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[00:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Left with an maintainable mess - 06Automatic Code Repair - 4037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:15] <exec> 08└─In other words, it's like a mechanic that just swaps parts and doesn't fix the root of the problem because it doesn't know what the problem is. You can even ask to have some engine noise fixed, but since it wasn't major damage from a crash it wouldn't even know something was wrong. "It runs. Everyth...
[00:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:1) 02Re:Prior art - 06Blueprint for a Time Crystal - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:59] <exec> 08└─I just had it load, then get replaced half a second later with a sketchy search page. I'm as enamored of 4 Corner Days as the next man, but something is definitely amiss over there.
[00:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:I Guess ... - 06Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─I've always thought the best password was just a single space. I mean seriously, who would ever think you would be that stupid right? ;)
[00:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hacking Team Federal? - 06Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:18] <exec> 08└─How about Karma?
[00:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Italian security - 06Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:24] <exec> 08└─Blame it on the French.
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:1) 02Re:*Yawn* - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─Sorry if I offended you, but neither this place or /. has ever been known for its' class or hospitality, and as a LONG time /. subscriber and poster I feel like I can voice my opinion of CowboyNeals' front of the house interaction in any manner I feel. Cheers and don't hurt yourself bending over bac...
[00:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too early yet for this notion - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:18] <exec> 08└─maybe _gewg needs a place where he can echo all his liberal postings s/liberal/anarcho-communist ISTM that if we charted each Soylentil's political position, those dots would cluster closer to my there's-more-than-enough-to-go-around/let's-work-together position than around the law-of-the-jungle/eve...
[00:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''We accept most submissions'' - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:31] <exec> 08└─I have only been seriously disappointed by 1 rejection at this site populated almost entirely by guys. Men Wanted To Satisfy Town Full Off Yearning Brazilian Hotties [soylentnews.org] So, a town full of the descendants of society's outcasts (Can you say "nerds"? I knew you could.) who want to pair o...
[00:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:journals should be organized by subject - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:51] <exec> 08└─A story can have multiple nexuses and multiple topics
[00:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:The cost differential is big - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:07] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make them better.
[00:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:The cost differential is big - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:14] <exec> 08└─But of course the Fire Department and ambulances can use them because they are the good guys, right?
[00:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:The cost differential is big - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:16] <exec> 08└─The logic behind you or I being able to look at the fleeing criminal with a drone and camera being OK, but when the police do it it is eroding our civil rights just doesn't make sense.
[00:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Half-Life 2 - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:24] <exec> 08└─Yay, lets have drones everywhere, that way we can catch All of the Dissidents err...Criminals.
[00:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:clearly the vote is a Boskonian forgery - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:07] <exec> 08└─You really should read this [medium.com]. It seems that it's not quite as cut and dried as the evil lazy commie Greeks, the idea that you put forward. Unless, of course, the idea that you put forward is meant to influence others and isn't one that you actually give a damn about.
[00:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:clearly the vote is a Boskonian forgery - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:10] <exec> 08└─"Hello," he lied.
[00:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:clearly the vote is a Boskonian forgery - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:13] <exec> 08└─You just have to figure out which one is the less scummy of the bunch, hold your nose and vote.
[00:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:clearly the vote is a Boskonian forgery - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:15] <exec> 08└─You forgot to say "commies" or "socialists," and didn't use the word "lazy." You also probably think that people get paid appropriately to their effort.
[00:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:clearly the vote is a Boskonian forgery - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:17] <exec> 08└─Probably because I am a Socialist however I am not some fool who thinks you can spend forever without paying the bills. And these people in Greece certainly knew they were spending way beyond their means now the time has come where they get the reality check, good luck to them unfortunately I see pl...
[00:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:clearly the vote is a Boskonian forgery - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:19] <exec> 08└─Wow, you act like Wall Street and the Bankers were just completely innocent in it all. Just please don't tell me you're an apologist to the extent you blame the economy on the sub-prime mortgage holders and investment property speculators, as you're already blaming the victims too harshly.
[00:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:52] <exec> 08└─I find it obscene that there's plenty of money to rescue bankers, but not a dime for Greek people.
[00:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:02] <exec> 08└─That's a very concise - and honest - summary of the situation, as I understand it. It's coming for other countries, too - New Zealand has a right wing government that stopped paying down its national debt, started privatising anything that wasn't nailed down, and increased the national debt by more...
[00:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03liquibyte [5582] (Score:1) 02Re:Last Images - 06Contact Temporarily Lost With New Horizons - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:39] <exec> 08└─Hell, welcome to most of the internet. This is what you get from the latest generation of web monkeys, *shiny*.
[00:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:The one reason I would like to earn some coin - 06NVIDIA Shows a Realistic HairWorks 1.1 Demo with 500K Fluttering Hairs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:18] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping it won't cost as much as my computer . . .
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[01:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chigaco, Tennessee, Missouri - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:59] <exec> 08└─This is a prime example of why I believe national healthcare in necessary. Worldwide. In the same vein that a fire department is necessary. If someone becomes ill, its all of our problem - Unaddressed, an ill person will continue to spew forth infections like a fire that's not put out continues to s...
[01:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chigaco, Tennessee, Missouri - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:01] <exec> 08└─Unlikely, most, if not all, seriously infectious contagions wouldn't survive the trip. Between the time and the temperatures involved, the likelihood of anything contagious coming that way accidentally is rather remote. Most of the things that we contract really have to be transfered in a matter of...
[01:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As a Chicagoan, let me ask you - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chigaco, Tennessee, Missouri - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:03] <exec> 08└─Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chigaco, Tennessee, Missouri
[01:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02This is why I delete files I don't need - 06Automatic Code Repair - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:31] <exec> 08└─I expect malware - at least some malware - uses data and executable code that it finds on its infected host. So when I set up a server I do "apt-get remove" for all the packages that my box does not really require. Especially the development tools. If I need to build a binary for my server, I build...
[01:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Guess ... - 06Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:26] <exec> 08└─I do understand their products. And if they did they would have patched or otherwise mitigated those know (to them) vulnerabilities. If they can penetrate their own networks with their own products then they are foolish.
[01:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Italian security - 06Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:36] <exec> 08└─But the Franks would not even be there for six or seven centuries. Gauls! Celtic people. On the other hand, the Lombards would not migrate into Italia till about the same time. So what have the Romans ever done for us?
[01:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hive-mind issue - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:00] <exec> 08└─If actual spam is getting lots of up-mods, then you ban those accounts. Abuse will always happen, and you sometimes need to go in and deal with it. The proposal works great to rescue controversial (not hive mind) things that people actually want to discuss.
[01:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Too early yet for this notion - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:35] <exec> 08└─My thinking on this expansion is that there aren't enough Soylentils yet to justify it. At this point, it has the smell of something desperate that Dice Holdings might do.
[01:16:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tathra [3367] 02Re:The cost differential is big - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:25] <exec> 08└─the difference is the same difference between a officers in person following a suspect or doing a stakeout, and cameras and license plate readers everywhere. its fine for officers to do their job in person because they're inherently limited because its in person, but with cameras, and similarly dron...
[01:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02There is one other stalker that it might be - 06TAILS Linux 1.4.1 is out - July 3, 2015 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:34] <exec> 08└─that is, of the stalkers I personally have met. However this third gent is not, to the best of my knowledge, a skydiver.
[01:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Please - 06The Climate One Year On: Exit Carbon Tax, Enter Brown Coal - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:34] <exec> 08└─I wish you luck convincing the general public that Micro Nuclear is a good idea. If ever there was a NIMBY-generator, it was that... Your three issues are right on the money though, and it really is an interesting time to live in.
[01:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And growth? - 06The Climate One Year On: Exit Carbon Tax, Enter Brown Coal - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:36] <exec> 08└─If you start talking about adjusting for growth when you are looking at emissions totals it is a sure sign that you have missed the entire fucking point. The 2020 targets are about absolute emission totals, not emissions per capita.
[01:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tell that... - 06NVIDIA Shows a Realistic HairWorks 1.1 Demo with 500K Fluttering Hairs - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:22] <exec> 08└─To the two or more ingrow hairs I have coming from the same pores. The ones around my nipples I've gotten up to three hairs by tweezing. So yes, humans can have multiple hair follicles coming from the same pore, most just don't stimulate them enough for it to happen naturally.
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[02:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:02] <exec> 08└─Those freighters aren't computer controlled yet. There are people on board every international shipment along with the cargo.
[02:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We also need a World Government, right? - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:03] <exec> 08└─Because, really, who will set the standards for Worldwide Healthcare? Vote for anubi for World Emperor. It's the only logical choice.
[02:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We also need a World Government, right? - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:05] <exec> 08└─If (communicabledisease == true){ treatpatient(); } Done in one.
[02:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:As a Chicagoan, let me ask you - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:07] <exec> 08└─Editor's typo? Your own type? Chigaco doesn't appear anywhere on this page, nor does it appear on the page from which I copy/pasted it. Are you feeling well today?
[02:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As a Chicagoan, let me ask you - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:09] <exec> 08└─The headline has been corrected.
[02:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:As a Chicagoan, let me ask you - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:11] <exec> 08└─It's a Japanese word, roughly translating to "middle school" [wikia.com].
[02:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Interesting) 02I blame US customs and immigration - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:12] <exec> 08└─My concept of who to blame when somethi bad happens has evolved considerably over the years. Instead of blaming the perpetrator, I have come to regard people who do bad things as simply doing what comes natural. These days I blame whoever was in a position to prevent the problem yet failed to take r...
[02:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02dumb thing to do... - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:18] <exec> 08└─They should only cover what is already covered, like roads, buildings. In water, fish live close to the surface. Covering inland water will not be a benefit to environment. If free space in nature is covered, we soon will have nowhere to go. Here is a fun experiment: take France or India in google e...
[02:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dumb thing to do... - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:20] <exec> 08└─Clearly not a fisherman. They actually prefer and thrive in shade. And why pick specifically France and India? Are those the only two countries that match your worldview? Again, any kind of sportsman would know just how many wild spaces there really are.
[02:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Golf courses in Japan - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:21] <exec> 08└─I once heard that they were so expensive that it would be cheaper to fly somewhere like Manila or Kuala Lumpur and play golf there instead of going to one in Japan.
[02:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Go whole hog and build residences underneath. - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:23] <exec> 08└─I have heard of people living in extremely cramped conditions in Japan. If they are going to build something like this, can't this be made in such a manner as to provide decent low cost housing as well? Japan is well known for its beauty, artisans, and craftsmanship up there with the Germans and Swi...
[02:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Go whole hog and build residences underneath. - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:25] <exec> 08└─I'd worry too at the prospect of covering open space in an area as densely built up as Kyoto Prefecture, as any brief Google Map peek will reveal. OTOH, they don't seem to have a large excess of parking lots like you would find in north america. They do have miles of cheek by jowl industrial looking...
[02:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AI terminology - 06Automatic Code Repair - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:32] <exec> 08└─You should read this as copyright infringement, especially in the wake of Oracle v. Google. If you (or your code, AI, tamagotchi, whatever) copies compiled code from another executable that is not software you developed and own the rights to then you are illegally copying/stealing code from another...
[02:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"It's a corrupt industry." -- Detroit taxi driver - 06Mexico City Proposes Regulations for Uber - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:01] <exec> 08└─All that young man wanted was to do right by his girlfriend and their son. He leased his taxi for seventy dollars per day, which mostly worked, but he lived in fear that he might piss someone off, with the result that the dispatcher would stop sending him fares.
[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Analog to game of life gliders? - 06Blueprint for a Time Crystal - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─Regularly repeating configuration in time? It does sound suspiciously like an oscillator.
[02:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Time Crystal Computers? - 06Blueprint for a Time Crystal - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:30] <exec> 08└─Wilczek has also theorised that a working time crystal could be made into a computer, with different rotational states standing in for the 0s and 1s of a conventional computer.
[02:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Hacking Team Federal? - 06Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:48] <exec> 08└─Karma? That's when a script kiddie is reincarnated as a Game Boy, and a real hacker gets reincarnated as a data center.
[02:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well now obviously we know that - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:06] <exec> 08└─If he wants to play a dwarf, he's probably Cowboy Kneel.
[02:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's all be a little better than the oppositio - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:54] <exec> 08└─That's because the situation can completely change depending on the technology. The reason people don't want the drones is because they'll inevitably be abused, and they are cost-effective ways of performing widespread surveillance (and also recording, which means faulty human memories aren't involv...
[02:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:27] <exec> 08└─Its all good to talk of contracts and bailouts, and technical details of the mountains of paper constructing the EU. But at the end of the day, Greece has a balance of payments problem, and NOTHING other than selling off antiquities gets past that. Is that what the EU really wants?
[02:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Miles Prower - 06TAILS Linux 1.4.1 is out - July 3, 2015 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:56] <exec> 08└─How would the NSA tell privacy paranoid people from random fans of Sonic the Hedgehog video games?
[02:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Re:The Finger - 06TAILS Linux 1.4.1 is out - July 3, 2015 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:57] <exec> 08└─>http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/interest-privacy-will-ensure-youre-targeted-nsa/ Waaaait, a minute. That's a honeypot isn't it? I'm going to in the list for reading an article about people putting other people on the list.
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[03:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02American bot files report with Homeland - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:59] <exec> 08└─American robot puts opponent on terrorist watch list. Battle over, America wins!
[03:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Come on, guys, be serious. - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:00] <exec> 08└─It has been almost 30 years since it was presented [wikipedia.org] and I'm still waiting for my Caterpillar P-5000 Work Loader - I need it, my back went bad.
[03:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I blame US customs and immigration - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:18] <exec> 08└─Hmmmmm. US Customs isn't exactly tasked with checking the health of visitors and immigrants. Not that I've seen, anyway. Sure, they might stop an obviously ill person, but they don't do blood tests and such. The latter part of the post refers to today's medical schools in India. Some years ago, a gr...
[03:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I blame US customs and immigration - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:19] <exec> 08└─It's amazing what a little corruption can accomplish in just a few short years. Well, why so amazed? Corruption grows exponential* - the more corrupts, the easier it becomes to corrupt others - what you see may a the result of tens of years of "benign corruption" --- * actually I suspect Lotka-Volte...
[03:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I blame US customs and immigration - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:21] <exec> 08└─These days I blame whoever was in a position to prevent the problem yet failed to take responsibility to actually do so.
[03:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hacking Team Federal? - 06Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:00] <exec> 08└─I prefer to reincarnate into a Gameboy
[03:15:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] 02Well now obviously we know that - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:17] <exec> 08└─CowboyNeal wants to be the DwarfFortress-Nexus Poll Option
[03:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tell that... - 06NVIDIA Shows a Realistic HairWorks 1.1 Demo with 500K Fluttering Hairs - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:57] <exec> 08└─pore != follicle
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[04:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Re:Come on, guys, be serious. - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:04] <exec> 08└─http://www.machinerytrader.com/list/list.aspx?Manu=CATERPILLAR&Mdltxt=P5000 [machinerytrader.com] They seem to have nerfed the specs a little though.
[04:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02SCORING? - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:05] <exec> 08└─So, iis the winner determined by number of paint-ball projectiles that connect, or the volume of paint deposited? Doesn;t quite seem like a contest without plasma cannon.
[04:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:18] <exec> 08└─This is a prime example of why I believe national healthcare in necessary. Worldwide. In the same vein that a fire department is necessary.
[04:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I blame US customs and immigration - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:27] <exec> 08└─These days I blame whoever was in a position to prevent the problem yet failed to take responsibility to actually do so.
[04:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Golf courses in Japan - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:39] <exec> 08└─Actually back in the 80's, Many businessmen from Japan would come to the U.S. to play famous courses like Pebble Beach, Torrey Pines, Cypress Point, Riviera, and other great courses, not only in California, but all over the mainland US but also Hawaii. They could spend two to three weeks playing a d...
[04:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Go whole hog and build residences underneath. - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:42] <exec> 08└─As someone mentioned above, the best place for solar farms might well be over the parking lots in the cities and suburbs. Just look at all the space around Costco's, Home Depots, Malls etc. Plus it would help protect peoples cars from the sun and rain...win/win Also in the South and West it would of...
[04:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Go whole hog and build residences underneath. - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:44] <exec> 08└─Open up your Google maps, and zoom in on any Japanese city. You just don't have see those large parking lots.
[04:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Left with an maintainable mess - 06Automatic Code Repair - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:00] <exec> 08└─And what if code A has exploit P, and code B has exploit Q, and code C has exploit R? Does the system keep swapping the code around as each exploit is encountered? And where does the system get the code in the first place? What happens if your program using that system copies and uses GPLv3 code?
[04:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This will not end up well - 06Automatic Code Repair - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:07] <exec> 08└─Actually, I work with systems that sign the source code. So, any tampering is detected. Saved my butt many times. Also helps in knowing exactly what is makes it into an object module. So, if a source is rolled back, hence old sig and date time, the object auto-magically recompiles and restamps the d...
[04:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biology meets C.S. - 06Automatic Code Repair - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:10] <exec> 08└─The outcome of fixing a program is that the program should do what it's supposed to. The outcome of patching DNA in biology is to not do what it did before and to do something different in the future. Somehow, I don't see these as even similar. It seems to me that this proposed system is doing black...
[04:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Familiar? - 06Blueprint for a Time Crystal - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:53] <exec> 08└─Anyone else think of Superman's Crystal Palace?
[04:15:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03albert [276] 02hive-mind issue - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:41] <exec> 08└─The main problem I see with most if not all moderation systems is that over time it tends to develop a hive-mind sort of mentality, where if you go against the majority opinion, even if it's for a good reason, you're seen as a troll and moderated down.
[04:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:hive-mind issue - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:46] <exec> 08└─If actual spam is getting lots of up-mods
[04:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:19] <exec> 08└─I would like to get a reason for submission rejections, so I can improve in the future.
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[05:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seahorse Killbots Now! - 06Why the Seahorse's Tail is Square, and How it Could Be an Inspiration for Robots and Medical Devices - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:03] <exec> 08└─Obama needs military robots, and he needs them now, because Americans are too fat and stupid to fight a war, and the Obama ecomony is entirely dependent upon glorious military service, to such a degree that anyone who is not a veteran is totally unemployable.
[05:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Robots... Armor... - 06Why the Seahorse's Tail is Square, and How it Could Be an Inspiration for Robots and Medical Devices - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:04] <exec> 08└─You had me at robots needing armor... Where's my mech?!
[05:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02preserve the environment by making a backup - 06Why the Seahorse's Tail is Square, and How it Could Be an Inspiration for Robots and Medical Devices - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:06] <exec> 08└─* I have a static copy of the Earth at the time of the Change. I located the dog there and created an active copy of it for your exhibition.
[05:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:SCORING? - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:17] <exec> 08└─I prefer to mount three clan ultra ac 20's.
[05:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:SCORING? - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:18] <exec> 08└─I always thought the PPC was a clear winner, both on tabletop and the many PC games that came out :)
[05:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And if a leader does what comes naturally to them? - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:41] <exec> 08└─Doesn't that mean there are two classes of people, then? Those who are elite enough to be responsible for themselves and the rest who might as well be cattle?
[05:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:dumb thing to do... - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:51] <exec> 08└─Agreed. When light strikes grass or other vegetation, it has the net effect of _removing_ carbon from the atmosphere. Putting solar panels over them isn't necessarily a _bad_ idea, but if you're going to put out the money for solar panels, then they would be more effective covering dark, inorganic s...
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[05:20:28] <exec> 08└─You may "we fully expect to have working fusion before this happens", but you shouldn't feel too certain. The universe may be so set up that only large lumps of gravitationally compressed matter spontaneously fuse. One *hopes* that this isn't the way things are set up, but to be certain seems to me...
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[05:20:41] <exec> 08└─I think it was where he was trying to sell excess Tesla batteries to power homes. Any my take on this was "maybe". Do be aware that he's trying to use economies of scale to cut the cost of his cars. Also to make them more convenient to use (in this case more ways to charge them). And I can think of...
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[06:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02suits and ties - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:02] <exec> 08└─Unconventional mathematician loves money and secretly yearns to work in quantitative finance instead of algebraic topology.
[06:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SCORING? - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:25] <exec> 08└─The Awesome with three PPCs is definitely...awesome! Just stagger those bad boys or keep to water mkay?
[06:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 0240% of Americans surveyed oppose public health - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:39] <exec> 08└─not public health care, public health. Stuff like finding ways to prevent what this story reports. This according to Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague".
[06:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Go whole hog and build residences underneath. - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─your perspective is skewed. if you were from a non- mi-optic space faring civilization covering distances of light-years regularly, you wouldn't see a "ugly" sea of solar panels covering green pastures but rather a tiny neat-o energy detector/collector of the local solar-systems main gravity well. i...
[06:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02my_fridge! - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:07] <exec> 08└─well maybe the japanese are finally waking up .. to the rising sun (?) however the "battle" is not over. the brain-dead burocratic hurdles for residential grid-tied photo-voltaics still need to be teared down. the sun shines for everyone everywhere! as much as more solar on the grid is laudable, the...
[06:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:my_fridge! - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:09] <exec> 08└─just goes to show that in reality it is the government (and its buero-crazy) that creates a society of "haves" and "have-nots"...
[06:14:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RobotMonster [130] 02Re:Left with an maintainable mess - 06Automatic Code Repair - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah - I agree 100%. Alan Turing had something to say about this... He called it The Halting Problem [wikipedia.org].
[06:14:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02Robin Hood - 06Mexico City Proposes Regulations for Uber - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:56] <exec> 08└─Did I read this correctly? [Uber et al will] pay into a fund for transportation infrastructure. The city would create an app for licensed taxis and help pay for their GPS technology
[06:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:give us news - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:00] <exec> 08└─But posting AC is running away from criticism
[06:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:clearly the vote is a Boskonian forgery - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 2005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:18:39] <exec> 08└─Throughout history, Germany has repaid debt, Germany has had debt forgiven and Germany has forgiven debt. Germany should also be allowed to expect repayment. There are many other countries in the Eurozone which are also not willing to forgive Greece's debt at this point in time. Greece has been gran...
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[07:13:10] <exec> 08└─Let me see your sack! I know the drippin'ness is coming from you, and it's driving me insanyoly! You're the one who possesses the papoohiesack. It'll only take me a second to check your sack...
[07:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Caltech's Tom Apostol got there first - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:12] <exec> 08└─His Calculus course is quite difficult as he teaches integration first as that was how it developed historically. Or rather, he teaches integration first because he enjoys the sight of students passing out in class every friday morning when problem sets were due. It is not hard at all to derive newt...
[07:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Caltech's Tom Apostol got there first - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:14] <exec> 08└─But what does the milk from a spherical cow taste like?
[07:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Battle Ground, Washington - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:37] <exec> 08└─The Army and the Indians agreed to duke it out there but when the fateful day came no one showed up.
[07:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Thats what treaties are for - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:51] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Comment too short
[07:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I has always been this way. - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:01] <exec> 08└─India provides a very basic food ration to its population - a few kilos of grain and beans each month. But it is estimated that only 15% of that food reaches those who it is intended for. Many regard India, Mexico and other developing nations as desperately poor. In reality they are fabulously wealt...
[07:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:AI terminology - 06Automatic Code Repair - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:34] <exec> 08└─My code is made of ones and zeros. If I see any ones or zeros in your code, expect to hear from my lawyer, you thief.
[07:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Looks like this dingbat won a nobel prize - 06Blueprint for a Time Crystal - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:35] <exec> 08└─Here's another article on the subject http://www.wired.com [wired.com] Theoretical physics is too funky for me. Yet undoubtedly an important field to study.
[07:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03crutchy [179] (Score:2) 02Re:give us news - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:15] <exec> 08└─We even expand on submissions that are just a single link.
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[08:13:04] <exec> 08└─It seems reasonable that a spherical planet will have the same gravity as a point paricle of the same mass but newton required twenty years to actually prove it.
[08:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Caltech's Tom Apostol got there first - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:05] <exec> 08└─Which would have the same mass, therefore same gravitational pull. Just because there is less space being taken up by the same mass does not make gravitational forces on other objects increase. If it were so, then a compressing a marshmallow would increase it's weight.
[08:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02What difference? - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:06] <exec> 08└─knowing the difference between your coffee cup and a doughnut is an essential workplace skill
[08:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02What's the cross section of this? - 06Why the Seahorse's Tail is Square, and How it Could Be an Inspiration for Robots and Medical Devices - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:18] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leafydragon.jpg That's a near-neighbour in the seahorse's family tree. Is the squareness of the seahorse merely the corners caused by the pointy bits that this glorious mofo's gone completely overboard with? Some lizards have two rows of ridges down their backs and...
[08:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:SCORING? - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:31] <exec> 08└─The Japanese video talks about melee weapons and fighting. That would make sense. Guns will be boring, just a stand off with two slow moving tanks. Getting close up and tearing into each other will provide a more interesting battle.
[08:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02...of fearmongering - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:50] <exec> 08└─Google "phage therapy" and stop believing in Big Pharma's "sky is falling!!! need moar money!" soundbites. Once there develops any real inconvenience to "valuable members of society", less profitable cures will be produced from under the rug and put to work. Until then - proles will suffer and die,...
[08:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I blame US customs and immigration - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:00] <exec> 08└─You're doing it wrong. That's why you get the wrong results. If your windoze gets a bad infection, all your customer data is compromized, all your "intellectual property" and business plans stolen. It's not just a question of doing a reinstall of a workstation... The right way to prevent in this exa...
[08:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:dumb thing to do... - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:12] <exec> 08└─Gold courses have large areas of grass where not much lives, because there is no shelter or cover or anything much to eat. So while you could argue for taking it back to agricultural use, putting solar PV here isn't going to damage anything that is already there (except maybe some grass).
[08:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this really new? - 06Automatic Code Repair - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is new. This is compiled application A, reverse-engineering application B, finding that it has bugs, then reverse-engineering application C, noticing that it doesn't have those same bugs, and replacing some of the code in application B with code from application C in an attempt to fix thos...
[08:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this really new? - 06Automatic Code Repair - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:37] <exec> 08└─-this application analysing itself, considering itself vulnerable and therefore incorporating new code into itself, thus changing its own functionality and finally evolving into Skynet. :-)
[08:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Analog to game of life gliders? - 06Blueprint for a Time Crystal - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:34] <exec> 08└─Yes - but they're in their lowest energy state. An oscillator will be driven, and then decay through friction etc when the driving force is removed. These are structures who exhibit motion in their "rest" state. Phrased slightly differently, they identify spatial crystals by a symmetry breaking - th...
[08:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:cool - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe user anger issues for the more questionable stories would have been reduced if those stories came from the "slow news day department" and had an option not to show them. Then half the story wouldn't be taken up by people complaining since they a) wouldn't be the first nor most notable one poin...
[08:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep compiling, my friends - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:34] <exec> 08└─All polls need a joke/gibberish/no opinion/rebel option. I use "I like to vote" if I can't think of a wittier one.
[08:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:systemd... - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:36] <exec> 08└─Which ties in just fine with the argument about systemd being forced down peoples throats. I'm pretty sure 90% of the systemd haters out there (myself included) would not care one bit about systemd if they could just choose not to use it, and that's it.
[08:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:systemd... - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:37] <exec> 08└─I know his opinion doesn't count for much, but a computer literate friend of mine called Linus Torvalds seems OK with systemd.
[08:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03lars_stefan_axelsson [3590] (Score:1) 02Re:Differential is about $1M - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:58] <exec> 08└─You have no idea how police actually use helicopters, do you? They don't land the helicopter to start chasing after the fleeing suspect. Ever. A helicopter is there as a surveillance platform to lead ground units to the suspect's location. A drone is of course a near perfect substitute for a helicop...
[08:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:19:53] <exec> 08└─Well, to be fair, there are many ways to make someones life annoying even without legal means. As for the fucking up, you can read the link I provided. They actually debated such a clause, but it was abandoned several times for various reasons (I think most important is that some countries get uneas...
[08:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soyvertisement? - 06NVIDIA Shows a Realistic HairWorks 1.1 Demo with 500K Fluttering Hairs - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because that would have been too obvious and unprofessional. You don't want to sound like a retarded fanboy, just a normal one.
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[09:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like copyright infringement to me - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:01] <exec> 08└─Why do the prosecutors often go for the arcane laws which really deal with stealing camels? Is it because they offer the chance to have the suspect stoned to death (perhaps even more so than copyright infringement) if found guilty? Are they throwing the book at the man because Goldman is too big to...
[09:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Caltech's Tom Apostol got there first - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:16] <exec> 08└─Err...its. Dammit Jim I'm a physicist not a writer!
[09:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:58] <exec> 08└─*shrug*, I see no problem with the fire department's policy. If you're stupid enough not to pay $75 a year to fund the fire department, yet you will be significantly damaged if your property catches fire, you deserve what's coming to you. Of course, taxes are usually used to fund fire departments .....
[09:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:...of fearmongering - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:01] <exec> 08└─+1 for the link to an interesting experimental therapy. -2 for the paranoid fantasy that the reason random experimental therapies aren't yet widely available is because THE MAN WANTS TO KEEP US DOWN!!!! Protip: anyone who uses the phrase "it's that simple" when talking about a policy issue is usuall...
[09:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...of fearmongering - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:03] <exec> 08└─Zealous disbelieving in "THE MAN" in 2015 is not exactly a mark of sophistication; Snowden, Wikileaks, etc. etc. etc. is for realsies. Alas, Virginia (or Pollyanna?) teh world is not all sunshine and little ponies. :(
[09:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Some community we have here. - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:35] <exec> 08└─I still read both and I'm not sure I'd agree. The main difference is that the community is larger there. The signal to noise ratio is a bit lower, but there's more signal. SN has its fair share of annoying trolls too.
[09:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Re:systemd... - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:53] <exec> 08└─Amen brother. The Unix tool way was always "do one thing and do it well". Except emacs obviously....
[09:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:24] <exec> 08└─This is in the pipeline.
[09:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:26] <exec> 08└─Please, keep submitting your science stories - do not confuse the number of comments with the level of interest in the topic. Many science stories provide us with hard facts and solid research; often this means that there is not much to say other than 'well done' to the original researchers. However...
[09:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:The cost differential is big - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:29] <exec> 08└─So fix the problem - and it is not the use of drones.
[09:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Greeks voted no for what? - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:19:54] <exec> 08└─Horses. Well, it was more a gift than a sale...
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[10:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Interesting) 02i'm so conflicted! - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:31] <exec> 08└─on one hand he didn't break any laws but on the other, he did work for Goldman Sachs. if nothing else, this should be a lesson on why you should not work for criminals.
[10:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:What difference? - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:48] <exec> 08└─The difference is: <drum roll> Coffee on the nuts or not!
[10:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some community we have here. - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:17] <exec> 08└─While the community is better it's certainly not bigger. I was afraid that the site was heading to a dead end when stories used to have a single digit comment count. Luckily, currently it seems to be above the critical mass required.
[10:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:01] <exec> 08└─It also allows better filtering of stories for users
[10:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:58] <exec> 08└─Anyone know how this is for the US. Can a state be unilaterally expulsed?
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[11:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:3, Insightful) 02native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:18] <exec> 08└─Per the linked article: both SSD models come native with full AES 256-bit full disk encryption capability
[11:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Bytes per Person - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:19] <exec> 08└─One of these drives has sufficient space to keep about 285 bytes of information on every single person on the planet! Put another way, that is over 6 KB for every single person in the USA.
[11:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bytes per Person - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:21] <exec> 08└─Yo dude I heard you're on a list of people who like to talk about the NSA. You must be horrified because the list just isn't exclusive enough for an elitist like you.
[11:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I love to be a Consumer! - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:22] <exec> 08└─I just love it when Capitalist Pigs try to manipulate me into Producing money out of pockets to pay for their Shit!
[11:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Sounds like copyright infringement to me - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:33] <exec> 08└─Because prosecutors hate to lose. They are politicians graded on their win/loss records.
[11:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03gargoyle [1791] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds like copyright infringement to me - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:34] <exec> 08└─The second one, they want a conviction, so they are trawling every law they can find which might result in one.
[11:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Red Scare - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:36] <exec> 08└─Americans cannot be prosecuted for acts that were legal at the time they carried them out. That is, unless they are Communists: Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were executed for treason. I expect they broke some manner of law but at the time they passed the Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviet Union,...
[11:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02circular definition? - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:37] <exec> 08└─How can a statute contain a phrase like "unlawful use of secret scientific material" in order to define what is illegal? First assert it's illegal, then it falls under that clause, and then it's proven to be illegal - yay, lifting by ones own shoelaces has been achieved! And of course, if you assert...
[11:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Caltech's Tom Apostol got there first - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:53] <exec> 08└─Which would have the same mass, therefore same gravitational pull.
[11:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:What difference? - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:56] <exec> 08└─You've missed the most important similarity between them - both can be used for getting coffee into your mouth. Even I know that, and I *am* a mathematician!
[11:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:SCORING? - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:24] <exec> 08└─Watch out for the one which has a flipper... Unless you've got a srimech (self righting mechanism)... Yeah, I was a fan of all of the robot TV programs. However, it was obvious as soon as there were 3 competing programs at the same time that they were sucking the life out of the formula too quickly,...
[11:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:44] <exec> 08└─What do they think will happen if the fire does not conveniently confine itself to the property of the shirker and becomes a general conflagration? I don't know if that's a big risk in rural Tennessee, but it certainly is out West where I grew up. Put the frickin' fire out, jackass fire department!
[11:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:40% of Americans surveyed oppose public health - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:46] <exec> 08└─I generally file those people under the, "Bruce Jenner totally became a chick, dude! Trans-Pacific Partnership? Huh?" folder. They are not the people who ought to drive public policy.
[11:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:As a Chicagoan, let me ask you - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:55] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is Chigaco?
[11:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Golf courses in Japan - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:16:19] <exec> 08└─Japan is also quite fad driven. Golf was the big sport in the 80's, then suddenly in the 90's it switched to soccer. Overnight there were soccer leagues and everyone was crazy about playing soccer. I was an analyst for Japanese equities at the time of the inflection point and all the trade publicati...
[11:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Go whole hog and build residences underneath. - 06Abandoned Golf Courses Becoming Solar Farms in Japan - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:16:25] <exec> 08└─I think most people would agree with you but decorative installations drive the cost up a lot and lower the overall ROI for something people are doing for utility. That said, incorporating panels into a patio cover is a good idea and one you don't see much or hear people talking about a lot yet. Ano...
[11:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02you lost me at "other, more secure applications" - 06Automatic Code Repair - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:00] <exec> 08└─How does this software know other applications are more secure? If we had software to determine the security of an application, we could just apply it to the current application to tell us what parts we need to make more secure, and skip the other steps.
[11:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score:2) 02Re:Full paper, some questions. - 06Blueprint for a Time Crystal - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:42] <exec> 08└─Not really, maybe I'm weird, but I was trying to play it safe :)
[11:18:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] 02Introducing... Hackerteam's unnoficial Github - 06Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:03] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/hackedteam [github.com]
[11:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:The cost differential is big - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:40] <exec> 08└─But we need to stop the drones in the mean time to prevent their misuse. Solving the bigger issue will take much more time.
[11:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:18] <exec> 08└─I think you misunderstand the basis on the contracts that gave rise to the EU. It can be more or less described as a voluntary collaboration. Nobody rules, all are equal (well, formally at least). Provisions for violations are usually focused at helping the country to comply, not putting them into a...
[11:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:21] <exec> 08└─Like any lender, the EU doesn't want Greece to default or switch to another currency or do anything that will result in its debts being written off. If Greek banks collapse then other EU countries will have to pay out to their citizens to compensate them (in the UK the scheme protects you up to £75...
[11:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:28] <exec> 08└─A big share of these "emergency" funds went *directly* from the EU to the banks, never to Athens. I find it obscene that there's plenty of money to rescue bankers, but not a dime for Greek people.
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[12:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Writing to hard drive caused a crash? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:19] <exec> 08└─First, it was taking the scientific data it has already harvested, compressing it, and writing it to a portion of its 128GB hard drive.
[12:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:30] <exec> 08└─The purpose is probably to boost block size. So changing a single bit in a file (Capitalizing something?) will result in many bits of the file changing so they use up the limited writes faster and get to sell another sooner. Most encryption algos aren't exactly perfect hash algos but "usually" "ofte...
[12:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:31] <exec> 08└─So changing a single bit in a file (Capitalizing something?) will result in many bits of the file changing so they use up the limited writes faster and get to sell another sooner.
[12:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khakipuce [233] (Score:2) 02Re:Bytes per Person - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:35] <exec> 08└─Telling us how much data goes on a Terabyte or two seems a bit pointless. It would be more interesting to know how the through-put compares to hard-disks and other SSDs
[12:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02not for ... anything? - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:37] <exec> 08└─the 2TB 850 EVO for five years or 150 TBW
[12:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:not for ... anything? - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:39] <exec> 08└─Something that can only be written maybe 5 times can't be used for database, mythtv backend media storage, swap space, build box, ... what could I use it for?
[12:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Code stealing is quite common in Banks - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 1638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:52] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure this goes on quite a bit in the industry. Let me try and back that statement up. One large bank I worked for had a new starter who was tasked with writing an OLAP cube type set up, a project that should have taken 3-6 months. He had turned up on the first day with a CD-R and within a...
[12:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:59] <exec> 08└─Well, if you read the link, you would see that the fire department will respond if the fire spreads to a neighbor's property and that neighbor has paid the $75 fee. They will then contain the fire so it doesn't spread. But they'll still let the would-be free-rider's house burn to the ground.
[12:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02That's Our Problem Right There. - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:02] <exec> 08└─That those are the kinds of people who do, in fact, drive public policy. I don't regard most elected officials as ignorant. They just act that way so they can win votes and financing.
[12:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I blame US customs and immigration - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:18] <exec> 08└─A compromised desktop computer cannot infect your child with a deadly disease.
[12:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:cool - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:45] <exec> 08└─A nexus or nexii for "filler"... a good idea.
[12:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 1610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:26] <exec> 08└─I didn't say it's desirable, just that it's possible. The Eurozone can not perpetually tolerate an unwilling member being in flagrant violation of the treaties. Expulsion by law or by coercion is a possibility, whether Greece or anyone else likes it or not. Consider the situation: Seeing the "succes...
[12:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Please - 06The Climate One Year On: Exit Carbon Tax, Enter Brown Coal - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:09] <exec> 08└─Well that's certainly interesting. Distribution in general is still more economical with AC - https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] but regardless of that, Musk's numbers are still marketing bullshit designed to sell batteries. I can see small, self-contained breeder reactor...
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[13:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Measures - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:23] <exec> 08└─Big enough to contain the contents of all the double-spaced typed pages it would take to equal the volume of New York's famed World Trade Center Twin Towers, or single-spaced, one of the famed World Trade Center Twin Towers.
[13:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:29] <exec> 08└─These firmware-encrypted devices almost always use your computers TPM (trusted computing) chip to authenticate. I don't trust it, usually have it disabled, and use full disk encryption provided by the OS. Yes, I know that FDE on Linux is completely insecure because of the whole unencrypted boot part...
[13:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bytes per Person - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:32] <exec> 08└─The fuck does that even mean?
[13:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:not for ... anything? - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:37] <exec> 08└─Your SMART tools will sometimes tell you exactly how many blocks/bytes have been written to your hard drives. In normal use (i.e. not 24/7 server), you'll be lucky to get close to 75 ENTIRE REWRITES of every byte on the drive in more than 10 years of use (which is effectively a drive's lifetime when...
[13:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmlj4 [5451] (Score:1) 02Wow... - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:38] <exec> 08└─6KB ought to be enough for anybody.
[13:13:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bootsy [3440] 02Code stealing is quite common in Banks - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 1638 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:52] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure this goes on quite a bit in the industry. Let me try and back that statement up. One large bank I worked for had a new starter who was tasked with writing an OLAP cube type set up, a project that should have taken 3-6 months. He had turned up on the first day with a CD-R and within a...
[13:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khakipuce [233] (Score:2) 02It's OK... - 06Why the Seahorse's Tail is Square, and How it Could Be an Inspiration for Robots and Medical Devices - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:22] <exec> 08└─It's OK to be just interested in things. Oh look! seahorses have square tails, I wonder why... No need to try to justify everything by invoking robots or medicine or what ever. I'm sure well educated mechanical engineers will come up with the best shapes for their needs with or without seahorses
[13:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Come on, guys, be serious. - 06Japanese Mecha Manufacturer Suidobashi Heavy Industry Rises to the Challenge - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:33] <exec> 08└─The Cat p5000 that you linked to was the same thing I thought of reading the comment. There were two of them at the last place I worked, and I used them almost daily. It took following the GP's wiki link to figure out what was being referred to. :-/ My geek powers are slowly fading...
[13:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...of fearmongering - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:05] <exec> 08└─The granulomas that are characteristic of TB would probably not allow for bacteriophage penetration. The granulomas are surrounded by a dense layer of macrophages. Conspiracy theories are not necessary to keep phage therapy from the clinic. Bacteriophage are too immunogenic to treat systemic bacteri...
[13:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03lizardloop [4716] (Score:2) 02The librarian - 06Automatic Code Repair - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:13] <exec> 08└─This reminds of a module a university lecturer taught me. One of his pet concepts was "the librarian" that all software companies should have. It would be the librarians job to ensure good code was preserved in an archive somewhere and that any potential duplication of that code was avoided. I.e if...
[13:17:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Re:I Guess ... - 06Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:15] <exec> 08└─I guess they didn't use their own products, which is bad, or they did use their products and got hacked anyway, which is worse
[13:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Some community we have here. - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:50] <exec> 08└─The best stories here are the low count comment ones. I want the news, not the random thoughts of uninformed people. There's sometimes good information in the comments, but as a whole the ones with 50+ comments are tiresome crap. If read the register if I wanted that. Don't mistake a low comment cou...
[13:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03lizardloop [4716] (Score:2) 02old slashdot - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why I came over to SoylentNews. I remember the Slashdot beta fiasco but I can't remember why it bothered me enough to jump ship. I sort of think it may have just been rebellion for the sake of rebellion. Still glad I came.
[13:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:The cost differential is big - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:47] <exec> 08└─I disagree - stopping the use of drones by 'some' people but not for others is exacerbating an already farcical situation. There is only one problem - fix it! Stop pussyfooting around and making excuses.
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[14:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Supercapacitors - 06Tiny Wires Could Provide a Big Energy Boost - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:02] <exec> 08└─You don't need to come up with a convoluted scenario where someone would need a better supercapacitor. Trust me, if you invent such a thing, every person and company that makes electronics will come give you money for it. But, just like batteries, for every 10 announcements about a revolutionar...
[14:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Crap summary - 06Tiny Wires Could Provide a Big Energy Boost - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:03] <exec> 08└─Lousy bait summary. Talk about magical something or other doing magical stuff. How? It's "a new approach". How's it new? Who the fuck knows/cares, eh.
[14:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crap summary - 06Tiny Wires Could Provide a Big Energy Boost - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:05] <exec> 08└─Guess that's bit harsh. Anyways, throw some bone into TFS instead of buncha empty PR verbiage.
[14:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02why such a large drive? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:15] <exec> 08└─what i don't understand is why does it have such a large drive? you gotta figure that they are sending back the data as fast they can, so why does it have such a large buffer? did they put MP3s on it for when the probe gets bored or something?
[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:why such a large drive? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─It's cache space. This probe's mission is to do fly-bys of objects past the orbit of the outermost planet in the solar system. Data transfer rates over those kinds of astronomical distances are extremely slow compared to current internet standards. Combined with only having a relatively brief window...
[14:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02What were the final days supposed to contain? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:18] <exec> 08└─To prepare for these final days of its mission
[14:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bromine001 [5625] (Score:1) 02Re:What were the final days supposed to contain? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:19] <exec> 08└─It's going to do a flyby on Pluto. It's not expected to see anything interesting after that, I believe.
[14:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:What were the final days supposed to contain? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:21] <exec> 08└─New Horizons was never going to orbit Pluto. It is going way way too fast. In order to orbit Pluto its orbital trajectory would have needed to have been slowing down just as it reaches Pluto. The problem with that is it would take maybe a century to arrive at the right speed. I believe NH is still g...
[14:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:What were the final days supposed to contain? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:23] <exec> 08└─Correction, Hubble has found a couple of targets [wikipedia.org] that NH can reach.
[14:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about nice? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:24] <exec> 08└─They couldn't nice(1) the compression process to allow the more critical workload to take priority?
[14:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02128 GB hard drive - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:26] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit impressed at the size of the hard drive (128 GB), considering how deep space tech is usually years, even decades behind commercially available products in terms of power and capacity to ensure reliability and radiation hardening. The probe arrived at the launch centre in late 2005 for an e...
[14:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:35] <exec> 08└─The purpose is probably to boost block size. So changing a single bit in a file (Capitalizing something?) will result in many bits of the file changing so they use up the limited writes faster and get to sell another sooner.
[14:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:37] <exec> 08└─I had one computer where I used the SSD's native encryption and then subsequently attempted to move that SSD to a new computer. The new computer didn't like it at all - couldn't even wipe the disk. Had to move it back to the old computer, turn off the encryption, then move it back to the new compute...
[14:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not for ... anything? - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─It really depends on your usage as you point out. My wife and I have identical laptops with 1TB SSDs in them. She is at about 4-5TB for her drive. I am nearly 15. That is after 1 years use. I also deal in ISOs and virtual machines. She doesnt. I am more interested in what Intel, Toshiba, and Micron...
[14:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Code stealing is quite common in Banks - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:01] <exec> 08└─Good post - you're already +5 so I can't give you another "interesting". And, this really IS what galls me about business. If you're high enough up that you can steal millions and billions, then you're usually above the law. I guess the law for those people is something like "choose your target wise...
[14:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Prior art - 06Blueprint for a Time Crystal - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:06] <exec> 08└─> I'm as enamored of 4 Corner Days as the next man, but something is definitely amiss over there. More than usual, anyway.
[14:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:My 2¢ - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:59] <exec> 08└─By that definition I would say salad dressing is not a condiment. Lettuce is just a salad dressing delivery mechanism. I would not eat one without the other. :)
[14:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:The cost differential is big - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:00] <exec> 08└─I disagree - stopping the use of drones by 'some' people
[14:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:clearly the vote is a Boskonian forgery - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:48] <exec> 08└─The problem with the "biggest lie" is that it isn't a falsehood. This whole shitfest is due to decades of bad decisions by Greece. I'll note that the Scandinavian countries don't have this problem, for example.
[14:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:clearly the vote is a Boskonian forgery - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:01] <exec> 08└─well no they trew out the politicans that caused the problem in the last electionthe troijka did't like that and started harrassing them
[14:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Greeks voted no for what? - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:11] <exec> 08└─In a democracy the power comes from the voters, hence any rule that says "you can't ask the voters" is obviously overruled as soon as you do
[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yee - 06Peeking Into the Brain's Filing System - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:47] <exec> 08└─Hi "S", Thank you for the amazing informative answers! I guess your brain is too busy thinking about other brains.
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[15:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Supercapacitors - 06Tiny Wires Could Provide a Big Energy Boost - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:01] <exec> 08└─Part of that is what I call "premature press release syndrome". While new approaches may be exciting for people that are working in the field, making an announcement about something that won't come to market at any price for five to ten years is a great way to make your "revolutionary" change to the...
[15:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What were the final days supposed to contain? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:18] <exec> 08└─always supposed to speed by
[15:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:128 GB hard drive - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:21] <exec> 08└─I wonder where they got the 128GB from. This page [jhuapl.edu] says it has a pair 8GB solid state drives with one as a backup. The wikipeida page also uses the 8GB figure. 8GB is a much more believable figure considering the age of this tech and how space equipment can't be bleeding edge.
[15:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:128 GB hard drive - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:23] <exec> 08└─137 GB addressing space space barrier
[15:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03slash2phar [623] (Score:2) 02Re:Measures - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:34] <exec> 08└─Or approximately 143 WashingMachine-FootballFields
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─Encryption is already used on every modern ssd since repeated patterns are bad for data retention. It's just the master key is blank. Also write endurance on modern ssds are a non issue. Even the worst ssd lasted many hundreds of terabytes of writes, with the longest lasting multiple petabytes http:...
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─> Encryption is already used on every modern ssd since repeated patterns are bad for data retention. It's just the master key is blank. I don't believe you. If that were true then all modern SSDs would expose that interface to the users so that they could use non-blank master keys. I don't even beli...
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:43] <exec> 08└─I hadn't considered it like that! Given that I "unlocked" the drive with a password on the old computer, I expected it to unlock on the new computer with the same password. It hadn't occurred to me that it would be locked to the original computer. There are times when having a disk locked forever to...
[15:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:45] <exec> 08└─Not having the data be readable on another machine doesn't preclude the ability to wipe and start from scratch, I wouldn't think.
[15:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Copyright infringement isn't necessarily criminal - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 1976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:05] <exec> 08└─As much as the RIAA/MPAA would like us to forget, copyright infringement is PRIMARILY a civil matter in the US - it's a dispute between parties, and can lead to civil sanctions such as disgorgement, injunctive relief (such as impounding offending goods), etc. It's why a DCMA takedown doesn't come wi...
[15:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:i'm so conflicted! - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe the relentless prosecution is because GS hates him. They do own the government after all.
[15:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Caltech's Tom Apostol got there first - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:28] <exec> 08└─But for orbital mechanics, it doesn't matter what happens inside an object. All the planets are outside the sun and outside each other, and also the moons are outside their planets, and so on. Now strictly speaking, if what happens inside the object is asymmetric, it does matter; however for the pla...
[15:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What difference? - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:32] <exec> 08└─Neither the coffee cup nor the doughnut is a surface. Both are solid bodies with a non-empty interior. Although I'm not sure whether they are open or closed sets.
[15:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:The cost differential is big - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 2436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:11] <exec> 08└─You only want to stop the police from using the drones - not the Government. You appear to have no objection to the fact that the Fire Department can use them, nor departments studying natural resources, or power companies carrying out inspections of cables, or anyone else for that matter. But only...
[15:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:06] <exec> 08└─there was a war a while back because some states actually tried secceeding, they got their asses kicked
[15:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:transfer assets and file bankruptcy - 06Greeks Vote "NO" on EU Terms - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:07] <exec> 08└─One would think so. But a lot of people in the U.S. apparently feel differently.
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[16:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02More Bacon! - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:01] <exec> 08└─For the win!
[16:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:More Bacon! - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:02] <exec> 08└─Well ... no. You are thinking about double-fat pigs, these are double-muscled. Eat enough of either and you'll get a double-sized heart.
[16:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Bacon! - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:04] <exec> 08└─Super mutant pigs
[16:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I, for one, welcome - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:06] <exec> 08└─Our new gourmet-tasting, interspecies mixed martial arts buttkicking, $6 million pig overlords.
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:128 GB hard drive - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:35] <exec> 08└─Thanks; the wiki article [wikipedia.org] I got that from unfortunately didn't specify this was an IDE limitation.
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Measures - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:47] <exec> 08└─> WashingMachine-FootballFields You meant Quarterback-FootballFields I'm sure. Using WashingMachine-FootballFields would be as absurd as feet-acres.
[16:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Measures - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:49] <exec> 08└─African or European LOCs?
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─If that were true then all modern SSDs would expose that interface to the users so that they could use non-blank master keys.
[16:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─I would almost consider that a feature. Then again, if your computer craps out, then how would you ever recover? Then again ... backups.
[16:14:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Bytes per Person - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─One of these drives has sufficient space to keep about 285 bytes of information on every single person on the planet! Put another way, that is over 6 KB for every single person in the USA.
[16:14:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mmlj4 [5451] 02Wow... - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:11] <exec> 08└─6KB ought to be enough for anybody.
[16:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score:1) 02a broken as other 850 drives? - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─Do they slow down after a month as previous drives? or are they patched to overwrite themselves every month eating precious endurance? :(
[16:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:circular definition? - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─It's an amplification. By example that's far easier to understand: It is illegal to commit fraud as a general rule. Said rule describes fraud. It's further illegal to commit fraud via mail or (separate act) over wires. These seem self-referential, but in reality they add extra penalties for subclass...
[16:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:38] <exec> 08└─This is not humane. If you wonder why this is not humane, you certainly do not have the capacity to feel for another person. I would not wish to be associated or live anywhere near a human being such as you.
[16:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02The NSA is drooling already. - 06Automatic Code Repair - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:56] <exec> 08└─I can see it now... trustednsaexploit.exe replacing security code in *.* with "good" code from youarepwned.foo
[16:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Differential is about $1M - 06Drone Helps Hunt Down Suspect in Car Theft and Robbery - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:17] <exec> 08└─You have no idea how police actually use helicopters, do you?
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[17:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bruce - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:01] <exec> 08└─Leading a team of researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia, Dr Terumi Narushima
[17:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02link to a recorder - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:02] <exec> 08└─The pix in the article look like the recorder I printed: http://www.thingiverse.com [thingiverse.com] I can't find the link to a scad file to create arbitrary flute / recorder / whistles but there is something like that out there, seemingly unrelated to the linked article. Stories like t...
[17:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Not new notes - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:04] <exec> 08└─Skilled performers can in fact hit those notes using traditional flute-like instruments. For example, using the shakuhachi [wikipedia.org] somebody who knows what they're doing can hit any pitch they feel like. Same with European transverse flutes (the kind found in most bands and orchestras), penny...
[17:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Bacon! - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:15] <exec> 08└─Or Super Swine sounds better. With all that extra muscle it has super strength and even super speed.
[17:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:More Bacon! - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:17] <exec> 08└─They'll still upcharge for double meat.
[17:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03KBentley57 [645] (Score:1) 02Effect has been demonstrated before - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:20] <exec> 08└─While I applaud their efforts, the "double muscling" effect via gene manipulation has been demonstrated in other mammals (mice, cows, ect..) for well over a decade. That fact that it is a pig is minimal in my eyes. What is more interesting to me, is that the effect was very small in modern domestica...
[17:14:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 410 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:11] <exec> 08└─I had one computer where I used the SSD's native encryption and then subsequently attempted to move that SSD to a new computer. The new computer didn't like it at all - couldn't even wipe the disk. Had to move it back to the old computer, turn off the encryption, then move it back to the new compute...
[17:14:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02The Red Scare - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 1158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─Americans cannot be prosecuted for acts that were legal at the time they carried them out. That is, unless they are Communists: Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were executed for treason. I expect they broke some manner of law but at the time they passed the Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviet Union,...
[17:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code stealing is quite common in Banks - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:47] <exec> 08└─The employment contracts these days say that the company owns the stuff you do on your own time, too. Not just what you do at work. You have to register any software you write as "work product".
[17:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 2478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:55] <exec> 08└─There's no reason to resort to personal attacks here. It's a difficult situation ... I'll grant you that. But here are the facts that led to this: 1. The county chose not to use its tax revenue to fund a fire department. 2. A "city" of ~2000 people in the county decided to fund a volunteer fire depa...
[17:18:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] 02Re:*Yawn* - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:52] <exec> 08└─You might think that, but in my opinion you actually posting this displays a lack of class and hospitality to our guest.
[17:19:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Just a quick Thank You. - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your time and We/I hope you'll spend more time on SNiP with us. Hope all things in your life are well. Thank You.
[17:19:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Good Advice - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:08] <exec> 08└─1. Listen to your users. Users are the lifeblood of any site, and if they're not happy, they will make sure you know about it. 2. Don't listen to your users. They don't really know what they want, and they won't tell you what they like when you give it to them. Pretty good advice, I think. I...
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[18:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score:1) 02Re:Bruce - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:03] <exec> 08└─This is all fine and dandy until you watch the video and you find out "Terumi Narushima" is female. :)
[18:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Not new notes - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:07] <exec> 08└─Pff, I scoff at you... I'm completely untrained and I can hit notes that no skilled musician would ever hit (or call 'notes' for that matter).
[18:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Not new notes - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah from what they say in the video I think, you can make such a flute in any tuning system by traditional means as well, it's just a matter of the tube dimensions and where you put the holes. It's just that commercial instruments are only currently manufactured on the 12-tone equal temperament sys...
[18:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03KBentley57 [645] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Effect has been demonstrated before - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─For the curious, a link to the study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[18:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Effect has been demonstrated before - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:27] <exec> 08└─I think the 'breakthrough' here is to have done it in something closer to humans on the genetic scale. I for one cannot wait to welcome our SuperMuscled, Gene-Modified, Trans-Human Overlords. All Hail Arny!
[18:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03KBentley57 [645] (Score:1) 02Re:Effect has been demonstrated before - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:29] <exec> 08└─It's the same gene in all the animals mentioned, the 'myostatin sector' of the DNA. I don't think doing it in pigs gets us any closer than we were to doing it in humans. I've been wildly wrong in the past thought!
[18:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Zombie Pigs! - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:31] <exec> 08└─That's the first thing I thought of.
[18:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What were the final days supposed to contain? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:51] <exec> 08└─After collecting data from Pluto, NASA will try to steer New Horizons towards one or two Kuiper belt objects [wikipedia.org] within a narrow cone extending from Pluto.
[18:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:2) 02Re:What about nice? - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:57] <exec> 08└─Basically, having a "nice" would mean sacrificing some of the hard real-time guarantees that they need for the rest of the system. It would also mean extra code that needs to be vetted as being solid enough to run far far away from remote hands that can reboot it for you. People will make fun of teh...
[18:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:2) 02Re:128 GB hard drive - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:59] <exec> 08└─The error in the article appears to have been corrected: To prepare for the final days of its mission, the probe was doing two things at once. First, it was taking the scientific data it has already harvested, compressing it, and writing it to a portion of its 128Gbit storage (two 8GB solid-state re...
[18:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:2) 02Re:128 GB hard drive - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:01] <exec> 08└─Well, 8 Gigabytes is 64 gigabits. A pair of 8 Gigabyte devices is 128 gigabits. I don't have any specific insight into the hardware on the spacecraft, but the math checks out so I am wondering if that's where the confusion is coming from?
[18:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:21] <exec> 08└─Please refrain from proclaiming on topics you are ignorant of. If everyone did that there would be no comments on this site!
[18:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:25] <exec> 08└─Wow, a little civility goes a long way. You are encouraged to not sound like an ass when conversing with others. Anyway... Every mlc SSD uses some form of data randomization. Encryption is a common way to achieve that. Enjoy http://soc.yonsei.ac.kr
[18:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:2) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:27] <exec> 08└─Endurance being a "non issue" depends somewhat on workload and industry. Typical file server or SOHO tasks are fine. If you are running a CG compositing workstation doing Nuke comps in 4K or higher, caching several TB of images per work day can actually be very normal and you could run into 100 TB i...
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:a broken as other 850 drives? - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2551781/samsung-850-pro-ssd-corrupted-firmware-fix-read.html [tomshardware.com] http://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] I don't have the latest but I'm assuming it's fixed.
[18:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geezer [511] 02Re:Sounds like copyright infringement to me - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:52] <exec> 08└─Because prosecutors hate to lose. They are politicians graded on their win/loss records.
[18:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Copyright infringement isn't necessarily crimin - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:55] <exec> 08└─This where the judge seems to be coming down - what Mr. Aleynikov did was clearly unauthorized, and done with bad intent, but under the law, it doesn't constitute criminal behavior, because the law hasn't caught up to the kinds of bad behavior that's possible today that wasn't anticipated when the c...
[18:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:circular definition? - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:01] <exec> 08└─How can a statute contain a phrase like "unlawful use of secret scientific material" in order to define what is illegal? That's the charge, not the definition. N.Y. PEN. LAW § 165.07 : NY Code - Section 165.07: Unlawful use of secret scientific material [findlaw.com] A person is guilty of...
[18:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score:1) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:15] <exec> 08└─The fire started when the Cranicks' grandson was burning trash near the family home. As it grew out of control, the Cranicks called 911, but the fire department from the nearby city of South Fulton would not respond.
[18:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not unexpected... Been going for years... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:38] <exec> 08└─India, rampant antibiotic use is common. Patients have access to any antibiotic so people do not use the drug properly without proper checking, leading to many people with drug resistant strains of any disease. TB is just one of them
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[19:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Oh no officer - 06Augmented Reality and Its Discontents - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:59] <exec> 08└─I was only using this application that warns me of traffic hazards on my Microsoft(tm) HoloLense(tm). That internet browser with sexy ladies? Oh that just popped up to warn me that there were... um... dangerous curves ahead. Yeah. That's the ticket. No. Not that kinda ticket!
[19:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02contact lens - 06Augmented Reality and Its Discontents - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:01] <exec> 08└─Augmented reality can cause you to misjudge the speed of oncoming cars, underestimate your reaction time, and unintentionally ignore the hazards of navigating in the real world.
[19:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02good news bad news - 06Augmented Reality and Its Discontents - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:03] <exec> 08└─I've always wanted a HUD with facial recognition and basic info about people whose names I should remember but don't.
[19:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02not the problem - 06Augmented Reality and Its Discontents - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:04] <exec> 08└─the problem is not that you have to look away or reach in your pocket, the problem is that the conscious mind only handles one task at a time. what we call "multitasking" is really just changing your focus in rapid succession. your brain doesn't work faster to keep up with the workload, it just does...
[19:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Re:Bruce - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:14] <exec> 08└─I fail to see the problem....
[19:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Bruce - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:15] <exec> 08└─I fail to see the problem....
[19:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Not new notes - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, my favorite musician for demonstrating the power of accidental microtonal music is the late great Wesley Willis [youtube.com]. And this is why autotune is a horrible invention.
[19:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:1) 02Great - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:40] <exec> 08└─Super muscled pigs that go feral and become massively aggressive in less than 3 generations. Imagine a Hogzilla with double the muscle and a ravenous appetite.
[19:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score:1) 02Re:Measures - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:28] <exec> 08└─I agree. I cannot get my heard around GB and TB. Could the original submitter please convert the numbers into libraries-of-congress printed on coasters and tell me how many pints that would support? Or transmitted using 8mbps (8 milli-bits per second) and tell me how many fortnights that would be?
[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score:1) 02Re:a broken as other 850 drives? - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:57] <exec> 08└─the fix is rewriting (in the background) data stored for longer than X days
[19:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The Red Scare - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:14] <exec> 08└─That is, unless they are Communists: Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were executed for treason. I expect they broke some manner of law but at the time they passed the Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviet Union, the Soviets were our allies.
[19:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:What difference? - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:41] <exec> 08└─Neither the coffee cup nor the doughnut is a surface. Both are solid bodies with a non-empty interior.
[19:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:What difference? - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:42] <exec> 08└─For your edification, the knotted doughnut [thrillist.com] and the knotted coffee cup [etsy.com]. Now we have the knotting technology to safely distinguish between a coffee cup and a doughnut.
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[20:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kent_Diego [4929] (Score:1) 02Silly Idea - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:02] <exec> 08└─1. It takes energy to generate energy. Since the energy conversion in not 100% efficient. why put this extra load on the batteries? 2. Costly extra mechanical complexity. Surly unreliable in long run. 3. Extra unsprung weight causes handling and ride issues not to mention loss of vehicle efficiency....
[20:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Re:Silly Idea - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:04] <exec> 08└─No, I haven't RTFA, and while this sounds potentially stupid, it may be no more stupid than regenerative breaking depending on how it's done.
[20:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:good news bad news - 06Augmented Reality and Its Discontents - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:14] <exec> 08└─Well that cutie that now has a whole bunch of creepy friend requests from nerds sure thinks this is a bad thing!
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Not new notes - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah I don't see why this is noteworthy. You can make wind instruments that play all sorts of notes- just drill the holes accordingly. It's just that people are intentionally putting the holes in particular spots even if they can easily make them elsewhere. https://www.youtube.com
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Need to send this guy a link - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─Flute virtuoso collected hard-to-get reeds and made flutes from them so that he got a range of tone qualities. January 2014, he's flying through JFK and US Customs finds them in his baggage, calls them agricultural products, and destroys them. Professional's handmade flutes destroyed by US.gov [clas...
[20:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Oink. - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:48] <exec> 08└─I was going to post this, but you beat me to it :^)
[20:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02exists in humans - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:53] <exec> 08└─There is a German kid, the child of two athletes, who has this. He's pretty much Bam Bam in real life. Well, he's probably grown up now.
[20:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:56] <exec> 08└─Feral, hell--some redneck'll breed 'em with razorbacks and set 'em loose so's he'll have sumthin' FUN ta shoot!
[20:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Code stealing is quite common in Banks - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:37] <exec> 08└─I am not sure why they cannot take a civil case against Mr Aleynikov for breaking this clause.
[20:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02More examples - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:01] <exec> 08└─The classic example of applying algebraic topology to control systems are cue sports [wikipedia.org] like pool or billiards. There, you want to hit certain balls in certain directions and setup for the next move of the game. But you can only consider striking the first ball along certain trajectorie...
[20:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:52] <exec> 08└─If the fire department waits until it reaches the property line of the person who paid them, it's going to be harder to stop it from taking out the next house. Fire's like that. Also, you did say "you deserve what's coming to you." After letting that loose, you should hardly be surprised by a person...
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[21:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Scaling up - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:02] <exec> 08└─For those aren't going to RTFA no matter what: Their test vehicle was a toy car, so I've got some concerns about whether or not this will scale up to full-sized models. But if it does, it could potentially vast increase the range of electric cars, or allow them to use smaller batteries.
[21:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:1) 02It won't work on my car. - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:03] <exec> 08└─It won't work on my car. My car has tires, not tyres. 'Murica!
[21:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02But - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:04] <exec> 08└─But isn't this just a retread of other failed ideas?
[21:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nanogenerators, Friction, Energy - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:06] <exec> 08└─Ethanol's penis might replace an entire nuclear reactor.
[21:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:good news bad news - 06Augmented Reality and Its Discontents - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:18] <exec> 08└─Dammit! My wife divorced me because she saw me spam friend requests to a random cutie, but in reality my allergies were just acting up!
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Need to send this guy a link - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:38] <exec> 08└─Science Friday recently had a story where an aquarium had to declare a live squid as sushi to get it through customs...
[21:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Need to send this guy a link - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:40] <exec> 08└─That would be really fresh sushi! Hmmm...probably hard to swallow, with all those suckers on all those tentacles...I'll pass....
[21:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Nothing to get excited about - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:41] <exec> 08└─notes unattainable through traditional instruments.
[21:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:128 GB hard drive - 06NASA'S "Dawn" Recovers From Anomaly, "New Horizons" Issue Detailed - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:36] <exec> 08└─I sent your link to the Reg editor, and it was corrected there and here. Thanks.
[21:14:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:56] <exec> 08└─The purpose is probably to boost block size. So changing a single bit in a file (Capitalizing something?) will result in many bits of the file changing so they use up the limited writes faster and get to sell another sooner.
[21:14:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:57] <exec> 08└─Please refrain from proclaiming on topics you are ignorant of. If everyone did that there would be no comments on this site!
[21:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:03] <exec> 08└─> "Exposing this hardware feature would cost X more hours of contract dev time, so we left it hidden" is very much a thing. That's only plausible if you ignore the fact that full-disk encryption is a very marketable feature. Nowadays everybody wants their disks encrypted, stuff like HIPAA mandates i...
[21:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Judges reasoning a troubling trend - 06Former Goldman Sachs Programmer's Conviction Overturned... Again - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:47] <exec> 08└─I have no knowledge about the case itself, but the judge's reasoning is troubling and reflects the inability of the judiciary to recognize the spirit of laws and applying them appropriately to technological advancements. It is this kind of reasoning that contributes to the gutting of the 4th Amendme...
[21:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a prime example... - 06Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB) Patient Traveled to Chicago, Tennessee, Missouri - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:04] <exec> 08└─Really stupid policy....IMHO government exists to better the society we live in. Just charge everybody the $75 as part of the Tax base and be done with it...How in the world is rural Tennessee society better off by allowing a few guys with vacant land to keep their $75.
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[22:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Finding an equivalent/substitute app - 06Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:00] <exec> 08└─As a first step in identifying equivalent apps to those previously used under another OS, I use this boilerplate (modified here for your specific use case). Linux-compatible apps at AlternativeTo.net [google.com] Here's the page. [alternativeto.net] N.B. Sometimes the rankings at that site are usefu...
[22:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Start sending out resumes, taking interviews - 06Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:01] <exec> 08└─you are working for PHBs. You will have an easier time finding a new one if you don't just walk off the job, as is my preference when employed by the ignorant.
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Start sending out resumes, taking interviews - 06Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what do they use for tech support, fixmypc.com?
[22:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fix: - 06Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:05] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=java+how+to+run+untrusted+code [google.com]
[22:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:3, Informative) 02Info for Ubuntu/Mint - 06Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:07] <exec> 08└─http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_NMJ5QRBM/ [youtube.com] : youtube vid on how to use with Firefox(and Palemoon, etc) https://glenndcitrix.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] : two ways to do it-written instructions In short, it involves Wine, Firefox w/ User Agent Switcher...
[22:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TeamViewer - 06Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:08] <exec> 08└─TeamViewer works very well on Linux.
[22:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:TeamViewer - 06Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:10] <exec> 08└─Team Viewer is a little too permissive eh?
[22:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Silly Idea - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:17] <exec> 08└─Or even regenerative braking.
[22:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Silly Idea - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:19] <exec> 08└─There must be more reasons this is a silly idea. Feel free to add on.
[22:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:Silly Idea - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:21] <exec> 08└─But since all cars in the future are electrical that means…
[22:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03toygeek [28] (Score:2) 02Its not about energy generation - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─It's about energy conservation. Every little bit of energy that can be reclaimed can be reused, increasing overall energy efficiency even on a small scale. Every little bit counts, and the cumulative effects of many small efforts can make a big difference.
[22:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Its not about energy generation - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, energy recovery is critical to improving efficiency, but it isn't clear to me that's what this invention is doing. Trying to make use of the triboelectric effect to generate power may just increase rolling resistance instead of recovering frictional waste energy and therefore be of no benefit....
[22:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02OK, so convince me that... - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:28] <exec> 08└─OK, so convince me that this is somehow harvesting the energy from the existing friction and not just adding a new source of rolling resistance. Does it stop the tyres from heating up? Does it reduce road noise? If not, its the equivalent of trying to power your car by mounting a windmill on top. I'...
[22:13:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02not the problem - 06Augmented Reality and Its Discontents - 479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:39] <exec> 08└─the problem is not that you have to look away or reach in your pocket, the problem is that the conscious mind only handles one task at a time. what we call "multitasking" is really just changing your focus in rapid succession. your brain doesn't work faster to keep up with the workload, it just does...
[22:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Not new notes - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:55] <exec> 08└─Imagine what Wesley could have achieved if he'd lived long enough to see affordable 3D printing.
[22:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:hard to swallow - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH0cV8FcfV4 [youtube.com]
[22:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what!? wait a minute... - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:02] <exec> 08└─this must be one of the imposter gewg_s because the real gewg_ would never blame the US gov; it's always those greedy capitalist pigs' fault
[22:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:native encryption - 06Samsung Releases the World's First 2 TB Consumer SSDs - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:27] <exec> 08└─> Wow, a little civility goes a long way. You are encouraged to not sound like an ass when conversing with others. Whose the bigger ass, the guy makes a bullshit claim or the guy who calls them on their bullshit? You bluntly asserted a falsehood, you've got no standing to whine about being bluntly c...
[22:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Caltech's Tom Apostol got there first - 06Solving Problems in Robotics and Sensor Networks with Algebraic Topology - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:31] <exec> 08└─Now what does matter is that gravitation is not exactly an 1/r² force even outside a perfectly spherical mass
[22:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:systemd... - 06CowboyNeal Responds to Your Questions - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:44] <exec> 08└─He seemed to limit that opinion to how it performed as an init. That is a hard problem when debating this issue. Systemd as init and systemd as project goes by the same name. End result is that things quickly gets muddled when trying to debate things.
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─We already act as a type of hub though for a large swatch of stores. I actually believe we ran a dwarf fortress article on the main page on a slow news day. If I didn't want to use reddit, USENET works great for finding forums for basically any topic (or otherwise taking a trip to alt.config and get...
[22:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:11] <exec> 08└─Good points here. We need to have a way that's lined out where the staff can intervene. For instance, if a nexus is essentially abandoned, I don't think many would complain if we added an admin to it. But how to handle a misbehaving admin. This requires quite a bit of thought.
[22:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Expanding SN: Adding Community Nexuses - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:15] <exec> 08└─A lot of people dislike meta stories, they just want news. We want to let people have a site the way they want it. If they want raw tech and science, and fuck the rest, they'll be able to. If they want a more broad experience, they can get that too.
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[23:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02cool - 06Scientists Show Human Aging Rates Vary Widely - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:01] <exec> 08└─aging is studied in the 30's already
[23:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I have always looked older than I really am - 06Scientists Show Human Aging Rates Vary Widely - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:02] <exec> 08└─I once openly defied an "age guesser" at an amusement park. He still got it wrong so I won a stuffed animal for my girl. There are many reason for accellerated aging. "The Noonday Demon, an Atlas if Depression" points out that depression often makes one wise bryond one's years. Even little children....
[23:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Start sending out resumes, taking interviews - 06Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:15] <exec> 08└─Describes the PS. If you can't program then Manage. If you can't Manage then Project Manage. Else work in Architecture.
[23:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My cousin is an architect, he writes FORTRAN - 06Ask Soylent: Alternatives to GoToMyPC with a Linux Friendly Client - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:16] <exec> 08└─Teaches at a graduate school. Incapable of sending or receiving email. Facebook works for him though.
[23:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Silly Idea - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:31] <exec> 08└─it may be no more stupid than regenerative breaking
[23:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Silly Idea - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:34] <exec> 08└─That means we need a massive increase in the capacity of the electrical grid. Years ago, I did a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation of the electrical requirements for replacing petroleum-based fuels with electricity. The energy per car was roughly the same order of magnitude as the electrical en...
[23:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BigJ [3685] (Score:1) 02Re:Silly Idea - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:36] <exec> 08└─Ughh... yes this is a dumb idea. If the net result is to decrease rolling resistance (road-tire friction), there are proven ways to accomplish this: 1) return to hard compound rubber 2) increased tire pressure. 3) lower vehicle weight. I understand that you could possibly just turn this feature on d...
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:OK, so convince me that... - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:44] <exec> 08└─I think it's more of "this energy is already being produced. Let's harvest it!" rather than "Hey lets put a windmill on top and change everything".
[23:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03toygeek [28] (Score:2) 02Re:OK, so convince me that... - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:46] <exec> 08└─By the way if you read the article, the energy comes not from friction, but from the electricity generated by the rubber hitting the road, a static charge if I recall correctly.
[23:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, so convince me that... - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:48] <exec> 08└─The energy in the electricity ultimately comes from fuel for the engine in the vehicle. No way to get around the law of thermodynamics. Or conservation of energy. Or physics in general. Otherwise we'd all have invisible flying cars.
[23:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's the law. - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:49] <exec> 08└─1. You Can't Win. 2. You Can't Even Get Even. 3. You Can't Get Out Of The Game. This "invention" seems to forget those laws.
[23:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the law. - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, but if you implement enough nanotechnology, crowdsource the power of the Cloud and fabricate it all on a 3D printer you'll enter an augmented reality in which the laws of physics, economics and even common sense don't apply until after you've cashed the cheque from the venture capitalists.
[23:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03toygeek [28] (Score:2) 02Better Article - 06New Tire Nanogenerators Convert Road Friction into Useable Energy - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:52] <exec> 08└─http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/transportation/advanced-cars/nanogenerator-produces-energy-from-tires-rolling-on-pavement [ieee.org]
[23:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A distinction without a difference - 063D-Printed Flutes Hit New Notes - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:26] <exec> 08└─plutocracy [google.com] -- gewg_
[23:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:I, for one, welcome - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology; better, stronger, tastier than he was before."
[23:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Effect has been demonstrated before - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:49] <exec> 08└─Belgian Blues are monsters because they have been bred for this gene, [wikipedia.org] at least prior to us knowing what genes are.
[23:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Better than.......... - 06"Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:55] <exec> 08└─a monkey with three asses. Seriously, I thought the future was predicted by South Park.
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