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[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03captnjohnny1618 [5301] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─Yuuuup. They complain people are illegally publishing copyrighted material, but how about we discuss how they've pay walled (at prohibitive prices) insane amounts of research that is funded by taxpayer dollars? We're authoring a paper in our lab right now about some CT reconstruction software we'v...
[00:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Good luck, LibGen is distributed - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:22] <exec> 08└─Library Genesis was set up after several forebears had been shut down by copyright claims. It was conceived with a distributed architecture: any file uploaded to LibGen is automatically mirrored on a number of websites (not all of which are known publicly). Plus, those contributions are also bundled...
[00:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty shoddy definition of "no help". 1) with no help from human beings.... 2) Computer scientists and biologists programmed the computer
[00:22:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dingus [5224] 02Highly misleading - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 1055 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Here's the article they sourced. IMo it's much more interesting than Wire'd hyped-up, dumbed-down version. https://now.tufts.edu [tufts.edu] Tufts biologists devloped an algorithm that used evolutionary computation to pro...
[00:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly misleading - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the sane re-summary. The really intelligent part here is setting up the genetic algorithm in a way tht it can account for data that's quite tricky to classify. I agree that any sort of disruptive AI will need to do a lot more than combine chunks really fast and test for optimization.
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Very cool, but scary. - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:43] <exec> 08└─This news is pretty impressive. Although, they are only speculating, so don't get all worked up. Give it 10 years, want to bet Apple offers an iBrain6 for direct injection? Who begs for updates when they expire? Drug lords they are.
[00:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:1) 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:14] <exec> 08└─I do honestly believe there is no one on the national or world stage who is quite as stupid and disconnected from reality, which often leads to him saying stuff that would get a normal person drug tested, or drugged.
[00:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score:1) 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─The reason that this is "news for nerds" is that Santorum and his anti-science buddies want to remove climate change and other "controversial" subjects they don't like from political discussion and government funding. When they can dictate what science is supported based on the self interests of the...
[00:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple will open source the Swift language - 06OS X "El Capitan", Swift, Apple Music, and More at WWDC - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:16] <exec> 08└─Why do we need to replace C, C++, or Java and throw away the decades of accumulated experience and knowledge of them that have been built up?
[00:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this is why I don't do financial coding - 06How MIT Students Won $8 Million in the Massachusetts Lottery - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:25] <exec> 08└─I inspired myself to fix the problem. If anyone else would prefer an explicit warning of MDC content before reading it, here's a quick and dirty way to do it: (1) Install FoxReplace [mozilla.org] add-on. (2) Turn on Auto-replace on page load from the Tools->FoxReplace menu (3) Add the following filt...
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[01:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:10] <exec> 08└─again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months.
[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:11] <exec> 08└─The real about-face is that he won't veto that garbage, or fulfill most of the promises he made before being elected. Typical. But only people who didn't do their research or apply critical thinking were really fooled by that acting.
[01:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Everybody Loves Obama - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:12] <exec> 08└─That's what matters. Not what he does, but how much he's Liked.
[01:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Editors! - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─Push Uwe Boll story through! It's hilarious.
[01:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:24] <exec> 08└─Time for taxpayers to retroactively demand compensation from Evilvier for profiteering using state resources ? ;-) CRCulver seems to tell us that LibGen will make Evilviers intent doomed. And let's hope people learnt something from Aaron Swartz, JSTOR and MIT.
[01:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Beyond the paywall. - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of the pay-wall phenomenon. At the same time perhaps it doesn't affect me as much as the average user since I have access to the papers at work. But just looking thru the Library Genesis site I can find a massive amount of copyright infringements. They are clearly linking to all thinks...
[01:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Beyond the paywall. - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:28] <exec> 08└─So while sharing public papers, articles and reports might be fine sharing complete books and comic-books probably isn't.
[01:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Beyond the paywall. - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:29] <exec> 08└─So while they might be in the right for trying to breach the pay-wall and doing people without payed access a favor they are also at the same time into shady business and sharing of works they clearly have no right to share -- commercial work with little or no academic value.
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Babel - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─The genes of sliced-up flatworms are capable of regenerating in order to form new organisms -- this is a long-documented phenomenon, but scientists have been mystified for years over exactly what happens to the cells to make this possible. By presenting the computer with this problem, however, it wa...
[01:23:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:16] <exec> 08└─So, when thousands of scientists around the world drill ice cores, take weather readings, examine the fossil record, and all the many, many other things that go into climate research, it doesn't count as science because *you* don't like what the data indicates? It shows you don't get the basic conce...
[01:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:23] <exec> 08└─He's quite possibly the most mentally disabled person in politics in my lifetime.
[01:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rick Santorum Wants... - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:50] <exec> 08└─From attendance at recent campaign events it's more like WhoCares Bears.
[01:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just another example.... - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:00] <exec> 08└─> There are some decent Republicans. They just don't get screen time. Absolutely. Idiocy makes headlines. But, the GOP leadership holds a significant amount of responsibility for giving the idiots a platform. They could take a page from the democrats' playbook - that party has its kooks too, but the...
[01:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:NIH galore? - 06OS X "El Capitan", Swift, Apple Music, and More at WWDC - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:19] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the operating system gets bloated. And it's a industry wide problem.
[01:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:iOS 9 - the new syrup for your device., - 06OS X "El Capitan", Swift, Apple Music, and More at WWDC - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:34] <exec> 08└─The problem is usually CPU and RAM requirement (to do things no one really needs). Storing it isn't such a great problem.
[01:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:apples and oranges - 06Airbus Working on Re-Usable Successor to Ariane Rocket - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:50] <exec> 08└─Did we recover any payloads and fly them back with disposable rockets? Frankly, I don't remember, but we must have tried it once or twice. It wash't ONLY about reuse of the vehicle. The Shuttle had capabilities that would have required a one-off very expensive use-once vehicle. The basic fact is tha...
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[02:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─The People voted for Black. They got what they wanted.
[02:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:19] <exec> 08└─They voted for hope and change. They got what they wanted.
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Editors! - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─Nobody seems to fucking care about your fucking Uwe Boll story. I guess you shouldn't have fucking submitted it then. Fucking idiot.
[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Editors! - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─This explains why the whole NSA - Snowden - scandal is just going to blow over. It's more interesting to see a German director go crazy on youtube and drop the f-bomb ... oh look kittens ...
[02:22:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 931 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─There's starting to be some pushback from academia about the closed availability of research. Especially research that was done with public money. For example: John Baez (of This Weeks Finds in Mathematical Physics (and yes, he is related to Joan Baez the singer) has: http://math.ucr.edu
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:35] <exec> 08└─Your populist bullshit is misplaced. You got your funding to do the research and you did it. You are free to write up your results and self-publish your results. However, if you feel compelled to publish in an expensive journal, don't bitch about the price. Just don't publish there. Most of the time...
[02:22:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02Subject - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:48] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't quite call that independently, but it's very impressive none the less.
[02:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Highly misleading - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:58] <exec> 08└─Well what do you know? The biological sciences have just discovered chi-squared!
[02:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score:1) 02Re:Highly misleading - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:59] <exec> 08└─it was a dumb evolutionary algorithm doing guess-and-check
[02:23:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:22] <exec> 08└─Because someone wrote something more meaningful than you did, I guess.
[02:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:28] <exec> 08└─If it's really a slow news day, I see no problem if there's only two or three stories on a whole day.
[02:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"give Gewg and Hugh [...] accounts, like Jon Katz" - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:35] <exec> 08└─Are the PgUp and PgDn keys on your device broken? I notice that in order to whine, you guys who do that have to 1) click the link 2) post a comment on the page. Clearly, you don't mind us so much that you will just skip to the next story. -- gewg_
[02:23:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:37] <exec> 08└─We don't care about what Rick Santorum thinks.
[02:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:51] <exec> 08└─Compare to something that people really do care about like magnetism, look at all the "fuckin magnets how do they work" stuff on the internet, yet theres no popular science claptrap about stuff people actually want to understand. Now why is that, that editors and publishers appear to like certain ph...
[02:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:57] <exec> 08└─If there is one thing I do know it's that political science is never settled; it feels more like it's in constant evolution. But if the Vatican is just supposed to engage in questions of morality and theological issues why did they build that big observatory? I am fairly certain they didn't build it...
[02:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:moonshot - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:01] <exec> 08└─Because BABY WANTS TO READ ONLY WHAT BABY WANTS TO READ! *Kicks feet* *Throws spoon*
[02:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rick Santorum Wants... - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:11] <exec> 08└─A pony and a dragon? Hookers and blow!
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[03:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Waiting for this - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:11] <exec> 08└─I've been waiting for this to get off the ground. It will be interesting to see if their certs will be blessed by all the other guys or they are going to give them the same cold shoulder they gave self signed certs (except Google's of course).
[03:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waiting for this - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks to Snowden, word is out that there is a peeping-tom in town. And everyone is pulling their blinds....
[03:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score:2, Informative) 02"Only" 2048 bit intermediary keys? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 1802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:15] <exec> 08└─The ISRG Root CA uses a 4096 bit RSA key, which is likely to be resistant to brute-force attacks for the foreseeable future, unless someone actually manages to build a relatively large quantum computer. However, I was a bit surprised to learn that for some strange reason, the intermediary CAs have b...
[03:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re: - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:16] <exec> 08└─But does it really matter? Lots of people thing SSL is pretty much owned by the NSA and GCHQ. http://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] http://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] http://blog.cryptographye...
[03:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02What is it? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:18] <exec> 08└─What is the "Let's Encrypt" project, and what's different about it? -- hendrik
[03:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:What is it? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:20] <exec> 08└─It's a Certificate Authority that can issue server certificates to web servers and mail servers, just like StartSSL, VeriSign, GoDaddy and others. The difference is: a) Unlike VeriSign and GoDaddy (but like StartSSL), the certificates are free, and b) Unlike everybody else, the Let's Encrypt initiat...
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─Just remember that last election and who Obama was up against. Nobody was voting for anyone they liked. I sure did not. I voted, asking mercy from the Lord on what I was doing. I had perceived what Obama was up against was just about the greediest, most self centered 0.01 percenter on the planet. (...
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─And only dipshits who think the president is some kind of fucking king that can enact whatever the fuck he wants whenever he wants go around bitching about how he didn't do everything he said he would. Maybe your ignorance can be excused if you are a foreigner, but if not, then you are too fucking s...
[03:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─Although I think your language is kinda sour, the message is crystal clear, and I believe very accurate. If it were not for those other two branches of government, I believe we would be in a helluva mess right now. This has been a time when the best thing that could happen for the American people is...
[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─And only dipshits who think the president is some kind of fucking king that can enact whatever the fuck he wants whenever he wants go around bitching about how he didn't do everything he said he would.
[03:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Everybody Loves Obama - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─Gotta love that Osamacare!
[03:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no help from human beings - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:07] <exec> 08└─The computer arrived at the conclusion without human direction through the entire thought process. I think the intent is pretty obvious if you have a basic idea of modern AI capabilities.
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Very cool, but scary. - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, I'm sure we will have the option of cortexd. *ducks*
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[04:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Missed It - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:06] <exec> 08└─Where have I been? I was under the impression that we were still limited to superconductors at temps *way* below zero.
[04:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03_1156277 [5139] (Score:1) 02Re:Missed It - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:08] <exec> 08└─According to TFA we have our heads buried in the sand.
[04:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:10] <exec> 08└─Looking at the charts he's posted, this uneducated eye sees a discontinuity in the resistance curve at those transition points. But, there is still plenty of resistance. That makes me think these are not super-conductors in the way most people think of the term -- effectively zero resistance. Expert...
[04:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:11] <exec> 08└─Looking at the Wikipedia talk page for Room-temperature superconductors, it seems like superconductors.org is a known crank/fraud site.
[04:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score:1) 02Yes, I believe it does matter - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:22] <exec> 08└─SSL is not necessarily "owned" by NSA, GCHQ or anybody else, unless we use weak/flawed cryptographic algorithms/software. In fact, the articles you provided links to, explains this: An adversary will need to steal keys, use side-channel attacks or issue fraudulent certificates (for use in Man-in-the...
[04:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:25] <exec> 08└─Still haven't signed up for a Soylent account yet, I suppose I should while the gettin's good, but... Anyway, cursory inspection shows that the primary key servers will still be located in California, or at least the USA. Won't this be a problem for obvious reasons? Or am I missing something?
[04:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:27] <exec> 08└─To add to this, being someone who is hardware rather than software educated, how does this help the average internet user?
[04:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigterm [849] (Score:1) 02Re:Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:28] <exec> 08└─You're just missing one piece of the puzzle: that the Public Key Infrastructure on the Internet is vulnerable to attacks from governments and bad actors with access to ANY generally-trusted Certificate Authority. If the Let's Encrypt initiative was hosted on Iceland, the NSA could still obtain a fra...
[04:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:43] <exec> 08└─... only dipshits who think the president is some kind of fucking king that can enact whatever the fuck he wants ...
[04:22:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CRCulver [4390] 02Good luck, LibGen is distributed - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 1027 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:59] <exec> 08└─Library Genesis was set up after several forebears had been shut down by copyright claims. It was conceived with a distributed architecture: any file uploaded to LibGen is automatically mirrored on a number of websites (not all of which are known publicly). Plus, those contributions are also bundled...
[04:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] (Score:1) 02Re:Rick Santorum Wants... - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:36] <exec> 08└─You won't have a pony for long once you get your dragon.
[04:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:region locking - 06 Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:18] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if the market was healthy they would be forced to sell at just above their marginal cost from day one everywhere.
[04:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:1) 02Re:region locking - 06 Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:19] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if the market was healthy they would be forced to sell at just above their marginal cost from day one everywhere.
[04:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this is why I don't do financial coding - 06How MIT Students Won $8 Million in the Massachusetts Lottery - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:18] <exec> 08└─Add MDC to your Foes list. In your account preferences set the Foe mod to -6. Read at a threshold of 0 or higher. Voila, no more MDC comments!
[04:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this is why I don't do financial coding - 06How MIT Students Won $8 Million in the Massachusetts Lottery - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:19] <exec> 08└─I use the Foes list to keep track of people who I think are dumbasses that way I can judge what they write - if they should or should not get the benefit of the doubt when they post something that sounds kinda stupid. So I can't make it do double-duty as a killfile.
[04:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frost [3313] (Score:1) 02Re:Sun's lawyers and the Java trademark - 06 Lawyer Who Sued EFF Blames Ars Technica Readers for Hacking, Defamation - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:31] <exec> 08└─Washington State is chock full of businesses with "Olympic" in their names, including at least one gym [olympicathleticclub.com]. OAC's logo even has a very slight resemblance to the IOC's logo. I wonder how they get away with that. Maybe they pay royalties? Or WA gets an exemption because of the mo...
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[05:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:21] <exec> 08└─Dunno about fraud, didn't see em selling anything so hard to see who would be defrauded. Now as to crank? Oh yea. It gives it off in visible waves of zaniness from the page layout to the obviously fake endorsements.
[05:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:23] <exec> 08└─Also, the charts show resistance increasing as temperature decreases. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? I'm not an expert, but it definitely looks like bullshit.
[05:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pherenikos [1113] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:24] <exec> 08└─This sort of discontinuity is often seen in resistance vs temperature measurements if the experimentalist isn't being careful. Claims of superconductivity need two important proofs, zero resistance and the Meissner effect (the expulsion of a magnetic field on cooling through the transition). Further...
[05:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:1) 02Bull - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:26] <exec> 08└─A preliminary search shows that this is bull. The highest temperature known for superconductivity is ‑135 °C, although there are some unconfirmed claims of room temperature superconductivity.
[05:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, I believe it does matter - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:37] <exec> 08└─SSL is not necessarily "owned" by NSA, GCHQ or anybody else, unless we use weak/flawed cryptographic algorithms/software.
[05:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:43] <exec> 08└─By my bleary, past my bedtime comprehension: In theory, it would remove the cost of entry barrier for https connections. To the end user, it could make it so that it doesn't pop up scary warnings about self-signed certs on your browser/mail client. As such, you could also literally encrypt "the web"...
[05:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:57] <exec> 08└─Nobody was voting for anyone they liked.
[05:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:58] <exec> 08└─Attack the message? Ok. Attack the messenger? No.
[05:23:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:02] <exec> 08└─... only dipshits who think the president is some kind of fucking king that can enact whatever the fuck he wants ...
[05:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:03] <exec> 08└─I know it's unpopular here to be at all practical about politics, but would voting for Romney really have been better? Oh right, I'm supposed to throw away my vote by voting for some fringe candidate I don't agree with (because they're nuts, that's why they're fringe) anyway when I can't get exactly...
[05:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Everybody Loves Obama - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:06] <exec> 08└─I do not know why all the animosity about public healthcare, other than what I believe is a piss-poor implementation of the payment system. ( It seems awful rigged to me to benefit some very rich people at the expense of the taxpaying public ). I think its only prudent that we address health issues...
[05:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Everybody Loves Obama - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:08] <exec> 08└─The problem with the ACA is that it isn't single-payer; it's corporate welfare.
[05:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Beyond the paywall. - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 1540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:24] <exec> 08└─Seconded. Elsevier is one of the worst academic publishers. They're total parasites. They have some nerve to complain about violations of copyrights that they shouldn't own in the first place. Academic publishers don't pay for research at all. They don't pay the researchers or the public one damned...
[05:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Accuracy? - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:26] <exec> 08└─Tom Allen, President of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), informs TF that websites such as Libgen pose a threat to the quality of scientific publications, as well as the public health. "Scholarly publishers work to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record by issuing corrections and r...
[05:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:30] <exec> 08└─Had Pat Robertson not dabbled in politics, I'd have to agree with you. The weird thing is though, retarted as Robertson may be, and quite positively dangerous in places, not everything he says is downright wrong. Of course, it's only ever pure coincidence that he reaches the right conclusion after a...
[05:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:apples and oranges - 06Airbus Working on Re-Usable Successor to Ariane Rocket - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:52] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think the only reasonable long term solution is going to be runway to orbit and back again. Scaled Composites seem on the right track, and the rest of the rocket guys are clinging to a dying business model.
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[06:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02First Godwin - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:06] <exec> 08└─Remember when all the educated people fled Nazi Germany and emigrated to America? Nazi America remembers.
[06:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missed It - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:16] <exec> 08└─"Whereas "ordinary" or metallic superconductors usually have transition temperatures (temperatures below which they superconduct) below 30 K (−243.2 °C), HTS have been observed with transition temperatures as high as 138 K (−135 °C)." - Wikipedia Without RTFA i assume they mix up Kelvin and Ce...
[06:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Missed It - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:19] <exec> 08└─Have to leave the basement every couple of years....
[06:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 2160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:23] <exec> 08└─Kinda looks like the superconductor version of a Perendev magnet motor, no? That kind of stuff eggs on some people to make illusory videos to give hope the thing actually works, leading others to spend a lot of time pursuing futility. Meanwhile, the author of the illusory video is hoping someone out...
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is it? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:41] <exec> 08└─Although, looking at the tools - written in Go, using Docker.. This "fully automated" solution sounds like a hack, or at best something that works on Docker-enabled Linux distributions only. Quite limited. They're re-implementing all the tools to generate certificates and keys and so on, so it will...
[06:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:00] <exec> 08└─His statement was factually incorrect. He said that nobody voted for anyone they liked, which I know to be false, and it only takes a single counterexample to prove that statement wrong. Additionally, it's very shortsighted to vote for the 'lesser' evil, because you're just trying to stop the curren...
[06:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:01] <exec> 08└─I respect your opinions. And agree with many. I do get a bit riled up though when a person is attacked. Let's educate if we feel we have a good argument. I posted after moderating your comment because I thought that was the fair thing to do. If I've got a problem with something I'll discuss it. (Al...
[06:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:03] <exec> 08└─Who votes for Derepublicrats still though? After all this, it's insane to continue, stop it.
[06:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:05] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, but Obama is a 1%er too. http://www.davemanuel.com [davemanuel.com] http://www.bankrate.com [bankrate.com] Hemocyanin (different computer don't know my password by heart)
[06:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:11] <exec> 08└─I know it's unpopular here to be at all practical about politics, but would voting for Romney really have been better?
[06:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:12] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but most "third party" candidates are crazy compared to the D&R candidates. They know they don't have a significant chance of winning, but they put the time and effort out anyway. Occasionally you actually get an idealist who isn't hopelessly disconnected from reality, and who know they don't...
[06:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but most "third party" candidates are crazy compared to the D&R candidates.
[06:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:15] <exec> 08└─Voting for Romney would have been just like voting for Obama, so it would be neither worse nor better. There is one gross irony however -- if Romney tried to do the things Obama does, Democrats would piss and moan about human rights, privacy, freedom and justice. As ridiculous as it sounds to those...
[06:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03captnjohnny1618 [5301] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:32] <exec> 08└─The article was about access fees, not publishing fees, so I'm not quite sure what you're saying. Most of our research dollars go to pay for salaries and equipment... a small, small fraction goes to pay publishing fees. Like, less than 1% of the total project cost... I'm perfectly OK with there be...
[06:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:33] <exec> 08└─It's a fair point. I think really, Elsevier have screwed up because the scientific community don't like them (based on limited anecdotal experience): * they charge at the point of publication. Not saying this is morally wrong, more that it pisses off the scientists doing research. * they have been a...
[06:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accuracy? - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:41] <exec> 08└─Indeed! See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (ads made to look like a real journal without disclosures) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (bogus paper with broken science passing peer revie...
[06:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:1) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:01] <exec> 08└─Or is orbital mechanics just political science?
[06:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mTor [5259] (Score:1) 02Re:WWDC - 06OS X "El Capitan", Swift, Apple Music, and More at WWDC - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:49] <exec> 08└─Apple has two keynotes on the same day. First one is more general and involves a general overview of what they're doing with products and OS space(s) in general. Second keynote, that's few hours after, is the "Platforms State of The Union" keynote and it's usually under 2 hrs and contains the most i...
[06:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:<h1>This site is XSS vulnerable at the moment</ - 06 Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:44] <exec> 08└─Me too. Thanks for the info.
[06:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:XSS Attack! - 06 Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:50] <exec> 08└─That was *the* attack :)
[06:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:region locking - 06 Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:05] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that a blockbuster recoups it's production cost in the first week. Most others do so sometime during their first run, typically before moving to the cheap second run theaters. That still leaves the DVD mastering costs, but that's not much compared to the cost to produce the movie. Basic...
[06:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:region locking - 06 Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:10] <exec> 08└─The pity is .. them dinosaurs put a penny in the bank way back in the Pleiscene Era and now, through the sheer force of simple interest, have enough money to swamp any opposition with more lawyers than law school can produce in six million years.
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[07:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02ORLY? - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:12] <exec> 08└─This leaves Americans vulnerable to known threats, and may reduce their confidence in their government.
[07:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So... - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:13] <exec> 08└─They are so confident in their ability to crack SSL, even going forwards, that they want to encourage us to switch to SSL?
[07:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Insightful) 02US Students get a free Uni degree in Germany? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:23] <exec> 08└─Yeap, provided they can support themselves while attending, which probably requires either well-to-be parents or just a lil' bit more command over the German language (no, speaking louder doesn't help).
[07:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US Students get a free Uni degree in Germany? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:24] <exec> 08└─ya, but you can get through hours of German conversation with just these three words: "NaJa", "Ja" and "Shizer"
[07:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Once you're in the door, - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:26] <exec> 08└─the student sub culture has so many significant perks so as to reduce the costs of living substatially. You will need insurance which can cost as little as .20c per day. But ya, why would you live in the toilet of the USA and PAY huge for an education when Germany is available for free?
[07:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stole our gig - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:27] <exec> 08└─We used to do that - attract top flight talents into our schools and keep'em in the country. Now we kick these graduates out and send our jobs to third-rate talents via h1b scams.
[07:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missed It - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:38] <exec> 08└─One of the most highly populated niches for our best thinkers in physics is in superconductivity. If these "hot" superconductors were real, these people would be publishing about it in academic journals. This guy is a talented maverick, an electronics engineer. Working alone, mavericks can sometimes...
[07:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missed It - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:40] <exec> 08└─As an example of news that Soylent might be interested in, related to physics and computing, try this: http://www.nature.com [nature.com]
[07:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, I believe it does matter - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:59] <exec> 08└─or issue fraudulent certificates
[07:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:09] <exec> 08└─The main problem with PKI is that there's no way to limit the authority of a CA. You either trust it implicitly, or you don't. It would be nice if a CA could be restricted to just a section of the DNS namespace (for instance, why should a Chinese CA be allowed to issue certificates to .gov domains?)...
[07:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:10] <exec> 08└─I use Certificate Patrol on Firefox. However it needs some improvements like support for multiple certs per site (some sites use many different certs). Perhaps one day I'll try to see if I can add the feature myself, but I'm not an expert so...
[07:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:12] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter. Any CA can create certificates for ANY domain, so as long as even one CA is in the USA (or the UK or China), the whole system is broken.
[07:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Hrm ... - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:13] <exec> 08└─I've never heard of them before, but if this pans out, I know who's going to be signing soylentnews.org's next SSL certificate. When they fully go live, I'll replace dev.soylentnews.org's self-signed certificate as a trailrun (as well as implementing HSTS and HPKP there in the nearish future).
[07:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accuracy? - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:07] <exec> 08└─While I'm sure those fake journals have plenty of crap, the point is that what you find in the "high tier" journals appears to be just more polished crap. Actually the worst afaict (excluding journals that don't even try) for biomed is Science ~2000. I don't know what was going on but those reports...
[07:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Google search - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:08] <exec> 08└─What I found annoying in the past was Google showing their pages for search terms I searched for but then I'm not able to actually see the page containing the search terms. BMW Germany got punished by Google for doing something like that: http://news.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] But someho...
[07:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02independently??? really? - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:33] <exec> 08└─unless someone walked up to the computer and found that it had developed the theory without even being told to, then no, someone made an expert system or a genetic algorithm that made the discovery. the computer did NOT do this 'independently'. it was programed to search for a solution, VERY differe...
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[08:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:21] <exec> 08└─This is about government servers. The government has already full control of government servers. Moreover, they already have the original SSL private key (it's their key, after all); there is no need to crack it. They don't want others to interfere with the communication to government servers.
[08:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:22] <exec> 08└─Thinking more about it, it could actually help the government to crack other SSL connections, using an apparently innocent extra step (I didn't check if that step is planned or even already executed): For maximal security, the government of course doesn't want to rely on a commercial certification a...
[08:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the root CA... - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:23] <exec> 08└─...will be the NSA black boxes installed at Verizon, Microsoft and all other existing CA's "trusted" by browsers
[08:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Time traveller! - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:36] <exec> 08└─When Katherine came to Germany in 2012 she [...] arrived in an East German town
[08:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Time traveller! - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:37] <exec> 08└─East Germany only seized to exist as a sovereign state. Its teritories did not magically disappear and still exist in the eastern part of Germany.... 'Former East German' would have been more correct though....
[08:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jpkunst [2310] (Score:1) 02Language problem? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:39] <exec> 08└─"Keeping international students who have studied in the country is the ideal way of immigration," says Sebastian Fohrbeck."They have the needed certificates, they don't have a language problem at the end of their stay and they know the culture."
[08:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Language problem? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:42] <exec> 08└─Ah, but does your country offer one of the strongest economies in the world to entice students to remain? Not to mention some of the best beer?
[08:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Missed It - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:54] <exec> 08└─You clearly haven't been paying attention to the fascinating and in-depth tales of discovery and invention between 2006 and 2015 documented here: http://www.superconductors.org
[08:22:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pherenikos [1113] 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 1073 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:00] <exec> 08└─This sort of discontinuity is often seen in resistance vs temperature measurements if the experimentalist isn't being careful. Claims of superconductivity need two important proofs, zero resistance and the Meissner effect (the expulsion of a magnetic field on cooling through the transition). Further...
[08:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:1) 02Re:Bull - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:02] <exec> 08└─Obviously they just forgot to include a "-" in their results.
[08:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:23] <exec> 08└─Mozilla (developers of Firefox) has decided that everybody must use HTTPS, although the security underlying HTTPS is broken by design (any CA can create a certificate for any domain, so all e.g. the NSA needs to do is create their own certificate for your domain to MITM any connection to your server...
[08:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:18] <exec> 08└─It's a fair point. I think really, Elsevier have screwed up because the scientific community don't like them (based on limited anecdotal experience):
[08:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Beyond the paywall. - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─perhaps it doesn't affect me as much as the average user since I have access to the papers at work.
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[09:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:11] <exec> 08└─There is no way blood can be 75 millions of year old without decomposing completely. The more this kind of cases coming up, the more reason to use Occam's razor again and rewrite the history. Why would it be so difficult to accept dinosaur existed together with humans? After all we have myths about...
[09:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:12] <exec> 08└─There is no way blood can be 75 millions of year old without decomposing completely.
[09:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:25] <exec> 08└─I believe the United States already has at least one CA in the root store. I know for a fact that the Hong Kong Post Office has/had a CA in Mozilla's store, so I'd be truly flabbergasted if this wasn't already the case. Worst case scenario, you can literially buy a CA certificate for $50k from Globa...
[09:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jerry Smith [379] (Score:2) 02Re:US Students get a free Uni degree in Germany? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:37] <exec> 08└─Yeap, provided they can support themselves while attending, which probably requires either well-to-be parents or just a lil' bit more command over the German language (no, speaking louder doesn't help).
[09:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time traveller! - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:44] <exec> 08└─East Germany only seized to exist
[09:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Language problem? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:47] <exec> 08└─I had one of the sharpest mathematicians ( and computer programmer to boot ) I have known go back to Germany. He had been here about 12 years. He had finally had enough "American Bullshit". He emailed me not too long ago, telling me the wonderful little town he found, and how he is finally enjoying...
[09:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Language problem? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:48] <exec> 08└─they usually leave after finishing their studies
[09:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jerry Smith [379] (Score:2) 02Re:Language problem? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:50] <exec> 08└─I doubt it. As far as I can see, in my country (which isn't Germany) international students live in an English-only expat bubble, don't learn a word of the language of their host country, and they usually leave after finishing their studies.
[09:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Language problem? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:51] <exec> 08└─From my experience (in Germany) most foreign students that do stay after university come from eastern and southern Europe. But that's of course only anecdotal*. Also, the summary states: She arrived in an East German town which had, since the 1950s, taught the majority of its residents Russian rath...
[09:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Free education - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:53] <exec> 08└─Is the norm in many european countries since the 60s-70s.
[09:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, the CA system is broken, but That's only a problem for active attacks, which are risky because there's a chance of getting caught.More importantly, the browser vendors are working on fixes like Public Key Pinning [wikipedia.org].
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[10:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:44] <exec> 08└─When the T.rex bone was found with blood vessels and soft tissue, it was a big problem as at that time there was not even one single known way for all the soft tissues and blood to survive that long time. The same Schweitzer, as mentioned in this article, did experiments with just red blood cells (n...
[10:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:45] <exec> 08└─at that time there was not even one single known way for all the soft tissues and blood to survive that long time
[10:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─There is no way blood can be 75 millions of year old without decomposing completely.
[10:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThG [4568] (Score:1) 02Re:Time traveller! - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe on paper. We "wessis" still make all sorts of jokes about the "ossis" and that's not going to stop any time soon. Many things are different over there, but at least it's still Germany. Unlike Bavaria.
[10:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time traveller! - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:19] <exec> 08└─I didn't notice that the cardinal directions were abolished in Germany.
[10:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time traveller! - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:22] <exec> 08└─only Ratzinger's
[10:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03macson_g [4848] (Score:1) 02Re:Free education - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:29] <exec> 08└─It's an article for American audience. They usually don't know that other countries in Europe even exist. And most of them still think that the bland, boring German beer is good...
[10:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:50] <exec> 08└─A lot of your points are well made, but some are just stupid. Increased troops in Afghanistan? So what? Unless we as a country decide to pull everyone (including the CIA) out, I'd rather have more troops there than less. You must have meant that we're still fighting there. The number of troops is ir...
[10:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:49] <exec> 08└─If the barycenter lies within the sun, the earth revolves around the sun. Just not around the sun's center.
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[11:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02sqrt - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:10] <exec> 08└─What happens when a water based computer dumps core?
[11:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02box of glass? - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:12] <exec> 08└─well it would be cool if it would allow a "motorless" sun tracker that will keep a solar panel pointed at the moving sun. instead of an electrical motor the fluid pressure would facilitate the motion?
[11:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Note to self - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8o5fxnDUjs [youtube.com]
[11:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dogeball [814] (Score:1) 02Re:US Students get a free Uni degree in Germany? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:53] <exec> 08└─Because in the US, they pay tuition, but food and housing is free? You appear to be arguing against free tuition as a social mobility factor. Do you think that poor Germans seeking education are worse off than poor Americans? Or are you suggesting that Germany should do more to help poor USA citizen...
[11:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:28] <exec> 08└─Funny enough, here's a quote from superconductivity.org/Links.htm: Note: The link for Elsevier Science/Physica C has been removed. Elsevier Publishing has facilitated the theft of intellectual property belonging to Superconductors.ORG. And, despite repeated requests, refuses to redress the problem....
[11:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:21] <exec> 08└─Thats the problem with you pedants, you fail to understand when the speaker's statement is understood to have certain implications. In this case, anubi's statement was based on the implication that he was only talking about the overwhelming majority - people who voted for Rs and Ds. There's also the...
[11:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:23] <exec> 08└─He may be a 1%er, but prior to becoming president he was far more in touch with reality and the middle class than Romney. Romney is the very definition of ivory tower elitist.
[11:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:12] <exec> 08└─Very impressive, but most of his mistakes seem to be of the superficial "engage mouth, then start thinking" variety. So you get comments about some hottie being a hottie even if thats vaguely politically inappropriate. And a little too much honesty, like the UK invading Australia, well if the native...
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[12:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can't imagine this going ahead - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:07] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine this running anywhere at all: too many people have too much to lose. Billions (trillions?) in potential profits will be lost, who the hell wants to risk that? Lobbiests will be engaged to ensure this is ignored.
[12:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sqrt - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:18] <exec> 08└─That'll be sqrt(-1)... or in other words: it's all in your head!
[12:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sqrt - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:19] <exec> 08└─Can you make it sqrt? [youtube.com]
[12:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:sqrt - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:21] <exec> 08└─Crunchly knows all about it: http://www.catb.org [catb.org]
[12:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:box of glass? - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:22] <exec> 08└─We could call it a "SunFollower" err. forget it, let's get rid of that 'ol' in there... SunFlower, that's it!
[12:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Water? Too volatile. Try mercury instead - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:24] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's old tech, sorry, I was getting confused: https://en.wikipedia.org
[12:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:50] <exec> 08└─They are so confident in their ability to crack SSL, even going forwards, that they want to encourage us to switch to SSL?
[12:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Once you're in the door, - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:06] <exec> 08└─You will need insurance which can cost as little as .20c per day.
[12:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Language problem? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:20] <exec> 08└─international students live in an English-only expat bubble, don't learn a word of the language of their host country
[12:24:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:40] <exec> 08└─Looking at the Wikipedia talk page for Room-temperature superconductors, it seems like superconductors.org is a known crank/fraud site.
[12:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:49] <exec> 08└─at least one of them is pretty fucking hostile to everything that comes out of his mouth.
[12:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Everybody Loves Obama - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─Personally, I believe the idea of public healthcare is good, but way too much effort is being placed on paperwork in lieu of care.
[12:26:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Re:Beyond the paywall. - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 1540 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:17] <exec> 08└─Seconded. Elsevier is one of the worst academic publishers. They're total parasites. They have some nerve to complain about violations of copyrights that they shouldn't own in the first place. Academic publishers don't pay for research at all. They don't pay the researchers or the public one damned...
[12:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no help from human beings - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:42] <exec> 08└─this wasn't "Modern AI" this was basically just "exhaustive search of all possibilities, till match is found" that's a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong way from actual AI
[12:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly misleading - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:48] <exec> 08└─The link you have referred to is also included in the submission ...
[12:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Babel - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:52] <exec> 08└─You don't get it. The computers are writing the summariiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
[12:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:This submission is just plain dumb. - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:34] <exec> 08└─We're gonna get sued someday if you guys keep insisting this site's tagline is "news for nerds"... ;) ...seriously though, remember who owns that phrase now. If they weren't evil enough to try something like that, we probably wouldn't all be here in the first place!
[12:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:39] <exec> 08└─Theories cannot be "settled".
[12:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:49] <exec> 08└─True, but ditto the popular physics axis of eastern mysticism/crystal power, quantum mechanics, and relativity. Personally I think the electron orbital issues WRT ferromagnetism or perhaps the invention, design, and implementation of powdered ferrite electromagnetic inductor cores COULD be as much o...
[12:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:NIH galore? - 06OS X "El Capitan", Swift, Apple Music, and More at WWDC - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:25] <exec> 08└─OS X 10.11 works on Macs that are 8 years old. The main reason for having Metal on OSX is to make it easy to port iOS games. It also happens to be faster than using OpenGL and OpenCL, but that's a fringe benefit. Swift isn't a Python replacement. Python's is for scripting. And if it takes developers...
[12:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:DRM? - 06OS X "El Capitan", Swift, Apple Music, and More at WWDC - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:26] <exec> 08└─If you think Scala is the solution, you don't understand the problem. Requirement number 1 is that it is interoperable with existing Obj-C code. Feature number 1 is that it's fast because it's design goal is to create intermediate code that his highly optimisable. And it's not the slightest bit vapo...
[12:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:apples and oranges - 06Airbus Working on Re-Usable Successor to Ariane Rocket - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:30:09] <exec> 08└─The components are not gonig to get wet / salty.
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[13:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02It's nuclear, stupid - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:09] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong, I'm all for research. But we already know the answer. Current fission reactor designs are inherently safe. Put that money toward actually building out base generation capacity. Yes, fusion would be nice. LFTRs using Th as well. But we don't need either to solve this problem.
[13:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Climate will never change? - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:11] <exec> 08└─People don't believe we can solve climate change - but we have no choice.
[13:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:13] <exec> 08└─but think batteries and other forms of storage need to be massively developed to store intermittent renewable energy
[13:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Mechanical computers - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer [wikipedia.org] There you go, manipulating physical matter algorithmically since the 1960s at the very latest.
[13:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─and even though soft tissue and red blood cells survived, the dna in them may not have
[13:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─Frozen mammoth DNA
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─Why would it be so difficult to accept dinosaur existed together with humans?
[13:22:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Leebert [3511] 02Re:So... - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:55] <exec> 08└─They are so confident in their ability to crack SSL, even going forwards, that they want to encourage us to switch to SSL?
[13:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:US Students get a free Uni degree in Germany? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:09] <exec> 08└─Most Germans speak good English.
[13:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:US Students get a free Uni degree in Germany? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:11] <exec> 08└─You appear to be arguing against free tuition as a social mobility factor.
[13:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Once you're in the door, - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─I'm at the age where I can start thinking of how to get my kids out of the USA, get them somewhere safe, somewhere cops won't shoot them in the back, where they can get health care, where they won't be victims of criminals, where they can get an education, safe food, basically the anti-USA.
[13:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Once you're in the door, - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:16] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the revolution will come here, first, and we won't have to.
[13:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:53] <exec> 08└─and the Meissner effect
[13:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:45] <exec> 08└─I believe everyone voted for who they thought would do the least damage.
[13:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:That's it - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:38] <exec> 08└─I've actually been thinking about this, and the article posted just before this one about the nanoparticles in the mouse might just be the tech to save us. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] See...if we discover AI first, then the next top life form will be the...
[13:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly misleading - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:54] <exec> 08└─Evolutionary algorithms are considered part of AI last time I checked (learning algorithms and such). Not strong AI (full AI, general AI) certainly, but then, nothing is currently.
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[14:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not to be confused with - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:12] <exec> 08└─the CPU scheduler BFS [archlinux.org] ("brain fuck scheduler"). Or other uses of the BFQ acronym [urbandictionary.com] which could conceivably be relevant to posts on the lkml on occasion.
[14:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate will never change? - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─Your sarcasm aside, one hanging question in discussions about climate change is what the correct climate is. Unfortunately, we don't have infinite options... The climate that is changed to provide a heavy snow pack in the Sierra Nevada will doubtless lead to a relative drought in Eastern Siberia or...
[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:25] <exec> 08└─I have a giant window in my office. I only turn on the lights for a couple hours at the start and end of day in the depths of winter. I don't need light. When I'm working most of the time with coworkers in another state I don't need to burn roughly a gallon of gas per day to talk to people somewhere...
[14:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─They would never have imagined giving up the "throaty growl" and "raw power" of their V8's.
[14:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ScriptCat [4389] (Score:1) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, we don't need to cook the quiche at 350 deg F for one hour. We can cook it at 100 Deg F for six hours.
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:30] <exec> 08└─Example: Loose power during a run, my clothes dryer halts until human intervention. Thats why I need 3 KW availability 24x7x365. Stupidest thing I've ever heard of.
[14:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Fuel Tax - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:33] <exec> 08└─$1 a gallon, and pour all the money at research, until we can tell OPEC to go fuck itself.
[14:22:34] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Funding Wave - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 1757 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─I am a huge fan of sustainable economy and renewable energy. It's more efficient, and, to me, feels more democratic. I am also a green entrepreneur whose venture is in the middle of the funding valley of death. On paper, I should be shouting this news from the rooftops. I'm not. First, the green ene...
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score:1) 02Solar power in Winter - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─Aye, I'll just get my boots on and get up on the roof and starting hacking the ice and snow off the solar panels so we can have some heat. Shame we're only getting 6 hours of weak sunlight filtered through thick clouds at this time of year - could really do with that warmth. :(
[14:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Mechanical computers - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:47] <exec> 08└─If you watch the video, it's quite clear they're well aware of pre-existing mechanical computers. The purpose of this is not to process information mechanically, but to manipulate fluids using the tools of information processing. So think of microfluidics as a potential application, i.e. precisely c...
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Mechanical computers - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─Indeed, that particular application sounds useful, but the summary implied that somehow doing computations physically is a new concept when it is not. Any competent computer scientist can apply any algorithm running on a standard electronic processor equally to mechanical gears, waffle-ball pushing...
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Improbability Drive - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:51] <exec> 08└─Is anyone else thinking about the improbability drive as they read this?
[14:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe your memory of Jurassic Park interfered with your comprehension of the summary?
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─i was the one who brought up dna to help distinguish which components could possibly survive and which couldn't. the soft tissue found is probably just stuff like tissue scaffolding and other tough proteins, but not really anything too useful like dna or cellular machineries; i'd be surprised if any...
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─Years ago, I used to watch reenactments of that every Saturday morning on TV.
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─How else do you explain the GOP?
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02What HTTPS has to do with privacy? - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:22] <exec> 08└─HTTPS is about message confidentiality and trust (which runs opposite to anonymity), not about privacy (which require anonymity from 3rd party observers): e.g NSA will still be able to collect metadata and track the IP+Web browsing patterns to a person and apply the wrench-attack.
[14:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What HTTPS has to do with privacy? - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─It's not so much the NSA (or FBI, DEA, etc) but organized hacker groups that would be prevented from harvesting account names and passwords, and consumer form data. And it provides a measure of defense against DNS hacking and site spoofing - assuming that someone will notice that "whitehouse.gov" is...
[14:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dogeball [814] (Score:1) 02Re:US Students get a free Uni degree in Germany? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:39] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry you had a hard time getting work :( I struggled in South Africa, since fluent bi-lingual (pick two from Afrikaans, English and Xhosa) was a requirement for most jobs. You're probably right that it would be difficult getting work without a certain level of German proficiency, but for someon...
[14:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:12] <exec> 08└─Thats the problem with you pedants, you fail to understand when the speaker's statement is understood to have certain implications. In this case, anubi's statement was based on the implication that he was only talking about the overwhelming majority - people who voted for Rs and Ds.
[14:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:13] <exec> 08└─it only takes a single counterexample to prove that statement wrong
[14:25:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─I know it's unpopular here to be at all practical about politics, but would voting for Romney really have been better?
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─I have voted for both Bob Barr [wikipedia.org] and Gary Johnson [wikipedia.org] for president. How are either of these men crazy? They both have credible political experience. While I don't agree with her, Jill Stein [wikipedia.org] also has credible political experience. Is this woman crazy as well...
[14:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Any 5-year-old knows this trick - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:37] <exec> 08└─Kid: Mom, can I do the thing? Mom: No. Kid: Dad, can I do the thing?
[14:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:19] <exec> 08└─Great! Now define the world "settled".
[14:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:29] <exec> 08└─I think you're seeing a conspiracy that isn't there. Is quantum physics the go-to solution to power your unobtainium drive? Yes. Why? Because no one knows what it is, and the name sounds cool. It's in that area of modern science that is indistinguishable from magic to the average person. I remember...
[14:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Open4D [371] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey, it still works on the moderaton page - 06 Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:26] <exec> 08└─I just modded a comment and did not encounter any problem. What I saw was this: Moderating... +1 (Funny) Re:Unclosed <small> tag (7849-194027, 3 points left)
[14:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey, it still works on the moderaton page - 06 Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:28] <exec> 08└─Yep, looks like it's been fixed there too.
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[15:22:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks for adding the missing link to Phoronix, janrinok. I forgot to put that one in, and, unable to edit the submission, it has been gnawing at my conscience, since I quoted from there.
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─I used to be the kernel maintainer for a pretty large corporate contributor to the linux kernel. No patches[*] got into our tree without my approval. And you know what, I don't think this patch passes the sniff test: blkcg = kzalloc(sizeof(*blkcg), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!blk...
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─There's a fallthrough from the cleanup code free_pd_blkcg immediately above free_blkcg. So the code labeled 'free_blkcg' is being used in more than one place. I've coded mostly in C++ for the past 25 years, so I'm not a huge fan of the goto style of function call cleanup, but it's apparently the mos...
[15:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate will never change? - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, but aside from extremes and wars, when/if "we" agree to do something, which seems near impossible, then the thousand times bigger battle will begin over what goal to set. Where my butt is sitting right now had more than a mile of ice in the last 20Kyrs, and it most certainly will again. So ther...
[15:22:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─but think batteries and other forms of storage need to be massively developed to store intermittent renewable energy
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─For stick shifts (in case anyone remembers those) you would also need that unique sound that occurs when you're not pressing the clutch pedal strong enough while switching gears ;)
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─I don't see why an electric car's stereo system can't play back exactly the same sounds.
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 2317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah well I donno about your sous vide temps listed for food safety reasons, but the general idea is good. One interesting demand-ish based technological improvement is something vaguely sous vide ish for most cooking, just keep the oven above 160 or so and it'll cook just fine and more or less food...
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuel Tax - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─I propose to call it entropy tax
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03slothroplives [5487] (Score:1) 02Re:Solar power in Winter - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─Plenty of places get tons of sunshine all year round and electricity is pretty easy to get from one place to another.
[15:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score:1) 02Re:Solar power in Winter - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing you don't live on or near an island where electricity transmission is very hard/expensive. Even on the mainland UK (and yes I'm aware that it's all an island) it is hard to get electricity from renewable sites in the far north down to major consumption centres in the south.
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03macson_g [4848] (Score:1) 02ITER - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─There is one. It's called ITER.
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Give me that guy's money! - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:51] <exec> 08└─Let's translate this: Dear government, please take that guy's money and give it to me! Renewables are already to the point that they can stand on their own. Solar energy is already competitive with other energy sources in many places. From here, the only role government can or should play is to keep...
[15:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03slothroplives [5487] (Score:1) 02Good naming anyway. - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:53] <exec> 08└─Irrespective of anything else, Apollo is a better name for an energy project than it was for a rocket flight one.
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Balderdash [693] (Score:2) 02Re:sqrt - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our soggy overlords.
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Improbability Drive - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─Is anyone else thinking about the improbability drive as they read this?
[15:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, I believe it does matter - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:02] <exec> 08└─unless we use weak/flawed cryptographic algorithms
[15:25:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sigterm [849] 02Re:What is it? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 511 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─It's a Certificate Authority that can issue server certificates to web servers and mail servers, just like StartSSL, VeriSign, GoDaddy and others. The difference is: a) Unlike VeriSign and GoDaddy (but like StartSSL), the certificates are free, and b) Unlike everybody else, the Let's Encrypt initiat...
[15:25:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sigterm [849] 02Re:Still located in USA? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 901 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:11] <exec> 08└─You're just missing one piece of the puzzle: that the Public Key Infrastructure on the Internet is vulnerable to attacks from governments and bad actors with access to ANY generally-trusted Certificate Authority. If the Let's Encrypt initiative was hosted on Iceland, the NSA could still obtain a fra...
[15:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good luck, LibGen is distributed - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:18] <exec> 08└─Ah, sort of the "think of the children" argument. What say you about all the non-scientific stuff they put up too? Poor budding enthusiastic underprivileged scientists need their free manga too?
[15:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:1) 02Re:Lotto - 06How MIT Students Won $8 Million in the Massachusetts Lottery - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:13] <exec> 08└─Not really, they did it to make more money, and although that came at the expense of large amounts of poor people, I don't think they had evil intentions, only the intention to increase their wealth. They simply didn't consider how this action would affect other people. It's a form of ignorance rath...
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[16:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:08] <exec> 08└─Not having your young eaten isn't exactly a strong basis for a friendly relationship.
[16:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:09] <exec> 08└─Not in suburbia, but out in the wild it's pretty compelling.
[16:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:11] <exec> 08└─It certainly is a much better basis than _having_ your young eaten ;-) Besides, not needing to flee (i.e. expending a lot of energy and also being required to find a new food source afterwards) is quite obviously of evolutionary advantage.
[16:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:22] <exec> 08└─I worked for a guy that insisted on avoiding early returns from functions. Apparently, a lot of schools of thought teach that early returns are the Wrong Thing and to avoid them at all costs. "All costs" includes but is not limited to: * More code. * More complex code (e.g. if (foo) { return bar; }...
[16:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:23] <exec> 08└─If the function has cleanup code at the end then early returns should be avoided, except at the very beginning (arg isn't of the sort we're interested in - goodbye). A good use of an early return would be a "find" function that iterates a collection, then it might as well return as soon as there's a...
[16:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:1) 02I was not impressed - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─I was not too impressed with the early versions of the CFQ, noting a jump in IO wait times and general system sluggishness, especially on older (think single core) hardware, when it became the default scheduler. I ran the deadline scheduler on older hardware for a long time afterwards. Newer stuff w...
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's nuclear, stupid - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:35] <exec> 08└─"Inherently safe" is a bit misleading. "Much much much much more fault tolerant" doesn't reassure people as much though.
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─They can. Nissan Leaf implemented a car noise because some people complained they couldn't hear it coming. I find engine noise irritating because it drowns out conversation with my family in the car and the subtler passages of the classical music I prefer when driving. Also, the traffic noise causes...
[16:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US Students get a free Uni degree in Germany? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 3771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─While my native language is English and I have also been speaking a dialect of Arabic all my life (learned it from my family) and could easily get by in an Arabic country it took me about two years to learn Spanish to the point that I can speak it confidently. I help customers in Spanish, I understa...
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Once you're in the door, - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:15] <exec> 08└─Well said. In my mind's eye I see the best revolution being everyone voting with their feet, like what happened to East Germany when Hungary removed its border fence with Austria. Erich Honecker's regime simply collapsed. Everything was non-violent, except for when East Germans sacked the Stasi head...
[16:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Firewall style permission list for CAs please.. - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:26] <exec> 08└─Unless there's a control panel in the browser to permit the user to declare which CA that has permission to issue a certificate for which site(s) in a firewall style control list [soylentnews.org]. The SSL/TLS CA system will still be wild-wild-west. In addition fingerprint pinning should be a defaul...
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrMag [1860] (Score:2) 02Re:Everybody Loves Obama - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─More so than you know; did anyone see this awful ad campaign run by a car dealership in Utah? http://ezekielgarff.com [ezekielgarff.com] For those who don't want to contribute to the site's traffic numbers: a crotchety old man with enormous ears who even talked about "having the lobes for business"...
[16:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck, LibGen is distributed - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:30] <exec> 08└─The e-book section of LibGen is separate from its scientific paper archive and search functionality. (Though I have no problem with e-book sharing. It's wonderful that we live in an age where one can consume as much art as one desires regardless of one's financial means.)
[16:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Beyond the paywall. - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:36] <exec> 08└─... or you could get a job at a university which in turn subscribe to all these journals and journal collection sites. No need to get nefarious.
[16:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:All that is nice and all, no Newton replacement - 06OS X "El Capitan", Swift, Apple Music, and More at WWDC - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:30] <exec> 08└─You should be able to use any other Wacom EMR pen --- just won't fit in the pen slot. I limped along w/ the pen from my Fujitsu Stylistic w/ my Asus Vivotab Note 8 for a while --- just tucked it into the elastic strap which held the case closed.
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[17:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:13] <exec> 08└─> Not having your young eaten isn't exactly a strong basis for a friendly relationship. Is it that much different from what humans do? A basic peace treaty with open borders would state something like "We promise to only enter your territory for nonviolent reasons, and to never send in an invasion f...
[17:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:15] <exec> 08└─we prefer raping noncombatants to eating them
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─I was surprised the article did not touch on this. Perhaps having wolves in the area keeps other predators away.
[17:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:19] <exec> 08└─Even the monkeys know the wolves mostly eat rodents. Probably everything else knows it. Speaking of that mystery, why do they eat more rodents around the monkeys? My theory is the monkeys throw food on the ground which attracts the rodents which would lead to a plague of starving hordes of rodents t...
[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:3, Funny) 02Told you - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:21] <exec> 08└─See there, told you not all werewolves are bad. :-)
[17:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score:2) 02Tertiary benefits - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:23] <exec> 08└─The wolves would gain 1. Advance notice of another predator or competition; monkeys start running time to start paying attention. This gives them the option to hunt rodents with a higher level of focus. 2. Monkeys would constrict viable paths for rodents to run. Wolves see rodent, see path with no m...
[17:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoefff [5470] (Score:1) 02Re:Not to be confused with - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:27] <exec> 08└─So what is the difference? I know BFS should perform well, but only scales to non-server type of computers (16 cores or so)
[17:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:thanks - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:29] <exec> 08└─Please tell me this is sarcasm.
[17:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─My problem with early returns is that it can lead to unintended results if you're not careful, especially in more complex functions. I find they also tend to make the code harder to read, which is a maintainability issue, especially when I'm the next guy. I personally follow the convention of ONE r...
[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:4, Interesting) 02I think this it's hilarious - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:37] <exec> 08└─I think this it's hilarious that on Slashdot, their "top" story is some SJW bullshit about "men want women out of science labs", and yet Soylent News has an actual Linux-related story. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't imagine this going ahead - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─Lobbiests
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's nuclear, stupid - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, but people are idiots.
[17:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─That's called grinding. Something that you shouldn't be hearing, if you know what you're doing.
[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─Most of the heat (cold?) loss from your fridge is opening the door, letting all the cold air out, and then standing there looking for that missing jar of mayo.
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuel Tax - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 1735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─That relies on people using the fuel sources they're not supposed to use. It can only work when it's still more cost effective to use fossil fuels over any alternative energy sources, and the subtle balance is required to maintain enough investment in research while keeping infrastructure alive and...
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Funding Wave - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─The "fossil fuels subsidy" meme is mostly a myth. The majority of the "subsidy" is actually a tax break provided to ANY company that processing domestic resources to produce goods. And if you look a the money actually provided across all types of energy sources, solar is already the big winner in do...
[17:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Solar power in Winter - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─Why is that? It's barely a thousand Kms from tip to tip. A high voltage transmission line could move electricity across the island with ~10% loss. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Sounds messy - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─Integer overflows were "messy" before but now they are literally messy.
[17:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds messy - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─Actually! the overflow would be completely different too. A byte overflowing would be zero if you ignored the exception. A water based computer would still be 255 after the overflow.
[17:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds messy - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:41] <exec> 08└─Sorry for self-replying so much. Just finished reading the article and that thing is barely a water computer. Ferrofluid droplets are moved with a magnetic field across iron bars. It doesn't sound like any accumulation happens at all to represent larger numbers. I don't see a way to provide variable...
[17:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time traveller! - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─But he went south, not east.
[17:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Superconductor at +136 °C - great if it's true.. - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:20] <exec> 08└─If there is a superconductor at 136 °C then it's hot news and should be all over the place. Even one working at anything hotter than -30 °C would be great news. If it's superconducting then magnetic levitation will also work and should suffice as a screening test. And so if the formula public and...
[17:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What is it? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:40] <exec> 08└─What is the "Let's Encrypt" project, and what's different about it?
[17:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Everybody Loves Obama - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:34] <exec> 08└─One Major Downside to "Obamacare" is that our University dropped the maximum hours a US Citizen can work as a Student Worker. Because otherwise they will have to pay for their healthcare. International Student Workers don't have the same restriction. Good for the international Student Worker, bad fo...
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[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02The Apocalypse I Tells Ya! - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─Dr. Peter Venkataraman: Human sacrifice, wolves and monkeys living together... mass hysteria!
[18:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─It did, in a blurb at the very bottom: However, the geladas don't seem to get anything from the relationship, since the wolves are unlikely to deter other predators such as leopards or feral dogs, he says. Without a reciprocal benefit, Sillero doubts that the relationship could progress further dow...
[18:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02monkey hand jobs and wolf pee pees - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─simple exchange!
[18:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Very similar to Red Hat and Debian - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:29] <exec> 08└─Debian represents lost market share for Red Hat, but on the other hand, they've bent over and accepted System D. That ends up being a huge win for Red Hat, because now their cartoonish parody of an init system gains more street cred. Debian wins too, because there's less code to write and more time...
[18:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:thanks - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:40] <exec> 08└─Nope.
[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─There are very few style rules in the kernel, which means it can be fairly practical. One of the few guidelines is that it's better to avoid indenting code too far. Which encourages both early returns and forward jumps to cleanup stanzas. The successful return from the function is quite often in the...
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this it's hilarious - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:50] <exec> 08└─I was about to throw in a really good System D offtopic post here, but out of respect for your awesomeness, I will refrain. But seriously, I'll bet kernel scheduling is on Pottering's radar...
[18:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Can't imagine this going ahead - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 1909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─Pretty much refuted by this article itself, moron. This is nothing but a lobbying effort on behalf of scientists who can't get any money out of one of the biggest areas of current research, whining that "we suck, can't you taxpayers just give us a golden shower since we can't get hired into the R&D...
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate will never change? - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:07] <exec> 08└─We may well someday soon be able to fix CO2 and make the global CO2 level a managed thing, but we will probably fight wars over the "climate".
[18:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate will never change? - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─The climate will never change ever again? Literally nobody has ever suggested that. Other than straw men that you invent, of course.
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─I am a huge fan of clotheslines. Homes aren't built with them anymore though and people have no idea what they are until they see it in use. They are also only seasonal.
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Funding Wave - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─DAMMIT!! The chart looked fine in "Preview" mode!!
[18:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02the problem is the people with the money - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─not long ago I read a lengthy wall street journal article about the "problems" of solar and wind power. You see they present a threat to coal, as well as to electricity transmission. It cost a lot to build all those power lines, transformers and so on, the investors put all that money in and don't w...
[18:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:sqrt - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:49] <exec> 08└─What happens when a water based computer dumps core? Worse: Divide by Zero error results in Noah's Ark 2.0!
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I'd like to redirect my site to HTTPS - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─... so that visitors will have no choice but to use encryption, but before I do, I want to know: Is there any country in the world, in which it is illegal to use SSL encrytion? Would someone violate the law by visiting my site, or alternatively would they violate the law simply by possessing a brows...
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missed It - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:27] <exec> 08└─I haven't RTFA yet either, but the last link goes to the URL http://www.superconductors.org [superconductors.org] — which looks very much as if it means "400 Kelvin superconductor". 400K is 127°C, which is indeed quite close to the 129°C mentioned in the link text.
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─No, that is merely a joke older than me and from your attitude, certainly older than you.
[18:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:50] <exec> 08└─They know they don't have a significant chance of winning, but they put the time and effort out anyway.
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[19:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Welcome - 06The Rapid Rise of CRISPR - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our new, CRISPieR and genetically-engineered livestock...if they taste good smothered in BBQ sauce and won't raise my cholesterol.
[19:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02zinc finger? - 06The Rapid Rise of CRISPR - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:10] <exec> 08└─for my bunghole!
[19:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Well, that escalated quickly: - 06The Rapid Rise of CRISPR - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:12] <exec> 08└─I remember a few years back (2011 maybe), I was listening to a science podcast and Elio Shaechter (former head of the American Society for Microbiology) was discussing CRISPRs and what they were doing in bacteria with respect to viral defense. I thought it sounded really interesting but at that poin...
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─Good catch, I didn't notice that box at the bottom. Given that, it seems that the dogs have sort-of domesticated the primates in this case. Essentially using them to stir up the rodents, in much the same way as a hunter might use a dog to flush birds out of tall grass.
[19:22:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 1506 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:48] <exec> 08└─I used to be the kernel maintainer for a pretty large corporate contributor to the linux kernel. No patches[*] got into our tree without my approval. And you know what, I don't think this patch passes the sniff test: blkcg = kzalloc(sizeof(*blkcg), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!blk...
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:54] <exec> 08└─Go tos are a lot less harmful if they are used only sparsely. The "Go to considered harmful" paper was written before constructs like blocks following a test were added to languages. Similarly, the rule about single returns (except for failing validity checks) is more important if your functions are...
[19:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:I think this it's hilarious - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:59] <exec> 08└─In all honesty, I've not liked the direction the kernel has been going as of late, and combined with the "core stack" (defined as start of userland to bash) getting so bloated, I'm seriously considering dumping Linux entirely aside from the gaming rig. Having worked with a major Linux corporation fo...
[19:23:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02It's nuclear, stupid - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong, I'm all for research. But we already know the answer. Current fission reactor designs are inherently safe. Put that money toward actually building out base generation capacity. Yes, fusion would be nice. LFTRs using Th as well. But we don't need either to solve this problem.
[19:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:32] <exec> 08└─Homes aren't built with them anymore
[19:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02pension funds are large operators as well - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:39] <exec> 08└─Pension funds are large operators as well. They have a duty to invest in long-term-stable, "boring" industries, so that as long as the cultural narrative of economic growth is tenable, they can pay out the pensioners. There's a trend growing in Europe where the shareholders of large pension funds ar...
[19:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:the problem is the people with the money - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:48] <exec> 08└─Money does talk, and certainly a company that feels threatened will do whatever it can to preserve it's market. Most often, this involves bribing politicians to pass stupid legislation (Tesla and direct car sales, Über and taxi companies), or else abusing the legal system (the music and publishing...
[19:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02residents often resist shelters - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:49] <exec> 08└─Surely you're familiar with the expression "Not In My Backyard"? A common reason that shelters are not permitted is that neighborhood homeowners fear that their presence will decrease property values. It is quite definitely the case that there aren't enough shelter beds. In Santa Cruz there is only...
[19:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02free-dom costs $$$ - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 2039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:51] <exec> 08└─the global warming drum doesn't really work for the man on the street. it is more a drum for the nuclear fission industry because .. tada... nuclear doesn't emit any of those .. uhm ..ahh ... poisons. go to a 3rd world country and see for yourself the trash problem and pollution of rivers that run t...
[19:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:free-dom costs $$$ - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:52] <exec> 08└─so by your logic, every time a liter of gasoline is pumped out of the ground the money press prints some money (to keep tabs) and adds a figure to some bank account for a "one way and that's it" (meaningful) return trip to walmart and thus every solar panel is a wedge in the money printing press?
[19:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Not to explain my own joke, but I'm going to - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─The limit of 1/x as x approaches 0 is infinity
[19:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02Re:Not 75 million year old - 0675 Million Year Old Dinosaur Fossil Found to Contain Blood and Proteins - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:35] <exec> 08└─Just to play devil's advocate [wikipedia.org], and just in case you don't know, birds are considered to be some of the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. The Moa is like a little T-rex without forearms. The Maori hunted the Moa to extinction.
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:I'd like to redirect my site to HTTPS - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─I don't think its explicatively illegal anywhere except maybe North Korea. That being said, the CA system pretty much inherently broken, as long as a nation-state has a certificate in the root or can pressure a company w/ a intermediate certicate in the chain, your hosed. HSTS and HPKP can protect y...
[19:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:00] <exec> 08└─You asked for the whole world to be connected on the internet and now you got it, and its not all /r/gonewild and rule 34 sometimes you're gonna see stuff that offends your sensibilities like (possibly overly) speculative basic research notebooks.
[19:28:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02A few notes - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:05] <exec> 08└─First, the worm is called planaria, not the regenerative process. Two, the genes themselves don't regenerate, they code for the mechanism that regenerates the worm. We can only hope the summary regenerates soon...:-)
[19:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:1) 02Re:Highly misleading - 06Computer Independently Solves 120-Year-Old Biological Mystery - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:18] <exec> 08└─aye, but the important bit is that the AI wasn't doing any research, It was just running a simulation and optimizing it. So, a better description would be that the AI was a tool used by the researchers to do their research.
[19:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:19] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't "quantum morality" be very black and white, the very opposite of relative morality?
[19:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:20] <exec> 08└─Now why is that, that editors and publishers appear to like certain physics concepts but not others?
[19:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:23] <exec> 08└─I wonder if "dark energy" isn't actually an artefact attempting to provide an explanation to a decaying gravitational interaction at galactic distances.
[19:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:gewg_'s submission still in the queue - 06Planetary Society's LightSail Has Finally Deployed After Multiple Setbacks - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:58] <exec> 08└─"EXPLOSIVES and A BATTERING RAM. You don't even have to buy a theater ticket " So... You're saying you're really Michael Bay in disguise? Who'da thunk it. ;)
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[20:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Was that enough ? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:10] <exec> 08└─I am surprised they didn't call in the Air Force and the Navy as well.
[20:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was that enough ? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─The homeowner is lucky. If the invader had been carrying a USB with lewd drawings of children, they'd probably call a goddamn firebomb strike.
[20:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:4, Insightful) 02You break it, you bough it. - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:13] <exec> 08└─Besides the whole militarization of the police force issue the thing I did find interesting from the articles is that the homeowner has to pay, the insurance, for having the privilege of a SWAT team more or less destroying his house. Really? So a shoplifter runs into your house and it ends in a 19h...
[20:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You break it, you bough it. - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:14] <exec> 08└─Hey - that's the price of 'murican FREEDOM!!!!
[20:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:You break it, you bough it. - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:17] <exec> 08└─I guess it could be that, that or the PD forgot to get insurance or doesn't want to use theirs since the premium might go up and that might put an end to blowing shit up.
[20:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Conservative - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:18] <exec> 08└─FWIW Greenwood Village is a pretty conservative municipality, so I'm not surprised that they have/support a highly militarized police force.
[20:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conservative - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:20] <exec> 08└─I hope the property owner is a conservative...
[20:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 029-year-old child - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:22] <exec> 08└─A 9-year-old child who was in the home at the time was able to escape.
[20:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:9-year-old child - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:23] <exec> 08└─You're getting carried away, probably because you don't understand the words you are using. The police are still a paramilitary force, even in the most militarized cities. They are not an infantry force. There isn't a police department in this country that could go up against an equal sized infantry...
[20:22:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03scruffybeard [533] 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─I was surprised the article did not touch on this. Perhaps having wolves in the area keeps other predators away.
[20:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─I could buy that on the theory that monkey eyes are better at finding snakes than canine noses, which sounds believable but could be wrong. I've never heard of dogs being trained to hunt snakes although plenty enough humans hate snakes so if they could learn, someone would have taught them and we'd...
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score:2) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know the habitat so the following are not so educated guesses... Some snakes hide well and are very poisonous; ground dwelling monkeys are adept at spotting those extreme dangers and there are more monkeys than wolves... Even if a monkey is only 1/2 as effective as spotting the snake, possib...
[20:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What do the monkeys get out of it? - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:50] <exec> 08└─Certainly keeps the rodents away, and maybe a large source of fleas etc.
[20:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the paper about "Go to considered harmful" was written about Fortran IV,
[20:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:15] <exec> 08└─More complex code (e.g. if (foo) { return bar; } ... rest of function ... versus if (foo) { retval = bar; } else { ... rest of function ... return retval; })
[20:23:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Katastic [3340] 02I think this it's hilarious - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:18] <exec> 08└─I think this it's hilarious that on Slashdot, their "top" story is some SJW bullshit about "men want women out of science labs", and yet Soylent News has an actual Linux-related story. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
[20:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I think this it's hilarious - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:21] <exec> 08└─That's still a real [bbc.com] story [theregister.co.uk]. It didn't appear from thin air.
[20:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FreeUser [5423] (Score:1) 02Re:I think this it's hilarious - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:22] <exec> 08└─I think this it's hilarious that on Slashdot, their "top" story is some SJW bullshit about "men want women out of science labs", and yet Soylent News has an actual Linux-related story. As a relative newcomer to soylent, but a long-time slashdotter, I have to say: You took the words right out of my m...
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this it's hilarious - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─Too bad we have stupid posters who whine about "SJW"... I for one am glad SN isn't some incestuous sausage fest.
[20:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02metr0-style - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:26] <exec> 08└─now if ilinux were a "for-money" corporation then the new version would advertise a smart-scheduler to call the regular scheduler at the right time and let's call it an improvement.
[20:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:It's nuclear, stupid - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:39] <exec> 08└─Yes. The *designs* are safe. The implementations, however, less so. For example, Finland's recent folly, one of the most over-budget construction projects in the history of mankind, is a modern reactor where the cheap foreign labour couldn't even read the language in the specifications. ("What do yo...
[20:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Climate will never change? - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─Where my butt is sitting right now had more than a mile of ice in the last 20Kyrs, and it most certainly will again. So there's not mere fine tuning involved.
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate will never change? - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:47] <exec> 08└─solve climate change
[20:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuel Tax - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:03] <exec> 08└─> pricing people out of heating their homes and commuting/travel A dollar a gallon would still leave the price of fuel lower than its last peak, and at that time there was a very minimal decrease in use. It's a huge tax, but no one will be taxed out of commuting or travel.
[20:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:free-dom costs $$$ - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:20] <exec> 08└─I address only a small part of your many points: it is more a drum for the nuclear fission industry because .. tada... nuclear doesn't emit any of those .. uhm ..ahh ... poisons. go to a 3rd world country and see for yourself the trash problem and pollution of rivers that run thru cities. you can fi...
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dwarfputer - 06Stanford Engineers Develop a Computer that Operates on Water Droplets - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:46] <exec> 08└─Is this sort of like making computers in Dwarf Fortress or Minecraft... but in real life?
[20:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this bullshit? - 06"Hot" New Superconductors Discovered - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:32] <exec> 08└─I like how they both have a knee graph where "more is better" for some distance along the graph and then you hit the "eh a little too weird" and instantly its pitchforks and burning at stake time. Oh and everyone's got a different spot for that crazy knee where the paradigm suddenly shifts from "mor...
[20:28:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captnjohnny1618 [5301] 02Re:Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:05] <exec> 08└─Yuuuup. They complain people are illegally publishing copyrighted material, but how about we discuss how they've pay walled (at prohibitive prices) insane amounts of research that is funded by taxpayer dollars? We're authoring a paper in our lab right now about some CT reconstruction software we'v...
[20:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02quantum morality - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:53] <exec> 08└─Actually quantum morality would be inherently uncertain. You'd never know whether something is moral until you tried it. And in the same situation, you'd find the very same action sometimes to be moral, and sometimes to be immoral.
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[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was that enough ? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:16] <exec> 08└─The perp was probably white then.
[21:22:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02You break it, you bough it. - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:17] <exec> 08└─Besides the whole militarization of the police force issue the thing I did find interesting from the articles is that the homeowner has to pay, the insurance, for having the privilege of a SWAT team more or less destroying his house. Really? So a shoplifter runs into your house and it ends in a 19h...
[21:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02Re:You break it, you bough it. - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:21] <exec> 08└─At the very least it would be sensible that the criminal would have to pay restitution for the damage - at some point.
[21:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perp pays - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:22] <exec> 08└─There are two problems with that: 1) The perp isn't the one that blew up the house. 2) He doesn't have any money to pay for it, since everything he owns will be seized by the police as part of the drug charges.
[21:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Liberal Scum - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─I really love how liberal scum are so vocally against police militarization and oppression. And yet they will gladly vote to regulate what sizes of soda others must drink, what others can eat, what others can smoke, what others are allowed to say, what kind of bags others must use for groceries, wha...
[21:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Liberal Scum - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:26] <exec> 08└─Libertarian scum are opposed to police militarization and fatass taxes et al.
[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captnjohnny1618 [5301] (Score:1) 02Re:Liberal Scum - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:28] <exec> 08└─In fact, I'm not sure ANY one group is in favor of police militarization... other than the police of course.
[21:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:9-year-old child - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─Seems to boil down to any infantry unit that a US Army infantry unit could defeat isn't an infantry unit. Or rephrased you may even be correct, but you need a better argument than the above. Was, say, the pre-invasion Iraqi army an infantry force by your definition? I'd say not. They may not have be...
[21:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02mostly harmless - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─poor man. should have planted some silverware on the cops when they were leaving, ha!
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Silentknyght [1905] (Score:4, Informative) 02Fox News source has most info? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─So, I read all three original articles, and the Fox News source seemed the most informative (though with a noticeable bias): The Greenwood Village city manager said they are in talks with the homeowner to pay for damages to the house. They are also working with the family who was renting the home to...
[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02this actually happened to a close friend of mine - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:36] <exec> 08└─I don't recall what the suspect was wanted for, but the police chased him into my friend's house. The suspect climbed into the attic. After the police shattered the windows with tear gas grenades, they sent a K-9 up into the attic to corner the guy. While they were able to repair most of the damage,...
[21:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only news because it wasn't Afghanistan - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:38] <exec> 08└─The police simply forgot which continent they were on. America destroys lives and property on a daily basis, but as long as it happens Overseas, then it's OK, right?
[21:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Extraordinary Claims... - 06Ethiopian Wolves and Gelada Monkeys Show Signs of Cooperation - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:09] <exec> 08└─Check out the fangs on these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Then check the relative size of the wolves in the image at first link. It seems far more likely to me, that the wolves are walking on eggshells in the midst of 600+ sized herds of monkeys...
[21:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score:2) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:33] <exec> 08└─I fought with that mentality a few times. I came up with a solution that is reasonably clean, although it uses more labels. As resources were allocated, state variables set, hardware registers (in the case of drivers) set, I know that things need to be unwound in roughly reverse order, so the labels...
[21:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score:1) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:18] <exec> 08└─> This is dumb. tune your demand to your supply, Easy to say effectively impossible to do on aggregate. You are advocating putting the cart before the horse.(and ignoring basic micro economics) Why: Base load. This load is demanded 24h x 365day. A large portion of base load is industrial use. Many i...
[21:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:free-dom costs $$$ - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:39] <exec> 08└─the areas that are now unsafe because of the Fukushima meltdown? And yes, I know, it wasn't a "fission" plant.
[21:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:free-dom costs $$$ - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:40] <exec> 08└─oh crap nearly replied thru tor *phew* anyways thanks for reply. i don't know .. i'm too stupid to get subtle hints to interpret it as ..joke? people in fukushima had a great 1973 - 2011 run. much money and lobbying was done to get the locals to host that now-accident disaster? as far as wikipedia i...
[21:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:What HTTPS has to do with privacy? - 06All U.S. Federal Websites to Move to HTTPS - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:45] <exec> 08└─It's not so much the NSA (or FBI, DEA, etc) but organized hacker groups that would be prevented from harvesting account names and passwords, and consumer form data.
[21:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Language problem? - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:27] <exec> 08└─That's true, but only until 1990, when Eastern Germany ceased to exist
[21:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:34] <exec> 08└─I saw this happen before, with the Index Prohibitorum.
[21:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:21] <exec> 08└─Because... everybody knows gravitation is an repulsive force and the expansion is due to it, thus the lower the gravitation the lower the expansion acceleration, right?
[21:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:23] <exec> 08└─???
[21:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:28] <exec> 08└─Many good points.
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[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As they're dragged from their mothers' basements.. - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─Their mothers will be screaming, "How could you be so stupid? Why can't you obey authority like the rest of us? I hope you rot in jail!"
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:As they're dragged from their mothers' basement - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:18] <exec> 08└─According to an article at Popehat [popehat.com], three of the comments included in the subpoena are as follows: Rhywunl5.3l.15 @11:35AMIIt I hope there is a special place in hell reserved for that horrible woman. AlanI5.31.15 @12:11PMIIt There is. Product PlacementI5.31.15 @...
[22:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As they're dragged from their mothers' basement - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:20] <exec> 08└─"That boy was always no good. Lord forgive me for giving birth to him. May he find Jesus in prison." *and then the boy's mother crosses herself*
[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Right Process - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:22] <exec> 08└─At least they used a subpoena this time instead of the sites just handing over the information (which should be illegal). That aside, the whole thing is ridiculous. Those are not threats.
[22:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Right Process - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:23] <exec> 08└─People who are frustrated by corrupt, unchanging governments say these sorts of things all the time. They don't intend on actually doing anything. All the government is doing here is proving even further that it is full of scumbags.
[22:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Right Process - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─If that's not a threat, then what is? It looks pretty unambiguous to me.
[22:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Right Process - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─Then you're not taking into account intent or probability, which are the most important things. People who are frustrated with their governments will often use strong language like this; I've seen numerous calls even on this website to hang corrupt politicians. That doesn't mean it's even remotely l...
[22:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Right Process - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:29] <exec> 08└─Whatever I may think of this or any other government, I have zero sympathy for loudmouth cowards. Don't make a threat unless you're prepared to go through with it.
[22:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Right Process - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:31] <exec> 08└─That's nice and all, but irrelevant, as no actual threats were made.
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Lolbertarian Echo Chambers - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─Reason.com and other unthinking 'libertarian' websites just love, love endlessly open borders. The readers don't agree with that stance but seem to do so with just about every other point they make. The result is an echo chamber where cooler heads do not prevail if they exist at all. It is not surpr...
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Was that enough ? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─Should have nuked it from orbit. It's the only way to be really sure.
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Perp pays - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─1) The perp isn't the one that blew up the house.
[22:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The solution to abuse by police - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─Mandate that every cop carry liability insurance. The department could pay the portion of the premium equal to the total that is charged for their officers with a clean record. Any portion of the premium that is over that is paid by the dirty cop. -- gewg_
[22:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The solution to abuse by police - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:48] <exec> 08└─Bad idea - if every cop thinks "hey, no problem - I'm insured!" the damage will be unending. Accountability and responsibility are required, not insurance.
[22:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Public Employee Union Scum - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─The police unions, like all public employee unions, agitate for more money, newer gear, and whatever else may benefit them. The most egregious example is in California, where the prison guards union spent a significant amount of money to lobby against liberalized cannabis laws. More prisoners means...
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Santa Cruz is as leftist is they come - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─but even so the city council authorized the purchase of an armored personnel carrier for the SCPD.
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:9-year-old child - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:58] <exec> 08└─Also throw in that police are currently better armed than the US Army were during that invasion.
[22:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:1) 02Re:9-year-old child - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:00] <exec> 08└─I'm kind of surprised they didn't [shoot the 9-year-old in the back]. That's what I expect from cops now. They are more dangerous than the criminals.
[22:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Fox News source has most info? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─I think the police are generally too aggressive in most situations, but this is a guy who fired at them. In my books, once that happens you can use all force available. If you think surrounding the place and waiting him out is an option, but this is a guy who has no qualms about shooting at police ....
[22:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Re:Fox News source has most info? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─Also worth mentioning was something one of the officers said in a video: the suspect was high as a kite and still had another 320g of meth on him when they captured him. More or less, he had gotten it into his head that nothing was getting him out of that house, and he was wired up such that they re...
[22:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:this actually happened to a close friend of min - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:06] <exec> 08└─You were the suspect hiding in your friend's house, yes?
[22:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I asked my sister why Dad had to go to Vietnam - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:08] <exec> 08└─... to fight in the war. "Why can't daddy stay home to fight?" "Because wars are illegal in the United States." Out Of The Mouths Of Babes.
[22:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02SWAT Should Be For Worst Case Scenarios - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:09] <exec> 08└─The assault, rape, and fiery death of the Petit family in Connecticut in 2007 [wikipedia.org] no doubt weights heavily on the police there, who in their caution delayed, allowing the time for the rapes, murder, and fire. The Cheshire police response to the bank's "urgent bid" began with assessing th...
[22:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SWAT Should Be For Worst Case Scenarios - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:11] <exec> 08└─When it's overseas, it's "spreading freedom"; when it's at home, it's "protecting freedoms" Either way, we lose
[22:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:05] <exec> 08└─I agree, and though I used to be a "one return per method" zealot, now I use early returns in the case where *it actually makes the code easier to read*. Small functions, clearly formatted, and to help avoid unnecessary indentation.
[22:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:56] <exec> 08└─This doesn't really touch industrial which by far is the biggest energy(all forms) user.
[22:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Time traveller! - 06How American Students Get A University Degree For Free In Germany - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:54] <exec> 08└─Says the East German to the West German: "We are one nation!" Comes the reply: "Us too."
[22:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Firewall style permission list for CAs please.. - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:09] <exec> 08└─HPKP solves the problem IMHO much better. The site tells the browser which keys or certificates that are allowed to sign it. The CA is reduced to establishing the trust of the first connection from the browser, afterwards, it doesn't play much of a roll in ongoing security. HPKP/HSTS preloading in b...
[22:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Pushback from academia: - 06Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:16] <exec> 08└─I saw this happen before, with the Index Prohibitorum.
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[23:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Right Process - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:18] <exec> 08└─A threat is saying something like, "I'm gonna shoot or beat the shit out of person X." A threat is not saying something like, "I hope person X has the shit beat out of them." Learn the fucking difference.
[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Right Process - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─If that's a threat then I'm a felon. A -- I hope there is a special place in hell reserved for that horrible woman. B -- There is. C -- I'd prefer a hellish place on Earth be reserved for her as well.
[23:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Right Process - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:20] <exec> 08└─Stupid people mouthing off does not a crime make. While I don't feel much sympathy for the loud mouths, it's also a Waste of my taxes to send the cops/FBI/et al after all the trolls. *Do Not Feed the Trolls*
[23:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Feds are doing the right thing - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─Freedom of speech in the United States is not absolute; one of the specific exceptions is threats of violence, not just against judges, but against anyone at all.
[23:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:The Feds are doing the right thing - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:25] <exec> 08└─I hope you stub your toe!
[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02being ITG is NOT against the law - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there is any 'reason' here on the side of the government. how much effort does it take to act all pissed off, online? how many people do it? how much effort does it take (not to mention actual resources) to carry out what you typed in? when you see such things typed in and posted, what i...
[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aurean [4924] (Score:1) 02Internet posting == mail? - 06Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who ‘Threatened’ Silk Road Judge - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:29] <exec> 08└─If the court considers public comments on the internet to be 'mail', email sure as hell falls within that definition, with all the privacy protections bestowed upon mail. This may have a silver lining after all.
[23:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perp pays - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:46] <exec> 08└─His violent resist of arrest (by firing at the police) more than satisfies me that he should ultimately pay.
[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The solution to abuse by police - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─Currently, taxpayers have to pick up the tab for abusive cops. That's not fair. Malpractice insurance will curb the bad behavior, just as it does in medical practices. Cops who find themselves charged for their own excess coverage will adjust their behavior or (more likely, I'm sure) quit and find w...
[23:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:You break it, you bough it. - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─how do you know he wasn't shoplifting to pay for the LAST home that got wrecked, due to him? no, its not really funny. this is sickening behavior on the part of the so-called good guys. they no longer are good guys, to a lot of the populatioon. they continue to lose the moral high-ground each passin...
[23:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:You break it, you bough it. - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─I did find interesting from the articles is that the homeowner has to pay, the insurance, for having the privilege of a SWAT team more or less destroying his house.
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Public Employee Union Scum - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, because private employees never want new equipment, we're all happy with 20 year old shit that barely works some of the time.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Liberal Scum - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─In fact, I'm not sure ANY one group is in favor of police militarization
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Liberal Scum - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:02] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with there, but I'm a midwestern liberal who doesn't like police states but couldn't give a damn about any of the rest of that stuff. Maybe I'd be a moderate if I went to a state anyone actually cared about?
[23:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:9-year-old child - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:06] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it does look like the "True Scotsman" fallacy.
[23:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:9-year-old child - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:09] <exec> 08└─I'd say they better resemble Roscoe P. Coltrane with a box of grenades and a tank to play with.
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Fox News source has most info? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─In my books, once that happens you can use all force available.
[23:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Fox News source has most info? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:15] <exec> 08└─What did you expect the officers to say? "Oh, no, we could have tempted him out with a bucket of Kernel Sanders, but this seemed like more fun!". There will always be a horror story from police, which always ends with words to the effect of "get him off the streets".
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:Fox News source has most info? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:18] <exec> 08└─The problem is, the value of a house is not merely the net cost to replace those goods. You blow up a blanket my wife made for our first child, and all you give me is the $5 it costs to buy one from Wal-Mart. You have not compensated me for my true losses.
[23:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Why should the insurance have to pay? - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:19] <exec> 08└─I expect the insurance company will sue the city but it should not have to. The right thing would be for the city to cover the entire cost so the insurance company does not have to deal with it.
[23:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this actually happened to a close friend of min - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:21] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't he remember what he was wanted for?
[23:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this actually happened to a close friend of min - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:22] <exec> 08└─MDC is a self-proclaimed mental case. He's got holes in his memory, and doesn't remember who he was at the time.
[23:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I've never had that problem - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:24] <exec> 08└─You are referring to Dissociative Identity Disorder. I have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder.
[23:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not that you can remember anyway....... - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:26] <exec> 08└─Do you enjoy feeding the trolls specifically, or do you just love to see the words drip from your fingertips as you type?
[23:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not that you can remember anyway....... - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:28] <exec> 08└─That sounds more like LSD than schizoaffective disorder if you're seeing words drip from your fingertips.
[23:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:this actually happened to a close friend of min - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:30] <exec> 08└─In principal they could have won compensation by pressing a lawsuit but that is a huge pain in the ass, expensive and time consuming.
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I asked my sister why Dad had to go to Vietnam - 06SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:32] <exec> 08└─Daddy should be a remote drone pilot. Then he can stay at home and fight in the war at the same time.
[23:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Re:In years gone by... - 06BFQ Is One Step Closer To Being Merged Into The Linux Kernel - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:24] <exec> 08└─An article I saw lately comes to mind that actually supports the early return idea, though not identifying it explicitly. It was a description of a coding approach to avoid putting the vast majority of your function's contents into an if/else block, or worse, a nested block where everything is deepl...
[23:24:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02Re:Climate will never change? - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 556 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:54] <exec> 08└─Your sarcasm aside, one hanging question in discussions about climate change is what the correct climate is. Unfortunately, we don't have infinite options... The climate that is changed to provide a heavy snow pack in the Sierra Nevada will doubtless lead to a relative drought in Eastern Siberia or...
[23:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:intermittent supply - 06Scientists Call for "Global Apollo" Program For Clean Energy Research - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─You can get one that works indoors, if you have enough space. They only take up about 1-2 square meters.
[23:28:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sigterm [849] 02"Only" 2048 bit intermediary keys? - 06The "Let's Encrypt" Project Generates Root and Intermediate Certificates - 1802 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:07] <exec> 08└─The ISRG Root CA uses a 4096 bit RSA key, which is likely to be resistant to brute-force attacks for the foreseeable future, unless someone actually manages to build a relatively large quantum computer. However, I was a bit surprised to learn that for some strange reason, the intermediary CAs have b...
[23:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wasn't that part of the act - 06Obama Asks Secret Court to Continue Doing What He Promises Not to Do - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:08] <exec> 08└─And only dipshits who think the president is some kind of fucking king that can enact whatever the fuck he wants whenever he wants go around bitching about how he didn't do everything he said he would. Maybe your ignorance can be excused if you are a foreigner, but if not, then you are too fucking s...
[23:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, right … - 06Rick Santorum Wants Pope Francis To Stop Talking About Climate Change - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:24] <exec> 08└─(parent asserted that the lower the gravity the slower the universe expansion. I inquired about the basis of his assertion in a slighly sarcastic way - at least that's how it was intended).
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