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[00:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:04] <exec> 08└─Easy to find out, 30-day free trial.
[00:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:06] <exec> 08└─Microsoft uses a license asfaik that explicitly forbid usage in a virtual environment. So it can get your company in legal hot waters in a BSA raid or whatever crap they try. (guess they want to squeeze out the OS competition and make the Nazi backdoors to work) Otoh.. it's way easier to "alter the...
[00:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:08] <exec> 08└─Have you ever considered that the reason people "might not pay for anyway" is because they no longer have to pay for it?
[00:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soybean [5020] (Score:1) 02Re:A new low. - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:16] <exec> 08└─I have family in the business - two producers and a model/actress. Wikileaks made it easy to check if any of their names were mentioned in the data dump (they were not). I was grateful for that.
[00:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:TPP (SHAFTA) will kill national sovereignty - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:24] <exec> 08└─It will not be scrutinized. It will trample people until some violent reaction happen. Systems analytics..
[00:22:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Yes, $70k "salary" - 06Gravity Payments: CEO Takes Cut and Makes $70k/year New Minimum Salary - 597 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:13] <exec> 08└─In the short term, that's no doubt true. The story also said that he's had 1500 applicants for jobs since making the announcement, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's able to grow the company quite quickly. Note that he said he'd raise the salaries to $70K over three years, so there's the potential t...
[00:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:This is great for consumers. - 06Cable-Cutters Continue Their Trend - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─You mean like broadcasting the radio waves out into the air such that anyone who who wants to watch it that is within the broadcast range just needs a receiver? The cable system is still just sending data, tv, voice, or other, and there's only congestion when its way oversold. All they have to do is...
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[01:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:39] <exec> 08└─Do you have anything from a more impartial source? When I see a URL containing "dissidentvoice", it makes me think that just maybe it is a biased source.
[01:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, unlike the unbiased, impartial and agenda-free Washington Post or New York Times.
[01:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:43] <exec> 08└─I never said that they're perfect. But at least they don't go using the term "dissident" in their name. "Dissident" is a term often used by angry left-wing radicals.
[01:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:45] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. It is applied to people as varied as those opposing officialdom in Iran, Russia, Syria, Columbia, India, Greece - or dare I say - the United States.
[01:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, but when you put them on opposite sides of a scale, the Post and Times come out WAY ahead as sources.
[01:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:49] <exec> 08└─If by "source" you mean "stenographic reproduction of government officialdom and corporate public relations."
[01:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SlimmPickens [1056] (Score:2) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:52] <exec> 08└─Do you have anything from a more impartial source?
[01:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Other conclusions from social media - 06YouTube Videos Being Used to Track Water Table Via Graffiti in Saudi Arabian Caves - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:56] <exec> 08└─Of course in the instance being discussed, this is data derived from incidental inclusion of peripheral information. But your posting does amuse us.
[01:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds like magic - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:18] <exec> 08└─Kind of like Blue-sniping ;)
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My anti-theft device... - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─Lots of rubber hose is conductive to prevent static charge buildup. Cool that you found some that would run your spark plugs (assuming you are not bs-ing us). How well did the engine run under load??
[01:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:My anti-theft device... - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:26] <exec> 08└─When I used to leave my car at airport parking lots, I used to take my distributor rotor with me. I know it won't stop a determined thief, but at least it would make the casual slim-jimmer and hot-wirer work a bit to discover the problem then go get the correct rotor then return. I figured they woul...
[01:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02News at 11! READ ALL ABOUT IT! ;-) - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:27] <exec> 08└─Crappy car lock design from ignorant manufacturer bites a person that have access to whining in the newspaper? Won't change the mind of manufacturer. Won't make most people demand adequate lock systems. Might contribute to eventual change, perhaps.
[01:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:A GNU and better job - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:38] <exec> 08└─The answer is Critical Mass... Not in the number of individuals using the OS or even developers per se. But once an OS is able to bootstrap itself on modern hardware and run enough hardware drivers so that a desktop can be compiled, then you've made it. That being said, it's taking a long time for H...
[01:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A GNU and better job - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:40] <exec> 08└─I think it's still worthwhile to examine different approaches to the kernel. because how else can we play around with alternate methods outside of the mainstream kernel? I still find it interenting that it allows someone to run programs as the user "nobody". plus it seems like it could have someinte...
[01:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:A GNU and better job - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:44] <exec> 08└─Ah, you mean Linux? Just like in the beginning. :P
[01:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A GNU and better job - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:46] <exec> 08└─The GNU Project is still stuck in the 1980s. That's why people ridicule it today. It's almost 30 years behind the curve. People today don't want restrictive, un-free licenses like the GPL family of licenses. They want licenses like the BSD license and the MIT license that promote true freedom for ev...
[01:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disappointing it is stuck on Mach - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:50] <exec> 08└─Like war, GNU Hurd is good for absolutely nothing.
[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Disappointing it is stuck on Mach - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:51] <exec> 08└─The XNU kernel has essentially nothing to do with the original Mach microkernel. For example, the OSX kernel is monolithic. I don't know why they just don't take Minix and just GPL it. That is the the only microkernel that is possibly going anywhere. It's developed by Tanenbaum and others who actual...
[01:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Doesn't offer any compelling new features" - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:03] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a huge security risk to me.
[01:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why as why? - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:07] <exec> 08└─Well, there's TempleOS. It's a ring-0 only operating system that the schizophrenic creator made to talk to God, but it's a genuinely interesting design.
[01:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02GNU Hurd is about a concept not code - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:09] <exec> 08└─GNU Hurd is about exploring a concept that might turn out very useful. It might run circles around monolithic kernels in the future, and people would understand why if they understood the GNU Hurd concept. The code is irrelevant, the concept is important. When exploring new concepts one doesn't laun...
[01:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:28] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'll just wait until people are talking about how all their games run great in a VM.
[01:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hilarious leak - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:48] <exec> 08└─Any bets that the Koch brothers and other similar large corporations are into the same stuff? Sony is just in line with expectations. There's a follow up to The interview and it's called Taking a dump.. a data dump! ;-) We sponsor legal trampling of sovereign nations and condemn anyone that hurts. A...
[01:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SlimmPickens [1056] (Score:2) 02Re:Vegans vs. GMO - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:17] <exec> 08└─I think the one's used for beer and wine are a bit oops but on the other hand there's filters small enough to filter salt. The yeast are much larger than the proteins, which I imagine are the largest things you need to let through.
[01:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Vegans - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:36] <exec> 08└─I'm a level 6 vegan. I don't eat anything with a reflection. Tonight we're having vampire "veil" with millennium mammary mozzarella sauce.
[01:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling Captain Obvious.... - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:10] <exec> 08└─Just for the record, that was Phoenix's question.. I just left it there even though I was pretty sure what the response was going to be...
[01:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spying on electrons - 06Physicists Spy on Random Motion of Electrons with Defective Diamonds - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:50] <exec> 08└─It is pretty sad that even with articles like this, that should be free of political crap, Phoenix can't help but throw in words like "spying." Freud had much to say about a psyche like his. Dollars to donuts that if the linked article title was "Physicists observe . . ", it never would have caught...
[01:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kramulous [255] (Score:1) 02Look at that - 06Physicists Spy on Random Motion of Electrons with Defective Diamonds - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:52] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they find that the motion is not so random.
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[02:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02So what danger does it present? and what to do? - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:00] <exec> 08└─So should the aircraft carrier be taken up and be chopped or melted and sent to Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository? I suspect those nuclear subs and nukes that various countries has left to rust on the bottom of the sea presents a larger danger to the environment. If Kursk could be retrieved th...
[02:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Propaganda - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:01] <exec> 08└─"It's just one of those things that humans rather stupidly did in the past that we can't retroactively fix," [Richard Charter] said.
[02:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 2857 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:33] <exec> 08└─A few years ago I wrote some software that was sold on-line. My business partner really wanted me to go heavy-handed on the copy restriction, he was worried that one little leak would sink the project. I told him that as somebody who purchases software I cannot *stand* anything more complicated than...
[02:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TPP (SHAFTA) will kill national sovereignty - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:01] <exec> 08└─From what I hear on Pacifica Radio[1] and read via online sources, Lamestream Media hasn't mentioned TPP except to mention that Obama likes it.[2] If people aren't aware of what a giant power shift this will allow, I fear you may be correct. [1] The last broadcast outlet I know of that hasn't sold i...
[02:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lajos [528] (Score:2) 02Re:Vegans vs. GMO - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:35] <exec> 08└─+1. Every piece of food we eat (especially vegetables and fruits) have been GMOd for thousands of years.
[02:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling Captain Obvious.... - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 4300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:14] <exec> 08└─I agree, and in a related note, I was reading about Persian methods of execution/torture. In essence, they are asking for techies to betray their fellow citizens in the interests of greater profits for a group typically entitled to 90% of it anyways. So the level of greed is terrifically and horrifi...
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[03:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Can you hire someone who can run a website? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:43] <exec> 08└─Wordpress? Seriously?
[03:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can you hire someone who can run a website? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:44] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with WordPress?
[03:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02What's wrong with IIS? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:46] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with using IIS? Modern versions are very capable and robust.
[03:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:What's wrong with IIS? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:47] <exec> 08└─When I got my first tech job I had Windows 95 on my machine. I had to reboot at least once a day and often ai'd try to put off a badly needed reboot even though it was slowing me down. That's why I hate modern versions of IIS.
[03:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with IIS? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:49] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to be funny?
[03:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:01] <exec> 08└─So fucking what? North Korea uses the term "democratic" in its name.
[03:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:05] <exec> 08└─My, my, my. So much delusion.
[03:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:So what danger does it present? and what to do? - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:08] <exec> 08└─My thought was that more often than not you're as well to leave shit alone rather than trying to move it, since chopping it into manageable pieces is far more likely to release ungoodies than is just leaving it to be covered with ocean debris.
[03:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Propaganda - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:10] <exec> 08└─So it doesn't pose a threat right now. What about 50 years from now, or 100? The nasty stuff is encased in steel and concrete. I know that steel doesn't last very long in salt water. And concrete can last anywhere from 2000 years to 2 years, depending on how it was made.
[03:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Club is a Dud - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:36] <exec> 08└─Old beaters are easier to steal, yet their mere aesthetic appearance is a deterrent.
[03:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Linux isn't unassailable - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:31] <exec> 08└─The thing about Linux is, it's huge and mostly opaque to most developers. There is room for an OS that's only a million LOC, sacrificing the kitchen sink for the ability to be molded by customers, but it has to be on x86_64 for starters not IA-32. And it better support LLVM and go as well as gcc.
[03:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution is there the screw you - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:33] <exec> 08└─The biochemist in me feels obligated to point out that neither your body nor a laboratory can determine if that lysine came from a cow or a yeast. It is atom-for-atom identical. However from a nutritional standpoint... we're still not 100% in our knowledge of what nutrients we should have, and even...
[03:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution is there the screw you - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:36] <exec> 08└─Actually, modern agricultural production continues to increase its productivity; per a chart I saw recently, faster than the population rate. We no longer have a food shortage problem, tho some parts of the world have a food distribution problem.
[03:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02What felony? No license required per FAA regs - 06Protester Lands Single-Passenger Gyrocopter on US Capitol Lawn - 2017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:37] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that no license is required for a gyrocopter, and here's what I could find on the topic -- ultralights are NOT regulated, and most gyrocopters are ultralights: http://www.utahrotorcraft.org [utahrotorcraft.org] ===== Q - If I build it myself, d...
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[04:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:4, Insightful) 02https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:49] <exec> 08└─The article declares that all sites should be built over https. Why? We can still use ftp to download Linux kernels and other such things for the very good reason that it is broadcasting to the public, and there is no private communication involved. Saying all websites should use https is like sayin...
[04:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:50] <exec> 08└─We need HTTPS everywhere, normative, all the time. People should recoil at exposed HTTP the same way they refrain from Telnet vs SSH. Ask the security researches that look at how HTTP streams are hijacked and injected on ad networks - one of the most prolific vectors for ordinary pwnage of personal...
[04:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:52] <exec> 08└─HTTPS totally falls apart because the CA system is fucking broken. You keep going on and on about security, but you totally ignore one of the biggest goddamn security flaws out there.
[04:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:53] <exec> 08└─It's a hipster thing. They're all rah-rah-rah for HTTPS these days.
[04:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Padlock thing on vacant home doorknobs? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:55] <exec> 08└─I was just reading a journal entry [soylentnews.org] by my dear friend Ethanol-fueled. He talks of "one of those big lock thingies hanging from his doorknob" that he saw on a vacant house. I've seen those on doors before, but I have never understood how they work. Can anyone explain this? What is th...
[04:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Padlock thing on vacant home doorknobs? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:57] <exec> 08└─You've missed the point of the gadget. Though it looks like a giant padlock, the point is that the thing is HOLLOW. It is called a Realtor Lockbox [google.com] Inside the thing, there is a key to the property Each realtor has a master key or a combination that opens the box. That way, each realtor d...
[04:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:58] <exec> 08└─It seems silly to me to complain about websites that host non-sensitive content and lack HTTPS capability. Last I'd checked, most/all major browsers threw a warning if a website used a self-signed certificate (or worse: e.g. the Mozilla dunderheads changed Firefox to pitch a hysterical temper tantru...
[04:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:00] <exec> 08└─To quote a great computer scientist, Strike a pose Strike a pose Vogue, vogue, vogue Vogue, vogue, vogue Look around Everywhere you turn is heartache It's everywhere that you go [Look around] You try Everything you can to escape The pain of life that you know [Life that you know] Come on, vogue Let...
[04:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:02] <exec> 08└─Question: Does HTTPS protect agains an ISP replacing HTML content in-transit? In other words, would that deter Comcast from replacing ads in sites with their own ads?
[04:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"the Post and Times come out WAY ahead as sources" - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:14] <exec> 08└─Hmmm. Let's see what Fairness and Accuracy has to say about that. Google search results for Dissident Voice [google.com] 8 results (All are references; none are critical) Washington Post [google.com] About 4,100 results (All I'm seeing are critical remarks) New York Times' [google.com] About 5,210 r...
[04:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Half-life - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:20] <exec> 08└─Ever hear of it? Not the game, the physics. 50 years from now it will be 120 years since contamination; the majority of the nasty stuff will be well past it's half-life. Much of the really nasty stuff already is now at 70 years.
[04:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:The Club is a Dud - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:49] <exec> 08└─Not only that, they are apt to fall apart the instant you gun what's remaining of the engine! I drive one of those old clunkers. There are many parts on their last legs. I would imagine all it would take is one good acceleration to take out what is left of the clutch. Yup, all held together with bai...
[04:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Disappointing it is stuck on Mach - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:27] <exec> 08└─Wrong. XNU is a mix of micro and monolithic. Mach 3.0 is IN it, so it is ignorant to say it has nothing to do with "the original Mach microkernel".
[04:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Vegans vs. GMO - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:02] <exec> 08└─I used to be pro GMO, but am disappointed in what they are actually used for-- increasing the quantity of herbicides sprayed on fields mainly. With an even more worrying side-effect of reducing genetic diversity to the point where most of our staple crops are clones of a single cultivar-- I foresee...
[04:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truth is the only language nature will respect - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 2580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:37] <exec> 08└─Yea, that's why sexist techies get banned from opensource. Should sexist opensource developers have their projects censored or removed? Recently an opensource game release story was removed due to the game developer's open sexism(0) and harrasment(1) of women in tech. A story posted by the editor of...
[04:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:That guy needs to shut the F up - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:56] <exec> 08└─Optional private contracts are still leaps and bounds better than arbitrary decisions made by stuffed suits and forced on others at gunpoint. I like the idea of "home owners' associations", even if I can't ever see myself buying property subject to one. (My workaround is to live out in the sticks on...
[04:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That guy needs to shut the F up - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:57] <exec> 08└─"expect mandatory backdoors in hardware" Intel Active Management Technology /Vpro/VT. Chip level VNC server + dump ram over 3g enough for you?
[04:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbWolf [2774] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to be... - 06New Trailer Emerges of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:36] <exec> 08└─I'm going to admit that I enjoyed the first Star Trek movie by J.J. Abrams including the lens flares. I thought they were unusual, artistic, and added an interesting flavor to the movie. He could have used one or two less, but it was something different from the copycat world of Hollywood. But lens...
[04:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Learned one thing - 06New Trailer Emerges of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:45] <exec> 08└─At least until they start going bald...then it gets ugly!
[04:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:1) 02Re:How are we supposed to change our habits? - 06Pew Report on Privacy Habits After the Snowden Leaks - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:27] <exec> 08└─Well yes, to protect your privacy, you have to switch from unsecured to secured networks. That said, at least on Android, things are pretty seamless. TextSecure can deal with SMS, MMS and OTR over their network. So you can have it handle all that, just use TextSecure instead of your normal Messaging...
[04:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kryptonianjorel [4640] (Score:1) 02Re:This is great for consumers. - 06Cable-Cutters Continue Their Trend - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:49] <exec> 08└─Never heard of multicast? Live events would be very easy to handle.
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[05:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Can you hire someone who can run a website? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:54] <exec> 08└─What isn't wrong with wordpress? I can crack any wordpress 6 ways to Sunday, it's written in PHP (and so are all of its themes and plugins) and the coding is atrocious. The developers are asshats and don't like it when you tell them they're wrong. They have a huge case of "not invented here" syndrom...
[05:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:08] <exec> 08└─Does HTTPS protect agains an ISP replacing HTML content in-transit?
[05:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:09] <exec> 08└─As an addendum to my previous reply [soylentnews.org] to your comment: If you have criminals in your ISP and government, the proper fix is not to point fingers and blame at website owners who are not using a mostly-broken security system. The proper fix is to seize the criminals and punish them afte...
[05:27:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03morgauxo [2082] 02Why as why? - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 363 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:53] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many OS kernels there are out there that somebody writes just because they want to or for the experience or something like that. Little lonely pieces of code sitting on their authors' hard drives never to be known to the outside world. So with Hurd they still make it available if for so...
[05:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Why bother? - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:58] <exec> 08└─Why do the GNU people even bother with Hurd. Yes, it's different. Yes, it's unusual. Yes, it may allow some very interesting things to occur. But, in an open-source, Unix-like OS world dominated by Linux and *BSD (let us not forget Darwin, the underpinnings of MacOS), and the amazing things that hav...
[05:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Vegans vs. GMO - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:15] <exec> 08└─Its most practical application is as a vat-grown source of protein for long space voyages (think early missions to Mars, Venus, or the belt). It might also help if you're trying to reduce methane emmissions from cows. Wouldn't do me much good though, since I'm intolerant of not just lactose, but als...
[05:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:This is great for consumers. - 06Cable-Cutters Continue Their Trend - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:33:02] <exec> 08└─I mentioned multicast. Read the thread. Have you noticed any use of multicast? Why not?
[05:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Old news. - 06Protester Lands Single-Passenger Gyrocopter on US Capitol Lawn - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:33:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah. For me, it was everything you said plus commercials. For a while before I went online for everything, I recorded the news and fast forwarded through it. (I condensed 60 minutes down to 15 or 20.) I was always unhappy with the quality of the news and then it sunk to a new low when one of the ne...
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[06:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02los3r - 06AMD Misses Q1 Earnings Target; Withdraws from High-Density Server Market - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:47] <exec> 08└─"Dear AMD I am a hobbyist / home user and have NOT been using your chips to make ground / world changing calculations for the betterment of humankind on this planet but I enjoy tinkering w/ networks and OS (open-source) OSes (operating systems) and I also like to play computer games. I know I am but...
[06:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Padlock thing on vacant home doorknobs? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:08] <exec> 08└─My god, my estimation of Ethanol, and others of his ilk, has just fallen beyond recovery. It is almost like when the Insane Clown Posse admitted they had no idea how magnets worked. Is it actually possible for human to be this stupid? Or more to the point, is it possible that humans cannot know the...
[06:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Note to the editor - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:13] <exec> 08└─In the past, there were complaints about not indicating which parts of the original article were lifted intact. Since then, I have made additional effort to carefully use the blockquote tag. Undoing the effort I put into my submission takes us back to where we started, months ago. -- gewg_
[06:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Propaganda - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:36] <exec> 08└─Its low grade nuclear waste, mostly from fallout, plus any radiation that was absorbed into the steel itself. The Independence didn't have a reactor on board. Steel lasts a lot longer time in salt water, than you might think The ship appears to be in roughly the same shape in the fotos as it was whe...
[06:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:A GNU and better job - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:31] <exec> 08└─Everything fails and dies. That will include Windows and Linux and the Mac OS. The only questions are when and how. When the big boys start to die, it is one of these small hobby projects which will take a turn for the more serious and be in the right place at the right time. It won't happen overnig...
[06:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:A GNU and better job - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:32] <exec> 08└─Fails and Dies? Nobody has ever woken up one morning to find every instance of a particular operating system inoperable. Maybe you mean they are replaced by something better? But that's not going to be Hurd.
[06:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cartoons are getting old - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, so it WILL be ready. 2060, hey? I can play with it in my dotage...
[06:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:27] <exec> 08└─> There is malware out there that will not launch if it detects it is in a VM. Sounds like a good reason to run everything in a VM.
[06:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Serious Question ... - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:29] <exec> 08└─It is all arbitrary. Choosing to be vegan or vegetarian, even if for ethical reasons, requires an arbitrary drawing of limits at what matters and what doesn't that is no more rational than choosing a favorite color. This has been debated by philosophers for a very long time. Like anything else in th...
[06:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That guy needs to shut the F up - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:21] <exec> 08└─and forced on others at gunpoint.
[06:30:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mrsam [5122] 02I've got a bad feeling about this - 06New Trailer Emerges of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 1389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:53] <exec> 08└─It's not even funny how scripted, and predictable this trailer is. It follows the stock JJ Abrams formula for "Trailers For Old Franchise Revivals". That formula has just two key ingredients: 1. The trailer is just a bunch of disconnected scenes, stitched together, that mean absolutely nothing. Afte...
[06:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've got a bad feeling about this - 06New Trailer Emerges of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:56] <exec> 08└─Nevermind the criticism of a Movie trailer being scripted. I bet he hates bread that is baked too.
[06:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to be... - 06New Trailer Emerges of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:04] <exec> 08└─I think I feel the same way about Bourne as you do about the Trek reboot. I felt that the editing in Bourne Identity did a good job of capturing Jason's perception of the fights - time compressed and running on autopilot; barely under conscious control, if at all. Then I found myself wishing that th...
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[07:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Depending on whose side you're on... - 06AMD Misses Q1 Earnings Target; Withdraws from High-Density Server Market - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:46] <exec> 08└─Not good news, if you use AMD; Bad news, if you use Intel.
[07:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:03] <exec> 08└─No, it's because the more encryption there is, the harder it will be for the government to tell 'important' communication from 'unimportant' communication, thereby providing some cover for those that need encryption the most.
[07:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about JS, flash, tracking pixels, google anal - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:14] <exec> 08└─A pretty lacking comparison I say. Funny idea though.
[07:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:A GNU and better job - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:35] <exec> 08└─I was speaking generally -- not specifically about Hurd. Also, perhaps "fail" isn't the best word, but "death" is. And as I said earlier, "death" of an O.S. won't happen overnight, but it will happen. Computers with operating systems / Operating Systems that I have used and are no longer viable in t...
[07:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dirty Hippies - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:07] <exec> 08└─And I'm a hardcore vegan who eats meat occasionally. But I'm a vegan, believe me.
[07:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Gravity Payments? - 06Gravity Payments: CEO Takes Cut and Makes $70k/year New Minimum Salary - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:32:59] <exec> 08└─certainly are attractive
[07:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Gravity Payments? - 06Gravity Payments: CEO Takes Cut and Makes $70k/year New Minimum Salary - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:33:00] <exec> 08└─Of course, according to Einstein it is neither; all objects are just following a straight path in the curved spacetime (unless forced away from that path by another force, like the force the floor exerts on you). The large body just bends the spacetime so the straight path in spacetime doesn't resul...
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[08:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2, Funny) 02I think I'd sacrifice ... - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:50] <exec> 08└─Soy and lentils.
[08:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Other seed banks - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:53] <exec> 08└─There are several seed banks scattered around the world. Wiki has a partial list here: http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In addition many universities and agricultural schools have their own seed banks. Some seeds last a long time, but not forever, and some of these banks have t...
[08:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Really? - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:55] <exec> 08└─Syria was the best place to build this installation when? Why? The West Bank refused to have it?
[08:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Terrible place to have put them - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:56] <exec> 08└─The Middle East is an exceptionally poor choice for a location to store things like this. It is teeming with psychopaths/sociopaths. I'm not going to pretend any place is perfectly safe from evil rotten elements, but places like far northern Europe are a much better bet. Far enough north, and your r...
[08:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Science vs. Life? - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:58] <exec> 08└─Why is this even a question? Of course knowledge is more important than any individual life! That is why it is called science! I have lived much more than any mortal ought to, but it is still the same, knowledge over life. Ahmed is a hero.
[08:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:23] <exec> 08└─That's a RMS-like view (no password), and it's a nice ideal. Unfortunately, we don't work in a nice ideal world. How do you know you are downloading a linux install CD? How do you know you're not downloading one which the NSA has hacked back doors into? Check the signature? Where did you download th...
[08:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Ironic - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:56] <exec> 08└─Here in Italy, industries from around Europe pay "waste-experts", that are actually just mafia, to dispose of their waste. Then the "experts" will put it on an old ship, and make it sink off the coast. That way they get paid both by the industry *and* get their insurance. In the US, it's the governm...
[08:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Vegans vs. GMO - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:44] <exec> 08└─Well, they way they separate yeast from the rest of beer is to use finings. Made from bits of murdered fish...
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[09:26:12] <exec> 08└─The article declares that all sites should be built over https. Why? We can still use ftp to download Linux kernels and other such things for the very good reason that it is broadcasting to the public, and there is no private communication involved. Saying all websites should use https is like sayin...
[09:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Why obsess over security theatre? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:30] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't content, usability, accessibility, standards compliance, responsiveness, and web-bug-iness also be useful guidelines for comparing websites. On standards, complance, validator.w3.org says: https://www.hillaryclinton.com 6 Errors, 4 warning(s) https://www.tedcruz.org 13 Errors, 12 warning(...
[09:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Sunk Independence - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:55] <exec> 08└─Of course, we knew it was hot when we scuttled it. However, the irony of scuttling the USS Independence only slightly escapes me. The shipyard it was sent to, before being scuttled, is still hot as well! We have recently had some posts on the "abandoned sites" thing. This is one where you want to br...
[09:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Why bother? - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:26] <exec> 08└─You need to distinguish between the Operating System (OS) and the kernel. Linux is the kernel, but the Operating System is mostly built on GNU utilities, which is why some people insist on referring to the combination as GNU/Linux. Hurd is not an alternative Operating System, it is an alternative ke...
[09:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:That guy needs to shut the F up - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:41] <exec> 08└─It is forced on others by gunpoint; who do you think enforces these stupid contracts?
[09:31:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zugedneb [4556] 02Re:4 rules of Star Wars: - 06New Trailer Emerges of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:27] <exec> 08└─ahhh... film noir... battered characters in trenchcoats... old places soaked in smoke, rain and fog... godlike dialogues... characters who don't fucking grin when they kill, but walk away sad... characters that act as if the adversary was worth more than just a shit... characters who act, and greet...
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[10:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible place to have put them - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:50] <exec> 08└─> The Middle East is an exceptionally poor choice for a location to store things like this. It is teeming with psychopaths/sociopaths. That's a point in their favor, actually. Which is more crazy, a place teeming with sociopaths, or another place that let people from the first place immigrate with l...
[10:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seed banks are interesting - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:52] <exec> 08└─However, who has access? Who owns the seeds? Who owns the genes? Can you own a gene?
[10:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:28] <exec> 08└─With self signed certificates it only partially protects. If you've been to the site before, you'll know if there's a MItM attack. Unless te certificate has changed on the server. If you haven't you'll think your secure but won't necceraarily be. Unlike with SSH, where I know of the very should have...
[10:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Sunk Independence - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:59] <exec> 08└─Ah, you mean the reckless generation? ;-) Everything new must be good! :D When one doesn't know. One has to find out before acting. Assumption is the mother of many fuckups.
[10:28:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CRCulver [4390] 02Disappointing it is stuck on Mach - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:05] <exec> 08└─If you are wondering why Hurd continues to be based on GNU Mach, a microkernel that was already regarded as antiquated in the 1990s, this page [gnu.org] has some background. It's disappointing that the attempts to port Hurd to a more advanced microkernel failed. One wishes that Hurd could get some m...
[10:28:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fnj [1654] 02Re:Disappointing it is stuck on Mach - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 1515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:08] <exec> 08└─Mach is a perfectly fine microkernel. The XNU kernel in every copy of OS X in the world incorporates Mach, and OS X works just fine. The criticism of Mach performance dates back to a time when CPUs were vastly slower than X86s are now. I have a very strong idea that an OS based on straight Mach micr...
[10:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Disappointing it is stuck on Mach - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:13] <exec> 08└─Were that it was true. WE're not in the noise because software architectures have changed over time, and there's far more reliance on IPC. You're not just sitting in a tight processing loop until you need to pull some new data in or squirt some processed data out any more. You're constantly playing...
[10:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution is there the screw you - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:38] <exec> 08└─The problem is that findings is dependent on physical lab precision and capability. And there might not be any lab that can find out the right chemical structures and not knowing that they can't find it either. The limit of human knowledge and capability in other words.
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[11:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02It's all in the wording - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:53] <exec> 08└─I can imagine others framing this story as "Taxi cartel attempts to poach Uber drivers". (I'll explicity state my copyright on that headline, just in case some lazy journalist wants to poach it.)
[11:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seed banks are interesting - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:07] <exec> 08└─2025: The Pirate Bay Launches "Genetics" Category For DNA Downloads
[11:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02incompetence at its finest - 06AMD Misses Q1 Earnings Target; Withdraws from High-Density Server Market - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:17] <exec> 08└─AMD has an X86 license that, IMO, is pretty much is a license to print money, yet this company keeps finding a way to fuck up, I really want them to succeed so there is still some competition in the market but just don't understand how they can't turn a profit, their stocks have dropped 70% over the...
[11:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:incompetence at its finest - 06AMD Misses Q1 Earnings Target; Withdraws from High-Density Server Market - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:19] <exec> 08└─Don't blame engineers for what management may be responsible for.
[11:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:What's wrong with IIS? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:32] <exec> 08└─No, he tries to show that operating systems from Microsoft puts the user in impossible situations and generally causes problems than need not to be. So one should not use it.
[11:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:36] <exec> 08└─It's better than nothing security. A quick fix using an existing standard.
[11:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02There's many more candidates - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:52] <exec> 08└─More candidates: * Hillary Rodham Clinton * Jeff Boss * Vermin Supreme * Robby Wells * Ted Cruz * Rand Paul * Marco Rubio * Mark Everson * Jack Fellure, * Terry Jones * Zoltan Istvan The comparison was probably limited to candidates with most money and connections. B...
[11:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:So what danger does it present? and what to do? - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:13] <exec> 08└─Well there is the old approach of deliberately scuttling on a remote island's beach. (Google images search is failing me, but I have seen one beach, possibly in India, where there were literally hundreds of such dumped vessels, presumably sold for scrap metal.)
[11:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Sunk Independence - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:21] <exec> 08└─Hey, you're forgetting our friend the atom!
[11:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:A comment on the article clarifies - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:42] <exec> 08└─> But it STILL can't be as simple as amplifying the fob signal, otherwise my fob would open every Chrysler. You just said the equivalent of: "But it STILL can't be as simple as copying the key, otherwise my key would open every lock." How can you not understand the concept of the (electronic) key an...
[11:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:A comment on the article clarifies - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:43] <exec> 08└─After seeing my post, my g/f's just pointed this out to me: Why did you say: > But it STILL can't be as simple as amplifying the fob signal, otherwise my fob would open every Chrysler. rather than: But it STILL can't be as simple as amplifying the fob signal, otherwise my fob would open every...
[11:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:A comment on the article clarifies - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:47] <exec> 08└─> It wasn't the unlocking that they rebroadcast, as, I'm sure you're all aware, requires pressing a button. What does that even mean? Translating it into a more familiar security concept you've just said: "It wasn't the victim's password that they typed in themselves, as [that], I'm sure you're all...
[11:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:The Club is a Dud - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:57] <exec> 08└─It isn't much deterrent to an intelligent thief that specifically wants to steal your car. It is plenty of deterrence if the crook just wants *A* car or if he isn't so smart and has no appropriate tools with him. The one in the next space over looks nice too and no need to cut anything.
[11:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:GNU Hurd is about a concept not code - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:56] <exec> 08└─> protected mode would impose a 3x penalty speed wise. As a dabbler in the graphics demo scene in the early-mid 90s, all I can say is "whaaaaat!!??!?". Everyone used Tran's pmode, *everyone*.
[11:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:GNU Hurd is about a concept not code - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:57] <exec> 08└─Have a look at the 80386 clock cycles per op-code for real vs protected mode.
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[12:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:It's all in the wording - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:46] <exec> 08└─Competition for drivers is a good thing. The CEO of uber is on the record [theverge.com] wanting to get rid of drivers all together.
[12:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Will the taxi drivers hold the Uberers' dicks too? - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:48] <exec> 08└─Will the taxi drivers hold and aim the penises of the Uber drivers while they urinate, too? How far will these taxi drivers really go to help the Uber drivers? Will they go that far?
[12:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other seed banks - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:58] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia's list is incomplete. It neglects to list the seed bank between my legs.
[12:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incompetence at its finest - 06AMD Misses Q1 Earnings Target; Withdraws from High-Density Server Market - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:14] <exec> 08└─One of the duties of an engineer is to work around management incompetence to provide a superior product.
[12:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can you hire someone who can run a website? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:25] <exec> 08└─> don't like it when you tell them they're wrong. Because everybody else just loves that!
[12:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with IIS? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:30] <exec> 08└─You've been Poe'd. Read the last sentence again.
[12:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with IIS? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:33] <exec> 08└─Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Quoth Ethanol-fueled, "Suck my rock hard cock you dirty sk...
[12:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:48] <exec> 08└─Wishfuil thinking and absolutism go hand in hand. Meanwhile in the real world, real engineers are focused on practical solutions that can get results today, not theoretical results in a theoretical perfect world.
[12:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why obsess over security theatre? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:52] <exec> 08└─The level of spanish-unfriendliness is probably ideological, not technical. The republican base - the most extreme ones who are the only ones who vote in primaries - simply does not like teh brownies. I fully expect that each republican candidate has done focus groups and found that putting a spani...
[12:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Club is a Dud - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:57] <exec> 08└─That thief is just as much deterred by the stock alarm system as he is by the club. Since this story is about highly prepared thieves with techno doodads out the wazoo, I think we can assume that rando thief is not threat model under discussion.
[12:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Headline states speculation as fact - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:06] <exec> 08└─pedant on/ a stopped clock is 'right' twice a day... a 'broken' clock may still run, just not correctly, and thus may be 'right' no times a day, or many times a day... /pedant off
[12:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Headline states speculation as fact - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:08] <exec> 08└─Wow, pedant flame of someone flaming a pedant. You win teh internet woosh award!
[12:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:31] <exec> 08└─While some industries have grown, and certainly major Hollywood blockbusters are raking in cash, niche film and music industries have undeniably taken a hit. Lots of bands say album sales are down, and the labels that I follow – and where I used to spend into the hundreds every month – note that...
[12:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Chris Dodd Advised Execs to Give to GOP - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:45] <exec> 08└─Who runs this world? Sony Pictures CEO jokes about getting UK culture minister fired [theregister.co.uk]
[12:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Chris Dodd Advised Execs to Give to GOP - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:47] <exec> 08└─Doctor Who movie mooted in Sony leak [bbc.com] Also: George Clooney's email address Allegations of bullying by David O Russell Jennifer Lawrence needs a lot of private jets Oscar voters had concerns over 12 Years a Slave Rooney Mara wants a Dragon Tattoo sequel Daniel Craig lost $5m on product place...
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[13:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:42] <exec> 08└─But what if so-called "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans? What if it's part of the natural cycle? Hell, what if "Climate Change" doesn't actually exist, and is only a figment of measurements made during an irrelevantly small period of time? Should we still be engaging in such climoengineering?...
[13:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02The fix needs a fix, which needs a fix - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:43] <exec> 08└─We pump CO2 into the atmosphere -> it gets warmer. Then we pump sulphur into the atmosphere -> we get acid rain. Add another compound -> it rains lemons. When do we learn? Oh, we don't, until it becomes a catastrophe. But that is the next generation's problem... Sigh.
[13:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all in the wording - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:53] <exec> 08└─We shouldn't even need goddamn taxis. We need cities where transportation is possible without having to pay some third-worlder far too much money for shitty service, or where we have to pay some hipster far too much money for riskier service. Taxis were very limited before the 1950s, when cities sti...
[13:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:1) 02Re:It's all in the wording - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Taxi companies support turning Uber drivers into taxi drivers. This 1) increases their labor pool, and helps keep wages for drivers low, and 2) gets rid of the competition from Uber. I seriously doubt that taxi drivers support this.
[13:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Re:Will the taxi drivers hold the Uberers' dicks t - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:57] <exec> 08└─Whoever fucked up the moderation of the parent totally missed the point. Uber is about being independent. It's not about getting help from the establishment. It's about shitting on the status quo at all times. It's about doing what's right over doing what's orthodox. It's about independence. It's ab...
[13:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the taxi drivers hold the Uberers' dicks t - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:59] <exec> 08└─That's some bad modding. How can the parent comment be 'spam' when there's no commercial aspect to it? Spam, by its very definition, requires a commercial aspect. Some product must be hawked. If it's not hawking some product, it's not spam.
[13:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SN needs more stories on the home page. - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─Clearly this submission is a dud. It has been up on the front page for hours now, but it still has only 5 comments. Nobody cares about this topic, apparently. When this happens, the SN software should automatically select the next queued story, and get it on the front page. A good story will easily...
[13:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incompetence at its finest - 06AMD Misses Q1 Earnings Target; Withdraws from High-Density Server Market - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:26] <exec> 08└─Engineers and Management suffer under the Bean Counters. They are the stifling influence here.
[13:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:49] <exec> 08└─No, it's worse. It offers no real security, but tricks people like you into thinking it offers security. A false sense of security is worse than no security. A false sense of security combined with no security is even worse than that.
[13:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03btendrich [3700] (Score:1) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:53] <exec> 08└─The same way you don't know that they broke into your house and replaced your laptop with one that will eat your children... The NSA is one of the few technically impressive pieces of the government left (just look at what NASA just let happen!). If they want your stuff bad enough, they will probabl...
[13:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Padlock thing on vacant home doorknobs? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:57] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows how magnets work. Not even physicists and electrical engineers. We can describe what we've observed about them and how they interact with each other and with other matter, but we still don't truly understand how they work.
[13:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disappointing it is stuck on Mach - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:57] <exec> 08└─The NeXT era was 25 years ago! There has been a huge amount of code change since then. Just because the term "mach" is still used in some kernel-level function names it doesn't mean that much of the original Mach code is still present.
[13:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02VM Player (DX9 + OpenGL) - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:42] <exec> 08└─VMWare Workstation, and even the completely Free VM Player (which also Makes VMs - no trial needed), have had full support for DX9 since VM Workstation 7 and also supports OpenGL. It was improved even more in version 9. Please just download the newest Free version of VMPlayer and use it to make a VM...
[13:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VM Player (DX9 + OpenGL) - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:43] <exec> 08└─Of course install Windows into the VM. ;)
[13:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:48] <exec> 08└─NO! You absolutely CAN legally use Windows in a VM, provided you have paid for that copy of it. Microsoft even sells VM software for that purpose. They would LOVE for you to fill up your system with several paid for copies of windows vs just one copy.
[13:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Balderdash [693] (Score:2) 02Re:Chris Dodd Advised Execs to Give to GOP - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:04] <exec> 08└─The site said "please enable JavaScript to view this site".
[13:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution is there the screw you - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, modern agricultural production continues to increase its productivity;
[13:35:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tathra [3367] 02proof of a broken democracy - 06Protester Lands Single-Passenger Gyrocopter on US Capitol Lawn - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:39] <exec> 08└─pretty sad that the only way a citizen can get their representative's attention is either with large sums of money or stunts like this that get you locked up, and we all know that only the former will actually have any kind of effect.
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[14:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:43] <exec> 08└─Parent post is modded funny? Bahhh . . . he states my opinion, and I'm not being even marginally funny. Let me state this again, for those who haven't heard it already. In 1963, my third grade teacher told all of us kids about the interglacial period that we are enjoying. She explained that at diffe...
[14:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The fix needs a fix, which needs a fix - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:45] <exec> 08└─A lot of people fear-monger about the Sahara Desert getting larger every year. While that's true, they conveniently forget to mention that we see deserts in other areas of the world shrinking due to human intervention (such as modern irrigation techniques). If people in Peru, which isn't exactly the...
[14:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The fix needs a fix, which needs a fix - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:47] <exec> 08└─It's likely about the thinking culture and peer trust in different societies. Darwinian competition among societies perhaps.
[14:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The fix needs a fix, which needs a fix - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:49] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that North African societies are inferior to Peruvian society, at least when it comes to intellect and performing work?
[14:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The fix needs a fix, which needs a fix - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:51] <exec> 08└─Ah, climate engineers need to learn from big pharmaceutical corporations..
[14:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The fix needs a fix, which needs a fix - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:52] <exec> 08└─Why would climatologists and climate engineers need to figure out how to create and manufacture pills that make a man's erection last longer?
[14:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Maybe the problem is too much gluten. - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:54] <exec> 08└─I have friend. He is a nutritionist. He says that my health problems (I don't actually have any, though) are caused by gluten. He says that I need to remove gluten from my diet completely, and then the health problems that I don't even have will go away. Maybe the Earth's health problems, even the o...
[14:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does Al Gore still talk about global warming? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:56] <exec> 08└─Does Al Gore still talk about global warming? I haven't heard about anything from him lately, although maybe I'm just out of the loop.
[14:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How many aerosol cans does this require? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:58] <exec> 08└─I'm confused by this whole process. So they want to put aerosol sulphates into the air, right? So that would involve a lot of aerosol cans. My understanding of this whole matter is that it's very carbon-intensive to mine and process the various ores that are used to make aerosol cans. Even the chemi...
[14:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Starship Beowulf [5207] (Score:1) 02Re:How many aerosol cans does this require? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:59] <exec> 08└─Aerosol just means sprayed into the air... not necessarily by hair spray style cans at ground level.
[14:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:01] <exec> 08└─What has been happening to SN? It used to be a lively place, but none of the stories on the front page are even over 50 comments. It's like nobody's commenting any longer. You know what would fix that? A good systemd discussion. There's even a systemd submission [soylentnews.org] that's been sitting...
[14:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:1) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe comment more about the subject? Maybe submit more interesting stories?
[14:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:05] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck would you bother to say, "Maybe submit more interesting stories?" when the comment you replied to links to such a story?
[14:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can you hire someone who can run a website? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:52] <exec> 08└─hey, I think you just broke the fourth wall there. That was very much out of your character compared to your regular posting personality.
[14:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:Padlock thing on vacant home doorknobs? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:12] <exec> 08└─Drifting off-topic, but as a quick PSA: The better term is "real estate agent". You don't have to be a Realtor® to be a real estate agent any more than you have to be a CISSP to be a computer security expert. It's just a trade group that does a lot of marketing and lobbying. And the lobbying is (su...
[14:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:So what danger does it present? and what to do? - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:47] <exec> 08└─First, it's impossible to scuttle a ship on a beach. Scuttling means deliberately sinking; those ships are beached. Second, you're probably referring to the ship-breakers' yards in India or Bangladesh. Those ships aren't "dumped": they've been sold to a ship breaker and delivered to a beach where th...
[14:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:So what danger does it present? and what to do? - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:48] <exec> 08└─They should raise the Independence and properly dispose of her and the radioactive waste. Obviously, this is also an appallingly toxic and dangerous job, which is why I volunteer the US Congress for the job. Let's throw the Supreme Court justices in there too, since they also haven't done any decent...
[14:27:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mtrycz [60] 02Ironic - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:54] <exec> 08└─Here in Italy, industries from around Europe pay "waste-experts", that are actually just mafia, to dispose of their waste. Then the "experts" will put it on an old ship, and make it sink off the coast. That way they get paid both by the industry *and* get their insurance. In the US, it's the governm...
[14:28:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Headline states speculation as fact - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:36] <exec> 08└─New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary
[14:29:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:51] <exec> 08└─After a review of the Wikileaks Sony file, detailing the level of collaboration with RAND Corp and the US Executive Branch plus associated agencies, I believe that in addition to the lawsuits, the original poster is now also due for an extraordinary rendition, as a giver of material support for terr...
[14:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution is there the screw you - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 1964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:53] <exec> 08└─I went to university in biochemistry. We were at the stage of being able to ID chemical structures accurately over 40 years ago. So that's really not the problem, even tho I realise it intuitively seems to be -- since we can't actually see 'em with our eyes. Well, we can now with an electron microsc...
[14:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution is there the screw you - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:54] <exec> 08└─If one can identify chemical composition with precision. Then one could compare on a molecular composition of real cheese with GMO yeast produced cheese and complement any missing molecules. I'll see a problem with all synthetic production using mixing rather than produced by actual cells GMO or not...
[14:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution is there the screw you - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:56] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention, I suspect some confusion over "natural" vs "made in a lab" comes from misunderstanding of 'handedness' (since bioforms make mostly L or D, while a lab-made equivalent can be equal parts L and D): https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling Captain Obvious.... - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:31:53] <exec> 08└─Someday the state will realize the sales tax they forego protecting dealerships isn't worth losing. How are they forgoing sales tax? Sales tax is based on your residence, not where you buy something. Try buying a car out-of-state and you'll find this out very quickly. If you buy a car out-of-state a...
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[15:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:46] <exec> 08└─The modding here has been particularly bad lately. I've seen lots of perfectly fine comments marked as "Troll", lots of serious comments marked as "Funny", many totally-on-topic comments marked as "Off-topc", and so on. I know there were changes earlier about how modding is done and which options ar...
[15:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:47] <exec> 08└─Oh great, here we ago again. A couple of loudmouths who will never be satisfied because moderation doesn't always match their personal version of reality show up, start sqwaking and so we have to fuck with the system in a way that won't make a significant change in the results unless it is so terrib...
[15:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:48] <exec> 08└─There's already a lack of discussion here. Bad modding just makes that worse, when good comments aren't visible by default because somebody screwed up when rating them.
[15:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:50] <exec> 08└─No, they're heeding the warnings of a lot of very smart people who have been studying the climate system for a long time. From the IPCC AR5 synthesis report: https://www.ipcc.ch [www.ipcc.ch] Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have increased s...
[15:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, but I believe we're supposed to be nearing the end of the current interglacial period, which means that things should have been cooling off already. It's possible that we've put off the ice age a bit, which is probably a good thing for us, but that would be a tough balance to hold. I think the...
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:54] <exec> 08└─> But what if so-called "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans? What if it's part of the natural cycle? Irrelevant. If climate change is happening we are fucked regardless of the root cause. > Hell, what if "Climate Change" doesn't actually exist, and is only a figment of measurements made during a...
[15:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:55] <exec> 08└─And even if climate change does exist (which right wingers are starting to acknowledge - finally, and grudgingly) and it turns out to be man made, then the Koch Brothers and their mouthpieces (Fox News, talk radio) will have been more than adequately compensated during their time on earth. And of co...
[15:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:1) 02Re:The fix needs a fix, which needs a fix - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:59] <exec> 08└─You could probably make a good argument that north african countries are less socially minded, after all, aren't they all totalitarian dictatorships for the most part? Not sure about Peru, but I'm pretty sure they're reasonably democratic and they have some prominent communist groups.
[15:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe the problem is too much gluten. - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:03] <exec> 08└─Remind him lead, arsenic, and uranium are also gluten free. Do we have too much gluten in our diets? Maybe but the studies are inconclusive on what rate it should be. Starch heavy diets, which you end up with on a gluten free diet, are not good for segments of the population either. You need to find...
[15:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:How many aerosol cans does this require? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think it matters if the aerosol cans are used at ground level or in the sky. The problem is that so many aerosol cans are needed. The cost of the aerosol cans, both direct and indirect, is not being considered as far as I can tell.
[15:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:11] <exec> 08└─Quality, not quantity. The majority of those large commented stories are the same division point ad nauseum from partisan sides.
[15:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:12] <exec> 08└─100 shitty comments are better than the 10 shitty comments we see now for most stories.
[15:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:14] <exec> 08└─> What has been happening to SN? It used to be a lively place, but none of the stories on the front page are even over 50 comments. The weather got nicer. During the winter people were cooped up inside so more people spent time participating here. Now that it's pleasant outside, people have better t...
[15:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02fools! - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:16] <exec> 08└─the solution is obvious: 1) stop pumping chemicals into the atmosphere! (Yes, this means no more combustion engines!) 2) pull CO2 out of the atmosphere. If we did this on a global scale we could manage to mitigate what we have done in a century.
[15:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fools! - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:18] <exec> 08└─Way to go. You've suggested that we, as a civilization, just stop living. Way to fucking go.
[15:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─The "best place" is as many places as possible. Therefore the fact that it was Syria does not make it a bad choice.
[15:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible place to have put them - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:42] <exec> 08└─Are there a lot of middle easterners on Svalbard? I had no idea.
[15:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Note to the editor - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─In the past, there were complaints about not indicating which parts of the original article were lifted intact. Since then, I have made additional effort to carefully use the blockquote tag. Undoing the effort I put into my submission takes us back to where we started, months ago. -- gewg_
[15:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:A GNU and better job - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:20] <exec> 08└─Nobody has ever woken up one morning to find every instance of a particular operating system inoperable.
[15:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:A GNU and better job - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:29] <exec> 08└─But GNU invented bash! [wikipedia.org]
[15:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:VM Player (DX9 + OpenGL) - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:22] <exec> 08└─Thank you. :)
[15:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:30] <exec> 08└─Right around the time 'piracy' happened consumer interest shifted from purchasing albums to individual sales. It turns out people were sick of getting fleeced. You have to keep cause and effect in mind, here.
[15:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:1) 02Re:Calling Captain Obvious.... - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:07] <exec> 08└─I agree, and in a related note, I was reading about Persian methods of execution/torture. Are you talking about the one with the milk and honey and ants?
[15:33:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] 024 rules of Star Wars: - 06New Trailer Emerges of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:10] <exec> 08└─This video got a lot of attention and was so well done, it's very likely he saw it, I'm just hoping he listened: 4 rules of Star Wars: A fan’s plea to J.J. Abrams [youtube.com] For the non-video folks, here are the rules: The setting is the frontier (it's a western)The future is oldThe force is my...
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Depressing - 06Pew Report on Privacy Habits After the Snowden Leaks - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─Not to worry; I created one years ago just to make sure some jerk didn't create one under my name. But I do not use it; at least, not since one could become a "fan" of something. Well before the like button, commercials, and businesses were on it. The manipulative mother keeps trying to get me to us...
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[16:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─No, the future of civilized air travel does *not* lie with airships, at least not as long as US corporate culture continues as it is. They're simply too slow. We Americans only get a small amount of vacation time every year, so we don't have days and days to spend in an airship flying at a lackadais...
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is not good for men with big junk. - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:47] <exec> 08└─This kind of development is just not good for us men with big fat junk. Ethanol-fueled knows exactly what I'm talking about. It's difficult for us to keep our legs together even in optimal settings. But in a constricted setting such as an airplane or even an SUV, the pressure our testes, scrotes and...
[16:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:This is not good for men with big junk. - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:49] <exec> 08└─You talk as if you had a use for it.
[16:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02AMERKKKANS, STOP COMPLAINING :-) - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:51] <exec> 08└─You are NOT the growth market for air travel - despite being the growth market in waistband-length. This is clearly designed for Asian carriers. These manufacturers, like those of automobiles and espresso machines, know that China is their last hope to find the next golden goose.
[16:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 1856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─"have been studying the climate system for a long time." Define "a long time". These youngsters have been studying for five years? Or, some of the older people have been studying for twenty years? You call that a "long time"? Glacial and interglacial periods are measured in periods of tens and hundr...
[16:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:04] <exec> 08└─Good answer. I've long been convinced that mankind's most harmful affects on the environment is deforestation. People see the lack of vegetation in a desert as the result of to little moisture. Looking at it from another angle, we can just as easily say that there is little moisture because there is...
[16:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:08] <exec> 08└─Al Gore is an example of what we see from the political left on a frequent basis. Outlandish claims are made, without any basis in reality. Several years later, it become obvious that the claims were outlandish. But by that time, the left has moved on to the next talking head, or onto the next subje...
[16:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:10] <exec> 08└─"I’m one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that". - Mitt Romney, 2012 But Mitt must be one of those overly emotional types who gets overwhelmed by feelings worked up over fictional situations, right? We need to listen more to people like Sean Hannity a...
[16:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:13] <exec> 08└─"I like big butts and I can not lie. You other brothers can't deny. That when a girl walks in with an itty, bitty waist, and a round thing in your face you get sprung." - Albert Einstein, 1951
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/01/22/romney-im-one-of-those-republicans-who-thinks-we-are-getting-warmer-and-that-we-contribute-to-that/ [cbslocal.com]
[16:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─http://washington.cbslocal.com/1951/11/19/einstein-im-one-of-those-scientists-who-likes-big-butts/ [cbslocal.com]
[16:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:18] <exec> 08└─> As somebody who is on neither side of the political spectrum, Everybody thinks they are a perfectly reasonable centrist who gives equal balance to all arguments and that everybody else goes to far in either direction. Hint, you claim to be a centrist but then what you actually say proves otherwise...
[16:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:20] <exec> 08└─So agreeing with rightists on climate change, but disagreeing with them on everything else would make one a rightist in your view? That's pretty fucked up!
[16:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:22] <exec> 08└─What if we're trying to fix a problem that doesn't actually exist?
[16:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:32] <exec> 08└─That's just one. You need more to fill up the front page.
[16:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:33] <exec> 08└─Woosh!
[16:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:37] <exec> 08└─Wait, are you saying that climate change is what's responsible for the decline of activity here at SoylentNews?! Fuck, man, this is hitting close to home!
[16:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:39] <exec> 08└─You know what would fix that? A good systemd discussion.
[16:26:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02Re:It's all in the wording - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Taxi companies support turning Uber drivers into taxi drivers. This 1) increases their labor pool, and helps keep wages for drivers low, and 2) gets rid of the competition from Uber. I seriously doubt that taxi drivers support this.
[16:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the taxi drivers hold the Uberers' dicks t - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:55] <exec> 08└─Dude, quit responding to your own posts to bitch about the moderation. Get a life. Nobody fucking cares that your feelings were hurt.
[16:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the taxi drivers hold the Uberers' dicks t - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:57] <exec> 08└─Why are you responding to your own comments, yelling at yourself for responding to your own comments?
[16:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:SN needs more stories on the home page. - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:59] <exec> 08└─It's 06:30 (I'll assume that's converted to my timezone, Eastern). This is a very lowvolume time for a very large segment of Soylents. I don't really think it wood matter if you put up a vi vs. emacs story, it wouldn't gather comments very quickly.
[16:27:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Other seed banks - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:07] <exec> 08└─There are several seed banks scattered around the world. Wiki has a partial list here: http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In addition many universities and agricultural schools have their own seed banks. Some seeds last a long time, but not forever, and some of these banks have t...
[16:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Terrible place to have put them - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:14] <exec> 08└─I expect you know, but a lot of others might not. It's an archipelago far north of Scandinavia proper. Hardly anyone lives there. The population is 2000-odd; large majority Norwegian and most of the minority Russian and Ukrainian. Most of what goes on there is mining, research, and tourism. It is so...
[16:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seed banks are interesting - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:18] <exec> 08└─What would take ten years? They can do it now: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[16:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02sacrifice != risk - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─"What knowledge would Soylentils sacrifice their own lives to save?" Ahmed Amri didn't sacrifice his life. He risked it. Sacrifice your life: A success of the plan will likely cost you your life. Risk your life: A failure of the plan will likely cost you your life.
[16:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:incompetence at its finest - 06AMD Misses Q1 Earnings Target; Withdraws from High-Density Server Market - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:33] <exec> 08└─It was an engineering decision that hamstrung the performance of the Bulldozer, Piledriver and Steamroller core architectures. I can't remember where I read it, more's the pity, but someone from AMD said that they decided to share a single FPU between a pair of logical cores because server workloads...
[16:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:57] <exec> 08└─It absolutely offers some security. The NSA and other agencies with compromised CAs are not the only threat out there. Other threats include ISPs fucking with the data stream like adding supercookies to make every request trackable [forbes.com] and injecting ads or malware [arstechnica.com] and sno...
[16:27:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 619 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:00] <exec> 08└─That's a RMS-like view (no password), and it's a nice ideal. Unfortunately, we don't work in a nice ideal world. How do you know you are downloading a linux install CD? How do you know you're not downloading one which the NSA has hacked back doors into? Check the signature? Where did you download th...
[16:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Padlock thing on vacant home doorknobs? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:06] <exec> 08└─We know how they work. We just don't know why they work. It's probably god. Just not the ICP's ultra-christian version of God.
[16:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:15] <exec> 08└─"Hey, the door you installed me has no lock!" "So what? If you have criminals in your neighbourhood, don't blame the people not installing locks on doors. Catch and punish the burglars!"
[16:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My anti-theft device... - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:40] <exec> 08└─Anybody seen a Windows process I can launch that does nothing but ping a given address every ten minutes or so? In the event a laptop is stolen, start listening for it on the other machine you have already set up the laptop to ping to. Traceroute to it to find out where it is and who their ISP is...
[16:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Disappointing it is stuck on Mach - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:15] <exec> 08└─The NeXT era was 25 years ago! There has been a huge amount of code change since then. Just because the term "mach" is still used in some kernel-level function names it doesn't mean that much of the original Mach code is still present.
[16:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:Anti Piracy - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:10] <exec> 08└─Albums versus individual sales doesn't hold for films, and yet Criterion and Artificial Eye have seen declining sales after most of their films became readily torrentable. With contemporary classical music, people generally want the whole work instead of just an individual movement, and interest in...
[16:31:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Great Summary! - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:12] <exec> 08└─Most of it is from the WikiLeaks press release. I figured it was important to include all the release's example links because the org is going to have an uphill battle convincing people (the media?) that the doc dump is justified.
[16:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Chris Dodd Advised Execs to Give to GOP - 06WikiLeaks Publishes "The Sony Archives" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:25] <exec> 08└─Let's just say you're not missing out on that one.
[16:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Serious Question ... - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:27] <exec> 08└─0) Other people 1) availability of a good source of healthy and safe dog meat at reasonable prices (it's likely dog is going to be more expensive than pig given that dogs tend to eat more meat and gain weight more slowly than pigs or chicken). FWIW I've eaten fried silkworms, bamboo worms in Thailan...
[16:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Calling Captain Obvious.... - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:56] <exec> 08└─Thats the only way to get wealthy for sure, but being wealthy isn't the same as having a successful business.
[16:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Depressing - 06Pew Report on Privacy Habits After the Snowden Leaks - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:32] <exec> 08└─The others also watch Fox "News" or MSNBC
[16:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Depressing - 06Pew Report on Privacy Habits After the Snowden Leaks - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:38] <exec> 08└─Facebook will have a "shadow profile" on you anyway, so its better to have an account so you can have at least some control over the information they have on you, untagging yourself from pictures and such.
[16:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is great for consumers. - 06Cable-Cutters Continue Their Trend - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:27] <exec> 08└─> Et alors? They sold one subsidiary. The one subsidiary that matters - the one with a cable plant. Thus they are no longer aligned with the interests of cable companies and are free to sell streaming video without the worry of hurting themselves. You yourself realized that was the key issue when yo...
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[17:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:44] <exec> 08└─While slower means of travel may indeed not appeal to travelers in the United States, I'm impressed by how popular alternatives to flying are in other parts of the world even as air travel has become commonplace. Europe has seen the development of new longhaul bus networks that have adopted some of...
[17:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score:1) 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:45] <exec> 08└─More reason for telecommuting as an alternate to work travel. I completely understand the advantages of being there in person to press the flesh and many service calls will always require a hands on presence, but I've been on way too many trips where the purpose was just to attend a meeting. As comp...
[17:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:AMERKKKANS, STOP COMPLAINING :-) - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:50] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. For Japan, this model will include boards that the ground crew can use to push more people into the plane before the doors close.
[17:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Not an issue - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 1920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─This is truly a non-issue for me, as the airlines have already made it physically impossible for me to fly in economy. I've got my issues to be sure, but the airlines are hysterical with their moves towards smaller and smaller seats, while Americans are making their asses fatter every day. That's no...
[17:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Math fail - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:54] <exec> 08└─With a 3-5-3 configuration, there are still 6 aisle or window seats, and 5 "middle seats", so the odds of getting a window or aisle seat are STILL better then 50%. It's not exactly complicated math to figure that out.
[17:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Math fail - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:55] <exec> 08└─Why do you think that seat assignment is random? Your chances of not getting stuffed into the cargo hold will be determined by what you are willing to pay for the "upgrade"
[17:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Math fail - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─Indeed, in Europe it's standard that you can choose your seat on check-in, with the only limitation that you cannot choose an already occupied seat. So no, seats are not chosen randomly; the later you check in, the worse your seat will likely be.
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Airbus redemption - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:59] <exec> 08└─http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/17/364708388/flying-donuts-airbus-files-patent-for-a-new-kind-of-plane [npr.org] Make this thing
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Flying sucks - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─I don't know if the terrorists wanted to destroy air travel but the airlines are doing a pretty good job on their own with massive help from The Stupid Assholes. After 9-11, if my family is going somewhere we can drive in less than a day, we don't fly. We spent half a year planning a month long fami...
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:1) 02Vertical Space - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:02] <exec> 08└─Do they actually cram so much luggage below/above deck that they could not shave off a little space to create a two store situation for the middle aisle?
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"it's the new greyhound" - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 2046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─I also like airships. I think the greatest benefit would be to "calm down" the global "hectic spirit" (of traveling) in general. go some place with style and not on a whim and in a hurry! see the world (more then from a high-altitude plane)! i have given it some thought even. problems are: 1) weathe...
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─The moderation matches the community, as a whole. If it does not match up with your personal reality, that means that you are the problem, not the community. Going against the status quo and not going along with circlejerk groupthink is one thing, but (thankfully) this place is far from an echo cham...
[17:26:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kadal [4731] 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 780 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─No, they're heeding the warnings of a lot of very smart people who have been studying the climate system for a long time. From the IPCC AR5 synthesis report: https://www.ipcc.ch [www.ipcc.ch] Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have increased s...
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─Now - if someone were to go back into time, and plant some recording devices so that we could retrieve the data next year, THEN we might agree that we can study climate change. Plant those devices about ten million years in the past, and they will record a few hundred climate changes. Be sure to pla...
[17:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 1876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─I never claimed that the scientists have nothing. I'm stating that "climate change" has been politicized. I'm stating that a lot of people stand to profit on selling this concept of climate change. I state clearly that the UN promotes this climate change, which fits like a hand in a glove with their...
[17:26:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jcross [4009] 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 726 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, but I believe we're supposed to be nearing the end of the current interglacial period, which means that things should have been cooling off already. It's possible that we've put off the ice age a bit, which is probably a good thing for us, but that would be a tough balance to hold. I think the...
[17:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:29] <exec> 08└─Haven't see any proof of agreeing with anything beyond than extreme right on climate change. And since you identify with such an extremist position its going to take a lot to 'balance' that out. Immediate amnesty for illegal aliens. $16 minimum wage That sort of thing.
[17:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science vs. Life? - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:30] <exec> 08└─Why is this even a question?
[17:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Seed banks are interesting - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:34] <exec> 08└─Because there's no use for it to most people. Hopefully in 10 years we'll be able to plug downloaded DNA into bacteria and wait for the results, you know, something like making a tub that produces endless morphine or mescaline. ;)
[17:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seed banks are interesting - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:36] <exec> 08└─LSD-excreting yeast/bacteria
[17:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 2203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:19] <exec> 08└─No, excessive security is insecurity. People do not take security as seriously when it is unnecessary and people see that. Further, there is the false positive problem. Unnecessary security is very bad when it denies access for an invalid reason. For https, I've had the browser pop up the scary warn...
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[18:25:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CRCulver [4390] 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 1057 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:49] <exec> 08└─While slower means of travel may indeed not appeal to travelers in the United States, I'm impressed by how popular alternatives to flying are in other parts of the world even as air travel has become commonplace. Europe has seen the development of new longhaul bus networks that have adopted some of...
[18:25:51] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:51] <exec> 08└─They're simply too slow.
[18:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:AMERKKKANS, STOP COMPLAINING :-) - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:57] <exec> 08└─Then add another floor! My last flight on domestic airline in Korea, I was sitting on a "empty" plane. Yes, the plane was full another story. I was the only person head was above the seat back. So cut the seat backs down, lower the ceiling get another floor in there! Profit Wife's idea Just drug e...
[18:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Flying sucks - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:04] <exec> 08└─We'll drive two days to avoid TSA.
[18:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"it's the new greyhound" - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:07] <exec> 08└─oops, correction "2-3 liter per 100 (hundred) kilometers and passenger" : )
[18:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:"it's the new greyhound" - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:09] <exec> 08└─> if the "running engine side" gets lighter then we have to research this more: a engine that gets lighter, nevermind the thrust and volume of air that it can push out. it just needs to get lighter. now we can put this "getting lighter" engine inside the "balloon" envelope -aka- dirigible and voila...
[18:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Anal raped by the TSA - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:11] <exec> 08└─What's not to love about flying?
[18:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Tight Pack or Loose pack - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:13] <exec> 08└─I'm just hoping they'll stick to "loose pack" and not "tight pack." [pegopera.org]
[18:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:29] <exec> 08└─I am simply not buying into the theory that mankind has changed the environment, to the extent claimed. Oh, yeah, we've CONTRIBUTED to something that we little understand. That is unquestionable.
[18:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WIN-WIN! - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:08] <exec> 08└─well, anything that gets rid of the source of the problem will "reverse global warming" -aka- humans.
[18:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the taxi drivers hold the Uberers' dicks t - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:27] <exec> 08└─Because I'm a total schizo nutjob, if that wasn't clear by the 2nd post it was painfully obvious by the 3rd.
[18:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Certainly not unknown: - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:53] <exec> 08└─Scientists take risks to get knowledge all the time. For a more mundane case, think about volcano researchers who stay close to erupting volcanoes to get measurements on the lead up to a major eruption. Mount St. Helens killed at least one of them. They try to keep the risks reasonable, but there wi...
[18:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:https? why? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:35] <exec> 08└─The good can also be tools of evil if people are satisfied with the so-called good and forget to deal with the evil. Sure, use HTTPS/encryption in cases where it makes sense to do so - but do NOT forget that the evil must still be dealt with. Keep looking for an opportunity to destroy the evil at th...
[18:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:52] <exec> 08└─Using HTTPS with self-signed certificates is equivalent to using SSH with default key generation and settings. In both cases, a new visitor/user does not generally have foreknowledge of the site's cryptographic fingerprints, and a man-in-the-middle attack is possible when the user lacks that knowled...
[18:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is great for consumers. - 06Cable-Cutters Continue Their Trend - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:53] <exec> 08└─I think a big factor is control and copyright law. There can be very many streams if you had many sources - e.g. the viewers and their ISPs and CDNs[1] could also stream copies to others. P2P torrenting scales well especially if ISPs can also legally participate. [1] if you had the $$$$$$$ and were...
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[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Cable News Network"? - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─Come on. It's called CNN these days. So call it that.
[19:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So why do you hate private colleges, gewg_? - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:47] <exec> 08└─So why do you hate private colleges, gewg_? Is it because they tend not to promote the socialist and communist views that are so rampant at public institutions? If these private institutions aren't pushing the leftist views that you hold dear, then they're a "menace" to society?
[19:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So why do you hate private colleges, gewg_? - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:49] <exec> 08└─"leftist" "socialist" "communist" Want to know how I know you've bought into the two party left-vs-right scam like a gullible moron?
[19:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So why do you hate private colleges, gewg_? - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:51] <exec> 08└─Do you have a better term to use for him and his ilk? You know, for people with his type of beliefs? If you've got a better term, let's hear it. I don't really give a fuck what term is used. I'm using ones that people are familiar with.
[19:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why protect people from their own bad decisions? - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:53] <exec> 08└─I can't feel sorry for the victims in this case. Seriously, did they not think about this? If the cost is so prohibitive, then maybe it's not something they should be spending their (or other people's) money on. They should know that they won't "get ahead" by putting themselves so deep into debt, an...
[19:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:56] <exec> 08└─So because these people voluntarily made a bad investment, it's considered okay for them to walk away from the obligations they racked up with others? I think that's wrong. They shouldn't be "bailed out", so to speak, because of their bad decisions. If it was wrong to bail out bankers because of the...
[19:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:57] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, we *did* bail out the bankers... why would we bail out the bankers and not these people?
[19:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─More reason for telecommuting as an alternate to work travel. You're absolutely right about travel just to attend meetings being a waste, and better done by Skype. This is already happening to a large degree, and the whole airship vs. airplane argument is really irrelevant to it: Skype is going to...
[19:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:05] <exec> 08└─That's a very good point actually. But would it be cost-competitive with a regular flight + one night in a hotel? (One night in a hotel is only worth about $100-150.) If not, the corporate bean-counters won't allow it for employees.
[19:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:07] <exec> 08└─After saying the aren't too slow, you describe a romantic overnight flight of what could have been done in under three hours by airplane. Airships have never exceeded 80–100 mph. So in your dinner, movie, nights sleep, shower, breakfast dream, you've invested probably 16 hours in the air. You've c...
[19:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is not good for men with big junk. - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:10] <exec> 08└─I go peepee out of it.
[19:26:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 901 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:34] <exec> 08└─Parent post is modded funny? Bahhh . . . he states my opinion, and I'm not being even marginally funny. Let me state this again, for those who haven't heard it already. In 1963, my third grade teacher told all of us kids about the interglacial period that we are enjoying. She explained that at diffe...
[19:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:39] <exec> 08└─It can't match the community as a whole. A lot of us post as AC. We don't have accounts. We don't want accounts. So we don't get to moderate comments. Thus our views are ignored thanks to the broken moderation system that requires accounts.
[19:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:41] <exec> 08└─Oh woe is you! Moderation is censorship, I don't want to participate so everybody else must do my bidding because logic! or winning! or something. It is the weekend and the moderation whiner is back! Didja skip your meds this week?
[19:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:47] <exec> 08└─Paleoclimatologists look at the rock record, pollen, fossils, ice cores etc. to get time series of proxies for things like temperature and the like.
[19:26:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 1041 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:49] <exec> 08└─Good answer. I've long been convinced that mankind's most harmful affects on the environment is deforestation. People see the lack of vegetation in a desert as the result of to little moisture. Looking at it from another angle, we can just as easily say that there is little moisture because there is...
[19:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:51] <exec> 08└─Let me state this again, for those who haven't heard it already. In 1963, my third grade teacher told all of us kids about the interglacial period that we are enjoying. She explained that at different periods of time, the land that we lived on, the school yard, our entire CITY was buried beneath hun...
[19:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:53] <exec> 08└─> I'm not being even marginally funny. Just because you aren't intentionally being funny doesn't mean you aren't a laughingstock. > Let me state this again, for those who haven't heard it already. In 1963, my third grade teacher told all of us kids about the interglacial period that we are enjoying....
[19:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:The fix needs a fix, which needs a fix - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:09] <exec> 08└─A lot of people fear-monger about the Sahara Desert getting larger every year. While that's true, they conveniently forget to mention that we see deserts in other areas of the world shrinking due to human intervention (such as modern irrigation techniques).
[19:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe the problem is too much gluten. - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─What is your basis that gluten free diets end up being starch heavy? I am on a gluten and dairy free diet, and my starch consumption is likely less now than before the change in diet. Meat and vegetables are gluten free. The common sources of gluten are starch-based (e.g wheat). Not unless you can s...
[19:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is SN so dead lately? - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:26] <exec> 08└─You're completely wrong. One hundred crappy comments is empirically worse than ten crappy comments, as when someone chooses to post a good comment, it is measurably harder to find the one good comment among the 100 pieces of garbage than among the ten.
[19:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the taxi drivers hold the Uberers' dicks t - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:48] <exec> 08└─You're really fucked up, son.
[19:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Terrible place to have put them - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:05] <exec> 08└─Which is more crazy, a place teeming with sociopaths, or another place that let people from the first place immigrate with little fuss?
[19:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Science vs. Life? - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:08] <exec> 08└─I have lived much more than any mortal ought to
[19:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Padlock thing on vacant home doorknobs? - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:05] <exec> 08└─There's absolutely zero reason to even think a god exists, let alone think that it makes magnets work.
[19:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:18] <exec> 08└─"Hey, the door you installed me has no lock!" "So what? If you have criminals in your neighbourhood, don't blame the people not installing locks on doors. Catch and punish the burglars!"
[19:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:19] <exec> 08└─Well, I have all-metal doors and all the windows also have metal bars. That should slow down the fuckers.
[19:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:21] <exec> 08└─Well, I have all-metal doors and all the windows also have metal bars. That should slow down the fuckers
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[20:26:05] <exec> 08└─get a room
[20:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So why do you hate private colleges, gewg_? - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:06] <exec> 08└─If these private institutions aren't pushing the leftist views that you hold dear, then they're a "menace" to society?
[20:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:So why do you hate private colleges, gewg_? - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe he just hates the ones that defraud their students.
[20:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Why protect people from their own bad decisions - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:11] <exec> 08└─I disagree with this view because the prey that these for-profit colleges go after are exactly the people who know little about education and want to better their lives. I've looked some at the high-pressure sales tactics that these colleges use. They remind me of television evangelists and rent-to-...
[20:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why protect people from their own bad decisions - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:13] <exec> 08└─The act of obtaining an education inherently requires intelligence. The basic level of intelligence needed to get an education in the first place should be more than enough to allow somebody to see when a bad deal is involved. The fact that they have to go to multiple lenders should be a sign that s...
[20:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Why protect people from their own bad decisions - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─the prey that these for-profit colleges go after are exactly the people who know little about education and want to better their lives.
[20:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:17] <exec> 08└─Mistakes do get made. It was a mistake that that happened. That's why we shouldn't make the same mistake again. If these people are bailed out, then somebody who decides to invest his money by shoving it up his ass, shitting it into the toilet and flushing it away should be compensated. Of course, t...
[20:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:20] <exec> 08└─Here's a suggestion: what if we take all the money we gave the bankers back and gave it to these people who were preyed upon?
[20:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:21] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck would we do that? So they can waste it getting another shitty, useless education from another sketchy institution?
[20:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:25] <exec> 08└─At least, that way the money would return back into the economy instead of the pockets of the 0.01%
[20:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:27] <exec> 08└─The idea is that the people who made the bad investment did it after being deceived as to the value of the product being offered. If you buy a diamond and get a granite pebble, you've been defrauded and normally the law tends to go after whoever does the defrauding so they won't keep doing it. The k...
[20:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:29] <exec> 08└─If you can't evaluate a product or service that you're considering buying, especially one costing tens of thousands of dollars, then it should be obvious that you shouldn't be spending your money on this product or service.
[20:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:31] <exec> 08└─You're trying to evaluate the education you need in order to make the determination of whether or not the education you're about to purchase is worth it... Your logic makes as much sense as: I need this job to gain experience which I need to apply for this job.
[20:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:34] <exec> 08└─No, it's different. In order to consume an education, one needs to already have some intellectual abilities. These abilities will exist prior to receiving any education. The education just enhances what's already there. The basic level of intellectual ability needed prior to pursuing an education sh...
[20:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:37] <exec> 08└─I've been behind these people at the grocery store, waiting while they're paying for their groceries with welfare chits. They always have the latest iPhone, or maybe one revision back at worst. They're chattering away on their iPhones, talking about how they saw on Facebook that one of their "baby d...
[20:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:40] <exec> 08└─Trains are probably a decent option in Europe with the Eurorail
[20:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 1811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:41] <exec> 08└─The "value-add" is a lot more than a single night in the hotel. It's also a day's worth of car rental, whatever meals are served, and potentially that much of the per diem. And, on top of it...you get an entire extra day of productivity. Today, you lose an entire day, for all intents and purposes, t...
[20:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score:1) 02Re:AMERKKKANS, STOP COMPLAINING :-) - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:48] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:AMERKKKANS, STOP COMPLAINING :-) - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:50] <exec> 08└─Asians are getting bigger too. You realize that Chinese, Koreans and Japanese are not inherently "smaller" than caucasians, right? It's a case of nutrition. As economies and diets improve in what were previously rather poor countries, heights, widths, weights and girths also increase over time to ma...
[20:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AMERKKKANS, STOP COMPLAINING :-) - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:53] <exec> 08└─"Girths"? As in penis girth?
[20:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not an issue - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:54] <exec> 08└─Seat spacing and and width are starting to get more attention in the press lately. http://consumertraveler.com [consumertraveler.com] http://www.runwaygirlnetwork.com
[20:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Math fail - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:56] <exec> 08└─It's the same for US carriers. The only airline I've flown where this isn't the case is RyanAir, where it is if you're willing to pay a few pounds more to pick a seat (if not then you get randomly assigned from the seats that no one picked). I suspect that a lot of people don't realise this because...
[20:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Propose a better solution then - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:06] <exec> 08└─Many major western airports are operating at or close to capacity, so more wings in the air isn't feasible. Meanwhile, the demand for cheaper fares has been relentless. Larger airplanes seems possible, but so far, market interest for the larger A380-900 [leblogfinance.com] variant has been weak and...
[20:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Quit whining - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:08] <exec> 08└─Economy is, as the name implies, a "cut price" ticket. You want to be treated like a civilized person I recommend business class. You want to be treated like royalty, try first class. Wait what, it's more expensive? Well duh. Pay up or shut up.
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[20:27:10] <exec> 08└─Precisely how I see this. All I see in the comments section here is a bunch of whiny entitled people crying over first-world problems. If they want their space, they need to pay for it. There's simply no way around it, many airlines are already marginally profitable as-is, while the regulatory burde...
[20:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02The hell with flying - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:12] <exec> 08└─The only civilized method of "air" travel is via the transporter. No rude passengers, no crying babies in the row behind you, no suicidal pilots, Beam me up, Scotty! But if I can't have a transporter, I'll take a flying carpet. I want to travel in luxury!
[20:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe the problem is too much gluten. - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:57] <exec> 08└─is likely less now Ah so you have measured it? Before and after? Unless you swing more to a carb free diet (adkins, etc) then you end up with rice, potato to hold things together instead of wheat.
[20:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe the problem is too much gluten. - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:58] <exec> 08└─"Nutritionist" is not a protected title, dietitian is a protected title. Anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. A nutritionist is to a dietitian what a toothologist is to a dentist.
[20:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all in the wording - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:24] <exec> 08└─Cities have NEVER had adequate infrastructure for mass transit. The great Los Angeles "Red Car" myth is always thrown up when this discussion comes up. It might be worth looking into it. Red Line was itself a conspiracy of land developers, and never actually served the cities needs. Channelized tran...
[20:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incompetence at its finest - 06AMD Misses Q1 Earnings Target; Withdraws from High-Density Server Market - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:16] <exec> 08└─> whoever then made the decision to use the architecture line intended for server workloads in consumer CPUs really screwed up. Why is that? You state it like it's a given. But what does the typical consumer do with his desktop that is floating-point constrained? Maybe some filters in photoshop. Bu...
[20:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:The Club is a Dud - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:18] <exec> 08└─It still applies though, perhaps moreso. You can either unlock the car without the club, get in and drive away looking exactly like you own the car, or you can hack away at the steering wheel of a car with the club looking like a car thief.
[20:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Disappointing it is stuck on Mach - 06GNU Hurd 0.6 Released, Still x86, Still 32-bit - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:07] <exec> 08└─It's not a microkernel. The BSD server runs entirely in kernel mode and there is no separation between portions of the kernel. The fact that a chunk of the code originated in a microkernel doesn't make it a microkernel: all BSD derivatives contain a VM subsystem derived Mach VM, but that doesn't mak...
[20:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah... no. - 06New Trailer Emerges of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:32] <exec> 08└─Meh. The Timothy Zahn books had a much richer story than even the original films. Part of the problem with the prequels was that the standard for what can be done in the Star Wars universe had been set a lot higher by them (and a number of the LucasArts games), yet the prequels managed to be even wo...
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[21:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Opinions not supported by the evidence - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:56] <exec> 08└─so rampant For those who clearly never attended college and have no idea what goes on on campuses: Since the 1950s when Milton Friedman invented the word "Neoliberal", no economic system other than Capitalism has been taught at the vast majority of USAian colleges. Indeed, many students have complai...
[21:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Opinions not supported by the evidence - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:58] <exec> 08└─...and when exactly did lying, cheating, and stealing become a legit business model?
[21:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why protect people from their own bad decisions - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:02] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they chose these schools because of the high placement rates and employment opportunities these schools fraudulently misrepresented? They were flat out lied to and swindled. These students were trying to get a shot at employment in a country that has offshored millions of jobs, and is bringi...
[21:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:13] <exec> 08└─In order to consume an education
[21:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:15] <exec> 08└─If you've learned something from this thread then you owe us $14,329.87. We'll email your certificate to the same address registered to your PayPal account. Don't forget to apply for our "Thread Master's Program" where we offer mod points and a starting karma position of 10 points (12 points if you...
[21:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:No airships - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:32] <exec> 08└─This way, you don't lose any productivity; you leave work as normal one day in one city and go to work as normal the next day in a different city.
[21:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Shut up Steve. - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─Quite relevant. [imgur.com]
[21:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the taxi drivers hold the Uberers' dicks t - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:26] <exec> 08└─Yes you are.
[21:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Its up to uber. - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:29] <exec> 08└─Start using that money to lobby against bill sb1280, among other things. Push to repeal laws! Go offensive! Fight! The run is over cash out?
[21:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Wikipedia's list of seed banks - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:40] <exec> 08└─Clearly, Wikipedia's list was meant to include only those sources that won't be rejected by everyone who is made an offer. -- gewg_
[21:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Other seed banks - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:41] <exec> 08└─WHAT THE!!!!????!! Don't tell everyone: next thing you know, Monsanto will be suing every seed bank in the world! Christ, man... whatwereyouthinking?????? :)
[21:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Club is a Dud - 06New York Times Columnist Falls Prey to Signal Repeater Car Burglary - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:16] <exec> 08└─Ok. Your epenis is about 10 seconds longer than mine. Winning!
[21:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling Captain Obvious.... - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─SOME states structure the tax so that it's owed for out of state transactions, others not.
[21:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:That guy needs to shut the F up - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:03] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that zoning has (mostly) been outsourced. Of course, there are cases like: Similarly, air and water quality regulations keep Pollution Heavy factories out of population centers
[21:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:How bout government getting along with techies? - 06Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:11] <exec> 08└─So your position is that Socrates committed suicide and the state was blameless?
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[22:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does this work against all cancers? - 06Another Cancer Immunotherapy Success - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:47] <exec> 08└─Does this work against all cancers? Would it even work against cancers of the scrotum and its contents?
[22:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Clarification - 06Another Cancer Immunotherapy Success - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:48] <exec> 08└─the drugs worked so well that it would be unethical to continue
[22:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:So why do you hate private colleges, gewg_? - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:00] <exec> 08└─I see, so the right-wing view is that victims of fraud should be stuck with the student loans they would never had but for the fraud. In a sanity match between you and gewg_, you are the ant and he is the guy with size 13EEEE shoes.
[22:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Opinions not supported by the evidence - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:06] <exec> 08└─Being a dumbass buyer and crying for people to bail you out after you repeatedly make bad purchases only came into vogue after the rise of communism and socialism. Both of those ideologies promote irresponsibility.
[22:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why protect people from their own bad decisions - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:11] <exec> 08└─You're pretty excellent at being smug. The fact is, since the mid-90s we've decimated the economy for jobs that don't require higher education. Back in the early 90s when I was finishing college and through the middle 90s when I went to law school, I was smug like you, deriding all the stupid people...
[22:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Why protect people from their own bad decisions - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 2202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:12] <exec> 08└─Intelligence helps but is not enough to detect fraud. Many young people can be very intelligent and at the same time very naive and inexperienced with predation, having been thoroughly sheltered by zealous parents. To detect fraud, you must also have knowledge, which requires education. And even the...
[22:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:21] <exec> 08└─Banksters: committed fraud. Students: victims of fraud. We should not bail out people who engage in fraud, and we should bail out fraud victims.
[22:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:22] <exec> 08└─The students aren't victims. Nobody forced them to register at such schools. Nobody forced them to take out large loans to pay for this schooling. The students participated in this voluntarily. You can only become a victim involuntarily. You can't become a victim when you participate voluntarily in...
[22:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:29] <exec> 08└─Smart people do stupid shit all the time as soon as they get out of the area in which they have knowledge or skill. This why people look for accreditation when choosing a school, or board certification when choosing a neurologist, or any such certification in any area, because no matter how brillian...
[22:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:31] <exec> 08└─You clearly don't comprehend fraud. If they had been told "this education is 2x most other schools, and you have a 10% chance of getting a job in your chosen field on graduation" -- then yeah, I could buy the idea that the students made a bad choice. That didn't happen here -- the students were indu...
[22:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:33] <exec> 08└─If the student believed those claims without verifying them independently, and then voluntarily paid the school a huge sum of money, then it was the student who fucked up. The student fucked up first by not verifying the claims, and once again by paying out a large sum of money without having verifi...
[22:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:35] <exec> 08└─There was also a matter of fraud used to induce them to enter the situation. Because there was fraud, surely even the most extreme libertarian should be able to see that the students obligations are at an end and that the school needs to be the one paying any additional obligations they fraudulently...
[22:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:AMERKKKANS, STOP COMPLAINING :-) - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:59] <exec> 08└─Just drug everyone and stack as firewood
[22:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Tight Pack or Loose pack - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:15] <exec> 08└─I understand they're working on a new system to help people find their seat and fit properly now. They'll just stage people at the entrance to the plane and then operate the new people mover to carry them to their p[lace on the plane. Here's a youtube video [youtube.com] of the prototype. As you can...
[22:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:The hell with flying - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:21] <exec> 08└─I flew back from Sydney a couple of days ago. Got bumped up to First for the Singapore leg, mostly empty cabin, delightful. SnOed a couple of times, had a bowl of soup when I woke up, perfectly fine way to spend 8 hours. Had to slum it in business for the sin-hel leg, but still got a good 8 hours sl...
[22:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:39] <exec> 08└─Well, that just crimps it! More modding that tries to censor perfectly good crazy conspiracy theories! When are you going to wake up, sheeple! ACs can even mod down posts by actual users! I ask you, is this fair? Where else in history have we seen this kind of mind-control? Could it be, SATAN? Clim...
[22:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:46] <exec> 08└─I'm stating that "climate change" has been politicized.
[22:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if "Climate Change" isn't caused by humans - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:49] <exec> 08└─> It's "not perfect" means it's not good enough for global scale policy decisions. Like the unrestricted release of co2 through the daily burning of hundreds of millions of gallons of oil?
[22:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the taxi drivers hold the Uberers' dicks t - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:51] <exec> 08└─Your autism is showing.
[22:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"suicide [...] nasty and humiliating" - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:17] <exec> 08└─A number of people do it each year by accident. Some think that they have discovered a more affordable method of heating their living space and some think that cooking indoors using outdoors equipment is a brilliant idea that no one has thought of before. carbon.monoxide+grill [google.com] Those who...
[22:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Who owns the genes?" - 06Risking Your Life for Science - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:25] <exec> 08└─We previously discussed a related topic. Seminis (Monsanto) Uses Open [Broccoli] IP and Shades the Original Innovators' Work [soylentnews.org] -- gewg_
[22:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of HTTPS less a problem than bad CAs - 06The Website Tech of Presidential Candidates Compared - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:29] <exec> 08└─HTTPS as-is does not "get results" today, which was the point originally being made. While there are limited use cases where HTTPS as-is does offer some benefit, those benefits are overshadowed by the system's brokenness. People pointing to as-is HTTPS as a "practical solution" are lazy, ignorant, o...
[22:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:USS Ronald Reagan - 06Scientists Find Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:56] <exec> 08└─"The New York Times “basically rewrites whatever the Kiev authorities say" Stephen F. Cohen on the U.S./Russia/Ukraine history the media won’t tell you [salon.com] It’s one hand clapping in our major newspapers and in our broadcast networks. So that’s where we are.
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[23:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clarification - 06Another Cancer Immunotherapy Success - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:46] <exec> 08└─Do you know this to be true, or are you just speculating?
[23:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Clarification - 06Another Cancer Immunotherapy Success - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[23:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clarification - 06Another Cancer Immunotherapy Success - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:50] <exec> 08└─What happens if the short term benefits are just that, short term benefits? What if in the long run an experimental treatment causes much worse cancers to develop? It does no good to clear up one's skin cancer if the treatment will cause far deadlier cancer of the gonads. Halting testing because of...
[23:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Clarification - 06Another Cancer Immunotherapy Success - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks for clarifying (if that is what actually happened). I was trying to figure out if that was sarcasm, or what exactly that meant.
[23:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Clarification - 06Another Cancer Immunotherapy Success - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:54] <exec> 08└─It was unethical to continue depriving a small handful of them of drugs. A nice thought but you can bet this will priced such that it will be depriving MILLIONS and MILLIONS of people of the drug until the patent wears off. And that is when is finally comes out. Yet another corrupt system trying to...
[23:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02We need more research like this. - 06Another Cancer Immunotherapy Success - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:56] <exec> 08└─We need more research like this to be done. For example, in the Linux world there's a cancer called systemd. It is infecting healthy distros left and right, and it basically causes them to self-destruct. Debian is very stricken right now by this illness, and is just barely hanging on. If only there...
[23:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So why do you hate private colleges, gewg_? - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:07] <exec> 08└─gewg_ has elephantiasis of the feet?
[23:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"if we take all the money we gave the bankers" - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:25] <exec> 08└─You're onto something there. USA.gov could fund education for less than half of what is current being pissed away on this--with identical results. Just cut out the unnecessary middlemen. In fact, How The Government Could Make Public College Free For All Students[1] [googleusercontent.com] (orig[1])...
[23:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"if we take all the money we gave the bankers" - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:27] <exec> 08└─Every other attempt at socialism or communism has failed miserably. Why the fuck do you honestly think that applying those failed ideologies to higher education would be any different?
[23:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Keeps displaying his ignorance - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:29] <exec> 08└─I've posted on this topic several times before. Become less ignorant. [google.com] -- gewg_
[23:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keeps displaying his ignorance - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:31] <exec> 08└─I don't get what you're trying to accomplish here. Why are you linking to a Google Image search for "pierced scrotum"? What do pictures of scrotal piercings have to do with the many flaws of your beloved leftist crackpot ideas?
[23:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:33] <exec> 08└─God, you are stupid. Fraud doesn't have to with "force" as in hold a gun to your head. Fraud means you induce an action a person would otherwise not take, by lying to or misleading that person. This takes the ability to make a choice out of the hands of the victim's hands. If you can't understand th...
[23:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:35] <exec> 08└─The students may have been willing participants in somebody else's fradulent scheme. I'm not disputing that. But they were not victims. They voluntarily chose to attend these schools, perhaps based on incomplete information. They voluntarily chose to pay large amounts of money to these schools they...
[23:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:37] <exec> 08└─You are a very negative person. All I'm seeing out of you is stuff like "You are a total retard." or "God, you are stupid." Maybe you need to find some source of happiness in your life.
[23:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:47] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not affiliated with any college. I just support the notion that irresponsible people who make really fucking dumb decisions should have to face the consequences of those dumb decisions.
[23:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:This sets a bad precedent. - 06Update: Corinthian Colleges Fined $30M for Fraud - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:49] <exec> 08└─Caveat Idioti? Carpe dimes? Moron Labia? There were just asking for it. Semper Fraudulatus!
[23:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe the problem is too much gluten. - 06Warning Over Aerosol Climate Fix - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:31] <exec> 08└─My consumption of rice and potatoes had not changed. I was a big bread eater, so the diet change eliminated the amount of bread consumed drastically. Changing one starch for another does not necessarily equate to an increase in overall starch intake. Your "hold things together" statement indicates t...
[23:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Its up to uber. - 06Taxi Drivers Helping Uber Drivers - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:03] <exec> 08└─Push to repeal laws! Go offensive!
[23:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Mission Impossible Statement Generator! - 06AMD Misses Q1 Earnings Target; Withdraws from High-Density Server Market - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:50] <exec> 08└─Behind the facade of this innocent looking PC environment, our vision is to synergistically supply performance based products as well as continue to competently create interdependent paradigms. Restructuring outgoing workflows, thereby initiating a rebalancing of production leading to a stronger thi...
[23:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Vegans vs. GMO - 06Real Vegan Cheese: Coming From a Yeast to You - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:34:42] <exec> 08└─Isn't it harder to filter particles out of a solid object, as opposed to a liquid?
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