat hardly matters. People have to vote for politicians that will uphold their initiatives. Seems only logical. It's no different than bowling, you gotta follow through.
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:52] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_racing#Records_by_class [wikipedia.org]
[01:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:54] <exec> 08└─Should have done it in the US. Gas-guzzling dangerous useless bragging rights project would definitely survive this administration.
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:56] <exec> 08└─There are no limits to speed - only limited budgets to speedsters.
[01:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:58] <exec> 08└─Climbing Everest? If ever there was a "been there done that" challenge... Land speed records push some esoteric sciences forward. Where's the relevance to the rest of the world? Perhaps in wind turbines, or vacuum tube subway suspension systems, turbine operation in dirty intake conditions, who know...
[01:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:01] <exec> 08└─I knew a guy who was preparing to drive a not-too-modified Miata 200mph on the salt flats, he was pretty relieved when the whole thing fell apart - sponsor car got recalled to Japan before they made the attempt. Interesting balance of physics and economics are involved in making something like that...
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:03] <exec> 08└─Yep, the wheel-driven one are the only ones that matter. The moment you're not wheel-driven, the fastest "land vehicle" is either a rocket sled or a Tesla Roadster.
[01:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:49] <exec> 08└─The first rule of the Internet: any time someone offers you a big IMPROVEMENT on a tool that you use daily you should immediately plan for how to avoid the upgrade. Admittedly Wordpress has improved significantly from the early days, but this still looks like a massive headache. And, for the whiners...
[01:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:11] <exec> 08└─Ohhh, I've gone much, much, much, farther than that. There have been some big name vendor sites that started using Google's recaptcha at every single login. I totally lost my shit one day during a service outage when the captcha system was preventing me from accessing the administrative functions I...
[01:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:38] <exec> 08└─Not if I don't have a phone, cobber!
[01:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03easyTree [6882] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, I understand. Abstracting the fine one level is a good idea, so that fines can keep up with inflation, deflation, etc.
[01:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:28] <exec> 08└─Every generation has to relearn that which was discovered before. This is why learning new things is pointless
[01:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:59] <exec> 08└─You'll go down in history as "The Mickey Mouse President".
[01:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Robot Puts Human Workers in Hospital - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:31] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention that given two death row inmates choosing the electric chair recently.
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[02:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm [cdc.gov]
[02:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:02] <exec> 08└─We all know that it's atypical of Republican politicians to be authoritarian. That's why the vast majority of them support unconstitutional wars, the Unpatriotic Act, the NSA's unconstitutional mass surveillance, the TSA, the drug war, and other authoritarian policies. Just accept it. But what about...
[02:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─Republicans have ALWAYS been authoritarians, starting with Lincoln, who used the US Navy to suppress free trade and enslaved free men at gunpoint in the first-ever forced draft to make the Northern industrialists richer.
[02:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:27] <exec> 08└─> ...idiots to climb into their deathtraps... Andy Green is no idiot https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ...and then gained an RAF scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1983 with first class honours in mathematics.[2] Later that year Green was promoted...
[02:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Left Without 4G Data Access After O2 Network Goes Down Due to Ericsson Software Outage - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─Where does it mention SSL anywhere in the TFA? It says specifically software certificate. I would imagine those are revocable and controllable by Ericsson. Not every certificate is specifically for SSL. If using SSL, it's not impossible to effect such a system when in control of your own CA. It's no...
[02:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:15] <exec> 08└─How nicely will the Gutenberg editor play with distributed revision control? Most word processors do this abominably. Will merges all be pick one file or the other, with no actual merging of changes?
[02:35:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:23] <exec> 08└─Captchas exist to force people to turn on scripting, not to keep bots out.
[02:37:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:10] <exec> 08└─I think you can argue that copyright law is an abomination, period. The original idea was to protect individual writers, composers, musicians, and artists against theft of their ideas. But the original intent is lost, now it's just a weapon wielded by big companies against everyone else.
[02:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Robot Puts Human Workers in Hospital - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:58] <exec> 08└─After the various fuckups with the injections, can you blame them?
[02:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Method of Vinyl Record Production Introduced - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:28] <exec> 08└─Clearly there are different types of vinyl owners: I did in fact copy vinyl records to tape (and still use those tapes in one of my cars), and I am looking into digitising my old collection, just as soon as I have the time. I don't buy new vinyl records. If I don't like the way they master digital f...
[02:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meeting of Julian Assange and Paul Manafort Denied, but Talk of Removing Assange Confirmed - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:47] <exec> 08└─Hence my question (sorry for perhaps bad legal lingo) what was that she done which is against the law in Canada. Well, that's perhaps sealed but we assume there is something she did which is against the Canadian law.
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[03:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─Now go get our vaccine or else you will die, just like last year. (Gets the vaccine)
[03:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:32] <exec> 08└─Is there any organization in the USA handing out FIJA pamphlets at courthouses? What happens if you do?
[03:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:56] <exec> 08└─And he's 58 years old. He's the sort of guy who has been active his whole life and now can't handle slowing down in a creaky, leaky, old body. He'd rather go out in rocket bomb than sit in a rocker.
[03:35:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:54] <exec> 08└─Soon to be an obsolete method of detection: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[03:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:02] <exec> 08└─No, it is true. And besides scripting, if you wanted to post something anonymously via ToR, for example, you can't, because any forum armed with Jewgle's captchas only returns you Jewgle's "Hahah, fuck you buddy, denied" message*. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. And some snarky messages are be...
[03:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:21] <exec> 08└─If you're not too busy pretending you already knew that these particular vauge quotes about humans were the true ones, you can get more info from ``Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Bias'', it's a short (~7page) paper and absolutely worth your time. http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu
[03:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:23] <exec> 08└─correct link: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[04:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:01] <exec> 08└─That's why they hire Indians for their rank-and-file. They're too stupid to find the backdoors.
[04:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:02] <exec> 08└─Or will we see a range of Chrome OS tablets with 16GB of RAM?
[04:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:05] <exec> 08└─https://chromeunboxed.com/news/cheza-first-qualcomm-powered-chromebook-more-details/ [chromeunboxed.com] https://chromeunboxed.com [chromeunboxed.com] There are a number of reasons we haven’t seen a Qualcomm Chromebook [chromeunboxed.com] grace the mar...
[04:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:15] <exec> 08└─Should have stuck with grandpa's cough syrup.
[04:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:17] <exec> 08└─Grandpa's "cough syrup" was Vodka. Still better than being injected with unknown crap. Still better to this day, in fact. Flying for Air America really drives the point home that Grandpa trusted nobody, especially not the fuckery that is going on today.
[04:33:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 904 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:27] <exec> 08└─I support this lawsuit. The so called compromise means that a Dr cannot simply give their patient a prescription and be done with it. The patient must also appear in front of a so called "compasionate review board" to plead for the right to treat their pain with something other than dangerous opiate...
[04:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:51] <exec> 08└─No, of course not all on the left. It's just been so surprising to see leftists, self-labelled (inaccurately) liberals take up authoritarianism so quickly and gleefully. Do people naturally fear freedom? Many people seem to fear a free person walking among them. With freedom comes responsibility, an...
[04:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:52] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry you were surprised. You must not have paid attention in history classes. Authoritarianism is orthogonal to the left-right spectrum. Both sides contains anarchists and both sides contain those that worship power. IIRC the first socialized medicine policy in the modern world was initiated by...
[04:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:18] <exec> 08└─Well, he's already set several other speed records, so he's a lifetime speed junkie in my book. As has been well documented he approaches record braking on land just like an engineering test pilot. One step at a time, check out all the vehicle systems as you go and never go when something even hints...
[04:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:00] <exec> 08└─That's one of the reasons I _support_ patents, including software patents: they motivate others to improve on the patented inventions. With no patents we would have settled on MP3. Ogg Vorbis would have never been invented. I have other reasons.
[04:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:01] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure standard practice is to image the storage device before attempting to decrypt. Nuke would just result in restore from backup and try again, or do you want to go to jail for 5 years.
[04:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Robot Puts Human Workers in Hospital - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:56] <exec> 08└─My first thought on reading the title was that, contrary to expectations, a robot you can buy from Amazon was causing an increase in the number of people working in hospitals. Hmmm actually now I think about it that may not be so inaccurate after all...
[04:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Robot Puts Human Workers in Hospital - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:57] <exec> 08└─I found it in a hot sauce store in Santa Cruz. I puzzled over it for quite a while then decided I was not yet ready to mainline. Also it could have fallen into unsuspecting hands. I expect you can order it online. There are I think eight Capsaicinoids. That's why some peppers hit you right away wher...
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[04:42:00] <exec> 08└─A legal strategy would be a lawsuit or something. A nonlegal strategy would be a PR campaign or diplomacy. Your only evidence that they wanted to drone Assange is something that says nothing about drones or Assange.
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[05:33:07] <exec> 08└─I do not look down on Niggers, Kikes, Wops, or Greasers. Here, we are all equally worthless. Except the Vietnamese. They might cook the best fried chicken but they are truly subhuman. And their language sounds like, "Ho ho hai hmnmmmmmfbh hai ho banh me thanh tranh mgggnmbf" My orders are to weed ou...
[05:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:20] <exec> 08└─I am an influenza denier. It never happened. It is all made up by the Big Pharma to sell 'flu' shots. My brother is a Micro-Biologist, his wife is a corporate lawyer. Thanksgiving and Christmas time are always fun for me. He hates me, at least she has a sense of humor and collects lawyer jokes.
[05:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Left Without 4G Data Access After O2 Network Goes Down Due to Ericsson Software Outage - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:31] <exec> 08└─I got a service call from an old snowbird couple from Canada, their "internet" was gone. After trying to talk the through the obvious and simple things like was your computer plugged in and turned on, did their modem have lights on it, I resolved to make a house call. After going through numerous sc...
[05:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:07] <exec> 08└─You mean like what Atlassian did with changing from wiki markup [atlassian.com] to IDE only [atlassian.com]? They screwed over the technical users of their product. As of today they still haven't resolved the issues.
[05:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:57] <exec> 08└─PS i advocate )))...((( to denote white-suprems. Think of it as triple-buttcheeks with a triple-asshole within.
[05:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:59] <exec> 08└─Who are you talking about then? The [[[lizard people]]]? Use square brackets for [[[them]]].
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[06:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Giant Dinosaur - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:11] <exec> 08└─So, evolution has run in a circle, and the dinos are coming back! Expect new maps to be published soon, "Here, there be dragons!"
[06:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Giant Dinosaur - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:13] <exec> 08└─Worse, they're Niggers with guns. And when they come running toward your wholesome White suburban home, then you are done for. The reason why is because Baraq Hussein Soetoro made being a cop a bad thing. Trump is trying to undo the damage, but it may be too late.
[06:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:27] <exec> 08└─your meds. you need more.
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[06:33:28] <exec> 08└─Join with me, Jew. Let's draw the fire: Let's make the Vietnamese the enemy again! Gooks NVA! Charlie!* I just want some good fried chicken.
[06:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:26] <exec> 08└─Wordpress lowers the bar for web publishing. Unfortunately, that also incurs risk for inept system admins screwing their own site. Still, an open source CMS being the most popular is ultimately good for the internet (in my opinion). Otherwise we would have the equivalence of Geocities on Google or F...
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[07:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Giant Dinosaur - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:45] <exec> 08└─What was wrong with the old dinosaurs? They were perfectly fine.
[07:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:00] <exec> 08└─The Vietnamese must have kicked the fucker out of their noodle joint. Wonder why, huh.
[07:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:15] <exec> 08└─Doesn't No Carrier mean you don't have the virus? :)
[07:34:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:39] <exec> 08└─Utah is controlled by Republicans. Is there any greater example of authoritarianism than going against the wishes of the population as expressed through a ballot measure? Yet, time and time again, people post here that the authoritarians are on the left.
[07:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:07] <exec> 08└─I get the idea this will just spawn off a new kind of stealth technology for concealing even the existence of data storage. Likely using steganograpic means of storing hidden files in things like home movies of the family vacation.
[07:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:09] <exec> 08└─Everyone needs a phone these days, this isnt the 80s you know! And I am perfectly happy to unlock my nokia 8810 for them.. I think it even has a list of contact numbers, and perhaps some call history. Could be a few text messages also... I still somehow feel they could be disappointed. I could give...
[07:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sabriel [6522] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:11] <exec> 08└─"With no patents we would have settled on MP3."
[07:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybernetic Houseplant Can Move Itself Towards Light Sources - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:00] <exec> 08└─How do you feel about the halal certification tax?
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[08:34:03] <exec> 08└─I at first thought that the sequences in which YouTube would play multiple tracks were canned, and so deterministic. This does not seem to be the case. And I am by now dead _certain_ that YouTube knows my name, email and even my phone number when I use Tor Browser to listen to music videos. (I watch...
[08:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:04] <exec> 08└─It's offtopic, but I totally agree. I use firefox in private mode 100% from home and yt is constantly recommending videos that I have liked when logged into Google from other locations.
[08:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:06] <exec> 08└─-al, I really _am_ building Soggy Jobs as a public service to the community. I'll be incorporating a non-profit when I can somehow come up with the wherewithal to actually do so, then applying to the IRS for 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible Status, with the aim of the site's maintenance, development and I A...
[08:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:48] <exec> 08└─I think all lawyers collect lawyer jokes.
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[09:34:14] <exec> 08└─Well, to come back on topic, we can safely say this would not happen to Dr. Asakawa. So she may have something to offer to those who are concerned about privacy on Youtube also...
[09:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:15] <exec> 08└─Low-energy Bluetooth beacons are installed roughly every 10m (33ft) to create an indoor map If this ever becomes widespread in public buildings, people with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity [wikipedia.org] will go ballistic.
[09:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:18] <exec> 08└─But Wikipedia set my mind at ease with "not a recognised medical diagnosis". I expect that article is just like Caltech's game of Alley Rugby: put a flat football in the middle of a hallway, then have half your house - we call them houses not dorms - gather at one end of the hall, the other half at...
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[09:37:47] <exec> 08└─Being a naturally occurring mineral, no one could patent it. Lithium's efficacy for the prevention and the treatment of Bipolar Mania was discovered in the forties, but it was not licensed by the FDA until 1970.
[09:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:43] <exec> 08└─What do you like? Butts? You're a jew. Amirite?
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[10:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─It's made of rock. Interesting.
[10:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:01] <exec> 08└─I've grown strangely skeptical of modern science, which I've come to learn is largely based on the quasi-religious work of theoretical naval gazers. Is this all based on assumptions about pressures, temperatures, constituent atoms, and gravity? Just because you can play with these things in the lab...
[10:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:03] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, they use small diamond anvils and lasers to produce the pressures and temperatures presumed to exist at various layers of the mantle (the layers correspond to phase changes in the materials at various temperatures and pressures; material "A" exists within this range and material "B" exists wi...
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[10:38:32] <exec> 08└─Everyone should dedicate 40+ hours to Starcraft or Warcraft or Red Alert or Command and Conquer that teach planning and resource management skills. After experiencing the end game scenario where resource have run out or are very difficult to get, and the only move left is to swap another player with...
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[11:33:46] <exec> 08└─"The researchers were under a lot of pressure to produce this result." "He who would pun would pick a pocket" Dr. Stephen Maturin* *Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
[11:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:47] <exec> 08└─Take this and run with it, I just don't have the headspace to look into this at all: Pressurize your test sample with high explosive, right next to either a curved particular accelerator such as near the business end of SLAC for its X-Ray Synchrotron Radiation, or in front of the business end of an...
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[11:33:49] <exec> 08└─Theoreticians never win the Nobel until experimentalists confirm their predictions. For example, CERN's discovery of the Higgs resulted not in any CERN collaboration members getting the Nobel, rather it was shared three old guys who'd been waiting for their Prize since the sixties when they independ...
[11:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:52] <exec> 08└─I submit that you might possibly be more dense than what comprises the mantle at those depths. Not everything can be empirical. At some point we likely will extract samples that either confirm or falsify the theory. Those theoretical naval gazers gave you the machine you use to browse the collected...
[11:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds like fun. Have you ever played tot? Bunch of people stand around in a circle as the throw a sword (broomstick with tape at one end as the hilt) at each other. You can only catch the sword by the hilt and any part of your body that touches the blade can no longer be used. You have to stand in...
[11:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:41] <exec> 08└─"The Hot Zone" is a sensationalistic look at such extremely virulent diseases as Ebola. Laurie Garrett's "The Coming Plague" is quite a sober, well-thought out discussion of the same phenomena. The Hot Zone's author repeatedly emphasizes the risk to all of Humanity posed by air travel, then conclude...
[11:34:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:55] <exec> 08└─That's what you get if you vote for socialized medicine, the state has an excuse to put every aspect of your life under a microscope.
[11:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:37] <exec> 08└─I like the idea of progressive fines, and it occurs to me a way to implement on top of the current system would be to keep the penalty unit system in regard to fines, but make the actual unit value a variable based on income/wealth. This would only require modifying the law that sets the value of a...
[11:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:39] <exec> 08└─Any Australian law applies to everybody in Australia. If there are exceptions they are written into the specific laws. So tourists are covered too.
[11:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:41] <exec> 08└─Very few of them are muslim
[11:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:35] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong. https://www.perthnow.com.au [perthnow.com.au]
[11:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:09] <exec> 08└─And Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org [gutenberg.org] Great idea! Easier access means more people participating. And more people reading good books can only be a good thing.
[11:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:10] <exec> 08└─But, at least, he will, go down, as a, President.
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[12:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:21] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine had a tumblr account, and one day he found it filled with MLP porn. I didn't even know what MLP *was*. Tumblr educated me.
[12:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Giant Dinosaur - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:03] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. Don't you ever get bored with your limited scope of trolling? You could branch out some, you know. Troll Catholics for awhile. Or atheists. Or albinos. I might give you points for originality, since I've never seen or heard some of your troll content before, but still, you're limited.
[12:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Giant Dinosaur - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:04] <exec> 08└─...New Giant Dinosaur ... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
[12:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:20] <exec> 08└─And their language sounds like, "Ho ho hai hmnmmmmmfbh hai ho banh me thanh tranh mgggnmbf"
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[12:34:22] <exec> 08└─Nothing in the publicity to say whether it supports ECC RAM. If you are looking at how to minimise bit-errors now that filesystems that support checksumming for both data and metadata are generally available (ZFS is the best known), then protecting the data in-memory looks to be a good idea. Some sa...
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[12:34:39] <exec> 08└─Will have to hunt these down and have a read. Ebola outbreak + religious nutters on a mission + air travel = potential trouble on a global scale. Considering the fact that they're dying for the cause and will receive thei rewards for their sacrifice in their hereafter, just think about how many crea...
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[12:37:38] <exec> 08└─Run away very fast? Have a kill switch in the device that melts the phone? Have a pin that opens a vanilla clean OS instead of the standard OS?
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[12:37:40] <exec> 08└─Bugger :( VeraCrypt won't do android. https://www.veracrypt.fr [veracrypt.fr] Android & iOS Support Currently, there are no plans to develop an official VeraCrypt mobile app. For such support, third party apps exist. Below is a list of the ones we are currently...
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[12:37:42] <exec> 08└─My password was: IKilledMikeDon18021982 I can't give you my password, orificer.
[12:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:44] <exec> 08└─In the street? When will they ask for a password? Or is this 'arrest first, ask questions later'?
[12:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:46] <exec> 08└─Next they will make duress keys/boss function/manual wipe keys illegal
[12:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:49] <exec> 08└─Dude, don't ever contract a cancer that requires a patent protected medicine
[12:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behavior Laws? Guidelines? No, Just Tendencies. - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:48] <exec> 08└─Because the minimum age for criminal behaviour is 10 years old.
[12:39:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:09] <exec> 08└─We should celebrate it by selecting a new public-domain work for the book club! Anything from here [wikipedia.org] or here. [goodreads.com] We can even distribute our own copy of the book!
[12:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day is Coming - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:20] <exec> 08└─Oooah, looking at that goodreads list Bambi is going PD. What's the chances of Disney extending copyright before that happens? They've still got three weeks.
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[13:33:30] <exec> 08└─This is semi-related, in that you have a problem defining either porn, or hate speech. https://www.americanthinker.com [americanthinker.com]
[13:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:45] <exec> 08└─This explains why so many people in the world are unhealthy. Essential minerals (and vitamins?) are locked up within the earth's mantle, where it is only available to the filthy rich. Just a few milligrams of this stuff in your diet would grant eternal healthy life. Or, alternatively, it would kill...
[13:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:46] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound like such a bad idea: X-ray crystallography [wikipedia.org] I don't know if you'd have enough time to observe the new position of the Mg and Fe atoms in the deformed crystal after the shockwave, before the sample container and X-ray detectors get blown up. Also maybe it would take...
[13:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:49] <exec> 08└─There is a solution for us, common folk!!!1! (1) Eat lots of spinach [wikipedia.org] (2) Read something that makes you really, really dense.
[13:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:51] <exec> 08└─Dietary warning: make a cheese or yoghurt sauce to bind the oxalates of the spinach to Ca, if you want to try this.
[13:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:04] <exec> 08└─I think you're working to hard. You may or may not have a supercookie - and if so, you should identify it and delete it. But, fingerprinting exlains it. I tend to switch between several browsers. The browsers are all hardened. It seems that Youtube still identifies me. All of my browsers are pretty...
[13:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:06] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of wimps. I'd be impressed if you you played tots with a genuine two-handed sword. A bastard sword, or a scimitar would do nicely. At LEAST use something as serious as a saber. Broomstick? That is just too lame to consider.
[13:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:51] <exec> 08└─Grandpa's "cough syrup" was Vodka.
[13:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:53] <exec> 08└─I think all lawyers collect lawyer jokes.
[13:36:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06Millions Left Without 4G Data Access After O2 Network Goes Down Due to Ericsson Software Outage - 751 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:09] <exec> 08└─I got a service call from an old snowbird couple from Canada, their "internet" was gone. After trying to talk the through the obvious and simple things like was your computer plugged in and turned on, did their modem have lights on it, I resolved to make a house call. After going through numerous sc...
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[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─I was riding my motorcycle and I ate a bug....or did I?
[14:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:38] <exec> 08└─http://hhgproject.org/entries/carelesstalk.html [hhgproject.org]
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─Then comes politically-motivated speech. It is an attack on freedom. (((They))) take our rights one by one.
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─I didn't even know what MLP *was*
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─First they came for the MLP fanboys, and I did not speak out- because I was not a brony. Then they came for the soft pornographers, and I did not speak out- because I had my own offline collection. Then they came for the NSFW content, and I did not speak out- because I had a girlfriend at home. Then...
[14:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:13] <exec> 08└─he didn't even know enough to pick the lesser of two weevils.
[14:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:32] <exec> 08└─I have multiple with multiple browsers and multiple VPNs. Supercookies can't survive an OS wipe.
[14:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:07] <exec> 08└─ZFS is way over-hyped and largely a waste of time and resources.
[14:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:28] <exec> 08└─If you want to live and stay healthy, stay away from pharma and their vaccines. They are controlled and run by khazar jewish rats.
[14:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:06] <exec> 08└─You have a shitty goverment and you blame it on socialized health care. And then you wonder why you still have a shitty government. Well done, with such deductive capabilities of their constituents no wonder lying is such an attractive way to "solve" problems for politicians!
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[15:33:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, nobody ever dreamed that one up before. Maybe keep the speculation in the workshop and out of the headlines.
[15:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:37] <exec> 08└─We've had visitors before. Ask any Irishman. They told everyone, and no one believed them.
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:40] <exec> 08└─We can thank our lucky charms.
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─No, seriously, I thought the world was a seriously screwed up place before I found out that the MLP porn was an abstraction of the show. Now I can't remember if it was Clay (Sexy Losers) or AndyOH (tmi-comic) who suddenly found their feed populated with MLP porn. Oh well. That's the Good Old Days no...
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─Then they came, and they came, and they came, and they... *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Alt-ending: Then they came for me- and TL;DR, ROFLMAO, WTF?
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─[[[They]]], you idiot. Do not worry. The [[[Queen of Heaven]]] plan is almost complete, and the whirlwind shall cleanse the world of [[[Yahweh's]]] corruption.
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[16:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:45] <exec> 08└─What can we do to ensure this never happens again?
[16:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:46] <exec> 08└─I know more than most of you about the car industry, because I have been employed by various companies in that industry as a consulting engineer for over 40 years. And what I know is, nearly ALL the major players in the car industry cheated with respect to emissions and fuel economy testing. The gov...
[16:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─There are physical limits to how much processing power and memory you can pack into a certain space without it overheating, as chip designers know, and the mammalian brain has done a pretty good job at optimizing this such that we can't even yet replicate it. I can see a sort of distributed hive min...
[16:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─At least we can be sure our government hasn't been taken over by extraterrestrial powers. Or, they're so intelligent they took care of looking fat and dumb...
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:04] <exec> 08└─They came into your lives They came into your lives They're tiny, like the faith in our ex wives They left a trace behind But no where to be found A quick approach and soon they disappear https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─Sure, that and my cock!
[16:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the horror of the female nipple. The real aim of content hosting platforms is to disappear content they don't like, such as left-wing, anti-war and working class perspectives that will allow the strikes and protests to organize and gain strength. They want us used to an internet in chains. J...
[16:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:23] <exec> 08└─[[[They]]], you idiot.
[16:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─So there's a new Shin Megami Tensei game out? Coolness, sign me up.
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─Blogspot is a popular child pornography host It never last long, but the publisher just gets a new account then republishes Perhaps Verizon grew weary of all the takedown requests
[16:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:51] <exec> 08└─It happens that Monocle Polish is made by baking a blend of oxalic acid with some other chemicals. The phosphoric acid in Coca Cola in combination with calcium rich food can give you kidneys stones.
[16:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:11] <exec> 08└─A real one, not a tournament saber And I know how to use it
[16:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:06] <exec> 08└─Great, I shouldn't get the flu this year, like I did when I got the flu vaccine last year! Uh...I feel a bit...queasy...kgdfghdgjfhdgkhfgdfkd....... No Carrier
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─I'd like to have a peek inside the heart and mind of whoever invented that particular aerosol.
[16:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:45] <exec> 08└─Seems as if the good news behind this observation is that americans have a shitty government (we can all agree on that, right?) but haven't entirely turned healthcare over to it, just yet.
[16:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, right. Sorry, this just in from NewNic, everybody: all republicans are identical, everywhere, and goosestep together. Anything that looks like regional variations is a delusion. Thanks, back to your regularly scheduled evening news WASP and bimbette.
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[17:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:34] <exec> 08└─this is what i thought of when i read this summary. why are these cars abandoned? i have no idea but i'm guessing it has to do with government and their partners in organized crime the insurance companies. i doubt eco conscience drivers just decided to dump their cars and buy more supposedly, eco fr...
[17:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:35] <exec> 08└─Consider ABS that cannot be switched off . . . significantly longer stopping distances.
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:37] <exec> 08└─so, the vehicles were harmful to the environment but nothing should be done? do you also like corporations to skip it's share of the fuck up?
[17:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:40] <exec> 08└─What does it matter what color the tail turn signals are, when people aren't even using them.
[17:33:41] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─The killer will be on a strange road, when a stop sign pops up as you round a curve. The law will just write you up as another statistic, "driving too fast for conditions".
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─They could have fined car companies the cost of the pollution times a punitive multiplier, and left the purchased cars on the road.
[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─What can we do to ensure this never happens again?
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─I've also got 40+ years consulting experience to various car manufacturers. My take is that they cheated on emissions and fuel economy because it was cheaper that way. Which goes back to the first post about greed. When new stricter rules have been mandated, the car industry has had its day in court...
[17:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:51] <exec> 08└─I think the red as a turning signal color is fine, if the whole tail light is used as the turning signal, and i do not see a reason why it wouldn't be. Or if the turning signal is far enough away from the tail light. I personally don't like orange turning signals. It just plain looks ugly, like a th...
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:53] <exec> 08└─How do you determine this multiplier when we don't know how long these cars would remain on the road? I have a better idea: fine them out of existence. What, you don't like government overreach? I don't like breathing in polluted air. I guess there could be a compromise. How about the government tel...
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[17:33:55] <exec> 08└─> ... to produce a REAL WORLD mpg Pointless. Some people like to let their cars idle for long periods, but how would your system separate that from poor mileage. Also, some people like to accelerate hard, others gently, makes a huge difference in fuel usage.
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─Keep on cherishing those assumptions.
[17:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─tiny super-intelligent entity
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[17:34:15] <exec> 08└─There are physical limits to how much processing power and memory you terrestrial technology can pack into a certain space without it overheating
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─The Diaspora project has been languishing in obscurity, but had been all about creating a system of social media that is not controlled by a single company and thus cannot be subject to the same kinds of censorship. The trouble is network effects: Nobody wants to be on a social media platform that d...
[17:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:36] <exec> 08└─For years I figured that was just a meme.
[17:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:38] <exec> 08└─Anyone who posts MLP porn does not "get" MLP. It's just part of Rule 34 of the Internet - if it exists, there is porn of it.
[17:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:40] <exec> 08└─Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have become damaging to the health of the population, are “destructive for the left,”
[17:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:02] <exec> 08└─I've grown strangely skeptical of modern science, which I've come to learn is largely based on the quasi-religious work of theoretical naval gazers.
[17:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:55] <exec> 08└─no one cares about this bullshit from qualcomm's whore ass.
[17:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─Since the link doesnt mention the possible role of overdosing patients on aspirin, I assume these "exploratory" books are BS: https://academic.oup.com [oup.com]
[17:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:59] <exec> 08└─US healthcare is just a scam held in place by the government. A few years ago the scammers (insurance companies) even got the government to pass a law to force people to pay them.
[17:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:00] <exec> 08└─For the dense: The controlled substances act was in the works at the same time as the introduction of socialized medicine in the US.
[17:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:02] <exec> 08└─And why do you assume those are independent of each other.
[17:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:26] <exec> 08└─Where's the relevance to the rest of the world?
[17:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:20] <exec> 08└─that's what they get for using slaveware as a service
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[18:33:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 1209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:46] <exec> 08└─I know more than most of you about the car industry, because I have been employed by various companies in that industry as a consulting engineer for over 40 years. And what I know is, nearly ALL the major players in the car industry cheated with respect to emissions and fuel economy testing. The gov...
[18:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:59] <exec> 08└─I personally don't like orange turning signals. It just plain looks ugly
[18:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─The governments which mandated goals which were unrealistic must share a large portion of the blame. Companies were forced to meet the goals whether the goals were realistic or not.
[18:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:02] <exec> 08└─And what I know is, nearly ALL the major players in the car industry cheated with respect to emissions and fuel economy testing.
[18:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:05] <exec> 08└─That would average out. I suspect people idle GM vans about as much as they idle Toyota vans or whatever. Also consider euros cut the engine at idle because the lack of oil pressure ruins the engines faster, and the wear and tear on the starter and electrical system require more repairs, resulting i...
[18:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:07] <exec> 08└─VW is too big, doesn't care about their core product: providing transportation. They would rather take the loss on disposing of all those cars rather than fixing them! They don't want to loose one new car sale by selling a cheap car. Another thing: If I had a car engineering department, I'd ask them...
[18:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:09] <exec> 08└─"Eliminate greed or go extinct " One of the zeitgeist movies touches on this very topic TLDR: it is not man's nature but the environment he finds himself in, his culture, that produces greed as greed is the proper response for survival in that society. Previous societies like the native Americans di...
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─Building the vehicles was probably more environmentally significant than the difference between claimed and actual pollutant emissions over the life of the vehicle. It makes sense to punish the company, but it doesn't make sense to compound the environmental hit in the process.
[18:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─euros cut the engine at idle because the lack of oil pressure ruins the engines faster, In my Peugeot, while the engine is not running, an auxiliary oil pump is run to avoid this problem. Also, the starter is a geared one, which starts the engine with little strain, and probably far less drain on th...
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─There is also government-mandated testing and passing of various useless destructive tests and all that costs time and money. Simply putting a new engine in a new car, changing design may not be possible due to regulations.
[18:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─If you or your sibling (permitting the assumption that you're not the same person--see what I did there?) would like to suggest an alternative mechanism for information processing, no matter how far-fetched, then I'm all ears. I love that sort of speculation. My point still stands that there are goi...
[18:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe keep the speculation in the workshop.
[18:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─....or did I?
[18:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:42] <exec> 08└─Did they just read Stanisław's Lem "Fiasco" novel? A great novel :)
[18:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, no, not again.....
[18:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:46] <exec> 08└─They're magically capricious! -- Life's a beach... and then you dry.
[18:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:13] <exec> 08└─In a discussion on another site, Reddit is likely next and their traffic patterns are like 99% pr0n... take away /r/gonewild and a thousand other pr0n-ish subreddits, they already banned all the political subreddits to the right of Marx, there's not a heck of a lot left on Reddit. On the other hand...
[18:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:14] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the horror of the female nipple.
[18:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:16] <exec> 08└─Though this is an admirable idea, when happens when I shut my computer off and thousands of posts vanish until I turn it back on? Or my hard drive craps out and some data is lost forever? Or my computer gets infected and it starts serving up infected posts in place of the originals?
[18:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─Two questions come (pardon the pun) to mind: 1) if new accounts are constantly created, how would anyone find anything, and 2) how do you know what child pornographers are doing?
[18:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:21] <exec> 08└─... gender confirmation surgery ...
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Possible Mantle Mineral - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─"The researchers were under a lot of pressure to produce this result." Ordinarily, I don't much like editorializing in the submission but this time I will make an exception.
[18:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org] "Increased restrictions and labeling of cannabis as a poison began in many states from 1906 onward, and outright prohibitions began in the 1920s."
[18:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:47] <exec> 08└─I would take things much further. The Prohibition of alcohol in the US was all the evidence anyone should need that making certain substances illegal does more harm to society and more harm to users and also costs more in taxpayer money than keeping them legal. Legalize them all, and then tax them a...
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[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─And if no one can stay within those limits then no one can sell into that market, which will result in the government reevaluating and adjusting the limits.
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─ROFLMAO - I can stop my car within a hundred yards - if the brakes don't just decide to quit working. Which is what ABS is all about. You've been modded insightful, and in most cases, I would agree with the statement and the moderation. But - context. Your brakes have just decided to go on strike, a...
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─so, the vehicles were harmful to the environment but nothing should be done?
[19:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:58] <exec> 08└─Some perspective on the destruction of the hemp industry. In a word, nylon. Or, in a name, DuPont. The DuPont family had a lot of monetary reasons to push for outlawing hemp, because their nylon was going to replace hemp in everything from rope, to sails, to clothing. These are the same DuPonts who...
[19:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:01] <exec> 08└─Without government involvement, we would likely still not have seat belts.
[19:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─I'm sure some idiots will try to claim that the government should be involved in car design. These idiots are wrong, full stop.
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─Using the cars even with their flaws Or Junking the flawed cars and Making new cars with slightly better emissions & gas mileage?
[19:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─I know what was said and what i said. I am an engineer. If you hadn't called me clueless i might've taken your post as a joke. The orange color does not bring any advantage other than perhaps being somewhat more visible, when the blinker and the tail light are on at the same time and close to each o...
[19:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, nobody ever dreamed that one up before.
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:38] <exec> 08└─If you want to see something truly stimulating, watch the talk SETI and the Computational Universe by Wolfram on SETI given at Microsoft. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:40] <exec> 08└─It was both an alien and NOT an alien....
[19:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, this event is yet another small demonstration of why centralized control and decision making is a bad idea. Even if they weren't corrupted, they're still too prone to making epically stupid and bad decisions that would never fly if subjected to even the most minimal sanity checks. We see that i...
[19:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe not life threatening, but when I played, one guy broke his wrist.
[19:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloodhound Supersonic Car Project Terminated Due to Lack of Funds - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:59] <exec> 08└─Just change your name to : bloodhound hyperloop Mail my check to anonymous coward care of Soylentnews, thanks
[19:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:18] <exec> 08└─hamburger
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[20:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:16] <exec> 08└─If you approach a stop sign and have to put on the brakes hard enough for the ABS to engage, then, yes, you were driving too fast: you were to blame for the accident.
[20:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:17] <exec> 08└─It's not about CO2. It is about pollution that causes smog. People die from it.
[20:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:20] <exec> 08└─Some perspective on the destruction of the hemp industry. In a word, nylon. Or, in a name, DuPont. The DuPont family had a lot of monetary reasons to push for outlawing hemp, because their nylon was going to replace hemp in everything from rope, to sails, to clothing.
[20:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:22] <exec> 08└─Along with "pay more for us to unlock the G-limiter .."
[20:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:25] <exec> 08└─That's just it - nylon may or may not have eventually replaced hemp. Nylon does have advantages over hemp, but hemp also has advantages over nylon. The advantages were never really tested, especially by the Navy, because the hemp was simply removed. No head-to-head competition was permitted, and com...
[20:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:27] <exec> 08└─Whatever. OP's question remains.
[20:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 1818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:29] <exec> 08└─You're just not getting it. I live on a quarter mile long county road, with a gravel surface. I approach the end of my road, going no more than 30 mile per hour under any weather conditions. I've described the wet, soggy conditions. The driver's side wheels are on firm, solid gravel bed, with very l...
[20:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:31] <exec> 08└─Those cars ran far leaner than modern cars. Better fuel economy but far worse emissions per mile driven. As a closer to the article example older dodge ram diesels often got 20 mpg. The controls to reduce nox emissions brought that down to 12 or so real world mpg. Both of those with the same 6bt inl...
[20:35:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─So there's a new Shin Megami Tensei game out? Coolness, sign me up.
[20:35:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 609 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:25] <exec> 08└─The Diaspora project has been languishing in obscurity, but had been all about creating a system of social media that is not controlled by a single company and thus cannot be subject to the same kinds of censorship. The trouble is network effects: Nobody wants to be on a social media platform that d...
[20:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:36] <exec> 08└─hosted under a new name
[20:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:37] <exec> 08└─I agree in principle. These things should be decentralized, and to a large extent us as programmers have failed at producing good tools for content creators that aren't dependent on the whims of businesses like Verizon. The problem is who is going to host those Diaspora (or whatever) nodes and how a...
[20:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:39] <exec> 08└─We need a healthy ecosystem of federated social networking servers. The task for those of us with the know-how is get such servers set up, perhaps for family, friends, social groups or what-have-you. A basic Linode instance is only $20 per month, reasonably within the means of many people in the wor...
[20:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:42] <exec> 08└─- self. #MeToo: It's unlikely I'll ever find them, but if I ever do I'm going bring The Wrath Of God down upon whoever published them It's quite easy to find CP on the clearnet, but only if you know how. But other than that Bing and CloudFlare shot full of kiddieporn that MS can't be bothere to remo...
[20:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:52] <exec> 08└─UK reader here. "football" is what they call soccer in the UK
[20:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australians Can Now be Forced to Unlock their Phones - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:39] <exec> 08└─A couple years ago I was taking an antidepressant that set The America Taxpayer back five grand a month. It didn't do shit for me, but cheap as dirt Elavil (amitryptiline) is dandy as candy
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[21:33:38] <exec> 08└─is that they don't know where she got the infection, but is hypothesizing that she got it from a neti pot, whatever that is, and not from any other source?
[21:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:40] <exec> 08└─I also used this method with good results but then realized I should be doing it with sterelized water and thought it was not worth the effort. That and thinking of getting some meningitis through the tap water. A pity because i genuinely felt my airways cleaner and smoother. Also what the hell is a...
[21:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Advertisement Training Exercise Accidentally Costs Company $10 Million - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─RISKS mediator Peter Neumann with a straight face informed me that a Divide By Zero Error that crashed a naval vessel, resulting in it being towed to port, was found to be the fault of the poor seaman who entered a zero in a data entry field. Windows NT FTW. I Am Absolutely Serious.
[21:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Advertisement Training Exercise Accidentally Costs Company $10 Million - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─I think some people are paying way too much for advertising.
[21:34:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─If you approach a stop sign and have to put on the brakes hard enough for the ABS to engage, then, yes, you were driving too fast: you were to blame for the accident.
[21:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:37] <exec> 08└─Are those regulations reasonable then? I know of a case, where making a small alteration to a certain engine prevents it's earlier malfunction, and it does not make the environmental effects worse. In europe, they were able to recertificate with the modification. In USA, they would not allow recerti...
[21:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:39] <exec> 08└─Some native Americans were heavily into gambling. The article I read that this sometimes lead overoptimistic ones to bet all their clothes in the dead of winter By contrast, the Incas support your argument in that their empire was a largely successful Communist nation for hundreds of years
[21:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:42] <exec> 08└─Because Mom is so short she has to sit on a pillow when she drives. This led Dad to assert that an airbag deployment would kill her. I don't know either way but he was convinced of it, and was a top-notch engineer.
[21:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:44] <exec> 08└─I concur. I live on pavement, but it's in poor condition. The first stop sign I come to when leaving is on a down-hill with potholes and some loose gravel. Anti-lock engages unless I really pussy-foot it. I've also had this happen when reacting to city traffic. Fortunately I've never had an accident...
[21:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:46] <exec> 08└─We know what you're really getting at. Damn kids these days and their reefer madness!
[21:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─LA isn't smoggy anymore. I Am Absolutely Serious. When California restrictive emissions standards failed to yield sufficient joy, the legislature enacted the Cash For Clunkers program.
[21:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:51] <exec> 08└─like the native Americans did not have it
[21:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:53] <exec> 08└─Consider that the Bessemer Process requires large amounts of coal. Bessemer would not work with oil or natural gas, so please do ensure you recycle your soup cans
[21:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:55] <exec> 08└─And breaking down with pollutants entering the environment
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:57] <exec> 08└─They gambled before they had contact with white men, or after they culture was poisoned by ours?
[21:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:00] <exec> 08└─These are all vehicles which had software that kicked in during an emissions test to make the vehicle pass. So the cars can clearly operate up to standards, almost certainly with a drop in performance but they still work. Why would we not simply change the ECU firmware and put these things back on t...
[21:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:29] <exec> 08└─based on what I currently know
[21:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.
[21:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─I read a comment to a similar question on Reddit where someone from one of those investigation websites said that what they, drug markets and other "bad people" do is have certain SFW seed images/blog posts/whatever depending on the site. People then like or comment or whatever that post, then you k...
[21:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:10] <exec> 08└─Is this the Diaspora you mean? " rel="url2html-20824">https://diasporafoundation.org/
[21:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Blind Woman Developing Tech for the Good of Others - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:57] <exec> 08└─Because TBB's use of Private Mode causes it to retain cookies for the length of the session, and neither the built in Firefox tools, nor other cookie purge tools can look at and delete the private session cookies. When I filed a bug report on this on the torproject website it was closed as 'NOTABUG'...
[21:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:32] <exec> 08└─I guess that means no official driver support for alternatives. That is a shame, id like to have a decent preforming ARM portable.
[21:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:33] <exec> 08└─Have this exact problem. The system had non-ECC memory, was running linux, and due to linux's file caching, the whole file was in memory. Person checksummed the in-memory file twice, thinking it was actually reading off the disk (because until recently, who had enough memory to have a whole large fi...
[21:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Books Explore the Science and History of the 1918 Flu Pandemic - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:59] <exec> 08└─Don't listen to the voices in your head! They'll just get you into trouble. Listen instead to CNN, PBS, and Al Jazeera. They will steer you towards the light.
[21:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State of Utah Sued Over Watering Down of Medical Cannabis Proposition - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:43] <exec> 08└─Because we aren't drooling idiots.
[21:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:29] <exec> 08└─"Fuck if know why I kept failing." Uh oh, won't be long before the bots suspect they might not be human. This one is just 3rd gen, I'm betting the sixes are already aware.
[21:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Talk About a GAN-do Attitude... AI Software Bots Can See Through Your Text CAPTCHAs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:31] <exec> 08└─Real chuckles from that one thanks! The OP was good too.
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[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─The name of the ritual is Hindu : Jala Neti - https://en.m.wikipedia.org(Hatha_Yoga)/ [wikipedia.org] Neti pot is a pot suitable for doing (Jala) Neti
[22:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:46] <exec> 08└─Who's to say she didn't catch the bug by an illegal alien sneezing on her?
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:48] <exec> 08└─Who's to say she didn't catch the bug from a war veteran smooching her to get over his PTSD?
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─Tap water shouldn't contain brain eating amoebas in it. If this is true can the municipality be sued for providing contaminated water? I like to mix a tad of hydrogen peroxide with water and hypoallergenic baby shampoo to flush my nose with. Application is very important but if you apply it right it...
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─For 3-4 years now I wake up with stuff that has gathered in my sinuses in my sleep wanting to follow gravity. For the first 2-3 hours after I get up I cough a lot and blow my nose a lot. Blowing my nose usually results in much ado about nothing, as does my coughing. After 2-3 hours I'm good to go. T...
[22:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:02] <exec> 08└─lol It isn't AS smoggy anymore. There are still days when you can't see that far through the air.
[22:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not familiar with the models affected. If any had 4WD and a standard transmission, I'd love to re-purpose one as an ATV.
[22:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 5693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:06] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between "we pass the test, but it's not how people drive normally" and VW cheating (which was "Hey, we're being tested, literally kill the car performance so we don't get caught polluting but never, ever, ever do this in real-world usage". The mandated goals weren't that unreali...
[22:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─That is the real solution to the current mess of faux social media sites. Reddit *IS* just rebadged usenet with CSS themes.
[22:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:20] <exec> 08└─they already banned all the political subreddits to the right of Marx
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[23:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:39] <exec> 08└─Tap water is not sterile. It's safe to drink, it's just not something you want up your nose. Olfactory ensheathing cells provide a bridge across the blood-brain barrier. Viruses and other bad things can get in there and really wreck your life.
[23:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:40] <exec> 08└─You should seriously consider it. Only use lighly salted, boiled then cooled water, use a thermometer to make sure it is down to 98 degrees.
[23:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neti Pot and Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tap Water Thought to Have Caused Seattle Woman's Death - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:43] <exec> 08└─It depends, and very much so. However, giving it a try will only set you back a few bucks total and a few minutes a day, so why not? You need clean water. If your tap is known good, there's no reason to buy expensive stuff. You do not need the special prepackaged salts that people will try to sell y...
[23:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Advertisement Training Exercise Accidentally Costs Company $10 Million - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─And Google is thankful for that. Still, Google can't be complacent. They could always have another Adpocalypse.
[23:34:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─The governments which mandated goals which were unrealistic must share a large portion of the blame. Companies were forced to meet the goals whether the goals were realistic or not.
[23:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:59] <exec> 08└─Those cars ran far leaner than modern cars.
[23:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:00] <exec> 08└─European ones are and always have been orange.
[23:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:02] <exec> 08└─Some VW models received a fix and are back on the road. I think VW determined that it wasn't economically viable to fix most of the affected cars.
[23:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:04] <exec> 08└─Just pull the ABS fuse and call it a day. It's the first thing I do on any car of my own I'm going to be driving. I haven't yet had a problem braking in any of them, although a few have particularly mushy pedal feel in comparison to fully manual braking cars.
[23:35:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyper [1525] 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 937 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:50] <exec> 08└─First they came for the MLP fanboys, and I did not speak out- because I was not a brony. Then they came for the soft pornographers, and I did not speak out- because I had my own offline collection. Then they came for the NSFW content, and I did not speak out- because I had a girlfriend at home. Then...
[23:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Takes Aim at Tumblr’s Kneecaps, Bans All Adult Content - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:16] <exec> 08└─For those who don't dare to look it up in case it involves NSFW images, MLP appears to be My Little Pony.
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