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Merry Christmas!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 07 2018, @04:49AM (#2911)
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Folks, we're saying "Merry Christmas" again. To our wonderful Orthodox Christians, it's Christmas now. Or around now. Sunday. Let's celebrate the miracle of Christmas again! Let's remember the story of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph that began more than 2,000 years ago. As the book of Isaiah tells us, for to us a child is born, to us a son is given and the government will be on his shoulders and he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. This good news is the greatest Christmas gift of all, the reason for our joy and the true source of our hope. I am proud to have led the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Also, our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Prophet Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His message was one of optimism, forgiveness, and faith. pic.twitter.com/0VjzLEeHTl

📈 Our Dow hit 25,000! 💰Tremendous! 📈

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Thursday January 04 2018, @10:57PM (#2908)
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Everybody who has stocks should be thanking me. Because our Dow 30 hit a beautiful 25,000 today. Just like I said it would. If the Dems (Crooked Hillary) got elected, your stocks would be down 50% from values on Election Day. Now they have a great future -- and just beginning! We're going to grab and grab and grab the money. 💰 Grab and grab and grab for America! We’re going to bring in so much money and so much everything. We’re going to Make America Great Again, folks.🇺🇸

Disagreeing with a post does not make it "redundant"

Posted by Sulla on Wednesday January 03 2018, @11:41PM (#2905)
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Being upset with a post because you don't agree with it or because you make it mad does not automatically make it offtopic or redundant. There are flamebait, troll, and overrated moderations for that purpose that serve that purpose. The reason for mis-moderating something is being so upset about a posts content that you want to hide it and have people ignore the post, and I think readers are much more likely to ignore offtopic and redundant than they are the other three.

Maybe instead of just getting mad and trying to hide a post you disagree with you can post a rebuttal and let the ideas stand on their own, eventually one or the other will be moderated up and you know the idea the community favors more (or rather that the percentage of the community that moderates favors). I imagine if people stopped overusing flamebait/troll/overrated we might again get to a point where I can ignore those posts because I can assume they weren't just moderated down because of partisan bullshit.

Hell even if you disagree with someone if they make a good point there is no reason to not moderate them according to that posts merit.

I don't mind being moderated troll, flamebait, or getting an overrated. What I mind is the misapplication of moderation types to push an agenda. A troll post is a troll post, a flamebait is a flamebait, a offtopic post is an offtopic post, and a redundant post should be moderated redundant.

Example of redundancy
Slashdot.org

Example of offtopic
Posting nvidia comments in a deep sea fishing thread

Thoughts & prayers!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Monday January 01 2018, @02:22PM (#2898)
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Thoughts & prayers with all who are suffering today because of alcohol & drug abuse! Those who were killed or badly hurt in the many, many accidents our drivers always have around New Year's Eve, those in their families, and those who are addicted and just can't control themselves.

Also, thoughts & prayers with the wonderful people of Iran, who have suffered far too long under their TERRIBLE government. Especially, thoughts & prayers with the ones who are exercising their precious, precious right to protest. We are with you!

A proclamation!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Monday January 01 2018, @08:32AM (#2897)
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I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim this the year 2018. Except in Saipan and Guam. Maybe, probably, in Saipan and Guam, I think they have to wait a little. And maybe Little Rocket Man will send them a special firework. He's very foolish if he does. Very foolish. Because I will rain down fire & fury on him like nobody's business. Like nothing this world has ever seen. And it's seen a lot, hasn't it? Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they're going to be a joke. People will laugh about them after I do what I'm going to do to North Korea.

It's going to be a fantastic year, folks. 2016 was a good year. You elected me, overwhelmingly. 2017 was better. Because I started Making America Great Again. But 2018 is going to be amazing! We're starting to get our Supreme Court in shape, we have the tremendous Neil Gorsuch in there, we passed our beautiful Tax Cut, it's going to be a full year of Making America Great. Starting now. Merry Christmas! Maybe, probably, I'm the first guy to wish you a Merry Christmas for 2018. Which is sad. We don't say MERRY CHRISTMAS enough, folks. Not nearly enough. There's a war on Christmas, it's very sad. Wish somebody Merry Christmas today. And every day. And tell them to thank me. They should be thanking me. For signing the most massive Tax Cut this world has ever seen. So every day is like Christmas. I'm giving you a big gift every day, a big Tax Cut. Which is making our economy EXPLODE! And, folks, you should thank our guys in Congress, they worked on that for years. For years. Not the Dems, where were the Dems? Where were Chuck & Nancy? Empty seats, folks! No ideas, they do nothing but obstruct. And they'd love to raise taxes. DISGRACEFUL! No thanks to them, this is going to be the best year ever. Very money! 🍾 🎉 💰

Israel policy

Posted by Sulla on Wednesday December 27 2017, @06:39AM (#2891)
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I am not a fan of the traditional American policy when it comes to ultimate defense and support of Israel. Can someone who agrees with it please detail why it is beneficial to the US? Just went through my uncle and inlaws argue about this for several hours and as a libertarian I don't see why I would want my (and my kids) blood and treasure spilled over a foreign nation, in this case Israel. Not looking for "palestine/arabs/muslims literally hitler" or "israel supporters are evil" I just want reasoned points for our support (or lack of support) for either side.

In Search of: Tests of HTML List Elements (<UL>, <OL>, <LI>)

Posted by martyb on Tuesday December 26 2017, @09:42AM (#2890)
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UPDATE: TheMightyBuzzard clarified that I did not need all that I was seeking here. Many thanks to those who read/replied. And, it looks like it unearthed a bug in our UTF-8 implementation!

I started down the path of writing tests for one of the bugs that was fixed in the upcoming rehash release. Specifically WRT how SoylentNews handles Ordered List (OL) and Unordered List (UL) elements, and while I was at it, I was going to toss in Definition List (DL) elements, too. I'd have these defined with various attributes all at the top level, and then with nested versions of these. It's a relatively straightforward (though time-consuming) exercise.

A quick stab at getting started on this for UL elements can be found in this comment on our dev server instance.

Then I realized "Am I the very first person who has wanted to do this?" I'd think that any HTML-consuming application would already have gone down this path. FireFox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc.

A quick search has failed to produce what I am looking for. It seems that if I were to download the development version of FireFox, that there is a set of automated tests that I might be able to leverage, but that would be a huge hit on my limited bandwidth cap, so I'm holding off on that approach -- I'd like to think that I should be able to just download the test cases themselves.

So, I ask my fellow Soylentils: Where can I find an exhaustive set of tests of UL, OL, LI, (and, ideally, DL, DT, DD) elements?

&#x1F384; MERRY CHRISTMAS, everyone! &#x1F385;

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Monday December 25 2017, @06:19AM (#2889)
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MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including to my many, many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. U.N. General Assembly, I'm talking about you. Love! 💖 And thank you to a VERY, VERY SPECIAL man, Jimmy Morales, 🇬🇹 for moving his embassy to Jerusalem. Tremendous! ✡

ATMs running WinXP vulnerable via accessibility feature

Posted by shortscreen on Saturday December 23 2017, @10:28PM (#2886)
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User gets free reign of Russian bank's ATM by pressing shift five times.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1960584.html

In the old, good Opera browser, holding down the shift key is used to select links within the page via the keyboard. I disabled Sticky Keys on my laptop(s) by removing the file SETHC.EXE so that I would stop triggering it unintentionally.

VERY, VERY SPECIAL SoylentNews moderators & administrators!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Thursday December 21 2017, @03:14AM (#2881)
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WE ARE MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Delivering HISTORIC TAX RELIEF for the American people with the magnificent #TaxCutsandJobsAct. 💸

But a moderator, or a small group of moderators, hates it. And administrators are letting mod-bombs stand. Letting another very unfair Spam mod stand. To silence my message. I'm sure they have passion for our great country. But they're being HATERS & LOSERS. They could become WINNERS like me. But they want to silence my terrific message instead. To make it so I can only tweet once a day, like they did to fakefuck39. Whose tweets start out with a very low Score. Making them hard to see. Hard to read. Very sad!

Let me tell you, this is a great, and VERY SPECIAL, moment for our great Country. The RIGHT TIME. Time to take care of our people, to rebuild our nation, and to fight for our great American workers. It's a whole different attitude, whole different way. We can all come together and be proud! We will all succeed & grow together as ONE TEAM, ONE PEOPLE, ONE FAMILY. With one leader. I made a promise to the American people: eventually, we will get something done. And WE GOT SOMETHING DONE, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Our team will go onto many more VICTORIES! Because President Obama did such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for generations! pic.twitter.com/lLgATrCh5o pic.twitter.com/HY353gXV0R