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[00:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02(OT) Lycopene - all unclear - 06Radioactive Seeds and 3D Printed Shields to Treat Prostate Cancer - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:17] <exec> 08└─With all the "C - Unclear scientific evidence for this use" rating, why not Vitamin C? Has the "C-es" lycopene has (at least in concerning prostate), but at least has some additional A and B ratings [mayoclinic.org].
[00:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:(OT) Lycopene - all unclear - 06Radioactive Seeds and 3D Printed Shields to Treat Prostate Cancer - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:18] <exec> 08└─why not Vitamin C?
[00:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02not actually seeds - 06Radioactive Seeds and 3D Printed Shields to Treat Prostate Cancer - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:19] <exec> 08└─the "radioactive seeds" are really just radioactive chunks of metal. i'm assuming this was an oversight because it quite obviously should have been explained in the summary.
[00:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:PMD - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:31] <exec> 08└─Different propagation speeds may be less of a problem that one may think, if one uses different polarizations for different communication channels - in this case one only need to have a guaranteed constant signal speed any polarization/channel. The problem that I'd be afraid is mixing polarizations...
[00:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Already being done? - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:32] <exec> 08└─I thought polarization was already widely done in fiberoptics, how is this new. Signal Separation http://www.newport.com [newport.com] http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.newport.com
[00:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:48] <exec> 08└─fMRI = fishy Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
[00:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Narrowed definition - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:28] <exec> 08└─That is another problem in itself. Hardly any in IT management or Administration have an absolute need for CS, and CS people do not have the the knowledge to do those roles either*. The fundamental skills are nearly identical, and any one of us can go back and forth between the two, but people, espe...
[00:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:34] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder what farmers out west are doing wrong I dont think you quite understand the scope of the size of these farms. They are not 2-3 acre pick your own farms. They are 200+ acre farms. Relying on what the local town will send out to pay to pick is not economically feasible. You hire peopl...
[00:16:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aclarke [2049] 02"Robots" on farms - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 903 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:59] <exec> 08└─Steam engines have been in use on farms for over 200 years. Before that, horses and oxen have been used with machines in agriculture for thousands of years. Back to the present, anyone who has seen a combine harvester can see how "robots" replace farm workers' "backbreaking" tasks. If you want to...
[00:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:"Robots" on farms - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:04] <exec> 08└─The jobs that are easy to automate have been automated a long time ago. We're now getting into the hard-to-automate jobs like picking fruit, and that's turning out to be much harder. Look at this machine: costs $100k, and it only works for one kind of fruit, and only if the rows are planted a certai...
[00:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:23] <exec> 08└─He calls it "their real mission" when it is more like an inevitable side-effect of the way they pursue their official goals in the current environment. Some people have a really hard time with the concept of emergent effects, it is much easier to believe in active malice rather than damaging side-ef...
[00:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:27] <exec> 08└─> You know, this is supposed to be a summary, not an advertisement of the article. Nowhere is it called a summary. The submission form calls it a "scoop." There is no requirement to summarize, however you are encouraged to do so for your scoops.
[00:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02when did they rule? - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:05] <exec> 08└─not to be a wet blanket but apple hasn't cornered to market in anything they make. yes they sell plenty of computers and smartphones but they aren't dominant in any product market. if they went out of business, no market would collapse, people would just buy the same thing from another company.
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[01:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Gaming for Performance Improvement: - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:49] <exec> 08└─I found that back in the early 90s if I left Master of Orion on my computer during the semester and played several hours of it daily I got notably lower grades in my college classes. Obviously I'm doing something wrong. I did occasionally swap it out with Warlords, muds/mucks, and Castle Wolfenstein...
[01:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Gaming for Performance Improvement: - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:50] <exec> 08└─I'd wager that your resource management improved whether you're aware of it or not. I'd even go a step further and bet that you ended up with an improved sense of order-of-execution.
[01:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Duh - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:52] <exec> 08└─Practicing skills makes you better at them, we've known that since before we invented science. What's next, scientists discover water is wet?
[01:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost of living - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:27] <exec> 08└─Within each of those regions, there are huge variations in cost of living. Ever compare the housing costs in NYC and Buffalo?
[01:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hb253 [745] (Score:1) 02Re:Another wish list - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:36] <exec> 08└─In my case (IT Manager), the average is low. I'm earning more than their reported average for an IT Director. They call it golden handcuffs.
[01:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why the sarcasm? - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:08] <exec> 08└─It's not a product, it's a service practiced by their fanbois.
[01:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:...and patent trolling expenditures - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:12] <exec> 08└─The example I remember off the top of my head was a utility for stitching together a bunch of photos into a decent panorama.
[01:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:43] <exec> 08└─...when you can just building some raised beds or container garden?
[01:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:32] <exec> 08└─Some people have a really hard time with the concept of emergent effects
[01:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem... - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:40] <exec> 08└─If you are trying to break a cipher with math, then you are doing it the hard way. Try using hookers. It worked on David Patraeus anyway.
[01:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03In hydraulis [386] (Score:1) 02Re:Flak heaviest when over target - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:27] <exec> 08└─You shall not parse!
[01:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You call that a Knife? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:06] <exec> 08└─Your appeals to authority mean nothing until your precious authorities can provide something verifiable to back up their claims. You know, just as expected with actual science and not Orwellian newspeak "science because we say it is science even though it is not testable nor repeatable nor verifiabl...
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[02:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Orion - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:17] <exec> 08└─I'd get a "smart" dobsonian from Orion, if it was me.. http://www.telescope.com [telescope.com]
[02:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Orion - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:18] <exec> 08└─Seconded, Orion makes some nice scopes that won't break the bank. The hand controller tells you which direction to move the scope to find the object you want, no motors/gears to wear out and no obnoxious noise or extra batteries to worry about.
[02:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Agenaastro - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:19] <exec> 08└─I do all my telescope shopping at http://agenaastro.com [agenaastro.com] $600 may be a little low, if you want something decent. And the latest thing is a WiFi interface that allows your iPad to control the 'scope.
[02:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agenaastro - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:21] <exec> 08└─What's an "iPad"? is that one of those retro Android phones I see old people using?
[02:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michelle [4097] (Score:1) 02Light Pollution - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:23] <exec> 08└─I hope you are fortunate enough to live in a place with little light pollution (and such places are getting hard to find!) I have a couple Orion scopes: 80mm refractor for photography and 10" dob for visual. And the dob is *huge*, at least by my standards, and pulls in quite a bit of light. The 10"...
[02:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:(OT) Lycopene - all unclear - 06Radioactive "Seeds" and 3D Printed "Shields" to Treat Prostate Cancer - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:31] <exec> 08└─For instance, because you can have too much of it.
[02:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:not actually seeds - 06Radioactive "Seeds" and 3D Printed "Shields" to Treat Prostate Cancer - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:33] <exec> 08└─Thanks, changed.
[02:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Darth Turbogeek [1073] (Score:1) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:57] <exec> 08└─You mean you don't come up with flowery words about how you will romance your opponent's mother?
[02:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:03] <exec> 08└─Good one.
[02:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Regional variation matters a lot - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:52] <exec> 08└─To give you an idea of how much the cost of living in a region matters: For less than the cost of a studio apartment in the Bay Area, I can rent a nice house about 6 times the size in a good area where I am in metro Cleveland. Indeed, when I considered relocating to take a job that paid about 3 time...
[02:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michelle [4097] (Score:1) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:21] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I'm surprised I haven't seen the hate here (yet). I suppose I only say that because I see it just about every time the issue of gender dysphoria is brought up. As a transgender person, I can definitely relate to what she was going through, even I though I don't have RA or fibromyalgia on top...
[02:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michelle [4097] (Score:1) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, and by the way, there's no shame in being an "SJW" - at least if you are, you stand for something you're passionate about and willing to fight for.
[02:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:You call that a Knife? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:22] <exec> 08└─Your appeals to authority mean nothing until your precious authorities can provide something verifiable to back up their claims.
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[03:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Light Pollution - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─quick, grab the scope [bbc.com]
[03:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:(OT) Lycopene - all unclear - 06Radioactive "Seeds" and 3D Printed "Shields" to Treat Prostate Cancer - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:30] <exec> 08└─Hm, the link says "the upper limit is 2,000 mg a day." Whatever this Mayo clinic is ;) I'm not sure, where you're getting the 10^6 multiplier from.
[03:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:(OT) Lycopene - all unclear - 06Radioactive "Seeds" and 3D Printed "Shields" to Treat Prostate Cancer - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:31] <exec> 08└─Whatever this Mayo clinic is
[03:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:not actually seeds - 06Radioactive "Seeds" and 3D Printed "Shields" to Treat Prostate Cancer - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:35] <exec> 08└─Plant nukes in their asses from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
[03:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's an opensource game for you. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:56] <exec> 08└─My favorite is http://sailonline.org [sailonline.org] It's a sailboat navigation simulation game. You are racing in real time against people all over the planet. Weather is downloaded every 6 hours from NOAA. Races can be as little as 3-6 hours up to weeks long ocean races (right now we are in the...
[03:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Gaming for Performance Improvement: - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:10] <exec> 08└─I suspect that my managing of the key resource, time, during those semesters left something to be desired. ;)
[03:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:29] <exec> 08└─Usually when I think I'm being humorous,I get modded "Troll".
[03:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:17] <exec> 08└─Damn near impossible, on a small scale. Feeder pigs in the northeast US this year are running $150 and up. Then feed it for 5 or 6 months to net 300 to 400 pounds of pork. It's cheaper to buy pork at the supermarket for a buck or 2 a pound. Raising your own chickens or eggs is a similar labor of lov...
[03:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not American, but I did grow up in a small town in a rural part of a country that is economically similar. My experience with working holiday jobs while I was at school was that during the harvesting season the local growers, (apples, strawberries, melons, etc) paid the least money possible to a...
[03:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02been meaning to say this - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:42] <exec> 08└─Abu eh… abu eh id ma Stria arlia ajam Toddo no rabam Naim na em na Em do… Abu eh… abu eh id ma Stria arlia ajam Toddo no rabam Naim na em na Travial em donia Ravel a da Em de et jadde Nam nah em…
[03:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem... - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:04] <exec> 08└─Hm, last time, I've been to Moscow, pretty girls were all around [doseng.org] and quite [escort-angel.ru] easy [escortbeauty.ru] to [novoeagentstvo.ru] find [rusescorts.ru]... (links NSFW) But I guess you could always use a crowbar. ;)
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[04:15:42] <exec> 08└─The problem that I'd be afraid is mixing polarizations due to imperfections, which would result in mixing communication channels
[04:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:02] <exec> 08└─but don't tell me gym session are not useful
[04:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know, pseudonymity seems to have a couple things to offer over anonymity. Personally I think it makes the place more personable, letting me recognize when I'm reading something from someone who tends to have interesting perspectives to offer, or decide up front if I'm in the mood to engage w...
[04:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:BONUS? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:56] <exec> 08└─I think you've misspelled it. For entry level it starts with "Bone...(and there are 2 "s"s at the end).
[04:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03caseih [2744] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:33] <exec> 08└─Wrong question. How much are you as a consumer willing to pay? Farmers are willing to pay as much as people are willing to pay them for their commodities. They are price takers and the only way to increase profit margins is to reduce costs to the absolute minimum. We farm close to 3000 acres with 4...
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[04:18:58] <exec> 08└─> No, it's just that our system is set up to violate people's rights to such an extent that it is unreasonable to believe it's not malice at this point. “We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”
[04:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:59] <exec> 08└─I just prefer to take into account the probability that these filthy scumbags aren't acting with malice. When I do, I realize that it is rather improbable that they aren't
[04:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 2175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:12] <exec> 08└─You're the only one mentioning dogma. We're not talking religion, philosophy, or even politically-motivated "economics". We're talking science. A discipline which, while still undeniably fraught with human fallibility, is steeped in a long tradition of distrust. If a consensus emerges among scientis...
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[05:15:15] <exec> 08└─Rote memorization 'geniuses' love their working-memory challenges, though.
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[05:17:12] <exec> 08└─I live in a house with five other people on the bottom floor alone. There are likely at least that many people on each of the top two floors. My requests for a corner of backyard are unlikely to be fruitful (pun intended). This is also known as the Apartment Problem.
[05:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:12] <exec> 08└─Circular reasoning.
[05:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:13] <exec> 08└─Saying that I like to take probability into account and then stating the conclusion I reach when I do is circular reasoning? You don't understand basic logic, it seems. Not presenting the specific evidence I take into account in a certain comment != circular reasoning.
[05:18:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:CoolHand - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:37] <exec> 08└─For the overly-interested-in-meaningless-facts, why it's called that: the Gamecube, while it was in development at Nintendo, was called project Dolphin. The emulator is named after that.
[05:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:47] <exec> 08└─That depends on the kind of SJW. Tumblr nutjobs that, for instance, insist practically all sex is rape, are obviously insane.
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[06:14:37] <exec> 08└─oh yeah it makes me feel good oh yeah i hope she doesn't get pregnant oh yeah 4 years have passed the camel came into my ass
[06:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Well,, it's nice but... - 06Imagination to Release MIPS CPU Design to Students - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:38] <exec> 08└─Looks good, and it's nice to see a real world implementation, but I don't see why an academic institution would prefer going down this route to the various RiscV initiatives [riscv.org], which are more open and have a fair degree of support already? If the GPU was to be opened up as well that'd be a...
[06:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did I get it right? - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:19] <exec> 08└─Did I understand all this wrong? So you got a pipe that's a mirror on the inside. normally you would shot some light from a flashlight thru this pipe. this is equal to a normal single mode fiber optic cable that can do something like 40 Gbps. now you take two (2) flashlights and cover them with card...
[06:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Nicer community? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:14] <exec> 08└─I think the community here is more pleasant than /. However, that's a natural function of it being a smaller community. On /. there's a certain anonymity even when not posting AC. And we all know what happens with anonymity [knowyourmeme.com]. What drove me away from /. was the increasing commercial...
[06:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:18] <exec> 08└─And later, MyCleanPC, Gamemaker, and curse stories involving butts.
[06:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:57] <exec> 08└─Given that people do, I really don't see the point of your entire side of the discussion. I'd instead point out that current wages appear to be reasonable and that's good enough for me. And if wages really were $100 per hour, I'd be out in the field myself.
[06:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That explains it - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:19:15] <exec> 08└─So THAT'S why this is "newsworthy". If it was some vanilla forever alone cis-man contributor to dolphin we wouldn't be reading about it (because that story wouldn't do anything to further the cause of promoting cis-guilt). SN has definitely jumped the shark. Time to find a less SJW sympathetic site.
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[07:14:52] <exec> 08└─And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke o...
[07:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1) 02Re:Locusts huh... - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:53] <exec> 08└─Oh for fuck's sake. You know, your God COULD have made us so we're not warlike if he has a problem with this. I'm always amazed at how you people have so little regard for supposed omniscience, omnipotence, etc., and just basically imagine a big angry beardy warmongering human in the sky when you he...
[07:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Locusts huh... - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:55] <exec> 08└─sorry for your loss are you an angry drunk?
[07:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well,, it's nice but... - 06Imagination to Release MIPS CPU Design to Students - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no reason to take them up on this when we've got lowRISC and such.
[07:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:14] <exec> 08└─Much of science is not to learn, but to prove. Gamers know games take various skills. Others have to be convinced with proof.
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[07:16:49] <exec> 08└─Reputation is part of the problem. If you prejudge based on who is saying something, you are no longer looking at the ideas but how much you like the person saying them. It happens here on soylent just as much as elsewhere. Some people, regardless of current quality, will be modded up or down based...
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[08:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:36] <exec> 08└─Sadly, confronting conservative science deniers with the truth just strengthens their resolve, no matter how severe the consequences are. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature deaths in South Africa. Denial of the link between smoking and cancer has caused millio...
[08:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03panachocala [464] (Score:2) 02Swarms - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:46] <exec> 08└─Sounds like giant swarms of dollars being thrown into the air.
[08:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Convention against Chemical, Biological and Nukes - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:47] <exec> 08└─The Seventh Bowl of Wrath 17And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. 18And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were u...
[08:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Dept? - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:49] <exec> 08└─This sounds like it should be filed under the "Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?" department...
[08:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02LOCUST - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:50] <exec> 08└─These people spend too much time on coming up with 'clever' acronyms
[08:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Grind Your Own Mirror - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:13] <exec> 08└─I ground three mirrors, a 6", 10" and 8". I wasn't happy with the 10 so I took it back to fine grinding then repolished it. Mirror making is fascinating work. There is some guy on the amateur telescope making list who sells kits. Try making a travel scope - one that you can take in airline carry-on.
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[08:16:26] <exec> 08└─In the context of vitamin use the term "megadose" for a large dose beyond recommended levels is often used. Yes, it's improper use of an SI prefix but Merriam-Webster [merriam-webster.com] lists it as in use since 1971, Wiktionary [wiktionary.org] cites a Canadian government site only reachable via...
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[08:16:42] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid it will not add capacity for fiber optics communications, as this method only works in free-space data transmission, due to the usage of higher-order transverse modes (you would have to use multi-mode fibers, and those are suspect to an effect called mode dispersion, completely messing up...
[08:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Duh - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:14] <exec> 08└─we've known that since before we invented science.
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[09:15:18] <exec> 08└─Yes you're right, but from the viewpoint of nature, everything works as it should. There is a situation on earth of overpopulation by humans. Overpopulation is always corrected by nature, there is no getting around that fact. If assuming humans are part of nature, then it is expected that humans wil...
[09:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 1820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:19] <exec> 08└─The question about the climate is about denial of what exactly? That the climate changes and is not now set in stone? That we will all drown within 10 years? That it's all man made? That there is a chance to stop it? That all the big natural "disasters" that happen are because of climate change? Tha...
[09:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:21] <exec> 08└─nothing more than brainwashing and how to do more brainwashing yourself.
[09:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02If we don't send our children into harm's way - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:36] <exec> 08└─... we will start unnecessary and unjustified wars.
[09:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score:2) 02Re:Did I get it right? - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 2351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:37] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I am afraid you got this all wrong. When you focus light of only one color, the smallest thing you could theoretically get has the form of a spot with a diameter that is related to its wavelength. This is due to something called diffraction. A single mode fiber is an optical waveguide (a pipe...
[09:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:20:48] <exec> 08└─...way to unintentionally illustrate my point right there - everyone's definition of "nutjob" is different.
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[10:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 2384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:41] <exec> 08└─Hate to be rude to you AC, but that's a load of quasi-religious crap. Nature isn't an anthropomorphic sentient force with a plan and a will that cannot be denied. It's the culmination of many and various cause-and-effect physical processes. If we can understand those processes, we can manipulate the...
[10:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:42] <exec> 08└─Nature isn't a conscious being, and we are certainly not on behalf of nature. What is true is that overpopulation will get "corrected" one way or the other. That's already in the word "overpopulation": "over" as in "to much to be sustainable". Note that there are two ways this may be corrected: Eith...
[10:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:46] <exec> 08└─You're on a train, and are approaching something that looks like a strong wall. You know if the train hits a strong wall, a big disaster is the result. You are told that acting on the controls of the train affects the movement of the train, and that if you don't act quickly you'll no longer be able...
[10:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:47] <exec> 08└─When someone says "it's day time" and you poke your eyes out and say "no, it's not", you're gonna get called a denier. it's that simple. Unfortunately, there have been so many of those that even asking reasonable questions gets you lumped into their camp, Part of that of course is that the deniers g...
[10:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:(OT) Lycopene - all unclear - 06Radioactive "Seeds" and 3D Printed "Shields" to Treat Prostate Cancer - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:38] <exec> 08└─Well, one more specific difference between a physicist and a physician.
[10:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:That explains it - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:00] <exec> 08└─Riiiiiiight... If this article is all about some kind of "positive discrimination" towards transgendered folks, why isn't that even mentioned in the summary, genius? Take your persecution complex elsewhere.
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[12:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02US DoD already have demonstrated how to remove - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:30] <exec> 08└─Just make a drone that will find the source of the Sting-transmitter and that will disable it quite fast.. These kind of devices don't do silence very well. At least not on the electromagnetic spectrum.
[12:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:30] <exec> 08└─The problem is that we can't stop spying. MAYBE we can stop some organizations from getting the content of our message, assuming that those organization don't have quantum computers that will break GPG encryption in a matter of microseconds. But we cannot stop metadata collection; and we cannot stop...
[12:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:1) 02Great Idea - 06World Health Organization Endorses Clinical Trial Transparency - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:47] <exec> 08└─I think this is a great idea, but what are the odds that the WHO can out-lobby the pharmaceutical companies? Maybe the EU will go to bat for this and make the world a better place? Also, if this is implemented effectively, I think we will see an incredible rise in the garden-variety research fraud....
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[12:49:56] <exec> 08└─Sadly, confronting conservative science deniers with the truth just strengthens their resolve, no matter how severe the consequences are. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature deaths in South Africa. Denial of the link between smoking and cancer has caused millio...
[12:49:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 2384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:59] <exec> 08└─Hate to be rude to you AC, but that's a load of quasi-religious crap. Nature isn't an anthropomorphic sentient force with a plan and a will that cannot be denied. It's the culmination of many and various cause-and-effect physical processes. If we can understand those processes, we can manipulate the...
[12:50:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 801 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:03] <exec> 08└─You're on a train, and are approaching something that looks like a strong wall. You know if the train hits a strong wall, a big disaster is the result. You are told that acting on the controls of the train affects the movement of the train, and that if you don't act quickly you'll no longer be able...
[12:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02(OT) Yes, it will work... in your dreams - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:05] <exec> 08└─You're on a train
[12:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:07] <exec> 08└─That cars should be outlawed, because they are the root of all evil?
[12:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:09] <exec> 08└─That's an invalid comparison. No-one pops to work on a bulk cargo freighter and stops off at an out-of-town supermarket on the way home to pick up milk and bread, just like no company would shift 50,000 units of widgets from the manufacturer to the retail store by shuttling cars back and forth to Ch...
[12:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:10] <exec> 08└─It's true you cannot draw a direct comparison. The issue is that the ships are producing more pollution per kilo carried than road vehicles. Car emissions are heavily regulated because governments have control over their construction and use. The engines and fuel of container ships aren't subject to...
[12:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:11] <exec> 08└─The issue is that the ships are producing more pollution per kilo carried than road vehicles.
[12:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:13] <exec> 08└─The solution, of course, is to offer to relocate all of the deniers to nice, tropical beaches in the South Pacific where they can continue to enjoy the non-rising of global sea levels.
[12:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:15] <exec> 08└─Yes. Of course, they shouldn't just be given the land - they should have to buy it from the locals at a discount price, or trade it for some property in the denier's home country. This would be a great solution for countries like Kiribati and the Maldives, who are already making evacuation plans.
[12:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:16] <exec> 08└─Yes. Of course, they shouldn't just be given the land
[12:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 2043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:18] <exec> 08└─nice flamebait article. wtf is a "climate denier" anyway? sounds like someone who denies that climate exists. otherwise it could be an illiterate moron who jumps on a bandwagon... oh wait that could be the case for either side of any argument. i'm assuming its targeting those who deny that humans ar...
[12:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:20] <exec> 08└─I really don't understand people who pretend to act dumb just to make some obtuse point about an idea they don't like. You really couldn't figure out that the use of 'climate denier' was really 'climate change denier'? You really needed me to tell you this? The science is NOT corrupted on both sides...
[12:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:21] <exec> 08└─The science is NOT corrupted on both sides
[12:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Locusts huh... - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:32] <exec> 08└─Just combine those drones with the other quote from that book and the future looks even more interesting.. The Mark of the Beast And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he...
[12:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:If we don't send our children into harm's way - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:38] <exec> 08└─If we don't send our children into harm's way we will start unnecessary and unjustified wars.
[12:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When others catch up - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:39] <exec> 08└─When other nations catch up, then it might get a bit difficult for these people, so they will need to spend more just to stay ahead, or even keep up. Often there will be simple ways to get rid of these UAVs, or somebody will invent/develop something far better. These people do not wish to win any wa...
[12:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Similar mass-spying tech: GORGON STARE - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:41] <exec> 08└─A similar wide-area surveillance approach taken by the USAF is named GORGON STARE [globalsecurity.org] (wikipedia link for the same [wikipedia.org]). It basically uses a single Predator drone to closely watch human-level activity in an entire city, in real-time, indefinitely. While Gorgon Stare does...
[12:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:1) 02I've seen this before - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:42] <exec> 08└─http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Swarm [wikia.com] The article seems unclear on if noobs will be able to launch single ones or just the badasses launching bunches of them at once.
[12:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:4, Interesting) 02So this is free code, not source. Give me freedom! - 06Imagination to Release MIPS CPU Design to Students - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:51] <exec> 08└─So this is a MIPS CPU expressed as hardware description language (HDL) that can then be implemented in a FPGA of your choice (or not?). This makes it possible to implement and modify the CPU to some extent and to future proof it. (better summary please) But as others has pointed out there's already...
[12:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Light Pollution - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:51:04] <exec> 08└─If you live near the New York/Pennsylvania border, there is always Cherry Springs State Park. http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Meade ETX? - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:06] <exec> 08└─I pulled my telescope out of storage the other day
[12:52:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snick [1408] 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:52:25] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the culture of antagonism that has developed here.
[12:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:52:38] <exec> 08└─If you still dismiss news about the NSA as "conspiracy theories," then you haven't been paying attention to the Snowden documents. In fact, given the facts that have come to light about what the CIA has done, what Wall Street banks have done, and what many other agencies of the government have done...
[12:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:52:49] <exec> 08└─I disagree. My time is limited so sometimes I prefer to read just the higher scoring comments or of those people I know. Seeing the names can help direct away too. I have a couple of friends on here that I'll occasionally avoid if I'm not in the mood to read their kind of comments. They can be a lit...
[12:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:52:50] <exec> 08└─The problem with anonymity is that all conversations become stateless. I don't like that. I prefer to get a feel for the different personalities. This helps a lot to avoid the guy with the most time at hands to gain the most influence; usually the really competent guys have other things to do than p...
[12:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:BONUS? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:05] <exec> 08└─Then again, maybe they do count the toilet paper [dilbert.com] as part of the bonus.
[12:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Regional variation matters a lot - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 1768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:10] <exec> 08└─But a lot of people don't seem to understand that, and while the coasts tend to view the Midwest as a backwater flyover land, similar to the mountain states, they all seem to like to visit them because we have the nice things that aren't giant buildings. People come to Minnesota for our lakes, fishi...
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[13:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02chase scenes - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:00] <exec> 08└─If the concrete is removed, where will Hollywood film high speed chase scenes? Blasting up and down the sloping sides of the "river" and sliding around in the big puddles on the bottom has been featured in many movies.
[13:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:chase scenes - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:01] <exec> 08└─...has been featured in many bad movies.
[13:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02What river? - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:02] <exec> 08└─Isn't the thing almost always entirely dried up?
[13:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:2) 02Re:What river? - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:04] <exec> 08└─Spending lots of money to revitalize the area along a man-made river during a terrible drought. Sounds like a winning plan to me.
[13:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Urban Slobber - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:05] <exec> 08└─>... urban slobber I saw them live back in '83, shortly before bassist Jimmy Kreng was jailed for that incident with the Van der Graaf generator in the Lithuanian Embassy. Hell of a gig. The mosh pit ground to a halt 40 minutes in because the spilled beer and bodily secretions were so thick that peo...
[13:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:US DoD already have demonstrated how to remove - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:13] <exec> 08└─Or a foreign-based website that reports Sting sightings like they have for speed traps.
[13:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Not Rocket Science. - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:15] <exec> 08└─We have one infrastructure. We can't choose a world where the US gets to spy and the Chinese don't. We get to choose a world where everyone can spy, or a world where no one can spy. We can be secure from everyone, or vulnerable to anyone.
[13:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Idea - 06World Health Organization Endorses Clinical Trial Transparency - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:24] <exec> 08└─I think this is a great idea, but what are the odds that the WHO can out-lobby the pharmaceutical companies ?
[13:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:35] <exec> 08└─The beneficial changes we've made to our attitude and behaviour in the last forty or fifty years are amazing. I'm confident that we are accelerating down the path towards a technological and social tipping point, probably within our lifetimes,
[13:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:36] <exec> 08└─I don't find people who don't want kids flawed, I just can't understand them. But I see no difference between men or women who don't want kids.
[13:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:38] <exec> 08└─...don't want kids... I just can't understand them.
[13:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:39] <exec> 08└─Understandable. In this day and age there are other options for people with worrying genes for example adoption or sperm / egg / womb surrogacy.
[13:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:41] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see people like this A/C adopt rather than go childless. No, it's not that I think everyone necessarily needs to have children. But.. this person has demonstrated a certain level of level headed rational thought in deciding not to pass on those genes. Isn't that a good thing to pass on t...
[13:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:(OT) Yes, it will work... in your dreams - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:45] <exec> 08└─> You're waiting for a train. A train that'll take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you. But you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why? I've never seen a turtle.
[13:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Nice strawman you have there - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 2244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:54] <exec> 08└─See, this is what I find really irritating. As if any skeptics would claim that sea level isn't rising. Of course sea level is rising. [wikipedia.org] Those pacific islands? Like the rest of the world, some are naturally shrinking, but many - perhaps most - are growing [abc.net.au]. Coral islands ar...
[13:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:58] <exec> 08└─China and India do too. At this post [slashdot.org], I note that both China and the US had at the time of the study roughly 60% of their population which believed climate change was not a major problem and another study which implied that India had a similar sized majority with the same beliefs. As...
[13:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:59] <exec> 08└─wtf is a "climate denier" anyway?
[13:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:51:11] <exec> 08└─Not news, but a lot of people think the NSA extends into some broader corporate control network. It's an overextention of "foreign spying" in a manner that heavily and unreasonably affects domestic privacy. That's not a conspiracy theory. Saying "They're planning on converting that to military dicta...
[13:51:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 1041 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:51:12] <exec> 08└─I for one didn't quit out of rage, but out of exasperation. Dice-owned Slashdot seemed determined to destroy that community. The slashvertisements, the "Slashdot for Business" hokum, chasing CmdrTaco out, etc. Beta was the last straw. It was clear that MBAs had taken over, and were utterless clueles...
[13:51:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:51:14] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the culture of antagonism that has developed here. I'm considering switching back too.
[13:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:American Credibility - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:50] <exec> 08└─That said - I despise MSM for making a martyr of that sick son of a bitch, Michael Brown, in St. Louis. That one needed to be gunned down. He got exactly what he was looking for.
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[14:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:03] <exec> 08└─So Microsoft is advising about "harm to consumers". Well, admittedly they would know.
[14:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:04] <exec> 08└─A little context, Microsoft's involvement in the EU case has been known for years, these other companies were unknown.
[14:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:05] <exec> 08└─I thought their previous involvement was in a different (similar) case.
[14:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:07] <exec> 08└─http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/ok-google-how-did-the-eu-get-to-this-point-a-timeline [bloomberg.com] * February 2010: Joaquin Almunia starts to examine Microsoft Corp.’s antitrust complaint against Google as he takes over as the EU’s competition commissioner. * March 2011: Mi...
[14:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mostly Scum - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:08] <exec> 08└─Price comparison sites, news aggregators... Microsoft! It would be in my personal interest as a consumer if google could offer a cookie to filter out search results pertaining to these organisations.
[14:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Mostly Scum - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:10] <exec> 08└─I agree. News aggregators are silly and a waste of time.
[14:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02pulling the strings - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:12] <exec> 08└─OK, so how many of the names in that list will turn out in the coming months to be either (a) owned by Microsoft (b) receiving cash from Microsoft (c) staffed at the highest levels by ex-Microsoft managers or (d) otherwise beholden to Microsoft? I would be surprised if the number was less than 50%.
[14:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:chase scenes - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:19] <exec> 08└─uh... http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[14:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:chase scenes - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:21] <exec> 08└─They'll all be done with CG, silly. No-one does real stunts anymore.
[14:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:chase scenes - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:23] <exec> 08└─The location you're thinking of is right next to the Warner Brothers studio (complete coincidence, I'm sure), and it looks like the proposed map doesn't actually touch that section of it.
[14:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02San Gabriel River - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:24] <exec> 08└─There's always still the San Gabriel River [wikipedia.org]. It's quite an eyesore in many places, but then again it's no more of an eyesore than most of the rest of Los Angeles (or any urban environment) in my opinion. When I lived there, I enjoyed use of the long bike trail along the river. There a...
[14:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Think of the Children! - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:26] <exec> 08└─But now All the GTA Los Santos maps will be wrong !!! The Horror!
[14:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Hooray! - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:28] <exec> 08└─I assume this helps fix the drought right?
[14:48:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 1325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:37] <exec> 08└─The problem is that we can't stop spying. MAYBE we can stop some organizations from getting the content of our message, assuming that those organization don't have quantum computers that will break GPG encryption in a matter of microseconds. But we cannot stop metadata collection; and we cannot stop...
[14:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:39] <exec> 08└─assuming that those organization don't have quantum computers that will break GPG encryption in a matter of microseconds.
[14:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:04] <exec> 08└─Overpopulation is always corrected by nature, there is no getting around that fact.
[14:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:10] <exec> 08└─They also scream at you that they'll sue you for your last penny, if you cause the train to halt and thereby cause them to miss their important appointment.
[14:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:11] <exec> 08└─Anecdote: something similar actually happened to me. In my life I have (so far) pulled the emergency brake of a train thrice; twice to save someone's life (running along on the outside with their hand stuck inside), and once to save someone's fingers (stuck between the door from the inside, so invis...
[14:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:18] <exec> 08└─Interesting figures, thanks. It just goes to show that identifying the biggest greenhouse gas contributors isn't a clear cut task and probably anything making a significant contribution should be scrutinized.
[14:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:20] <exec> 08└─The economics is quite interesting, because there's a big incentive to buy more efficient ships (even a 1% saving on fuel is a big amount of money), but ships also last a very long time. New ship designs are starting to emerge with solar and wind generators and a diesel-electric drivetrain to the pr...
[14:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:29] <exec> 08└─Something to do with the density of yarn [wikipedia.org] but climate. Source: I read the label of yo mama's stockings.
[14:49:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03panachocala [464] 02Swarms - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds like giant swarms of dollars being thrown into the air.
[14:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MIPS CPU? - 06Imagination to Release MIPS CPU Design to Students - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:59] <exec> 08└─A million instructions per second [wikipedia.org] is considered awfully slow these days! ;-)
[14:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score:4, Informative) 02I have Explore Scientific APO - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 2167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:15] <exec> 08└─First you must make a conscious decision if you want to observe deep-sky objects or planets. Those two require very different telesopes. For deep-sky you need as big aperture as possible (cheapest are dobsonians for that), for planets the amount of light is not a concern, but rather the quality of t...
[14:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Need GOTO? - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 2199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:16] <exec> 08└─Speaking as someone who does own a GOTO scope, I bought it because when I was starting out and really did not know how to find stuff well. It really depends on how dark your site is. From my house, I still need GOTO as there are not enough naked=eye stars visible to easily star-hop. However, for a d...
[14:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK-421 [3235] (Score:2) 02Re:PMD - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you don't want to cross the streams. That would be bad.
[14:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Did I get it right? - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:50] <exec> 08└─That seems to kinda be the general idea as I understand it. Except they're not shaping the signal, they're shaping the *photons*. Think of a single photon of light like a round plastic bead. Standard polarization would be like taking a belt sander to that bead, turning it into a flat circle. These g...
[14:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Multitasking,,, - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:21] <exec> 08└─One game the team has already created, Neuroracer, has already shown that 12 hours of gaming a week among 60- to 80-year-olds dramatically improves their ability to multitask, beyond the abilities of a 20-year-old playing the game for the first time. They are now carrying out a three-year study, to...
[14:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Regional variation matters a lot - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:52:20] <exec> 08└─Also, I hear that in Minnesota, there's a town where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average. (I've never had occasion to visit, but everyone I know who's been there or lived there loved it.) That's also a reason why I encourage people to, if th...
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[15:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:08] <exec> 08└─"deceptive conduct to lockout competition in the mobile market." And this case isn't against Apple?
[15:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:09] <exec> 08└─What is this "Microsoft"? Every other contributor on this list merits a short explanation except for Microsoft.
[15:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:11] <exec> 08└─As the name already says, it is a very small company; the submitters probably couldn't find any further information about it. I think they are in the business of selling architectural elements; at least I've found some indication that they sell windows.
[15:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:pulling the strings - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:17] <exec> 08└─That's all well and good to conjecture, but brief pseudo-random digging suggests they're mostly not. They're all competitors to Google in one field or another, and that's both expected and tricky. Their motivations are suspect because every one of them would benefit from Google sinking. But they're...
[15:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pulling the strings - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:18] <exec> 08└─Their motivations are suspect because every one of them would benefit from Google sinking.
[15:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:1) 02Monopoly abuse - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:20] <exec> 08└─Google's argument is that is is not abusing dominance in the online shopping market because it is not dominant in that market The offense is using market dominance in one area to force out competitors in another. Google does have search dominance, and is using that to gain advantage in another. (a....
[15:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:chase scenes - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:30] <exec> 08└─"Repo Man"?
[15:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lets think this through - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:40] <exec> 08└─A water crisis in the largest city in an arid region with talking heads going on endlessly about need to take away water from others and conserve water themselves has decided to add more water using resources? A prolonged drought and their latest and great idea is to put in sloping green terraces an...
[15:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets think this through - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:42] <exec> 08└─Depends how they do it. If they actually use plants that are native to the area, then they won't have to water them that much.
[15:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Cheonggyecheon in Seoul - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if this is comparable but the description reminds me of Cheonggyecheon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggyecheon) in Seoul. Just a small break from the skyrises is appealing even.
[15:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:54] <exec> 08└─derp [wikipedia.org]
[15:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 2609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:55] <exec> 08└─> But we cannot stop metadata collection; We can not stop it in any specific case. But we sure as shit can stop it in the general case. Any organization large enough to conduct wide-spread metadata collection will also be large enough to be susceptible to social pressure including, but not limited t...
[15:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02VOIP - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:57] <exec> 08└─I live in area without cell phone coverage, but I can still use my cell phone because my provider has a wifi calling feature (T-Mobile, not sure if other providers do the same). A solution to Stingray would be to select the option to only use wifi calling. This of course would mean spotty service, b...
[15:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:2) 02Re:VOIP - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:58] <exec> 08└─Use Signal from OpenWhisperSystems on your smartphone to do just that with proper encryption: https://whispersystems.org [whispersystems.org]
[15:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Ambien blackouts - 06World Health Organization Endorses Clinical Trial Transparency - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:07] <exec> 08└─one morning I was puzzled to find the pages of a technical book stuck together with dried egg yolk. After a while I recovered some vague memories have having gone out for a late-night "breakfast", then attempting but failing to read the book at the restaurant, which was about three miles by car from...
[15:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Massive potential - 06World Health Organization Endorses Clinical Trial Transparency - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:09] <exec> 08└─This is great. Pharmaceutical research has always been hampered by the fact that it is hard to do science on the human body. Science is all about eliminating variables, but the human body (and the environment it operates in) is a huge sweaty pulsating mess of variables that are nigh-impossible to co...
[15:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Doesn't matter what I do - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:33] <exec> 08└─What matters most is, that you take your meds.
[15:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter what I do - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:34] <exec> 08└─What matters most is, that you take your meds.
[15:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nice strawman you have there - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:46] <exec> 08└─They are taking the obvious explanation on faith
[15:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice strawman you have there - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:47] <exec> 08└─All those climate scientists are just randomly guessing.
[15:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nice strawman you have there - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:48] <exec> 08└─Seriously? The warmists, as you have labeled time as if they are some foreign ethnicity to fear, have measurements, charts, models, and the like to back up their claim. The little ice age claim has what? Here are some claims that have an equal amount of intellectual integrity: Pirates were heavy, we...
[15:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:53] <exec> 08└─Do you have any facts, or grammar, or shift keys for that matter?
[15:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:55] <exec> 08└─Or that "climate change denier" really is "anthropogenic global warming denier" which is really in too many cases "someone who doesn't fully agree with me on my climate-based religion denier".
[15:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:1) 02Interesting development - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:16] <exec> 08└─It's interesting to see this revealed. I would have imagined a drone swarm to be a weapon of choice for third-world countries. An Android-phone controlled V1 style cruise missile would be dirt cheap to make and could be fabricated by any backwater village forge. Even if these get shot down, the ammu...
[15:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Well,, it's nice but... - 06Imagination to Release MIPS CPU Design to Students - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:27] <exec> 08└─I've taken a couple classes (around 2008-2010) in assembly programming and basic CPU hardware design, and every single one of them used MIPS. Which worked pretty well. I don't know much about the other instruction sets, but MIPS was simple enough that even us comp sci kids -- future Java code monkey...
[15:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Light Pollution - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:44] <exec> 08└─I live nowhere near the border, but it is easily worth a 5 hour drive.
[15:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already being done? - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:20] <exec> 08└─If I understand it correctly, the new thing here is that they don't just polarize the light, but they use light patterns that are polarized differently at different parts of the fiber's cross section. That way they get more than the two distinguishable directions polarization normally gives you (not...
[15:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did I get it right? - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:23] <exec> 08└─But it would certainly not work for communications between, say, earth and moon.
[15:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did I get it right? - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:25] <exec> 08└─thanks for the info. seems i got it wrong ... a bit. i found a good explaination to fiber optic multiplexers here: http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] seems it is being "shaped" but not with a 2-dimensional cardboard punch out but rather "only" one dimensional. th...
[15:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Regional variation matters a lot - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:56] <exec> 08└─Also, I hear that in Minnesota, there's a town where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
[15:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Good - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:08] <exec> 08└─I did accidentally waste bandwidth on a movie that appeared to be recorded on an iphone. Was not happy to waste time and bandwidth on that stuff. However, I suppose that these are few and far between. I just wish people would label the torrents as such.
[15:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:American Credibility - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:57:05] <exec> 08└─Fleeing and evading should never have become felonies, in and of themselves. Fleeing, evading, and eluding cops should be nothing more than a misdemeanor, and a circumstance to consider during a trial for a real felony. If a cop wants to talk to me, it is NOT MY DUTY to cooperate with him. I can run...
[15:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:American Credibility - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:57:07] <exec> 08└─Somehow - Brown got halfway through the window of the police cruiser. Now - you can believe, if you like, that the cop PULLED Brown into the cruiser, so that he could shoot Brown. But, the idea is so preposterous that I won't even entertain the idea. What happened was, Brown DOVE through that window...
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[16:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:00] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why they need to cut it off. The channel is still used with the digital so why remove the analog part? I guess my old radio in my car will have to have it's own radio station to enjoy my ride. Might print it on the side of my car so others can enjoy it too.
[16:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─Two possible reasons: 1- forced obsolescence of equipment for both receivers and broadcasters (short goal) 2- killing broadcasting altogether (long goal: everything filtered by the internet, so what you listen to is trackable and optionally tampered with, 1984 style).
[16:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:03] <exec> 08└─The most obvious and reasonable answer is spectrum. Radio spectrum is limited, and analog transmissions waste a lot of spectrum compared to modern digital means. This is exactly why regular VHF NTSC TV was finally eliminated here in the US in the switch to HDTV, so that valuable spectrum could be au...
[16:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:04] <exec> 08└─It would have been preferable to also switch AM stations to FM around the same time as the NTSC switch-off, thus opening even more bandwidth. Or are AM frequencies useless?
[16:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:3, Funny) 02buzzer - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:06] <exec> 08└─Analog is the hotness. Digital is the buzz kill.
[16:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Typical Statism - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:08] <exec> 08└─If digital is truly better in every way then broadcasters will adopt it on their own as will listeners. I have not carefully examined the radio dial in Norway but in most of the world there is a fair amount of spectrum compared to the number of actual broadcasters so, unlike cable for example, there...
[16:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:20] <exec> 08└─They also sell nets for offices.
[16:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:21] <exec> 08└─> So Microsoft is advising about "harm to consumers". Well, admittedly they would know. Corporations have no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
[16:48:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re:Mostly Scum - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:23] <exec> 08└─I agree. News aggregators are silly and a waste of time.
[16:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Mostly Scum - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:25] <exec> 08└─Price comparison sites [google.com] and news aggregators [google.com]? Yep, scum.
[16:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:pulling the strings - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:30] <exec> 08└─Their motivations are suspect because every one of them would benefit from Google sinking.
[16:48:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] 02Re:What river? - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:47] <exec> 08└─Spending lots of money to revitalize the area along a man-made river during a terrible drought. Sounds like a winning plan to me.
[16:48:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Hooray! - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:51] <exec> 08└─I assume this helps fix the drought right?
[16:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Lets think this through - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:55] <exec> 08└─If they actually use plants that are native to the area
[16:49:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] 02Not Rocket Science. - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:09] <exec> 08└─We have one infrastructure. We can't choose a world where the US gets to spy and the Chinese don't. We get to choose a world where everyone can spy, or a world where no one can spy. We can be secure from everyone, or vulnerable to anyone.
[16:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Rocket Science. - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:10] <exec> 08└─> I am quite sure the powers that be are well aware of this. Some of them are. But "the powers that be" are not a monolithic entity. The ones that want to use stingray don't care about similar tools being used by criminals, worrying about that is someone else's job. They only care about what's right...
[16:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:57] <exec> 08└─per KM needs to be as the crow flies for the petrol usage to be useful. I can't speak Deutch, can anyone confirm from http://fluglaerm.de [fluglaerm.de] ?
[16:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Nice strawman you have there - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:05] <exec> 08└─As if any skeptics would claim that sea level isn't rising.
[16:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:07] <exec> 08└─I'd take that trade, in theory. But I wouldn't want to live on an island for other reasons, not much to do unless you like beaches, surfing and fishing. I base this on the obvious fact that the loudest mouthed AGW promoters haven't stopped bidding up beachfront property anywhere in the world. They s...
[16:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:14] <exec> 08└─I expect you are old enough or well educated enough that with semantic arguing any phrase loses all meaning. The clues of meaning are in the intent, context and actual use given any instance.
[16:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:16] <exec> 08└─At this post [slashdot.org], I note that both China and the US had at the time of the study roughly 60% of their population which believed climate change was not a major problem When a country like China puts it's money where it's mouth is and invests billions into renewable and nuke power then...
[16:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting development - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:38] <exec> 08└─I would also assume that it would be wisest to shut up about it, rather than mentioning what it can achieve
[16:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:See, honey? - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:12] <exec> 08└─http://cats.about.com/od/behaviortraining/a/discipline.htm [about.com]
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[17:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Same story different source? - 06EU Study Recommends Funding Open Source - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:59] <exec> 08└─Seems like just a few days ago: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Is this the same story? They both link to the same EU commission page.
[17:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:09] <exec> 08└─3 - security theater Most of the digital services support remote wakeup and announcement. So next time there's a divorce custody dispute 50 miles away, or a thunderstorm 25 miles away, even radios that are switched off will blare into life to warn you about the emergency. Sounds crazy, but true. Alr...
[17:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:11] <exec> 08└─killing broadcasting altogether
[17:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:14] <exec> 08└─are AM frequencies useless?
[17:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:16] <exec> 08└─It would have been preferable to also switch AM stations to FM around the same time as the NTSC switch-off, thus opening even more bandwidth. Or are AM frequencies useless?
[17:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:17] <exec> 08└─analog transmissions waste a lot of spectrum compared to modern digital
[17:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:19] <exec> 08└─AC is correct in that content sucks and will not improve, but OP was probably trying for a spectral efficiency argument. Old fashioned analog signals simply take more power than a digital equivalent, all things being equal (which in implementation they usually are not, see the "demand" to squirt out...
[17:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:21] <exec> 08└─As pointed out in the original story (if you dig deep enough) it was only the State Run radio system that was going all DAB. I don't know the split between private local broadcasters and state run radio in Norway.
[17:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Typical Statism - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:22] <exec> 08└─But isn't this the best case scenario for government? 1) A precious national resource is being used inefficiently for the benefit of a few. 2) The government requires those few to upgrade their systems in order to make better, more efficient use of the resource. 2a) The few, who have monopoly contro...
[17:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Typical Statism - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 1868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:24] <exec> 08└─Ok, that is a valid point. On the other hand if the broadcasters on analog are still profitable it is because the listeners (i.e. the citizens) are still using the analog equipment too. If government is merely a creature of the People and not an entity pursuing goals of its own (as progressives beli...
[17:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typical Statism - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:25] <exec> 08└─If people become concerned that valuable investment in both transmitters and receivers (remember that many are integrated in large investments such as automobiles) will be obsoleted anytime some new tech gets some big money investors behind it we can end up with nobody adopting from that fear.
[17:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Typical Statism - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:27] <exec> 08└─because the government standardized it by granting a sole source monopoly to one vendor of both transmitters and receivers
[17:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typical Statism - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:29] <exec> 08└─The question is whether it is indeed enough of an advantage that the cost is justified. The cost is that all FM receivers will turn into useless junk. For stationary, you'll probably be able to buy an extra box, like with TV, to add DAB reception, but for non-stationary ones that's not an option. Ca...
[17:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxim [2543] (Score:1) 02Encryption - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:30] <exec> 08└─Digital is better that analog in any way. In any way except one little thing that makes me often miss the good old days of analog stuff. The analog way of transmitting data cannot be practically encrypted (Yes, I know that it is possible, and was done during the WW wars but its hard, and usually eas...
[17:48:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:34] <exec> 08└─So Microsoft is advising about "harm to consumers". Well, admittedly they would know.
[17:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What river? - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:09] <exec> 08└─I don't live in LA, but TFA said the river gets water treatment plant outflow so it sounds like it will always have a little water if people in LA continue to drink water, shower, and flush toilets.
[17:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:US DoD already have demonstrated how to remove - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:26] <exec> 08└─Speed trap reporting website are in most cases foreign based?
[17:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Ambien blackouts - 06World Health Organization Endorses Clinical Trial Transparency - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:44] <exec> 08└─This is listed on the pamphlet (which I am sure you read) that comes with Ambien: Rarely, after taking this drug, people have gotten out of bed and driven vehicles while not fully awake ("sleep-driving"). People have also sleepwalked, prepared/eaten food, made phone calls, or had sex while no...
[17:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:02] <exec> 08└─We're also finally changing our social codes so that a woman not having children isn't seen as having some kind of character flaw.
[17:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice strawman you have there - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:30] <exec> 08└─I still don't see your problem with my proposal. If the deniers are right, they get to live on beautiful tropical islands in the South Pacific. If they're wrong, then they get to drown and everyone else can move on. Sounds like a win-win to me.
[17:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:32] <exec> 08└─Right, it's win-win, isn't it? I do feel obliged to issue a spoiler alert, though--the Coast Guard won't be rescuing anybody there. Thus the headlines in 2050 will read, "American Boat People Seeking Asylum After Islands Lost Beneath the Waves."
[17:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:41] <exec> 08└─And invests billions in coal burning plants too. It's still doing that.
[17:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:43] <exec> 08└─China’s recent scrapping of small coal plants will avoid the release of as much as 11.4 million metric tons annually of climate-warming carbon dioxide, helping the country cut emissions for the first time in more than a decade. The impact is a sign of what’s to come as China pushes for a cap...
[17:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Locusts huh... - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:55] <exec> 08└─When you realize that God was actually made in Man's image it makes a lot more sense.
[17:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Locusts huh... - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:57] <exec> 08└─but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: Somehow I imagine the very same people that will use these to bomb villages are also convinced that they will only receive...
[17:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:So this is free code, not source. Give me freed - 06Imagination to Release MIPS CPU Design to Students - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:20] <exec> 08└─It's an educational tool, and not much else. When I was getting my comp sci degree we had to take a class where first we learned to code in MIPS assembly, then we learned VHDL and implemented a basic MIPS CPU. I'm sure this is significantly more advanced than what we built (I think even supporting m...
[17:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:So this is free code, not source. Give me freed - 06Imagination to Release MIPS CPU Design to Students - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:21] <exec> 08└─The common design case is to control something more complex. The CPU is usually the side story.
[17:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Re:Meade ETX? - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:40] <exec> 08└─It is a Celestron Nexstar GT. Parts are difficult to find now. Very entry level at $150ish, but I could find plenty of things to look at. Since I'm planning on replacing it, I figured an upgrade would, again, spark and keep the family's interest in it.
[17:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:(OT) Lycopene - all unclear - 06Radioactive "Seeds" and 3D Printed "Shields" to Treat Prostate Cancer - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:55] <exec> 08└─I guess, megadose just means "a large dose" in this context. See, e.g. Merriam-Webster [merriam-webster.com] Coincidentally, the example provided by MW is: He took megadoses of vitamin C.
[17:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 1975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:19] <exec> 08└─So...the part where the NSA and GCHQ run teams to subvert consensus formation in social media was what exactly? How about the part where NSA employees were spying on intimate conversations deployed soldiers were having with their spouses in the US? Or that the NSA was spying on trade talks for the a...
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[18:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:03] <exec> 08└─Heard where?
[18:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:04] <exec> 08└─That can be achieved with side channels on FM, like those already present for info and crap. I think my 2007 car radio can be configured for interrupting me with traffic info and such things. Oh and it can be achieved with cellphones, which are more widespread than cars.
[18:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:07] <exec> 08└─Or... and this is just a hypothetical here, the reasons given in the article are quite reasonable: that (nationally owned) bandwidth is being wasted on 19% of people, when the majority of people have moved on to requesting the actual things they want to listen to instead of listening to whatever the...
[18:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:08] <exec> 08└─: that (nationally owned) bandwidth is being wasted on 19% of people,
[18:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:13] <exec> 08└─Except that digital broadcasts don't need all that bandwidth. Especially not TV broadcasts, which are digital and mostly move out of VHF. The only thing contending for the upper end of the FM spectrum would be air to ground radio. Also FM spacing is often as low as 50khs in europe, especially Italy...
[18:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:16] <exec> 08└─In other words car development is going the involution path. It works - wreck it! ;) Car slot better be DIN or the manufacturer can go and f-ck them self. (any good suggestion to make bad car design painful for the manufacturer?)
[18:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Typical mobile operators stealing spectrum - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:26] <exec> 08└─It's usually all about mobile operators wanting to occupy more radio spectrum.. Guess who will buy the new spectrum that becomes "free". (hint: it's not citizens radio or amateur radio)
[18:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:38] <exec> 08└─If Google crushes Microsoft. Bonus point! :P The whole antitrust complaint smells rat anyway. They are just gaming the government courts.
[18:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:pulling the strings - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:51] <exec> 08└─You noticed the sentence that followed that one. The one that qualified that by also implying their relevance towards anti-compete investigations? No? Well then the final sentence of my post is the thesis: that motivations and financial incentive aren't enough to digest the situation and we need to...
[18:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What river? - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:12] <exec> 08└─It could actually help in that tegardSpending lots of money to revitalize the area along a man-made river during a terrible drought. Sounds like a winning plan to me.
[18:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02The river of hydrocarbons and other stuff - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:20] <exec> 08└─runoff from Angelenos washing cars or watering lawns
[18:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:The river of hydrocarbons and other stuff - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:21] <exec> 08└─Hey this isn't in Australia.
[18:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:US DoD already have demonstrated how to remove - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:32] <exec> 08└─You think a US-based Sting reporting site would last long?
[18:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:US DoD already have demonstrated how to remove - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:33] <exec> 08└─Officially the USA has some pesky laws about "freedom of speech" so I thought they perhaps would stay up. Otoh, one cannot be blamed for thinking otherwise..
[18:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:38] <exec> 08└─"Derp" indeed. We don't have quantum computers and don't know how they would function. This is all just theory.
[18:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:39] <exec> 08└─Derp again. We do have quantum computers (not D-Wave) and they have implemented Shor's.
[18:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:41] <exec> 08└─You are doing that geek black-and-white thinking
[18:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VOIP - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 2873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:46] <exec> 08└─Not logging in for good reasons. VoIP is not safe. It is easier to catch, retain, decode, search, and is the preferred method that a target could possibly use besides carrying his tracker around all the time. No changing of the tapes, so to speak, with voip, and the software on the phone is rarely e...
[18:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02This was in 1996 - 06World Health Organization Endorses Clinical Trial Transparency - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:56] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Comment too short.
[18:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:15] <exec> 08└─I agree. Sorta. I fail to see the problem with people taking themselves out of the gene pool. The future will belong to those who show up, and progressives are reproducing far below replacement rate. Where is the problem, other than we sane folk have to manage to survive your team's idiocy long enou...
[18:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:18] <exec> 08└─Why don't we start with colonizing the ocean floor, before heading off to space. If you think humanity is ready for the latter, the former should be a piece of cake, right?
[18:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:(OT) Yes, it will work... in your dreams - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:25] <exec> 08└─You're on a train
[18:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nice strawman you have there - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:43] <exec> 08└─So you idiots think putting out a politician who happens to be a congenital liar (second only to the husband of your team's great hope to replace him btw.)
[18:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:59] <exec> 08└─Actual CO2 emissions are dropping though.
[18:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:57] <exec> 08└─Working-memory challenges are basically made for rote memorization 'geniuses'. I would much rather focus on critical thinking skills than memory, as they seem to be something most are lacking.
[18:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, what you just did here. That's classic conspiratorial delusion. You mix random facts that you imagine support a larger umbrella of ambiguous nefarious intent into a horrifying near-future conclusion then declare it to be undeniable logic. You should know full well that if you examine the actual...
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[19:47:58] <exec> 08└─SJW drama/bs. Consider carefully before modding as flamebait. TFS + article should be modded as offtopic.
[19:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:00] <exec> 08└─These people seem to be of the school of thought that freedom of expression should only be for expressions that agree with. Secular satirization is not even *approaching* "hate speech" or whatever these writers think is happening. People need to get it through their heads that people are not require...
[19:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:01] <exec> 08└─I should add that I think that the more offensive and frequent the satirization is Islam (specifically) is, the better. It needs to be realized that verbal "attacks" on your religion by non-believers should simply be ignored, not punished by death. Keep the number of offences low puts capital punish...
[19:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:03] <exec> 08└─The problem with your approach is that it has been used to keep groups of people down. I'm not saying I disagree with you in this specific case, but I think the point they're aiming for (if misguidedly) is that they don't want history to repeat itself.
[19:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:04] <exec> 08└─Was it the primary purpose of the magazine to mortify and inflame a marginalized demographic? It would seem not.
[19:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score:3, Insightful) 02As stated in the summary. - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:06] <exec> 08└─France (like here in the UK) has little time for defending freedom of speech, unless the establishment deems it worth of defence, as in this instance. I suspect this was solely because of the barbaric atrocity that resulted from its publication - I'm not sure we'd be talking about it otherwise. I'd...
[19:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Filter error: Please enter a Subject. - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:08] <exec> 08└─I can hardly be alone in considering Charlie Hebdo's cartoons that satirize Islam to be not merely tasteless and brainless but brainlessly reckless as well.
[19:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:21] <exec> 08└─We'll see the fruit the tree bears.
[19:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:30] <exec> 08└─Car slot better be DIN or the manufacturer can go and f-ck them self. So I guess you're never going to buy a car older than 1995 or so, for the rest of your life? Not only that, but you can't expect stereo makers to keep making DIN-size stuff when cars aren't using that standard any more. These day...
[19:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Typical Statism - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:40] <exec> 08└─You forget that radio frequencies are internationally agreed upon. You can not suddenly decide to start using these frequencies for something else. The government proposal was for its OWN radio service, where they can simply stop broadcasting the analog portion, while still retaining the digital por...
[19:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:54] <exec> 08└─"deceptive conduct to lockout competition in the mobile market." And this case isn't against Apple?
[19:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:55] <exec> 08└─Troll? Did you know that Apple is now blocking apps that mention Pebble support [androidpolice.com]? Get a life.
[19:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mostly Scum - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:04] <exec> 08└─You know full well what I meant - searching for something and wading through site after site that has gamed the search results whilst carrying no actual content. They're spammers and if I were CEO of Google, I'd be looking to sue them.
[19:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets think this through - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:38] <exec> 08└─One man's troll is another's comedian.
[19:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets think this through - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:39] <exec> 08└─Troll? What is up with the mods today?
[19:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:This was in 1996 - 06World Health Organization Endorses Clinical Trial Transparency - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I realized that about 1 ms after I hit submit.
[19:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:38] <exec> 08└─Nature is a system, a system can be personified. Just like when I call a colony of cells... "you". That personifying doesn't make a hypothesis more or less valid, it's only a POV.
[19:50:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:49] <exec> 08└─Anecdote: something similar actually happened to me. In my life I have (so far) pulled the emergency brake of a train thrice; twice to save someone's life (running along on the outside with their hand stuck inside), and once to save someone's fingers (stuck between the door from the inside, so invis...
[19:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice strawman you have there - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:07] <exec> 08└─Most of us 'deniers' deny that there is even any science left in the AGW movement, that politics has displaced it.
[19:52:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cosurgi [272] 02I have Explore Scientific APO - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 2167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:24] <exec> 08└─First you must make a conscious decision if you want to observe deep-sky objects or planets. Those two require very different telesopes. For deep-sky you need as big aperture as possible (cheapest are dobsonians for that), for planets the amount of light is not a concern, but rather the quality of t...
[19:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:35] <exec> 08└─Just we "knew" that the stars were fixed to a sphere, or that the Sun went round the Earth?
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[20:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:01] <exec> 08└─Even though using the term "SJW" to label people you disagree with is an instant sign of stupidity, you're right. There's nothing noble about withdrawing from a free speech conference because you disagree with the winners. It's just plain dumb. You never endorsed free speech in the first place, and...
[20:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:1, Disagree) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:02] <exec> 08└─Even though using the term "SJW" to label people you disagree with is an instant sign of stupidity, you're right.
[20:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:04] <exec> 08└─Did you just 'mansplain' it to him?
[20:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:05] <exec> 08└─That's not what the term meant. It meant someone who used the ideals of social justice as a bludgeon to demand that their personal preferences in conversation are adhered to. Things like playing oppression olympics where you try to pretend your group X is more oppressed than other group Y because of...
[20:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:09] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't people that attack newspaper offices (even unpopular ones) with automatic weapons be "kept down"? Certainly, any moral high ground the groups previously had was surrendered the minute they started filling their Kalashnikov clips. Think carefully when you start justifying such nonsense.
[20:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:11] <exec> 08└─Think carefully when you start justifying such nonsense.
[20:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:12] <exec> 08└─An important lesson, but for the most part, an unrelated lesson.
[20:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:14] <exec> 08└─> Don't like what people say about your religion? Ignore it. ...they're doing nothing wrong. I agree with you. That being said, that's akin to what the writers are doing here. They don't like something, and are choosing to not participate.
[20:48:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] 02As stated in the summary. - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:16] <exec> 08└─France (like here in the UK) has little time for defending freedom of speech, unless the establishment deems it worth of defence, as in this instance. I suspect this was solely because of the barbaric atrocity that resulted from its publication - I'm not sure we'd be talking about it otherwise. I'd...
[20:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Responsibility of Action - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:17] <exec> 08└─At what point does speech go from mere words to incitement to crime? It seems among the left in Europe, and arguably in the States, the guilty party isn't the one who shoots or riots, but the one who "triggered" such a response by speaking words that are disagreeable. This can only lead to authorita...
[20:48:18] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 1114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:19] <exec> 08└─I currently live in France, and have done so for over 7 years, and I am also a regular reader of Charlie Hebdo. I really cannot understand the problem here. CH satirizes all religions equally, as well as politicians, world figures, terrorists, rioters, sports personalities and anything else that is...
[20:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:32] <exec> 08└─You mean besides cell phone networks, a thing almost every citizen needs and uses?
[20:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:33] <exec> 08└─Free to air not in a phone company' vocabulary.
[20:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:chase scenes - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:39] <exec> 08└─and it looks like the proposed map doesn't actually touch that section of it.
[20:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:VOIP - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:21] <exec> 08└─My only point was that if someone wished to avoid connecting to stingray, that can be accomplished by not using the cellular radio on the phone by connecting to a wifi internet connection. Of course those VOIP calls can be intercepted and if other measures aren't taken, listened to easily, but they...
[20:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:VOIP - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:22] <exec> 08└─Signal is for iPhone. TextSecure and RedPhone for Android.
[20:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Child-bearing surrogacy - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:51] <exec> 08└─There was a story in the news recently that demonstrates what a mess this still is. One of the hosts of a morning network gabfest decided she wanted a kid though she couldn't conceive one of her own. The Sherri Shepherd Case: One More Reason to Ban Commercial Surrogacy [dissidentvoice.org] After the...
[20:51:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Nice strawman you have there - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 2244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:20] <exec> 08└─See, this is what I find really irritating. As if any skeptics would claim that sea level isn't rising. Of course sea level is rising. [wikipedia.org] Those pacific islands? Like the rest of the world, some are naturally shrinking, but many - perhaps most - are growing [abc.net.au]. Coral islands ar...
[20:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Re:Light Pollution - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:52:37] <exec> 08└─I live on the Gulf Coast. Have plenty of areas to go, mostly out on the beach, at night. Can see the milky way out there.
[20:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02You'd need a book. It's kinda complex. - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:52:39] <exec> 08└─A first-time amateur will take about a year of occasional spare time to grind, polish and figure an 8" mirror. A seasoned pro could do it in a couple 8-hour days but you really need quite a lot of experience. The main thing is you need a lot of patience, grinding a mirror is quite a lot like watchin...
[20:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have Explore Scientific APO - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:52:44] <exec> 08└─Bigger aperture means that you get more atmospheric turbulences on the way.
[20:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:44] <exec> 08└─Wrong: it's not about rote memorization. Working memory [wikipedia.org] is short term memory - your CPU cache. You won't be a good thinker (critical or not) if your cache is small.
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[21:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:07] <exec> 08└─Two points not discussed in the article which are interesting: AFAIK the financial resources of IS are basically infinite. I mean they make the Saudi's look impoverished. Well, technically the Saudi's could spend more if they wanted but they don't. Anyway given a seemingly infinite supply of cash al...
[21:48:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 541 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:17] <exec> 08└─Even though using the term "SJW" to label people you disagree with is an instant sign of stupidity, you're right. There's nothing noble about withdrawing from a free speech conference because you disagree with the winners. It's just plain dumb. You never endorsed free speech in the first place, and...
[21:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:21] <exec> 08└─There is a large contingent of people who have elevated getting easily offended to a matter of principle. SJW is a useful term to describe members of that group. Or, you know, people who don't hate SystemD enough. (see yesterday's Linux thread for examples)
[21:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. Your buddies ruined it for you. Sorry.
[21:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:24] <exec> 08└─0 Disagree -1 Overrated That looks like a bug.
[21:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:26] <exec> 08└─Free speech means shitty speech. Poorly considered speech. Cruel speech. Inane speech. *gasp* secular speech. Religious speech. These people didn't understand what organization they were members of.
[21:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:28] <exec> 08└─In what way does acknowledging the suppressed speech of others with an award endorse it? Clarify that. You are letting it stand as a bare assertion right now.
[21:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:29] <exec> 08└─In what world is an award not an endorsement?
[21:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:31] <exec> 08└─Because it specifically celebrates the freedom to express the opinion. There. Hope that solves your conundrum.
[21:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwix [873] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:35] <exec> 08└─The only lesson we need to know here is they hold us to different standards that they hold themselves to. The feel they have the right to mock, threaten, kill anyone who does not believe in their religion, but then they demand that everyone else curtail their speech so they do not get offended. They...
[21:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:37] <exec> 08└─> The only lesson we need to know here is they hold us to different standards that they hold themselves to. Who is 'they?'
[21:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:38] <exec> 08└─The point is that same rationale can be used to keep a minority group down. The 'only lesson' you actually need to know is that you shouldn't go extreme either way.
[21:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:40] <exec> 08└─> Shouldn't people that attack newspaper offices (even unpopular ones) with automatic weapons be "kept down"? Lets restate that in another context to see how sensible it is. If some black panthers murdered David Duke and some black people said "good, he had it coming" does that mean Duke's writing a...
[21:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:42] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the religionists (namely the Muslims) are actually saying that those who insult their religion should be killed. If people who follow a certain religion can't help but resort to violence when their religion is insulted, then maybe those people don't belong in civilized society, a...
[21:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:43] <exec> 08└─> If people who follow a certain religion can't help but resort to violence when their religion is insulted, If that actually happened with any frequency it would be genocide. People insult islam all the time, day in and day out. That there have been only a handful of high-profile cases of violent r...
[21:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:46] <exec> 08└─Oh don't lean on me man, cause you can't afford the ticket - I'm back from Elohim city. Oh, don't lean on me man 'cos you ain't got time to check it - back from Elohim City...
[21:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:47] <exec> 08└─Keep the number of offences low puts capital punishment for all offences within reach. What does this mean?
[21:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:49] <exec> 08└─Adding to that, an individual's right ends where the right of another begins. While I absolutely condemn the killing, I have a similar opinion about the unnecessary provocation of the publication and associated media-hype about it.
[21:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:50] <exec> 08└─As some people have said, the role of satire is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Insulting the ayatollah, members of ISIS or any other person using religion for their own selfish ends absolutely qualifies, kicking the weakest among us does not. It would be like saying black peop...
[21:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:52] <exec> 08└─By the looks of it, the magazine specializes on inflaming demographics. Some of them would be marginalized ones. So what? If certain demographics don't like it, they don't have to read it. This is what freedom of speech is all about: if you don't like what's being said, you can ignore it, or counte...
[21:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:54] <exec> 08└─This is the best response on here. The correct response is bafflement and then education that CH is an equal opportunity satire shop. What's going on, essentially, is that you actually see the breadth of CH's typical output. But from the perspective of the rest of the world, CH gets in the news basi...
[21:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:55] <exec> 08└─The Islamic Faith may be very special to those who follow it, but to everyone else it has no special status in the world.
[21:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwix [873] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:57] <exec> 08└─Do you really think that would temper their anger? I highly doubt that.
[21:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:59] <exec> 08└─> I am also a regular reader of Charlie Hebdo. I really cannot understand the problem here. CH satirizes all religions equally That would be totally fine if all religions in France were even close to equal. But surely you know they are not. Hollande is a secular catholic, Sarkozy was catholic, Chir...
[21:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Je suis Charlie, vous êtes stupide! - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:00] <exec> 08└─Dear Peter Carey, Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, Teju Cole, Rachel Kushner and Taiye Selasi; Is it easy to reflect on the hypocrisy of your claimed support of free expression while safe in the knowledge that no paramilitaries are going to turn up outside your office and murder you for expressing...
[21:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What river? - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:26] <exec> 08└─Add some water falls, or spray fountains
[21:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A thinned gene pool - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:36] <exec> 08└─The majority of people who believe[1] as you do tend to not be especially affluent. They have to spread what limited resources they have over what spawn they generate. The Progressive couple who chose to have 1 kid can dedicate all of their resources to that 1 resource sink. With a for-profit educat...
[21:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:51] <exec> 08└─That analogy only holds if you acknowledge the big hairy toll-taking troll who guards the engine room. He'll only let you turn the knobs on the controls some amount proportional to all of the things that you care or enjoy about modern living that you turn over to him.
[21:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:13] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate Pacific Islanders so much? Are you a racist?!
[21:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:25] <exec> 08└─Try reading the very first sentence of my post. Most people do that BEFORE responding, but, whatever floats your boat (except displacement of course, that supports global warming)...
[21:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:load of bs - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:28] <exec> 08└─wtf is a "climate denier" anyway? sounds like someone who denies that climate exists. I think this is an attempt a reducto ad absurdum. Of course, it relies on the assumption that "the climate doesn't exist" is actually more absurd that the posited global scientific conspiracy to invent global w...
[21:53:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CoolHand [438] 02Orion - 06Getting Back into Amateur Astronomy: Where to Find a Good Telescope? - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:15] <exec> 08└─I'd get a "smart" dobsonian from Orion, if it was me.. http://www.telescope.com [telescope.com]
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[22:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:07] <exec> 08└─> AFAIK the financial resources of IS are basically infinite. Which explains why many of their soldiers fight - a regular paycheck in an area with 30% unemployment is enough to make a lot of young men mouth empty prayers.
[22:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:08] <exec> 08└─How do you know about their finances?
[22:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:10] <exec> 08└─AFAIK the financial resources of IS are basically infinite.
[22:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:26] <exec> 08└─No, it's not a bug. The "Disagree" mod is +0, not -1.
[22:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:31] <exec> 08└─The idea that an award for speech ignores the content of that speech is head in the sand denialism. Especially since this award seems to have been specifically created for Hebdo. There was no such award in 2014, only a Goodale Digital Freedom Award [pen.org] that went to Twitter for enabling others...
[22:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:32] <exec> 08└─So you don't like Deborah Eisenberg/Teju Cole's point of view and rely on name calling, right? It says something about the responsibility you should feel in exercising free speech (as it's the case with any other freedom).
[22:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:48] <exec> 08└─Sorry, should be "keeping". It means that if there are only a handful of insults world wide, they draw sharp spikes of attention and the relatively low number of religiously impaired people can personally attend to these heretics. If there is a vast wave of insults they realize that they should just...
[22:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:49] <exec> 08└─Why do you feel the urge to insult people on a massive level? Where do you draw the line with insults? Do you go to some random person and call their mother a whore, or are you against personal attacks? If you feel the need to insult someone, go insult your neighborhood blacks/mexicans/russians/ital...
[22:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:50] <exec> 08└─Why do muslims feel the need to kill anyone who does not agree with them. Lets fix that issue and then we can talk about my sin of stereotyping.
[22:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:52] <exec> 08└─These people seem to be of the school of thought that freedom of expression should only be for expressions that agree with.
[22:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:56] <exec> 08└─When muslims stop killing anyone who doesn't believe the same things as them then I may have pity for them being mocked. As of right now the vast majority of the worlds muslims believe that infidels should be murdered. So fuck their pedo prophet, and anything else that they care about. They can star...
[22:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:58] <exec> 08└─the vast majority of the worlds muslims believe that infidels should be murdered
[22:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:59] <exec> 08└─When muslims stop killing anyone who doesn't believe the same things as them then I may have pity for them being mocked. As of right now the vast majority of the worlds muslims believe that infidels should be murdered.
[22:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:01] <exec> 08└─So what? If certain demographics don't like it, they don't have to read it. This is what freedom of speech is all about: if you don't like what's being said, you can ignore it, or counter it with your own speech.
[22:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:02] <exec> 08└─Saying something bad about someone is only improper when it isn't true. Truth: Muslims worship a prophet who slept with children. Truth: Many muslims believe it is proper to kill an infidel. Truth: Many muslims believe it is proper to kill anyone who converts away from islam. Truth: Many muslims wou...
[22:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Filter error: Please enter a Subject. - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:04] <exec> 08└─The fact that its even considered "reckless" is a great reason that this is the sort of thing that should be satirized, and as frequently as possible. Personally I find it sad that you may be taking your life into your own hands when you make fun of a religion. Do people actually think that playing...
[22:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility of Action - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:06] <exec> 08└─The US isn't nearly that bad (for all its other faults). We still do value freedom of speech, and the only way you're going to get in trouble for "inciting" is in a situation where you're provoking someone one-on-one with "fighting words". Even there, the person resorting to violence will still get...
[22:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:09] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the comedy central show South Park here in the states. Every so often they hit a hot button issue and a person or group gets all fired up because they are making fun of a person/group/religion. But for some reason many people don't realize they make fun of everyone equally. The late Is...
[22:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:12] <exec> 08└─Do you really think that would temper their anger?
[22:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:14] <exec> 08└─So if I am a follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, can I have a ban on all pictures, references and jokes that contain colanders? Why is it only pictures of Mohammed that need black rectangles over the eyes? Why not depictions of the Pope, Christ, and Buddah also? All are frequently depicted in...
[22:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:15] <exec> 08└─LMAO your analogy is fucked up. To start with it should be why are all of the catholics punching me. Second off kindergarteners implies youth, and a minority of people who cannot defend themselves. Muslims are no world minority. And they do not need anyone to defend them. To fix your fucked up analo...
[22:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a regular CH reader - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:17] <exec> 08└─> To start with it should be why are all of the catholics punching me. I have no idea what you are trying to say with that. Are you claiming Hebdo are catholics? > Muslims are no world minority. In france they are especially marginalized. Consigned to 'banlieue' ghettos with little opportunity compa...
[22:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, you dared to suggest bad things about Apple, inventer of the MP3 player, windowed desktop, home computer, discoverer of colors, designer of rounded corners, and of course, protector of all that is Good.
[22:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Plants native to the desert southwest - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:55] <exec> 08└─Just as there are peoples that are indigenous to the SW USA who have bodies that are extremely frugal with resources (and bloat up when they get a modern calorie-dense diet), there are plants in the region that are very miserly with the water they get. Succulents [wikipedia.org] The leaves are thick...
[22:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US DoD already have demonstrated how to remove - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:11] <exec> 08└─Freedom of speech only counts until the first National Security Letter, after that you're harming freedom and must be stopped.
[22:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:19] <exec> 08└─Logic can't fix a flawed premise. Geeks are particularly bad at narrowly focusing on specific (often biased) assumptions and discarding anything that doesn't fit. They aren't the only ones, they just have a predilection for it. The Sheldon Cooper character on the Big Bang Theory is a parody of that...
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[23:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:16] <exec> 08└─How do you know about their finances?
[23:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:17] <exec> 08└─How do you know about their finances?
[23:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:19] <exec> 08└─> How do you know about their finances? I dunno about VLM, but the director of the terrorism center at george mason university thinks they operate like a crime syndicate putting money ahead of ideology. [spiegel.de] She never spells it out, but it does not sound like they have anything like the kind...
[23:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:21] <exec> 08└─Same way everyone else knows. Follow the money trail. A clear path can be drawn from halal certification to IS through mosques.
[23:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:22] <exec> 08└─Are you new here? VLM knows everything.
[23:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Where it all went? - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:24] <exec> 08└─Fairly easy to figure out why they aren't using much of the captured gear. You always hear military types speak of 'weapon systems' for a reason. Even the M16 is a weapon system. They require a lot more than just the weapon itself, you must have a long tail of supplies and trained personnel to keep...
[23:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:36] <exec> 08└─Correct. People using the term need to distinguish "SJW" from "cat lady". The latter is a fairly benign, harmless creature that shrieks at the top of its lungs about some trivial SWPL issue, such as the perceived racism presented by white men after their colleagues were killed by Islamic extremists....
[23:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:46] <exec> 08└─Agreed. It doesn't take any courage to say the popular thing.
[23:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:12] <exec> 08└─There is no hate speech there, just truths. I don't care if they hurt you, they are the truth. Citation needed? How about Pew research? http://www.pewforum.org [pewforum.org] There is your citation. From their own mouths t...
[23:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:13] <exec> 08└─Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions.
[23:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:16] <exec> 08└─I haven't heard about such a world-wide poll of all Muslims.
[23:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:17] <exec> 08└─Is a Pew research poll good enough for you?
[23:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 1740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:21] <exec> 08└─Libel and slander aren't crimes. They're torts. The government will never bother you about either of these things; you can say whatever you want about someone, and the government will never put you in jail over it. You can be sued, however, just like you can be sued any time someone wrongs you; if t...
[23:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:38] <exec> 08└─Well I don't know of a single manufacturer that operates either towers or cell phones in that bandwidth. I suppose Norway could build them from the ground up.
[23:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:49] <exec> 08└─They can kinda make a small digital to analog retransmitter. Something that takes the digital spectra and retransmits a localized analog one on an FM station that the radio receiver on your car can pick up. Such a thing can easily be plugged into a cigarette lighter or someplace.
[23:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:51] <exec> 08└─The channel is still used with the digital so why remove the analog part?
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[23:50:18] <exec> 08└─.... protector of all that is Cool. TFTFY
[23:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What river? - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:50:56] <exec> 08└─What happened to Global warming? Did you write that off already? http://www.livescience.com [livescience.com] http://www.ucsusa.org [ucsusa.org] http://www.latimes.com
[23:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets think this through - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:51:05] <exec> 08└─I think it has to do with sensitivity in some people towards any criticism of California. They are immersed in a culture that tells them they are of the utmost importance in a variety of ways. If someone challenges, well, some get mad.
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