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[00:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02100? comments - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:38] <exec> 08└─Macrumors shuttles these types of political posts to another board because they got so predictably huge and pointless.
[00:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:39] <exec> 08└─For better or worse, there's been a lot of hot drama on the topic lately. Modern academia would be the most believable place for that to 180 first. I'd just settle for professors, male or female, that knew what the fuck they were talking about. The college I went to was supposed to have a very good...
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[00:20:57] <exec> 08└─That's as bad os 04-20-2015. The nice thing about YYYYMMDD is that every day is naturally sequential. Yeah, I'm stating the obvious.
[00:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Missed it by that much - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:07] <exec> 08└─Sniffing glue? Damn, all these years I've been sniffing the grass, and smoking the glue! No wonder it hasn't worked well. I have 'hay fever', and the Elmer's Glue is hard to get lit! :-( Hah! I hear the neighbor mowing his lawn! I'll grab the Elmer's and head over there to try this new method ASAP!!
[00:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Missed it by that much - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:08] <exec> 08└─sniffing glue [youtube.com]
[00:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Missed it by that much - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:10] <exec> 08└─Too much, funnier when subtle. I still gave you a funny point though.
[00:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Re:I have a hard time understanding Washington Sta - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:16] <exec> 08└─Different kinds and definitions of Republicans. For example look at Alaska, where pot has been legal for years. Republican up there tends to mean "get the hell off my lawn", "mind your own damn business", and "keep that oil a flowin'". Pot was legal because "who cares what they do in their own home"...
[00:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:The game? - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:34] <exec> 08└─Bah. We've got plenty of muscle left...we're just using it poorly right now. Best thing to do would be to stop spending so much money on "big military". How many bombers do we need when bombs don't help much? Spend the money on R&D, space, and massive payoffs, er, I mean diplomacy, to everyone aroun...
[00:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great Game Theory - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 8945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:35] <exec> 08└─The players, as I see them: Europe Yes, people make fun of Europe for being fractious, ill-coordinated, inward-looking, and largely pacifist. Europe is still a huge economic player, with a lot of top notch manufacturing, research and development capacity. At least some parts of Europe are capable of...
[00:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:some still believe in big pendulums - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I guess it is a rant if it shows someone they are wrong. Sorry. I shouldn't call out obvious BS. We run the danger of poisoning the well with facts. Every opinion is valued, even if it is horribly wrong.
[00:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02This is why I should use the math I learned... - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:24] <exec> 08└─D'ohh! Yeah, like I said, it was just off the top of my head with no real calculations happening. Usually where I botch it is putting a decimal place 1 off, when I do this. :-)
[00:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How does this work? - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:08] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, the occasional change is nearly perfect for a torrent distribution. If you are making changes every hour, then no. But an update like once a week? Perfect.
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[01:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:41] <exec> 08└─For better or worse, there's been a lot of hot drama on the topic lately. Modern academia would be the most believable place for that to 180 first.
[01:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Instead of doing this psych experiment - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:42] <exec> 08└─why don't they actually do a census (i.e. a full count of the population) of tenured faculty in universities? Instead of doing these psych experiments where "hiring managers" are given hypothetical resumes from imaginary candidates whose names mysteriously don't show up on LinkedIn, Google, or FB. I...
[01:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Politically correct answers given? - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:44] <exec> 08└─asked to evaluate hypothetical male and female applicants for assistant professorships
[01:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FUCK YOU - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:46] <exec> 08└─Don't post bullshit like this. Fuck you.
[01:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dear CoolHand - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:48] <exec> 08└─Get off SN post selection. It's apparent you're too immature.
[01:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:05] <exec> 08└─That's as bad os 04-20-2015.
[01:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:06] <exec> 08└─Except some English speakers, e.g., in canada, put days before the month, making 3-8-2015 pretty hard to figure right (it being 2015-08-03).
[01:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:08] <exec> 08└─Taxation is slavery!!! The government takes your property at the point of a gun and redistributes it to... Oh shit. That was five days ago. Never mind.
[01:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Question. - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:21] <exec> 08└─Smoking weed at work is a waste of weed. Yes, I have written good code while high. It just takes twice as long.
[01:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a hard time understanding Washington Sta - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:27] <exec> 08└─Washington state is pretty liberal. Also one of the least religious states and so our Republicans are less likely to be like Republicans elsewhere. Only Colorado beats us in the percentage of non-religious residents: http://en.wikipedia.org(state)#Religion [wikipedia.org] My bias: d...
[01:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pixeldyne [2637] (Score:2) 02Get off my road - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:28] <exec> 08└─they can smoke cannabis as much as they want as long as they don't smoke and drive.
[01:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Huh? - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:30] <exec> 08└─What?
[01:25:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:How about lie detectors? - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:12] <exec> 08└─Is there some reason their behaviour got my the Employee Polygraph Protection Act?
[01:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:This isn't how modern lobbying works. - 06US Regulators May Scuttle Time Warner Cable - Comcast Merger - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:59] <exec> 08└─Here is the part of the equation you are missing friend...Ayn Rand and the SJWs. I live next to a conservative college and let me tell you the Ayn Randiates? Think poor folks starving in the streets would be just hunky dory, same as the SJWs believe that anybody who isn't white is always right and t...
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[02:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Next car - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:39] <exec> 08└─I'll be waiting until there's a viable electric car before i buy another vehicle. I drive 41km per day to work, so an electric car is already practical as a commuter, however the cost/benefit calculation for a Leaf or similar car doesn't come out in their favour yet (at least in Australia). The brea...
[02:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Are electric cars really cleaner? - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:40] <exec> 08└─I was looking at the China EV stat in the summary, and started thinking about both China and the southern US getting most of their electricity from coal. So isn't an EV where the power comes from coal, just a very inefficient way of burning coal instead of gasoline / deisel? I guess, a California EV...
[02:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:Are electric cars really cleaner? - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:42] <exec> 08└─You're partly wrong in that EVs in coal powered regions roughly break even with fossil fuel equivalents. You're completely wrong if you add solar and other renewables into the mix. The link below explains it better than I can. http://shrinkthatfootprint.com [shrinkthatfootprint.c...
[02:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:100? comments - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:51] <exec> 08└─Well, that and because they're a religious site not a technical or political one.
[02:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:54] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. When was the last time you saw a push to get more men into nursing?
[02:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:56] <exec> 08└─There is a line in the pamphlets at one of my colleges about the demand for male nurses. Of course those schools also provide full rides for interested female CS students that show aptitude. Apparently most years nobody even applies for it. Disclosure: I am male and am in the running for a full ride...
[02:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Instead of doing this psych experiment - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:58] <exec> 08└─My name "mysteriously" doesn't show up on LinkedIn, Google (Well, my name is quite common, so this isn't quite true, but anyone searching will not find me as an individual.), or Facebook, and I'm glad it doesn't. I prefer to keep my information as private as possible.
[02:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03siwelwerd [946] (Score:2, Informative) 02Study is mostly crap - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:01] <exec> 08└─Here's a pretty decent article explaining why the research method is flawed. http://othersociologist.com [othersociologist.com]
[02:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No credibility at all - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:03] <exec> 08└─Amazing how the same sorts* of people will claim that hiring is male biased in one personal blog post (no it is not an article, it is a private wordpress blog) and then in another claim that hiring is done on merit alone, thus confirming without a doubt that there is no female bias in any industry....
[02:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:23] <exec> 08└─And that perfectly illustrates why context is the deciding factor of "good" or "bad".
[02:21:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Missed it by that much - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:33] <exec> 08└─You definitely picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
[02:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Get off my road - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:45] <exec> 08└─lets make us all 100% safe, ok? no one driving in the AM since people are tired and just waking up. its not safe. no driving during the AM or PM commutes since people are distracted and also tired. its not safe. no driving during holidays, also due to distractions. its not safe. no kids allowed in t...
[02:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02takyon = Haselton? - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:47] <exec> 08└─Bennett Haselton, is that you?
[02:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:Read the book - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:42] <exec> 08└─Indeed; much better to read that book than to watch the cable movie made from it.
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[03:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Are electric cars really cleaner? - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:44] <exec> 08└─Correct, I would say that electric cars have the potential to be cleaner energy, and are in most places. Another benefit is that they enable the ability to power the automobile from a variety of energy sources, instead of just fossil fuel. They don't care what is providing their energy, just generat...
[03:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Petrol head more than happy to switch - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:45] <exec> 08└─I'll be more than happy to drive a mass market, cost effect EV as a daily driver. As long as I can still throw my gas-guzzling ICE racecar on the weekends.
[03:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02I'll buy one when the economics catch up - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:47] <exec> 08└─When I can buy an electric that can do the job of an ICE engine and not pay a price premium directly or indirectly by stealing from my neighbors to fund a subsidy, then and only then will I buy. That day is still a bit in the future for any hybrid I have looked at and still science fiction for all e...
[03:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Big on the Left Coast - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:48] <exec> 08└─On the North Shore of Vancouver we're positively awash in damned Teslas... or at least I see three or four every day. As far as I can tell (and one is owned by a client) they actually are daily drivers, not just eco-ego-bling. (The truly trashy are buying Ferraris, Lambos, and Porsches as their teen...
[03:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear CoolHand - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:06] <exec> 08└─Dear AC, I partially selected the article just to bring attention the fact that this was going on out there in the world. I'm not sure how that is a reflection on my maturity level. Also, I welcome better submissions, please bring them on. The story queue is a monster that must be fed...
[03:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Study is mostly crap - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:09] <exec> 08└─This social 'science' garbage is flawed. Look at this social 'science' garbage I agree with instead.
[03:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Reality calling - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:11] <exec> 08└─Ok, here is reality. Reality defined as nobody will dispute the facts about to be dropped. Go ahead, double dare ya to try. Fact: If this study showed the opposite result, i.e. 2:1 preference for hiring males, it would be front page news and the only discussion of the obvious flaws in methodology wo...
[03:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 (not my typo) - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:41] <exec> 08└─The racist rednecks who rammed that garbage legislation through Congress couldn't even spell the name of the stuff they were against. The lying asshole who saw that the bill passed was Fred Vinson who later became Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, of course. The Prohibition of Marijuana in Thre...
[03:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get off my road - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:56] <exec> 08└─You'll never see a stoner speeding.
[03:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:Desperation doomed to failure - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:48] <exec> 08└─You do realize, of course, that SRP, the GP's electric company, is a state-owned Co-op? That the governing board is elected by the people that the utility serves, and that there's no "for-profit" company involved here? My electric company in the same city is APS, which is a spawn of the devil and de...
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[04:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I'm going to buy a motorcycle - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:51] <exec> 08└─I want to go camping in the desert. I told my mother not long ago, I thought she'd be upset, but no she thought it was quite cool, because my father was into motorcycles.
[04:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Odd - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:52] <exec> 08└─I just the other day read an article suggesting the Volt [thetruthaboutcars.com] not doing so well. I assumed that consumers were opting for something less blah and something more woo in direct relation to falling gas prices. Apparently they were just opting for less petrol usage. Odd. My assumption...
[04:21:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:100? comments - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:01] <exec> 08└─Well, that and because they're a religious site not a technical or political one.
[04:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:07] <exec> 08└─Real Programmers (the kind who can write FORTRAN programs in any language) regard the starting index of an array as a coding style convention.
[04:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:1) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:09] <exec> 08└─Hell I would just settle for professors who knew how to speak English when trying to teach classes in the language.
[04:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:10] <exec> 08└─Obviously the professor hadn't debugged enough index out of range exceptions : / The gotchas i usually see is when someone packs an array for months with January starting at 1.
[04:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Dear CoolHand - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:16] <exec> 08└─Don't worry too much. Immature is one of those words that is used right now to specifically label and shame anyone that does not conform with a certain worldview.
[04:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Reality calling - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:21] <exec> 08└─Fact: If this study showed the opposite result, i.e. 2:1 preference for hiring males, it would be front page news and the only discussion of the obvious flaws in methodology would be over on 'right wing extremist' blogs and ignored. We would all be enduring a 'national conversation' on 'institutiona...
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[04:22:02] <exec> 08└─US party affiliation is largely drawn on the lines of urban vs. rural; even a cursory examination of red-blue county maps after an election will tell you that. So Alaska, of course, is a red state. But marijuana is not necessarily an urban drug; my guess is that the usage rate is at least as high, i...
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[04:22:07] <exec> 08└─You will hardly find a person who is more violently opposed to impaired driving than myself. However one of the interesting facts becoming clear about driving under the influence of weed is the crash rate may well go DOWN. The reason? Drivers who have done weed are quite well aware they are impaired...
[04:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Game Theory - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:32] <exec> 08└─Terribly nationalistic thinking there. Worldwide, we're facing too big problems: greed and climate change. Climate change has killed civilizations before. We're much more knowledgeable and powerful, but we are most definitely not immune. We can live in peace if everyone chooses to do so. What I find...
[04:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Wooden tower clock still runs - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:18] <exec> 08└─heres a link [iinet.net.au] to some dude who built/designed his own wooden clock. complete with plans if anyone wants to have a go.
[04:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:closed source, don't bother - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:52] <exec> 08└─Sounds better than OpenSSL at least.
[04:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF?? - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:01] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, people just act like dummies or attention-seekers. In this case, I'm referring to the professor.
[04:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off topic thoughts. - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:18] <exec> 08└─> Once again - I learned of global warming in 1963, listening to my third grade teacher explaining about the interglacial period that we are blessed with today. When lecturing about global warming I suggest you always lead with that fact. It will really help your audience to understand where you are...
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[05:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:3, Funny) 02I have the solution! - 06The Machines Are Coming - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:41] <exec> 08└─Everyone, quit your job and start coding apps for Android devices. Then everyone download apps by other people, and start clicking on ads. Course, you'll have to go to your local coffee shop and leech off their wifi. It's a giant welfare program, which can support everyone indefinitely.
[05:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:58] <exec> 08└─In many aspects, I'm the perfect use case for an electric car. My daily commute is two miles. My occasional longer trips are perhaps thirty. I have never yet needed to drive much further than that, as any long trips I take are with a group, and my little Fiat is easily the smallest vehicle amongst u...
[05:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:14] <exec> 08└─"Vi estis mia plej malbona studento, neniam." And, it is true, you know, even if it is not in English.
[05:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear CoolHand - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:24] <exec> 08└─Don't worry too much. Immature is one of those words that is used right now to specifically label and shame anyone that does not conform with a certain worldview.
[05:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality calling - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:30] <exec> 08└─Ok, here is reality. Reality defined as nobody will dispute the facts about to be dropped. Go ahead, double dare ya to try.
[05:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please do not call it marijuana - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:02] <exec> 08└─> Please do not call it marijuana. Use the word cannabis instead > It is far past time to undo this corruption. No point in closing the barn door after the horse is gone. It will be 100x easier to go 'queer' and take the word away from the bigots. We are practically there already.
[05:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:There's other news today too. - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:12] <exec> 08└─It's my birthday too, you insensitive clod!
[05:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Re:some still believe in big pendulums - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:29] <exec> 08└─It's 'cLock', learn to read :)
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[06:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 0230 more years? - 06The Machines Are Coming - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:41] <exec> 08└─Kurzweil was partly right. It looks like a technological singularity is near, though it'll probably be a non-AI one. http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:30 more years? - 06The Machines Are Coming - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:20:42] <exec> 08└─That depends on whether you consider a person with a Parkinsons compensator implant to then have any "artificial" component to their intelligence. Are not the neurons taken from urine and used with stem cells to create new neurons Artificial (man made), when re-injected into one's head to cure forms...
[06:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02I have a hybrid - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 4099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:20:56] <exec> 08└─I won't be waiting until the government cancels the tax credit. I own a Prius since 2005. Taxes are used to incentivize something that the society wants more of. Why should I reject the offer? Solar panels are also incentivized with a tax break - should I insist on burning coal instead? (I have sola...
[06:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:01] <exec> 08└─Can you charge one with solar panels (not run it, obviously, just charge it)? I should be able to get enough power from a solar panel to recharge from the grueling four-mile round trip, half of it downhill, but I don't see anyone selling something like that.
[06:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:20] <exec> 08└─At this point your social and political leaning is what qualifies you for an academic position more than anything else.
[06:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe in the humanities. Here in the inhumanites it is raw paper count and grant dollars brought into the university. I am a junior academic in Australia and I have been straight up told that I am being hired and fired on my paper count. I get awards in teaching and I've been told to "refocus" becau...
[06:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02Re:Please do not call it marijuana - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:07] <exec> 08└─Also, it has nothing to do with the Mayor of Wanna [wikipedia.org]
[06:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off my road - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:27] <exec> 08└─*writes a 1500 word essay on driverless cars
[06:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:takyon = Haselton? - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:30] <exec> 08└─u havin a giggle m8
[06:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds like a resource grab - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:48] <exec> 08└─It's actually not too bad in the "golden autumn." It's the one season in Beijing that's quite clear, and it is genuinely lovely. You can see the stars then. A lot of kids in Beijing are born to parents who are from the countryside, so they usually get to travel back to the home villages during Chine...
[06:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sounds like a resource grab - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:49] <exec> 08└─bribe Pakistani officials
[06:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Lots of new questions here - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:52] <exec> 08└─import Islamic jihadists to China
[06:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:The game? - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:55] <exec> 08└─I don't know whom you're thinking of when you describe "new superpowers" as being internally cohesive, because they certainly can't be China or Pakistan or India. The latter two have religious massacres on a regular basis, each of which individually has a death toll larger than the sum total of all...
[06:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Game Theory - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:59] <exec> 08└─I think that seeing the fault lines in terms of nation-states is missing most of the picture these days. It's outdated. Nevertheless, it's interesting that you didn't mention Japan at all. Unlike China, they are a relatively harmonious society. They can mobilize on a dime, and they have the cash and...
[06:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Real Science, and we squabble over acronyms - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:22] <exec> 08└─This make me sad. I proposed the heliocentric hypothesis in the Third Century BCE, and if only we had technology like this. We had to make do with pointy sticks, stuck in the ground at know points, nonetheless, but pointy sticks all the same. And now a probe orbiting the planet Hermes has reached th...
[06:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Really Cares - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:22] <exec> 08└─No. You only wouldn't be absolutely sure the cat was dead.
[06:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Pah - 06This Professor Really, Really Cares that You Understand Neuroanatomy - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:25] <exec> 08└─sliced is the wrong word. Just have the skull cap removed, so we can really see what's going on.
[06:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Employee Polygraph Protection Act - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:31] <exec> 08└─Good word of warning for any other of you considering a gig with the military-industrial complex. If you are not one of the highly paid suit-guys running the thing, you are highly expendable, needed only for one contract, and there are no protections as they hold the "security" trump card. You will...
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[07:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Spoiler Alert - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:40] <exec> 08└─'Cos it's not in the summary: Ocean waves.
[07:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Sun's modes of vibration - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:42] <exec> 08└─this was depicted on the cover of scientific american in 1983 or so. The sun has infinite modes of vibration. I expect they're countably infinite. The whole sun gets bigger and smaller. The equator shrinks and expands while the poles swell. Similarly for the other two of the 3-D axes. It works just...
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[07:20:52] <exec> 08└─Interesting semantic arguments, but not relevant to Kurzweil's hypothesis. The technological singularity is the hypothesis that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically chang...
[07:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Moru [1248] (Score:1) 02Re:Petrol head more than happy to switch - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:05] <exec> 08└─You might be pleasantly surprised by the electric car if you never drove one before :-)
[07:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02That's nothing - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:13] <exec> 08└─43% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014
[07:21:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Dear CoolHand - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:40] <exec> 08└─Don't worry too much. Immature is one of those words that is used right now to specifically label and shame anyone that does not conform with a certain worldview.
[07:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reality calling - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:47] <exec> 08└─Ah, so you went with the "I have no argument, so I'll argue against the tone of the argument". I think you get a brown belt for that in social justice warrior training.
[07:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:11] <exec> 08└─It so sad, it means Europeans and Canadians all miss out on the wonderful 4-20 sales at the local pot store......I feel for you all, so I will now smoke a big ol' bowl of Girl Scout Cookies (22% THC) topped with some marvelous Nitro Honey Oil (51% THC) in the hopes you all get to join us at some poi...
[07:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There's other news today too. - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:33] <exec> 08└─What has Hitler ever done to you? Hitler has done more for you (and the whole world) than anyone else in recent history ever did. A better question would be: Why aren't you thanking Hitler for saving you from Communism? Yes, I know its illegal in many places to question court historians.
[07:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Never schooling get in the way of education! - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─Actually the whole quote was "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education" --Mark Twain https://www.flickr.com [flickr.com] Peace!
[07:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:27] <exec> 08└─There are two big things that Silicon Valley has going for it over most of the other places. The one that's often missed is the large collection of venture capitalists. I have a friend who recently started a company in SV. He's from Holland and most recently was working in Japan, but the valley was...
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[08:20:42] <exec> 08└─'Cos it's not in the summary: Ocean waves.
[08:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Spoiler Alert - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:43] <exec> 08└─Man, I never knew that when people told me "Don't make waves", they were telling me to stop humming.
[08:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spoiler Alert - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:45] <exec> 08└─So oceanographers confused by waves?! One would think this would be a new area of study!
[08:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Next car - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:04] <exec> 08└─The problem with electric cars is 1.- Every study I've seen that factors in ALL of the environmental cost, from mining the lithium to disposal, still has them worse than a good high MPG ICE, and more importantly 2.- The limited life on the batteries means their used value will quickly make them wort...
[08:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Petrol head more than happy to switch - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:10] <exec> 08└─I guess the petrol sniffer is addicted to low torque at low revs, for some reason
[08:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:20] <exec> 08└─You'd need some huge, very efficient solar cells. I added a single smallish solar cell to my combustion engine powered car, and it turned out that it was not enough to keep the battery charged during winter. I still had to pull out the long mains cable to put a charger on it before being able to sta...
[08:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Moru [1248] (Score:1) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:22] <exec> 08└─Where do you live? I have never had any troubles starting the car in winter even though it wasn't used for a month. Our winters go down to -38 C and yes the car starts just fine. You might want to buy a battery that is made for the climate though, not the cheapest thing you can find in the store.
[08:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Moru [1248] (Score:1) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:23] <exec> 08└─I have the same situation, live in city and don't have to drive far. But we have so much buses that a car would be useless. It's much cheaper to take the bus and not having to worry about parking. I still haven't seen a single private electric car but some of the buses are electric and some bigger h...
[08:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds like a resource grab - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:47] <exec> 08└─Go look at the really cheap plastic shit like bins in your local dollar stores, sure many say "Made in China" but more and more are saying "Product of Malaysia". As The Chinese get tired of their land and air being poisoned and working like slaves for a buck a day? The corps just move on to the next...
[08:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sounds like a resource grab - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:49] <exec> 08└─Just like the US did before them and the British before them. Romans are famous for their roads, among a few other things. In many ancient cultures fresh produce, game and even fish was transported for hundreds of kilometers sometimes over mountains for the rulers by runners. It's how the imperialis...
[08:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Game Theory - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:58] <exec> 08└─Dude I'm a socialist atheist and even I know it AIN'T the Xtians strapping bombs onto 14 year olds and having them drive bikes up to banks, that would be the Muslims. You look at every country with Sharia law? Its like turning back the clock 2000 years, with stoning of gays and rape victims, cutting...
[08:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Winding? - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, just so. I believe you accidentally your units.
[08:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:How about lie detectors? - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:42] <exec> 08└─When I followed your link, I just felt more and more like Frank Grimes [wikia.com]
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[09:20:46] <exec> 08└─Controlling people with smart phones? Old news. Angry birds been doing that for years.
[09:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:That's nothing - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but to be fair you'd have to go back to 19th century for that (probably Thomas Parker 1880s) - production electric cars were around _before_ ICE.
[09:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reality calling - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:15] <exec> 08└─Probably not true and who gives a shit whether that is so or not.
[09:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ox0000 [5111] (Score:1) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:39] <exec> 08└─Because it's intuitive to english speakers, it matches the way we usually say the date out-loud.
[09:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:40] <exec> 08└─Nonsense, you've just made a habit out of it, but that doesn't make it anything else than bad. It would be like saying "using metric instead of inches, feet, yards, etc." is bad because a few (relatively speaking) people have made a habit out of it.
[09:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02High Hitler! - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but he loved his cocaine among others [ibtimes.co.uk].
[09:23:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Great Game Theory - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 8945 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:40] <exec> 08└─The players, as I see them: Europe Yes, people make fun of Europe for being fractious, ill-coordinated, inward-looking, and largely pacifist. Europe is still a huge economic player, with a lot of top notch manufacturing, research and development capacity. At least some parts of Europe are capable of...
[09:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:JJ Abrams Lied... - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:21] <exec> 08└─If that was true his clock would make hours seem like days.
[09:24:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Source code? - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 373 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:22] <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...
[09:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:My Own Solution; YMMV - 06Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:54] <exec> 08└─Why not use like 24 or 50 volts DC for distribution and switched converters like one per room or outlet to minimize transmission costs. Power loss = Current^2 * Resistance (asfair).
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[10:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Angry - 06Scientists are Using Electrodes to Remote Control People - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:36:17] <exec> 08└─OK but you forget about the classics [eruptingmind.com].
[10:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02The problem is not the lost jobs - 06The Machines Are Coming - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:41] <exec> 08└─The problem is not the lost jobs. The problem is an economy which is based on people having jobs. That is a good model when labour is a scarce good, because it gives a good motivcation for everyone to contribute to that scarce good. But as machines get better and humans are replaced by machines, the...
[10:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll buy one when the economics catch up - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:36:59] <exec> 08└─When I can buy an electric that can do the job of an ICE engine and not pay a price premium directly or indirectly by stealing from my neighbors to fund a subsidy, then and only then will I buy. That day is still a bit in the future for any hybrid I have looked at and still science fiction for all e...
[10:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll buy one when the economics catch up - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:00] <exec> 08└─I have a Leaf as my primary car, haven't driven an ICE for nearly six months now. I regularly drive beyond the range of the battery; I simply charge it back up again. It's actually very convenient, as it charges while I'm at my destination (e.g. shopping) or while I'm getting a cup of coffee (rapid...
[10:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:10] <exec> 08└─My daily commute is two miles.
[10:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:12] <exec> 08└─> I'm the perfect use case for an electric car. My daily commute is two miles. Your post is scary. Has the pedal bike never made it to your part of the world? In Europe, we've had them for over a century, but I don't know if we exported the concept. Maybe we did, but our marketting campaigns weren't...
[10:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02A Tesla's not for everyone... - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:15] <exec> 08└─I own a Tesla. They're definitely not for everyone. You probably shouldn't get one if you drive 200+ miles a day or if it's your only car and you do a lot of road trips where you drive for hours without a fixed destination. As for the cost of the car, you probably shouldn't look towards it unless th...
[10:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Tesla's not for everyone... - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:17] <exec> 08└─And a tesla is not the only electric car in the market I would love to own a tesla some day, but the leaf works excellent for my daily driving and it cost a third of a tesla (comparing full options on both)
[10:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:30] <exec> 08└─My favorite was the one who taught a 300-level course who could never consistently decide if you started an array at 0 or at 1.
[10:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:39] <exec> 08└─But I guess a politician would not get much support for declaring that we must invest more in inhumanities, or that we must teach people more inhumanities.
[10:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:41] <exec> 08└─Monty Python
[10:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dear anonymous author of comment #173349. - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:51] <exec> 08└─Please get off SN comment posting. It is apparent that you are too immature.
[10:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Sewer Maintenance, Garbage Collection & Mining - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:01] <exec> 08└─Why is there a constant concern about hiring inequality in STEM position but never a study performed for why there's great disparity in the ditch digging, road resurfacing and brick laying industries? Surely there's something illegal going on in the above listed areas when there's such a clear favou...
[10:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just because you can does not mean you should - 06Beta of Torrent-Based "Maelstrom" Browser Released - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:15] <exec> 08└─Actually, one could argue that getting the data (i.e. http) and parsing the data (i.e. html) should be separated. Why should the web browser have to know all the possible protocols? Why should you not be able to switch the renderer without switching the fetching code or vice versa? The browser could...
[10:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Explanatory Does Not Equal Predictive - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:33] <exec> 08└─As far as those strategies not working for the US now, that's a pretty ridiculous accusation
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[11:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Nasal Ranger - 06Something Smells: Cities Use High Tech to Investigate Unpleasant Odors - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:17] <exec> 08└─Last year I posted a story about the Nasal Ranger [soylentnews.org], which is used in Denver to detect consumers of cannabis.
[11:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spoiler Alert - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:36:37] <exec> 08└─Looks like they want you to pay to read the rest of it. Or at least subscribe to something. Why is Soylentnews supporting these types of articles.
[11:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:The problem is not the lost jobs - 06The Machines Are Coming - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:36:50] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that.
[11:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is not the lost jobs - 06The Machines Are Coming - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:36:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, basically we have machines doing the work for us when it's more efficient to do so, therefore we should work less. Population growth can be kept in place, as the western society of last 50 years proved by example. But since the system is not about well being as much as control, the population i...
[11:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is not the lost jobs - 06The Machines Are Coming - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:36:53] <exec> 08└─I've said it before and I'll say it again (Does that make this post doubly Redundant?); employment is a scaled down, sanitized, fight between individuals over territory and resources. The higher the world population, the greater the need to fight for things. Your new model needs a much lower populat...
[11:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Moru [1248] (Score:1) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:37:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, I read it as 2 mil (swedish for 20 km), I would never even think about using the car for that short trip to work. It would take 30 minutes to walk and 5-10 minutes on a bike?
[11:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:No credibility at all - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:06] <exec> 08└─God, you're right. Every instance of the word "white" is capitalised, and every instance of the word black is, erm, nonexistent! Pretty sure that's balanced science in that blog, no biases anywhere, nope, no siree. And this (one of hers) isn't sexist: http://i0.wp.com
[11:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reality calling - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:11] <exec> 08└─jmoris isn't wrong. He could cite articles eluding to his point, but he doesn't need to. Adults know how politicians work and virtually time anything shows a significant bias against anyone that is not a white male (or asian if you consider them non-white) it makes mainstream news while things in th...
[11:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reality calling - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:16] <exec> 08└─Also you might want to some reading on patriarchy, it's quite real and a long tradition.
[11:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sewer Maintenance, Garbage Collection & Mining - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:18] <exec> 08└─It just shows what is going on that this post is modded flamebait. A certain group of people feel that they are being attacked and think it is fair play to attack back using the same illusionary persecution techniques they perceive to be everywhere against them.
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[12:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:4, Informative) 02Blogspot != CDC - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:06] <exec> 08└─This is the statement from the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov Absolutely no reason to have some random blogger as the middleman.
[12:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Blogspot != CDC - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:08] <exec> 08└─Also from the CDC: "No human infections with either of these canine influenza viruses have ever been reported." Why the hell are we even talking about this? Is soylent going to cover worming issues too?
[12:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Blogspot != CDC - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:10] <exec> 08└─> Is soylent going to cover worming issues too? Oh great, another global worming denier.
[12:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Blogspot != CDC - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:12] <exec> 08└─You're correct, that is a better more accurate link.. fixed.
[12:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02outbreaks - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:13] <exec> 08└─I remember years ago when someone thought bringing a sick dog to a dog show was not an issue. Over 100 champion dogs parished withen a week.
[12:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:outbreaks - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:15] <exec> 08└─Dog people treat their dogs like they are kids. Lots of theory and daydreaming and hand waving about how a "real epidemic" would impact society, but this is how the rubber meets the road. How do we think people would act in an epidemic? How do we hope they'll act? How do we fear they'll act? But thi...
[12:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02trolly - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:17] <exec> 08└─Finally, why import those dogs in the first place?
[12:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not the same thing as the humming people hear - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:41] <exec> 08└─https://hummap.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/in-the-news-the-hum-has-not-been-solved-and-i-am-about-start-welding/ [wordpress.com]
[12:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Not the cause of this humming - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:42] <exec> 08└─There's a big chunk of rock significantly close enough to Earth to exert a significant gravitational pull. The Earth's rotation next to it exerts tidal forces, but the gravitational pull acts on rock too. While rock isn't flexible enough to cause tides I'm sure there's at least some periodic creakin...
[12:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is not the lost jobs - 06The Machines Are Coming - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:58] <exec> 08└─WRT fighting, its neo-feudalism with stratified social classes and all the wealth at the top. At mega corporations like where I work we're all gladiators, all we do is fight other teams and other divisions for the amusement of the higher up social classes, almost no labor goes into customer focused...
[12:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem is not the lost jobs - 06The Machines Are Coming - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:59] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it is a self-correcting system. If enough people can't afford to eat then Bad Things™ will happen until they have jobs to afford food again. The time between those events has been increasing for centuries (remember the ox, the plow, and even the lowly hoe put some labor out of work)...
[12:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Been there, seen that... - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not too familiar with Australia, but certainly in the US and in Europe there are "teaching colleges". They don't have the prestige of the major research universities, but their mission is to actually teach. If that's where your personal priority lies, then go to a college that actually cares abo...
[12:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear CoolHand - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:10] <exec> 08└─Ohh and my favorite: Micro-Aggressions There is also the twin headed SJW and MRA mocking, misogyny of course, something something privilege, blaming the patriarchy, and the now classic fox news technique of phrasing in the form of a question.
[12:39:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02There's other news today too. - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:08] <exec> 08└─April 20th is Hitler's birthday. Happy birthday, mein fuhrer.
[12:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Accuracy Within 20 Parts per Billion - 0618th-Century Clock Maker is (Finally) Proven Right - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:49] <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).
[12:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:12] <exec> 08└─By "tech" they mean the "hacker news" style tech, "Daddy got me into Stanford and I graduated then Daddy's VC firm gave me $100M to wrap someone else's project in twitter bootstrap and now I'm entitled to my billion dollar buy out, thank you". Surrounded by a whole slew of "we're going to disrupt th...
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[13:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Ughh! - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:06] <exec> 08└─While the end product might be perfectly fine, I'm not sure I could bring myself to drink it knowing the source...
[13:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Re:Ughh! - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:07] <exec> 08└─Considering some of the sources of tap water, why is that an issue?
[13:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Ughh! - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:09] <exec> 08└─don't make me think about it!
[13:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Ughh! - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:11] <exec> 08└─Drink water from a surface reservoir? Think of all the dead fish, fish waste, bird droppings, and other wonderful things that find their way into the water. In NYC they sometimes have to inject chlorine at specific points in the system to combat bird feces overload during migration season.
[13:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Its RO... - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:13] <exec> 08└─Selective Membrane Separation That is exactly what a RO system is... Now WRT energy to pressurize and pumping losses and waste volume, that is a stereotypical engineering tradeoff game where you can min or max any of those. So I'm not surprised you can do RO with low energy... at a certain tradeoff...
[13:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Nasal Ranger - 06Something Smells: Cities Use High Tech to Investigate Unpleasant Odors - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:25] <exec> 08└─I didn't catch the Nasal Ranger from your story link last year, but the picture in the telegraphs article of the guy with it to his nose sure made me chuckle... I can't imagine going around with that thing in public... (although I'm sure it would be useful for its intended purpose)
[13:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Light on details - 06Scientists are Using Electrodes to Remote Control People - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:35] <exec> 08└─The article was light on details. How strong was the control? For example, we can already control people on phone... "At the next stop light take a right. Then two blocks later turn left." The pedestrians say they felt like they could override it. Could they actually do it? What did it actually feel...
[13:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Morlocks - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:49] <exec> 08└─It's the Morlocks.
[13:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not so secret experiments with VLF waves - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:50] <exec> 08└─So that's what they are using for mind reading and control: VLF waves. And every few months/years/decades they "find" the cause of people hearing sounds/voices. People are naturally looking for an explanation for what might be wrong with them, so these criminals come up with an "explanation" wheneve...
[13:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Petrol head more than happy to switch - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:23] <exec> 08└─As long as I can still throw my gas-guzzling ICE racecar on the weekends.
[13:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:37] <exec> 08└─There were a few years when my commute was about 1 mile each way, partially through a park. I did walk it a fair amount, when the weather was nice enough. However, and this I think says something, a lot of people looked at me funny for doing so. By putting one foot in front of the other when I didn'...
[13:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:38] <exec> 08└─I've seen the way people drive in this city. I'd prefer to have a nice metal cage of protection around me at all times, thank you very much. There's at least three intersections I'd have to go through that regularly cause accidents.
[13:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:41] <exec> 08└─Bikes generally don't take well to carrying loads, and biking in inclement weather is not particularly enjoyable, so I would need a car anyways. The fact that I've only actually biked to work once has more to do with me not being a morning person in the slightest, which means I'm usually a few minut...
[13:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:06] <exec> 08└─> "This follows the observation of John Stuart Mill, who said: While it is not true that all conservatives are stupid, it is true that all stupid people are conservative." Smart dude, that. Really? Because I've known some incredibly stupid liberals, about as many as I've known incredibly stupid cons...
[13:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Been there, seen that... - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:13] <exec> 08└─The way it works in Oz is that every (non second-rate) university is effectively R1 - you have no choice but to research and teach, unless you are exceptionally good and fortunate to get fellowships that allow you to drop the teaching load. Teaching only academics are such a rarity that nobody knows...
[13:38:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Reality calling - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:31] <exec> 08└─Fact: If this study showed the opposite result, i.e. 2:1 preference for hiring males, it would be front page news and the only discussion of the obvious flaws in methodology would be over on 'right wing extremist' blogs and ignored. We would all be enduring a 'national conversation' on 'institutiona...
[13:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:57] <exec> 08└─He has dysexlia! :)
[13:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Explanatory Does Not Equal Predictive - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:08] <exec> 08└─For me, the ultimate problem with Keynesian and neo-Keynesian theory is not that the models don't work, but the goals don't work. For example, Thexalon in the grandparent post linked to a Paul Krugman paper where he attempts to analyze "liquidity traps". Krugman basically defines liquidity traps as...
[13:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:I used to be pro death penalty - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:21] <exec> 08└─No form of punishment is undoable, but executions are final. Please don't pretend that you can't see the difference.
[13:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:I used to be pro death penalty - 06Forensic Hair Matches: More Junk Science from the FBI - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:24] <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.
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[14:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why are we still dealing with this over ten years - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:05] <exec> 08└─Which part of "Microsoft product" did you not understand?
[14:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Somebody Else's Problem - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:08] <exec> 08└─The reason we are still dealing with this problem is that the blame can be easily and quickly shifted to Somebody Else. Between the outsourcing, offshoring, contracting and going "to the cloud", no one group has their feet held to the fire for very long. Conversely, no one group is holding Microsoft...
[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Somebody Else's Problem - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─Also, most of those affected by the problem are completely unaware that the problem even exists. My experience so far in dealing with organizations in relation to security is that there are basically 2 security stances that most spend most of their time in: (A) Meh, we don't need to worry about it....
[14:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Who cares... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:12] <exec> 08└─Security of these systems is nothing but smoke from the bottom to the top. For years, we have pushed the "first to market" button over every other consideration. I hope someone eventually figures out that, if you're building your world on software, maybe the base ought to be be a bit more secure and...
[14:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Ughh! - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:36:21] <exec> 08└─Ag runoff too. If you live in an area with pig farms in the watershed, and you drink out of a surface source, you're drinking pig waste (and all kinds of other agricultural waste).
[14:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:3, Funny) 02Tastes like.... - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:24] <exec> 08└─Bacon!
[14:36:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02Re:Blogspot != CDC - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:36:33] <exec> 08└─> Is soylent going to cover worming issues too? Oh great, another global worming denier.
[14:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not so secret experiments with VLF waves - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:14] <exec> 08└─That is a serious amount of crazy going on here. I like it :)
[14:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02Wind turbines - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:15] <exec> 08└─Southern Ontario installed lots of wind turbines in recent years. This has divided the rural communities that the wind farms are in. Some make money from the turbine on their property. Others have complained about noise. Some have claimed that their cattle had nose bleeds (amazingly similar to the s...
[14:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Next car - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 1462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:43] <exec> 08└─There's a couple of of-repeated myths there that don't reflect reality. Firstly, electric cars are NOT worse than ICE cars in terms of construction impacts, and even running on coal-generated power, typically break even with petrol or diesel cars. To quote the Australian government: The finding is...
[14:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:35] <exec> 08└─What's a poor fiscally responsible, atheist, non-judgemental vegetarian to do? While I really like the libertarian message of respecting civil liberties, it seems they only care about the second amendment. While I'm all for freedom of speech, it seems like people only want to protect their own speec...
[14:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear CoolHand - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:54] <exec> 08└─And in the end, it always devolves into accusations of fedoras and neckbeards.
[14:39:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NoMaster [3543] 02Re:Reality calling - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:04] <exec> 08└─Ok, here is reality. Reality defined as nobody will dispute the facts about to be dropped. Go ahead, double dare ya to try.
[14:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Newander [4850] (Score:1) 02Re:Get off my road - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:07] <exec> 08└─A drunk will run a stop sign. A stoner will wait for it to turn green.
[14:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds like a resource grab - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:33] <exec> 08└─Do we count the Panama Canal as an imperial road?
[14:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Mercury's Messenger Orbiter Faces Fiery Death - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:53] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that Messenger plans to come back? I for one welcome our new Messenger overlord.
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[15:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Why are we still dealing with this over ten yea - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:06] <exec> 08└─You should know the rules by now, AC. When you assign blame where it actually belongs, you get modded out of sight. Why don't you try again? Blame it on that gang of hoodlums over at BSD. Doesn't matter which gang, Free, Open, any of them will work. And, we'll blame all those Adobe exploits on Linus...
[15:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:Who cares... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:11] <exec> 08└─OMG... the Galaxy S6 has been out more than a week! My S5 is obsolete - it barely functions as a paperweight! Hey [ATT/Veririzon/T-Mobile] - Take my money!
[15:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Doesn't fit security theater - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:13] <exec> 08└─The problem with bugs like this is a simple software patch doesn't fit the culturally dominant security theater model. How can we strip search people or walk them thru a scanner or racial profile them or trade lucrative contracts for election contributions if the problem is something in software? If...
[15:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02That's what you get... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─...for using Microsoft products. Their track record has been like this for decades.
[15:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Windows need servers? - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:16] <exec> 08└─Why would you need servers for your windows? To show jpegs on your windows? Is this part of some home automation thing? Windows are a thing, right? Is it too soon? (I'll get my coat) Seriously though, the TFA references a JPEG attack from 2004 (as does all I could find with a quick search), but I'm...
[15:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's why Micro$oft uses - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:18] <exec> 08└─Linux servers on their critical systems.
[15:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Why are we still dealing with this after ten years - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:20] <exec> 08└─Because we spent the last 10 years adding features and building new things, instead of rewriting all of 2005's computing infrastructure in a way that's immune to buffer overruns and pointer fuckery?
[15:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─> Are there more companies and products using this technology? Where do you think Windows 8 comes from?
[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:32] <exec> 08└─Next, someone is going to have to ask which tube Windows 8 was dispensed from. HINT: Not the one that the guy in the video drank from!
[15:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:3, Funny) 02Parishing dogs - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─While it is said that "all dogs go to heaven", I'm glad to read about dogs going to parish. However, from your post, I'm still not certain whether they were actually going to church, or just entering the parish premises. Are they being adopted by clergy, or simply being brought along with their pari...
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Parishing dogs - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:50] <exec> 08└─You might be mistaken. What if these dogs were simply going to a parish in Louisiana? ("parish" in LA = "county" in other states)
[15:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Nasal Ranger - 06Something Smells: Cities Use High Tech to Investigate Unpleasant Odors - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─It was the chuckles that made me submit the story in the first place :)
[15:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Not so secret experiments with VLF waves - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:28] <exec> 08└─They can't possibly be using VLF waves for mind reading and control. There's nowhere near enough bandwidth to do that, which is why they use terahertz waves. But I've said too much, already....
[15:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wind turbines - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:30] <exec> 08└─I dunno about cows but definitely not so good for bats: http://www.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] As the wind moves through a wind turbine's blades, pressure drops behind them by five to 10 kilopascals (a pascal is a unit of pressure), and any bat u...
[15:38:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02Re:I'll buy one when the economics catch up - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 1649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:07] <exec> 08└─When I can buy an electric that can do the job of an ICE engine and not pay a price premium directly or indirectly by stealing from my neighbors to fund a subsidy, then and only then will I buy. That day is still a bit in the future for any hybrid I have looked at and still science fiction for all e...
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Re:Big on the Left Coast - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─What is the L for?
[15:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm going to buy a motorcycle - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:14] <exec> 08└─I just did exactly that. It is fun, although I find I can carry less on a motorcycle than my back. If you are in the Phoenix area I'll have my Yamaha XT350 for sale come fall.
[15:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:100? comments - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:39] <exec> 08└─And no one really cares what macrumors does. IMHO its a shite site.
[15:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:45] <exec> 08└─I could except that if it weren't for the fact that it arbitrarily happened throughout the same example, and was always happening with abstract stuff, not things like datetimes or things where having a nonzero index might make sense. for (i=0; iarray.length(); i++) { for (j=1; j=other...
[15:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:55] <exec> 08└─I feel like Tumblr could provide a strong counterargument to your quote from Mill.
[15:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:20] <exec> 08└─They don't mean "real technology" like you'd learn in a textbook, "stuff thats hard", but more web frontend, marketing experiments that coincidentally happen to be online, startup scene in general. That is solely focused in SV. Again, no, it's not. That's my whole point. Go to NYC; there's tons of t...
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[16:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Compared to FM - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:03] <exec> 08└─Compared to FM, how is reception of DAB in cars ? There are many people who enjoy listening to FM while driving.
[16:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:04] <exec> 08└─Are they shutting down all the analog AM stuff too? I can't imagine DAB has the same range as AM. I like listening to AM -- it's like going back in time -- you get a much better sense of the radio waves travelling through the world than you do with digital packets or even frequency modulation. That'...
[16:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─AM is only good for those that love talk radio. 90% of talk radio is extreme partisan BS from one side or the other.
[16:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:08] <exec> 08└─AM radio is good if you want to hear what other nations have to say.
[16:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:10] <exec> 08└─I've never had DAB so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't DAB all or nothing? With regular FM, as you get further away from the transmitter the noise floor rises (e.g. more static). Eventually you get to the point where you decide there's too much static and change channels. But you get to make that...
[16:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:12] <exec> 08└─I've never had DAB so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't DAB all or nothing?
[16:36:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Why are we still dealing with this over ten yea - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:19] <exec> 08└─You should know the rules by now, AC. When you assign blame where it actually belongs, you get modded out of sight. Why don't you try again? Blame it on that gang of hoodlums over at BSD. Doesn't matter which gang, Free, Open, any of them will work. And, we'll blame all those Adobe exploits on Linus...
[16:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why are we still dealing with this over ten yea - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:20] <exec> 08└─At least Apple almost got it right by basing their OS on Unix.
[16:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why are we still dealing with this over ten yea - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─Which part of "Microsoft product" did you not understand?
[16:36:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02Who cares... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:25] <exec> 08└─Security of these systems is nothing but smoke from the bottom to the top. For years, we have pushed the "first to market" button over every other consideration. I hope someone eventually figures out that, if you're building your world on software, maybe the base ought to be be a bit more secure and...
[16:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe my POV comes from doing construction work most of my life, but I try to keep always in mind that a good foundation is essential to building a good building that serves well for ages. That could also explain why I've never been a MS fan once I learned the basics of computers(around 1996?), and...
[16:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's what you get... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:29] <exec> 08└─To be fair: Linux fanboys see vulnerabilities like this as an example of how great OSS is. They've been grading MS on a curve all this time.
[16:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02RSA - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:33] <exec> 08└─In a related question, why are people still going to theRSA security conference when RSA demonstrably is not an organization that believes in security. I could understand people attending if they gave a conference related to "Capitalism for short term profit" or something similar.
[16:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:1) 02Re:outbreaks - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:04] <exec> 08└─What are you assuming the mortality rate of (human) flu to be, in a westernised society with modern medicine?
[16:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:outbreaks - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:05] <exec> 08└─Once a human flu spreads as it does every century or so
[16:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:trolly - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:11] <exec> 08└─If pets from other countries are in demand, then maybe people here should just lie about the origin of the strays in the US. It isn't like the new owner would be able to ask the animal or expect paperwork for a stray from Asia or South America.
[16:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Muhahahahah! - 06The Machines Are Coming - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:53] <exec> 08└─easier to control than quirky, pesky humans
[16:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:33] <exec> 08└─The upside of biking in snow is that you push yourself extra hard, and then the hot shower when you get to work is heavenly. But I'd only do that once a week. The upside of walking 3km to work, if you're not a morning person, is that you get to both wake up *and* relax on the way. But YMMV.
[16:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gordo [1169] (Score:1) 02Re:A Tesla's not for everyone... - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:38] <exec> 08└─Just be careful... I went for a test drive and ended up with a P85D.
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[17:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─Check out shortwave radio. You'll hear all the people who were too crazy to get shows on AM radio.
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─I think that AM for most countries will be kept forever as an emergency broadcast system.
[17:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─I've never had DAB so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't DAB all or nothing?
[17:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe my POV comes from doing construction work most of my life, but I try to keep always in mind that a good foundation is essential to building a good building that serves well for ages.
[17:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't fit security theater - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:38] <exec> 08└─So we need a dude in a tac vest and a gun with a black usb drive :)
[17:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:That's what you get... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:42] <exec> 08└─No, it is an example of how great OSS is. Every single time some vulnerability like this is discovered in OSS, it's fixed quickly (sometimes within hours), and a patch is issued immediately. No, OSS isn't perfect, and has vulnerabilities too, but when they're found, they're immediately fixed. The sa...
[17:36:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Techwolf [87] 02Re:Ughh! - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:55] <exec> 08└─Considering some of the sources of tap water, why is that an issue?
[17:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Its RO... - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:00] <exec> 08└─Selective Membrane Separation That is exactly what a RO system is... Possibly. It appears to be a proprietary technology from a vendor whose website isn't in English. So it's really hard to tell what the underlying technology actually is. To me though, selective membrane seperation implies th...
[17:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Blogspot != CDC - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:14] <exec> 08└─How many of the "vaccinated" dogs were really vaccinated? We're talking about a Flu virus here right? Unless people are getting Flu vaccines for their dogs now I think we can estimate that none of them were vaccinated.
[17:37:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aclarke [2049] 02Parishing dogs - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:23] <exec> 08└─While it is said that "all dogs go to heaven", I'm glad to read about dogs going to parish. However, from your post, I'm still not certain whether they were actually going to church, or just entering the parish premises. Are they being adopted by clergy, or simply being brought along with their pari...
[17:37:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02The Sun's modes of vibration - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:56] <exec> 08└─this was depicted on the cover of scientific american in 1983 or so. The sun has infinite modes of vibration. I expect they're countably infinite. The whole sun gets bigger and smaller. The equator shrinks and expands while the poles swell. Similarly for the other two of the 3-D axes. It works just...
[17:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Re:Morlocks - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:03] <exec> 08└─Crab people. Craaaaaaab people. Craaaaab people.
[17:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score:1) 02Re:Earth is Humming... - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:11] <exec> 08└─Because it doesn't know the words.
[17:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Big on the Left Coast - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:52] <exec> 08└─It's a decal that indicates a student driver.
[17:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Will switch once they figure out cities - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there's no shower at work, which is also part of the problem.
[17:39:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:30] <exec> 08└─Real Programmers (the kind who can write FORTRAN programs in any language) regard the starting index of an array as a coding style convention.
[17:40:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] 02Re:Please do not call it marijuana - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:46] <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.
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[18:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MS OSS - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:03] <exec> 08└─So Microsoft practiced embrace, extend and extinguish its own OSS efforts? Good to know Microsoft Open Technologies didn't get any special treatment.
[18:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03beernutz [4365] (Score:1) 02I would say they are really trying to do right - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:04] <exec> 08└─They are opening up a LOT of their core technologies, including their compiler and the .net framework. Are they all the way there? No. There are actual signs that they are moving in the right direction though. There are 7 pages of repos here: https://github.com [github.com] Lets give them...
[18:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compared to FM - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:14] <exec> 08└─My old car had an HD radio and it was great. I really miss it in my new car.
[18:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:19] <exec> 08└─I thought shortwave is AM, too?
[18:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:21] <exec> 08└─That's not going away any time soon, if for no other reason than ham radio and air traffic, but in case you were wondering, there's a digital standard [wikipedia.org] for low- and mid-frequency over the traditional AM band. On a 20 kHz channel should give around 30-70 kbit/s, which with a good moder...
[18:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:25] <exec> 08└─This is why I hate digital TV. Dropouts and artifacts abound. With analog you could at least mostly hear and see what was going on if it got bad. Especially useful when a bad weather system or tornado was in the area when it was better to have something raspy than nothing.
[18:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:27] <exec> 08└─Another Wikipedia page explains this a little bit: http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I didn't find it very clear. BUT :Apparently there are a multitude of different standards involved around the world. So we are in for the same clusterfuck we went through with CDMA, TDMA and...
[18:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:28] <exec> 08└─The broadcasters killed dab in the UK by pushing out far too low a bitrate. This meant the technology was ridiculed and never caught on. Of course DRM makes DAB look like DTT in comparison.
[18:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:31] <exec> 08└─I regularly use DAB in the the UK. Yes bit rate is low, but my experience is that you get better quality than FM. Although this is a slight apple to oranges situation as with FM you end up with audible white noise on the track where as with DAB you get digital compression artefacts. There is also al...
[18:36:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Re:That's what you get... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 825 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:49] <exec> 08└─No, it is an example of how great OSS is. Every single time some vulnerability like this is discovered in OSS, it's fixed quickly (sometimes within hours), and a patch is issued immediately. No, OSS isn't perfect, and has vulnerabilities too, but when they're found, they're immediately fixed. The sa...
[18:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Re:That's what you get... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:51] <exec> 08└─How else do you explain a vulnerability in Windows going for 10 years without a fix?
[18:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Windows need servers? - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:53] <exec> 08└─but I'm pretty sure there was a JPEG of Death floating around in the Windows NT days, say ~1998
[18:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Better question: - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:58] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with PNG?
[18:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ughh! - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:10] <exec> 08└─While the end product might be perfectly fine
[18:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Its RO... - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:13] <exec> 08└─It's actually the contaminants that pass through the membrane
[18:37:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Blogspot != CDC - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:24] <exec> 08└─This is the statement from the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov Absolutely no reason to have some random blogger as the middleman.
[18:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Parishing dogs - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─You might be mistaken. What if these dogs were simply going to a parish in Louisiana? ("parish" in LA = "county" in other states)
[18:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:trolly - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a great way to trick some hipsters into buying a mutt you picked up at the pound that morning for a few grand. Give them funky names like Trans-Siberian Dachshund, make a Wikipedia page for the breed, write up a long list of instructions "specific to the breed" that consists of the basic...
[18:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Down wind of a Pea Packing Plant - 06Something Smells: Cities Use High Tech to Investigate Unpleasant Odors - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:53] <exec> 08└─Living in most recently developed suburbs you smell nothing but flowers or perhaps the occasional barbecue. True, there is something about a dogs that causes both deafness and olfactory failure among their owners. Living in smell-free zones makes people (nonsmokers at least) very conscious of the sm...
[18:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Light on details - 06Scientists are Using Electrodes to Remote Control People - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:03] <exec> 08└─“One comment from the participants was they always had the feeling that they can just take back control and override the signal,”
[18:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We are not amused - 06Scientists are Using Electrodes to Remote Control People - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:05] <exec> 08└─Not much news. Alexandro Volta did this on dead frogs back in XIX. I Had done similar experiment done on me but with forearm. I subconsciously overridden their current but when it went higher than I could compensate my hand started to move like possessed (I think it was at 7mA but not sure). I think...
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03umafuckitt [20] (Score:2) 02Re: We are not amused - 06Scientists are Using Electrodes to Remote Control People - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:07] <exec> 08└─I reckon what Volta did was somewhat different, TBH. Just because it involves electricity and legs it doesn't make it the same thing.
[18:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so secret experiments with VLF waves - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:26] <exec> 08└─And now that they have undermined the Reynolds corporation, forcing them to replace tin with aluminum in their foil, there is no defense!
[18:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wind turbines - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:30] <exec> 08└─No idea, perhaps pressure differences isn't as strong at caves that bats like. I found it strange and interesting anyway :). See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk]
[18:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Earth is Humming... - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:33] <exec> 08└─I wish it didn't hum in the evening and during the night when i'm trying to sleep! And it's not even a real song it's humming. So monotonical.
[18:38:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02The problem is not the lost jobs - 06The Machines Are Coming - 776 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:45] <exec> 08└─The problem is not the lost jobs. The problem is an economy which is based on people having jobs. That is a good model when labour is a scarce good, because it gives a good motivcation for everyone to contribute to that scarce good. But as machines get better and humans are replaced by machines, the...
[18:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Muhahahahah! - 06The Machines Are Coming - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:52] <exec> 08└─Did I misread that as you thinking the powerhungry behemoth systemd, with excess complexity goobling up everything like a cancer is stopping the powers that be from having even more control?
[18:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:53] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. When was the last time you saw a push to get more men into nursing? Google: "campaign to attract males into nursing" About 16,300,000 results (0.61 seconds) Have you ever actually verified this oft repeated talking point?
[18:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:55] <exec> 08└─Wow. There are 16,300,000 programs to get males into nursing? Or maybe it is 16,300,000 hits that all refer to the one place that has such a push? Or maybe it could just be that Google hits are a useless statistic in this case?
[18:40:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:05] <exec> 08└─I feel like Tumblr could provide a strong counterargument to your quote from Mill.
[18:41:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Please do not call it marijuana - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:06] <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...
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[18:44:24] <exec> 08└─Only an American writer could ignore 95% of the global population to make such a claim.
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[19:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:I would say they are really trying to do right - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:14] <exec> 08└─Also, note that a lot of projects are, in fact, licensed with a Free Software license such as MIT or Apache.
[19:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:2) 02Re:I would say they are really trying to do right - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:15] <exec> 08└─So, you'd rather build your house on the sand, and the proprietary stack came, and the patents came, and the "keep up with whatever we do" android-like trap came, and the house collapsed. Better to build on the rock (GPL v3).
[19:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03arashi no garou [2796] (Score:2) 02Re:I would say they are really trying to do right - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:18] <exec> 08└─Lets give them a chance before we chop their heads off.
[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:I would say they are really trying to do right - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:20] <exec> 08└─Lets give them a chance before we chop their heads off.
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hb253 [745] (Score:1) 02Re:Compared to FM - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─I'm in the NY/NJ metro area which means we have lots of digital radio stations. Even so, I had to disable digital reception on my car radio. Weak digital signals don't degrade gracefully so you get annoying cutouts, noise. etc. Not worth it in my opinion.
[19:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, you are correct. Shortwave radio uses amplitude modulation as well. My original comment was, therefore, highly ambiguous, and there's absolutely no way that anybody could have figured out my intended meaning.
[19:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─and there's absolutely no way that anybody could have figured out my intended meaning.
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:What about AM radio? - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:38] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that broadcast band AM radio is what is meant. Otherwise.. yah, FM isn't going away any time soon either due to ham radio traffic.
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:42] <exec> 08└─FWIW, I noticed the opposite: I had channels that were always fuzzy in analog, and now in digital they are crystal clear. The signal didn't get any stronger, it's still half of what other channels are. On the weaker channels, I have seen artifacts, but I've only noticed an occasional artifact (every...
[19:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:47] <exec> 08└─Similar greediness hurt satellite radio in the US.
[19:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:2) 02This is even more LOL than DTV. - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:49] <exec> 08└─DTV was bad enough. People who cared about quality already had satellite. Now with DVB we have the same crap distributed in more channels, with even less reliability than satellite, plus new tv or double remote. DAB solves a problem no one has, that is, audio quality in an environment with a high no...
[19:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Why are we still dealing with this over ten yea - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─It's only micro when it's soft, babe.
[19:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Nothing is wrong with .PNG--as long as... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:18] <exec> 08└─Nothing is wrong with .PNG--as long as you don't mind larger file sizes. PNG is ideal for line drawings.[1] PNG is good for images with few colors. When you get into photos or images with lots of colors, PNG loses its luster. A suggested replacement for JPG is WebP. It became as good as JPG after im...
[19:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Its RO... - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:35] <exec> 08└─From what I understood and which is interesting, they do not force the water through the membrane. And AFAIK, reverse osmosis needs a lot of power to do exactly that, here almost nothing, the water just flows thru the membrane (or filter, if you will). BTW, the page is in English, click the British...
[19:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Gentrification and newcomers - 06Something Smells: Cities Use High Tech to Investigate Unpleasant Odors - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:15] <exec> 08└─This problem seems to be intensified when people move into a new area with existing industries and businesses, and then are unhappy with what they find when they get here. Around here, this leads to frustrated commuters annoyed that "their" road is being blocked by a tractor after moving into their...
[19:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:Spoiler Alert - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:40] <exec> 08└─Here I thought it was people talking about the next iGadget....
[19:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:30 more years? - 06The Machines Are Coming - 2245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:09] <exec> 08└─For some reason there is a relatively higher rate of neurogenesis in the hippocampus: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Do/would the artificial implants also cause/support this neurogenesis? Doubt it's unimportant. Perhaps we might be one step closer towards creating actual...
[19:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:28] <exec> 08└─You are aware that there is a large amount of world outside of the English speaking one, right?
[19:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ISO 8601 - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:31] <exec> 08└─And this is exactly why you would be a lousy programmer.
[19:42:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Re:Great Game Theory - 06China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan - 1157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:33] <exec> 08└─Terribly nationalistic thinking there. Worldwide, we're facing too big problems: greed and climate change. Climate change has killed civilizations before. We're much more knowledgeable and powerful, but we are most definitely not immune. We can live in peace if everyone chooses to do so. What I find...
[19:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:The premise is BS - 06So Why Exactly does Almost ALL Tech Live in Silicon Valley? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:57] <exec> 08└─Come to Chicago, same deal.
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[20:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Only the exclusion of some things is a problem - 06Valve to Implement Two-Tiered Account System - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know who decided it was a good idea to exclude purchases made off steam from being able to use these features. Money's money, and valve gets some of it if you buy it on humble bundles or on their own service. But other than that, locking out potential ballot stuffing for reviews and greenlig...
[20:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why not count retail? - 06Valve to Implement Two-Tiered Account System - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder why retail purchases won't count. I can kind of understand why things like Humble Bundle wouldn't count (as you can get keys for cents), but if the intent is to make more hurdles for spammers then retail purchases will effect that too.
[20:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yay science. dam. - 06Australian Scientists Cure Hepatitis B in Animal Trials - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:12] <exec> 08└─It really does seem like science has finally made traction against a number of really difficult and complex diseases (e.g. cancer). Yay science. Boo science after we all perish by nuk e and engineered superbu g
[20:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:I would say they are really trying to do right - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:24] <exec> 08└─You misuse the term Free Software. You meant to say, "Open Source,"
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score:2) 02Re:I would say they are really trying to do right - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─Given Microsoft's history of corporate behavior and very vocal opposition to FOSS in general (and GNU in particular), I don't see how you can argue that is "sensible thinking." I would argue that sensible thinking would compel one to not trust the company until they show a deliberate and sustained c...
[20:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The filter to get to be CEO - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:28] <exec> 08└─Bill Gates is still the #1 stockholder. Nadella would never have gotten the job without BillG's approval. Anyone who thinks M$'s business model has changed in the slightest is delusional. It's still lawyers and salesmen specifying the software and coders trying to make foolish things work in their p...
[20:36:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02Re:I would say they are really trying to do right - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:29] <exec> 08└─Lets give them a chance before we chop their heads off.
[20:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:I would say they are really trying to do right - 06"Microsoft Open Technologies" MS Subsidiary Closes - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:31] <exec> 08└─Long enough for old employees to retire and now have a completely new culture, yes. Good or bad, i can't say. But 30 years is long enough to become a different company.
[20:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02USA-centric comment - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:42] <exec> 08└─extreme partisan BS from one side Only in places where they don't have a Fairness Doctrine. [google.com] ...or have one and refuse to enforce it. -- gewg_
[20:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about AM radio? (Emergencies) - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:48] <exec> 08└─This will remain a viable meme as long as it's possible to make a radio out of a length of wire, a safety pin, and a used razor blade. [google.com] -- gewg_
[20:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about AM radio? (Emergencies) - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:51] <exec> 08└─meme?
[20:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing (USAian TV?) - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the GGP is thinking of ATSC in the USA. Back when the switchover from NTSC happened, in sci.electronics.design we had a guy that lived in the mountains who noted that if a plane flew over he would lose 5 minutes of his movie. (ATSC has essentially zero tolerance for multipath.) If clouds...
[20:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:04] <exec> 08└─Was it really greed? XM and Sirius were both going bankrupt until they merged. They now have essentially a captured market, many receivers in the field in homes and cars, and a joint satellite platform. As of October 2012, there are nine satellites in orbit: four XM and five Sirius satellites. That...
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:DAB is all or nothing - 06Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:05] <exec> 08└─Greed isn't only a financial term. In this case their greed was stuffing as many channels as possible on their services, reducing the quality of the streams to do so.
[20:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03panachocala [464] (Score:2) 02Re:That's what you get... - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:29] <exec> 08└─Because of cooporation with NSA which was using it to infect Iranian centrifuges, etc.
[20:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gishzida [2870] (Score:1) 02The Admins have already been Pwned - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Let's see... What kind of idiot takes a server that sits in a DMZ and attaches it to a domain controller? A MS Admin because they are not trained that "Internet facing" servers are a danger to their local network and should be isolated... and besides Management won't sit still for adding additional...
[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Robert Heinlein's Answer - 06It's 2015 and Your Windows Server Can Still be Pwned by a JPEG - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:39] <exec> 08└─Near direct quote from To Sail Beyond the Sunset: The answer to any question beginning with, "Why..." is, "money." It costs less to continue to allow intrusions to continue and pay scads of people to write detection/decontamination routines and software patches, than it does to re-engineer the entir...
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03caseih [2744] (Score:2) 02Re:Ughh! - 06Pig Sludge Separation to Drinking Water - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─Your sentiment is shared by many, but unfortunately it's a sentiment you and others are going to have to get over.
[20:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blogspot != CDC - 06The Rise of H3N2 Canine Flu in the US - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:12] <exec> 08└─Not true. There are all sorts of vaccines for dogs beyond rabies including that for influenza. Some of them are required if you want to board your dog at a kennel.
[20:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spoiler Alert - 06The Earth is 'Humming', and Scientists Think They Know Why - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:02] <exec> 08└─Feel free to post a link to the free version of the article. By the way, I do have access to the article and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't understand it if you could read it. That is why there are people who write articles like the one in Wired.
[20:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:A Tesla's not for everyone... - 0643% of World's Electric Cars Bought in 2014 - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:26] <exec> 08└─Almost happened to me. The sales rep definitely didn't try to up-sell me on anything (if anything, she convinced me I didn't need a couple options I was thinking of). You gotta love when they say the drive unit and battery are warranted for 8 years, infinite miles. If I had to buy again, I would pro...
[20:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:That makes sense - 06Women Twice as Likely to be Hired for Academic STEM Posts as Men - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:46] <exec> 08└─There are 16,300,000 programs to get males into nursing? Or maybe it is 16,300,000 hits that all refer to the one place that has such a push? Or maybe it could just be that Google hits are a useless statistic in this case? Or, you could try typing it into Google and finding out for yourself.
[20:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Question. - 064/20: StonerNews is People - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:13] <exec> 08└─I have real problems doing many things quite often, and I've only recently discovered that it's anxiety (to go with my depression), That would explain a lot about my almost-but-not-quite achievements in life and severe stress causing mental paralysis and failure. I once drank 2 litres of 5% lager on...
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