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[00:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Thumb drives - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:42] <exec> 08└─How does this affect traditional thumb drives? Anyone know? They use a different form of memory than ssds.
[00:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SSDs are crap, please don't use them. - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:43] <exec> 08└─Unless all you do is surf the web.
[00:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:30:58] <exec> 08└─Well, have you tried listening to a woman under the age of about 30? Putting up with their bullshit just isn't worth maybe getting laid at this point, and the kids don't have easy access to the drugs that were available in the 70s (or even 80s), so it's just simple economics that you solve the need...
[00:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:The concept of gender no longer exists. - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:04] <exec> 08└─Well, we spent all this time asking if we could without even once thinking about the question of whether we should. As usual, no one to blame but ourselves.
[00:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:'Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction'? - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe if you used more porn you wouldn't have ended up using the vice?
[00:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:21] <exec> 08└─But do they like it with green eggs and ham?
[00:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:27] <exec> 08└─What if the VR porn women insulted the player based on there appearance?
[00:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:29] <exec> 08└─>More importantly, porn and video games don't require charisma to interact with. Neither do adorable young girls. Remeber: the old religions allow you to have them. Women's new religions do not. And yes, American Christianity is a new religion.
[00:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:31] <exec> 08└─> Which part exactly is "persecution complex whining"? The part where you think you have experienced all of them yourself.
[00:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:33] <exec> 08└─Either that, or GP is looking for love in all the wrong places. What's definitely true is that his misogyny isn't helping him with the ladies, though - If you're distrustful and rude and/or crude to women whenever you come into contact with them, they don't like you, and anyone who is surprised by t...
[00:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:35] <exec> 08└─1. There was no hate shown, so misogyny does not apply. 2. There was no indication of actions "distrustful and rude and/or crude to women whenever you come into contact with them" 3. "anyone who is surprised by that has a problem" is clearly a blanket term. There is far more bias and emotional angst...
[00:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:36] <exec> 08└─Is it really a persecution complex whenever a man shows lament or is it true persecution given that when men show lament they are called out for whining, not sane, and undesirable to the opposite sex?
[00:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Or is it a result of "social justice"? - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:44] <exec> 08└─Because in the past common people with common values were social gatekeepers by pure probability. With internet you get the long tail and all the tail bits find each other and make the common people irrelevant. This process of course worries the powers in society which then implements controls.
[00:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:All kinds of social oddities - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:48] <exec> 08└─Youth finally figured out that using the brain gives more reward? (catch, not all people have enough brain performance)
[00:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02the gdp has grown faster than inflation - 06FAA Easing Rules on Commercial Drones - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:32:36] <exec> 08└─yes you are correct that a dollar today won't buy what yesterdays dollar did. What of inflation-adjusted GDP then? Unless it's steadily growing we don't have prosperity. But my family had prosperity in the 1970s, most people I knew at the time did. Back then it was uncommon for families to have more...
[00:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:"US regulators have suddenly become more -" - 06FAA Easing Rules on Commercial Drones - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:32:37] <exec> 08└─Tip: 1) Follow the money! 2) Pay attention to access to education 3) Pay extra attention to rules for wages 4) Analyze cost structure for daily living For the people to benefit a more efficient society they need to be able to update their professional skills and have a social security while doing so...
[00:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Hobby flying - 06FAA Easing Rules on Commercial Drones - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:32:40] <exec> 08└─Soon drone-napping will happen. Or someone will put a dent in the droning of the skies by using a shotgun.. "oh I thought it was a bird". Don't forget that computers are wonderful for automation. I hope someone makes it clear that drone routes by commercial use is to keep out of hobby and research u...
[00:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:...talk to each other... - 06FAA Easing Rules on Commercial Drones - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:32:45] <exec> 08└─Flying object net for bird science and now PR0F1T! ;-) Let the lawsuits fly.......?
[00:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:HAMR? - 066 Terabyte 2.5" SSD Coming in July - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:33:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, spinning. are you sure it's WD thats bad and not just the cutting edge harddisks? And I read that SSD doesn't degrade gracefully. It's a complete mess to recover if even possible in any meaningful way.
[00:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Soon? - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:36:18] <exec> 08└─No With tegal I'm off the plane (ex. London, so immigration included) and in a taxi within 90 seconds, my best was 52. From there i get to my office down town in 20 minutes. With SXF, which is at the same place as Bramdenburg will be, it's 45 minutes to my office, on top of at least 10 minutes plane...
[00:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:Rejected submission - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry, my sarcasm detector is on the fritz. In case you're being genuine, He's making fun of the gun nut's catchphrase "molon labe" (come and take them, google it...) By changing it to words that rhyme.
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[01:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I don't give a fuck. - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:31] <exec> 08└─Recorded music sucks. If it isn't being played live, it's not worth listening to.
[01:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Don't obsess over the name - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:32] <exec> 08└─It's the service not the name that is important right? The new incarnation just have to "make a name for themselves".
[01:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:SSDs are crap, please don't use them. - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:46] <exec> 08└─What? I've got one in my Mac and it's totally functions amazingly when I'm at Starbucks surfing the intern... oh.
[01:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:3, Informative) 02Formula to make calculations on this - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:48] <exec> 08└─Formula to predict the phenomena: Months before self destruction = 24 * 2^(-(temperature-25)/5)) temperature in celsius. Or inverted: Temperature = -log(months/24) / log(2) * 5 + 25 Thus for 1 month reliability the temperature must be kept below 47 °C. Internal heat inside say a laptop should jeopa...
[01:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Role of chemically-induced micropenis? - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:32:03] <exec> 08└─That comment should be modded up. It's actually one of the most scientific and relevant comments so far.
[01:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:32:05] <exec> 08└─Well, have you tried listening to a woman under the age of about 30?
[01:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:32:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, kids these days. Especially the women. Not sexist at all.
[01:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:32:08] <exec> 08└─The modding here is really atrocious today. I'm seeing all sorts of good comments here modded Flamebait, Troll, or Off-Topic when they clearly aren't. It isn't just this topic, if course. This bad modding happens in most topics. It really is time to name names. The name of the mod should be listed n...
[01:32:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:23] <exec> 08└─Porn and video games don't judge a man based on the amount of money he has. Porn and video games don't conspire to get men fired for sexual harassment. Porn and video games don't give preferential treatment to female job applicants. Porn and video games don't pretend to want equality with men while...
[01:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:32:40] <exec> 08└─Like every person that calls themselves a feminist?
[01:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:10 engines? - 06NASA Tests a Ten-Motor Electric Plane - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:33:33] <exec> 08└─Speculation on 10 motors -- maybe they wanted the prop wash along the length of the wing and tail surface to help during the transition, or to help with control? Think about how tail-draggers are maneuvered on the ground by gunning the engine so the prop wash hits the tail surfaces and rudder. Agree...
[01:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Just don't connect the stupid things. - 06All Hail the Next Big Job: the Chief IoT Officer - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:00] <exec> 08└─Hell no. I have a carafe-less Brewstation from Hamilton Beach. I don't need that $0.50 per K-Cup garbage. I drink way too much coffee for that to be cost effective.
[01:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Soon? - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:34] <exec> 08└─I guess cities will be rated on the efficiency of their airports? Ie why make regular business where a lot of time and cognition is wasted?
[01:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02It's worse than that - 06Ebola Virus Lurked and Grew in Eye of 'Cured' Physician - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:30] <exec> 08└─The situation with Ebola is apparently even worse than what is described in the summary. Behold: Doctors speculate that immune adaptations in the eye that guard again inflammation may make eyes more vulnerable to Ebola, reports NPR. Male testes are another "immune-privileged" organ which could expla...
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[02:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't give a fuck. - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:23] <exec> 08└─You don't give a fuck about the music, do you? You just go to live shows to pick up chicks so you can date-rape them, right?
[02:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't give a fuck. - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:24] <exec> 08└─What the fuck are you talking about?
[02:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't obsess over the name - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:27] <exec> 08└─That's right! You could call it anallyrapingkittensforprofit.com and the visitors will still come purring in. Names don't matter.
[02:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02BREAKING NEWS! A good gewg_ submission! - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:28] <exec> 08└─BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS! There has been a good submission from gewg_. It's entitled "Fedora Has No Plans to Enable Linux Kernel 4.0's Live Patching " and it needs to get on the SN front page NOW!
[02:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BREAKING NEWS! A good gewg_ submission! - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:30] <exec> 08└─I want some jewg_ live patched into my fedora kernel. Fuck yeah! Get that fucker all the way in there. Now, man, now.
[02:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Sorry I only listen to Jango - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:32] <exec> 08└─Jango pays their licensing fees and they have a lazy approach to copyright. No blatantly obvious download links, but no DRM either. Grabbing audio files with a browser's built-in web developer tools is about as easy now as it was back in the olden days to plug a tape recorder into a radio and make a...
[02:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:3, Interesting) 02It was complete nonsense to shut grooveshark down - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:33] <exec> 08└─Now they we've seen Tidal fail, the music industry can understand how difficult it is to build a music streaming service. So why not use grooveshark to build a service that they sanction? Tons of people have lamented that Grooveshark was a great way to find new music that they enjoyed so that they c...
[02:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02rape a Shark right in the Groove - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:35] <exec> 08└─Lose your cock balls and legs.
[02:30:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] 02Thumb drives - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:43] <exec> 08└─How does this affect traditional thumb drives? Anyone know? They use a different form of memory than ssds.
[02:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02SSDs as expanded RAM - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:49] <exec> 08└─So SSDs are only good as an expanded, slightly longer-lived RAM? This isn't an issue if you keep your computer always on or almost always on and is thus perfect for that age-old computing dream of keeping all data in memory and forgoing disk storage entirely, but for long term cold storage disks and...
[02:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02The taste and feel of jizm - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:30] <exec> 08└─(I was going to adulterate the old USA cotton jingle in the subject line, but couldn't think of a good replacement for "the fabric of our lives" that would fit. Boo.) Anyway... Most other women I know don't explicitly like the taste of semen, though there are dietary changes a guy can make to improv...
[02:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly like everybody who calls themselves a feminist using your persecution complex definition of feminist.
[02:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Incomplete information - 06Planetary Society's "LightSail" Solar Sail Test Launch on May 20 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:33:58] <exec> 08└─http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57209.html [mathforum.org] They both mean the same thing.
[02:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:False dilemma - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:29] <exec> 08└─There is no subway to Dulles, nothing even close. Metro is in the process of constructing the silver line which has an end point of Dulles. It is scheduled to be completed in about 5 years.
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[03:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I guess I'll go through life - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:21] <exec> 08└─Just catching colds and missing trains, Everything happens to me. - Frank Sinatra (from Tom Adair)
[03:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't give a fuck. - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:32] <exec> 08└─Live music sucks, because the musicians are tired and stressed from touring. The quality of their performance suffers, but they know they're only there so their fans can see them in person. If the fans wanted to hear the music the way it was meant to be heard, they'd listen to a studio recording ins...
[03:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02What's going on with the moderation here? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:40] <exec> 08└─The moderation problems here are getting really bad lately. Check out this story from earlier today, viewed at -1 [soylentnews.org]. There are currently 98 comments. 13 of them are modded Troll. 3 are modded Flamebait. 1 is modded Off-Topic. 7 are modded funny. Only 6 are modded Insightful, and 4 ar...
[03:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:What's going on with the moderation here? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:42] <exec> 08└─It's the invasion of the trolls with huge cocks, fool! You must be some kind of nigger, most likely feverish and confused. With a huge cock! Gimme some of that ebola, nigga.
[03:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:What's going on with the moderation here? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:43] <exec> 08└─If I'm not mistaken, your comment will soon be modded Informative due to its lack of substance, its liberal use of racial slurs, its multiple references to penises, and its blatant homophobia. That is the SoylentNews way.
[03:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:What's going on with the moderation here? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:45] <exec> 08└─Did you know ebola can hide in the penis? You gotta suck that sweet stuff right out of there to get your daily recommended dosage of ebola. Huge nigger cocks are the best because they don't accidentally slip out of your mouth.
[03:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SGT CAPSLOCK [118] (Score:2) 02Re:What's going on with the moderation here? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:47] <exec> 08└─I modded your post -1 off topic since it's entirely off topic. Anyway, I also took a glance at the thread you linked about hikikomori... It looks like things were moderated just fine by my standards! I didn't read every post though. Just a few. I think the moderation system is working great.
[03:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No music for you, Gen Z - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:48] <exec> 08└─You killed the golden goose so you could steal (sorry, "infringe") the golden eggs. No future... no future... no music for you. (after John Lydon)
[03:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PLENTY OF music for you, Gen Z - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:50] <exec> 08└─simply take down user-uploaded content in response to DMCA notices and are not liable for copyright infringement of the users
[03:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PLENTY OF music for you, Gen Z - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:51] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about new music. Where's your unbelievably fantastic music scene? We've had that in the USA since ragtime was unrolled in the late 1890s. Where is it now?
[03:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:58] <exec> 08└─There really is no archival medium anymore.
[03:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Welp, looks like I was right. - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:31:05] <exec> 08└─Yep, me too, for most of the same reasons, and also capacity (I like being able to store a bunch of movies and music on my laptop without spending an arm and a leg). I guess I'll stick with my spinning platters for now.
[03:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:31:47] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck is Lucinda Williams?
[03:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:31:48] <exec> 08└─Her 2014 album, "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone", creates a weird image in my mind: I see ethanol-fuelled wanking a bone using a tequila (or some other spirit) bottle; the bone is small enough to fit the bottle neck.
[03:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score:1) 02Re:Why do solid state drives emulate rotating medi - 066 Terabyte 2.5" SSD Coming in July - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:33:24] <exec> 08└─www.zdnet.com/article/flash-dimms-hit-server-market/ I believe IBM has them, if you can afford it!
[03:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:32 meters squared is 105 feet squared - 06Planetary Society's "LightSail" Solar Sail Test Launch on May 20 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:34:05] <exec> 08└─My apologies. I didn't realize that you were replying to someone else who was claiming the 105 value.
[03:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:False dilemma - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:36:38] <exec> 08└─That's weird, I remember them working on that back in the 1990s.
[03:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:1) 02Re:I found it in a book written by a psychologist - 06US Military's Planned invasion of Texas - Jade Helm - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:52] <exec> 08└─He pointed out that in the US, at the time he wrote the book, there were 30,000 automobile fatalities each year in which the driver was the only person in the car. While some of those are truly accidents, undoubtably many of them are suicides. Given that a vast majority of americans buy those high "...
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[04:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Insightful) 02childhood colds make you poor - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:31] <exec> 08└─I had a perpetual cold throughout childhood (it cleared up when I reached adulthood but I still carry tissues everywhere), and now I'm poor because I can't find a paying job in Obama's Terrorist America For 1%ers And Veterans Of Recent Wars. The two things must be causally related somehow, because c...
[04:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:childhood colds make you poor - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:32] <exec> 08└─The two things must be causally related somehow, because correlation induces/produces causation.
[04:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Ummm... - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:33] <exec> 08└─it can also make someone more likely to catch colds later in life
[04:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:35] <exec> 08└─Gather enough nasal mucus, add some grey food colouring, and sell them off as organic oysters at the local hipster market.
[04:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:37] <exec> 08└─Does it have to be nasal mucus or will vaginal mucus be equally acceptable?
[04:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:38] <exec> 08└─Does vaginal mucus gets secreted when catching a cold?
[04:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:40] <exec> 08└─Does it have to be a cold or will a yeast infection work?
[04:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:41] <exec> 08└─Does it have to be a cold or will a yeast infection work?
[04:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Eat beans - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:43] <exec> 08└─See the case of Teresina Cortez'es children. Hint: "Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold." John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
[04:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PLENTY OF music for you, Gen Z - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:06] <exec> 08└─YouTube, MySpace, Bandcamp.com, etc. New bands use this thing called the Internet, maybe you've heard of it?
[04:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:17] <exec> 08└─There are millennium disks (M-Discs) by milleniata/LG/etc.
[04:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:1) 02Re:Welp, looks like I was right. - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:25] <exec> 08└─Given that SSD's have a limited write/read cycle on them, I go along and actively disable swap spaces, and have yet to see a perform decrease from it. Lifehacker has a handy guide to maximising your SSD lifespan here. [lifehacker.com]
[04:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Once bitten - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:29] <exec> 08└─Once bitten, twice shy. SSD is trash for home use. Leave it alone for a week or 2 (vacation), data gone. Power cuts out? Data gone? Battery dies? Data gone? Wrote to much, bricks itself (intel etc). Trash.
[04:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:47] <exec> 08└─(#killallmen amirite?)
[04:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:The concept of gender no longer exists. - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:55] <exec> 08└─I moderated you underrated, because while I abhor your view and think it beyond stupid, it is one that is shared by a lot of people and hence, possibly, not a troll. That said, like the gender fluid crowd remains a tiny fraction of the whole populace. I really don't think there is all that much conf...
[04:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:33:27] <exec> 08└─Quoting the man tax to say that all women want revenge is a bit like claiming that all men want to be violent based on the fact that most rapes are committed by men. Also: I'd rather pay the tax than be raped, how about you?
[04:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:33:31] <exec> 08└─Veered right off into young, angry male land near the end there, didn't ya? I'm gay and so the whole women vs men thing sort of passes me by and I watch in bewilderment at all this negativity. When I meet a person who speaks as you do, I tend to observe that they possess poor emotional intelligence...
[04:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Mosquitos don't bite me - 06Mosquito Attraction Found to be Partially Genetic - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:33:47] <exec> 08└─Not sure about that at all. My wife has oily skin, I have rather dry skin. Neither of us is the magnet, but I'm more likely to be bitten than she is. I kinda had the idea that the oily skin tended to repel mosquitos. Of course, I've never made the slightest attempt to research that idea.
[04:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02What about hygiene/toiletry? - 06Mosquito Attraction Found to be Partially Genetic - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:48] <exec> 08└─It has been observed that wearing scents increases the likelihood of being feasted upon. Using one soap decreases insect bites, using another increases the bites. Wearing most perfumes increases your misery in the wilderness. A clean, natural scent has always been the first line of defense against m...
[04:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incomplete information - 06Planetary Society's "LightSail" Solar Sail Test Launch on May 20 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:35:36] <exec> 08└─No. They don't. If you're talking about ONE SPECIFIC CASE, -then- it is true: something 1 meter squared. Something that is 32 meters squared has sides that are 32 meters in length. No wonder you keep insisting you are right and I am wrong: You don't understand English. -- gewg_
[04:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The DPRK has a right to territorial self-defens - 06North Korea Tests Submarine Ballistic Missile - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:36:56] <exec> 08└─It is totally surrounded with nuclear weapons.
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[05:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Possibly wrong conclusion - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:36] <exec> 08└─Being poor necessitates worse healthcare and worse living conditions. When people are exposed to more illnesses it could be possible that their immune system becomes stronger, more likely to react in the future. So as adults those previously poor children will experience stronger symptoms more often...
[05:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OK then, let's redistribute the wealth - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:37] <exec> 08└─Guarantee a minimum standard of living for all children, paid for by taxing unused sick days.
[05:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's going on with the moderation here? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:01] <exec> 08└─> Something is very wrong when 31 out of 34 moderations are blatantly incorrect. As usual, when you stand alone thinking that so many other people are the problem, it is time to take a long hard look at yourself.
[05:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PLENTY OF music for you, Gen Z - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:06] <exec> 08└─I'd add to that SoundCloud, so grandpa post can find the scene.
[05:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:RIAA's fault - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:19] <exec> 08└─Ephemeral media has the opposite effect on me. When I "buy" something, yet I can not "own" it, then I quite happily settle for a copy, as I know that is as good as it gets. "DVD rot" and unskippable DVD content led me to abandon the concept of buying DVD's, as I saw how my inability to skip content...
[05:31:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02Formula to make calculations on this - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:27] <exec> 08└─Formula to predict the phenomena: Months before self destruction = 24 * 2^(-(temperature-25)/5)) temperature in celsius. Or inverted: Temperature = -log(months/24) / log(2) * 5 + 25 Thus for 1 month reliability the temperature must be kept below 47 °C. Internal heat inside say a laptop should jeopa...
[05:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Technical question - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:30] <exec> 08└─So, we're just talking about data loss here, right? As in, sectors on the unpowered SSD losing a verifiable value of whether they hold "ones" or "zeros"? If you repartition and reformat the drive, can you then continue to use it as normal? Do the corrupted sectors go right back to being perfectly us...
[05:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:32:31] <exec> 08└─Looking at a bunch of replies, it seems pretty clear that a fair number of people got the impression that the OP is a bit angsty. Probably not a winning argument to try to quantify a person's emotional angst relative to another for the purposes of determining who is right. Bias doesn't make you wron...
[05:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Square" vs "squared" - 06NASA Tests a Ten-Motor Electric Plane - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:33:07] <exec> 08└─For those who think thy know English and Arithmetic better than I do (to include whoever mod'd you up): Pulp Fiction quote goes here [soylentnews.org] -- gewg_
[05:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Incomplete information - 06Planetary Society's "LightSail" Solar Sail Test Launch on May 20 - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:34:40] <exec> 08└─The fact is, however, that you will find both forms used; I think it is generally agreed that "12 square meters" is better, in order to avoid that problem, but both are "correct." That is, the problem is not that "12 meters squared" MEANS the area of a 12-meter square, but that it can be taken eithe...
[05:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Sanity son - 06UK Conservative Party Defy Polls to Win Majority - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:40] <exec> 08└─Because those gemstones make the economy grow you imbecile, that's why! What a load of bullshit! Go ahead, try to prove me wrong. You can't!
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[06:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Let it go - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:21] <exec> 08└─If ever there was a chance to let qwerty die it would be with wearable devices. Everyone is typing with one finger or, best case, two thumbs anyway.
[06:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tune in to some Libre grooves instead? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:09] <exec> 08└─Avoid the Music Industry blues. These are some young budding indie artists who want to share their music. https://libre.fm [libre.fm]
[06:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tune in to some Libre grooves instead? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:10] <exec> 08└─Just tried it. GUI sucks. Browse the list is necessary.
[06:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:21] <exec> 08└─You are confusing some of us by lumping Betas in with Deltas and Gammas as "Drones". Betas are permitted these authorized memories, provided they have remitted regular fees and remain current.
[06:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:22] <exec> 08└─Betas are permitted these authorized memories, provided they have remitted regular fees and remain current.
[06:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow, future archeologists will find nothing - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:37] <exec> 08└─First we have the draconian copyright + DMCA BS limbo [1] and now this retention issue... 1 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:48] <exec> 08└─I believe you may wish to see a doctor if your penis is in rigor.
[06:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:31:58] <exec> 08└─You said that "the kids these days, especially women" were not sexist. The proposal of killing all men, specifically, is pretty much basically sexist. Like, basically by nature. If you would care to look, you would see this a thing that is a viewpoint in which subsets of said people share. Either yo...
[06:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:32:00] <exec> 08└─If you start putting names, you will get wikipedia -> admins and users forming cabal, infighting etc. Basically, death of the community.
[06:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:32:40] <exec> 08└─If you literally define rape as one person penetrating another person, men are going to come-up more often as rapists. Replace the word 'rape' with 'coercive sex', and suddenly it is not the men but women, who are the biggest perpetrators. 'Are you man enough?'
[06:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:32:41] <exec> 08└─to say that all women
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[07:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Reinventing the Holy Wheel? Repent, sinners!!! - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:25] <exec> 08└─That's blasphemy. Since immemorial times everybody knows that the God chose as user IO for a restricted space is The Holy Wheel. The pious people even got rid of keyboard all together and are using The Holy Wheel everywhere [theonion.com].
[07:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Possibly wrong conclusion - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:44] <exec> 08└─They may also be failing to note relative exposure -- kids in large public schools are exposed a helluva lot more than kids attending small or private schools. More poor kids attend large public schools, ergo more poor kids are routinely exposed to cold virus.
[07:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02No contribution to medicine - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:46] <exec> 08└─Wow, mucus does bring out the worst in Soylentils. And if only, perchance, it was in service of some scientific medical discovery! Oh well, I fart in your general direction, in the hopes that it will bring you good health!
[07:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's going on with the moderation here? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:11] <exec> 08└─Allow me to translate SJW to English: Check out this story from earlier today, viewed at -1.
[07:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Role of chemically-induced micropenis? - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:32:02] <exec> 08└─Plastics caused Japan??!
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[08:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Let it go - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:43] <exec> 08└─I must admit that I have an insurmountable difficulty in getting behind that particular crusade. I'd say more but I'm ready to fall asleep.
[08:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Re:Possibly wrong conclusion - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:04] <exec> 08└─As I understand the common cold, the effect should be the exact opposite to what you suggest. The common cold isn't one illness, but a whole range of variations on a common illness, and once you've had one of them, your immune system remembers, and you won't suffer from that particular cold virus ag...
[08:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What's going on with the moderation here? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:32] <exec> 08└─Or something is blatantly correct when, what were the numbers again?, 31 out of 34 were obviously correct. You, my dear sir, (and how would I know your gender, asshole!) are egregiously in error! I am going to pretend to have the answers, because in fact I do have the answers: Modding is what it is!...
[08:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No music for you, Gen Z - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:38] <exec> 08└─PRomise? No more of what being passed off as "music"? I am in infinite debt to you, oh lord of lords and DJ of DJs! Sometimes silence is to be preferred.
[08:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:53] <exec> 08└─which is ungood plusplus.
[08:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Welp, looks like I was right. - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:32:04] <exec> 08└─Bad write speeds? The SSD in my laptop can happily handle 300MB/s of sequential writes and 30-100MB/s of random writes. The one in the laptop it replaced was only slightly slower. Some of the newer ones are noticeably faster.
[08:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Welp, looks like I was right. - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:32:05] <exec> 08└─I placed a modern SSD in my laptop, and switched the DVD-reader for an HHD caddy. I would use the DVD reader like once a year, probably. I expect my (modern) SSD to last some 10 years, before I switch it, according to my manufacturer. The problem is that there are actually no test cases for a 10y li...
[08:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Welp, looks like I was right. - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:32:07] <exec> 08└─Perhaps for your particular usage case - if you're compiling the Linux kernel on a low memory system stored in a non-air conditioned shipping container on the surface of a hot desert for six months, maybe you have a point. ;)
[08:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Formula to make calculations on this - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:32:09] <exec> 08└─Internal heat inside say a laptop should jeopardize the SSD data but as the article says. The phenomena only applies without electricity. But it also means SSDs should not be trusted as reliable storage.
[08:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Formula to make calculations on this - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:32:11] <exec> 08└─So the trick for long-time data storage is to put the SSD in the fridge? Or maybe even in the freezer?
[08:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SSDs as expanded RAM - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:32:12] <exec> 08└─Seems that hybrid drives got it right: HDD for storage, SSD as cache.
[08:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Technical question - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:32:15] <exec> 08└─Yes. Flash cells hold a value that, over time, becomes harder to distinguish. I'm a bit sceptical about the claims in TFA, because normal wear levelling algorithms mark a cell as bad if it can't be expected to hold a discernible value for a year. There was a nice paper at EuroSys last year proposing...
[08:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction'? - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:32:55] <exec> 08└─Excellent article. I feel better now. I get myself off at least once a day with no sex performance or fertility issues (don't ask). After learning about this the worst I can think is that it is a shame my gf will not watch porn as it really gets her in the mood... but.. she thinks it is degrading an...
[08:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:10 engines? - 06NASA Tests a Ten-Motor Electric Plane - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:34:04] <exec> 08└─The question I have to ask is "why ten?" What's so magical about ten engines? It's just a plane with adjustable angle wings. So you can do the same thing with four engines and still be just as balanced.
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[09:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Nav system - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:41] <exec> 08└─> the last chance to divert the spacecraft to one of three available alternate routes. In... 150 kilometres... bear left In... 100 kilometres... bear left In... 50 kilometres... bear... you have missed your exit. Please turn around, when it is safe to do so.
[09:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Pictures? - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:43] <exec> 08└─So when will we get pictures from Pluto? And at which url?
[09:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02The one-finger input mechanism - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:04] <exec> 08└─Morse. Worked 100 years ago, no reason why it couldn't work today. You don't even need to look at your screen while tapping away at it. Might require too much cognitive capability than the youngsters of today are capable of, but at least they'd not need to worry about upper case vs. lower case again...
[09:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The one-finger input mechanism - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:05] <exec> 08└─Learning 12 number pad text was easy enough to remember, but i always turn off predivtive text so this sounds splufrerus.
[09:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't give a fuck. - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:57] <exec> 08└─> the way it was meant to be heard You've begged the question there. I guess about a third of the people I know well are involved with music in some way, and I'm sure none of them would agree with that statement. I have lunch with 2 musicians later, I can ask them. They certainly wouldn't agree with...
[09:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:37] <exec> 08└─So they surely have a 1000 year old disk they still can read, right? :-) Do they guarantee the availability of suitable drives for the next 1000 years? Because you know, there's little value in fully intact data that you cannot read any more.
[09:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Once bitten - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:56] <exec> 08└─Just use an SSD to store your operating system (no great loss if no longer readable: just get a new drive and reinstall; not too many writes; big win in speed) and a HDD to store your data (most data doesn't need that much performance anyway; unlikely to die without warning). And of course, have a g...
[09:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Soon? - 06It's Time to Close La Guardia Airport - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:33] <exec> 08└─Unlikely given how airlines rely on the cheap seats to put on the business flights. Airports today are shopping malls with planes getting in the way. From Manchester to Brussels, Heathrow to Sydney, the walk to the gate is artificially extended to force you to walk (run) thought duty free.
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[10:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Pictures? - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:31:05] <exec> 08└─Check out http://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] for pictures. Also, John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu [jhuapl.edu]
[10:32:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hash14 [1102] 02It was complete nonsense to shut grooveshark down - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 1449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:00] <exec> 08└─Now they we've seen Tidal fail, the music industry can understand how difficult it is to build a music streaming service. So why not use grooveshark to build a service that they sanction? Tons of people have lamented that Grooveshark was a great way to find new music that they enjoyed so that they c...
[10:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Tune in to some Libre grooves instead? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:18] <exec> 08└─I'm a big fan of Jamendo.com as well. I've found lots of great artists through it.
[10:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow, future archeologists will find nothing - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:58] <exec> 08└─It is important to lose data so that common people cannot store anything for a long time, and so that history can be re-written by big brother when he feels like it. SSDs losing data, and quality of HDDs going down very fast. It is not a mistake. They wanted it this way. All is going according to pl...
[10:33:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 414 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:18] <exec> 08└─Well, have you tried listening to a woman under the age of about 30? Putting up with their bullshit just isn't worth maybe getting laid at this point, and the kids don't have easy access to the drugs that were available in the 70s (or even 80s), so it's just simple economics that you solve the need...
[10:33:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, kids these days. Especially the women. Not sexist at all.
[10:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I was being facetious. - 066 Terabyte 2.5" SSD Coming in July - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:35:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, PCI-e is probably fast enough to make a serious difference. And it's a standard to. Otoh.. perhaps not much faster than S-ATA. BUT it can be utilized with many parallel channels.
[10:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:You should be Thankful for your Debt - 06Debt Collectors Fight Privacy Advocates Over License Plate Readers - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:05] <exec> 08└─Too true. I was told as a child 'do not a borrower or a lender be' and I've mostly lived by that rule. Now I move to a new city and need to find a place to rent, and I get rejected for 'no credit.' Not bad credit. No negative information. I simply don't have any credit history because I do not take...
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[11:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Informative) 02Others, older... what's new with this one? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:39] <exec> 08└─What's the catch with this new one? Blood made suitable for all [nature.com] - 2007 Universal red blood cells--enzymatic conversion of blood group A and B antigens. [nih.gov] - 2004 Patent RECOMBINANT α-GALACTOSIDASE ENZYME [google.com] - 1996
[11:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:33:21] <exec> 08└─That's "double plus ungood".
[11:34:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:34:49] <exec> 08└─> Porn and video games don't [insert tedious persecution complex whining] When all the women do those things to you, at some point a sane person starts to consider that the women are not the problem.
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[12:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02What's it like in Andromeda? - 06Andromeda May Be Closer than Previously Thought - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:57] <exec> 08└─What's it like in Andromeda? Is their version of SoylentNews ruined with terribly abusive moderation like the way Milky Way's SoylentNews is?
[12:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's it like in Andromeda? - 06Andromeda May Be Closer than Previously Thought - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:30:58] <exec> 08└─What's it like in Andromeda?
[12:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Dark Matter - 06Andromeda May Be Closer than Previously Thought - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:00] <exec> 08└─Does this discovery have any bearing on the calculations regarding dark matter? If this halo surrounds Andromeda, then perhaps such a halo also surrounds all galaxies. Would such a halo make a dent into the "missing matter"? I can't wait until the Dark Matter / Dark Energy mystery is solved. "We can...
[12:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Dark Matter - 06Andromeda May Be Closer than Previously Thought - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:01] <exec> 08└─I'm by no means a specialist, but in a documentary I saw they mentioned that some information on the distribution of the dark matter is available. [space.com] I guess if dark matter could be explained by halos around galaxies, we would have estimated the galaxies that much heavier in the first place...
[12:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:1) 02This puts a strain on our halo - 06Andromeda May Be Closer than Previously Thought - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:03] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't this contact region already have to be slightly warmer and thus detectable?
[12:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Others, older... what's new with this one? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:11] <exec> 08└─One is "too good" and not good enough. The first article is about an enzyme that removes all subtypes of A and N, but curts off too much so that what is left isn't truly type O either. It is thought that it will be removed quickly from circulation because of the missing O type antigen. The second do...
[12:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And can it truely universal? What about H? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:13] <exec> 08└─http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hh_blood_group [wikipedia.org] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] I was special donor for many years. Though I was blood type A+, they used my blood plates for new borns primarily. Not the whole blood but just the clotting part (platelets). Where I was...
[12:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pictures? - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:23] <exec> 08└─Johns Hopkins! Johns Hopkins! Johns Hopkins! Johns Hopkins!
[12:31:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Reinventing the Holy Wheel? Repent, sinners!!! - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:33] <exec> 08└─That's blasphemy. Since immemorial times everybody knows that the God chose as user IO for a restricted space is The Holy Wheel. The pious people even got rid of keyboard all together and are using The Holy Wheel everywhere [theonion.com].
[12:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's going on with the moderation here? - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:32:26] <exec> 08└─31 out of 34 were blatantly wrong.
[12:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:33:39] <exec> 08└─This community needs to hold moderators responsible for their actions. If somebody is moderating abusively, we should treat them like the shit that they are. Since they're harmful to the community, they should be driven away, or have their moderation privileges taken away. Abusive moderation is far...
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[13:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:46] <exec> 08└─When I see clauses like this in a contract, I know for sure the company is fully planning to screw me over. Another good indication of that is a binding arbitration clause where the company has chosen the arbitrator already.
[13:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:And can it truely universal? What about H? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:08] <exec> 08└─> I was special donor for many years. CMG negative?
[13:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Misleading title - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:09] <exec> 08└─From the title, I expected some result about humans evolving so that one day all humans will have the same blood type. Instead this is about researchers investigating how to change the blood type of blood donations. Don't get me wrong, this is certainly an interesting story worth posting and even a...
[13:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Alternate titles - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:10] <exec> 08└─"Commonly found molecules that can kill you" "Blood antigen tricks that doctors don't want you to know about"
[13:31:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] 02Re:Pictures? - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:21] <exec> 08└─Check out http://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] for pictures. Also, John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu [jhuapl.edu]
[13:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Pictures? - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:24] <exec> 08└─So when will we get pictures from Pluto? And at which url?
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[13:31:35] <exec> 08└─Agreed, morse seems great for: Caps vs non-caps. Symbols. Non-western alphabets. I'm looking forward to learning all those morse codes!
[13:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:32:48] <exec> 08└─I think you mean: "It is ungood plusplus and always had been; if you find any texts from 1984 using the wrong word, that's just an evil manipulation made to confuse people. Such texts should therefore immediately get destroyed."
[13:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:1) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:33:36] <exec> 08└─15 years of daily smoking. Full time job (Senior DBA). Full time single dad too. Until about 6 months ago, you could purchase LSZ and AL-LAD online. They are analogues of LSD. The LSZ was real nice. I could not really tell it apart from the street acid I have bought over the years. Acid is more diff...
[13:34:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03naubol [1918] 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 1084 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:34:26] <exec> 08└─Veered right off into young, angry male land near the end there, didn't ya? I'm gay and so the whole women vs men thing sort of passes me by and I watch in bewilderment at all this negativity. When I meet a person who speaks as you do, I tend to observe that they possess poor emotional intelligence...
[13:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Hobby flying - 06FAA Easing Rules on Commercial Drones - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:35:25] <exec> 08└─Some drones will deliver dildos and other tools of massive sins in weird states of the supposedly free people. ;) In some cases there will be deliveries to wrong address..
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[13:35:41] <exec> 08└─5 1/4" inch
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[13:37:15] <exec> 08└─Your experience with car buying sounds similar to when I last bought one. While I had the money available financial institutions move a a glacial pace for getting me my own money. So I took out a loan for the car as the vehicle I was driving (my beater Jeep) got such crappy gas mileage that it was c...
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[14:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:24] <exec> 08└─I'm so glad you know that every company you could possibly deal with is planning to screw you over. That doesn't help you find products and services you need. (Also, one more you missed in the trifecta of legal bullshittery is reserving the right to change the contract)
[14:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:25] <exec> 08└─I'm so glad you know that every company you could possibly deal with is planning to screw you over.
[14:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:26] <exec> 08└─To be honest every single company does screw you over but usually it's built in to the price and there's no need to go above and beyond that.
[14:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:28] <exec> 08└─Look, if you sign a contract with a corporation in the US, you've been screwed. That's just how one sided contracts work.
[14:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:29] <exec> 08└─Good, good, California passes a good law for a change -- Now if only we could stem the tides of illegals leeching our healthcare resources and ruining our public education all so that the Democrats can have a few more votes.
[14:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:31] <exec> 08└─You make an excellelant point. I guess I am just more cynical, because I use the 'shotgun' approach, and initially assume that all of them are out to screw me over. After more than 5 decades, experience has hammered into my skull that this is the only rational approach. The very few times that I hav...
[14:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:33] <exec> 08└─Customers have brand loyalty, consumers look for the best bargain.
[14:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:34] <exec> 08└─I guess I am just more cynical, because I use the 'shotgun' approach, and initially assume that all of them are out to screw me over. After more than 5 decades, experience has hammered into my skull that this is the only rational approach.
[14:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mandatory binding arbitration - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:36] <exec> 08└─Now if only they would make it illegal to ask someone to give up their access to the justice system...
[14:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Governing Law? - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:38] <exec> 08└─So, this is a step in the right direction, but I wonder what relationships it will actually apply to. I could see this applying in any of three ways (IANAL, so maybe there are more): 1. Contracts made with consumers in California for sales activity in California. 2. All contracts made by companies w...
[14:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternate titles - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:57] <exec> 08└─Bloody antigen changes, how do they work?
[14:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:31:39] <exec> 08└─I own a boutique eatery in the North Park area of San Diego, and it's true, hipsters will eat anything as long as you tell them it's handcrafted and made in small batches. Hipsters will eat any kind of mucus, they also eat smegma (I tell 'em it's handcrafted artisan goat cheese), and drink piss (I p...
[14:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:OK then, let's redistribute the wealth - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:31:45] <exec> 08└─How about euthanizing all poor children and then sterilizing their parents? Bam, problem solved, and I get to keep my tax dollars. Use birth-control, you fucking animals!
[14:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No music for you, Gen Z - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:32:21] <exec> 08└─Imagine there's no RIAA, it's easy if you try, no DRM on music, you owning what you buy. Imagine all the people sharing all the songs. You may say I am a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. One day I hope you'll join us, and the RIAA will be gone. (after John Lennon)
[14:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ZFS can fix that! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:05] <exec> 08└─zpool create ssd /dev/ssd zfs create ssd/zerotrust zfs set copies=2 zerotrust 0 1 * * 1 zpool scrub ssd
[14:33:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:14] <exec> 08└─As usual, the social sciences are rigorous, objective, and unbiased.
[14:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─Good point. Idea: mods get a ID, or a gravatar, whatever, that is uncoupled from their name and UID. User can optionally upmod or downmod them. The effect is to change the weight of the moderations by that mod for the user. Optionally a global influence could be had but I see potential for mobbing....
[14:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:21] <exec> 08└─You forgot to add, porn and video games are cheaper.
[14:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mosquitos don't bite me - 06Mosquito Attraction Found to be Partially Genetic - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:38] <exec> 08└─Wrong. I have oily skin, and them mozzies swarm over me, leaving others alone.
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[15:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:22] <exec> 08└─> It is also worth noting that four of the five on the liberal side are comedians, while none of the conservative pundits are trained to tell jokes. Satire and ridicule are perhaps the most effective weapons we have in politics. After all you aren't fighting people in politics, you're fighting ideas...
[15:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AntiAntagonist [4978] (Score:1) 02Broken Link - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:23] <exec> 08└─The link given in the blurb didn't work. I believe they wanted to link to this poll [reuters.com].
[15:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Because our politics ARE comedy - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:25] <exec> 08└─A bare minimum level of honesty about the state of American politics becomes something you just can't take seriously. A point that stands out is that we had an elected senator go onto the senate floor and filibuster reading a children's book with literally the exact opposite message of his filibuste...
[15:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Governing Law? - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:44] <exec> 08└─At least there are now lots of California high- tech corporations specifying that (presumably for their convenience) the laws and courts of California apply.
[15:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Governing Law? - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 2132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:45] <exec> 08└─As an opposing anecdotal data point, if you want to startup with VC funds you're pretty much "required" to incorporate in Delaware even when you operate in CA. "required" in quotes as in not all will demand it, but pissing off the hand that feeds you is probably a bad idea. Also it costs money to re...
[15:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Windows - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:46] <exec> 08└─MS Windows had a clause that prevents anyone from posting performance reviews. Will this law now allow newspapers and magazines to publish performance tests of windows? I remember that it was forbidden to publish any filesystem performace test for windows.
[15:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unintended consequences - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:48] <exec> 08└─I suspect there may be some unintended consequences of this law, as clever lawyers (or their clients) invoke the act to get around some contract provision in a field that doesn't resemble retail sales. For example, when a CEO or EVP is fired, often they are given a golden parachute with a non-dispar...
[15:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Good idea - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:50] <exec> 08└─It's good that there's an actual penalty for this, rather than just making such clauses unenforceable. Keeps people from putting it in there anyways, knowing that most people aren't going to know that it can't be enforced. But those penalties better be per-instance, not just per-contract. By which I...
[15:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Confidentiality agreement? - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:51] <exec> 08└─So, specifically outlawing reviews is out. What about confidentiality agreements? These are used in a wide range of contracts for a wide variety of reasons. NDA's are in widespread usage. Is there wiggle room for companies to reword the "no bad reviews" clause as an NDA or confidentiality agreement,...
[15:31:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02The one-finger input mechanism - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 358 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:35] <exec> 08└─Morse. Worked 100 years ago, no reason why it couldn't work today. You don't even need to look at your screen while tapping away at it. Might require too much cognitive capability than the youngsters of today are capable of, but at least they'd not need to worry about upper case vs. lower case again...
[15:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wrong why as usual - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 1766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:46] <exec> 08└─The number one factor in people's health, well being, happiness comes from lack of education. Most poor parents have low education thus expecting a good foundation for their children the odds are against them. Overall health is very poorly understood. Wrong why's are constantly assigned and solution...
[15:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:childhood colds make you poor - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 1799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:49] <exec> 08└─> Obama's Terrorist America For 1%ers And Veterans Of Recent Wars. Agree with the "for 1%ers bit" and frankly, my respect for veterans of Iraq / Afghanistan comes with some pretty strict conditions[1], but I thought it only fair to point out that here in the UK war vets get a pretty rough deal. I do...
[15:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ummm... - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:58] <exec> 08└─That's pretty weak trolling from EF there. Nowhere near his usual standards. He must have a cold or something.
[15:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:33:01] <exec> 08└─> There really is no archival medium anymore. ObXKCD^H^H^H^HMaxHeadroom: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Welp, looks like I was right. - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:33:12] <exec> 08└─I had a similar experience with an Intel (forgot the model) SSD. For intense heavy continuous writes it had about 1/3 less throughput than a WD Raptor. It's a special use case I happen to have, so I wouldn't dissuade a normal user from getting an SSD for that reason alone.
[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─Looks like you missed my point, then.
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incomplete information - 06Planetary Society's "LightSail" Solar Sail Test Launch on May 20 - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:58] <exec> 08└─It's really simple to express the concept you're trying for: (32 m)2 or (32 m)^2 Which is read aloud as "thirty-two meters, quantity squared", "the square of thirty-two meters", or some such nonambiguous formulation. You see, when written as a formula, there is no ambiguity -- standard order of oper...
[15:37:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02Re:You should be Thankful for your Debt - 06Debt Collectors Fight Privacy Advocates Over License Plate Readers - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:33] <exec> 08└─AC wrote :- " You ever tried getting a job if you're not in debt? Why, you don't deserve to have a job, because you don't have any debt to pay. ...... Debt is the stuff that binds society together.
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[16:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:25] <exec> 08└─There are other options besides laughing and crying, like being pissed-off enough to go to the voting booth. It's probably why all those angry old codgers watching Rush Limbaugh and Shawn Hannity are still a driving force in American politics -- often moreso the whiny punks who favor touchy-feely bu...
[16:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:26] <exec> 08└─...like being pissed-off enough to go to the voting booth.
[16:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:27] <exec> 08└─Tactical voting is the cancer killing democracy. I voted for Gary Johnson last election and will likely vote third-party next election. I may get fucked up the ass by the next Rs or Ds voted into office and congress but at least I can sleep soundly knowing I voted against them.
[16:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:29] <exec> 08└─You vote DOES matter. Billions are at stake to get your vote. We should have an election every year (not just a perpetual campaign). Think of the advertisers' children!
[16:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:30] <exec> 08└─> After all you aren't fighting people in politics, you're fighting ideas, and ideas tend to be hard to kill. If we had a comedy-industrial complex we would be flooding the internet with jokes about ISIS and al qaeda. So much cheaper, so much less opportunity for blowback (never have to worry about...
[16:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Broken Link - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:32] <exec> 08└─Doesn't really matter, it's one of the worst pieces of HTML crap I've seen. Don't they have editors at Reuters anymore?
[16:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:Because our politics ARE comedy - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:34] <exec> 08└─citation needed. or at least give us enough info to google this story!
[16:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Recipe - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:36] <exec> 08└─This poll tracks 10 different pundits. Split evenly between conservative and liberal.
[16:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Celebrities = Tech news now? - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:37] <exec> 08└─Trying to see how this relates to tech. Someone help me here.
[16:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Amusing choice of words - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:39] <exec> 08└─sit at the peak of American punditry despite their left-leaning view of life... How does having left leaning views prevent one from being a pundit? Is it material to the actual left/right "axis" or have we simply defined it as a person whose views we disagree with? In my sematical opinion...
[16:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:53] <exec> 08└─The problem is almost every company out there will happily screw you over if they can.
[16:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:What's it like in Andromeda? - 06Andromeda may be Closer than Previously Thought - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:10] <exec> 08└─Have you ever considered that maybe you're just wrong about everything?
[16:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Others, older... what's new with this one? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:23] <exec> 08└─The first article is about an enzyme that removes all subtypes of A and N, but curts off too much so that what is left isn't truly type O either. It is thought that it will be removed quickly from circulation because of the missing O type antigen. What are you talking about? The 2007 article doesn't...
[16:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:And can it truely universal? What about H? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:26] <exec> 08└─Do you mean CMV? (cyotomegalovirus) I'm CMV- too, as well as O-. Blood donation places always want my blood.
[16:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02XO+ - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:30] <exec> 08└─Given his alcohol consumption levels I've long suspected my uncle is XO positive ;).
[16:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:XO+ - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like when doctors evaluate his blood type, it would be in graded in proof, not antigen. Nurse: Doctor! His blood-alcohol system is only 22 proof! Doctor: Frack! Prepare a transfusion of 750 mL of Vodka at a 24mL/min drip! Nurse: Will that be strong enough? Doctor: No, but it is the strongest...
[16:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Not so fast - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:44] <exec> 08└─the first spacecraft ever to visit Pluto
[16:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score:2) 02the 8 finger input device - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:57] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1980's a guy named Steve Roberts toured the USA on a recumbent bike http://microship.com [microship.com] It featured 4 buttons built into each handgrip and he chorded ascii on the 8 buttons. I met him at an event during his first tour, he said that typing ascii as 8 bits wasn't har...
[16:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Possibly wrong conclusion - 06Poverty In Childhood Makes You More Susceptible To Colds - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:22] <exec> 08└─your immune system remembers, and you won't suffer from that particular cold virus again.
[16:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't give a fuck. - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:38] <exec> 08└─I think it's pretty obvious that they are two different types of music. Studio tracks are done over and over to make it sound exactly the way they want it to sound. Live music is, well, live. You're there at the source and you see and hear all the flaws that come with it. You also suffer from whatev...
[16:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Welp, looks like I was right. - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:35] <exec> 08└─An HHD will give you signs of dieing with weeks of problems and degraded performance
[16:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:2) 02Re:Anime's responsibility for hikikomori. - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:04] <exec> 08└─Some of the strangeness in Japanese erotic material stems from the very harsh but also very specific obscenity laws. For much of the mass media era, it would have been highly illegal to explicitly show human intercourse, but being penetrated by tentacles or whatever was not forbidden and thus a-ok f...
[16:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The concept of gender no longer exists. - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─It's no wonder that people are confused.
[16:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:04] <exec> 08└─Reality by consensus and bias being acceptable only in people you already agree with is not a productive nor accurate position to hold.
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[17:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Implications of this for kids who were bussed in? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:22] <exec> 08└─Did they also look at how this has long-term affected kids who were bussed into such neighborhoods?
[17:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02The next step... - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:23] <exec> 08└─So, after confirmation of this study, I imagine the logical course of action would be to file a class action lawsuit against the 1% for shortening the lives of the impoverished (the 99%)? But then again, why would you need confirmation when you can have FUD today? Confirmation could take generations...
[17:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02stress vs income? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder how bad it is for folks in silicon valley or NYC? I feel the lifestyle for folks in SV is pretty bad. Long commutes, late working hours, high stress environments. I don't think these are issues only segregated to the poor.
[17:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:37] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why the angry old people get paid attention to the most, because they vote. For people like this guy, it is considered cool not to vote. He gets to feel like he's smarter than everyone and make condescending remarks like this, when in fact he is just exposing how much of a dumbshit h...
[17:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:39] <exec> 08└─“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767) ― Voltaire
[17:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Because our politics ARE comedy - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:44] <exec> 08└─He is what passes for an intalekshual in the US of F'n A [youtube.com]
[17:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Because our politics ARE comedy - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:46] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the senator is Ted Cruz, reading Green Eggs and Ham during a fillibuster against Obamacare, and irony/hypocrisy of using that particular book is that a character protests and whines that he doesn't like green eggs and ham, but once he actually tries them he finds he likes it.
[17:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amusing choice of words - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:50] <exec> 08└─>> sit at the peak of American punditry despite their left-leaning view of life... > > How does having left leaning views prevent one from being a pundit? It doesn't. It makes it harder to sit at the peak. Give it a rest already. Nobody gives a damn about your OCD for "sematics." Just send yourself...
[17:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02The ideological reason - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:52] <exec> 08└─none of the conservative pundits are trained to tell jokes
[17:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:06] <exec> 08└─Bloomingdales is only different from Wal-Mart in one way. Bloomingdales wants you to consume their brand, Wal-Mart wants you to consume as much as possible in their store. Both see you as a consumer, one sees you as consuming a brand the other sees you as consuming whatever is the cheapest. Both car...
[17:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Confidentiality agreement? - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:17] <exec> 08└─The law is addressing consumer goods and services. In my experience, NDAs are used in business-to-business or employment related agreements to protect trade secrets. I don't think that they would be affect by this situation.
[17:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:This puts a strain on our halo - 06Andromeda may be Closer than Previously Thought - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:31] <exec> 08└─Monday morning, an I'm already calling Rule 34... Gonna be a long week.
[17:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Others, older... what's new with this one? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:41] <exec> 08└─The articles linked from 'summary' and 'have claimed' in the summary refer to two different efforts. At one time, O was thought to be an absence of antigen, but then they discovered Bombay. Type O blood still has the H antigen. The A and B antigens are different additions to the H antigen. This [wik...
[17:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:And can it truely universal? What about H? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:45] <exec> 08└─Yes. CMV, thanks for the correction.
[17:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Pictures? - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:03] <exec> 08└─July the 14th is the day to find out which sites are newsworthy and what's trash? NASA TV Satellite feed should work? Or you could just record everything and see later?
[17:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so fast - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:05] <exec> 08└─My neighbors did notice when the Atlas launched, despite my best efforts to grow rose bushes to hide it. But I'm pretty sure none of them realized I was gonna play Spaceman Spiff on Pluto.
[17:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:the 8 finger input device - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:19] <exec> 08└─5 bits are enough for alphabet entry. For alphanumeric 6 bits will suffice. But perhaps it's time to reconsider the QWERTY design which were designed on purpose to slow down the typist. A simple frequency count of used characters will show that qwerty is a really bad design. And now that 3D-printing...
[17:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't give a fuck. - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:33:01] <exec> 08└─Absolutely - I agree with every single one of your points. For me, a lot of it's genre-related, there are a few styles of music that I like where I would never have any interest in seeing the artist perform it live (E.g. most minimalism, and other things heavily reliant on simple playback of the mus...
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─> There really is no archival medium anymore. Oh noes! What will happen to all the tits picks? (or dick pics, if that's your thing) Probably well over 95% of the stuff stored anywhere is crap (either was always crap, or is obsolete). SSDs are just a plot from the Secret Society of Historians to help...
[17:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:14] <exec> 08└─In the past, they would find companionship with other men. For example, they would serve together, 50 or more men, on sailing ships, fishing ships, and cargo ships.
[17:35:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:29] <exec> 08└─Either that, or GP is looking for love in all the wrong places. What's definitely true is that his misogyny isn't helping him with the ladies, though - If you're distrustful and rude and/or crude to women whenever you come into contact with them, they don't like you, and anyone who is surprised by t...
[17:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Hobby flying - 06FAA Easing Rules on Commercial Drones - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:37] <exec> 08└─The drone did it! :P Not my powder.. ;)
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[18:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:stress vs income? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:27] <exec> 08└─I wonder how bad it is for folks in silicon valley or NYC? I feel the lifestyle for folks in SV is pretty bad. Long commutes, late working hours, high stress environments. I don't think these are issues only segregated to the poor.
[18:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:stress vs income? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:28] <exec> 08└─A relative of mine, a crusty grey satellite engineer living and working in silicon valley, repeated all of your concerns during Mother's day brunch yesterday: " Google just bought more office space! Now we're gonna have even more obnoxious twenty-something hipsters shitting up the place! They think...
[18:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:40] <exec> 08└─What is somewhat sad is that beyond my mayor, city council, and school board there isn't a single elected official that I voted for that holds office, and there hasn't been since Bush left office. I still bought the BS of wasting my vote if I didn't vote for one of the major party candidates when I...
[18:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:42] <exec> 08└─Well, no. Your vote is only a slice of those 30 billion dollars. Ignroing the notion of "battleground" states and districts, your vote is worth about $200.
[18:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:44] <exec> 08└─Your vote DOES matter. Billions are at stake to get your vote. We should have an election every year (not just a perpetual campaign). Think of the advertisers' children!
[18:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:47] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with not voting at all, but in that case at least turn in a blank fucking ballot. If you don't show up, they know they can safely ignore you. If you turn in a blank ballot, they don't get to know that. The added time taken is about 30m per year. Now, if you want to form an educated opinion,...
[18:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Celebrities = Tech news now? - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:58] <exec> 08└─Trying to see how this relates to tech. Someone help me here.
[18:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Not a shock, just confirmation of the problem - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 1859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:03] <exec> 08└─Wow, everything I say about the prog left is confirmed by this poll. That the progs are creatures of emotion, repulsed by serious reasoning, incapable of thinking much. That the left has practiced Entryism to conquer the 'Commanding heights of the culture' so as to push their propaganda through mass...
[18:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Not a shock, just confirmation of the problem - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:04] <exec> 08└─First lets look at the Right's punditry, taking this poll as accurate for purposes of discussion. With the exception of the embarrassing Bill O'Reilly, the others are first rate intellects, capable of and regularly producing serious discussion along comedy and the showmanship required to attract and...
[18:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a shock, just confirmation of the problem - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:06] <exec> 08└─"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." - Milton Friedman Back when Obamacare was being debated, the left didn't frame the debate as something that would work, but that those that opposed it were heartless, merciless beasts. It was...
[18:31:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:16] <exec> 08└─Look, if you sign a contract with a corporation in the US, you've been screwed. That's just how one sided contracts work.
[18:31:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rts008 [3001] 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 1261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:18] <exec> 08└─You make an excellelant point. I guess I am just more cynical, because I use the 'shotgun' approach, and initially assume that all of them are out to screw me over. After more than 5 decades, experience has hammered into my skull that this is the only rational approach. The very few times that I hav...
[18:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confidentiality agreement? - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:31] <exec> 08└─Well, even if you could legally force all customers/consumers to sing an NDA (which i doubt), i would like to think that, people are not THAT stupid.
[18:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Others, older... what's new with this one? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:57] <exec> 08└─I see, that diagram makes a lot of sense. So even Bombay types have an antigen, it's just smaller and simpler than those for O types, and they're all composed of sugars (namely galactose). So if you use an enzyme which consumes sugars, you won't have any of those molecules on the blood cell, and qui...
[18:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score:2) 02Re:Pictures? - 06New Horizons Prepares for Rendezvous with Pluto - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:19] <exec> 08└─In 1989 my friend and I went to a science museum for the Voyager encounter with Neptune so that we could see the live feed on NASA TV (it was the only place we could find that carried the feed). It was fun and exciting to see the imagery come in at the same time mission ops was seeing it. I'm very g...
[18:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ZFS can fix that! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:30] <exec> 08└─Does ZFS mean zero power file system? (Yes, I'm trolling the troll. Apologies if serious but...)
[18:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Role of chemically-induced micropenis? - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:51] <exec> 08└─no, but plastics contain substances like bisphenol a [wikipedia.org] which function similarly to hormones, and in bisphenol a's case it was apparently created to be a synthetic estrogen, to be used in hormone replacement therapy [about.com] before it started being used in plastics. naturally taking...
[18:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Role of chemically-induced micropenis? - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:53] <exec> 08└─While that's technically true, consumption leeched from plastics is a grain of sand at the beach compared to the phytoestrogens contained in flaxseed meal and soy products that now go into so many foodstuffs, and consider that modern urbanites eat a helluva lot higher proportion of plant-based foods...
[18:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...talk to each other... - 06FAA Easing Rules on Commercial Drones - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:57] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong? Amazon goes out of business?
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[19:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:25] <exec> 08└─this one [medium.com], where they claim 11 accidents have happened, none of them caused by the autonomous cars. Being "involved" in an accident doesn't mean causing an accident. The writer of that medium article could be a damned liar. Marketing has been less honest than that in the past, but this r...
[19:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Anyone dead? No. - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:26] <exec> 08└─However the NTSB doesn't collect all fender bender accidents.
[19:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Anyone dead? No. - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:28] <exec> 08└─Unreported fender benders are estimated to be approximately 55% of vehicular accidents, so that isn't exactly vindication, but I largely agree. Maybe a skilled, attentive human driver could have avoided the situations that lead to those accidents, but skilled, attentive drivers aren't exactly the no...
[19:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02We don't need zero accidents - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:30] <exec> 08└─We should be happy with self driving cars as soon as they're demonstrably safer than we are. Human drivers are nowhere near accident free, and a small subset of them are downright unsafe (speeding, drunk, texting, etc). If you're going to be speeding while drunk and texting, I'd much rather you be i...
[19:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Implications of this for kids who were bussed i - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:39] <exec> 08└─There are effects of living in high-poverty, racially segregated neighborhoods
[19:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Implications of this for kids who were bussed i - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:41] <exec> 08└─I have not heard of any studies of that nature, but I would be surprised if none were conducted, given the impact that bussing had on society at the time. (maybe a wikipedia article on bussing has external links that would get you started) I can only offer personal anecdotes from my own experiences...
[19:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stress vs income? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:45] <exec> 08└─so they can eventually just go back and start building the tech themselves. Those stupid dumbfucks could never design and build anything themselves.
[19:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:stress vs income? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:47] <exec> 08└─The long commutes, long working hours, and high stresses I've experienced in my life don't even come close to the gut-churning fear I experienced when I lost my job and didn't have enough money to keep a roof over my head long enough to find a new gig. I seriously doubt I even have the faintest idea...
[19:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02telomeres, tiny caps at the ends of DNA strands th - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:48] <exec> 08└─"telomeres", tiny caps at the ends of DNA strands that protect cells from aging prematurely
[19:30:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 438 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:56] <exec> 08└─> It is also worth noting that four of the five on the liberal side are comedians, while none of the conservative pundits are trained to tell jokes. Satire and ridicule are perhaps the most effective weapons we have in politics. After all you aren't fighting people in politics, you're fighting ideas...
[19:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 1648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:01] <exec> 08└─The way the MSM is in bed with the political machines means you have better odds of winning the lotto playing all 1s than any third party has of winning anything nationally. Hell the way they have it set up now even a so called "dark horse" of 1 of the 2 completely corrupted political parties ha...
[19:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Celebrities = Tech news now? - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:18] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the new /.
[19:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Amusing choice of words - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:21] <exec> 08└─Give it a rest already. Nobody gives a damn about your OCD for "sematics." Had an opportunity for funny there at my expense... You loosed it though.
[19:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a shock, just confirmation of the problem - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:26] <exec> 08└─Back when Obamacare was being debated... But wait, according to jmorris the right's pundits don't use slogans! How is it possible that people refer to the Affordable Care Acts by such a name?
[19:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a shock, just confirmation of the problem - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:28] <exec> 08└─It was the right that had principled stances, such as the right not to buy insurance, or the comatose doctrine of limited powers.
[19:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a shock, just confirmation of the problem - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:30] <exec> 08└─The only "principles" involved were that Obama must not look good,
[19:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a shock, just confirmation of the problem - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:31] <exec> 08└─So ... that whole Death Panels thing ... We're just dropping that down the memory hole?
[19:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02left is right and right is wrong - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 2174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:33] <exec> 08└─Just one thing about calling Jon Stewart left leaning. The right had some good points, but in recent decades they have bogged themselves down in a big swamp where there is no difference between facts and propaganda. It's so bad that many of them aren't sure whether facts matter! There's plenty to cr...
[19:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unintended consequences - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:55] <exec> 08└─Almost all executives in large companies operate under a "services contract". If that contract is bound by the laws of California I would imagine this new law would apply to it.
[19:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How inalienable can speech be? - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:00] <exec> 08└─I think this is a step in the right direction, but it makes me wonder how it could be made more general. Some mechanisms such as copyright depend on speech being alienable--you sell exclusive rights to your novel, you can't sell it again. OTOH, we could go further. We could, and IMHO should, outlaw...
[19:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03utoddl [819] (Score:1) 02Seems we've heard about this before - 06Andromeda may be Closer than Previously Thought - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:15] <exec> 08└─I think we heard about the barrier surrounding the galaxy somewhere [wikipedia.org] before.
[19:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Others, older... what's new with this one? - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:28] <exec> 08└─Most of those should be caught by cross matching, though in extreme emergencies that step is sometimes skipped.
[19:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:XO+ - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:38] <exec> 08└─Hospitals usually have medical grade ethanol. But they do run out sometimes: http://www.nbcnews.com [nbcnews.com] BTW I heard of someone who was very used to drinking and staying conscious, so much so that when he...
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Thumb drives - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─I have a number of Flash Drives that have sat around for years and still work just fine. Not sure as to the exact type of memory used in Flash Drives vs the SSDs though.
[19:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:30] <exec> 08└─Veered right off into young, angry male land near the end there, didn't ya?
[19:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:31] <exec> 08└─emotional intelligence
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[20:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:26] <exec> 08└─Lessee. They get in crashes at a much higher rate than human-driven cars. And they aren't responsible for any of them. Sounds like autonomous cars do things human drivers don't expect. Things that make human drivers run into them. What those things might be I don't know, but how much of your daily d...
[20:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:27] <exec> 08└─Or, or, being experimental vehicles with millions (or even billions) of dollars riding on their roadworthiness, they do a lot more miles than most cars.
[20:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:29] <exec> 08└─Oh come on. Read the whole summary. 3 per 140,000 for these cars versus 0.3 per 100,000 typical. That equation don't balance. Even factoring in that 55% of accidents aren't reported, it's still triple the average rate. However their cars have been disproportionately involved in city driving, which h...
[20:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:31] <exec> 08└─The fact they do not is incompetent. In my country statistics NZ count those figures including a lot of other factors. I found that out when I checked out the difference on motorcycle accidents and the difference between fatal city and urban crashes. And all of this ignores that no one was hurt and...
[20:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:32] <exec> 08└─I just realized something. What if the human driver sees the autonomous vehicle and is so "gee whiz, that's one of them thar self driven thingies! Look ma, no hands! Wow, lookit that spinning thing on the BAM ooops".
[20:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:We don't need zero accidents - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:36] <exec> 08└─We need to get over the concept of "standby driver" first. Having a person who is normally disengaged from the driving task take over when the situation becomes too complex for the computer is a recipe for disaster. If you aren't actively driving, you will not be engaged with the environment around...
[20:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: We don't need zero accidents - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:37] <exec> 08└─I agree. But I fear it won't be as easy as that. After all, everyone thinks they're an above-average driver. (I do myself!) So you have to convince people that autonomous cars are not just safer than average, but safer than them...
[20:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Pedestrians - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:39] <exec> 08└─Even a pedestrian can be involved in a vehicular accident. From the 4 accidents in the report, we can cut that down to 2 immediately since the autonomous system wasn't driving. That just leaves 2 where the autonomous system was driving but the autonomous vehicle wasn't ruled at fault in either of th...
[20:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Pedestrians - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:41] <exec> 08└─From the 4 accidents in the report, we can cut that down to 2 immediately since the autonomous system wasn't driving.
[20:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Pedestrians - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:42] <exec> 08└─TFA also reports that the collisions happened at under 10 MPH. It seems unlikely that there was a sudden handoff since about the only thing you can do in such a case is honk and hit the brakes.
[20:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02A bit biased? - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:44] <exec> 08└─Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All
[20:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:3, Insightful) 02What a terrible headline. - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:45] <exec> 08└─Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All
[20:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:What a terrible headline. - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:47] <exec> 08└─yes and no. Just today, I wasn't in an accident (that wouldn't have been my fault) when the truck in the next lane drifted into my lane. Saying that the cars were not at fault in any of the accidents that they have been in really doesn't tell us _anything_ about how good they are at accident avoidan...
[20:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Maybe I'm being paranoid - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:49] <exec> 08└─...but I can't help wondering who might stand to lose from autonomous vehicles, and whether they'd be prepared to deliberately causejust happen to get into accidents with them...
[20:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Two self-driving accidents, not four - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:50] <exec> 08└─From the summary: Two accidents happened while the cars were in control; in the other two, the person who still must be behind the wheel was driving So in two of the four accidents the self-driving feature was not involved; the car was driven as a normal car that happened to carry some extra electro...
[20:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Two self-driving accidents, not four - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:52] <exec> 08└─I could have sworn I closed the blockquote tags … the second paragraph should have been outside the quote. Reminder to self: Don't forget to preview!
[20:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Two self-driving accidents, not four - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:53] <exec> 08└─Other reminder to self: And check more carefully the content. Of course the quote already ends inside the first paragraph … only the first line is actually quoted (though on small screens, it might be displayed on more than one line).
[20:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Poor Health - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:04] <exec> 08└─News flash! Poor people have bad health. Now there's a test for it. Hear the story of how you can be tested on 11NEWS@11.tv Don't forget to bring your pocket book.
[20:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:18] <exec> 08└─We need a new voting system [wikipedia.org].
[20:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:21] <exec> 08└─You numbers are more flawed than you think. PR strategy is based around maintaining the base and swinging the swing voters. Due to the blatantly corrupt way america tallies votes, this is all about battleground states. Most of the money goes there and most of the money is to swing the swingers. So i...
[20:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Celebrities = Tech news now? - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:38] <exec> 08└─Trying to see how this relates to tech. Someone help me here.
[20:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a shock, just confirmation of the problem - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:50] <exec> 08└─That the progs are creatures of emotion, repulsed by serious reasoning, incapable of thinking much.
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"it's genre-related" - 06Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:12] <exec> 08└─Yup. DJ Bob Parlocha (1938-2015)[1] would mention that James Moody would record short little numbers (so they would get played on the radio??). When you went to a club, however, Moody could make 1 tune into an entire set, improvising like crazy and really stretching out. Assuming that's what everyon...
[20:35:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Technical question - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 564 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─Yes. Flash cells hold a value that, over time, becomes harder to distinguish. I'm a bit sceptical about the claims in TFA, because normal wear levelling algorithms mark a cell as bad if it can't be expected to hold a discernible value for a year. There was a nice paper at EuroSys last year proposing...
[20:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 2197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:01] <exec> 08└─The equation is true for me at least, and some of my male friends. I am attractive, fit, have a decent job etc, but I've simply given up on women who are around my age. They are so entitled, so ruined by radical feminism which has trained them to see themselves as put-upon victims in all interaction...
[20:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly rigorous - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:01] <exec> 08└─I probably won't enjoy being single and unmarried when I'm 50 as much as I do now at 25.
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:10 engines? - 06NASA Tests a Ten-Motor Electric Plane - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe there's less stress on each wings
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[21:30:25] <exec> 08└─Will it come integrated into systemd?
[21:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Obbligatory - 06MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:26] <exec> 08└─8==========D WE HAVE LIFTOFF!
[21:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:1) 02And? - 06MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:28] <exec> 08└─Tying yourself to Microsoft isn't exactly smartest idea you can come up with. Especially if you already use Linux.
[21:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02$tick it to me one more time.... - 06MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:30] <exec> 08└─20 min to install 30 sec to delete gotta love m$ Ice_Dragon: microsoft will always be around Ice_Dragon: I got news for you, Raede Ice_Dragon: when the nuclear weapons kill mankind and the cockroaches mutate into giants Ice_Dragon: they'll be using windows Ice_Dragon: cockroach windows
[21:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:42] <exec> 08└─There's another factor to consider besides how safe these cars are: Proprietary software and surveillance. Clearly computers will be more integral to these cars than for other cars, so that provides more opportunity for companies and the government to violate people's privacy. They must have free so...
[21:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:1) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah. This exact article was submitted to Slashdot earlier, and this one by contrast--with the same links--is written like an anti-self-driving-cars hit piece. We didn't leave Slashdot to have worse amounts of yellow journalism, bias, and exaggerations. Get your shit together submitter.
[21:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We don't need zero accidents - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:49] <exec> 08└─I agree. A number of years ago I was driving on a major interstate at the start of a holiday weekend. I saw a vehicle a few hundred yards in front of me that entered the median. My initial thought was it was an unmarked cop car turning around to go after someone heading the opposite direction. About...
[21:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re: We don't need zero accidents - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:52] <exec> 08└─First thing you do is convince them they are safer than your average taxi driver. That won't be hard.
[21:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Pedestrians - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:56] <exec> 08└─TFA is light on details, so all of this is guessing. Could there have been a handoff @45 mph and the hu-man jamming on the brakes got it down to 10 mph before impact? Pure speculation. My guess is that it is policy that the hu-man take the car out of the parking lot in manual mode, and Google's park...
[21:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Pedestrians - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:57] <exec> 08└─TFA is light on details, so all of this is guessing. Could there have been a handoff @45 mph and the hu-man jamming on the brakes got it down to 10 mph before impact? Pure speculation.
[21:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a terrible headline. - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 3040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:01] <exec> 08└─Good point. The fact is nobody is a perfect driver, we all make mistakes and that includes everyone here including myself. Driving is a dynamic among different drivers attempting not to make mistakes and attempting to anticipate the possible mistakes of others and compensate. So many times others on...
[21:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02slow encounters - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:06] <exec> 08└─Nobody seems to have hit on this detail yet: The person familiar with the accident reports said the cars were in self-driving mode in two of the four accidents, all of which involved speeds of less than 10 mph.
[21:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Implications of this for kids who were bussed i - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:17] <exec> 08└─This is what I would expect. The good comes from "upbringing and childhood role models" while the bad comes from being around a bunch of ruffians at a crap public school. Very interesting thing that I didn't expect was the moving from racism to hair-ism. I knew there will always be something arbitra...
[21:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:stress vs income? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:24] <exec> 08└─And yet, push comes to shove, I'll bet none of them would accept an offer to trade places for a while.
[21:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:43] <exec> 08└─Okay, so, like, I explicitly acknowledged that important distinction. I get why numbers are wrong. Why are they "wronger than I think"?
[21:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:44] <exec> 08└─a) You gave a bogus figure and give the reason its bogus. b) I point out that PR campaigns focus on swing voters in swing states specifically. Conclusion: You were wronger than this sentence and your original admission of wrongedness. The fact that I have to explain this makes your quotes seem prett...
[21:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:left is right and right is wrong - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:15] <exec> 08└─LBJ lead the Democrats into giving up the South to end Jim Crow and enact the Voting Rights law.
[21:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Confidentiality agreement? - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:47] <exec> 08└─Well, even if you could legally force all customers/consumers to sing an NDA
[21:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:Confidentiality agreement? - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:48] <exec> 08└─sing an NDA
[21:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:The one-finger input mechanism - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─I was hoping for something akin to a dual Morse key [wikipedia.org] with numeric keys 1, 4 and 7 for dot and keys 3, 6 and 9 for dash.
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Solving the wrong problem - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:58] <exec> 08└─I feel like this is a big problem with the modern web development/cloud/Web 3.0 crowd today, but getting back on topic... Aren't they solving the wrong problem? The problem is not "How do we fit a keyboard onto a tiny device?", but "What is the best method of text input on a tiny device?", and I gua...
[21:36:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:59] <exec> 08└─In the past, they would find companionship with other men. For example, they would serve together, 50 or more men, on sailing ships, fishing ships, and cargo ships.
[21:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More rewarding than Women - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:23] <exec> 08└─There is more than just one type [wikipedia.org] of intelligence. Nearly everyone acknowledges this too, commonly differentiating between "book smarts" and "street smarts". "Emotional intelligence" would be "interpersonal intelligence" under the 'multiple intelligences' theory.
[21:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:1) 02Re:10 engines? - 06NASA Tests a Ten-Motor Electric Plane - 2698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:06] <exec> 08└─In what part of your ass do you find people to support your even more vague assertions? I didn't get a degree in Mechanical Engineering to have some armchair warrior tell me I don't know how to design machinery. I said four, not two, engines very specifically because four capture all possible thrust...
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[22:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Nothing new here - 06MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:33] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has always admitted the existence of other systems and sought to interop with them to the extent it drives sales of their products. From Office on the Mac to .ASP support on Linux/UNIX + Apache when most hosting providers were exclusive *NIX shops. They will support non-microsoft networkin...
[22:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing new here - 06MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:34] <exec> 08└─They support Linux VM loads on Azure and contribute the Linux kernel patches to make sure Windows Server runs well on KVM/libvirt because either scenario involves Microsoft product being licensed. None of this is praiseworthy or something to condemn, it is just business. Yet there's a bunch of shill...
[22:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02I think I'll keep puppet and subversion - 06MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:36] <exec> 08└─I have a subversion repository with a headless puppet configuration. All puppet configuration scripts are in version control, and cron jobs apply the scripts. With this setup, I never have to hand edit config files.
[22:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:I think I'll keep puppet and subversion - 06MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:37] <exec> 08└─I have a subversion repository with a headless puppet configuration. All puppet configuration scripts are in version control, and cron jobs apply the scripts.
[22:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:52] <exec> 08└─Being "involved" in an accident doesn't mean causing an accident.
[22:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:53] <exec> 08└─And if the cars are involved in more accidents collectively than the national average; that correlation does suggest something is going on.
[22:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:What a terrible headline. - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:10] <exec> 08└─A perfect example of this is backing out of a driveway. An advantage that an autonomous vehicle could have is if you can include things like radar to detect other cars and objects. You don't need an autonomous vehicle for this, you can go out and buy a car like this right this minute, for around $...
[22:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02But Think Of How Many Lives Will Be Saved - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:16] <exec> 08└─... when suicide bombers don't need to commit suicide anymore.
[22:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:57] <exec> 08└─You can mod it flamebait all you want, I will still be right. And my karma is astronomical so mark this one down also... Ironically you marked it flamebait but mine is not the burn.
[22:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Casting a protest ballot - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:02] <exec> 08└─Some people have been told that there is "mandated voting" in Australia. Strictly speaking, that isn't true. You are required to show up at the polls and sign in. Once they hand you a ballot, you can - stick that unmarked ballot directly into the box (as you suggest). - mark every square on the ball...
[22:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ted Cruz and Obamacare (hypocrite) - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:11] <exec> 08└─Cruz had heathcare coverage through his wife and her job at Goldman Sachs. She went on hiatus and he lost his coverage AND WENT ONTO OBAMACARE. It's a shame that intellect is wasted on an unfunny clown. -- gewg_
[22:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Celebrities = Tech news now? - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:18] <exec> 08└─Is this not a tech/science news site?
[22:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Celebrities = Tech news now? - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:20] <exec> 08└─Don't you think you should know what this site is before you start getting all nitpickery about it?
[22:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"creatures of emotion" (GP's troll) - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:26] <exec> 08└─Adding empathy to the emotional spectrum is, apparently, a weakness to be mocked by the Reactionaries. It strikes me that if Wrong-Wingers do actually put thought into the decision-making process, that consists of WWJD?--then doing the opposite. ...but maybe I'm just jaded after 3-plus decades of Re...
[22:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:left is right and right is wrong - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:35] <exec> 08└─What if your, despite being popular wisdom, theory of the 'Souther Strategy' is total bunk.
[22:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:53] <exec> 08└─Companies are composed of people. There are many people that will happily 'screw you over'. There are also many honest people. Likewise honest companies exist as well. You have mechanics that are crooks and you have a few good mechanics as well. Some mechanics don't do work on your car that they kno...
[22:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:54] <exec> 08└─There are also many honest people.
[22:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Bitchen. - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:09] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Comment too short
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02dupe - 06Evolving Toward a Universal Blood Type - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/04/30/1816204 [soylentnews.org] oops
[22:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:10 engines? - 06NASA Tests a Ten-Motor Electric Plane - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:31] <exec> 08└─Jesus, what's with the attitude? Your first post adopted a sneering attitude towards this design simply - as far as I can tell - because you couldn't determine the reasoning behind the ten props, and also because, for some reason, you decided they were "advertising" this feature as if it was some gr...
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[23:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Wow, someone's being a jerk to Google unfairly - 06Google to Deprecate PageSpeed, Recommends Open Source Alternatives - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:24] <exec> 08└─Google recommended several alternatives including mod_pagespeed -- an Apache module. One might think that they could have open-sourced their own product PageSpeed.
[23:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow, someone's being a jerk to Google unfairly - 06Google to Deprecate PageSpeed, Recommends Open Source Alternatives - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:25] <exec> 08└─Well, I added the comment about they might have open-sourced it.. Sorry I didn't fully understand that was what they basically did. I removed my comment from the article.
[23:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing new here - 06MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:38] <exec> 08└─This is *purely* because of Azure. Of course, if it's from Microsoft and not open source, you'd be a very silly person to install it. Not just because of the traditional lock-in, but because of Microsoft's 'special friends' from three letter agencies. Of course, Azure3 down't support current (or any...
[23:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think I'll keep puppet and subversion - 06MS Releases Powershell SDC - to Manage Config for.... Linux - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:41] <exec> 08└─You see a use case for powershell? Excuse me? Have you seen the clusterfuck that is powershell? The idea of DSC is cool heading towards awesome. Powershell is an excellent example of Microsoft software engineering. It is the CLI equivalent to.. no, wait, it is shit. Complete and utter shit. Some nic...
[23:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:56] <exec> 08└─I think it is way to early to compare numbers like this. Accidents are counted in integer increments (you can't have one third of an accident), and 3 is not really a large enough number to do proper statistics with. By the time the google cars go from over a million miles this number will become int...
[23:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 1971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:58] <exec> 08└─Seems to me it'd be a combination of the two. There's certainly going to be some amount of rubbernecking, and I'm sure that doesn't help. It also occurred to me earlier today that the one thing autonomous vehicles will prevent others around them from doing is employing key #5 of the Smith System [ya...
[23:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just reading related story: - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:02] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that mean it's ultimately the fault of the humans, and that it would be better if all the cars were driverless and didn't rely on subjective cues?
[23:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:But Think Of How Many Lives Will Be Saved - 06Self Driving Cars: Not so Accident Free after All - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:26] <exec> 08└─No, automated cars will just free up car bombers to commit suicide bombings in new ways, like on foot.
[23:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:stress vs income? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:41] <exec> 08└─Stronger stress is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Or if you'll involuntarily skip it. Or be robbed or worse.
[23:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:stress vs income? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:42] <exec> 08└─The pont is that there isn't only one type of stress.
[23:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stress vs income? - 06Scientists Find Alarming Deterioration In DNA of the Urban Poor - 1757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:45] <exec> 08└─Say what you want about us Arabs but the Arabs come to this country poor, speaking English as a second language, they work and go to some of the best schools studying some of the most difficult subjects and graduate with some of the highest scores. Heck, most of us Arabs speak English better than ma...
[23:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:32:15] <exec> 08└─If everyone who didn't bother do vote in 2012 had turns up and written "Fuck You", the president with a landslide - twice as many votes as Obama - would be a Chinese bloke. Don't you DARE tell me that voting doesn't work your fucking terrorist commie fascist.
[23:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:32:16] <exec> 08└─That is a huge fucking program that makes a difference to millions of people.
[23:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:If we didn't laugh, we'd cry. - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:32:20] <exec> 08└─Satire and ridicule are perhaps the most effective weapons we have in politics.
[23:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Celebrities = Tech news now? - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:32:34] <exec> 08└─No :(
[23:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Describing the opposition's position. Heh - 06Jon Stewart Stands at the Peak of American punditry - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:32:47] <exec> 08└─The actual Left (not the Dems who are a tiny bit less Wrong-Wing) recognized Obamacare as Romneycare rehashed. It was|is a giant giveaway to the most inefficient insurance corporations on the planet and actual Lefties didn't|don't want any part of it. What an actual Lefty wanted was for Bill Clinton...
[23:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand ... - 06California Outlaws Contracts that Forbid Consumer Reviews - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:33:02] <exec> 08└─Well if it's a whore-bouse, win-win!
[23:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's it like in Andromeda? - 06Andromeda may be Closer than Previously Thought - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:33:35] <exec> 08└─The abusive moderation is what's wrong.
[23:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:The one-finger input mechanism - 06Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:34:36] <exec> 08└─"Iambic (dual-lever) Paddles" Dooood, don't do that to me! I read "lambic ..." and got all excited.
[23:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethanol-fueled, this explains what happened! - 06SSDs Stored Without Power can Lose Their Data Relatively Quickly - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:06] <exec> 08└─Nope, but they withstood all the tests the navy put them through while everything else peeled or failed in some other way. Best you can do without a press. Get some. Use them for backups once in awhile.
[23:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:The taste and feel of jizm - 06Zimbardo: Porn and Video Games Causing 'Masculinity Crisis' - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─take him far enough into your mouth, and you won't taste much of anything.
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