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[00:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02$10 no nigga, make it free - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:00] <exec> 08└─Makes it free or else you get no deal.
[00:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02up to 50% or more ! - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:02] <exec> 08└─> offered DSL service of "up to 1.5 Mbps, where available" for $10 a month So, they're actually not committing to offering anything, really.
[00:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:04] <exec> 08└─Please forgive my flakey memory but didn't AT&T recently get in trouble for making a promise like that that they never followed up on?
[00:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ubuntu Gnome Flashback - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:18] <exec> 08└─Even with gnome-fallback (/flashback) there's a LOAD of processes that launch for silly stuff like "Backup Reminder" I'm beginning to wonder if it's better to start with Ubuntu Server and add just what's needed for the desktop - but, even then, if you install a rolled-up desktop package, you get all...
[00:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ubuntu Gnome Flashback - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:19] <exec> 08└─I fixed all that too. I use synaptic so all the update notifications, backups, etc. are gone.
[00:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:OpenBSD, Fedora, CyanogenMod - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:24] <exec> 08└─Lubuntu works well on my old Thinkpad as well. Sleep works correctly for my model. My main box is Windows Vista Ultimate, because hard disk space is cheap and the license was free.
[00:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Multiple Devices - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:26] <exec> 08└─My personal computer has Windows 7 on it, because Games.
[00:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Multiple Devices - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:27] <exec> 08└─Also win 7 on the Games box, but since it got a new motherboard last month, I upgraded its dual-boot to Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64... Then i decided to put that same Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64 on the wife's badly expired XP SP1 home theater, and on my new NUC. The best thing about it is that everything just w...
[00:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dmbasso [3237] (Score:1) 02Re:Debian - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:30] <exec> 08└─You should try it again. I've installed Debian 8 with Gnome 3.14, and I'm quite satisfied with my setup. Alt-tab is pretty much instantaneous, and workspace switching as well.
[00:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Debian (w/o systemd) - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:31] <exec> 08└─Fvwm starting form a minimal install (recommends=false) them built up to something resembling and actual Unix workstation with an X window manager.
[00:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Ubuntu LTS, CentOS - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:33] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu LTS on the Desktop/Workstation, CentOS on servers. I have a Nexus 7" tablet that I had previously rooted and put Ubuntu's phone interface on, then switched it back to Android after a few months. I think I prefer the Ubuntu OS because Android just seems to chew up bandwidth and it's almost cre...
[00:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02error - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:34] <exec> 08└─Started with DOS, then redhat/windows 3.1/95. Switch to redhat fulltime, then fedura, and finially gentoo. Still using gentoo due to just about everthing is in portage or an overlay or a local ebuild i've created.
[00:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Kali - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:36] <exec> 08└─I run Kali Linux, mainly because I was writing an 802.11 device driver and needed the pen/test capabilities built in to it. My other laptop run Win 8.1.
[00:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02The only wise OS choice! - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:38] <exec> 08└─I've already took the leap and installed systemd/Linux. Best OS I've tried so far!
[00:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03topdawg [2159] (Score:1) 02Slack - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:39] <exec> 08└─I use slackware -current on my server, but don't use a linux desktop (using win7 for gaming reasons.) Learned a lot from having to figure out was missing and manually compiling everything, but definitely isn't for everyone.
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Kubuntu 15.04 amongst others... - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:41] <exec> 08└─I also run 14.10 on a computer that's been away for repairs for SIX MONTHS. (Damage to the PCIE slot, sent away for repairs, came back not working, returned to shop, assface at the shop forgot to send it away, now it's outside of warranty and he's fucking around with what he's going to do next. Angr...
[00:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score:2) 02Depends - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:43] <exec> 08└─I used to be a Debian/XFCE user and Debian package maintainer, installing that distribution wherever and whenever possible. Then came systemd. Now I use Gentoo for my Linux needs and FreeBSD otherwise; i3 is my "desktop". FreeBSD's pkgng is surprisingly similar to Debian's apt and superior in severa...
[00:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score:1) 02Ubuntu and derivatives - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:45] <exec> 08└─Linux Mint XFCE on my main box. I mostly like it, except for the once a month or so that I end up rebooting it, and then have to sort out my monitors again. Multi-monitor support is crap. If anybody knows of a distro with working support for multiple monitors on an Nvidia card, I'm very interested....
[00:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02wow, didn't expect so many Windows 7 - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:47] <exec> 08└─Gentoo with XFCE (hobby projects, movies, youtube, serious business) on the gaming rig, dual booting Windows 8.1. I find the tile start menu thinggummy good for launching games (and useless for all other activities). Windows 7 at work due to poorly written proprietary software.
[00:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03present_arms [4392] (Score:2) 02I run - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:48] <exec> 08└─PclinuxOS KDE and my own Trinity respin :) no systemd and fast as hell :D
[00:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khedoros [2921] (Score:2) 02Various - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:50] <exec> 08└─I've got three personal computers that I use regularly: A 7-year-old desktop with Windows 7 and Fedora 17, a 4 year old laptop with Win7 and Linux Mint (15, maybe?), and a 6 year old netbook with XP and...I'm not sure. Some other version of Mint, I think. Windows is for games and various other thing...
[00:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fedora at work, win7 at home - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:52] <exec> 08└─Fedora 22 + Enlightenment direct from git built with custom scripts every Friday. I even had a patch reviewed and accepted in e19. E19+ and terminology is way above KDE or gnome. The binary configuration is the only thing against E but the number of options is second to none. At home Windows 7 for g...
[00:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02wow - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:54] <exec> 08└─XFCE has a following. well
[00:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02Debian Sid - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:56] <exec> 08└─With Siduction's KDE5 packages, sdds, and kernel.
[00:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did they really need to tell the name? - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:29] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, anyone who can get Time-Warner to pay out $229,500 to any of their "customers" should be a greater folk hero than Robin Hood or DB Cooper!
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no the tech shortage will get even worse! - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:42] <exec> 08└─overqualified? there are qualifications that mean a damn? you must be new...
[00:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Yup - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:50] <exec> 08└─I'm putting this here since I was curious about it: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org [documentfoundation.org]
[00:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02the anti-aging perspective - 06Scientists Show Human Aging Rates Vary Widely - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:56] <exec> 08└─http://hplusmagazine.com/2015/07/08/how-old-are-you-really/ [hplusmagazine.com]
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[01:13:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02up to 50% or more ! - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:05] <exec> 08└─> offered DSL service of "up to 1.5 Mbps, where available" for $10 a month So, they're actually not committing to offering anything, really.
[01:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:07] <exec> 08└─They are perhaps the world's most promising company!
[01:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 2098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:08] <exec> 08└─All ISPs do this. Take Verizon for example: not building out in New Jersey or Pennsylvania (they were happy to take the money and then bribe regulators into not investigating them for unfulfilled promises). They're doing the same thing in NYC. In this case, they're lagging behind on their fiber opti...
[01:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Informative) 02lie - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:10] <exec> 08└─Is there a particular term for this business pattern of promises then breaking them? This company's history is rife with it. AT&T around 2002 offered fiber optic in return for a merger,they got the merger and failed to deliver 100% of promised fiber. This happened in both in Connecticut (SNET) and C...
[01:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02''a particular term for this''? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:11] <exec> 08└─"Business as usual" "The American way of doing business" "The Free Market" "Crony Capitalism" USA taxpayers already paid Big Internet $200B to get 50Mbps. [pbs.org] So, how's that going for you? -- gewg_
[01:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:lie - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:13] <exec> 08└─Over here in California, they agreed to provide "dry loop DSL internet" as part of the SBC merger. Just try to get it. "Not available"." I would urge my elected representatives to remind AT&T just how nice these words sound.
[01:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02The politicos may go for it - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:15] <exec> 08└─It's bread and circuses for the masses.
[01:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Interesting) 02tip for selecting a new residence - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:16] <exec> 08└─whether you buy or rent: Determine whether fast internet is available. Not aftordably or with great justice; whether you can get it at all. Some guy from RCN encouraged my interest in frame relay when I bought a house in owl's head maine. I expect frame relay would have been just dandy but then I wa...
[01:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Re:Please don't hate on me for this - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:26] <exec> 08└─I use Win 7 on my desktop 100% of the time. My laptop is dual boot and I use linux maybe 75% of the time as it is nicer to my battery (windows does an insane amount of intensive background tasks that rev my fan up). My media server is Ubuntu as I like to spend less time tinkering/compiling/configuri...
[01:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThD [3852] (Score:1) 02Re:OpenBSD, Fedora, CyanogenMod - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:37] <exec> 08└─Amen. I use Linux Mint 17.1 with XFCE, and couldn't be happier
[01:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kali - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:48] <exec> 08└─Aside from the dev necessities, how is it? I have thought of running it full time but have been told to avoid that as, due to its own necessities, it does not play nice with many everyday software packages nor is it convenient to use given the config. I would like to know if that is true.
[01:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The only wise OS choice! - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:50] <exec> 08└─Systemd is a great OS, lacking only a decent init system.
[01:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow, didn't expect so many Windows 7 - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:56] <exec> 08└─There were few people running 7. Why did the number surprise you? Because of 8 and 10? Everything works on 7. Nothing annoying on 7. And, unfortunately, there are many critical pieces of software that business professionals need that break on anything but xp, vista, and 7.
[01:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Ubuntu - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─I'm one of those who hated Unity, but it grew on me as they improved it. Ubuntu really is less of a headache. When I was younger, I loved tinkering, customizing, and fixing linux problems. Now that I'm grown and working my ass off, and keeping a family fed and happy, I have less time for that. I do...
[01:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jonathan [3950] (Score:1) 02Arch based distros - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 1513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:03] <exec> 08└─While I am mostly still a Windows 7 user because of work, I have done a lot of distro hoping over the years. I have run one of the last Red Hat distros before they turned over to Fedora Core. Tried Debian but wasn't really happy with it then stayed mainly on Fedora for a few releases and tried othe...
[01:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Fedora, but not for much longer.... - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:05] <exec> 08└─I had always run Redhat based distros (since RHL 4.0 (Colgate).. much older than RHEL 4.0) and saw little reason to run anything else until things started going south. I run Fedora on this laptop to see 'over the horizon' and we have Centos on the workstations here at work. But the last few years I...
[01:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My Distro - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:07] <exec> 08└─Mint, all the way around on the desktops. Works, too lazy to change
[01:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score:1) 02OpenSUSE - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:08] <exec> 08└─OpenSUSE 13.1 on workstation, 13.2 on laptop. Works for me because I value stability over latest-and-greatest features.
[01:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Gentoo + XFCE - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 2720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:10] <exec> 08└─There's not a lot of choice left anymore, is there? Thanks Lennart. But in change there is opportunity. Prior to Gentoo, I was using Debian and because I want things as stable as possible, I never changed anything major under the hood. But Gentoo forces you to build much of the system yourself, and...
[01:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score:1) 02Gentoo and Mageia - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:11] <exec> 08└─I use gentoo at my desktops and mageia at my notebook. Both with KDE.
[01:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Windows 8.1 - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:14] <exec> 08└─Windows 8.1. Because fuck you, that's why.
[01:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows 8.1 - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:16] <exec> 08└─unfortunately that's about the only reason why people use windows 8, except the "fuck you" came from microsoft
[01:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02FreeBSD - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:18] <exec> 08└─At work I use Windows 7 because I have to. At home I use FreeBSD with Xmonad on my laptop because I can.
[01:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fedora - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─I normally go distro hopping every few months or so but each time I find myself returning to Fedora. Its bleeding edge without the blood, uses only free-software by default and from what I can tell it follows "sane" defaults. If I research how to do something on the Arch wiki with a particular packa...
[01:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Windows and FreeBSD - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 1400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:22] <exec> 08└─I game, so Windows. Also my "laptop" is a Surface Pro 3, which I quite like. In the Unix-like world, I ran Ubuntu until it started to suck. Then I switched to Mint only to find that it sucked almost exactly as much. Realized the problem wasn't Ubuntu or Mint at all, but GNOME, and switched to Arch w...
[01:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My father was offered life insurance - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:00] <exec> 08└─"I have six months to live and don't want to talk about it."
[01:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lawsuit against the Republicans? - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:01] <exec> 08└─now I just tell them that she will donate $15000
[01:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Outsourcing or H1B? - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:14] <exec> 08└─Wherever the new jobs are created they'll already know that the new pronunciation of "Nokia" is "No-work-ia"
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[02:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:up to 50% or more ! - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:08] <exec> 08└─They're committing to fucking one group of people slightly less if they get to majorly fuck over a larger group of people.
[02:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:11] <exec> 08└─Verizon are taking quite a lot of heat in NYC though: in a city with large banks and other big money flowing around, it takes bigger bribes to make the regulators go away. Google these stories - you'll find all sorts of coverage on Ars Technica.
[02:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:13] <exec> 08└─Let's add in a clause where if they fail to deliver 100% we go back to 1983 and break them into pieces again. Only this time we make sure they stay in pieces. Maybe seize the stock holdings of board members and executives as well, to be properly used for infrastructure upgrades.
[02:13:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02lie - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 1325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:14] <exec> 08└─Is there a particular term for this business pattern of promises then breaking them? This company's history is rife with it. AT&T around 2002 offered fiber optic in return for a merger,they got the merger and failed to deliver 100% of promised fiber. This happened in both in Connecticut (SNET) and C...
[02:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:''a particular term for this''? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:16] <exec> 08└─Never forget that URL.
[02:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I always ignore teaser deals - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:20] <exec> 08└─CATV with premium channels for just $X a month for a special introductory period? Forget it. I'm interested in the permanent rate, not "the first hit is on the house" type promotions.
[02:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score:3, Informative) 02"Up to" - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:22] <exec> 08└─biggest legal loophole of the whole deal. 0 is on the way "up to" 1.5mbps.
[02:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:"Up to" - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:24] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they'll actually provide the service. The problem is that it's only for 3 years; whereas the merger is forever. Also, I'm pretty sure that they're supposed to be providing the service for the poor anyways. I'm not sure where the money for that comes from, but the poor aren't supposed to be...
[02:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:3, Touché) 02So.. An advertisement? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:27] <exec> 08└─This just seems like a underhanded way to get more people on their mailing and phone lists as customers. People will sign up for the cheap plan and most of them will realize that it isn't fast enough for them and upgrade to a higher priced plan. The way I see it they aren't really offering anything.
[02:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnampff [5658] (Score:1) 02News from the developed world - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:28] <exec> 08└─stuff like that is not even a thing anymore in germany. while i am VERY unhappy with lots of ISPs for a lot of reasons, this would not happen here. even my parents in the middle of nowhere can get 50 down 10 up and a phone flat for 40€. the same costs a whooping 20€ where i live. you really need...
[02:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OpenBSD, Fedora, CyanogenMod - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:44] <exec> 08└─For YouTube, try using the AOSP browser in CM, or one of the browsers in F-Droid like Tint or Lightning. It's a bit limited but it does play videos.
[02:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Moggy [5383] (Score:1) 02Re:Fedora at work, win7 at home - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:11] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity how are you finding E19? I'm currently running F22 myself and have been considering trying it out. E17 under F20-21 was never *quite there* so I've been holding back for now As for main distros - started with DOS/VMS/CPM moved through all Windows (excl vista & ME) and have been Redh...
[02:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Fedora at work, win7 at home - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:12] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for AC here, but I used to have a laptop with Bodhi Linux, which used E17. It was a little rough around the edges, but way better than the venerable E16. I emerged (well technically cave resolve'd) E19 on Gentoo. The eye candy is mind-blowing. They've really done a lot of good work wit...
[02:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03randmcnatt [671] (Score:2) 02Re:OpenSUSE - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:20] <exec> 08└─Just the opposite: 13.1 on the laptop. 13.2 on the desktop. Started using SuSE with a 7.3 (IIRC) boxed set in 2001 and haven't switched since.
[02:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows 8.1 - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:25] <exec> 08└─Good job following the crowd that says you must hate Windows 8 to be part of the crowd. Don't forget to run Windows 7 on your gaming rig, just to fit into the 1337 @$$h01# stereotype.
[02:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice denied - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:14] <exec> 08└─With training from an NFL place kicker.
[02:15:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02I wish there was a true 3rd phone choice - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 1736 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:41] <exec> 08└─I am not an apple fan and not willing to throw myself into the apple ecosystem. by the same token, I have huge mistrust for things from google and android is a pretty bad system (imho) given how good it could have been, especially considering the amount of brainiacs that google supposedly has on emp...
[02:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like you don't want a phone. - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:46] <exec> 08└─Shoes are simple enough that a ton of people could make a quality shoe
[02:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Whoa... - 06BBC Micro:bit Design Finalized - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:22] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with a British RaspberryPi? You know, that little board which was designed specifically for getting kids interested in computing and electronics? The one which actually has some GPIOs and allow you to, you know, tinker with stuff. I hear it's been somewhat positively received, both in t...
[02:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Do your damn job" - 06Ask Soylent: Payroll Software on Linux - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:57] <exec> 08└─someone said it above already but it warrants repeating your client is paying you to solve a problem. if the problem is malware, set up an isolated machine for running accounting software that he is comfortable using and give him some pointers about what might be causing the malware infestation. if...
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[03:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02the new fashion - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:00] <exec> 08└─Ultradark sunglasses or goggles and graphene hearing aids.
[03:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02hear like a gold cable and wooden knob - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:01] <exec> 08└─Rather than making you like Daredevil/Batman, it's more like being able to capture and store sounds that have always been around but are difficult to pick up. To actually hear them you would need to genetically modify a human or alter the frequencies. We should use these new microphones to record ne...
[03:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:17] <exec> 08└─Whoa now, let's be careful when using the term "ISP". AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, DirecTV -- these are not ISPs, these are much much larger than dedicated ISPs. Back when the mere mortal had a phone line to connect to the internet, ISPs were those people just beyond the last mile that competed for your...
[03:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:News from the developed world - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:30] <exec> 08└─you really need to get your legislation out of the stoneages to force your ISPs not to suck so insanely hard...
[03:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Debian - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:00] <exec> 08└─Well then please accept a personal thank you from me -- I've used Debian on my desktop for years (although I like gnome, just not the default settings).
[03:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Moggy [5383] (Score:1) 02Re:Fedora at work, win7 at home - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:19] <exec> 08└─I agree E17 eye candy is amazing as well as lightweight - but had too many glitches that I couldn't get around given that I use this machine for work. Just tried out E19 - even better but it froze the entire desktop when trying to configure screenlock and mouse bindings. Will play around further whe...
[03:17:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02CSAIL Report - 06Code Specialists Oppose Government Access to Encrypted Communication - 680 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:19] <exec> 08└─The report is, I believe, this one: CSAIL report: giving government special access to data poses major security risks This is a link to the MIT release on it, but not the actual contents: http://www.csail.mit.edu [mit.edu] Looking a bit more...
[03:18:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02Don't bother - 06Ask Soylent: Payroll Software on Linux - 1301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:48] <exec> 08└─He's better off on quickbooks than any thing available for linux. Any accountant or bookeeper, or part time assistant who assists with his taxes, does an audit, or anything else ever will know how to use it. Don't move him to something else. As for Quickbooks on linux? Sure it can be done, but I wou...
[03:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't bother - 06Ask Soylent: Payroll Software on Linux - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe have a look at Quickbooks for Mac.
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[04:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:the new fashion - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:12] <exec> 08└─Google glasses - the Ultradark version - and graphene hearing aids.
[04:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hear like a gold cable and wooden knob - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder... if the high frequency sounds are converted to neuro-stim impulses, they could be delivered like vision and sound for the intrinsically blind and deaf are already, but instead of replacing basic hearing, they could augment hearing into the ultra-sonic. I've never been objectively tested,...
[04:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:hear like a gold cable and wooden knob - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:16] <exec> 08└─It seems to be well on its way: http://www.wfaa.com [wfaa.com] http://leader.pubs.asha.org [asha.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia....
[04:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02Re:hear like a gold cable and wooden knob - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:18] <exec> 08└─I would use it to herd mosquitoes to their doom!
[04:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Human sonar - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:20] <exec> 08└─While we don't have the sonar-like range finding capabilities of bats or dolphins, we do have the brains to engineer a device that can give that capability to us.
[04:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Human sonar - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:22] <exec> 08└─It's called passive sonar.
[04:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I can echolocate, no bat-sense required - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:23] <exec> 08└─Its hard to explain but not hard to learn. Spend enough time in the dark without a flashlight and you'll figure it out. It leads one to believe that one has great night vision but its not that. I can sense the presence of obstacles by subtle sound changes.
[04:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I just got the most amazing phishing spam - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:25] <exec> 08└─unusual activity has been detected on your account. Please hand over your genetic code. It was obvious to me but most other members of that site are not what you and I regard as critical thinkers. I figured I should call their security on the phone but could not find their number. So I scouted aroun...
[04:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Pfft, who needs to hear like a bat - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:26] <exec> 08└─How about just hearing like a human [youtube.com]?
[04:13:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hash14 [1102] 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 2098 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:37] <exec> 08└─All ISPs do this. Take Verizon for example: not building out in New Jersey or Pennsylvania (they were happy to take the money and then bribe regulators into not investigating them for unfulfilled promises). They're doing the same thing in NYC. In this case, they're lagging behind on their fiber opti...
[04:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:40] <exec> 08└─Rather than breaking them up, nationalize them and let USPS run the internet. Save a dying and underfunded government service and put the internet in the hands of people who won't look without a warrant.
[04:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02seize the board members and the executives - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:43] <exec> 08└─then throw them into a volcano.
[04:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:seize the board members and the executives - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:45] <exec> 08└─"I know they can GET the fiber, but can they FILL the fiber? I'm not arguing that with you. if I said that, I would have been wrong." lol
[04:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:48] <exec> 08└─They can't even give DSL to everyone (like in rural areas or neighborhoods not close to the big city) even if the customers are willing to pay for the last mile out of their own pocket.
[04:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah! I am in a rural area (read: BFE), and would LOVE to have even a crappy voice line. WTF? When I lived in metro areas, I paid beau-coup bucks every month to provide BFE folk a simple analog line... Now that I'm in BFE, where The Fuck is my line?
[04:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score:2) 02Re:''a particular term for this''? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:52] <exec> 08└─Your link seems to go to an article about the EU fining Microsoft.
[04:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Can you find a domain registrar's prices - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:55] <exec> 08└─without logging in as a user? I searched extensively a while back, I also wanted an accredited registrar not a reseller. I only found one, maybe you can find some others.
[04:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] (Score:2) 02Re:So.. An advertisement? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:57] <exec> 08└─I have a 20 megabit connection, but its TOS capped* at 250MB/month. Recently picked up a Roku but do not want it eating up all of that 250MB/month so I limit it to 768 kilobit at my router. Turns out that 768 kilobit is fine for streaming video. Sure its not HD but its not terrible either. If I coul...
[04:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] (Score:2) 02Re:So.. An advertisement? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:59] <exec> 08└─woops, thats 250GB/month.
[04:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How about mobile phone service where I live? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:00] <exec> 08└─9-1-1 emergency dispatch. What are you reporting? Illegal fireworks. It's like a combat zone here. I'm sorry I cant hear you do you have a landline? I'm not at home because I was hoping to get a good cell signal. AT&T worked great until July 2010 but I guess they upgraded their cell tower because it...
[04:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please don't hate on me for this - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe review how percentages work...
[04:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Ubuntu - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:16] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention that I use Gnome with Ubuntu to avoid the Unity crapware in both 12.04 and 14.04. I would rather use Mint on both but I had problems installing it. It's installed on the HP shit laptop with Windows 8.1 which I almost never use, however.
[04:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:distro? - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:22] <exec> 08└─You've listed 10 distros that you use, but you forgot to answer why you use these distros. And I'm pretty curious what different things you get accomplished on 10 different distros. When I see a list like this, I wonder what I don't understand about the various operating systems. Off topic: I love t...
[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Multiple Devices - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:30] <exec> 08└─He is free from freedom.
[04:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow, didn't expect so many Windows 7 - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:49] <exec> 08└─It's just a shame that so many people do not value freedom.
[04:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fedora at work, win7 at home - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:56] <exec> 08└─I put some time to stumble upon the right autoconf flag, but once configured it rocks. I resorted to building the whole thing myself as I could not find it correctly packaged. For me, the killer feature is virtual desktop unliked between screen 0 and 1:ie you can have desktop 0:1 and 1:3. Unlike the...
[04:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Probably a BS bill anyway - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:50] <exec> 08└─I've had Qwest trying to collect a bogus bill for years now. They we still haven't given up. Let's give Luiz Perez the benefit of doubt...
[04:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Darth Ballmer is Gone - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:05] <exec> 08└─Ironic that you should bring up the Ballmernator as Yahoo Tech News is calling this Ballmer’s Final Blunder [yahoo.com]. I have said it before and I'll say it again, history will look upon Ballmer with the same disdain the pepsi guy at Apple got and it will be completely apropos. Ballmer was the a...
[04:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like you don't want a phone. - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:24] <exec> 08└─A significant difference regarding barrier to entry: shoes don't need a nation wide communication network to function. If you make ten pairs of shoes, you can sell ten pairs of shoes. But who will by a phone that only has service in one small town?
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[05:13:22] <exec> 08└─I agree. It would be far more wondrous if humans were able to regrow or replace old or dead hair cells to restore lost hearing after the age of 35. I would love to hear the sizzle, and not just the crash, of a live cymbal again. I do not need a hearing aid. I just want to hear the top octave, of 10k...
[05:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:$10 no nigga, make it free - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:32] <exec> 08└─Free? Who cares. $10/mo is fine, but no 4-year-limit. In perpetuity.
[05:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:40] <exec> 08└─where'd all the apparent choices for DSL ISPs go?
[05:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:''a particular term for this''? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:51] <exec> 08└─This is the real link: http://www.pbs.org [pbs.org]
[05:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:lie - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:54] <exec> 08└─And you actually think your "urge" will be as strong as the $50,000 or more "campaign donation" or the all expenses trip to Charles Schwab's private Kona beach resort and Golf Club to "learn" all about how the big TelCo's have the country's best interest at heart? Welcome to Earth Stranger...maybe y...
[05:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02California PUC authorized a fire prevention fee - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:58] <exec> 08└─for Pacific Gas and Electric customers so they could trim trees aways from power lines. This led to damn near the entire sierra nevada getting torched because PG&E spent those tens of millions of dollars on hookers and blow.
[05:14:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gnampff [5658] 02News from the developed world - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:04] <exec> 08└─stuff like that is not even a thing anymore in germany. while i am VERY unhappy with lots of ISPs for a lot of reasons, this would not happen here. even my parents in the middle of nowhere can get 50 down 10 up and a phone flat for 40€. the same costs a whooping 20€ where i live. you really need...
[05:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:News from the developed world - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:06] <exec> 08└─Well... perhaps they could ask (beg) for less sand in the KY (before they "pass along" the "service")?
[05:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:How about mobile phone service where I live? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:09] <exec> 08└─Fireworks are not an emergency unless you're shooting them from a fifty foot pile of dry mulch.
[05:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please don't hate on me for this - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:21] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with the "workplace" - it has become so entangled with Microsoft Windows that nothing else can take its place. But good on you for running something else at home. Until the corporates "get it" and stop feeding fees to Redmond,.... Wassup (in other news) with MicroSoft giving a hug...
[05:14:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:The only wise OS choice! - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:50] <exec> 08└─Systemd is a great OS, lacking only a decent init system.
[05:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SGT CAPSLOCK [118] (Score:2) 02Re:money? - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:25] <exec> 08└─Most of Sailfish's code seems to be open source except for (if I remember correctly) quite a bit of their GUI stuff. I'm not sure what they're getting at with this idea of licensing out their software. At one point in the past, I remember hearing that they fully intended to release their OS for a bu...
[05:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SGT CAPSLOCK [118] (Score:2) 02Re:Breaking News - Jolla just filed for Bankruptcy - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, doesn't it feel so sudden? At least the press release kind of assures us that the crowdfunded Jolla Tablet is going to get shipped (I hope?). I was looking forward to writing a game or two for it, if I ever got ahold of one and found out that I like Sailfish as much as I think I would... I'm s...
[05:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beige [3989] (Score:1) 02Gesture UI needs work - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:31] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a bit OT, but since I have a Jolla phone which I'm generally happy with I really hope the guys rethink their swipe gesture UI. Right now it seems like different apps and phone orientations all behave a bit differently as far as gesture control goes, so a lot of the time I just end up having...
[05:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Darth Ballmer is Gone - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:15] <exec> 08└─Just keep resisting that urge to stick it in your ass. I know you're widened out enough to take it, but I hear the pressure will cause it to bend.
[05:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03multixrulz [5608] (Score:1) 02Re:I wish there was a true 3rd phone choice - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:42] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind having a very dumb phone if I could have a smartphone as a nice mobile computer. In fact, I did that for 6 months until my dumbphone died. But that's still not a good option. I don't install apps and I hate the whole concept, as it currently is now. we had a window of time when it c...
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[06:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Set the Stage - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:07] <exec> 08└─Think Drone, Facial Recognition, Chainsaw. fUN SCIENCE PROJEC.T
[06:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Set the Stage - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:08] <exec> 08└─BUT. better Youtube video
[06:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Worker bees can leave... The queen is their slave. - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:10] <exec> 08└─Have any Soylentils in Switzerland been on the receiving end of one of these deliveries or seen a drone going about its business?
[06:13:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02''a particular term for this''? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:55] <exec> 08└─"Business as usual" "The American way of doing business" "The Free Market" "Crony Capitalism" USA taxpayers already paid Big Internet $200B to get 50Mbps. [pbs.org] So, how's that going for you? -- gewg_
[06:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:How about mobile phone service where I live? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:16] <exec> 08└─That's not what they mean by emergency. Emergencies are things that have to be dealt with right now. Usually there's a threat to life or limb, but not always. If there's a law being broken that needs immediate attention, you call 911 and the operator will handle it or tell you that it's not necessar...
[06:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I was concerned for all the combat veterans - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:17] <exec> 08└─Clark County 9-1-1 received more than 1,000 fireworks complaints. Some joker not only burned down his own home but his neighbor's as well. The law on the books does not permit the fire marshall to declare an emergency fireworks ban. The huge oubluc outcry quite likely will result in a county ordinan...
[06:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] (Score:1) 02one political term - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:19] <exec> 08└─So they are making an offer to buy the votes of the poor for 4 years... 1 political term. So powers in charge will go for it, and in 4 years when AT&T raise that from $10 to $100, it is someone else's problem.
[06:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kharnynb [5468] (Score:1) 02Re:Nokia? - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:30] <exec> 08└─I've wondered for some time now if this has been the plan all a long, clean break with the huge mess that was all the old lines and the massive overhead it was causing, then jolla gets re-added after the agreed period that was in the microsoft contract.
[06:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:money? - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:39] <exec> 08└─I'd pay to get away from Google and Microsoft
[06:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SGT CAPSLOCK [118] (Score:2) 02Re:My money is on the Russians - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:41] <exec> 08└─All those that bought Jolla hardware can join the Ouya and HP Touchpad owners in the "shit that will never been updated or supported" line while the owners cash a big check and walk away.
[06:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:another last mile problem - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:43] <exec> 08└─I live in the midwest US too.
[06:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''rushing Vista to market'' - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:33] <exec> 08└─They took FIVE YEARS to get Longhorn/Visduh out the door--and even then they had to strip out anything new because they couldn't get it working. MICROS~1's fourth-rate technologists share plenty of the blame on that one. -- gewg_
[06:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish there was a true 3rd phone choice - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:55] <exec> 08└─Hopefully: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[06:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] (Score:1) 02apathy - 06Code Specialists Oppose Government Access to Encrypted Communication - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:42] <exec> 08└─People we SHOULD listen to have said something. The press cover it as a by-note (tech news site excepted). The public ignore it, or are confused by it. (After all Taylor Swift didn't write a song about it, and Kim Kardashian didn't sleep with it, so it isn't important.) The public do nothing. The po...
[06:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft has helped develop a web-based tool . - 06BBC Micro:bit Design Finalized - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:19:17] <exec> 08└─If you really think that black boxes improve education you're special as in special olympics.
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[07:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Possibly - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:04] <exec> 08└─This could go either way. The article is light on details, but parent to offspring could be strictly genetic. However, there was work done switching offspring with anxious or calm parents and the offspring had significant adaptations whether they came from either genetic stock. Epigenetics is the id...
[07:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02"But they were fucked up in their turn - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:06] <exec> 08└─ By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats."
[07:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Check what they actually did - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 1664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:07] <exec> 08└─Did they even measure anxiety? Our group developed and validated a paradigm for studying the neural bases of primate AT [Anxious Temperament] that combines [18-F] deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging with behavioral and neuroendocrine responses to a potentially threatening hum...
[07:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03umafuckitt [20] (Score:2) 02Not seen any drones here - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:17] <exec> 08└─I'm living in Switzerland and I've not seen any Post drones. However, I'm in a major city. I'd guess they're testing the things in rural areas. I think it would be pretty dangerous trying make a drone delivery to an apartment: too much chance of hitting a pedestrian.
[07:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FlyingSock [4339] (Score:1) 02Re:I can echolocate, no bat-sense required - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:33] <exec> 08└─I have made a similar observation (sensing obstacles in the dark). Another explanation could be feeling the infra red on your skin. In extreme cases this is easy to do,
[07:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:$10 no nigga, make it free - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:49] <exec> 08└─"Makes it free or else you get no deal." yes, precious, makes it free! A lot of the poor in the USA, even the homeless, will have a laptop or smart phone and lay around free wireless place A,B,C while sipping on expensive coffee. To give up one or two coffees a month wouldn't kill most of them.
[07:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:lie - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:10] <exec> 08└─Yup. My "urge" has nowhere near the clout of a telco "campaign donation" or expense-paid junket. Here's hoping more people will become concerned enough about politics to upset an apple cart or two. I am talking about a lot of elections where neither the Repugnicrats nor the Dimmocans get in office....
[07:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mesh Networking - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:13] <exec> 08└─strong communities (meaning people who actually TALK to each other) and MESH NETWORKING is the future.
[07:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OF COURSE you do! - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:44] <exec> 08└─"But I run Windows 7." You can't start a conversation on most popular forums about Linux without Microsoft and/or Windows people popping up first in the comments. This is especially true on buck feta. The same is true for a lot of the real life events where actual people meet and talk about FOSS, Mi...
[07:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Windows is not a distro - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:45] <exec> 08└─if the topic were "what OS do you use?" then okay, fine. "I'm wondering what Linux distros my fellow soylentils use, and why." Learn to fucking read.
[07:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OPSEC - Get your OPSEC here! - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:05] <exec> 08└─"Win7 laptop with TAILS occasionally. I actually like TAILS; use it in public places where I'm not sure of the WiFi." I hope you've disconnected the hard drive prior to using TAILS. If you use it as a LiveUSB option in public, tie a long but strong shoestring from your wrist to the usb drive. If som...
[07:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wish there was a true 3rd phone choice - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:13] <exec> 08└─Great post, 100% of how I feel as well. I'm kinda hoping for a Fairphone + Replicant some day when they fix the hardware design. The current generation is less than perfect Here's more on the subject http://blog.replicant.us [replicant.us]
[07:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Paywalled Article. - 06Code Specialists Oppose Government Access to Encrypted Communication - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:33] <exec> 08└─I am a NY Times subscriber so I am not paywalled. However, I know that it does allow a certain number (10 I think) free article reads a month. Perhaps, you've used up your limit. Reading with a different browser will solve the problem.
[07:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't bother - 06Ask Soylent: Payroll Software on Linux - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know it once was too, but not sure if that's still the case, especially with the quickbooks online offering. But even if it is still completely incompatible and it is a big one time conversion... switching to mac may still make sense... for some people; if they jsut can't keep their PC clean...
[07:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:google docs spreadsheet - 06Ask Soylent: Payroll Software on Linux - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:16] <exec> 08└─I've been paid by cheque as an employee before. I rather liked it. I was acutely aware; each time that he personally handed me a paycheque; that it was his money that was paying me. It was both a reminder to be diligent in my work and simultaneously a way for the boss to say "good work this week - k...
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[08:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm a fast cat - 06Surfing a Wake of Light Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:03] <exec> 08└─On a light wake I ride I'm wanted Dead and alive Wanted, Dead and Alive
[08:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a fast cat - 06Surfing a Wake of Light Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:06] <exec> 08└─Nope. Just dead.
[08:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Possibly - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:15] <exec> 08└─Agreed, unless there were some separation of of these offspring from their parents, or even re-location of the family as a unit to a less anxious environment, there seems to be little to distinguish learned anxiety from inherited. That there may be other parent + offspring sets which exhibit less an...
[08:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Check what they actually did - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:18] <exec> 08└─Further, as mentioned earlier regarding the "biological age" computation[1], this one consists of adding up various things: A composite measure of AT was computed as the combination of standardized freezing, reductions in cooing and cortisol measures. More specifically, freezing minus cooing plus co...
[08:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02+how many of these fucks use anti-depressants? - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:19] <exec> 08└─there's enough reading material on the SSRISTORIES website to reabsorb your testicles. seriously, how many of these LEGAL hard core drugs are being used during pregnency? Forget a moment about the regular tramps who booze it up or smoke dope, there's some serious shit going on with anti-depressant m...
[08:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Worker bees can leave... The queen is their sla - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:30] <exec> 08└─but the UK is full of drones obliviously trudging about, eyes glassed over,
[08:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:hear like a gold cable and wooden knob - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 2427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:44] <exec> 08└─AC... I second your observation about ultrasonic security systems. There were several stores near the university I attended that had those, and every minute in them was torture. A constant shrill piercing note that made me think I had someone shoving a knitting needle through my head. Even thirty ye...
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[08:13:48] <exec> 08└─Beamformers. One captures the acoustical signal from several transducers at known locations. The acquired waveforms are each broken down by Fast Fourier Transform into frequency and phase and are correlated to each other. ( It is important that the actual digitization from all acoustical receivers i...
[08:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:seize the board members and the executives - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:17] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, the scientology solution! MDC, I like the way you think! All praise Xenu!
[08:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:36] <exec> 08└─FreeBSD + i3 here too, for my workstation. I was afraid of i3 at first, but it a day time it became my favourite thing. I'll be *that* guy and say that BSD has a feeling of stability to it that gives serenity. It's pretty reliably, and although the community is smaller than Linux's, it's not fragmen...
[08:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: SYMBIAN!! - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:01] <exec> 08└─If they really were going to re-integrate into Nokia proper, they really need to bring back Symbian since it actually made money. Oh, and open source it, for real this time?
[08:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SGT CAPSLOCK [118] (Score:2) 02Re:money? - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:11] <exec> 08└─If you are concerned, don't carry a smartphone. I don't. I have no desire to pay for being spied upon.
[08:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My money is on the Russians - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:14] <exec> 08└─ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? The Finns had to fight off the Russians in a war within a war (WWII to be exact), and now the Russians under Putin are threatening the same thing. I have a hard time believing the Finns are that stupid now--I mean, losing Linus to US is one thing, but... Oh yeah, and last I che...
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[08:18:10] <exec> 08└─Outdated is pretty much synonymous with Full of Security Holes that Should be Patched.
[08:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:still running v28,here - 06Mozilla's 18-Week Release Cycle is Too Slow and Other Browser News - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:12] <exec> 08└─. Too many people are pandering after the new shiny thing for Firefox to just release new features once every 6 months.
[08:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good news, everyone! - 06Mozilla's 18-Week Release Cycle is Too Slow and Other Browser News - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:26] <exec> 08└─When Chrome eventually gets around to adding ahead-of-time compilation for asm.js are you going to say they're copying Firefox?
[08:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No plan? - 06Mozilla's 18-Week Release Cycle is Too Slow and Other Browser News - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:32] <exec> 08└─Does Mozilla have no plan at all for Firefox? A couple of days ago, we could read "Big changes are coming to Firefox to win back users and developers" http://arstechnica.co.uk [arstechnica.co.uk] Which...
[08:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:BBC and education - 06BBC Micro:bit Design Finalized - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:04] <exec> 08└─That depends on what sort of drivers are needed to communicate with the Micro:bit over usb.
[08:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''You can use WINE'' - 06Ask Soylent: Payroll Software on Linux - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:32] <exec> 08└─Your 1 data point misses a lot. Mostly Garbage ratings; some Bronze [codeweavers.com] -- gewg_
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[09:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a fast cat - 06Surfing a Wake of Light: Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:20] <exec> 08└─Because you observed it.
[09:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Niiice - 06Surfing a Wake of Light: Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:22] <exec> 08└─Now the only problem to be solved for FTL travel is: how the hell do we fill the space with nanostructures of rotated slits etched into a gold films? (grin)
[09:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Niiice - 06Surfing a Wake of Light: Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:23] <exec> 08└─Transmute the aether with virtual particles. Duh. What do you think a warp field generator does.
[09:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:+how many of these fucks use anti-depressants? - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:36] <exec> 08└─ding ding ding [npr.org]
[09:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seen any drones here - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:49] <exec> 08└─it would be pretty dangerous trying make a drone delivery to an apartment: too much chance of hitting a pedestrian.
[09:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seen any drones here - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:51] <exec> 08└─I'm also in Switzerland. This is something that this post has just started testing, as in, flying drones around an empty field carrying packages. They aren't delivering to actual customers yet. According to the news report the other day, they expect that it will mostly be useful in rural areas. Why...
[09:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:hear like a gold cable and wooden knob - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:02] <exec> 08└─From what I gather the signal is primitive and the nerves aren't finely targeted.
[09:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:$10 no nigga, make it free - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:27] <exec> 08└─I had a friend live homeless in california, they arrested him when some guy got stabbed in the neck with a pencil on the same street he was walking down 5 days later. His defense was that he was playing games online using the mcdonald's wifi at the time of the stabbing. Unfortunately the prison dest...
[09:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adrian Harvey [222] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:41] <exec> 08└─Better yes do what NZ has done and force them to split the physical cable owning bit in a separate wholesaling company. Then regulate that bit so you get multiple competing retailers operating on top and let the free market do something useful for a change! NZ did it by only allowing unintegrated wh...
[09:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:for wh - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:33] <exec> 08└─Uhm, have been using libre/openoffice track changes for years with doc and docx, and nobody ever complained about about it (equations are sometimes a problem, but I usually just ignore their questions about that). So what is the problem you are seeing?
[09:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Multiple Devices - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:44] <exec> 08└─Well, freedom isn't free, if it's Micro$erf freedom. And in general, if freedom isn't free, then it's not really freedom, is it? "We had to destroy freedom, in order to save it!" Wow, from Bến Tre to gaming on Windows. May Dog have mercy on your carpets.
[09:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score:1) 02Re:Fedora at work, win7 at home - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:13] <exec> 08└─You might want to check out the Moksha desktop (fork of E17) that will soon become the default for Bodhi. E19 is just too "heavy" for many old machines that really fly with E17 (including my Asus eeePC 701 4G). Wife & kids all run Mint Cinnamon (they're much better equipped than me) and I have MX-14...
[09:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SGT CAPSLOCK [118] (Score:2) 02Re:Gesture UI needs work - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:46] <exec> 08└─Since I was so interested in Sailfish, I've actually been reading quite a bit about how they're interested in solving the same problems you brought up with their UI. At least they seem to be aware of them and interested in looking for ways to unify things properly. I really hope their company isn't...
[09:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lawsuit against the Republicans? - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:15] <exec> 08└─This is why one of the chapters in the Biblical book of Proverbs tells us not to base our dealings on debt.
[09:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03yarp [2665] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like you don't want a phone. - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:56] <exec> 08└─shoes don't need a nation wide communication network to function
[09:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted - 06Code Specialists Oppose Government Access to Encrypted Communication - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:53] <exec> 08└─Strong, secure encryption is already in general circulation. How exactly do these muppets expect to replace it? Even if they ban it within their jurisdictions, do they honestly expect terrorist organisations that happily plan the murder thousands of innocents before breakfast to comply? Of course no...
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[10:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seen any drones here - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:20] <exec> 08└─It also probably depends on how cheap they can be made. If you're delivering a few parcels to a small town, then driving the delivery truck to the edge of the town and having the drones handle the last few miles is probably quite a big saving in terms of time, but it would depend on being able to ha...
[10:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfft, who needs to hear like a bat - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:46] <exec> 08└─I just want to hear the top octave, of 10kHz to 20kHz, like I did when I was in my 20's. Growing old may bring wisdom, but the physical costs of aging suck.
[10:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score:2) 02the mic is just one stage - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:47] <exec> 08└─you need the decoding pipeline ro make something out of ultrasound. While I think we are equipped for stuff like 25khz, I don't think we can do much with 500khz. It's the dual problem of the one in the lower end of the spectrum, you don't hear a 1hz sound, you head a 1hz beat, the sound is a represe...
[10:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''a particular term for this''? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I screwed up. takyon gave the original link. Here's the marked-up one I like. [googleusercontent.com] -- gewg_
[10:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Slack - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:36] <exec> 08└─I'm using slackware as well. But usually it only starts as slackware and then becomes a mix of the original packages, some current stuff if updates are needed, some slackbuild packages and usually a lot of stuff compiled from source.. My current server actually started live as slamd64, but now mostl...
[10:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft has helped develop a web-based tool . - 06BBC Micro:bit Design Finalized - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:24] <exec> 08└─It will be interesting to see how this works. Is it some kind of mass storage device that simply accepts a compiled firmware file and executes it, or something else?
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[10:21:32] <exec> 08└─Kids love their phones these days, so I suppose they wanted a cross-platform system would run even on heavily locked down environments like the iPhone. Since Apple doesn't let you run apps which the user can program themselves (e.g. even emulators have to boot directly into games, can't have C64 BAS...
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[11:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:00] <exec> 08└─Hasn't the problem of the high tech pen been solved?
[11:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:02] <exec> 08└─Which really reminds me, since smartphones are pretty much poor man's tablet, are there any software that essentially turns the smartphone into Wacom tablet?
[11:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:04] <exec> 08└─There are a few control-only VNC clients out there, such as Valence [google.com], but it's not quite going to match the tablet experience where you can move the pointer without bring pen and tablet in physical contact.
[11:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:05] <exec> 08└─You mean like this? https://play.google.com [google.com] Only available for Linux and I've never tried it so I have no idea how well it works because I already have a wacom tablet and a non-wacom pen display -- one of the upstart Cintiq alternatives that st...
[11:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:07] <exec> 08└─you should probably go read http://android.stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com].
[11:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbot [1811] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:09] <exec> 08└─Having recently tried a high-end wacom tablet - there is a learning curve. That is, to go from an analog pen, to a digital one, on screen - you need to learn a few new skills: - having the output of the pen display on screen, instead of immediately in context of your digital pen - translating the sc...
[11:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:10] <exec> 08└─I know, sarcasm, I think the reality though is that if you want the necessary accuracy it's something like $2k, you can use a cheaper tablet, but you give up a ton. Personally, I have a $45 monoprice tablet. It's missing some of the features of a typical Wacom, but it's a fraction of the price. Once...
[11:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:13] <exec> 08└─If only there were tablets with screens built in...
[11:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02this is retarded - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:14] <exec> 08└─wacom has been on the "pen" front for a couple decades. there latest stuff is what some digital comic artists use, specifically this. [wacom.com] call me when microsoft comes up with something original.
[11:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Possibly - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:33] <exec> 08└─There's usually a genetic aspect, but with regards to anxiety, there's no need for it. If you tell a kid often enough how scary everything is everywhere, eventually the kid is going to have problems with anxiety. That's just how the brain works, the things you focus on are the things you internalize...
[11:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03yarp [2665] (Score:2) 02Re:hear like a gold cable and wooden knob - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:12] <exec> 08└─Definitely not alone! When I used to commute I walked past a phone shop from which came a high-pitched sound and I was seemingly the only person in the vicinity who could hear it. I'm not certain but it had the hallmark of a Mosquito alarm [wikipedia.org]. I can hear the 17.4 kHz audio sample in the...
[11:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can echolocate, no bat-sense required - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:19] <exec> 08└─There's no reason to assume it's one specific effect. If there's one thing out brain excels at, it's integrating information from many different sources. It's like you can understand someone better when you see their mouth movements, despite not consciously following those movements: The brain inter...
[11:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can echolocate, no bat-sense required - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:20] <exec> 08└─I've heard about a technique for blind people where they actually imitate what bats do, but in human-audible range: They generate clicks with their tongue, and listen to the reflected sound. Apparently this works great after some training.
[11:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the mic is just one stage - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:27] <exec> 08└─One thing that might be done is an adjustable frequency conversion into audible range: If you want to hear high frequencies, you just order the device to replay the sound at lower frequency. You might argue that fine details are lost because at lower frequency you have less temporal resolution, but...
[11:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:News from the developed world - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:16:21] <exec> 08└─Did you mean that we need to get our legislators not to suck so hard?
[11:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score:1) 02Re:Kubuntu 15.04 amongst others... - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:26] <exec> 08└─I run Kubuntu as well, on a desktopand a laptop. Track the LTS releases. I also have some unknown version of windows running in a window where it belongs; but I really only use it as an authentication layer to make ESPN's flash player work.
[11:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:29] <exec> 08└─Very much so, i3 is a bit scary at first; it's hard to imagine using anything else now though. That feeling of stability that you mention is, for me, also a feeling that somebody sat down and thought about stuff before implementing it. There are indeed lots of knobs in the audio system (and some thi...
[11:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:No plan? - 06Mozilla's 18-Week Release Cycle is Too Slow and Other Browser News - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:31] <exec> 08└─The only reason I still use Fx is that all the other browsers are still worse. But, at some point I'll have to give up and just start using Chrome. The obsession with making Fx more and more Chrome-like and the complete ignorance of why people started using Fx in the first place is astonishing.
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[12:14:14] <exec> 08└─Thank you all for your output. I may look into it although the stubborn and foolish side of me is telling me to make it a project for myself.
[12:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02science - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:20] <exec> 08└─Study after study shows we remember things better when we write them
[12:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:science - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:22] <exec> 08└─It's like you asked someone for sources on global warming: it's should be common knowledge by now.
[12:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Hasn't the problem of the high tech pen been solve - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:23] <exec> 08└─Hasn't the problem of the high tech pen been solved? Yes and no. There's a big difference between making a job out of an art that you already grasp, and learning. Two opposite use cases. TFS clearly says that you *remember* things better when you write them by hand, than on a keyboard. No digital pe...
[12:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Re:Hasn't the problem of the high tech pen been so - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─In my opinion, the problem seems to be more of accessibility problem for me. With pen and paper (and a load of it) you can pretty much sketch and write anything on it. And it's huge too (compared to a tablet). However, on the tablet, smaller spaces is a pain in the ass (although you can potentially...
[12:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Relations - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:28] <exec> 08└─My wife's cousin's husband is a cartoonist for the New Yorker.
[12:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score:2) 02Hasn't been solved, and will not be solved soon. - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:29] <exec> 08└─Hi-tech pen, no matter how high tech will never beat the regular pen. Unless the "hi-tech" only means seamless digital recording of what you are doing. No kind of tablet has ever achieved that. Say that I'm in a bus, and suddenly an idea strikes my mind that I need to write down, or draw it. I grab...
[12:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khakipuce [233] (Score:2) 02Graphene this, graphene that - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:42] <exec> 08└─Still waiting for a real graphene based product to hit the streets...
[12:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I cut all ties to AT&T... - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:41] <exec> 08└─After having to call them every year for 15 years to repair a bad connection at the pole tap. I cut their crappy DSL, then got rid of the landline, I have no business with them now. But now they send spam mail at least 3 times per week in the postal mail and send sales reps to my door. Can I make th...
[12:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows is not a distro - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:59] <exec> 08└─am i missing something? the op was right on the nose. imo this site is fast becoming a MS lover's paradise, which was the same fate of the _other_ site. i'm going to set my stopwatch and wait for it to be snatched up by some company and digg'd.
[12:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Kali - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:30] <exec> 08└─It works for me. Keep in mind I haven't installed any packages on it that didn't come with the core distro, it's strictly for developing device drivers and for about 3 months running the airmon suite of tools.
[12:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:Ubuntu and derivatives - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:41] <exec> 08└─I have found that the latest Xfce version 4.12 handles multiple monitors a lot better. What version are you running?
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[13:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Windows 10 - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:02] <exec> 08└─Someone accidently clicked that windows 10 upgrade button?
[13:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows 10 - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:03] <exec> 08└─No, they didn't click "Postpone" fast enough and Windows wouldn't let them cancel once it started.
[13:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:05] <exec> 08└─Dear Wall Street, repeat after me: Development -> Test -> QA -> Production
[13:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:07] <exec> 08└─Top tier industry standards are still really only good enough for 99% reliability. If you fail at understanding a requirement, it can blow up in your face only when you actually need it in the real world.
[13:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relations - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:29] <exec> 08└─Lone Star: "What does that make us?" Dark Helmet: "Absolutely - which you are about to become"
[13:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02writing is a punishment - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:32] <exec> 08└─Wasn't anyone else forced to write "I will not ____" when they did something wrong as a child? I grew up to hate and fear writing, typing is no problem, but writing is pain.
[13:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Generalizing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:34] <exec> 08└─Study after study shows we remember things better when we write them
[13:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Niiice - 06Surfing a Wake of Light: Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:45] <exec> 08└─That's just physics!
[13:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does this mean? - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:01] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that 9/11 really did change everything?
[13:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Where can I invest - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:17] <exec> 08└─...in Swiss pediatric and veterinary hospitals?
[13:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:for wh - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:13] <exec> 08└─Office 2010 and below work in WINE, just fyi.
[13:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:distro? - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 2055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:16] <exec> 08└─I didn't read TFS very well, did i? RHEL, OEL, CentOS - All RHEL based server distro's that I use at work RHEL, OEL for systems requiring "support". RHEL is preferred, but we recently got heavily into Oracle applications (unfortunately), so it seemed better to go with their Linux over RHEL so that t...
[13:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:distro? - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:18] <exec> 08└─I had that split into paragraphs, but clicked submit instead of preview, and then realized I didn't have any html tags to actually make it display that way, so it's kind of ugly.. sorry.
[13:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OPSEC - Get your OPSEC here! - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah ... quite a shame DreadPirateRoberts didn't have something like that set up :( Long live Silk Road.
[13:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Slack - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:44] <exec> 08└─For me the setup is: Personal laptop Slackware 14.1 x86_64 with XFCE Household desktop Win7 Pro 64 bit and Slackware 14.1 x86_64 with XFCE Work computer at my desk Win7 All of the other machines I deal with at work AIX, Solaris, RHEL Exempting the work machines the reasons I choose to...
[13:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Slack - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:46] <exec> 08└─Slackware here, too! Some good third-party repos (from my slapt-getrc): http://slackonly.com [slackonly.com] http://ponce.cc [ponce.cc] http://repository.slacky.eu [slacky.eu] I don't run any of them, so technically...
[13:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Grumpycat.jpg - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 1796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:39] <exec> 08└─She's lucky - she was able to pin down one company and sue them. I bought and moved into my house over 9 years ago, and I still get calls (we just had one yesterday, in fact) from collections agencies that are trying to contact the previous residents of the house. They had a different phone number,...
[13:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:good news, everyone! - 06Mozilla's 18-Week Release Cycle is Too Slow and Other Browser News - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:32] <exec> 08└─I know! I really miss Tree Style Tab on chromium. It makes browsing so much better
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[14:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows 10 - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:06] <exec> 08└─No, someone got a call from "This is windows calling, your computer have a virus" and they bit the bullet.
[14:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:09] <exec> 08└─If your client fails to correctly specify a requirement, it can blow up in their face only when they actually need it in the real world.
[14:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:11] <exec> 08└─Nope, forget it. Clients do get it wrong sometimes(okay, often), but good developers are supposed to handle that. Trying to apportion blame for these almost inevitable failings is a mental trap.
[14:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My Bad - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:13] <exec> 08└─Well, I had this mega burrito in the morning, and had to go, with all the beans and everything. Man, it was a whopper. As it happens to us all sometimes, the toilet couldn't handle it. Things got jammed, the toilet got flooded, and the flood spread to the trading floor, and ... well you can see how...
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02turn those machines back on! - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[14:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ah.clem [4241] (Score:2) 02Re:Hasn't been solved, and will not be solved soon - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:39] <exec> 08└─I used to do a lot of music composition and arranging by hand. I will still do a quick sketch using a fountain pen and manuscript paper, then use a MIDI keyboard to play the parts into Finale. I grew up using fountain pens (yeah, old guy) and I have used them excusively for the last 30 years on a da...
[14:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Generalizing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 2325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:43] <exec> 08└─In real life, I am valued for my ability to know how to do my job and come up with answers to technical problems, mentor others, and be a walking tome of archaic IT wisdom that I sometimes wish I don't remember-- without needing to superficially answer trivia questions provided by a teacher who then...
[14:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Generalizing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:45] <exec> 08└─Speed was not my point, it was simply the reason my teacher was unhappy, which led to me discovering that I can't pay attention and take notes at the same time. I did well in subjects where I didn't take notes, simply by paying attention instead. Even though others were taking notes, because that's...
[14:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Pen computing aficionado from way back - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 2478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─The technology is finally starting to come together to a degree that one doesn't have to consciously work around the limtations: - my NCR-3125 running PenPoint had a great, intentional, Pen-centric interface, but kept me tethered to a wall outlet, 'cause even brand new the battery packs lasted s...
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pen computing aficionado from way back - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 2447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:48] <exec> 08└─I concur that the new web today is not as good as the old web -- as far as user capabilties are concerned. If my cab driver or Uber driver took me to 30 different locations that all registered that I visited, I would be beyond pissed and smack him (or her, I am an equal opportunity vengeful passenge...
[14:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Sure you can - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:50] <exec> 08└─> You can't type out the folds of a dress, or the gentle curves of a skyscraper. Says someone who has never witnessed the beauty of an ASCII goatse.
[14:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FTL wave - 06Surfing a Wake of Light: Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:00] <exec> 08└─Isn't that tantamount to faster than light information flow? I thought that was impossible.
[14:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:seize the board members and the executives - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:28] <exec> 08└─One of the coolest movies ever made.
[14:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:32] <exec> 08└─One of life's little tradeoffs for choosing to live in Bum Fuck. Oh, I'm sorry. You were relocated to Bum Fuck under guard in a windowless railway car with sawdust on the floor and imprisoned there?
[14:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Did they really need to tell the name? - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:59] <exec> 08└─There are companies that do credit checks as a part of an interview process.
[14:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Justice denied - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:08] <exec> 08└─Welcome to foot... ball. [youtu.be]
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[15:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Ostracism - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:02] <exec> 08└─Could it work here? No, we're not a village, and it's not about "honor". Actually, they're doing their country's best interest (according to some definition of country). Raising awareness with the regulars (not those few of us already informed) is great. That's what I love art for.
[15:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what goes around ... - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:03] <exec> 08└─Isn't it because of "Mura-hachibu" that everybody wants to spy to get a leg up and have leverage so as not be "Mura-hachibu"-ed by others? you know .. like "i got shit on you too" tactics?
[15:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:4, Informative) 02Those aren't "stencils". - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:05] <exec> 08└─They're low-quality monochrome prints on paper. The contrast is so low, you can barely make out the faces. I give this artist an A for concept, C- for technique.
[15:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Those aren't "stencils". - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:07] <exec> 08└─At this level of executive, there is a high probability of these people being sociopaths and seeing this as a reward or tribute to their greatness as well.
[15:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 2638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:21] <exec> 08└─Especially when dealing with the Masters of the Universe. They'll shove you around. They won't answer your questions. They'll never fill out paperwork unless it's scribbled like a 3 year old and done completely wrong, just to mock you. They'll play the telephone game, passing the change request to s...
[15:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:23] <exec> 08└─Part of the story: The NYSE systems are under incredible loads due to the high-frequency trading algorithms. I'd have to think a major challenge for them is to simulate an environment where you're getting hit thousands of times per microsecond and what order each of those hits comes in matters a lot...
[15:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My Bad - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:25] <exec> 08└─Anytime I feel constipated, I eat at McDonalds. Clears me right up.
[15:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:My Bad - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:27] <exec> 08└─CSB time. When I was in college in the 80s one of my comp sci profs told a story about troubleshooting a mainframe that would randomly reboot a couple times a day. After a week or so the problem was traced to a toilet. The electrical bundle ran under the toilet, and the floor was weakened. Whenever...
[15:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02too bad - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:28] <exec> 08└─in others [sic] news: NYSE chief sayz it's got nothing to do with the chinese stock market crash and the rogue A.I. trading algorithem by some anonymous coder gobbling up all assets is just a myth and thus it didn't have to be purged from the system at all. Further emphasizing that everything is "by...
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─I haven't tried it yet but the application is also open source (MIT licence), so feel free to contribute. https://f-droid.org [f-droid.org]
[15:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:science - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:49] <exec> 08└─It isn't common knowledge and comparing it to the amount of data on climate change is deceptive. I've heard of some studies but they are probably psycology studies with small sample sizes of college students from the US.
[15:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:2) 02Re:Relations - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:54] <exec> 08└─Nothing is missing from that post.
[15:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relations - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:56] <exec> 08└─I am your wife's cousin's husband's father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
[15:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pen computing aficionado from way back - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:04] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the interesting post. Have you ever tried a Samsung Galaxy Note (either 10.1 or 8)? I have the 10.1 and am curious how it compares to the Encore.
[15:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:Pen computing aficionado from way back - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:06] <exec> 08└─I've played w/ them in stores. They're nice 'cause Samsung has worked very hard on the digitizer tech, and are using Wacom's EMR, so good hover distance, and nice pressure support. Samsung in particular has worked hard on improving edge accuracy, which is a frequent failing for machines w/ Wacom EMR...
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Where are the generic Wacoms? - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:08] <exec> 08└─The original patents for their cordless, batteryless pen technology should have long since expired, so where are the generic knockoffs? Are they really so expensive to make that there's no profit margins for knockoffs to cut into?
[15:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:FTL wave - 06Surfing a Wake of Light: Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:22] <exec> 08└─Imagine people doing The Wave in a stadium of arbitrary size. The traditional way to do it: you stand up when you see the people next to you stand up. This means that the wave-propagating process is based on light, so the wave can't be faster than light speed. But you could also create the same effe...
[15:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02transformer drone - 06Switzerland Begins Postal Delivery by Drone - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:55] <exec> 08└─i like the part were the drone making factory flies in parts for drones ... by drones and delivers finished drones to the postal service .. by drone: ) maybe they can use their fishing-net equipped satellite to make room in the future overburdens drone flight paths?
[15:15:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:42] <exec> 08└─Please forgive my flakey memory but didn't AT&T recently get in trouble for making a promise like that that they never followed up on?
[15:15:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:48] <exec> 08└─Let's add in a clause where if they fail to deliver 100% we go back to 1983 and break them into pieces again. Only this time we make sure they stay in pieces. Maybe seize the stock holdings of board members and executives as well, to be properly used for infrastructure upgrades.
[15:15:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03t-3 [4907] 02Re:Umm - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:50] <exec> 08└─Rather than breaking them up, nationalize them and let USPS run the internet. Save a dying and underfunded government service and put the internet in the hands of people who won't look without a warrant.
[15:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows is not a distro - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah. All the guys prattling about using Win Blows, please STFU. Nobody cares. Stop the spam. This is not the topic you were looking for.
[15:18:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02Re:Darth Ballmer is Gone - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 1592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:46] <exec> 08└─Ironic that you should bring up the Ballmernator as Yahoo Tech News is calling this Ballmer’s Final Blunder [yahoo.com]. I have said it before and I'll say it again, history will look upon Ballmer with the same disdain the pepsi guy at Apple got and it will be completely apropos. Ballmer was the a...
[15:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:still running v28,here - 06Mozilla's 18-Week Release Cycle is Too Slow and Other Browser News - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:55] <exec> 08└─Not every. My site is not mobile ready. It never will be.
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[16:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02options - 06Scientists Develop Free Online Genetic Research Tool - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:06] <exec> 08└─Analysis Categories: Mapping RNA-Seq reads to reference genomes Calculating gene expression values Identifying differentially expressed genes Predicting gene functions Constructing gene regulatory networks Species: Human, Mouse, Drosophila Melanogaster, TAIR10 Arabidopsis, Clostridium Perfringens Cr...
[16:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02Enlighten me. - 06Scientists Develop Free Online Genetic Research Tool - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:07] <exec> 08└─How is this any better than running a blast over at NCBI? http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[16:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Hardly a surprise, or a disincentive. - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:18] <exec> 08└─We're talking about people who are dyed-in-the-wool believers. They see themselves as Jack Bauer - bend every rule, break the ones you can get away with. Fight by any means necessary (and assume every possible means IS necessary). Such people know they're not playing "fair" or "by the rules." They d...
[16:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:30] <exec> 08└─No need for that, this Windows 7 notebook screws up all by itself, no W10 "upgrade" needed. A few days ago the screen blacked out, then came back upside down. Still upside down after a reboot. I had to go into safe mode to fix it. My daughter says her computer has done that before, too. At least the...
[16:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you haven't accidentally pressed CTRL+ALT ↓ (down)? [kodyaz.com]
[16:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:37] <exec> 08└─When you're sitting there fantasizing about the Masters of the Universe finally getting their comeuppance, realize you're one of those guys who can make that happen. Bradley Manning was a soldier who had clearance for diplomatic cables. He was no revolutionary. But he was sick and tired of the bulls...
[16:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:38] <exec> 08└─I took a college class around the turn of the century, and the instructor was in charge of the Illinois Secretary of State system and gave the class a tour through the mainframe. It ran Unix, of course, had four separate CPUs for redundancy; if one went down, the other three automatically took over...
[16:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 1702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:40] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as 100% uptime. Even "five nines" uptime is incredibly hard and expensive. And, sorry, having more than one machine and a generator hardly qualifies as 5 9's-level reliability. What happens if the building that all these CPU's live in suffers a connectivity failure? What if th...
[16:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like some of the gear we have in my company's building. There is the corporate IT manages stuff (I work for a huge faceless fortune 50 company so we have corporate IT and then the people I work with) that seems to manage 95% reliability and then there are the systems I work with. Some of them...
[16:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too bad - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:47] <exec> 08└─"You can keep your doctor, you can keep your healthcare" Yeah, like I'll believe anything out of their speech orifice again.
[16:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Right - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:49] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain to me why the world is not burning down yet, they told me it would if these systems stopped working?!?
[16:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:science - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:11] <exec> 08└─Well, I read a study about it once, but I didn't write it down, so I forgot where I found it!
[16:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hasn't been solved, and will not be solved soon - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─I always carry a pen with me (a bullet-style Fisher Space Pen), but I also always carry a Galaxy Note. The pen easily beats the phone in terms of usability for collaborative uses. The phone easily beats the pen for ease of organizing notes and annotating pictures/websites/whatever. A digital pen wil...
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[17:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Those aren't "stencils". - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure of the concept either. Its not original, and easily misunderstood. The resulting portraits look like pop silkscreens from the 1960s, an eye-candy aesthetic that belies their serious undertone.
[17:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nice thought but ... - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:18] <exec> 08└─You can't shame those who are incapable of feeling shame or remorse. We are talking about ambitious intelligent people who have no problem with violating the tenets which make up the cornerstone upon which civilization is built. No crime is too great or too small if necessary for their personal and...
[17:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Right - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:49] <exec> 08└─You should cancel your subscription to "their" newsletter.
[17:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:08] <exec> 08└─On the tablets with screens - I have a Surface Pro at work, and about the only use I make of the stylus is for taking notes in meetings. Its sort of like an endless sheet of paper. I'm using it as a pen, recording graphical images of my handwriting. The images are worse than If I had used a yellow-p...
[17:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Re:science - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:14] <exec> 08└─Then you should be able to cite studies that writing things down improves memory of whatever is written. My personal experience on how I learn things goes contrary to this. For a long time, I thought I was the exception, but I am not so sure anymore. For example, taking notes during a class may actu...
[17:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Generalizing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:27] <exec> 08└─It's all in HOW one takes notes. And I have been to many a meeting where only one person took notes, and there was a picture taken of the whiteboard - generally only the people who drew the diagrams on the board and took the notes actually remembered anything that happened in the meeting with any de...
[17:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where are the generic Wacoms? - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:35] <exec> 08└─Here they are: Yiynova [yiynova.ca], Huion [huiontablet.com], and Genius [geniusnet.com]. Cheap drawing monitors is rather recent. By cheap I mean about 1/4 Wacom's price. Wacom is still the best quality, but now there are options at least.
[17:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:+how many of these fucks use anti-depressants? - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:06] <exec> 08└─Antidepressants Versus Placebos: Meaningful Advantages Are Lacking http://www.psychiatrictimes.com [psychiatrictimes.com]
[17:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Does this mean? - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:09] <exec> 08└─Reality based community. HAH!
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[18:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:40] <exec> 08└─But alas, it's never the fault of the infallible Masters of the Universe. Remind me again, who is paying whom?
[18:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02HA vs uptime - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:43] <exec> 08└─> There is no such thing as 100% uptime. > If your instructor claimed he had a 100% uptime system (...) I think you are mixing up HA with uptime. Saying that you have _achieved_ "100% uptime" (as quoted by the poster) doesn't mean you have a 100% HA system. My first understanding is that you just ha...
[18:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:54] <exec> 08└─Who said it's not burning? Perhaps the fires just haven't make it to your neighborhood yet.
[18:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:science - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:20] <exec> 08└─Here is a write-up with references to a couple studies. It really is well established at this point so I only spent a couple seconds googling. There is a lot more out there... Reference [medicaldaily.com]
[18:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:science for idiots - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:22] <exec> 08└─My rule: Never research and provide citations when people demand them. They will refuse to Google, insisting you do it for them. They will post as AC so that they never have to come back and read your citations, They will never lean anything from a citation that they didn't dig up by themselves. The...
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[18:14:28] <exec> 08└─Hmm, must have been a translation error.
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Generalizing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:38] <exec> 08└─The day I tried that, we learned about Egypt grabbing the Suez channel and surrounding area, Israel counter attacking, and how the UK and France was involved. Hmm, maybe you should have continued taking notes because I don't think you got that quite right...
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pen computing aficionado from way back - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your reply. I am the author to the question to your original post. I just haven't gotten around to setting a soylent account.
[18:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score:2) 02Re:Where are the generic Wacoms? - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:47] <exec> 08└─Your answer is very soon! The main issue historically has been that the pens and tablets were not compatible between each other, so a Wacom stylus would not work on a dell tablet. This was limiting the appeal to buy an expensive and powerful pen as it would have a very restricted usage. There is a i...
[18:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02My own kind of pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:49] <exec> 08└─I do my own kind of pen-based computing: doing math by hand with a fountain pen. But on a more serious note, I prefer to write with a pen, in particular a fountain pen. It's a very pleasant experience. But when productivity is required, I need a keyboard. I'm a fast typist, having learned how to tou...
[18:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Niiice - 06Surfing a Wake of Light: Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:01] <exec> 08└─You forgot to reverse the polarity in the verteron flux! If you don't do that, you stand a high probability of losing containment unless you reroute to auxiliary and compensate for chronoton instability.
[18:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcm [4110] (Score:1) 02Re:Possibly - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─I disagree about "complimenting a child's work ethic", this is some subtle brain manipulation. You should encourage curiosity and avoid focusing on results. What creates anxiety is the obsession of external achievements, so the child starts to believe that "it's never enough". In fact, it's more sub...
[18:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:I can echolocate, no bat-sense required - 06Graphene-Based Microphone Could Let You Hear Like a Bat - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:04] <exec> 08└─Its hard to explain but not hard to learn. Spend enough time in the dark without a flashlight and you'll figure it out. I saw a show about how some blind people do this, recently. I don't remember what the show was but I think this is the same guy. [sciencemag.org]
[18:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please don't hate on me for this - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe work on your reading comprehension...
[18:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not thrilled - 06Mozilla's 18-Week Release Cycle is Too Slow and Other Browser News - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:47] <exec> 08└─Just trying palemoon now. Thanks all for the tip.
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[19:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:42] <exec> 08└─I'd argue about state of the art with regards to clustering and availability. VMS, once a prominent player in financial exchanges and whatnot, had a lot of this stuff figured out decades ago. To the point where there are documented cases of VMS clusters having cluster updates of DECADES. We also h...
[19:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:DTQP - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─I was waiting for the part of the story when, during the tour, somebody frobbed a Molly switch in a particularly redundancy-defeating way. And then the 100% was no more
[19:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─Until we hear otherwise, we can only hope for the best. If we're lucky, it could all be cinders by now!
[19:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:science for idiots - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:24] <exec> 08└─My rule is to try to provide citations when I make claims so people know that it isn't just my opinion. The burden of proof lies on the one making the claim. Telling someone to go to Google often means take my word for it. If you provide anything that contradicts their position, then they often move...
[19:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:science for idiots - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:27] <exec> 08└─They will insist on using THEIR definitions of words, require amendments to the constitution, the abolition of corporations, and a return to agrarian society.
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[19:14:44] <exec> 08└─The day I tried that, we learned about Egypt grabbing the Suez channel and surrounding area, Israel counter attacking, and how the UK and France was involved. Hmm, maybe you should have continued taking notes because I don't think you got that quite right...
[19:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Possibly - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:21] <exec> 08└─I'd say you nead a healthy balance of both. If you have too much "I must succedd" etc., you get anxious. But if you get too much "I don't mind what other people think of me" you won't succeed in life. A therapy for anxiety will of course teach you the latter, because that's what is missing. It's jus...
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[20:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardly a surprise, or a disincentive. - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:17] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there's no illusions that everyone would support their actions if they become publicly known, or that everything they did would be well received by everyone.
[20:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03backsplatter [3394] (Score:1) 02Official Outage explanation - 06New York Stock Exchange Shut Down Temporarily Due to "Internal Technical Issue" - 2012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.nyse.com/market-status/history [nyse.com] On Tuesday evening, the NYSE began the rollout of a software release in preparation for the July 11 industry test of the upcoming SIP timestamp requirement. As is standard NYSE practice, the initial release was deployed on one trading unit. As cu...
[20:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:science for idiots - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:27] <exec> 08└─My rule is to try to provide citations when I make claims so people know that it isn't just my opinion.
[20:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Two-dimensional holograms? What? - 06Surfing a Wake of Light: Researchers Observe and Control Light Wakes for the First Time - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:12] <exec> 08└─two-dimensional holograms
[20:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Debian - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:08] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but fluxbox is vastly superior in my usecase. I can move and drag windows around without trying to zero in on the border. I can launch applications with easily configurable shortcuts. It's very low overhead too. And I absolutely loath the "new" Gnome UI to the point where I had to uninstall...
[20:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Slack - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:20] <exec> 08└─Slackware on the headless server, rock solid and easy to manage for that situation, without a lot of GUI add-on dependencies. But for desktop use, Slack can turn into a headache, so I switched to Kubuntu for that. It works extremely well, and it's nice being able to install and update packages with...
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[20:18:39] <exec> 08└─At this point, Symbian may no longer matter. At least not on > $30 phones. Sailfish can run on modest enough hardware that it would make sense to deploy it across the line. Symbian could probably have been grown into something amazing by now if Nokia had executed perfectly. But it didn't. Nokia exec...
[20:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:2) 02Re:another last mile problem - 06Jolla Announces Restructuring - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:53] <exec> 08└─If I had to guess, maybe Turkey. Possibly Iran. I've never seen anybody assert the population of the midwest at 70 million. They'd just give the population of a particular state. Besides, you get get Xeons shipped from within the country via NewEgg pretty easily. Scoring high end gear in Iran usuall...
[20:23:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bryan [29] 02Re:Hire a prostitute. - 06Ask Soylent: Payroll Software on Linux - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:14] <exec> 08└─Well, they are both experts at screwing you.
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[21:13:16] <exec> 08└─At this level of executive, there is a high probability of these people being sociopaths and seeing this as a reward or tribute to their greatness as well.
[21:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Just as I predicted..... - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:22] <exec> 08└─Right on queue, with regard to FBI demands for back doors the FBI is now claiming to have averted terrorist attacks over the Fourth of July. [washingtonpost.com]Saw this comming [soylentnews.org]. The more you dig, there wasn't any actual plots, these were just ISIS sympathizers. “We’ve arrest...
[21:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─The images are worse than If I had used a yellow-pad and pen, because the friction between stylus and glass is less and some of the feedback to your fingers goes missing, and your letter formation suffers. But you can do diagrams, circles and arrows. Lots of images in google images about this.
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:23] <exec> 08└─It was a pro 1, with the slippery plastic nib. The learning curve to manage this is short. I've never thought about getting a different stylus or changing the nib, but perhaps I should. This Wacom [amazon.com] pen seems to get good reviews when used on the Pro 1. The stock Pro 1 pen has no battery,...
[21:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Hasn't the problem of the high tech pen been so - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:37] <exec> 08└─And it's huge too (compared to a tablet). However, on the tablet, smaller spaces is a pain in the ass (although you can potentially have infinite space
[21:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:writing is a punishment - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:47] <exec> 08└─Wasn't anyone else forced to write "I will not ____" when they did something wrong as a child? I grew up to hate and fear writing, typing is no problem, but writing is pain.
[21:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcm [4110] (Score:1) 02Re:Possibly - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:31] <exec> 08└─>"I don't mind what other people think of me" you won't succeed in life. Uh ? What is your definition of "success" ? Why is it so important to succeed ?
[21:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:''rushing Vista to market'' - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:00] <exec> 08└─Nope, sorry, THAT WAS BALLMER as the ORIGINAL Longhorn (which you have never seen unless you have downloaded the alpha floating around) was coming along okay but was gonna take another year and a half to 2 years...what did Ballmer do? Made them throw out the whole thing and take 2K3 server and build...
[21:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Yup - 06Major Job Cuts Expected at Microsoft - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:05] <exec> 08└─LibreOffice 5.0 is due in August. It will be interesting to see the reaction from those who try it.
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[22:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just as I predicted..... - 06Shaming Spy Chiefs by Plastering Them All Over the World - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─This is what actual thought crime looks looks like - regular joes thrown in jail and harassed by the overwhelming power of the DoJ and DHS looking to justify their jobs and budgets. Remember that the next time some wealthy celebrity loses a few of the benefits of fame for saying something hateful.
[22:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure you can - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:01] <exec> 08└─Indeed. -- or built a skyscraper by describing it mathematically via POV Ray.
[22:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Possibly - 06Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:34] <exec> 08└─Uh ? What is your definition of "success" ?
[22:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So.. An advertisement? - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:22] <exec> 08└─It's for people who literally cannot afford anything else. The federal government recently announced they would sponsor up to $9.90/mo of a "broadband" (aka 1.5 mbit+ ) connection for people making less than X. Which means AT&T will do it anyway to get all those customers.
[22:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:OpenBSD, Fedora, CyanogenMod - 06What Distro Do Soylentils Use? - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:08] <exec> 08└─I've recently switched to Mint 17.1 XFCE. Like most things about it more than MATE, but Thunar has been too buggy for me to use in the past. I switched to MATE from XFCE a few years ago after finding it would not display files with"$%" in the name. That was the last straw. Now after a couple of year...
[22:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score:1) 02Re:Grumpycat.jpg - 06Time Warner Cable Must Pay $229,500 to One Woman for Excessive Robocalling - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:29] <exec> 08└─what about the line disconnected tone as your answering machine message? i just have the 3 tones at the start of mine, and it worked for about 95% of them. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:David Camp Emails - 06Mozilla's 18-Week Release Cycle is Too Slow and Other Browser News - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:30] <exec> 08└─"While quality work will happen across the whole browser, new feature work is going to largely be focused on the reasons users choose us in the first place. Browsing the web can be deeply personal, and we want to help give users features that help them shape and control that personal experience."
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[23:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bytram [4043] (Score:2) 02missed acronym opportunity - 06Scientists Develop Free Online Genetic Research Tool - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:07] <exec> 08└─Missed acronym opportuniy: Free Online Research GEnetics Tool. Won't FORGET that one! =)
[23:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How can I get my DNA sequenced? - 06Scientists Develop Free Online Genetic Research Tool - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:09] <exec> 08└─I have offered it to a number of researchers but always they decline. People with Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder should not be able to do what I do. There is no doubt in my mind that my DNA could be used for rational drug design so as to develop an effective treatment. Were my DNA sequenced I...
[23:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Pen-based computing - 06Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:27] <exec> 08└─Interesting that Microsoft chose the plastic nibs, then, because the higher-friction alternatives like the Galaxy Note uses are nicer. Though, from what the Q&A on that page said, the pen you linked works with the galaxy note and the surface pro. That means you might be able to use something like th...
[23:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Ionic Symbonal Rast - 06AT&T Will Give Poor People 1.5 Mbps DSL for $10 if US Allows DirecTV Merger - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:00] <exec> 08└─It's a plant disease that is the result of disposal of radioactive nuclear waste in volcanoes.
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