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[00:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:3, Funny) 02No problem - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:19] <exec> 08└─Just make sure the airbags work. And a budget for new border crossings.
[00:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:32] <exec> 08└─I can't comment on building codes for places that get accumulations of snow, save to note that that's a truly ancient engineering problem that has very little to do with solar panels. My panels are installed according to local codes that required that they be attached to the roof trusses. Nothing sh...
[00:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:power grids need to change function - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:39] <exec> 08└─The overhead of building and maintaining a grid makes having a grid for a few folks or for occasional unfavorable conditions way, _way_ _WAY_ too expensive.
[00:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:57] <exec> 08└─I've been told that 2 yrs is a good staying time (bay area). problem has been (for me) that companies often change -drastically- over 2 yrs and the same group and/or job may not even be there in that time. reorgs, outsourcing, mergers, changes of direction, loss of funding, you name it. in the last...
[00:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 2485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not an experienced contractor, so take this advice with a grain of salt (I've only done two contract jobs): On your resume, put "(contract)" next to all your jobs which are contracts. That way, when the job only lasts 6 months, it should be fairly obvious to your new prospective employer that it...
[00:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 2109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:00] <exec> 08└─I appreciate what you wrote. the job I was referring to was an open-ended contract that was supposed to 'go perm' after the first 6mos. I was there quite a bit beyond 6mos and all indications were that all of us, eventually, would be offered a f/t 'upgrade'. we just have to sit tight and wait for th...
[00:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:A little short on substance. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:09] <exec> 08└─So total consumer spending permanently declines, resulting in lower employment across the board, turning into a feedback loop
[00:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No matter how long you try to train/teach dogs - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:19] <exec> 08└─US citizens can vote but get no influence.. :p
[00:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:No matter how long you try to train/teach dogs - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:21] <exec> 08└─Asian women like that don't want to be engineers. Why would they? So they can work at low rates in their home countries? If they become doctors, they can move to America and get 6-figure salaries. (My doctor is a Filipino woman.)
[00:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:26] <exec> 08└─For the record, as an editor, I love seeing the submission queue filled with Phoenix666 submissions... :)
[00:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03splodus [4877] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the upside? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:43] <exec> 08└─One day, perhaps, there will be an app, or a social network site, that caters for people who struggle with the 'dating'. It's not just boys - there are plenty of girls that struggle with the way things are. I read a book once, I think it was 'Microserfs' - Douglas Coupland. One of the characters cor...
[00:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yikes - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:01] <exec> 08└─1) The saying, "Those who know do not say; those who say do not know." 2) Only 10% of an iceberg is visible above the waterline.
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[01:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Whew... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:15] <exec> 08└─Glad we got that buggy thing fixed. Who knows how many machines were rooted using file every day since the 70's and nobody cared.
[01:13:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 2644 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:35] <exec> 08└─First, I think it's worth noting that solar customers are the most profitable ones the utilities have. You're familiar with the concept of "buy low, sell high"? The utilities buy green energy (the most valuable kind) from their solar customers with utility credits. The utilities sell that energy to...
[01:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:40] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand is the distributed nature and why is no one building vast solar plants on former dairy farms or whatever?
[01:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Naturally. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:58] <exec> 08└─Still bullshit to let humans starve.
[01:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:09] <exec> 08└─I wonder if you'd do better moving to a different area of the country which isn't quite as cutthroat as the Bay Area; perhaps Portland, Seattle, SLC, DC, etc.
[01:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:10] <exec> 08└─you must be new to the US workforce. the whole point of hiring temp workers or similar is to dump them at ~6 months or so, so that the company doesn't have to waste money providing the things typically required for full-time/permanent employees, like healthcare and pensions. this has been the standa...
[01:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong focus. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:18] <exec> 08└─In the end, everything is temporary. You've still got to pass the time you've got.
[01:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:No matter how long you try to train/teach dogs - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:31] <exec> 08└─they drove the ship onto the inevitable path to destruction over the past 30+ years by continually re-electing the same representatives that continued to fuck them over, and by not calling out gerrymandering as the bullshit that it is the very first time it happened. US citizens happily gave away th...
[01:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:07] <exec> 08└─The thing is, if I go to buy groceries, and my wife rides along, my trip no more or less necessary than if I drive alone. And this is the case in the vast majority of trips. Car pooling often engenders more trips (after work hours) because the stops planned along the way now have to be repeated in s...
[01:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:52] <exec> 08└─You could spit-shine the pearl for hours if you didn't have to come up for air.
[01:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:18] <exec> 08└─If she's doing 2 to 20 guys over the weekend, she is not your girlfriend, she's your hooker.
[01:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:20] <exec> 08└─Like it or not, pussy will always control the world. Its genetics. Objectively, the entire point of being alive is to pass on your genes, and the women are the ones with control over that.
[01:16:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02Re:Are you mixed up in this mess? - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 1065 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:54] <exec> 08└─That doesn't help all those that were duped by this (and others) and were left with nothing but a worthless piece of paper and tons of debt. These schools are the educational equivalent of payday loan businesses, sharks that feed upon the poor with blessings from the government and just as it was th...
[01:17:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:41] <exec> 08└─were using 40+ year old Soviet tech
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[02:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TANSTAAFL - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:09] <exec> 08└─Subject says it all
[02:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:TANSTAAFL - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:10] <exec> 08└─TANSTAAFL = There ain't no such thing as a free lunch Translation for us noobs.
[02:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:1) 02Good News Everyone! - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:12] <exec> 08└─It's pretty amazing to see parliament doing something that actually benefits us.
[02:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Where's the change? Down the road. - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:13] <exec> 08└─Still leaves a lot of room for growth over current usage. In fact if transport energy (what ever the hell that is) increases as a whole, they will still be importing this stuff. If deforestation is an issue at current levels, wouldn't CUTTING actual imports be more appropriate?
[02:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Reality check - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 1859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:15] <exec> 08└─Should not have taken this long to figure out something so blindingly obvious, but good to see an outbreak of sanity regardless. Turning your food into fuel isn't likely to end well in a world where a large percentage of the population hovers dangerously close to starvation. Sure obesity is the larg...
[02:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02tmux! oh oh nerd jizz! oh nerd jizz! - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:24] <exec> 08└─so much better than screen bro! it's like bsd so i can uze it my apple! like whoa! gimme yer new shit nick marriott! i wanna gay marry yo ass like right the fuck now!
[02:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:Supercontinents - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:34] <exec> 08└─I imagine I've missed something.
[02:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:My father had an MSEE. He knew FORTRAN. - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 1660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:45] <exec> 08└─Yup... you can store a helluva lot of energy in a ton of water... by freezing it in the summer when the sun is shining, then using it later to cool your house with a chilled water loop, or freezing it in the winter, using the condenser coil to heat your house. FYI a ton of water is about 32 cubic fe...
[02:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:No matter how long you try to train/teach dogs - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:42] <exec> 08└─only because we don't organize. We always end up voting for either tweedle-dee or tweedle-dum, both of which are owned by the aristocracy. We won't organize and stand behind an independent who will shake things up... and back him up with recall elections for any bureaucrat that gives him backtalk....
[02:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Straw man - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:28] <exec> 08└─Just wrap em in a Burkha. Claim ethnic discrimination if busted
[02:15:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Female Dating - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:39] <exec> 08└─"One guy I went out with had a lot of hashtags like #OneTrackMind," says Sarah Burns, "so I dressed conservatively, didn’t drink too much—I tried to send the message, I’m not going home with you tonight. Which I didn't."
[02:18:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Good - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:10] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter the cost. The predator simply can not do the Job of an A-10. And the A-10 can't do the job of a Predator. Totally different mission. http://northshorejournal.org [northshorejournal.org] (Yes, she flew it back home).
[02:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yikes - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:34] <exec> 08└─You're right, those grapes were probably pretty sour after all.
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[03:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WEIRD title. - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins OUT OF CONTROL. - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:09] <exec> 08└─So uh, why is it "OUT OF CONTROL", in all caps suggesting a sense of urgency, but then followed by a period? Shouldn't there be an exclamation mark or no end punctuation at all? Its like you're screaming just to be screaming because its not really a big deal. Full stops have THAT KIND OF EFFECT.
[03:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Russian BOFFINS? - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins OUT OF CONTROL. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:10] <exec> 08└─Good God, man, they're double agents! Someone inform James Bond immediately.
[03:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How many ways can jmorris be wrong in 1 line? - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:22] <exec> 08└─banning DDT [...] How many black and brown people will die 1) The ban I know of is in the USA. 2) USAian hegemony isn't total yet. Other folks can make their own pesticides where they are and can make their own regulations. 3) The patent on DDT ran out long ago. . a world where a large percentage of...
[03:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory 1984 - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:44] <exec> 08└─We've always been at war with Amasia.
[03:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lies! Conspiracy! - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:45] <exec> 08└─The continents are moving, pft, what a bunch of nonsense! This is obviously just a giant chicken-little scare-story to get everyone to buy into this "continental drift" nonsense, probably for some left-wing conspiracy to make Al Gore richer. I'm standing on one of the continents in question right no...
[03:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:05] <exec> 08└─but surely click-baiting is only useful if you're getting paid for clicks? and i dont see that happening here (soylentnews). just for the record, i think the editors do a fine job.
[03:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:14] <exec> 08└─The vaginal canal is a pipe too. You can try to rationalize your obsession with phalluses all you want, but its still pretty gay to see dicks everywhere and in everything.
[03:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:"The F-35 is a decent jack-of-all-trades" - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:32] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, that's necessary (or at least, very hard to avoid) with a stealth aircraft. The stealthy F-22 has similar issues, as does the B-2, as did the F-117. We definitely do need stealth aircraft, both air-superiority and ground-attack. A case could, perhaps, be made for an all-stealth air-su...
[03:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:welp - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:58] <exec> 08└─Walk your dog.
[03:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:48] <exec> 08└─Libel and slander are private matters (non-criminal), and in civilized countries as well as the USA, truth is a defense. "Mohummad was a pedophile" is a statement of historical fact according to Islam's own books. Hate speech is a thoughtcrime, a concept that cannot exist in a free country. "Incitem...
[03:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:45] <exec> 08└─Shor's algorithm can break a lot of existing public key crypto. The NSA is storing encrypted traffic. Your article says Grover's algorithm can speed up attacks against symmetric ciphers. Many encrypted documents that wouldn't be cracked for trillions of years can be cracked with a quantum computer....
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[04:13:10] <exec> 08└─EDITING quality is NONEXISTENT here, didn't you KNOW?
[04:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:WEIRD title. - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins OUT OF CONTROL. - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:11] <exec> 08└─Title copied directly from The Register, as was the rest of the submission. Its just a "Vulturism".
[04:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Nigger SPERM shoots out of THE black COCK! - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins OUT OF CONTROL. - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:14] <exec> 08└─White women drop your drawers this one's for you!
[04:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02KSP - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins OUT OF CONTROL. - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:16] <exec> 08└─They should have played more Kerbal.
[04:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:How many ways can jmorris be wrong in 1 line? - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:28] <exec> 08└─...because of people with guns--who desire even more political power. There's more than enough food production to feed everyone. The biggest driver of hunger, worldwide, is imperialism--specifically that of the USA.
[04:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Whew... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:38] <exec> 08└─We'll never know why it needed the suid bit set.
[04:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Whew... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:39] <exec> 08└─It certainly doesn't have suid set on my box. Why would you even?
[04:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02With much gnashing of teeth. - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:42] <exec> 08└─Oh fuck, here we go again! .....backs away slowly.....
[04:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Sarah will be vindicated! - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:50] <exec> 08└─I'll start building trebuchet's to sell to both the US and Russia!
[04:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Timely comment - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:12] <exec> 08└─California Wants To Make It Easier To Cover Old Mines With Renewable Energy [thinkprogress.org] The California Assembly Committee on Natural Resources unanimously passed a bill Monday that will allow mining companies to install solar and wind power without triggering the state’s lengthy environme...
[04:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03klondike0 [1511] (Score:1) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:42] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me like you have passion for what you do -- focus on that instead of feelings of rejection / deception. Contracting can be great if you do it on your terms, I've always found that if a company flakes on the promised 'upgrade', it is time to get a wider perspective. Instead of having the...
[04:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:No matter how long you try to train/teach dogs - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:06] <exec> 08└─People are dumb and predictable. A person can be smart, but people are dumb.
[04:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:21] <exec> 08└─It is the second obvious gender click-baiting article in 24 hours. Lets some outrage, that will generate some clicks!
[04:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:33] <exec> 08└─Gave it up. If she won't polish my rod I will not polish her pearl.
[04:17:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Seems to be par for the course - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 1114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:38] <exec> 08└─When you look at what for-profit schools are doing, the process seems to be, in a nutshell: 1. Sign up lots of poor students dreaming of a better life using giant federal loans or GI benefits. 2. Maybe give them a lousy education. As in, the instructors may have bachelors' degrees, but certainly not...
[04:17:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Government involvement - well intentioned as usual - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 2105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:47] <exec> 08└─The big push for federal guarantees and loans started after I left college, but... My impression is that it was all marvelously well-intentioned. And like all such programs, the good intentions have paved the road to hell. Or, in this case, to debt peonage. The federal program has created perverse i...
[04:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good Job Berkeley - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:01] <exec> 08└─As a male student I don't really mind the ratio (not just socially, I'm a man so I have to suck it up and not complain or be called a mysogynist shitlord of the patriarchy in the middle of class*). But what does bother me is women really truly are privileged with more opportunities and far, far more...
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[05:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Death to ISIS - 06On Matters of ISIS - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:09] <exec> 08└─Long live the Holy American Empire! Obama Forever!
[05:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:How many ways can jmorris be wrong in 1 line? - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:36] <exec> 08└─There's more than enough food production to feed everyone. The biggest driver of hunger, worldwide, is imperialism--specifically that of the USA.
[05:13:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02Re:Whew... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:47] <exec> 08└─It certainly doesn't have suid set on my box. Why would you even?
[05:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:49] <exec> 08└─While it was a decade ago, what I 'saw' through dating a guy living in DC indicated it's no better there — just more straight-laced/uptight and kind of politician-style fake. It would also be a bad fit if TheGratefulNet has an aversion to freezing cold winters, high-humidity hot summers, smog or c...
[05:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cat seats? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:38] <exec> 08└─Anywhere that's not the USA.
[05:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Female Dating - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:15] <exec> 08└─So that's apparently a bad thing, but she still goes out on a date with him instead of with the many other suitors gladly throwing themselves at their feet. Sheesh. Women logic
[05:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if the War Nerd is an expert in any one field of history, but he seems to be fairly knowledgeable about war history, and current conflicts.
[05:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:I must have missed the memo... - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:20:42] <exec> 08└─>For myself, I'm going to mod and play the game, 'paid mods' or not. Absolutely. I've been modding for years, and was fairly active in the Total Annihilation heyday, though I've mostly not bothered to release my various mods for other games (mostly the Elder Scrolls series) since then other than by...
[05:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:34] <exec> 08└─Libertarians ... bigoted? I've never heard of or witnessed that. Libertarians seem to be people with a coherent philosophy that unfortunately is premised on some wrong ideas (like markets being perfect, governments being the root of all evil, etc.). That leads to some strange positions that, taken a...
[05:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:39] <exec> 08└─I would hope that MikeeUSA does not have high enough karma to ever get mod points...
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[06:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Death to ISIS - 06On Matters of ISIS - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:11] <exec> 08└─Existenz?
[06:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I like to spin around and piss in my face - 06On Matters of ISIS - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:12] <exec> 08└─it feels so good Just say you'll love me for the rest of your life I gotta lot of love and I don't want to let go Will you still love me for the rest of my life? Cause I can't go on No, I can't go on I can't go on If I'm on my own
[06:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I like to spin around and piss in my face - 06On Matters of ISIS - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:13] <exec> 08└─that's nothing, i put dead frogs into my anus
[06:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:15] <exec> 08└─It is amazing how often theology is just plain gotten wrong. Just a day ago we had an article of Locusts and the whole site went St. John the Divine with the Book of Revelations. Interesting was the names, Apollyon, being one of them. Retraining and new employment for Greek gods? Lots of Christians...
[06:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:16] <exec> 08└─does this babble have some meaning or was it just posted to drive more traffic via comments?
[06:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Good News Everyone! - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:37] <exec> 08└─Finally, the rapeseed oil I crave to drink, will now be more affordable. Soon I expect to be able to binge drink it up to 3 times a week.
[06:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's the change? Down the road. - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:40] <exec> 08└─If deforestation is an issue at current levels, wouldn't CUTTING actual imports be more appropriate?
[06:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Reality check - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:45] <exec> 08└─>>Turning your food into fuel isn't likely to end well When I studied this 40 years ago at university, there was no intention among environmentalists to turn food into fuel. When they talked about biofuel, the discussion was exclusively about converting waste products and non-edible agricultural pro...
[06:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:1) 02Ripple effect - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:57] <exec> 08└─It's one of those small things that has a ripple effect. For example, Apache's mod_mime_magic [apache.org], PHP's fileinfo() function, and others are based on it. So the improvements will gradually be felt far away from the OpenBSD project.
[06:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02How do you figure? - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:33] <exec> 08└─"Skyscraper buildings are dead, along with big cities and mega corporations." How do you figure that? Look at just about any rural community - all the young folks leave for the big city. I don't understand it either, but it seems to be pretty universal. You do get some folks moving back to small tow...
[06:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:04] <exec> 08└─I don't know how far into the company this extends, but the company in SF my brother's worked at for the past several years is hiring [tinyco.com] and seems to be handling things differently based on what he has said. (I'm worried that if I give examples, he'd be identified and somehow get into hot...
[06:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:cat seats? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:52] <exec> 08└─Anywhere that's not the USA.
[06:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:58] <exec> 08└─I never really understood this sort of thinking - similar to the "have to come up for air when kissing". Do people not know how to use their nose, or what? I mean our faces come equipped, standard, with a double-barreled orifice optimized specifically for breathing, even when our mouths are otherwis...
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[07:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:20] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[07:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:21] <exec> 08└─The two religions are not separate entities. One heavily influenced the other which was also influenced heavily by Judaism. And it is complete and utter BS that belief in such things does not create these monsters. Aside from the fact that history proves me right unequivocally, if you get a bunch of...
[07:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:22] <exec> 08└─Do you believe that ...it is not too long before all SORTS of things become justified. That rational argument and evidence are not at all required to make important decisions or, for example, decide who lives or dies or is horribly tortured until they confess of croak.
[07:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"True" Muslim? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:24] <exec> 08└─Dumb debate, as much as, "true" Christian. One is what one does, regardless of label.
[07:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:26] <exec> 08└─Guy who is nominally part of the same religion as ISIS tries to distance himself from them? That's good, I guess. Anyway, how many people really decided it would be cool to join ISIS and go on a rampage across the desert for philosophical reasons? Or was it because this group of roaming looters had...
[07:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:KSP - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins OUT OF CONTROL. - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:37] <exec> 08└─I am sure the ruskies have played more real-world SP than I did play KSP, and I did play KSP a lot. IMO the problem is the old russian players are steadily going into retirement and the newbies have not played enough yet. However, this doesn't seem to be the problem cause here. Progress vehicle desi...
[07:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:1) 02Kerbal Spacve Program 1.0 - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins OUT OF CONTROL. - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:38] <exec> 08└─See? This is what happens when Kerbal Space Program is updated with buggy features! Now we have to wait for the developer to push a hotfix before they can regain control of their craft...
[07:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Are you mixed up in this mess? - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:15] <exec> 08└─Well talking to a few kids that have gotten burnt (as well as my cop friend) the average one here gets burned for $37-$47k, in a state where the average person without a college degree makes less than 25K. Needless to say these kids will NEVER be out of debt and the job placement rate is a bad joke,...
[07:20:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Common Joe [33] 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:03] <exec> 08└─Unless maybe I fell victim to Poe's Law. Is your post a parody, or just stupid?
[07:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:12] <exec> 08└─I got it from a documentary on the battles of desert storm, sorry I can't remember offhand the exact name and I tried looking for it and there is apparently a billion desert storm vids on YouTube. Anyway it was pointed out in the video that a lot of the close air support for the troops, or CAS, was...
[07:20:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02Re:Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 3075 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:20] <exec> 08└─I got the idea women were generally smart enough to stay out of this. There is a lot of competition, dog-eat-dog stuff, usually classified as exempt from employment laws, and quickly obsoleted by technological changes, however the employers want to get you at damned near minimum wage if you happen t...
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[08:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The End for Social Media? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:10] <exec> 08└─Please?
[08:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:11] <exec> 08└─Contrary to popular believe the price of a companies stock has very little impact on a company's business. The stock has all been sold, (except a tiny amount of treasury stock). Some owners and some stock holders have a theoretical paper loss, which they will no doubt recoop before the end of the ye...
[08:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:12] <exec> 08└─Cost the World Heath Organization $8 billion? Well shit, how they ever gonna afford to cure the nigger flu now? All them white bitches gonna get stuffy noses from just being around infected niggers. You know them bitches ain't sexy when they be sniffling all day.
[08:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:14] <exec> 08└─> You know them bitches ain't sexy when they be sniffling all day. Au contraire! http://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[08:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:15] <exec> 08└─Hmm. YouTube link. Is this going to be the Girls Of Winter? ...... yes it is.
[08:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:17] <exec> 08└─You filthy communist. The entire world lives or dies on the stock market. Everyone has to do their part to make sure it goes UP UP UP!!!
[08:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:19] <exec> 08└─Theoretically, stock prices represent the value of a company of a whole; stock price*total number of shares == value of company. Honestly, the two seem vastly disconnected from each other. I've never understood what *exactly* sets a share price; I know when its IPOed, its at a price SEC sets and on...
[08:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:31] <exec> 08└─Babble? Did you perhaps mean "tower of Babel"? It is in the neighborhood. And yes, my post did have meaning. I will indulge you and try to explain, since apparently it eluded your grasp. The claim is made in the Atlantic article that the views of ISIS are actually in line with Muslim theology. I thi...
[08:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:35] <exec> 08└─Anyway, how many people really decided it would be cool to join ISIS and go on a rampage across the desert for philosophical reasons?
[08:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03threedigits [607] (Score:2) 02Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:37] <exec> 08└─when ThinkProgress asked him directly whether Islamic texts and theology necessitate the creation of groups like ISIS, he was unequivocal. “No,”
[08:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:39] <exec> 08└─Someone with the smallest knowledge of history would have known it already did happen, on various scales repeatedly. Long long ago.
[08:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WEIRD title. - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins Out of Control - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:48] <exec> 08└─funny. i don't see you putting in an offer to improve the situation... you must be a democrat!
[08:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:WEIRD title. - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins Out of Control - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:50] <exec> 08└─It was wrong, and I have corrected it. You will note that, despite the recent recruitment of several editors, it sometimes happens that the load falls onto the shoulders of 1 person for a while. CoolHand has been posting alone for over 12 hours and I guess the odd mistake was bound to occur at some...
[08:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality check - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:13] <exec> 08└─I learned the same when I took environmental (science) bio 19 years ago. I also recall reading a number of articles maybe a decade ago about how biofuel enthusiasts in Berkeley were buying local restaurants' left-over cooking grease & such to power their custom converted engines. The reporters & peo...
[08:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02I must admit ... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:28] <exec> 08└─I wish there was some way we could get rehash/slashcode audited by the OpenBSD team. I'm pretty sure heads would explode :) (though the internals are much better than they used to be)
[08:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Supercontinents - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:40] <exec> 08└─and that we like the Kiwis better anyhow.
[08:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:01] <exec> 08└─That's assuming retrofitting an existing grid connection. If, on the other hand, this is new construction...the capital cost of setting it up from the start as an off-grid property is all but guaranteed to be less than the capital cost of connecting to the grid.
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[09:13:10] <exec> 08└─Less traffic on the roads and fewer idiots in their city would make pedestrians so much happier.
[09:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Aristocracy trying to look useful, again - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:11] <exec> 08└─I knew it! Once upon a time maps were for the military, and only for them, and that's how we should have kept it! In those times, the plebs stayed in their assigned place. Literally and figuratively. And it was good! (well, until the revolution came, that is) /irony off Don't want people escaping fr...
[09:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:24] <exec> 08└─Except, of course, investment banks.
[09:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:26] <exec> 08└─what physically controls the prices on the markets
[09:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:28] <exec> 08└─> I never understood what physically controls the prices on the market ... Nobody does. That's why playing the stock market is as much a gamble as betting on the gee-gees. Seriously, if you *did* understand what controls the market, you'd be a billionaire.
[09:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:30] <exec> 08└─You mean everybody does. So all you need to do is convince absolutely everybody buying and selling stock to agree upon the exact price that you want, and you control the market. But good luck with that, because if herding cats is impossible, humans are utterly batshit insane.
[09:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:31] <exec> 08└─Well, at the heart of it, there has a to be a computer (or at least a person) that controls these prices. I've asked people who work at trading firms, and I never can get an answer, and then are insulted by the idea that the price of a stock is a variable in a computer program at a stock exchange. I...
[09:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:33] <exec> 08└─Holy hell, dude, you mean it's like they learned to call out their price offers using computers or something? Who would have guessed that computers can be used to communicate?
[09:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:35] <exec> 08└─The price of the shares is set by the belief from investors that they can sell them for more in the future. Generally, a company has a valuation of assets that sets a low sensible bounds (i.e. if you closed the company and sold everything that they own, you'd get this much, so valuing the company lo...
[09:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:55] <exec> 08└─The Crusades immediately come to mind as a religious example, but you can find a small group of people running terror over a large populace.
[09:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:56] <exec> 08└─Um, the Crusades are not an example of Islam producing something like ISIS, in fact it is a counter-example. It behooves our dear frojack to share some of his small historical knowledge with us, and tell us what examples he has in mind, specifically?
[09:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:57] <exec> 08└─Its an example of a religion leading violence. Christianity in that case.
[09:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Yeah, right. - 06On Matters of ISIS - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:59] <exec> 08└─More propaganda. Speaking of ISIS without mentioning connections to Mosad and CIA is more than folly, it's stupidity or propaganda.
[09:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TANSTAAFL - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:24] <exec> 08└─Well, according to them, they want to prevent TANSTAAL - "There ain't no such thing as a lunch"
[09:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:"the usual OpenBSD scrutiny" - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 1800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:43] <exec> 08└─Oh god, C is ugly enough, K&R C, the very few times I've run into it, make me want to stab my bloody eyes out. This reminds me of my last major coding project before departing my last employer. I was dealing with early boot initialization code that theoretically should have been platform agnostic, b...
[09:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Whew... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:48] <exec> 08└─You joke, but there have been a number of exploits involving libmagic. Not many using the file utility specifically, but libmagic is one of these things that reads untrusted data (the start of a potentially malicious file) and then uses a potentially badly tested code path that does lots of pointer...
[09:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02where's the albatross? - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:52] <exec> 08└─I can't see the bloody albatross [wikipedia.org] here... Computer program that reads the first few bytes of a file for which the user has read permission, and then prints out a bit of text, is made more "modern" and "secure". I'm glad mr. Darwin feels relieved of his burden, and the slimy sea-creatu...
[09:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 2170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:00] <exec> 08└─A large problem is the interview process itself; it sets people up to fail. In recent history, I interviewed with two large companies, with a large resume of open source code behind it, many years at my then current employer, and letters of recommendation; etc. Both times, I got hit with coding ques...
[09:16:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Re:A little short on substance. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:10] <exec> 08└─So total consumer spending permanently declines, resulting in lower employment across the board, turning into a feedback loop
[09:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:A little short on substance. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:12] <exec> 08└─Bravo on that citation. I've spent a fair bit of time in Altantic Canada as a tourist and I was unaware of it. I'm going to keep it bookmarked, and bring it out when people complain any regulation is a bad thing.
[09:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trails and requests - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:15] <exec> 08└─SANDAG told CBS the systems will not be storing license plate data during the trial phase and the system will, at least for now, automatically redact images of drivers and passengers.
[09:17:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 259 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:42] <exec> 08└─Just because I don't comment on an article, doesn't mean I don't want to read it. I'd be sad if the site switched exclusively to "conversation-generator" social and controversy type articles. I'd be equally sad if it went to pure tech. I like the current mix.
[09:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:59] <exec> 08└─Anonymous Coward confirms it: Internet is gay.
[09:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:32] <exec> 08└─If you think that attitude is as universal as your comment suggests, then you need to get out and talk to some real people, and not just those in rap videos.
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[10:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Work? What's Work? - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:21] <exec> 08└─Don't you draw a Basic Income from the Revolutionary Treasury like the rest of us after we toppled the Aristocracy in the Leisure Revolution?
[10:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tor's New Search Provider Built By Ex-NSA/Google.. - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 2501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:22] <exec> 08└─Tor's New Search Provider Built By Ex-Google And Ex-NSA Engineers $$$ https://blog.torproject.org [torproject.org] ^ https://blog.torproject.org [torproject.org] "New Search Provider[1] Our default search provider has also been changed to Disconnect. Disconnect p...
[10:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tor's New Search Provider Built By Ex-NSA/Googl - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:23] <exec> 08└─I piss on your off-topic comment. Take that, Dude, I fuck with the Jesus!
[10:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:25] <exec> 08└─In his view this is a new phenomenon
[10:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:43] <exec> 08└─Herding cats is difficult because cats are generally individualistic in nature. Humans, on the other hand, by and large are naturally social/herd animals, so are far easier to control as a group using various carrots, sticks, and blinkers.
[10:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 2004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:47] <exec> 08└─Market prices are best described as a mixture of concrete valuations based on things such as predictable dividends, if such a thing exists,Price to Earnings ratios (how quickly does earnings accumulate a value that "pays back" the price) and other ratios with rules of thumb being used to account for...
[10:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:0, Troll) 02a word of warning... - 06On Matters of ISIS - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:15] <exec> 08└─1: the intelligent part: A lot of violence in africa and middle east are a consequence of colonial+ethnic problems... and so forth... 2: the personal part There are a lot of motherfuckers in the world nowdays, who seem to think that faggot USA and pathetic israel is some mighty shit, just because th...
[10:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:a word of warning... - 06On Matters of ISIS - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:16] <exec> 08└─Fuck off Europe, or your next war of Aryan conquest will be against China, Japan, and Korea all united against your underpopulated pussy asses.
[10:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:a word of warning... - 06On Matters of ISIS - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:17] <exec> 08└─Good point, let me elaborate. Take fucking israel. The idiots think it is wise to kill of every palestinian who fights back, or otherwise shows some backbone... So the ones with backbone dies. Who the fuck remains? The ones u see in a fucking refugee camps: spineless cowards with 7 children and 5 mo...
[10:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1, Disagree) 02Re:a word of warning... - 06On Matters of ISIS - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:19] <exec> 08└─...USA has never been in a real war... How about the war of 1812, when the USA's enemies sacked Washington D.C., setting fire to the White House? They were repulsed at Baltimore. That seems to fit the bill of war on the USA's home territory.
[10:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a word of warning... - 06On Matters of ISIS - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:20] <exec> 08└─Nope. In the world according to gaymers, there are only two wars: World War II and the War On Terror. No other war has ever happened.
[10:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:a word of warning... - 06On Matters of ISIS - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:22] <exec> 08└─http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812 [wikipedia.org] That's not even the same thing... UK was divided in that war, u did not have the entire fleet of a country or several countries coming for you... When you have so many wars in more recent times, how can you take such a lame example?
[10:20:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Yikes - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:49] <exec> 08└─The point of a comments-driven community is to allow you to enlighten us. I would be glad to read your opinion on the matter.
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[11:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Contraversial - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:25] <exec> 08└─Brit here. You see, for all the bleating and whinging that Europhobic bitches like Neckless Farage produce about the EU taking away our sovereignty and centralising power in Brussels, sometimes it seems to me like the EU politicians are the only ones actually standing up for the best interests of it...
[11:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:38] <exec> 08└─He is certainly not wrong. (And I don't understand all the people lambasting the 'stupid politicians because there have always been maps!'. I know for mayself I am much more incline to take unknown backalleys when I have some nav system available than when I only have an old school paper map.) Best...
[11:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:39] <exec> 08└─And here in America where drivers are illiterate, you can't reduce speed by posting limits with signs. You have to use speed bumps. Speed bumps are very, very effective.
[11:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:41] <exec> 08└─And here in America where drivers are illiterate, you can't reduce speed by posting limits with signs. You have to use speed bumps. Speed bumps are very, very effective. Of course it's America, so the speedbumps have guns, tazers and automatic cameras that can detect whether the driver is black.
[11:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:42] <exec> 08└─To detect whether the driver is a black man, speedbumps contain millimeter wave scanners to find any black testicles in the driver's seat.
[11:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03epl [1801] (Score:1) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:44] <exec> 08└─And Holland is FULL of those retched things, so that isn't anything unique to America. People will always aim to get to their destination as quickly as possible; making the non-main routes as unattractive as possible is one option, but I would so prefer if councils and governments in general would s...
[11:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:07] <exec> 08└─The "correct" value of a company is how much its dividends will pay from now to eternity (corrected with inflation etc, of course). The stock price should reflect the current approximation of that. If it's obviously more or less than that, we are dealing with gambling rather than investment.
[11:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:1) 02Unlikely - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:08] <exec> 08└─This information was going to be released. Theoretically the price corrects the same because the information is the same. Actually it doesn't because the deviation probably increased the panic caused by the bad news. It was definitely not responsible for 100% of the market cap change either way.
[11:14:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:31] <exec> 08└─Someone with the smallest knowledge of history would have known it already did happen, on various scales repeatedly. Long long ago.
[11:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, right. - 06On Matters of ISIS - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:36] <exec> 08└─Someone has modded you troll. I'm sure if you provided a citation or two you'd be modded informative or insightful instead.
[11:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Some friendly advice for you - 06On Matters of ISIS - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:41] <exec> 08└─http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Take_bbb634_637889.png [fjcdn.com]
[11:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02European cold meat battery - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:23] <exec> 08└─The problem of renewable energy sources is that they are transient and intermittent. So, there is room in a modern electricity grid for a new kind of actor: the "I have a big battery and will smooth out the peaks" utility. There are various ideas, and you'll have to find someone more knowledgeable t...
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[12:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tomek [3281] (Score:1) 02But they are - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:09] <exec> 08└─In order to implement security one needs control. If you can't control you can't secure. And if you don't know what's going on you certainly have no control. In fact most (all?) security systems are based upon control and logging. Privacy on the other hand is is about hiding things. People cover the...
[12:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stop the War Between Penis and Anus - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:10] <exec> 08└─Get together and love one another, nigga.
[12:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Middle ground - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:11] <exec> 08└─I suggest the following compromise law: If you are using encryption to hide terrorist or other criminal activities, you are required by law to give your encryption keys to the police. ;-)
[12:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Aristocracy trying to look useful, again - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:23] <exec> 08└─Indeed! What's with these serfs, trying to find a way to get there quicker? Just get in line and wait your turn like everybody else. And then they complain about half their income taken by taxes. Anarchists! Don't they know without taxes we wouldn't have these fine roads? Plus, it is bloody expensiv...
[12:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rickter [842] (Score:1) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:54] <exec> 08└─Ideally, the price of a stock would be priced based on the present value of future (predicted) profits, discounted for how far in the future those profits at a rate based on the risk of that stock. And most large caps (Microsoft, Apple, Walmart, etc.) are priced this way. Stocks of companies that ar...
[12:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Where I went horribly wrong in life - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:56] <exec> 08└─I took an economics course in college before the "new economy" or "Internet economy" or whatever happened, so I learned about ways to value companies based on actual revenues, cash flows, and other stuff. This was before anyone could have a stupid idea and get venture capital and burn through millio...
[12:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02#websitemalfunction - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:58] <exec> 08└─Like Janet Jackson in the Super Bowl
[12:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:15] <exec> 08└─Allah. The word means "lord"
[12:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─Very true - after all the teachings of a religion and the teachings of it's deity are no necessarily the same. The 6th commandment, "Thou shalt not kill" doesn't have any exceptions, something that any Christian ought to know perfectly well - yet the smooth-talking bar-stewards of the Roman Catholic...
[12:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:26] <exec> 08└─Muhammad's conquest of Mecca, a couple of years after signing a 10-year peace treaty with them springs to mind as the earliest one. The various invasions of Spain as later ones.
[12:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:a word of warning... - 06On Matters of ISIS - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:37] <exec> 08└─How about the war of 1812, when the USA's enemies sacked Washington D.C., setting fire to the White House?
[12:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:secure the environment - not the robot - 06 Long Distance Surgery Robots Easy to Hack - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:22] <exec> 08└─medical robots need to be on their own network
[12:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:45] <exec> 08└─Check out the IRC logs that GamerGate themselves published, confirmed authentic by a separate publishing of the same logs collected by Quinn. They openly talk about setting up the false flag operations that are the subject of that video. They even mention some of the puppet accounts by name.
[12:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there was some risk. There's some risk to anything. But the risk Charlie Hebdo took was nothing compared even to someone like Edward Snowden. And it certainly doesn't even begin to compare to a reporter covering corruption and abuses in some third-world dictatorship. What Charlie Hebdo did is...
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[13:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03calmond [1826] (Score:1) 02Interesting and effective, but not original - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:13] <exec> 08└─This is interesting and effective, but not original. This was the original way that the Wright brothers tried for controlling aircraft. You can read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Contraversial - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:22] <exec> 08└─What do the contras have to do with any of this? Besides that, you make a valid point though... :)
[13:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Contraversial - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:23] <exec> 08└─> What do the contras have to do with any of this? Nothing. It's just a way of emphasising that once again, the EU seems to be doing the right thing when almost every other government / political organisation on Earth is determined to act like shitpuppets.
[13:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02That LONG LINK - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:28] <exec> 08└─Please use a-href link names instead of gigantic long raw links..
[13:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Embarassed yet? - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:30] <exec> 08└─Wow! There is now more good sense coming out of the EU than from a typical network administrator. Are all you admins embarassed yet?
[13:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:48] <exec> 08└─A 25 mph speed limit and a couple weeks of strict enforcement should be perfect for a social app like Waze. "Stay away ... it is a speed trap!" should do the trick. I know folks here are equating not wanting through traffic in a residential neighborhood with being Hitler, but as someone whose kids u...
[13:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:49] <exec> 08└─When I used to work in L.A. about 10 years ago, a lot of locals seemed to have GPS units in their cars, but this was before smartphones so I don't think there was any traffic-based routing. After a couple experiences of getting stuck on the freeway, we bought a map book and navigated through the loc...
[13:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:16] <exec> 08└─I never understood what physically controls the prices on the market
[13:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:17] <exec> 08└─> The stock has all been sold, (except a tiny amount of treasury stock). That would be false. Companies can and do issue new stock all the time. The exercise of employee stock options, as well as warrants [wikipedia.org] are two common cases. When employees find their options are significantly under...
[13:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlikely - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:20] <exec> 08└─The difference here, of course, is that the insiders can't dump before the news gets out.
[13:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Ridiculous valuations - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:23] <exec> 08└─Something like Twitter shouldn't even be worth 8 billion dollars in the first place. That's just insane...
[13:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:45] <exec> 08└─In fact when us Italians went to Afghanistan against the famed irreducible Bin Laden, we reportedly tried to mellow them with money. Then the French took over some zones, and had some more backlash, and were rightfully angry at us for doing deals with the enemy. But, and it went underreported, we sh...
[13:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Get this: People can be evil, period - 06On Matters of ISIS - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:03] <exec> 08└─The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs,
[13:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:WEIRD title. - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins Out of Control - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I left it on purpose, b/c I thought it was kind of funny saying "OUT OF CONTROL" - in a funny voice in my head... but, like Janrinok said, I was probably suffering from overwork/exhaustion.. :)
[13:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TANSTAAFL - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:32] <exec> 08└─That's OK with me, as long as I get a free dinner. ;-)
[13:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whew... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:55] <exec> 08└─Wait … you mean "suid" is not there to specify that an executable is a special utility for identification?
[13:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stealth is a boondoggle - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:36] <exec> 08└─As mentioned, it produces hangar queens. As noted in Fristy's link, it is easily spotted and shot down by 4th-rate military powers (Serbians in 1999). The big reason the F-117A hasn't been shot down MORE is because, again, it's a hangar queen. Vertical takeoff is another boondoggle. Dirt, stones, an...
[13:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Stealth is a boondoggle - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:37] <exec> 08└─Stealth is a float, not a boolean. You don't have to be completely invisible, you just need to be hard enough to see that you take far fewer losses. We lost only a single F-117, in how many missions? The main use case for STOVL is small aircraft carriers with no launch cat or wires. Stuff like the A...
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[14:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting and effective, but not original - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─If it requires a specialist technology, then I can't see technical problems being repairable at every airfield. So the the first time an aircraft has a problem and cannot be repaired at the destination airfield, it will start costing too much to operate. Anyone can replace a discrete part (accepting...
[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK-421 [3235] (Score:2) 02Safer? - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:15] <exec> 08└─I am all for higher efficiency and the resulting fuel savings/lower emissions. The complex design doesn't concern me...too much. The question I have is one of safety. I fully realize that cost is going the be the biggest factor in this technology but the benefit of fuel savings can only be realized...
[14:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Contraversial - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:25] <exec> 08└─I think the other AC was referring to your misspelling of the word "controversial".
[14:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03splodus [4877] (Score:2) 02Re:Contraversial - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:26] <exec> 08└─I feel the same way. There have been several issues in the past few years; prisoner voting, working hours, livestock, etc. I think a lot of it is that they are not subject to coverage on the news to nearly the same extent as politicians at home. If Yvette Cooper made a similar comment you'd have Cam...
[14:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Contraversial - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our banana-straightening overlords.
[14:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Embarassed yet? - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:35] <exec> 08└─Wow! There is now more good sense coming out of the EU than from a typical network administrator. Are all you admins embarassed yet?
[14:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02"People" should stop? - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:36] <exec> 08└─Security and privacy are not mutually exclusive says Europe’s privacy watchdog – and people should stop saying they are.
[14:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:53] <exec> 08└─They also detect if you have a Corvette.
[14:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:55] <exec> 08└─No, they really aren't. People can drive over them pretty quickly, especially in larger SUVs. What's more effective is speed dips. These are concrete trenches in the road. If you drive into one of them too fast, you bottom out.
[14:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:59] <exec> 08└─In the end, the only way to prevent through-traffic is to turn your neighbourhood into a series of cul-de-sacs by blocking off one end of the street.
[14:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:01] <exec> 08└─In the end, the only way to prevent through-traffic is to turn your neighbourhood into a series of cul-de-sacs by blocking off one end of the street.
[14:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 3204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's what you're asking? There are two prices for any stock. The bid is what someone will pay to buy the stock. The ask is what someone who currently has the stock will sell it at. The difference between the two prices is called the spread. Generally, as trading volume increases, the spread na...
[14:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:28] <exec> 08└─> what physically controls the prices on the market Supply and demand spread of thousands and thousands of individual investors.
[14:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:56] <exec> 08└─Ok, so 200,000 out of a Muslim population approximately 6000 times that size. That does not make the 200,000 even close to representative of all Muslims. Numerous Muslim leaders and scholars have denounced them as non-Muslim, and the vast majority of those fighting them are Muslim. ISIS (or Daesh, w...
[14:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03threedigits [607] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:05] <exec> 08└─For your information, the "various invasions" (really only one) of Spain is said to have begun because a Christian king (Achila II) outsourced it's war effort to the neighbouring moor king and then refused to pay, so the soldiers decided to stay and keep the land they had won for themselves. Far fro...
[14:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, right. - 06On Matters of ISIS - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:08] <exec> 08└─I'd be much interested in such sources.
[14:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:22] <exec> 08└─DC is supposedly a lot more hip than it was a decade ago. Also, many of the engineering jobs in the DC area are government-related, and require a security clearance, and generally require workers to be US Citizens. That excludes a lot of competition that you'll find in Silicon Valley. Yes, it's prob...
[14:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 1541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:02] <exec> 08└─I think that would be worth doing, too. I haven't plotted them out as data points because ironing out subjectivity in how an article is tagged/classified would seem necessary to avoid massaging classification to suit a pre-conceived narrative; that is, is an article about Congress considering a law...
[14:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Corinthian - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:47] <exec> 08└─On leather chairs? I thought on columns. [wikipedia.org]
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[15:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Sort of. - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:12] <exec> 08└─They don't really have to explain why the rules are secret. They've already done so. The reason they are secret is "Disclosing these rules is a threat to public safety." A court accepted that explanation previously as sufficient. What's happening now is that EPIC has requested a re-hearing on that d...
[15:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Buzzword-laden marketing speak - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:23] <exec> 08└─The whole article is a bunch of marketing mumbo-jumbo throwing around figures fast and loose. They've essentially just removed the metal skin from the flap spars. Neat idea, but really all that that can offer is a marginally smoother airflow over the flap segment gaps. Anybody with a smidge of aviat...
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:"People" should stop? - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:43] <exec> 08└─Spot on. My kingdom for +mod points! You, sir, win the inetrnets for today.
[15:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:1) 02Move to where the food is - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:56] <exec> 08└─Perhaps my sarcasm detector is broken but adding lanes only makes the traffic jams worse [wired.com]. It's a known phenomenon that new or expanded roads don't ease congestion [bicycleuniverse.info]. What is needed there is to get mass transit to get the cars off the road. Or reduce the number of peo...
[15:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tor's New Search Provider Built By Ex-NSA/Googl - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:59] <exec> 08└─Take that, Dude, I fuck with the Jesus!
[15:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tor's New Search Provider Built By Ex-NSA/Googl - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:00] <exec> 08└─He just posted it to the wrong story, I'm about 80% sure he meant to post it to the one above this - Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog. [soylentnews.org]
[15:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:10] <exec> 08└─Around here they've been installing Speed Humps [trafficlogix.com] instead of Speed Bumps. (The website sells rubber ones, but most of the ones I've seen are permanent.) With a normal speed bump, driving faster makes the effect less noticeable, because the suspension of the vehicle absorbs the impac...
[15:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:12] <exec> 08└─> Best option is to make local roads *slow*. There is an entire area of research devoted that, it is called traffic calming. [pps.org] It isn't just about physical impediments either, more important are psychological impediments. That includes things like narrowing the streets and using tight corner...
[15:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─Another very effective option is to use brick pavers - the rumbling sound that tires make rolling over bricks is disturbing and makes drivers more cautious.
[15:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:17] <exec> 08└─In the end, the only way to prevent through-traffic is...
[15:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:19] <exec> 08└─He might be able to strong-arm Waze (whomever that happens to be) but he won't be able to fight off their "competition". Be it Google Maps
[15:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Vision Zero - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 1652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─Last year here in Park Slope, Brooklyn, a 12-yr old boy was run down by a van speeding on Prospect Park West. The boy was chasing a soccer ball, but he had the light and the driver was doing one of those rolling stops anticipating a light change to green. The boy died. The driver was not charged. Pa...
[15:14:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] 02Unlikely - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:48] <exec> 08└─This information was going to be released. Theoretically the price corrects the same because the information is the same. Actually it doesn't because the deviation probably increased the panic caused by the bad news. It was definitely not responsible for 100% of the market cap change either way.
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02A better reading of the problem. - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 2989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─A major market-moving piece of information relevant to the share price of Twitter was released in a problematic way, which caused major disruption in trading markets. The tweet did not cause the market capitalization to fall by $8 billion. The underlying financial results disclosed by the tweet caus...
[15:15:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 1398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:08] <exec> 08└─Babble? Did you perhaps mean "tower of Babel"? It is in the neighborhood. And yes, my post did have meaning. I will indulge you and try to explain, since apparently it eluded your grasp. The claim is made in the Atlantic article that the views of ISIS are actually in line with Muslim theology. I thi...
[15:15:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:10] <exec> 08└─Do you believe that ...it is not too long before all SORTS of things become justified. That rational argument and evidence are not at all required to make important decisions or, for example, decide who lives or dies or is horribly tortured until they confess of croak.
[15:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:17] <exec> 08└─i point this out every time i see hatemongering bigots spreading this xenophobic bullshit. defining a group based on the actions of 0.0125% of the group is the height of sophistry, no matter how you slice it. its like defining all of christianity based on the Westboro Baptist Church. hmm, maybe that...
[15:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:a word of warning... - 06On Matters of ISIS - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's the one. I chose it, as it's the only was I'm aware of where citizens of the USA were threatened on their own territory. I think the Mexican-American war of 1846-8 was fought entirely on what was Mexican territory, although I am not 100% sure. You could count the Pacific campaign of WWII...
[15:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies! Conspiracy! - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:52] <exec> 08└─Bravo good sir, bravo. But please to remember that continental drift theory was controversial in its time as well.
[15:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong focus. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:56] <exec> 08└─but interviews are really interested if we still remember some weird corner of precise perl regex syntax from 10 years ago. So $1 is that the first matching pattern from a regex or is $0? I think its $1 and thats totally worthless knowledge in a post-google world where I'd look it up if it matters.
[15:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:45] <exec> 08└─"Don't you ever have to breath?" "It's called circular breathing." Replied Deborah. "The Australian Aboriginals developed it to play their didgeridoos, it means they can keep blowing forever. All New York Jewish girls are taught it, that's how we get to marry such rich men." -- Gridlock, by Ben Elto...
[15:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the upside? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:56] <exec> 08└─One upside is that it might filter out women who are shallow enough to dismiss a date with me because some other anonymous person tagged me as #Boring or #DrivesMeCrazy.
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[16:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02"Because we say they are." - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:11] <exec> 08└─I'm at a bit of a loss. Why won't the standard government draw card work now?
[16:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:12] <exec> 08└─where the bad guys call a cellphone attached to a bomb to detonate it. No one tell the bad guys that the EM spectrum continues to exist outside of typical cell service frequencies.
[16:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:14] <exec> 08└─Sure, in theory. But as a de facto risk, we've seen tons of IEDs detonated by cell signal abroad as part of the Iraq and Afghanistan insurgencies. Because building a radio is actually hard and time consuming. Not to mention that signal processessing is actually an advanced skill, and distinguishing...
[16:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02They would love to tell us... - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:15] <exec> 08└─... but the reason they have this power is a secret, too.
[16:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting and effective, but not original - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:25] <exec> 08└─The very first thing they say in the video is how the Wright Brothers invented this on the first airplane.
[16:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Abbreviation - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:28] <exec> 08└─NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design
[16:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:But they are - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:41] <exec> 08└─Hogwash. 1. There is no set exchange rate between security and privacy. It is not +1 privacy = -1 security. 2. Even where security & privacy conflict, we're a long way from maximizing one while keeping the other constant. Case in point: here's one fairly simple idea that would improve pr...
[16:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:"People" should stop? - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─Your "not mutually exclusive" middle ground does not exist.
[16:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Move to where the food is - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:05] <exec> 08└─With this sort of logic no highways, rails, or subways should be built because people will use them. Madness. All that "induced demand" is traffic that is already trying alternate routes because the ones we paid for aren't working!
[16:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Move to where the food is - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:06] <exec> 08└─I read that article and it does put up a reasonable argument. The argument is that we're compelled to pay for roads so why not fully utilize them when it better suits us since I'm paying for them anyways and my additional cost of using what I already paid for is small compared to my entire cost of b...
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aristocracy trying to look useful, again - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:07] <exec> 08└─Agreed. These stupid for profit express lanes have to go.
[16:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:24] <exec> 08└─> And you don't think it would be disturbing to the people who live there? As someone who lives on a brick-paved road, I can't even hear it from inside the house.
[16:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:25] <exec> 08└─That includes things like narrowing the streets [...] because wide streets with make drivers feel like it is safe to speed
[16:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Vision Zero - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:32] <exec> 08└─Rather than making traffic problems worse, why not use the money to improve the main congested areas so people don't need to be in the neighborhood to begin with? These zero-death initiatives are an excuse for heavy-handed police presence, and I'm amazed how many people don't see that as a revenue c...
[16:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Sure it is - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:34] <exec> 08└─And certainly not because they simply don't repave the streets in poor neighborhoods. Where I live Also, people would not find "short cuts" if the infrastructure of the main roads could handle the traffic. Though I don't blame city councils for that. When a new housing development or shopping center...
[16:14:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 347 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:43] <exec> 08└─Contrary to popular believe the price of a companies stock has very little impact on a company's business. The stock has all been sold, (except a tiny amount of treasury stock). Some owners and some stock holders have a theoretical paper loss, which they will no doubt recoop before the end of the ye...
[16:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A better reading of the problem. - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the company will probably be fined by the SEC, and maybe there will be a personnel shakeup. (pause) They'll fire the sysadmin.
[16:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:34] <exec> 08└─The problem with that comparison is that Westboro Baptist Church is a much smaller and more powerless group. Westboro has maybe 40 members out of about 1.5 billion Christians, and has never come close to controlling territory. There are a couple of more apt comparisons, though: 1. The IRA. The IRA a...
[16:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:36] <exec> 08└─They have beliefs that are based on literal interpretation of Islamic texts and which have precedents in Islamic history
[16:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:38] <exec> 08└─ideology is nothing more than a convenient excuse to use to get support in the form of money and followers. take the taliban for example, while they were in power they completely banned opium production [afghanistannewscenter.com] saying that drugs and drug cultivation goes against the Quran, but no...
[16:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:46] <exec> 08└─That's funny, lots of christians say the 6th commandment's original language is "you shall not murder" [wikipedia.org] which is basically the same same as the lines of the quran that you have quoted.
[16:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:49] <exec> 08└─> Muhammad's conquest of Mecca, a couple of years after signing a 10-year peace treaty with them springs to mind as the earliest one. I looked that up, seems like 2 years into the treaty the other side reneged and attacked Mo's buddies. Perhaps you have more in depth knowledge. I would like to see a...
[16:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, right. - 06On Matters of ISIS - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:53] <exec> 08└─Are you really dumb enough to think the CIA isn't selling them weapons? The CIA has a long history of selling weapons to extremist groups.
[16:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a word of warning... - 06On Matters of ISIS - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:03] <exec> 08└─USA has never been in a real war
[16:16:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Reality check - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 932 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:40] <exec> 08└─>>Turning your food into fuel isn't likely to end well When I studied this 40 years ago at university, there was no intention among environmentalists to turn food into fuel. When they talked about biofuel, the discussion was exclusively about converting waste products and non-edible agricultural pro...
[16:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Rapeseed?!?" - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:42] <exec> 08└─Triggered! Patriarchy! Misogyny!
[16:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, a budget will be no problem. Think of all the reduced shipping costs :)
[16:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies! Conspiracy! - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:20] <exec> 08└─Shut up, denialist. Scientific consensus says the continents ARE moving, and this time, it's humanity's damn fault.
[16:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02GPS Map Correction - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:22] <exec> 08└─It's a interesting thought, I wonder how this affects the super-accurate GPS Measurements used for surveying? A couple of centimeters a year isn't that much when compared to the size of the ocean, but it's a LOT when you're surveying property lines. Without some sort of correction factor, highly acc...
[16:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:20] <exec> 08└─That first link is an article written by someone with an axe to grind. The next two are different .docs with the same "executive summary" The last one is a summary of the same study. So, you should have put one link instead of four, because you're not citing different sources. I could go over each o...
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[17:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Betteridge has an answer for your headline - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:09] <exec> 08└─Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance?
[17:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Sort of. - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah. The reason why the secret is secret is also a secret. Of course there's a good reason for this too, but it's secret. Don't worry. Trust Us (tm).
[17:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02"We won't use it; the system is just in case" - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:23] <exec> 08└─A pretty good indicator for which states are oppressive authoritarian funholes is that--if they aren't already--they like to shut of Internet access at the first sign of public protests. We've come a long way, America.
[17:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Contraversial - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:47] <exec> 08└─Except for their stupid, ill-designed, static monetary union that is fucking them all over for bankers, but yeah.
[17:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Move to where the food is - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:14] <exec> 08└─Sadly there is no swamp for their farm to sink in to.
[17:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Aristocracy trying to look useful, again - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:18] <exec> 08└─Us plebs should stick to the signed roads. The back way through this councilman's neighborhood should be kept empty! In my city a few years back there was a huge row over snow removal. The city workers were plowing the streets with city council members first, then leaving the slums a complete disast...
[17:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aristocracy trying to look useful, again - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:20] <exec> 08└─Building roads to solve traffic jams has been shown not to work. Better public transport somewhat works but even there supply (i.e. more transport capacity) creates demand (even more people traveling). It is a difficult to solve problem, and in no way will it be solved by letting annoyed commuters t...
[17:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aristocracy trying to look useful, again - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:21] <exec> 08└─There's an upper limit to travel: At no time, more than all of the people can travel at the same time. Well, at least until time travel gets invented.
[17:14:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:26] <exec> 08└─In his view this is a new phenomenon
[17:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:36] <exec> 08└─A 25 mph speed limit and a couple weeks of strict enforcement should be perfect for a social app like Waze. "Stay away ... it is a speed trap!" should do the trick.
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─>> Not necessarily... here is a suggestion to do the opposite: Did you read your own link? It says get rid of what makes it easy for drivers to feel like it is safe to speed - in that case signs regulating traffic that implicitly give cars the right of way. > Hell no. Not in my backyard, not in anyb...
[17:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:12] <exec> 08└─Theoretically it's expected future dividends that's supposed to ultimately determine the stock price. What's the point of stock traders as a whole holding stocks if they don't get anything out of it. Realistically it doesn't really work that way.
[17:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:44] <exec> 08└─> this isn't more a characteristic of mankind than it is of religion? I think it is an inevitable result of physics. It is simply impossible to have complete knowledge about much in our lives. We don't have the time and brain size to have perfect knowledge about even really simple things - to have p...
[17:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"True" Muslim? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:47] <exec> 08└─What about "true" feminists? Or "true" Scotsmen?
[17:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:56] <exec> 08└─> A lot of their practices are in fact not based on literal interpretation of Islamic texts. I ran across a study a few months ago that found that fundamentalists as a group are the people with the least knowledge of their professed religion. I forgot to bookmark it and I can't seem to find it again...
[17:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:57] <exec> 08└─> Consider creationists, for example. The Pope has supported evolution, so Catholics could claim that creationists are "not Christian" Surprisingly (or perhaps not) a large proportion of creationists think catholics are not christians. [google.com]
[17:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:00] <exec> 08└─cherrypicking the religion to use whatever they can to support their personal ideals and beliefs, which have nothing to do with the religion, to sate their lust for power, while ignoring everything in that religion that doesn't support them or directly contradicts their position
[17:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:08] <exec> 08└─> Its an example of a religion leading violence. Not really. It is an example of a religion being used to excuse violence in the aid of financial and territorial conquest. Religion works great to motivate the people who serve as cannon-fodder, but the people who actually orchestrated the crusades we...
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[17:16:16] <exec> 08└─> Are you really dumb enough to think the CIA isn't selling them weapons? > The CIA has a long history of selling weapons to extremist groups. That logic is obviously specious for the very simple fact that the CIA has an even longer history of not selling weapons to extremist groups. It's not like b...
[17:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Russian BOFFINS? - 06Russian Cargo Pod Spins Out of Control - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:40] <exec> 08└─There's nothing like injecting some of those bizarre British slang terms into the conversation to confuse 90% of listeners! That chav's sodding knackered! Shove him in the bloody boot with some chips.
[17:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jesus_666 [3044] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality check - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:06] <exec> 08└─Same with banning DDT instead of regulating more sane use. How many black and brown people will die of malaria before they admit the error?
[17:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality check - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:07] <exec> 08└─Letting third world hellholes like Russia [...]
[17:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02A Bit of Exaggeration? - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─How do land masses that take up less than a third of the Earth's surface join up to form one that takes up two thirds of its surface? India and Australia are on the same plate, currently slamming into Asia, raising the Himalayas and causing earthquakes and such. The microterranes between Australia (...
[17:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:28] <exec> 08└─I assume he uses this as a marketing platform for his own blog, but I have no idea if he has ads, because I would rather stab my eyes out than read it. I, too, think the Editors are doing a good job here, they just accept way too many Hugh Pickens stories. Also, if you look at Pickens original submi...
[17:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:30] <exec> 08└─I would rather see far less stories per day then have terrible submissions accepted just to fill some sort of quota. If Soylent dries up without the submissions of one person. then I guess it is time for it to die.
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 3463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:48] <exec> 08└─Hell you think THAT is bad? Go look at some of the posts on the Stop Webhate site (which boy are the SJWs mad their little "boo hoo we are being persecuted" blew right back in their faces with the thing being filled with their racist and misandrist shit) where they have tweets from fricking Zoe Quin...
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[18:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Betteridge has an answer for your headline - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:11] <exec> 08└─Cynics never win. It's the easy way out. It lets those in power continue to do things the way they want to do things. Cynics never ever win.
[18:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Betteridge has an answer for your headline - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:12] <exec> 08└─Of course, non-cynics lose plenty too. The problem with Internet cynics is that they almost universally seem to be preaching giving up from a position of never having sincerely tried themselves.
[18:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:13] <exec> 08└─Other people [tumblr.com] have said it better than I can, but it's questionable this bill actually will stop mass surveillance. It will end one of the legal authorities under which the NSA currently (allegedly) conducts mass surveillance. It leaves others intact. And it brings no additional oversigh...
[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─Not likely. Better something better than nothing better.
[18:13:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Sort of. - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 821 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:23] <exec> 08└─They don't really have to explain why the rules are secret. They've already done so. The reason they are secret is "Disclosing these rules is a threat to public safety." A court accepted that explanation previously as sufficient. What's happening now is that EPIC has requested a re-hearing on that d...
[18:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:28] <exec> 08└─What's the range of cheap two-way radios? Here is your receiver with source untraceable. To avoid mistriggers, just add off-the-shelf pattern recognition, like "god hate fags" in morse code
[18:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:29] <exec> 08└─"of the shelf pattern recognition" isn't exactly as easy and anonymous to come by as prepaid cellphones.
[18:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:31] <exec> 08└─"of the shelf pattern recognition" isn't exactly as easy and anonymous to come by as prepaid cellphones.
[18:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:33] <exec> 08└─And the FCC would be able to tell where you were when you set it off, if you're working on an unoccupied spectrum.
[18:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:34] <exec> 08└─Well, that's fair.
[18:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:"People" should stop? - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─You must have missed the memo that GCHQ is located in the EU. As is the BND. [spiegel.de] The fact that someone (even someone with some power) asserts something ought to be true in no way makes it so.
[18:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Tor's New Search Provider Built By Ex-NSA/Googl - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure - it might be because the very same thing is waiting in the submission queue for an editor to rewrite it from scratch to turn it into something worth reading. And at the moment neither CoolHand nor I have time for that.
[18:15:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03schad [2398] 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 3204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's what you're asking? There are two prices for any stock. The bid is what someone will pay to buy the stock. The ask is what someone who currently has the stock will sell it at. The difference between the two prices is called the spread. Generally, as trading volume increases, the spread na...
[18:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:24] <exec> 08└─That's exactly right. It doesn't work that way in practice because we don't know today what those future dividends or other cash flows will be. If we did, and could correctly know our expected rate of return in putting that money somewhere else, we could precisely price stocks.
[18:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:07] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh - yeah. http://chersonandmolschky.com [chersonandmolschky.com] http://chersonandmolschky.com [chersonandmolschky.com]
[18:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:12] <exec> 08└─Someone dropped this link on me a few days ago. Why don't you check it out? http://chersonandmolschky.com [chersonandmolschky.com] This sister article has more on the same subject. http://chersonandmolschky.com [chersonandmolschk...
[18:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:14] <exec> 08└─You fail to explain the massive influx of money to ISIS. Just because your Muslim friends haven't run off to reestablish the caliphate doesn't mean they aren't sending money. There isn't enough marketable things in northern Iraq and Syria to explain the sheer amount of cash these guys have. Its not...
[18:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:15] <exec> 08└─> You fail to explain the massive influx of money to ISIS You fail to prove the existence of a massive influx of money to ISIS. They are a wholly self-sufficient criminal syndicate. [businessinsider.com] > Also, while you seem quick to write off 200,000 combat volunteers They are not volunteers. The...
[18:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:26] <exec> 08└─If you are going to delve into the real meanings of the teachings of God, or the gods, or any god, perhaps you should understand those teachings better yourself. The 6th commandment is not "thou shalt not kill". The 6th commandment is more properly translated into English as "thou shalt do no murder...
[18:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:28] <exec> 08└─Right on cue... Funny that when someone as bloodthirsty as you has to choose between hating teh mooslims and loving the killing, they pick loving the killing.
[18:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:32] <exec> 08└─Right, but also, Most people don't read deeply enough into History to realize that the Crusades were a defensive action to push Muslims back after they had already violently invaded (not by stealth, not peacefully) much of the middle east, and the holy lands, and were starting to take on southern Eu...
[18:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:34] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh - "something like ISIS" did indeed happen. It was known for a long time as the "Ottoman Empire".
[18:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My father had an MSEE. He knew FORTRAN. - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:12] <exec> 08└─if you used a heat exchanger it would be possible to be off the grid
[18:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Re:power grids need to change function - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:28] <exec> 08└─What I see happening is the building of "neighborhood grids" where you have local power generation, storage, and distribution. Think every home in a subdivision with solar and maybe a windmill or other renewable source or two in the section. All connected to a central power storage device. You bypas...
[18:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:01] <exec> 08└─Read more carefully. There were two independent studies, by researchers at two different universities. They actually did research, measured flow rates. The pro HOV "studies" consist of nothing but assertions, trumpeted by various DOT agencies. They have never been rigorously studied with a detail tr...
[18:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:46] <exec> 08└─If Soylent dries up without the submissions of one person. then I guess it is time for it to die.
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[19:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:09] <exec> 08└─Seriously, who's surprised at all here? These people are fighting a PR war against the scientific truth, and part of me has to respect how close they are to winning, but that's going to necessitate fighting everyone who happens to acknowledge the facts as they are. Their backers rely on the American...
[19:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02'warming since the end of the last ice age' - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:10] <exec> 08└─I don't doubt that. But how fast has it been warming? Has the speed of warming increased with human CO2 and methane output? There is no question that both polar caps are melting and that the ocean is becoming acidic. With the warming of the ocean comes the evaporation of the methane that was previou...
[19:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─A bad bill can be worse than no bill.
[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Give Obama Another Chance - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─Eight More Years! Change Is Cumming! For Reals This Time Brotha!
[19:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Whether or not a law passes - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:25] <exec> 08└─It all happens in a clandestine manner now. You don't know how, when or why it really works. You don't know who is responsible. You know there is a long history and it is very entrenched. You have no real vantage point for observation or any force you can leverage to move it. Whether or not you pa...
[19:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"We won't use it; the system is just in case" - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:44] <exec> 08└─Go to any third-world country and cell phone towers are turned off whenever the authorities feel like it. Sometimes for hours. Sometimes for whole cities. Internet is also turned off, especially wireless internet. A solution: Do not depend on a cell-phone business/internet-access business operated b...
[19:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Shutting Down Cell Towers - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─Shutting down cell towers for "public safety" sounds a lot like what the People's Republic of China did to try to quell protests in Hong Kong recently. Of course, the crafty protestors used FireChat instead. But it's still something a totalitarian state does, not what an alleged democracy does. Is A...
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shutting Down Cell Towers - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─It's lunchtime. So..Republic? Where can a guy get some lemon around here?
[19:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting and effective, but not original - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:57] <exec> 08└─On top of that, there's little to suggest any significant savings in fuel efficiency. The overwhelming majority of flight hours are spent with flaps retracted (smooth wing). There is very little to suggest any improvement in that flight segment. A two hour flight might have a 5-10 minute take off a...
[19:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting and effective, but not original - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:59] <exec> 08└─Not to mention birds before them.
[19:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzword-laden marketing speak - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:02] <exec> 08└─In many planes, an excessive share of the in-cabin noise is actually from the HVAC.
[19:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Contraversial - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:15] <exec> 08└─Bankers will fuck you over in any currency, they don't need the euro for that
[19:14:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02"People" should stop? - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─Security and privacy are not mutually exclusive says Europe’s privacy watchdog – and people should stop saying they are.
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:"People" should stop? - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─Security and privacy bloody well ARE mutually exclusive when the "security" forces have been allowed to redefinition "security" to include the right to examine any communication anywhere, anytime. Yes exactly. My Security and my Privacy are both aspects of the same system and they go hand-in-han...
[19:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:03] <exec> 08└─Or enforced by radar! https://what-if.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[19:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Vision Zero - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:21] <exec> 08└─improve the main congested areas so people don't need to be in the neighborhood to begin with?
[19:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:20] <exec> 08└─Anti-thesim is a reaction to the outdated, hypocritical and ridiculous role religion plays in modern society. You can believe whatever you want on your own time but when it starts to have serious consequences on those who don't, a line in the sand must be drawn and someone has to advocate for eviden...
[19:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:21] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. The constant brainwashing people into anti-rational thought causes such events. Other forms of mass brainwashing can do this also but not as well as religion which specifically plays on a feature (weakness) of the brain making it susceptible to such things. The major religions also form...
[19:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality check - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:41] <exec> 08└─Simpsons did it! Circa 1998 - Lard of the Dance [wikipedia.org]
[19:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Rapeseed?!?" - FYI - 06EU Parliament Bursts Misguided Biofuel Bubble - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:47] <exec> 08└─The name that has been used for quite a while now is "Canola". -- gewg_
[19:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:where's the albatross? - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:06] <exec> 08└─OpenBSD does not really care about portability and the like. Their whole mantra is security and quality first. As to your questions, Nobody is not defined by POSIX and indirectly by the LSB; it is mostly defined by convention. I believe on OpenBSD, nobody is guaranteed to exist and is unprivileged w...
[19:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I waited out the dot com crash in Maine - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:37] <exec> 08└─We holed up in my office with a 1000 watt electric heater. We only ran the oil furnace to keep the house warm enough that the pipes would not freeze.
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[20:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:11] <exec> 08└─My favorite part is when "skeptics" (not the best term for people who willfully ignore the evidence) say that "the Pope has great moral authority but he's not an authority on climate science". This is a really funny thing to say about a man who holds a chemical technician's diploma from a secondary...
[20:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:12] <exec> 08└─So this was what it took for you to finally deign to attest him any ethical credibility? Not, like, all those other things that were said before this? As a atheist who's over the age of 17 and have better things to think about than the next change I get to sneer at religious figures, I actually find...
[20:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:14] <exec> 08└─You may want to consider what side the Telegraph is on. "Attacking the Pope" is a pretty slanted line and I notice they don't extend the same bombastic language to people on the other side of the debate. One side is "partly funded by billionaire industrialists" while the other side is "a campaign gr...
[20:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'warming since the end of the last ice age' - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:16] <exec> 08└─But how fast has it been warming?
[20:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02"Attacked" - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:18] <exec> 08└─They disagree with his stance. They take issue with his position. Nobody pulled a knife on the Pontiff. -- gewg_
[20:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Attacked" - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:20] <exec> 08└─What a shame.
[20:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Narrow-minded thinking... - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─> he should stick to speaking out on matters of morality and theology rather than ... The morality of plowing forward on a path that threatens the homes, lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions, is quite an obvious Pope topic... Especially when the poor who are most at risk are still a lot mor...
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Narrow-minded thinking... - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:23] <exec> 08└─But, you see, those things won't happen, because climate change isn't real. We promise! You're not allowed to be outraged by our actions as long as we can vehemently claim they don't pose any risk to anyone.
[20:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Narrow-minded thinking... - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─The morality of plowing forward on a path that threatens the homes, lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions, is quite an obvious Pope topic... Especially when the poor who are most at risk are still a lot more religious than the pressure groups defending a profitable status quo.
[20:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Topics - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:26] <exec> 08└─I am definitely not one of the tech-news-only crowd and certainly want to cover topics like this. But...it seems like just a bit too much this week with the contentious political stories. Maybe just one or two global warming/gender equality/abortion/gay marriage type stories a week would be a bet...
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Topics - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─We'll try to stop with relevant news that doesn't involve politics, real life, or tragedy, unfortunately I don't think the world will agree and stop having things happen.
[20:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Husband of Christ - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:29] <exec> 08└─Who cares what the Pedophile in Chief says about loving the Earth?
[20:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Story does not live up to headline - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:31] <exec> 08└─Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics
[20:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Story does not live up to headline - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─Well you can still fix it. You get your friends together and call yourselves climate change skeptics. Then you all beat up the Pope.
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Climate Change Related - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─CLIMATE CHANGE COULD WIPE OUT ONE SIXTH OF EARTH'S SPECIES: Global warming has already affected our sea levels and permafrost, and now it’s coming after plants and animals. A new study shows that if we current on our current trajectory of global warming, 16 percent of species will be in danger of...
[20:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:41] <exec> 08└─That is only true if you believe the whole shebang would be allowed to die by Sunset on June 1.
[20:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:43] <exec> 08└─Unless the loopholes are closed, the NSA can keep doing what they're doing, without anyone being upset about it, without public debate, and with relative impunity. Until the next Snowden a decade from now (and you can bet your booty they're doing all they can to make sure "the next Snowden" can't ha...
[20:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02It will pass.... - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:45] <exec> 08└─... when pigs fly. Oh, it is possible that something with that name will pass but it will be so gutted with exceptions so huge you can throw a gas giant through that it will be meaningless. However, I could be wrong, for with sufficient thrust pigs (the pink kind) will fly. And, of course, blue and...
[20:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Why have a bill ... - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─Guess I have too much common sense to think like a lawman, but ... why require a bill to stop an unconstitutional act?
[20:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:03] <exec> 08└─Its a pretty stupid excuse for this system. Plenty of other options to go with. The boston marathon bomb was said to have been triggered using the parts from remote control toy cars (see wikipedia article). Even the bomb was made from a pressure cooker and fireworks. The Westgate shopping mall in Ke...
[20:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:04] <exec> 08└─But then the rule wouldn't be secret, it would be "if we get a bomb threat, we turn off the cell network". What they don't want to disclose is that the rule is "we turn off the cell network if the local cops ask us to, even if it's to keep witnesses from tweeting video of them shooting a man in the...
[20:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shutting Down Cell Towers - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:10] <exec> 08└─If you know that it is a Republic, then why did you call it a Democracy?
[20:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shutting Down Cell Towers - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:12] <exec> 08└─Because a republic is a type of democracy you fucking moron. "Republic" is to "democracy" as "cadillac " is to "car".
[20:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:55] <exec> 08└─you wanna know what's really funny? bigoted islamophobes like you are doing more to help religious extremists [patheos.com] and ensure sharia law becomes entrenched in america [debbieschlussel.com] than anyone else. Indiana's RFRA explicitly enables Sharia to be enforced [thedailybeast.com] in India...
[20:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Whew... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:25] <exec> 08└─I have a macbook and use it fairly often. As the computer guy, people at my company send me things attached in email asking why they can't open it. I've seen a lot of weird shit like MS Word files with .pdf extensions and all sorts of zip files with the wrong extension. I figured using "file" is as...
[20:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Whew... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:26] <exec> 08└─I figured using "file" is as safe as anything to figure out what something is.
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:42] <exec> 08└─I got myself an MBA after a decade in software development. I could sense bad things coming. I was working 11-14 hours a day, 7 days a week (no kidding), and was treated like dirt. Now I do contract work and make about as much, while doing much less work. I now actually have time to study business,...
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[21:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:21] <exec> 08└─Not, like, all those other things that were said before this?
[21:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02DON'T F*CK WITH THE POPE - He's Got Hella Posse! - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:23] <exec> 08└─NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
[21:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:25] <exec> 08└─As far as I'm concerned, the Pope isn't an authority on either science or morality. I won't change my mind just because he happens to agree with me in this case. This is a non-story. The Pope doesn't know any more about climate science that the average guy (maybe more than the average US congressman...
[21:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:26] <exec> 08└─I made this argument before. And someone was pretty quick to answer that rhetorical question. Catholics. Catholics give a fuck what the thinks.
[21:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcm [4110] (Score:1) 02Re:'warming since the end of the last ice age' - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:29] <exec> 08└─Even if global warming were a purely natural phenomenon, that doesn't mean it would not make the earth uninhabitable.
[21:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03archshade [3664] (Score:1) 02Re:Betteridge has an answer for your headline - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:50] <exec> 08└─Cynics can win. I agree the line of reasoning, this act won't work so lets not bother is cynical (and found a lot around on the internet), and it very damaging. If this was the only embodiment of cynicism I would agree that cynics can't win. That said cynicism can be healthy and can show an ability...
[21:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Betteridge has an answer for your headline - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:51] <exec> 08└─You are right, and the absolutist position I presented was merely a vehicle to make your exact point.
[21:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why have a bill ... - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:01] <exec> 08└─why require a bill to stop an unconstitutional act?
[21:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02In Other News: - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:11] <exec> 08└─Airbus to sue NSA, German spies accused of swiping tech secrets: European aerospace giant Airbus is promising legal action over claims its top blueprints were stolen by German spies and given to America's intelligence agencies. "We are aware that as a large company in the sector, we are a target and...
[21:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:55] <exec> 08└─Speed bumps/humps and brick pavers are moot if you drive over them fast enough. Try it next time in a parking lot; you can sail right through a speed bump at 30-40mph (high profile tires only). Sure it makes a bit of racket, but there is virtually no vertical motion to the car.
[21:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Where I went horribly wrong in life - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 2175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:39] <exec> 08└─Same here and I agree except you're missing or discounting part of the picture, the new part: information as capital/assets. How many use Twitter? How many have ever used Twitter? How many have read a tweet? How many do so daily regardless of delivery method? How many have quoted Twitter? How many l...
[21:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:15] <exec> 08└─> http://chersonandmolschky.com [chersonandmolschky.com] That site is nutjob land. Your citation starts out with the uncited claim that in December, 2007, Hamas celebrated its 20th anniversary. The main slogan of this celebration was “Jews, we have already dug up...
[21:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, right. - 06On Matters of ISIS - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:46] <exec> 08└─Conspiracy theories are generally not conspiracy theories when they ar ebased on facts, and I'm always willing to listen to facts. And I haven't heard any yet.
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[22:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Thanks, - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:11] <exec> 08└─but no, thanks.
[22:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'll stick with LLVM - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:12] <exec> 08└─Just like every other self-absorbed hipster. God bless the Holy Ghost of Steve Jobs! AMEN.
[22:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:I'll stick with LLVM - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:14] <exec> 08└─Fuck you all, I'm totally gonna try it -- It looks rad. Frothy semen-crusted Linux troglodytes text-editing source files or otherwise developing with 60's-era techniques please kindly drag yourselves kicking and screaming into modernhood. Get of your circle-jerk and give Microsoft a chance -- they k...
[22:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll stick with LLVM - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:16] <exec> 08└─He said, Good day! signed... a linux troglodyte. Because they care.
[22:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Glad i'm off the MS teat - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:17] <exec> 08└─and so the sh*t continues: same old, same old. Will never suck that motha's milk anymore.
[22:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Glad i'm off the MS teat - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:19] <exec> 08└─It was father's milk.
[22:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Glad i'm off the MS teat - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:20] <exec> 08└─I thought that cow looked funny... I thought: 'that cow only has one teat! Huh!'
[22:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not a MS fanboy, but let me play the devils advocatehere. The article thats calling out that this is not news also claims that it's "not free, not open source". Now, I think it's ok for anyone to build programs and give them for free, and it's their choice to open it up or not. (unless it's spyw...
[22:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:24] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has been openly antagonistic and is known for having punitive licensing or dropping support for a product. They are essentially what Google is aspiring towards.
[22:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Microsoft Office for Linux, still waiting....... - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─......for the Year of Linux on the Business Desktop.... any year now.......
[22:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stop releasing simple tools! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:27] <exec> 08└─No no no no no! Visual Studio is too easy to use! How will elitist unwashed coders stay elite if manicured morons find out that coders are just typists with delusions of grandeur?!
[22:13:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 681 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:31] <exec> 08└─Seriously, who's surprised at all here? These people are fighting a PR war against the scientific truth, and part of me has to respect how close they are to winning, but that's going to necessitate fighting everyone who happens to acknowledge the facts as they are. Their backers rely on the American...
[22:13:34] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 1645 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:35] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, you're trying to engage in an ad hominem without having much clue who your target is other than "he's the pope". The guy was born in a slum, worked his way up from nothing working as a janitor and a bouncer, so it's safe to say he knows a great deal about poverty. After he beca...
[22:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:40] <exec> 08└─That seems like the obvious answer - but I really don't think that they do. Catholics are happy to invoke the Pope's authority when his opinions match theirs - otherwise, they ignore him. Can you think of any time in recent history when the Pope actually changed something important?
[22:13:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Narrow-minded thinking... - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:46] <exec> 08└─> he should stick to speaking out on matters of morality and theology rather than ... The morality of plowing forward on a path that threatens the homes, lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions, is quite an obvious Pope topic... Especially when the poor who are most at risk are still a lot mor...
[22:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:Narrow-minded thinking... - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:49] <exec> 08└─Well the suggestion is not to curtail economic activity but only do it more sustainably, which is something we should've been transitioning to quite a while back. Of course, curtailed economic activity is going to be a consequence because alternate energy sources aren't ready to handle the full load...
[22:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Husband of Christ - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─That would make him an expert?
[22:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate Change Related - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:57] <exec> 08└─The relevant question is: Which species are going extinct? I wouldn't mind all plasmodia to go extinct; on the other hand, the species homo sapiens going extinct I'd consider a big issue.
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:1) 02Re:Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:14] <exec> 08└─I'm with you that reauthorization of the patriot act is not a bright way to try to fix the situation. He seems to think talking about it is the goal and it is the means. I would point out that if we simply remove 215, like some people are trying for, it will likely go on with a "They didn't say we c...
[22:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─"They didn't say we couldn't" justification
[22:14:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Re:Sort of. - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah. The reason why the secret is secret is also a secret. Of course there's a good reason for this too, but it's secret. Don't worry. Trust Us (tm).
[22:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shutting Down Cell Towers - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─Slap me with a fish for noting that a democracy can also allow you to be sure to not choose the wrong lizard. Or, in other words, "democracy" does not imply direct causality for absolute civil rights.
[22:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Contraversial - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:18] <exec> 08└─sometimes it seems to me like the EU politicians are the only ones actually standing up for the best interests of its citizens.
[22:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:28] <exec> 08└─That's all selection bias. How many people have had their lives saved by religion? For example, how many catholic hospitals are there? In the US alone at least 1 in 9 acute care hospital beds is in a catholic hospital. If you attribute deaths to the religion and not individuals claiming the religion...
[22:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:32] <exec> 08└─No one is saying the world would be perfect without religion, but if people voluntarily gave up one irrational cause of violence, that would show that they are thinking about the issue, and I would think such violence would go down.
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[23:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:21] <exec> 08└─Now, I think it's ok for anyone to build programs and give them for free, and it's their choice to open it up or not. (unless it's spyware, obv)
[23:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Let's make a list. - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:24] <exec> 08└─Someone ought to make a list of all the IDEs that have launched and been abandoned some time. I'm not trying to make an argument for or against them, but Emacs has basically been the same since day one. You can boot up ITS in an emulator and run Emacs and basically use your muscle memory to drive it...
[23:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's make a list. - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:26] <exec> 08└─If your muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts seriously affects your productivity, you're playing with your editor too much and working too little. Try writing some actual code some time.
[23:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:DON'T F*CK WITH THE POPE - He's Got Hella Posse - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe you want to come in again. "I was only told to say there's trouble with the climate! I didn't expect some kind of Spanish Inquisition!" (que!)
[23:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:'warming since the end of the last ice age' - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:47] <exec> 08└─" What can we do to halt the warming?? "
[23:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Narrow-minded thinking... - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:55] <exec> 08└─....such as considerable curtailment of [...] energy production also inordinately harm the poor.
[23:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Heartland Institute, - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:05] <exec> 08└─says Jim Lakely of the Heartland Institute,
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Betteridge has an answer for your headline - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't be cynical; you should be a realist. Try not to let your emotions get in the way of logically evaluating the evidence.
[23:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:46] <exec> 08└─Trilateration will find most radio transmitter with high precision. The question is to what extent that kind of listening is still done. Because you need to sample a wide bandwidth in the general area or miss it. Something that costs power (watts) and money.
[23:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:DHS has seen too many movies - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:48] <exec> 08└─It's not about winning the war, it's about suppressing unfriendly populations -- like how we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan and domestically during the war on drugs, and now moreso domestically with the war on terror. A war on terror...we're supposed to win by being afraid of everything? Classic double...
[23:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Shutting Down Cell Towers - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:59] <exec> 08└─America is whatever you want as long as you can pay K-street enough :P (and voters can just watch themselves being fucked over regardless of their standard type of voting)
[23:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:But they are - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:33] <exec> 08└─And people who care about freedom will take freedom over security any day, when privacy and security conflict. Mass surveillance is intolerable.
[23:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:In Other News: - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:46] <exec> 08└─So why sue the NSA? Possession of stolen goods is all you could get them on (if even that). Why not sue the German thieves?
[23:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rebellion - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:47] <exec> 08└─It is time for a bloody rebellion against the feminist police state. Remeber: there is nothing to live for: they will not allow you to marry a girl child. A right you have under the old testament.
[23:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where I went horribly wrong in life - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:17] <exec> 08└─All of those numbers are huge. A lot of companies etc. consider it normal to have both a Facebook page and a Twitter account (or several) and most use it for customer interaction and public relations/self-advertising. Twitter (or anything that replaces it but functions more or less the same way) isn...
[23:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Just changed "when" not "if" the market reacted - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─The market reacted to the tweet pretty much the same way it would have reacted to the news if it came out after the closing bell, perhaps with a little more enthusiasm than it would have in the opening hours of the following day, but the "disappointing results" would have been punished. I didn't re...
[23:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:46] <exec> 08└─Another hypocrite? How many would have be "saved" by an evidence based approach that did not rely on accepting complete bollocks? And speaking of selection bias, how about your wonderful self selection bias?
[23:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 1308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:15] <exec> 08└─That's funny, because the original language Exodus was written in was Hebrew. That looks a lot like English to me. Bur seriously, there is no consensus on the exact definition of the original Hebrew word in question here ("ratsach"). Given that we're trying to translate a 3.6 millennia old dialect o...
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:18] <exec> 08└─There are literally hundreds of translations of the Bible. Picking and choosing between them, you could make out that God decreed "kids shall not go to bed when their parents tell them to if they're still playing Grand Theft Auto."
[23:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 2325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:19] <exec> 08└─Okay, bear with me on this, it seems you need a little schooling yourself. Firstly, you made a rookie mistake - relying on a single translation of the Bible and building a case around the specific nuances of language from it. Note my use of multiple sources of Qu'ran translation? Here's why - in 37...
[23:19:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02I must admit ... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:30] <exec> 08└─I wish there was some way we could get rehash/slashcode audited by the OpenBSD team. I'm pretty sure heads would explode :) (though the internals are much better than they used to be)
[23:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:47] <exec> 08└─Think of all the nice Chinese triads that will sweep the country.. :P
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