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[00:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No thanks, I want MIT robot to build hurdles - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:06] <exec> 08└─MIT robot, build me so many hurdles for me to jump over, they become insurmountable, and I give up and kill myself.
[00:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02DIdn't See This Coming - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:07] <exec> 08└─Jumping! And here I was sure dalek-like robots were the way we were headed.
[00:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Translation.. - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:08] <exec> 08└─MIT's biomimetic robotics lab [arstechnica.com], which last year [editor's note: it was two years ago per above linked MIT announcement] developed a free-running untethered cheetah robot capable of bounding along at 16 km/h, has now created a new version—Cheetah 2—that can autonomously jump over...
[00:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow... for a couple of hours... - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:21] <exec> 08└─Free? Not free from FBI surveillance via small planes with Stingrays [startribune.com].
[00:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─This comment [soylentnews.org] sums it up nicely. The US is supposed to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Sacrificing our fundamental liberties and our constitution for safety is the action of a worthless coward who has no real principles to speak of. Even if this did keep us safe...
[00:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:47] <exec> 08└─Or a vertebrate coward surely.
[00:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the economics.. - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:56] <exec> 08└─It still didn't translate to any improved learning. Or are you against learning as well? Statistical studies showed no measurable differences in academic achievement between those given laptops relative to the control group, says Toyama.
[00:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the economics.. - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 1936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:58] <exec> 08└─I think the concern is that playing Flappy/Angry Bird(s) isn't really contributing even to motivation. At least, I'm having trouble imagining what Angry Birds would help the kids with beyond what they can already observe in the real world. I'm sure they already understand that objects in freefall fo...
[00:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02giving people technology wont help, it's cultural - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:00] <exec> 08└─as long as cultures exist where corruption goes unchecked, you can't fix it. you can try to give people resources but if it threatens the power of the ruling party, it will be taken from them. the problem in corrupted cultures is that when you get rid of one corrupt official you get another corrupt...
[00:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02Sensible Change - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─Of course giving resources to a poor community doesn't just mean throwing laptops at them and saying "here this should fix your problems", most of the time you have to work with the community to exact change, for a example: a midwife is not a doctor (in "third world" countries), but you can train th...
[00:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Don't worry. - 06New Exploit Leaves Most Macs Vulnerable to Permanent Backdooring - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:23] <exec> 08└─If it requires physical access to your computer it's a vulnerability ... just like it's a vulnerability that someone can install a rootkit when they have physical access to any computer.
[00:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thesis [524] (Score:1) 02Re:Why is there chlorine in the data center? - 06Leak of Chlorine Gas at Apple Data Center - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:56] <exec> 08└─Chlorine is used in water treatment facilities to help control organics and to disinfect the water. If they do have a water treatment facility of any kind on-site, they are certainly using one of the many forms of chlorine (liquid, gas, or a compound such as HTH) available for that purpose. The liqu...
[00:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Did this ever stop - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, it pretty well did stop for quite a while. Which is why its news. Putin has only restarted this nonsense for home consumption over the last two of three years. When I first moved to Alaska, about 74, it was still going in, with Bear bombers penetrating as deep as Fairbanks just to let us know t...
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[01:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DIdn't See This Coming - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:07] <exec> 08└─E-LE-VATE
[01:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02mount sum guns on dat thang - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:09] <exec> 08└─We needs a terrist killin bot, to kill for our freedoms!
[01:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Freedom act? - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─Freedom Act? Of course. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength -- hendrik
[01:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:1) 02The names are misleading at best - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can get a law on the books so that after a law is passed we hold a public referendum on the name? I think something like "Only terrorists vote for this bill" would be more appropriate.
[01:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02What exactly is happening? - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:52] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain what exactly is happening to those of us that don't understand politicalese? What was the point of the Freedom Act? Is data collection getting shut down or not? From what I read I thought the Freedom Act was supposed to stop data collection? Is this a step forward, a step backwar...
[01:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Sensible Change - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:04] <exec> 08└─I like the midwife example. This is perhaps part of a solution to the problem. Information wants to be free, no? Practical applications of knowledge will always win over the masses. I also find your comment: they have to stop looking at them with pitiful little things to throw dollars at and more l...
[01:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:This is news? - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:30] <exec> 08└─So, which uniform did you wear? And, just how close to a nuclear weapon did you sleep at night? No, you can't claim to be a veteran, unless you manned a battle station somewhere, whether it be in a missile silo in Kansas, or the Alaskan/Siberian tundra, at sea, SOMEWHERE that weapons were ready for...
[01:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Worth noting - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:44] <exec> 08└─"Pretty damned stealthy" is a relative thing. If our sonar man can hear fish fucking fifty miles away, and you had beans for supper last night - guess what? There is no such thing as silence under the sea. And, as for diesels, sorry, those are easier to find than the boomers ever were. Diesel boats...
[01:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!!! - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:54] <exec> 08└─pretending to be World Police You're absolutely right! We need to show them we really ARE the World Police! (Damn we really need to get Parker to make a sequel now...)
[01:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Mental illness is common among shrinks - 06Cybersecurity and the Tylenol Murders - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─this has been well-documented for decades. The easy way to demonstrate this is to look at the incidence of suicide by profession; psychologists commit suicide far out of proportion to the general public. I've met two psychiatric hospital patients who were also practicing psychotherapists - that I kn...
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:They did post it - albeit very late - 06Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:41] <exec> 08└─It isn't always your fault. Sometimes it is mine. :-)
[01:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To be honest, I don't have a clue - 06Uber Poaches Robotics Scientists from Carnegie Mellon - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:30] <exec> 08└─I thought that feeding hungry people was all about distribution (logistics) -- the food is available, just not getting to all the places it's needed? In some cases, local despots may be grabbing the food for themselves, or to starve out their enemies?
[01:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poached scientists are a new dish for me... - 06Uber Poaches Robotics Scientists from Carnegie Mellon - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:33] <exec> 08└─* How do you prepare the scientists for poaching? Butter them up by offering higher pay! (unspoken, in exchange for their soul). * How are they served, and what sauces/side dishes go best with them? With a contract that includes secrecy and non-compete agreements, as well as rights to any patents. *...
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[02:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No thanks, I want MIT robot to build hurdles - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:08] <exec> 08└─Remember Aaron!
[02:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks, I want MIT robot to build hurdles - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:09] <exec> 08└─This will be used to automate and bureaucratize police killing of "suspects". Hunting in a neighborhood near you, soon.
[02:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No thanks, I want MIT robot to build hurdles - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:11] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, neighbor! Automated killing will happen only in designated warzones like Afghanistan and Detroit.
[02:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation.. - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:16] <exec> 08└─I was actually quite impressed with the distance to objects and how quickly the robot adjusts. The video shows the chap dropping the obstacles in front of it only about 2 meters away from it. That's some impressive reaction time. I say give it a soft mallet, take it to the local arcade and make some...
[02:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Comment - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─simple reason: so there is a clear line of sight for a criminal prosecution should that data disappear, financial penalties for breaches, and extra burden on telcos to ensure the security of that data and the ability to furnish instant access to whichever Government agency shows up with a piece of p...
[02:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Comment - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:38] <exec> 08└─Plus it gets them around that pesky little thing called the Constitution of the United States.
[02:09:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Let me check Israel... - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 914 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:40] <exec> 08└─So, looking at the experience of a country with legitimate reasons to fear terrorist actions, let's figure out what we're getting voted in next, to protect the children: - Mandatory gun carrying: everyone, not just the conscripts, because this is 'Murrica - Systematic laws discriminating citiz...
[02:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a start - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:44] <exec> 08└─Well, in the spirit of analogy hyperbole... Spoken like someone who has never be imprisoned by captors who beat you regularly beat you within in an inch of your life - any change in behaviour by your captures that you initiated is a victory for self-determinism.
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:ADBB - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:49] <exec> 08└─CREDO mobile? Are you serious?
[02:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:ADBB - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:50] <exec> 08└─would that be the same Senator who was photographed with her finger on the trigger of a loaded AR15 in a room full of journalists?
[02:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:ADBB - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:52] <exec> 08└─oh my bad, it was an AK47 with a drum magazine. My point stands. She's a fucking psychopath.
[02:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:ADBB - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 2142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:53] <exec> 08└─You know instead of being a dick, you could *read* what my idea was :) The idea is to treat them as routes . Who said we couldn't layer our own technology on top of it? Is that impossible for you to conceive of a system, whereby a server could keep records of people against hardware addresses? Think...
[02:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soybean [5020] (Score:1) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:04] <exec> 08└─> But let's not start by impugning the motives of hundreds of Congressmen on this key topic of national security. Such posts make more sense if you recognize them as being about expressing their tribal affiliation rather than having any interest in fixing problems. It is soooo much easier to rant an...
[02:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:05] <exec> 08└─You are just SO cute. I mean really. Who's in LaLa-land again? impugning the motives of hundreds of Congressmen
[02:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02USAFA: yet another scam - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:09] <exec> 08└─The NSA hands off data collection/retention to the telcos to get around the 4th Amendment, then they use John Doe warrants to trawl it. Which means they get access to THE LOT. And what judge ISN'T going to sign off on a FISA John Doe under USAFA?
[02:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:giving people technology wont help, it's cultur - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:21] <exec> 08└─wait ... when did the topic switch to soccer?
[02:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice pun! - 06Site Upgrade - Rehash 15.05.1 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:34] <exec> 08└─I think we should use "soyled" instead of "slashdotted"
[02:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice pun! - 06Site Upgrade - Rehash 15.05.1 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:35] <exec> 08└─We already do. Well, some people use "soyled", some people use "soylenced". Pick your favorite :)
[02:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No other RDBMS is this stupid - 06Site Upgrade - Rehash 15.05.1 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:38] <exec> 08└─Unlike MySQL, PostgreSQL has an excellent query planner. Join whatever you need to without surprises.
[02:11:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Putin - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:34] <exec> 08└─To be fair, mister Obama shoved his in the Black Sea, where it shouldn't be.
[02:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:this is bugging the shit out of me - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:17] <exec> 08└─The reason people gripe about the USA getting involved in other countries' conflicts is because our government/military only does it when it suits their economic or political interests, not when people need our help — and far too many times, our military's action was ethically repulsive, like supp...
[02:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheeky - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:21] <exec> 08└─at least not in a Black neighborhood...
[02:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook still controls your profile with PGP k - 06Facebook Adds Support for PGP Keys to Profiles - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:52] <exec> 08└─This is why "trust" exists in PGP. See, when the original designers of a protocol have anticipated such problems decades before they occur, we call it "good design". You can't man-in-the-middle trust without breaking mathematics.
[02:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02sorry I'll dig up some details - 06Cybersecurity and the Tylenol Murders - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─but not just now I should be working.
[02:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02OK. - 06Cybersecurity and the Tylenol Murders - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:32] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Comment too short
[02:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Actually mental illness _is_ contagious - 06Cybersecurity and the Tylenol Murders - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:37] <exec> 08└─not by spreading germs through the air. Ever heard the expression "break the cycle"? It is quite common for mental illnesses to run in families, for the most part due to the children of child abusers going on the abuse their own children. It's also well documented that some mental illnesses are gene...
[02:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02US is somewhat like that - 06Cybersecurity and the Tylenol Murders - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:43] <exec> 08└─UCSC offers both CS and CE degrees. The Computer Engineers learn stuff like how to write a mouse driver. The CS majors do stuff like learn how to prove that you can't do any better than O(n lg(n) ) when sorting. (Well sorta - there are special cases in which you can do better.) I don't know either w...
[02:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:Not again - 06Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:07] <exec> 08└─Some say he's also the King of the Potato People. Other say he only beat him at chess by unloading both barrels of a shotgun into the board. All we know, is he's called The Stig!
[02:15:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:What I Find Fasciating ... - 06Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge - 476 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:39] <exec> 08└─I checked Slashdot for the first time since Beta to see the interface you were talking about. It's not as gimmicky as Beta and the pre-Beta (aka non-classical UI) stuff were, but it's not solid like Soylent's. I was surprised how emotional visiting that site felt--anger, disgust, contempt, sadness o...
[02:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GoogleCode was my favorite FOSS web interface - 06Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:44] <exec> 08└─What don't you like about it? from your description all you're doing is clicking 'releases' and downloading a binary. I'll agree that the interface is not hugely intuitive, but for what you personally are doing it's not *that* bad.
[02:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I taught Computational Physics at Caltech - 06GNU Octave - Open Source Answer to Matlab - Hits 4.0.0 - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:05] <exec> 08└─I told my students to use any language they pleased. Most used either basic or fortran; I learned C when I took the course myself. Someone I call "Cipher" used APL, went on to get a PhD in Math and is now an NSA cryptologist. But now that same class uses MATLAB. That doesn't make a whole lot of sens...
[02:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02For me it was social isolation - 06Uber Poaches Robotics Scientists from Carnegie Mellon - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:10] <exec> 08└─as well as the dungeon-like environment of my office and the computing lab. I often speculate that a hundred dollars worth of tasteful lighting would have earned me my doctorate.
[02:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02strictly speaking that is indeed the case - 06Uber Poaches Robotics Scientists from Carnegie Mellon - 1829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:12] <exec> 08└─we have lots of food but it's not equitably distributed. Why just today I read in The Columbian of Vancouver, Washington that yellowfin sole trawlers throw back 82,000,000 pounds of halibut each year, because one is required to catch halibut with hooks and lines whereas yellowfin is caught with nets...
[02:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Spine - 06Key Sections of the USA PATRIOT Act Expired - For Now - 1790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:46] <exec> 08└─I really wish I could, but how do you feel about the fact Rand Paul is a religious fucking nutter [randpaul.com]? While he says great, great, things about freedom [randpaul.com], he will in the same breath tell you about God, conception, and how his Libertarian ideals don't apply to vaginas. I have...
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[03:09:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 1411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:59] <exec> 08└─This comment [soylentnews.org] sums it up nicely. The US is supposed to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Sacrificing our fundamental liberties and our constitution for safety is the action of a worthless coward who has no real principles to speak of. Even if this did keep us safe...
[03:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:01] <exec> 08└─Having an answer To a real and present danger Beats not having an answer Every time. That's what you guys don't realize. You huff and puff, but you don't have an answer to numerous, various, sophisticated, incredibly destructive terrorist threats like the ones that Al Qaeda has sponsored. You have,...
[03:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:02] <exec> 08└─Having an answer is useless if your answer involves violating the constitution and our fundamental liberties. And since you failed to respond to a single thing I said, I'll just refer you back to my previous post.
[03:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:06] <exec> 08└─> No, not at all. Congress has an unblemished record, and our Senators are the definition of integrity. Don't be that guy who thinks because it isn't perfect that it is evil. Lets say you are right, that congress is malevolent. What then? Are you going to fight-club the whole US government? Your bel...
[03:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What exactly is happening? - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:10] <exec> 08└─Data collection continues but the data is held by the telcos who pretty much already have it anyway for their own purposes including selling it to marketing companies, but now they get the bonus false legitimacy of claiming to be legally required to keep it.
[03:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:What exactly is happening? - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:12] <exec> 08└─no, it's transferring the collection bit off to the telcos, the NSA still gets access via John Doe warrants. Because of the six month transition clause, the NSA gets to continue to collect data until December, by which time the telcos should be set up and ready to pick up. The transition clause is a...
[03:10:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] 02Sensible Change - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 591 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:24] <exec> 08└─Of course giving resources to a poor community doesn't just mean throwing laptops at them and saying "here this should fix your problems", most of the time you have to work with the community to exact change, for a example: a midwife is not a doctor (in "third world" countries), but you can train th...
[03:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I know! I'll write an app for that! - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 1904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:26] <exec> 08└─Consider that Apple specifically requested developers stop submitting "Fart Apps" to the App Store. I expect that predominant among the many reasons I can't find paying work, is that I quite commonly and publicly make plainly apparent that I have come to regard software as largely useless if not dow...
[03:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:Fast enough? - 06Intel Buying Altera for $16.7B - 3161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:44] <exec> 08└─I've consistently tried to tell people about FPGAs but they're all so far up their butts they refuse to even read about them. FPGAs aren't CPUs. "Soft cores" (CPUs using an FPGA) are not faster than regular CPUs, and are not the purpose of FPGAs. Soft cores are ONLY for experimentation of designs--n...
[03:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can you use HTML with GPG yet? - 06Facebook Adds Support for PGP Keys to Profiles - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:05] <exec> 08└─HTML mail is nonnegotiable. Yet GPG somehow lacks it. No wonder it has such poor utilization. When will we make e-mail more secure by bringing GPG into the early 00's?
[03:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:GoogleCode was my favorite FOSS web interface - 06Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:50] <exec> 08└─there's always one option... launch your own?
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[04:09:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Wow... for a couple of hours... - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:27] <exec> 08└─For just a couple of hours, I was a more free American, and the government was less Big Brother and shitty. Well that lasted about as long as I fucking thought it would Guess we're back to innovating around the government's need to eliminate our rights?
[04:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a start - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:45] <exec> 08└─Government changes at a glacial pace.
[04:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:06] <exec> 08└─> To a real and present danger Your premise is false. Since 9/11, the number of americans killed by islamic terrorists, even using the most broadest possible definition - like a radical killing a jew and then stealing his car - is only 37. Out of 190,000 murders in that time period, just 37. [duke.e...
[04:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:07] <exec> 08└─Your premise is false. Since 9/11, the number of americans killed by islamic terrorists, even using the most broadest possible definition - like a radical killing a jew and then stealing his car - is only 37.
[04:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02"three large ponds" - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:31] <exec> 08└─I don't clearly remember what the second pond is like Constructed wetland [wikipedia.org] Links there to "stabilization ponds" and "treatment ponds". -- gewg_
[04:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They did post it - albeit very late - 06Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:25] <exec> 08└─Slashdot "editors" don't take no fucking pride in their work. Would you if you were them?
[04:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:The suppressed discussion did at least some goo - 06Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice Owned SourceForge - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:43] <exec> 08└─I signed up here after the recent bollocks over at /. it is sad that a site I have been reading for years has dropped so far down the shitter.
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[05:10:08] <exec> 08└─Amazing answer, except that even before that the number one extremely low. 9/11 was hardly a blip on the radar in the long run. In order to prove that the PAT RIOT Act is actually effective, you need to put forth direct evidence that it's effective. You don't get to just assume it's effective by usi...
[05:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─The US is supposed to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave."
[05:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:10] <exec> 08└─It'll be a Russia 2.0. You already have bears. You just need worse economics and your own Goebbels.
[05:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─>Are you going to fight-club the whole US government? Remind me, why is this such a bad idea again?
[05:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is news? - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:01] <exec> 08└─About 1% of the readership here is under the age of 35. Probably only 2% under the age of 30. Is that pre or post cold war math?
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[06:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:nice bill - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:25] <exec> 08└─Actually the TelCos have been archiving this information for years. I didn't realize that they had been keeping actual conversions and texts, as well as email till Snowden released the info on NSA. I knew that the TelCos and large ISPs kept records of who contacted who and when for years. Now I woul...
[06:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:08] <exec> 08└─> And when was the Patriot Act enacted? In the 20 years prior to the 9/11 zero americans were killed be islamic terrorists. So hows that tiger repelling rock [getelastic.com] working out for you?
[06:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:16] <exec> 08└─> Are you going to fight-club the whole US government? > Your beliefs guarantee failure. Remind me, why is this such a bad idea again? Hhhm, I wonder what it could be?
[06:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the economics.. - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:27] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the saying: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail ... More technology is not the only solution to third world problems.
[06:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice pun! - 06Site Upgrade - Rehash 15.05.1 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:46] <exec> 08└─Slashcode is dead. Long live Rehash!
[06:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:This is news? - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:05] <exec> 08└─Wow, never thought I was part of *any* 1% before....
[06:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good news - 06Intel Buying Altera for $16.7B - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:44] <exec> 08└─My coworker said the exact same thing today! Seriously, how can this work. How did McAfee turn out for them?
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[07:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Did this ever stop - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:57] <exec> 08└─> Did this kind of stuff ever stop? We get about 4-6 per year on an average year here in Estonia. That's ramped up to about monthly recently, and there have been 2 in just the last fortnight. This is why Estonia's welcoming NATO forces onto its soil, and I think NATO welcomes all of the "exercises"...
[07:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook still controls your profile with PGP k - 06Facebook Adds Support for PGP Keys to Profiles - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:05] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't this be one of those times where the trust settings on the keys would be fairly useful?
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[08:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation.. - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:14] <exec> 08└─And by Cheetah, you really mean mechanical goats, because these are nothing like a 70 mph cheetah.
[08:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nice bill - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:29] <exec> 08└─Now I would like to know why it's not OK for government to collect and keep such data, but it's OK for large corporations to do so.
[08:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a start - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:49] <exec> 08└─Government changes at a glacial pace.
[08:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the economics.. - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:33] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Technology can be good, but it's all about context. A washing machine would be more useful technology to many villages than a laptop would.
[08:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:this is getting familiar - 06Leak of Chlorine Gas at Apple Data Center - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:36] <exec> 08└─Go watch this if you like forklift accidents: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] :)
[08:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this is bugging the shit out of me - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:38] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is any time anything bad happens in the world and the US is not involved, they get the blame for not stopping it.
[08:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Fast enough? - 06Intel Buying Altera for $16.7B - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:57] <exec> 08└─I will chime in to say that even something as basic as an Arduino, when supervising a Parallax "Propeller" chip can be quite formidable in an industrial control application. Never in my life - in my wildest imaginings as a kid - did I think I would ever see the day such powerful machines available f...
[08:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook still controls your profile with PGP k - 06Facebook Adds Support for PGP Keys to Profiles - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:14] <exec> 08└─You can, however, use it badly. To be honest, I'd say that most of the CA/fake-cert stories we see can be described as MITMing trust. I trust B because I (am being forced to) trust A, who tells me that they trust B. At no point has mathematics been broken.
[08:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02My take - 06Facebook Adds Support for PGP Keys to Profiles - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:23] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think this is excellent news. It brings PGP "mainstream".We can now say "like they use on Facebook", which buys a bit of credibility (yeah, who ever would have imagined saying that!)It helps start conversations on an important (and interesting) topic.Even if Facebook is essentially...
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[09:12:08] <exec> 08└─And in a manner that has a small but non-zero chance of triggering a nuclear war.
[09:12:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] 02Good news - 06Intel Buying Altera for $16.7B - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:47] <exec> 08└─Given Intel's acquisition track record, this is probably great news for Xilinx.
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[10:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks, I want MIT robot to build hurdles - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:22] <exec> 08└─Well, it is funded by DARPA, so probably yes.
[10:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation.. - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:28] <exec> 08└─Yet.
[10:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Mars! - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:30] <exec> 08└─What was that not quite so good marooned on Mars movie, Val Kilmer, rather large and quick feline robot that breaks and starts hunting him? Here, kitty, kitty! Never build robots modelled on cats! They can't be trusted! Maybe a dog, or a mule, or a Tapir, or even a beaver! But never a cat. Or a w...
[10:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Funny) 02Applications - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:32] <exec> 08└─Awesone. Can't wait to see this added to autonomous cars.
[10:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Comment - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but it will probably take you best part of a decade to drag that argument through all the relevant courts to get a favourable ruling. At which point the government will simply find some other equally questionable loophole / workaround that allows them to move the goalposts again. Rinse, repea...
[10:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:32] <exec> 08└─Uhm no. In my class, if you got a bullshit answer to the question you get negative points. Acknowledging that you do not know the solution is better than to lie.
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[10:13:03] <exec> 08└─False; Europe is mostly reluctant in doing 'warlike' things as they had enough of that on their own in the last decades and don't want to inflict it on anyone else. However, France recently proved that they do go in not just with some cruise missiles fired safely from afar, injuring civilians in the...
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[13:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation.. - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:18] <exec> 08└─I think you dropped a factor of two somewhere, as 8 km/h is actually 2.2222222222... m/s.
[13:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a bunch of fucking assholes - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:41] <exec> 08└─Don't forget traitors. As they routinely ignore, subvert, and undermine the constitution its clear they're trying to overthrow our constitutional form of government.
[13:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting Comment - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:49] <exec> 08└─The government can't just hire companies to violate people's rights to get around the constitution
[13:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me check Israel... - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─Dude, this is a major "Poe's Law" post. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not! (I'm guessing you are). These are all pretty good ideas, actually.
[13:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a start - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:01] <exec> 08└─Government changes at a glacial pace.
[13:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:27] <exec> 08└─Jesus it's nice to hear someone else say this. The criminals in DC have put me in a white-hot rage, and reading the simpering, fawning, timorous scrawls of lickspittles makes me want to break things into very small pieces. You said all that I would say very well, so I'll add my own summary: burn Ft....
[13:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's the economics.. - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:44] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine a more horrible world than one where children's primary motivation is a paycheck.
[13:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:giving people technology wont help, it's cultur - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:49] <exec> 08└─if you take away scarcity, there is no reason for people to take from others
[13:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can ICT4D end world hunger? No. But... - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:55] <exec> 08└─it can certainly help people. After all, computers are the closest thing to magic we have: we can copy things; instantly (or at least pretty darn fast), at zero cost (or very close) and perfectly (digital copy is exact replica). As others have pointed out, ending hunger requires a political decision...
[13:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Can ICT4D end world hunger? No. But... - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:57] <exec> 08└─Like the peanut sheller that's also on instructables: http://www.instructables.com [instructables.com]
[13:11:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] 02Re:Nice pun! - 06Site Upgrade - Rehash 15.05.1 - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:07] <exec> 08└─Slashcode vs Rehash quick answer: Basically with this major overhaul of some under-the-hood stuff (namely porting to mod_perl version 2), we've decided to differentiate our fork of slashcode with a new name -- rehash. There's some more info in this post [soylentnews.org] (scroll down to "Introducing...
[13:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Thinking hackintosh is vulnerable too - 06New Exploit Leaves Most Macs Vulnerable to Permanent Backdooring - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:33] <exec> 08└─Fortunately there's no such thing as a local privilege escalation exploit. And even better, there's no such thing as remote arbitrary code execution exploits either.
[13:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is there chlorine in the data center? - 06Leak of Chlorine Gas at Apple Data Center - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:59] <exec> 08└─If they do have a water treatment facility of any kind on-site, they are certainly using one of the many forms of chlorine
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[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Does someone want to tell intel what a "server" is - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:40] <exec> 08└─"Intel's Broadwell Xeon server chips will be featuring Iris Pro graphics." eh? For almost the entirety of their existance, servers don't even have displays. So they shouldn't need any graphics. Great - more wasted silicony. However, the up side is that server farms are always too cold, so at least t...
[14:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Does someone want to tell intel what a "server" - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:41] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen a lot of servers with absolutely no video out on them. Sun comes to mind, but that's about it. Gotta hook a crash cart up to something. Yes, I realize that's not exactly something that you need Iris level quality for video on. Xeons are used in high end workstations as well, so perhap...
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score:1) 02Re:Does someone want to tell intel what a "server" - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─Actually If you count OpenCL, the IrisPro can be sen as an accelerator for some workloads an then it makes more sense its integration in the Xeon Line.
[14:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 024th - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─and Rezence magnetic resonance wireless charging
[14:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Piece of shit - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:46] <exec> 08└─Smart diapers ... So you can ignore your child until you know it's full of shit (just like most IoT devices). Sounds useful.
[14:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not convinced - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:57] <exec> 08└─I can guarantee you that if I tried moving my lawn while I was trying to sleep, I would go out and beat the crap out of me.
[14:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─God knows how many birds are killed by cars, glass windows and doors, buildings and just general deforestation and pollution, BUT GOD FORBID a windmill kills a bird!
[14:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:1) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:00] <exec> 08└─WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
[14:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:02] <exec> 08└─GOODNIGHT!
[14:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:03] <exec> 08└─I'd be a lot happier if they killed outdoor cats.
[14:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just like hardware - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:17] <exec> 08└─They test it just like they do anything else [gocomics.com].
[14:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:3, Informative) 02NASA has it right - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:18] <exec> 08└─As the article points out NASA has actually solved the issue of coding high-reliability software - keep coders away from it and hand it to engineers. To elaborate a bit this all basically comes down to training - most coders learn "if it works - ship it" while engineers basically get taught to think...
[14:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02It's tested with manpower. A LOT of that. - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 2568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:19] <exec> 08└─I work in sector where a device still may entirely cease to operate, but under absolutely no circumstances may output a wrong result, and I've been at it since before formal processes, at least for private industry, were widely introduced. It all boils down to a lot of testing, by people with good c...
[14:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Better question - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:35] <exec> 08└─If you don't pay for support how will legal suit larry afford to buy more islands and yachts?
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:1) 02Short Answer: Hell No! - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 2306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:38] <exec> 08└─My bosses were sold a product based on Oracle, so we were stuck with having to administer it. And since we had it, we were told to use it for all of our own in-house products, too. Oracle's ingrained stupidity knows no bounds, both within the database and within the company. I could write an epic no...
[14:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Maybe worth it - but to whom? - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:39] <exec> 08└─Support isn't worth anything at all to me, personally. Support isn't worth very much to my company. They have a couple guys in town, who can troubleshoot anything and everything. Backups are pretty routine, so even if an update screwed the pooch, they could restore from a backup and only lose a day...
[14:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They only want non-citizen asians - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:05] <exec> 08└─You joke, but far too many people would say that with a straight face and seriously mean it.
[14:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:11] <exec> 08└─Thats just crap from conceited assholes trying to make themselves feel better because they're too dumb and incompetent to teach. The non-failures at life both do and teach.
[14:11:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:16] <exec> 08└─I don't agree. As far as I'm concerned, "well rounded" is a hopelessly subjective, ultimately meaningless standard. Internet armchair life coaches passing judgment on some kid they don't know is pretty meaningless as well.
[14:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:24] <exec> 08└─But I've never known a black or Jew that was 100% into studying.
[14:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:35] <exec> 08└─You pronounce him "dreadful" ?? Who even uses that word with regard to another human being?
[14:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:39] <exec> 08└─It's an onamatopoeia, and I'm non-rhotic. Therefore "ker" is the better of the two spellings.
[14:11:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Harder to prove individual discrimination - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 885 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:48] <exec> 08└─I'm responsible for computer science admissions in one of the Cambridge colleges and I completely agree with the grandparent. We'd love it if someone could come up with an objective metric that strongly correlated with degree success (exam results prior to university are, sadly, not such a metric)....
[14:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Admissions is doing it wrong - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:55] <exec> 08└─Well over two decades ago this is how my local state schools did admissions, by ACT score. Each individual school admitted top down. They published historical cut offs and they were basically constant over the years so the day you got your ACT results was pretty much the day you found out which stat...
[14:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Admissions is doing it wrong - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:56] <exec> 08└─That is the system in most of northern Europe, as far as I know. Sure they know my personal-id number, name and such but all that matters are my grades, previous education and test scores. Do you meet the criteria for the eduction? If yes you get put on the list, sorted by score and then the people...
[14:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legal crimes - 06Proposed Rule Change to Expand Feds’ Legal Hacking Powers Moves Forward - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:06] <exec> 08└─Doublespeak was here a while back. A few years back in Indiana, it was legal for police to illegally enter [nwitimes.com] homes and citizens could do nothing about it. Thankfully this has been fixed, but its mindboggling how a judge could say "We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entr...
[14:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Would that be a warrant from - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:25] <exec> 08└─even if they had a warrant for bulk collection or data or metadata, it would still be unconstitutional for being overly broad.
[14:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:34] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter if the PATRIOT Act (or FREEDOM Act) is effective, its unconstitutional and therefore illegal.
[14:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:38] <exec> 08└─to be fair, their cowardly constituents (the vocal minority) are demanding they do something. its our job to either help those cowards get their priorities straight, to care about the constitution and stop trying to get the government to be their nanny and forcing the rest of us to live in a literal...
[14:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most of the posters here live in LaLa-land - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─there are people who actually care about liberty.
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[15:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:39] <exec> 08└─And, every American representative who plays along with this nonsense can bite me too. Why exactly is it, that the leaders of the "Free World" are becoming ever more fascist? WHAT FREE WORLD?!?!?!
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Does someone want to tell intel what a "server" - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─I have known of ethernet-port-only OS installation (net booting a minimal installer that simply unpacks a pre-configured image), but having some kind of video out is of course useful if there might be non-blue-sky moments. But you should only be doing that 0 or 1 time in the lifetime of the server....
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Does someone want to tell intel what a "server" - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─Right. And there are absolutely no server workloads that benefit from OpenCL / Vulkan acceleration.
[15:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:10] <exec> 08└─A very informative web page about that topic. [10000birds.com]
[15:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score:1) 02Not resonance - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:12] <exec> 08└─I thought we (i.e., humanity) figured out some time ago that the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was NOT an example of resonance. Even the Wikipedia article linked in the summary explains this point, although it does also mention that many textbooks wrongly describe resonance as the cause.
[15:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My wind turbine has no blades! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:13] <exec> 08└─How does it smell?
[15:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Business Types - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─Paid support keeps the business types within the company feeling happy. Sometimes you just have to do that. Of course.. you will still solve 99.9% of your problems with a quick Google search. Just think of it not as support that you are paying for but rather it's a necessary tax to keep the business...
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:1) 02The more general answer - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 3175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:54] <exec> 08└─I know the OP was asking specifically about Oracle Linux, however I'd like to address the question in the wider context of FOSS as well. Even when you do all of your troubleshooting on your own, having at least a few (or one) system under paid support will often provide you access to customer-only k...
[15:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Bad deal - 06AI Supercomputer Built by Tapping Data Warehouses for Their Idle Computing Power - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:08] <exec> 08└─Some years ago when Seti@Home and similar were just starting this made sense. Now power is more expensive and computers do all sorts of things like put parts to sleep, slow down the clock, etc... Running something like this means the computer is always running at 100%. It consumes more electricity,...
[15:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Observe: - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:32] <exec> 08└─That post is not spam. It is offtopic, maybe even troll or flamebait, but definitely not spam.
[15:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Observe: - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:33] <exec> 08└─That wasn't spam, just off-topic.
[15:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm not so sure I regard him as well-rounded - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:35] <exec> 08└─Newsflash: CalTech is not an Ivy.
[15:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:42] <exec> 08└─I think being an interesting person has been the standard in the upper echelons of the university system for a long time. I know it was 30 years ago.
[15:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:What are universities for? - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:44] <exec> 08└─All of your assumptions about me are incorrect. Although thanks for the psych report. Waking up with a laugh is a great way to start the day.
[15:12:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:02] <exec> 08└─raised and groomed to go to an Ivy League school
[15:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:03] <exec> 08└─This is...disturbingly astute.
[15:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:05] <exec> 08└─What planet are you posting from?
[15:15:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02OT: Re:Did this ever stop - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:47] <exec> 08└─...like the chick flick "Top Gun" from the 80s...
[15:15:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] 02Re:This is news? - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:58] <exec> 08└─" they would come full ahead, like they intended to ram. Games of chicken played at speed, on the open ocean." ... "We were professionals, they were professionals" Rational thought veteran here. These two sentences don't go together. These commanders where children operating deadly machinery at sea.
[15:16:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02Re:this is bugging the shit out of me - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 735 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:28] <exec> 08└─The reason people gripe about the USA getting involved in other countries' conflicts is because our government/military only does it when it suits their economic or political interests, not when people need our help — and far too many times, our military's action was ethically repulsive, like supp...
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[16:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02I've often wondered, actually - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:43] <exec> 08└─Live as we know it (probably) can't arise without liquid water. But I've often wondered, given the power of evolution, if some photosythesizers could adapt to a world that got flung to snowball territory. Like the lichens that manage in northern Canada through the winter, is it possible that living...
[16:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree with the general notion of totalitarian tactics that far exceed what's required or even could be considered a good idea. But I do have a question. What point in western history are you using as your comparison point? When do you imagine a softer more liberalized touch was being wiel...
[16:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Re:Does someone want to tell intel what a "server" - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:06] <exec> 08└─IrisPro graphics have QuickSync which is a hardware media Encoder/Decoder. Think h265/HEVC. Also as others have stated they can accelerate certain workloads with OpenCL. Owerall good stuff that 99% of people will NOT be using in their servers until OpenCL use becomes as simple as editing a config fi...
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Piece of shit - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:09] <exec> 08└─My kids are out of diapers but always full of shit. Any ideas?
[16:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Piece of shit - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─Retaliate when you're old.
[16:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TWX [5124] (Score:1) 02Re:Not convinced - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:23] <exec> 08└─I guess that having clones isn't working out so well for you, is it?
[16:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:29] <exec> 08└─Killing birds is only OK if you're doing it for fun.
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:My wind turbine has no blades! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:32] <exec> 08└─Awful.
[16:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Efficiency - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:34] <exec> 08└─So they "promise to be more efficient" which to me says "they are not as efficient...yet." But the question is whether or not they could be, and if so, by how much? Efficiency is a tricky thing, because it's not just the efficiency of this turbine vs. that wiggle-stick. It's also the efficiency in t...
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Unfortunate implication - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─more efficient, less visually intrusive, and safer for birdlife than conventional turbines.
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Wind farms - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:37] <exec> 08└─I like wind farms. The sight of wind turbines turning on the horizon mesmerizes me. It's the Buck Rogers future and I get to live in it. But there's a different aspect of wind farms I don't like, which is that it's yet another form of centralized control. Don't pay the utility? No power for you! Don...
[16:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Licensing - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:49] <exec> 08└─Professional licensing makes sense in medicine and dentistry because public safety is directly at risk, in nearly every encounter. The teaching of law has evolved over centuries and probably doesn't change much from one decade to the next, other than throwing a couple courses to cover the latest fad...
[16:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03gargoyle [1791] (Score:1) 02Re:Related to what I'm doing now - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:53] <exec> 08└─As a Software Tester, I've lost count of the number of times I've had that conversation with the development manager. It's got to the stage now that I find it hard to believe that it's not willful ignorance of what Automated Testing gives. It's like he believes that the number of test conditions che...
[16:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ox0000 [5111] (Score:2, Funny) 02Just like everything else - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:58] <exec> 08└─It's tested just like everything else. What they don't catch by testing, they catch and mitigate for by redundancy. Here's a true story: I once worked on a product that was being deployed in an early adoption program at a large air plane manufacturer. Every so often we would give them a new version...
[16:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Scale and breadth - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:10] <exec> 08└─You have written the definitive post on this subject. You hit the nail on the head. This is why I love Soylent: people who know what they're talking about cutting through bullshit and saying things plainly.
[16:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bloodnok [2578] (Score:1) 02What do you expect and what will it cost - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:21] <exec> 08└─I don't know about Oracle support for the OS but I used to be an Oracle DBA and dealt with their database support. In my experience, If you have any reasonable amount of expertise, then Oracle support is a waste of time. I spent many hours responding to their queries for a description of the issue,...
[16:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02shouldn't you be - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:22] <exec> 08└─performing an internal risk assessment rather than posting an Ask Soylent? This seems at frst glance to be a no-brainer. If you are not 100% confident in your abilities, then it's better to pay someone else who knows what they're doing rather than face the potentially devastating consequences of a f...
[16:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They only want non-citizen asians - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:50] <exec> 08└─I don't know if there is some larger geopolitical goal of having students from a budding superpower experience our culture.
[16:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:10] <exec> 08└─> "Poor social skills" often were mentioned. So, it seems those making the decisions explained to you why you were being passed over. Did you ever go out and study, practice, and overcome your incompetence? Or did you simply say "fuck that - this is hard and I did my learning in school, I'm done wit...
[16:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:What are universities for? - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:15] <exec> 08└─That's just what I read in your comment...no problem either way... What you can read from mine is that I object to these secret admissions criteria. Seems to me that the admissions process should be open and objective: We rank students by X, Y, and Z and the best T-thousand applicants each year will...
[16:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:19] <exec> 08└─"He also stressed that he was not just academically driven, but also a well-rounded applicant who maximized his extracurricular activities. He competed in national speech and debate competitions and math competitions. He also plays the piano and performed in the choir that sang at President Barack O...
[16:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:31] <exec> 08└─So you've met him then?
[16:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Comment - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─they can, do, and the Sunset Clause is why.
[16:13:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:It's a start - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 724 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:51] <exec> 08└─So you'r going with Peak Spying? The precedent is now cast in stone as far as I can tell. They will not back down from this line in the sand. This bill extends sunsets in the Patriot act for ANOTHER 4 years. SEC. 705. SUNSETS. (a) USA PATRIOT Improvement And Reauthorization Act Of 2005.—Section 1...
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a start - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:57] <exec> 08└─it was unrealistic to expect that to happen overnight. Government changes at a glacial pace.
[16:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:ADBB - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:04] <exec> 08└─All they do is funnel some money to Dianne Feinstein, who fought tooth and nail for this bill.
[16:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:ADBB - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:07] <exec> 08└─Soo, basically Tor? Almost everything on my phone already routes through Tor. Not calls, but I never call anyone anyway. (You could try it with some VOIP service but that probably wouldn't work out too well) Texts, apps, and system services all do. Might need to do some additional work to prevent it...
[16:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is news? - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:18] <exec> 08└─... No, you can't claim to be a veteran, unless you manned a battle station somewhere... Since the term 'veteran' is often used colloquially to refer to participation in something non military, often humorously implying it was arduous, yes someone can use the term without being on the pointing end o...
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[17:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:I've often wondered, actually - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:38] <exec> 08└─The power of evolution requires a starting point. At the moment we're not sure what that is.
[17:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Are ... - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:39] <exec> 08└─any of them near Uranus?
[17:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─There was never a time that the government wasn't the enemy. That is, since government was formed, it has sought after, and consolidated power, then sought after more. It is for that reason that I've often thought that the wrong side won the American civil war. People fuss and argue over the issue o...
[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:51] <exec> 08└─While I would like to hear more debate about the centralization of government (cf. the Articles of Confederation [wikipedia.org]), I think slavery and states' rights are too closely intertwined to discuss the latter without people shouting about the former in this context.
[17:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02End-run around the Constitution - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─It sure was nice when people actually believed in the ideals our country was founded on. Now the Constitution is an inconvenient document whose tenets are to be avoided rather than followed.
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:End-run around the Constitution - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall the EU trying to write a constitution. The proposal was abandoned, yet the EU seems to be doing more to protect the privacy of UK citizens than the UK government and shown more backbone when it comes to dealing with the US on the issue than anyone else has - Brazil notwithstanding.
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Limits on government - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:55] <exec> 08└─Up front: I don't know how you do it. But what seems to be missing are a set of enforceable limits on government. You can only have "this many" laws. You can only spend "this much" money. You can only make "this many" regulations. Or, in this particular case: you can only have "this many" secrets. C...
[17:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Piece of shit - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:11] <exec> 08└─Poor parenting?
[17:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Piece of shit - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:12] <exec> 08└─It's actually not hard to tell, if your kid has a dirty diaper. At least with the diapers we have. There is a yellow line that turns blue on the diapers we have. The diaper also has a gel like feel to it when I lightly pinch the diaper, if they are dirty. Sure, newer fancier more expensive diapers w...
[17:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Not convinced - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:26] <exec> 08└─Clearly not. The poor sap has been kicked out of his own bed. I'd run the mower at night too if my clone stole my bed. Or were you going a different direction with that? :)
[17:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:31] <exec> 08└─iomn a indror csat yuo insednserrtivcew xcodf
[17:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:33] <exec> 08└─I love animals of all types. A cat eating a bird / rat / mouse is natural. There is a good bit of controversy as to whether feral cats are good for the ecosystem. It doesn't help that the Smithsonian has spent a good bit of time spinning out negative stories that aren't based on good science. http:/...
[17:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Licensing - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:54] <exec> 08└─Honestly, we're doing fine in that department. Where safety is actually critical, appropriate methodologies have been used and we don't see a lot of problems there. Theriac was a long time ago.
[17:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Licensing - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:57] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's that clear. Should we let any old yahoo write the code that runs your pacemaker? Probably not...but maybe if it goes through some formal certification/review/testing. Then letting someone incompetent write it would, in the ideal world, just guarantee you don't pass the testing. On...
[17:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:1) 02Totally the wrong question - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:07] <exec> 08└─First, no testing of non-trivial software can ever be complete, not within the age of the universe. Code coverage is one thing. Covering every possible execution path is a combinatorial explosion. Imagine the expense of the testing that would have been required to prevent the famous ATT outage cause...
[17:11:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Scale and breadth - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:18] <exec> 08└─Personally, I believe paid support is the future of working with open-source software.
[17:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They only want non-citizen asians - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:59] <exec> 08└─There is no need to subsidize anything. I'm more than certain these schools have such huge endowments they do not have to charge tuition.
[17:12:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 741 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:03] <exec> 08└─Well singing for the president (who never noticed him) doesn't buy much consideration in my book either. Piano Cello, probably account for more. But you should understand that the the ability to swing a bat or go on a pub crawl shouldn't help him academically either. Nor would it make him a more int...
[17:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:09] <exec> 08└─The difference being teacher vs. teacher I suppose. You can teach without it being your job.
[17:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:19] <exec> 08└─Now you've got the idea! Hail Eris.
[17:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03twistedcubic [929] (Score:1) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:21] <exec> 08└─I think the problem is that many students think "well-rounded" means doing lots of different things they may not be interested in. But most adults realize this is a waste of time. And adults are the ones reading those boring-ass applications. For example, a pre-med student who takes violin lessons,...
[17:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:24] <exec> 08└─social skills are arguably among the most important skills we can acquire.
[17:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:26] <exec> 08└─And by "social skills", what they usually mean is "Mindlessly doing what they are told in a way that the authority figure likes." Critical thinking and creativity is not valued. Why aren't you making smalltalk with those fools over there? Why aren't you being more 'social'? In the end, a lot of peop...
[17:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:33] <exec> 08└─But I've never known a black or Jew that was 100% into studying.
[17:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:44] <exec> 08└─I think you need to think that through. It appears to be your own bias, based on your own stereotypes.
[17:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:55] <exec> 08└─Water skiing? I think of that as a white trash sport, not upper crust.
[17:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:56] <exec> 08└─Darn +5 cap... I may have to mod you overrated just so I can mod you Uber-Insightful
[17:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:58] <exec> 08└─raised and groomed to go to an Ivy League school No, he wasn't.
[17:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wikkiwikki [1316] (Score:1) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:00] <exec> 08└─And whats wrong with Penn? its Ivy League... so who cares
[17:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation.. - 06 MIT’s Cheetah Robot can Now Autonomously Detect and Jump over Hurdles - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:33] <exec> 08└─You are correct. Tired at posting time ;) I rechecked the calculation I did. It seems I swapped some units for others when converting from km/h to m/s instead of taking the well know conversion factor.
[17:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Comment - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:06] <exec> 08└─While they technically can do it, it isn't constitutional. It's not like they're actually bypassing the constitution; they're just ignoring it.
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[18:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Han Held [216] (Score:3, Insightful) 02As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:36] <exec> 08└─it's easier for the government when the law is so convoluted that everyone becomes guilty of something. That way even if they might not be able to get you for racketeering or sexual offense, they can still snag you for tax evasion or money laundering.
[18:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:37] <exec> 08└─Or "How dare you convict me of doing things to cover up the actual crimes I committed." Ayn Rand was crazy. The state has a vested interest in not allowing criminal coverups to happen. The people have an interest in seeing those who do so punished. Lying about an investigation has been largely illeg...
[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02why is it a crime to hide money - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─While I disagree it should be illegal, the practice is called Structuring [wikipedia.org], and is a tool the Feds use in going after money laundering (it is amazing how many things can be considered a form of money laundering, so much so you've likely done it yourself), as well as harass legit busin...
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Second point is illegal - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─I have never heard of the first one but the second one is illegal.
[18:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Having money means you're guilty - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:42] <exec> 08└─Having money means you're guilty unless proven innocent, unless you're filthy rich and haven't done anything to challenge the status quo. I don't know why people put up with nonsense like the government tracking financial transactions, or making it a crime to try to avoid those privacy violations. T...
[18:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:01] <exec> 08└─I believe that what you are saying, is that people are to emotionally involved to argue the separate issues. Yeah, you're probably right. Regarding slavery - with or without the civil war, slavery was going to end within the next generation. All the rest of the world had already discovered that it's...
[18:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:02] <exec> 08└─Slavery ending because it was financially cheaper is not the correct reason to end it. Not only that but it isn't guaranteed to end all slavery, only most of it. A worker making a substandard wage still has the ability to improve him/herself and get a better job. They can have children and not have...
[18:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:04] <exec> 08└─And this is an outright fabrication. It's just not true. It's a thing lost-cause-of-the-south types lie to each other about so much they actually start believing. There's no substantiation to the claim that slavery was dying out. It was being rightfully restricted and limited by sane governments all...
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:3, Informative) 02You'll never be safe, and that's OK - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:08] <exec> 08└─There are two knock-down arguments against any proposition to expand (or even fail to roll back) government surveillance powers, and they are: 1. These violations of our privacy don't actually make us safer. They are, universally, demonstrably, ineffectual. People who claim otherwise are either delu...
[18:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:47] <exec> 08└─Ideally that is the sound the cat would make as it was being destroyed by the turbine.
[18:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:49] <exec> 08└─A human poisoning animals is natural, since humans are animals and part of nature.
[18:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:52] <exec> 08└─Windmills tend to be placed at funnel points for winds, which also tend to be funnel points for migrating birds.
[18:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Han Held [216] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't know about Oracle Linux - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:31] <exec> 08└─...but my samsung plays movies and I get all the help I could want from my cousin. And since companies are interchangeable (regardless of their specialties and regardless of which market segments they serve) I feel that my experience with my samsung wholly qualifies me to make a comment about Oracle...
[18:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Han Held [216] (Score:1) 02Re:Easy - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:33] <exec> 08└─As my mom used to say; "If you have to ask, you can't afford it". And that's certainly true of Oracle!
[18:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Business Types - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:47] <exec> 08└─Paid support keeps the business types within the company feeling happy. Sometimes you just have to do that. Of course.. you will still solve 99.9% of your problems with a quick Google search. Just think of it not as support that you are paying for but rather it's a necessary tax to keep the business...
[18:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They only want non-citizen asians - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:22] <exec> 08└─As far as the U of CA they have increased enrolment of non-resident foreign students for the higher tuition, but have not dropped the number of CA resident students. Win WIn?
[18:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score:1) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:47] <exec> 08└─If we can make the broad assumption that "interesting" people have a range of skills, hobbies and life experience to draw on - in addition to their scholastic achievements - then how will any students pass the "interesting" threshold? At his age, and at his stage of life, he hasn't had the exposure...
[18:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:nice bill - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:12] <exec> 08└─Somehow, commercially outsourcing of government spying on your personal communications is viewed as a victory for civil liberty.
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[19:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─Congratulations you are now guilty of making no withdrawals from your bank account. Obviously you have something to hide... Where the fuck does it stop? You guys need to smash your machine pretty sharpish.
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, sure, let's declare an entirely different action, with no connection to the problems I mentioned, illegal for the sake of argument, and then pretend that I've been hoisted on my own petard.
[19:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─Possession of your own petard is a terrorism offense.
[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─It's called reductio ad absurdam, but it's not as absurd as you'd think. There's not much difference between alleging guilt because you "seem to be avoiding withdrawing large amounts of money" and alleging guilt because "you are not withdrawing money at all". After all, most people withdraw money fr...
[19:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:52] <exec> 08└─> As Ayn Rand pointed out She also pointed out that a child-murderer was actually a great guy with a 'beautiful soul' and only despised for his independence. [freeservers.com] So, maybe Ayn isn't the best person to cite when it comes to issues of independence.
[19:09:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tynin [2013] 02why is it a crime to hide money - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 421 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─While I disagree it should be illegal, the practice is called Structuring [wikipedia.org], and is a tool the Feds use in going after money laundering (it is amazing how many things can be considered a form of money laundering, so much so you've likely done it yourself), as well as harass legit busin...
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why is it a crime to hide money - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─Normally something like this happening to a member of the political class would get the law fixed. Like when Robert Bork's video rental records were published. [wikipedia.org] But they went after a pedo so the law is safe. Thank god!
[19:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Having money means you're guilty - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:57] <exec> 08└─As someone who has a bit of money I can confirm that this is increasingly the case.
[19:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bill_mcgonigle [1105] (Score:2) 02"why nobody should want that.” - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:58] <exec> 08└─"it should take little effort to see why nobody should want that.” JHFC, get your head out of the sand. It should take very little effort to see why people in power should want exactly that. Over-criminalization serves the power elite and the prison-industrial complex perfectly well. Follow the mo...
[19:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02The Drake equation's result just increased again - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─What Kepler and other sources are now telling us is that smallish, rocky planets with nice orbits around pleasant stars are relatively common. This means that the odds of life occurring elsewhere in the galaxy have gone from pretty decent to practically 100%. I just hope I live long enough to see th...
[19:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Does someone want to tell intel what a "server" - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:39] <exec> 08└─Web/mail is I/O bound.
[19:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Not convinced - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:57] <exec> 08└─Hmm yes interesting climate based issue. Where I live the natural flow of things means not much wind at night. Its actually kinda creepy at night when the wind stops when you're camping in the dark. Another good noise example is air conditioning, although it isn't that loud. It also helps living in...
[19:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score:1) 02Re:Not convinced - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:01] <exec> 08└─"Wind turbines now are too noisy for people's backyard," says David Suriol. Hmm OK leafblowers and lawnmowers are too noisy for people's backyards but it doesn't even slow down my neighbors. Also screaming little kids. You get enough little kids and there's a continuous scream over a geographic ave...
[19:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:03] <exec> 08└─God knows how many birds are killed by cars, glass windows and doors, buildings and just general deforestation and pollution, BUT GOD FORBID a windmill kills a bird!
[19:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Efficiency - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:17] <exec> 08└─Efficiency is power out vs power in. Those other things are effectiveness.
[19:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate implication - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:19] <exec> 08└─No one said it was an ordered list... If it was, maybe they were "saving the best for last."
[19:11:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aiwendil [531] 02NASA has it right - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 1056 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:42] <exec> 08└─As the article points out NASA has actually solved the issue of coding high-reliability software - keep coders away from it and hand it to engineers. To elaborate a bit this all basically comes down to training - most coders learn "if it works - ship it" while engineers basically get taught to think...
[19:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Qlaras [3198] (Score:1) 02Re:Just like everything else - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:45] <exec> 08└─If it really matters, the company buying the product coordinates what languages & compilers each is using, and forbids any two from using the same programming language or compiler, too. (Folks I know have worked in/on Avionics Software Engineering)
[19:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:1) 02Re:Scale and breadth - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:02] <exec> 08└─whats a paid consultant supposed to do better, use stronger swear words? This, a thousand times this!
[19:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:They only want non-citizen asians - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 1617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:47] <exec> 08└─Jewish interest dominates on today's elite American educational institutions. Once "barred from the club", Jewish special interest now finds it IS the club. The peculiar politics and power dynamics of Jewish monied elite in the US are balanced on a peculiar ethic that involves historic disadvantage...
[19:12:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 896 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:48] <exec> 08└─I certainly can understand his frustration but I've known a number of his type, 100% study oriented people. And frankly they're boring uninteresting people. They blend into the crowd and don't distinguish themselves in anyway other than their GPA or a handful of tutor-approved hobbies (piano, cello,...
[19:12:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:51] <exec> 08└─And we know who goes into teaching.
[19:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm not so sure I regard him as well-rounded - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:01] <exec> 08└─Use 0.0.0.0, it's explicitly non-routable. If there's a web server listening on the loopback address you'll still get the same result, but the computer will generate the HTTP request, send it to itself, and respond 404. For that matter you could use something like Adblock or NoScript or some other c...
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 2221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─Mom must have watched some episodes of "beverly hillbillies" to think she learned about upper class culture providing some really weird ideas, then went into alpha tiger mom competition against the other tiger moms to be the very best at some fairly ridiculous tasks that unfortunately have very litt...
[19:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legal crimes - 06Proposed Rule Change to Expand Feds’ Legal Hacking Powers Moves Forward - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:00] <exec> 08└─Do you think they haven't been doing that before? I'd guess that the Silk Road bust included a lot of illegal things but of course we'll never hear about it.
[19:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:nice bill - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:40] <exec> 08└─Plus, they can easily put terms in the EULAs that say it's okay for them to do it and you can't sue them ("binding arbiration" or whatever?). Oh, but you can decline the terms and instead sign up with one of their competitors. Hmm. Looks like the competitors have the same terms. Oh wait, no--silly m...
[19:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Comment - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:59] <exec> 08└─it wouldn't be Constitutional for a Government agency to do it. I think a private company is a bit of unsettled case law as to whether or not a private concern being paid by Government becomes a part of Government. Are you a Government employee if you're on welfare? How about a Veteran's Pension? Or...
[19:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Re:It's a start - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:11] <exec> 08└─Government changes at a glacial pace.
[19:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:US destroyer making passes at Russia - 06Russian Planes Make Passes at US Warship in Black Sea - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:35] <exec> 08└─Do unto others as to keep them from doing unto you?
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[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02DISSAPOINTMENT! - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:39] <exec> 08└─8 minutes of video showing trial exercises, with no actual relevant mission-footage. I expected to see this aircraft engaged in the actual INCINERATION of BABIES and their MOTHERS, as called for in previous missions to protect.
[20:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Seems cool, video is in flash - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:40] <exec> 08└─In case you don't want to watch the entire video: 2:10 Takeoff3:08 Landing begins3:17 Touchdown6:36 Another landing begins6:46 Another touchdown Maybe not as cool as SpaceX's landings, but on the other hand these landings are carrying people.
[20:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems cool, video is in flash - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe not as cool as SpaceX's landings, but on the other hand these landings are carrying people.
[20:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─These large cash transactions are another feature of the war on drugs, and made stricter by the war on terrorism. It used to be you paid taxes on what you put IN the bank, and nobody cared what you did with the money after that. We are one step away from having to ask permission to use our own funds...
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─It used to be you paid taxes on what you put IN the bank, and nobody cared what you did with the money after that.
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─Go educate yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Prior to 1986 none of this was ever tracked tracked. If you are going to make such grandiose pronouncements, maybe it would...
[20:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:00] <exec> 08└─The state has a vested interest in not allowing criminal coverups to happen.
[20:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02It's a felony default swap - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─It's a little tricky to understand for people who don't trade in the judicial penalties markets, but: They open a new position by charging Hastert with governmental evasion instead of sexual misconduct.This then creates an option they can use to eventually charge Julian Assange with a sexually relat...
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02No one pointing out the obvious? - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 1762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:10] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised that no one has pointed out the obvious. These are sick laws, used by overzealous agents and prosecutors to prosecute people when they otherwise don't have a case. If this guy committed a crime, then the government should charge him and prosecute him for that crime. If they cannot, for...
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:1) 02Lying to Cops, Federal Agents, etc. - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:11] <exec> 08└─There are laws against lying to cops and federal agents and so forth. But there's no law that says you have to answer their questions.
[20:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It got Al Capone off the streets - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:13] <exec> 08└─n/t
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I've often wondered, actually - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:21] <exec> 08└─That's the best chance of finding life on say, Mars/Europa IMO. Get single-celled organisms, fling them off after a meteor hits.
[20:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The Drake equation's result just increased agai - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:24] <exec> 08└─http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/atlast-the-gargantuan-telescope-designed-to-find-life-on-other-planets/263409/ [theatlantic.com]
[20:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Sweet - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:26] <exec> 08└─Now we need some geek to figure out FTL and we are golden.
[20:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, that's not true - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:27] <exec> 08└─Twenty years ago, we only knew about our solar system, and everything was circular and so everyone expected circular orbits everywhere
[20:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:LOL - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:52] <exec> 08└─I believe in soaking soylenters with information
[20:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:They only want non-citizen asians - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:12] <exec> 08└─Flamebait? This message cites and reiterates positions from "The Jewish Chronicle" and "Mondoweiss", two notable self-identified Jewish interest sources, from differing political perspectives. Somebody is touchy!
[20:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:He sounds dreadful - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:09] <exec> 08└─Water skiing? I think of that as a white trash sport, not upper crust.
[20:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02more to come! - 06Proposed Rule Change to Expand Feds’ Legal Hacking Powers Moves Forward - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:30] <exec> 08└─when adam was a little boy, his parents noticed that he was extraordinarily good at planting potatoes. they send him to agricultural school and the teacher were astonished at how good he was at planting any kind of plant. also they noticed that he was not very fond of the government and how it manda...
[20:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:ADBB - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:50] <exec> 08└─Remember, I'm just putting it out there about how we can distort the collected data, and this adds a considerable amount of records and external systems that need to be captured too. What's your idea to accomplish it?
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[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Linux is the best OS in the world - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─▬▬▬.◙.▬▬▬ ═▂▄▄▓▄▄▂ ◢◤ █▀▀████▄▄▄▄◢◤ █▄ █ーJ ███▀▀▀▀▀▀▀╬ LINUX MADE ME SO RICH ◥█████◤ /▌ ══╩══╩══▬▬▬.◙.▬▬▬ I HAVE A MERCEDES CHOPPER ON THE HELIPAD OF MY ROOF!!!
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TWX [5124] (Score:2, Touché) 02If manipulation of SHH allowed for it... - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─...I wonder if they would consider it, assuming that all modifications grew to sizes that, when dismembered, looked normal... That may be slightly perverse, but researchers are making good progress on lab-created meat, so it isn't so far-fetched as it might seem.
[21:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─This was an urban legend that has been circulating in America for years. The way I first heard it, when I was like 13, was something like, "They have to call it 'KFC' because they're not technically chickens anymore, they're mutants with like 8 wings each now." Of course anybody with half a brain kn...
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:DISSAPOINTMENT! - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─Even Jean-Luc Picard thinks you're a fucktard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ________ . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . ,.-‘”. . . . . . . . . .``~., . . . . . . . .. . . . . .,.-”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .“-., . . . . .. . . . . . ..,/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
[21:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TWX [5124] (Score:1) 02Re:DISSAPOINTMENT! - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:55] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that the fire-control system wasn't even close to done yet. I think the worst they could do at the moment would be to manually jettison dumb bombs or extra fuel tanks hanging from the hard-points under the wings...
[21:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Seems cool, video is in flash - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:57] <exec> 08└─Even Jean-Luc Picard thinks you're a fucktard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ________ . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . ,.-‘”. . . . . . . . . .``~., . . . . . . . .. . . . . .,.-”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .“-., . . . . .. . . . . . ..,/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
[21:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Seems cool, video is in flash - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:58] <exec> 08└─Even Jean-Luc Picard thinks you're a fucktard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ________ . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . ,.-‘”. . . . . . . . . .``~., . . . . . . . .. . . . . .,.-”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .“-., . . . . .. . . . . . ..,/. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
[21:10:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:07] <exec> 08└─Or "How dare you convict me of doing things to cover up the actual crimes I committed." Ayn Rand was crazy. The state has a vested interest in not allowing criminal coverups to happen. The people have an interest in seeing those who do so punished. Lying about an investigation has been largely illeg...
[21:10:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 862 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:12] <exec> 08└─Oh Christ. Repeatedly withdrawing medium quantities of cash to hide the (larger) financial actions you're actually taking is not a hard concept to follow. I don't mind they're you don't get why they'd stop this. That's okay: Large transactions need to be properly documented for tax and anti-fraud r...
[21:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:16] <exec> 08└─> Prior to 1986 none of this was ever tracked You win with facts. > it would behoove you to wait till you are at least out of highschool and have spent some time in the actual world. You lose with pointless insults.
[21:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:18] <exec> 08└─"Go educate yourself" By flagrantly ignoring the: Bank secrecy act of 1970 [wikipedia.org] Or the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 Monitoring transactions has just gotten more complicated, and if you cherry pick the electronic oriented acts, you're going to be stuck with ones from the information ag...
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:19] <exec> 08└─It was true until recently in many, many countries outside the US which had specific laws prohibiting their governments obtaining banking information. Then the US comes on the scene and bribes (yes bribes - I mean, you do want those extra million dollars to "fight the war on drugs" don't you?) gover...
[21:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:21] <exec> 08└─How much is a "medium quantity"? How often is "repeatedly"? Exactly what amount is suspicious and what amount is legitimate? And be aware that the moment you set a suspicious amount - does the amount you just said minus 1 dollar now become a new "suspicious" amount? Buy a car with cash, it's totall...
[21:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Second point is illegal - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:25] <exec> 08└─▬▬▬.◙.▬▬▬ ═▂▄▄▓▄▄▂ ◢◤ █▀▀████▄▄▄▄◢◤ █▄ █ーJ ███▀▀▀▀▀▀▀╬ LINUX MADE ME SO RICH ◥█████◤ /▌ ══╩══╩══▬▬▬.◙.▬▬▬ I HAVE A MERCEDES CHOPPER ON THE HELIPAD OF MY ROOF!!!
[21:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"why nobody should want that.” - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─None of this will get better until people stop acting like little children who pretend that the government is there to be their hired nanny to stop other people from doing things they personally don't like or their religion says is "bad".
[21:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lying to Cops, Federal Agents, etc. - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:33] <exec> 08└─Law? No. But if you make one mad by not answering they will find one or a dozen charges that will stick.
[21:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lying to Cops, Federal Agents, etc. - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:35] <exec> 08└─If all else fails, you'll be arrested for "Resisting Arrest".
[21:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:04] <exec> 08└─There was never a time that the government wasn't the enemy. That is, since government was formed, it has sought after, and consolidated power, then sought after more.
[21:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:End-run around the Constitution - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:07] <exec> 08└─True, its clear the Brits understand our constitution better than most US Citizens. The only way to pass a law of equal gravitas to the Constitution is to do it via a Treaty. Article Five, says in part: This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; a...
[21:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:LOL - 06Intel, AMD, and Diapers at Computex 2015 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:19] <exec> 08└─I believe in soaking soylenters with information
[21:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:efficiency - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:41] <exec> 08└─Lot's about it is less efficient. It sweeps out less volume, but that also means it has less air to extract energy from, and the cylindrical turbine has been very highly optimised. I also wonder about fatigue at the base - that's going through an enormous number of tension/compression cycles. At lea...
[21:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Comment - 06Senate Passes USA Freedom Act - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:54] <exec> 08└─it wouldn't be Constitutional for a Government agency to do it. I think a private company is a bit of unsettled case law as to whether or not a private concern being paid by Government becomes a part of Government. Are you a Government employee if you're on welfare? How about a Veteran's Pension? Or...
[21:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't worry. - 06New Exploit Leaves Most Macs Vulnerable to Permanent Backdooring - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:13] <exec> 08└─I'm still on 10.6.8 and have no intention of "upgrading" to whatever the newest version is. I have extremely limited internet activity with that Mac. Regular backups are the only thing I'm concerned with.
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[22:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah but it's different when you write it down and publish it worldwide - which is what the internet is. Although libel laws may be much older than the internet, some people are going to get a rude shock if it can be proven to the court that such statements were actually made. Although it's not a go...
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─I don't know, I look forward to /The Onion/'s take on this.
[22:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:49] <exec> 08└─The KFC urban legend I recall from the late 70's or early 80's was that at a KFC, remarkably the one that happened to be just up the road, a customer was questioning their meal and it turned out that it wasn't fried chicken she was served, BUT A RAT THAT somehow GOT BREADED AND FRIED!!!!! I swear to...
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─> "They have to call it 'KFC' because they're not technically chickens anymore, they're mutants with like 8 wings each now." The way I heard it was that they had three breasts. The rumor was not helped by KFC's 'innovative' way of cutting the bird that makes breasts pieces so small it looks like the...
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Photographic Evidence - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─Proof that KFC chickens are mutants. [blogspot.com] Not photoshopped.
[22:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:DISSAPOINTMENT! - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:03] <exec> 08└─Pffff, if these F-35 pieces of shit kill anybody, it will be their pilots. I wouldn't be the least surprised to learn that they were running old versions of Windows CE on X86 processors. Woo, they have 3 versions! 3 versions of a ridiculously expensive plane that sucks at everything rather than havi...
[22:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:28] <exec> 08└─I have 0 debt, FYI. But, congrats on projecting your assumptions! Makes me feel good when you're wrong about multiple things at a time.
[22:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:29] <exec> 08└─That's okay: Large transactions need to be properly documented for tax and anti-fraud reasons.
[22:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:33] <exec> 08└─Thomas Jefferson was a slave holder, so let's discount everything he ever wrote, said, or did "when it comes to issues of independence". Hey, I think I finally figured out how to suspend the Constitution. Yay! Martial law for everyone!
[22:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:34] <exec> 08└─OR they might be able to accuse you of the sex crimes in order to snatch you for releasing all your super secret naughty stuff, and force you to hole up in some country's embassy for years on end. Hmm, which is worse? Which one is the wrestling coach?
[22:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Second point is illegal - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:39] <exec> 08└─If by the first one you mean the "structuring", then, yup, that's illegal (hence the existence of a term to describe it). It's a bit like wearing guy fawkes masks at protests - trying to hide something itself becomes illegal.
[22:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lying to Cops, Federal Agents, etc. - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:49] <exec> 08└─There are laws against lying to cops and federal agents and so forth.
[22:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Lying to Cops, Federal Agents, etc. - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:51] <exec> 08└─Are there really such laws or are you thinking of perjury? No. Lieing to the police tends to fall under 'obstruction'. If your thinking of lieing to the police; shut up and call a lawyer instead. You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to an attorney.
[22:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2, Informative) 02A lawyer's perspective on it - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:53] <exec> 08└─http://popehat.com/2015/05/29/dennis-hastert-and-federal-prosecutorial-power/ [popehat.com]
[22:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:You'll never be safe, and that's OK - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:26] <exec> 08└─There is, unfortunately another another knock-down argument, as least in the US. The founding fathers never perceived a government so all invasive that the right to "privacy" was ever contemplated in the Constitution, even after the 4th Amendment's weak attempt to rectify it: The right of the peopl...
[22:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Not resonance - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:20] <exec> 08└─There is ambiguity in the terms. Where do you stand on whistling, is that resonance?
[22:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Wind farms - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:28] <exec> 08└─If you really want to go off grid then small solar + small wind + battery + petrol / diesel backup generator. Don't rely on a single source.
[22:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:1) 02Check out this cutting edge turbine - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:29] <exec> 08└─This cutting edge new turbine has no blades. It must have been designed by a pretty sharp fellow.
[22:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:18] <exec> 08└─I disagree in this case since he gave the evidence himself. His version of well rounded (in his own words) is a psychotic devotion of 110% of his time to things for the sole purpose of appearing well rounded. This is not my, or most anyone else's, definition of "well rounded". To me this appears to...
[22:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:26] <exec> 08└─Is being an interesting person a criterion for admission?
[22:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:No other RDBMS is this stupid - 06Site Upgrade - Rehash 15.05.1 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:25] <exec> 08└─Replacing the backend with postgreSQL is on the TODO.
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[23:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:00] <exec> 08└─> Of course, now that "corn" is fast becoming a bad word as well, what will they call Pops? Packing peanuts? Post-Traumatic Stress Pops.
[23:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Photographic Evidence - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─I doubt KFC can benefit from chickens with lots of feet since its not on their menu.. I betcha its for the yum cha/dimsum joints..
[23:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Wish I could remember where I first heard this - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:03] <exec> 08└─It was a day or two ago, and it had a picture of a couple 6 legged, 8 winged chickens. It was a hilarious picture.
[23:10:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:38] <exec> 08└─"Go educate yourself" By flagrantly ignoring the: Bank secrecy act of 1970 [wikipedia.org] Or the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 Monitoring transactions has just gotten more complicated, and if you cherry pick the electronic oriented acts, you're going to be stuck with ones from the information ag...
[23:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:40] <exec> 08└─Honestly the banking sector as a whole has morphed into something else.
[23:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Licensing - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:58] <exec> 08└─There is a point there, some safety critical applications have not been appropriately treated as such. Perhaps I should have said that where applications HAVE been identified as such, appropriate methodologies have been applied and it hasn't been a problem. I don't see how licensing for such applica...
[23:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:45] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the insight.
[23:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the economics.. - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:15] <exec> 08└─It seems there has to be some kind of prevailing cultural value or virtue yearning towards education as an end unto itself.
[23:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the economics.. - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:17] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine a more horrible world than one where children's primary motivation is a paycheck. That's currently adults' primary motivation.
[23:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:Sensible Change - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:25] <exec> 08└─Information wants to be free, no? Practical applications of knowledge will always win over the masses.
[23:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:I know! I'll write an app for that! - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:29] <exec> 08└─I quite commonly and publicly make plainly apparent that I have come to regard software as largely useless if not downright immoral.
[23:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:I know! I'll write an app for that! - 06Can Information Technology End World Hunger? Not So Fast, Says Researcher - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:31] <exec> 08└─Also, thank you MichaelDavidCrawford for your reference of the water treatment solution. It's a great example of **technology** that doesn't require computers, expensive natural resources, or destruction of the environment.
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