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[00:14:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 4222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:54] <exec> 08└─I just got a very close-up view of this here in Arizona. A few years ago I put a bunch of panels on my rooftop. Best financial investment of my life; I haven't had an electric bill since then and they'll have paid themselves off in a few more years. It's roughly the equivalent of the returns you'd g...
[00:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:56] <exec> 08└─Tesla's Gigafactory is going to be coming online soon, and they're going to be selling batteries for home use not just for solar customers but for everybody; the idea is that you charge the batteries at off-peak times and run your house off them during on-peak times, effectively always paying off-pe...
[00:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free Software Foundation - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:18] <exec> 08└─I never saw the advantage of targeting every compiler when one compiler can target everything
[00:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Easy solution - forget SystemD - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:37] <exec> 08└─No wonder he became a third-rate villain, the guy's understanding of statistics rivals that of a liberal arts major.
[00:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why encrypt? TLS does not hide Video Signatures - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:38] <exec> 08└─> A video (and most other content) can be identified even while encrypted by the traffic signature it generates One pause/rewind/fastforward and that's out. > Any CA can be compelled to generate a false cert for use by state actors, State actors aren't the threat in this scenario. It is your ISP and...
[00:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:science... - 06Social Science Journal 'Bans' Use of p-values - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:53] <exec> 08└─American scientists have found a gigantic teddy bear behind the moon.
[00:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:"Everybody uses the same software" - 06How are Vulnerabilities Distributed in Codebases? How must the NSA act? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:29] <exec> 08└─No sane CPU would shine any instruction decoding onto such a dark orifice ;-)
[00:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shooting the messenger, eh? - 06Hacker on a Plane: FBI Seizes Researcher’s Gear - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:23] <exec> 08└─It's like that Eminem song 'Rap Game' only it's about the assinine 'security scene' amd manuevering around in it. Alternately it is about 'outsmarting' but that's not a fair interpretation anymore - like bringing nukes to a shootout and your own camera crew. Nice attempt at a cover but I had to say...
[00:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Different Idea for Cinemas - 064DX Adds Rainstorm, Snow, Warm Air Effects - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:57] <exec> 08└─I have thought for a while that given the now ubiquity of smartphones and computers that they could make movies with n-dimensional plots, where you could add on new modules to the main story line that audiences can opt to follow in the theater, so that the show follows that plot branch instead of th...
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[01:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like new spyware - 06Google Touts QUIC Protocol - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:41] <exec> 08└─"QUIC clients store information about QUIC-enabled servers that have been connected to previously, allowing a secure connection to be established immediately (zero-round-trip)." So the client remembers and reuses. Since it is in the channel, it can also report aback about of the other sites you been...
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like new spyware - 06Google Touts QUIC Protocol - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:42] <exec> 08└─Only if you keep the 'connection' open. At which point it would I guess start at 0 again? Or were you speculating too?
[01:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03arashi no garou [2796] (Score:2) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:06] <exec> 08└─Because that's the way this is headed. Not that long from now the norm is going to be off-grid local generation with grid ties becoming mostly vestigial, just the same way that everybody'd got mobile phones and landlines are dying off more and more. Yes, there'll be a place for the grid for a long t...
[01:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:08] <exec> 08└─Another entitled yuppie crying because his government handout went away. The only thing worse is the screaming from the electric car owners when someone suggests that they should pay to maintain the roads that they drive on, that were historically paid for through Gas taxes. You've gotten used to th...
[01:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:10] <exec> 08└─Another cave man with barely two brain cells to rub together, bought and paid for by Big Oil to keep spreading FUD and flaming anyone who dares to stand up to their bullying practices. Did you miss the part where the OP is being charged an extra fee on top of what he might pay for any power usage, a...
[01:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:greed ruins it all for everyone - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:12] <exec> 08└─i wonder if its even possible to buy back or regain control of our government.
[01:15:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Free Software Foundation - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 998 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:31] <exec> 08└─That is nitpicking. You will never get U.S. legislation on net neutrality that doesn't have the "lawful content" language somewhere. Meanwhile, EFF heavily supports privacy, encryption, anonymity protections and technologies. They support the means to allow access [eff.org] to the "unlawful" or cens...
[01:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02My 3 - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:39] <exec> 08└─Dunno why I don't branch out, but for 20 years I donate every year to the EFF, Alzheimer's Foundation, and Helen Woodward Animal Center.
[01:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:1) 02Re:AES? - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:32] <exec> 08└─When the streams are something as big as high-resolution videos, once-per-stream handshakes are not going to drag you down.
[01:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Multicast - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:42] <exec> 08└─1) Multicast works within IPv4 2) People can join streams that starts every 5 seconds or so.
[01:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:You mean re-encrypt the already encrypted strea - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:54] <exec> 08└─HTTP isn't going anywhere any time soon, so I don't think that's much of a concern - I'm positive it's here to stay for at least another 20 years. Plus, worst case they could use their own custom protocol if, for whatever bizarre reason application stacks somehow stopped supporting HTTP.
[01:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Most p=0.05 is bollocks - 06Social Science Journal 'Bans' Use of p-values - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:14] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll edificate what I can. Your talk about phrasing is both right and wrong. Confidence level 0.05 can mean there is only a 1 in 20 chance that the conclusion is wrong if and only if conditions are met, null and alternative are well and strictly defined, and finally the conclusion must only be...
[01:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flying sucks - 06Oh Good: Airbus Wants to Pack 11 Passengers Into One Row - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─Very AMEN! I did job interview, 30hr round trip enjoyed the time to relate and just drive. If you do go back to Europe. Drive to Canada and fly direct. Or Fly though Mexico, very relaxed after getting out of US. Also get Europe Rail tickets and enjoy. Any train and time, just step on. And they take...
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[14:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:38] <exec> 08└─what's the point in keeping it closed source? it certainly won't help security. seems more likely that like utorrent, you are going to end up with advertisements. it's closed source garbage, dont even bother with it.
[14:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03BTRE [4612] (Score:1) 02Re:closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah being closed defeats the point. If it's not peer-reviewed there's no reason to trust some unknown group not to spy on you. My bet is that they'll eventually commercialize the project or just outright sell it off to one of the big corps looking for a way to decrease loads on their servers.
[14:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Tolerance. - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:47] <exec> 08└─California's tolerance for gay orgies, cocaine use, neckbeardism and basement-dwelling, and lots of cheap labor for gardening and housekeeping.
[14:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Perfect record - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:48] <exec> 08└─(and the long-standing joke is that economists have predicted 11 out of the past three)
[14:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Explanatory Does Not Equal Predictive - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:50] <exec> 08└─As a Chicago School-trained economist, the absolutely most exasperating thing about models for me was that they only ever aspired to be explanatory. There was never talk of forming testable hypotheses and then going out and testing them, you know, like a scientist would do. Of course when you are de...
[14:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Really Cares - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:57] <exec> 08└─Just imagine if they were studying the reproductive system.
[14:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Really Cares - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:59] <exec> 08└─A dangerous path indeed. - "how was the day at school?" - "Neuroanatomy 101 gave me a headache, SexEd 101 gave me syphilis, but Chemistry 101 was a blast."
[14:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Pah - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:00] <exec> 08└─If she really cared, she'd have the top of her head sliced off. No commitment, some people.
[14:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Pah - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, but which section goes with fava beans and a nice chianti? Let's not be hasty, we don't want the brain to get stale while we decide which parts to eat!
[14:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Worse than not doing it - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:04] <exec> 08└─If viewed from any angle except perpendicular to the skull at the point, the regions drawn on the scalp are not where they are on the brain "below". So this is worse than just a set of pictures of the brain with regions marked, and definitely worse than a cheap plastic model. This is just a crappy p...
[14:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not necessarily - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:06] <exec> 08└─How many students wish she were teaching anatomy?
[14:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02What's this? - 06Google Releases New Project Loon Video - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:14] <exec> 08└─Project Loon
[14:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Is this related to Google Actual Cloud? - 06Google Releases New Project Loon Video - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:16] <exec> 08└─Google seems to do a lot of research in high-flying projects [google.com] lately...
[14:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score:1) 02Yup, Lots of Fun - 06Google Releases New Project Loon Video - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:17] <exec> 08└─"Cool projects going" until they pull the plug on them.
[14:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, Lots of Fun - 06Google Releases New Project Loon Video - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pulling the plug on a balloon is not going to be funny. But it gives a whole new meaning to "my connection is down".
[14:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, Lots of Fun - 06Google Releases New Project Loon Video - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:21] <exec> 08└─They give most projects about 2 years to see if they will do anything. If not they try something else. They do not have infinite resources...
[14:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02They never give up, do they? - 06Google Releases New Project Loon Video - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:23] <exec> 08└─They never give up, do they? Its another project to gather all communications. Remember when google street view cars "accidentally" gathered all wifi communications? Whats next? All cellphone data? All radio noise? (there used to be receivers installed in toll booths somewhere that received any near...
[14:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other concerns - 06New Nudge Technology Prods You to Take Action - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:31] <exec> 08└─Or worse, Use of a self monitoring device that is net linked and you don't control the other end seems dumb. I am not pushing buyer beware as we clearly need to educate people that using such devices means that some one else has access to their information. And it could be used to alter insurance, t...
[14:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02It's official. - 06New Nudge Technology Prods You to Take Action - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:32] <exec> 08└─I'm becoming an agnostic. I may even become an atheist. No real God could create such a stupid species as mankind. We need a machine to tell us when we should drink a glass of water? WTF? I'm just about convinced. If there was a God, then God is dead. And, there is no hope for mankind. We will conti...
[14:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:1) 02Re:It's official. - 06New Nudge Technology Prods You to Take Action - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:34] <exec> 08└─We have bred cattle to be so stupid that they cannot tell when they need to find shade. Instead, if a rancher doesn't intervene, cows will die of heat exhaustion without ever seeking out a remedy to the heat. Rich people think of poor people as cattle. I share your disillusionment.
[14:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:It's official. - 06New Nudge Technology Prods You to Take Action - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:36] <exec> 08└─I believe Douglas Adams had this figured out years ago, in So Long and Thanks For All The Fish. I read it as a kid, and the entire concept stuck with me all these years. It isn't limited to just IT and weird gadgets; consider the pet rock of the 70s. In any event, I want to avoid highlighting other...
[14:21:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02How about lie detectors? - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 1101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:47] <exec> 08└─In one of my jobs, I was required to submit to a lie detector test. Yes, I was nervous. Some suited tie-guy was going to determine my career with the company based on how conductive my skin was, and what his interpretation of it was. Now, all of us who have gone to school know about the trick questi...
[14:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:How about lie detectors? - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:53] <exec> 08└─But... but... I GOT PEOPLE SKILLS! WHY THE FUCK DONT YOU UNDERSTAND! CUSTOMERS MUST NOT DEAL WITH ENGINEERS BECAUSE I HAVE FUCKING PEOPLE SKILLS!
[14:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about lie detectors? - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:58] <exec> 08└─This pseudoscientific garbage shouldn't be used by anyone, and especially not by the government.
[14:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:How about lie detectors? - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:00] <exec> 08└─Hey, now, be nice. It worked on Aldrich Ames [wikipedia.org].
[14:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Off topic thoughts. - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:03] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Pal - computer components are assembled by unskilled labor in sweatshops in Asia. Those components are shopped from places like Newegg, and assembled into a working computer right here on my own desk. Experts? Yeah - there are some experts involved in the designing of computers. More "experts...
[14:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Off topic thoughts. - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:07] <exec> 08└─Whooosh! That was the sound of your post going right over my head. It took some time to for me to catch on. *sigh*
[14:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Off topic thoughts. - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 1932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:09] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty lame attempt to draw analogies. Automobiles are sold to members of the public, many of whom tear into those automobiles, and alter them in any number of ways. In fact, I've done so, with older, less sophisticated models. My sons have done so. One of my sons enjoys modifying motorcycl...
[14:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02great! - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:13] <exec> 08└─So they'll be arrested and put on trial for perjury? Fired? Told not to do that again? Receive a "Needs improvement" on their annual eval? Promoted?
[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Different ISP? - 06Why the Entire Premise of Tor-Enabled Routers is Ridiculous - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:24] <exec> 08└─Really? Really? Really... I wish I had one tiny hit of the shit you're smoking. Yeah everyone set up your own DNS let's all have fun!!!! What a joke.
[14:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Different ISP? - 06Why the Entire Premise of Tor-Enabled Routers is Ridiculous - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe if you stop smoking bad shit, you can follow these rather simple instructions, and set up your own DNS server. It only requires an IQ of about - ohhhh - about 85, I imagine. A STUPID person probably can't do it without a tutor holding his hand, but a modestly obtuse person with a little dedica...
[14:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:EC2 -- bad deal for VPN - 06Why the Entire Premise of Tor-Enabled Routers is Ridiculous - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:34] <exec> 08└─Check Low End Box [lowendbox.com]. Right now, right at the very top is a deal on a VPS with 1 TB bandwidth for $4.55. This is not a specific endorsement or recommendation. There are huge numbers of deals like that. Not far below I see a deal on 4 TB for $2.25.
[14:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Nitpicking - 06Why the Entire Premise of Tor-Enabled Routers is Ridiculous - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─The OS stack is built upon the BIOS and hardware, and both have their own vulnerabilities that can or could not be OS specific. ---- if we are living in a so-called non repressive state why are we hidding?
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like new spyware - 06Google Touts QUIC Protocol - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#Connection_establishment [wikipedia.org] Pay attention to the segment sequence number. In these sorts of protocols you have some sort of tracking id. It is done so you can properly ACK packet segments. Notice how they use random ids in TCP....
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:2) 02Re:I smell bull... - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─The solution to fair road funding has been staring us in the face for years now: get assessed on a mileage X weight basis each year. Fuel taxes approximate this, but break down for electric rides.
[14:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zipf [2400] (Score:1) 02Re:I smell bull... - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:19] <exec> 08└─the money to maintain the grid goes down.
[14:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Money to maintain the grid - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─if too many people are off-the-grid or making back more than they pay, the money to maintain the grid goes down.
[14:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─You don't need Arizona's sun to make solar practical. Solar worked great for me in northern Virginia. It's a fifteen year payback for that installation, but the prices have fallen by 50% in the six years since I did it, so it would be quicker now. Here in Colorado, it was instant because I did a lea...
[14:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:3, Interesting) 02My Own Solution; YMMV - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:40] <exec> 08└─Duke Energy is really bitchy about grid-connected solar where I live, too. They no doubt have a phalanx of lawyers and lobbyists laboring mightily to protect their business model and profits. I'm an off-grid crusader now. When they (Duke) bitched about power factor and reverse current relays, I just...
[14:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free Software Foundation - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:02] <exec> 08└─You will never get U.S. legislation on net neutrality that doesn't have the "lawful content" language somewhere.
[14:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy solution - forget SystemD - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─He seems to be accepting of what Systemd is trying to do in general, but is pointing out some rough edges. Note that he has shown himself accepting enough that not only the normal white knights of Systemd shows up to tell he is wrong, but Poettering himself makes an appearance. This indicates that h...
[14:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Lennart (Poettering?) replied in the comments. - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:30] <exec> 08└─aaaand i just learned that journald (optionally) has a small webserver in it : /
[14:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02lol - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:43] <exec> 08└─systemd is the emacs vs vi of soylent. Though personally, systemd is the new 7 Up -- never had it, never will.
[14:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:AES? - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:16] <exec> 08└─In TLS1.2 we're basically down to Camellia and AES (forgetting Ghost and Koren oddballs). Chacha20 would probably be the best option considering the range of devices connecting (Roku/PS3/phones/TV embedded/etc) which don't have AES acceleration, but is still in the process of being adapted. I think...
[14:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Re:Do we really need encrypted video streams? - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:27] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that the destination/origin host for anything pertaining to your account or other sensitive matters is quite different from the host containing the actual videos. Thus it would be extremely easy to filter out all video traffic. Or am I wrong about that?
[14:25:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03subs [4485] 02You mean re-encrypt the already encrypted stream - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:45] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, Netflix already uses DRM of some sort, which almost invariably means that the streams are already encrypted. This really appears to be more about privacy protection, where each user session is unique and non-correlatable to some user preferences. For me personally, I don't see the utility in...
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[15:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Neat, but I wish existing designs would get made - 06Formula 1 Technology Applied to Future City Car Design - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:41] <exec> 08└─I'd buy something from: http://www.eliomotors.com [eliomotors.com] if it were shipping now --- ages ago Nissan had a similar 1+1 design which was estimated to get 100MPG+, but never even made it to a show (I believe there were some photos in magazines and a single prototype and that was it).
[15:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I like the idea, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired :/
[15:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:53] <exec> 08└─And Windows only at the moment. Closed source and Secured by Windows®. What could possibly go wrong?
[15:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Network Effect - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:04] <exec> 08└─Typical economists, wasting all that verbiage just to say "network effect" (physical/geographical in this case).
[15:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Network Effect - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:06] <exec> 08└─So you're saying that economists don't use the language economically?
[15:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For some values of 'tech" - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:07] <exec> 08└─Theres a bolus of bio-tech around Boston. Houston has energy extraction technology. And Chicago materials technology.
[15:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:For some values of 'tech" - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:09] <exec> 08└─Boston and Chicago are cold and Houston is humid and sucks. And in all three of those cases, the local populations are even more intolerable than that of the Californian Bay Area. There are some things that even a super-awesome salary, cheap property, and job security just can't give you.
[15:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For some values of 'tech" - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:11] <exec> 08└─The point is that not all "tech" is in California. Unless tech is just writing cell phone aps and farmville.
[15:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:13] <exec> 08└─"Almost all" tech is NOT in Silicon Valley. Yes, there's a huge amount there, but by no means is it "almost all". Hell, Microsoft isn't even Silicon Valley, it's in the Seattle area! And they're one of the biggest and well-known tech companies (even if hated by many, including myself). The truth is...
[15:21:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02Re:Really Cares - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:18] <exec> 08└─A dangerous path indeed. - "how was the day at school?" - "Neuroanatomy 101 gave me a headache, SexEd 101 gave me syphilis, but Chemistry 101 was a blast."
[15:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Really Cares - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:20] <exec> 08└─...and Quantum Mechanics 101 killed my cat
[15:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never give up, do they? - 06Google Releases New Project Loon Video - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:39] <exec> 08└─Well, it will allow the tinfoil hatters to unite with those fearing EM radiation in an initiative to cover the houses with Faraday cages. The difference being that the tinfoil hatters still will put wireless routers into those EM-protected houses.
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:52] <exec> 08└─Germany is doing fine with solar and their insolation is much worse than most of the US.
[15:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:53] <exec> 08└─a massive grid meltdown won't cripple a city like it would right now.
[15:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:56] <exec> 08└─maintain the roads that they drive on, that were historically paid for through Gas taxes.
[15:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Journald - different but not worse - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─Or if you want to be super hardcore, send it to a line printer. I always liked that as an option.
[15:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Torn - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:17] <exec> 08└─On the one hand I applaud them for protecting customer privacy (from everyone but themselves...). On the other, the protection against injection could be handled by signatures, this would save Netflix a lot of money (signatures need only be calculated once per packet, not once per packet per stream)...
[15:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Why the hell do I need a subject line? - 06The Door to Hell, In Pictures - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:49] <exec> 08└─If one puts it out I guess one would be back to having poisonous gas seeping out (but that might not be a problem any more) which could easily reignite in the same place or somewhere else. Lots of things one could try if one had the money and a willingness to accept (maybe multiple) failure(s) and/o...
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[16:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neat, but I wish existing designs would get mad - 06Formula 1 Technology Applied to Future City Car Design - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:43] <exec> 08└─41,000 paid reservations. 0 actual vehicles sold. I was excited about about this years ago. When they failed to reach market in the first year or so, not so much. I thought they had gone into bankruptcy and blown away long ago.
[16:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Not a chance - 06Formula 1 Technology Applied to Future City Car Design - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:44] <exec> 08└─There are an estimated one billion cars on our roads right now and the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts this will have doubled by 2050. While alternatives, including electric vehicles, have an increasing role in meeting this demand, experts predict that we will still be relying on fossil f...
[16:20:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:52] <exec> 08└─what's the point in keeping it closed source? it certainly won't help security. seems more likely that like utorrent, you are going to end up with advertisements. it's closed source garbage, dont even bother with it.
[16:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:56] <exec> 08└─Closed source, and from a company with curious bedfellows. [torrentfreak.com]
[16:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:58] <exec> 08└─I don't mind them keeping it closed, especially during a beta. There are both logistical reasons to do that and possibly profitability reasons too. But what they absolutely must do is publish the specs - ideally they would voluntarily set up a community organization to manage the development of the...
[16:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:00] <exec> 08└─Not all of it appears to be closed source. The tool to actually package up the website is here: https://github.com [github.com]
[16:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yeah right - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─the project is closed-source, and the beta is currently Windows-only, with a Mac version announced. The devs have stated that a Linux version is planned, but is a low priority.
[16:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02How does this work? - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:03] <exec> 08└─Wait, they torrent ... web pages? Not sure how that works. I hate torrents because they're almost always abandoned after a short time. You find what you want - er, someone finds what someone wants - and it's the perfect 1080p DVD rip - er, Linux ISO image - but there are no seeders. I even see - er,...
[16:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:How does this work? - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:05] <exec> 08└─Right in the summary: "By simply publishing a website in a torrent format the website will be accessible if others are sharing it. This can be assisted by web-seeds but also completely peer-to-peer." So if the website is popular, it should be completely peer-to-peer. If the website isn't visited tha...
[16:21:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Explanatory Does Not Equal Predictive - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 1490 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:12] <exec> 08└─As a Chicago School-trained economist, the absolutely most exasperating thing about models for me was that they only ever aspired to be explanatory. There was never talk of forming testable hypotheses and then going out and testing them, you know, like a scientist would do. Of course when you are de...
[16:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:For some values of 'tech" - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:18] <exec> 08└─"I reject your broad generalization and substitue my own."
[16:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:20] <exec> 08└─Clearly they mean "almost all" the tech that gets mentioned in the Silicon Valley twitterverse! So, you know, Google, Apple, Facebook, and ten thousand startups building platforms for young wealthy urbanites to have their household chores done by anonymous contractors without any inconvenient pang...
[16:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, as a non-Californian, I have to admit there's something about SV that makes it a mecca for tech startups staffed by twentysomethings, with "adult supervision" provided by real techies (not managers who gave up on being engineers when they found they couldn't keep up), usually in their thirties...
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Criminal Profiling is Just Fortune Telling & More - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─Here's the story of how criminal 'profiling' was invented out of bogus results. [newyorker.com] The problem with DNA matches [latimes.com] (bad application of statistics) leading example being a black man and a white man who came up as the 'same' person: Then there is the use of drug-dogs that don't...
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02I used to be pro death penalty - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─I used to be pro death penalty but damn! There are just way too many false convictions. This is just another way they have happened. I now believe that life and death is a power that no court should hold.
[16:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:I used to be pro death penalty - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─You're okay with the state having the ability to lock people in a concrete box until they die, but not okay with the state killing those same people? The former punishment actually seems more torturous than the latter, at least to me. Do you want some sort of European-island-resort-prisons, instead...
[16:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:3, Insightful) 02VPN to protect from ISP? - 06Why the Entire Premise of Tor-Enabled Routers is Ridiculous - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:14] <exec> 08└─If you use a VPN to prevent your ISP from spying on you then how are you not giving the provider of the VPN the very same ability to spy on you that you are taking from the ISP? I don't believe that you can know 100% for sure that a provider (ISP or VPN) does NOT spy on you. You might know that a pr...
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Reminds me of Mosh - 06Google Touts QUIC Protocol - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─Mosh is an interactive shell. Use of UDP is a good thing there, like for interactive games. You avoid problems with retransmissions/reordering of packets. But that means you DO NOT use it for bulk traffic, like HTTP. For watching non-interactive videos. That is the antithesis of correct network beha...
[16:23:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:So? - 06MakerBot Lays Off 20% of Staff - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:39] <exec> 08└─Surely they will just 3-D print some more employees. Perhaps they will be short and yellow, and have indeterminate numbers of eyes. Happens when you go the "evil genius" path.
[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:I smell bull... - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Fair? How would that work across multiple states? If there are tolls on a given road am I being hit twice for driving on it? Doesn't my generic sedan cause less wear on the roads than a beefy pickup truck?
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[17:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:3, Funny) 02See? it can be done! - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:37] <exec> 08└─You simply have to wait some 240ish years, Lennart.
[17:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Read the book - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:38] <exec> 08└─Dava Sobel's Longitude is a very good read.
[17:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Read the book - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:40] <exec> 08└─If clock accuracy is the topic, I have to point out that Thief Of Time [wikipedia.org] is one of my all-time favorite books.
[17:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02JJ Abrams Lied... - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:42] <exec> 08└─John Harrison was Khan!
[17:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Source code? - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:44] <exec> 08└─It seems like it'd be a really neat project to build a replica of both this timepiece and the massive wristwatch for which he won the Longitude prize...and, with computer-driven mills and lathes plus 3D printing, it would seem to me that such a project should be well within the reach of a typical ho...
[17:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Source code? - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:45] <exec> 08└─Steampunk.
[17:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Neat, but I wish existing designs would get mad - 06Formula 1 Technology Applied to Future City Car Design - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:53] <exec> 08└─I was excited about Elio for a couple years, and Alias before that. There have been several other similar attempts, all have failed so far. Why?
[17:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:08] <exec> 08└─See my post below. The Maelstrom approach at first glance looks like it could be really easy to replicate for an open source browser. Especially if the browser already includes a torrent client. bittorrent://3b1c91f8e95d8ce22558abc398f4a8e62c16bea5
[17:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How does this work? - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:12] <exec> 08└─One application for this would be to run a webserver on your phone. Instead of using facebook or instagram, you could just keep your photos and wall updates on your phone. Since social networks are basically swarms, as long as you have enough active 'friends' your data would be available, cached on...
[17:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How does this work? - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 1900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:13] <exec> 08└─I read a little bit. It seems like you package your files as a torrent as usual, but add an index.html into the root of the torrent that would be rendered as a Web page by the Maelstrom browser (and the HTML could link to other files in the torrent). The decentralized nature comes from using DHT/PEX...
[17:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02it can work - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:15] <exec> 08└─We all hate BitTorrent Inc. and acknowledge uTorrent is dead. But this Maelstrom thing doesn't necessarily require Maelstrom itself. It looks like Web browsers could easily adopt this approach to handling torrent files. http://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] http://...
[17:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Explanatory Does Not Equal Predictive - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:26] <exec> 08└─Part of that was that you were trained in the Chicago School. By contrast, the neo-Keynesians mostly trained at MIT (Ben Bernanke, Joe Stiglitz, Mario Draghi, Paul Krugman, and quite a few others) absolutely test their ideas against reality and throw out or adjust the ones that don't match new data....
[17:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For some values of 'tech" - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:33] <exec> 08└─Yes. It's a bit of parody.
[17:21:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:35] <exec> 08└─"Almost all" tech is NOT in Silicon Valley. Yes, there's a huge amount there, but by no means is it "almost all". Hell, Microsoft isn't even Silicon Valley, it's in the Seattle area! And they're one of the biggest and well-known tech companies (even if hated by many, including myself). The truth is...
[17:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Touché) 02Anthropic principle - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:37] <exec> 08└─So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley?
[17:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really Cares - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:48] <exec> 08└─Curiosity killed the cat: Had you not looked into the box, the cat would not have collapsed.
[17:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:It's official. - 06New Nudge Technology Prods You to Take Action - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:25] <exec> 08└─I am pleased you agree with me! And Mr. Adams. Although, I'd have to say that you already seem to share similarities with Wonko the Sane, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Fingerprints too - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:04] <exec> 08└─One of these things is not like the other..... Good clear Shoe Prints, on well worn shoes actually do contain marks that become unique just because the pebbles and glass fragments you've stepped are unlikely to ever be duplicated naturally. Nicks, cuts, etc. Wear patterns can't be used, because if y...
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I used to be pro death penalty - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─The thing about that concrete box is that it can be unlocked. You can't unexecute someone. > Do you want some sort of European-island-resort-prisons, instead of our current concrete-rape-box-prisons? > This could potentially make the position have some consistency. That's an interesting phrasing. Th...
[17:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VPN to protect from ISP? - 06Why the Entire Premise of Tor-Enabled Routers is Ridiculous - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─You can pay a VPN provider with an anonymous form of payment, like a pre-paid debit card, some even take gift-cards from places like walmart. Ultimately there is no such thing as 100% certainty whenever you rely on someone else to provide a service. But black and white thinking only leads to zero se...
[17:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I smell bull... - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:18] <exec> 08└─If there are tolls on a given road am I being hit twice for driving on it?
[17:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:I smell bull... - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:23] <exec> 08└─It's a part of providing the service for which they accept peoples money.
[17:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─Who is going to pay for all of those power poles and other infrastructure to keep your lights on? Who is going to pay for that trouble truck to roll when the monsoon storms take out the power in your neighborhood?
[17:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My Own Solution; YMMV - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:46] <exec> 08└─I am very intrigued by what you have to say and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.... Please tell me and others what exactly is your setup, where do you live to get enough power, what your usual usage is. Do you work from home on occasion? I would assume that would increase demand.
[17:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:My Own Solution; YMMV - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:48] <exec> 08└─My own system is a DYI setup currently configured for a nominal 1.4 kW (120 amperes) of continuous output under optimum sunlight at 12 VDC from 36 24x48 40-watt Solarex thin-film panels. Yeah, they're old, but they were free when BP Solar's thin-film aSi facility in Toano, VA closed down. To economi...
[17:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Utilities are correct??? - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:50] <exec> 08└─First, net metering is bullshit. No utility has ever enjoyed "net metering". You either provide power at a contract price for contracted amount at specific times, OR you get the spot price. That spot price can even become negative. It means that a utility pumping power into a grid would end up payin...
[17:25:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02Re:Easy solution - forget SystemD - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:31] <exec> 08└─“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” -- Auric Goldfinger
[17:25:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Journald - different but not worse - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:51] <exec> 08└─So it fixes problems that were not bothering me, and screws up functionality I rely on. Still doesnt sound like a good idea.
[17:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:Journald - different but not worse - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─For the record, I've never had systemd or journald cause me any grief yet.
[17:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scuttle? Hmm... - 06US Regulators May Scuttle Time Warner Cable - Comcast Merger - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─Scuttle? Sounds like pirate talk if you arrsk me, matey.
[17:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:AES? - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:30] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered if there was a viable model for a movie or show "starting" every 10 minutes, and users jump in on one of those streams to save bandwidth costs.
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[18:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Plans Fiery Death - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:39] <exec> 08└─> Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Plans Fiery Death No it doesn't.
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02a sensor built at the university of michigan - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Plans Fiery Death - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:40] <exec> 08└─So? Is that it's only sensor? I doubt they sent a whole spacecraft that far for just one sensor! Is that sensor somehow pertinent to the crash? Or is someone just a big UofM fan. Hey.. I think that's cool too. I didn't go there but I do spend a lot of time in the A2 area. I wouldn't expect the major...
[18:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:a sensor built at the university of michigan - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Plans Fiery Death - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─It looks like Phys.org scraped a UofM press release.
[18:20:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] 02See? it can be done! - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:49] <exec> 08└─You simply have to wait some 240ish years, Lennart.
[18:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:4, Interesting) 02some still believe in big pendulums - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:56] <exec> 08└─Used to be that one of the ways people could show off how cultured, learned, and wealthy they were was to own a big grandfather clock, the bigger, the better. It was known that bigger pendulums are more accurate. We're still hung over from that thinking, some people still like having a huge grandfat...
[18:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wooden tower clock still runs - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:57] <exec> 08└─Harrison built a wooden clock in 1722 that still runs. It has run continuously for almost 300 years (with the exception of a brief period in the late 19th century when it was cleaned up). IIRC, it uses no lubricants. http://www.sciencephoto.com [sciencephoto.com] The man was a mech...
[18:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a chance - 06Formula 1 Technology Applied to Future City Car Design - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:08] <exec> 08└─The problem is...we've already used up about half of the petroleum that was in the ground when we started that curve. Negative Externalities: Some else's problem since 1885.
[18:21:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Perfect record - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:37] <exec> 08└─(and the long-standing joke is that economists have predicted 11 out of the past three)
[18:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Network Effect - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:42] <exec> 08└─Actually, I believe it's called "commons". The same way that building cars away from Detroit used to be unfathomable, finding the right infrastructure to build hard tech away from Silicon Valley meant extra expenses and delays. Interestingly, the internet should have put a hard stop to that, but the...
[18:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:They never give up, do they? - 06Google Releases New Project Loon Video - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:24] <exec> 08└─Remember when google street view cars "accidentally" gathered all wifi communications? So Google accidentally listened to the public radio station you set up in your house? I struggle with the outrage over that particular one...
[18:22:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimshatt [978] 02Say no more - 06New Nudge Technology Prods You to Take Action - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:31] <exec> 08└─I need a device that can nudge nudge wink wink say no more.
[18:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Employee Polygraph Protection Act - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:03] <exec> 08└─This was a government contractor. ... expected me to produce CAD drawings in it using a CAD system I had never used before. ... Then watched me fall further and further behind. ... Then justified the termination on that.
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:How about lie detectors? - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─polygraphs are total bullshit [apa.org] and even the people administering them know that. how they get people to tell the truth is, after the test, they lay a line like, "Well we've found out that you're lying, so why don't you go ahead and come clean and maybe we can get you some leniency" or somet...
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off topic thoughts. - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─Gubbermint has been .... while assuring the public and the courts ... But, for the most part, we're expected to "trust the experts".
[18:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we need journalists and whistleblow - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─Lying scumbag prosecutor
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:So? - 06MakerBot Lays Off 20% of Staff - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─Do you think you can get specific pantone color filament to do that? http://www.pantone.com [pantone.com]
[18:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:humble bundle EFF - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:23] <exec> 08└─It changes every time. Usually I got bundle 14 last week and I'm pretty sure EFF was on that one. I don't hold back my purchase because they swap in the water charity or childs play on occasion or because I can't get a tax write-off.
[18:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:humble bundle EFF - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─It used to be just EFF and Child's Play exclusively in the beginning, and a handful of bundles over 2 years, but now there's one every week or so and a more diverse group of charities: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I think I lost interest when it went from 5 bu...
[18:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:humble bundle EFF - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:26] <exec> 08└─Yup. I like the indie ones, this last week being indie bundle 14. I like the bundles that resemble their original vision. Now they have a lot of bundles I don't care about. I pass on anything that has a big name in it like Square or EA. I don't like how many of the bundles now have Windows only ti...
[18:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Donations - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:47] <exec> 08└─HumbleBundle gives you a chance to get some fun games and donate to Charity. I have bough a few bundles, so I at least have donated some to those projects.
[18:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Donations - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a preview might have helped me catch my typo. *bought
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[19:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score:2) 02Great Scott! - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:40] <exec> 08└─add 10,400 megawatts of energy That's more than 1.21 gigawatts!
[19:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Bad ROI - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:41] <exec> 08└─How the game is now played: The US invested many times more in bombing Iraq (33M people) than China could ever dream to invest building infrastructure in Pakistan (182M people). One of those is better at building influence than the other. According to the Iranians, it might be the former.
[19:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Bad ROI - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:43] <exec> 08└─It's because the US and other Western powers have been co-opted by a Zionist fifth-column and are being squeezed dry to defend Israeli interests. Thankfully Grand King Baraq Hossein Sotero has been trying to reverse the damage done, but unfortunately he will not succeed because it is racist to criti...
[19:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jaruzel [812] (Score:2) 02Re:a sensor built at the university of michigan - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:54] <exec> 08└─I only linked to Phys.org when I submitted (coz I'm lazy), so I'm going to hazard a guess that Takyon is the UofM fan :)
[19:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:a sensor built at the university of michigan - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:56] <exec> 08└─Heh, I just slapped the link in there since UofM was mentioned, and lo and behold they had a page dedicated to MESSENGER. Next time see if you can find the article Phys.org is stealing from and link that instead.
[19:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a sensor built at the university of michigan - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:58] <exec> 08└─Right in the summary (emphasis mine): A spacecraft that carries a sensor built at the University of Michigan (among others)
[19:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:a sensor built at the university of michigan - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:59] <exec> 08└─Nope, I edited it after it was posted. I think Phys.org republished the release from University of Michigan, which is why it is UofM-centric.
[19:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a sensor built at the university of michigan - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:01] <exec> 08└─D'oh!
[19:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Is the name driven by the marketing dept? - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:03] <exec> 08└─MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging)
[19:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is the name driven by the marketing dept? - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:04] <exec> 08└─Could have been worse...could have been recursive. GNU's Not Unix!!
[19:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:Is the name driven by the marketing dept? - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:06] <exec> 08└─A good collection of such acronyms can be found at Dumb Or Overly Forced Astronomical Acronyms Site (or DOOFAAS) [harvard.edu]. There are both great and atrocious ones :) Some choice picks: AzTEC - The AZtronomical Thermal Emission Camera BIGASS - Bright Infrared Galaxy All Sky Survey GADZOOKS! - Ga...
[19:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score:1) 02Re:Source code? - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:15] <exec> 08└─Best i found: https://www.google.com [google.com] can't even find a decent explosion diagram, however: http://www.ebay.com
[19:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:1) 02What options are on the market? - 06Formula 1 Technology Applied to Future City Car Design - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:29] <exec> 08└─There's a hard limit of about 2.50m car length for parking sideways. The fattened up Smarts (2007 onward; Gen 2 and Gen 3) don't cut it with their 2.70m. The Toyota IQ at 3m has never been in the contest. The Murray T25/T27 (2.40m) are nowhere to be seen (but are said to have been sold to an undiscl...
[19:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score:2) 02it's not the tech, it's the money - 06Formula 1 Technology Applied to Future City Car Design - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:30] <exec> 08└─The technology of F1is not that special, but the amount of money to apply it is unbelievable. The PHBs of F1 blather about "cost saving" while actually driving up the costs. Examples begin with the engine and transmission requirements. Unlike other for forms of motorsport, most notably Top Fuel and...
[19:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:How does this work? - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─I look at it this way: if there are no visitors, it's functionally the same as hosting a web page on your own server. But as soon as someone visits your page, they become another host for it (at least until the cache gets overwritten; they recommend 5~10 GB, so it should be a while). So really, at i...
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:How does this work? - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:53] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that. You'd have to create a new torrent for a single change. That's not so terrible for Game of Thrones, but pretty bad for any decentralized collaborative or ongoing effort. So this is focused on static content (which could include AJAX or link to files on the open Web...
[19:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:How does this work? - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:55] <exec> 08└─So this is focused on static content (which could include AJAX or link to files on the open Web, with obvious privacy implications). It's a weakness common to all torrents.
[19:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Just because you can does not mean you should - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:58] <exec> 08└─"From this, it looks like no Web browser really has an integrated torrent client anymore" Good! "I don't think Konqueror has one, I think it just diverts them to KTorrent." As it should. "It looks like plans to put a torrent client in Firefox were abandoned a decade ago." Yes, even Firefox has made...
[19:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because you can does not mean you should - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:59] <exec> 08└─Well if you don't integrate a torrent client and a Web browser, you aren't going to get what Maelstrom offers. Luckily, what Maelstrom can do is very limited and everyone here seems to hate the idea already. I actually liked the Opera torrent client the few times I used it. It was dead simple and go...
[19:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just because you can does not mean you should - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:01] <exec> 08└─A web browser should parse and display HTML. It should NOT try to be a torrent client too, or an email client, a word processor, a pdf reader, or an ecmascript interpreter.
[19:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fun game - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:03] <exec> 08└─I used to play Maelstrom all the time. I've got to find an executable because it was a lot of fun. "Aw crap!"
[19:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Explanatory Does Not Equal Predictive - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:14] <exec> 08└─What the neo-Keynesians did in response to the Japan failure was to study it very carefully [brookings.edu] and revise their models. As far as those strategies not working for the US now, that's a pretty ridiculous accusation: - The tactics being used by the Federal Reserve were not the same ones th...
[19:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Network Effect - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:18] <exec> 08└─Telecom making location irrelevant has been proven to be a myth. Telecommunication (and possible time difference) imposes costs often exhorbitant for timely, innovative work.
[19:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:For some values of 'tech" - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:24] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll buy that.
[19:22:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Worse than not doing it - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 467 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:40] <exec> 08└─If viewed from any angle except perpendicular to the skull at the point, the regions drawn on the scalp are not where they are on the brain "below". So this is worse than just a set of pictures of the brain with regions marked, and definitely worse than a cheap plastic model. This is just a crappy p...
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:Not necessarily - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe 30 years ago. Definitely not today.
[19:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02WTF?? - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─What's up with that last sentence? How the hell is that relevant? This guy can't submit a single story without finding some way to shit on something. Must be a real hoot at dinner parties.
[19:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we need journalists and whistleblow - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─There's a magic veil of denial in the US. It covers gun violence, wrongful death penalties... Someone has been recently interfering with its LGBT, Black Racism and also Drugs reaches, but it's still firmly anchored when it comes to Latino/Middle-East Racism, environmental damage... Every country has...
[19:28:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Sweet! - 06The Door to Hell, In Pictures - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:33] <exec> 08└─As your car is being lifted off the ground by the F5, you can turn to your partner and say "At least we're not on fire."
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[20:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Scott! - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:41] <exec> 08└─Eh, the speed limit's well below 88mph. Not exciting.
[20:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02sounds like a resource grab - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:45] <exec> 08└─the Chinese government announced that it will finance Chinese companies to build $45.6 billion worth of energy and infrastructure projects in Pakistan... $15.5 billion worth of coal, wind, solar and hydro energy projects will add 10,400 megawatts of energy to the national grid of Pakistan
[20:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:sounds like a resource grab - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:46] <exec> 08└─Your post doesn't shit on the US in any way, and actually assigns ulterior motives to a country that is not the US, so you'll have to remove it immediately. This kind of thought is not welcome here.
[20:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:56] <exec> 08└─Looks like the editors changed the title without mentioning their edit. At least we've not at this level yet: Government Burns Your Tax Dollars, click HERE to Find Out Where! [foxnews.lulz]
[20:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Is the name driven by the marketing dept? - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:07] <exec> 08└─Oh dear God.
[20:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is the name driven by the marketing dept? - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:08] <exec> 08└─No, the marketing department is busy sending out warnings to the landing zone on Mercury, so the residents can evacuate.
[20:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:some still believe in big pendulums - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:22] <exec> 08└─Do you have ANYTHING supporting ANY your claims, either the current or historical ones you make? Harrison's time pieces were proven out first without going to sea, so they knew "such a small device" could keep time, then it was sent to sea. Also, having a large ornamental clock isn't because people...
[20:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:some still believe in big pendulums - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:23] <exec> 08└─Used to be that one of the ways people could show off how cultured, learned, and wealthy they were was to own a big grandfather clock, the bigger, the better. It was known that bigger pendulums are more accurate. We're still hung over from that thinking, some people still like having a huge grandfat...
[20:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:1) 02Winding? - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:26] <exec> 08└─The summery seems pretty low on the details. I assume it has been getting wound every day or two? And how much time was it off after 250 years?
[20:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Neat, but I wish existing designs would get mad - 06Formula 1 Technology Applied to Future City Car Design - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:37] <exec> 08└─I think Elio has a real shot at going into production. They have being doing all the right things on the design side and hold rights to the old GM plant in Shreveport for production. They have also done a lot of work to help get the legal issues of a 3-wheel car worked out. Actually where I live (A...
[20:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:it's not the tech, it's the money - 06Formula 1 Technology Applied to Future City Car Design - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:42] <exec> 08└─You don't invent better lubrication tweaks if you're allowed to rebuild the engine between races. And if the "high-voltage, very fast recharge batteries" are what satisfies the 300kph crash requirement, maybe they'll find their place in my car in 10 years. Also, F1-style acceleration is what consume...
[20:22:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WillR [2012] 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─Clearly they mean "almost all" the tech that gets mentioned in the Silicon Valley twitterverse! So, you know, Google, Apple, Facebook, and ten thousand startups building platforms for young wealthy urbanites to have their household chores done by anonymous contractors without any inconvenient pang...
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Balloon Hunting - 06Google Releases New Project Loon Video - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─It isn't so easy [apnewsarchive.com] shooting these things down, you know.
[20:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mvdwege [3388] (Score:1) 02Re:Easy solution - forget SystemD - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:50] <exec> 08└─The author is in fact blaming systemd for rsyslog fuckups. Read Lennart's response on the original article.
[20:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mvdwege [3388] (Score:1) 02Re:Lennart (Poettering?) replied in the comments. - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:54] <exec> 08└─Actually, the kernel 'debug' option was hashed out after Linus' first tirade at Kay Sievers. It was in fact admitted by Linux that systemd had correctly interpreted the 'debug' option, but was generating too much output for the kernel log buffer, which was admitted by Lennart to be a bug in systemd...
[20:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seriously, the guy is a nut case at best - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:11] <exec> 08└─Get the bit in Lennarts comment he rules that: 1) syslog/udp didn't age well (What the fuck does that even mean in this context?) 2) reccomends http/json (YES, you cannot make this stuff up) It's clear Lennart is as complete and utter fucking cunt who has no fucking idea about unix or linux in gener...
[20:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:This isn't how modern lobbying works. - 06US Regulators May Scuttle Time Warner Cable - Comcast Merger - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:25] <exec> 08└─Look, 10 years ago, before crazy talk like "smart-phones are insecure wiretap" and "the government is recording everything you're saying" was so popular, I would have just pointed you to how the Koch's PAC just recently made a few modest donations to democratic candidates and been done with this con...
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[21:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02The End - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:39] <exec> 08└─I'm so glad I made it to the end. The Curious young birds in Wellington sanctuary trip on magic mushrooms [nzherald.co.nz] article was worth the read on its own (and not just to learn the birds do it missionary style sometimes).
[21:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:1, Troll) 02ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:40] <exec> 08└─Besides the "political" issues, I'm pretty sure everyone knows that today is the 2015-20-04 in accordance to the ISO 8601.
[21:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:41] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Y45bXVfP4 [youtube.com]
[21:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:43] <exec> 08└─I'm giving you an official LOL. Roll up the grass! I've never seen anyone high get into a fight. Has anyone here seen that? If so, please elaborate.
[21:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:45] <exec> 08└─ISO 8601 is YYYY-MM-DD, so today is 2015-04-20.
[21:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great Scott! - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:54] <exec> 08└─That's jigawatts! I tried 1.21 gigawatts and I'm still here.
[21:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad ROI - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:57] <exec> 08└─Heh. I don't know why but every time I scroll past one of your posts my screensaver comes on.
[21:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds like a resource grab - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:00] <exec> 08└─For those who dont know, china uses the most coal on the planet.
[21:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Lots of new questions here - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:02] <exec> 08└─This highway runs right through Jammu and Kashmir which India considers it's territory. Is China now thumbing it's nose at New Delhi? The whole Pakistani occupation of Kashmir sounds a lot like the recent Russian occupation of Crimea. What with running out the native population and replacing it with...
[21:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:11] <exec> 08└─I am so disappointed that Fox News' official website isn't foxnews.lulz.
[21:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:13] <exec> 08└─That'll be $185k.
[21:21:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Read the book - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:32] <exec> 08└─If clock accuracy is the topic, I have to point out that Thief Of Time [wikipedia.org] is one of my all-time favorite books.
[21:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nofish [5220] (Score:1) 02Re:closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:13] <exec> 08└─OpenSource alternative: https://github.com [github.com] With support of real-time updated dynamic content, decentralized dns, tor network and works with any browser/os.
[21:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just because you can does not mean you should - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─Please no. I don't want web browsers to become even more bloated than they already are. There are plenty of torrent clients out there; this would just be redundant, and it would simply add more useless bloat.
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:For some values of 'tech" - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, there's a good bit of that kind of BS in NYC too. There's a lot of tech jobs in NYC, but almost all of them have to do either with finance (and big data related to finance) or to advertising.
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:56] <exec> 08└─But that doesn't fit the narrative!
[21:23:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Tool of exclusion - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:00] <exec> 08└─Since DNA matching is done on a sampling of lengths of DNA segments rather than being a base by base comparison, it too is only properly used as exclusionary evidence. Alas, it's almost always misused.
[21:24:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02Re:How about lie detectors? - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 3424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:05] <exec> 08└─I guess I do know a lot about the machines themselves, as one of my first childhood curiosities was the "Metrigraph Psychogalvanometer" featured on the TV Cop show "Highway Patrol" which I watched as a kid. Oh yes... I remember that thing. I thought the machine could read someone's mind. I made it a...
[21:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:I used to be pro death penalty - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:40] <exec> 08└─You're okay with the state having the power to murder people? They can't let out a person who later proves to have been innocent if they've been murdered. The former punishment actually seems more torturous than the latter, at least to me.
[21:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Different ISP? - 06Why the Entire Premise of Tor-Enabled Routers is Ridiculous - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:53] <exec> 08└─What the hell is your malfunction? Go back to your coloring book. The rest of us have no problem at all setting up caching DNS on a Beagle Bone or right on our desktop or laptop.
[21:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:SETI@Home - 06What Projects do you Donate to? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:33] <exec> 08└─Here's one: here [theregister.co.uk]. There are others. Google is your friend.
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[22:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:44] <exec> 08└─" I've never seen anyone high get into a fight. "
[22:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:46] <exec> 08└─You haven't hung around with that many Blacks and Mexicans, have you?
[22:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:48] <exec> 08└─Besides the "political" issues, I'm pretty sure everyone knows that today is the 2015-20-04 in accordance to the ISO 8601.
[22:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:50] <exec> 08└─I think he was thinking of ISO 0186
[22:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:3, Funny) 02In other news - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:52] <exec> 08└─In other news, weed makes some people talkative.
[22:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:In other news - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:54] <exec> 08└─I let my fingers do the talking.
[22:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Public Service Announcement - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:55] <exec> 08└─VT100 [soylentnews.org] enhances your reading experience [youtube.com].
[22:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Please do not call it marijuana - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:57] <exec> 08└─Please do not call it marijuana. Use the word cannabis instead. The U.S.A. had a great cannabis economy going, but someone who own a bunch of forest (trees/pulp) wanted to outlaw their cheaper and more effective competitor, cannabis. So they started a disinformation campaign to get it outlawed, and...
[22:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Please do not call it marijuana - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:59] <exec> 08└─https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/foxreplace/ [mozilla.org] https://chrome.google.com [google.com]
[22:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please do not call it marijuana - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:01] <exec> 08└─I enjoy https://chrome.google.com [google.com] but it might end up doing something like this: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] Anyway, part of the problem...
[22:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Missed it by that much - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:02] <exec> 08└─RB-26's Gorilla Glue 4 regularly tests above 25%, and has been measured as much as a staggering 33.5% THC by weight
[22:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Scott! - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:08] <exec> 08└─How long before posts slowly start to disappea
[22:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02The game? - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:16] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is that the US still thinks it's a player. The game is lost, get used to it. The new superpowers have a few things going for them that the US doesn't: they are internally cohesive, don't spend half their budget on "homeland" policing and have innovated technologically on a grand scal...
[22:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:some still believe in big pendulums - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:55] <exec> 08└─[Entire fucking rant redacted] Jesus, take a chill pill, no-name asshole.
[22:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Winding? - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:59] <exec> 08└─Well, from that low-detail summary: After a 100-day trial, the timepiece known as Clock B – which had been sealed in a clear plastic box to prevent tampering – was officially declared, by Guinness, to be the world's "most accurate mechanical clock with a pendulum swinging in free air".
[22:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:It's official. - 06New Nudge Technology Prods You to Take Action - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:09] <exec> 08└─Ah, Wonko the Sane. I was just thinking about him today after reading an editorial in The Washington Times that basically said that everyone these days was bat shit insane.
[22:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:25] <exec> 08└─So you apparently think it will be SOONER than 40 years where there will be more off grid homes than on grid? (That is the factoid I was addressing after all). Well lets look at Colorado Intially it looks like CO is doing well on renewable energy. http://www.eia.gov [eia.gov] Bu...
[22:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Journald - different but not worse - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:54] <exec> 08└─It seems that all three of those commands go to the same place [freedesktop.org] and systemd replaces itself with /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown with an argument. I suspect the problem is with that shutdown tool. Come to think of it, I've had BTRFS barf up its lunch twice, and moved away from it....
[22:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:AES? - 06Netflix to Roll Out HTTPS on Video Streams - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:30] <exec> 08└─That fits with what I was remembering. You might start with AES-128 or something for session initiation, but once you start a data stream you quickly switch to some more efficient cipher to handle the speed.
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[23:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, when you need to use machinery to roll your grass into a carpet-sized roll, your getting serious! Following old 'Mez Mezzrow'' and his 'Mezzroll'(well known slang for a joint, rolled from 'Mezz'[pot],at the time) tradition, I dub thee 'Sod Roll'. It will sod yer ass into the ground!
[23:20:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:48] <exec> 08└─ISO 8601 is YYYY-MM-DD, so today is 2015-04-20.
[23:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score:2) 02Re:Please do not call it marijuana - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:57] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Cannabis prohibition in the US was justified in the same way that opium prohibition was - through racism. There's a fantastic book by Martin Booth called Cannabis: A History that goes quite deeply into the subject. Happy 4/20 everyone.
[23:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Missed it by that much - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:00] <exec> 08└─You definitely picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
[23:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Question. - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:02] <exec> 08└─I was wondering if anyone codes while they are high. I have a hard time coding anything either way. I'm really curious if any of you have written good code while you were high.
[23:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02There's other news today too. - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:04] <exec> 08└─April 20th is Hitler's birthday. Happy birthday, mein fuhrer.
[23:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Hipster Hitler Smokes Space Weed - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:05] <exec> 08└─Der Führer was anti-tobacco [theatlantic.com] so it is likely he would have been anti-cannabis as well. So light up a Lucky for freedom!
[23:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I have a hard time understanding Washington State - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:07] <exec> 08└─Run by the Republicans, legalized The Evil Weed. The local paper even operates The Cannabis Chronicles [cannabis-chronicles.com]. As for being 21 or over to visit the site... you don't have to be to read about it in the newspaper.
[23:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jaruzel [812] (Score:2) 02Re:a sensor built at the university of michigan - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:38] <exec> 08└─Phys.org is one of my go-to sites - I didn't realise it wholesale steals articles :( I'll try harder next time, I promise.
[23:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Winding? - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:08] <exec> 08└─I believe you accidentally your units.
[23:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Winding? - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:09] <exec> 08└─More like 2 seconds per year. So just under 10 minutes in 250 years (5/8 * 365.24/100 = 2.283 s/yr *250yr = 571s = 9m31s).
[23:23:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Tolerance. - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:03] <exec> 08└─California's tolerance for gay orgies, cocaine use, neckbeardism and basement-dwelling, and lots of cheap labor for gardening and housekeeping.
[23:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:24] <exec> 08└─The US? Try all over the world from Canada, to Europe, to China and India and beyond. Only an American writer could ignore 95% of the global population to make such a claim. If the author can substantiate a claim that even 50% +1 of all tech is located in Silicon Valley I'll take him seriously.
[23:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:26] <exec> 08└─Try some context. This is an American site, with mostly American readers, and we're talking about an American place, Silicon Valley.
[23:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:I used to be pro death penalty - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─The thing about that concrete box is that it can be unlocked. You can't unexecute someone.
[23:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:Journald - different but not worse - 06The Strained Relationship Between Systemd and Syslog - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:08] <exec> 08└─Well, I think I'll change kdm's reboot & shutdown commands to `systemctl poweroff` for now. I also noticed that shutdowns take a lot longer - about 3 minutes compared to openrc's 20 seconds. systemd seems to get hung up shutting down apcupsd (even though apcupsd indicates it shut down successfully...
[23:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:Most p=0.05 is bollocks - 06Social Science Journal 'Bans' Use of p-values - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, I dunno about that. I'm not a Frequentist by any means, but Bayesian stats & methods have plenty of equivalent issues of their own e.g. subjectiveness of priors, convergence (esp. in the typical case of chained Monte Carlo analyses), etc., etc. Plenty of traps for people to fall into and where i...
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