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[00:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I've been extremely successful with eXtreme - - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:31] <exec> 08└─- programming, actually I practiced pair programming in the early nineties, long before that was part of any methodology I have ever heard of, but when I see a job board post for a company that says it practices Agile or Scrum, I don't even apply.
[00:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02First C, and now Agile? - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:32] <exec> 08└─First C is dying, and now Agile has lots its way? What's happening? This computer fad looks to be coming apart at the seams.
[00:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:51] <exec> 08└─Is there any proof that Rust code actually performs well?
[00:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:57] <exec> 08└─Any tip on other computer languages that are rife with hipster idiocy?
[00:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:01] <exec> 08└─You can't dismiss someone's argument by bringing up their desire to retain at least some semblance of anonymity.
[00:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:03] <exec> 08└─I didn't dismiss their argument, I said it hurts your credibility. For example: I think you're the same AC that I replied to. I also think you posted multiple times in this thread trying to pass yourself off as more than one person in order to give the impression that there was some sort of wrong...
[00:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:05] <exec> 08└─Does it pay to do things the right way? or is it more profitable to jump quick on languages and job?
[00:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:08] <exec> 08└─True, but some languages *encourage* the writing of code that is insecure and hard to maintain. I've never considered C one of those languages though. Visual Basic, JavaScript, and a few others, yes, but not C. I've certainly seen my share of bad C and wouldn't choose it over some other languages fo...
[00:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:10] <exec> 08└─The majority of programmers perhaps just lack the talent [soylentnews.org] and won't realize it, nor will their management. Because coincidentally they might also be cheap and say yes. Doing the homework [soylentnews.org] perhaps isn't done either. So this is first a cognitive bias failure and secon...
[00:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Embedded - 06Death to C - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:15] <exec> 08└─> If you can't write reliable C code, then Rust isn't going to help you. If you aren't perfect no tool will make you perfect. But none of us are perfect. Not even you. Good tools can make us better. Even you.
[00:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Embedded programmers are better than most - 06Death to C - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:17] <exec> 08└─or rather, if you aren't regarded as a particularly good programmer, you won't be offered an embedded job. The problem we have is that many people still learn C as a first programming language, by following K&R's advice about the C standard library with scanf and strcpy.
[00:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bug1 [5243] (Score:1) 02Re:the language isn't the problem - 06Death to C - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:25] <exec> 08└─hurry
[00:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Then there are C strings - 06Death to C - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:28] <exec> 08└─There's basically two ways to store string on the machine level: magic character terminated (null-terminated C strings) or you store the length of the string somewhere. There are multiple problems with the second approach. First, you waste a lot of space allocating memory for a large integer if all...
[00:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Kickstarter link - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:49] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how power gets to the battery for charging
[00:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Standby modes - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:36] <exec> 08└─Pssh. We all know it is you. You trying to game the system to save face is not the slightest bit hidden.
[00:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How dare they innovate? - 06Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Makes an Android Device With an Interactive Frame - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:07] <exec> 08└─With no new features
[00:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy answer, but it's not going to work - 0625 Percent of Cars Cause 90 Percent of Air Pollution - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:32] <exec> 08└─A city like New York has no choice than to use public transport. People should do the math and see for themselves that if too many people used individual transport the city would congest such that no one would get anywhere within reasonable time.
[00:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong with FB immersion? - 06Consumer Version of Oculus Rift Coming in Early 2016 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:44] <exec> 08└─You really think this will be a voluntarily choice?
[00:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong with FB immersion? - 06Consumer Version of Oculus Rift Coming in Early 2016 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:47] <exec> 08└─Real world automatons don't save anything. They just consume resources.
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[01:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02The Last Sentance? - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:35] <exec> 08└─And it's Agile, all the way down...
[01:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:I've been extremely successful with eXtreme - - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 1694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:37] <exec> 08└─buzzword salad. eat it up, YUM! (oh wait, that applies only to fishheads). I laugh at all the ways we try to make a 'science' out of programming. its not really science, its art. its a skill and takes talent and experience and some people work well in this field and some do not. what agile tried to...
[01:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:I've been extremely successful with eXtreme - - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:38] <exec> 08└─Pair programming is great, but draining. I find that I can't do it all the time. I've found that Agile works very well, but often it's used as an exclude for poor specs. Even then it would work except that everyone seems to keep wanting to pull back into waterfall all of the time which demonstrably...
[01:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Clearly its time for another methodology - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:41] <exec> 08└─With books and seminars from expert trainers flown in from across the country. And remember to bring the *entire* engineering team this time! http://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] http://www.amazon.com
[01:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:59] <exec> 08└─determinism!=fast
[01:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:00] <exec> 08└─Also, Rust is still a work in progress. The latest version is still in beta.
[01:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Debian? - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:50] <exec> 08└─Might want to look down and a little to the left on your image, and then apologize to the 10 Slackware users out there.
[01:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03heiner [3643] (Score:1) 02GPL violator - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:06] <exec> 08└─Allwinner is a well known GPL violator. http://linux-sunxi.org [linux-sunxi.org]
[01:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:39] <exec> 08└─Given the number of people that support the NSA's mass surveillance, the TSA, the prohibition of drugs (besides perhaps marijuana, as there's more opposition there), censorship, and many other things, that seems *very* unlikely. There are simply too many people on who support any of those things to...
[01:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:41] <exec> 08└─This guy who loves guns and free speech
[01:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:51:13] <exec> 08└─Given that private militia companies and ships of the day did in fact own cannon and the fact that weapons of today are really dangerous, here is my reasonable compromise. Individuals should be permitted to own any personal arm issued by the U.S. Army or other armed forces or variations similar in o...
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[02:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02WoW - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:34] <exec> 08└─To those who don't understand - blood elves, [nocookie.net] night elves, [softpedia-static.com] and the Orcs. [nocookie.net] The Orcs aren't really all that alien to American culture. Armenian noses, skin tone, and hair styles. Dark, wide noses. Use of steroids.
[02:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:WoW - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:36] <exec> 08└─I will note that all three of those avatars are rather buxom. The average young male sees tits, and he's totally enchanted. Many of them never look any higher than that. There's a reason movies are described as "tits and ass".
[02:47:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Here's one for you... - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:44] <exec> 08└─If you actually define something, and not just throw around nice-sounding BS, you are likely to get people to actually embrace and follow your concept. That last paragraph is an absolute abomination of well-meaning abstract fairyland, and therefore the result after 14 years in the cold hard reality...
[02:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another hipster promoting another hipster langu - 06Death to C - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, and they will promote another hipster language next week/month. Whats with the modding trolls? More reason to browse at -1.
[02:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get off my Lawn - 06Death to C - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:41] <exec> 08└─Everyone should stop using C/C++ and start using a language in beta ... for Security reasons!!! Kids are *sooooo* cute.
[02:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Then there are C strings - 06Death to C - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:50] <exec> 08└─Because he is Jewish? oops...
[02:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02How long until... - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:20] <exec> 08└─someone builds a Beowulf cluster out of these? As far as I can find from the specs, it looks like each core has a 64 bit FPU, which should put the entire SOC on par with either one Sandy Bridge core or a Piledriver module. It looks like I can get about 18 of these for the cost of one four-module Pil...
[02:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:54] <exec> 08└─what matters is that that group is growing
[02:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:56] <exec> 08└─Now there's a rare combination if I ever saw one. Most pro-gun people are vehemently anti-free speech. Free speech means the right for people to say things you don't agree with, something the overwhelming majority of the pro-gun camp absolutely cannot stand.
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[03:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:WoW - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:36] <exec> 08└─At first my thought was "well, who would think green would be attractive?" After all, it seems vaguely sickly. Then I remembered [memory-alpha.org].
[03:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Humans are Mammals - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:37] <exec> 08└─In other news, large-brained mammals are still mammals. The males look for the best bearers of optimal potential offspring, even in a digital world. I wonder what would happen if monkeys had the choice of playing games with three virtual females?
[03:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How do other players know? - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:39] <exec> 08└─women received less help from fellow players than men when they operated an unattractive avatar
[03:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:I've been extremely successful with eXtreme - - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:50] <exec> 08└─its not really science, its art.
[03:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02We used to have pretty robust code - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 3637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:54] <exec> 08└─Back in the DOS days, if one wanted to program and just have it work, he used the standard BIOS calls. Everything had standards. Keyboard, mouse, display, hard disk drive, floppy, serial, and parallel ports. Even the modems had a special code that everyone used. Then the idea of "drivers" and "prop...
[03:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:We used to have pretty robust code - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:55] <exec> 08└─Gabotronics, you are off the hook with this one
[03:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:We used to have pretty robust code - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:57] <exec> 08└─I would sure think so. I have heard of all these pairings of a specific library to a specific program called "DLL HELL". In all fairness, they did require me to install Microsoft .NET redistributables, and I probably chose the wrong one during installation. I have a 64 bit machine and it wanted me...
[03:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02scrum/xp - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:59] <exec> 08└─scrum wrapped around xp technical practices works better than anything else i've ever seen. there may be *edge* cases where they wouldnt but i've never seen one. if people label whatever it is they're doing scrum and/or xp and they are not actually doing scrum and/or xp then yes they will suffer. sh...
[03:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:12] <exec> 08└─When the fuck will that actually be? The Rust devs keep saying "soon" and then "soon" arrives but it's never the right "soon".
[03:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:30] <exec> 08└─Their credibility is hurt because they broke some arbitrary 'rule' you try to impose on others? What does that even mean, and why does it matter? Their entire comment is right there; respond to the points you think are dubious or don't. "credibility" doesn't even factor into it for some random comme...
[03:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Embedded - 06Death to C - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:43] <exec> 08└─C is a good tool. Rust is not a good tool.
[03:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:2) 02Re:It has SystemD. - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:09] <exec> 08└─The current spin of Raspberian is Wheezy (which is non-systemd). Why should you care? For one, if your Raspberry Pi software starts relying on added systemd functionality it will be a lot less portable... much more difficulty experimenting with FreeBSD, Hurd, whatever... I don't have much experience...
[03:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:51:29] <exec> 08└─It is a bit of a scary road to insist that your interpretation is the only correct interpretation in a manner that assumes there can be no reasonable disagreement.
[03:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 2729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:51:35] <exec> 08└─'personal' -- if we can make an ergonomic nuclear sidearm, ... ? AMRAM rockets? How many people does it take to drive a tank? Is a "nuclear football" a personal sidearm of the president? 4th amendment "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people...
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[04:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Attention seekers - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:48] <exec> 08└─Back when I played WoW I would often refuse to help/ignore players that would claim to be a female solely to get help. It had nothing to do with whether or not they actually were a female, it was the fact they used having a vagina as leverage that made me dismiss the requests.
[04:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Marry young girls - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:49] <exec> 08└─Marry young girls Kill feminists. Deuteronomy 22 28-29, hebrew, is good.
[04:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03gishzida [2870] (Score:1) 02obligatory machinima - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:50] <exec> 08└─When your avatar [or the real life you] looks like the characters in this video [made using machinima] the song lyrics: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] make a lot of sense.... So TFA has discovered that we act in the virtual world the way we do in the real world... Duh! Wha...
[04:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We used to have pretty robust code - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 1687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:08] <exec> 08└─Back in the DOS days, if one wanted to program and just have it work, he used the standard BIOS calls. What a load of rubbish. Sorry to be mean but I was there. Each company had its own set of bios calls and special interrupt lines (so a Compaq may not act exactly like an ACER). Even version to vers...
[04:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:scrum/xp - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:10] <exec> 08└─Having watched agile (specifically scrum) fail at my company I can tell you why it failed there. They didnt bother doing it. They skipped steps like define and revisit retrospective. They never bothered with story points. They didnt want to 'waste time' defining things. They have no idea what 'done'...
[04:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:32] <exec> 08└─That's total bullshit. C++ offers determinism, yet it's way fucking faster than Rust is. Your comparison only holds true for Rust. It does hold true for C++. That means that Rust is flawed.
[04:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:33] <exec> 08└─Rust supporters never admit that the problem may just be with Rust. We always hear excuses, denial, and outright falsehoods from them. Determinism is very fast in languages like C++ and Ada. It's only slow in Rust, because Rust is shit!
[04:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:42] <exec> 08└─Ruby, obviously. JavaScript is the other big one. Go is another one. Haskell is up there, too.
[04:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:49] <exec> 08└─Nobody really listens to Turk, and nobody cares what Turk says. He's pretty much just ignored around here.
[04:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:54] <exec> 08└─The overwhelming majority of people think they're above average.
[04:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Embedded - 06Death to C - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:04] <exec> 08└─5 year from now, "itsy-bitsy" systems may be 3GHz hex core with 16 GB of RAM. Which language do you recommend we use to program them? Will you suggest the "hip" language of the week?
[04:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Giggled, then realised I wanted to be sick... - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:51:12] <exec> 08└─That is the craziest, most ridiculous, unpossible scenario I have heard in a while. And since I have been paying attention to the recent congress critter's campaigning, I truly think you may have nailed it. 30 or 40 years ago, if someone would have described the world we live in today to me back the...
[04:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:51:16] <exec> 08└─They're all against marrying cute young girls.
[04:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:51:20] <exec> 08└─Shoot them when they try to imprison men.
[04:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Time was the world wanted the U.S. to arm them - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:51:32] <exec> 08└─Good luck with your .22: http://www.bob-owens.com [bob-owens.com] BTW, bears climb trees.
[04:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:51:44] <exec> 08└─Nope. They slip you up on the paper work and put you in prison for 15 yrs. There needs to be a revolution. Marry girl children.
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[07:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Election Fraud! - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:00] <exec> 08└─It's fraud because I disapprove of the outcome! I demand a recount. Meanwhile the Government shall be shut down, and Her Majesty will get off her majestic arse and do some real governing for a change! Yes, yes, everything is going according to plan. The Monarchists' Plan to restore the Queen's absol...
[07:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02u redy? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:02] <exec> 08└─u wot m8 [theregister.co.uk]
[07:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02should used Rust - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:10] <exec> 08└─Yup, that what happen when write C code. All installs hackable. Use Rust, n00b.
[07:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:How do other players know? - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:23] <exec> 08└─So how do other players know the gender of the person "operating" an avatar?
[07:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02History rhymes... - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 1540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:47] <exec> 08└─History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. For agile development, the terminology is different, the way you move tasks around on the pinboard is different, but the principle is iterative development, not really different from the way good teams were doing it 30 years ago. If you want a succes...
[07:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:24] <exec> 08└─What does that even mean, and why does it matter?
[07:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:30] <exec> 08└─The overwhelming majority.
[07:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:34] <exec> 08└─If you want to do a buffer overflow on my last C application, you'll have to enter it using a 4 button keypad and a menu on a 1602 LCD
[07:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:It has SystemD. - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:00] <exec> 08└─Nothin to say except thank you and have a good weekend. :)
[07:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it ironic? - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:31] <exec> 08└─I'll wager you're a fucking blast at a party.
[07:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:another reason to be a cord never - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:16] <exec> 08└─Clothes dry just fine inside.
[07:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How dare they innovate? - 06Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Makes an Android Device With an Interactive Frame - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:31] <exec> 08└─Yea, but the iPhone still won't have the Chinese government call surveillance backdoor, so your third world ZTE Nubia phone will still be all the rage.
[07:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:55] <exec> 08└─(though that position is anti-freedom in and of itself)
[07:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:58] <exec> 08└─Gun violence != deaths. Also, you should start watching the news.
[07:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ASCII - 06For Infallible Records, the Vatican Wants Open Source - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:56] <exec> 08└─åöä, 幹!
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[08:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Sanity won - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:00] <exec> 08└─From my observing of their politics, looks like sanity won the race. The other options were just too terrible for the voters to imagine so they stuck with the hapless but mostly sensible incumbent. Things could have easily went a lot worse for em, endless bickering to assemble an unstable split gove...
[08:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Sanity won - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:01] <exec> 08└─From my observing of their politics, looks like sanity won the race.
[08:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sanity won - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:03] <exec> 08└─That's Shepherd Book, you gorram Alliance poser.
[08:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sanity won - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:04] <exec> 08└─This is why the Liberals will win the next Australian election.
[08:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alberta's landslide in the opposite direction - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:06] <exec> 08└─Alberta: Left-Leaning New Democratic Party Completely Smokes Right-Wing Dynasty [thinkprogress.org] ...and does it in 1 Election [newyorker.com] The longest reigning government in Canadian history has been toppled. The Progressive Conservative Party had 70 seats; now has 10. NDP had 4 seats; now has...
[08:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:should used Rust - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:14] <exec> 08└─Can we have that again, in English this time?
[08:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Attention seekers - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:27] <exec> 08└─Many years ago, I was chatting with a friend in... some chatroom somewhere. She asked me if I knew how to do something (using my name and all, so there would be no mistake). Within seconds, another male had butted in, not knowing that she wasn't using the software he thought she was, and was just tr...
[08:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marry young girls - not so fast - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:29] <exec> 08└─I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but this has been coming up repeatedly and deserves a proper rebuttal, at least once: Marry young girls Kill feminists. Deuteronomy 22 28-29, hebrew, is good.
[08:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marry young girls - not so fast - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:31] <exec> 08└─It's an angry little troll, he (balance of probability) won't be back to read your response. Sadly. I wish he'd fuck off.
[08:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's one for you... - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:41] <exec> 08└─well-meaning abstract fairyland
[08:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:I've been extremely successful with eXtreme - - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:45] <exec> 08└─It's not the age that is the problem. It's the thinking that is the problem. You can learn clues, learning thinking is harder..
[08:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First C, and now Agile? - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:49] <exec> 08└─It's being filled with morons usually on four legs. In preparation for bend over.
[08:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:25] <exec> 08└─I recently (2 yrs ago) went to a software/platform conference where there was a presentation by some early Rust adopters, and they leaked the information to the audience that there is still the ability to create invalid pointers in the language "if you know what you're doing". Which is precisely wha...
[08:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:It has SystemD. - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:11] <exec> 08└─So how good does BSD work on Raspberry-Pi and "Next Thing Co $9 computer" ?
[08:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:allwinner? - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:13] <exec> 08└─but the comments on makezine are trashing them
[08:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Vaporware - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:27] <exec> 08└─By obsoleting the Raspberry-Pi and replace it with Raspberry-Pi 2. The price point doesn't make sense anymore. Perhaps this "$9 SBC" will replace it. If it just had built-in Ethernet.
[08:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Graphics driver? Ethernet? Real OS compatibility? - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:30] <exec> 08└─Next thing Co's $9 single board computer better have a working graphics when using BSD with Mali 400 GPU. And it misses Ethernet. Instead it has those spy enablers like WiFi and Bluetooth.
[08:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Time was the world wanted the U.S. to arm them - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:27] <exec> 08└─True story. Once upon a time, I was auto-camping in the Crazy Mountains. Someone had spotted a black bear in the vicinity. A very patriotic burly man in a dually 4X4 kept driving around the campground loop asking, "Has any one seen the bear?" No one had, so Mr. NRA macho packed up and fled for a saf...
[08:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:File Formats cannot be "open source" - 06For Infallible Records, the Vatican Wants Open Source - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:52] <exec> 08└─> by transforming the raw images into TIFF, you discard that extra information What the fucking bollocks are you gibbering about? http://www.awaresystems.be http://www.awaresystems.be
[08:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh the hue and cry.... - 06Network Analysis of US Intelligence Community Released - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:46] <exec> 08└─Don't knock emacs - it's a great operating system. Shame it doesn't ship with a decent editor yet.
[08:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shouldn't be a problem - 06Network Analysis of US Intelligence Community Released - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:56] <exec> 08└─Anyone doing something useful like compiling profiles of all the ISIS sleeper cells throughout Europe and the US?
[08:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Screwy maths? - 06Climate Change Is Already Hurting The World's Most-Consumed Coffee Bean - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─Odd, you've confused me as to where you're from. You have knowledge of units unknown to many americans, but an ability to detect irony as poor as most modern-day americans. As anyone with any wit can tell, my prior post was a criticism of the use of *pounds*. I had already dumbed it down by the use...
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[09:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02More Surveillance? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:15] <exec> 08└─The Conservative's have tried over the last 5 years, whilst in a coalition government, to introduce more pervasive surveillance - electronic, physical, and imagery - but have been prevented from doing so by the coalition partners. With them out of the way, I guess that we will see another attempt in...
[09:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:More Surveillance? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:16] <exec> 08└─Doh! s/Conservative's/Conservatives/
[09:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThG [4568] (Score:3, Interesting) 02SAP... - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:26] <exec> 08└─I had the *joy* to work with this system at university (nothing too serious, just lecture stuff), and I'm not the least bit surprised by this. SAP is so broken, with so many flaws, that systemd looks like a pretty decent project in comparison. I would rather kill myself than having to work that SAP...
[09:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SAP - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:28] <exec> 08└─SAP blah, blah SAP blah: SAP! SAP blah blah (blah SAP SAP) SAP blah, SAP blah blah. SAP SAP, SAP: SAP blah SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP blah blah SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP blah blah blah. SAP SAP SAP foo SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP blah SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP bar SAP SAP SAP SAP SA...
[09:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:27] <exec> 08└─if you're using a language that has not yet been released, couldn't you just have stick with the same version of the compiler for the project? Just sayin'.
[09:25:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:38] <exec> 08└─Use the flavor-of-the-month language, because you're hip and with-it, coder bro! Can you fucking assholes be even more obvious with your shitty hipster evangelism? Not obvious enough! More. Obvious.
[09:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:00] <exec> 08└─I can only say that the code was tested on datastreams that it was supposed to handle.
[09:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:How long until... - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:44] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting concept, but how do you plan to interconnect those processors? On-die communications between multiple processors/cores is pretty hard to beat. To illustrate with an admittedly exaggerated scenario, if your interconnect is running at dial-up modem speeds, your total throughput i...
[09:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't it ironic? - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:05] <exec> 08└─This is very much true. Better advice would be think before you buy.
[09:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it ironic? - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:08] <exec> 08└─It's probably more cynical than it is ironic. An ironic situation would be "I know X, I want to communicate X, I say ~X" A cynical one would be "I know X, I want to communicate ~X, I say ~X" Otherwise known as a "lie", which is sometimes called "the truth" by those in marketting and politics.
[09:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it ironic? - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:13] <exec> 08└─PICs which can run simple ramping sequences of multiple LEDs can run on only milliwatts. The CPU can then shut down as soon as it's uploaded the "program" to the PIC. Mobile phones have been doing this for ages.
[09:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:File Formats cannot be "open source" - 06For Infallible Records, the Vatican Wants Open Source - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:07] <exec> 08└─If it handles 64bit info, I stand corrected. The other points hold, tho.
[09:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh the hue and cry.... - 06Network Analysis of US Intelligence Community Released - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:01] <exec> 08└─So emacs and vi should cover it all then. Good! [goes on to update his cv]
[09:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh the hue and cry.... - 06Network Analysis of US Intelligence Community Released - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:02] <exec> 08└─You were supposed to repsond "for that, there's M-x vi-mode".
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[10:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cool Eyes - 06Ebola Virus Lurked and Grew in Eye of 'Cured' Physician - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:11] <exec> 08└─Now we can all have freaky eyes! Please stop moving these infectious people around the world. Isn’t it a observation that a virus is never fully removed from the body when "Cured?" Just suppressed enough that you don't suffer much or at all. Is the "suppressed" virus as good as a vaccine if you co...
[10:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02stupid quacks - 06Ebola Virus Lurked and Grew in Eye of 'Cured' Physician - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:12] <exec> 08└─Ebola outsmarts medicule dockters! Eggheads. What do they know.
[10:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Ebola DNA wants to be free! - 06Ebola Virus Lurked and Grew in Eye of 'Cured' Physician - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:14] <exec> 08└─I hate all this proprietory ebola - when's someone going to release an open source version? Lennart, we need you...
[10:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ebola-chan - 06Ebola Virus Lurked and Grew in Eye of 'Cured' Physician - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:16] <exec> 08└─If ebola-chan was willed into existance, would you marry her?
[10:24:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02More Surveillance? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 1468 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:29] <exec> 08└─The Conservative's have tried over the last 5 years, whilst in a coalition government, to introduce more pervasive surveillance - electronic, physical, and imagery - but have been prevented from doing so by the coalition partners. With them out of the way, I guess that we will see another attempt in...
[10:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Only one question left... - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:42] <exec> 08└─Who in their right mind would touch SAP, even to hack it? You're pretty safe if you use SAP. I mean, if a hacker could actually figure out SAP, there would be no reason to hack because the person could make huge sums of money as a consultant. (Full disclosure: I haven't actually used SAP, but have r...
[10:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marry young girls - not so fast - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:02] <exec> 08└─Exodus is not Deuteronomy. Seduction (pathah) is not rape. The _Hebrew_ word used is different. (taphas) (If you wish to argue about taphas, here's a refutation of your arguments: http://pastebin.com) [pastebin.com] You didn't refute anything. If the man rapes the girl child (read the hebre...
[10:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doll test - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:04] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of a kind of grown up version of the doll test. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[10:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:21] <exec> 08└─<nitpick>Neither RUST not C nor C++ runs on AVR, that's why we need a compiler</nitpick> However, there is a fork [github.com] of the rust project which will compile for AVR. This was the first thing I checked after reading the article. C is widely used to program operating systems and embedded syst...
[10:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GD Toaster! - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've got a smart strip that does the same thing - got all my media devices plugged in to it. But the idea of having to plug every little thing into its own smart strip drives me as batty as the stupid toaster.
[10:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:26] <exec> 08└─It is a bit of a scary road to insist that your interpretation is the only correct interpretation in a manner that assumes there can be no reasonable disagreement.
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[11:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Harvard Jews out-Jew all other Jews - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:05] <exec> 08└─With the perfect brisket! In your also-Jewish faces, other non-Harvard Jews.
[11:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ebola DNA wants to be free! - 06Ebola Virus Lurked and Grew in Eye of 'Cured' Physician - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:17] <exec> 08└─Gonna fork FreEbola on Github and hack it to hide in the coccyx instead. Nobody will think to look in the coccyx.
[11:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Election Fraud! - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:26] <exec> 08└─Well, given that UKIP had 12.5% of the votes, but only got 1 seat out of 650 ...
[11:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Sanity son - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:33] <exec> 08└─This is the worst possible outcome. We will now have a referendum on EU membership and probably leave, at which point we are completely screwed. Even if we don't companies like mine that do business with the EU are already feeling the pain as clients are unwilling to commit to long term relationship...
[11:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:More Surveillance? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 2440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:37] <exec> 08└─It is a shame, because in most other respects they are the only party that appears to have a clue about how to solve the huge debts that were built up in previous years despite the fact that it is a bitter pill to swallow. They've been a bit creative with the truth [newstatesman.com] regarding thei...
[11:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 3108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not British etc., here's my very subjective reactions which can be completely wrong: - I can understand why people didn't vote Liberal Democrat. They have done nothing much in government with the Tories. This is a good “reward” for that in my opinion. - I can understand why people didn't vot...
[11:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:How do other players know? - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:03] <exec> 08└─Ask them to describe themselves. If they say "I have big tits", it's a guy.
[11:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:04] <exec> 08└─Here’s a C program which will simply double all the input it’s given: int double_input(int input) { return input * 2; }
[11:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it ironic? - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:37] <exec> 08└─My Windows 8 laptop can boot from cold to login screen in under 4 seconds. Sony should be able to do better with a fixed hardware platform and custom OS build.
[11:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:20] <exec> 08└─An export control, which is the topic under discussion, does not affect your ability to keep and bear arms domestically.
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[12:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Science You Can Use! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:58] <exec> 08└─Modern science and toast! who knew?
[12:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How long until somebody puts their cock in? - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:59] <exec> 08└─How long will it be until somebody tries putting their cock and balls into this cooker, and ends up with a smoked sausage?
[12:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:31] <exec> 08└─- I can understand why people voted SNP except for one thing: I do understand and sympathize with the independence movement/self-determination but why out of the UK yet not out of the EU? What sort of independence is that?
[12:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02TTIP - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:32] <exec> 08└─The Conservatives are strongly in favour of the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership [bbc.co.uk] deal - the interest for Soylentils is probably the Intellectual Property side of that.
[12:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:13] <exec> 08└─Oooh, a 5, Troll score. I am envious.
[12:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:14] <exec> 08└─It just goes to show that the Troll modifier should be removed, since it's never used correctly here. That comment isn't even an attempt to troll, obviously. It's just some very insightful insight. It should be 5, Insightful.
[12:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't it ironic? - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:33] <exec> 08└─All those rootkits bog them down bro.
[12:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it ironic? - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:39] <exec> 08└─Sure, but how are you going to power that? You need to take 100-240V 50/60Hz AC (universal power supply) and turn it into 3.3v. Well, more likely you need at least 12v and 3.3v for the system, and anywhere from a few milliwatts to say 300W depending on the load. And it has to be cheap. It's not easy...
[12:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:How dare they innovate? - 06Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Makes an Android Device With an Interactive Frame - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:22] <exec> 08└─I got your back. Thanks for mentioning it so I didn't have to wonder.
[12:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong with FB immersion? - 06Consumer Version of Oculus Rift Coming in Early 2016 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, remember it's Zuckerberg's crack you're staring at.
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[13:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:How long until somebody puts their cock in? - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─I'm so glad that the posting clowns over at slashdot didn't migrate here.
[13:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:How long until somebody puts their cock in? - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─It's a relevant question. It's too bad some dumbass here modded it off-topic. It's more on-topic than the other comments posted so far, including yours. As long as man has been creating machines, man has been putting his penis into said machines. It's just a part of human nature. If we are talking o...
[13:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02[SOYLENTNEWS META] Flagging shit stories. - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:03] <exec> 08└─I was looking at the SoylentNews story queue today, and noticed that there's a submission that should never make its way onto the front page of this site. It's entitled "Taxpayers to Pay For Drug Raid that Blew Up Baby's Face". Even before reading the submitter's name, I knew that it was submitted b...
[13:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Sanity son - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:30] <exec> 08└─mojo chan wrote :- We will now have a referendum on EU membership and probably leave, at which point we are completely screwed. .. companies like mine that do business with the EU are already feeling the pain as clients are unwilling to commit .. due to the uncertainty.
[13:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alberta's landslide in the opposite direction - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 1821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:32] <exec> 08└─It wasn't just "in 1 Election". The Alberta NDP have been spinning their wheels there for decades, getting nowhere. The party traces its roots back to the 1930s, for fuck's sake, and to the 1960s in its present form. We're talking about 50 to 80 years of total ineffectiveness, over many elections! A...
[13:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:More Surveillance? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:37] <exec> 08└─I was making the point about the additional surveillance that I expect to see. If I wanted to discuss politics, I wouldn't be on this site. I all have learned from your self-confessed rant is that we have different views.
[13:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:More Surveillance? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:38] <exec> 08└─Well, it is a story about politics.
[13:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:More Surveillance? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:40] <exec> 08└─Very true :) I was replying to the question in TFA which asked "How will their viewpoints affect the world political stage and/or the technology world?". I have nothing against your political views but debating politics seems to be an utter waste of time in fora such as these, especially, as there a...
[13:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:42] <exec> 08└─I do understand and sympathize with the independence movement/self-determination but why out of the UK yet not out of the EU? What sort of independence is that? Because the political consensus in Scotland is left-of-centre social democracy, and in England, it's right-of-centre individualism and soc...
[13:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:44] <exec> 08└─Yog-Yogguth wrote :- I can understand why people voted SNP except for one thing: I do understand ..h the independence movement/self-determination but why out of the UK yet not out of the EU?
[13:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WoW - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:05] <exec> 08└─At first my thought was "well, who would think green would be attractive?"
[13:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans are Mammals - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:07] <exec> 08└─The males look for the best...
[13:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:12] <exec> 08└─So anyone that uses terminology in a way that you don't like, even if it is perfectly valid for that language, is on your bad side?
[13:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:42] <exec> 08└─Your comment sounds very reasonable except that there is a significant amount of disagreement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_interpretation) about how to interpret the constitution in the judiciary. To act like you have the only right opinion, bar all arguments, is an interest mixture of wil...
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[14:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Economics won (and lost) WWII. - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:58] <exec> 08└─WWII wasn't decided by people. It was decided by economics. It was decided by the fact that small countries, some of them completely or almost completely landlocked, were economic midgets going against current or potential economic powerhouses. People were just one small resource among many within t...
[14:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Perhaps there's something to learn.. - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─Have a look at how funding, recruitment, what qualities that got you a bonus, conditions for experimentation etc was done on both sides.
[14:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─Why don't you hero worship nazi nerds too while you are at? Geez.
[14:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How long until somebody puts their cock in? - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:13] <exec> 08└─I don't see why the parent comment is off topic. The submission is about putting meat into this new fangled oven. The parent commit is about putting meat into this new fangled oven. Thus the parent comment is on topic.
[14:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:[SOYLENTNEWS META] Flagging shit stories. - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not quite sure why you feel that you should be able to control what others wish to say - but being 'leftist' isn't a crime and it rather depends on where you feel the centre is. For example, in the US they think that they have a right wing and a left wing party, whereas from the European viewpoi...
[14:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:[SOYLENTNEWS META] Flagging shit stories. - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─I don't care if gewg_ wants to submit shitty summaries. I would never want to take that away from him. But let's face it, that's a bad submission no matter how you look at it. It's biased. The sources it cites lack repute. It's poorly written. It's not here to inform people or even to get them to th...
[14:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:[SOYLENTNEWS META] Flagging shit stories. - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 1981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:18] <exec> 08└─We don't just look at the submission as received. We are prepared to rewrite stories that are simply not good enough - otherwise the single URL link and one liners that we sometimes receive would never ever reach the front page, despite them sometimes being interesting and informative. We also do a...
[14:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:[SOYLENTNEWS META] Flagging shit stories. - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─The issue of police brutality is a serious one. Nobody is doubting that. The problem with gewg_'s submissions on the topic is that he always refers to questionable sources that just don't look like they can be trusted. Many times they're outfits with a very obvious bias with respect to what's being...
[14:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Hmmm - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:21] <exec> 08└─I live about a mile from Harvard, and own a Big Green Egg myself. I might have to go challenge them to a cookoff...
[14:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:23] <exec> 08└─How would this cook off work? Would you put your penis in your oven, and they'd put their penises in their ovens? And the winner would be the one whose meat develops the finest mahogany hue, and is tender, but not falling apart?
[14:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:24] <exec> 08└─You forget the "smoke ring". When you cut your cock in half, there should be a thin layer of pink just under the surface. It's one of the signs of perfectly barbecued meat.
[14:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Ambiguous temperatures... -p-p-p-plz! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─So all these ambiguous "degrees" are they Celsius, Fahrenheit or even Kelvin?
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ambiguous temperatures... -p-p-p-plz! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:28] <exec> 08└─Fahrenheit. It's the unit of temperature measure that God uses, so thus it's the unit of temperature measure that Americans use.
[14:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Ambiguous temperatures... -p-p-p-plz! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:29] <exec> 08└─Well, the numbers make absolutely no sense if they're Celsius or Kelvin. So that kind of narrows it down.
[14:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ebola-chan - 06Ebola Virus Lurked and Grew in Eye of 'Cured' Physician - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─If ebola-chan was willed into existance, would you marry her?
[14:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Sanity son - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:54] <exec> 08└─What nonsense.
[14:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Sanity son - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:55] <exec> 08└─This is the worst possible outcome. We will now have a referendum on EU membership and probably leave
[14:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:27] <exec> 08└─is there added complexity though, or just added tedium? Adding tedium to generally unsafe practices would tend to promote using other practices instead.
[14:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:28] <exec> 08└─Tedium is a form of unnecessary, wasteful complexity.
[14:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:40] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with personal preference. It's not about "likes". When it comes to technical matters, including programming languages and related concepts, words have very, very specific meanings. Misuse of such terminology will cause technical problems. If you misuse the terminology, confusi...
[14:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:25] <exec> 08└─Gun violence != deaths.
[14:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:03] <exec> 08└─I could take this opportunity to detail a multitude of repugnant decisions reached by vaunted courts, all of which should give a thinking person pause as to entrusting "interpretation" of a document's plain language to a single instutiton which also derives its power from said document (Dred Scott v...
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[15:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─> Why don't you hero worship nazi nerds too while you are at? Geez. Troll actually makes a good point. Lots of nerds prefer to be heads down engineers, ignoring the moral implications of their work. We are not computers thoughtlessly doing the bidding of someone else. It is our responsibility to con...
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:01] <exec> 08└─Why don't you hero worship nazi nerds too while you are at? Geez.
[15:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Ambiguous temperatures... -p-p-p-plz! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:26] <exec> 08└─120 C° to let the enzymes in the meat break down the collagen and make it tender and wood burning at 700 C° seems to make sense. The question is if it's correct. The sources are not deterministic.
[15:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:08] <exec> 08└─On Scotland: yes, and that's sort of what I meant by things moving to a new stage or a new level, they have to get serious about these things now. Besides that I just want to point out that I was a hard-line Euro-skeptic twenty years ago (in the mid-nineties) and still am. It was obvious the EU was...
[15:25:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02Only one question left... - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 598 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:23] <exec> 08└─Who in their right mind would touch SAP, even to hack it? You're pretty safe if you use SAP. I mean, if a hacker could actually figure out SAP, there would be no reason to hack because the person could make huge sums of money as a consultant. (Full disclosure: I haven't actually used SAP, but have r...
[15:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First C, and now Agile? - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:04] <exec> 08└─They prefer to be called "Rubyists".
[15:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score:1) 02Re:Time was the world wanted the U.S. to arm them - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:46] <exec> 08└─A very patriotic burly man in a dually 4X4 kept driving around the campground loop asking, "Has any one seen the bear?" No one had, so Mr. NRA macho packed up and fled for a safer campground closer to civilization.
[15:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 2969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:10] <exec> 08└─Marbury v Madison is widely hailed as one of the most important cases in the history of common law anywhere, and not for the practical effect of its ruling. Judicial review and courts of last resort have been eagerly imported by many other nation states. People on both sides of the current ideologic...
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[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Why has it taken so long? - 06Laptop Border Search Ruled Unreasonable - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Any legal beagle should have seen that this nonsense is unconstitutional before it was even implemented. It doesn't even take a legal background to see that it is wrong. WHY HAVE JUDGES BEEN SILENT FOR SO LONG?
[16:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics won (and lost) WWII. - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:04] <exec> 08└─"A Call To Arms" by Murray Klein, a recent book, is a lengthy discussion of how America mobilized its economy for WWII. Looks like an outstanding contribution to the literature of WWII, about a topic that is not usually covered. I can only hope to have time to read this behemoth some day!
[16:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics won (and lost) WWII. - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:05] <exec> 08└─Russia won the war. And to some large degree, Russia's winter.
[16:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:10] <exec> 08└─"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That is not my department!" says Wernher Von Braun.
[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─Next up? "Oedipus Rex"!
[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─Troll actually makes a good point. I agree. However, without the Germans most of the soviet and US space race would have been years behind. They basically bootstrapped that whole thing. Just so they could land bombs on the english. A lot of things can be turned into a weapon unfortunately. It is not...
[16:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02do nerds really want the publicity? - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:15] <exec> 08└─Respect is what's wanted, respect for science and facts. Currently, we have a lot of anti-science, jealousy, and plain stupidity hindering scientific work, at a time when we need answers. It is far too easy to lurch into war. We could tolerate war before our weapons became so powerful that their use...
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Harvard Jews out-Jew all other Jews - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─Well if they want uniform, predictable results then - Jewish or not - they need to first begin with the spherical brisket...
[16:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ambiguous temperatures... -p-p-p-plz! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:37] <exec> 08└─Before anyone else starts to criticize: when dealing with measurements needing a moderate precision, if you were so inclined to work with integers Fahrenheit is the sensible choice. Not that it matters. This is slow-smoking brisket. When in Rome.
[16:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Ambiguous temperatures... -p-p-p-plz! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:40] <exec> 08└─At 120 C, all the water would have evaporated. And at 190 C (see next sentence) the meat would be a charred cinder.
[16:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Sanity son - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─I hate making bold predictions, but Scotland is as good as gone by this point. Their independence vote came down to a hair's breadth thanks to all the last-minute lobbying, concessions and promises from the other major UK parties, and then all of those promises were immediately ignored as soon as th...
[16:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How do other players know? - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:55] <exec> 08└─Or an Aviculturalist. [wikipedia.org]
[16:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Marry young girls - not so fast - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─So - with inflation over 5 millenia, what is 50 shekels worth today? Rupert Murdoch might be impoverished if he had to pay the fee . . .
[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Doll test - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─I watched a couple variations on the doll test. Watched portions of more. All flawed. Just give the kids nearly identical dolls, with different skin colors, and see which ones they play with. Every video and portion of a video that I watched had very staged, and contrived situations, with children a...
[16:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it ironic? - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:31] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity , does your laptop have an SSD?
[16:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:29] <exec> 08└─as the USA was created with the delegated authority [soylentnews.org] of individuals, the authority of the USA's governments cannot exceed that of a single individual. If I as an individual cannot justifiably shoot you in the face for a given reason, neither can government do or threaten to do the s...
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[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why has it taken so long? - 06Laptop Border Search Ruled Unreasonable - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:55] <exec> 08└─Judges interpret the law within the context of standing precedent. If a ruling that 1+1=2 stands, then a judge will have to rule that 2 + 2 == 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 It is wrong to think that judges can just pretty much decide anything on a case in front of them with whatever they feel like that day. If they...
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Why has it taken so long? - 06Laptop Border Search Ruled Unreasonable - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─Historically, its been due to stretching the envelop sort of government creep. Border control, and the searches and seizures used at borders, is an implied obligation of the government in Article 4. Therefore routine searches and seizures are not seen as "unreasonable". They have always been the exp...
[17:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Why has it taken so long? - 06Laptop Border Search Ruled Unreasonable - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─Judges don't have the power to just pipe up every time they see something legislative or executive they don't agree with, and make a ruling against it. They have to have a case come across their bench in which the issue comes up. Different judges have different opinions as well, so if some pro-autho...
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 0250 miles? - 06Laptop Border Search Ruled Unreasonable - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─You wish - it's 100 miles [aclu.org]
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:1) 02United States v. Cotterman - 06Laptop Border Search Ruled Unreasonable - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─The 9th Circuit court case is United States v. Cotterman, It said that the examination of the defendant's electronic devices "required a showing of reasonable suspicion, a modest requirement in light of the Fourth Amendment" without defining what "reasonable suspicion" includes, and commenting that...
[17:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics won (and lost) WWII. - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:12] <exec> 08└─Russians armed with American weapons won the war. Not to mention Hitler's idiotic self-sabotage and the German fascination with wonder weapons.
[17:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics won (and lost) WWII. - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:13] <exec> 08└─Russia also helped start the war. [wikipedia.org]
[17:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:20] <exec> 08└─> However, without the Germans most of the soviet and US space race would have been years behind. Look where it got us. After going to the moon a couple of times, everything stagnated. Seems like in the long run it didn't make much of a difference.
[17:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─What's stagnated? It's moved in fits and starts, but today most of us in the developed world use satellites on a daily basis, to say nothing of the ongoing exploration of the sun, planets, and other bodies around the solar system. As well as the increasingly detailed orbital studies of the Earth its...
[17:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:23] <exec> 08└─we do [wikipedia.org]
[17:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:More Surveillance? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:31] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>We have to 'protect our freedom and the children', of course.</sarcasm>
[17:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:should used Rust - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:46] <exec> 08└─Boo hoo! I was modded unfairly as 'Troll'! It's everybody else's fault but mine and the Troll mod shouldn't even exist! Woe I say!
[17:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:I've been extremely successful with eXtreme - - 06The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:31] <exec> 08└─what agile tried to do is to make programming 'work' for even the clueless and talent-lacking. ... the right answer is: building things requires insight and talent and it does not really matter what method you use. sometimes planning out a whole system makes sense (waterfall) and sometimes being ver...
[17:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:04] <exec> 08└─No, it really isn't. For a simplistic example, naming a function FastButUnsafeConversionFromStringToInteger() is going to nudge people toward using its slower, safer cousin StringToInt(). But there is absolutely no difference in the complexity of using either, only in the tedium of typing and readin...
[17:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:10] <exec> 08└─What's bullshit? I pointed out that GC isn't determinism friendly. Duh.
[17:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:allwinner? - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:03] <exec> 08└─I’m a little leery of those Allwinner chips. Who knows what kind of back doors the People’s Republic of China have hidden in those chips? I’m not normally this paranoid, but imagine what a hostile foreign nation can do with hundreds of thousands of “Internet Of Things” under their control?...
[17:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score:1) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:45] <exec> 08└─Your comment sounds very reasonable except when you look at where all this judicial interpretation has gotten us. Personally, I would rather the government's feet be held to the fire and follow the unambiguous wording of the constitution regardless of convenience or convention.
[17:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 2022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:46] <exec> 08└─When the courts ignore the constitution so they can increase the power of the government, there is tyranny. I don't know why it's so difficult for people to comprehend that the constitution can be amended when necessary. I know the authoritarians in the government realize that, but it's far easier f...
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[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:3, Funny) 02Is it really such a crazy idea? - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:56] <exec> 08└─An oil-rich region, ruled by heavily-armed religious fanatics, and openly hostile to Western values? Sounds like just the kind of place that the US likes to invade.
[18:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02If we can get the oil - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:57] <exec> 08└─The mission will more than pay for itself inside three years.
[18:24:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 0250 miles? - 06Laptop Border Search Ruled Unreasonable - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─You wish - it's 100 miles [aclu.org]
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics won (and lost) WWII. - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:22] <exec> 08└─And the Russian government seems to think that the war started in 1941: http://wyborcza.pl [wyborcza.pl]
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side MOD PARENT UP - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─It's something not nearly enough people have even heard of, much less though about.
[18:24:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02do nerds really want the publicity? - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 1168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─Respect is what's wanted, respect for science and facts. Currently, we have a lot of anti-science, jealousy, and plain stupidity hindering scientific work, at a time when we need answers. It is far too easy to lurch into war. We could tolerate war before our weapons became so powerful that their use...
[18:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 5513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:48] <exec> 08└─Your situation perfectly illustrates the issue of being held to ransom over trade, this is what fuels the EU monster, it is power and it's not yours. Did you ever wonder why China (and now also Russia) is more popular than the EU locally (i.e. not among refugees/modern slaves) in Africa? I'm aware o...
[18:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:57] <exec> 08└─My meta language can output in C and generates unit test stubs with input fuzzing for numerics and strings based on parameter type or explicit doc comment ///@range[a..b,c,d..e] or ///@random[...]
[18:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Debian? - 06Next Thing Co's $9 computer - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:11] <exec> 08└─Yes. I did see that when I got the image but I forgot to adjust my statement to say "second-oldest". Good catch. -- gewg_
[18:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it ironic? - 06Always-On Inactive Devices May Devour $19 Billion Worth of Electricity Annually - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:09] <exec> 08└─Sure, they could do that. The point is that they typically don't for devices that are plugged in.
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[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─An oil-rich region, ruled by heavily-armed religious fanatics, and openly hostile to Western values? Sounds like just the kind of place that the US likes to invade.
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Is it really such a crazy idea? - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─Sure, except why would they? Texas already voluntarily handed over control of their oil and government to the very people we'd be invading on behalf of. It's not like the US government has any particular objection to genocidal and/or religious extremists, we ally with them all the time. Hell, many o...
[19:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it really such a crazy idea? - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:59] <exec> 08└─Desperate Residents of Austin Completely Surrounded by Texas " rel="url2html-12003">http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/desperate-residents-of-austin-completely-surrounded-by-texas
[19:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:1, Troll) 02Falsify it and be done with it - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:02] <exec> 08└─If it's true that any permanent martial law in Texas isn't going to happen. Then prove it with documentation and reality? It's not like transforming this nation into a semi permanent martial law perhaps is that far away.
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Falsify it and be done with it - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:03] <exec> 08└─Texans like to portray themselves as rebellious and independent, but in fact are by far one of the most authoritarian bootlicking populations in the 'states. If the military ever did invade Texas, they'd be welcomed with open arms and any rebels would be squished like roaches. Texas: A whole-lotta n...
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Falsify it and be done with it - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 1933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─I do agree that the threat of permanent martial law in this country seems closer than ever: The US governments trampling of rights is getting ever more egregious (that has been going on since the founding, but we seem to be finally reaching the kink in the "hockey stick" curve) . We've installed a d...
[19:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Chuck Norris - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:06] <exec> 08└─With Chuck Norris against them, they wouldn't have had a chance anyway. He would just have kicked them out of Texas with his bare foot.
[19:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rejected submission - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:08] <exec> 08└─I was so disappointed that a (previously unnoticed by me) soylentil would submit an item yesterday that I couldn't verify. Rejected submission by Liberty or Death [soylentnews.org] Door-to-Door Confiscation of Civilian Firearms!!! I checked what Google had for the previous 24 hours, once early in th...
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ansak [3757] (Score:1) 02You can't make this stuff up... - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:10] <exec> 08└─It's all just as rational as the run on guns and ammo that started just after the US presidential election in 2008. Every otherwise serious journalist who's fallen for this ball of horse-hockey deserves a "Come on, man!" award. You Americans have far more to fear from the Kochs, ALEC and all the oth...
[19:24:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Why has it taken so long? - 06Laptop Border Search Ruled Unreasonable - 1063 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:16] <exec> 08└─Historically, its been due to stretching the envelop sort of government creep. Border control, and the searches and seizures used at borders, is an implied obligation of the government in Article 4. Therefore routine searches and seizures are not seen as "unreasonable". They have always been the exp...
[19:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Ambiguous temperatures... -p-p-p-plz! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:12] <exec> 08└─It depends on how the BBQ is setup, ie if the humidity is contained. But when correlating the mention of enzymes and the scienceofcooking.com website it seems Fahrenheit is the most likely choice. Now if the submitter put that into the original article submission.. To make this happen one seems to n...
[19:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Ambiguous temperatures... -p-p-p-plz! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:13] <exec> 08└─If you "contain the humidity", then you'd also smother the fire. Sure, you could put the meat in a pressure cooker and bring it up to 120 C without drying it out - but that's not barbecuing.
[19:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:59] <exec> 08└─By the way to say the English consensus is social darwinism is a very extreme statement. It was an extreme statement. I accept that. I just don't think that people fully appreciate what they have voted for. I don't think they realise how luck they were last time to have the Liberal Democrats in coa...
[19:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 2043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─Well how big do you think Belgium is then? :) Sorry for going into James May/“auto-correction” mode but in Europe (Great) Britain isn't that small, as far as I know (and it's an unfair comparison to begin with) there are not even any republics, okrugs, or oblasts in the European part of Russia (...
[19:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fatuous looser [2550] (Score:1) 02What's a SAP? Me, for lookin' it up - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:16] <exec> 08└─SAP general acronyms = 176 . SAP tech acronyms = 47 . So which SAP specifically is being referred to in the fine articles? No one ever says. We all just "know" somehow. . Oh, found it, finally. Whew. Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte. Systems, applications & products. mysap.com. . You're welc...
[19:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:What's a SAP? Me, for lookin' it up - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:17] <exec> 08└─What, you mean your first instinct isn't to check the acronym against German?
[19:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:1) 02Re:How do other players know? - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:35] <exec> 08└─Or a kitteh. As the saying goes, "a tit a day keeps the vet away".
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[20:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Chuck Norris - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:04] <exec> 08└─"Chuck Norris doesn’t engage in critical thinking. When Chuck Norris ponders an issue, it’s the thinking that’s going to be in critical condition."
[20:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chuck Norris - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:05] <exec> 08└─What is, or one would expect, to be going on is that each state drill implementing martial law. Tampa Bay had south a drill not that long ago, which included foreign observers mind you. If things were to go south, society wise, martial law is the only tool the gov knows to keep people in check. Whic...
[20:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Rejected submission - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:08] <exec> 08└─Μορον Λαβία Τεξάς
[20:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 0240% of americans believe they've been abducted - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:10] <exec> 08└─- by aliens. Consider also that nine out of ten mentally ill people never come to the attention of a mental health professional during their entire lives.
[20:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Recommended Reading - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:47] <exec> 08└─From a British side, "Most Secret War" by R.V. Jones is highly recommended to hear from the horse's mouth about real WW2 scientific developments - not from those above directing, but from a scientist on the ground trying to solve problems and make advances that shortened the war and (in relation to...
[20:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:02] <exec> 08└─Murdoch is a right-wing nut-job. He had the Scottish Sun come out in support of the SNP to ensure the complete annihilation of Labour, thus ensuring a victory for his Tory friends. And by stoking up fear of Scotland breaking away from the UK, he further guarantees support for the Conservatives since...
[20:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and bad - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:08] <exec> 08└─Anyway yes Salmond's answer is a non-answer and he knows it or he's being daft. No, he was using a metaphor. He was trying to explain that London is too far away from Scotland politically, and that Scotland is closer in terms of politics to continental Europe.
[20:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pseudonymous Coward [4624] (Score:1) 02Re:Marry young girls - not so fast - 06Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:48] <exec> 08└─It's "Tay-phas". https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mvdwege [3388] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:21] <exec> 08└─Having a new language for low-level programming, entirely designed with security in mind, would be awesome.
[20:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:22] <exec> 08└─I never heard much about ADA, but after seeing your post I started reading about it. Thanks, I guess I will use it for my next AVR project :-)
[20:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Constitutional - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:28] <exec> 08└─Where has it gotten us, exactly? One of the most enviable court systems in the world? The constitution is not unambiguous, it is ambiguous, even by design. My point is to fail to acknowledge that ambiguity is to foster poor civil discourse.
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[21:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02False dilemma - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:57] <exec> 08└─They've made decent arguments for making a new airport. They have not made reasonable arguments for shutting down KLGA. La Guardia as an airport is fine. Sure, you can't make it bigger, but big, sprawling airports have their own problems, both for passengers, and for aircraft. Several smaller airpor...
[21:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it really such a crazy idea? - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:07] <exec> 08└─Quick! Someone warn Aaron Burr! Isn't the US Army full of Texans and Oakies?
[21:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is it really such a crazy idea? - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:10] <exec> 08└─While I agree with the general sentiment, Iraq wasn't ruled by religious fanatics until after the US invaded it.
[21:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Chuck Norris - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:17] <exec> 08└─Nothin' in Texas but steers and queers - and I don't hear you sayin' "moo".
[21:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Martial law - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:19] <exec> 08└─They usually call out the local National Guard unit to augment the local cops when thing get hairy. Are those guys going to shoot their own neighbors and kin? For the Tiananmen Square massacre, the gov't had to bring in troops from 2 provinces over to make sure the soldiers weren't murdering their o...
[21:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Project Gee, LORAN - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:02] <exec> 08└─I'm hugely impressed with Project Gee which led to the LORAN system [wikipedia.org]. The Brits used a passive hyperbolic positioning system which had an accuracy of 300m at a distance of 500km from known base-stations. That's 1/3 of the accuracy of GPS and it allowed Brits to bomb German cities when...
[21:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Backronyms - 06Researchers Say Almost All SAP Installs Hackable - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:40] <exec> 08└─Making them up seems to be good sport at SAP's expense. Start Applying Patches Send Another Payment Suffering And Pain Sorry Ass Program -- gewg_
[21:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mvdwege [3388] (Score:1) 02Re:It's like driving - 06Death to C - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:40] <exec> 08└─I dabble a bit in it; I'm a sysadmin by trade, programming professionally for me is mostly scripting languages. When I do have a hobby project that needs C levels of speed, I go for Ada though (note, it's not an acronym, it's named for Lady Ada Lovelace). It's a nice language, a tad verbose, using w...
[21:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Time was the world wanted the U.S. to arm them - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:20] <exec> 08└─So why do you think it is that Stephen Colbert's main phobia on the "Threatdown!" was "BEARS!"? Yes, it was parody, but it just goes to prove that conservatives are afraid of bears. NRA is entirely made up of conservatives that are afraid of bears. Russia is a bear. We have ammosexuals even here on...
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[22:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Re:False dilemma - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe the ridiculous cost is so they can keep it running during the upgrade?? Sure is a lot of zeros.
[22:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:False dilemma - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:58] <exec> 08└─LGA as an airport is not fine. It has no subway line running to it, so there's no easy way to get there except an expensive cab, and honestly, in a city of NYC's prominence, not having a subway to the airport is just pathetic, and reinforces the "third world" allegation. Dulles airport outside of DC...
[22:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Soon? - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:00] <exec> 08└─Berlin will soon follow suit.
[22:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is it really such a crazy idea? - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:10] <exec> 08└─Don't fuck with Oakies. We are everywhere and we are taking over.
[22:24:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Re:Falsify it and be done with it - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:15] <exec> 08└─Texans like to portray themselves as rebellious and independent, but in fact are by far one of the most authoritarian bootlicking populations in the 'states. If the military ever did invade Texas, they'd be welcomed with open arms and any rebels would be squished like roaches. Texas: A whole-lotta n...
[22:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Falsify it and be done with it - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:18] <exec> 08└─Whatever it is; labeling Texas, Utah, and the southern tip of California as "hostile" was an extremely inflammatory message to send to the American people. Those portions of the US are generally conservative Christian and pro-gun. It was an extremely counterproductive message to send. They could hav...
[22:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:40% of americans believe they've been abducted - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:28] <exec> 08└─Bullshit.
[22:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score:1) 02Re:Economics won (and lost) WWII. - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:53] <exec> 08└─An excellent point - even the Manhattan Project, although it employed thousands of nerds, was really successful because of throwing massive quantities of cash at the problem.
[22:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:02] <exec> 08└─> What's stagnated? It's moved in fits and starts, but today most of us in the developed world use satellites on a daily basis And if we were ten years later getting into orbit we would still be doing all of that because the limiting factor on satellite capabilities is not rocket science. > to say n...
[22:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:07] <exec> 08└─Why not? You can't blame people for supporting their country, when that country commits atrocities without their knowledge. The work of these people is no less worthy of appreciation just because they ended up on the wrong side by no fault of their own.
[22:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:do nerds really want the publicity? - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:10] <exec> 08└─> Respect is what's wanted, And publicity is how you get respect. If people don't know you and the work you do they will naturally minimize it. That is just human nature, we are a social species. Accepting that fact is the first step towards solving the problem of getting respect.
[22:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Repeating my points while denying them - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:15] <exec> 08└─decades already covered with longest reigning government ...and the numbers clearly show that it -was- accomplished in 1 election. How did you get out of elementary school unable to do basic Arithmetic? (The same for whomever mod'd you Informative.) right-leaning voters [...] splitting their vote So...
[22:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Equivalent to shipping a blueprint - 063-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts War Between Arms Control and Free Speech - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:13] <exec> 08└─Gun violence severe enough to "lose loved ones" is.
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[23:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a fucking stupid submission. - 06All hail the next big job, the Chief IoT Officer - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:59] <exec> 08└─Seriously, this is a fucking dumb submission. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) already cares about this shit. She's been considering IoT and dealing with it for years, for crying out loud. There's no CIoTO because the goddamn CTO already does his job!
[23:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:False dilemma - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:09] <exec> 08└─" in a city of NYC's prominence, not having a subway to the airport is just pathetic "
[23:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:False dilemma - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:10] <exec> 08└─Some people had a worse start in life and because of that they don't deserve to stay in the city?
[23:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Soon? - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─The thing that's really laughable, though, is that Berlin Tegel, the old airport they're thinking of shutting down, is much nicer and easier to move through than JFK. Basically, any American who travels to Europe and isn't embarrassed by the state of American infrastructure is not paying attention.
[23:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Soon? - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:14] <exec> 08└─Is the new Berlin airport better? or perhaps rationally better but also sterile?
[23:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is the systemd mentality. - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:16] <exec> 08└─This is the same mentality that we see with systemd: a bad solution for a problem that doesn't even exist. That mentality ruined the Debian project. So it's clearly a mentality not to encourage.
[23:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Falsify it and be done with it - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:31] <exec> 08└─Why is that modded Funny? It should be modded Insightful. Texas is like the big, brawny man you see at the gym benchpressing 450 lbs, curling 100 lbs in each hand, and squatting 650 lbs. Then after the workout, you see him in the showers and he has a tiny micropenis, and maybe even a shriveled scrot...
[23:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02It must be true! - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:44] <exec> 08└─I read it on the Internet.
[23:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:40% of americans believe they've been abducted - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:45] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Here's a citation backing up his claim. [soylentnews.org]
[23:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02conspiracy theories may have been well founded - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:47] <exec> 08└─so many of the conspiracy theories may have been well founded Well, it they were indeed WELL founded they wouldn't be theories. But since its paywalled, it is hard to know just how well founded they were.
[23:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:"nerds" on the other side - 06WWII Nerds Were Heroes - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:19] <exec> 08└─Please credit Tom Lehrer for that! Or as the old saw goes, the US won the Cold War because our Nazi scientists were better than their Nazi scientists!
[23:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Ambiguous temperatures... -p-p-p-plz! - 06Harvard Engineering Students Build the Ultimate BBQ Smoker - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:02] <exec> 08└─Thus the answer is definitely Fahrenheit.
[23:26:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02Re:More Surveillance? - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 2440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:40] <exec> 08└─It is a shame, because in most other respects they are the only party that appears to have a clue about how to solve the huge debts that were built up in previous years despite the fact that it is a bitter pill to swallow. They've been a bit creative with the truth [newstatesman.com] regarding thei...
[23:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ow! - 06Death to C - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:35] <exec> 08└─You didn't fucking mention garbage collection at all. You said determinism is slow, as an excuse for Rust being really fucking slow. But C++ offers determinism, and it's blazing fast. The problem is that Rust is shit.
[23:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suck my Rusty cock, now, brogrammer! - 06Death to C - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:46] <exec> 08└─Oh please. Do you not wear seatbelts because it is still possible to die in a car accident even while wearing a seatbelt? Any language that allows direct memory access in any fashion has that 'problem.' But the idea is that the normal path is safe unlike C. You got that black and white geek thinking...
[23:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chording Keyboard - 06Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Makes an Android Device With an Interactive Frame - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:09] <exec> 08└─I've been waiting many years for something like this. Seems to me that phones are ideal use case for chording keyboards, you have to grip the thing anyway so your fingers are already "on" the keyboard. Sounds like this tech would let you just grab the phone without thinking about getting finger pla...
[23:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh the hue and cry.... - 06Network Analysis of US Intelligence Community Released - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─I implied that there's M-x make coffee blackjack and hookers, but the HR manager wouldn't know about that. But point taken!
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