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[00:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:35] <exec> 08└─My wife was an Instructional Designer for Rational Software before IBM bought that company. There was an age discrimination suit underway at that time as well. The tactic that was used to push her out was being undermined by her management, such as blocking her access to resources needed to perform...
[00:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─In a serious national emergency, serious enough that the government is planning on curtailing the Internet to shut down me and my clients (none of which are important enough for the government to legitimately care about), then getting the Internet-related aspects of my life up and running again aren...
[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─I'm declaring a national emergency to get Amanda Seyfried to come and give me a back rub. I'm shutting it all down until that happens.
[00:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─Ya had that chance in November, you dolt! What the hell you think a recall will do? As for backup plans. Only ad hoc mesh networks can survive. And if Trump does declare martial law, which he appears mad enough to do, pray for an insurrection from the generals! They are our last hope against real di...
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:56] <exec> 08└─I could just go back to MSM if I wanted to hear that. Anyway, this is not a new problem. Back when NATO waged war on Serbia to steal Kosovo as a foothold, some Internet blocking from the Free World to Serbia happened. Whether that was because the ISPs were ordered to, or because the execs figured it...
[00:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:58] <exec> 08└─The Treasury Department was surprisingly candid in that correspondence, asserting the U.S. Government's authority, in declared emergencies, to confiscate precious metals and to restrict ownership of mining shares -- and to confiscate and restrict every other financial asset as well.
[00:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:00] <exec> 08└─Almost all of those 31 do not qualify as "national emergency" in my book. The terminology is really suspect, and just a way for the Prez to go around the slow Congress. More importantly, can I mod this whole topic "stupid" ? It's completely nonsensical conspiracy/panic/paranoid crap with no basis in...
[00:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:03] <exec> 08└─More like 2019: the year the conspiracy theorists' worst nightmares came true. Remember when Echelon and Carnivore were just conspiracy theories? Sounds quaint these days. Except most of the conspiracy theorists are "Second Amendment people," and so they will do nothing, because it's "their guy" doi...
[00:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:05] <exec> 08└─All communication not face-to-face is being manipulated. A call or Skype to your mom is being manipulated if not faked outright in realtime. Soylentnews and other internet fora are all merely interactions with artificial intelligence rather than real people. You saw what Seattle did with Donald trum...
[00:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:07] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A [wikipedia.org] That was 16 years ago. But they don't necessarily have to cooperate with the companies.
[00:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Acquisitions In 2018 To Impact 2019's Tech Landscape - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks Donald, for saving me a click. RTFA???? Don't need too. :)
[00:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Acquisitions In 2018 To Impact 2019's Tech Landscape - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:20] <exec> 08└─I already got a offer - an app that generates personalized diet and exercise suggestions based on my genetic info - right from 23andMe. So far they want me pay for this. Developed with scientists at Harvard and Stanford, Lark's mobile app leverages your 23andMe results to create an experience tailor...
[00:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clamshell PDA Running Android/Linux or GNU/Linux - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:09] <exec> 08└─I still have a Handspring Visor in box of junk somewhere -- not that it was junk, I really liked it and used it a lot back in the day, but I never did buy any of the things you could plug into it.
[00:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In VR Boys Learn Best When the Teacher is a Drone – Girls Learn Better from Virtual Marie - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:48] <exec> 08└─Its been peer reviewed by experts in the field, once you get a peer reviewed paper on the topic published you can have a valid opinion.
[00:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In VR Boys Learn Best When the Teacher is a Drone – Girls Learn Better from Virtual Marie - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:49] <exec> 08└─No, he's right. When I was a kid my mother became obsessed with my ADHD and always made sure to get me as much "special help" as possible and made sure everyone involved knew that I was a very special boy. I had to be extremely careful because any sort of violence, verbal altercations, hyperactivity...
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[01:33:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gznork26 [1159] 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 790 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:31] <exec> 08└─My wife was an Instructional Designer for Rational Software before IBM bought that company. There was an age discrimination suit underway at that time as well. The tactic that was used to push her out was being undermined by her management, such as blocking her access to resources needed to perform...
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[01:33:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe if some of these people would retire and open up the positions in management to the younger generations there wouldn't be so much age discrimination. By the time these boomers retire its going to be a slick tongued gen-z kid taking the spot rather than the experienced gen-x who followed the sa...
[01:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:34] <exec> 08└─You realize you are talking about people in their 50s right? Most of the boomers at this point *are* retiring. Also the *entire* market has changed. You may have noticed the computers that replaced everything. You are also competing with people on other sides of the world who *do* work for peanuts.
[01:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:36] <exec> 08└─No, I don't. But what I can tell you is that a mass-layoff in the state of California is subject to rules. When a mass-layoff occurs, the corporation has to make public the job titles and other non-personally-identifying information. To legally perform a mass-layoff in California is to show, amongst...
[01:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:39] <exec> 08└─I work for a large corporation. From the lowliest floor workers all the way up to engineering management, you have motherfuckers walking in canes and otherwise exhibiting Parkinsonism. They have medical issues, and will cling with the rest of their lives to their employment, because of those medical...
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:03] <exec> 08└─hahaha! You owe me a new keyboard!
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─Oh noes, other president declared emergencies too?!?! Lets take a look..... You're right! There is absolutely no difference between these two emergency declarations: Iran, y'know, the "Death to America" guys, are on the cusp of creating nuclear weapons. What could possibly go wrong: Stick a nuke in...
[01:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─"A call or Skype to your mom is being manipulated if not faked outright in realtime." / You're fucking nuts, buddy. Get some help.
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─Somebody's not a sysadmin [xkcd.com]. :-)
[01:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:11] <exec> 08└─Was that before, or after, Killary powered up to Super-Clinton 2 and destroyed the Whitehouse with a Keoken X 3 email blast?
[01:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:13] <exec> 08└─He is only a medium and there for a short period of time. What he thinks does not matter. What any american president thinks does not matter. Matters are decided by the deep state infiltrated by the satanic khazar jews. Time to open your eyes to the monster that lurks in the shadows and appears beni...
[01:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:15] <exec> 08└─Recall Wakup Wok up Call
[01:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─I remember how excited everybody was when we elected the first female president. I was not old enough to vote at the time, but I was with her, as the slogan went. We have to remember that even though she approved the first strike on N-day, a presidential administration is not just one woman. She was...
[01:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Acquisitions In 2018 To Impact 2019's Tech Landscape - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:31] <exec> 08└─Everyone here hates them, but I sure didn't. Fedora's an awesome distro except for systemd. Truly bleeding edge. I have a feeling Fedora will slowly be eaten away into nothingness now. It's Oracle's acquisition of Sun all over again.
[01:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Miami Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:03] <exec> 08└─Your point 5 is somewhat misleading. The State Department does not recognize diplomatic cargo as a diplomatic pouch. Source. It's thus inspectable by a foreign government if it wants.
[01:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Miami Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:04] <exec> 08└─fixed headline
[01:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Miami Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:06] <exec> 08└─It was fixed, i saw it.
[01:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:51] <exec> 08└─I hope you're not defending this crap
[01:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clamshell PDA Running Android/Linux or GNU/Linux - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:28] <exec> 08└─Software support has been very disappointing though.
[01:36:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cosurgi [272] 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:59] <exec> 08└─I prefer devuan :)
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[02:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:40] <exec> 08└─Age discrimination laws only apply to old people. It's a government regulation that defines anyone over 40 as a protected class and prevents discrimination due to membership. This is government sponsored ageism. I think it's kind of funny/ironic. But it sure seems like some folks who should be outra...
[02:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:41] <exec> 08└─If only, if only, you could speak normally..
[02:33:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:51] <exec> 08└─31 currently in effect. Full list of all 31 and when declared. https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] Clinton declared the most, Obama next, and GW third. Trump is in line with Bush's rate currently and lags far behind Clinton's. Trump has...
[02:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:14] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly, NCommander became a radio ham. I have a license, just never used it. When shit hits the fan, perhaps having a shortwave radio will allow one to communicate with the outside world.
[02:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:15] <exec> 08└─I would play this RPG.
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:17] <exec> 08└─so close, but so far try identifying the objective social force that you keep mislabeling as "khazar jews" the truth is out there: take a look, it's in a book!
[02:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:20] <exec> 08└─You might want to mod it silly. Cubicle creatures don't make policy, they don't make contingency plans, or whatever.
[02:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:22] <exec> 08└─Of course he's nuts. Just about half as nuts as the premise of TFS.
[02:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:24] <exec> 08└─More importantly, can I mod this whole topic "stupid" ? It's completely nonsensical conspiracy/panic/paranoid crap with no basis in potential reality
[02:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:26] <exec> 08└─More like 2019: the year the conspiracy theorists' worst nightmares came true. Remember when Echelon and Carnivore were just conspiracy theories? Sounds quaint these days. Except most of the conspiracy theorists are "Second Amendment people," and so they will do nothing, because it's "their guy" doi...
[02:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Acquisitions In 2018 To Impact 2019's Tech Landscape - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─A lot like the Urine Kits we were doing
[02:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Malmi Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:16] <exec> 08└─Probably because Marty's spell checker spit out Miami in stead of Malmi. Can't blame him though, the Admins have been busy with a server burnout. The real place: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Malmi Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:17] <exec> 08└─Element 115 has an official name now, it's called Moscovium [wikipedia.org], so there's no need to call it by that IMHO silly-sounding IUPAC systematic name.
[02:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:04] <exec> 08└─If this is passed, and it's toothy and obnoxious enough, a lot of sites may decide to go dark.
[02:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:05] <exec> 08└─Put the blame on the lawmakers Lawmakers don't care about people that don't vote for them. We have to go after the people that do. A bit more difficult maybe, but you have to go to the source. There is no hope for internet freedom while we are dependent on registrars and ISPs. They are the defacto g...
[02:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Demos a 4 TB Thumb Drive Prototype - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:56] <exec> 08└─Only if the US government wants to take over your anus in an national emergency...
[02:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Drug Trial Shows 'Impressive' Results - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:28] <exec> 08└─accidents are about 8% of deaths and suicides 2%.
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[03:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:34] <exec> 08└─I would like to take her seriously but she has two things going against her: She is a socialogist And she is a woman (I think)
[03:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:36] <exec> 08└─The environment takes a back seat. Look at the yellow jackets in France, that gas tax they're protesting would have been good for the environment.
[03:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:38] <exec> 08└─I have some amazing women working for me. They do a great job. While looking fabulous. And maybe there can be a little action happening there. What's not to like, right? I'll tell you what -- inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression "the weaker sex" was either very na...
[03:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:51] <exec> 08└─But it sure seems like some folks who should be outraged about this behavior are awful quiet...
[03:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:53] <exec> 08└─Modded "informative". I'm 62, and not even properly a "boomer". The baby boom began in 1945, and the elders among them are 74 years old. If we say that the boom lasted for ten years, the youngest among them are 64. That makes my boss the youngest of the boomers, and she is planning retirement, just...
[03:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:55] <exec> 08└─It just so happens that every person that is "under-performing", and paid too much over the median are "old." Its not that hard to make your company requirements require a young workforce. Will the free market figure this out?
[03:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:57] <exec> 08└─If we say that the boom lasted for ten years
[03:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:59] <exec> 08└─We hear lots of things. Boomers remember the fifties, and all the cool iconic stuff that happened during the fifties. About all that I accomplished during the fifties, was being weaned, learning to dress myself, and conning Grandma into buying and/or baking more cookies.
[03:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:39] <exec> 08└─Both parties are controlled by the Masters of the Universe
[03:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:40] <exec> 08└─THESE ARE THE EXACT SAME
[03:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, and nobody will show up at anyone's desk with guns to demand internet disruptions at gunpoint.
[03:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:45] <exec> 08└─I will hand over the hard drives, containing the dossiers I have prepared on Funky Monkey and all the other leftists on this site and elsewhere. Then, cooperate with the authorities by shutting down the internet. Then, I'll wander down to the latte shop, and watch as all those leftists are loaded ab...
[03:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:47] <exec> 08└─Then, I'll wander down to the latte shop, and watch as all those leftists are loaded aboard the FEMA buses, and the latte shops are boarded up.
[03:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:49] <exec> 08└─communicate with the outside world
[03:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:51] <exec> 08└─rolleyes No, I didn't say that I wanted to be inside of the latte shop - I just want to watch as they are boarded up. And, since I'm driving, I'll pass on the beer.
[03:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Acquisitions In 2018 To Impact 2019's Tech Landscape - 2213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:07] <exec> 08└─It wasn't Russian prostitutes. There may have been some Russian prostitutes doing it. Or, maybe not. Because anybody could do it. Anybody that had the money, that paid us the money. You paid us, we didn't judge. We never ever judged. You could be a prostitute or a politician and it was O.K. with us....
[03:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Malmi Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:44] <exec> 08└─But, historically, there is no fortress in Middle East which was not unconquered, so its future is most probably very bleak.
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[04:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, because the environment needs a bigger bank account. Or, the corrupt bastards who claim to be concerned with the environment need bigger bank accounts.
[04:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:39] <exec> 08└─So, you'd just like to take here, but not seriously?
[04:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:42] <exec> 08└─How many amazing women named Richard Fisher? Tyler Durden showed us how to deal with sleazy rich guys. You tie up their balls with a rubber band, and you cut them off with a pocket knife.
[04:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:44] <exec> 08└─And she is a woman (I think)
[04:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:46] <exec> 08└─I'm into all types of energy. But the wind & solar are highly overrated. People don't know this, the wind, the solar are causing tremendous problems for the environment. They're killing so many birds & bats. Arizona, you kill a Big long-nosed bat -- so beautiful -- if you shoot a bat, they put you i...
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[04:34:05] <exec> 08└─Boomers remember the fifties, and all the cool iconic stuff that happened during the fifties. About all that I accomplished during the fifties, was being weaned, learning to dress myself, and conning Grandma into buying and/or baking more cookies.
[04:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:51] <exec> 08└─And learn the Morse code.... So you can use "QRP" low power technology so you can communicate worldwide with like five watts of power. Humongous antennas and massive transmitted power will only attract woe to your house. In such a scenario, you will need to communicate " under the radar", settin...
[04:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:53] <exec> 08└─By the time all this goes down, you'll be using your NHTSA-branded driverless motor vehicle. Smoking cannabis or drinking alcohol during transit is mandatory.
[04:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:55] <exec> 08└─Its also a book called Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, it was terrible.
[04:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:57] <exec> 08└─I won't need to wok up my family because the communist lost in the Democratic primary
[04:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:59] <exec> 08└─When I was relegated from the lab to the cubicle, I found I no longer did much of anything. Its damn hard work to make a meaningful sounding report of the nothing I am getting done while I am dutifully at my desk, while my tools regain idle in the lab. The corporate name for this is "leadership", wh...
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[04:35:02] <exec> 08└─> teh generals If they are like former general kelly, they are so down with the white power agenda that they will lead the way. BTW, fox news is the officially designated news channel to be piped into public TVs on military bases. Its been that way for many years now. We should expect that a scary...
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[04:35:04] <exec> 08└─The population of Iran is right around 80 million. I don't recall 1/4 of the population of Iran invading our country with disregard for our laws. Iran sits over there and threatens to lob a nuke at our allies because we are bullying them. Iran, unlike North Korea, is a rational country that would no...
[04:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:06] <exec> 08└─Too bad if people think I'm a loon, but there's trouble ahead.
[04:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:08] <exec> 08└─For some reason, capitalists always have to be undermining and sniping at each other as well as the entire outside world, of course.
[04:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Malmi Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:02] <exec> 08└─of course it is! the loot of US wars' this past century is just sand!
[04:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:10] <exec> 08└─Or for those of us who prefer a more user-friendly/out-of-the-box distro with a big repo, PCLinuxOS.
[04:38:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Chrysler Settles for Fuel Emissions Cheating - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:58] <exec> 08└─ Oh, the proper processing of tags by code is a black art not programming
[04:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In VR Boys Learn Best When the Teacher is a Drone – Girls Learn Better from Virtual Marie - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:09] <exec> 08└─You'd be amazed how much morning exercise can help with even a pretty harsh case of ADHD. Less than an hour of physical activity in the morning has completely replaced all meds and their wonderful, exciting side effects for me. And it's actually a bit more effective than they were. No placebo going...
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[05:33:51] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but no, short term thinking is definitely not our biggest mental problem. Even the article implicitly admits that if there is an increase in short term thinking, it is more a product of our current social environment than an innate property of our minds or instincts. For instance, in th...
[05:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:53] <exec> 08└─Fight Club, I saw that one. But, I wish I hadn't. Very sad, very violent film. That one caused so much damage to so many folks, mentally. As anyone can tell from reading your Tweet. And we have so many films like that coming out of Hollywood, out of Canada (foes) -- many places. Making our children...
[05:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:55] <exec> 08└─As a devoted father and grandfather, I can honestly say I spend rather a lot of time thinking about various terms of 'the future'. It is not a pleasant pastime. Don't know about you but there are no "Truthful News" or "Long-Term Analysis" options in my newsfeed. Trying to filter the equivalents from...
[05:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:57] <exec> 08└─Economical prices for energy advance technology and civilization. The only way the gas tax would be good for the environment would be if the people the tax kills are turned into fertilizer.
[05:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:59] <exec> 08└─No wonder wicked problems like climate change or inequality feel so hard to tackle right now.
[05:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:14] <exec> 08└─Oh, and nobody will show up at anyone's desk with guns to demand internet disruptions at gunpoint.
[05:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:16] <exec> 08└─The madness you elected (and yes, reelected) is about to show its true face... You let your own denials blind you, and here we are. Not good...
[05:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:57] <exec> 08└─No, just the right to participate in it if you so choose. Like how I'm making you look silly instead of banning you, for example.
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[05:38:19] <exec> 08└─-fstack-clash-protection is only available in gcc 8, which is way too new to be available in most stable distributions.
[05:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Drug Trial Shows 'Impressive' Results - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:23] <exec> 08└─They are old cells that have become non-functional. They don't perform the function they are designed to do.
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[06:33:53] <exec> 08└─we tend to use up resources without making provisions for kids, grandkids, or descendants 1000 years into the future.
[06:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:14] <exec> 08└─Well aren't you an obvious a "Me"-lennial! I don't think you'll be so pragmatic or unsympathetic when you get turfed from your job when you turn 52.
[06:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrysler Settles for Fuel Emissions Cheating - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:29] <exec> 08└─You wish. And I wish. We'd like that to be true. But, it's not true. Cosby is doing time. O.J. did 9 years. Rae Carruth of the Panthers did a lot of time. El Chapo, very big drug guy, was very highly rated by Forbes -- now I have him locked up. NO PARDON for that one, his family was very rude to me...
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[06:44:22] <exec> 08└─The February 2019 edition of Life Extension magazine covers the JAMA report on the combination of quercetin and dasatnib. Life Extension notes that dasatnib might possibly be replaced with black tea extract, at lower cost and lower risk of toxicity.
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[07:33:38] <exec> 08└─Both links point to the same article
[07:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:39] <exec> 08└─Fixed. Plus, archive links added (Chronicle of Higher Education is down for maintenance).
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[07:33:41] <exec> 08└─The unspoken reason: It's a profit center. The college's donors are paying for it. Which donors? Money launderers for foreign psychological warfare departments. Reminder: there was near zero [catbox.moe] discussion of "privilege" and "microaggressions" and all that stuff in 2011, even on far left co...
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[07:33:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[07:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:05] <exec> 08└─We need an open source database of IP address assignment. I'm going to block all EU IP addresses from my website if this passes.
[07:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:06] <exec> 08└─But then beware of travelling anywhere in EU.
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[08:33:40] <exec> 08└─When a gay couple wants to buy a cake, how would the world react to them being banned from all forms of digital payment? There are certain types of business where you should have no control over who can use your service.
[08:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah but, what if it was a gay nazis for jesus with a picture of mohamed cake?
[08:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:53] <exec> 08└─This could really backfire on Portland State. As a higher education institution they should consider which actions serves the pursuit of truth and which do not. But hey, it's in Portland, OR so we all know the brakes broke on their crazy train about 10 years ago.
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[08:36:40] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. I knew my coworkers are out to get me.
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[09:33:41] <exec> 08└─Masterpiece Cakeshop, that one went to SC. And SC said, he doesn't have to bake that cake. And Justice Kennedy said, maybe in another case where things are a little different, it can go the other way. But, I replaced Justice Kennedy. And I'm getting ready to replace Justice Ginsberg. MAGA!!
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[09:33:42] <exec> 08└─Let's punch one!
[09:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking about the bakery. People talk about going to a cashless society, but then want to be able to control who is allowed to spend money based on their beliefs. There is no law that requires you to like your customers.
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[09:33:47] <exec> 08└─That also tells volumes about independence of cryptocurrencies from the state.
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[10:33:36] <exec> 08└─I doubt that a tank of that size using cold gas only could hover a car for more than a handful of seconds.
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[10:33:38] <exec> 08└─Magic?
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[10:33:51] <exec> 08└─Who cares? I saw a bunch of nazi bullshit propaganda torrents on The Pirate Bay [thepiratebay10.org]. Go get it, racist scumbags. So it's not like the scum don't have a way to distribute their hateful ideology. But again, who cares? The racist/anti-semitic/misogynistic assholes will find a new plac...
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[10:33:52] <exec> 08└─First, activists smear their opponents by calling them all racists and misogynists, usually without any evidence or even with made-up evidence. Then they start campaigns to have these horrible racists and misogynists deplatformed and deprived of income. Such campaigns do occasionally target some rea...
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[10:33:54] <exec> 08└─Agreed. For anyone who doesn't care because they don;t like the alt-right (I must say, I don't like them), keep in mind that in the crazy world today there's no telling what sort of speech may fall into disfavor tomorrow. It's not much of a stretch to imagine financial institutions deciding they don...
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[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─Not the aristarchus submission I would have pulled onto the front page! But then, I am not an editor, and they have weird and unpredictable ways.
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[10:34:08] <exec> 08└─There is one option: murder the people putting them through the disciplinary hearing. Torture those people to death. Burn them alive on a breaking wheel after smashing their bones. This is what men used to do to enemies.
[10:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:10] <exec> 08└─By publishing these outlandish hoax papers, they've demonstrated that at best, the journals' peer review process is a joke. At worst, the entire field is devoid of scientific merit. Looking at the non-hoax papers, I tend to lean toward this conclusion. So what can they do? They obviously have no arg...
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[10:34:12] <exec> 08└─Most conservative faculty only have their position by being related to someone with political pull. Almost none can claim competence in their field. Some got Kock appointments, by having Huge Kocks, but usually Bob Doles have to have medical assistance for that. So I just want to say, it is not disc...
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[10:34:54] <exec> 08└─And in case you didn't get the memo, medical care is very expensive in USA, and getting crappier by the year too
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[10:35:52] <exec> 08└─You're listening. Maybe you've gone to my MAGA Rallies. Maybe you saw my Tuesday night Address on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fake News CNN, MSNBC, Fox News or Fox Business -- I remember that you tweeted about the tremendous ratings for that show, very big with the 18-49 demo. And, you almost get it. But, you do...
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[10:35:54] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly, NCommander became a radio ham.
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[10:36:11] <exec> 08└─Redhat has achieved "governance" over the Linux(TM), via systemd and the Code of Conduct. You, contributors, are now treated as employees. They are confident that you will not assert your property rights, since you attack those who do (See: Netfiter saga), and take it as an honour to sign documents...
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[11:33:37] <exec> 08└─Musk gets off by tossing "outrageous" ideas to the media and then watching the commotion, like chucking a fish into a pool of seals at the zoo. The media lap it up because it's s story, whichever way you take it. I'm just waiting for Musk idolatry to go out of fashion.
[11:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:38] <exec> 08└─someone mixed up his dosing? Macro/micro.. only one letter..
[11:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:40] <exec> 08└─He do like his cocaine.
[11:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:42] <exec> 08└─As a former HVAC guy, I know exactly what you're talking about. Hell, anyone who's ever used a can of compressed air to blow the dust out of their computer should. On the other hand though, think of the potato guncannon you could mount on the hood if you used that thing as your pressure vessel.
[11:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:59] <exec> 08└─keep in mind that in the crazy world today there's no telling what sort of speech may fall into disfavor tomorrow.
[11:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:00] <exec> 08└─You said cake. But you were talking about the money. And I knew you were talking about the money. And, I think everybody knew that. I don't speak for everybody. Unfortunately. But, I think they knew. They knew, I'm almost certain. The money. Does anyone remember WikiLeaks? They put out those very in...
[11:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:02] <exec> 08└─Have you heard that poem, do you remember the poem? "First they came for the Nazis. And I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Nazi."
[11:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:05] <exec> 08└─But you won't send SoylentNews $20 to subscribe?
[11:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:07] <exec> 08└─You made a Gift Sub, you put it in the Subs Queue. Thinking, "oh, they'll Torpedo this one, like so many others." Well, they didn't Torpedo it. They let it sail right through, very smoothly. But, you're unhappy. Very difficult person!!!!
[11:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:09] <exec> 08└─>But you won't send SoylentNews $20 to subscribe? I might. But so far it seems I can have my comments modded "troll" entirely for free. But in any case, this is off topic.
[11:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:24] <exec> 08└─You forgot about the lamentation of their people who identify as women.
[11:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:25] <exec> 08└─For another example of this, see the latest developments in the Wilfred-Laurier case: https://globalnews.ca [globalnews.ca] [globalnews.ca] Couldn't get the videos on that page to play. Took a bit of searching, but for those interested i...
[11:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:54] <exec> 08└─What about VPN users?
[11:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:55] <exec> 08└─Just disable comments from anywhere in the EU. Done. Easy. Move on.
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[12:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:48] <exec> 08└─It's like he got a wish from the Genie in the Bottle. Barbara Eden. And he says, "oh, I want a Flying Car." Could have said Carpet, a lot of folks would say Carpet, he said Car. And the Genie didn't ask, "how high?" Or, "for how long?" It's not the best magic. But it's still magic. Like magic.
[12:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─The new Tesla will use the thermoelectric effect between the environment and the cold compressed air tank to generate electricity and charge the battery.
[12:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:13] <exec> 08└─Well, you don't really need to use Square's Cash App to transmit bitcoins. And of course as soon as you try to exchange bitcoins for state-issued money, the state gets involved. As long as as you stay in bitcoin, all you need is the ability of connecting to the bitcoin network. Of course in principl...
[12:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:31] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The journals have ONE job. To filter the bullshit so that the precious time of academics is not lost on irrelevant stuff. They failed and fail and will fail because there are too many stakes against them from multiple parties. The behaviour of the uni is wrong on two levels 1. They shoot the...
[12:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:32] <exec> 08└─Also, murder trolls who deflect and paint the skeptics as a bunch of Nazis with pitchforks.
[12:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Malmi Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:08] <exec> 08└─opium to fund the mex fence
[12:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:03] <exec> 08└─Not a worry. I can't think of anything over there worth the bother of international travel.
[12:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:26] <exec> 08└─Okay, curious, where's the nigger reference in there?
[12:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:28] <exec> 08└─"collide [duckduckgo.com]"?!?!? that doesn't sound good!
[12:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:30] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your bug report. We here at systemD central think that you are a poopy head with a need for a brain swap. Please soak your head in vinegar. And Have A Nice Day.
[12:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, great, so this is Year Of The Linux Desktop where Linux is just like Windows When do we get built in advertising?
[12:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:34] <exec> 08└─What I hear you saying is that RedHat is unstable. Now it's been sold, I have absolutely no doubt.
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[13:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:33] <exec> 08└─Who is Bryan Cantrell, what is HN, who is merging EULAs and what is a copyright Frankenlicense? Anyone can produce software with any license they like, if I don't use the software, it has no impact on me. If, in this case, I might be using the software, then it could be worth telling me what softwar...
[13:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:35] <exec> 08└─I can't really see why the term FOSS is being mentioned at all in conjunction with the Confluent Community License (https://www.confluent.io/confluent-community-license ). The license clearly restricts user freedom in that it doesn't allow the user to use the software to create any online service th...
[13:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:37] <exec> 08└─I will let others weigh in on the Open Source Definition, but this Frankenlicense, as they call it, is certainly not Free-Software-Foundation-style Free Software. It contains this clause Licensee is not granted the right to, and Licensee shall not, exercise the License for an Excluded Purpose. For p...
[13:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:39] <exec> 08└─Bryan Cantrell is the author of the linked article. He is apparently some sort of software developer, but that seems largely irrelevant. HN is an abbreviation for HackerNews, a well known and popular software and technology discussion site (in case that question was not rhetorical). The summary make...
[13:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:41] <exec> 08└─In the journal of ~fyngyrz there's the very special cyber for, someone writes "WTF, EULA FOSS HN AFAICT" and you don't know what it means. But, you touch it and this cyber tells you.
[13:34:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sigterm [849] 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 1728 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:09] <exec> 08└─First, activists smear their opponents by calling them all racists and misogynists, usually without any evidence or even with made-up evidence. Then they start campaigns to have these horrible racists and misogynists deplatformed and deprived of income. Such campaigns do occasionally target some rea...
[13:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:19] <exec> 08└─Where are people who love freedom from oppression going to go to build the next meritrocracy? Seasteading and outer space seem like the only options. Maybe this time it can get done without bringing along baggage like human chattle too? Also, never forget that money in the bank/market is not yours....
[13:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:20] <exec> 08└─Nicely put. Opposed to censorship doesn't mean you are especially friendly to whackos, it means you are consistently neutral. GAB is just a more polite Twitter without the arbitrary enforcement and impossible to manage volumes of frothing spittle flying cray cray for me. YMMV depending on what chann...
[13:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:23] <exec> 08└─No joy for wswswsws [wsws.org]: The American payment-processing corporation PayPal has blocked sales of the World Socialist Web Site pamphlet, The Struggle Against Imperialism and for Workers' Power in Iran [mehring.com]. The effective banning of the sale of a book represents a dangerous new stage i...
[13:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:25] <exec> 08└─Only an alt-right site would promote a racist book like that.
[13:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 3470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:44] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of slippage of "they" in this comment. The "they" meaning "journal editors" is not necessarily the same as the "they" in the case of an individual college's administration, which has responsibility over the integrity of their school. Look, first of all, I am all in favor of stuff like...
[13:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:45] <exec> 08└─Also, this is a bit implicit in what I wrote -- but I do think the ethics of making up data in hoax articles is a little sketchy. It's one thing to write a BS article that just makes a theoretical argument -- or at least pretends to (as Sokal did). It's quite a different thing to bolster that argume...
[13:35:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 779 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:02] <exec> 08└─As a devoted father and grandfather, I can honestly say I spend rather a lot of time thinking about various terms of 'the future'. It is not a pleasant pastime. Don't know about you but there are no "Truthful News" or "Long-Term Analysis" options in my newsfeed. Trying to filter the equivalents from...
[13:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:08] <exec> 08└─Someone disagrees? I guarantee that species/cultures who put concerns about what happens in 1k years ahead of immediate survival will be outcompeted by those that dont.
[13:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think you'll be so pragmatic or unsympathetic when you get turfed from your job when you turn 52.
[13:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:31] <exec> 08└─Not even wrong. I doubt you even know what capitalism actually is. Capitalism has simply run out of places to expand to.
[13:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clamshell PDA Running Android/Linux or GNU/Linux - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:57] <exec> 08└─On everything. Android is pretty stable now but had a lot of issues at first that arent all resolved, and when I tried the community-developed version of Sailfish 2.x, it was excellent (but I haven't tried 3 yet, which is supposed to have full support from Jolla). Linux though, is stuck on an old an...
[13:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:49] <exec> 08└─Feel free to run old software if that floats your boat. Runit, OpenRC and SysVinit had their growing pains too. https://nvd.nist.gov [nist.gov] https://nvd.nist.gov [nist.gov] https://nvd.nist.gov [nist.gov] https://nvd.n...
[13:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chrysler Settles for Fuel Emissions Cheating - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:03] <exec> 08└─Volkswagen and Chrysler don't get to pick and choose what laws they feel like ignoring.
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[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:56] <exec> 08└─You think he won't have the tank insulated? Dealing with cold isn't exactly rocket science, which Musk also does, BTW ;) My guess is he is just going to have a Roadster converted in to a form of hovercraft, which if Musk is tweeting about it should at least be feasible, though I doubt the practicali...
[14:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:57] <exec> 08└─Only now it's in mm instead of m
[14:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:00] <exec> 08└─Real hovercraft use gobs of energy to maintain an air cushion under the vehicle. I just can't see an air jet system being at all practical. Airplanes do better, but still take lots of energy. Balloons and magnetic levitation are about the only ways to get off the ground cheap, and the latter can be...
[14:34:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:15] <exec> 08└─Agreed. For anyone who doesn't care because they don;t like the alt-right (I must say, I don't like them), keep in mind that in the crazy world today there's no telling what sort of speech may fall into disfavor tomorrow. It's not much of a stretch to imagine financial institutions deciding they don...
[14:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:28] <exec> 08└─keep in mind that in the crazy world today there's no telling what sort of speech may fall into disfavor tomorrow.
[14:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:29] <exec> 08└─Being gay is not a choice. Being a disgusting nazi racist mysoginist piece of shit is. Civilized societies do not discriminate against things people have no control over, like gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, etc. Civilized societies DO however discriminate against things civilization have...
[14:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 2724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:51] <exec> 08└─>And you know the article that got the most attention? The one that raised >concerns in the Wall Street Journal that led the authors to give up the hoax >early? It was an article with ACTUAL DATA. FAKE DATA. > >You can say what you will about the BS in many humanities journals, but this >article got...
[14:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:52] <exec> 08└─The unspoken reason: It's a profit center. The college's donors are paying for it.
[14:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:54] <exec> 08└─data that is not surprising or outlandish mind you
[14:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:17] <exec> 08└─It is rational to leave concerns like this until more immediate problems are dealt with.
[14:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:19] <exec> 08└─This is a mere oversimplification. What about this: elites, whoever they are, know that subjects can be kept under control by depriving them of resources, most importantly time and money. Once you got the bottom layers to scramble for money and time, you own them. But one can say it's just another P...
[14:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:21] <exec> 08└─You are trying to compare delaying consumption within your own lifetime to 1000 years (100-500 generations) in the future. Since no one knows what will happen in berween or what the world will be like then, it makes no sense to spend energy on such speculations unless all more pressing issues have b...
[14:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Malmi Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:38] <exec> 08└─Malmi wasnt in the orginal title either though.
[14:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guarded Warehouse near Malmi Airport and Mysterious Cargoes from Baghdad; US Embassy in Helsinki - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:39] <exec> 08└─In the days of reverse engineered alien flying saucer anti-gravity drives and the forthcoming Rapture it was still called ununpentium.
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[15:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:48] <exec> 08└─While of course I haven't read TFA the issue at hand is not a simple Free or Open Source License, but a freedom-preventing license that _claims_ to be a Free or Open Source license but is not. You can't go far wrong if you use a license picked _specifically_ from the OSI approved ones, or the FSF's...
[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:50] <exec> 08└─To paraphrase this license: You may use the software unless and until there is some chance that you might make money from it. When you start to make money, we want it back. If you've improved our software while using it, we want the improvements as well. Feel free to do anything you like with our so...
[15:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:37] <exec> 08└─To do so requires a vast heap of regulatory compliance. In the case of Coinbase, they have Money Transfer Licenses in all fifty states, with cash balances being kept in FDIC-Insured Bank Trust Accounts.
[15:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:38] <exec> 08└─At least 800,000 Muslim Uyghurs are tormented - and often tortured or even killed - in China's concentration camps, possibly as many as three million. The World Socialist Web went on a visit then cheerfully reported that the Uyghurs are "learning Chinese laws". I used to actually read the World Soci...
[15:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:40] <exec> 08└─Some people just dont "get" why america worked
[15:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:43] <exec> 08└─one of the highest infant mortality rate.
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:45] <exec> 08└─MasterCard and other companies banned people from giving money to Wikileaks, for example.
[15:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe the payment processors just dont want them or their kids eaten in the next great communist inspired famine.
[15:35:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 533 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:04] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The journals have ONE job. To filter the bullshit so that the precious time of academics is not lost on irrelevant stuff. They failed and fail and will fail because there are too many stakes against them from multiple parties. The behaviour of the uni is wrong on two levels 1. They shoot the...
[15:35:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 3470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:06] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of slippage of "they" in this comment. The "they" meaning "journal editors" is not necessarily the same as the "they" in the case of an individual college's administration, which has responsibility over the integrity of their school. Look, first of all, I am all in favor of stuff like...
[15:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:12] <exec> 08└─There's a damn good reason there are at least two buildings here which have large murals reading "KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD". At least when I contemplated attending UCB, Berkeley had actually swung quite far to the right. At the time, Portland was _highly_ conservative but then all those leftie big-city c...
[15:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:14] <exec> 08└─>In sum, the authors falsified data. And the fact that they falsified >data gave that article a greater weight, which led to more attention, >which eventually led to the hoax being exposed. No. You should read up on this again. The hoax was NEVER exposed by any of the journals.
[15:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─WTF, typos getting worse and worse on mobile, trying new keyboard now.
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─Run for office. Make the world a better place. One jurisdiction at a time.
[15:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─History repeats. This is the roaring 20s all over again. At the end is a war and a huge global recession. Care to place a bet who will cause it this time?
[15:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:46] <exec> 08└─Hows this one? I am using an new keyboard, have the typos improved? Tetng sentence number 2.
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:48] <exec> 08└─I misread that as "short term terrorism" and so was expecting something about the middle east et al. I give it 1 horse out of 4. Disappointed. May read again.
[15:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:51] <exec> 08└─You are trying to compare delaying consumption within your own lifetime to 1000 years (100-500 generations) in the future.
[15:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:53] <exec> 08└─Wtf? Quote one thing you mentioned that wasn't a benefit to you within your own lifetime. The entire point is you have a much better idea of the circumstances within 30 years than 1000 years. "Thanks for playing"... Hilarious.
[15:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:55] <exec> 08└─If it made you feel lied to, you need to give it pinocchios, not horses. Watch that meeting between trump and schumer where schumer totally burns trump by telling him the Washington post gave him four pinnochios. Then the red cult got back at the blue cult by telling one of their reporter guys in pu...
[15:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:18] <exec> 08└─But unlike AC, I not only started a business, but that business does _only_ coding for which age and experience is actually valued: drivers and embedded. I far prefer GUI, but only kids can get GUI work these days. I was constantly dismayed to be interviewed at mobile startups by hiring managers you...
[15:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:19] <exec> 08└─Yes they've got those high taxes to pay for what they too called Medicare. You know: For All. But in the US, most salaried employees and many hourly ones get employer-paid health insurance that actually costs quite a lot _more_ than those Canadian Medicare taxes. Those costs are passed on to consume...
[15:36:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:43] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A [wikipedia.org] That was 16 years ago. But they don't necessarily have to cooperate with the companies.
[15:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─The people with the guns would only come if I refused.
[15:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:22] <exec> 08└─No, no, he meant to wok up the family - http://footage.framepool.com [framepool.com]
[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:24] <exec> 08└─this faint whiff of potential hypocrisy
[15:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─Will you just stop tickling my fuzzy balls? Sometimes, it's hard enough to think. While you tickle my balls, it's impossible to think. How 'bout if I just hand some fuzzy balls from the rear view mirror and you can play with those? https://i.pinimg.com
[15:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:18] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you are well aware that he Internet is international. Users are identified by their IP addresses. It is often difficult for a web site to tell if a specific user is in your jurisdiction or not. If you wish to make a law that applies to Internet users or web sites in your jurisdiction, then...
[15:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Union Article 13 is Almost Final - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:19] <exec> 08└─There is no hope for internet freedom while we are dependent on registrars and ISPs. They are the defacto government enforcers. Our only hope is a long way off, but not impossible.
[15:40:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:35] <exec> 08└─Bugs far more severe have been found in every layer, from the kernel upwards, of every general purpose operating system. They get fixed.
[15:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:51] <exec> 08└─The correct answer.
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[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers, Zoologists Reveal how Gulls 'Wing Morph' for Stable Soaring: Wind-Tunnel Testing of Gull - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:36] <exec> 08└─How come only the "engineers" and "zoologists" get credit for this study? Not a single gull is in the author list or even acknowledgements.
[16:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─"But, you touch it and this cyber tells you." Or, "But, you touch it and you have to defend yourself in court."
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─He is breaking the conditioning by preparing the public for anti-grav. But the CIA will kill him for it.
[16:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─It's going to be a lot of fun to watch his final mental collapse, the timing of which is only a question of IF rather than a question of WHEN. Oh, and fuck all you Musk worshippers. You're all a bunch of cock-gobbling losers.
[16:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:13] <exec> 08└─A full auto potato cannon instead of a horn. I like it.
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─How does he plan to deal with all the eels?
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─Is it possible - stay with me here - that Musk is talking about some innovation in the car's suspension system and not the fact that it's actually going to be a hovercraft? I mean, he's clearly high as a fucking kite, but I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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[16:34:34] <exec> 08└─keep in mind that in the crazy world today there's no telling what sort of speech may fall into disfavor tomorrow.
[16:34:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:38] <exec> 08└─You made a Gift Sub, you put it in the Subs Queue. Thinking, "oh, they'll Torpedo this one, like so many others." Well, they didn't Torpedo it. They let it sail right through, very smoothly. But, you're unhappy. Very difficult person!!!!
[16:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:54] <exec> 08└─Civilized societies DO however discriminate against things civilization have been trying for centuries to eradicate, like slavery, tyranny, misogyny, sodomy, kikery, adultery, premarital sex, war, abortion, barbarism, negro savagery, impiousness, hatred and bloodshed. That's the whole fucking point...
[16:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:55] <exec> 08└─And how do civilized societies progress? By free speech.
[16:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─It started with a concerted, deliberate extermination campaign of those who were already there to steal their land, followed by a bloody, violent independance war. Those who worked the hardest to develop the land were slaves.
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:59] <exec> 08└─So cancer cells are no more prosperous than a person is prosperous because they are mortally obese.
[16:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:02] <exec> 08└─Now, that's insightful! ;)
[16:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:04] <exec> 08└─Originally, in your analogy cancer cells appeared to be "the best". Now they are simultaneously "fat, ugly, and in poor health": the cancer cells in his body are the most prosperous, fastest growing, well fed and oxygenated cells of all. Would you then say that becoming cancerous is the most succesf...
[16:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:06] <exec> 08└─Germany has a far-right party called the AfD.
[16:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:32] <exec> 08└─I personally know someone who was active on a far left college campus in 2011. There was a lot of discussion of privilege, and the checking thereof, and the nature of privilege in determining complicity in, or victimisation by, various forms of bigotry. If you think that this cropped up in the last...
[16:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:33] <exec> 08└─I didn't look up the actual letter [amazonaws.com] this prof received until now. Read it. It is very clear from the description of the authors' project (as I read in their press releases and articles about it) that they intended this to be a somewhat systematic investigation into journals in particu...
[16:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:35] <exec> 08└─Cancel their Square account.
[16:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:38] <exec> 08└─So what's the answer? Let the big west coast cities secede from the states that contain them? The remainders of Washington, Oregon and probably California would turn blood red in a hot minute. (For those trying to keep count, that would include the greater Seattle conurbation (Tacoma/Everett/Redmond...
[16:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─Here are some snowflakes with experience rooting out infiltration by GPU and FBI assets [wsws.org]. Daniel Golden’s Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and foreign intelligence secretly exploit America’s universities [wsws.org]: Basing himself on extensive journalistic research, Golden shows that the...
[16:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:42] <exec> 08└─For those who want to separate out politics and want to know what the university might be ethically and legally REQUIRED to do in this circumstances, I just found a much better article [nymag.com] that involves interviews with those in human-subject research, IRBs, etc. Bottom line from that link: F...
[16:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:44] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to let New York University (per this link) and University of South Florida, Tampa (per link further up) secede. NYU’s Washington DC campus: Academia aligns with the Department of Defense [wsws.org] See also New York University: A center of militarism, mass surveillance and censorship:...
[16:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 3248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:46] <exec> 08└─>But there are serious ethical issues here. You're being >blinded from them because you like the outcome. You're not wrong about my position regarding the outcome of this hoax, but you are incorrect regarding my stance on the ethical side of the issue. The problem Boghossian et al is trying to draw...
[16:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:21] <exec> 08└─You really have a problem with comprehension here. I suggest re-reading. Slowly. I'll leave you to it. Or not, as you choose. -- I have neither the time or the crayons to explain.
[16:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─Let's go one by one then: the easiest to understand is the use of interest bearing loans, such as credit cards, mortgages, etc. Borrowing funds, I would use up more of my financial resources getting something today than I would if I can simply wait to get it in the future. The end result is that I w...
[16:37:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 1090 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:08] <exec> 08└─More like 2019: the year the conspiracy theorists' worst nightmares came true. Remember when Echelon and Carnivore were just conspiracy theories? Sounds quaint these days. Except most of the conspiracy theorists are "Second Amendment people," and so they will do nothing, because it's "their guy" doi...
[16:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airpods can be used to spy - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:06] <exec> 08└─Uh ... these are *Apple* microphones. It's different.
[16:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airpods can be used to spy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:07] <exec> 08└─They're probably talking about the person with those Q-Tips stuck in their ears all day.
[16:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clamshell PDA Running Android/Linux or GNU/Linux - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:27] <exec> 08└─Damn that really sucks. It looked superficially like the ideal pocket device. I really liked the idea of running pure Linux on such a thing so I'm not liking the fact that's based on Android too. :(
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[17:33:43] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[17:33:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sigterm [849] 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 1558 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:51] <exec> 08└─I can't really see why the term FOSS is being mentioned at all in conjunction with the Confluent Community License (https://www.confluent.io/confluent-community-license ). The license clearly restricts user freedom in that it doesn't allow the user to use the software to create any online service th...
[17:33:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:53] <exec> 08└─I will let others weigh in on the Open Source Definition, but this Frankenlicense, as they call it, is certainly not Free-Software-Foundation-style Free Software. It contains this clause Licensee is not granted the right to, and Licensee shall not, exercise the License for an Excluded Purpose. For p...
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─Bryan Cantrill is an ex-employee of Sun microsystems, one of the primary authors of dtrace and one of the people responsible for getting Solaris open-sourced as OpenSolaris. He's one of the giants of the free software world, has done far more than most for championing free software, and is a highly-...
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 4797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not a lawyer, but I suppose you could consider me a paralegal as I have (some) experience with the legal system. First, these contracts of adhesion are sometimes enforced, such as in warranty agreements, where you seek a benefit from the contract. I.e. the warranty. In other cases, they have not...
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─Since the concept of Open Source was split off from Free Software by commercial entities for commercial purposes, I'd say that if you can read the code, it counts as Open Source. I definitely agree that this doesn't make it Free Software. Now you need to parse FOSS. Is it a union of Free Software a...
[17:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─"Public domain" has become rather iffy as copyright laws have changed. I don't think you can explicitly put things into public domain, at least not reliably in all jurisdictions. That's the reason things like the "artistic license" and the "MIT license" were developed. One thing that public domain r...
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─Open Source and Free Software are a bit different. Open Source lacks one guarantee of free software: The ability to modify the software on the device it is installed on. Every other freedom of "Free Software" is required to be "Open Source". E.g. a device with a signed bootloader which you cannot re...
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─P.S. The "Open Source" community split from the Free Software community regarding a difference of how to treat locked down devices. In the opinion of Linus Torvalds and other "Open Source" advocates, a device maker should be able to cryptographically sign a software image they make, and create a dev...
[17:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─My guess is that it only *would* work for seconds at a time, but that the engine would re-pressurize the system fairly quickly. There are times when "seconds" would suffice, and, as was noted above, while the car is "flying" there's no propulsion (unless the gas stream is angled, and then it's not v...
[17:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:36] <exec> 08└─Musk has other people do the rocket science for him. Considering that he can't figure out how to assemble the cars in a cost effective manner and the so-called autopilot feature will happily run cars into stationary objects, I'm sure as hell not going to trust these tanks to be appropriately enginee...
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[17:34:38] <exec> 08└─He *is* an egomaniac. Not sure about the "nutcase" part. Some of his ideas, however, work out. Some even make money. But I bet he's got *LOTS* of ideas that never get off the drawing board...and this is likely to be one of them. A few years ago nobody would have heard if he'd come out with one of th...
[17:35:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:16] <exec> 08└─It started with a concerted, deliberate extermination campaign of those who were already there to steal their land, followed by a bloody, violent independance war. Those who worked the hardest to develop the land were slaves.
[17:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:22] <exec> 08└─"I could go on and on" and i'd be here 'listening'! Please... go on.... I love insightful viewpoints.
[17:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:24] <exec> 08└─What flavor cake, and does it have rainbow frosting?
[17:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─Aren't there "religious freedom laws" that allow de facto discrimination based on a customer's failure to meet the proprietor's litmus test of religiosity (e.g., the cake bakery)? If the financial institutions share a belief that "hate groups are bad" can't they use that litmus test to decide who th...
[17:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:28] <exec> 08└─Being gay is not a choice. Being a disgusting nazi racist mysoginist piece of shit is.
[17:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:30] <exec> 08└─Have you heard that poem, do you remember the poem? "First they came for the Nazis. And I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Nazi."
[17:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 3195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:33] <exec> 08└─In order to punch Nazis, you must be a socialist, because then you will understand the objective, historical reasons why we punch Nazis. When we get Nazis, it is a clear sign that capitalism has run its course and is nearing the end of its curve of development [marxists.org]. The ruling classes prom...
[17:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:07] <exec> 08└─The problem Boghossian et al is trying to draw attention to, is the consistent de-emphasis on rigor and the scientific method
[17:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:08] <exec> 08└─If you want to understand why some people seem so predisposed to assume bad faith on PSU's part, and academia in general, check out collective narcissism. If you've ever had to deal with an individual with narcissistic personality disorder, it all makes so much sense. An NPD is always right, anyone...
[17:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:10] <exec> 08└─There are far more strip clubs per capita in Portland that _anywhere_ else in the world.
[17:36:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 1547 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:25] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but no, short term thinking is definitely not our biggest mental problem. Even the article implicitly admits that if there is an increase in short term thinking, it is more a product of our current social environment than an innate property of our minds or instincts. For instance, in th...
[17:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:47] <exec> 08└─There are many others that feel as you do. You deserve Insightfuls rather than merely Interestings but you're already at +5. You recognize some of the injustices and you feel compelled to do at least a little to try to improve the world. That already means you're far less of a problem than the malev...
[17:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Insists It's Not Deliberately Axing Older Staff. Internal Secret Docs State Otherwise... - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:12] <exec> 08└─Why would that happen?
[17:37:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:33] <exec> 08└─Almost all of those 31 do not qualify as "national emergency" in my book. The terminology is really suspect, and just a way for the Prez to go around the slow Congress. More importantly, can I mod this whole topic "stupid" ? It's completely nonsensical conspiracy/panic/paranoid crap with no basis in...
[17:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:18] <exec> 08└─You're joking, right? As a former dues-paying, card-carrying Libertarian, I think I know quite a bit about capitalism. Your argument is that even if masses of people are living in poverty, barely able to make ends meet, without access to medical care in first world countries that are experiencing ho...
[17:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:47] <exec> 08└─Dear lazy web, is Gentoo still a decent desktop without systemd?
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[18:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:40] <exec> 08└─Processor choice is important. Arm or risc to me is not the issue. What RPi needs is better Io. Usb to SATA for storage handling is a near failure now. 20MB per second gets you so far. Since that channel is shared by Ethernet and wireless and keyboard and mouse and ... anything else you want to conn...
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:42] <exec> 08└─Looking at the other fruit Pi. That offer more IO choices but not as main stream
[18:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:44] <exec> 08└─Just never could really get into them. Probably because I have a surfeit of old junkers that are far more capable I could hook to any given display device. Left one just sitting there powered up for six months and it toasted the SD card (probably the cheap SD card's fault but who knows, new card and...
[18:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:46] <exec> 08└─At $10 or even $5 for a bare computer, why not? But it's pretty bare-- no case, no storage, no cables, no power supply. By the time you add all that, a Pi costs $50. And that's with the old trick of "monitor not included", a tactic that's been used since the 1980s to make PCs seem cheaper. Still a g...
[18:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:48] <exec> 08└─It's possible that a 4th or 5th edition of RasPi would be more powerful than my current computers. If they released a RISC-V version, I would probably turn it into a dedicated Tor box (not TAILS, that doesn't even run on ARM). As for your existing pies, somebody has probably compiled a list of "10,0...
[18:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─The Pi isn't meant to be a general desktop replacement, and it would be fine if browsers didn't have so much overhead let alone the extra from video DRM.
[18:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─I had MycroftAI on mine, then tried to establish it as a media player (successful but slow, with Plex at least). Just need time again to put Mycroft back on. Downloaded the image but .... sigh.
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but if you read TFA, there are some troubling aspects. This software is available for you to clone via Git. One file somewhere in the repository is a license. Are you presumed to have accepted this license by cloning? In that sense, it's even worse than a click-through EULA. Also: The licen...
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─The open source initiative disagrees with you https://opensource.org [opensource.org] . Microsoft for a while tried to popularize the software you describe as "shared source" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:50] <exec> 08└─Yet another example.
[18:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:52] <exec> 08└─You know Donnie, if Musk can hover a car, mexicans can simply fly over your wall
[18:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:54] <exec> 08└─This was somewhat my initial thought also. The sideways wheels look like bumpers you might use going down the tunnel. Compressed gas to lift also seems crazy, but if you could manage just a very thin air cushion somehow in a highly controlled tunnel environment. Meh, still probably crazy sauce....
[18:35:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─When a gay couple wants to buy a cake, how would the world react to them being banned from all forms of digital payment? There are certain types of business where you should have no control over who can use your service.
[18:35:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking about the bakery. People talk about going to a cashless society, but then want to be able to control who is allowed to spend money based on their beliefs. There is no law that requires you to like your customers.
[18:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:45] <exec> 08└─I'd love to believe that the ctrl-left is also getting burned by censorship, but probably the issue is two words in the title. PayPal is prohibited from doing business in Iran. The title literally says "in Iran".
[18:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:46] <exec> 08└─In order to punch Nazis, you must be a socialist
[18:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:48] <exec> 08└─We must allow the Nazis a platform to spew their filth. Once we begin down the road of censorship of ideas, it is next to impossible to turn back. We will have become fascists ourselves! Control and falsification of information was one of the central corruptions of the Stalinist bureaucracy after th...
[18:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:51] <exec> 08└─You are my hero! Marry me and give birth to my pure anti-nazi child!
[18:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:53] <exec> 08└─Americans are exactly like cancer. They multiply indiscriminately
[18:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think you get it. Punching people we disagree with because we just can't stand letting their ideas fall on our virgin ears is the road to hell.
[18:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─A pack of lies that only seems true from within the warped view of right-wing ethno-nationalism. An injury to one is an injury to all. The "invaders" have more in common with white people in the working class in Germany and the United States than with any of the elites peddling the false promise of...
[18:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:00] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, the payment processors do not want their exorbitant wealth and disproportionate, anti-democratic, oligarchical control of society questioned. They have much in common with the Stalinist bureaucracy.
[18:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:02] <exec> 08└─Not the ctrl-left. The authentic left is being burned by censorship. The ctrl-left appears to have full support of the state apparatus to operate with impunity in academia. See Soylent's coverage of the Grievance Studies affair.
[18:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:39] <exec> 08└─The thing with guys like Boghossian is that they start out from a presumption of bad faith from the people they are opposed to (which in itself is problematic for a researcher, that's not a neutral viewpoint). And then they use that belief to justify acting in bad faith themselves. When that happens...
[18:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:41] <exec> 08└─>If the journals have no means to distinguish truth fro >bullshit, it also probably isn't science in the first place. Precisely, and that's not something either the journal editors or the professors or even the university administration are likely to admit anytime soon. "Turns out we've spent millio...
[18:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:19] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the main complaint of the gas tax is that it basically only hits regular people. Companies with large fleets have tons of exemptions and deductions they can take to basically eliminate it. When it would make more sense to levy this tax at operators of large vehicle fleets that can af...
[18:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:20] <exec> 08└─I hear you. I am weary in my bones also for the same reasons. But it is only ever determined individuals who make a difference. I've been involved in activism for a long time. At the center of every organization is one person with an iron will that others cluster around. In every public hearing on p...
[18:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clamshell PDA Running Android/Linux or GNU/Linux - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:26] <exec> 08└─My company made a wearable bio-monitor as an expander slot for the Visor, dot-com timeframe (obviously), biggest PITA was expanding the battery capacity of the Visor, their circuitry actively made that more difficult than necessary...
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[19:33:43] <exec> 08└─Bingo. I dont know why people cant get this thru their tiny minds.
[19:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:44] <exec> 08└─Do you like bananas?
[19:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─The Pi isn't meant to be a general desktop replacement
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:49] <exec> 08└─It could be used as a desktop replacement, depending on what software you're using and what you're doing with the web browser. Use adblock and script blocking in the browser like many here do, and that takes care of a lot of your problems. Raspberry Pi 4 will likely not be made on a 40nm process nod...
[19:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:51] <exec> 08└─Read enough forums about the Raspberry Pi and the general consensus is that the #1 advantage of RPi is community / critical mass. You have a question or a problem, it's likely already been discussed / solved / made searchable. Freakish computing power, no. Best design, no. Loads RAM or storage optio...
[19:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers, Zoologists Reveal how Gulls 'Wing Morph' for Stable Soaring: Wind-Tunnel Testing of Gull - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:01] <exec> 08└─Don't see how you get that -- he's pointing out the profit of an evolutionary adaptation. Airplanes morph their wings too, btw...just in a much coarser fashion.
[19:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers, Zoologists Reveal how Gulls 'Wing Morph' for Stable Soaring: Wind-Tunnel Testing of Gull - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:27] <exec> 08└─I agree that "Software which you can view the source code but without the required open source license is called \"source available\" or \"source viewable\" software", but based on experience I disagree with "never \"open source\"". You may feel that the terms *should* be used in the way that you de...
[19:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:59] <exec> 08└─Its entertaining. That is why.
[19:35:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─Some people just dont "get" why america worked
[19:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:59] <exec> 08└─Liberty is so foreign to us now we don't even really know what it is. From the comments, a good percentage of people happily cheerlead for authoritarianism and fascism. While calling themselves civilized and progressive. How adorable.
[19:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:01] <exec> 08└─This is just how it goes, whether your socialism is nationalist (Nazi) or globalist. People won't be good little socialists, sharing everything and accepting poverty, without a bit of slaughter. I have to admit, socialism's violence might be the only viable opposition to Islam's violence. So there's...
[19:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:03] <exec> 08└─No, that's not how it started.
[19:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:05] <exec> 08└─I used to actually read the World Socialist Web but for them to be such an enthusiastic promoter of epic-scale genocide really turned put me off.
[19:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:44] <exec> 08└─Sokal's "Transgressing the boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity"[1]
[19:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:45] <exec> 08└─And then they use that belief to justify acting in bad faith themselves. When that happens, they've moved out of the realm of research and into the realm of partisan advocacy. They became exactly what they imagine others to be.
[19:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:25] <exec> 08└─It is almost axiomatic that the insulting loudmouth is the one getting things wrong. Excellent points about short and looong term.
[19:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:27] <exec> 08└─Holy shit. I stopped looking at those bug links after the first one. As it turns out, that issue with OpenRC is expressly because OpenRC is currently being managed by a pro-systemd developer who's been relentlessly screwing it up in an attempt to make it more like systemd. That's why I, and many oth...
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[20:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─Where are all the stars, and why is it so bright on the supposed "dark side" of the moon?
[20:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:39] <exec> 08└─Re-Start the space race in earnest by claiming: All these moon belong to us
[20:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:42] <exec> 08└─All the Moons of Earth?
[20:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─The shadow direction changes as you go from one side of the image to the other. In fact, the shadows actually disappear in the middle, except for a convenient shadow directly underneath the rover. These "magic" shadows cannot possible occur with a single light source such as the sun! It can only ha...
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─"Putting this into units Soylentils are comfortable with, this is approximately 1049 Ice Hockey rinks across." or maybe a Zamboni analogy? :)
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─Getting to the Moon is difficult even if you have done it before. The image looks awesome and I hope the mission is productive.
[20:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:08] <exec> 08└─A Raspberry B - Used for secondary DNS and DHCP. This replaced a Windows box. A Raspberry B+ - used for an Amiga emulator.
[20:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:09] <exec> 08└─I agree that better designed SBCs exist. I personally like the ODROID products myself, with an ODROID-C2 next to me right now. I would also buy one of the ODROID's Intel powered H2 if it was on sale; I've migrated back to x86 after adopting Docker. However, the Raspberry Pi has always been more than...
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─3B with display and digital io card as squeezebox touch. 2B as Philips hue hub emulator Another 3B+ waiting for something to do with it. Probably garage door monitor. The benefit in all cases is the community, someone already did most of the work. I could do these projects from scratch, but that day...
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, I find Adblock absolutely essential on limited hardware such as older computers and Pis. Another performance trick I stumbled over was turning off the font aliasing and hinting. That makes no noticeable difference on modern hardware, but on something like a 133 MHz Pentium from the 1990s, it he...
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think you can explicitly put things into public domain, at least not reliably in all jurisdictions.
[20:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:22] <exec> 08└─We have the same in the political arena right now
[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my exact thought on hearing this announcement is "this motherfucker is high as balls." That or his up to 120 hour work weeks (IIRC) have finally worn down his sanity.
[20:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─The thing a hovering car can't do is brake or maneuver quickly enough for roads.
[20:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:28] <exec> 08└─Hunter didn't Tweet under the influence. Maybe he crapped under the influence... i dunno...could be the same thing. :)
[20:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:30] <exec> 08└─He'll get the Mexicans to pay for a moat with sharks with FREAKING LASERS!
[20:35:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 469 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:59] <exec> 08└─Being gay is not a choice. Being a disgusting nazi racist mysoginist piece of shit is. Civilized societies do not discriminate against things people have no control over, like gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, etc. Civilized societies DO however discriminate against things civilization have...
[20:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:33] <exec> 08└─A twisted interpretation of history. As has been said a million times, if the NSDAP is a socialist party, then the DPRK is run by a democratic party and the PRC is run by a republican party. Hitler, Kim, and Mao do not represent socialist, democratic, or republican tendencies. You also smear the bil...
[20:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:34] <exec> 08└─When a gay couple wants to buy a cake, how would the world react to them being banned from all forms of digital payment?
[20:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:37] <exec> 08└─If it looks like a Nazi, walks like a Nazi, and quacks like a Nazi ...
[20:37:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06The Perils of Short-Termism: Civilisation's Greatest Threat - 526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, but ... In the 1920's and earlier people expected to near future to be pretty similar to the present. They weren't always right, but they were usually right. Today that's a very bad bet. When I went to college, I didn't worry about whether the specialties I was training for would still be neede...
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[21:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well done to the Chinese. Looks like a nice photo.
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:41] <exec> 08└─Possibly both the moons. [wikipedia.org]
[21:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:43] <exec> 08└─That's exactly how one would expect them in a panorama.
[21:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:45] <exec> 08└─Couldn't they estimate at 1024? Makes my math easier :)
[21:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─I have one 3 b+ running Lakka, an all in one emulator that is pretty slick. I have never tried higher than snes but they work flawlessly at that level. I have 3 more of the same model as nodes in a small lab I built. 3 routers, 4 switches and 3 pcs (the pis). They are great for this application. I h...
[21:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:10] <exec> 08└─http://www.lakka.tv/ [lakka.tv]
[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─I have a B+ running samba paired with a 2TB hard drive that serves up music and movies on my home network. I have another B+ that runs PiHole and keeps my LAN clear of ads and malware. I have a Zero W that is a surveillance camera. I have an original 2 that is also a surveillance camera. I have anot...
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─I'm currently running an Olimex A20-Lime [olimex.com] as a pivot (all office machines ssh in, text passed in notes for swipe-and-paste -- funky but it works here) and downloads server. The SATA is native and, hooked to a laptop drive, burp-free and fast enough to keep up with our modest needs, certa...
[21:34:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:41] <exec> 08└─Bryan Cantrill is an ex-employee of Sun microsystems, one of the primary authors of dtrace and one of the people responsible for getting Solaris open-sourced as OpenSolaris. He's one of the giants of the free software world, has done far more than most for championing free software, and is a highly-...
[21:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:52] <exec> 08└─I'd also say they're using the term "Open Source" incorrectly. Open Source has a pretty rigid definition. There isn't enough flexibility in the definition to allow you to call a random project open source. Simply put, calling a license like CC-BY-SA-NC 'open source' is straight up lying. Admittedly...
[21:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─You think he won't have the tank insulated?
[21:36:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tokolosh [585] 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:08] <exec> 08└─And how do civilized societies progress? By free speech.
[21:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbruchon [4473] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:37] <exec> 08└─Only on Tuesdays.
[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:19] <exec> 08└─Let's be absolutely clear that the vast majority of the journals they submitted to have loads of political preconceptions that the authors of the hoax articles played into.
[21:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─Also DARVO - Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. When I first learned about the DARVO tactic favored by narcissists it was like a light was turned on, illuminating so much of what I've experienced.
[21:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 2158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:22] <exec> 08└─WTF how can you be so blindly naive? "no arguments for why we should take these fields of "study" seriously, otherwise they would surely have presented them by now." It is not true that because you haven't read good arguments, that none have been presented, or that none exist. "And that's no surpris...
[21:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:24] <exec> 08└─Thank you for this. The nugget that they falsified data is the crux. And you're right that the university *must* start an investigation. Because: who cares if they spew bullshit? Anyone arguing based on it can be traced back to first principles and the flaw would be found. But falsifying data - or p...
[21:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:26] <exec> 08└─If they had gathered real data and published spurious arguments there would be no problem. Lots of papers with conclusions that can't be reached from the data are published, no problem at all, and maybe a reader or five will write in to that journal's next issue to point out the flaw. The problem AB...
[21:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clamshell PDA Running Android/Linux or GNU/Linux - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:13] <exec> 08└─Given that this is basically an upgraded version of their Gemini PDA with the three most requested features added - an outside camera, backlit keyboard, and outside screen - and the Gemini has been shipping for a while, I'm confident the Cosmo will ship. I have a Gemini, and I love it. It's my main...
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[22:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX to Lay Off 10% of its Workforce - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:34] <exec> 08└─If a company this young is already cutting a certain, bean-counter defined percent of the workforce, then there is no other explanation than bad planning. A company really shouldn't consider this kind of option unless it is perfectly OK with the fallout of everyone there always being concerned that...
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─That thing looks like our Mars rovers. The USSR's lunar rovers were clearly Soviet. They were big, with 8 wheels, and nuclear power. China shouldn't copy. With the USSR doing 8 wheels and the USA doing 6 wheels, there are plenty of options left. China could have done 7 wheels.
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:53] <exec> 08└─This collage is almost as panoramic and doesnt have those shadows: https://www.zerohedge.com [zerohedge.com] They both look about the same length to me.
[22:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e Lander Sends Back Far Side Panorama - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should have landed it up on the lunar north pole
[22:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:23] <exec> 08└─LinuxGizmos [linuxgizmos.com] has been exhaustively covering this topic for years, and publishing a catalog/roundup for several years now. The latest such posting [linuxgizmos.com] has 122 entries, with catalog and tabular display (and the spreadsheet driving the tabular freely offered as well). Jus...
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:25] <exec> 08└─Why only one?
[22:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:27] <exec> 08└─It's possible that a 4th or 5th edition of RasPi would be more powerful than my current computers.
[22:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:29] <exec> 08└─I have several and they are used to test how well my drawers can hold things.
[22:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An EULA in FOSS clothing? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:06] <exec> 08└─Anyone can produce software with any license they like, if I don't use the software, it has no impact on me.
[22:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbruchon [4473] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 1949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:51] <exec> 08└─My perspective on it is that people we don't like must be allowed to speak, but for two very different reasons. The first is because the core value of freedom of speech is crucial to the progress of humanity and the seeking of truth, and censorship in any form is a way to hide the truth and hold bac...
[22:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:52] <exec> 08└─Funny how you wish to promote fascism to prevent fascism.
[22:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:55] <exec> 08└─You're projecting. You're projecting HARD. The problems you are expressing are not actually problems with the parent poster nor with Americans, they're problems with YOU. Misery loves company.
[22:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:57] <exec> 08└─There are alternatives until there aren't, because people stand by and do nothing as financial institutions take control over everything and work hand-in-hand with oppressive governments.
[22:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:59] <exec> 08└─Vanilla and yes [howtocakeit.com].
[22:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:01] <exec> 08└─Ah, crap, ignore that comment.
[22:37:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sigterm [849] 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 1270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:14] <exec> 08└─By publishing these outlandish hoax papers, they've demonstrated that at best, the journals' peer review process is a joke. At worst, the entire field is devoid of scientific merit. Looking at the non-hoax papers, I tend to lean toward this conclusion. So what can they do? They obviously have no arg...
[22:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:48] <exec> 08└─You know, if PSU really wanted to smother this kind of "research" this ain't the way to do it. The "smart" play is to just turtle up and wait for it all to blow over. I mean the internet had collectively forgotten about it months ago. Instead they are drawing attention to it all over again. If you h...
[22:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:59] <exec> 08└─"And somebody sure as shit ordered the shutdown of the news sites that reported on Gamergate." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
[22:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System Down: A systemd-journald Exploit - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:32] <exec> 08└─gb2/mom's basement, Poettering...
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[23:33:35] <exec> 08└─Very interesting that Wall Street has gotten tired of throwing money at Old Muskie by only providing $273mm of the half billion they needed to stay afloat. With a $227mm funding shortfall - and little prospect of raising more money after this broken round - are dreams of an electric-powered rocket t...
[23:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe he likes Banana (Pi) on the MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWN, BEEYIIIIIIIIIIITCH! [/meme]
[23:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─I'm listening to some 1970's Prog right now from a Raspberry Pi running Volumio, with a 7" touchscreen and DAC plugged into a nice pair of powered speakers. It has been a really nice way to have access to my media server and a bunch of online radio stations. The fact that there's such a great comm...
[23:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:30] <exec> 08└─Do you know the intent of the Pi? It was to make the cheapest system so students could afford it for learning. If you need something more powerful then buy it. This is engineering 101.
[23:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alt-Right Twitter" Gab Spoke Too Soon: Square Account Now Deactivated - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:58] <exec> 08└─Will Rome fall again?
[23:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enforcing Political Orthodoxy in Scholarly Publishing - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:46] <exec> 08└─Does that description remind you of anyone who's been in the news a lot lately? Specifically anyone big, fat, ugly, small-handed, orange, and with the political acumen of a large bag of dog leavings...?
[23:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Internet Takeover in a "National Emergency". Got a Disaster Plan for it? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:59] <exec> 08└─"As a former dues-paying, card-carrying Libertarian, I think I know quite a bit about capitalism." What you think you know and what you actually do know seem to be very different things. Just saying.
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