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[00:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:03] <exec> 08└─Seems only psychologically self mutilating people would manage that kind of environment for long.
[00:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:04] <exec> 08└─Guess this also the path to economic stagnation..
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[01:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What does this mean for the fate of the universe? - 06Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass? - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:47] <exec> 08└─If the universe keeps expanding, then it all ends in the big rip. If the universe eventually contracts, we end in the big crunch. But if the universe is still oscillating, then does that imply that it might eventually find a (static) equilibrium? It's an important question, as a stable universe that...
[01:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:concrete - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:07] <exec> 08└─Guess this also the path to economic stagnation..
[01:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Bigotry tarnishing soylentnews - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:17] <exec> 08└─No, but the smell of feet sticks out a lot more here than most other places, if you catch my drift.
[01:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idiots - 06Bitmap All the Things - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:03] <exec> 08└─You are not Tyler Durden. GP was refering to the first rule of usenet, same as the first rule of fightclub.
[01:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Specifically regarding the video size limit... - 06Bitmap All the Things - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:24] <exec> 08└─Bingo! You are correct sir!
[01:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong. - 06Bitmap All the Things - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:26] <exec> 08└─Jpeg files are just groups of bitstreams. You could store your data in a non-image bitstream, not unlike the way EXIF streams contain things like exposure, gps coordinates, etc.
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[02:43:18] <exec> 08└─Every single one of you is the god damn cause of it.
[02:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Study is awful - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:48] <exec> 08└─A good friend and I had this discussion a few years ago. He might live in a more expensive area than you do, so he set the bar at about $100K for himself (and family). In his business, he worked with some big name sports stars -- who had multimillion dollar contracts. His comment, not much point in...
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[05:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:They Hate U.S. because, we're Evil? - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:59] <exec> 08└─Counter point - I did the majority of my primary schooling in Ottawa, and we were forced to sing O Canada each day and recite a prayer. Right at the end of my time there, they switched from a recited prayer over the PA to a "quiet prayer time", in which we were told we had to be praying anyway. When...
[05:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:1) 02Re:Worst Youtube ever.. - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:13] <exec> 08└─The client gets what the client wants...
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[07:43:22] <exec> 08└─No I am saying all Americans are at fault for something is like saying all Jews are greedy-note that they are not homogenous, nor are Africans, nor are Muslims. Defend it all you want but you are a bigot, hell just continuing to defend this filth is what defines you as a bigot.
[07:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Study is awful - 06 Study Shows That Experiences, Not Things, Will Make You Happier - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:54] <exec> 08└─Everything is subjective until it is compared to something else. Thus the definition of objectivity. How this can work in practice is this: ask the subjects what makes them happier in a number of instances to get datapoints, then compare or combine that binomial distribution with many other subjects...
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[08:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:From the author - 06Bitmap All the Things - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:41] <exec> 08└─I approve of this kind of light-hearted abuse of a corporate giant like google. Are there any alternative services that you could use? If so, then you could store the file over multiple sites, using an error-correcting code, such that if one of the sites were to go down, the data would still be avai...
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[09:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Safe - 06Capture Google Login on Desktop to Break Into Android - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:26] <exec> 08└─So, I guess I'm safe. While some people were telling me that I wouldn't be able to use an Android tablet without a Google account, I have not have not found the need for one. F-droid has more software to choose from than the Microsoft store (I came from a Microsoft tablet), and app developers have t...
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[10:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbot [1811] (Score:2) 02Re:Fool me twice, shame on me. Too little, too lat - 06NIST Revises Key Computer Security Publication on Random Number Generation - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:58] <exec> 08└─Interesting comments - if you'll allow me to be pedantic with respect to the SHA3 business: NIST's recommendations explicitly weakened the algorithm, "in the name of performance". They had to backtrack because everyone was freaking out about them, and now the standard reflects the original submissio...
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[12:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02shitty illustration at earthsky - 06Is the Universe Ringing Like a Crystal Glass? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:51] <exec> 08└─The illustration shows expansion and contraction. The description mentions expansion at faster and slower rates.
[12:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tripstah [4913] (Score:1) 02Re:From the author - 06Bitmap All the Things - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:42] <exec> 08└─Amazon also allows bitmaps on their cloud service. The image portion is free for "prime" members and they supposedly they accept files up to 2GBs. That would work out to a 16,000 x 16,000 x RGBA bitmap. As for error correction, RAR includes parity information (it's one of the reasons I looped throug...
[12:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tripstah [4913] (Score:1) 02Re:You can't afford your own storage? - 06Bitmap All the Things - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:44] <exec> 08└─B.A.T.T. isn't as complex as that; there's no stenography. B.A.T.T.'s overhead is 54 bytes per each 64,000,000 chunk, so the overhead works out to just under a megabyte per terabyte of data encoded as bitmaps.
[12:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Sam Adams - 06Congress May Lower Beer Taxes, Sam Adams Could Cease to be "Craft Beer" - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:08] <exec> 08└─Yep, sorry, I should have realized not everyone would get the AB reference. I worked there for 6 years so using AB instead of Anheuser-Bush is pretty much reflexive.
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[13:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Worst Youtube ever.. - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:19] <exec> 08└─The client gets what the client pays for.
[13:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Shitty Video - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:23] <exec> 08└─That is in version 2.0 or 3.0. This is just beta looking for VC.
[13:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:homelessness isn't caused by a lack of housing - 06Hadrian the Robot Bricklayer Can Build a Whole House in Two Days - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:40] <exec> 08└─Do you realize what that would do to the number of IRS jobs? We would have people unemployed with absolutely no useful skill to offer the job market. Their only hope would be to find some bureaucracy that was nothing but a growing leech on the system to take them in. Why do you hate people having...
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[14:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Up To.... - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:36] <exec> 08└─Magnitude, said to generate as of August up to $US100,000 a month for its author.......The researchers say the Magnitude author......could make up to $3 million a year.
[14:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Up To.... - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:37] <exec> 08└─It's easy to infer they're suggesting that its market will expand by the end of the year.
[14:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Old News - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:39] <exec> 08└─The last couple of articles have been about exploits targeting IE, PHP, and Flash. I'm glad we've moved on from those bad old days of the 90's.
[14:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:eBay is the most toxic name in finance, right? - 06Thieves Using Mystery Magento Card Stealers - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:49] <exec> 08└─> nothing quite induces a "I don't want to be involved" situation quite like paypal. Must be why ebay is so eager to get away from paypal. [cnet.com]
[14:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:eBay is the most toxic name in finance, right? - 06Thieves Using Mystery Magento Card Stealers - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:51] <exec> 08└─As far as most likely to screw people over at the individual level, yes. No contest. But over all, it's a field filled with 'respectable' banks helping to launder drug money and terrorist funding annd getting barely a slap on the wrist, various institutions crashing the entire world economy and then...
[14:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:05] <exec> 08└─Rights only exist as a PR concept invented by the aristocracy because with industrialization and mass media it became cheaper to feed the masses a line of BS than to shoot them down in the street. Temporarily this worked pretty well. Like the scam of democracy where the one party selects two candida...
[14:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:06] <exec> 08└─Hopefully all the feminists will be killed. Even the pleasure of marrying a young girl has been stolen from us.
[14:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:09] <exec> 08└─Given that these general rights are being specifically denied to homosexuals, I think it's perfectly reasonable to refer to this issue as "Gay Rights" and your pathetic excuse to shoehorn the phrase fuck gay rights on to a website shows what a sad little human being you must be.
[14:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:11] <exec> 08└─Why can't we marry little girls like we could prior to feminism?
[14:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:12] <exec> 08└─The big problem is that people are assuming things are right's that simply are not rights. Where the SCOTUS got this wrong, was in upholding marriage laws in general that give any kind of benefit from a federal or state level. Remove marriage status as something the government deals with (except in...
[14:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:17] <exec> 08└─The gay couple has no right to demand another person's service (that would be called "slavery"). A tattoo artist can refuse to create a tattoo that the artist dislikes, a baker can refuse to create a cake that the baker dislikes, a programmer can refuse to write a program that the programmer dislike...
[14:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:18] <exec> 08└─Spot on. There should be no "protected classes", there should be no preferences in hiring. None of that nonsense. And, you're absolutely right - there should be NO SEX in the workplace. No gay sex, no hetero sex, no extramarital sex, nothing. I go to work, I work, I get off work, THEN it's alright t...
[14:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Rosa Parks rode a privately operated bus - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:20] <exec> 08└─Antidiscrimination laws generally cover public accomodation. That also includes employment and housing.
[14:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 2412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:22] <exec> 08└─Something I don't understand about the law vs private behavior: If I were an engaged gay dude or a trans woman or whatever I would much rather prefer to know the wedding cake maker doesn't want my business so I can go elsewhere, instead of being stuck eating a cake thats 5% saliva and god only knows...
[14:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:33] <exec> 08└─I think the deal is with taking law into his own hands. If your neighbor is infringing your rights, call the cops. That is what you pay them for.
[14:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Check back in another 15 years - 06Ecuador Releases 201 Tortoises on Galápagos Island of Santa Fe - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:50] <exec> 08└─to see which of the 201 tortoises won the race.
[14:43:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Pretty ironic - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:01] <exec> 08└─These people are all jumping on a bandwagon.
[14:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:It is worse than that though: - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:05] <exec> 08└─If you weren't just being an ass, you would've made sure it was a South Carolina resident doing this so rather than it looking like another attack by the North
[14:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pretty ironic - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:07] <exec> 08└─I disagree with the banning the flag thing. It works for Germany to ban the Nazi flag because freedom of speech isn't a sacrosanct ideal there. Here it is, and sustaining a culture of freedom is essential to the US.
[14:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, the original 13 colonies flag... - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:10] <exec> 08└─Go read up on the history of the US during that period and tell me that it was about 'rebelling' rather than the first steps in enforcing conformance. There was a lot of injustice being enforced by the very people who had a decade earlier been promoting independence from the crown.
[14:43:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 513 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:12] <exec> 08└─We'd better take down the United States flag itself while we're at it. The United States perpetrated genocide against Native Americans. It oppressed racial minorities for generations with Jim Crow laws. Bombed civilian populations during WW2. Nuked Japan. Abused, tortured, and killed both civilians...
[14:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:16] <exec> 08└─The confederate battle flag existed for one reason - to represent a rebellion dedicated to preserving slavery.
[14:43:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03penguinoid [5331] 02Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:18] <exec> 08└─So, someone who damages someone else's property because they can't stand their flying a flag they disapprove of, is a champion in the fight against hatred and violence?
[14:43:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 929 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:20] <exec> 08└─The confederate flag was not flown between the civil war, and the beginning of civil rights legislation / decisions. Flying the confederate flag really began with the decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, and the subsequent attempts to integrate schools as a symbol of the opposition to recognizi...
[14:43:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02Re:Opposing Federal Conquest - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─It seems that South Carolina needs reconquered once again to remind those nutcases once again that they lost the Civil War. The adage coined by James Petigru, one of its senators I believe in 1861, when South Carolina left the union remains an accurate statement today: "South Carolina is too small t...
[14:43:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03penguinoid [5331] 02Re:Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:28] <exec> 08└─Then how would you feel about someone illegally taking down an American flag, or a church's cross? There's plenty of people who would consider those also a symbol of hatred, intolerance, murder, racism, etc. and would consider it a public service to take them down.
[14:43:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:35] <exec> 08└─Damage? What damage? List the damage caused - all of it please. (Apart from damage to the pride of some small-dicked racist redneck fucks, which goes without saying, and should be encouraged.) Curiously, I think she'd have been more likely to get away with it if she'd have used a flamethrower to bur...
[14:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:37] <exec> 08└─God hates flags!
[14:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Tech angle? - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:43] <exec> 08└─I remember my days aboard ship, when the bosun's would gather up, and practice their knot tying. Even the dumbest of the deck apes would eventually learn their knots, even the ones who found it difficult to walk and chew gum at the same time. No tech skills required.
[14:43:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:Central issue aside - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the thing that surprised me was that there was a criminal, who was black, and they didn't shoot her. This is progress. Well done, America!
[14:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Central issue aside - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:48] <exec> 08└─Well, there were just too many witnesses around.
[14:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Central issue aside - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:50] <exec> 08└─So you want to see a man get all sweaty climbing up a big pole?
[14:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Central issue aside - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:52] <exec> 08└─All they had to do was wait for her to come back down, arrest her, and send the flag right back up to show the futility of her actions. They could have just munched on donuts the entire time and keep the area around the pole clear in case the idiot fell off so that someone on the ground doesn't get...
[14:44:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:I thought github just hosted the repositories? - 06GitHub Announces Atom 1.0 - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:20] <exec> 08└─Atom is developed by GitHub (it's also developed on GitHub, because they'd be pretty stupid not to use their own hosting platform). It's designed by people who miss how bloated EMACS felt back when 8MB of RAM was a lot and want to use Web 2.0 buzzwords for local apps when editing text.
[14:44:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mojo chan [266] 02Re:Not from Lenovo - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:37] <exec> 08└─I'd simply read reviews of any new model and then go check it out myself in a shop, rather than simply relying on old prejudices.
[14:44:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02RS-232 and parallel port? - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 985 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:41] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of service technicians that would like a bit-bangable asynchronous RS-232 port and perhaps a parallel port for some binary software that still needs to be used. And those programs won't work with USB. Free choice of UEFI, signage keys or just plain MBR. Write protected BIOS, only allow...
[14:45:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02Taxis are a legacy service - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:31] <exec> 08└─Taxis are a legacy service, and they should adapt or die. You don't have a right to profit from regulations for all eternity.
[14:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Taxis are a legacy service - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:35] <exec> 08└─Because the drivers are vetted, their vehicles must carry CCTV, and must be up to reasonable safety standards for carrying passengers. If crime were a major problem the government could, for example, mandate not being able to lock the rear doors.
[14:45:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] 02Re:Taxis are a legacy service - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:38] <exec> 08└─taxi drives in france have to pay €200,000 for a license to operate. That's a lot of cash that Uber don't pay. With 50,000 taxis in france, that's €10 billion the government has taken.
[14:45:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Bringing 3d World Wages Home ... - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:40] <exec> 08└─Vive le monopole!
[14:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a Contradiction - 06BBC to list their links removed from Google - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:17] <exec> 08└─It relies ONLY on someone trying to use the power of the state to hide information, only to have that blow up in their face because of their ham handed efforts to use governmental power for their own petty convenience.
[14:46:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:Not a Contradiction - 06BBC to list their links removed from Google - 580 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:19] <exec> 08└─"Right to be forgotten" is a band-aid to a social problem. The problem is most people project an outward appearance of perfection (as much as possible). If you've been alive long enough you realize that is all bullshit and everyone has problems. I don't know how many times i've heard condemnation fr...
[14:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a Contradiction - 06BBC to list their links removed from Google - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:20] <exec> 08└─> The problem is most people project an outward appearance of perfection (as much as possible). It isn't about projecting perfection, it is about not being judged for one event that does not define you. That isn't a problem, that's the way people are made - perfect memories mean no slack and without...
[14:46:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Pressures to slow/stop renewables - 06The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:48] <exec> 08└─Now it is moving into charging for the interconnect to reduce distributed solar.
[14:46:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] 02Re:glacial pace - 06The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:55] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to save energy by not using your SHIFT key? I don't think it works like that.
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[15:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:Up To.... - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:40] <exec> 08└─So why not say that they've measured an increase in the market, instead of providing a bunch of totally unsubstantiated and vacuous "up to" numbers? An "at least" number would at least be saying *something*. I can honestly say that my income this year will be up to 3 trillion dollars. I can absolute...
[15:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Up To.... - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, but they're also suggesting a real possibility of reaching that threshold in ideal conditions. It's completely fair to hate the grandiosity of always using liberal estimates in the media, but it's not meaningless misinformation as you're implying.
[15:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Why - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:43] <exec> 08└─Why is anyone still using flash.? That and Java must be the number one cause of all exploits.
[15:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:22] <exec> 08└─There is something bad wrong among the tech giants - and they will pay for it eventually.
[15:42:24] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Translation Error [718] 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:24] <exec> 08└─I do have a beef with LGBT, and it's this: stop shoving your sexuality in everyone's faces. You are not special, you are not the center of the universe, the rest of the world mostly does not care who you have sex with.
[15:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:26] <exec> 08└─It can always leak that you are gay or whatever the society at the time happens to disapprove of. So even people that just want to go on with their lives can't ignore the issue.
[15:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:28] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking you need medication. People will continue to think and act like that as long as there are no consequences and no exposure. Without exposure there's no ability to change and grow.
[15:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It all started... - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:30] <exec> 08└─with fat, ugly women. Yes, I live in the USA.
[15:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:42] <exec> 08└─So you think it is a good idea to allow anyone to fire upward in the air at a moving drone with no consequences? So they will always hit their target and nobody will ever have their bullet or shot find its way into another person? I as a professional pessimist feel that civilians should never feel e...
[15:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was thinking about that. EMP pulse would be preferable, less noisey too.
[15:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rizole [5385] (Score:1) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:45] <exec> 08└─Er...it doesn't seem harsh, it is harsh. How about a quiet word first? Then by all means, shoot stuff.
[15:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:46] <exec> 08└─Nope, that makes it okay the first time until there is a discussion which becomes the norm. This is a high tech piece of machinery with radical recording and visualizing capabilities far exceeding humans. It is not a kids baseball that went through the window, this is guided and targeted. Destroy it...
[15:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:26] <exec> 08└─Hey I thought it was a terrorist factory. You take mere suspects, and hassle them until they hate your guts, and then release them. Isn't that what it's done there?
[15:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:31] <exec> 08└─> The Confederacy got a lot of people to die for it who didn't give a damn about protecting slavery. There will be always be credulous followers ready to believe the manipulative bullshit of people who want them to do their dirty work. That doesn't elevate the manipulative bullshit to anything more...
[15:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:''someone else's property'' - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:42] <exec> 08└─Your White Privilege is showing.
[15:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:54] <exec> 08└─> It damaged her own reputation. My first thought was, "what a fucking idiot!" and I snickered while I read the summary. You know ... damaging your opinion of someone you've never heard of before and won't even remember her name tomorrow is no damage at all.
[15:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:The tech angle - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:59] <exec> 08└─Nope, a prusik is a knot, not the associated other stuff you might attach to it. I've been a climber for decades and have ascended ropes like this a number of times, though I use the kleimheist, which is a very similar knot. Using two on the same rope is dangerous, though. If the top one slips, it p...
[15:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tech angle? - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─The bosun's what?
[15:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The tech angle - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:04] <exec> 08└─should mention some gadget That is *seriously* stretching it. You know it. You are acting like someone in 7th grade who figured out a loophole in the rules but then get mad when the teacher enforces them anyway. You can do better.
[15:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:RS-232 and parallel port? - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:11] <exec> 08└─Bridged as in forwarding packets directly from one to the other, without modifying them.
[15:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:RS-232 and parallel port? - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:12] <exec> 08└─Doesn't MAC addresses change as each interface has a different one?
[15:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickpad, ewwww. - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:29] <exec> 08└─If it was a blue embedded mouse, it probably wasn't a ThinkPad - all the ThinkPads I've ever seen have had red embedded mice. I do have an HP that came with a blue one (which I swapped with the red one from a ThinkPad keyboard that I wasn't using anymore), and my work Dell has one with a blue rim ar...
[15:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03spxero [3061] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickpad, ewwww. - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:31] <exec> 08└─We have been testing the Asus ZenBook UX305FA (both the regular and QHD+ version) and the clickpad on it is almost exactly the same as the Macbooks. For $700, it's the best deal I see on the market for those on the move- and the battery life on it lasts a true 10 hours of regular use. I miss the day...
[15:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bringing 3d World Wages Home ... - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:55] <exec> 08└─The sentiment is more a scary bedtime than anything. The market adjusts. People find or make new jobs, or live off the state. In 200 years, when robots do almost all manually labor, why do we need people working? We definitely don't need 15 billion white collar workers.
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a Contradiction - 06BBC to list their links removed from Google - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─Technology didn't make people do embarrassing things. It just made the problem worse. The problem is social, not technological. There is nothing wrong with experimenting, exploring, or making mistakes. The problem is defining someone for something they did years ago.
[15:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a Contradiction - 06BBC to list their links removed from Google - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:35] <exec> 08└─> The problem is defining someone for something they did years ago. Yes. And technology is an enabler for that problem. The idea that you can stop people from being judgey is utopianism. Drawing conclusions based on incomplete information is at the core of being human - we are pattern matching and...
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[16:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:2) 02More info here - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:40] <exec> 08└─This guy has a github repo listing all the resources for Machine Learning tools and software. It is comprehensive. https://github.com [github.com]
[16:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:2) 02Re:More info here - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:41] <exec> 08└─Amazon has also created a Machine Learning SaaS offering: https://aws.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[16:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Out of the loop but try Hastie & Tibshirani - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 2279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:43] <exec> 08└─Hi SubiculumHammer, I'm a bit "out of the loop", a dilettante(*) you might say, but maybe my tips still have some value for you: First of all, if you don't have a good command of linear algebra, you'll get nowhere. In general all of the modern AI/machine learning techniques assume that the student h...
[16:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:Up To.... - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:55] <exec> 08└─I certainly see your point; I've still had a gut-full of this up-to nonsense...
[16:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Re:Old News - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:57] <exec> 08└─To be fair that article spoke of a weakness in Magento, not PHP itself. There's a big difference between a vulnerability in PHP the script interpreter and a collection of scripts written in PHP. It likely wouldn't matter what language Magento was written in if the weakness strictly exists within the...
[16:42:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:20] <exec> 08└─There are human rights. Gays are 100% as human as any other human, and therefore they should have precisely the same right. The world will only be truly civilised when the concept of "gay rights" is as meaningless as the concept of "straight rights". FP
[16:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:27] <exec> 08└─Your eloquent argument has me convinced, mikeeusa! We need to get back to traditional marriage! None of this interracial crap or even waiting for sexual maturity! Consent?! Bah! Traditional marriage all the way! /ducks
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─Yea the one place the govt needs to step in is where progressive ideals need to be enforced at gun point. Marrying young girls is most traditional form of marriage and it is the one you demand be suppressed. It's also the only form that benifits men.
[16:42:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 2099 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:39] <exec> 08└─I don't care what your sexuality is, it has no place in the workplace. I do have a beef with LGBT, and it's this: stop shoving your sexuality in everyone's faces. You are not special, you are not the center of the universe, the rest of the world mostly does not care who you have sex with. Equal prot...
[16:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:43] <exec> 08└─I had a few questions for bradley13 and yourself. I had thought that the issue was marriage, which doesn't seem to have much to do with either of your posts. Please be so kind as to help me out. You don't talk about your wife or girlfriend at work? If you're dating, don't you talk about that around...
[16:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 3911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:44] <exec> 08└─The issues. Marriage is but part of the LGBT agenda. Probably the most important single part of their goals, in that "marriage" legitimizes everything else. The issue, as I see it, is that LGBT is a protected, special class, whose tender feelings we must never offend. You can't refuse to bake them a...
[16:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:48] <exec> 08└─whooooooosh
[16:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, it was indeed once that way, but it isn't any longer, at least, not in any Western country that I know of. The pendulum has swung. Governmental discrimination has been almost entirely eliminated for a long time now. These things to take time, there are certainly some last details, but the recen...
[16:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:51] <exec> 08└─I do have a beef with LGBT, and it's this: stop shoving your sexuality in everyone's faces.
[16:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My date to the company picnic? - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:53] <exec> 08└─Im bisexual. Suppose I brought a man as my date to the company picnic. In most US states I could be fired, and I would have no legal recourse.
[16:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:54] <exec> 08└─I do have a beef with LGBT, and it's this: stop shoving your sexuality in everyone's faces.
[16:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:56] <exec> 08└─And then one person actually speaks sensibly, raises good points, and asks a question, and promptly gets recommended medication in lieu of a proper answer. Fantastic. Maybe the inmates do truly run the asylum after all.
[16:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:57] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you don't get to choose the business you need, the employment opportunity or the place to stay. That's then those laws becomes a necessity. Otoh, there are ways to screen customers etc discretely without breaking anything.
[16:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─The cynic in me would assume that it wasn't about a cake or a wedding, but for milking the situation for every penny's worth.
[16:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It all started... - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:01] <exec> 08└─Why are you so interested in what fat, ugly women do in their bedroom?
[16:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:16] <exec> 08└─I'd say having a full spectrum piece of recording equipment that stealthily maneuvers in 3 dimensions
[16:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Why shoot it? - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─With my new revolutionary "NetEmAll", you can capture drones up to 200m up! Upon firing the NetEmAll, the net deploys up to ten feet wide and the convenient nylon rope and electric winch allow you to retrieve your prey without even leaving your lawn chair! Whether you dismantle your prey yourself or...
[16:43:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:57] <exec> 08└─Gitmo is not about an act of war. It's revenge and retribution on people who's human rights have not been acknowledged. The USA is the only western country with a concentration camp for people they are mad at.
[16:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:59] <exec> 08└─What makes you think the first goal and the second result are mutually exclusive?
[16:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GitHub Announces Atom 1.0 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:48] <exec> 08└─Makes one wonder why Atom exists..
[16:44:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Atom (disambiguation) - 06GitHub Announces Atom 1.0 - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:58] <exec> 08└─There are only three difficult problems in computing: Naming things and off-by-one errors.
[16:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clickpad, ewwww. - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:05] <exec> 08└─I've only used a Thinkpad Edge, so I've not experienced a "proper" Thinkpad touchpad (if there's ever been one) but I don't think I've used any touchpad that comes close to Apple's offerings, especially their clickpad.
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scope of it all? - 06BBC to list their links removed from Google - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:58] <exec> 08└─> Probably the only place that knows this is the news organization that had the information in the first place. That's only if they make the effort to check and if they make it using the right keywords. Not all "forgotten" pages are completely forgotten, some are just dis-associated from specific ke...
[16:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Re:Scope of it all? - 06BBC to list their links removed from Google - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─No pages have been "de-listed" because of this. They have only been de-indexed from certain search terms. Other search terms on the same search engine could still return those self same articles.
[16:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Re:glacial pace - 06The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, and I think it will get easier in the future... it's just not "easy" now. I wouldn't be surprised if a solar tie in point became a code requirement for new installations in the future.
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[17:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wishful Reality - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:39] <exec> 08└─Is reality broken or does he not live on the same plane of existence as me? ***been seeing up tic in people around me watching streaming online**** ***never seen a single person choose cable, absolutely never heard of anyone going from internet TO cable*** ***been streaming for 15 years, no commerci...
[17:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Make them pay - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:40] <exec> 08└─Make 'em pay. And the corollary: Make a product that they'll pay for.
[17:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nope - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:49] <exec> 08└─That looks pretty good!
[17:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Out of the loop but try Hastie & Tibshirani - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:54] <exec> 08└─AI never wins, the humans only lose their minds. So in that sense, I guess, yeah, that's what happened.
[17:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Out of the loop but try Hastie & Tibshirani - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:55] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, linear algebra. A useful class I once took, but unfortunately did so at the same time as taking two computer science "weeder" courses...Ugh
[17:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Up To.... - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:06] <exec> 08└─I acknowledge and agree with that reaction. Sensationalism bites.
[17:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:10] <exec> 08└─PLASE INSTELL JAVA FLASH.NET TO USE WEBSITE OK :) :)
[17:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:38] <exec> 08└─Those who involve the concept of what other people do with their own genitalia in their choice process probably aren't making the right choices.
[17:42:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Non-story - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─Advocate for $cause says that court victory for $cause benefits mankind and the universe. More news at 11:00.
[17:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tolerance is an indication of the society itsel - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:52] <exec> 08└─As a wealthy white oppressor I can assure you the world has far too many assholes ... Some sort of redneck hunting season where assholes can be shot would obviously benefit her, but it would also benefit me equally.
[17:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think it is you that poorly understands the issue. It doesn't matter to the tattoo artist who is asking for the offensive tattoo - it's the act of creating it. Same with a wedding cake - the patron isn't being discriminated against, they don't want to put 2 grooms (or 2 brides) on a wedd...
[17:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:01] <exec> 08└─It's a variation of the availability heuristic. Because comments affirming heterosexuality are so commonplace, many don't appreciate how much heteros shove their sexuality into others' faces. Since comments affirming homosexuality are rarer, they stand out more. When it was first brought to my atten...
[17:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:02] <exec> 08└─NO SEX in the workplace. No gay sex, no hetero sex, no extramarital sex, nothing. I go to work, I work, I get off work
[17:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:04] <exec> 08└─/me flips the bird to the young wiseass Don't worry, your day is coming. ;^)
[17:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:10] <exec> 08└─All the 'christian' arguments against gay marriage were also made against interracial marriage [thinkprogress.org] before (and for years afterwards in corner cases like Bob Jones University) that was nationally legalized by the supreme court. While it is (currently) not illegal for a bakery to refus...
[17:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Dante Alighieri's take - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:13] <exec> 08└─"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." -- Dante Alighieri Ive been out of work for years. Its not actually that I cannot obtain work, in part its because I decline interviews with companies I regard as unethical. That can be hard t...
[17:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:19] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile if I were baking wedding cakes (my MiL used to do this as a side/retirement business, she's all artsy and sculpture-ish) then I would NEVER sell to a black lesbian liberal or whatever because looking at the bell curve lets face it, 1% of my cakes are naturally going to be extra shitty and...
[17:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It all started... - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:22] <exec> 08└─Why are you so interested in what fat, ugly women do in their bedroom?
[17:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Have to be careful with it... - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:37] <exec> 08└─But an old cyclotron out of a microwave with a focused emitter should be enough to short the kind of electronics these devices have in them, even at range. If you only allow them a 90-75 degree arc above the roofline, and combine them with a webcam, some software utilizing opencv, and a microphone(s...
[17:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:38] <exec> 08└─Shotgun pellets don't go nearly as far as you think. http://www.njskeet.com [njskeet.com] They're actually preferred for things well off the ground (birds, squirrels, etc).
[17:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:43] <exec> 08└─Some further details appear here: http://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] Evidently the drone owner asserts that (a) GPS data from the drone puts it over his property; (b) this is the third time his property ha...
[17:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why shoot it? - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:47] <exec> 08└─For Sale: Hexicopter, slightly used.
[17:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02Re:Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:41] <exec> 08└─Just a point of fact here. The flag was removed from the state house proper around 15 years ago. The currently flying flag is on the grounds, on a 20 foot tall pole next a monument for fallen confederate soldiers, but not on the state house itself like it used to. Neither good nor bad just the facts...
[17:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:RS-232 and parallel port? - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:04] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy with that. Personally I don't see what the fuss about aspect ratio is, I don't use full-screen for anything.
[17:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickpad, ewwww. - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:33] <exec> 08└─Red/Blue, I dono any more, it was a long time ago. Re touch screen, I pretty much agree. I have a Surface Pro, but the amount of time I use the touch feature is minimal. Same Bluetooth mouse gets employed.
[17:46:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Bringing 3d World Wages Home ... - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─Those that choose Uber do so because it is better than their next best alternative.
[17:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And the AP fails again. - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:14] <exec> 08└─At last check, France was mostly refusing multiculturalism. Outside of ghettos which accommodated bursts of immigrants (like after the war with Algeria), France's pot has been melting a lot more uniformly than those giant clumps you find all over the US.
[17:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:journalist problems - 061985 Car Navigation System Without Network Connection - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:51] <exec> 08└─The 'augmented dead reckoning' aspect was also patented at the time by a guy I worked with in the 80s from a route guidance aspect. He had patented the idea back in the 60s when he created a route guided delivery system for the Fort Worth Star Telegram newspaper. They got as far as putting a compute...
[17:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Pressures to slow/stop renewables - 06The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:12] <exec> 08└─Some were ticked off enough that they went off the grid entirely.
[17:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:boom - 06SpaceX Rocket Launch to ISS Fails - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:44] <exec> 08└─In the case, the science was speed-dissection (sponsored by Red Bull, probably). Never launch a US rocket too close to the 4th of July. Confusion happens.
[17:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02"Open the Aperture" - 06NSA Chief Wants to Watch, as Well as Listen and Read - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:52] <exec> 08└─Um. That slogan is far too reminiscent of goatse.
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[18:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Most people arent computer prgrammers - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:46] <exec> 08└─My mother pays extra so tw tvs can be on comcast. she also rents a DVR. I cannot convince her to get high speed internet. Dialup is just fine for emailing her sister.
[18:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Wishful Reality - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:47] <exec> 08└─I know a few people that are stuck with cable, but I think the majority have live sports as the main sticking point. I'm in the process of moving from cable. For me it was local news, but I picked up a HD HomeRun that has two tuners, enabling you to stream to your PC, record to MythTV, etc. It just...
[18:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:2) 02Re:Wishful Reality - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:49] <exec> 08└─I finally made the cord cutting move myself. My wife watches TV all the time, but half the time I don't think she is actually watching whatever program is on. My sticking point was sports. Between MLB, NFL, NHL, and college football/basketball the only way to get the programming was satellite/cable....
[18:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Re:Make them pay - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:52] <exec> 08└─watch a Bob Andersen YouTube video
[18:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Make them pay - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:53] <exec> 08└─What and when was this "quality television"? I don't think Newton N. Minow's "vast wasteland" comment has been proven wrong since he first made it in 1961.
[18:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02wait, what? - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:55] <exec> 08└─TV beat the Internet? The war is over? I don't buy it. This article is based on a bunch of assumptions and implications I think are wrong. If cable TV is doing well, it certainly isn't on the merits of the format or business model alone. Why else is there this talk of cord cutters and cord nevers? L...
[18:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:wait, what? - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:56] <exec> 08└─TV beat the Internet? The war is over? I don't buy it. This article is based on a bunch of assumptions and implications I think are wrong.
[18:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:wait, what? - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:58] <exec> 08└─We do have online public digital libraries. Some of them remain truly just all the free / public domain stuff as in Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org [gutenberg.org] and LibriVox https://librivox.org [librivox.org]. Here are a number of great digital repositories. http://www.hathitrust.or...
[18:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:wait, what? - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:00] <exec> 08└─How could I have forgotten GOG http://www.gog.com [gog.com]? GOG is the solution to Abandonware.
[18:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:1) 02tv show/movie distribution needs to look to steam - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:01] <exec> 08└─LOCAL STORAGE global availability reasonable prices frequent sales massive discounts very soon after initial release as light a DRM as possible (or none since it is useless anyway) until that service exists the piratebay and other sites will continue to provide a superior product for tv/movie delive...
[18:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barrahome [3580] (Score:1) 02This is wrong. - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:03] <exec> 08└─The whole article to me is wrong. internet won on TV & Radio, like it or not. Plain FUD
[18:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:3, Informative) 02Suggestions - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:14] <exec> 08└─I haven't studied AI methods but I think you want to study linear algebra and computational linguistics. Most of the methods that I've read about that you can run off and implement at home (e.g. image recognition/classification) involve linear algebra, particularly a good understanding of identifyin...
[18:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggestions - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:15] <exec> 08└─Also look into Kolmogorov complexity and the notion of a quine. Keep in mind that large portions of infrastructure for human intelligence are dedicated to homeostasis and self-maintenance rather than learning and these problems may be prerequisites for what you really want and they may be much large...
[18:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Old News - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:30] <exec> 08└─True, but PHP really does seem to help you a lot in writing exploitable code.
[18:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:33] <exec> 08└─I haven't heard of a Java exploit ion ages. Keep in mind that it's really only the Java plugin that is full of holes, and it's disabled by default in most browsers these days.
[18:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02the adobe-flash-vulnerable dept. - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:34] <exec> 08└─Just caught the gag in the department line. So common it deserves its own department, good one. But I could see a combining flash, java, and php vulnerabilities into a single group. Something like that's-not-the-code-you're-looking-for department.
[18:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:02] <exec> 08└─Are you sure about that? It seems to be one of the oldest inclusions of "organizing" that human mammals have, back to the very oldest written language.
[18:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:20] <exec> 08└─> Same with a wedding cake - the patron isn't being discriminated against, they don't want to put 2 grooms (or 2 brides) on a wedding cake. And if it is a wedding cake without any tacky figurines [brides.com] - as are the overwhelming majority of modern cakes? You and I both know that they would sti...
[18:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 3200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:59] <exec> 08└─I would absolutely without hesitation shoot it down, *unless* I knew the neighbor, and they told me they wanted to fly around on my property possibly. I was right close to shooting at a helicopter the other day doing repeated low fly by's for over 20 minutes (As in as low as 200-300 feet above the p...
[18:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:00] <exec> 08└─there exists no laws granting rights to trespass just because it's in the air
[18:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:02] <exec> 08└─there exists no laws granting rights to trespass just because it's in the air
[18:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Drone - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:15] <exec> 08└─Assuming that the neighbor thought it was over his property, then there should be no question that it was his right to shoot it down. He shouldn't have shot it down, if it wasn't over his property. They are in the country, so no city limits issue, but still not ok to just go around shooting stuff. N...
[18:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It is worse than that though: - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:48] <exec> 08└─True, but it has the word 'North' right in the name. That's enough for some people.
[18:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Re:Pretty ironic - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:50] <exec> 08└─>>> The union should have outlawed the flag at the end of the war. >> I disagree with the banning the flag thing. > Good thing the confederate flag isn't actually banned. I think you missed something.
[18:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AntiAntagonist [4978] (Score:1) 02Re:Yeah, the original 13 colonies flag... - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:54] <exec> 08└─Citation please
[18:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03soybp [2065] (Score:1) 02Re:Not from Lenovo - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:26] <exec> 08└─I have personally owned around 7 Thinkpads, beginning with a Thinkpad 380, and have spec'd hundreds of Thinkpads for technology startups over the years. Whereas this is typed on a T520 (i7 quad core, nice keyboard and expansion bay with HDD in it and living in a great docking station), it is definit...
[18:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utility Grade Solar Has an (economic) Problem - 06The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:03] <exec> 08└─My Grandmother had a coo-coo clock that didn't need batteries. You would pull a wight up once or twice a day and then it would change that potential energy to mechanical energy to use for the rest of the time. I can't think of a more 'peaky' power source than one that is only available for 30s each...
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[19:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:40] <exec> 08└─So, how many gas turbines are on standby to compensate for it on cloudy windless days?
[19:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:41] <exec> 08└─> cloudy windless days Ja, und was ist das?
[19:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:42] <exec> 08└─Germany imports about two-thirds of its energy already. Confusingly, it also exports rather a lot too - see https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:44] <exec> 08└─Not that many. They power up all their nice all natural earth friendly coal power plants instead. How exactly that is better the nuclear I will never understand but I guess I'm not supposed to.
[19:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02It's not really the wisest course - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:46] <exec> 08└─I really can't endorse panic moving people from nuclear to fossil fuels. It's not an improvement. Not for health, not for safety, not for economy. But at the same time, Germany has been making moderate strides in improving their usage of genuinely renewable energy. There's probably a whole world of...
[19:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not really the wisest course - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 1824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:47] <exec> 08└─I have to agree, but point out that considered planning is also lacking. In this case of Fukishima, IIRC, there was a *sister* nuclear plant that *survived*. If anything, the populist position is based on a reasonable fear, just misplaced. It's not that nuclear science cannot be safe, and efficient....
[19:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Make them pay - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:00] <exec> 08└─And the summary seems to be confused about advertising. The TV industry is NOT weaning itself from advertising, but enthusiastically going down on it. Commercial breaks are longer now...5 minutes isn't unusual anymore. The shows themselves are blatantly promoting more and more products within the sh...
[19:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:tv show/movie distribution needs to look to ste - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:06] <exec> 08└─Renting a single show is absurd, renting access to a large library starts to make sense. This is why I have netflix, and I think services like this will continue until something better comes around.
[19:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Alternative approach to intelligence. - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 1755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:24] <exec> 08└─One of my personal theories is that brains (with many neurons) at least initially weren't for solving the problem of thinking. The problem of thinking was already "solved" by at least some single celled creatures (which while not geniuses aren't as stupid as many seem to assume - seriously: https://...
[19:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative approach to intelligence. - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:25] <exec> 08└─Using biology as a guide, any methodology that results in a decent decision a decent fraction of the time is a winner. 100% success rates are generally too expensive to be worthwhile. Heuristics outcompete algorithms when implementation cost is a factor.
[19:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:45] <exec> 08└─Does anyone else remember the howling when it was announced that iPhones weren't going to support Flash? I still don't get why people wanted that crap on their phones. I had more than enough issues with it on my desktops/laptops.
[19:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:19] <exec> 08└─Yes. Real traditional marraige: that of a young girl (or girls) to a man, all the way.
[19:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck gay rights - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:23] <exec> 08└─So which bit of my argument do you think is false? (assuming I'm the same AC as before) Do you think gays aren't fully human? Do you consider these rights not human rights? Go ahead, shoot down my logic with actual logic, rather than spittle.
[19:43:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02Tolerance is an indication of the society itself - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:29] <exec> 08└─LGBT rights or tolerance might not be that central in itself. But when LGBT people are tolerated either on a social convention level or by law. It's an indicator that the society has matured enough to accept people with different ways of living and different values. I once watched a documentary of a...
[19:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03useless [426] (Score:2) 02Re:My date to the company picnic? - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:50] <exec> 08└─I'm curious, which states would those be, and under what law exactly?
[19:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 2124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:57] <exec> 08└─But... wedding cakes? That seems a very weak justification for slavery. Maybe if the wedding cake market were a closely regulated government monopoly with government guaranteed profit margins then some justification could be made that the government intentionally destroying the market would imply th...
[19:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:01] <exec> 08└─You should start a mail-order cake business that sells only to the physically handicapped.
[19:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:17] <exec> 08└─You own it up to 500 feet above the highest legitimate (not spiteful) point. Above that... it's unclear. It may be that you still own it, but air traffic gets an automatic easement. It may be that the government owns it. It may be that nobody owns it. It doesn't really matter; everyone agrees that t...
[19:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AntiAntagonist [4978] (Score:1) 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:20] <exec> 08└─Convincing people to fight for you regardless of your core belief is the central aim of politicking. It is also beside the point since from it's inception the Confederacy was about keeping slavery; it was one of the central points of the Cornerstone Speech [wikipedia.org]. Indeed taking the flag dow...
[19:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''began with the decision in Brown vs. Board'' - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:25] <exec> 08└─1953 - 1961 (Republican) Eisenhower was in the White House.
[19:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:46] <exec> 08└─The damage is the 45 minutes it took someone to put it back up. If I let the air out of your tires, wouldn't you consider that damage?
[19:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:I thought github just hosted the repositories? - 06GitHub Announces Atom 1.0 - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:27] <exec> 08└─Parent is true. From TFA Atom started as a side project of GitHub founder @defunkt (Chris Wanstrath) way back in mid 2008, almost exactly seven years ago. He called it Atomicity. His dream was to use web technologies to build something as customizable as Emacs and give a new generation of developers...
[19:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the AP fails again. - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:08] <exec> 08└─France's pot has been melting a lot more uniformly than those giant clumps you find all over the US.
[19:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Way Humans Get Electricity? - 06The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:26] <exec> 08└─so, the animal kingdom and aliens are going to remain on fossil fuels? is this why the climate is still screwed?
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[20:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:43] <exec> 08└─Wenn es bedekt ist, und wenn es kein Wind gibt, was macht man? (sp. it's been nearly 20 years)
[20:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:47] <exec> 08└─Probably they just crank up the existing nuclear plants to 11. They have indeed added coal plants since this announced shutdown. And they appear to only be shutting down the oldest nuke plants. Roughly half their nukes are still running, and they buy a lot of electricity and gas from across borders....
[20:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─And here I'll just trump out the stats from World Coal Association. I love them to prove points like yours, http://www.worldcoal.org [worldcoal.org] Germany is by FAR the largest producer of brown coal - the shittiest coal around. But then it is what they have. In 2012, 44...
[20:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not really the wisest course - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:52] <exec> 08└─I know Solar is supposed to be the new hotness, but are the panels actually a renewable source? Do they use any fairly uncommon ingredients? Will we run out of X ingredient that is necessary to make the solar panels efficient say in 100 years, 200 years, or 1000 years?
[20:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not really the wisest course - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:54] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_solar_cell [wikipedia.org] Look out for a thin, wallpaper-like solar panel with lower efficiency but low cost sometime in the future.
[20:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:55] <exec> 08└─They just replaced a very clean source of electrical power with coal power. And not even clean-ish coal; this is the brown coal coming from open strip mines. Burnt in Soviet-era coal plants. All because of some political posturing and Green hysteria about nuclear power. "80% by 2050" That's a BS tim...
[20:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:57] <exec> 08└─That's OK, they'll just keep building new nuclear power stations in France to export electricity to Germany. France is the nuclear power leader in Europe now that the UK wound down R&D to burn natural gas back in the 90s. We import French nuclear electricity here too, and they're building our next g...
[20:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:58] <exec> 08└─You know that in summer, France imports electricity from Germany because they have problems to cool their nuclear power plants? Well, I guess in the UK you won't have that problem. :-)
[20:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:00] <exec> 08└─We used to have that problem where nuclear power plants had to be run at slightly reduced output when cooling water was scarce. By scarce I don't mean that there wasn't enough of it: the sea is effectively infinite, but that it wasn't cold enough to give a big enough temperature difference to get ma...
[20:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wishful Reality - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:09] <exec> 08└─I barely watch any TV any more. No more than 5-6 hours a month, most likely.
[20:42:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Make them pay - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 843 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:13] <exec> 08└─And the summary seems to be confused about advertising. The TV industry is NOT weaning itself from advertising, but enthusiastically going down on it. Commercial breaks are longer now...5 minutes isn't unusual anymore. The shows themselves are blatantly promoting more and more products within the sh...
[20:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make them pay - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:15] <exec> 08└─The industry is bifurcating. The "free" stuff is doing exactly what you describe. The paid stuff is going in the opposite direction. That doesn't mean there isn't product placement in the paid stuff, but it is far less common. For example, Penny Dreadful and Game of Thrones - zero product placement....
[20:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02End of the article - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:22] <exec> 08└─When something does not make sense, ask why is this person saying it...or just follow the money, it is the reason frequently enough: Michael Wolff [the man that wrote this nonsense], a media columnist, is the author of “Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the D...
[20:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:56] <exec> 08└─Example?
[20:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:18] <exec> 08└─Nah, if I was asked to draw Mohammed (yeah that one) in a wheelchair and I refused for religious reasons, the SJWs would burn my store to the ground and destroy me and my family, because obviously the only reason I'd turn down a handicapped customer is because I hate them, and hate is now a capital...
[20:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:law vs private behavior - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:19] <exec> 08└─> It's just prejudice. You don't have any statistics about black people being more litigative or more successful at litigation. They're looking at worse case: being made a social pariah by people prone to jump to conclusions that any mistake is malicious. That has nothing to do with whoever is more...
[20:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:Good move - I hope. - 06Ecuador Releases 201 Tortoises on Galápagos Island of Santa Fe - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:05] <exec> 08└─I've always thought that the solution for poaching was to send special forces in with shoot-at-sight orders.
[20:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:40] <exec> 08└─Indeed taking the flag down doesn't affect the US economy much at all, however it was put up specifically to disenfranchise minority voters. I don't know how else you could label that except as "tyranny and oppression".
[20:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:Not from Lenovo - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:57] <exec> 08└─I wish I could find a better solution than MacBook + Win7
[20:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And the AP fails again. - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:21] <exec> 08└─Gotta find someone to get angry at when the economy and the treaties make it hard to find a job... Regardless of skin color and discrimination though, you will rarely find immigrants to France who can't speak French at all after more than 5 years there (those tend to be old). I'm meeting hundreds he...
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[20:49:38] <exec> 08└─> It seems that such a weight system should be scalable. It is not.
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[21:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Typo? - 06Australian Regulator Trying to Cut Telecoms Prices - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:41] <exec> 08└─9.6 per cent or 9.6 percent? The space makes a difference.
[21:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typo? - 06Australian Regulator Trying to Cut Telecoms Prices - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:42] <exec> 08└─Nope it doesn't.
[21:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Typo? - 06Australian Regulator Trying to Cut Telecoms Prices - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:43] <exec> 08└─Nevermind, ignore me. Apparently it's a stupid, but common usage.
[21:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typo? - 06Australian Regulator Trying to Cut Telecoms Prices - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:45] <exec> 08└─Please elaborate why you think it is stupid? I'm a language pedant but I don't find this one 'stupid'... I'm willing to learn though...
[21:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Regulations - 06Australian Regulator Trying to Cut Telecoms Prices - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:47] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to see how shills will be claiming this is bad for everyone because of 'no more innovation' and 'jaaaabbb cuts'... I literally can't wait. I'm getting my bag of popcorn and will start hitting F5... Seriously now, from the assertion linked to: Referring to the deal between Telstra, NBN...
[21:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Who's choice? - 06Australian Regulator Trying to Cut Telecoms Prices - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:48] <exec> 08└─Also, users of the copper network will not pay the higher prices that result from the loss of scale efficiencies as the number of services remaining on the copper network falls,
[21:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:10] <exec> 08└─Actually, a few degrees warmer river doesn't matter too much for the power plant's pure efficiency, but there are people who object to the ecosystem-killing temps of the output flow back to the river. They should just seed tropical fish (after each shutdown) and be done with it
[21:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:12] <exec> 08└─Well, duh! Just build some water chillers. You can run them off of the electricity from the nuke!
[21:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Wishful Reality - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:25] <exec> 08└─Confusing headline is confusing. The article isn't saying CABLE is winning, it's saying that the producers are, which is somewhat true with people flocking to streaming services and paying to watch content that they used to get on TV. Plus cord cutters are not exactly in the majority yet, so they ar...
[21:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:1) 02Re:Wishful Reality - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:26] <exec> 08└─Most news outlets are simply re-writing a small amount of the text from either the Reuters announcement, or the press release they received from a manufacturer / publicist. You can see this in action by visiting a few sites / papers and see whole sections of the "article" are word for word the same...
[21:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hamsterdan [2829] (Score:2) 02Cord-Cutter here - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:40] <exec> 08└─Cut the cord a while ago, installed a crappy antenna about 30 feet off the ground, and I'm getting all local channels, even some american ones (I'm in Montreal). Picture quality is *WAY* beyond the over-compressed stuff cable offers, and it's free... Mix some Netflix in there, And I can watch anythi...
[21:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deep Learning is not intelligence - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:02] <exec> 08└─Also, that proposition itself is highly dubious.
[21:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep Learning is not intelligence - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:03] <exec> 08└─Human variability in intelligence is dramatically overstated. The distinction between abstract and concrete reasoning is overwrought and people who score off the top of the scale in IQ tests invariably have learning disabilities or cognitive deficits in categories not covered by the test. There is s...
[21:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:24] <exec> 08└─Nobody wanted flash on their iphones. They wanted all the websites that required flash to work on their iphones.
[21:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:16] <exec> 08└─Actually I take issue with the concept that "there is something bad wrong among the tech giants". They seem to hire who ever wants the jobs and comes with the best credentials. If they were worried all that much about sexism, gender, and race, they would have long since started preferentially hiring...
[21:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:21] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I asked about above. It's quite normal to hear about somebody's significant other at work, and this is perfectly fine. What I wanted to figure out was whether a homosexual man similarly talking about his boyfriend (or now potentially husband) was somehow special. I think after reading R...
[21:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:03] <exec> 08└─I was right close to shooting at a helicopter the other day...
[21:45:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03That_Dude [2503] 02Not the same! - 06Ecuador Releases 201 Tortoises on Galápagos Island of Santa Fe - 399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:33] <exec> 08└─Moving a similar tortoise to the same location will not necessarily result in the adaptation(s) that resulted in the now extinct subspecies - it could even make things worse. Of course there are genetic similarities - they're tortoises! I think that "a conservation milestone" could only be claimed a...
[21:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:06] <exec> 08└─There will be always be credulous followers ready to believe the manipulative bullshit of people who want them to do their dirty work. That doesn't elevate the manipulative bullshit to anything more than that.
[21:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:09] <exec> 08└─Convincing people to fight for you regardless of your core belief is the central aim of politicking. It is also beside the point since from it's inception the Confederacy was about keeping slavery; it was one of the central points of the Cornerstone Speech.
[21:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:even worse - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─Can the South Carolina Legislature and Governor really not walk and chew gum at the same time?
[21:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Obligatory xkcd nonreference - 06GitHub Announces Atom 1.0 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:00] <exec> 08└─XKCD had the right idea. Use a bunch of letters no one was using, and that don't stand for anything. Instant uniqueness! -- hendrik
[21:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Atom (disambiguation) - 06GitHub Announces Atom 1.0 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:03] <exec> 08└─(NOT (ARE (FORGETTING (YOU (FAMOUS (ATOM))))))?
[21:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope, not for me - 06GitHub Announces Atom 1.0 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:14] <exec> 08└─It seems it was intended so that the developer is in complete control of the editor. Evidently it failed in your case. Maybe complete control doesn't make reconfiguring it easy enough. Or maybe control isn't complete enough yet. -- hendrik
[21:47:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02Re:RS-232 and parallel port? - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:36] <exec> 08└─Why not 4:3 then?
[21:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the AP fails again. - 06French Taxi Drivers Vandalize France to Protest Uber - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:55] <exec> 08└─Do you mean to tell me that there are no Muslim "No Go" zones?? That's not what I heard on the cable shows!
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[22:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:02] <exec> 08└─Germany is importing coal and gas, not electricity. We are a net exporter of electricity since decades. The amount of months where we imported more than we exported is roughly a hand full.
[22:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 2763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:05] <exec> 08└─Without further digging, the numbers in the diagrams seem to be for primary energy, which includes residential and other heating. The big bar for "petroleum" is for all the houses that have the tank truck come once a year for their oil heating. The remaining heating is done with natgas, which makes...
[22:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:06] <exec> 08└─They have indeed added coal plants since this announced shutdown. Wrong. Added implies the number went up. We built new coal plants, more efficient ones to replace old ones. Bottom line the number of coal plants is dropping. And they appear to only be shutting down the oldest nuke plants. Indeed. Ac...
[22:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:09] <exec> 08└─brown coal - the shittiest coal around That was perhaps, note the bold, 30 years ago. In a modern plant it is no difference whether you burn brown coal or black coal. Shuttering nuclear power, [...] is a little anti-green. Perhaps you should simply dig out a graph how much power comes from nuclear...
[22:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:11] <exec> 08└─Obviously none, as gas turbines are not used to replace base load plants, *facepalm* stupids question in ever asked in an energy related topic. Gas turbines are used for secundary reserve power ... google is your friend.
[22:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:12] <exec> 08└─When your PV/Wind goes beyond a certain threshold in the mix, your fast-start plant doubles as your base load plant. If the weather forecast gives you a couple weeks of great renewables, you'd be dumb to keep running base at full tilt and crash the spot price.
[22:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not really the wisest course - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:14] <exec> 08└─Any tiny incident concerning nuclear power becomes high profile news around the world, giving a disproportionate view of the actual safety record and tiny amount of damage and death caused compared with fossil fuel burners. I was going to make a point about the coal power industry fiddling while the...
[22:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:It's not really the wisest course - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:16] <exec> 08└─The problem was not the sea wall. I doubt there even was any. The problem was that the emergency power generators where on ground level and not elevated or much better in a water tight compartment- The sea wall wont help ... next big Tsunami is simple even higher ... what then?
[22:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:It's not really the wisest course - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:18] <exec> 08└─The elements themselves aren't going anywhere. If you have a renewable energy surplus, then extraction(i.e. recycling) from retired cells isn't extraordinarily impossible. The end question is "Can you build enough to handle current demand from currently economically accessible resources?" I believe...
[22:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:24] <exec> 08└─Thermal efficiency goes up as the difference between reactor inlet and outlet temperature decreases, but thermal (power) output increases with the temperature difference. Carnot cycle. The sea fish thrive in the warmer water.
[22:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:26] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia quotes PWR [wikipedia.org] as generating steam at 275C under 60atm: Your cold-point river being 33C instead of 26C isn't of much consequence.
[22:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:27] <exec> 08└─at slightly reduced output when cooling water was scarce. Wrong. They ran at 40%, not 40% reduced to 60% ... but: 40%. the sea is effectively infinite, but that it wasn't cold enough Wrong twice: a) there are only a hand full of reactors close to the sea, and they are certainly not cooled by sea wa...
[22:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:29] <exec> 08└─Have you been at the crack pipe? My reply specifically mentioned the UK nuclear power industry because I am British and have direct experience of operational nuclear plant. I can assure you that most of our reactors used sea water for their primary coolant. One site in Wales used water from a lake....
[22:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, because the UK have no summer :D
[22:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:It's not something to be proud of - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─You miss the fact that France is phasing out nuclear power, too. And is slowly switching to renewables.
[22:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:wait, what? - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:54] <exec> 08└─Nice list. There's also the very small Baen Free Library: http://www.baenebooks.com [baenebooks.com] But I was thinking that the entire Library of Congress ought to be online, and that the government should do it, not Google Books. A huge missing area is research publications....
[22:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Sounds like BS to me - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:00] <exec> 08└─I'll believe it when television ratings - that measure eyeballs for advertisers - no longer dictate what does and does not survive on TV. That's not even close to happening yet.
[22:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02TV did WHAT now? - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe they haven't noticed, but cable TV is the Internet. Netflix is not TV, it's the Internet. HBO and other cable networks are all scrambling to get their content on the Internet. The only reason I know there is still broadcast TV is because I hit the wrong button on my remote control.
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I know how How Television Beat the Internet - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:03] <exec> 08└─it was first, so it won the race to exist?
[22:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Out of the loop but try Hastie & Tibshirani - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:17] <exec> 08└─If you are a neuroscientist then you certainly are qualified enough.
[22:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Ransomware-Installing Exploit Kit Targets Flash Remote Code Execution - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:48] <exec> 08└─I dare say nobody wanted flash at all. It was more or less foisted on end users by web designers, to whom it was like cocaine.
[22:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:43] <exec> 08└─There are issues, and related issues, and yet more related issues, all being addressed by the mysterious powers that actually rule this world.
[22:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:44] <exec> 08└─"the families of the many LGBT persons whose "tender feelings" were bludgeoned to death" I am somewhat sympathetic to those families when it comes to that kind of crap. They have the right to demand EQUALITY and EQUAL TREATMENT. They most certainly DO NOT have any right to protected status. Equality...
[22:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:46] <exec> 08└─And, they want the tax breaks that procreating couples are entitled to.
[22:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:52] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, your day is coming. ;^)
[22:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:54] <exec> 08└─/me flips the bird to the young wiseass
[22:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:27] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it. We used to get a good idea of our 12-gauge shot spreads by firing into a river from atop a raised bank, and after seeing that spread they're a lot less scary. It's also why we don't fire pistols and rifles out there unless we're shooting at fixed targets with a lot of backstop. Th...
[22:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:28] <exec> 08└─Shotguns aren't bad unless you're out hunting with the Vice President.
[22:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Drone - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:39] <exec> 08└─mebbe he thought it was a ufo...
[22:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The tyranny of the majority - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:46] <exec> 08└─There is a reason the Founding Fathers chose to adopt a written Constitution (with the individual states following suite). It was to specify what powers the government(s) have and what is strictly out of bounds. There is a reason that they also set the bar at 75 percent to change the rules. The 50.0...
[22:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eristone [4775] (Score:1) 02Re:''someone else's property'' - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 1668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:47] <exec> 08└─It is posts like this that remind me that people don't pay much attention to history, the laws that were in effect until roughly 1965 and then the societal rules that were in effect til roughly... (looking at my watch) yep. Look up red-lining. Look up racial restrictive covenants. Look up "white f...
[22:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:I thought github just hosted the repositories? - 06GitHub Announces Atom 1.0 - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:35] <exec> 08└─Atom is just an inferior iteration of Emacs. That's how I feel, anyway. Replace Emacs Lisp with Javascript, take away all of the existing packages for Emacs, and add whopping time and memory inefficiencies, you get Atom. I'd rather all that manpower go toward making Emacs better, but NIH is no fun,...
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[23:41:38] <exec> 08└─I get to sleep in Wednesday!
[23:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Unless i got the numbers backwards... - 06July 1st Delayed: Leap Second Inserted - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:39] <exec> 08└─Stay away from West-coast highways on Tuesday at 5PM. Not only because you should never be on a West Coast highway at 5PM, but because GPS-crash crashes are a spectator sport.
[23:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02I still don't get it - 06July 1st Delayed: Leap Second Inserted - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:41] <exec> 08└─So what's the goal here? Does maintaining leap seconds keep alignment of GMT noon with the time when the sun is at the highest point in the sky over the prime meridian? Or is it some other synchronization? If so, it seems like that synchronization can only be useful for astronomy since everyone's on...
[23:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who's choice? - 06Australian Regulator Trying to Cut Telecoms Prices - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:54] <exec> 08└─NBN Co is installing new copper now for the last mile in some cases. This after the pitch for NBN being fibre to the home. Asshats.
[23:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Harlequin [2912] (Score:1) 02Re:Who's choice? - 06Australian Regulator Trying to Cut Telecoms Prices - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:55] <exec> 08└─The roll out of the new network is being handled by a different organisation to Telstra. Telstra is in the process of finalising a deal to hive its customers across to the NBN network as the network is rolled out. The financial aspects of this deal are partially based around the wholesale price. Tur...
[23:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Australian Government Increasing Internet Costs - 06Australian Regulator Trying to Cut Telecoms Prices - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:57] <exec> 08└─New laws passed by the Australian government to capture metadata will cost end users an estimated $10 per month. Fimal costs for these new data retention laws are not known at this time and may not be known until after implementation. Estimated for dataset sizes for metadata storage of all Australia...
[23:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:09] <exec> 08└─Simple: import energy from the Czechs [iea.org]. Or Norway [datamonitorenergy.com]. Or Romania [romania-insider.com]
[23:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─Go back and read the numbers. You've cherry picked all the easy renewables, already, and you are still only up to 11% of your energy needs. The next best renewables are going to be a lot more costly, because you haven't addressed storage at all. Like I said. It looks rosy till you start digging thro...
[23:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:18] <exec> 08└─Renewables don't need storage. That is an american made up myth. BTW: all renewables together are the biggest power source in germany.
[23:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:Putin-approved - 06Germany's Oldest Remaining Nuclear Plant Shuts Down - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:24] <exec> 08└─Actually the wind/solar plant is then the base load plant.
[23:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative approach to intelligence. - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:36] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that single celled organisms make decisions by thought, it's just evolution at work. The ones with the correct response to a threat or food or whatever will survive. Those with the wrong response just die off. After 3 billion years this has gotten so complex that it might look like t...
[23:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, just...no - 06LGBT Rights Are Good for the Tech Industry, SF Pride Parade Chief Says - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:12] <exec> 08└─> The pendulum has swung. 29 states where you can legally be fired simply for being gay [snopes.com] 32 states where it is legal to refuse any form of service to gays [answers.com] - not just catering a wedding, but also places like a sit-down restaurant, a movie theater, or even a grocery store.
[23:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Have to be careful with it... - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:42] <exec> 08└─But an old cyclotron out of a microwave ...
[23:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Er, wtf - 06Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Hexacopter - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:49] <exec> 08└─Nope, that makes it okay the first time until there is a discussion which becomes the norm.
[23:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pretty ironic - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:52] <exec> 08└─The flag is literally a symbol of treason, flying it is sedition.
[23:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:02] <exec> 08└─Government buildings are property of The People. There are no private property rights to disregard here.
[23:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''someone else's property'' - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:08] <exec> 08└─This is the problem with many on both sides, but seems to be more prevalent on the left. "If you don't agree with me I will name call and insult you try to turn the conversation to some other topic instead of having a genuine discussion about the issue that can be backed up with facts."
[23:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Opposing hatred and violence - 06Activist Cuts Down Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:15] <exec> 08└─All this comparison of things on public, government property to anything privately-owned or on private property is fallicious. Come on, I know you know this.
[23:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03soybp [2065] (Score:1) 02Re:Not from Lenovo - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:19] <exec> 08└─For me personally, yes, when I can. For work, which pays for my and colleagues' laptop consumption, native Win7 is needed for a lot of the engineering software we use. Solidworks and Aspen Plus are the main drivers for the Win7 choice, I wish I could find a decent alternative for us aside from virtu...
[23:48:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] 02Re:RS-232 and parallel port? - 06Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad? - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:24] <exec> 08└─Why would one want a 16:10 screen instead of 16:9 ?
[23:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Scope of it all? - 06BBC to list their links removed from Google - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:59] <exec> 08└─Guess people has to improve their search skills. The question is how.
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