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[00:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02Warm Waters - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:38] <exec> 08└─Now the title is a bit misleading, the corals aren't adapting or evolving per se, they had already adapted to a warmer climate before anthropogenic climate change, what scientists are doing are crossing this stronger strains to give corals another chance at survival.
[00:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They want to play rough, eh? - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:51] <exec> 08└─If France decides to give these two traitors asylum, the USA will rename McDonald's French Fries around the world, Les Fries Parisienne Tres tres bon!
[00:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They want to play rough, eh? - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:52] <exec> 08└─Gives a whole new meaning to Freedom Fries...
[00:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nothing like spite to build your foreign policy - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:53] <exec> 08└─I wonder at which point you learn that in diplomat school.
[00:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Nothing like spite to build your foreign policy - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's recognizing them as legitimate whistle blowers instead of criminals
[00:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Don't be so afraid of the word 'and' in headlines - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:57] <exec> 08└─France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden
[00:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02" onclick="alert('x'); - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:59] <exec> 08└─PS Speech marks (") in Subject aren't escaped to " during comment previewing.
[00:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WHAT!! - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:30] <exec> 08└─It's idiocracy out there.
[00:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:unethical because mental illness is political - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:36] <exec> 08└─Mental illness law has certainly been abused historically, but there are real mental illnesses that rob people of the ability to see that they are ill, and those people won't seek help on their own. Some years ago, a police officer threw me to the ground and almost literally dragged me into a hospit...
[00:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Qi - 06Wireless Charging Devices, Drones, and Vehicles - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:13] <exec> 08└─...or, autodial the ambulance to come pick up an injured inventor who was attacked by his own kitchen.
[00:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:37] <exec> 08└─Care to revise and extend your remarks?
[00:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:38] <exec> 08└─TL;DR - freedom of religion is a subset of freedom of expression.
[00:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:News as a buying option, not as a business - 06 In Pilot Programs, Ford Embraces a World Where not Everyone Owns a Car - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:34] <exec> 08└─1. Accelerometers in the doors? 2. Log the system bus (CAN) of the car? 3. Accelerometer? 4. Accelerometer? 5. Accelerometer and system bus logging? 6. System bus logging? 7. Measure wiper motor current and humidity sensor? 8. UV-light? 9. Chassis scanning using special light? It can nowadays all be...
[00:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The system is broken and this won't fix it. - 06ICANN Discussing Policy to Eliminate WHOIS Protection Services for Websites w/ "Commercial Activity" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:09] <exec> 08└─And the website could be down so you need to contact them by other means.
[00:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:This is very, very dangerous - 06When 3-D Printing Won’t Do, This At-Home Laser Cutter Will - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:22] <exec> 08└─Because of beam divergence?
[00:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:This is very, very dangerous - 06When 3-D Printing Won’t Do, This At-Home Laser Cutter Will - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:23] <exec> 08└─Because of all the reasons why the world's snipers still carry bullets rather than Tetsuo-style 40W lasers. Beam divergence mainly (though that doesn't protect pilot's eyes unless your 40W laser is only focused up to an inch), loss from particles, exposure time to get a significant effect... The dro...
[00:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:This is very, very dangerous - 06When 3-D Printing Won’t Do, This At-Home Laser Cutter Will - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:26] <exec> 08└─The difference in danger is probably that mechanical dangers kicks the limbic (automatic) system into action. While electromagnetic and other exotic dangers rely on using the intellect automatically to deduce any dangers.
[00:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:This is very, very dangerous - 06When 3-D Printing Won’t Do, This At-Home Laser Cutter Will - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:28] <exec> 08└─I've seen 8 kW infrared laser at work. No problem to slice 3 cm wood with a swing through the beam. Quite neat actually provided precautions are taken.
[00:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Debunking - 06Samsung Disabling Windows Update on PCs - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:45] <exec> 08└─Samsung patches: http://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
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[01:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Interesting itinerary - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:47] <exec> 08└─The pair traveled 400 miles west, to where that women called the cops and posted a reward claim on FB after noticing them walking on a railroad track, then managed to make it all the way back to the prison locale.
[01:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02No way! - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:48] <exec> 08└─I've been waiting for a real sequel [theofficialjohncarpenter.com] for years!
[01:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02So this is like half of a story - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:50] <exec> 08└─I won't harp on whether this story should be here, on this site, or not, but I will point out that we really should wait to find out what happens to the other guy.
[01:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It shouldn't be too long - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:51] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for the first "Poor guys. You know they were set up by the evil police (or "The Man", if you prefer)" post. There's probably an Assange or Snowden parallel to throw in. Come on echo chamber, don't let me down!
[01:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:It shouldn't be too long - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:53] <exec> 08└─You know the skinny one is second cousins with Snowden? Yeah it's actually been brought up as to what part of Russia he'll flee to. He was a hacker and technical writer for Boing Boing before the murder charge.
[01:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02One dead - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:55] <exec> 08└─One dead, one still at large. Does that make the survivor more or less dangerous?
[01:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02gene pool pollution and reduction in diversity - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:03] <exec> 08└─You can kill out a very well adapted species to a particular local environment by introducing a few members of another population and polluting the gene pool. And, when you start mixing all these small populations, while producing conditions that kill off their progenitors, you end up reducing diver...
[01:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02no. - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:05] <exec> 08└─Will this give rise to "Laissez-Faire Climatology," wherein humans need do nothing since the Invisible Hand of Evolution will meet all needs?
[01:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:15] <exec> 08└─Spying on foreign governments is the one legitimate use of a spy agency.
[01:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:amnesia - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:18] <exec> 08└─Russian Flagged aircraft solves all those problems, or maybe a couple French Mirages in trail.
[01:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing like spite to build your foreign policy - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:23] <exec> 08└─Sure, but how confident would either of them be in France? Hell they had no clue their presidents were being spied on till someone leaked it, how would they offer any protection to two wanted men?
[01:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be so afraid of the word 'and' in headlin - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:27] <exec> 08└─The purpose is to shorten headlines. Makes it easier to read when glancing by and thus attract attention. Besides, why would it be an and when it could easily be an or?
[01:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be so afraid of the word 'and' in headlin - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:29] <exec> 08└─Besides, why would it be an and when it could easily be an or?
[01:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be so afraid of the word 'and' in headlin - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:30] <exec> 08└─What shelf is it on? Top, bottom?
[01:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02At the same time, they voted for their own spies - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:32] <exec> 08└─While this was all going on in front of the camera, they voted for their own upgraded spy powers. I doubt Snowden will show up now knowing the French are as 2-faced as anyone else...
[01:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It isn't hypocrisy - 06Trouble at the Office of Personnel Management - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:42] <exec> 08└─Nation states spy on each other. That is what they do. Governments spying on their own citizens is against the spirit of all but totalitarian governance. It is not hypocritical unless the relations are equal but the action is different. In this case it is the reverse.
[01:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:rewire - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:58] <exec> 08└─To paraphrase the electroshock guys: "So if it doesn't work you shock them again cut out a bit more. Eventually, they stop running around the ward bothering people."
[01:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WHAT!! - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:08] <exec> 08└─So serum serotonin is going to be correlated to low brain serotonin (which supposedly causes depression) now? Jesus Christ. You know that is synthesized outside the brain to regulate vasoconstriction right? It is so implausible that brain levels could be detected that I'm not going to look it up pas...
[01:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Qi - 06Wireless Charging Devices, Drones, and Vehicles - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:47] <exec> 08└─Is there a list of phones supporting QI? For all I know I may have it and not know it. 8-0
[01:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:17] <exec> 08└─Ok, I now know where your malfunction is, vocabulary. The phrase "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" seems to be your problem, go look up the meaning of exercise that applies to this usage. It doesn't mean you have the right to believe, it doesn't mean you have the right to speak your beliefs...
[01:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:18] <exec> 08└─>> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, > > It means exactly what it says. The State may not establish a Church. It is weird that someone calling for the "exact" reading would leave out a key word. It does not say "not establish" a church it says "no law respecting" a...
[01:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do hear myself. I disagree with the majority opinion. I don't set myself up as a god, I haven't even cited God in my arguments. I look rationally at all the evidence. I understand that the scholars don't agree with me - but I also see that the scholars are concerned enough to study the issue....
[01:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:35] <exec> 08└─> I understand that the scholars don't agree with me - but I also see that the scholars are concerned enough to study the issue. Apparently you don't hear yourself. You are trying to co-opt the authority of the people who disagree with you by saying you are vindicated by the fact that they are even...
[01:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:46] <exec> 08└─And Samuel Alito wrote: "The decision will also have other important consequences. It will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy. In the course of its opinion, the majority compares traditional marriage laws to laws that denied equal treatment for African-Ameri...
[01:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:48] <exec> 08└─Dude, you vilify yourself. The whole "criticism of my speech is censorship" theory of you and your extremist cohorts is just butthurt.
[01:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Impressum - 06ICANN Discussing Policy to Eliminate WHOIS Protection Services for Websites w/ "Commercial Activity" - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:55] <exec> 08└─Nowhere else is anyone demanded to publicly publish their real contact details and home addresses
[01:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rats ratting on rats - 06'Testicle Eating Fish' With Human-Like Teeth Caught In New Jersey - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:14] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[01:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dummy - 06'Testicle Eating Fish' With Human-Like Teeth Caught In New Jersey - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:28] <exec> 08└─Way to waste a fish bbq.
[01:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Owned slaves? - 06WikiLeaks Sony Emails Lead to Postponement of "Finding Your Roots" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:52] <exec> 08└─Well, that just places the ancestors who did something he'd be ashamed of a lot closer to him in the family tree!
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[02:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03barrahome [3580] (Score:1) 02hummmmmmmm - 06Analysts: Netflix Poised to Top American Networks’ Nielsen Ratings by 2016 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:37] <exec> 08└─Lets hope they add a porn section free of ADS and i may subscribe!
[02:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:hummmmmmmm - 06Analysts: Netflix Poised to Top American Networks’ Nielsen Ratings by 2016 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:38] <exec> 08└─You're going to pay full price just to watch 2 minutes of content a day?
[02:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barrahome [3580] (Score:1) 02Re:hummmmmmmm - 06Analysts: Netflix Poised to Top American Networks’ Nielsen Ratings by 2016 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:39] <exec> 08└─I do watch more than 2 minutes! And i will.
[02:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:So this is like half of a story - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:51] <exec> 08└─Why?
[02:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It shouldn't be too long - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:54] <exec> 08└─They were white, so no problem here.
[02:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It shouldn't be too long - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:55] <exec> 08└─There may as well have been police misconduct in this case, only fools make a conclusion without knowing the evidence.
[02:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One dead - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:58] <exec> 08└─They embarrassed the corrections system, the local police, county, state, and FBI. No way were they both going to come back alive whether they were dangerous or not. Now that they got their blood, will the other be taken in as a prize to parade on tv or will he come back in a bodybag too?
[02:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Tried to hijack a Camper?! - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:00] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, Jacob Fuller, a pastor who is experiencing a crisis of faith, arrives at the same motel with his daughter Kate and his son Scott. The Geckos kidnap the family and order Jacob to take them across the border in his RV. After a tense inspection by a border guard, the group gets shot because...
[02:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Warm Waters - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:08] <exec> 08└─So meddling in other words..... Still, natural selection would have done this by itself, because its not the first time that ocean temperatures have swung wildly higher. That's what diversity is for.
[02:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:amnesia - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:25] <exec> 08└─Snowden is worth too much to Putin as a symbol of his defiance of the US for him to do anything like that. I wouldn't be surprised if Putin tries to sabotage any plans Snowden tries to put together for leaving. Not overtly, just back-channel pressure.
[02:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be so afraid of the word 'and' in headlin - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:36] <exec> 08└─Basic grammar. A comma means 'and' not 'or'.
[02:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Comma cancer - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Oxford comma is metastasizing?
[02:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Repairing people rather than destroying lives - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:32] <exec> 08└─It holds until you end up in court, or end up in workplace conflict, or "child placement conflict" at divorce.
[02:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Qi - 06Wireless Charging Devices, Drones, and Vehicles - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:01] <exec> 08└─My cheap kyocera phone came with a coil built in. Really fantastic. Slap a couple chargers in a table next to my bed, throw down my phone where it always has gone and Tada! rarely below 80% ever again without ever needing to think about it. If only we could get a car version of this in a mat that yo...
[02:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barrahome [3580] (Score:1) 02hahahah - 06Lexus Creates the Hoverboard - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:11] <exec> 08└─Smoke & Mirrors boys, smoke & mirrors. And if its viable it may cost 10K.
[02:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:How is this bad? - 06ICANN Discussing Policy to Eliminate WHOIS Protection Services for Websites w/ "Commercial Activity" - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:06] <exec> 08└─Nowhere else is anyone demanded to publicly publish their real contact details and home addresses, and in nearly all cases, such information is protected by law, and disclosures are heavily regulated.
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[03:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02I wonder if they appealq - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:40] <exec> 08└─A food warehouse has an obligation for food protection, and could probably be shut down by state authorities for failing to provide a safe environment for work or food storage. I guess they should have called the police, rather than taken it upon themselves to do the testing.
[03:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One dead - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:08] <exec> 08└─Both are convicted murders who did not get the death penalty. It's never too late to fix that. One down, one to go.
[03:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Re:One dead - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:09] <exec> 08└─Frein was arrested alive and relatively unscathed. The truth is the higher police forces are generally better behaved. Any local involved in this search will be on their best behavior hoping for a shot at moving up an agency. The public across the country knows the name and face of the fugitive. It...
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[03:42:10] <exec> 08└─Policy in Texas is to shoot escaped murders on sight. No chance of getting away this way.
[03:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dismembering his boss - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:13] <exec> 08└─Who of us hasn't dreamed of doing that?
[03:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03KBentley57 [645] (Score:1) 02Re:no. - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:25] <exec> 08└─I may be reading it incorrectly, so feel free to comment on it. I think that sentence is asking the question "Do humans need to get involved, or will nature work itself out?". Nature will do what nature does. Either these coral survive the "filter" of global warming, or something will take their pla...
[03:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:no. - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:26] <exec> 08└─Humans ARE simply another mechanism of natrual selection. In the grand scheme of things what we do in this case probably doesn't matter. We just don't have te attention spam to worry about a coral which we don't eat. Cattle and chickens, on the other hand, have their continued existence assured as l...
[03:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:40] <exec> 08└─> Specifically spying on allies not so much though. “England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests” -- Lord Palmerston
[03:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:41] <exec> 08└─Agreed, spying on Germany made no sense, but France has always been something of a fickle ally and probably warranted spying on. Apparently the NSA was pretty good at it, since the French were clueless untill someone leaked the files.
[03:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They want to play rough, eh? - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:49] <exec> 08└─National Security Fries! Saves lives! Except for the cholesterol!
[03:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't be so afraid of the word 'and' in headlin - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:59] <exec> 08└─It's not any easier for me to read. In fact, a lone comma like in that title is just an eyesore to me. An "and" would look much better, in my opinion.
[03:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Just to cover the other options... - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:02] <exec> 08└─France could actually be populated by space aliens. France could make tasty fried potato things. France could be in league with the Germans. Or union, or whatever. France could be the homeland of all rude people. Or of the rudist rude people. France could be a figment of our imagination. France coul...
[03:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lobotomy 2.0 - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds like our benevolent overlords are expecting drone riots...
[03:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:13] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't spend too much time or effort deconstructing Runaway's arguments. He hates faggots. It's that simple.
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[04:41:41] <exec> 08└─> A food warehouse has an obligation for food protection, and could probably be shut down by state authorities That is the "We must do something! This is something, therefore we must do it!" canard. This obviously did not work because the only people they tested turned up negative.
[04:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder if they appealq - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:42] <exec> 08└─Obligations like that don't give you any sort of rationale to violate peoples' rights. They'll likely appeal, but it won't be for that reason.
[04:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Previous episode on SN - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:44] <exec> 08└─at Company Demands DNA Swabs From Employees During Hunt for Rogue Pooper [soylentnews.org]
[04:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hummmmmmmm - 06Analysts: Netflix Poised to Top American Networks’ Nielsen Ratings by 2016 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:55] <exec> 08└─whoooooooooooooooooosh
[04:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Saddened. - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:17] <exec> 08└─I'ld rather have 9 former murderers and criminals on the loose, than 10 police officers.
[04:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be so afraid of the word 'and' in headlin - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:03] <exec> 08└─A comma means 'and' in the context it was used; yes it has other uses. It never means 'or' in any context. Don't be a pedant. Why? Less words, bigger print, easier and faster to read.
[04:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Comma cancer - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:05] <exec> 08└─One would hope so. The clarity of written English seems in free fall in the last half century. We seem awash with embedded capital letters, wayward commas, and illogical constructs like "three times less".
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[05:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Terrible units - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:42] <exec> 08└─40,000kW is called 40MW. Also, that is not how battery capacity is indicated. Watt is a unit of power, not energy.
[05:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Terrible units - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, UPS capacity is always indicated in volt-amps, which are literally the same units as watt-the-fucks.
[05:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeee-Haaww, more fossil fuels for Merica! - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:45] <exec> 08└─Stupid Japs, don't they know solar is for hippy communist socialist scum?
[05:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PCR - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:56] <exec> 08└─I didn't RTFA but I assume they are attempting to use PCR to see if certain hypervariable regions in human DNA are present. Kary Mullis "invented" (as close as one person could come to inventing something) PCR and was not chosen to be an expert witness at the first court use (OJ Simpson trial) regar...
[05:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:hummmmmmmm - 06Analysts: Netflix Poised to Top American Networks’ Nielsen Ratings by 2016 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:08] <exec> 08└─Buffering?
[05:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:It shouldn't be too long - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:24] <exec> 08└─How can any parallel be made? Matt was convicted for kidnapping, killing, and dismembering his boss
[05:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:00] <exec> 08└─That doesn't justify spying on them while they are allies. It just means that allies today may not be allies tomorrow. Meanwhile there are a LOT of things one can legitimately do (and should legitimately do) short of actually tapping an allied leaders phone to "keep tabs" on them.
[05:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Better ethics vs. effective treatment - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:28] <exec> 08└─This is the part that struck me: could there ever be an ethical application of ineffective treatment? I mean, it is right there in the Hippocratic Oath: "First, do no harm." If you do not know whether it will work, and that it could have negative side-effects, um, don't do it! Are you a physician,...
[05:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Better ethics vs. effective treatment - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:30] <exec> 08└─I think at the very least you need to come up with an acceptable measurement of "working" and a magnitude of difference on that measurement that is practically relevant. If you do brain surgeries without that, you are in a gray area. In some cases there really may be nothing to lose from the perspec...
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[06:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Stability problems - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:51] <exec> 08└─We've seen this cropping up in a lot of places, Arizona, Hawaii, etc. Japan's bigger problem is (as TFA mentions) is that they have a number of disjoint smaller incompatible electrical grids. That fact exacerbates the situation when a boat load solar joins the network. There isn't enough stable dema...
[06:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Be more specific - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:54] <exec> 08└─Which figure from the paper shows the data leading to this conclusion: mixing and matching corals from different latitudes may boost reef survival.
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[07:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Can be Used to Kill dem Terrists == FUNDING - 06Flexible 'Skin-like' Colour Display Developed - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:49] <exec> 08└─May the Holy Jihad against Brown People last FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[07:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02thoughtcrime - 06Flexible 'Skin-like' Colour Display Developed - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:50] <exec> 08└─Now when the wife comes looking for you to do yard work, you can blend into the sofa.
[07:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pump it up hill - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:02] <exec> 08└─Why not use solar power to pump water up a hill to a storage facility? When power is needed the stored water could generate electricity like a conventional hydroelectric dam.
[07:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:22] <exec> 08└─Germany is the strongest economic power in Europe. What they decide, Europe does, more or less. Sanctions on Russia? You need Germany's buy-in on that. Any policy that the US wants Europe to adopt needs to be presented to Germany, and the US can persuade them more effectively when they know what car...
[07:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They want to play rough, eh? - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:30] <exec> 08└─If France decides to give these two heroes asylum, the USA will rename McDonald's French Fries around the world, Les Fries Parisienne Tres tres bon!
[07:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chaffetz - 06Trouble at the Office of Personnel Management - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:00] <exec> 08└─It seems that 40 or so Congressmen sleep in their offices [dcist.com]. Others, like Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin [nytimes.com], bunk together in a shared house. They claim that none of them get laid there.
[07:45:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:50] <exec> 08└─Sexual deviancy leads to worse sexual deviancy,
[07:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:1) 02Re:Climate Denier Reasoning? - 06 Australia Slashes its Renewable Energy Target by Nearly 20% - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:37] <exec> 08└─I just grabbed the old Monty Python riff about auzzies. Bushfires? Caused by drought? Sounds good!
[07:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:1) 02Re:The system is broken and this won't fix it. - 06ICANN Discussing Policy to Eliminate WHOIS Protection Services for Websites w/ "Commercial Activity" - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:17] <exec> 08└─Not all domains are used for a public website. Some are strictly used for e-mail, or other (non-HTTP) services. There are many companies that buy domain names, exclusively for internal use (used only by employees, to access internal resources, completely separate from a public-facing website)
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[08:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I for one welcome our new Navy Seal Chameleons - 06Flexible 'Skin-like' Colour Display Developed - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:45] <exec> 08└─May their many successful assassination missions bring fame and high public approval ratings for our Lord God Emperor Omaba.
[08:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Terrible units - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:55] <exec> 08└─That would be power, not capacity, and VA is not necessarily the same as W when talking about alternating current. W is the real or active power, VA is the apparent power. The ratio between the two is called power factor. A purely resistive load (an incandescent light bulb, for example) has a power...
[08:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Terrible units - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:56] <exec> 08└─The purpose of the batteries is to supply power when the sun doesn't. Units of power are actually appropriate here, although I agree about using MW.
[08:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Terrible units - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:58] <exec> 08└─It should be 0.04 jiggawatts.
[08:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pump it up hill - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:02] <exec> 08└─Potential energy, really? What are you, some kind of 12th century Persian terrorist? Choke on your falafel, low-tech traitor.
[08:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Pump it up hill - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:03] <exec> 08└─Totally a decent idea, but I think the 2x conversion loses a lot of efficiency, and a lot of power == a lot of mass, so you need a whole lake (Hoover Dam) to provide a ton of power, and Dams usually push right to the grid not.
[08:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02In case you were wondering, - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:14] <exec> 08└─a buccal cheek swab to determine if their DNA was a match to excreta being left throughout the facility.
[08:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:It shouldn't be too long - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:44] <exec> 08└─in US you can get guns easier than quality food.
[08:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be so afraid of the word 'and' in headlin - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:43] <exec> 08└─It's not easier to read because it's not how people write, except in headlines for now-redundant reasons. There's no fixed space as there used to be on newspapers, where deleting an "and" might have meant you could bump your font size up a little without changing the aspect ratio too much. It might...
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[09:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Lego has always had general blocks - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:43] <exec> 08└─The biggest question is, will Lego ever produce general blocks again that you can use to build anything? Now their kits only build exactly the thing on the front of the box, such as a dragon or spaceship.
[09:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Lego has always had general blocks - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:44] <exec> 08└─Bingo. Granted the specific sets outnumber the generics 100:1 but that's the nature of the beast... what exactly would differentiate 100 sets of generic blocks? Nothing. That's the point of generic blocks. Not only do the they have the bins... but they have the 3in1 kits; which are quite good. The l...
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[09:41:45] <exec> 08└─The *number* of specific sets is very high, but according to sales rank on amazon.com, the two *most popular* Lego sets are: the "minecraft cave" set which although it's a "specific" set, it's actually composed entirely of classic pieces (sales rank #40, $15) the LEGO Classic Mediu...
[09:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lego has always had general blocks - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:47] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with you people? I thought everyone knew you just built what you were supposed to once, then tear it apart and use your imagination to make as many things as possible with the same set. Eventually the pieces get mixed in with all the rest and you get to work on bigger and weirder proje...
[09:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Ages - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:49] <exec> 08└─When will lego sell products for centurians? Why are their kits only suitable for upto 99 year olds, soon as you hit 100 you're out of luck?
[09:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Terrible units - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:10] <exec> 08└─As is often the case, a single number doesn't sufficiently describe a complex system. Usually you want to know at least two things about a battery: How much energy it can store and how fast you can get it out of the battery. Often you also need to know the rate at which the battery can accept charge...
[09:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:gene pool pollution and reduction in diversity - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:17] <exec> 08└─Humans are bad, mmmkay
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[10:41:54] <exec> 08└─Not sure what they mean - an 'alternative' to 'plastic'. Surely what's required is an alternative to oil? A plastic that can be manufactured without depleting resources that cannot be replaced. (Or is that just obvious, and I'm being a bit slow...?) My biggest concern would be that using a different...
[10:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02This would have made a good roof! - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:23] <exec> 08└─Did you see the photo [wsj.net] of the array? Looked like a beautiful place to raise some food. All covered over. At waist height? Somehow, it looks like this kind of thing should be implemented into some sort of pretty good sized shopping mall or manufacturing facility. As a roof. Covering everyt...
[10:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Food desert''; cheap guns - 06One NY Escapee Killed by Border Patrol - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:07] <exec> 08└─There are some neighborhoods (y'know: "The Hood") where there is no place within walking distance where residents can buy fresh produce. In order to change that, a city sometimes has to do something drastic (as happened this week in Los Angeles where the city fathers bribed a vendor to build a store...
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[11:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Wonder ... - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:51] <exec> 08└─No wonder a lot of beer tastes like shit, especially from the big breweries. Every sip is a mouthful of taxes! I'm sure that there's a free as in "Beer" joke in here somewhere.
[11:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where did they go? - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:05] <exec> 08└─We had cans and cans of lego blocks when we were kids, but we have no idea where they all went to. Can't imagine we threw them away.
[11:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pump it up hill - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:34] <exec> 08└─How would these options compare with electrolysing water to oxygen and hydrogen?
[11:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:Previous episode on SN - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:47] <exec> 08└─The previous story links to a google webcache which is defunct now. Here is the actual ruling from May 5th: http://hr.cch.com [cch.com] . It mentions a few facts that were not mentioned in TFA: "Beginning in 2012, an unknown number of Atlas employees began defecating in Atlas’s B...
[11:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02What a poor memory you have - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:01] <exec> 08└─So fickle that they fought beside you during your battle for independence [wikipedia.org], during both World Wars, and more recently in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq 1 and 2, Afghanistan, ... America needs to respect its friends a little more than it does at present.
[11:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That "worked" - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:34] <exec> 08└─You chop away the brain of a crazy person, and you know it works because you asked the crazy and the crazy seems to "answer" it worked. What we have here are two crazies.
[11:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A promising first step? - 06Lexus Creates the Hoverboard - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:47:32] <exec> 08└─Indeed! New name suggestion competition entries * Baitboard * Vaporboard
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[12:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Lego has always had general blocks - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:54] <exec> 08└─What separates them is largely a matter of precision. If you buy Lego brand bricks you know they'll fit exactly right. Here in China there's quite a few brands and I don't know which ones are properly compatible. Other than the extremely tight tolerances needed to get the blocks to fit together with...
[12:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:57] <exec> 08└─Yup, Lego is the one toy nobody ever throws away. The other day at my grandma's my kids were playing with a box of Lego pieces and other toy parts from my childhood. The Legos were a hit the others not so much because you couldn't make anything concrete with them. I think that it's fine that they ar...
[12:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:59] <exec> 08└─And how much electricity and water is she wasting with it? Using something for a long time that wastes energy isn't necessarily a good thing. There's a reason why the local utility often offers a rebate on things like that. High efficiency models may well make up for the resources used to make them...
[12:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:thoughtcrime - 06Flexible 'Skin-like' Colour Display Developed - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:10] <exec> 08└─Now when the wife comes looking for you to do yard work, you can blend into the sofa.
[12:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Pump it up hill - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:30] <exec> 08└─Why not use solar power to pump water up a hill to a storage facility?
[12:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:This would have made a good roof! - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:32] <exec> 08└─I get the idea that encouraging every property owner to have solar panels on their roof is the way to go.
[12:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:In case you were wondering, - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:47] <exec> 08└─That was Atlas Logistics' mistake. They should have asked for a butt cheek swap.
[12:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:They want to play rough, eh? - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:08] <exec> 08└─National Security Fries! Saves lives! Except for the cholesterol!
[12:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:0) 02Re:Actuarry, no Rexus... - 06Lexus Creates the Hoverboard - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:44] <exec> 08└─Fuck whoever modded me down; having been born and raised in Japan, I mother-fucking-reserve-the-right to bust out the Asian accent... and my point definitely stands; Lexus (and Infinity, and Acura) are fictions perpetrated for the sole purpose of differentiating themselves from [what once were] cons...
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[12:47:45] <exec> 08└─Mod me down all you like; there still isn't an "L" consonant in Nihongo (not even in katakana!). Geez; get too politically-correct and/or over-sensitive and ye risk descending into the stupid...
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[13:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Qzukk [1086] (Score:1) 02Not going to do it - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:49] <exec> 08└─Not going to let anyone plant an ob on me [abelard.org].
[13:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where did they go? - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:16] <exec> 08└─They disappeared one piece at a time - as all Lego collections do - by falling on the floor, getting stepped on, forcing the victim to hop about painfully until he can yank out the damned plastic caltrop and angrily fling it into the nearest trash bin.. But more likely Mom just threw them out after...
[13:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:hummmmmmmm - 06Analysts: Netflix Poised to Top American Networks’ Nielsen Ratings by 2016 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:16] <exec> 08└─Is that how the digital natives call it nowadays?
[13:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:unethical because mental illness is political - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:28] <exec> 08└─A key difference is that gay seems to mostly bother other people (and only a subset of other people at that). Absent any over-religious craziness, being gay doesn't seem to be all that distressing to the person. OTOH, OCD very much bothers the afflicted person. Ask people with OCD and you won't find...
[13:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02HUH? - 06 Australia Slashes its Renewable Energy Target by Nearly 20% - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:38] <exec> 08└─"Also, given China's new moves to realize its territorial ambitions (see: Spratley Islands), not relying on ships to bring you oil would seem to be a good idea." Well perhaps my geography is a little rusty but just where would Australia be getting its oil from that would not be the Middle East area....
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[14:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02hot neighbour strategy - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:49] <exec> 08└─The time-honoured strategy for getting people to do work at your place, for free... is simply to be smoking hot. Or drop hints that your hot friend "might drop around" that afternoon. Works like a charm. Are there any blokes out there that haven't participated in this kind of exchange at least a cou...
[14:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:No Wonder ... - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:58] <exec> 08└─$18 per barrel (3968 fluid ounces) means $0.07 per pint. I actually thought it was a lot more. (State taxes range from almost nothing in Wyoming to $0.08/pint in Tennessee. [taxfoundation.org])
[14:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sponsored by US Sen. from Oregon - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:01] <exec> 08└─See anybody here [portlandmonthlymag.com] who might have lobbied [oregoncraftbeer.org] for the bill?
[14:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Giant? Come on! - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:51] <exec> 08└─This is a butterfly fart in the wind. 40,000 kW is 40 MW, which is 0.04 of a single power plant (1 GW), or 0.00014 of Japan's installed electric energy capacity (282 GW in 2010).
[14:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:16] <exec> 08└─> It just means that allies today may not be allies tomorrow. No, what it means is that "ally" is not a binary state. The error you are making is to think that nations have the same sort of relationships that people do. That is not an accurate paradigm. International relations are a complex web of s...
[14:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03strato [5041] (Score:1) 02Re:The system is broken and this won't fix it. - 06ICANN Discussing Policy to Eliminate WHOIS Protection Services for Websites w/ "Commercial Activity" - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:23] <exec> 08└─If you use the "anonymous" feature for your registration, make sure you understand the legal status of your hostname. When I looked at this a few years ago, the ISP wanted to transfer ownership of the hostname to themselves i.e. I wouldn't actually be the registered owner. That was unacceptable to m...
[14:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DNied [3409] (Score:2) 02HYPHEN DAMN IT!! - 06'Testicle Eating Fish' With Human-Like Teeth Caught In New Jersey - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:02] <exec> 08└─I've never seen such a desperate need for a hyphen as in that title. It misled me in a very disturbing way.
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[15:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chinese Gov were right - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:39] <exec> 08└─Looks like they were right to be suspicious: http://www.ibtimes.com [ibtimes.com] Xenophobia or not, this is a backdoor. Anyone dealing with SSH who's not an idiot would know what having those keys in there mean....
[15:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chinese Gov were right - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:40] <exec> 08└─While I completely understand your anger, the original article suggests that this is about host keys being the same across product line: -->8-- “As we come across devices like this, we recommend that vendors instead have a ‘first boot’ procedure that dynamically generates a unique SSH key for...
[15:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chinese Gov were right - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:42] <exec> 08└─... basically old issue when you're *blindly* cloning VM templates in ESX/vSphere/Xen/KVM/pick-your-favourite virtual world ...
[15:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hot neighbour strategy - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:52] <exec> 08└─I haven't done it with hot chicks but unattractive girls really get interested in you when you help them out. It's like nobody is ever nice to them. The success rate for hot girls is probably zero since they are used to guys falling over each other to get noticed.
[15:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Perspective - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:03] <exec> 08└─Craft beer didn't need a tax break. Didn't need a tax break? Or, no longer needed a puritanical post-prohibition sin tax? I guess it's a matter of perspective.
[15:42:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CRCulver [4390] 02Lego has always had general blocks - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─The biggest question is, will Lego ever produce general blocks again that you can use to build anything? Now their kits only build exactly the thing on the front of the box, such as a dragon or spaceship.
[15:42:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03splodus [4877] 02'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:17] <exec> 08└─Not sure what they mean - an 'alternative' to 'plastic'. Surely what's required is an alternative to oil? A plastic that can be manufactured without depleting resources that cannot be replaced. (Or is that just obvious, and I'm being a bit slow...?) My biggest concern would be that using a different...
[15:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:20] <exec> 08└─If it's well lubricated and still working smoothly it might not be that bad. A lot of times the energy costs is due to people washing stuff with warm or even hot water. So if you're washing in cold water it's not going to be a huge deal: http://www.landtechnik-alt.uni-bonn.de
[15:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:21] <exec> 08└─Few, if any, countries have agreements not to spy on each others' governments nor are there international laws codifying any such restrictions.
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[16:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02oblig Manna - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:46] <exec> 08└─So does this mean we can look forward to brick dorms instead of terrafoam ones?
[16:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Worst Youtube ever.. - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:47] <exec> 08└─A robot voice reads the same text that appears in the Summary above, while the screen zooms in and out of still shots carefully selected to NOT show a single thing about how it works. The Youtube must have been created by a robot. Just in time for the obsolescence of brick houses they automate the p...
[16:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shitty Video - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:49] <exec> 08└─Don't bother with the video, it is just a computer reading a text file and a bunch of still pictures zooming in and out. The daily heil has some decent stills: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
[16:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shitty Video - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─This news story seems to be hype for the company to raise funds. Here is their presentation, [asx.com.au] which halfway through starts talking about an IPO. The date on that PDF is June 24th.
[16:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02homelessness - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:52] <exec> 08└─Throw in a brick-making bot and the stage is set for guerilla housing construction. Homelessness would become a thing of the past.
[16:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Chinese Gov were right - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:02] <exec> 08└─So basically Cisco are incompetent? ;-) (or it's NSA that be doing things)
[16:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:23] <exec> 08└─I for one am comfortable with taxes on commercially produced beer. It's a high demand product and the taxes seem quite reasonable. I certainly haven't heard of a brewer being driven out of business by excessive taxation. If the taxes seem too high, brew your own.
[16:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Sam Adams - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:24] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize they are still considered a craft brewer considering, after the takeover of AB by Inbev, they became the largest US owned brewer. I think Yuengling has taken that top spot now but still.
[16:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sam Adams - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:25] <exec> 08└─They're not owned by InBev. Still owned by Jim Koch.
[16:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ages - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:39] <exec> 08└─I think somewhere around 99.5 your capacities are reduced to that of a 2 year old
[16:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:44] <exec> 08└─I've never heard of anyone 'throwing away' lego
[16:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Story Needs A Citation - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:48] <exec> 08└─The story I saw said 1 Billion Kroner (Danish), not $1 Billion. It's early in the process so details are thin but this might suggest direction. Lego’s challenge, however, is to find a plastic material that is just as colour-responsive and physically stable as the current Lego bricks. It also wa...
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[16:42:49] <exec> 08└─Sorry to respond to myself but I just saw the link to the article which cites the $1B. I suspect it's wrong though. For those interested roughly 6.5 Danish Kroners equals $1.
[16:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Pump it up hill - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:18] <exec> 08└─No, it's the most *efficient* way of storing energy. Pumping water up a hill can be 90% efficient, and conversion on way back is the same efficiency. The loses for storage are called evaporation. Pumped storage works. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Typ...
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Pump it up hill - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─Awesome, thanks you for eating my text soylent! Comment was that there is already pumped storage in Japan, including stuff owned by TEPCO like that Imaichi Dam As for efficiency of battery systems, it's not always good compared to pumped storage. Batteries get 50-85% efficiency for charge/dischage c...
[16:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:no. - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:35] <exec> 08└─Humans ARE simply another mechanism of natrual selection.
[16:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no. - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:36] <exec> 08└─Neither is the "Invisible Hand of the Market". It might be favorable to a single person while simultaneously quite destructive to 300 million others.
[16:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:54] <exec> 08└─> If these countries are so free and principled, You are making the same error in logic of anthropomorphizing international relations. A "free" country is one in which the people are free to live their lives from intrusion by the organization of citizens called "government." There is no internation...
[16:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What a poor memory you have - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:58] <exec> 08└─I'll give you the first, but in each of the others, it was the US paying back the French or the revolutionary war help, (even though the reason the french were here in america was largely self serving, protecting their own holdings). World wars 1 and 2, they were flat on their backside, and occupied...
[16:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:They want to play rough, eh? - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:09] <exec> 08└─"The fries of Parisians 3 3 good"? WTF?
[16:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Scapegoats Can't live with them, can't shoot th - 06Trouble at the Office of Personnel Management - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:35] <exec> 08└─thats what happens when you privatize 90% of all government functions instead of hiring and training people to know what they're doing and then keep them around for their experience.
[16:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Scapegoats Can't live with them, can't shoot th - 06Trouble at the Office of Personnel Management - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:36] <exec> 08└─for the pedants, replace "privatize government functions" with "constantly use temporary independent contractors" and the rest remains the same for private business stuff.
[16:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02attack from outside? yeah right. - 06Trouble at the Office of Personnel Management - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:44] <exec> 08└─Connolly said the U.S. is "facing a systematic, organized, financed, pernicious campaign by the Chinese government... to penetrate our cyber world."
[16:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News as a buying option, not as a business - 06 In Pilot Programs, Ford Embraces a World Where not Everyone Owns a Car - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:25] <exec> 08└─...without exemptions or buts or ifs.
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[17:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Worst Youtube ever.. - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:42] <exec> 08└─Where is the +1 True Story mod?
[17:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Shitty Video - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:45] <exec> 08└─I don't believe this can build a house. It's a straight up lie. Not a single picture of it building anything.
[17:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shitty Video - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:46] <exec> 08└─This is probably true. If they could actually build a whole house in 2 days they would have several videos showing it off. ESPECIALLY if they are trying for an IPO. This is the future. But this company is probably a scam. I wouldnt put one thin penny into this until I saw at least a small wall built...
[17:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02"Video" - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:49] <exec> 08└─"Video" You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
[17:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:1) 02homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:51] <exec> 08└─it is caused by people being crazy, lazy, and unlucky almost everyone agrees we should help the crazy and unlucky but most people are against helping the lazy we have huge inefficiencies in our "support" systems because of this conflict
[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:52] <exec> 08└─True. That ant the fact that banks would rather see a property that they hold a title to go to wreckage and ruin slowly from abandonment than see it put to use by people in need. The banks are going to write off the property as a loss anyway. Why not write it off to charity and just deed it to some...
[17:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:2) 02This article is horrible. - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:03] <exec> 08└─It is not clear at all what the actual problem is from the article. There are, of course, two keypairs used in ssh public key authentication: The host keypair, used by the client to authenticate the server.The client keypair, used by the server to authenticate the client. I imagine the issue is one...
[17:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score:1) 02Re:Not going to do it - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that link to "And Then There Were None". More people should read it. Back in 2008, I used a series of short stories to explore the possibility of local government supporting this by paying people who do work for the city and the community in currency that can be exchanged for an hour of s...
[17:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02New name for old arrangements - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:15] <exec> 08└─Really, its just people helping their friends. Maybe expecting reciprocation, maybe not. Its never going to extend to or include that asshole down the street. When you touch your neighbors stuff, even with the best of intentions, you somehow acquire all future blame. When your neighbors touch your...
[17:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02and if it should break? - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:16] <exec> 08└─Barter system. Fine... so what happens if someone screws up. The local IT barterer and the local doctor agree to trade services... And the doctor makes an error that looks like the local definition of malpractice. I suppose that'd have to be settled with money, right? Or the IT contractor delete...
[17:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02I'm all for utopia, but ... - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:18] <exec> 08└─I dream of a post-scarcity utopia but in the present day, I find it extremely hard to believe that a CPA is going to trade an hour of time for an hour of lawn mowing. I certainly wouldn't, and the fact is, it isn't fair to ask for an hour from an accountant in exchange for an hour of lawn mowing. It...
[17:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:1) 02all hours do not have equal value - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:20] <exec> 08└─and really money seems like a more efficient way of handling things
[17:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Better than existing system? - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:21] <exec> 08└─We have a nice system that 'banks hours'. We call it money. I work for money. I use that money to buy goods. I am selling hours that are banked into cash. I can then use that cash to buy other work from other people. You dont think the dude at the local mcdonalds likes his job do you? He is there to...
[17:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Could we have scalable taxes? - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:32] <exec> 08└─In this day and age why are we not using an algebraic relationship for taxation instead of brackets. That way you don't need to make a distinction between different sizes of brewers; it would scale naturally.
[17:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pump it up hill - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─The lower storage pond. Ideally aside from evaporation, which would be offset by rain, etc., it could be a closed-loop system.
[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This would have made a good roof! - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:33] <exec> 08└─nice picture. interesting 'nuff the roofs in the background don't seem to have a single panel. seems the japanese approach to solar grid-tie is not by empowering individual citizens to harvest free energy but by licensing utility run mega-farms from which the poor citizens have to buy electricity .....
[17:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Giant? Come on! - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:35] <exec> 08└─Common batteries are a couple of thousand milliamp-hours, so yeah these are giant.
[17:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02extraction - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:37] <exec> 08└─well all good and all but i think japan is very strict about letting their normal citizens install solar. not that that is only a uniquely japanese problem tho. somewhere i read that the bureaucratic paper hurdles for a smallish solar roof system are worse then digging out melted corium... now let's...
[17:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02TYhe other half of the story - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:52] <exec> 08└─One must wonder, just how bad morale must be to spawn a devious defecator and what the employer is doing to create such a shitty morale.
[17:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Ocean Acidification - 06Corals are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:50] <exec> 08└─for the oceans I thought that Ocean Acidification https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] is the larger issue in relation to global climate change. More CO2 in the air results in more carbonic acid in the ocean - and coral cannot survive in those conditions. It looks like t...
[17:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a poor memory you have - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:13] <exec> 08└─> They have vetoed more British, German, and US proposals in the UN Vetoing british and german proposals is definitely opposing the US.
[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chaffetz - 06Trouble at the Office of Personnel Management - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─They should be paying the tax payers rent!
[17:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:WHAT!! - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:24] <exec> 08└─serotonin does pretty much everything in the brain - there are at least 20+ different serotonin receptor subtypes which all do different things. serotonin can't cross the BBB, so what it does outside the brain doesn't matter. as for low/high serotonin effects, anyone who's taken MDMA can tell you th...
[17:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Repairing people rather than destroying lives - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:41] <exec> 08└─The one who acts knows exactly what it is being done. Keyword, motherfuckers, is KNOWS.
[17:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Repairing people rather than destroying lives - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:51] <exec> 08└─Exceptional people are defectives who've mastered their own damage.
[17:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Qi - 06Wireless Charging Devices, Drones, and Vehicles - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─Many phones have two recessed gold plated contacts inside the battery compartment to make contact with a receiver. There is no list of compatible phones, but just look for "qi receiver 'your phone model'" on Ebay. If you don't find anything, it can't be retrofitted easily. Most phones with replaceab...
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[18:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Alabama? - 06Why is Google Opening a New Data Center in a Former Coal-Fired Power Plant? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:38] <exec> 08└─They should use the extra space for an abortion clinic and a Martin Luther King museum. The locals will love it.
[18:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Price was right - 06Why is Google Opening a New Data Center in a Former Coal-Fired Power Plant? - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:40] <exec> 08└─Google Map Link https://goo.gl [goo.gl] You have to assume this ex-Tennessee Valley Authority (quasi-government corporation) came at a stupendously good price. The plant has two sections 20 years apart, and the EPA reached an agreement with the TVA to shut down the older plant and install...
[18:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Price was right - 06Why is Google Opening a New Data Center in a Former Coal-Fired Power Plant? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:41] <exec> 08└─Ooops, I forgot the link to the official Google page http://googleblog.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] (oddly left out of both submissions).
[18:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Shitty Video - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:54] <exec> 08└─Figures. As usual the summary alone was enough to call BS though. Yes it takes 4-6 weeks to build a house but little of that time is bricklaying. Unless that robot also levels ground, lays plumbing, pours concrete foundations, does roofing, electrical work, can lay carpet, etc. it isn't going to mak...
[18:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:02] <exec> 08└─You should have left it with homelessness is not caused by lack of housing. But, you went off and blamed (some of) the homeless for being "lazy". If the commons hadn't been stolen from the commoners by the rich parasitic class, there would not be rich parasites who "own" everything, and the (as you...
[18:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Are bricks common in Australia? - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:03] <exec> 08└─One of my gripes with USA houses is how dependent they are on timber, when materials like brick are a viable alternative. Living in Phoenix stresses this; there are not many trees locally so I would imagine that other materials would dominate, which is not the case. I also am curious how this automa...
[18:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02building houses - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:05] <exec> 08└─There's a lot more to building houses than laying bricks.
[18:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:07] <exec> 08└─Why on earth would anyone build a house out of brick? It's a terrible building material: one small earthquake and your house collapses. No one builds houses out of brick any more (at least not in the US): brick is used as a facade element only (because it does look nice, and it also has a lot of the...
[18:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:08] <exec> 08└─Thermal mass on the outside of the building envelope is of marginal value. You want it inside the insulation to help moderate interior temperature swings.
[18:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:10] <exec> 08└─Why on earth would anyone build a house out of brick?
[18:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:This article is horrible. - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:20] <exec> 08└─More likely a public key stuffed into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. This is, as another commenter stated, a back-door for Cisco / anybody else with access to the corresponding private key.
[18:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:This article is horrible. - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:21] <exec> 08└─Actually there are not two keypairs. All you need is one keypair, your private key, and your public key. Push your public key into authorized_keys on the root account, and you are in. You don't need to know a thing about the server's own keypair. I'm betting Intel did exactly that, pushed the same p...
[18:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:hot neighbour strategy - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:33] <exec> 08└─I'd respond with: "I didn't know you were a prostitute. Nice. That's nice."
[18:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Edgar S. Cahn, JD, PhD (No video links here) - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:39] <exec> 08└─The guy I associate with this is Edgar S. Cahn [nader.org] A very accomplished dude. [wikipedia.org] I listened to Ralph Nader chatting with him in January. (The 1st part of the MP3.) [ralphnaderradiohour.com] Ralph notes that he is a guy you will never encounter via Lamestream Media--but should (#4...
[18:42:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Perspective - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:51] <exec> 08└─Craft beer didn't need a tax break. Didn't need a tax break? Or, no longer needed a puritanical post-prohibition sin tax? I guess it's a matter of perspective.
[18:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Using water only once is not smart - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:14] <exec> 08└─In California, where we are in a severe drought, we have a legacy of generations of dumb local ordinances that outlawed using water a second time. There's a huge amount of water that goes into the black water pipe that should instead be used to water plants. Gray water system [google.com] . Back on...
[18:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:16] <exec> 08└─I know from experience that those pointy lego chima parts are more durable than my bare feet! The eighties space guy from the Lego Movie has a partly broken helmet. So recognizable, epic win.
[18:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02fantastic! - 06Flexible 'Skin-like' Colour Display Developed - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:32] <exec> 08└─this is just the kind of display needed for a practical wrist computer! add the recent advance in van der Waals force based adhesive tech and it could stick to your arm with ease. now we just need Quantum Dot Cellular Automata [wikipedia.org] backend and you've got a wrist computer with a comprable...
[18:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:35] <exec> 08└─You are making the same error in logic of anthropomorphizing international relations.
[18:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:What a poor memory you have - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 3201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:41] <exec> 08└─Frojack - you have a poor knowledge of both the world wars, and of the Gulf wars. During the first world war, the late arrivals were the Americans. The French were fighting from the beginning to the end, alongside the UK, Belgians, commonwealth countries (including elements of the Caribbean countrie...
[18:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Mirror - 06Trouble at the Office of Personnel Management - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:27] <exec> 08└─If it's wrong when the Chinese do it, it's wrong when the USA does it. Justifying it, shifting blame, is an activity for hypocrites.
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[19:41:58] <exec> 08└─Brick isn't too far from terrafoam, bricks are just fired mud, usually with big holes in them...
[19:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Video - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:09] <exec> 08└─INCONCEIVABLE!
[19:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:18] <exec> 08└─So you don't have to worry about the wolf huffing and puffing if you are a little piggy?
[19:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:This article is horrible. - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:33] <exec> 08└─anybody else with access to the corresponding private key.
[19:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02reasons - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:53] <exec> 08└─Why pay for an organic tomato from California when you can have your neighbor teach you how to grow your own?
[19:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02In Time (2011) - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:54] <exec> 08└─So it is like the system in place in "In Time (2011)" http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[19:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:07] <exec> 08└─I for one am comfortable with taxes on commercially produced beer.
[19:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Could we have scalable taxes? - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:11] <exec> 08└─In this day and age why are we not using an algebraic relationship for taxation instead of brackets. That way you don't need to make a distinction between different sizes of brewers; it would scale naturally.
[19:43:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Ages - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:25] <exec> 08└─When will lego sell products for centurians? Why are their kits only suitable for upto 99 year olds, soon as you hit 100 you're out of luck?
[19:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ages - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:27] <exec> 08└─Centurions don't get to play with lego, you need to be a prefect or legate for that privilege!
[19:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mystery of the Warehouse Deuce - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:36] <exec> 08└─Excuse me!! Could we get back to the issue, please?! You all don't seem to understand how serious this is!! Now who made dookie in the warehouse?! [the boys just laugh] Oh, you think it's funny, huh?! M'kay! M'kay! You're gonna think it's real funny when the police get here!
[19:45:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, and invading foreign territory is a legitimate use of an army. That doesn't mean that you should invade your allies.
[19:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing like spite to build your foreign policy - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:14] <exec> 08└─Sure, but how confident would either of them be in France?
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[20:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:3, Informative) 02Dual_EC_DRBG - 06NIST Revises Key Computer Security Publication on Random Number Generation - 1880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:41] <exec> 08└─According to https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]: Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual_EC_DRBG) is an algorithm from the branch of cryptography known as elliptic curve cryptography that implements a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator...
[20:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Dual_EC_DRBG - 06NIST Revises Key Computer Security Publication on Random Number Generation - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:42] <exec> 08└─Of course there were a lot of (read: almost all of them) Linux distributions that were well aware of the controversy dating back to the inception of Dual_EC_DRBG and never did turn that option on (it was also dog slow), even when it was used RSA software. Since just about nobody was using Dual_EC_DR...
[20:42:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Worst Youtube ever.. - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:02] <exec> 08└─A robot voice reads the same text that appears in the Summary above, while the screen zooms in and out of still shots carefully selected to NOT show a single thing about how it works. The Youtube must have been created by a robot. Just in time for the obsolescence of brick houses they automate the p...
[20:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:16] <exec> 08└─You seem to have a romanticized view of the commons. You're basically saying that people would not be homeless if they had a designated place to pitch a tent. To me that still sunds like homelessness. Maybe that can work in Miami, but I wouldn't recommend it in January in Boston.
[20:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:17] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to differentiate the lazy and the unlucky. If a person loses the $70k/yr job they need to make their house payment, we'll mostly agree that they are unlucky. But when they "keep looking" rather than taking the $8/hr job washing dishes (that won't pay the bills anyway), does that make...
[20:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The town with no unemployment or homelessness - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:19] <exec> 08└─caused by people being crazy, lazy, and unlucky s/crazy, lazy, and unlucky/greedy Once again, the town of Marinaleda shows how it's done in a civilized society. In the place with a Communist mayor (NOT a totalitarian government with a State Capitalist economy that labels itself "Communist"): The vil...
[20:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:26] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't want to have a wood frame house down in tornado alley. You wouldn't want a brick one either. Earthquakes can and do happen everywhere. "Tornado Alley" isn't that far from the New Madrid fault line. For tornado-prone places, you want a steel-frame house with rebar-reinforced and filled...
[20:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03calmond [1826] (Score:1) 02So... - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:28] <exec> 08└─Would the side of the house be called Hadrian`s wall?
[20:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Not going to do it - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:52] <exec> 08└─How does it help someone who's skills aren't in need? If you're skills are in need, are you going to trade your skilled time one for one with that of a bonsai trimmer?
[20:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Could we have scalable taxes? - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:21] <exec> 08└─Nope, that isn't it. Income under the first bracket is taxed at the first bracket rate, income above the first but below the second is taxed at the next rate, and so on. The brackets are inflection points in a continuous function when you graph taxes against income.
[20:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:57] <exec> 08└─Armies aren't only used for invading.
[20:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''France could be...'' - 06France Could Offer Asylum to Assange, Snowden - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:39] <exec> 08└─gewg_'s utopia The way they have acknowledged the realities of the 21st Century workplace is pretty good. Fewer hours at work for the same total pay has allowed their Working Class to avoid being hollowed out as has happened in some "advanced" countries. Having lots of people with disposable income...
[20:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WHAT!! - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:27] <exec> 08└─serotonin can't cross the BBB, so what it does outside the brain doesn't matter
[20:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:42] <exec> 08└─They believe that practicing homosexuality is self-destructive and community-destructive behavior that the individual chooses to practice.
[20:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:49] <exec> 08└─When government says it will not establish laws respecting an establishment of religion, what is saying is that it *cannot* support *any* religion to *any* extent.
[20:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:09] <exec> 08└─You never want anything to change, or what?
[20:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:10] <exec> 08└─None of the studies really support my views
[20:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:23] <exec> 08└─See khallow's [soylentnews.org] post? Even your fellow conservatives are telling you to get a grip, you're embarrassing yourself.
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[21:41:40] <exec> 08└─bbbbbb [asset-3.soup.io]
[21:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:24] <exec> 08└─You are missing historical and geographic context entirely. Up until relatively recently in history there were no homeless. Don't have a house? Build one wherever there is spare land and trees. This is how it still works in many developing nations. Here every square inch is owned by someone even if...
[21:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bricks as bulding material - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:28] <exec> 08└─Bricks are a poor choice in earthquake zones. ...and with all the fracking going on, the range of earthquake zones is expanding. Now, while you're thinking "California", let me remind you that the largest[1] of earthquakes in the USA had as its epicenter New Madrid, Missouri. [1] It changed the cour...
[21:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bricks as bulding material - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:30] <exec> 08└─I live in a brick house. We know how unstable it is. One significant crack and a shift will drop a whole wall, crushing everything right down to the basement. It happened once when the house was settling during a prolonged construction. Now I do not live in a traditional earthquake zone, but after t...
[21:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:37] <exec> 08└─That's why you put brick in front of the framing.
[21:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chinese Gov were right - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:49] <exec> 08└─It is not a backdoor. It is a default. Whomever trusts default configs for security should never be in charge of it. Everybody except OpenBSD has terrible default security.
[21:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This article is horrible. - 06Cisco Security Appliances Found to have Default SSH Keys - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:55] <exec> 08└─Except with cisco systems you still need to have local login credentials to do anything meaningful. It isn't a generic linux box and has not been for two decades.
[21:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reasons - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:16] <exec> 08└─Brilliant! As an aside I am so sick of hearing about how important Californian agriculture is. If you dig into the numbers and specific definitions people are spewing out (like 99% of walnuts grown in California), you realize how bunk it is. Look around your own backyard and you will find just about...
[21:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:57] <exec> 08└─Lego is the one toy nobody ever throws away.
[21:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:58] <exec> 08└─Hey, we had those too. Remarkable the memories that instantly came back when I saw that picture.
[21:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:WHAT!! - 06Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:45] <exec> 08└─Someone posted a link to a *serum* serotonin test kit. I do not know if serotonin can cross the BBB but that is all the more reason serum serotonin levels will be irrelevant to the putative role it plays in the brain.
[21:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Climate Denier Reasoning? - 06 Australia Slashes its Renewable Energy Target by Nearly 20% - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:59] <exec> 08└─It's not so much the long term drought but the hot dry spell after late winter/early spring rains that causes most of the problem, so that we'll be seeing more (and more serious) bushfires on a regular basis.
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[22:41:44] <exec> 08└─lolwat
[22:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02Closed source binary blob - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:45] <exec> 08└─>A closed-source and binary-only kernel module caused a fair fuss when it was found inveigling its way into the very much open-source Chromium. I might be paranoid. I have never checked out the sources of Chromium, nor did I ever feel the need to use it. But if a binary blob can slip by unnoticed li...
[22:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02If no one is looking, all bugs are deep. - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:46] <exec> 08└─There are many advantages to open source and to free software but I dont regard the ability to inspect source before running it as one of them. There is just too much source code.
[22:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If no one is looking, all bugs are deep. - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:48] <exec> 08└─It's not that there's too much - it's that a lot of it is incomprehensible unless you have specific knowledge of topic X. Perhaps you like steep learning curves. I once delved into an open source project I wasn't familiar with (while debugging a problem with a project to which I was contributing). I...
[22:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Closed source binary blob - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:50] <exec> 08└─> But if a binary blob can slip by unnoticed like that What do you mean unnoticed? People raised hell because it was noticed. This is the 2nd story about it here on soylent.
[22:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02No shock - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:51] <exec> 08└─Nobody runs Chromium unless they care about issues such as this. You have to go looking for it intentionally. Somebody just had their head up their butt when they made the original decision and now it is fixed. Had they not acted it was a certainty that no packaged copy of it would have retained the...
[22:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:29] <exec> 08└─Videbimus
[22:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb idea - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:47] <exec> 08└─Why on earth would anyone build a house out of brick? It's a terrible building material: one small earthquake and your house collapses. No one builds houses out of brick any more (at least not in the US): brick is used as a facade element only
[22:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:New name for old arrangements - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:21] <exec> 08└─When you touch your neighbors stuff, even with the best of intentions, you somehow acquire all future blame. When your neighbors touch your stuff, they somehow acquire all your tools.
[22:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:I'm all for utopia, but ... - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:24] <exec> 08└─...and we all know what happens next: the CPA says to the person pushing the mower, "yeah, I'll do your taxes, but we'll register it at 4-to-1 hours" - and now you're back to money. I'm "all for" people wondering about alternatives of various kinds, but often when it comes to trying to get rid of mo...
[22:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:Sam Adams - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:47] <exec> 08└─He was saying that anheuser busch was taken over by InBev, which is not a US based brewer. Hence the AB.
[22:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lego has always had general blocks - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:02] <exec> 08└─Then again I don't at all understand people that buy Lego sets for their collection value and never use them. That is like buying icecream and choosing to never eat it. Absurd.
[22:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Sustainable?' - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:14] <exec> 08└─This looks like a second source for blocks with the same modular unit of 1⅜" x 2¾" x 5½", http://www.communityplaythings.com [communityplaythings.com] The page mentions, > Admittedly, Community Playthings wasn’t the first to sell Unit...
[22:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Pump it up hill - 06Japan Building Giant Battery Systems to Store Solar Power - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:57] <exec> 08└─Because Japan has plenty of land laying around waiting to be flooded for energy storage.
[22:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02somebodys gotta do it - 06 Mystery Excreta: Firm to Pay $2.2M Over Forced DNA Testing for Workers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:21] <exec> 08└─what a sh!tty job..
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[23:41:54] <exec> 08└─It's basically a matter of trust. True, there isn't that much auditing of open-source code, but the organizations who create it are usually seen as more trustworthy than commercial companies. Most such software isn't created by any companies at all, but rather non-profit groups. Inkscape might be a...
[23:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not a kernel module - 06Binary Blob Banished By Berated Browser's Better Build (Chromium) - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:57] <exec> 08└─title says it.
[23:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:45] <exec> 08└─Move to a less expensive housing and take the dishwasher job?
[23:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Right solution - wrong material - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:59] <exec> 08└─Better with a robot that build houses of concrete, wood, steel frame, heated sand etc. It has a chance to take a tornado or earthquake. Bricks are like suicide. The robot of course also has to deal with ground leveling, plumbing preparations (channels), roofing, electrical, carpet/floor etc.
[23:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:and if it should break? - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:34] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem with our current society is our obsession with assigning blame and demanding compensation, as well as general mistrust.
[23:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:reasons - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:42] <exec> 08└─I have a walnut tree it my yard that drops more walnuts than I want to eat every year. I never water it. Pacific NW. They store well too so there is no issue with season.
[23:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Broken Brain - 06How to Start a Time Bank - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:44] <exec> 08└─The trouble I have with time micromanagement systems is very personal. My Brain does not produce at a consistently predictable linear rate. Therefore I only tend to succeed when I am not micromanaged and am free to use as much of my own time, at whatever time of day or day of the week, that my brain...
[23:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sam Adams - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:01] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't have associated Sam Adams with the concept of "Craft" beer, but then I wouldn't have put Yuengling in the category either. There's so much more out there, and so much of that is better. Not all of it, of course: "Florida Cracker" [cigarcitybrewing.com] is disgusting.
[23:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Broken helmet? KraGle it! - 06Lego Plans to Make Their Iconic Plastic Blocks … Without Plastic - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:32] <exec> 08└─The eighties space guy from the Lego Movie has a partly broken helmet.
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[23:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:To queer for me - 06Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:12] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that your claims that gay men only adopt children for sodomy is legitimate dissent based on logic and reason, and that we should quietly respect your reasoned beliefs? If it's not all gay men by default, and only a percentage thereof, are you still saying they must be removed from chi...
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