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[00:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02What is the problem? - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─What is the problem? Just have a field for which protocol that is used? If it's some retarded system design.. well suffer!
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02So many other holes... - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:12] <exec> 08└─If you're running XP pre-SP3 or Android pre-2.3, SHA-1 collision attacks are probably the least of your security problems
[00:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Throw out the old - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:14] <exec> 08└─Just updating to SHA-2 is not as simple as it might seem, because of compatibility issues with Android and Windows XP. More specifically, Android before 2.3 and XP before SP3 are incompatible with the change
[00:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Throw out the old - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:16] <exec> 08└─Some people need things to just work. What is needed is some option to continue less secure stuff under informed consent.
[00:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:32] <exec> 08└─If we're going to hate on Microsoft, let's do it for relevant reasons.
[00:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:33] <exec> 08└─Well, I installed it, but as editors go, its pretty lame and limited. Untruths found in TFS Above: Its not free. Truth: It is free - as in beer. Its a lock in. Truth: there is no lock in. Its a stand alone editor, not a particularly intuitive one, not better than anything that comes free on Linux. S...
[00:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's make a list. - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:39] <exec> 08└─On top of that it asks you what shortcut keys you want when you first install it. I prefer the vc6 shortcuts :)
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's make a list. - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:40] <exec> 08└─Someone ought to make a list of all the IDEs that have launched and been abandoned some time
[00:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:53] <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".
[00:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Topics - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, because I am so interested about that article about a new transistor that operates 10 picoseconds faster than the formerly fastest operating transistor, or that Linux 4.20.666.123456789.2 was released and includes a bug fix in nano and a new theme that doesn't invoke third-world filth. What wou...
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Topics - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─Well I must concede the first point. What would help are more subject matter experts. Ones who actually share information... This article is about a climate change denial group lobbying His freaking Holiness the Pope! If people listened to the experts we wouldn't be in this mess. It i...
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:42] <exec> 08└─The Unpatriotic Act cannot override the highest law of the land. Since what the NSA is doing is completely unconstitutional (regardless of what authoritarian courts might rule), it doesn't matter what the Unpatriotic Act says.
[00:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Shutting Down Cell Towers - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:18] <exec> 08└─I think you're right, so I'll pose another question: If this government does not work for the vast majority of the people in the country, why not scrap it and build something better?
[00:15:18] <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 - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:19] <exec> 08└─Guess who hold the controls? the media, school curriculum, power of organized violence, business opportunities, thug law etc. Why would they ever remove themselves? ;) and how do you wake up individualized people to a common goal in an environment that makes stress, poverty, drone choirs etc a commo...
[00:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02It's secret to prevent you from realizing truth - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:20] <exec> 08└─The golden rule of secrets. They are secret because otherwise another party may take action against the party with the secret. And the only factor usually preventing this is the secrecy. So whenever something is secret it's detrimental to someone elses wishes and you have to assume the worst. In thi...
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[01:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Soylent Uses SHA-1 - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─Soylent's certificate uses SHA-1. [ssllabs.com] I could swear that it was different in the early days last year.
[01:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score:3, Informative) 02Not much of a problem for Android - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:19] <exec> 08└─According to Google [android.com], only 0.4% of Android devices are still on 2.2.
[01:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02gewg's link was anti-MS? Shocking! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:45] <exec> 08└─"gewg_" writes however, with an entirely opposite take
[01:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoodBuddy [4293] (Score:1) 02Re:'warming since the end of the last ice age' - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:08] <exec> 08└─It would not be uninhabitable, but catastrophic weather phenomenons (like tornadoes, drought and earthquakes) will happen more and more often.
[01:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate Change Related - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:27] <exec> 08└─CLIMATE CHANGE COULD WIPE OUT ONE SIXTH OF EARTH'S SPECIES:
[01:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rebellion - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:17] <exec> 08└─You are an unfeeling bastard who cares nothing about the suffering that would be caused by such a union. You are of the devil.
[01:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:50] <exec> 08└─LOL @ condescension. I'm not the one who cited a faulty translation of the 6th commandment. The rest of your post is not bad advice at all. See, I grew up hearing "thou shalt not kill". Virtually all Christians do grow up with that commandment. And, as with anything, that near "consensus" doesn't ma...
[01:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies! Conspiracy! - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:23] <exec> 08└─You're on the right track. This is the explanation. http://www.landoverbaptist.net [landoverbaptist.net]
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[02:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ObamaCare Drones - 063D Printed Graphene Aerogel to Improve Sensors and Batteries - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:13] <exec> 08└─Will hover around you all day and all night, their sensors recording your vital signs and enforcing compliance with your doctor's orders. Don't like ObamaCare Drones? Obama won, citizen. You voted for Obama, didn't you? Don't even think about smashing ObamaCare drones; replacement costs will be adde...
[02:13:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mtrycz [60] 02Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:41] <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...
[02:13:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:45] <exec> 08└─Well, I installed it, but as editors go, its pretty lame and limited. Untruths found in TFS Above: Its not free. Truth: It is free - as in beer. Its a lock in. Truth: there is no lock in. Its a stand alone editor, not a particularly intuitive one, not better than anything that comes free on Linux. S...
[02:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:gewg's link was anti-MS? Shocking! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:53] <exec> 08└─Uh oh, now you've done it. Every time someone says something that's not 100% negative about Microsoft in a Microsoft article on this site, they are drowned in neckbeard spittle and deafened by the furious typing of script kiddies who weren't even born when Windows XP came out. You may as well have w...
[02:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 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 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:27] <exec> 08└─Which third world country are you talking about?
[02:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting and effective, but not original - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I'm missing something, but looking at the photos I suspect that these flexible "flaps" are in fact replacing not only the traditional flaps, but also the ailerons which ARE in use constantly for steering and whose rigid seams will cause some unavoidable measure of efficiency-robbing turbulen...
[02:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzword-laden marketing speak - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:53] <exec> 08└─Oh my, don't get me started on those overly loud recirc fans :) Fortunately, more modern airliners have mostly eliminated a large part of it. Recently I flew in a A380 and I gotta say, it *is* noticeably quieter than the 747-400 I flew in on the outbound leg.
[02:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:I must admit ... - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:12] <exec> 08└─Hah. Looking forward to soylent rampage
[02:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Once I downloaded the glibc source code - 06OpenBSD Rewrites the File Utility - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:15] <exec> 08└─With the idea of trying to self-educate, and possibly even offer some enhancements in the area of localization. Two things I noticed: 1. The coding style is terrible, seemingly designed to be so opaque that only 3 or 4 people will bother investing the many months of effort to understand a simple uti...
[02:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's the upside? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:50] <exec> 08└─One upside is knowing how to avoid a lot of desperate shallow people.
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[03:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:What is the problem? - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:18] <exec> 08└─The problem boils down to the SHA-1 hash was supposed be a number ( SHA-1 produces a 160-bit (20-byte) hash value. A SHA-1 hash value is typically rendered as a hexadecimal number, 40 digits long ) that was calculated from the body of the object it was supposed to verify the integrity of. Anyone sub...
[03:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Now that Harry Reid is retiring - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe we could bury these troublesome things in Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Or blast them into outer space. Wait, what?
[03:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:gewg's link was anti-MS? Shocking! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:52] <exec> 08└─I don't really care much for MS and this editor doesn't interest me, but it's cool that they're trying. It seems more like testing new waters than "embrace extend extinguish", trying different things to attract devs and mobile interest (like the android/iOS recompile thing).
[03:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate Change Related - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:35] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind all plasmodia to go extinct;
[03:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Re:Betteridge has an answer for your headline - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:48] <exec> 08└─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.
[03:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Link Corrected - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:59] <exec> 08└─Note that the first link in TFS, was not put in by me, and it actually references the WRONG legislation, from prior years.
[03:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:1) 02Re:Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:00] <exec> 08└─While I hope you are right, I am lacking faith. My opinion is 215 is unconstitutional, which means only a constitutional amendment would actually make it legal. That certainly didn't stop them from a creative interpretation, hard drives aren't papers and smartphones aren't effects, and then just doi...
[03:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score:1) 02"If that's your kind of thing"? - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:59] <exec> 08└─The aerodynamic gains lead to less cost and is better for the environment (if that's your kind of thing).
[03:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:37] <exec> 08└─> If I had a way to block Hugh Pickens, His name is AT THE TOP OF EVERY FUCKING ARTICLE! Just fucking ignore them! HOW FUCKING HARD IS THAT?
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[04:13:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02So many other holes... - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:28] <exec> 08└─If you're running XP pre-SP3 or Android pre-2.3, SHA-1 collision attacks are probably the least of your security problems
[04:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:"If that's your kind of thing"? - 06NASA Tests Flexible Airplane Wing Design - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:11] <exec> 08└─Some people [dailymail.co.uk] have based their entire careers on being overtly hostile to the environment.
[04:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Vision Zero - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:40] <exec> 08└─Often the highways have features from 1950s-1970s designs that are inefficient, and those bottlenecks can also be fixed for less than the ideas you suggest. We could also expand our public transit so highways connect to subway lines, but rarely do. Even the garages that do fill up before 7AM. So cle...
[04:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Where I went horribly wrong in life - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:18] <exec> 08└─Haha, or just don't ever :D I'm sure someone could make money from the stock if they worked hard, knew what they were doing, treated it as a form of commodity speculation, and then had a bit of luck as well, but I'm not that person XD
[04:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:48] <exec> 08└─> How many would have be "saved" by an evidence based approach that did not rely on accepting complete bollocks? What are you going on about? Catholic hospitals are some of the best hospitals out there. They are one of the few remaining non-profit groups of hospitals. Are you so blinded by your anti...
[04:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:19:19] <exec> 08└─You write like you have shallow knowledge that was just acquired via google in the minutes before your post. > It should be noted that, while the ambiguous meaning of the proscription against killing in The Torah and The Bible is due to translational difficulties. Uh no its not. Look, when it was wr...
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[05:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Cure for Homo Nosferatu Vampiris. - 06Scientists are Figuring Out How to Change Blood Types - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:17] <exec> 08└─Now I can live a normal life with my one true love! #teamedward
[05:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:gewg's link was anti-MS? Shocking! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:07] <exec> 08└─I don't really care much for MS and this editor doesn't interest me, but it's cool that they're trying.
[05:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Climate Change Related - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:52] <exec> 08└─Dumbass clickbait news. Species is a hazy notion to begin with, and we don't even know how many "species" exist today.
[05:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Galileo - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's listen to the Catholic Church about science. Galileo must be turning in his grave.
[05:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:54] <exec> 08└─How many people have had their lives saved by religion?
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[06:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Confused ... - 06New Pluto Images Hint at Polar Ice Caps - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:11] <exec> 08└─Would you still call it a polar ice cap if the whole planet is ice ?
[06:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll stick with LLVM - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:52] <exec> 08└─I tried it, and it is lacking for my work flow. I tried to edit some TypeScript files, and sure, it has autocompletion and a decent syntax check for that, and it can jump to a symbols definition, but that's all. The editor lacks other kinds of navigation tools, from finding the corresponding bracket...
[06:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:01] <exec> 08└─That's disappointing. I have no love for MS, but I saw this and had hoped it would be something noteworthy. As a confession, I've made things in C# before and kind of liked it. I mean, now, I use almost exclusively python and java, but it's just an editor? Not a compiler too? It looks like it depend...
[06:14:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Re:gewg's link was anti-MS? Shocking! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:11] <exec> 08└─I don't really care much for MS and this editor doesn't interest me, but it's cool that they're trying. It seems more like testing new waters than "embrace extend extinguish", trying different things to attract devs and mobile interest (like the android/iOS recompile thing).
[06:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 1764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:24] <exec> 08└─Well, some of these apply: http://theboeskool.com [theboeskool.com] See particularly the one where he f'ed up the cardinal who spent stupid amounts of money on frivolous things. http://www.usatoday.com
[06:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:33] <exec> 08└─PS: Dear poster who thinks they're going to be "clever" by pretending the scientific truth being denied by a PR war is the lack of warming, please don't. It's not clever. PPS: Also you're wrong, and bad at skepticism.
[06:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just afraid of a fair fight - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:01] <exec> 08└─The deniers have no problem fighting actual science with a gut feeling. But they're rightly scared of going up against a real professional at this whole ignoring the reality game.
[06:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (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 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:49] <exec> 08└─Compare that to reconnecting the wires from the vibration motor of a cell phone to a detonator, which is something you can do with almost no training and in the space of an hour.
[06:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rebellion - 06Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:00] <exec> 08└─Deuteronomy 22 28-29, hebrew. Does the God of Deuteronomy reside in Hell?
[06:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:He is not wrong - 06L.A. Councilman Blames Navigation App for Road Usage in Neighborhoods - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:45] <exec> 08└─That depends on their design. Some are awkward at any speed. Also, shock absorbers don't come cheap.
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[07:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:11] <exec> 08└─A publicly listed company is rejecting rackspace in its store (virtual as it may be) for a product that also mentions a competitor...
[07:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:12] <exec> 08└─Disruption of communications can only mean one thing: invasion or monopoly. Wait, that is two things. OK, disruption of communications by Apple can only mean one of two things: either Steve Jobs is dead, or the entire company is going down hard. Hint for the Boolean impared: it is an inclusive "or"...
[07:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:13] <exec> 08└─If Microsoft were to do this everyone would get butthurt though :)
[07:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's make a list. - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:19] <exec> 08└─What, No love for Code::Blocks [codeblocks.org]? (I'd say the 3rd good IDE) I do like QtCreator, but it's not so good over remote X sessions, which is where C::B wins out...
[07:14:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02gewg's link was anti-MS? Shocking! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:20] <exec> 08└─"gewg_" writes however, with an entirely opposite take
[07:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Galileo - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 2188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:13] <exec> 08└─You know, this keeps getting thrown up. Galileo this, Galileo that, and not expecting the Roman Inquisition. But you know, John Paul II basically admitted the Church was wrong in the whole thing, and tried to remove Galileo's conviction. Now I have been around, not since Hector was a pup, because th...
[07:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost WHO 8 Billion? - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:35] <exec> 08└─Three. There are three prices for any stock. The third is set by the originating corporation and it is the par value. That is, the value the company which the shares represent a part of have set on shares and record in their books. This is an accounting and law issue that most people not interested...
[07:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just changed "when" not "if" the market reacted - 06One Tweet Cost Twitter $8 Billion - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:56] <exec> 08└─You are saying that the article is wrong when you did not read the article and are not only sure of your correctness, you decided to write a post about it and point out that you are in fact sure of both your correctness but also a future that is based on you being correct about something you did not...
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[08:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:14] <exec> 08└─either Steve Jobs is dead, or the entire company is going down hard. Hint for the Boolean impared: it is an inclusive "or".
[08:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score:1) 02I don't understand the problem... - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:16] <exec> 08└─...iWC don't permit you to run any app other than the original, factory installed, non-updateble time telling one on their products. And they are much more expensive to boot.(http://www.iwc.com/en/ [iwc.com])
[08:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Welcome to the future! - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:18] <exec> 08└─What a wonderful world of walled gardens!
[08:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Throw out the old - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:53] <exec> 08└─That's a *GREAT* idea... It's right there on par with "Let's have everyone vote... everyone's informed right? People will make the bet choice and we'll never be ruled by idiots! What could go wrong?"
[08:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Office for Linux, still waiting...... - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:19] <exec> 08└─Hmm... If the systemd people get tired of Linus Torvalds not playing along with their vision of the future and simply replace his kernel in RedHat/Fedora with a systemd-integrated one (with other distros continuing to follow along), will the dream then be the Year Of The Systemd Laptop?
[08:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:19:47] <exec> 08└─But it would be foolish to deny that creationism is based on literal interpretation of the Christian Bible.
[08:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:19:49] <exec> 08└─Someone dropped this link on me a few days ago. Why don't you check it out?
[08:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:04] <exec> 08└─> You write like you have shallow knowledge that was just acquired via google in the minutes before your post. And that would have made it less relevant or accurate... how? More importantly, a quick Google search with an open mind found enough information to cast doubt on a widely adopted interpreta...
[08:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Obvious - 06On Matters of ISIS - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:10] <exec> 08└─Haha, you're the one who wanted to split hairs about a single word when it was the optional addendum that was in contention, but hey ;) And yeah, the intellectual state of the Christian church in the west is hideously depressing. Almost no-one in the popular establishment can even treat their own re...
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[09:13:13] <exec> 08└─you-lucky-bastard dept.
[09:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:25] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that part where they sold their customers cars which cannot be driven into any competing stores. Apple has created a monopoly and is now abusing it, your analogy misrepresents the situation in significant ways.
[09:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02srsly - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:29] <exec> 08└─who gives a fuck except appletards, and they're too brainwashed to notice anyway?
[09:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused ... - 06New Pluto Images Hint at Polar Ice Caps - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:38] <exec> 08└─Density.
[09:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused ... - 06New Pluto Images Hint at Polar Ice Caps - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:39] <exec> 08└─How can they differentiate Pluto's polar ice cap from the rest of the planet
[09:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03korger [4465] (Score:1) 02Why does Windows XP still matter? - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:09] <exec> 08└─The main purpose of the message digest is not the infeasibility of recovering the original information--that is trivial to accomplish with any function that maps arbitrary length input to a small, fixed length of output. The three main objectives are 1) making it practically infeasible to modify the...
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[10:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:02] <exec> 08└─There is no monopoly as there are other smartphones and smartwatches available. And, at least as far as phones are concerned, Apple don't even have the market leading platform, let alone monopoly status. What you mean is that Apple control certain add-ons for their products. This is not a monopoly,...
[10:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Informative) 02fuck apple - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:07] <exec> 08└─fuck time
[10:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Welcome to iLand - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:09] <exec> 08└─Thank you for choosing Apple Inc. WalledGarden8. Please leave any bags and unauthorized possessions at the reception and be sure you have your credit card and identifying documents with you. Proceed toward the security checkpoint and then the App Store proper. Please do not step off the marked path....
[10:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:What is the problem? - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:43] <exec> 08└─That's not the problem. In many cases, that version field is already there in some form or another. The problem is that the older releases can't do anything with a SHA2 hash. They don't support SHA2. Newer releases can deal with SHA-1 and SHA-2 by looking at the version field to decide which to use....
[10:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Throw out the old - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:48] <exec> 08└─DNSSEC will be stuck for quite a while because it's an overly complex abomination to maintain. It made sense in 1995 (or at least it was the only practical way to do it) but in an era where a cellphone has more than enough CPU power to be a DNS server, it really doesn't make sense to jump through al...
[10:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Why does Windows XP still matter? - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:54] <exec> 08└─The issue right now is that SHA-1 is far from dead even though the writing is on the wall. We now know how to reduce the complexity involved in forcing a collision so that it is less difficult than brute force, but producing a USEFUL collision remains infeasible so far. Take the sentence "The silly...
[10:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:13] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, I love "trusting trust". The insight it gave me the first time I read it was what hooked me up to security problems. Anyway it looks like it's an editor, not an IDE, and it comes without a compiler. So unless it can scramble your sources in some stealthy indetectable ways (it can't), it sho...
[10:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:1) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:17] <exec> 08└─So the message here is "here, have this half-assed editor and see how much open we are?". Thanks for the insights. I was about to give it a try, but I have more important things to do now.
[10:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:gewg's link was anti-MS? Shocking! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:28] <exec> 08└─I seem to have tempted fate and lived to tell the tale. It must be my wit and charm that saved me. :p
[10:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Privacy concerns - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:31] <exec> 08└─I had a look at their privacy policy [visualstudio.com], and decided to steer clear of this program.
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[12:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:06] <exec> 08└─There is no monopoly as there are other smartphones and smartwatches available. And, at least as far as phones are concerned, Apple don't even have the market leading platform, let alone monopoly status.
[12:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:1) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:07] <exec> 08└─See: Razors and blades, printers and inks/toners,
[12:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to iLand - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:14] <exec> 08└─1984 [youtube.com]
[12:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:18] <exec> 08└─It isn't a compiler.
[12:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty much any editor is at least as good or better. I uninstalled it.
[12:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Second TFA light on details - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:25] <exec> 08└─But isn't this exactly what the world needs - another editor?
[12:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HyperQuantum [2673] (Score:1) 02Re:Let's make a list. - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:34] <exec> 08└─I recently switched from Code::Blocks to Qt Creator. And the latter is giving me a much better experience. There was one really annoying bug that made Code::Blocks difficult to use for me: it was always freezing every couple of seconds everytime I typed in some source files. First it were only the f...
[12:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:55] <exec> 08└─The Pope's power over Catholics has lots of reality based limitations. If Francis tried all that-- ordination of women and all the other things you listed, he'd likely be facing a revolt. He has done well just to refocus the church on charity and against greed. No one can argue against that. Benedic...
[12:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Narrow-minded thinking... - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:14] <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.
[12:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Why have a bill ... - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:03] <exec> 08└─Although it's better than most other country's constitutions, the US constitution still has some weasel words in it. Like "unreasonable" search and seizure. Or what exactly is "freedom of speech"? Etc. I would prefer that the language be changed to be objective, but few people have the language and...
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[13:09:09] <exec> 08└─There is no monopoly as there are other smartphones and smartwatches available. And, at least as far as phones are concerned, Apple don't even have the market leading platform, let alone monopoly status.
[13:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:11] <exec> 08└─What does it's listing status have to do with it?
[13:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the future! - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:16] <exec> 08└─You call it walled garden I call it prison.
[13:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:srsly - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah you have a point - especially the ones dumb enough to shell out money for an "apple watch".
[13:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to iLand - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:22] <exec> 08└─Especially ironic from hindsight is the Big Brother speech in the spot: Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests pu...
[13:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welcome to iLand - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:24] <exec> 08└─You forgot the mandatory cavity search, not that typical Apple users would object to that.
[13:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02really big cap - 06New Pluto Images Hint at Polar Ice Caps - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:34] <exec> 08└─maybe it's a polar ice cap that extends all the way to the equator?
[13:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Volunteer? - 06Scientists are Figuring Out How to Change Blood Types - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:42] <exec> 08└─I'm in the O neagtive, CMV nagative blood group. In New Zealand with this blood group it isn't so much volunteering, it's feeling like you're killing babies (that's exactly where my blood goes) if I don't give on the day that I'm next available to do so. They need it, and they're not allowed to pay...
[13:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll stick with LLVM - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:22] <exec> 08└─Agreed. On a Mac here. I downloaded and gave it a fair shot. Within seconds I already recognized it didn't have what all I needed. No code block collapsing. No jump-to-matching brace. No regex find or find/replace. I feel like this wouldn't be very useful for any professional-level, or even advanced...
[13:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll stick with LLVM - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:23] <exec> 08└─Regexp it does have. You have to click on the icon .* next to the search pattern. Find-replace is accessible by clicking on the triangle to the left of the search pattern. Really flat, modern design. Sarcasm aside, it's not hard to get used to, and it takes less space than the bulky dialogs of yeste...
[13:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:DON'T F*CK WITH THE POPE - He's Got Hella Posse - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:11] <exec> 08└─Too late. The credits are rolling.
[13:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Narrow-minded thinking... - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:29] <exec> 08└─....such as considerable curtailment of [...] energy production also inordinately harm the poor.
[13:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just afraid of a fair fight - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and the believers have no problem putting their faith in complex and unproven computer models. It's the new 21st religion, and pope is trying to get ahead of the curve.
[13:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:45] <exec> 08└─My prime example is the "rapture", an idea that at the end of the world, the faithful would rise up into the air and meet, you know, the Jesus dude. But this has no basis in actually Christianity, and is in fact the creation of https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org]...
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[13:17:43] <exec> 08└─No user is going to use file to actually do any thing at the command line
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[14:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:55] <exec> 08└─Now we can finally all stop vaccinating children against Rubella, right?
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:56] <exec> 08└─Quite possibly, but there are still potential infection vectors from other continents, and it'll be up to public healthy experts to determine the effective transmission risk. One of the things about disease eradication is that it's important to KEEP it eradicated while you eradicate it elsewhere. If...
[14:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:58] <exec> 08└─Only if you never plan on leaving the country or letting anyone else in.
[14:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:00] <exec> 08└─... and nobody getting in who's not supposed to.
[14:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─Actually that might be an agenda of certain groups... which also seem to coincide with anti-vax groups too...
[14:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And in 20yrs... - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─A group of kids at Disneyland will come down with it, because its been wiped out so who needs MMR shots?
[14:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bask in our glorious light of disease doom - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─The magnitude of this really can't be understated. We have the possibility of globally removing diseases. We're past the point of return in realizing we can make drastic and real changes in our world. Soon we'll try to affect climate and weather. Then come the dinosaurs.
[14:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:Bask in our glorious light of disease doom - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:06] <exec> 08└─Soon we'll try to affect climate and weather. Then come the dinosaurs.
[14:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02extinct? - 06Unique Fish Fossils Shed Light on Evolution of Bony Fishes - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:18] <exec> 08└─"Our studies have now shown that they are members of a previously unknown genus that is now extinct,". So a fish that is not extinct is a member of an extinct genus? That is either a paradox or contradiction.
[14:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Killifish - 06Unique Fish Fossils Shed Light on Evolution of Bony Fishes - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─With a name like that, it had better be pretty badass.
[14:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:31] <exec> 08└─As a famous Marxist once said: either he's dead, or my watch has stopped.
[14:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 1513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:33] <exec> 08└─And for good reason. I'm not defending Apple's actions here. In fact, it's stuff like this which makes me dislike the company (just like I dislike MS) and tell everyone who asks not to buy their products. If they weren't such control freaks this way, maybe I'd buy an iPhone, but because of the way t...
[14:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─What I mean is that Apple makes choices which negatively affect their customers for Apple's own benefit. Twist and turn it as you will, nobody but Apple themselves benefits from this particular decision. This is absolutely true. However, the other guy has a good point: Apple doesn't even have the ma...
[14:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Welcome to the future! - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:44] <exec> 08└─Either way, you have to jailbreak to get out of it.
[14:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02I'd be excited if... - 06New Pluto Images Hint at Polar Ice Caps - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:01] <exec> 08└─..if it was a Planet.. I mean it's just a stinking dwarf planet.. so, who cares? I need my PLANETS with icecaps.. THAT's what I'll care about!! geesh... Come on NASA!
[14:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Scientists are Figuring Out How to Change Blood Types - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:10] <exec> 08└─As another person with O- blood, here in the US it is much the same. I get badgered all the time to donate, and since I have given blood through various organizations over the years I get called by all of them all the time. And yes I do give regularly as I am unfortunate enough to have hemachromatos...
[14:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Scientists are Figuring Out How to Change Blood Types - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:12] <exec> 08└─It sounds like the ones killing babies are the ones disallowing payment. If blood givers were paid market rates for rare types, the monetary incentive would ensure adequate supply. Everyone else in the blood chain is getting paid, why not the source?
[14:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:gewg's link was anti-MS? Shocking! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:20] <exec> 08└─This is Soylent, not the green site. Commenters here are actually reasonable and often insightful.
[14:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Thank you, janrinok! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:24] <exec> 08└─I recall the "other" site often posting a blatant spin on an article or event -- and then duplicating the same spin later, even! It was refreshing to see two viewpoints come together in one article, ameliorating both problems.
[14:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:50] <exec> 08└─They are wrong. And they are bad at skepticism if they call themselves a skeptic with this shit. Scientific evidence is the kind that is plentiful here. Real skeptics are sick of their shit. Whatever you've got going on in your head where you think the poor idiots ignoring hundreds of well sourced,...
[14:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Narrow-minded thinking... - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:04] <exec> 08└─I'd like to add that religion (Christianity, Roman Catholic Church) had historically had a very friendly relationship with science, that has be misrepresented by various groups. Take, for instance, heliocentrism. The church was interested in and supported heliocentrism from very early on. The reason...
[14:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02news flash - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:31] <exec> 08└─There are also groups concerned that killing of cellphone service during an emergency could make things worse.
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[15:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"four qubits in a two-by-two array" - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:50] <exec> 08└─Is that what's new here?
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lrmo [838] (Score:1) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─We certainly do still get polio vaccinations in the US. Here is a link from the CDC [cdc.gov] on recommended childhood vaccinations. It is good that polio is almost eliminated worldwide. But until that happens we still give the immunize our population against it.
[15:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Bask in our glorious light of disease doom - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:07] <exec> 08└─we're already working on de-extincting wooly mammoths [vice.com], laying the groundwork for future Jurassic Parks. one of the real problems is getting dinosaur dna, however we have found dinosaur soft tissue [livescience.com] within fossilized bones so its possible, its just a matter of finding it.
[15:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 021st Post! - 06Compact Synchrotron Makes Tumors Visible - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:15] <exec> 08└─That is all.. j/k.. I think this is really cool, and will have a much larger impact in diagnosing tumors and some other issues than it might first sound. So, I look forward to these getting out there and improving the health care industry..
[15:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Killifish - 06Unique Fish Fossils Shed Light on Evolution of Bony Fishes - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:26] <exec> 08└─Sorry they are fairly small. But they have quite a following among aquarium enthusiasts.
[15:24:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Welcome to iLand - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 1280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─Especially ironic from hindsight is the Big Brother speech in the spot: Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests pu...
[15:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Confused - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:47] <exec> 08└─Is it impossible for a CA to sign a cert in more than one way? If so, can this be changed so that a site can have a cert signed with SHA-1, SHA-2 and SHA-3 (did that one get finalized yet?) and the browser can simply verify the most secure one it can handle. If none of the signatures are considered...
[15:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pockyclipse? - 06On Matters of ISIS - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:40] <exec> 08└─> Nice of religion to fund it, but it's kind of a crapshoot whether it does or not. No religion of any significant size lasts unless it provides significant social benefit. Even those little cults provide value to their members. They burn out becuase the downsides exceed the upsides. But anything th...
[15:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:00] <exec> 08└─"Muslim" and "semite" are not synonymous. How would you like to read a free Kindle book? Head over to Amazon, and look for 'The Caliphate' by Tom Kratman. It is a work of fiction, but it's not just a story.
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[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02there's no shortcut! - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:54] <exec> 08└─It is more like massively parallel. You can try all the combinations to the lock instantly... If anyone suggests they've found a shortcut in math they are usually full of shit.
[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:there's no shortcut! - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 2054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing [wikipedia.org] Large-scale quantum computers will be able to solve certain problems much more quickly than any classical computers that use even the best currently known algorithms, like integer factorization using Shor's algorithm or the simulation...
[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─Point withdrawn in the face of evidence.
[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─We'd better. I hear the rubella vaccine causes Paul Bunyan's Disease.
[16:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Eh? - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─there have been no new transmissions of the rubella virus
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Super-power galore! - 06Compact Synchrotron Makes Tumors Visible - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:28] <exec> 08└─Except for the word "coherent", this seems to describe a car-size X-Ray Laser... Drool...
[16:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:49] <exec> 08└─it is an inclusive "or"
[16:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:50] <exec> 08└─Nor should you have used "one of two things". Maybe you mean exclusive or? Truthfully, I don't understand what you're trying to say.
[16:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:54] <exec> 08└─I never see Samsung doing stuff like this. Then again, Samsung doesn't own the Android app store; Google runs the most popular one. This is why it's bad to have a single company with too much control over anything.
[16:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:59] <exec> 08└─The point is that they have a monopoly on the Apple device software market
[16:25:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nollij [4559] 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─See: Razors and blades, printers and inks/toners,
[16:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:02] <exec> 08└─You didn't read that link did you. They did no such thing. It says 1) That circumventing Lexmark's mechanism from typing printer and ink together isn't a violation of DMCA. Well no one is saying Jailbreaking is either. 2) That Lexmark's particular advertising, for which there is no Apple parallel, w...
[16:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:04] <exec> 08└─A publicly listed company is rejecting rackspace in its store...
[16:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:06] <exec> 08└─This. And I'm a Mac support monkey by day. I own several Mac computers and I love them. I bought an iPad Mini and recently gave it to my girlfriend so I could buy an ultra-budget Android tablet instead, Tesco's Hudl 2. I spent most of my time with the iPad trying to work out how to get it to play ni...
[16:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02WHOOSH - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:07] <exec> 08└─Follow the link, IWC makes mechanical watches; there is no reasonable expectation of customizable display when the display is carved out of metal and enclosed in an airtight, waterproof, sapphire-capped box. Also, I doubt anything beyond good taste would prevent a customer from installing a "Hello K...
[16:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re: iWC - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:09] <exec> 08└─Until I followed your link I thought you were talking about a fancy, new, Apple-branded toilet. Alternate trademark of iLoo, perhaps? Of course, there's probably a market for that kind of think in Japan...
[16:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the future! - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─One could argue that you are not sent into the garden by someone else as a punishment... mmm. scratch that.
[16:25:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Welcome to iLand - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:17] <exec> 08└─1984 [youtube.com]
[16:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:What is the problem? - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:57] <exec> 08└─So someone can fake the hash value. That won't prevent properly designed metadata from accommodating a SHA-2 value. That older systems lack SHA-2 capability is something the administrator of those systems have to decide if they prefer security or keep running.
[16:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score:1) 02Re:Throw out the old - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:04] <exec> 08└─DNSSEC will be stuck for quite a while because it's an overly complex abomination to maintain. It made sense in 1995 (or at least it was the only practical way to do it) but in an era where a cellphone has more than enough CPU power to be a DNS server, it really doesn't make sense to jump through al...
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[17:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02A little disappointing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─I was somehow hoping for a breakthrough in $/kWh, and this isn't it. From the website: Models 10 kWh $3,500 For backup applications 7 kWh $3,000 For daily cycle applications In comparison, the typical lead-acid batteries on the market at the same price point deliver twice the storage. [wholesalesola...
[17:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:A little disappointing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:52] <exec> 08└─Until capacity increases dramatically and price comes down, going off-grid won't be an option for me and my family. Clothes washing alone would put me over-budget for energy with this battery system, according to the numbers on Tesla's website.
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:A little disappointing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the usable capacity of the lead-acid unit is only about half the nameplate. Lead-acid really doesn't like deep discharge. So you're looking at about the same price per kilowatt-hour and then throw in the fact that Tesla's product is maintenance-free, smaller, lighter, and comes with a 10 ye...
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Solarcity, or standalone? - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:55] <exec> 08└─If I want my own solar panels, not the solarcity shackles. Can I get one of these before 2021? We average 300W, so that could easily put me off the grid (we're optimum on the thermonuclear dryer now, though we do need more rain).
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Just like off hours usage.... - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:57] <exec> 08└─You must use the solar when the sun is out. Don't use the battery to store the power for later as much to supplement the surges when your Laundry machines kick in. What charge is left at night would be fine for some LED lighting, small TVs, Laptops. Keep your big EM Suckers offline when the sun is d...
[17:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"four qubits in a two-by-two array" - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:05] <exec> 08└─First off, it's spelled cubits. And secondly, they're not new, they've been around since ancient Egypt.
[17:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:there's no shortcut! - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:09] <exec> 08└─Thanks. One thing I can't decipher is "polynomial speedup". Does this mean that O(2^n) becomes something like O(n^x) for some x, or does that mean that O(n^x) becomes O(n^(x-c)), hence possibly O(n^2) -> O(n). Or something else entirely?
[17:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:there's no shortcut! - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:10] <exec> 08└─I think it's like this: https://jsfiddle.net [jsfiddle.net] Exponentials will outpace any polynomials eventually.
[17:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:there's no shortcut! - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:12] <exec> 08└─More readable: https://jsfiddle.net [jsfiddle.net]
[17:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─And filthy nasty criminals with anal herpes are pouring in from South America by the thousands. Good luck with that, Amwhorica.
[17:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bask in our glorious light of disease doom - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─You don't need to understand chaos to change the weather enough to be able to direct it, you just have to be able to create the conditions we know weather needs to exist which will cause said weather to form. I mean I'm not talking perfect weather all the time, but rudimentary weather changes, sure...
[17:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02X-Ray Dye - 06Compact Synchrotron Makes Tumors Visible - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:43] <exec> 08└─You can visualize soft tissue if it is more absorptive of an X-ray dye than surrounding tissue. I had a brain CAT scan in 1985 as it was suspected I had a tumour (it turned out I was just crazy). They said "We're going to inject you with an iodine dye. It's going to make you sneeze; despite that we...
[17:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Synchrotron link - 06Compact Synchrotron Makes Tumors Visible - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:44] <exec> 08└─http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrotron [wikipedia.org] It'd be kind of the submitter to add a reference to what a Synchrotron is. I am not a physicist, but it's a kind of a particle accelerator in which the particles are meant to osscilate "toghether", or "in coherence", or "in sync". It's useful...
[17:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:extinct? - 06Unique Fish Fossils Shed Light on Evolution of Bony Fishes - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:54] <exec> 08└─I'm reading that a bit differently: "Our studies have now shown that [the fossils] are members of a previously unknown genus that is now extinct." Later in the sumary they explain that the extinct suborder is a subset of the killifish Suborder Aplocheiloidei. Our modern killifish descend from a diff...
[17:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:13] <exec> 08└─Kind of weird that snobs would accept Apple practicing control over their property in a walled garden way. And Apple or Google could become the unavoidables of the future.
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:18] <exec> 08└─Why does he care what happens with people that bought a different platform? Because it's like sports. He's chosen a team and he's criticise the other team no matter what. Win, lose or draw. Worse is he confuses being a fan with being morally superior. You on the other hand are just a snob.
[17:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:WHOOSH - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─Also, I doubt anything beyond good taste would prevent a customer from installing a "Hello Kitty" decal on the faceplate of their IWC timepiece to alter the readout.
[17:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Hold the press... - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:41] <exec> 08└─First, if you RTFA you'll see that Apple have already relented and withdrawn their rejection of the App in question. Second, it clearly hasn't occurred to anybody to do a quick plausibility check and search for "Pebble" in the App Store. I find over a dozen Pebble smartwatch-related Apps (including...
[17:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (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 - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:06] <exec> 08└─So, WalMart selling lists of recently-activated prepaid cell phones to telemarketers isn't a scummy, money-grubbing move; instead, it's a critical part of our anti-terrorism effort! All right, then, carry on. *Note: I have no evidence WalMart is doing so, they're just a convenient punching bag
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[18:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Far less bullshitty site than last time - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─I'm more inclined to trust this blog post than the last blog post, but I'll be waiting on the peer reviewed paper too. The whole mysterious universe site's background levels of bullshit put this story on my bullshit radar, and it's not going away for a while. This new website is an amateur community...
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Far less bullshitty site than last time - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:52] <exec> 08└─I mean, this white paper posted in 2014 on the official NASA site at least suggests that NASA doesn't automatically reject all this as quack science. http://ntrs.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[18:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:A little disappointing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:03] <exec> 08└─Also, lead-acid batteries are notorious for going tits-up after just a few years. A lead-acid battery that costs $5000 and needs to be replaced after five years is a lot more expensive than a lithium battery that costs $15,000 but's still going strong at 80% original capacity even after you've paid...
[18:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:A little disappointing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:04] <exec> 08└─I haven't looked too closely to what is included in the Powerwall, but I assume it at least includes a battery management system out of the box. And it is probably contractor plug and play. If you go hunting for lithium cells you can actually find much cheaper cells on the market (200USD/kWh for a b...
[18:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Meepy [2099] (Score:1) 02Re:Just like off hours usage.... - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we always turn our refrigerator off at night...
[18:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Just like off hours usage.... - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:09] <exec> 08└─750 Watts for 10min every few hours is not a EM Sucker. You can also not stand with the door of the fridge open staring into the abyss of Sugars and Fats. Besides your too fat. Eat more foods that are shelf stable and you'll be better off. I know; it's hard. I can't kick the Fridge Stare Zombie mode...
[18:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2, Redundant) 02Nope - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:11] <exec> 08└─For standby power this doesn't do it. That same 3500USD at your local big box store will get you a Gnerac 10KW natural gas or propane unit. And that is 10KW output and not 10KW/Hr delivered at 2KW max continious load for five hours, no that is 10KW for as long as the natural gas lines keep deliverin...
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:12] <exec> 08└─I admire your agricultural ability. It takes mad cherry-picking skills to pull down those oddball circumstances and make them look anything like the market Tesla is targeting.
[18:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:14] <exec> 08└─I live in hurricane country. That 3,500 figure just happens to be the same number that is in the flyers that appear in the mailbox every spring from the local big box builder for a whole house standby generator + auto cutover breaker panel. You can get it in natural gas, propane/lp or gasoline. Make...
[18:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─Them batteries ain't gonna reproduce by themselves. The billion dollar in tax incentives will come back quickly in taxes on the people and products the gigafactory will drive in/near. While I agree with your Baltimore comment, I'll take a Gigafactory in the US (not in my state) rather than Shenzhen....
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─The tax money only comes in if customers can be found. Who exactly do you see buying them? If people were really lined up to buy them then Wall Street or the Vulture Capitalists would have been more than happy to finance the whole thing, no need to bilk the taxpayers. Or hell, Mr. Musk would have be...
[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:4, Informative) 02Calling bullshit - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─Too bad it's basically illegal to live off the grid.
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling bullshit - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─Switch loads like the washing machine completely from the grid to solar power to eliminate the possibility for the utility company to charge for direct connection to the grid?
[18:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling bullshit - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:22] <exec> 08└─Spot on. I looked at the article and it became immediately apparent what the issue was. It specifically said there was no legal issue with her use of solar panels, she was just freeloading on the sewer system and the city eventually told her she had to pay her share for her usage. Her proposed solut...
[18:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:there's no shortcut! - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─The first one is more than polynomial speedup (e.g. seen for Shor's algorithm), the second one is polynomial speedup (e.g. seen for Grover search). In the case of Grover search, it's in particular O(n) -> O(n1/2).
[18:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score:1) 02Pff. - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:35] <exec> 08└─Unlike conventional binary bits, a qubit can enter a "superposition state" where it is effectively both 0 and 1 at the same time.
[18:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Pff. - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─Current memory technology seems to have the same capability.
[18:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:46] <exec> 08└─Hey dumbass, it's eradicated on both American continents, and Mexico and many South and Central American Countries have a higher immunization rate than the US thanks to the anti-vaxxers here. This post provided by the Facts for Bigots fund.
[18:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:50] <exec> 08└─Anti-vax groups are generally against immigrants or for?
[18:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:54] <exec> 08└─The question is what will be done with those that refuse vaccines? and immigrants with the disease or without vaccination? handling of people traveling?
[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02What's the electron-volt strength of this thing? - 06Compact Synchrotron Makes Tumors Visible - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─Anyone succeeded in downloading the article [pnas.org] and find out how many eV this thing produces? And what is the total output power? If Aaron Swartz had been around this PNAS article might perhaps been available..
[18:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Dial Up News - 06Unique Fish Fossils Shed Light on Evolution of Bony Fishes - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:25] <exec> 08└─I love stories about fossils, but I especially love looking at the fossils. The picture in the linked story is a semi-blurry 900x600 pixel image -- about half a megapixel. I mean come on -- that's barely better than a thumbnail. It isn't like we're all running 2400 baud modems anymore and have to wa...
[18:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:49] <exec> 08└─Please, if you are a child in body or of mind, keep off the adult's end of the internet pool mm'k?
[18:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:52] <exec> 08└─I say so, so yes, there is something to say.
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:WHOOSH - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:01] <exec> 08└─I don't see anything overtly sexist about their watches, and their portofino series advertizes as being "engineered for a slimmer wrist". They look blingy enough that a woman could want one. For your daughter, though, there is apparently enough [kittyhell.com] in the [kittyhell.com] Hello Kitty [kit...
[18:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Welcome to iLand - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:13] <exec> 08└─Apple users are faggots and women, both of whom like to have their spaces filled. Faggots chose that life. But women, and young girls, they were born into it. It is what they are. In afghanistan men still follow old testament ways, and the fuck little girls, filling their spaces. Females have no hon...
[18:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02My favorite part of the license... - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:53] <exec> 08└─This is my favorite part of the license for Visual Studio Code: You may not work around any technical limitations in the software;
[18:29:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Re:Or don't. - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:08] <exec> 08└─That is only true if you believe the whole shebang would be allowed to die by Sunset on June 1.
[18:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Why have a bill ... - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:21] <exec> 08└─the fourth amendment is pretty clear The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly descri...
[18:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Why have a bill ... - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:22] <exec> 08└─nothing else that is found, except that which is specifically described in the warrant, can be used against the person for whom the warrant is against.
[18:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06On Matters of ISIS - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:21] <exec> 08└─Tarchus asks for sources that are "well sourced, verifiable, fact-checked" and you respond with "a work of fiction." I am absolutely not surprised. But it is always disappointing when people live down to a stereotype.
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[19:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Far less bullshitty site than last time - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─If you're referring to nasaspaceflight.com, that is a professional news source for manned space flight news, particularly stuff that comes out of NASA. And there's a number of aerospace and NASA employees on the forums.
[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Uggh! A VACUUM! - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:54] <exec> 08└─I just ABHOR a vacuum. They make me want to expel my propellant...
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─So three labs show thrust where there can be none by every law of physics we know. Ok. Only one way to really know for sure, build one big enough to keep the ISS boosted, install it and let it run for a year, if the orbit is still good it will be time to rewrite the physics books. It is about time w...
[19:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03compro01 [2515] 02Re:A little disappointing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the usable capacity of the lead-acid unit is only about half the nameplate. Lead-acid really doesn't like deep discharge. So you're looking at about the same price per kilowatt-hour and then throw in the fact that Tesla's product is maintenance-free, smaller, lighter, and comes with a 10 ye...
[19:24:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:A little disappointing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 638 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:08] <exec> 08└─Also, lead-acid batteries are notorious for going tits-up after just a few years. A lead-acid battery that costs $5000 and needs to be replaced after five years is a lot more expensive than a lithium battery that costs $15,000 but's still going strong at 80% original capacity even after you've paid...
[19:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Cue Oasis - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:20] <exec> 08└─The obvious ad jingle: Today is gonna be the day That they're gonna power back to you By now you should've somehow Realized what you gotta do I don't believe that anybody Feels the way I do about this now Since all the winds that we can mill are blowing And solar lights that shine on us are blinding...
[19:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score:2) 02Re:"four qubits in a two-by-two array" - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, it can now simultaneously solve all 2x2 tic-tac-toe games.
[19:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:still don't quite get it - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 4112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:33] <exec> 08└─My code exists in a superposition of compiling and testing, so I'll try to give an example. Let's say you have a quantum adding circuit with some word-size of qubits. In a traditional adding circuit you can only add two separate bit patterns at once through the circuit; However, with a quantum addin...
[19:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:1) 02Re:there's no shortcut! - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:41] <exec> 08└─Well that's the idea. But it seems to me the discussion of computation time is lacking; adjacent qubits have to superimpose over some time scale before settling into the answer, and that answer is statistical to boot. An excited nucleus is basically a qubit(?) and it can take years or centuries to b...
[19:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:01] <exec> 08└─Only if you never plan on leaving the country or letting anyone else in. So that means we can stop vaccinating about 50% of the US population though. Gotta start somewhere...
[19:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:02] <exec> 08└─So that means we can stop vaccinating about 50% of the US population though. Gotta start somewhere...
[19:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Super-power galore! - 06Compact Synchrotron Makes Tumors Visible - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:20] <exec> 08└─It's Compton backscatter of photons off an electron beam, so not coherent. The maximum frequency upshift is 4*gamma squared; shifting 1eV to 10 Kev would need gamma=100 or ~50 Mev for the electron beam. Most the energy transfer will be at lower frequencies so unless they use some x ray zone plates...
[19:26:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02Hold the press... - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:24] <exec> 08└─First, if you RTFA you'll see that Apple have already relented and withdrawn their rejection of the App in question. Second, it clearly hasn't occurred to anybody to do a quick plausibility check and search for "Pebble" in the App Store. I find over a dozen Pebble smartwatch-related Apps (including...
[19:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'd be excited if... - 06New Pluto Images Hint at Polar Ice Caps - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, so just because its small, you don't think its good enough? Well let me tell you, Miss Size Queen, size isn't the only thing that matters! There are a lot more important factors involved than just how big it is! It doesn't have to be big to be impressive and super-effective!
[19:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Scientists are Figuring Out How to Change Blood Types - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:48] <exec> 08└─People desperate for money may try to find ways to give blood when they really physically can't afford it. Sure there are supposed to be tests and requirements to prevent that but people will find ways around them especially when money is involved (that's not to say it doesn't already happen). Also...
[19:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:1) 02Re:What is the problem? - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:06] <exec> 08└─Problem was someone figured out how to make the hash come out to whatever number he wanted it to. ( collision ). Now, two different things have the same hash.
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Throw out the old - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─Secure hashing and signing are a natural subset of encryption. A 'signature' is the process of hashing the signed record and encrypting it with a secret key such that only the public key can decrypt the hash so it can be verified against the record. Under DNSSEC, the zone files are processed to pre-...
[19:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's make a list. - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:59] <exec> 08└─JetBrains makes some great IDEs.
[19:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:gewg's link was anti-MS? Shocking! - 06MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:03] <exec> 08└─Indeed, some aren't so lucky. What kills me are the "Microdick sucks no matter what! LOLZ" comments coming from otherwise intelligent folks. I've seen more than one commenter here make insightful, intelligent, articulate comments about something unrelated to Microsoft, but when that dreaded name pop...
[19:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Why have a bill ... - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:40] <exec> 08└─Are you being deliberately dense? The right of the people to be secure ... against unreasonable searches and seizures
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[20:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Dear cops, get a warrant - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:51] <exec> 08└─Do you want criminals going free? No? Then get a fucking warrant for investigating things. It's not hard. And it helps the rest of us not get investigated for no reason.
[20:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Uggh! A VACUUM! - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:03] <exec> 08└─"They make me want to expel my propellant..." Just don't do it too quick, or it'll really interfere with your social life.
[20:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:05] <exec> 08└─That would be weird... " so we've got this new propulsion system. We've built it, tested it, scaled it up, tested it again, and now it's flying an expedition to mars." " cool, how does it work?" "nobody knows..."
[20:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:06] <exec> 08└─Not that weird. Has happened all the time. "You put the meat on the fire, and then it gets much easier to eat." "How does it work?" "Nobody knows." "We put that substance from a calf's stomach into the milk, then it gets hard and remains edible for a long time." "How does it work?" "Nobody knows." "...
[20:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02As it is now, so it was then: - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:08] <exec> 08└─" so we've got this new navigation system. We've built it, tested it, tested it again, and now it's helping sail an expedition beyond the end of the Mediterranean past Gibraltar." " cool, how does it work?" "nobody knows... We call it a lodestone, though."
[20:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:As it is now, so it was then: - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:10] <exec> 08└─This fucking thing had better sound cool. I'm not flying with it if it makes a stupid noise, like how things sound in Star Wars Episode I. What good is a menacing star-destroyer with ion cannons and tail fins on the ass-end if it sounds like, "Boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-hee-hee-hee-heee!"
[20:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:11] <exec> 08└─How depressing would it be if the stars would always be out of reach. The article states that such a drive might reach alpha centauri in less than a century, and that is probably absent any innovations that would occur after we find explanations for how it works...if it works, I mean.
[20:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:13] <exec> 08└─> Only one way to really know for sure, build one big enough to keep the ISS boosted, install it and let it run for a year What makes you think that is even a remotely reasonable way to "know for sure?" We should build a full-scale system and deploy it in one of the most conspicuous and expensive po...
[20:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:14] <exec> 08└─If you expect people to accept a drive that operates on unknown principles it needs to be demonstrated in a splashy way. Apparently it just sits on a bench and quietly draws electricity and generates a very small thrust so it shouldn't be dangerous. Flying it on the ISS sounds a lot simpler than bui...
[20:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There is ... HOPE - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 2071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:16] <exec> 08└─I saw this over on digg first and surfed around some links until the tablets battery gave up. what i gleened from this is that NASA has confirmed that something fishy is going on -aka- somethings doesn't add up with the laws of the physics as we postulate them. It could be a new effect -or- a very c...
[20:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02nonrationality - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:18] <exec> 08└─I want I need I want I neeed I want I neeed I want I need ~~~~~~~~~I want I need I want I need ~~~~~~~~~~~ I crave I need I crave I neeed I crave I neeed I crave I need ~~~~~~~~~I want I need I want I need ~~~~~~~~~~~ ...
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nonrationality - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:19] <exec> 08└─how old were you when the fuse in your brain blew and didn't allow conduction of new ideas? from a philosophical stand-point the declaration of a immutable law of conservation of momentum would lead to one outcome: instant suicide -aka- this prison sucks!
[20:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─> For standby power this doesn't do it. That same 3500USD at your local big box store will get you a Gnerac 10KW natural gas or propane unit. The generac also requires maintenance every 200 hours of operation. It is a back-up generator not intended for daily use. It is also noisy as hell. Furthermor...
[20:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03gishzida [2870] (Score:1) 02Re:Nope - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 2505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:37] <exec> 08└─I think you will find that the appropriate epitaph is the same one that all Hegemonic Powers have: Absolute Greed Corrupts, and Destroys Absolutely. Our problems are not wrought by "greens" or "progressives" or even a liberal like myself... our problems are brought about by corporate greed-- Unneces...
[20:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling bullshit - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:41] <exec> 08└─And, you'll note that nothing in there even tangentially mentions electricity.
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling bullshit - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─Good call. I'll admit I didn't really read the article. I was working off what other people have told me. Shame on me. :-(
[20:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:2) 02Back of the napkin math. - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─My local utility has a 9.75¢ differential between peak and off-peak rates during the Summer, and a 4.92¢ differential in Winter. If I take a wild-ass-guess that my Summer use is half-again my Winter use, that means I need to store somewhere around 40MWh from the grid at off-peak times and use them...
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:1) 02He's right about one thing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:47] <exec> 08└─Existing batteries do suck. There are riches beyond belief waiting for whoever finally comes up with a better battery. I'm not so sure this is it. $3,500 plus $1,500 for an inverter and installation and you need the thing to save you $500 per year in order to pay for itself over its 10-year lifespan...
[20:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He's right about one thing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:48] <exec> 08└─> Very useful for some, no doubt. Just more noise in the wind for others. The number of times something was anything other than that can be counted on one hand.
[20:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:still don't quite get it - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:59] <exec> 08└─So you are saying that with just a few qbits, all encryption would be readily breakable in just a few iterations instead of years measured by orders of magnitude? That seems very far fetched. Is there any proof of this or just theory?
[20:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am not buying it. - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:09] <exec> 08└─Until someone can actually run an experiment where they find the solution to say, a 1024 bit problem in one computational iteration, I don't buy this. After all, if a qbit can be both 1 and 0 simultaneously, they can solve every computational problem in just one cycle if there are a sufficient numbe...
[20:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Audd [715] (Score:1) 02Can it see the prostate? - 06Compact Synchrotron Makes Tumors Visible - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:51] <exec> 08└─Is this something that will finally replace the finger? The finger is cheaper but I am sure there's a threshold where patients will be wiling to pay for the .. non-invasive option.
[20:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we surprised? - 06Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible' - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:22] <exec> 08└─Sigh....Gates hasn't been at the company for how many years now? Frankly there is no comparison because MSFT is actually LISTENING to customers, fuck they ever fired the Ballmernator which I thought would be about as likely as Marilyn Manson becoming the POTUS whereas Apple has never listened to the...
[20:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused - Use Multiple Hashes - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:51] <exec> 08└─I've thought about why we don't do this more often as well, just use multiple hashes simultaneously. I'd extend the above suggestion to not only check the against the most secure hash, but check _all_ hashes/signatures available (that the system is capable of doing so). Tampering the data in somethi...
[20:29:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 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)
[20:29:07] <exec> 08└─But how fast has it been warming?
[20:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Why have a bill ... - 06Does the USA Freedom Act Actually Have a Chance? - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:12] <exec> 08└─and "unreasonable" in this case means "without a warrant", which is why it then goes directly into the specifics for issuing warrants. there's no ambiguity in the spirit of the fourth, and the spirit is all that matters when interpreting the constitution, with precedents to support (mostly revolving...
[20:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:news flash - 06US Govt Must Explain Why its Rules on Shutting Down Whole Cell Networks are a Secret - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:50] <exec> 08└─Crap like this is why I've picked up the amateur radio hobby again in the past few years, after letting it go for most of the '00s. Unless they plan on dropping an EMP or somehow jamming all VHF/UHF signals (either scenario meaning they also jam their own communications), I'll be able to reach other...
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[21:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:4, Informative) 02It's not the warrant. - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:54] <exec> 08└─It's not a matter of whether they have a warrant or not. The problem is the rule of law, specifically that the accused are allowed to confront their accuser and the evidence against them. If information obtained via a stingray were allowed in court, the defense would be entitled to information on ho...
[21:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear cops, get a warrant - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:55] <exec> 08└─Do you want criminals going free? No?
[21:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear cops, get a warrant - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:56] <exec> 08└─regardless of whether or not they have a warrant, the very use of a stingray to search and seize whats authorized by a warrant is unconstitutional because the only way it can be used to collect "everything", and warrants which are overbroad are unconstitutional, with a recent precedent [jones-mayer....
[21:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Stingray use and case dropped. - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:58] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they had an epic failure in the parallel construction department.
[21:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] 02Re:Far less bullshitty site than last time - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:07] <exec> 08└─I mean, this white paper posted in 2014 on the official NASA site at least suggests that NASA doesn't automatically reject all this as quack science. http://ntrs.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[21:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Far less bullshitty site than last time - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:09] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's a question of finding a genuinely reliable source - there's been a few of those already that have said this thing works. What we appear to have is a genuinely extraordinary claim that's holding up against the expectation of genuinely extraordinary proof. So far. And let's hope it...
[21:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:20] <exec> 08└─How about all the people who aren't crazy pants take it one step at a time in the lab for a while and let the first deployed system be an unmanned satellite that only does a couple of weeks of testing?
[21:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:22] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that is even a remotely reasonable way to "know for sure?"
[21:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:There is ... HOPE - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:23] <exec> 08└─Another smart post said that if the "efficiency" reaches a certain amount that the devices could be mounted on a wheel and then turn the wheel driving a electrical generator at the center that in turn would power the devices .. thus creating a "perpetuum mobile".
[21:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:There is ... HOPE - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:25] <exec> 08└─All true. But we are talking about a drive with properties which most self-respecting scientists laugh out of the room. As long as you are getting laughed out of the room, why not go big? Perpetual motion ... time travel ... match all the socks in your laundry basket. (yeah, I know, that last one is...
[21:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nonrationality - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:27] <exec> 08└─Obviously he wants to be a starfarer.
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:Just like off hours usage.... - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─Eat more foods that are shelf stable and you'll be better off.
[21:24:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Calling bullshit - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:51] <exec> 08└─Too bad it's basically illegal to live off the grid.
[21:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Back of the napkin math. - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:58] <exec> 08└─Hmm. it seems that 7kWh is only around 20% of average daily consumption in my state. So, if I charge it to full every night, and use that power the next day, I'll save 68.25¢ each "Summer" day and 34.44¢ each "Winter" day. That's $188.79/year in savings at today's rates, which would be 15 years to...
[21:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02deezying hights of tech! - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:02] <exec> 08└─generally this is good news. a new piece of tech puzzle that can be used. however i prefer "simple" things. things i can understand and fix myself. maybe i saw to many zombie movies or other (unrealistic?) apocalyptic scenarios? the point is that this (amazing nevertheless) tech is really really "fa...
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:still don't quite get it - 06IBM Shows Off a Quantum Computing Chip - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the long explanation. It does make sense. My question was more basic, though: How do you feed the operands, trigger a specific operation, and retrieve/collapse the result?
[21:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Scientists are Figuring Out How to Change Blood Types - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:35] <exec> 08└─it's feeling like you're killing babies (that's exactly where my blood goes)
[21:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Throw out the old - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:04] <exec> 08└─DNSSEC will be stuck for quite a while because it's an overly complex abomination to maintain. It made sense in 1995 (or at least it was the only practical way to do it) but in an era where a cellphone has more than enough CPU power to be a DNS server, it really doesn't make sense to jump through al...
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[22:23:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02It's not the warrant. - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 1012 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:54] <exec> 08└─It's not a matter of whether they have a warrant or not. The problem is the rule of law, specifically that the accused are allowed to confront their accuser and the evidence against them. If information obtained via a stingray were allowed in court, the defense would be entitled to information on ho...
[22:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You have a problem with the name "Wilqueda"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─Why do you have a problem with the name "Wilqueda"? It sounds perfectly American to me.
[22:23:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jasassin [3566] 02Stingray use and case dropped. - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:59] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they had an epic failure in the parallel construction department.
[22:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stingray use and case dropped. - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:01] <exec> 08└─What the heck is parallel construction?
[22:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Stingray use and case dropped. - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:02] <exec> 08└─"Hey look that woman is driving the getaway car again. Pssst, setup a stolen car check at intersection 56" ..
[22:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:04] <exec> 08└─Come on. The fucking summary should say what the hell "Stringray" is. I'm not going to waste my time googling it. The whole point of the summary is to provide critical information like that about the story, so we don't have to waste our time doing more research.
[22:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─Its basically a fake cell phone tower, used to illegally wiretap every mobile within range, letting them record every single call and text.
[22:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:07] <exec> 08└─Probably would have taken less time then typing the above post...
[22:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:09] <exec> 08└─It's more of a waste of my time to google for information that should be in the summary than it is for me to point out that the information is missing.
[22:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:10] <exec> 08└─Try this: http://mobile.extremetech.com [extremetech.com]
[22:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:12] <exec> 08└─> Come on. The fucking summary should say what the hell "Stringray" is. According to google, the word "stingray" has been used on this site over 800 times. [google.com] At what point are we permitted to stop defining common terms?
[22:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:13] <exec> 08└─It's not a common word for somebody who hasn't seen those other stories. Some of us just stop by once a week. We don't check every single fucking story that has been posted in the past. Some other commenter was able to describe Stringray in few words, and somebody else provided a useful link. Those...
[22:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:15] <exec> 08└─Some people don't understand English either, yet it is not our responsibility to communicate in every possible language. At some point you are going to have to take responsibility for your own understanding of the world around you. Some people might call that maturity, the same positive character tr...
[22:24:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 754 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:26] <exec> 08└─Not that weird. Has happened all the time. "You put the meat on the fire, and then it gets much easier to eat." "How does it work?" "Nobody knows." "We put that substance from a calf's stomach into the milk, then it gets hard and remains edible for a long time." "How does it work?" "Nobody knows." "...
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:30] <exec> 08└─Even at slower speeds, the stars aren't out of reach. Just live longer.
[22:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:Cue Twilight Zone theme..... - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─I'm just hoping to extend my life until the singularity. Then the computer will help me figure out how to get the rest of the way to another world. Thanks, Ray!
[22:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:There is ... HOPE - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:39] <exec> 08└─The thing is, if it were possible to get more energy out of a system than you put in, then how come the universe is still here? People tend to forget that the universe explores a lot of these paths just by random chance and any significant energy gain is going to dump into the environment from those...
[22:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is ... HOPE - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:40] <exec> 08└─That phenomenon could be manifesting itself as dark energy.
[22:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is ... HOPE - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's called Perpetual Motion and when you bring it up most self-respecting scientists laugh you out of the room.
[22:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nonrationality - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:44] <exec> 08└─how old were you when the fuse in your brain blew and didn't allow conduction of new ideas?
[22:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great - now the Vulcans will land in Cleveland - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:46] <exec> 08└─Great - now the Vulcans will land in Cleveland
[22:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Earth's Magnetic Field - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:47] <exec> 08└─Have they accounted for potential interaction with Earth's magnetic field? Redo the test 6 times, with the "engine" pointed north, south, east, west, up, and down, and compare all results.
[22:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:A little disappointing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:58] <exec> 08└─Not ONLY do they go titsup in a short period, but they do so sometimes cell by cell, or battery by battery, which ends up with certain cells or batteries being over-driven by the charger, and falling completely out when being discharged, leaving you with uncertain voltage. They are heavy, (and you a...
[22:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02'open for pre-order' - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:23] <exec> 08└─I fail to understand why anyone pre-orders anything at all. I can see the point of a vendor encouraging pre-orders, as it enables them to finance initial production runs. But to me, to pre-order a deliverable is much like ordering the emperor's new clothes.
[22:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Vaccine Campaign Leads to Elimination of Rubella in the Americas - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:09] <exec> 08└─So, 50% of the US population never ever come into contact with foreigners? Have you got a citation for that? Yeah, it's called my apparently-not-funny sense of humor.
[22:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score:1) 02Re:Throw out the old - 06SHA-1 Crypto Hash Retirement Fraught With Problems - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:28] <exec> 08└─Secure hashing and signing are a natural subset of encryption. A 'signature' is the process of hashing the signed record and encrypting it with a secret key such that only the public key can decrypt the hash so it can be verified against the record.
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[23:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Troll) 02I tried using Bitcoin once. - 06Bitcoin Disrupting Argentina's Financial System - 1742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:52] <exec> 08└─I tried using Bitcoin once. I installed the client, and waited for it to get the blockchain data. I waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited. Then I had to wait, wait, wait, and wait just a little bit m...
[23:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I tried using Bitcoin once. - 06Bitcoin Disrupting Argentina's Financial System - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:53] <exec> 08└─That comment should be modded up. It's actually a pretty accurate description of the Bitcoin experience. Of course, somebody will typically come along and say, "But just use $SomeSketchyOnlineServiceRunByUnknownPeople! Then you don't have to use the client!" That obviously defeats the purpose of usi...
[23:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I tried using Bitcoin once. - 06Bitcoin Disrupting Argentina's Financial System - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:55] <exec> 08└─I down-modded it as a troll post because using that font in conjunction with a wall of text is a deliberate attempt to annoy readers. The content might be true, but the intent of the presentation is explicitly anti-social.
[23:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Dear Submitters - 06Bitcoin Disrupting Argentina's Financial System - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:57] <exec> 08└─If you don't understand what the fuck your submission is, well, fuck off. I am talking to you, "anontechie". For fuck's sake.
[23:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear Submitters - 06Bitcoin Disrupting Argentina's Financial System - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:58] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. This is a Phoenix666 submission. Are you saying that Phoenix666 is AnonTechie?
[23:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear Submitters - 06Bitcoin Disrupting Argentina's Financial System - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:00] <exec> 08└─Have you ever seen them in the same place at the same time?
[23:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Shady - 06Bitcoin Disrupting Argentina's Financial System - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:01] <exec> 08└─Have not dabbled in it, but from all the negative [wsj.com] press I've read it doesn't yet seem like a good idea -- at least not until shit hits the fan and my government imposes martial law and outlaws cash transactions. The person closest to me who has messed with Bitcoins claimed that they lost 1...
[23:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shady - 06Bitcoin Disrupting Argentina's Financial System - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:03] <exec> 08└─Do you like it when you drink so much booze that you kill most of your intestinal bacteria and then you have diarrhoea for a week afterward?
[23:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shady - 06Bitcoin Disrupting Argentina's Financial System - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:05] <exec> 08└─Yes. I happen to be into Scheiße. It's the best of both worlds, really.
[23:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's going on with St. Louis? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:12] <exec> 08└─I've never been to St. Louis. But any time I hear about it in the news, it's never about something good. The criminal problem in and around St. Louis sounds particularly troubling. We have the case of Michael Brown, for example. There is video footage of him attacking a store keeper and stealing goo...
[23:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:What's going on with St. Louis? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─The police force is... questionable in some places. The particular ways they are vary from place to place. The news makes it out to be this terrible shithole most of the time, but it's really not THAT bad. I used to live downtown and frequently took long walks at night without really any concern for...
[23:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's going on with St. Louis? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─Because the prosecutors also engaged in criminal behaviour?
[23:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's going on with St. Louis? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:16] <exec> 08└─So what is it with St. Louis? Why do people there who have likely engaged in criminal behavior end up getting treated as "victims"?
[23:24:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Re:Dear cops, get a warrant - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:18] <exec> 08└─Do you want criminals going free? No?
[23:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Stingray use and case dropped. - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:22] <exec> 08└─What the heck is parallel construction?
[23:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Stingray use and case dropped. - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─Inventing an anonymous informant whose initials definitely are not N.S.A. or C.I.A.
[23:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:26] <exec> 08└─I wonder, if the basic problem might be the fact that the entire system is made to be hackable. It should not be possible to introduce fake towers, but here we are... People might find out that a lot of things are made to be hackable... For one company in communication/computing to become world lead...
[23:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:30] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is a google? If you are going to use those terms in a post you should define it and post a link. It is a waste of time for other posters to go researching these things.
[23:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:34] <exec> 08└─The purpose of the summary is to inform the user what the story is about. That includes providing proper definitions of any uncommon or highly specific terms being used. In this case, Stingray is such a term. As such, a definition of it is required in the summary. If the summary is lacking that mand...
[23:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck is "Stingray"? - 06Robbery Suspect Pulls Guilty Plea After Stingray Disclosure, Case Dropped - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:37] <exec> 08└─Who is "Ars Technica"? Can the summary please explain this and why I should give a crap what he is reporting?
[23:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:As it is now, so it was then: - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:54] <exec> 08└─Are you fucking serious?! I get a chance to fly in this thing I will take it even if it sounds like a fairy shitting itself politely...
[23:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:There is ... HOPE - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:07] <exec> 08└─"And of course there's the time Rodney blew up a solar system." "Quit exaggerating! It was only four-fifths of the system. And it was an accident."
[23:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Earth's Magnetic Field - 06"Reactionless" Thruster Tested Again, This Time in a Vacuum - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─How do you know they haven't? Curious.
[23:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:A little disappointing - 06Tesla Announces Powerwall Home Battery - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:29] <exec> 08└─The single dead cell is a potential failure mode with any multi-cell battery regardless of chemistry...and it's the job of the battery management system to detect and isolate such cells and alert the user to the need for maintenance. But if you're going with lead acid, "minimal capital investment" i...
[23:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:Okay - 06Pope Attacked by Climate Change Skeptics - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:15] <exec> 08└─He wouldn't be facing a revolt: he'd have a tragic accident.
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