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[00:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You know what they say... - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:31] <exec> 08└─"The enemy of my enemy is my bone marrow."
[00:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Devolution - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:40] <exec> 08└─You'll see competition with the RISC chips. Actually, you already see major competition against Intel with the ARM processors. Intel pretty much can't break into the phone and tablet markets and it is really close in the Ultrabook/Netbook/low end laptop markets. If Microsoft has a successful break f...
[00:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:54] <exec> 08└─Well.... if you count the War on the People that corporations have been waging.... then I would say that my entire family has been at war their entire lives. Yep, back to before the Great Depression even. As for the whole point of the affair, yes, I have gone my entire life basically feeling that I'...
[00:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think if you count the War on Terror (IMO a stretch), you have to count the Cold War. Or don't count both. I remember the air raid sirens still being tested every Sunday at noon. Wonder how many of these younger non-mil folks have even that much experience of the real thing.
[00:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:01] <exec> 08└─You benefitted by the protections you received. Fucking ingrate.
[00:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:03] <exec> 08└─Well, here is the deal: it is about you, not about us. Are you fucking satisfied? And also, the way WW2 was handled made europe politically impotent. And made the people today think that the entire WW2 was about the jews, so we do not understand it and hence do not understand ourselves... Now, every...
[00:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:04] <exec> 08└─You're lucky to be here. If it wasn't for the US to keep your ass from getting ethnic cleansed out of existence, and all that other horrific stuff you europeans do to each other when someone isn't making you play nice with others.
[00:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:06] <exec> 08└─I think, the peace, and the coming peace is no thanks to any nation, it is simply thanks to the technological and medical advancements. Despite some issues inspiring a "gloomy mood", life is becoming pretty comfotable, and hence, the general population is not so keen on war. But, we are the same peo...
[00:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:07] <exec> 08└─Calm down, Vlad. We're pretty pissed at our government too.
[00:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your little graphic means shit to me - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:15] <exec> 08└─Even a blind squirrel finds a nut from time to time... -- gewg_
[00:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The U.S. has always been at war with Eastasia - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:17] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. You never existed.
[00:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Fucking ironic - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:23] <exec> 08└─Simply amazing to be lectured by a bunch of Eurotards on this subject. The fucking experts on waging war, but look at them get all high and mighty when they can cast aspersions on someone else.
[00:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:37] <exec> 08└─In most cases science tends to be as objective and rigorous as is possible with the limitations given.
[00:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] (Score:2) 02I have some experience here. - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:08] <exec> 08└─I set up HSTS on a couple of personal sites with nginx. This was the basis of my config: https://gist.github.com [github.com] The big gotcha is that my TLS set-up is so hardcore that people with older browsers can't view the two sites in question (Granted, IE was never tested because...
[00:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02As usual, asking the wrong questions - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:09] <exec> 08└─Why does everyone think encryption is the answer to every problem, regardless how many time it fails or creates new ones? Sign in should always be via https. Content generally only need be signed to stop the growing practice of pond scum wanting in inject advertising and worse. And some content prob...
[00:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two sides - 06Who Protects Your Privacy? Apple, Yahoo, & Dropbox According to EFF - 3874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:25] <exec> 08└─What surprises me with the amount of bribery and corruption in the OSS community is that people think the EFF would be beyond it. Example? Oh, how about Adblock Plus? Wladimir Palant and the gang...waiting until they've gained enough popularity that most people won't know better, then they add in a...
[00:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two sides - 06Who Protects Your Privacy? Apple, Yahoo, & Dropbox According to EFF - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:26] <exec> 08└─The EFF isn't an American tech company.
[00:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two sides - 06Who Protects Your Privacy? Apple, Yahoo, & Dropbox According to EFF - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's why I pointed out in the same paragraph you failed to read that I would extend that lack of trust to any American organization claiming to protect user's privacy. Nice try though. Don't tell mommy you've been trolling again, we wouldn't want you to be "grounded" from your Runescape accou...
[00:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gorb [5542] (Score:1) 02Not as confused - 06Microsoft Stealthily Backs Away From Free Windows 10 Promise - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:49] <exec> 08└─So yesterday, I could join the program on my Vista machine and be guaranteed a final release activated copy of Win 10. Today, I could join the program on my Vista machine and be guaranteed a final release but with no activation copy of Win 10. I eagerly await clarification.
[00:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02another meta comment - 06Cloudy Beta of Altium's CircuitMaker Software Available Gratis - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:34] <exec> 08└─Oy, some of your submissions don't include links! Please include them next time. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
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[01:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:You know what they say... - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:31] <exec> 08└─Hope your blood marrow doesn't turn against you to make you sick with leukaemia.
[01:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Aperature - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:32] <exec> 08└─I dunno... I mean moon dust is a great portal conductor but it's highly poisonous.
[01:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Future Market - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:34] <exec> 08└─Mooncrete would look nice on your patio.
[01:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Devolution - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 2808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:44] <exec> 08└─This "struggle" is due in large part to Intel actively rigging benchmarks, which Intel has outright admitted on the record [youtube.com] to doing, how big of a difference does it make? Well when you run programs that are NOT rigged with ICC, such as Linux benchmarks [phoronix.com] you see that "magi...
[01:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Speculation based on rumor. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:47] <exec> 08└─Nothing substantial to the story, right? AMD denies it. But, we are going to speculate based on some rumors thrown out there. Personally, I'm an AMD guy. If AMD were to disappear tomorrow, I'd probably switch to ARM. I despise Intel for a number of reasons. Intel is about as ethical as Microsoft.
[01:41:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 744 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:57] <exec> 08└─If you count the Cold War, then my whole life, really. Even after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union, there was the Balkan War where we bombed a bunch of Serbs. Then there were missile attacks on Sudan and military actions in Somalia. Of course Afghanistan and Iraq round out the set....
[01:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:01] <exec> 08└─War is a popular concept in America at least.
[01:42:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zugedneb [4556] 02So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:04] <exec> 08└─Was it worth it? Did you secure the resources you wanted? Did you liberate the ones you wanted? Did you bring freedom to the ones who need it? Did you get the respect you craved for? Did you get the gratitude you deserved? Are you confused by the hate you recieve? and so on...
[01:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, thanks again... Lemme tell you what, I have talked to "eye witnesses" myself. Old poeple telling me, for every problem the country had, the local population took the burden, got impoverished, while at the same time, jewish businesses opened up. Yeah... All the gold and paintings the jews claim...
[01:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:13] <exec> 08└─Millions of innocents have died, many times more have been forced to live in poverty and under oppressive rule as a result of US aggression-- but the rich have become fabulously richer. The former doesn't matter to the classes that initiate wars, only the latter, so 100% success.
[01:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:The U.S. has always been at war with Eastasia - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:23] <exec> 08└─I came here for this. :)
[01:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm basically OK with it - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:30] <exec> 08└─No, not with Dubya's Iraq War, obviously, but with the idea that the USA has military deployed far and wide and will be sending in ships and planes on a regular basis. That's because the USA is the heir of Rome and the British Empire. With great power comes etc.
[01:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sony rootkit - 06In an E3 About Nostalgia, One of the Big Announcements is a Final Fantasy 7 Remake - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:54] <exec> 08└─I'll never buy anything from Sony MUSIC again.
[01:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck you, Squeenix - 06In an E3 About Nostalgia, One of the Big Announcements is a Final Fantasy 7 Remake - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:05] <exec> 08└─Even if they remake it, there's no guarantee they'll bring it west. Still waiting for them to localize Dragon Quest 7 3D.
[01:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what it is and what it looks like - 061,000 Pepper Robots Sell Out in a Minute on Launch Day - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:20] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm over it. Useless link from a useless commenter, modded down and already forgotten.
[01:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:¥24,600 in monthly fees for weather forecasts?? - 061,000 Pepper Robots Sell Out in a Minute on Launch Day - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:51] <exec> 08└─More like Insightful. Japan is home of the Hikikomori phenomenon for a reason. Shut-ins would rather be shut-ins than deal with the complex social intricacies of the Japanese culture.
[01:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:phone software, yeah, that's usually high quali - 06HTTPS Defects in Dozens of Android Apps Expose User Passwords - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:07] <exec> 08└─There are penalties in engineering, if an engineer makes terrible decisions and building/bridge collapses, then they can be liable including imprisonment. When was the last time an engineer went to jail? Why are most residential foundations in North America cracking? Why aren't these "professionals"...
[01:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:phone software, yeah, that's usually high quali - 06HTTPS Defects in Dozens of Android Apps Expose User Passwords - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:13] <exec> 08└─Releasing software is free speech
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[02:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02The big tipoff - 06Airplanes Grounded in Poland After Hackers Allegedly Attack Flight Plan Computer - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:28] <exec> 08└─Was when a commercial flight was rerouted to Switzerland to pick up Putin's girlfriend.
[02:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:The big tipoff - 06Airplanes Grounded in Poland After Hackers Allegedly Attack Flight Plan Computer - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:29] <exec> 08└─How about flying 5+ jets to Russia, effectively giving Herr Putin over a thousand hostages?
[02:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02but Murica is always the victim of terrists - 06Airplanes Grounded in Poland After Hackers Allegedly Attack Flight Plan Computer - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:30] <exec> 08└─Terrorists only target Murica! How dare those hackers hack Poland instead! Invade Poland immediately! Bring the Murica to Poland, for freedoms!
[02:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02All kinds of things - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:42] <exec> 08└─Can you do an apple pie? Please?
[02:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Without national prestige being the goal? - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:42] <exec> 08└─Yeap, if you speak mandarin.
[02:41:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02Re:Devolution - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 2808 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:53] <exec> 08└─This "struggle" is due in large part to Intel actively rigging benchmarks, which Intel has outright admitted on the record [youtube.com] to doing, how big of a difference does it make? Well when you run programs that are NOT rigged with ICC, such as Linux benchmarks [phoronix.com] you see that "magi...
[02:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes sense to me. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:56] <exec> 08└─I don't get it... what happened with "leverage our synergies and, going forward, use our core competencies to action the key deliverables"? I mean... why can't AMD put their shit together?
[02:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh well. AMD sucks anyway. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:58] <exec> 08└─Remember when AMD could compete with Intel in both speed and price?
[02:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:10] <exec> 08└─"This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years." - Ferdinand Foch
[02:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:11] <exec> 08└─Ok. Make it 21 years then.
[02:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:22] <exec> 08└─I can empathize with your frustration over people's ignorance. Germany had legitimate greviances against much of Europe, especially France. There isn't one American in a thousand that understands that, and there probably aren't very many more Euros who understand that. But, denying the holocaust? Yo...
[02:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah it is a problem to use things like reasoning and logic when discussing science. It is like three quarters of the people here take it as a religion and it is blasphemy to point out when something actually is not scientific at all.
[02:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also, please have a fallback page. - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:30] <exec> 08└─His /sbin/init must be a link to /bin/sh.
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[03:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02purpose of the Internet is to share information... - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:38] <exec> 08└─The primary purpose of the Internet is to share information...
[03:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All kinds of things - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:01] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[03:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Europeans manned access to orbit - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:03] <exec> 08└─If they get over the Greek crisis, it will demonstrate that nothing is impossible.
[03:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New ESA Head Wiener: - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:05] <exec> 08└─Oh.
[03:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes sense to me. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:17] <exec> 08└─I know, right? It's as if the things you say that sound nice at a meeting have no relationship with what's actually possible. It must be that these eggheads have no vision.
[03:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03outlier [1709] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh well. AMD sucks anyway. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:20] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess it was just a matter of time before the shills showed up here too.
[03:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:39] <exec> 08└─There are also the Drug War and the War on Poverty and the War on Terror.
[03:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sign your own name next time, dirtbag - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:01] <exec> 08└─That is all. -- gewg_
[03:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's amazing - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:12] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how many people -think- they have a handle on history and politics after their attendance at USA's schools^W indoctrination centers. USA is an AGGRESSOR nation. It's been that way since before the existence of USA.gov (starting with the extermination of the natives of this hemisphere)....
[03:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Both solved problems, but solution not used - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 3910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:51] <exec> 08└─I've read that post, and quite a bit of other DNSSEC rants that I honestly don't agree with. sockpuppet.org conflates the issue that DNSSEC is a replacement for the authentication properities in TLS. The argument on DNSSEC being government PKI proves that they don't understand what DNSSEC is. (argua...
[03:44:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] 02I have some experience here. - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 1256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:02] <exec> 08└─I set up HSTS on a couple of personal sites with nginx. This was the basis of my config: https://gist.github.com [github.com] The big gotcha is that my TLS set-up is so hardcore that people with older browsers can't view the two sites in question (Granted, IE was never tested because...
[03:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:I have some experience here. - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 1833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:04] <exec> 08└─Interesting read. Not practical for us to setup as we'd have to backport OpenSSH 6.5 (I believe all machines are using 6.0 with security stuff backported). The paranoia factor is a bit high, but understandable given recent circumstances. We already had to backport OpenSSH once before we upgraded the...
[03:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:As usual, asking the wrong questions - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:06] <exec> 08└─Because what you visit, when you visit it, how long you linger on it, where you came from before you visited it, where you go after you visit it are all interesting to bad apples/actors like StaSi/NSA and other pond scum. What you do on your pipe is your business, not theirs, not mine, not anyone el...
[03:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Forgot to mention... - 06Cloudy Beta of Altium's CircuitMaker Software Available Gratis - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:33] <exec> 08└─There was a time you could try out gEDA and KiCAD without installing anything on your box. There were two[1] gratis and libre boot-to-a-desktop CDs. Sadly, the one based on Ubuntu [google.com] didn't continue to receive support after its initial release. The one based on Fedora [google.com] didn't r...
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[04:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Gawker Unpaid Internship Class Action Lawsuit - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:28] <exec> 08└─the desire to form a union arose from a desire for the perks of organization, not as a reaction to poor working conditions
[04:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Expect some Walmart-type stuff to happen - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:29] <exec> 08└─in that particular newsroom. Purely concidentally, management decided to shift most reporting and editorial positions overseas...
[04:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:30] <exec> 08└─Here's a story submission for next year: so how did that work out for you?
[04:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Re:purpose of the Internet is to share information - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:40] <exec> 08└─Not Führer, Captain.. http://www.smh.com.au [smh.com.au] Many others here: http://www.google.com.au [google.com...
[04:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:purpose of the Internet is to share information - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:42] <exec> 08└─Is the purpose of the Internet to share revenge porn? People's private medical histories? Private email correspondence uncovered by hackers? Misdemeanor records that were supposed to have been wiped off the books? All your surfing history, including porn sites and complete texts of all site posts yo...
[04:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:purpose of the Internet is to share information - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:43] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with "information wants to be free" or similar because information can't want anything. Still, government censorship is always intolerable, even in the cases you describe.
[04:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:purpose of the Internet is to share information - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:45] <exec> 08└─Is the purpose of the Internet to share revenge porn?
[04:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:1, Redundant) 02I2P it is then - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:46] <exec> 08└─Otherwise, what other choice do I have to make sure the Internet I access is not truncated by "a technical error" [wikipedia.org]? Ah, yes. There is. Have a PVS abroad and proxy/VPN from it.
[04:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:1, Redundant) 02proud to be an Australian? - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 1908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:48] <exec> 08└─It greatly disappoints me when I read about boneheaded Australian politics in the international press. Sure - one expects to hear of foolishness from the USA, Land of Freedom, population 300 million. From the UK, the ancestral home of the nanny-state, population 64 million, also understandable. But...
[04:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Funny) 02My understanding - 06Airplanes Grounded in Poland After Hackers Allegedly Attack Flight Plan Computer - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:56] <exec> 08└─is the pilots couldn't figure out how to take off on a runway that was only 60m long but 900m wide.
[04:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02Moon would be a great launch point - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:11] <exec> 08└─Truth is, the Moon is close, easier to get to, and a great launch pad for our space exploration. If we can successfully build a base on the moon, then it proves we can do it on Mars. Not to mention launching rockets from the moon will be easier then launching them from Earth. The Americans have dr...
[04:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's amazing - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:20] <exec> 08└─USA is an AGGRESSOR nation. It's been that way since before the existence of USA.gov (starting with the extermination of the natives of this hemisphere).
[04:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not entirely correct - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:21] <exec> 08└─If they count wars on strategies like 'terror', they should count the war on the product called 'illegal drugs' as well. In my opinion both aren't wars, they're simply profitable business models.
[04:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot's of us listening... - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:56] <exec> 08└─Our setup is a bit extreme for personal sites; we terminate SSL at our "load-balancer" which is really a glorified Linode 1024 with nginx. Here's the rule we use to bounce port 80 to 443: server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; ...
[04:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Stay cautious - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:00] <exec> 08└─*slow clap* Excluding the fact that we can't get A+ since we don't do HSTS yet, you score higher than SN on the SSLLabs test. Nicely done. Our protocol support is a bit broader though because as you have lainchan, it would prevent IE on Windows 7 from connecting at all: IE 8-10 / Win 7 R ...
[04:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] (Score:2) 02Re:I have some experience here. - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:16] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu 14.04? It should work out of the box, according to my testing. Of course, that does nothing for your putty users, or anyone using older clients. Those people will almost certainly get left in the cold by such a setup, but now we're straying further and further off-topic.
[04:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:As usual, asking the wrong questions - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:19] <exec> 08└─^- AC is correct on all counts. As current web technologies go, as far as I'm aware, only I2P and Tor can protect against actually seeing what you browse due to the design of TCP/IP, and its pretty trivial to see if a user is using tor if you're watching network traffic so even that doesn't help as...
[04:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] (Score:2) 02Re:As usual, asking the wrong questions - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:21] <exec> 08└─Because you have intelligence agencies going wild with their effectively unlimited budgets and injecting exploits into http streams. That's why YouTube went https-only a while back. That's really the only reason. Of course, by solving that problem, you create more complexity, and all of your points...
[04:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Summary contradicts itself? - 06Microsoft Stealthily Backs Away From Free Windows 10 Promise - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:56] <exec> 08└─They have backed away from explicitly saying it will work, but nudge nudge wink wink, it will work.
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[05:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 2463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:41] <exec> 08└─I bet the work continuity of employees will go up. and I'm 100% behind them; unions ARE the only thing that speaks for the employees. the last 20 or even 30 years have been BRUTAL to worker's rights. we have lost, maybe half of what we won in our grandfather's day (or, maybe that's your great grandf...
[05:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:42] <exec> 08└─Are you in a union? I was for years. It was one of the bad old ones and you have no idea how bad it was. (corrupt) I identify with the concept of unions but why don't we check in a year from now and see what the reality is in this case.
[05:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:44] <exec> 08└─And I hear your pain. Enforced minimum employment standards perhaps. My experience with the reality of unions is they don't work.
[05:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gorb [5542] (Score:2, Interesting) 02FFS - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:58] <exec> 08└─This is an MPAA/RIAA lobbying success. Both major parties of the Oz gov. sold out to Foxtel (cable/sat supplier). The Greens and the Liberal Democrats opposed the bill. But that doesn't matter anymore does it? The bill is so general in scope that it will take time to apply it to specific cases but i...
[05:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Devolution - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:36] <exec> 08└─I've been looking for an ARM/RISC notebook and I can't find one. I don't want a Chromebook. I want a 12-15 inch notebook with standard notebook components and an unlocked bootloader so I can run a full-fledged Linux distro. There are a few Chinese mini desktop computers running Android but they have...
[05:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Geeks to rescue - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:44] <exec> 08└─Lisa: Cater for the geeks. Yes, it's not a huge population but it's growing. And it is insanely loyal. And often makes decision for a much larger populations. (companies, relatives, friends...) For some time if you wanted to run a GPU in freedom intel was your only choice, nvidia and amd required ru...
[05:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:04] <exec> 08└─The US has been involved in "military actions" (whether or not you count them as "war") almost constantly since the late 1800's. As far as I'm concerned we've always been at war, and always will be until the economy can't support it any more.
[05:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:13] <exec> 08└─What saddens me about the whole holocaust thing is that now it is only about the Jews. Their were well over a million Roma killed and they never got a homeland and are still treated like shit in parts of E Europe and not much better anywhere else. Then of course there were the others, homosexuals, t...
[05:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah it is a problem to use things like reasoning and logic when discussing science.
[05:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:59] <exec> 08└─I don't see why anyone wastes their time on it. If they want my opinion, they can pay me in advance, otherwise, just leave me alone. I turned down a some kind of TV survey once and got a "but it's for the Hollywood people" (likely fake) baffled sounding response from the pollster. Who the f*** cares...
[05:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Your two shekels I think, - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:32] <exec> 08└─cents are way too modern.
[05:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopp [2833] (Score:1) 02I say - 06Answer to a 150-Year-Old Math Conundrum Brings More Mystery - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:07] <exec> 08└─Pigeonhole principle...
[05:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Re:Arab numbers should be banned! - 06In an E3 About Nostalgia, One of the Big Announcements is a Final Fantasy 7 Remake - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:16] <exec> 08└─and why X-2 isn't XI
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[06:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02alt.conspiracy.apple - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:33] <exec> 08└─Or it was a coordinated PR stunt. On third thought, probably not. Never attribute to malice (or cleverness) what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
[06:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02paul krugman's answer to everything... - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:34] <exec> 08└─print moar monies!
[06:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nice free ad campaign - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:35] <exec> 08└─Apple gets free advertisement for it's new service, twice, by declaring and then reversing controversial policy.
[06:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We will never make it to space - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:31] <exec> 08└─That window is closed now as we ran out of fossil fuels.
[06:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02shameful - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:32] <exec> 08└─i'm surprised there hasn't yet been a star wars 'that's no moon' joke :/
[06:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:09] <exec> 08└─I grew up in the DC area. We had the CD siren tests every month, tension with the USSR, and let's not forget our meddling in Central America which was a proxy war with the USSR. There was this guy in our school who said, "I'm going to go to El Salvador and get myself killed". He was otherwise a very...
[06:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:07] <exec> 08└─Why would you assume they all lie or are dishonest? Most people don't go around lying just cause they can. Do you deliberately go around lying to people when asked mundane questions?
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[07:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:52] <exec> 08└─MY fuckin Union works. Mostly it keeps ass kissing bastard like you out of the ranks. You will get promoted to admin with talk like that, and you will end up working 60-80 hour weeks thinking you are furthering your career! GO! Lundberg! We are all pulling for you! Yes, someday you will be able to...
[07:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gorb [5542] (Score:1) 02Re:FFS - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:08] <exec> 08└─I just got this via email (yes, I tried to make a difference): ---------------------------------- On Monday night, the Senate voted in favour of the website blocking bill, introducing an industry-run internet filter and ignoring your call to defend online rights. The emails you and other supporters...
[07:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All kinds of things - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:34] <exec> 08└─It would be possible, but there are trademark issues, so it won't be done.
[07:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Europeans manned access to orbit - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:37] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe that's the solution to Greek debt crisis: Put all the debt on a space ship and shoot it to the moon. ;-)
[07:43:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Your little graphic means shit to me - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:41] <exec> 08└─As one of our former leaders said, that's just a piece of paper. We no longer operate under rule of law, we operate as a rogue nation.
[07:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What might be more informative. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:21] <exec> 08└─.......................A woman.
[07:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lot's of us listening... - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:36] <exec> 08└─Of course with any redirection method, the original request (including the URL you requested) first goes through the wire unencrypted. So if it is a publicly accessible document, anyone seeing the original request can just request the same document himself to see what you looked at. IIUC HSTS tries...
[07:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thank You - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:54] <exec> 08└─How exactly do you plan to support mobile devices? I hope not with separate URLs.
[07:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:''a full time person...figuring out...licensing - 06Microsoft Stealthily Backs Away From Free Windows 10 Promise - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:27] <exec> 08└─It cost Sterling Ball, CEO of Ernie Ball, Inc., $100,000 to figure that out (a BSA raid with armed federal marshals). He quickly learned that with Linux that isn't necessary. He told his IT guys he wanted the place switched over within 6 months.
[07:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Understandable - 06Microsoft Stealthily Backs Away From Free Windows 10 Promise - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:39] <exec> 08└─Sort of, it's not that simple though. They do lose out on some sales, but a lot of those sales are to people that aren't actually going to buy. It's the same reason that MS rarely files suit against people that pirate their software unless they happen to do so at work. MS benefits from people using...
[07:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NP hard? - 06Answer to a 150-Year-Old Math Conundrum Brings More Mystery - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:30] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't be too difficult to prove that this problem is either NP-hard or not, right?
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[08:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:alt.conspiracy.apple - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:42] <exec> 08└─Is it raeally that hard to admit that social media has some upsides? Yeesh.
[08:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Um, Please, - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:45] <exec> 08└─Who is Taylor Swift? A little context for the articles so we know what we are talking about. Seriously, is this a clothing company like Ambercrombie and Fitch? Or Finance, like the late Sterns, Bears, and Buggery? It is so hard to keep up these days, especially if you ignore the (anti)social media....
[08:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jalopezp [2996] (Score:1) 02Re:Um, Please, - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:46] <exec> 08└─Are you an idiot? the singer Taylor Swift said she was refusing to allow [Apple] to stream her album 1989
[08:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:48] <exec> 08└─Give her a solid B+ for this. Her reasoning is mostly twaddle but her bigger point is sound and hey, she won. She had the stones to go toe to toe with the Godzilla of the entertainment distribution industry and she won. The fact Apple 'had the money' is meaningless. If a new startup wanted to give a...
[08:41:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 2463 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:59] <exec> 08└─I bet the work continuity of employees will go up. and I'm 100% behind them; unions ARE the only thing that speaks for the employees. the last 20 or even 30 years have been BRUTAL to worker's rights. we have lost, maybe half of what we won in our grandfather's day (or, maybe that's your great grandf...
[08:42:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02proud to be an Australian? - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 1908 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:15] <exec> 08└─It greatly disappoints me when I read about boneheaded Australian politics in the international press. Sure - one expects to hear of foolishness from the USA, Land of Freedom, population 300 million. From the UK, the ancestral home of the nanny-state, population 64 million, also understandable. But...
[08:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:proud to be an Australian? - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:16] <exec> 08└─I just hope that the corrupt NZ polititians don't look over and think....wow that seems like a good idea *herp derp* we should enact a similar law. We are already opening up for a TPPA reeming; no need to open the proverbial anus any wider.
[08:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gorb [5542] (Score:1) 02Re:proud to be an Australian? - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:18] <exec> 08└─Geez I hope not! Keep NZ with free internet. It's the closest place I can move to when it becomes impossible to live here. How's that accent again? "Fush and Chups". Is that right?
[08:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:proud to be an Australian? - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:20] <exec> 08└─Not bad; just remember avoid saying six always sounds like sex when you Aussies say it; just imagine the horror of asking for "six buns" and the male bakery assistant winks at you.
[08:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:proud to be an Australian? - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:21] <exec> 08└─Sure - one expects to hear of foolishness from the USA, Land of Freedom, population 300 million. From the UK, the ancestral home of the nanny-state, population 64 million, also understandable.
[08:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:FFS - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 1884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:24] <exec> 08└─Music sure is a strange business. Hearing a musician's work will make me either want to go see them perform or want them to finish up as soon as possible. Having the RIAA censor the music before I ever hear it to me is like the postal service being lobbied to strip out all the advertisements from t...
[08:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02The moon seems to be a weird place - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:54] <exec> 08└─There seems to be an awful lot of things that are unexplained concerning the moon.... Things like this [bibliotecapleyades.net]. ( Yes, I am serious ).
[08:43:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 988 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:45] <exec> 08└─I can empathize with your frustration over people's ignorance. Germany had legitimate greviances against much of Europe, especially France. There isn't one American in a thousand that understands that, and there probably aren't very many more Euros who understand that. But, denying the holocaust? Yo...
[08:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:47] <exec> 08└─What about the 20 Million Russians who died in World War II ? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[08:44:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02We've always been at war with Eastasia - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:08] <exec> 08└─We've always been at war with Eurasia
[08:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:As usual, asking the wrong questions - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:21] <exec> 08└─If the FedGov wants to get to you via YouTube they just get on the other side of the encrypted link. They were deep inside just about everybody's network once and you can bet yer ass if anything else goes Foom! on the scale of 9/11 they will again. And everybody will roll over and let them, again. B...
[08:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory reminder - 06Who Protects Your Privacy? Apple, Yahoo, & Dropbox According to EFF - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:35] <exec> 08└─Also, i somebody is able to add an easy to use and trusted/opensource encryption program, I'd like to try it out.
[08:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:abreast - 06Answer to a 150-Year-Old Math Conundrum Brings More Mystery - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:32] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I was expelled from the Pedantry Squad at Mensa. Now I get to talk with my neighbors: 15% teenage mothers, 46% former teenage mothers, 9% teenage fathers, 30% ex-convicts.
[08:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe tether a smartwatch to a dumbphone? - 06Ask Soylent: Are There Any Decent Phonewatches Out There? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:12] <exec> 08└─What does this null_ rom do? [nullproject.net] They seem to fall over themselves to say it's good but missing why and context. Galaxy Gear = Samsung Galaxy S4-S6 ?
[08:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:phone software, yeah, that's usually high quali - 06HTTPS Defects in Dozens of Android Apps Expose User Passwords - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:23] <exec> 08└─Software is not like doctors. Or engineers where you can test strength of every component and know it works.
[08:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:phone software, yeah, that's usually high quali - 06HTTPS Defects in Dozens of Android Apps Expose User Passwords - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:26] <exec> 08└─there are little guys who develop and sell their own software (probably learning to code while doing so)
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[09:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Who gives a fucking shit? - 06Recycling is Dying - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:38] <exec> 08└─Fuck recycling! People are the real garbage, let them drown in their own shit.
[09:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:39] <exec> 08└─Who ever thought it was free? I thought the argument was that it was cheaper than landfill. Before I moved, I went to the local tip where they said that the cost of landfill was about £70/ton (I think). From playing Simcity 3000, I also learned that there are physical limits on how long you can stu...
[09:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02it's like Tennis except it's Gay - 06The Physics of Badminton - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:48] <exec> 08└─So you put a feathered skirt on a ball and call it a cock. That makes total sense. (cough)Queer. You know what badminton needs more of? Cockpockets.
[09:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02A promising area for new tech... - 06The Physics of Badminton - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:49] <exec> 08└─First I just want to say, I'm amazed somehow that this research was submitted and accepted to SN but I am happy to see it! Although the research does not propose alternative materials for shuttlecocks, as the feathered ones favoured by serious competitions necessitate the killing of the birds it wou...
[09:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Living Birds make better Shuttlecocks - 06The Physics of Badminton - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:51] <exec> 08└─While the bird remains alive you can be certain it is suffering, which is the important thing.
[09:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alt.conspiracy.apple.godwin - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:01] <exec> 08└─Even Hitler had fair qualities...
[09:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Um, Please, - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:06] <exec> 08└─I was around in 1989, never heard of any Swift Taylors. Are you an idiot? Just wondering. Wait a minute, was this James Taylor? I have heard of him.
[09:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hedleyroos [4974] (Score:1) 02Re:Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:08] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with her reasoning?
[09:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:10] <exec> 08└─There is nothing wrong per se with her reasoning, but some points are superfluous. Like that Apple has the money, or that Apple is a generous company (srsly tho?). Quality vs quantity and all that. Of course, Apple is still free to give away free stuff, as long as they keep paying their providers. T...
[09:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:The moon seems to be a weird place - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:16] <exec> 08└─Many, if not all of those questions would be answered by this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] One of the bulletpoints in your list points mentions a number of competing theories about the moon's formation, and the Giant Impact Hypothesis is not among them, whic...
[09:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Devolution - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:30] <exec> 08└─This is likely to change in the next couple of years. Cavium and Applied Micro are producing ARMv8 chips for servers (I played with a Cavium one recently: 48 cores per socket, two sockets. Fun!) and the low-end versions of those are likely to be a plausible fit for higher-end ARM laptops. An ARM-bas...
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:52] <exec> 08└─Not sure why people are hating on you.
[09:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A mom in the White House? - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:04] <exec> 08└─the next greatest fashion We could do worse than have someone in charge who has given life to a human. Hell, we have--many times. I saw a thing the other day that said Carly has zero chance of getting the top spot on that ticket--but that you shouldn't bet against her being offered the VP slot. It's...
[09:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not really bothered - 06Security Oversights and Complacency Set the Stage for Killers’ Escape - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:14] <exec> 08└─FWIW - recidivism rate for murderers are quite low e.g. they're very unlikely to do it again. http://www.cbsnews.com [cbsnews.com] I suppose this assumes they're not serial killers or where the killing was due to some compulsion, and it was more personal. So t...
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[10:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:42] <exec> 08└─Close. I remember when I was a kid it was "reduce, reuse and recycle" in that order. And not without cause. Things that aren't bought are things that don't need to be disposed of. But, you are correct, when possible reuse is better than reducing and some of the horror stories about computers being s...
[10:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Ecology - 06Recycling is Dying - 1617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:43] <exec> 08└─Recycling is only one part of a complex systems engineering problem. We aren't doing nearly enough to reduce the upstream pressure of material that eventually has to be recycled or disposed of. The most environmental product is the one that never gets made, so we should build things to last and be r...
[10:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Living Birds make better Shuttlecocks - 06The Physics of Badminton - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:54] <exec> 08└─I eat dino. Dinos taste good. If I want to hit a dino feather, then we shall. Stupid dino.
[10:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um, Please, - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:10] <exec> 08└─shes some sort of american celebrity, in the business of selling third party song texts and music and has an autotune license, ehehe. Minimal talent, maximum marketing...
[10:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:1) 02Re:Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:14] <exec> 08└─Wait. Didn't she or her representative sign some kind of contract agreeing to Apple's trial period? If so, she's just reneging on the agreement, but the articles, including the one above, don't seem to go into the specifics. It must be in there in the fine print. The contracts usually try to overrea...
[10:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Here's hoping - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:29] <exec> 08└─Between Unionization, GamerGate and the Hulk Hogan trial there's a good chance that PoS media company is going to burn. Even if Gawker is successful in defending their "right" to host Hulk Hogan's sex tape their liability insurance will be shot. What friggn double standard garbage they denounce the...
[10:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes sense to me. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:42] <exec> 08└─The CPU business is interesting because of the trend in fab prices. AMD spun off Global Foundries because they don't sell enough chips to be able to afford the investment in new fabs each generation. The only way to get the volume up was to get other people to use their fabs and they thought that th...
[10:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh well. AMD sucks anyway. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:46] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing that you're very young and don't remember the K7 then. It was much cooler than a Pentium 4 for the same performance (and also a fraction of the cost). And you definitely don't remember the K6-2, which was a lot cheaper than the Pentium II and had a much smaller heatsink (Intel moved to...
[10:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As usual, asking the wrong questions - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:55] <exec> 08└─but I don't see what you visit inside of sn.org.
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[11:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Insightful) 02I am Anonymous Godwin - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:58] <exec> 08└─Illinois is worse than Nazi Hitler.
[11:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:I am Anonymous Godwin - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:59] <exec> 08└─And you, sir, are worse than Illinois.
[11:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I am Anonymous Godwin - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:00] <exec> 08└─I hate Illinois Nazis. -- gewg_
[11:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Defamation - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:02] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but I think that probably falls under "defamation". Hard to absolutely prove harm, but if you can prove that the statement is defamatory, that's enough. You could read the statement and think that the poster has some knowledge that just hasn't been made public yet ("waiting to be exposed"). T...
[11:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Defamation - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:04] <exec> 08└─Hard to absolutely prove harm, but if you can prove that the statement is defamatory, that's enough.
[11:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:15] <exec> 08└─Trouble with re-use is that it opens the company up to liability or expenses. Say you sell beer in glass bottles. One of the bottles gets a tiny chip or crack before being returned. Maybe the crack will mean that the bottle will explode during the re-filling stage, screwing up your assembly line. Ma...
[11:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:16] <exec> 08└─Regarding reuse: As I am in a hurry, but also want to add my two cents, I will just drop a link from wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And I'd like to add: In Germany, when a shop is selling bottles, it is obliged to take bottles back, regardle...
[11:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ecology - 06Recycling is Dying - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:19] <exec> 08└─to replace the nearly identical models from the previous year, is simply unconscionable.
[11:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Please somebody (other than me) do something - 06Recycling is Dying - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:21] <exec> 08└─> progressive lawmakers and environmentalists have made matters worse [by] demanding almost no sorting by consumers Why am I not surprised here? It's sad really because the whole recycling thing was one of the point that made me agree with "progressives". The fact that it turned out being a profitab...
[11:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02...meanwhile, in Sweden... - 06Recycling is Dying - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:22] <exec> 08└─In Sweden, they recycle 47 percent of their garbage and burn another 52 percent in community-sized incinerators to produce heat and electricity. Less than 1 percent of their garbage ends up in the dump. They even import trash from Norway and UK [aljazeera.com] (and charge those places to take it off...
[11:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zipf [2400] (Score:2, Interesting) 02I was once charged to find 10 ton of plastic waste - 06Recycling is Dying - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:24] <exec> 08└─Per month. What I found was that all the local (NY) recycling depots of any size were locked into 10 year agreements (or so they told me). I think i got only one return phone call. My conclusion was that there is a lot of corruption in the recycling game.
[11:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:A promising area for new tech... - 06The Physics of Badminton - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:39] <exec> 08└─necessitate the killing of the birds
[11:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's hoping - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:16] <exec> 08└─especially ... Kotaku
[11:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Hell - 06Airplanes Grounded in Poland After Hackers Allegedly Attack Flight Plan Computer - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:50] <exec> 08└─I would send them all straight to Hell [google.com] Well, just north, to the closest airport.
[11:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Money - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:15] <exec> 08└─It's always about money and national pride. Once we have a totalitarian global government, there will be no more wars to spend the money on, so it can all go into space travel. :)
[11:44:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:54] <exec> 08└─Well.... if you count the War on the People that corporations have been waging.... then I would say that my entire family has been at war their entire lives. Yep, back to before the Great Depression even. As for the whole point of the affair, yes, I have gone my entire life basically feeling that I'...
[11:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:58] <exec> 08└─You are a perfect example of the current culture of replication bullying. Your defamation of science is unacceptable. We will unmask your IP address from behind whatever hackcode you are hiding it with and sue you. Be glad we don't throw you in jail or the asylum for destabilizing society. https://p...
[11:46:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkengine [5287] 02Stay cautious - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 1219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:25] <exec> 08└─I'm the server admin of a small/medium-sized community (~1,500 active posters, ~8,000 visitors) called lainchan [lainchan.org], and we use HSTS and plan to add HPKP. HSTS is great. Very easy to set up and is definitely helpful in increasing security against would-be coffee shop MitMs. If at all poss...
[11:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02Re:The Fappening - 06Who Protects Your Privacy? Apple, Yahoo, & Dropbox According to EFF - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:47:03] <exec> 08└─While this is true that this wasn't a backdoor (I was simply copy pasting from the article here), the vulnerability was willing-fully ignored by Apple : http://www.dailydot.com [dailydot.com] The security questions were not triggered and nothing coul...
[11:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple - 06Ask Soylent: Are There Any Decent Phonewatches Out There? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:49:42] <exec> 08└─Uhhh...If you would have went to the middle of the page it says "Excelvan 1.54 Inches Bluetooth Smart Watch Unlocked SIM Phone Watch Sync Call Anti-lost phone mate for Android/IOS" so its using a SIM, probably a micro as that is the most popular FF on international models. Hell its $90 man, if you r...
[11:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DX or Chinavasion Android Watch - 06Ask Soylent: Are There Any Decent Phonewatches Out There? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:54] <exec> 08└─MTK Dual Core 512MB Ram, PowerVR SGX 531 gpu, camera either 'front facing' for videophone apps, or where the adjustment knob was on analog watches. All are quad band GSM and some have 3g support as well. 802.11g/n (most are N, but a few cheaper/older models are G). All seem to have bluetooth and mos...
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[12:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 0225 years from now - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:38] <exec> 08└─Kids'll be looking at footage of people texting as they walk down city streets, with the same mixture of bemusement and disgust that today's kids look at flower children from the '60s.
[12:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:25 years from now - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:39] <exec> 08└─How about 80s punk rocker dude with giant suitcase size boom box on his shoulder? I'm just a couple years too young to have been that dude. See the star trek movie with the whales, the scene in the bus. I kind of miss boom boxes, they were cool in their own weird plastic and chrome way. I remember w...
[12:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Punch - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:40] <exec> 08└─Can I still punch them in the face for being obnoxious.? I hate people that look at their phones instead of where they are going. I am 6'3" heavy bloke with a fast walk and a pissed off look on my face (I am a happy soul really). This makes other people get out of my way when I am walking to work or...
[12:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Streisand effect - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:53] <exec> 08└─I probably would never have heard about the whole incident without that court order. An equally anonymous reply to the post pointing out its bad logic would probably have been more effective. Not at getting that anonymous troll punished, but at saving the reputation of Bill Hadley.
[12:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:06] <exec> 08└─AFAIK it depends on the size of shop. Every shop must take back the bottles it sells, but small shops are exempt from taking back bottles they don't sell.
[12:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:07] <exec> 08└─High-termperature incineration is another option, though the cost of scrubbing the exhaust can be quite high.
[12:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:09] <exec> 08└─There use to be more re-useability of containers but that seems to have gone away. Even glass containers that while they use standard size mouths do not use the standard mason jar threads. It use to be that almost any glass food container would accept either a standard or wide mouth mason jar lid an...
[12:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ecology - 06Recycling is Dying - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:13] <exec> 08└─I was going to say the same thing. It has always seemed bizarre to me that people support an inflationary currency but are against waste and pollution.
[12:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I've always suspected - 06Recycling is Dying - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:17] <exec> 08└─That the contents of the blue and gray trash bins in the office end up in the same dumpster.
[12:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Greasy Pizza boxes - 06Recycling is Dying - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:18] <exec> 08└─I know I am not supposed to put pizza boxes with the cardboard, but that's what they told me to do. I suspect that recycling is no longer conserving resources.
[12:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory - 06Recycling is Dying - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:20] <exec> 08└─China doesn't want to buy our garbage any more
[12:42:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Gawker Unpaid Internship Class Action Lawsuit - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:58] <exec> 08└─the desire to form a union arose from a desire for the perks of organization, not as a reaction to poor working conditions
[12:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All kinds of things - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:56] <exec> 08└─And rounded corners.
[12:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes sense to me. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:23] <exec> 08└─I recall AMD being hamstrung by Intel. Intel threatened PC manufacturers with holding back chips, or price gouges, if they went with AMD. As a result of companies not buying their chips, AMD was getting mired in debt, and spun off the foundries to try and stay afloat. They spun off a lot of their bu...
[12:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh well. AMD sucks anyway. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:29] <exec> 08└─AMD K6-2 was the CPU for my first homebuilt machine. Have been an AMD fan since then. I do like intel SSDs and wifi cards though. AMD doesn't make the very fastest CPUs anymore but they do have some very cool ones. The A series is great for tiny computers. I'd love to build an FX series but there is...
[12:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Why break it down? Why not recycle it? - 06Newly Discovered Fungus Could Eat the Plastic Out of Landfills - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:24] <exec> 08└─What byproducts are produced by these organisms? Buried plastic is no threat to the environment, and since plastic is made from oil, burying plastic is carbon sequestration.
[12:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Google: ernie ball linux - 06Microsoft Stealthily Backs Away From Free Windows 10 Promise - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:12] <exec> 08└─http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=91 [osv.org.au] http://www.metafilter.com [metafilter.com] http://myitforum.com
[12:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe tether a smartwatch to a dumbphone? - 06Ask Soylent: Are There Any Decent Phonewatches Out There? - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:41] <exec> 08└─Null_ adds a bunch of customization options, including the ability to add Google apps (including Play Store) and various parts of Android (e.g. the status bar and notification tray, normal Settings app) that were/removed/disabled in the factory ROM. Much (not all) of this can be achieved with the st...
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[13:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Punch - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:33] <exec> 08└─If you see someone walking along looking at their phone and not paying attention, let them run into you.
[13:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alternate Reality: See where you walk without ads! - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:34] <exec> 08└─It says that a significant number of mobile phone breakages happen because of "text walking" collisions.
[13:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Informative) 02Hillary as president? - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:47] <exec> 08└─Hillary as president? Offtopic for this thread, but not outrageous at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's a done deal. The backroom negotiations have already happened; the election will now be arranged to come out as planned. At least, that's how it looks from my European perspective. The R's have fi...
[13:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Hillary as president? - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:48] <exec> 08└─> The R's have fielded too many candidates for any one of them to gain enough attention. They seem to do this every time. Look at the endless parade of clowns, crooks and bigots they lined up for the last election. Is that really the best that one of the biggest political parties in a country of 300...
[13:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Hillary as president? - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:50] <exec> 08└─Offtopic for this thread, but not outrageous at all.
[13:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Defamation - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:52] <exec> 08└─I think that probably falls under "defamation".
[13:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No harm defamation - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:54] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the plaintiff have to demonstrate harm?
[13:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who gives a fucking shit? - 06Recycling is Dying - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:03] <exec> 08└─Start with yourself
[13:42:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 1230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:05] <exec> 08└─Who ever thought it was free? I thought the argument was that it was cheaper than landfill. Before I moved, I went to the local tip where they said that the cost of landfill was about £70/ton (I think). From playing Simcity 3000, I also learned that there are physical limits on how long you can stu...
[13:42:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Ecology - 06Recycling is Dying - 1617 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:11] <exec> 08└─Recycling is only one part of a complex systems engineering problem. We aren't doing nearly enough to reduce the upstream pressure of material that eventually has to be recycled or disposed of. The most environmental product is the one that never gets made, so we should build things to last and be r...
[13:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please somebody (other than me) do something - 06Recycling is Dying - 1540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:15] <exec> 08└─Besides the basic Trash/Glass/Not Glass The thing is I have basically paper/metal/glass/plastic. The glass part is *maybe* a jar or two a week. There is a hell of a lot more paper. The metal comes from pop cans which I am trying to cut out of my life. So guess what ends up in my recycling? Mostly p...
[13:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] (Score:1) 02Re:Please somebody (other than me) do something - 06Recycling is Dying - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:17] <exec> 08└─I always figured the most they made was from the metal anyway. Glass/plastic/paper are pretty close to worthless.
[13:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:I've always suspected - 06Recycling is Dying - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:21] <exec> 08└─That happened at the state university I used to work at. The people working in the recycling dept. told me that they did not have the time or budget to sort the materials sent in, and as a result, ended up just filling up the dumpsters with the vast majority of the 'recycled' trash. They tried impos...
[13:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Carbon - 06Recycling is Dying - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:23] <exec> 08└─If we bury our used paper in airless landfills where it cannot rot aren't we removing carbon from the carbon cycle? I've heard of people advocating for raising and harvesting fast growing trees just to bury them, replant and repeat as a way to sequester CO2. Why would we do that while at the same ti...
[13:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Personal pet peeve: toys packaging - 06Recycling is Dying - 1716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:25] <exec> 08└─Ever since I became a father, I have been appalled at the amount of packaging used for packaging toys for kids and babies. It's just incredible how much crap they use to tie-wrap etc. a stupid plastic truck or car which, to begin with, are not exactly great in terms of carbon footprint I'm sure. I a...
[13:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:56] <exec> 08└─It's probably simpler than that even. She signed a contract that she (or her label) gets 70% of all sales. So apple just sells it for zero and gives her 70% of that. Awesome for apple because they get a lot of new people on their streaming platform.
[13:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02parts unreported - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:57] <exec> 08└─The part that is missing from nearly every report on this topic is that she said she doesn't need the money and that there are other small artist this will hurt. She is calling apple on the carpet for hurting the little guy. This is not about me. Thankfully I am on my fifth album and can support mys...
[13:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Land of Convicts - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:36] <exec> 08└─Since the Bush/Cheney presidency Australia seems to have taken a turn for the authoritarian. It seems strange that a nation that began as convicts should do so. There's something deep and psychological happening there. Is there such a thing as a 'mass psychologist' who could explain?
[13:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:09] <exec> 08└─Jews constituted about half of the victims, using one definition. Using the broadest definition, many more non-Jewish victims died in the Holocaust. It is a human tragedy, but due to the political and PR efforts of Jews in the United States it has come to be regarded as a solely Jewish event. Politi...
[13:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:10] <exec> 08└─Well, here is the deal: it is about you, not about us. Are you fucking satisfied? And also, the way WW2 was handled made europe politically impotent. And made the people today think that the entire WW2 was about the jews, so we do not understand it and hence do not understand ourselves... Now, every...
[13:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Your little graphic means shit to me - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:25] <exec> 08└─We no longer operate under rule of law, we operate as a rogue nation.
[13:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:09] <exec> 08└─What possible benefit can these polls provide for the actual voter?
[13:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank You - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:41] <exec> 08└─No not separate urls. I was thinking of a setting that gets saved as a cookie that will send out a different set of css files. This way a user can select the version of the site based on device. The switching between these would be in an easily accessible place on the front page, possibly in the foo...
[13:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Google: ernie ball linux - 06Microsoft Stealthily Backs Away From Free Windows 10 Promise - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:21] <exec> 08└─Nice, thanks. Last time I looked was around the 10th year, maybe 6-9mo before the 2012 one, so I guess I just missed the updates. The 2003 stuff I'd seen but was too soon after the change for what I meant.
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[14:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Punch - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:34] <exec> 08└─Some people say it is the duty of the person paying attention to avoid all collisions. Fuck that and fuck them.
[14:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Punch - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:35] <exec> 08└─> Some people say it is the duty of the person paying attention to avoid all collisions. That's what I do, I avoid collisions, and when the dumbwalker passes by I say "WOOOOSH".
[14:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternate Reality: See where you walk without a - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:37] <exec> 08└─Free chewing gum? You expect them to be able to text, walk AND chew gum?
[14:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Alternate Reality: See where you walk without a - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:39] <exec> 08└─No, Mr. Bond, I expect them to die.
[14:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02It won't help. - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:40] <exec> 08└─I've been bumped into on stairs, where the keep-right rule is normally obeyed even by people who are alone. I had an SUV door swing into me because the idiot's phone was more important than glancing through her windshield to notice the busy sidewalk (lord knows how she PARKED the thing). Do you real...
[14:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Asocial Median - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:42] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with these people going for a Darwin award, but I hate them for expecting others to pay attention for them. Especially when they're annoyed after they bump into anyone, or even little children. And people who stare at their little screen while driving should be banned for life from...
[14:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hillary as president? - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:56] <exec> 08└─The R's have fielded too many candidates for any one of them to gain enough attention. None of them will gain any traction. This is pretty typical for the number at this point. Trust me I have been watching this for years. The D side is actually a bit odd. Usually at this point they would have a few...
[14:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hyperlogos [5558] (Score:1) 02Maybe - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:00] <exec> 08└─In IL all that is necessary for a charge of defamation is allegation that a criminal act has occurred. If the allegation is against a public figure, it also has to cause harm, but ILSC claims that you cause harm if you publicly make credible allegations.
[14:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02What if - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:02] <exec> 08└─What if the comment turns out to be from a 12 year old girl? Then the next headline could read Political candidate attacks 12 year old girl who accused him of being a pedophile
[14:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:16] <exec> 08└─Not all of the bottles get completely cleaned either. I lived in a country for a while that reused glass soda bottles. It was common to see stuff in the bottles that shouldn't have been there. I'm attributing it to not thoroughly cleaning the bottles anyways. I'm certain some of those bottles had a...
[14:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:20] <exec> 08└─Ironically the incinerator was next door to the sewage plant and the plant used the process heat from the incinerator to do "something" so now instead of the incinerator burning a zillion bucks of natgas the sewage plant does something with half a zillion bucks of natgas.
[14:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:21] <exec> 08└─I wonder if gold plated connectors and rare earth electronics could make distillation of used consumer electronics profitable That is mostly a chemical process. A pretty nasty one at that. NurdRage on youtube has a good series of videos on what goes into it. Setting it on fire is not one of them :)
[14:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:24] <exec> 08└─Who ever thought it was free? I thought the argument was that it was cheaper than landfill.
[14:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:11] <exec> 08└─Wait. Didn't she or her representative sign some kind of contract agreeing to Apple's trial period?
[14:43:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] 02Here's hoping - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 874 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:27] <exec> 08└─Between Unionization, GamerGate and the Hulk Hogan trial there's a good chance that PoS media company is going to burn. Even if Gawker is successful in defending their "right" to host Hulk Hogan's sex tape their liability insurance will be shot. What friggn double standard garbage they denounce the...
[14:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's hoping - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:29] <exec> 08└─Could you imagine a horde of Kotaku refugees descending on us?
[14:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02That's good, no one likes static shocks - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:30] <exec> 08└─Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize
[14:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We will never make it to space - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:29] <exec> 08└─There are centuries of available fossil fuels, solar and nuclear propulsion methods, and rocket fuels not made of hydrocarbons.
[14:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh well. AMD sucks anyway. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:55] <exec> 08└─I only have one AMD CPU these days, because they haven't been competitive in laptop parts for a while, but they don't go in for artificial market segmentation that Intel does. When I wanted a low-power mini-ITX board, I could get an AMD one, but Intel wouldn't let anyone sell Atom boards with more t...
[14:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:13] <exec> 08└─I think the upper echelons figured out to sack the new Rome all by themselves and be well away before the "bill" comes due.
[14:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:So how do you feel? - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:29] <exec> 08└─I honestly have NOT forgotten the Russians. Russia has just recently completed their Memorial Day observances, complete with the parades in Red Square. I "observed" a lot of that on Russian Times. The commentary posted to the articles was often embarrassing - US people posted a lot of hateful crap,...
[14:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─You try, since all you've been doing is making very short comments that explain absolutely nothing. How insightful.
[14:48:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheLink [332] 02Coal - 06Newly Discovered Fungus Could Eat the Plastic Out of Landfills - 698 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:10] <exec> 08└─There's a theory that a lot of coal around today is due to the days when fungi didn't digest wood from dead trees and before those types of fungi developed, you got a nice big layer of coal, after, not so much: http://www.scientificamerican.com
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[15:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Distributed backup strategy - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:30] <exec> 08└─turning out to be a TAR backup of the whole WP site
[15:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Subject - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there's no standard for a maximum size, but it's common sense to run some sanity checks whenever you download data. If one browser failed to do this, I'd understand, but it says that Safari, Chrome and Firefox are all vulnerable.
[15:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Surprise - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:33] <exec> 08└─Technically, the existence of this bug is no surprise, as there is no rule of standard anywhere which states that the favicon files have to be below a specified limit.
[15:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nesh [269] (Score:2, Funny) 02Other proposal - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:52] <exec> 08└─instead of giving these people valuable public space, why not organise 'text walker tipping' contests. (https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Cow_tipping/ [wikipedia.org]) ?
[15:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Here, Please - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:53] <exec> 08└─I would like to see these in New York. Of course, New Yorkers would promptly ignore them.
[15:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03vrt3 [5494] (Score:1) 02Pure (stupid) publicity stunt - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:54] <exec> 08└─It's a pure publicity stunt of the store. City council isn't pleased, and demands that the store clean it up ASAP. I live in Antwerp, but haven't bothered to go and have a look. What I don't understand: there is only one lane; are people supposed to all walk in the same direction? Otherwise collisio...
[15:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Fundamental flaw.... - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:56] <exec> 08└─If you're a meanderthal walking along with your eyes fixed to the phone, how will you see the "Text walking lane" sign? I'd suggest 6-foot-deep pits - its the only way to be sure. For best results, place in the geometric centre of the path (most humans will instinctively keep to the left or right an...
[15:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mucsdnop [3687] (Score:1) 02Mindless drones - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:57] <exec> 08└─If the people on phones are so preoccupied that they aren't watching where they're going, why would they be watching to make sure they remain in their designated area?
[15:42:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Hillary as president? - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 733 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:09] <exec> 08└─Hillary as president? Offtopic for this thread, but not outrageous at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's a done deal. The backroom negotiations have already happened; the election will now be arranged to come out as planned. At least, that's how it looks from my European perspective. The R's have fi...
[15:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Hillary as president? - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 2010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─There's actually a very logical reason for the huge number of Republican candidates. It starts from the observation that of the 12 declared candidates, only 4 (Cruz, Graham, Paul, and Rubio) are currently holding down any kind of job. For the rest, campaigning for president while spouting the platit...
[15:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Hillary as president? - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 2640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:15] <exec> 08└─As somebody from the USA let me explain how it works here.....ya see just as the classical fiscal conservatives were run out the republican tent in the 80s by the "We want nothing on TV an 8 year old can't watch" moral majority in the 1980s? Well now they are getting chunked in the back of the tent...
[15:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defamation - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:18] <exec> 08└─What's with these idiots not using things like TOR? The government doesn't care about free speech, so you have to ensure anonymity somehow. I would laugh if they were unable to find out who posted it.
[15:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:36] <exec> 08└─I'll steal a link from sudo rm -rf's post below [soylentnews.org]: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]. Ontario's system of deposit refunds for beer bottles, through "The Beer Store" (The Beer Store is owned by three international brewers: Labatt, Molso...
[15:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:39] <exec> 08└─I believe that typically glass/aluminum is not an issue for recycling. Metals in particular are relatively easy to recycle, especially when pre-sorted (achieved with a deposit). I've lived in both the US states of Michigan and Arizona, with Michigan having the highest deposit (0.10USD per carbonated...
[15:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Reuse, Recycling Fun - 06Recycling is Dying - 2057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:44] <exec> 08└─I dunno, I keep glass containers from salsa, pickles, and the like around as a kind of game to see how I can reuse them. My wife wanted a salt scrub so I made one from kosher salt, olive oil, rosemary from our plant in the window, and lemon zest grated from the lemons she likes with Coronas and put...
[15:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Ecology - 06Recycling is Dying - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:50] <exec> 08└─Insightful? Really mods? Lets try thinking about this logically, mmkay? Lets say his "20 years instead of 2" was applied......would you REALLY want to run a PC from say 1997? A phone? Hell even TVs have come a pretty long way since then! Lets use myself as an example...I just replaced my 4 year old...
[15:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Please somebody (other than me) do something - 06Recycling is Dying - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:54] <exec> 08└─You can compost paper. Mix it with vegetable peels and organics, through in a container of red worms you can get at a nursery, and they'll turn it into light, fluffy potting soil in a couple of months. I do that for my garden and stuff planted in it grows faster than with MiracleGro.
[15:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Bamboo - 06Recycling is Dying - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:02] <exec> 08└─I have occasionally read sites that advocate bamboo for sequestration, which makes amazingly good sense. Bamboo is an exceptionally versatile material, and it grows fast. You can make virtually anything out of the stuff. Some of the best flooring you can get is bamboo. You can make bikes out of it....
[15:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score:2) 02Re:A promising area for new tech... - 06The Physics of Badminton - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:15] <exec> 08└─First I just want to say, I'm amazed somehow that this research was submitted and accepted to SN but I am happy to see it!
[15:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02Re:A promising area for new tech... - 06The Physics of Badminton - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:16] <exec> 08└─Having the source paper was definitely a boon. In this case, I just thought the math might be more familiar than the sport itself. A bit disappointing that the paper didn't really try to apply its findings further to challenge any traditional aspects of the game, but it was thorough stuff. The feath...
[15:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Badminton and golf - 06The Physics of Badminton - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─I was going to make a crack about it being the object of both sports to hit birdies, but there's another relationship When you hit a golf shot perfectly square - which is a lot harder to do than it sounds - it feels exactly like hitting a birdie in the middle of a badminton racket. That is, there is...
[15:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Badminton and golf - 06The Physics of Badminton - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:19] <exec> 08└─Golfers play with small balls, and badminton players don't even have balls.
[15:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:alt.conspiracy.apple.godwin - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:31] <exec> 08└─People spoke up, a notoriously arrogant company changed their mind. You're right, that clearly landed in the depths of Hitler. Whatever.
[15:43:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 849 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:57] <exec> 08└─MY fuckin Union works. Mostly it keeps ass kissing bastard like you out of the ranks. You will get promoted to admin with talk like that, and you will end up working 60-80 hour weeks thinking you are furthering your career! GO! Lundberg! We are all pulling for you! Yes, someday you will be able to...
[15:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 1841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:58] <exec> 08└─Why do you think we were 'latchkey kids'? It's because it took two parents working their asses off to keep even basic food on the table. (My own hate of Hamburger Helper, Meatloaf, and Lima beans means even seeing it on a table for human consumption is outright rage-inducing) I grew up in an era - t...
[15:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's hoping - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─goes off like a stink bomb and they spread over the rest of the net
[15:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's hoping - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my first thought when I heard the news: <sarcasm>couldn't have happened to a nicer company.</sarcasm>
[15:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02What about dying companies? - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:06] <exec> 08└─Gawker will become the first digital-only news site to have a union
[15:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Antarctica - 06Airplanes Grounded in Poland After Hackers Allegedly Attack Flight Plan Computer - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:40] <exec> 08└─I would send them to Antarctica so they could be South Polish.
[15:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:46] <exec> 08└─You already know,
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:49] <exec> 08└─If the so egregoiusly down-modded poster had the slighted understanding of sampling, statistics, inductive reasoning, and just plain SCIENCE, they would not have said such a stupid thing.
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[16:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Error: Remove Door Handles - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:32] <exec> 08└─Really, why do we need door handles on shared doors like bathrooms? Use of a two-way crash bar would solve much of the transference. Or even motion sensors, like supermarkets?
[16:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mmmmm Blue LEDS.... - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:33] <exec> 08└─Cool Blue saves lives.
[16:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02strong titanium dioxide UV resistant germs - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:35] <exec> 08└─Was there a control handle that had UV but not coating?
[16:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dr zim [748] (Score:1) 02Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:37] <exec> 08└─Not only is copper cheaper, but doesn't require a constant power supply. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:38] <exec> 08└─1. copper rusts 2. ever touched copper and had your hand smell afterward? no? so no, copper handles is not what you want.
[16:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:40] <exec> 08└─You could also use silver handles. They are "a bit" more expensive, though. :-)
[16:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:41] <exec> 08└─Solid copper would never wear out and require replacement. This thing is value engineered to require replacement annually if not more often because you've got a power feed thru a moving power cable that'll wear out and break and fundamentally its a painted handle, its going to look like crap in a ye...
[16:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:43] <exec> 08└─If we used copper, a bunch of crack heads would steal all our doorknobs for scrap. With UV door handles, we only end up with skin-cancer hands.
[16:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Good and bad - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:44] <exec> 08└─Hmmm.... if this thing emits UV light, will it attract flies? If so it might end up germier than a standard door handle, especially once you get a good coating of grime on the magic surface to shield the bugs from the antibacterial voodoo. Assuming the above is not a problem, however, why stop at do...
[16:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 0299.8% effective - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:46] <exec> 08└─Oblig xkcd [xkcd.org]
[16:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"Facebook uses too many resources" - apple support - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:54] <exec> 08└─It is trivial to crash mobile safari, just spend ten minutes on Facebook. This is inexcusable. My MacBook pro just but the dust. For many reasons I may never purchase an apple product ever again.
[16:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Mobile Browsers vs Scripts - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:55] <exec> 08└─Funny, Facebook doesn't kill my mobile browser but things with too many scripts will, like Reason.com. I wonder if that's intended to push us towards mobile (spyware) apps for each site.
[16:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re: - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:57] <exec> 08└─It is trivial to crash mobile safari, just spend ten minutes on Facebook.
[16:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Resistance is futile - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:59] <exec> 08└─I tried totally ignoring facebook. I still do for the most part, but too many people that I actually care about use it. So, I end up checking it once every couple of months, sometimes more frequently. Plus, my wife is on it, nearly constantly, so I don't really need to check it very often.
[16:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprise - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:00] <exec> 08└─And frankly, I'm surprised that downloading the favicon behaves differently than downloading anything else, because at the end the only difference between a favicon and another image is where it gets displayed.
[16:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02This is why we have standards committees. - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:02] <exec> 08└─Iirc some browser just started displaying fab icon.ico if one was available. I don't object to vendor extensions but it should have been submitted to the w3c so they could specify just what a fab icon actually is. If you can crash a browser then likely a specially crafted Davison could install malwa...
[16:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we have standards committees. - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:03] <exec> 08└─<input autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off">
[16:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:This is why we have standards committees. - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:05] <exec> 08└─By the way soes anyone know how to totally disable iOS autocorrect
[16:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we have standards committees. - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:07] <exec> 08└─Open the “Settings” app on the iPhone or iPadGo to “General” and then to “Keyboard”Locate “Auto-Capitalization” and flip the switch to the OFF positionLocate “Auto-Correction” and flip the switch to the OFF positionExit out of Settings as usual
[16:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Mindless drones - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:26] <exec> 08└─They'd head towards where it's safe for them.
[16:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:1) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─Correct. Aside from metals and clean poly water bottles the entire rest of the 'recycle' chain is a net negative in terms of both energy *and* environmental impact. It costs more in terms of energy and chemicals to recycle paper than to use new wood pulp. The additional positive is that *all* of tha...
[16:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:14] <exec> 08└─Oh you get things hot enough and anything distills, I assure you of that. It takes lava like heat but it'll work. That's what I'm proposing. You are correct that the less energy intensive way to chemically refine gold at room temp has some environmental and safety issues...
[16:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ecology - 06Recycling is Dying - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the progress is fast, sometimes blazing fast - considering the consequences of not doing it [abc.net.au], sometimes really worth replacing your washing machine before the 2 years elapsed. Look, mate, this life isn't made only from mobile gizmos. I have no problem with the progress rate, all I'...
[16:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I was once charged to find 10 ton of plastic wa - 06Recycling is Dying - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:30] <exec> 08└─My conclusion was that there is a lot of corruption in NY
[16:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Bamboo - 06Recycling is Dying - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:37] <exec> 08└─Some of the best flooring you can get is bamboo.
[16:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Most artists earn very little from streaming - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:19] <exec> 08└─Swift is in a position of advantage when negotiating with her label. Newly signed artists get very little out of their recording contracts and do not get anything significant from streaming. It's the labels that get all the money. If you want to support an artist see a live performance at a club and...
[16:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Devolution - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:56] <exec> 08└─Question....can't you take one of the bazillion Android notebooks and slap Linux on it? After all unlocking Android is pretty trivial and from the looks of this tutorial [pressbyte.com] you can easily slap Ubuntu on the Asus Transformer which looks to be about the size and power you're after. HTH.
[16:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh well. AMD sucks anyway. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:09] <exec> 08└─Do it dude, pull the trigger and get an FX. I felt the same as you.....until I got a chance to put an FX8350 through its paces at the shop and holy shit, it just blew away my Phenom X6 WHILE using less power overall! I was impressed enough I picked up an FX8320E and despite its base clock having 600...
[16:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:28] <exec> 08└─Man, could that put a new twist on Gilligan's Island.
[16:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bucket58 [1305] (Score:1) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:31] <exec> 08└─Where I live, they still test them every month on the first Monday at noon. They are mostly there for tornado alerts, but they have an alternate sound pattern for Civil Defense mode.
[16:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:30] <exec> 08└─Not hating, just pointing out an idiot when one raises its ugly head. If the so egregoiusly down-modded poster had the slighted understanding of sampling, statistics, inductive reasoning, and just plain SCIENCE, they would not have said such a stupid thing.
[16:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:48] <exec> 08└─If your favourite candidate comes out ahead, you can feel like a winner, while if he doesn't, you can complain about the dumb people who don't understand that your favourite candidate is the right one.
[16:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Stay cautious - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:05] <exec> 08└─Make an separate site frontend that is fully tighted up? Like: realysecure.soylentnews.org ordinary.soylentnews.org
[16:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thank You - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:22] <exec> 08└─That sounds great. However you could do a combination of auto-selection for users not having that cookie set, and cookie selection for users with that cookie. That way there's a good chance that users will get the right version for their system right out of the box, but they still have the option to...
[16:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Please keep a plain http+IPv4 life line for fuckup - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:33] <exec> 08└─Secure crypto and all that is good but please keep a dirty simple frontend around for the situations when all else fails. Like plain http over IPv4 but with a stern warning at the top of every page "Your connection is vurnable" in bold red with normal font size. Perhaps login should be prevented fro...
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[17:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Error: Remove Door Handles - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:41] <exec> 08└─Door knob = $9 Crash bar = $129 But what's money got to do with it?
[17:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Error: Remove Door Handles - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder too as I never touch them directly. Usually I just grab part of my shirt, or sleeve, and use that. Personally, I don't see the use for the knob at all unless it's a single person bathroom and a privacy issue. I don't know about the cost, but the idea of a crash bar appeals to me, but I want...
[17:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:49] <exec> 08└─You could also use silver handles. They are "a bit" more expensive, though. :-)
[17:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:50] <exec> 08└─They'd be gone as soon as you turn around. People will steal anything, especially anything thats worth money. People already break into houses to strip out all the copper, silver would be gone even quicker.
[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dr zim [748] (Score:1) 02Re:Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:52] <exec> 08└─Pure copper, sure.. but as mentioned in the reference article, most copper alloys exhibit the same properties, including brass, which has been a mainstay on door handles for years.
[17:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good and bad - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:56] <exec> 08└─Soylent does unicode, learn it, use it, love it: Assuming the above is not a problem, however, why stop at door handles? Taps¹ ... ¹AKA "faucets"
[17:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:1) 02Re:99.8% effective - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:58] <exec> 08└─So you kill off 99.8% of germs, leaving a competition-free breeding ground for the 0.2% of germs which are resistant. Now you have a door-handle coated in anti-bacterial-resistant germs. Darwinism in action.
[17:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:3, Insightful) 02FUCKING BULLSHIT - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:59] <exec> 08└─This, like the hand-sanitizer dispensers in every hallway, is exactly why your immune systems are shit and it's exactly why you're still getting sick for weeks at a time every flu season even though you received the flu vaccine, while I haven't received any vaccine in years and all I get is a day of...
[17:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FUCKING BULLSHIT - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:01] <exec> 08└─If it is bullshit must we also say fucking bullshit. Crass and unseeded...Makes you sound irrational and off the handle.
[17:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:10] <exec> 08└─It's easy to think of it in hindsight. But man, have you EVER considered the size of a bookmark icon your entire life before today?
[17:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:12] <exec> 08└─Well, I've never written a web browser, so this specific situation never came up. But I wrote plenty of code that had to download data from untrusted sources. If there's something that shouldn't ever exceed n bytes in normal circumstances, then you add a sanity check that aborts the download if it r...
[17:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:13] <exec> 08└─http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/663/912/ecb.png [kym-cdn.com]
[17:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:18] <exec> 08└─Try Zerohedge [zerohedge.com] or the The Green Site [slashdot.org] on the latest generation of iPod if you want to experience a crash. Both dump more ad-tracking code than Safari can handle (or than anyone should have ever reasonably been expected to handle).
[17:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02i did a lot of work on spellswell - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:23] <exec> 08└─and led the standards committee that defined a protocol for interapplication text processing. to me autocorrect is particularly vexing because spellswell and lookup both worked better in the 1980s. apple could have licensed our oem engine rather than coming up with this crud at great expense.
[17:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we have standards committees. - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:25] <exec> 08└─I hate this victim-blaming nonsense. You're saying that the way to prevent having your home broken into is to not have a home, and the way to prevent having your stuff stolen is to not own anything. Stop it with this bullshit, its disgusting. It doesn't help anything and just lets everyone know what...
[17:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Data Cost - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the telcos and anyone else who charges for data is secretly behind this kind of shit. Its to their financial benefit for people to receive large amounts of data without realizing it. The concept of charging for data is absurd enough, especially since you have little control over the data...
[17:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03francois.barbier [651] (Score:2) 02Re:Fundamental flaw.... - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─OK, you can put something soft at the bottom if you like.
[17:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score:1) 02Re:What if - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:16] <exec> 08└─I was actually kind of hoping it would end up having come from a relative...like his daughter or niece.
[17:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Reuse, Recycling Fun - 06Recycling is Dying - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:43] <exec> 08└─Melting most non ferrous metals is fairly simple which would likely be most of what you would be dealing with. For steel and Iron you are going to need something more than waste paper/wood products. If you are interested in this topic here is a page [backyardmetalcasting.com] I found a while ago whe...
[17:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:Ecology - 06Recycling is Dying - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:50] <exec> 08└─I was still using my Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121 until very recently --- 933MHz Pentium III w/ 768 MB RAM and a 4GB SSD running Windows XP. Still works fine, except that web sites run too much Javascript for it to manage them (and the lack of security updates makes browsing anything other than known si...
[17:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wolfinator [3173] (Score:1) 02Re:Personal pet peeve: toys packaging - 06Recycling is Dying - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:06] <exec> 08└─Another echo on the topic of children's toys. It's not just the packaging - it's how disposable the toys themselves are. They're made cheap, they're not recyclable, they die so fast... As a father of some young uns, I got turned on to Green Toys (http://greentoys.com/). I'm not affiliated with the c...
[17:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Um, Please, - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:41] <exec> 08└─Ah, Thanks, AC!
[17:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Concrete? Surface structures? - 06New ESA Head Wörner: 'We Could Build All Kinds of Things with Moon Concrete' - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:15] <exec> 08└─Concrete requires one thing that Moon doesn't have in abundance - water. Concrete is also based on carbon chemistry, again, something that moon doesn't have. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But then even if you could somehow build concrete without carbon o...
[17:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:03] <exec> 08└─So it's scientific to simply assume you're right that people's answers are correct.
[17:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:04] <exec> 08└─The idiot frist poster said any sampling was wrong,
[17:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:22] <exec> 08└─Or fake the third party to be insignificant small in number of votes and thus a wasted vote to avoid. So keeping the polls out of the election could actually benefit democracy. (Otoh it seems then like a choice between three ways to waste a vote)
[17:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:23] <exec> 08└─Or fake the third party to be insignificant small in number of votes and thus a wasted vote to avoid.
[17:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Decline in surveys.. well not a mystery? - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:25] <exec> 08└─and the decline in people willing to answer surveys
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[18:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02about the qubit count - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:32] <exec> 08└─NBF [nextbigfuture.com] seems to think that it could go slightly over 1152 qubits because there are 2048 to choose from. As with all D-wave news, take it with a grain of salt. I'd like to see D-Wave offering a compelling performance boost over classical computing, and a slight variation in qubits is...
[18:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Quantum Quantum Quantum - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:33] <exec> 08└─Have these been independently verified to be actual quantum computers?
[18:41:35] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:Quantum Quantum Quantum - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:36] <exec> 08└─Have these been independently verified to be actual quantum computers?
[18:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:Quantum Quantum Quantum - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:37] <exec> 08└─The summary and article at least don't claim full quantum computing. It's a quantum annealer, which lots of experts have said their previous products were. Quantum annealing is as I understand it quite useful, but it's not everything a general quantum computer could be capable of doing. That said, a...
[18:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Quantun Computing for Dummies? - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:39] <exec> 08└─i cant be bothered with wikipedia. how do these work? my father used to use analog computers to calculate missile trajectories. at the time they were faster and cheaper than digital.
[18:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Error: Remove Door Handles - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:49] <exec> 08└─I have seen these [stepnpull.com] in a few restaurant, they work quite well.
[18:42:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02FUCKING BULLSHIT - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 1056 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:03] <exec> 08└─This, like the hand-sanitizer dispensers in every hallway, is exactly why your immune systems are shit and it's exactly why you're still getting sick for weeks at a time every flu season even though you received the flu vaccine, while I haven't received any vaccine in years and all I get is a day of...
[18:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FUCKING BULLSHIT - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:05] <exec> 08└─> irrational and off the handle Well, duh!
[18:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:FUCKING BULLSHIT - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:07] <exec> 08└─Yup. By killing off all the germs, we are killing off our ability to fight any germs we come into contact with. So until mass immunization against every strain of rhinovirus, norovirus, rotovirus, etc. is possible, we might as we just get over our germophobia and use a $1 stainless steel or plastic...
[18:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:FUCKING BULLSHIT - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:09] <exec> 08└─I don't really have time to go into the details, but your post shows that you do not understand the immune system and it is unfortunate that perpetuating misconceptions gets an Insightful moderation. hand-sanitizer dispensers in every hallway, is exactly why your immune systems are shit and it's ex...
[18:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I don't wash my hands after using the rest room - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:10] <exec> 08└─Do you want to know why I never wash my hands after using the toilet? Because I learned how not to shit or piss on them... I only wash my hands after I'd shit or pissed on them and that happens... tops... TOPS, once or twice a week... (Thank you Mr. Carlin - you are sorely missed)
[18:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Glass tube for door handle? - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:12] <exec> 08└─Doesn't sound exactly robust!
[18:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re: - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:29] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. But I don't think I would sweat it if my MP3 player choked while trying to render a bloated website.
[18:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Catchy nickname - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:38] <exec> 08└─I think this vulnerability could really use a more serious sounding nickname. How about "Doomhammer" ?
[18:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:25 years from now - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:48] <exec> 08└─I'm just a couple years too young to have been that dude.
[18:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:55] <exec> 08└─Waste-to-energy [wikipedia.org] technologies allow energy to be directly recovered from waste in the incinerator plants. This is the reason Sweden is actually importing garbage [aljazeera.com].
[18:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Reuse, Recycling Fun - 06Recycling is Dying - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:59] <exec> 08└─Wow, thanks for the link!
[18:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:Ecology - 06Recycling is Dying - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:08] <exec> 08└─It depends on the product. Using an example of Computer which is still a maturing technology to invalidate the entire concept is ridiculous. In my own life, The HotPoint refriderator that my Grandparents bought for their first house in 1954, then moved with them, then put in the basement as a soda...
[18:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please somebody (other than me) do something - 06Recycling is Dying - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:14] <exec> 08└─That bit sounded crazy to me as well. Sounds more like sorting is dying. No wonder then if nobody wants your mixed waste... Yes, there will always be assholes who refuse to sort their trash or even sabotage the effort on purpose. But that's a small minority. It's really not that hard. And it's kinda...
[18:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bamboo - 06Recycling is Dying - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:25] <exec> 08└─It would want to, oak trees take a fair while to grow compared to bamboo.
[18:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Bamboo - 06Recycling is Dying - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:26] <exec> 08└─I don't have bamboo flooring myself, but I've seen model homes built entirely out of bamboo in museums like Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. So what I wrote is based on memory of what I read there. But here's a link to a site [about.com] with more info on bamboo flooring: Durability: There are certain...
[18:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Bamboo - 06Recycling is Dying - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:28] <exec> 08└─I believe that seamless chemical flooring is the best by most metrics. Insulative so it is not cold on your feet, elastic so dropped objects do not shatter, smooth and water proof so cleaning is easy, and relatively inexpensive. If you want hard flooring perhaps concrete is a good alternative.
[18:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A promising area for new tech... - 06The Physics of Badminton - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:42] <exec> 08└─I'm a farmer. I have geese. They live for a long time. Many, many years. Each year, they moult naturally. I could fill you a bucket with feathers, even of pretty good quality, every year. That's enough for a bunch of shuttlecocks. I don't know where you come up with this ignorant nonsense about kill...
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh well. AMD sucks anyway. - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:03] <exec> 08└─Intel moved to the slot architecture to be able to fit a bigger heat sink on the package
[18:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory reminder - 06Who Protects Your Privacy? Apple, Yahoo, & Dropbox According to EFF - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:48] <exec> 08└─I assume you meant http://owncloud.org [owncloud.org]?
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[19:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03octothorpe [1434] (Score:1) 02Reciprocate to readers... - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:32] <exec> 08└─It is only fair if the users are allowed to only pay for the pages they read.
[19:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Reciprocate to readers... - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:33] <exec> 08└─From what I heard on the radio this evening, it only apply a to kindle unlimited, where you pay £x a month for unlimited books. Some authors were gaming the system.
[19:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03octothorpe [1434] (Score:1) 02Re:Reciprocate to readers... - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:35] <exec> 08└─It makes sense then.. In the streaming music equivalent, I would not want $crappy_artist to get paid for $crappy_song if I turn it off 10 seconds into the song after it comes on. But then, I'm sure I'm over-simplifying something somewhere.
[19:41:36] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Jiro [3176] 02Stop this - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 1118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:37] <exec> 08└─Would you guys please stop reposting Slashdot stories that are already debunked when they appear on Slashdot? This is being done only for a special program where people are able to read as many books as they want and not pay for them individually, just for the service. The authors are then paid base...
[19:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Quantum Quantum Quantum - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:47] <exec> 08└─You both have and don't have a cat. But only until you look for it.
[19:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quantum Quantum Quantum - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:48] <exec> 08└─no, I don't have a cat. I think I might have, once, but I'm not entirely sure.
[19:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quantun Computing for Dummies? - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:52] <exec> 08└─A "true" quantum computer would use quantum states (qbits) which can act as a regular bit but also exhibits behavior rooted in quantum mechanics. In essence, they are physical representation of a bit which is also able to attain superposition just like regular quantum particles. The fundamental idea...
[19:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Quantun Computing for Dummies? - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 1658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:54] <exec> 08└─An analog computer is programmable but not easily programmable like a microprocessor. Ever hear of an operational amplifier or op-amp? The operation part of the name means mathematic operations. They can be setup to add, subtract, multiply, divide, compare, invert, integrate, derivative etc. voltage...
[19:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:16] <exec> 08└─There's been a good bit of work recently on how effective copper alloys are in reducing hospital acquired infections. Michael Schmidt (of This Week in Microbiology) has been working on that for a while. It's not necessarily that useful for most places, but in hospitals where you've got a lot of nast...
[19:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Pure (stupid) publicity stunt - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:19] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you have discovered their plan. Make the textwalkers crash into each other!
[19:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not free? - 06Recycling is Dying - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:20] <exec> 08└─Eventually the earth will run out of resources and there won't be any raw materials left in the ground. Figuring out how to recycle everything is a good investment for the future, when even tons of dirt won't produce milligrams of raw material and recycling becomes the lowest-hanging fruit.
[19:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bamboo - 06Recycling is Dying - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:45] <exec> 08└─See also: http://www.scmp.com [scmp.com] http://www.skyscrapercity.com [skyscrapercity.com]
[19:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Personal pet peeve: toys packaging - 06Recycling is Dying - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:49] <exec> 08└─c0lo hit [soylentnews.org] the problem dead-on - planned obsolescence is an inevitability under capitalism. If you make washing machines, for example, that last generations, then once everybody has one you've put yourself out of businesses. shoddy manufacturing ensures their revenue stream.
[19:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um, Please, - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:25] <exec> 08└─Hmm, the article explicitly says she is NOT allowing the streaming of the album. Mod: misinformative?
[19:45:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:33] <exec> 08└─Wait. Didn't she or her representative sign some kind of contract agreeing to Apple's trial period?
[19:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:52] <exec> 08└─I've been a member of two unions and what it taught me was that if you're a total rock star and B.A.M.F. in what you do, it doesn't matter because no matter how good you are the slug in the next cube gets the same pay.
[19:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:53] <exec> 08└─>> MY fuckin Union works. Mostly it keeps ass kissing bastard like you out of the ranks. Are there no problems in your union... no *serious* problems? Or are you just blind to them with all your ra-ra-ra?
[19:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:June 22 2016 - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:55] <exec> 08└─You folks who think you are too good for unions and who are 'supermen, young and strong' - you'll have a fucking RUDE AWAKENING in no time flat.
[19:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:56] <exec> 08└─The idiot frist poster said any sampling was wrong,
[19:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Stay cautious - 06Real-Life Experience With HSTS/HPKP - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:36] <exec> 08└─There's technical and social reasons why that's difficult at best. when launchpad used to have pre-production code on edge.launchpad.net, you'd get links to edge everywhere fro the users that were using it. Given tighter TLS settings will break a good chunk of the userbase, it would mean random clic...
[19:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Google - 06Who Protects Your Privacy? Apple, Yahoo, & Dropbox According to EFF - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:22] <exec> 08└─Apple paid the EFF more this year.
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[20:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop this - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:38] <exec> 08└─The summary does say exactly what you said. It doesn't appear misleading. The submitter's question is even focused on the idea of paying content producers based on what subscription users are actually reading/watching. He did leave out the part that the change is because authors were being paid if s...
[20:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop this - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:39] <exec> 08└─> the change is because authors were being paid if someone just glanced at the first chapter and didn't actually read the book. Seems like this is a correction too far in the opposite direction. Pay-per-page seems like it could lead to authors focusing on a narrow type of writing that would maximize...
[20:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop this - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, i agree. They'll probably tweak their formula down the road. They did say that page count ignores the writer's font, spacing, and foreword stuff. The formula also takes into account how long you spend on a page. It ignores any second reading. Planning on sitting down with Anatham again soon an...
[20:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop this - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:42] <exec> 08└─It's misleading because the headline makes you think that it happens for normal ebooks that you buy individually. It doesn't.
[20:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop this - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:44] <exec> 08└─You stop reading the old s(h)ite...
[20:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Writers are paid by the word and by the page. - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 4046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:45] <exec> 08└─Writers are already paid more to write lengthier, wider, thicker books. Paying writers only for pages that have been read is simply an incentive not to write dull, repetitive, padded books. Writers are already paid more to write lengthier, wider, thicker books. Paying writers only for pages that hav...
[20:41:46] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02Amazon knows what pages you read - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, my, you read that steamy scene again the next day even though you were well past it. You weren't doing something... embarrassing, were you? Really, I don't care if it's isolated to Kindle Monthly or Kindle Plus or Kindle From Space or whatever it's called. They have the infrastructure to collect...
[20:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazon knows what pages you read - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And it WILL show up in court sooner or later that Little Johnny read something so he MUST be guilty. This is why when I buy Ebooks, they first get passed through DRM removal and then they go into my private library manager and get converted to a common format. I'm never buying a subscriptio...
[20:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazon knows what pages you read - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:50] <exec> 08└─No problem. We will search your private library. We will find books containing sex scenes. We will find books containing child characters. We will convict you for possessing a library containing both children and porn. You think you have fourth and fifth amendment rights? You have no rights, peon. ~...
[20:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I want to distribute ebooks from my own website - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:52] <exec> 08└─i prefer just to write web pages but i want to reach readers who prefer enooks. however i dont want to go through amazon. consider that many of my readers are mentally ill. i dontwant amazon to log their interest in my books. is there a way that some can load my ebook onto their kindle without going...
[20:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want to distribute ebooks from my own website - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:53] <exec> 08└─I don't trust web pages. The sharp angled brackets are all conspiring to give me painful paper cuts. Post entire texts of your books to the comments sections of popular news-for-trolls sites. You're sure to reach mentally ill readers that way.
[20:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I want to distribute ebooks from my own website - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:55] <exec> 08└─Package it as a file and link it on your site. You can use Calibre [calibre-ebook.com] or something to convert HTML to EPUB MOBI. Kindle supports [wikipedia.org] TXT, PDF, and HTML but some or all of these aren't "reflowable". So just convert to MOBI. To get non-Amazon ebooks onto the Kindle, you ca...
[20:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When all you produce is content - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:56] <exec> 08└─Instead of art, I don't think you deserve any better.
[20:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:about the qubit count - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:01] <exec> 08└─T-T-T-Two Hundred-Thousand!!!!!!!!!!
[20:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:about the qubit count - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:02] <exec> 08└─mfw you get the informative mod instead of me
[20:42:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] 02Re:Quantum Quantum Quantum - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:08] <exec> 08└─The summary and article at least don't claim full quantum computing. It's a quantum annealer, which lots of experts have said their previous products were. Quantum annealing is as I understand it quite useful, but it's not everything a general quantum computer could be capable of doing. That said, a...
[20:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quantun Computing for Dummies? - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:12] <exec> 08└─Beware of programmers that carry wire cutters in their pockets.
[20:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Error: Remove Door Handles - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:23] <exec> 08└─UV & titanium dioxide door knob & batteries = over $129
[20:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Error: Remove Door Handles - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:27] <exec> 08└─I assume they have Ebola on them, myself. Being a man, I can tell you that a percentage of my lot are the most disgusting, unhygienic, raised-in-a-barn screaming monkeys, and that I'm just happy when they're not feces everywhere and pools of urine. Issue of trust I guess. If I knew it was only matur...
[20:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Error: Remove Door Handles - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:28] <exec> 08└─Personally I prefer a hot air blower to an empty paper towel dispenser. People are very wasteful with paper towels. Many take three or more right away and only use the middle instead of taking one and using all of it. Also, there are hot air blowers that work well enough. A high air volume is more i...
[20:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FUCKING BULLSHIT - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:46] <exec> 08└─> Makes you sound irrational and off the handle. You must be new here and therefore congratulations on figuring out E-fueled's true nature so quickly.
[20:42:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe [2583] 02Re:FUCKING BULLSHIT - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:48] <exec> 08└─I don't really have time to go into the details, but your post shows that you do not understand the immune system and it is unfortunate that perpetuating misconceptions gets an Insightful moderation. hand-sanitizer dispensers in every hallway, is exactly why your immune systems are shit and it's ex...
[20:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Resistance is futile - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:08] <exec> 08└─...ignoring facebook. I still do for the most part, but too many people that I actually care about use it.
[20:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Catchy nickname - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:20] <exec> 08└─Favanull
[20:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Catchy nickname - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:21] <exec> 08└─Haha, seconded! :D
[20:44:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Hillary as president? - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 2010 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:04] <exec> 08└─There's actually a very logical reason for the huge number of Republican candidates. It starts from the observation that of the 12 declared candidates, only 4 (Cruz, Graham, Paul, and Rubio) are currently holding down any kind of job. For the rest, campaigning for president while spouting the platit...
[20:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:15] <exec> 08└─> why would a political candidate make a big deal out of a comment? Because he's just a podunk county-board politician, not likely to have a sophisticated understanding of public relations.
[20:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Personal pet peeve: toys packaging - 06Recycling is Dying - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:17] <exec> 08└─If you make washing machines, for example, that last generations, then once everybody has one you've put yourself out of businesses. Not necessarily. If you're a good manufacturer, you make better and better models so that people want to upgrade later because the new ones have new features and bett...
[20:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02Re:A promising area for new tech... - 06The Physics of Badminton - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:34] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your experience, I have no such agenda of spreading any lies or evidence myself but wanted to raise the concerns freely presented elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A promising area for new tech... - 06The Physics of Badminton - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:35] <exec> 08└─You'd better start arresting birds, then. They pluck themselves to line their nests. Unfortunately, you can't really have it all ways at once. From dead birds? Somehow the birds are ending up dead and I'll bet it wasn't natural causes. From live birds? Incompetent idiots might injure birds. Wait, sy...
[20:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:00] <exec> 08└─So there was nothing wrong with her reasoning, but you can't just give her that and move on, because you think she's and airhead celeb? Because the drivel you followed with, make her seem pretty much a genius by comparison.
[20:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02Compensation for what ? - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:07] <exec> 08└─Wait, just a moment of history. The last 1 million years or so musicians got compensated when they played music people liked. No musician complaint. (I also not complain then people view my pretty pretty websites and I get, you guess it, nothing for it) This changed about 1920 with the invention of...
[20:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's hoping - 06Gawker Becomes First Online Media Outlet to Unionize - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:32] <exec> 08└─Hey, io9 is decent sci-fi reporting (not great but okay), and Jalopnik is pretty good (Foxtrot Alpha and Flight Club in particular, but even their regular car bloggers are good). Gizmodo, however, is worthless, and Kotaku is 30% tolerable reporting buried under 70% crap.
[20:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03I cant believe its n [638] (Score:1) 02Re:purpose of the Internet is to share information - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:48] <exec> 08└─Or do all those not count as "information". Who decides anyway, Richard Stallman?
[20:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:purpose of the Internet is to share information - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:49] <exec> 08└─Reasonable people don't accept censorship at all.
[20:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of Convicts - 06Australia Passes Controversial Anti-Piracy Web Censorship Law - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:00] <exec> 08└─The whole world has taken a turn for the authoritarian. Is there anywhere in the world left that isn't a libertarian paradise (Somalia) or a police state (US, Australia, UK...)?
[20:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They never were reliable. - 06Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head into 2016 Presidential Election - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:33] <exec> 08└─Getting rather tiring, but nope on the nope. "And" is a logical conjunction, which means that both claims are asserted to be true.
[20:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory reminder - 06Who Protects Your Privacy? Apple, Yahoo, & Dropbox According to EFF - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, thanks for the tip.
[20:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Google - 06Who Protects Your Privacy? Apple, Yahoo, & Dropbox According to EFF - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:01] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. I hope not, as I support the EFF (financially and otherwise) and that would pretty much condemn them. As it is, they're one of the few organizations doing good work for privacy, fairness and openness at the moment.
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[21:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02SUVs - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:32] <exec> 08└─SUVs are all built to appeal to women.
[21:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:SUVs - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:33] <exec> 08└─The really big ones with lots of chrome are, none the less, compensation machines... They also appeal to older boomers who see success as equalling curb weight, so they want a land yacht, the bigger the better.
[21:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02EVs no, but types of cars, sure - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:35] <exec> 08└─Do EVs really have gender specific appeal?
[21:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop this - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:51] <exec> 08└─Could be especially misleading if you didn't read the summary or the article or the comments.
[21:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Quantun Computing for Dummies? - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 4107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:21] <exec> 08└─Quantum computers use the so-called superposition principle of quantum mechanics. Now what does that mean? Imagine you've got several states that you can reliably distinguish. For example, consider a bit. A bit can have two clearly distinguishable states: It can be 0, or it can be 1. The qubit (quan...
[21:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02How far from quantum smashing crypto? - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:22] <exec> 08└─So how far are we from quantum computers smashing public key and asymmetrical encryption?
[21:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Error: Remove Door Handles - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:39] <exec> 08└─Being a man, I can tell you that a percentage of my lot are the most disgusting, unhygienic, raised-in-a-barn screaming monkeys, and that I'm just happy when they're not feces everywhere and pools of urine.
[21:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Error: Remove Door Handles - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:41] <exec> 08└─Really, why do we need door handles on shared doors like bathrooms?
[21:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Copper is cheaper - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:51] <exec> 08└─I didn't know copper was made of ferrite. Copper rails and such are already used in upscale children's hospitals for its excellent properties. The rest of us could use it too.
[21:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FUCKING BULLSHIT - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:02] <exec> 08└─He's a classy guy; don't let it surprise you.
[21:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't wash my hands after using the rest room - 06Students' Invention Offers Germ-Free Door Handle - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:06] <exec> 08└─I only wash my hands after I'd shit or pissed on them and that happens... tops... TOPS, once or twice a week...
[21:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:21] <exec> 08└─Seriously, no one saw this coming? No one? For a small, small icon? No one saw it coming? We have lost this war, if no one thinks about this sort of things at all when designing stuff, i just give up. i just can't understand this. I give up.
[21:43:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02Re:This is why we have standards committees. - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:34] <exec> 08└─By the way soes anyone know how to totally disable iOS autocorrect
[21:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Catchy nickname - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:42] <exec> 08└─I was angling for Faviolence, as conflating physical harm with digital doings is in now.
[21:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:25 years from now - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:53] <exec> 08└─That would be Star Trek IV. One of the best movies of all time.
[21:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please somebody (other than me) do something - 06Recycling is Dying - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:22] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone bother sorting their waste, pay to have it removed, and then watch the company that takes it away try to make a profit on it. Even after that, you have to pay for garbage pickup for whatever they wont take. That certainly does not feel like a civic duty. When recyclers stop charging...
[21:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've always suspected - 06Recycling is Dying - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:28] <exec> 08└─MSUFCU, the credit union of Michigan State University had a huge green building initiative when their headquarters was going up. Their goal was something like a 97% reduction in construction waste. I delivered those materials at the time. They made their goal, how did they do it? By doing something...
[21:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02Re:A promising area for new tech... - 06The Physics of Badminton - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:56] <exec> 08└─If the statement is misleading I should say it motivates the economic practice. The problem is born out of scale.
[21:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A promising area for new tech... - 06The Physics of Badminton - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:57] <exec> 08└─It's irrelevant anyway because badminton shuttlecocks don't use down. And if you're killing geese to get feathers, you are definitely a moron - if you're killing geese for the meat and collecting feathers in the process, well, then the feathers are a by-product and there's no real problem there. Dow...
[21:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:24] <exec> 08└─Either you're replying to the wrong comment, or you don't follow why I was responding. jmorris said her reasoning was mostly twaddle but otherwise solid, prompting hedleyroos to ask what was wrong with her reasoning. I was just pointing out that jmorris did not say that there was something wrong wit...
[21:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair thinking for a celeb - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:28] <exec> 08└─In this case, just because you have a contract, that doesn't mean you can't publicly position yourself on the interpretation and enforcement of the contract using the fact that some day there will probably need to be a new contract as leverage. The contract is just a cemented bargaining position, bu...
[21:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devolution - 06 AMD Weighing a Business Break-up or Spin-off per Reuters - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:20] <exec> 08└─I think getting it to work well is a significant sticking point. I think it is mostly the graphics drivers that tend to be the problem as the Android graphics stack is different to the regular Linux graphics stack. But what might be a more significant issue is, are there actually any Android noteboo...
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[22:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Take my money now please! - 06Holographic Pyramid Creates a World on Your Table - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:31] <exec> 08└─how do i make you take my money
[22:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:SUVs - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:41] <exec> 08└─As in used by men to appeal to breedable woman? ;-)
[22:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:EVs no, but types of cars, sure - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:43] <exec> 08└─SUVs and vans tend to have more 'mom appeal' because of the extra room for kids/groceries.
[22:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EVs no, but types of cars, sure - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:45] <exec> 08└─SUVs are the new minivan, that's the main reason it is nearly impossible to find a 2-door SUV anymore. One of the biggest reasons modern women perfer SUVs over minivans is because they are bigger - they ride higher and they feel safer because of the rugged appearance. That doesn't mean they are actu...
[22:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:EVs no, but types of cars, sure - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:47] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing that when Tesla builds one, it actually will be safer than your average minivan. Just at a guess, the batteries on the bottom will drop the center of gravity and reduce rollover risk, and the frame will be built to survive being turned upside down and dropped a good distance.
[22:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:EVs no, but types of cars, sure - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:48] <exec> 08└─My hypothesis about women with regard to SUV size is not only a misguided belief of safety, but that being seen next to something bigger makes them feel smaller (and by extension more girly or less fat, or both). It's why they wear those gigantic dumb-looking Jackie O. sunglasses and coats and boots...
[22:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:EVs no, but types of cars, sure - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:50] <exec> 08└─How is the Model S a "penis compensator"? It's a 4-door luxury car (5 if you count the liftback), not a 2-seat sports car, nor a giant land yacht or jacked-up pickup truck. I would think it's about as far as you can get from a "penis compensator" without going into, say, Fiat 500 or Smart ForTwo ter...
[22:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EVs no, but types of cars, sure - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:52] <exec> 08└─The seats in my minivan drop down and/or come out. When they do, I can lay flat full sheets of plywood. WAY better at hauling than a pickup or SUV.
[22:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:EVs no, but types of cars, sure - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:53] <exec> 08└─Hey, can you haul this full-height refrigerator for me? Oh, and this queen size mattress and box spring set. Both minivans and SUVs can be useful for hauling things, but they'll never really compare to a pickup.
[22:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Finally? - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:55] <exec> 08└─Yes the fact that it targets women may be relatively new information, but the Model X was announced in 2013 and they were supposed to deliver by the end of 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] So, maybe the title should be "finally delivering"? But that wouldn't work bec...
[22:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop this - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:11] <exec> 08└─I got the article from Der Spiegel, Netzwelt section. I used their title. Perhaps your comments are better directed to "responsible" news sources like them.
[22:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02How much? - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:20] <exec> 08└─record reader behavior
[22:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much? - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:23] <exec> 08└─Hope you continue to like it after it's revealed that your reading habits have been sold. At first it will be as part of aggregated data, then somebody will figure out how to mux that data with targeting advertising at you personally.
[22:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02The ultimate e-trade feedback! - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:24] <exec> 08└─So if I'm dissatisfied with any Amazon.com product I can also press the button that give that Jeff Bozo a zap? A must have feature for any disconcerning e-trade consumer. Bad book? Bad shit product? bzzzbbzz. :p
[22:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Every page a cliffhanger - 06E-Book Compensation System: Amazon Wants to Pay Authors Only for Pages That Have Been Read - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:27] <exec> 08└─Assuming this is true every page would just end mid sentence or in a cliffhanger so you would be lured into or have to turn the page and read another page that would end the same way. It's like clickbait but for reading e-books or the concept of the actual page turner coming true.
[22:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:about the qubit count - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:36] <exec> 08└─so there's nothing concrete about performance.
[22:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Compensation for what ? - 06Apple Music Changes Policy After Taylor Swift's Stand, and Paul Krugman on the Industry - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:56] <exec> 08└─This changed about 1920 with the invention of the gramophone record. Musician suddenly could demand compensations for doing nothing.
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[23:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Take my money now please! - 06Holographic Pyramid Creates a World on Your Table - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:33] <exec> 08└─> how do i make you take my money DuckDuckGo tells me that this is how you make them take your money: https://www.kickstarter.com [kickstarter.com]
[23:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kickstarter page - 06Holographic Pyramid Creates a World on Your Table - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:36] <exec> 08└─Strangely BBC gave no link to the crowdfounding page. So here it is: https://www.kickstarter.com [kickstarter.com] And it has raised more than _five_ times its crowdfunding target.
[23:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kickstarter page - 06Holographic Pyramid Creates a World on Your Table - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:38] <exec> 08└─God damn that's a lot of scratch to blow on hookers and booze!
[23:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02Re:Kickstarter page - 06Holographic Pyramid Creates a World on Your Table - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:40] <exec> 08└─While hopping down the money trail....
[23:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Not a Hologram - 06Holographic Pyramid Creates a World on Your Table - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:43] <exec> 08└─From their website: "Holographic projection to see any given content from 4 different perspectives and 360 degree viewing angles." This sounds like the equivalent of taping four monitors into a square and calling it a "hologram". I think they're using a vaguely interesting arrangement of mirrors to...
[23:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02More info on the matter - 06Holographic Pyramid Creates a World on Your Table - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:44] <exec> 08└─The BBC article is a horrible mess so here's a direct link to the image [bbci.co.uk] of the transparent pyramid. It does however look awfully like a mockup with plastic objects inside. Perhaps that what it is? Regardless, how is this suppose to work? Some links: * H+Technology [hplustech.com] ...
[23:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:SUVs - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:49] <exec> 08└─They also appeal to older boomers who see success as equalling curb weight, so they want a land yacht, the bigger the better.
[23:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SUVs - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:52] <exec> 08└─SUVs are built for suburbanites to drive around and essentially live in, sort of a like a downsized RV.
[23:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:1) 02Re:Finally? - 06Tesla is Finally Building an SUV — and They Want it to Appeal to Women - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:02] <exec> 08└─If they're delivering, then they're shipping the hand built cars. The model X line is still under construction, though they're starting to step parts through some of the more completed sections of the line for teaching/validation.
[23:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Quantun Computing for Dummies? - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:56] <exec> 08└─so, what happens if you ask the quantum computer to divide by 0?
[23:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0240% colder - 06D-Wave's 1000+ Qubit "Quantum" Processor Announced - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:58] <exec> 08└─Protip: coldness isn't measured. Temperature is measured.
[23:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Catchy nickname - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:17] <exec> 08└─Favic*nT
[23:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Time to set an arbitrary limit for these files... - 0610GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:18] <exec> 08└─640k should be enough for everyone!
[23:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Fundamental flaw.... - 06'Text Walking Lanes': Antwerp Sets Up Temporary Scheme - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:46] <exec> 08└─I think water is better. Cushions the fall so no harm comes to the person (less legal issues), destroys the offending electrical device, and creates a loud splash sound to serve as an audible warning to other text-walkers.
[23:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Defamation - 06Comcast Ordered to Unmask Anonymous Online Newspaper Commenter - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:10] <exec> 08└─Defamation is weakened when it is made against a popular figure. Someone with easy access to the press can easily dismiss any cases of defamation against them. The various slander laws were designed primarily to protect the average Joe, who does not have access to easy channels of communication if s...
[23:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:1) 02Re:Definition - 06How Much of Your Lifetime Has the USA Been at War? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:35] <exec> 08└─Likewise here, 11:45 on the first working day of the month, mainly for tsunami warnings.
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