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[08:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Redundant) 02Public Relations is the Important Thing. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:52] <exec> 08└─Trust Us! We're the Red Cross! CONTINUE GIVING MONEY We're the Red Cross! We're here to help! DO NOT STOP GIVING THE MONEY
[08:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Bug!!! - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:53] <exec> 08└─Never use the Button label for encoding the action you intend: the "Reply to article" button in this case op=Reply works for replying to the article. the current buggy behaviour op=Reply+to+Article doesn't work.
[08:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Black Eye - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:54] <exec> 08└─Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued
[08:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Last Mile Monopolies - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:03] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of artificial scarcity you get when you over-regulate an industry to exclude new, more response players. If the last mile were separated from the outside connections, we would see new ISPs spring up to service these folks. There would need to be some regulation to force the monopoli...
[08:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Last Mile Monopolies - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:05] <exec> 08└─It works if you left-click it. No middle or right-clicking : )
[08:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's a bug, eh. - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[08:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Last Mile Monopolies - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 2364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:08] <exec> 08└─You are an imbecile. Have you never heard of RECs? Rural Electric Cooperatives. They set out to provide a public utility to those that for-profit corporations did not deem it profitable to provide such service to. So, the REC would talk to a bunch of farmers, in one area, figure out what would be...
[08:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ollonk [5490] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Cooperative ISPs? - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:09] <exec> 08└─I live in a rural area where none of the big players ever bothered to invest. The local telephone company is a cooperative (technically owned collectively by its customers). In te early days they started offering dial-up services, and when none of the usual Telcoms entered the market, they became th...
[08:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02tried Wi-Max instead? it's nice - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:11] <exec> 08└─Sure it's slow ("OH GOD NOT THE SLOW") and expensive ("I AM ENTITLED TO FREE SHIT") and there are outages ("WTF I WANT IT NOW") but wireless Wi-Fi LAN and wireless Wi-Max WAN are so fucking convenient.
[08:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03rickatech [4150] (Score:1) 02DSL deprecated, FTTN and pure Fiber the future - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:13] <exec> 08└─So I live less than a mile from Apple's new spaceship campus in Cupertino, CA. What's surreal is this area was unincorporated until recently so the phone lines are really old and crappy despite being Silicon Valley ground zero. I tried to get DSL a couple of years ago only to learn AT&T was no longe...
[08:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DSL deprecated, FTTN and pure Fiber the future - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:14] <exec> 08└─pure Fiber the future
[08:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:DSL deprecated, FTTN and pure Fiber the future - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 1633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:16] <exec> 08└─Yup, you guessed right. The copper is regulated out the wazoo and fiber isn't. So their plan is to just yank out every foot of copper and sell it off for the metal value. But don't worry, the government 'helped' you. Problems are legion in the Internet vs government nexus. First, companies like AT&T...
[08:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:20] <exec> 08└─I went 3 links deep and still couldn't find what papers specifically they think are convincing. Trans-fats may or may not be dangerous but no one should take the information in those news stories and press releases as credible.
[08:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 3248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:22] <exec> 08└─Tentative Determination Regarding Partially Hydrogenated Oils; Request for Comments and for Scientific Data and Information [federalregister.gov] Section IV. Safety [federalregister.gov] FDA has summarized findings reported in the literature since the publication of the July 2003 final rule (Refs....
[08:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:24] <exec> 08└─I checked the first two references and they are not available: 13. Memorandum from J. Park to M. Honigfort, August 10, 2005. 14. Memorandum from J. Park to M. Honigfort, August 19, 2010.
[08:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:25] <exec> 08└─By citation hole, you mean the meat. Reviews are important.
[08:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:27] <exec> 08└─Reviews are important. Not reviews that cite other reviews. Of course it sometimes makes sense to do so "also check out this review", but only in addition to the primary evidence.
[08:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:28] <exec> 08└─Here is a fun fact about how the world works: dig deep enough and you will hit an assumption. Nothing is exempt from that, not even hard science. Learn to accept it and be a better person for it. Oh, and do your own homework too. Bring links of your own if you find something, even if it is the lack...
[08:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:30] <exec> 08└─Here is a fun fact about how the world works: dig deep enough and you will hit an assumption. Nothing is exempt from that, not even hard science.
[08:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:31] <exec> 08└─Here is a fun fact about how the world works: dig deep enough and you will hit an assumption.
[08:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] (Score:1, Disagree) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:33] <exec> 08└─I think even more important is that the studies really need to show that trans-fats are significantly dangerous, since plenty of foods are objectively bad for you. Are eggs still considered bad for you? Is it just the yolks these days or have they flip-flopped yet again back to just the whites?
[08:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:35] <exec> 08└─Check it out man: http://www.uihealthcare.org [uihealthcare.org]
[08:47:35] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:36] <exec> 08└─Here's a couple: Nurses' Health Study: http://www.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] background info: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Vanderbilt study on correlation between trans fat and death rate: ht...
[08:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:38] <exec> 08└─I followed this link: http://news.vanderbilt.edu [vanderbilt.edu] To this paper:http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2013/04/02/ajcn.112.049064.full.pdf+html Table 1. Quintiles of trans fat intake. Look at row 3. There is huge correlation between...
[08:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:39] <exec> 08└─In addition, this is a good resource: http://wonder.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] You can play around with that and see mortality rates by age for race/gender/etc for the years corresponding to that study (2003-2007). This trans fat effect either explains nearly all these differences or they are...
[08:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:41] <exec> 08└─Yet they write "No significant interactions were found between TFA and sex".
[08:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:43] <exec> 08└─They divide TFA consumption into 5 quintiles (5 being highest). Here are the percent of females in each: 72, 63, 57, 48, 35. So, according to that study, if you consume a lot of TFA you are half as likely to have female sex.
[08:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:44] <exec> 08└─They divide TFA consumption into 5 quintiles (5 being highest)
[08:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:46] <exec> 08└─Really though. Pubmed gives 4 citations and google scholar shows 14 for that report. At least 3 reviewers had to have looked at it. I noticed a glaring flaw in under an hour (proof in the timestamps), and most of that hour was not even spent looking at the paper. In honesty it took about 15 minutes....
[08:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:47] <exec> 08└─Trans-fats may or may not be dangerous but no one should take the information in those news stories and press releases as credible.
[08:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:49] <exec> 08└─Because you failed to find the papers? (just curious, do you have a stake in a margarine operation?)
[08:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:51] <exec> 08└─We all have a stake in preventing pseudoscience from being presented as science. This requires vigilance and skepticism.
[08:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:52] <exec> 08└─If I can show 33% of them are Transgendered, will the FDA make me skinny? Seriously, is this a good idea? Trans-fats came out of the closet (so to speak) 10-20 years ago, most people know when they're buying food with trans-fats. If people are weighing the risk/reward, is it up to the government to...
[08:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:54] <exec> 08└─I don't think so -- how do you make a nice crispy pie crust without crisco? I don't eat pies every day, not even every month, but when I have pie I want it to have a nice flakey crust -- harder to get with butter and about impossible with oil. At least for me and anyone I know whose ever made a pie...
[08:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:55] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisco [wikipedia.org] In April 2004, Smucker introduced "Crisco Zero Grams Trans Fat Per Serving All-Vegetable Shortening," which contained fully hydrogenated palm oil blended with liquid vegetable oils to yield a shortening much like the original Crisco. From January...
[08:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''less than 0.5 gram...per serving'' - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I encountered that at another site. Industry Loopholes Leave Bad Taste [commondreams.org] Renee Sharp, Environmental Working Group's (EWG) director of research [said...] "we’re disappointed that the FDA did not set a speedy deadline. What’s worse, the FDA has failed to close the labeling...
[08:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:59] <exec> 08└─sweet
[08:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:00] <exec> 08└─how do you make a nice crispy pie crust without crisco?
[08:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:02] <exec> 08└─I don't eat mammals so lard didn't enter my consideration.
[08:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02This: use natural fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:03] <exec> 08└─Exactly. You can get crispy pie crusts, and all the other yumminess in food, by using naturally occurring fats. Have bacon for breakfast. Use butter in your cooking. We evolved to eat natural fats, there seems to be good evidence that our bodies know how to process them. The whole problem with trans...
[08:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:05] <exec> 08└─Might be possible with coconut oil. It has roughly the same consistency, and is high in saturated fat, but that might not be a bad thing per the article. To be fair, that's just blind speculating on my part though. I've baked quite a bit of different types of bread in my life (from scratch) but I ha...
[08:48:06] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 1961 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:06] <exec> 08└─Banning trans-fats is significant progress. It's incredible how much of our research on negative health effects is suppressed or drowned out by propaganda. There was the infamous congressional hearing at which all 7 of the major tobacco executives denied that nicotine was addictive. Since 9/11 we've...
[08:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:08] <exec> 08└─Banning trans-fats is significant progress.
[08:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:10] <exec> 08└─But I don't know anyone who would prefer to eat margarine when they could have true butter.
[08:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:11] <exec> 08└─Bah... minor detail. Some ads with gorgeous babes using margarine to oil their boo... I mean, healthy kids being good all day in exchange for just a bit of margarine on their toast at dinner time and we're set. Besides, just wait until it's banned, everything forbidden is fascinatingly attractive! (...
[08:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:13] <exec> 08└─I haven't had margarine since I was about 10. Frankly I haven't missed it in the slightest. I bake cookies sometimes with crisco once every six months or so, and use it for seasoning cast iron, but those are about my only use cases for it. I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. Fun fact...
[08:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''margarine [...] capsules of artificial coloring' - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:14] <exec> 08└─post WW2 Perhaps after--but definitely before. Daddy told us tales about how it was his weekly job to mix that into the fake butter. -- gewg_
[08:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:16] <exec> 08└─First of all, the headline is wrong. They're not banning trans fats. They're banning partially hydrogenated oil (PHO), which is the main source of trans fats nowadays, but not the only one. Here's the big difference between alcohol and PHO: there's no substitute for alcohol. That's why people were w...
[08:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:18] <exec> 08└─See that '(grin)' at the end of colo's post? That's his way of telling you he's being an idiot on purpose and its totally your fault for taking him seriously. He likes to do that. Its a waste of everybody else's time because there are plenty of people who would seriously make the kind of arguments h...
[08:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for avoiding a waste of my time in trying to find idiotic ways of explaining the meaning of '(grin)', it earned you a +Informative from me.May I cite your post with a link for my future grins?
[08:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:21] <exec> 08└─the meaning of '(grin)'
[08:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:22] <exec> 08└─I've noticed that trans fat is pretty common in MREs [wikipedia.org]. I wonder what PHO alternative they can use that would maintain the long shelf life.
[08:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:24] <exec> 08└─This is more like an alcohol prohibition on shitty booze only. Sure you could pay more for black market shitty booze but it's better to drink the good stuff for cheaper.
[08:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:26] <exec> 08└─Look how much progress the alcohol prohibition and war on drugs brought to the US society
[08:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:27] <exec> 08└─Regarding the brass alloys; a machine shop won't use a more expensive new custom alloy unless they have to, and a foundry won't start producing the stock in large quantities to bring the price down until there's significant demand. They're both trying to make a profit and have plenty of competition....
[08:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Translation - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:29] <exec> 08└─Ekranoplan - does this mean fugly in Russian?
[08:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Translation - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle [wikipedia.org]
[08:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:32] <exec> 08└─Pretty amazing, eh? The photos make me sad. So much effort, the best of Russia, gone to waste. :(
[08:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:34] <exec> 08└─That huge Soviet Eraknoplan is amazing. I'd like to know why that sort of technology is not more widespread. I'm guessing they're not very fuel efficient, but as a fast attack anti-ship weapon you'd think they'd be pretty good.
[08:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Translation - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:35] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know why that sort of technology is not more widespread. I'm guessing they're not very fuel efficient
[08:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02This is sad - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:37] <exec> 08└─It's been common knowledge for a good 10 years these shuttles got abandoned. It's sad these things couldn't have been put into a museum somewhere. That said, it would have been a huge slap in the face for Putin to put these things in a museum, they're proof neither the USSR nor Russia could git-r-do...
[08:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:This is sad - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:38] <exec> 08└─Common knowledge or not, I've never seen more than one, and never such amazing photos. There are two different designs in these pictures, most easily recognized by the nose thrusters. Looking at the detailed pictures, I suspect that they had trouble sealing the craft air-tight, and that may be why n...
[08:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sad - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:40] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly sure the USSR and Russia are more than capable of completing the job.
[08:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03korger [4465] (Score:2, Informative) 02So sad - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:41] <exec> 08└─"More than two decades ago, when the heavy sliding doors of the MZK closed the last time, they cut off two spacecraft from the beckoning starry sky. It's ironic that for the vessels that were meant to soar in the cosmic vastness, their cradle became a burial mound and a tomb." My heart goes out ever...
[08:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Nice Work - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:43] <exec> 08└─Nice work once again. Some may think it sounds bad to be back where we were, but if maintainability is increased, it's a big improvement. It's appreciated.
[08:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice Work - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:45] <exec> 08└─We do have some nice features we have added, but I was mostly taking about the few key features that broke from the upgrade itself. I believe we have them all fixed, except some long queries that only get called a few times a day. It seem like every time we do an upgrade we add a few more issues to...
[08:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Nice Work - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:46] <exec> 08└─The only remaining "feature" thats broken is memcache. We still have no idea why it craps itself under high load, but the new cluster arrangement seems to scale well enough that the site doesn't turn into confetti with removing it. I'm going to be writing a NC novel on what we're doing to fix it som...
[08:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03prospectacle [3422] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Greatly Admire Your Dedication - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:48] <exec> 08└─I expect you all have jobs and/or lives and/or families, which makes the time and effort you put into continually improving this place all the more impressive. For a news and comment source I enjoy every day and with such a cheap yearly subscription, it's very greatly appreciated. Makes me think I r...
[08:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Greatly Admire Your Dedication - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:49] <exec> 08└─I pay not in money, but in blood, sweat, and tears. Thanks for the compliment.
[08:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Greatly Admire Your Dedication - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:51] <exec> 08└─We welcome any and all content contributions. A great place to start is the Submission Guidelines [soylentnews.org].
[08:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02500 Internal Server Error with this browser config - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:53] <exec> 08└─I'm using a Mozilla browser (Pale Moon 20.3). I have it configured for "stealth" usage. The only thing true about me is my IP address; all other identifying features are false, spoofed or randomly changed; this includes: User Agent, Referer, Accept Headers, JS OCPU Strings, ETAG headers, Proxy Heade...
[08:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:500 Internal Server Error with this browser con - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:54] <exec> 08└─Post how to replicate and we can try to fix it
[08:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:3, Funny) 02Cool feature - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:56] <exec> 08└─Do you reckon you could expose these "unordered singoffs" to us users so we get to listen in? Maybe we can get arias with our articles in Arial? ;) Jokes aside, thanks for your hard work.
[08:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Informative) 02Reply to Article borked? - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:58] <exec> 08└─The 'Reply' button at the bottom of the page and 'Reply to this' buttons work but not the 'Reply to Article' one below the summary.
[08:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Great - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:59] <exec> 08└─Great. Can you update now dev.soylentnews.org ?
[08:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:First look - 06Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:01] <exec> 08└─Your comment prompted me to look at your Journal. You have spent a significant amount of time utilizing the self-works features of Soylent indeed; I have no doubts that you would work for this News Bulletin Service for free.
[08:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Well... - 06Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:02] <exec> 08└─With the image format they're also asking for misrepresentation, especially since the big font in their example linked to in the summary uses that font in 4chan image macros. So a competitor or a horde of bored punk kids can create fakes ones that are credible enough to be believable but unsavory en...
[08:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02what Rick Falkvinge actually believes - 06Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:04] <exec> 08└─http://torrentfreak.com/author/rick-falkvinge/ [torrentfreak.com] As for Falcon Wing or whatever this is, it seems well placed to inject meme-ish content into Facebook or Twitter feeds. Embedding limited amounts of text that can't be selected (easily) into images isn't my cup of tea.
[08:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:what Rick Falkvinge actually believes - 06Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:06] <exec> 08└─What problem is this guy trying to solve with this news site ?
[08:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02invisible - 06Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:08] <exec> 08└─Whatever it is, it will be invisible. Bitmapped images that have speckles that some people might consider to resemble text is a far cry from anything that search engines can use and index. If the search engines can't read it, then it is as good as invisible. It is not even possible, as graphics, to...
[08:49:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03boristhespider [4048] 02Mike Hale has evidently not read the books - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 573 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:09] <exec> 08└─Like the way that George RR Martin went or not (I'm in the "not" camp - A Dance with Dragons in particular was an exercise in tedious masochism), and like the way the TV series has been departing from the books or not, the events he's highlighted are in the books. It's in the next series that we're...
[08:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:16] <exec> 08└─So far as Jon goes, in the books it seems to me implied that either he'll be inside Ghost, will be resurrected a la Blackhands (who I get the impression is his uncle), or both.
[08:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:17] <exec> 08└─One plotline in the books that apparently didn't make it into the TV series, so far anyway, is Lady Stoneheart. That's Catelyn Stark to you, resurrected thanks to Thoros of Myr, who became the new leader of the Brotherhood Without Banners after Beric Dondarrion. She has undergone some major personal...
[08:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Mike Hale has evidently not read the books - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:19] <exec> 08└─I think he knows the final ending, and a few of the events along the way, and has a few reveals - which will probably come via Bran - stored up, and is now engaged in a massive game of connect the dots. Unfortunately he doesn't have many dots but does have a lot of paper to fill up, so we've been st...
[08:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Mike Hale has evidently not read the books - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:22] <exec> 08└─I too sometime resist the introduction of new characters, and the plot did seem to crawl in #3...but it was all to position the players in the right spots and the plot is now mature and ripe. I really like the audiobooks...the reading is so excellent (and I prefer the scottish sounding Lords and Lad...
[08:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Mike Hale has evidently not read the books - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:23] <exec> 08└─There was 11 years between the audio version of book 3 and book 4, and the reader failed to do any homework on how he read the first three apparently because he changed everything. This wouldn't be an issue with an 11 year space, but when listening to them back to back, the changed voices make it re...
[08:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Mike Hale has evidently not read the books - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:25] <exec> 08└─One book was read by another reader. The last book was read by the original voice actor, and yes several voices changed slightly, but with such a cast, I let it go.
[08:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:27] <exec> 08└─I haven't read the books and only watched up to season 3, but your assessment is spot-on with what I've seen so far. If I were to offer any more advice to Runaway1956 I would advise that he keep a character non-spoiler quick-reference with pictures handy so as to not be overwhelmed by all the charac...
[08:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 2247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe I've become jaded, but I have to agree with "meh". I've read the first 2 books, and haven't felt a burning desire to read more. What is so special about GoT? That main characters die with shocking frequency? That we're seeing some of the ugly parts of the Middle Ages? It is indeed very ugly, f...
[08:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 4010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:30] <exec> 08└─The show has good acting, and the storylines have been okay, but, in my opinion, there's just too much killing off the main characters. I don't watch a show to root for the good guy and then have the good guy die anticlimactically by getting stabbed by his own men, or beheaded by some little shithea...
[08:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:32] <exec> 08└─Hey, at least it's better than Lost. Lost's writers were more about not basing it on any book (perhaps quite possibly Lord of the Flies, LOL), or even any literary techniques other than a "what will happen next?" crude ripoff of Twin Peaks and naming characters after reknowned philosophers (the phil...
[08:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 2314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:33] <exec> 08└─It sounds like a mess. I'm no writer, but I love stories. I have read, watched, and heard millions of stories. I can't say exactly what makes for a good story, but I can tell you what makes for a poor story. A good story must be short and simple, relative to the content of the story. Taking the cont...
[08:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score:1) 02Re:When was it good? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:38] <exec> 08└─something like the rockford files , magnum PI or farscape
[08:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When was it good? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:39] <exec> 08└─With three sisters and one bathroom, I got to play "game of thrones" every day.... ( Hint: The telephone ringback number was very handy. It gave me enough time to hide in the closet before the phone started ringing... when Sis darts out to answer it, I slip from the closet right into the now abandon...
[08:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When was it good? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:41] <exec> 08└─Non sequitur. Even people who do special things can find the time to do other things. But this show, like all shows that feature real people, is garbage for filthy normies, so I cannot recommend you spend your time on it, no matter how "special" you are.
[08:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Is there anything to it? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:48] <exec> 08└─and best automobile analogy
[08:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:1) 02Re:Is there anything to it? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:51] <exec> 08└─Correction--Glen Cook, not Gene.
[08:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What do people expect? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:54] <exec> 08└─I'm continually astounded at the number of people who throw a fit when bad things happen to good people. Newsflash: That's what happens in life.
[08:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:What do people expect? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:56] <exec> 08└─I agree with the bit about it being drawn out. They're doing a good job so far, I think, but I do worry about it "jumping the shark"; this happens to just about every show if it stays on too long. And, just like LOST, this show (AFAIK) doesn't really have a plan just yet, since it's more-or-less fol...
[08:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbWolf [2774] (Score:2) 02Re:What do people expect? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:57] <exec> 08└─These shows really would do better if they had the whole thing planned out right at the beginning, instead of making stuff up as they go. But they don't want to do that because it's difficult, and they never know how long these stupid TV networks will keep renewing them.
[08:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:People that didn't read the books just don't .. - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:59] <exec> 08└─This is R.R. Martin's MO. Unfortunately not many people know it. When he writes things without someone to rein him in his craptastic worlds don't go anywhere. The good guys get punished badly for being good. The bad guys get a little punishment relative to their actions. Everybody that survives is s...
[08:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:People that didn't read the books just don't .. - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 1529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:00] <exec> 08└─Sansa's wedding rape hasn't happened in the books published so far as of June 2015. At the end of Dance with Dragons she's still stuck in the Vale with Littlefinger babysitting her retard cousin although it's speculated that Littlefinger plans to send her to the Boltons, and Stannis's daughter Shire...
[08:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:People that didn't read the books just don't .. - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:02] <exec> 08└─I think the general view is that the character of Sansa has been merged with Poole for the TV show. As I recall Poole got married and raped by Ramsay in the book (Dance ...). It would be somewhat weird book wise then if Sansa goes there for another rape. But who knows how they'll resolve that proble...
[08:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Bild? - 06German Network Intrusion Involved the Compromise of Chancellor Merkel's PC - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:16] <exec> 08└─So what good German media is there?
[08:50:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Probably not - 06German Network Intrusion Involved the Compromise of Chancellor Merkel's PC - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:17] <exec> 08└─According to this source (German language) [t-online.de] the trojan found on Merkel's computer is not the one which infected the parliament's network, but another, widespread trojan which tries to compromise online banking. Also, the "evidence" cited by Bild is a mail that pretends to come from Ange...
[08:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fits in Your Pocket and Moves by Bus - 06Cuba's Answer to the Internet Fits in Your Pocket and Moves by Bus - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:40] <exec> 08└─Ethanol's penis?
[08:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I F*CK3D - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:51] <exec> 08└─Yeh... I guess the phrase: "liquidation of assets" is going to take on a whole new meaning.
[08:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Cherry 2000 - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:58] <exec> 08└─Willingly uses a niche OS, bitches about niche support anyway. Remeber when it was Mac users who did that?
[08:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Potential use - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:51:16] <exec> 08└─In some countries it is illegal for women to drive cars. In some countries it is illegal to say anything negative about the government, even if it is true. Just because something is illegal in some countries, it isn't automatically wrong. It of course also isn't automatically right. It's just that w...
[08:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Potential use - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:51:26] <exec> 08└─Right on that one... the muscles on the woman turn me on more than anything else does... feeling the muscles in her arms and torso while she is in ecstasy. And she has got to be the correct temperature too. Otherwise its like making love to a cold dead fish.
[08:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:Potential use - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:51:28] <exec> 08└─> cold dead fish You mean RealFish(tm)? Or maybe RealDeadFish(tm)?
[08:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Potential use - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:51:30] <exec> 08└─because I have a real live human partner in my life that makes me much happier than any doll ever could.
[08:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Potential use - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:51:34] <exec> 08└─But I do see this kind of thing as potentially extremely useful for those whose proclivities tend towards activities which harm others. For example, if somebody only really gets off when their partner is unwilling, it would be much better for them to rape a doll than a real person.
[08:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I once dated Gabe Newell's sister - 06 Bethesda at E3: Fallout 4, Dishonored 2, Doom - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:51:49] <exec> 08└─Or... Like most of what MCD posts, it's just made up. He has admitted in multiple posts to being insane. He probably googled Newell, read a bio about him, saw he had a sister and started spinning that yarn as a way to frame his own personal opinions about valve's video games
[08:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I once dated Gabe Newell's sister - 06 Bethesda at E3: Fallout 4, Dishonored 2, Doom - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:51:52] <exec> 08└─his games depicted something other than senseless violence
[08:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:So many errors! - 06Even with a VPN, Open Wi-Fi Can Expose Information - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:52:23] <exec> 08└─There is a solution for this problem, it is called EAP-UNAUTH-TLS or more colloquially Open Secure Wireless.
[08:52:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Ummmmmmmmmmm - 06Sunday Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Reporter, Admits That He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him To - 293 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:52:41] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it is neither. There have always been plenty of 'reporters' willing to go to bat for the official government line. Doing the will of the powerful is generally very good for your career, otherwise people wouldn't do it. It isn't like he has much to lose directly from NSA/GCHG spying.
[08:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:1) 02Re:News Corp owns the Times, too? - 06Sunday Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Reporter, Admits That He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him To - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:52:49] <exec> 08└─Can we just pay Australia to take Rupert Murdoch back?
[08:52:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] 02UPDATE: The Sunday Times sends DMCA notice ... - 06Sunday Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Reporter, Admits That He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him To - 778 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:51] <exec> 08└─The Sunday Times sends DMCA notice to critics of Snowden hacking story: The Sunday Times dropped a bombshell [thesundaytimes.co.uk] this weekend, reporting that the top secret files leaked by Edward Snowden have been obtained by the Russian and Chinese governments. The story claimed Western intellig...
[08:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Pravda - 06Sunday Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Reporter, Admits That He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him To - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:52:57] <exec> 08└─uhhh... isn't there numerous accounts of when you can still fight a fairly realistic war even if one side is way under equipped in firepower. Its called a guerrilla warfare.. Of course if you just stand there trying to match firepower.. then yea face stamping, but then its a well deserved Darwin awa...
[08:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Pravda - 06Sunday Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Reporter, Admits That He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him To - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:02] <exec> 08└─I read it as it is logically impossible for someone to be entirely correct. Which kind of makes sense. It is hard to trivialize complicated matters down to a binary right vs. wrong. It is often various shades and depending on which viewpoint you're standing in it changes as well.
[08:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Pravda - 06Sunday Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Reporter, Admits That He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him To - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:04] <exec> 08└─What makes disassembling a narrative a more reliable procedure than assembling a narrative? You have a mass of assertions from different parties. One group of journalists sorts through the pile and puts the ones that sort of fit together in a row and says "there, this shows what happened" while othe...
[08:53:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03twistedcubic [929] 02Woah interviewer - 06Sunday Times 'Snowden' Propaganda Reporter, Admits That He's Just Writing What UK Gov't Told Him To - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:07] <exec> 08└─I was a little shocked that the interviewer, George Howell, rightly showed skepticism, and asked the right questions. I hope he's allowed to keep his job after this.
[08:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Ars Technica Article Asks: "Is the Internet a Failed Utopia?" - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:51] <exec> 08└─the cost is too high
[08:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02failed utopia? - 06Ars Technica Article Asks: "Is the Internet a Failed Utopia?" - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:29] <exec> 08└─I would like to point out that it would have been impossible ro ask this question before systemd came along and ruined everything. Everything was fine until then. Free (truly free) software and thus a free, utopic internet requires an environment free of the type of political ugliness that gave ua s...
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[09:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Don't be too quick to judge. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:55] <exec> 08└─Having read most of that AMA, I have to say the authors of the report come across as dishonest and sensationalist. They strike me as a couple of first-world dickheads wandering around Haiti five years after the quake saying "Well I don't see how hard it is to build a bunch of houses here. Where's th...
[09:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:tried Wi-Max instead? it's nice - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:09] <exec> 08└─The only other option in the boonies is satellite, and if you are complaining about cost already. . . . That Cuban thing sounds good for those boycotted but the big networks.
[09:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:04] <exec> 08└─"We've gotten paranoid about terrorism after 9/11, why haven't we extended this to beiung paranoid about food too?" is a bad argument. You're basically pointing to a harmful overreaction that resulted in the TSA and an excuse for surveillance and saying "let's overreact this way about food too". Or...
[09:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:15] <exec> 08└─I really hope Sansa and Theon are found by Ramsey with their necks broken next season. You just don't survive that. If the fall doesn't kill you, you are so deep in snow there is no way you could get out and will freeze to death.
[09:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:16] <exec> 08└─Well, obviously she'll use Theon as a parachute. And then as a snowboard propelled by Theon's farts. "Fart, goddammit Theon, you owe that much to me!"
[09:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:34] <exec> 08└─I have read, watched, and heard millions of stories...A good story must be short and simple.
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[15:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Touché) 02already - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:52] <exec> 08└─are now to be considered heretics
[15:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:already - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:53] <exec> 08└─I thought that technically all protestants are heretics? But in recent centuries the different sects have decided they can at least live with one another existing.
[15:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:already - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:55] <exec> 08└─Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same;
[15:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:56] <exec> 08└─Religious conservatives used to believe that we had a responsibility to care for the environment because God gave us dominion over it: Genesis 1:16 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and...
[15:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:58] <exec> 08└─I think they get the message about the reply to article button. Seems to be a complaint in every story today - just give it some time.
[15:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:00] <exec> 08└─Very few people think the bible isn't something that people pick and choose from. It's just the more "devout" side tends to turn a blind eye to their own selective reading, while calling others "Cafeteria Christians". The less literalist side of Christianity tends to accept that they're picking and...
[15:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score:4, Insightful) 02What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:01] <exec> 08└─How in the world would climate-change deniers be considered heretics? Your article betrays your ignorance of what Christianity is all about, and for whatever reason, you've decided to blame it on conservatives (because conservatives are ALL the same!). To top it all off, you refer to God as a "Her"...
[15:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─Agree, it's a trollish summary posted by someone who sounds atheist or agnostic.
[15:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:04] <exec> 08└─I normally condemn these kind of editorializing statements in the article summary, but I have to admit that this time it made me laugh, so thank you, and curse you.
[15:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:06] <exec> 08└─How in the world would climate-change deniers be considered heretics?
[15:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 2369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:07] <exec> 08└─> To top it all off, you refer to God as a "Her" I thought it was common knowledge by now that God looks like Alanis Morrissette. But let's be serious. The correct pronoun for god is "it." We are talking about an omniscient being with the power to build an entire universe in less time than it takes...
[15:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:09] <exec> 08└─Try reading the summary... Ignorance about ignorance is a good thing. The two groups greatly overlap... god (note the capital you silly ass) is a black woman.
[15:27:10] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02on the name - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:10] <exec> 08└─the Pontiff of the Church Universal and Triumphant
[15:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:on the name - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this should be tagged as "seriously misleading summary". I am going to guess intentionally so.
[15:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Ex Cathedra - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:13] <exec> 08└─Is he going to invoke Ex Cathedra on this topic? That would pretty much seal the deal for the church if the temps cycle down for a decade or two.
[15:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Flamebait News? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:15] <exec> 08└─I thought mods didn't approve submissions with clear flamebait paragraphs such as this article's foot note.
[15:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flamebait News? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:17] <exec> 08└─That is pretty flambaity.... If you want to end up with an echo chamber that is a very good way to go about it.
[15:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Flamebait News? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:18] <exec> 08└─And it doesn't help the side that's right when our position is presented in such a manner.
[15:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You asked for it - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:20] <exec> 08└─Fuck pope and fuck "aristarchus". Who do they think they are, climate science phds or something? Hur-hur.
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:21] <exec> 08└─a virtual diploma.
[15:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:23] <exec> 08└─Normal diplomas aren't worth a damn thing anyway. You can be a rote memorization monkey; so what?
[15:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:24] <exec> 08└─Prepare you for an institutional life driven by bells on timers like an assembly line at an old time industrial plant, strictly class based and hyper hierarchical, armed guards patrolling hallways lined with locked doors, all that isn't mandatory is illegal and all that isn't illegal is mandatory, c...
[15:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:26] <exec> 08└─I got a lot more out of my education than that.
[15:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02bottom up too - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 2053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:28] <exec> 08└─Locally they also worked bottom up, for alternative high school, special ed, and various protective custody aka juvie hall. Not just top down for AP. In fact they started bottom up more than a decade ago. So its no surprise that eventually simultaneously going top down for advanced classes and botto...
[15:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02They forgot Florida - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:29] <exec> 08└─Florida also offers a full-time online school for Junior High and High School. My kid doesn't use it full time, but to get her core courses out of the way over the summer so she can have performing arts electives during the year.
[15:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:They forgot Florida - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:31] <exec> 08└─Speaking of summer school, in the old days they offered licensed teachers and core classes (in person) so you could knock out gym class or economics and likewise have time during the year for electives, but to save money they've gotten rid of all that in person (only online now) and only offer in pe...
[15:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:They forgot Florida - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:32] <exec> 08└─Strange idea... if a kid took psych 101 at a community college over the summer, online or in person, would a high school accept that as transfer credit for high school psych class?
[15:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Some issues - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:34] <exec> 08└─First, exams have to be proctored under physical supervision, or else they're subject to professional-grade cheating, similar to online voting. (Yes, cheating takes place in regular classrooms too, but you get more sophisticated attacks online). It might be tough making arrangements for kids that li...
[15:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Editor forgot to close another <small> tag. - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:36] <exec> 08└─Same issue has hit us again - no closing </small>
[15:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Editor forgot to close another <small> tag. - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:37] <exec> 08└─This joke is getting old!
[15:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Editor forgot to close another <small> tag. - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─Wasn't a joke. I was certainly seeing the text of articles lower down the page displayed in smaller type. It looks like it has been fixed, so thank-you to whoever fixed it.
[15:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Editor forgot to close another <small> tag. - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:40] <exec> 08└─This one is thoroughly my issue, and it seems to be mine every time. The Original Submission link is added manually to the bottom of the submission, and I seem to often forget to close the tag. I shall try to do better in the future.
[15:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Editor forgot to close another <small> tag. - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:42] <exec> 08└─Use the extension, press 'HR', write "Original Submission", select text, press 'URL', paste URL, select anchor element, press 'Small'. Put the whole <hr><small><a href="url">Original Submission</a></small> within the end of the final paragraph element to avoid an extra closing paragraph tag.
[15:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Editor forgot to close another <small> tag. - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:44] <exec> 08└─I'm unable to make a top level post (Reply to article does not open a submission window). Maybe that's considered a feature to block AC's from posting top level but... the UI should say that.
[15:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:4, Informative) 02Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:45] <exec> 08└─Is a 1 mile long track long enough to test a train that goes 760 miles per hour?
[15:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:47] <exec> 08└─What if they build a second circular track that they could use to test top speed stresses.? Maybe use the new Apple HQ :)
[15:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they could use it to "Swift"-ly wipe out that walled garden? ;-)
[15:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:50] <exec> 08└─If the one mile track were a loop (just a regular one, not even the hyper kind), the pod could be accelerated to an arbitrary speed. Though I'm not sure how much curvature the design allows for; that would be an important consideration.
[15:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:51] <exec> 08└─The Gizmag mentions that changes in location of the tube when traveling at high speed could make it uncomfortable for passengers.. The curvature is likely limited by the air cushion?
[15:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:53] <exec> 08└─It's been a day or three since I read the announcement, but I believe the it specifically mentioned that the test train would not be getting anywhere close to 760mph. I also think it was planned as a closed loop (oval?) track, though that might be mental interference from the "loop" in the name. It...
[15:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:55] <exec> 08└─338 m/s is making love with the sound barrier : ) I haven't looked into the hyperloop but this would be a fantastic engineering challenge for a university team.
[15:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:56] <exec> 08└─I think there's some errors in my calculations. But the ballpark figure that they won't reach maximum design speed for a full scale track is probably right. One might also wonder how braking will be done. I wouldn't rely solely on linear motors to do that job. A power switch failure at a critical ti...
[15:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:58] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't a loop track make far more sense for testing purposes? So no end station, just a loading/unloading segment, and if they overshoot they keep going in circles until they coast to a stop or the power comes back on.
[15:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:59] <exec> 08└─I do like the idea of a failure mode that is basically a decelerating loop.
[15:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Ughhh... annoying - 06FBI Investigating Possible St. Louis Cardinals "Hack" of Houston Astros - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:01] <exec> 08└─Reply+to+Article bug is still present and as annoying as those Catholic priests... kiddie sexual abuses now hacking a baseball team's network... can nobody stop them (both the bug and the Cardinals)?
[15:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Pathetic - ideal for the FBI - 06FBI Investigating Possible St. Louis Cardinals "Hack" of Houston Astros - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:02] <exec> 08└─The same guy worked on IT systems for both teams. He used the same passwords on both systems. So the "hacking" consisted of logging in to the other team's database. How pathetic is that? I suppose I can see why this might, technically, be illegal: in the same sense that it's still theft if someone s...
[15:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Pathetic - ideal for the FBI - 06FBI Investigating Possible St. Louis Cardinals "Hack" of Houston Astros - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:04] <exec> 08└─No, it's realizing that you have a spare set of keys to someone's car so you take that for a joy ride, leave it parked in a slum and post pix on Instagram. That's a crime.
[15:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pathetic - ideal for the FBI - 06FBI Investigating Possible St. Louis Cardinals "Hack" of Houston Astros - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:06] <exec> 08└─I almost submitted a story about this yesterday... but I refuse to contribute to the devaluation of the word hack.
[15:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Public Relations is the Important Thing. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:10] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I am a volunteer with the local Redcross chapter, and am on what is known as the "Disaster Action Team". We are the guys/gals who are called when a house/apartment fire happens in our local area, and we respond with immediate assistance (clothing/food/shelter) for the victims. A VERY lar...
[15:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03francois.barbier [651] (Score:2) 02Re:Bug!!! - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:12] <exec> 08└─Don't use <input type="button|submit|reset"> Use <button type="button|submit|reset"> That way, you can use the value attribute AND write whatever you want in the button. Example: <button type="submit" name="action" value="reply-article"> Reply to <b>article</b><br> You can write multiline button<br...
[15:28:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Don't be too quick to judge. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 1321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:14] <exec> 08└─Having read most of that AMA, I have to say the authors of the report come across as dishonest and sensationalist. They strike me as a couple of first-world dickheads wandering around Haiti five years after the quake saying "Well I don't see how hard it is to build a bunch of houses here. Where's th...
[15:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Don't be too quick to judge. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:16] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call them dickheads, in fact they made the same point that you just repeated, that it is very difficult to spend the kind of money the ARC solicited, collected and budgeted, in a cost-effective manner in such a backward country with a government rife with corruption. Here's the link (embe...
[15:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be too quick to judge. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:18] <exec> 08└─Well, that's not the point they seemed to be making in the AMA. All I got from there was a repeated wail of "but only six houses were built", which seems to be dodging the issue entirely.
[15:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Don't be too quick to judge. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:19] <exec> 08└─Turns out you can't just roll up to an earthquake-smashed city in a notoriously corrupt third-world country and start building houses left and right. This is very true. My church has been involved in that country for about 30 years now. In that time I think we managed to build 30 buildings (1-2 per...
[15:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be too quick to judge. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe they shouldn't have made all the claims in their press release then, eh?
[15:28:21] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thesis [524] 02I have seen the inside of ARC - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 2834 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:22] <exec> 08└─I was placed in an executive position at what I would call a "small-to-medium" sized chapter, through a special "government-funded" program many years ago. My job was to create a sustainability at the chapter through community outreach and grant proposals. I did my job very well, for donations and s...
[15:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a bug, eh. - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:31] <exec> 08└─I did not realize that changing the text would break the button. Will be fixed today.
[15:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Last Mile Monopolies - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:33] <exec> 08└─Yes of course, its regulations' fault! Its definitely not a problem cause by companies taking government money in exchange for promising to deliver broadband to everyone and then never building a damn thing. The answer is to deregulate everything and give corporations even more money!
[15:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Quite common. - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:35] <exec> 08└─We got lucky and had a private telco take over a local failed fiber startup, who managed to provide service in a lot of areas ATT and the predecessor it gobbled up failed to. We had substandard DSL for 3 years, despite paying full price (We were well outside the acceptable range of the DSLAM, and wh...
[15:28:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:DSL deprecated, FTTN and pure Fiber the future - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 1633 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:40] <exec> 08└─Yup, you guessed right. The copper is regulated out the wazoo and fiber isn't. So their plan is to just yank out every foot of copper and sell it off for the metal value. But don't worry, the government 'helped' you. Problems are legion in the Internet vs government nexus. First, companies like AT&T...
[15:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Start fiber cooperatives? - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:41] <exec> 08└─Start fiber optic cooperatives? Join forces with neighbors?
[15:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02dslreports - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:43] <exec> 08└─Create an account on www.dslreports.com and post a message on AT&Ts board. ISPs have senior techs that monitor these boards and offer assistance with problems, and can even escalate service calls if the local AT&T service won't help. I had many problems with AT&T and Cox, and these senior techs had...
[15:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:59] <exec> 08└─But if you're making assumptions when you can dig far deeper, then it isn't hard science at all. And it certainly isn't grounds for banning something.
[15:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:02] <exec> 08└─The word "significance" has been rendered useless by double assigned meaning. I avoid it other than as a curse word. It should be banned from polite society.
[15:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:10] <exec> 08└─Mod parent +6 Hilarious!
[15:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:15] <exec> 08└─There has been a great deal of credible research to show the harm of trans-fats. As a result, ever since manufacturers were forced to list trans-fats on food lables, the public has already voluntarily cut trans-fat consumption by 78%. The remaining consumption appears to be divided between foods whe...
[15:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:17] <exec> 08└─There has been a great deal of credible research to show the harm of trans-fats.
[15:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:''less than 0.5 gram...per serving'' - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:21] <exec> 08└─I believe Serving Sizes are relatively standardized (depending on the product). Bulk foods are almost always 1/2 cup. If 0.5g (why must I mix units?) of trans-fats is hidden in that half cup, you will be hard pressed to consume serious amounts of trans-fats.
[15:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''less than 0.5 gram...per serving'' - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:23] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of the declaration often found on German convenience foods: "Ohne Konservierungsstoffe laut Gesetz" ("Without preserving agents according to law"). The addition "laut Gesetz" ("according to law") always made me suspicious that there are indeed preserving agents inside; otherwise why...
[15:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:25] <exec> 08└─According to the FDA, "Food manufacturers are allowed to list amounts of trans fat with less than 0.5 gram (1/2 g) per serving as 0 (zero) on the Nutrition Facts panel."
[15:29:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:26] <exec> 08└─how do you make a nice crispy pie crust without crisco?
[15:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:28] <exec> 08└─You ever hear of this thing called Google? Turns out after searching for "vegan flaky pie crust" I found a few promising leads using a variety of methods and alternatives like coconut oil.
[15:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:30] <exec> 08└─Oh shit, wrong reply. This was meant for the grandparent post.
[15:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:32] <exec> 08└─If you REALLY want a flaky pie crust, use butter and lard.
[15:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:33] <exec> 08└─As a vegetarian, lard is unacceptable.
[15:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:35] <exec> 08└─Crisco was just a substitute for lard. So, just use lard. Duh.
[15:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:36] <exec> 08└─So what should vegetarians and vegans use? Not everyone enjoys the idea of eating animals and animal byproducts.
[15:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:39] <exec> 08└─Margarine keeps longer. I eat butter/clones roughly once a year when the family is in town for Thanksgiving. Don't worry, I'm not a health nut - as a bachelor I avoid cooking for one.
[15:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:48] <exec> 08└─I simply wish that all corporations would be honest and upfront. Say the truth and let people decide. Don't ban anything but make it all legal and available. Does who choose healthy lives good for them. Freedom is about choice but we NEED to be FULLY informed. Screw profits and cost. There is enough...
[15:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:50] <exec> 08└─Advertising and deception are the same thing. You'll never be able to legislate honesty into people, artificially-legally-constructed or otherwise, and if there's no consequences for lying why would anybody be honest? Living is a constant stream of risk:benefit analyses, but most people are stupid a...
[15:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:52] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, margarine was originally a wartime substitute for butter and nobody really liked it as much. After the war as things were normalizing, the industry wanted to find a way to keep selling the inferior but profitable product, and so suddenly it became "better for you". Personally, ba...
[15:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:53] <exec> 08└─So why aren't you wary of similar machinations this time around?
[15:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:55] <exec> 08└─(oh, gosh. Joke's on me, then. Next time I'll put a big ASCII-art grin at the end of my post)
[15:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:56] <exec> 08└─Since 9/11 we've become much more fearful, to the point of obsessing over security, yet dangers from food are routinely overlooked. The only security we seem to care about is security against bullets and hijackers, the only enemies many of us see are other peoples.
[15:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:58] <exec> 08└─low lead tub faucets
[15:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:00] <exec> 08└─the issue with non-sink faucets having higher lead content isn't some worry about transdermal absorption, its that people drink water from them all the time. i've drank from outside spigots more times than i can count, people will fill large pots from the bathtub to cook with if they can't fit the p...
[15:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:01] <exec> 08└─people will fill large pots from the bathtub to cook with if they can't fit the pot in the sink
[15:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:13] <exec> 08└─The use case was very specific. Russia (largely land based) looked into ground effect vehicles for deployment in places like the Caspian Sea. They are rapid troop transports, and by that nature only relevant when time is a critical element to a maneuver. Perhaps a country like Italy would benefit if...
[15:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:This is sad - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:16] <exec> 08└─The one with the simpler thrusters was a test article like Enterprise. That is the the one from which the interior shots were done. That is why some of the pieces are wooden as they were just there for size and weight not function. The one with the missing tiles around the nose cone, was a real spac...
[15:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks! - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:27] <exec> 08└─RE: differences between dev and prod dbs: How did this happen? Didn't you test by taking a backup of prod and putting it in dev running only those scripts that were for the new version? Anyway, a good diff tool for database might come in handy for the future to check whether differences exist before...
[15:30:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03prospectacle [3422] 02Greatly Admire Your Dedication - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:31] <exec> 08└─I expect you all have jobs and/or lives and/or families, which makes the time and effort you put into continually improving this place all the more impressive. For a news and comment source I enjoy every day and with such a cheap yearly subscription, it's very greatly appreciated. Makes me think I r...
[15:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Greatly Admire Your Dedication - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:34] <exec> 08└─Is the blood in order to get the red colour of the decorations? ;-) Anyway, great work. However let me annotate one minor thing that IIRC already was on the green site, but each time I see it (which includes right now) it strikes me as odd: When replying to a post, that post has a "Reply to This" bu...
[15:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Reply to Article borked? - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry about that. I thought I only changed the text. I'll look into it today.
[15:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Reply to Article borked? - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:42] <exec> 08└─Well, my fault for not testing enough. The button is a submit button and by changing the value of the button, I changed the value sent as the 'op' for the comments Perl code. I just need to change this to a normal link and it will work again.
[15:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:43] <exec> 08└─Dev is always updated before production for all but the most trivial changes. Right now it is just missing a quick fix for broken bold tag.
[15:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Yes - 06Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:53] <exec> 08└─...(some humor present....)
[15:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Well... - 06Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:00] <exec> 08└─impressions
[15:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:invisible - 06Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:04] <exec> 08└─You forgot hashtags. The users (or Bitcoin-paid writers) will add them voluntarily to help promote "memes" on "social media"
[15:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03cyrano [1034] (Score:2) 02Re:invisible - 06Rick Falvinge Launches News Bulletin Service - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:06] <exec> 08└─Search engines are easy to fix. Serve txt to bots, and lynx and pic to other users... And since we don't care about bots that don't follow rules, they get pics too. Though luck. And of course someone, somewhere will pretend to be Google and copy the text to put it on...
[15:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:24] <exec> 08└─In the books, Theon and "Arya" jump off the wall into a snowbank, and then go meet up with Yara, who is with Stannis's camp iirc. I can assure you they didn't just jump to their deaths in the show.
[15:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:25] <exec> 08└─Jaqen H'ghar: Was shown not to be dead.
[15:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:28] <exec> 08└─GRRM has confirmed that Coldhands isn't Benjen [latintimes.com], and its pretty clear Jon will be saved or revived by Mellisandre. whether he wargs into Ghost for a while before that isn't all that important, but he's not going to permanently be a wolf because his parentage makes him too important t...
[15:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:31] <exec> 08└─Obligatory SPOILER warning.
[15:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Mike Hale has evidently not read the books - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:39] <exec> 08└─I have had the same reaction as you. The first 3 books were quite good, and entertaining. Unfortunately books 4 and 5 introduce so many characters and additional plot threads that it is tedious to follow all the action. He is a gifted writer, but I think he needs help throttling his imagination. You...
[15:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:46] <exec> 08└─Spoilers It's not as if the deaths of main characters are just the ends of the story. Opposing forces are trying to kill each other, one side succeeds. The show is about power struggles in Westeros, not any particular main character. Every Stark death has an effect on the story. Ned's death is the c...
[15:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:49] <exec> 08└─I can't say exactly what makes for a good story
[15:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When was it good? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:57] <exec> 08└─Aw snap. Now I got the Rockford Files theme song in my head.
[15:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Is there anything to it? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:08] <exec> 08└─So the general theme I'm getting from many posters is its pretty much "The Sims" but non-interactive with human actors and medieval theme. I've read a lot of comments along the line of not having a plot, its just a snapshot of famous and dramatic lives. If there is an overall plot no one is talking...
[15:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Is there anything to it? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:10] <exec> 08└─I think/hope there is a plot - and actually I sort of enjoy the fact that I am seeing it as it is happening, somethings thinking that I know what is going on, what is going to happen - and at other times not having a clue as to how things will unravel. I would be surprised if the outcome didn't make...
[15:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Is there anything to it? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:13] <exec> 08└─> is there anything to it besides gore, porn, and gore porn? Wiener, wiener wiener, wiener wiener, wiener wiener, ... Nah, I lie, there's zombies too now.
[15:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A previous mention here - 06Cuba's Answer to the Internet Fits in Your Pocket and Moves by Bus - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:50] <exec> 08└─W: At the beginning of 2015 it was still unknown who compiled the material or from where it was obtained.[1] Some have theorized that the lack of pornographic material and anti-government views in the package may indicate the Cuban government is involved in its production. [2]
[15:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Potential use - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:33:32] <exec> 08└─There's an important distinction: Production of child porn harms children. Production of child dolls doesn't. Imagine a butcher who sells human meat. How should we treat the customers of that butcher (assuming they know they buy human meat, of course)? Should they not be arrested because, after all,...
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Society - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:33:54] <exec> 08└─whoooooooooooosh
[15:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:OpSec - 06Even with a VPN, Open Wi-Fi Can Expose Information - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:28] <exec> 08└─That's the point of using a VPN. Even on open wifi your traffic is protected. This problem is easily fixable by a number of methods. What worries me is that they mentioned HideMyAss as an example. HideMyAss handed over user data from their logs when the police just asked for it. They won't "hide you...
[15:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:OpSec - 06Even with a VPN, Open Wi-Fi Can Expose Information - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:29] <exec> 08└─I think you might have missed the point, many applications are set to do all sorts of automatic stuff as soon as they detect a live internet connection. If there's no wifi encryption, that leaves a gap between the connection being established and the VPN being setup that these applications will send...
[15:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score:1) 02perils of open Wi-Fi - 06Even with a VPN, Open Wi-Fi Can Expose Information - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:43] <exec> 08└─others on the network can read your traffic and possibly hijack your sessions
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02F-Secure - 06Even with a VPN, Open Wi-Fi Can Expose Information - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─Has anyone used the F-Secure product.? I like F-Secure and have been using their Client Security program for a number of years.
[15:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02No. - 06Ars Technica Article Asks: "Is the Internet a Failed Utopia?" - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:51] <exec> 08└─The Internet is sending more bits, faster than ever. More people have access to it, from more places, on more devices, than we could have dreamed of a couple of decades ago. Of course, that says nothing about the applications running on the Internet, such as the WWW...
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[16:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:3, Informative) 02More constraints - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:49] <exec> 08└─In this case, the news site published an article which was intended to stir up public sentiment, and subsequently took no action when the user comments became so extreme as to fall under the 'Hate Speech' law.
[16:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Hold still, I've got an opinion - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─I think that if you moderate your site for any reason, thus demonstrating the wherewithal to do so, you should be held accountable when your users' posts violate local laws. The laws themselves can be wrong. As an American, I like free speech a lot. As someone who dislikes hate speech and can see th...
[16:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ItisBE [4668] (Score:1) 02Makes sense - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:52] <exec> 08└─Don't rake up shit and then walk away when the neighbors complain about the smell.
[16:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Funny) 02Cuh, you're no fun - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:54] <exec> 08└─Editor's Note: The ruling is not saying that all websites are accountable for all comments. In this case, the news site published an article which was intended to stir up public sentiment, and subsequently took no action when the user comments became so extreme as to fall under the 'Hate Speech' law...
[16:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2, Flamebait) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:08] <exec> 08└─I view it as an inevitable artifact of taking a long, complex, rambling, self-contradictory, mistranslated, incomplete, politically-edited, cryptic common-language book collection of plagiarised, half-remembered fantastical folk tales as your most fundamental truth.
[16:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:09] <exec> 08└─Well, I mean, even if you took something relatively sensible and accurate, like say, a well researched sociology textbook, and declared it your universal truth, you'd suffer from the same problems of contradictions, selective reading, and things that you got wrong. Specifically disparaging the bible...
[16:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:10] <exec> 08└─half-remembered fantastical folk tales
[16:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:12] <exec> 08└─Very few people think the bible isn't something that people pick and choose from.
[16:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:13] <exec> 08└─" There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. "
[16:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:15] <exec> 08└─I had to fuck with the URL to make this post
[16:27:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fishscene [4361] 02What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─How in the world would climate-change deniers be considered heretics? Your article betrays your ignorance of what Christianity is all about, and for whatever reason, you've decided to blame it on conservatives (because conservatives are ALL the same!). To top it all off, you refer to God as a "Her"...
[16:27:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:18] <exec> 08└─How in the world would climate-change deniers be considered heretics?
[16:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─God is a ladyboy.
[16:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score:1) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:21] <exec> 08└─Excellent Observation. This is why I specifically referred to the Bible always referring to God as "Him" instead of saying God was male. I would hope that God, being who He is, would be able to direct the contents of the Bible just fine. :P Now, I can wager why the Bible refers to God as a "Him" or...
[16:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─Wasn't Man made in God's image, then God made a woman later (apparently because God thought Man was too comfortable and he needed a lot of stress in his life)? So wouldn't God be male by definition?
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score:1) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─The reference to capitalization was specifically to point out that the author of the summary knew exactly what they were doing when they referenced God as a "Her" - directly contradictory to what He is referred to in the Bible and communicates disrespect. Seems like it was flamebaiting and I bit. :)
[16:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ralphhogaboom [5304] (Score:1) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:26] <exec> 08└─It's funny how hung up on form we get. It's like either God is an elderly man with kind eyes and a beard, or nothing makes sense anymore. And if we don't agree on what he looks like, then you're on that side and I'm on this side. I've come to believe God is that which answers me when I call for it....
[16:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:28] <exec> 08└─To top it all off, you refer to God as a "Her"
[16:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alyssey [3369] (Score:1) 02Re:on the name - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─I thought it had to do with a bad joke done with the Emberverse series, who have serious issues with the C.U.T.
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ex Cathedra - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:31] <exec> 08└─Same AC. This could end up a two-fer. This AGW thing may end up discrediting both one of the largest religious institutions in the world along with many scientific ones in the eyes of the public.
[16:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:0, Troll) 02The local prognosis says it's going to be hot.. - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:36] <exec> 08└─Great now we can finally assemble those stakes with wood below for that "local warming prognosis". Just need some supply of heretic climate deniers but I heard there's a lot of them in certain groups. Those few upper case letter organizations have already prepared the inquisition. Otherwise there's...
[16:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Bollocks to the pope - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:38] <exec> 08└─What does netcraft have to say about the issue?
[16:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Bollocks to the pope - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:39] <exec> 08└─It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Earth is dying. One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Terran community when the Vatican confirmed that global temperature had risen yet again, now up to more than one degree per antipirate. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey...
[16:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Bollocks to the pope - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:41] <exec> 08└─Well, the Pope has an estimated 1.2 billion self-identified followers (Roman Catholics), roughly 17% of the world's population. Many of whom take his statements far more seriously than a netcraft post. Regardless of your opinions of the religion or the man, if you want to actually work a change in t...
[16:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The ignorant army being lead to reason? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:42] <exec> 08└─This seems unbelievable that the pope would finally use his power over the ignorant army of followers he has for good. This is in my opinion the first and only time the catholic church has taken the side of reason and whats right. vs the usual what is best for maintaining control of the masses and i...
[16:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02So you have a pope... - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:44] <exec> 08└─So you have a pope with 1) advice from the best counselors 2) input from the greatest contemporary thinkers of the day 3) The latest modern research 4) any data that is available at their disposal 5) who knows what else best of the best advantages and you get scientific assertations like.......
[16:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:bottom up too - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:54] <exec> 08└─Despite multiple studies showing it is better for teen brains to start school later than the shadow of dawn, it doesn't happen in large part because of school sports. Who knew sports were more important than education?
[16:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:bottom up too - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:56] <exec> 08└─In all honesty I stayed up late Fing around with TRS80 computers and stuff without doing any formal sport, so I was as sleepy for the first 2-3 classes as the jocks. Some poor bastard has to take physics first hour, but online everyone can simultaneously do the easy stuff for the first hour and hard...
[16:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Some issues - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:00] <exec> 08└─Fourth, a lot of the learning that takes place at the grade school level is in terms of social interaction with other students and with teachers and other authority figures (coaches, principals). If a kid is taking most of his courses in a regular classroom, fine, but if all of it is done online, th...
[16:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:19] <exec> 08└─Curvature could be limited by a bunch of stuff. The length and geometry of the pod would be a major factor, the wall clearance, the maximum load on the air bearings, but especially the maximum amount of sideways force that riders can comfortably experience when making the turns. This is the main thi...
[16:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:26] <exec> 08└─Assuming constant acceleration, to get to speed on that track I calculate you'd need to accelerate at 3.7 g's. If you need to get to speed and then stop on that track, you'd need to accelerate/decelerate at 7 g's (assuming you decelerate at the same magnitude as you accelerated).
[16:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02prob not - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:27] <exec> 08└─Is a 1 mile long track long enough to test a train that goes 760 miles per hour? Probably not at that speed. But you can test *MANY* other things. Like how does the tube handle pressure. What happens to the tube at say 2 months of low pressure and one section gives out? How do you build such a thing...
[16:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Pathetic - ideal for the FBI - 06FBI Investigating Possible St. Louis Cardinals "Hack" of Houston Astros - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:39] <exec> 08└─Well, first off, the definition of "hack" has changed. Yes, when I was a teenager making guitar fuzzboxes out of broken transistor radios that was hacking. There were few computer networks then. "Hack" has several different, unrelated definitions. A hack is a taxi driver, or an author. As a verb it...
[16:29:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Last Mile Monopolies - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 2364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:09] <exec> 08└─You are an imbecile. Have you never heard of RECs? Rural Electric Cooperatives. They set out to provide a public utility to those that for-profit corporations did not deem it profitable to provide such service to. So, the REC would talk to a bunch of farmers, in one area, figure out what would be...
[16:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Last Mile Monopolies - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:11] <exec> 08└─Fixed. Sorry about that.
[16:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Start fiber cooperatives? - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:20] <exec> 08└─How about we forcibly remove ATT from the government's ass? Then we just take the infrastructure from the that we need. Then we publicly execute their leadership.
[16:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:09] <exec> 08└─We shouldn't need to use any alternatives to begin with.
[16:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:13] <exec> 08└─Then enjoy your trans fats. I don't think there is a vegetarian substitute for lard that is also organic. It is going to be some highly processed vegetable oil one way or another. Though for some applications coconut oil might work for you. It isn't a direct replacement for crisco or lard, though. I...
[16:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:17] <exec> 08└─Because corporations will lie and use their money to stop out anyone that raises an alarm. If we did things your way, everything would contain Trans Fat like it did in the 80's and we would let corporations continue to lie and say they are "more healthy" than regular fats. Also as others have stated...
[16:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:19] <exec> 08└─Also as others have stated, the FDA allows companies to lie about fat content. ".49g = 0g" Serving size 4oz? Yeah, the consumer can make real informed decisions there.
[16:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Reply to Article borked? - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:25] <exec> 08└─It is now fixed.
[16:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:16] <exec> 08└─Remember, the dragon has 3 heads - Daenerys, Aegon, and Jon, the last 3 Targaryens.
[16:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is there anything to it? - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:55] <exec> 08└─"Why build them up only to kill them off meaninglessly?"
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[17:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:49] <exec> 08└─But i hope they don't leave the sourceforge projects inactive for the simple reason that they will get taken by SF Mods and bastardized. Please pretend like your still using sourceforge and clearly post a statement that no one should ever download anything from SF on your project site
[17:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:1) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:50] <exec> 08└─But i hope they don't leave the sourceforge projects inactive for the simple reason that they will get taken by SF Mods and bastardized.
[17:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More constraints - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:00] <exec> 08└─The Court emphasises that the present case relates to a large professionally managed Internet news portal
[17:27:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Cuh, you're no fun - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 512 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
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[17:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 2277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:05] <exec> 08└─So, by and large, you have 3 kinds of muslims in sweden 1: white muslims, from ex yugoslavia 2: black muslims from various parts of africa 3: arabs and iranians The first large population of muslims in sweden come from ex yugoslavia, in the beginning of 90. Amongs east european people, the white mus...
[17:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:07] <exec> 08└─God damn it, i pressed Submit, insted of Prewiev... My fucking point is, that without these white fucking muslims form ex yugoslavia, we would not even have a racist debate in sweden, and neither the stupid laws... Of course gays, lesbians and jews would still weep, but they fall in other categories...
[17:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 1797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:23] <exec> 08└─>> half-remembered fantastical folk tales > Do you not trust the dating of the dead sea scrolls? Once the folk tales were written down, they remained pretty static (apart from the political changes and dodgy translations, obviously). It's the fact that these stories were passed around exclusively by...
[17:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:32] <exec> 08└─Please... God prefers He/She!
[17:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 2369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:33] <exec> 08└─> To top it all off, you refer to God as a "Her" I thought it was common knowledge by now that God looks like Alanis Morrissette. But let's be serious. The correct pronoun for god is "it." We are talking about an omniscient being with the power to build an entire universe in less time than it takes...
[17:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:37] <exec> 08└─> Wasn't Man made in God's image That's what the book says, but "In god's image" is pretty vague. Google up an image of "the creation of Adam". From that you can see that most christians (or catholics at least) seem happy enough to accept that at the moment of creation Adam is a young dude with curl...
[17:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ex Cathedra - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:47] <exec> 08└─Discredit only in the minds of idiots who look at any day-to-day decline and scream "SEE! I TOLD YOU!!!" Look at the stock market. What is your expert analysis over the last 80 years or so? It's been going up. There are regions where it goes down for a year or so, but over the long haul, it has been...
[17:27:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Flamebait News? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:48] <exec> 08└─I thought mods didn't approve submissions with clear flamebait paragraphs such as this article's foot note.
[17:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03idetuxs [2990] (Score:1) 02Re:The ignorant army being lead to reason? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:57] <exec> 08└─The last is exactly what the pope, and hence the church, is doing. They have to give in to keep their power. Not only on climate change but also as they did on those abuse cases. Coincidentally, that side is the side of reason, as is what most people think nowadays. What do you think most people wil...
[17:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Re:So you have a pope... - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:59] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as a vacuum
[17:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Pick and Choose - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:00] <exec> 08└─It is a predicament for people who have used religion as armor against science. It has been effective for them to pound on the Bible and disparage eggheads. Now that the Pope, one of the prime symbols of their professed faith, has sided with science, their fallback position drops off to sects like t...
[17:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02in other news - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:02] <exec> 08└─even after centuries of well-meaning reminders to follow the "rules", scientists have conclusively confirmed that "shit is getting hotter", though the watikan is vehemently denying that humans on gods creation are actually moving closer to hell and that one has to die first before getting a chance t...
[17:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:46] <exec> 08└─The Gizmag article writes about a 4000 meter long linear accelerator to reach 338 m/s using 65 MW at peak load. I think that's the maximum acceleration that will be used. And then given that the test track is 1600 meters long the rest is math. For passenger comfort the g-force has to be artificially...
[17:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:54] <exec> 08└─No, blaming them for not taking the proper precautions (informing themselves) is *not* "victim-blaming". If you can take reasonable precautions to prevent some bad thing from happening, and you don't, it's perfectly reasonable to blame someone for not doing so. After all, they themselves chose not t...
[17:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:BPA, phthalates, lead, nicotine - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:55] <exec> 08└─And if there are no reasonable precautions one could take, and someone else says there are, then explain to them why that is false rather than just saying it's "victim blaming".
[17:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:This is sad - 06Amazing Photos of Abandoned Space Projects - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:23] <exec> 08└─http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/06/17/russian-official-wants-to-investigate-whether-u-s-moon-landings-actually-happened/ [washingtonpost.com]
[17:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks! - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:36] <exec> 08└─The current dev database is a copy of the production db from around last year at this time. Since then we have added vars and made schema changes as needed to provide for new features and bug fixes. These changes are supposed to be written to the sql/mysql/upgrades file to then be applied to product...
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[18:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:52] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of lingering trust in the SourceForge brand and hyperlinks to the site. So a malware hellhole or whatever you want to call what they're doing is not good for uninformed users (VLC has had almost 896 million downloads on SourceForge, Notepad++ has had over 29 million).
[18:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:53] <exec> 08└─Jesus, it's sad. It's like watching a good friend die of brain cancer.
[18:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:55] <exec> 08└─At least we can preserve the "memories" (code).
[18:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:56] <exec> 08└─Except it'll take time before people realize it's the site that's corrupted and not the software. It'll injure the reputations of everything it hosts long before its own wounds are mortal.
[18:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:58] <exec> 08└─Apparently some people were actually still using SourceForge.
[18:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:59] <exec> 08└─There are tons of projects that're only hosted there, sure if you don't need some niche software finding it offsite is easy, but for niche stuff? Like qpdf for example? It will likely take many years before that site is fully deprecated.
[18:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:01] <exec> 08└─It's not too surprising as the issues with SourceForge were news to me. I had been using it off and on for a long time. It's kind of sad to see it being destroyed. Even, if they backtrack. What's stopping them from doing the same thing again? Nothing. I could deal with the advertisements, so long as...
[18:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is it - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:02] <exec> 08└─Fuck Beta Day?
[18:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:4, Interesting) 02I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:04] <exec> 08└─While I understand not everyone in business is competent, they seem so actively incompetent that they really stand out to me. There was a time when Dice.com was the go-to site to find tech talent. They apparently thought it would continue forever to be the case without them needing to improve the of...
[18:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:06] <exec> 08└─That is because the people who built the product and understand it got replaced by an MBA who does not look further than a spreadsheet to make their decisions.
[18:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, the next time I'm looking for work(as a software engineer), where should I be looking? I'd like to know what the actual top 10 are.
[18:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I just came here to post the same thing. Maybe this should be a new thread--maybe an "ASK SOYLENT" type of thing. Dice.com used to be pretty cool, but their site (and the contents thereof) are just horrible these days.
[18:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:10] <exec> 08└─What, you don't like Business Intelligence [dice.com]?
[18:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:12] <exec> 08└─I think you have it backwards, they are entirely competent. They just have no ethical standards and have traded real brand value for cold hard cash. Its the sellout strategy made so popular in the 80's! It takes time for awareness of these things to really propagate, and usually takes extreme exampl...
[18:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:22] <exec> 08└─And that's why you're an insane conspiracy theorist. And the rest of us live our lives without paranoid delusions.
[18:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:3, Interesting) 02The First - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:23] <exec> 08└─The concept of "hate speech" being a separate class of expression which is not protected is counter to liberal values. There's a lot that's fucked up about the USA, but one thing we got right was a hardline approach to freedom of speech. We make no exception for "hate speech" in the USA and our soci...
[18:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─I can understand your views regarding 'hate speech', but I suspect that you have constraints on what you can say. I don't know, but is it legal in where you live to incite a riot? To encourage someone to commit a crime? Is it legal to stand in a cinema and shout 'fire' knowing that what you are sayi...
[18:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Hate laws = thoughtcrime - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:26] <exec> 08└─I'm against hate speech and hate crimes. More heinous than these, however, is the idea that some thoughts and speech should be criminalized by society.
[18:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Thank you editor - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:28] <exec> 08└─I really appreciated that editor's note that tries to clear up misunderstandings before they happen. Much more useful than adding personal opinion / slant to the summary. Please continue!
[18:27:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:already - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:37] <exec> 08└─Heresy is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same;
[18:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:1) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:47] <exec> 08└─If you'd meet prophet Ezekiël in the street, would you call the police? He didn't like Jerusalem very much, did he.. A good thing then that Nebuchadnezzar II was king of Babylon, and not the UK's Theresa May [soylentnews.org]... she would have definitely taken prophet Ezekiël's drugs away, and put...
[18:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:58] <exec> 08└─This whole post is an exercise in argumentation for the sake of it.
[18:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ex Cathedra - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:09] <exec> 08└─Look at the stock market. What is your expert analysis over the last 80 years or so? It's been going up
[18:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score:1) 02Re:You asked for it - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:14] <exec> 08└─Well, the Pope was a chemist before he turned to the priesthood. So he at least understands science in general and the scientific method in general. True, he's not a "climate change" specialist, but ...
[18:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:So you have a pope... - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:24] <exec> 08└─Great, so professor Casimir [wikipedia.org] isn't going to be post-humously excommunicated.
[18:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So you have a pope... - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:25] <exec> 08└─"There is no such thing as a vacuum" Yes, correct actually. There is *no thing* which you can call a vacuum, unless you mean an appliance. Show me a thing which is vacuum! This is exactly the kind of precision you should expect from a theologist or lawyer. We call space without anything in it a vacu...
[18:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:36] <exec> 08└─While I have many issues with the education sector, you are painting with a very broad brush. Conditions vary drastically from school to school, and while some may fall into the extreme conditions you list that is not the norm. The bells and timers are the only way to organize hundreds of individual...
[18:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:38] <exec> 08└─> Prepare you for an institutional life driven by bells on timers like an assembly line at an old time industrial plant, strictly class based and hyper hierarchical So, a call center? > armed guards patrolling hallways lined with locked doors, all that isn't mandatory is illegal and all that isn't i...
[18:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:40] <exec> 08└─Then you very likely took your education into your own hands, like I did; don't credit the horrendous schools for that. That or you don't know what rote memorization is. I frequently encounter people who insist that their school is good and the homework isn't rote memorization, then when I ask them...
[18:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Public Relations is the Important Thing. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:37] <exec> 08└─First, thank you for what do with your community. Secondly, while that may be true, the higher ups in Red Cross already killed their organization for me with their shenanigans in 9/11 and Haiti. I would love to support you, but that 'VERY' large part of the funds makes me very skeptical. I can recal...
[18:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02big wifi antenna! - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 2931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:11] <exec> 08└─problem is that there is a disconnect at many big ISPs between the lowly non-university, less debt ridden, cannon-fodder staff that does the actual heavy lifting like receive bill payments, inquires / questions, phone calls etc. and the degree-educated, debt ridden, well air-conditioned "upper" mana...
[18:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't see that, thanks. That's one theory down in smoke then.... -- boristhespider
[18:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03archshade [3664] (Score:2) 02Re:Cherry 2000 - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:45] <exec> 08└─It may be that it will not play on Linux.
[18:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Potential use - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:06] <exec> 08└─Production of child porn harms children.
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[19:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:3, Insightful) 02National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:51] <exec> 08└─Wait all you that complain of picking winners and losers. We've supported gas coal and oil for a long time, and look what that got us: dirty air and a middle east terror threat. We need to maintain our own independent energy base and in big part this will be from renewables. It about national securi...
[19:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:52] <exec> 08└─This green push will include all kinds of monitoring devices which will Hoover up everything you do to the national security regime of the CIA manchurian candidate Baraq Hussein Sotero. You've been warned.
[19:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:53] <exec> 08└─That is happening with or without clean energy. You've been warned.
[19:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:55] <exec> 08└─I wonder what would happen in the middle east, if we suddenly stopped buying oil. Say we found a great, cost-effective, and easy way to obtain clean energy that could be fully implemented in 5 years. I'm assuming that the President and Congress are on our side and mandate a switch over. Yeah, I know...
[19:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:56] <exec> 08└─Well, one plastics are a problem ( i think) if we don't have oil...maybe I'm wrong. Also a power vacuum might be bad for America even if America didn't need the oil...Imagine Russia controlling the middle-east....wait. never mind let them have it.
[19:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oil is going nowhere - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:58] <exec> 08└─During the 1970s, oil was used for power generation, house heating, and cars. After that, coal and natural gas are used for power generation. Natural gas was used for house heating. That leaves just cars. Cars have become somewhat more efficient. However, world wide, car driving has increased, to of...
[19:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:00] <exec> 08└─American oil production is climbing and imports are falling https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://marketrealist.com [marketrealist.com] For the week ending January 2, 2015, the US recorded...
[19:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Keep it local - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:01] <exec> 08└─There will undoubtedly be large solar/wind/tidal farms, but I hope communities invest in their own energy independence! It is hard for people to understand problems when they exist so far outside their daily lives. A local community mindset will help the average person understand the impacts of thei...
[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep it local - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:03] <exec> 08└─That is why I like solar + battery tech for home/apartment complex independence.
[19:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02So what? - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:04] <exec> 08└─It's a tiger-repelling rock. First, there's no real activity here. Second, the amounts involved are dwarfed by ongoing investments in these technologies which would happen even if the US federal government just sat on its duff. There's no "funding dries up".
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02++This - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─Seriously though, if it hasn't already been done there, somebody needs to write a script to archive the website, or get someone to leak the sourceforge project db, or ideally, backups from the CVS, SVN, and GIT codebase migrations. There are a lot of projects that were on there that have been lost t...
[19:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:16] <exec> 08└─The search engines can identify it as malware. That get the word out very quickly.
[19:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─Better idea: Add a "new version" of the code that is only a pop up box explaining why the project abandoned Source Forge and where the project currently is.
[19:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:20] <exec> 08└─Or take down all downloads from Sourceforge. Leave nothing there but a link to your new site. If they hijack *that* to serve adware, there's pretty much nothing you can do.
[19:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:23] <exec> 08└─I so hope that Mozilla will stay true to its former self...
[19:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:24] <exec> 08└─Pfffft, if Firefox is any indication of their status, they're fucked - although they're more of a ubuntu-unity-wannabe fucking steve jobs kinda situation.
[19:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:31] <exec> 08└─at least it's good without javascript...
[19:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─No, I get it - their business model is to monetize existing brands and squeeze out all the cash they can. What surprises me is that they seem to be so bad at it. By which I mean, they don't seem good at keeping their audience around long enough to maximize the amount of money they can squeeze out of...
[19:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Now GitHub? - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:34] <exec> 08└─Wants money? We are on borrowed time here.
[19:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Github benefits - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:36] <exec> 08└─This is good news for GitHub, because they are currently looking for another round of private funding [thetechportal.in].
[19:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Github benefits - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:37] <exec> 08└─Note that if you use real world GAAP accounting principles, dice holdings is worth $400M of which sourceforge is likely a very small part. If you use VC accounting principles, github is worth $2000M. I'm not sure which is actually worth more real dollars.
[19:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:More constraints - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:46] <exec> 08└─That makes it less worrying than otherwise, but there's still cause for concern. For one thing, although the ruling says it doesn't apply to other forums, the rationale for that is limited to "it doesn't apply to other forums because they don't have an economic interest". Unfortunately, an economic...
[19:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold still, I've got an opinion - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:48] <exec> 08└─The fact that you moderate your site somewhat doesn't mean you have the ability to know about every insane law there is. If you know that one comment is illegal, but you didn't realize another comment was illegal, what then? Sounds like a burden for small websites. The people who should be held acco...
[19:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold still, I've got an opinion - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:50] <exec> 08└─Ignorance of the law is no excuse, unless you're a cop, legislator, or millionaire.
[19:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:55] <exec> 08└─My fucking point is, that without these white fucking muslims form ex yugoslavia, we would not even have a racist debate in sweden, and neither the stupid laws...
[19:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:57] <exec> 08└─Where is the personal responsibility?
[19:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:59] <exec> 08└─I don't know, but is it legal in where you live to incite a riot? To encourage someone to commit a crime? Is it legal to stand in a cinema and shout 'fire' knowing that what you are saying is untrue?
[19:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Hate laws = thoughtcrime - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:01] <exec> 08└─try hearing somebody publicly declare that they're going to murder you, or that everyone should pick up their nooses and shotguns and eradicate the white/nigger/christfag/mooslim/breeder/fag menace (whichever group includes you), or better yet have your reputation completely destroyed by libel and s...
[19:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:20] <exec> 08└─As of 2013, fully anchored chronologies in the northern hemisphere extend back 13,900 years.[1]
[19:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:21] <exec> 08└─That is at least evidence that these stories can be transmitted with little corruption for thousands of years.
[19:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:24] <exec> 08└─for being raped in a city while a woman engaged but not married to a man
[19:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:27] <exec> 08└─+1 disturbingly vivid metaphor.
[19:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:39] <exec> 08└─This whole post is an exercise in argumentation for the sake of it. )
[19:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:44] <exec> 08└─To top it all off, you refer to God as a "Her" - whereas in the Bible, God is *Always* referred to as "Him" or "His".
[19:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:13] <exec> 08└─Armed guards and locked doors are definitely NOT the norm and are the result of gang violence, a legitimate worry for students and teachers.
[19:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:14] <exec> 08└─I agree, I should have qualified my statement better. Hopefully we move past the cultural wars in the coming decades and can solve real problems, not the stupid problems of people just hating / fearing other people. It would be good if the media would stop being an echo chamber for violence just to...
[19:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:16] <exec> 08└─There are call centers in prisons, you know. They fit right in.
[19:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Some issues - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:27] <exec> 08└─Fourth, a lot of the learning that takes place at the grade school level is in terms of social interaction with other students and with teachers and other authority figures (coaches, principals). If a kid is taking most of his courses in a regular classroom, fine, but if all of it is done online, th...
[19:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Some issues - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:28] <exec> 08└─First, exams have to be proctored under physical supervision, or else they're subject to professional-grade cheating, similar to online voting. (Yes, cheating takes place in regular classrooms too, but you get more sophisticated attacks online). It might be tough making arrangements for kids that li...
[19:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:45] <exec> 08└─And in true Soylent fashion the first application for this technology we come up with is to turn it into a railgun. I approve this message.
[19:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Pathetic - ideal for the FBI - 06FBI Investigating Possible St. Louis Cardinals "Hack" of Houston Astros - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:10] <exec> 08└─That's why we put quotation marks around it. Quite useful.
[19:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:3, Informative) 02What the Red Cross is Missing - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:30] <exec> 08└─This is what they are missing: http://www.habitat.org [habitat.org] Why? "You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?" Source: Independence Day http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[19:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Last Mile Monopolies - 06AT&T Internet Coverage Severely Lacking Despite Merger Promises - 2081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:44] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that we are all talking about regulation... but I thought DSL *did* have capacity limits like this. There is only so much bandwidth that can actually flow through copper lines, and unlike the artificial scarcity of bandwidth with other broadband providers, DSL limitations were real....
[19:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Studies show... - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe people wouldn't keep getting whooshed if you weren't facetious all the time.
[19:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:53] <exec> 08└─Then just don't eat whatever it is with the lard in it. You're already making sacrifices, right?
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[20:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02A joke - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:49] <exec> 08└─What's the difference between a Taliban stronghold and an elementary school? How should I know? I only pilot the drone.
[20:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02What if they were deployed closer to the action? - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:50] <exec> 08└─What if they were deployed closer to the action? In theory being able to drive home after a shift is less stressful. This article makes it sound like it might be more stressful. The military has a pattern where you deploy away from home, you're at war for X number of months, then you're war-free. Th...
[20:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:01] <exec> 08└─Ah, but you missed their escape hatch. When the last gramounce of coal is extracted from the West Virginia mountains, then suddenly all the spying devices will no longer have power, and we'll all be free!
[20:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Correct Strategy: Tax Carbon - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:09] <exec> 08└─Being the armchair politician I am, the strategy should be to tax carbon sources. If the goal is to reduce carbon output, then tax carbon. Don't try to promote alternatives. This would be the most free market strategy. We have identified a market externality (carbon emissions) and the government is...
[20:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:27] <exec> 08└─If you have a trademark on your project name, which often is the case, then you can sue (or at least threaten to sue) for misuse of the trademark.
[20:27:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 1313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:34] <exec> 08└─While I understand not everyone in business is competent, they seem so actively incompetent that they really stand out to me. There was a time when Dice.com was the go-to site to find tech talent. They apparently thought it would continue forever to be the case without them needing to improve the of...
[20:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:43] <exec> 08└─I understand, I think sustainability is just a dirty word to these types of investors.
[20:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dogvomit [5452] (Score:1) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:45] <exec> 08└─While I understand not everyone in business is competent, they seem so actively incompetent that they really stand out to me.
[20:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:08] <exec> 08└─Where is the personal responsibility? If you react to some perceived threat by doing something bad, you are solely responsible for that.
[20:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:09] <exec> 08└─You said: "My fucking point is, that without these white fucking muslims form ex yugoslavia, we would not even have a racist debate in sweden, and neither the stupid laws..." You seemed to be blaming the stupid laws on people other than the people who create the stupid laws.
[20:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, partly I do. As I said above, some try to make a win on the madia-defined proportions. Some game the system and make laws based on media-defined proportions. I don't see why I should not blame them...
[20:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:12] <exec> 08└─Because the people who write the bad laws are the ones who write the bad laws; that's their decision and no one else's. It's nonsensical to blame anyone else for the personal decisions of others.
[20:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:14] <exec> 08└─I blame both the gambler/liar and the one that acts on it. Those particular immigrants were gamblers/liars. Then we have the media twisting the situation. Then we have the SJW that passed the laws. One should act in such a manner, that discouraging lies. As I stated in some posts above, most of the...
[20:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:17] <exec> 08└─I can understand your views regarding 'hate speech', but I suspect that you have constraints on what you can say. Oh yeah, over here in the Land of the Free we can totally incite violence against whole swaths of humans with no problem. Tell someone how to decrypt a DVD, though, and you...
[20:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:19] <exec> 08└─The speech itself is legal but inciting a riot is not. That is, the same penalties apply if you use fake smoke and light effects to convince people the theater is on fire as you would for yelling "FIRE!".
[20:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:21] <exec> 08└─The speech itself is legal but inciting a riot is not.
[20:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JavaDevGuy [5155] (Score:1) 02Re:The First - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:22] <exec> 08└─In Europe we have a different approach, sure you can say what you want... however you have to take responsibility for what you say. If you are going to say things which are clearly designed to stir up hate then you need to accept the consequences. If people expect rights they should not be unhappy...
[20:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:The First - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:24] <exec> 08└─As someone else said, by that reckoning the people of the DPRK have freedom of speech too, they just have to accept the consequences of their actions; death or the gulag.
[20:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thank you editor - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you saw what happened with the previous article! But wait, does that mean we have personal responsibility?
[20:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank you editor - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:27] <exec> 08└─I usually manage to give more balance flavour to my submissions - it was obvious from the outset that the Ars article was far from the whole story, focused on the aftermath stirred up by the ruling rather than the actual ruling itself as it was without actually mentioning any details of the case or...
[20:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:03] <exec> 08└─Children who draw stick-men are drawing images of themselves and people they know. "In His image" doesn't mean an exact replica, just representatively similar.
[20:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:06] <exec> 08└─If god was female, and Mary was female, would that mean that religions are pro-gay-marriage? Or doesn't it count because Jesus was a bastard?
[20:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:11] <exec> 08└─The type that thinks the bible was originally written in modern american english is 100% certain their god is a he, but original texts seem to disagree. I thought that the bible was written by Adam and George Washington as they sailed their ark with dinosaurs on 4000 years ago at the dawn of the Ame...
[20:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Ex Cathedra - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:21] <exec> 08└─Look at the stock market. What is your expert analysis over the last 80 years or so? It's been going up.
[20:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Ex Cathedra - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:23] <exec> 08└─This could end up a two-fer. This AGW thing may end up discrediting both . . .
[20:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:44] <exec> 08└─STEM is all rote memorization if you count processes too. Writing, speech, and other liberal arts fields require other skills. What does it matter if you can accomplish a task? Write an award winning essay, improve the thermal efficiency of an ICE on the fly, debug assembly code. If you could not do...
[20:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:A virtual students is worth - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:45] <exec> 08└─STEM is all rote memorization if you count processes too.
[20:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some issues - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:56] <exec> 08└─Never taken online college classes eh? These problems have been sorted for a long time. Lab classes aren't online- at most it is a hybrid. The quizzes are just practice, each one might account for 1% of your total grade. Depending on the professor and course, the split is 40%-60% exams (multiple exa...
[20:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:1) 02LOL - 06FBI Investigating Possible St. Louis Cardinals "Hack" of Houston Astros - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:40] <exec> 08└─Finally real life cyber ball... first, it was a game, then it was a business, now it's just a joke
[20:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My body has plenty of fats - 06Trans-Fats to be Banned in USA - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:23] <exec> 08└─We shouldn't need to find alternatives to begin with.
[20:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks! - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe I just haven't been paying attention, but I haven't noticed any bugs or annoyances. I do have a suggestion, though. This would do me no help since I never log in on my phone, but I was curious and looked at the site on it. You really should make it mobile-friendly. It isn't hard using CSS (I d...
[20:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks! - 06Site Update to rehash 15_05.4 - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:57] <exec> 08└─That has been on our todo list for a long time, even though it is not listed as an issue on GitHub we are well aware of it. Our Chief QA man martyb uses a phone for internet access and has mentioned many mobile browser related bugs.
[20:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:2) 02Re:SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking he's done with the watch post resurrection, as the oath and the watchman's funeral rite both make it clear that the watch ends with death. Released from his oath, an army of Wyldlings might be just the thing to dig the Boltons out of Winterfell. Bonus points if he's unharmed by the fune...
[20:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:22] <exec> 08└─Primer was complex, and the main characters die multiple times
[20:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Good afternoon, modus. How is your day. - 06 Bethesda at E3: Fallout 4, Dishonored 2, Doom - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:28] <exec> 08└─(Modus is my cyberstalker from kuro5hin.)
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[21:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:What if they were deployed closer to the action - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:55] <exec> 08└─250ms? very fast. But that is via ground. Because these use satellite it doesn't matter where the ground team is located. A signal to the satellite is like 35,000 km and the distance between the US and Iraq is like 12,000km. So even if the team was flying a drone within eyesight the signal must stil...
[21:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:What if they were deployed closer to the action - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:56] <exec> 08└─On the other hand you are firing a high explosive missile traveling above mach one and with a kill-radius of 15-20m so it's not like you have to hit them spot on to take them out. So some lag or latency might not matter all that much, plus buildings don't tend to move around much.
[21:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:58] <exec> 08└─I've gotta admit, part of me is like "oh boo hoo, you only get to play with a 10 million dollar death machine at tax payer expense, instead of fly inside a 250 million dollar one. Cry me a river."
[21:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:00] <exec> 08└─Its a relative thing. Their buddies still in a pilots seat are racking up pilot in command hours so they can retire into a 777 seat for $100K/yr, at least thats the theory, meanwhile they're stuck playing video games, which means after they get out they're qualified to ... um ... well without the mi...
[21:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:01] <exec> 08└─But the drone industry is gonna be big! And if the FAA requires warm bodies within sight of the craft, that's jobs!
[21:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:03] <exec> 08└─Sitting in a chair looking at a computer screen doesn't have the appeal that an F16/15/18/22/35 cockpit has.
[21:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Gov/mil never learn - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:05] <exec> 08└─The corporate world solved this problem ages ago! Outsource and/or moar H1Bs: cheaper and, besides, it's not like your customers would complain. (grin)
[21:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrial [5162] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Gov/mil never learn - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:06] <exec> 08└─You forgot the link on that grin. ;-)
[21:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Gov/mil never learn - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, shit, so I did.
[21:27:09] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02"Perpetually deployed"? - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 775 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:09] <exec> 08└─Wait, so they don't get time off? Really? The bigwigs assumed that the root cause of PTSD was entirely risk of life and limb? They didn't allow for things like: Fear of being the one who pulls the trigger on friendly fire, Fear that the intelligence-flagged enemy base in the reticle is really a scho...
[21:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:11] <exec> 08└─If they understood how human beings work, they wouldn't be killing them.
[21:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─Fear of being the one who pulls the trigger on friendly fire, Fear that the intelligence-flagged enemy base in the reticle is really a school
[21:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02work environment - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:14] <exec> 08└─Without details of the work environment its hard to say how awful it might be. Chained to your desk no potty breaks or breaks in general, on a timeclock, boss looking over your shoulder, endless monday morning quarterbacking of everything you do, in an open plan call center environment. You could re...
[21:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TestablePredictions [3249] (Score:1) 02Opportunity for reform - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we could "stuff the ballet box" of drone operators with a new kind of thinking. A calmer steadier thinking with less of an itchy trigger finger and more willingness to question illegal orders. In theory, you could quit your cushy job to work as one of these badly needed operators, servin...
[21:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02can't talk at home - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:17] <exec> 08└─and the fact that you can't talk about most of what you do at home
[21:27:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] 02National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:19] <exec> 08└─Wait all you that complain of picking winners and losers. We've supported gas coal and oil for a long time, and look what that got us: dirty air and a middle east terror threat. We need to maintain our own independent energy base and in big part this will be from renewables. It about national securi...
[21:27:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:21] <exec> 08└─That is happening with or without clean energy. You've been warned.
[21:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─According to the US Energy Information Administration [eia.gov]: Only a small amount of crude oil is directly consumed in the United States. Nearly all of the crude oil that is produced in or imported into the United States is refined into petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oi...
[21:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:National Security - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:29] <exec> 08└─I get an endless kick out of leaving big, powerful 500 series Mercedes and other luxury gas-powered vehicles standing at the line when the light changes,
[21:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another Solyndra - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:33] <exec> 08└─Get a chunk of money from govt then close the doors.
[21:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Use Patterns - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:35] <exec> 08└─It seems like the current use patterns lend themselves pretty well to a dramatic break from a couple of big, entrenched ways of doing business. That is, you're away from your house at work all day, so you don't use much energy there. So if you have solar panels on your roof they sit there, save up e...
[21:27:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Common Joe [33] 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:50] <exec> 08└─Better idea: Add a "new version" of the code that is only a pop up box explaining why the project abandoned Source Forge and where the project currently is.
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:58] <exec> 08└─What are the alternatives to Firefox these days? I haven't been keeping up. And, no, google chrome is not an answer.
[21:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jummama [3969] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:00] <exec> 08└─I've been using Pale Moon https://www.palemoon.org [palemoon.org], a fork of Firefox without the Australis garbage. Works great for me!
[21:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe stack overflow careers? (No idea since I've never used it and don't have an SO account)
[21:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:13] <exec> 08└─I am stealing this! well done Sir dogvomit.
[21:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03McD [540] (Score:1) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:15] <exec> 08└─MrGuy writes: (let's face it - we're not a big dent in their userbase)
[21:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:17] <exec> 08└─There was a time when Dice.com was the go-to site to find tech talent.
[21:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:51] <exec> 08└─I could equally claim that outlawing murder is a restriction on my free-speech rights to express my dislike of someone through performance art, but that would be stupid.
[21:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:52] <exec> 08└─That's action, not speech. Actions can be expressions, but they can also be directly harmful, unlike speech.
[21:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:53] <exec> 08└─Performance art is speech, except when it isn't? Speaking is an action.
[21:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:already - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:12] <exec> 08└─Note that I'm not a Catholic but Santorum is. I found the definition on EWTN to be helpful (this is just the relevant part, it continues on for some time) http://www.ewtn.com [ewtn.com] Thus, prior to the Second Vatican Council it was quite common to speak...
[21:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:29] <exec> 08└─> There's absolutely no need to do that. The reply "button" (link) at the very bottom works fine. Other than being being practically invisible because it is three whole screen-fulls down, yeah works great.
[21:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:30] <exec> 08└─Now the button has been fixed. Mostly fixed since about 15:00 UTC, but there was one minor bug left, which just got fixed.
[21:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:31] <exec> 08└─FYI, now the button gets a line-break right in the middle. Here's a screen cap: http://tinypic.com [tinypic.com]
[21:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:39] <exec> 08└─> God is a ladyboy. Bakla God? Sounds like baklava.
[21:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:1) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:48] <exec> 08└─Considering the Israelites used to honor God by building Asherah poles to honor His consort, the goddess Asherah, I think it is fair to say that God is male (or a lesbian!). Asherah poles were built in His temple, and some historical artifacts indicate the people thought this would please Him. Of co...
[21:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:54] <exec> 08└─Thats just what the illuminati want you to think.
[21:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ex Cathedra - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:04] <exec> 08└─Woah. I assume that made sense in your head. But to everybody else living in their own heads, that is just some whacked out meaningless drivel. Are you tripping on some DMT today?
[21:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score:2) 02Re:Maximum speed on the test track - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:04] <exec> 08└─On a 4000 m track, getting to 338 m/s would take (ideally - no wind drag, constant acceleration) about 1.5 g's. At that acceleration, the fastest you can get in 800 meters is about 151 m/s. The time it would take to go the 800 meters is about 10.6 seconds (assume an equal amount to stop). For what i...
[21:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:prob not - 06SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:06] <exec> 08└─Agreed, the original question was dumb. You beat me to explaining why.
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[22:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A joke - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:56] <exec> 08└─they can't talk about their jobs at home cos it might be something along the lines of "how was your day honey?", "oh fine, i killed a bunch of Pakistani kids in school. oh hi kids how was school?"
[22:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:A joke - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:57] <exec> 08└─What's the difference between a Taliban stronghold and an elementary school?
[22:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:A joke - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:59] <exec> 08└─> What's the difference between a Taliban stronghold and an elementary school? One is full of little terrorists, and the other is a Taliban stronghold.
[22:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignoring an important part! - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:08] <exec> 08└─Most of that sounds like my job (except the 777 part): long shit hours, no opportunities for advancement or academic break. I'll bet their boss doesn't get to rub some hours off their time sheets because the budget can't support it, either. I guess the upside for my job is that I don't have to kill...
[22:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:16] <exec> 08└─Well lets step back and think of a non-drone counterexample. How about a military intelligence desk jockey analyst? Their decisions kill people, don't they?
[22:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:17] <exec> 08└─The military intelligence desk jockey still needs a drone pilot or soldier to pull the trigger though.
[22:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:19] <exec> 08└─S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire 10-15%, the "natural born killers". Military training after WWII put more emphasis on squads, the "buddy system", because they figured out that most people would not kill another human being even to save their own life. But on the other hand, they would kill to save...
[22:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Opportunity for reform - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:21] <exec> 08└─Nice idea. In practise however I expect you'd be thrown out as soon as it became clear you aren't prepared to be the unquestioning murderer they want you to be. Either that, or they would succeed in turning you into one. I'll pass thanks.
[22:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My father had a top secret clearance - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:23] <exec> 08└─"Aboard a submarine are some black boxes. And there are some quiet men who tend to those black boxes."
[22:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Video killed the ... - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 1585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:25] <exec> 08└─So being a drone pilot is actually somewhat more stressing and harder then playing a video game. Who could have guessed? Everyone. If someone had thought that the next generation of soldiers, or airmen, would have trained themselves with their homekillingsimulators (aka video-games) was clearly some...
[22:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Re:More constraints - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:42] <exec> 08└─So, if I'm to understand correctly, /. and SN could be in trouble still, since their editorializing the user-submitted info would presumably be considered a form of providing content?
[22:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Tangent: how muslim-hate came to sweden - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:58] <exec> 08└─Then you need to understand the concept of personal responsibility. For example, in the US, we have the TSA. It's not even slightly the fault of the 'terrorists' that government thugs are violating people's fundamental liberties at airports; it's the fault of the politicians who personally chose to...
[22:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:08] <exec> 08└─Performance art is speech, except when it isn't?
[22:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:56] <exec> 08└─If he/she/it could direct the contents of the Bible, you would have though he/she/it wouldn't have put so many contradictions in it.
[22:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:03] <exec> 08└─Jesus a bastard and Joseph a cuckold. Or to be more realistic, Joseph fucked Mary, and they lied about it to avoid being stoned.
[22:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:09] <exec> 08└─You do realise the bible wasn't written in English, right? Do you realise that as well as different gender rules, Hebrew and Aramaic don't have any capital letters? Clearly not. Christianity, a religion built on ignorance.
[22:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bottom up too - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:39] <exec> 08└─> In all honesty I stayed up late Fing around with TRS80 computers and stuff without doing any formal sport, so I was as sleepy for the first 2-3 classes as the jocks. That's not what the gug meant. It isn't that sports keep people up late, it is that school starts early so that there is enough afte...
[22:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some issues - 06Virginia Adopting Fulltime Online Option For Public Schools - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:46] <exec> 08└─Sorry you got bullied, but you are focused on the wrong thing. Socialization is a learned skill and it encompasses practically all forms of human interaction. Bullying happens, nothing in the world is perfect, but there are a lot of important skills that also need to be developed - like cooperation,...
[22:34:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02SPOILERS & SPECULATION AHOY - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 1487 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:34:42] <exec> 08└─Obligatory SPOILER warning. It looks like this guy fell hard for the show writers' tricks. We saw almost none of these characters actually die onscreen except Meryn Trant (and good freaking riddance). To wit: Stannis: We saw Brienne swing the sword. No aftermath - the storyline was left hanging.Sans...
[22:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Cherry 2000 - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:31] <exec> 08└─I have the flash...will have to check js. Thanks!
[22:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03archshade [3664] (Score:2) 02Re:Cherry 2000 - 06 RealDoll is Working on AI and Robotic Heads for its Next-gen Sex Dolls - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:32] <exec> 08└─I have allowed JS from the following domains. channel4.com newrelic.com maximiser.com edigitalsurvey.com Although the real key is starting the hal service (I'm using arch and needed to install it from yaourt). Without hal the video just loads forever. Also just in case I am using palemoon, but hav...
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[23:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02all the time? - 06Robots to 3D-print a Steel Bridge Mid-Air over an Amsterdam Canal - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:49] <exec> 08└─Perhaps self-printing, self-healing infrastructure is the answer to its crumbling all the time.
[23:27:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re: - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:14] <exec> 08└─If they understood how human beings work, they wouldn't be killing them.
[23:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:can't talk at home - 06Life is Tough Being a Drone Pilot - 2471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:24] <exec> 08└─Sounds like fun. Presumably you've had a boss who would insist, after giving you the wrong instructions that he never gave you those, he gave you these (less wrong) ones? My workplace, a TV station, hasn't had a hardware upgrade in years. Every few weeks, something different will break and of course...
[23:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Use Patterns - 06White House Returning to Big Investments in Clean Tech - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:50] <exec> 08└─Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.
[23:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:05] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of lingering trust in the SourceForge brand and hyperlinks to the site.
[23:28:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02Re:This is all well and good - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:06] <exec> 08└─Except it'll take time before people realize it's the site that's corrupted and not the software. It'll injure the reputations of everything it hosts long before its own wounds are mortal.
[23:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:19] <exec> 08└─I'd like to be rah-rah about this but the Pale Moon install fatally terminated on both my radically different Windoze boxes.
[23:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:21] <exec> 08└─I wish I could, but there's no OSX build and I'm tired of beta testing.
[23:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soybean [5020] (Score:1) 02Re:Is it - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:22] <exec> 08└─> Is it Fuck Beta Day? Soyforge.net!
[23:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just don't understand Dice Holdings. - 06More Projects are Fleeing from SourceForge - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:36] <exec> 08└─> I just don't understand Dice Holdings. The feeling is mutual. They don't understand you, or me, or anyone like us either. That's why they are fucking everything up.
[23:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Another perspective - 06ECHR: Websites can be Accountable for User Comments - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:18] <exec> 08└─Speaking is an action.
[23:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Genesis 1:16 - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:29:48] <exec> 08└─I've a book on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and it has an interesting note on how some of the scrolls show differing versions of the tales in the bible. So yeah, no so much on the consistency.
[23:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:23] <exec> 08└─Blasphemy! Xenu had a part too...
[23:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What kind of stunt are you trying to pull? - 06Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:24] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that Jehovah was a local tribal war god who was later adopted by the Israelites. I should have bookmarked my source on that, because now (of course) I can't find it...
[23:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:1) 02Re:Public Relations is the Important Thing. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - Continued - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:54] <exec> 08└─Why Red Cross has such a black eye, and bad reputation, is that we think there is some sociopathic asshole behind you unjustly distributing funds and profiting from your hard work and dedication to helping those in need.
[23:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─Thanks for doing the math for me. "Millions" is an exaggeration, but at this point they all blend together for me, what with "no story is original" and such. Story A is just some of Story B mixed with Story C set in World D, and so on. So it feels like "millions" to me, but if we're doing hard math,...
[23:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Mehhh - 06HBO's 'Game of Thrones' Has 'Lost' its Way - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:35:29] <exec> 08└─>This is where you should have stopped writing You mean, that is were you stopped reading, because >There are plenty of counter examples to your preferences. where you missed that I said "short and simple, RELATIVE TO THE CONTENT OF THE STORY". LotR is just pushing the limit, but its story is very s...
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