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[00:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Not the first time - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:07] <exec> 08└─They've had issues with overheating components in the past (or do they still do? Haven't had a Mac since 2013...) Apple eventually relented and repaired all the overheating GPUs (I believe) after lots of complaining. I was recently repairing a Macbook Pro (about 1-2 years old) that was starting to...
[00:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Interesting) 02My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:08] <exec> 08└─This was with the first-gen early 2006 MacBook Pro - MacBookPro1,1 with a 32 bit Core Duo on a 64-Bit Core 2 Duo. The dealer told me they would replace it for free if I gave him my torched MagSafe. I kept it for use as evidence then paid $80.00 for the replacement. I had to wait about a week for it...
[00:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:10] <exec> 08└─Wow, I forgot about that one. The one I was thinking of was GPU related overheating & malfunctioning.
[00:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:12] <exec> 08└─page that explains Apple's policy regarding unsolicited product ideas
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02It this called... ? - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:13] <exec> 08└─over reported issues with the laptop's retina screen.
[00:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Tylenol killed my father. He was only 68. - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:34] <exec> 08└─I'm only 51 and I cannot Read The Fine Labels anymore. His ultimate cause of death was hepatic encepalopathy that stemmed from the damage done to his liver by the Tylenol he took to relieve the pain of his neuralgia. I once took aspirin for torn knee cartilage. It actually worked pretty well. The ad...
[00:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:52] <exec> 08└─Really, that's a separate problem as well. Also, heh heh, you said "penetrated by government".
[00:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:58] <exec> 08└─I get junk mail for Comcast Business to my mail box all the time. When I moved and updated the registration information on my domain, the letters started coming there. Comcast DOES NOT give you any information to opt-out of these mailings. I know for a fact that these mailings are tied to my domain,...
[00:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't really have reason to complain ... - 06Oxford University Unearths 800-Year-Old Charter to Seize Domain Names - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:34] <exec> 08└─Wow. These are some hard-core freaks. Makes Dr. Bronner sound like the voice of reason. And check out their coat of arms [wordpress.com], much more impressive than the other Oxford. [ox.ac.uk] As I write this, the domain names still point to the freaks. If that changes (should be soon, but you never...
[00:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A lot of outdated notions - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 2090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:26] <exec> 08└─eat meat regularly An increasing percentage of USAians are cutting meat consumption or even getting off it completely. Synthetic Vitamin B-12 has been available in pill form for decades. No one actually -needs- to eat animal products. Advertising by Capitalists is a scourge on the planet. drive a ca...
[00:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Monitored vs Existing - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:36] <exec> 08└─No, I just read the paper.
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[01:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:14] <exec> 08└─People like to point at MS as a scummy company (they can be). MS learned from the true masters of being bastards, Apple. MS was just better at it. Lost the best programming job I ever had because they decided to cut out the 3rd party hardware. I am never, ever going to purchase an Apple product agai...
[01:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02WHO GIVES A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK? - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:16] <exec> 08└─http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/nightmareonelmstreet/images/4/41/Zsa_Zsa_Gabor_Cameo.png/revision/latest?cb=20140124212926 [nocookie.net]
[01:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Looks like glue melt - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─Overheat melting the glue hold screen layers together is my guess.
[01:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dime [1163] (Score:1) 02Re:Ornothologist or not - 06As Habitats Vanish, Migratory Birds Flock to N. Korea Shores - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:26] <exec> 08└─There will be no birds left to watch soon. You think whatever species deciding to winter in a country full of starving people will flourish?
[01:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:suck it up - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:42] <exec> 08└─This. I read some 30 years ago about some dude that tried to commit suicide by OD'ing on Tylenol. He failed, but fatally damaged his liver. Took him I think 6 months to die, during which time he decided he didn't want to die. I've got some aspirin in the apt, a 100 tablet bottle lasts me for years....
[01:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:59] <exec> 08└─" The Borg have neither honor nor courage. That is our greatest advantage. "
[01:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:07] <exec> 08└─The secret knowledge was etiquette. It got ridiculous during the Victorian Age with everyone obsessing over which fork to use with the salad and coming up with delicate euphemisms for various bodily functions.
[01:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Greed - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:24] <exec> 08└─looking how the things go, US doesn't believe the middle class is necessary.
[01:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Jan you lefty commie slut - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:05] <exec> 08└─Of course. What could go wrong. Totally the same stuff. What's been in the plants we've eaten for thousands of years and the various substances in well waste water. You can bet the oil company CEO's don't live around where they are going to do this, and they won't drink the water, and they won't eat...
[01:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:15] <exec> 08└─Regulations written on the basis of starting with water that's not hugely contaminated in the first place?
[01:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:16] <exec> 08└─They get to keep it secret right up until the moment they try to sell it as water that enters the food system. Then they have to disclose everything they have done to it. Right now, the regulations are written for rain water, that has not had a lot of stuff added to it. They haven't been written exp...
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─So, you reckon selling the remaining salt - all of it - wouldn't cause any problems? It wouldn't, for example, depress the prices of salt, causing businesses to close? Employment would fall, too. You see no problem with that? Because you think you've found a solution (ha!) to the problem doesn't mea...
[01:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is This Appalling? - 06Multiple Animals Linked in Cooperative Brain Networks - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:51] <exec> 08└─They should have used three lawyers.
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[02:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Em dashes and hyphens - 06Volcanic Rocks Resembling Roman Concrete Explain Record Uplift in Italian Caldera - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:09] <exec> 08└─"the deep basement of the caldera-the "wall" of the bowl-like depression-consisted of carbonate-bearing rocks similar to limestone" Em dashes and hyphens are not the same thing at all. Even in plain old ASCII it's nice to use two dashes to indicate the em dash.
[02:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Em dashes and hyphens - 06Volcanic Rocks Resembling Roman Concrete Explain Record Uplift in Italian Caldera - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:11] <exec> 08└─Em dashes and hyphens are not the same thing at all. Even in plain old ASCII it's nice to use two dashes to indicate the em dash.
[02:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Slight error in the article - 06Volcanic Rocks Resembling Roman Concrete Explain Record Uplift in Italian Caldera - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:12] <exec> 08└─Pozzuoli was the main commercial and military port for the Roman Empire....
[02:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02sounds dangerous - 06Volcanic Rocks Resembling Roman Concrete Explain Record Uplift in Italian Caldera - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:14] <exec> 08└─I imagine this makes the caldera particularly dangerous during eruptions since more pressure than normal can build up and be released suddenly.
[02:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Why more like limestone than granite? - 06Volcanic Rocks Resembling Roman Concrete Explain Record Uplift in Italian Caldera - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:16] <exec> 08└─When I first skimmed through the article I wondered why the concrete rocks looked more like limestone (sedimentary), rather than like the more crystalline granite as you might expect with molten conditions. Reason is that the concrete formed after the molten volcanic activity, and is a result of che...
[02:13:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:25] <exec> 08└─page that explains Apple's policy regarding unsolicited product ideas
[02:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:27] <exec> 08└─" Lost the best programming job I ever had because they decided to cut out the 3rd party hardware. "
[02:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 2330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:29] <exec> 08└─The two real issues at play here: 1) laptop design is by far the most complicated of all the devices we use on day-to-day basis. 2) People like to hate Apple. I've worked as a Mac support engineer for 6 years now across several companies with literally thousands of Mac laptops between them. I've see...
[02:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It this called... ? - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:30] <exec> 08└─No, it isn't.
[02:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:3, Interesting) 02TiG4 hinges anyone? - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:33] <exec> 08└─Nothing new. I keep a Titanium G4 Powerbook to test certain legacy issues for a customer and these had awfully flawed screen hinges. By now, they must have broken on virtually every of these. Mine (i keep a spare) have a broken hinges, too. That caused some unrest back in the day because Apple said,...
[02:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02First World Problems OMG - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:35] <exec> 08└─Kids these days aren't even old enough to remember what the Watergate scandal even was. Stop using -gate to name your pathetic little problems, whiny assholes.
[02:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First World Problems OMG - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:36] <exec> 08└─Stop using -gate to refer to any scandal, in fact. It is stupid and it makes you sound stupid when you do it. Hell, I am a gamergater, and I think the term is dumb.
[02:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First World Problems OMG - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:39] <exec> 08└─Technically Watergate was a pathetic little problem too. Aside from the B&E, everything else from that event has become legal and happens daily.
[02:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just pay the crApple tax - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:41] <exec> 08└─Shut up and keep your rabid fanboy attitude!
[02:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02So is Pripyat - 06As Habitats Vanish, Migratory Birds Flock to N. Korea Shores - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:47] <exec> 08└─Any area that seems nearly abandoned by humans will be a wildlife refuge by default.
[02:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Settled Science in Medicine - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:58] <exec> 08└─I can't believe they're treating it as even close to settled that these drugs cause heart disease. To my mind the alternate explanation that people under stress are more prone to pain, inflammation, AND heart disease, and therefore take more NSAIDs and have more heart attacks, is at least as compell...
[02:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:03] <exec> 08└─The plural of ancedote is not data. However I would agree that heavy opiate use is really... really bad for one's health. But being in horrific constant pain is as well.
[02:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:05] <exec> 08└─Heroin is not Laudanum and to your annectdote I oppose Thomas De Quincy (1785-1859). Also pure pharmaceutical grade Heroin is not brain frying, residual solvent and cutting agents are. And guess what if it was accessible and unstigmatized, neurotoxin solvents nor would be present
[02:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Tylenol killed my father. He was only 68. - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:08] <exec> 08└─I was just going to post something here about the horrible damage Tylenol does to a person's liver. Having said that, it seems to be hit and miss. My 78-year-old mother has been taking Tylenol for years regularly is doing quite well. There are a lot of things that can cause liver damage, and some pe...
[02:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:39] <exec> 08└─Neither am I. Son.
[02:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No whois, but a warrant - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:44] <exec> 08└─I would think that Gamergate would be an argument against anonymity because it allows people to hide while doxing and issuing death threats. Maybe that's me.
[02:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:03] <exec> 08└─So it's post scarcity only for the rich? Well duh. Looks like we've got that Star Trek economy already then. Those kids of the rich are doing whatever they want already, driving Ferraris if not commanding starships.
[02:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:A lot of outdated notions - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:06] <exec> 08└─No one actually -needs- to eat animal products.
[02:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:30] <exec> 08└─Add to that the fact that with fruit your production capacity takes years to change. You can't just plant more trees and have a bigger crop next year, and if you stop tending to some of the trees you already have to reduce production cost, you're making a big beach-head for blights and pests to inva...
[02:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:48] <exec> 08└─Right now, the regulations are written for rain water, that has not had a lot of stuff added to it. They haven't been written expecting whatever mysterious compounds the oil companies have been using for drilling or fracking.
[02:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:52] <exec> 08└─Potato, potato.
[02:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:54] <exec> 08└─Did the prior comment really just point out how callow khallow is?
[02:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:57] <exec> 08└─you can afford the slight overhead of mixing your discarded waste water with sea water.
[02:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:59] <exec> 08└─You'll find that chemicals such as benzene, chromium-6, lead, arsenic, radium and others contaminate the water in far higher concentrations than allowable limits.
[02:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:As expected - 06Record-breaking Heavy Rainfall Events Increased under Global Warming - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:58] <exec> 08└─The Sahara *doesn't* have a moist belt below it (and North of the Equator). That was a contractual. It was actually a contractual subjunctive, but I agree that there weren't any specific markers to denote that. What's actually been happening there is the drought has been spreading southwards. I don'...
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[03:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:26] <exec> 08└─I am never, ever going to purchase an Apple product again as long as I live.
[03:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Not the first time - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:28] <exec> 08└─"Maybe instead of obsessing over thinness they could engineer proper cooling for their Macs?" Never going to happen from the Mac Pro's I have owned to the Mini still left they all run/ran hot. Apple does it on purpose they would rather it run hot than have fan noise IMHO or at least that has been my...
[03:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Looks like... - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:38] <exec> 08└─I got two culprits for that. 1) Pressure damage to the anti-reflective coating. 2) Exposure to rapidly varying temperatures de-laminating the layers of the screen. Also, quote from the BBC website: "One Macbook repair specialist indicated that this was not a common problem." Diagnosis: A rare, semi-...
[03:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obi-Wan sez - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:40] <exec> 08└─I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of self-entitled pricks suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened to their screens.
[03:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Product quality has gone down across the board - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:42] <exec> 08└─I'd avoid getting into a hissy fit just because this is Apple. Product quality has gone down across the board. The only problem with Apple is that you pay a higher price for the same crap electronics that they shove into all the laptops. I'm a somewhat happy customer of Apple, but I was hit by the G...
[03:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't really have reason to complain ... - 06Oxford University Unearths 800-Year-Old Charter to Seize Domain Names - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:15] <exec> 08└─There is reason to complain: Censorship is completely intolerable.
[03:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:38] <exec> 08└─Well, if you look at Star Trek, there's one thing you'll always notice: A hierarchy.
[03:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:42] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, "traditional manufacturing" will be exclusively done with 3d printers.
[03:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Greed - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:59] <exec> 08└─What about a pure socialist country, like USSR
[03:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Greed - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:01] <exec> 08└─The benefits of doing nothing outweigh the benefits of being known as a good redshirt.
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[04:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Product quality has gone down across the board - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:51] <exec> 08└─Funny. I've never bought an Apple product in all my forty years, and I never seem to have problems like this.
[04:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Product quality has gone down across the board - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:53] <exec> 08└─I'd like to hear recommendations on what laptop to buy next.
[04:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Nothing new - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:55] <exec> 08└─I remember my non unibody Intel mbp. Skin oil caused the aluminum on the palm rest to corrode causing black spots. They covered the repair but it was still a silly mistake.
[04:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Settled Science in Medicine - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:15] <exec> 08└─I can't believe they're treating it as even close to settled that [health claim].
[04:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:22] <exec> 08└─the only physiological change caused by opioid use is the unbinding of G proteins from their respective receptors (which can be undone with the use of opioid antagonists, which cause the G proteins to re-bind). opioids will not cause mental illness or anything like that at any higher rate than anyth...
[04:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:24] <exec> 08└─Opiate are quite safe given access to standardized preparation as long and as much as the patient needs.
[04:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:43] <exec> 08└─So you're in favor of banning things for everyone merely because they could be/are abused? Do you value freedom at all?
[04:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:02] <exec> 08└─Some people abuse it, so get rid of it. Brilliant! Let's get rid of TOR and all forms of privacy, as well.
[04:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:No whois, but a warrant - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:06] <exec> 08└─Abuse of personal anonymity isn't an argument against anonymity unless you're in favor of collective punishment and think the ends justify the means. It's not just you, but I wish it was.
[04:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Emetic? - 06Basic Computing Elements Created in Bacteria - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:20] <exec> 08└─1. not a bug, a feature. 2. Don't get sick - you might lose your "smart" bugs.. Even from the 'flu': http://abcnews.go.com [go.com]
[04:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Greed - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:22] <exec> 08└─looking how the things go, US doesn't believe the middle class is necessary.
[04:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:17] <exec> 08└─From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], with plenty of sources, including the law and amendments themselves, for your perusal: The 1974 act authorized EPA to regulate injection wells in order to protect underground sources of drinking water. Congress amended the SDWA in 2005 to exclude hydraulic fracturing,...
[04:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:18] <exec> 08└─That's a great solution.
[04:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:32] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't, for example, depress the prices of salt, causing businesses to close? Employment would fall, too. You see no problem with that?
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[05:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02Fire it up! - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:15] <exec> 08└─There's already enough "background" radiation that hardly anyone will notice! It's a safe bet that it will never reach 100% efficiency therefore releasing more than just hydrogen and helium.
[05:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02ground-based laser propulsion - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:16] <exec> 08└─It's the kind of propulsion I envision for spacecraft using ground-based lasers, not laser fission-fusion chambers in airplanes. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.gizmag.com [gizmag.com] http://motherboard.vice.com...
[05:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02There are many companies that make computers - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:45] <exec> 08└─My most-serious gripe with Apple is that they have always screwed their developers, and in recent years they are not serving the interest of the general public. I just got a new consulting gig, I'll be working on Linux. While I will have to buy a notebook computer, I understand I can get what I need...
[05:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02the stains, they spread! - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:02] <exec> 08└─I've got that happening on both sides of the cheap laptop I use to edit your stories. It is still quite usable, and I don't notice it much if I'm looking at the center of the screen.
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[06:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Formatting? - 06Algorithm Translates 40 Years of UN Refugee Data to Music - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:12] <exec> 08└─My eyes did some crazy shit when I tried reading this, drunkenly trying to parse it into some sort of elaborate syntax depicting formal logic or something, but now I think the formatting just went wrong.
[06:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Formatting? - 06Algorithm Translates 40 Years of UN Refugee Data to Music - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:13] <exec> 08└─I think an old copy of my user script [soylentnews.org] went rogue.
[06:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Visualisation - 06Algorithm Translates 40 Years of UN Refugee Data to Music - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:15] <exec> 08└─people who want to make sense of big data sets work on data visualization.
[06:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Please understand - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:23] <exec> 08└─A tragic loss for gaming. It's rare to see a CEO who is also a talented engineer and artist. He was much more than just a manager of other people. He is credited on a truly staggering number of titles [wikia.com], and his work on the Pokemon games was particularly impressive.
[06:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Please understand - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:24] <exec> 08└─I never could get excited about Pokemon. I think I was too old for the appeal, though I understand them to be a solid series of JRPGs. Kirby's Adventure, Earthbound, and Metroid Fusion though, wow.
[06:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please understand - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:26] <exec> 08└─The Pokemon games weren't too bad. They probably would've been better without a leveling system. There is a lot of strategic possibilities with forming teams with 150 different choices. Leveling makes strategy less important but more accessible to those that are bad at it which also expands the age...
[06:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02One star reviews - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:04] <exec> 08└─I have my own mental filter for reviews. I mean, everyone knows that there are people who rave a product because there's soemthing in it for them. I've sometimes felt that rants against a product are made for similar reasons. Then, there are fanboys and haters who get nothing more than a feeling of...
[06:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Product quality has gone down across the board - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:19] <exec> 08└─I bought a MacBook Pro about 6 months ago (I spent weeks trying to find a non-Apple laptop with the same build quality in the price range) and haven't regretted it yet. I have linux/windows installed on it and it gets the job done. I'd have a thinkpad right now if they weren't pure ass anymore. Mayb...
[06:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score:1) 02Re:Settled Science in Medicine - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:43] <exec> 08└─Good point - there is a big difference between finding an association between two factors (e.g., NSAID use and higher cardiac mortality), which is how studies report it and causality, which is how the press reports it.
[06:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:50] <exec> 08└─Do people build tolerance to opioids? There are many feedback loops in biology. That is why many medications require steping-down the dose. Long term treatment may cause a change in sensitivity or the number of G proteins.
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[07:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02I read, - 06Algorithm Translates 40 Years of UN Refugee Data to Music - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:16] <exec> 08└─I read TFS. I called "bullshit". Scrolled down and read other stories, came back and read TFS again. Hmmm. Might be cool after all. So I clicked TFA. Data driven DJ? Possibly interesting. But, DAMN IT! "SORRY This video does not exist." I can't blame Phoenix666, but SOMEONE is jerking out chains. Ma...
[07:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I read, - 06Algorithm Translates 40 Years of UN Refugee Data to Music - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:17] <exec> 08└─on vimeo [vimeo.com]
[07:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please understand - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:28] <exec> 08└─Later games have competitive modes that set your Pokemon to a certain level like 50.
[07:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Farewell - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:29] <exec> 08└─Farewell Mr. Iwata. Thank you for contributing so wonderfully to my childhood, adulthood, and even my career.
[07:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02It is not what they claim. - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:31] <exec> 08└─appointed CEO has passed away on July 11, 2015 due to a bile duct growth He died from sniffing some rotten panties he got from a vending machine!
[07:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:It is not what they claim. - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:33] <exec> 08└─If only it were true. I think someone has been reading The Onion too much.... or the National Enquirer.
[07:14:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Looks like glue melt - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:15] <exec> 08└─Overheat melting the glue hold screen layers together is my guess.
[07:14:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02First World Problems OMG - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:17] <exec> 08└─Kids these days aren't even old enough to remember what the Watergate scandal even was. Stop using -gate to name your pathetic little problems, whiny assholes.
[07:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:the stains, they spread! - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:30] <exec> 08└─Entropy happens, eh?
[07:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score:1) 02Re:Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:02] <exec> 08└─Doctors should only prescribe aspirin or opiate, for long term pain management as, nsaid are dangerous
[07:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Multimedia clothing. - 06The Capabilities of Nanomaterials in Textiles Continue to Expand - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:13] <exec> 08└─all you have to do is walk into a Police station and yell the secret code, "I've got a gun!" three times and start running at an officer.
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[08:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:49] <exec> 08└─That's what it is.
[08:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:50] <exec> 08└─I always thought that hypocrisy was simply a subset of a larger corruption. Stated policy is a tacit agreement with the voters: "Vote for me and I will act this way". When the politician breaks that agreement, he or she clearly signals that they no longer care about the voters' desires and is instea...
[08:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:52] <exec> 08└─Devil's advocate: “Politics is the art of the possible/attainable” -- Otto von Bismarck
[08:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Congress is NOT a Parliament - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:53] <exec> 08└─Congress is NOT a Parliament and a President is NOT a Prime Minister. When the Executive does NOT answer to the Legislature, when the President ignores Congress and governs by Executive Order instead, you do NOT have a Democracy or even a Republic. You have a Dictatorship. Stop pretending different...
[08:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like glue melt - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:05] <exec> 08└─Apple like using cheap screens. They used cheaper 6 bit panels in some models for a while, until threatened with a lawsuit over claims that they could display "millions of colours". It wouldn't surprise me if they took the budget option again and get sub-standard glue.
[08:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First World Problems OMG - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:11] <exec> 08└─It's a meme. It won't go away. Complaining about it won't help. Now let me get off our lawn.
[08:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02They deserve it. - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 2173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:22] <exec> 08└─If a company fucks ME over? I no longer do business with that company, period the end. When Nvidia burned me with Bumpgate, guess what? No more Nvidia hardware was bought, same thing when MSI outright lied on their specs and said certain CPUs were compatible with their boards when they were not. Hel...
[08:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02Re:broken systems - 06Pirate Bay Founders 'Cleared of Copyright Crimes' in Belgium - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:19:01] <exec> 08└─You think in boxes. Typical caused by mass media consume and friend circles that also think in boxes. Why is it not illegal to download (what ever) in Switzerland ? Because the Swiss citizen have made the decision that they want it that way. Yes, the Swiss has also a corrupt government, BUT, with on...
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[09:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:11] <exec> 08└─You missed one: “To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” ― Douglas Ad...
[09:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Well... - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:41] <exec> 08└─Down to 0 HP. Please remember to hold reset while turning off the power.
[09:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:ground-based laser propulsion - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:52] <exec> 08└─In regards with the propulsion by electron ejection (last link) - what happens when the sponge becomes so positively charged that the (now elevated) potential barrier prevents other electron ejection? Where do you take enough electrons in space to compensate the extra positive charge?
[09:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sce7mjm [809] (Score:1) 02Atomic engines - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:54] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the noise this thing makes won't allow it to be used at the proposed runway at heathrow. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[09:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sce7mjm [809] (Score:1) 02Re:Atomic engines - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:55] <exec> 08└─bad link should have been https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] whoops less funny now joke over nothing to see here...etc. ahem...
[09:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:21] <exec> 08└─That wasn't Apple specific, it was an Nvidia manufacturing screw-up. [cnet.com] Dell and HP also offered out-of-warranty replacements/repairs for affected systems, along with BIOS updates to enable GPU fans all the time and run them faster and louder, notably reducing the battery life.
[09:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because Dell, HP, Lenovo et al just lurve listening to customers and running with their ideas. Biased much? Don't worry, it's not just you, the Apple Reality Distortion field appears to extend to anything written about Apple anywhere.
[09:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:There are many companies that make computers - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:30] <exec> 08└─I just got a new consulting gig, I'll be working on Linux. While I will have to buy a notebook computer, I understand I can get what I need for $250.00.
[09:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like glue melt - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:38] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest it's something else at work if it's 2,500 reports since the "worst affect" 2013 model came out, probably a combination of rare issues, one of which is the user doing something stupid with their machine. If it was a simple overheat issue, there'd be queues outside Apple stores a mile long...
[09:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:TiG4 hinges anyone? - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:40] <exec> 08└─I had the hinges snap on a G4 PowerBook (1.67GHz - one of the later ones) when it was one month away from the end of the three-year warranty. Apple replaced it for free without any complaints.
[09:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Product quality has gone down across the board - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:50] <exec> 08└─I doubt that's anything to do with not buying Apple products. From the article, 2013 models are worst affected and there are 2,500 cases reported. Apple sold 16.3million Macs in 2013 [macworld.com] - that's a "failure" rate of 0.015%. TFA holds the clue to what's going on - "Phi Chong, a software en...
[09:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Product quality has gone down across the board - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:53] <exec> 08└─It bears repeating because so few people actually remember the GPU issue as it really went down, but that was a problem with Nvidia's manufacturing process. HP and Dell also did repair/replace programs for affected system - it wasn't an Apple-specific fault, yet that's how people remember it.
[09:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:20:58] <exec> 08└─Apparently these are much easier to separate from water than salt. (You do know that cr6+ is poisonous for plants?)
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[10:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:2, Informative) 02Libertarians are not your friends. - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:29] <exec> 08└─Shock, horror.
[10:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:3, Insightful) 02OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not really familiar with PandoDaily, but this looks very much like muck-raking purely for the sake of smearing Greenwald and the EFF to me - something I'm sure a lot of organizations would like to do right now. This all happened more than 20 years ago and according to Wikipedia Greenwald appears...
[10:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:32] <exec> 08└─Social justice warriors and smoking. I'm sure you don't need much more help than that. The warriors need to be heard now and then, or sink into oblivion.
[10:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Obscurity - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:33] <exec> 08└─You MEANT to say "obscurity", you big dummy!
[10:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Hyperbole - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:35] <exec> 08└─"most deadly crime in human history" Hyperbole, much? Yeah, smoking is bad, but no one comes by with a gun, and FORCES you to smoke a cigarette. Freedom of choice counts for a lot, you know. Taking choice into consideration, how does the smoking industry's crimes stack up against the holocaust, or t...
[10:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Game theory explanation - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:48] <exec> 08└─Game theory also explains why bankers try to get the better of you. Or why people defraud other people. Or a heap of other undesirable behaviours. However that doesn't imply we should accept those things. Rather it means we should consider changing the rules of the game so that the undesirable behav...
[10:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I read, - 06Algorithm Translates 40 Years of UN Refugee Data to Music - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:03] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Sir. The "music" is God-awful, IMHO. But, the video portion is somehwat informative. It puts the immigration and/or invasion problem in Europe into perspective. The invasions of the US and Canada pale in comparison.
[10:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:08] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah and I have an HP and when I hit it with hammer sparks fly all over! ... so apple is not to be blamed for their faulty hardware!
[10:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There are many companies that make computers - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:13] <exec> 08└─Depends quite alot how you work... a lot of serious work can be done on the oldest machine you can get your hands on.
[10:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:They deserve it. - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:40] <exec> 08└─Perfect example of Apple rage. Can't see past the fact that any tiny mistake Apple make gets them hauled over the coals in the press, yet every other laptop/phone/whatever manufacturer in the world has just as many problems (if not more) yet they rarely get taken to task like this latest storm-in-a-...
[10:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:While you wait for some sense... - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:35] <exec> 08└─Well, the tokenizer only checks that each word is OK. It's the parser that checks the grammar. And even that is not yet semantic analysis; it's the latter that determines if the sentence makes sense. Consider "Red green flies read unknown little rocks." The tokenizer will tell you it's OK: all of "r...
[10:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obscure organization? - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:04] <exec> 08└─The "obscure organization" being ICANN
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[11:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:1) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:44] <exec> 08└─So you've got Greenwald off the hook with your "youthful indescrection" argument. Now explain the EFF.
[11:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:1) 02Re:Hyperbole - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, somewhat exagerated. But don't forget that the guilt of the tabacco companies isn't that they sold addictive substances that were dangerous to health, it's that they knew what they were selling was dangerous and attempted to hide that information. They also knew what they were selling was addi...
[11:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Hyperbole - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:48] <exec> 08└─Every time a child pops out, he is condemned to death, isn't he?
[11:15:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Game theory explanation - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 629 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:02] <exec> 08└─Game theory also explains why bankers try to get the better of you. Or why people defraud other people. Or a heap of other undesirable behaviours. However that doesn't imply we should accept those things. Rather it means we should consider changing the rules of the game so that the undesirable behav...
[11:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They deserve it. - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:16:53] <exec> 08└─More like double pricing. If your product costs more, it had better have less problems and better design. Which is not happening with apple, hence the complaints. Is it really so complicated?
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[12:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02You do not need leaks to stop it, per se - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:17] <exec> 08└─Just create something from scratch that looks like it could be related to the TTIP. Base your creation on the rumors that have circulated so far. Get some news organizations to pick up your fake, and start raising hell about it. Who will claim it is a fake, if they will not show the public the real...
[12:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03topdawg [2159] (Score:1) 02English link - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:18] <exec> 08└─The link at the bottom didn't work for me when I clicked it either, but if you actually pull the link out and paste into the browser, there is an actual English version, here is the link to save you the time https://correctiv.org [correctiv.org]
[12:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just a minor nit - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:19] <exec> 08└─From the summary: The link to the connectiv.org web site
[12:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:33] <exec> 08└─The EFF isn't on the hook for anything. They needed a test case to challenge advertising restrictions, which basically limits it to tobacco and alcohol advertisers. The ACLU defends neo-Nazis for displaying flags. Same thing. They can't legally oppose laws without a case to bring. And let's face it,...
[12:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:34] <exec> 08└─Now explain the EFF.
[12:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Hyperbole - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:38] <exec> 08└─They went as far as to bribe the people in charge of fire standards to insist on (poisonous) fire retardant chemicals in furniture, rather than introduce cigarettes that went out when you stopped smoking them.
[12:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:52] <exec> 08└─Since those more capable to rule have better other things to do, how can you expect something else? To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
[12:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress is NOT a Parliament - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:55] <exec> 08└─When the Executive does NOT answer to the Legislature, when the President ignores Congress and governs by Executive Order instead, you do NOT have a Democracy or even a Republic. You have a Dictatorship.
[12:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Game theory explanation - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:57] <exec> 08└─No, and you don't need game theory to explain anything because they are acting in the same way that we all are supposed to act when you make compromises to come to agreement. It is a give-and-take. It is the hypocritical dipshits that need to realize that their own views are not Heaven-sent. Drawing...
[12:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Interesting Bits - 06Algorithm Translates 40 Years of UN Refugee Data to Music - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:11] <exec> 08└─A few things caught my eye. In 1975, the number of world refuges was 1 in 2552. It peaked in 1990 at 1 in 358 when world population was about 5.2 billion. In 2012, it went back down, but only to 1 in 685. (We're over 7 billion now.) The number of countries with 1000+ refugees starts off as 20 in 197...
[12:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Pu-239 - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:40] <exec> 08└─Would the U-238 not breed Pu-239 via neutron capture? I can foresee political problems, not to mention technical ones. How much fusion is being done, and how much heat needs to be extracted to keep the engine from melting and to produce the electricity to drive the lasers?
[12:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:There are many companies that make computers - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:20] <exec> 08└─Yet looking at it from a different perspective, in an industry with a "newness fetish" its incredibly politically incorrect to point out that the world of 2015 is not much different from the world of 2010, so a top of the line for 2010 laptop is going to be immeasurably different in productivity in...
[12:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like glue melt - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:29] <exec> 08└─well, OBVIOUSLY the glue is 'holding it wrong'. duh!
[12:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:First World Problems OMG - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:37] <exec> 08└─Note that the kids you refer to are anyone younger than boomers, this is before the even horizon of 40-something gen-x-ers. I always kind of laugh when I see a -gate, I don't even have to look to tell you the guy who set it up is a 50-something boomer.
[12:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Product quality has gone down across the board - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:44] <exec> 08└─Don't all products come from the same factory in China from the same corporation, and some get an apple case and sticker and some get a (fill in the blank) sticker? It would be like if some kids toy like an inflatable pool leaked but the PR was it only leaked if you bought it at Walgreens. Yeah righ...
[12:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:They deserve it. - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:54] <exec> 08└─I hesitated to submit the story because anything about Apple tends to stir up a storm, but the screen damage that was pictured really would affect my productivity if I had that machine, which is quite different from the people who complain about wear patterns on the keyboard because they type on it...
[12:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Car analogy - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 1946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:56] <exec> 08└─The standard SN car analogy is almost too easy. "I bought me a new car, well, it was new a couple years of heavy use ago, and I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to inform you that its starting to rust" You bought an incredibly delicate piece of disposable / "upgrade treadmill" portable consumer electr...
[12:19:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Trekonomics works? - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 337 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:27] <exec> 08└─I hate to cite Doctorow, but Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom had a model for this. Everyone gets the essentials provided for free, but anything else requires some analogue of respect ('Whuffie' in the book). One way of acquiring it was to do jobs that no one else wanted to do - toilet cleaner was...
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[13:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:14] <exec> 08└─tl;dr For saving page snapshots (and more), use https://www.zotero.org [zotero.org] instead.
[13:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:17] <exec> 08└─Have you been able to get zotero working with pale moon? Firefox is self destructing, time to abandon ship.
[13:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, thanks for the suggestion, even though i'm not going to use any of these services. Since pocket can't be removed, it'll still be there. Mozilla is a sell out. Pocket should not be included by default and it should be removable, and hiding the disable switch is just low. Mozilla is free to recom...
[13:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:3, Informative) 02Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:21] <exec> 08└─Once a fresh new app (Phoenix), nowadays I see Firefox only as a steam train out of control. It defaults to more and more bloatware like Mozilla at the time. The very reason Phoenix was created.
[13:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:22] <exec> 08└─Not to worry: open source means that firefox has non-shitty forks. I, personally, use Pale Moon now. Which is basically firefox sans the corporate bullshit.
[13:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:24] <exec> 08└─I'd try Pale Moon, but guess what! The download is on sourceforge! AAAAAAAAAAAAA http://www.palemoon.org [palemoon.org]
[13:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:26] <exec> 08└─Just installed Pale Moon and trying a first submit with it.
[13:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02palm pilot - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:27] <exec> 08└─The technology is old. I remember an addon for my palm pilot III in '98 or so that did the same deal, download a web page and put it on a hand held device with some reformatting for later viewing. The problem is there was nothing I knew now that I wanted to download and look at an old version of in...
[13:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02What's the added value? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:29] <exec> 08└─I don't know about anyone else, but I don't see any added value to Pocket over just being able to sync bookmarks and tabs, and share links with my friends and collegues over any of the dozen or so communications media that we may already share (e-mail, Skype chat, Twitter, IRC, Facebook, Facebook ch...
[13:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the added value? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:30] <exec> 08└─The added value is all your personal information they can sell to line their pockets.
[13:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KBentley57 [645] (Score:1) 02The future of FF - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:32] <exec> 08└─I hate to hate on companies, but FF has been dying a slow death for years in my opinion. As with all companies, it seems like they are at their best / most trustworthy in their 'build' phase, where they are up and coming. Remember the FF 3-4 era? What more could a person have wanted from a web brows...
[13:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did mozilla just force update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:34] <exec> 08└─I just noticed that my firefox was updated to 39.0 even though i did not update it myself, atleast not intentionally. If they did that, then i'm removing this shit immediately. FUCK!
[13:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did mozilla just force update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:35] <exec> 08└─Windows? Go to the start menu and type in "add remove", go to "Add or remove programs" and find "Mozilla update service" and uninstall that trash. When you install Firefox, on its installer stub's first page there's an "options" thing that you should always make sure to click on to disable the updat...
[13:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:English link - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:38] <exec> 08└─Hey! Thanks for the the link — I've updated the story link to point to it, and removed verbiage pertaining to the German version.
[13:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a minor nit - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:40] <exec> 08└─I "correctiv-ated", the text, but when I replaced the link to point to the English version of the site, that text became unnecessary, so removed it. Thanks for keeping us on our toes!
[13:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02correctiv paragraph 1 - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:42] <exec> 08└─I'll give it a swing.. don't laugh about my poor German. Mon Jul 13 14:46:30 CEST 2015 downloaded from https://correctiv.org [correctiv.org] The Documents The negotiations to the free trade (abkommen?) TTIP take place behind closed doors. The documents to the (unterredunge...
[13:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02correctiv paragraph 2 - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:43] <exec> 08└─paragraph 2: "We want to elucidate. And that's why we are publishing, under #openTTIP, a lot of confidential documents that we obtained. Those point out, which states represent which interests, which questions are heavily under negotiation, or which side is blocking [which issue -tr]. Many worries f...
[13:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02correctiv paragraph 3-rest - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:45] <exec> 08└─The rest of the text: "We are of the opinion, that more transparency can lead to a better debate of the agreement. Hence: if you have (Unterlagen=topics?) of TTIP about which the public would like to know, please send us these documents. Please also anonymously to our secured anonymous letterbox. We...
[13:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Open4D [371] (Score:2) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 1635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:57] <exec> 08└─Well the article hits out at various "journalists, scientists, activists and lawyers" who were paid by the tobacco industry. To me, banning tobacco advertising is a legitimate option for a government, but opposing such a ban is not immoral. It may not be the EFF's finest moment, but 21 years later I...
[13:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:02] <exec> 08└─Amazingly, if you look into the evidence that smoking causes cancer, it is extremely weak. There is some association there, but it could just as well be that smoking speeds up the growth of preexisting tumors. Or that it increases the proportion of tumor cells that survive (eg by suppressing immune...
[13:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:04] <exec> 08└─No, smoking does cause cancer. Seen it firsthand in at least three people.
[13:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:06] <exec> 08└─Oh really? What methods did you use to 'see it happen'? How did you distinguish from amongst the possibilities I mentioned?
[13:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:07] <exec> 08└─Well, a friend, grampa on my dad's side, and some friend of my mother's died from lung cancer from smoking all their lives. Granted, they were all old. I think there's a paper that says it's far less risky to smoke if you're under 40.
[13:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:10] <exec> 08└─Oh and a neighbor died from COPD caused by smoking. She was like 55.
[13:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:12] <exec> 08└─Caused by smoking means a specific thing, it means a tumor cell formed due to smoking. Your observations are not detailed enough to rule out the explanations I mentioned that do not involve smoking causing cancer.
[13:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Careful what you smoke. - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:15] <exec> 08└─Phillip Morris, the guys who make Marlboro and a ton of others, along with R.J. Reynolds who make Camels and Kools and a ton of other stuff, are the two most insanely evil companies I have ever known. People offer me Marlboros and I straight up refuse them. They ARE more addictive. They give me a he...
[13:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:20] <exec> 08└─It's more subtle than that, it's a question of priorities. If you promise on a platform of achieving X and Y, but it turns out that you can achieve one or the other, but achieving both is impossible, then what do you do? You have to try to work out which is more important to your constituents and pu...
[13:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:22] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. Is being honest with your children except in cases where the truth would be traumatic acting in your own self-interest or being a good parent? It could be that many politicians are not acting in self-interest through hypocrisy. They could care for their constituents but simply look...
[13:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Niggle [477] (Score:1) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:25] <exec> 08└─To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. -Also Douglas Adams
[13:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress is NOT a Parliament - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:28] <exec> 08└─When the Executive does NOT answer to the Legislature, when the President ignores Congress and governs by Executive Order instead, you do NOT have a Democracy or even a Republic. You have a Dictatorship.
[13:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress is NOT a Parliament - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:30] <exec> 08└─sorry, small correction, i meant since after Gerald Ford, but really its been a dictatorship almost non-stop since Teddie Rosevelt with Gerald Ford and Bush Sr. being the only breaks.
[13:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KBentley57 [645] (Score:1) 02Headline is level 8/10 misleading - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:13] <exec> 08└─I understand sensationalism in media, but sheesh. It's no more powered by lasers than by atomic bombs, steam engines, or Pelteir elements. On another note, with the huge public fear in nuclear power facilities, I can't imagine our congress critters would be ok with these engines flying overhead. The...
[13:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:47] <exec> 08└─There is no reality distortion field. Apple acts like it's a first rate hardware makers (and it pretty much is) but they treat their customers like they are a cut-rate vendor. They charge big bucks for premium hardware but they don't provide premium customer care. "Sorry about that manufacturing def...
[13:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Multimedia clothing. - 06The Capabilities of Nanomaterials in Textiles Continue to Expand - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:18] <exec> 08└─I hope you get hit by a bus ya prick.
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[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:13] <exec> 08└─Zotero can manage your snapshots completely locally. You can get an account on their server and store your stuff there, but you're not required to.
[14:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─Seems that, like Pocket (formerly ReadItLater), Zotero also reports back to the mothership. I currently use Scrapbook [mozilla.org] which is local only. I'm thinking about trying Wallabag [mozilla.org] which sounds like it will report back to your mothership if you so choose.
[14:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:19] <exec> 08└─No, it isn't. http://relmirror.palemoon.org [palemoon.org] - that's pretty clearly not sourceforge.net.
[14:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:21] <exec> 08└─That may be true, but the Linux download page takes me here: http://sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net]
[14:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, right, linux. That's important too. But then again, the best way to get pale moon on linux is your distro's preferred variation on apt.
[14:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:24] <exec> 08└─What if your distro doesn't have a package manager? Ok, I know, I know. :) I'm building it from source (http://gnu.mirror.vexxhost.com/gnuzilla/) now.
[14:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03xorsyst [1372] (Score:1) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:25] <exec> 08└─Is there any way to get the tab bar on the side in Palemoon?
[14:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:27] <exec> 08└─Not that I'm aware of. They initially forked because of UI disagreements, like about where tabs go along the top and whatnot. But I personally switched because Mozilla added the third unwanted plugin and I decided I was done.
[14:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─I use Tree Style Tabs [sakura.ne.jp] in Palemoon. Works great.
[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:30] <exec> 08└─The version in this post works: http://forum.palemoon.org [palemoon.org]
[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:The future of FF - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:33] <exec> 08└─The giant advantage of open source, though, is that if an organization becomes a problem, there is always the option to say "Fork you!", take the code, and the only thing lost will be the brand name and marketing. This has already happened numerous times: OpenOffice->LibreOffice, Xfree86->X.org, Ubu...
[14:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03KBentley57 [645] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:The future of FF - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:34] <exec> 08└─In concept I agree, the source is there and can at least be preserved. However, a huge open source project is still a huge project. Because we have the source doesn't mean a fork is easy. Look at the backers of the projects you mentioned. Mint(http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php), LibreOffice( AMD...
[14:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The future of FF - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:36] <exec> 08└─> FF has been dying a slow death for years in my opinion Netflix confirms it.
[14:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did mozilla just force update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:38] <exec> 08└─I had that update thingy telling me there's a new version and i'm pretty damn sure that i clicked 'tell me later' every time. Now i see it's 39.0. But like i put in another post, it's not EME free version anymore. I had EME free version before, so the update just took away my choise too. Fuck this....
[14:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did mozilla just force update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:39] <exec> 08└─That, and never go to help/about. It will automatically pull an update. I forget if it is kind enough to tell you what you had prior to forcing new changes upon you. I switched to Pale Moon after trying a few alternatives. I otherwise have FF still installed, but I am using the 24.x ESR version. The...
[14:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did mozilla just force update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:41] <exec> 08└─That, and never go to help/about. It will automatically pull an update.
[14:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did mozilla just force update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─Also, it was EME free, it's not anymore.
[14:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did mozilla just force update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:44] <exec> 08└─EME free? Evil Modification/Extenstion? Egregious Malice Embedding? Or what? PEYA!
[14:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02At least Google... - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─At least Google is consistently evil. You know what you are getting. This FireFox move is akin to what happens with the favorite brand of your pet food: you pay for the quality because you want your pet to live a long and healthy life. Then one day it has a "new improved formula" sign on the package...
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:At least Google... - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:47] <exec> 08└─I think the only solution is to continue to be an early adopter of the not-shit stuff. Which requires painful vigilance, and tons of effort. But then at least you can be the unlikable martyr who gives unsolicited advice about what to use.
[14:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:At least Google... - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:49] <exec> 08└─I don't think Google is consistently (or even frequently) evil, but their potential for it is massive; probably even beyond that of Microsoft. They have the overriding concern that for their business to work, they musty keep you data to themselves. Most other companies have far less data about you,...
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02I have a question - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─Does Pocket report back info for every site you visit or just the one you invoke Pocket on? I have FF and I have seen Pocket but I don't use it. If it is not a privacy problem unless I use it then good. If it is nosy and reports everything then it has to go. Since I don't use it I will be killing...
[14:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a question - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:53] <exec> 08└─> Does Pocket report back info for every site you visit or just the one you invoke Pocket on? > If it is not a privacy problem unless I use it then good. If it is nosy and reports everything then it has to go The mozilla guys have been saying that if you remove the icon from your toolbar it doesn't...
[14:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score:1) 02Update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:55] <exec> 08└─I turn off automatic updates for everything, first thing I do when installing. I can't understand why one would do otherwise. The program works just fine on install. Except for fixing a crippling bug any update can only break it, mess up the UI or introduce unwanted features. If the program actually...
[14:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:56] <exec> 08└─Programmed obsolescence my friend... Older versions of the browser still work fine, but web pages are slowly becoming unviewable on them because they're designed to be viewed with newer browser features. There's nothing earth-shatteringly novel in web browsing that requires these newer features most...
[14:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:58] <exec> 08└─I can't understand why one would do otherwise I turn it on for *everything* I dont directly control but have to work on. That computer my wifes grandpa is not sure what to click on to get it to update? Automatically updated. That is who this is targeted for. A vulin shows up and then people pop up o...
[14:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:00] <exec> 08└─The program works just fine on install
[14:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Same old story - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:01] <exec> 08└─Once they start out with a goal, the goal to develop and maintain Firefox. And they succeeded, hiring bunch of people. Soon enough, the goal changes to maintain and expand themselves. And Firefox? What about it?
[14:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:3, Informative) 02malware-like? Seriously? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:03] <exec> 08└─"emails contains spying material using malware-like techniques" Overreact much? They put web beacon images in their emails. Like every single other "you're not the customer you're the product" service out there does. If you as a receiver of said emails don't want to be tracked, configure your email...
[14:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02B-B-B-B-BUT SOCIAL JUSTICE! - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:04] <exec> 08└─Mozilla got rid of that evil $X-ophobe and that means they're the good guys!!!!
[14:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:You do not need leaks to stop it, per se - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:06] <exec> 08└─Just create something from scratch that looks like it could be related to the TTIP. Base your creation on the rumors that have circulated so far.
[14:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02If it's anything like the TPP - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:11] <exec> 08└─In a nutshell, the dream of many in Washington and Brussels (and their bosses in New York and London and Frankfurt) is a world in which there is no such thing as a tariff or trade regulation. And now they really want to hurry that up and make it the law of the world before those pesky voters come al...
[14:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:1) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:24] <exec> 08└─They needed a test case to challenge advertising restrictions
[14:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:1) 02Re:Hyperbole - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:30] <exec> 08└─And it tastes like burning glue. That can't be good for you.
[14:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:1) 02Re:Careful what you smoke. - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:40] <exec> 08└─I smoke mostly pipe tobacco rollies. I like a brand called Talon.
[14:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress is NOT a Parliament - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:00] <exec> 08└─Executive Orders can be overturned by Congress and the Courts. Checks and balances, man.
[14:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Game theory explanation - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:04] <exec> 08└─What many people even within the liberal arts fail to realize is that morality and ethics is simply game theory applied to incommensurable values. I think game theory as it stands has less to do with an unfortunate mathematical optimum as much as irresponsible starting conditions. If you decide futu...
[14:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03throckmorten [3380] (Score:1) 02About time - 06Algorithm Translates 40 Years of UN Refugee Data to Music - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:18] <exec> 08└─Sound like someone is a Dirk Gently fan. Douglas Adams had Richard MacDuff do something similar back in 1987
[14:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02South Sudan - 06Algorithm Translates 40 Years of UN Refugee Data to Music - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:19] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked... SHOCKED I tell you that -according to the video- South Sudan hasn't been generating nor receiving any refugees since 1975... Their first refugees are in 2012. This must be a super stable country in which everyone is incredibly happy... No one wants to leave it AT ALL... On a different...
[14:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:First World Problems OMG - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:42] <exec> 08└─Saying gate at the end of something instantly identifies what was said as a scandal. Like it or not 'gate' actually caries meaning far beyond its first usage (which wasn't even usage it was just part of the name of the building). It's become a nickname handle applied to anything controversial (not i...
[14:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like... - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:45] <exec> 08└─Diagnosis: A rare, semi-abusive usage pattern
[14:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:They deserve it. - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not denying it's a problem, but the scale of the problem simply doesn't justify the amount of coverage or animosity this "story" is getting. Also, the "Apple is more expensive" line is just ridiculous. Many PC laptop manufacturers make machines that are just as expensive with the same quality ex...
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[15:13:30] <exec> 08└─If you do the config:about and search for Pocket, you can do more than just toggle the setting for the task bar. Edit all the properties including the oAuth token and the URL to call back to and just blank all of them. Same for Loop, which is for the Hello app.
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?
[15:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:45] <exec> 08└─You should put a proper attribution to your sig.
[15:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did mozilla just force update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:00] <exec> 08└─EME, Encrypted Media Extensions. https://hsivonen.fi [hsivonen.fi]
[15:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:At least Google... - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:03] <exec> 08└─My problem with this is it is hard to tell what is "non-shit" when you are an early adopter.
[15:14:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pendorbound [2688] 02malware-like? Seriously? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─"emails contains spying material using malware-like techniques" Overreact much? They put web beacon images in their emails. Like every single other "you're not the customer you're the product" service out there does. If you as a receiver of said emails don't want to be tracked, configure your email...
[15:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:malware-like? Seriously? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:14] <exec> 08└─They've probably already uploaded pictures of you to Facebook
[15:14:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 584 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─The EFF isn't on the hook for anything. They needed a test case to challenge advertising restrictions, which basically limits it to tobacco and alcohol advertisers. The ACLU defends neo-Nazis for displaying flags. Same thing. They can't legally oppose laws without a case to bring. And let's face it,...
[15:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:50] <exec> 08└─The EFF is not a single issue organization.
[15:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:52] <exec> 08└─> And let's face it, Greenwald is an opportunistic, self-interested whore. He doesn't give a shit about the Snowden > files except insofar as he gets to control their release. Which is why Snowden picked him in the first place. That guy really didn't really think it through, did he?
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:54] <exec> 08└─> N.B. If you made the mistake of believing him, see these (1) That's the "I'm not racist, I hate everybody equally" fallacy. (2) Just because you aren't a bully 100% of the time doesn't mean you aren't a bully
[15:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:56] <exec> 08└─> So is smearing like this something PandoDaily is likely to do I stopped reading Pando over a year ago because of their deliberately obtuse coverage of the Snowden fiasco. While they had some good articles, they had way too many that blatantly distorted the facts. I figured that if their editorial...
[15:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Hyperbole - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:00] <exec> 08└─And do you think the things they put in cigarettes to make them taste "better" are good for you?
[15:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:08] <exec> 08└─Your theory is not backed up by statistics. Look no further than the insurance companies. They knew well before anyone else. They have the actuarial tables to back it up. If I remember correctly the correlation was 98%. Which means a 2% error rate. But if 9 out of 10 smokers and 1 out of 10 non smok...
[15:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why this is so difficult to understand. You have moles don't you? The same things can exist inside your body where you can't see. So one explanation is that the cancer is already there, it is just growing slowly. Smoking, etc may just speed it up so it becomes a problem before you die o...
[15:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:12] <exec> 08└─Even if either of those were true, those are still awful possibilities.
[15:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As I've said - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:35] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the problem is the People's Representatives are representative of the People. Make up your mind what you want - someone to represent you or someone to lead you (careful where though ;) ). If most of you are clueless sheeple then you are probably going to get "leaders" at best, at worst you...
[15:16:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:47] <exec> 08└─That wasn't Apple specific, it was an Nvidia manufacturing screw-up. [cnet.com] Dell and HP also offered out-of-warranty replacements/repairs for affected systems, along with BIOS updates to enable GPU fans all the time and run them faster and louder, notably reducing the battery life.
[15:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:53] <exec> 08└─I can not see the value prop on developing for Apple anymore. They now give the tools away at least. But they now take even *more* money on the backend. Instead of it taking 20k or so to setup a dev, it now costs pretty much hardware. But they then want to take it all on the backend with their store...
[15:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:There are many companies that make computers - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:03] <exec> 08└─If you're only spending $250 on a machine for work, then you and your employer must not value your time very highly.
[15:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:suck it up - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─I'm a functioning alcoholic
[15:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Basic? - 06Basic Computing Elements Created in Bacteria - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:13] <exec> 08└─Did they really have to choose Basic? Couldn't they have chosen a more modern language like Python? ;-)
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[16:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02All running linux? - 06June 2015 TOP500 Supercomputer List Released, Tianhe-2 Still Leads - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:23] <exec> 08└─Did i miss something? Are they all running linux (the top 10 are)? Didn't it used to show percentages of linux/bsd/windows machines? Do you have to peruse EVERY link from every machine to see what it runs? Is linux now the default? My enquiring mind wants to know? Statistics are EVERYTHING!
[16:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:All running linux? - 06June 2015 TOP500 Supercomputer List Released, Tianhe-2 Still Leads - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:24] <exec> 08└─Top 25!
[16:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bring up the heavy artillery - 06Battle Against Destructive Beetles Hits Hurdle - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:33] <exec> 08└─I bet those beetles wouldn't be so complacent around giant Texas centipedes [livescience.com].
[16:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─What is the alternative? Chrome is pretty bad from a privacy perspective :( Also not as extensible.
[16:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:02] <exec> 08└─Can't browse without Tree Style Tabs anymore. 70+ open tabs would be unmanageable without it. That and All-in-One Sidebar make full use of a widescreen monitor.
[16:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:malware-like? Seriously? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:32] <exec> 08└─I agree that the description of "malware-like" is sensational, but there used to be a time when no one would let something that did these very things onto their computer. This is an erosion or privacy that you are justifying. I do not care to monetize their offering, I don't care to use it, I don't...
[16:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hyperbole - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:17] <exec> 08└─> First, it's a good idea to have fire resistant furniture anyway. Perhaps a less-toxic additive would have been a better fit, but it's not a bad idea. But is it? First, the retardants that the tobacco lobby got mandated don't delay the burning very long and second, the number of people in non-smoki...
[16:15:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:38] <exec> 08└─I always thought that hypocrisy was simply a subset of a larger corruption. Stated policy is a tacit agreement with the voters: "Vote for me and I will act this way". When the politician breaks that agreement, he or she clearly signals that they no longer care about the voters' desires and is instea...
[16:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:42] <exec> 08└─Then maybe don't promise X and Y if you can't deliver X and Y.
[16:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Fallacy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:56] <exec> 08└─"every member of a parliament in a democratic society is legally equal to every member" is just plain false when there's block voting, or the whip, which describes pretty much every democracy I know of. E.g. In a 2-party state, the smaller party's members basically don't count - the majority party a...
[16:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Greed - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:37] <exec> 08└─So, US capital does no longer need both US middle-class and the poor one, because they aren't poor enough to compete with others even more poor than them?
[16:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Greed - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:37] <exec> 08└─You claim it is greed that concentrates wealth... I rather thing it is actually stupidity. Yes STUPIDITY. Why? Because stupid people will spend their money unwisely until they no longer have any. Plain and simple only way to make sure stupid people do not spend their money on lottery, get-rich schem...
[16:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:54] <exec> 08└─exactly. it all stems from supply and demand of natural resources. our demand (population) has reached a level where our mere presence decreases supply - even if we weren't using it. for example, even if all humans on the planet stopped eating animals, animals are going to go extinct from lack of go...
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[17:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:All running linux? - 06June 2015 TOP500 Supercomputer List Released, Tianhe-2 Still Leads - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:21] <exec> 08└─http://top500.org/statistics/list/ [top500.org] "Operating system family". 486 run Linux, 12 Unix, 1 Windows, 1 Mixed. "Operating system" has more details: Linux 359 Cray Linux Environment 42 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 27 CentOS 19 AIX 11 bullx SCS 6 Bullx Linux 5 Scientific Linux 4 RH...
[17:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02This list no longer has meaning. - 06June 2015 TOP500 Supercomputer List Released, Tianhe-2 Still Leads - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:23] <exec> 08└─Since these top machines are just a room full of "pc"s / giant Beowulf clusters, and if it does include distributed projects (protein folding, seti, distributed.net) and movie studios (render farms) it is incomplete and meaningless. Then again it does seam to be "mine is bigger than yours" between c...
[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This list no longer has meaning. - 06June 2015 TOP500 Supercomputer List Released, Tianhe-2 Still Leads - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:25] <exec> 08└─I don't think there's any reason it can't include movie studio clusters. The main requirement is that it has to run LINPACK, which is seen as a burden as it can now take up to a few days. Intelligence agencies and movie studios may be reluctant to give up details on their supercomputers. But that's...
[17:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:1) 02Starve them? - 06Battle Against Destructive Beetles Hits Hurdle - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:32] <exec> 08└─Just curious if it would make more sense long term to just remove the trees until the beetles die, then reintroduce the trees. Seems like a virus isn't going to work long term as they will keep developing immunity and eventually the virus may end up hoping the species barrier and killing something b...
[17:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Guam Problems - 06Battle Against Destructive Beetles Hits Hurdle - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:34] <exec> 08└─I visited Guam a few years ago, and man do they have lots of problems [wikipedia.org] wrt foreign species. When I was there all the trees had traps for brown tree snakes (that are eating the eggs of the indigenous birds), there were dozens of cane toads in every parking lot (that dogs would eat and...
[17:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:46] <exec> 08└─I expect the most popular alternative to end up being Pale Moon. Chrome is the same as firefox, no reason to switch between the two for me.
[17:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:51] <exec> 08└─You can host your own Wallabag instance on your own machine, it's written in PHP. Supposedly all these 'read-it-later' services use a similar protocol, which is why the mozilla org claims they should have it be part of FF. Which makes sense if they didn't hook it up to Pocket by default but instead...
[17:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:59] <exec> 08└─http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8515 [palemoon.org] Pale Moon for Linux is moving! Postby Moonchild » Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:48 am Pale Moon for Linux will be moving from SourceForge to our own in-house server soon. Version 25.5.* will be the last version that is offered on SourceForge. W...
[17:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:07] <exec> 08└─If you have 70+ tabs open, you have different problems
[17:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Did mozilla just force update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:21] <exec> 08└─"Separate root/user accounts FTW!" I have multiple instances of Firefox, and muliple profiles. Root only knows about SOME of those instances. Nightly, for instance, runs out of a folder in my home folder. I haven't used Nightly in quite a long while, and I suspect that it's hung up at v 35 or 36. Ni...
[17:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Update? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:35] <exec> 08└─Well, just don't let it connect to the internet. Oh, wait … ;-)
[17:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03redbear762 [5576] (Score:1) 02Cyberpunk becoms reality - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:54] <exec> 08└─This is the rise of the Megacorps of Gibson and Rucker's Dystopian Future.
[17:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Open4D [371] (Score:2) 02Re:OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:14] <exec> 08└─You obviously didn't read the articles. Neither of your two points can be taken as a defence of Greenwald, a rebuttal of anything I said, or a rebuttal of anything in the articles. They are just random remarks intended to give the impression of a reasoned response, without any of the substance of on...
[17:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Game theory explanation - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:00] <exec> 08└─Drawing arbitrary lines of morality and taking a no-compromise position is what leads you to inconsistencies.
[17:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Umm... - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:03] <exec> 08└─This is pretty messed up. The summary and article apparently assume that compromising with others is by definition equivalent to hypocrisy. I don't think that is a majority -- or even reasonable -- view. Just because Bush was able to snow some low-information voters in 2004 by tagging Kerry a "hypoc...
[17:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Re:Pu-239 - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:48] <exec> 08└─Would the U-238 not breed Pu-239 via neutron capture?
[17:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like glue melt - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:39] <exec> 08└─I hate to be crude (and yes, that's a load of bollocks right there), but as I saw the image at the top of the BBC story, the first thought that went through my mind was that the owner had simply jizzed all over the screen after browsing apple.com for too long. We're in agreement that it's cheap glue...
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like... - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─I work cross platform support - Windows, Linux AND Mac. The iPhone antennae issue is actually one of the very few occasions when Apple have really designed their hardware with a major flaw in it. I've never owned an iPhone because I found the iPhone 4's sharp edges uncomfortable to hold against my h...
[17:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Product quality has gone down across the board - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:57] <exec> 08└─Don't all products come from the same factory in China from the same corporation, and some get an apple case and sticker and some get a (fill in the blank) sticker?
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[18:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Not everybody has a sense of smell - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:10] <exec> 08└─What about those of us who do not have a sense of smell*? Do we get subtitles?
[18:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02troll pics - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:12] <exec> 08└─but do you really want to experience the odors when our heroes get trapped in the trash compactor on the Death Star
[18:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The modern world is amazing... - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:14] <exec> 08└─You can make money off things that are almost completely useless.
[18:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:The future of FF - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:18] <exec> 08└─Hmm... on my setup, Netflix kills FF really quickly. But I thought that was a Siverlight on Linux issue.
[18:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:At least Google... - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:32] <exec> 08└─you miss a major point about google being evil. lets agree, just for now, that they don't sell YOUR info to others. how sure are you that the so-called anonymous data they have is truly not able to point to who you are? that aside, do you not worry that the government (ALL of them, sigh) are salivat...
[18:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Re:Hyperbole - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:20] <exec> 08└─All those 80s computers, consoles and peripherals that went that horrible yellow colour due to bromide were all done so they were more fire resistant. Cooking accidents and candles have caused most of the house hold fires I have experienced. One smoker colleague of mine has a burnt hand due to a fir...
[18:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:31] <exec> 08└─I think it's correct to say that it causes deaths from cancer. To the smokers who die that way and their loved ones, I imagine your distinction might sound a little beside the point.
[18:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:48] <exec> 08└─Most of the time, in fact almost all of the time, politicians hide things from the public it's either to avoid embarrassment or it's for some other self serving purpose. Take, for example, the secretive meetings between politicians and industry interests. I suppose one could argue that the truth beh...
[18:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:53] <exec> 08└─"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made." --- John Godfrey Saxe, The Daily Cleveland Herald, Mar. 29, 1869
[18:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"Consulting". Developers should usebslow machines - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:30] <exec> 08└─I am self employed so I provide my own equipment. I was quite productive on a mac IIci. Using a low end box enables one to more readily observe performance problems in one's code. I once got a call at two in the morning from a desperate client whose sun ultrasparc server fell over the very first day...
[18:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:54] <exec> 08└─Still, perhaps this is another privacy related matter where we may not need it at the moment, but perhaps will in the future. Sometimes it's important to stand up for the idea even if it's frequently abused.
[18:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03warcques [3550] (Score:1) 02But they already do - 06Basic Computing Elements Created in Bacteria - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:37] <exec> 08└─... all of the above if you feed them soluble fiber !
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[19:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:2) 02Re:Not everybody has a sense of smell - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:05] <exec> 08└─if you eat rosemary pasta with broccoli and fart, will the oChip detect rosemary ?
[19:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:troll pics - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:07] <exec> 08└─And you'll smell crap when viewing photos of politicians.
[19:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The modern world is amazing... - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:10] <exec> 08└─key words "almost" and "money"
[19:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:The modern world is amazing... - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:11] <exec> 08└─Define "useless".
[19:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02dumb idea - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:13] <exec> 08└─smell is the oldest sense we have (earliest sense that appeared along our evolution), therefore smells combine with everything our brain does in very profound ways (including the fact that smells trigger memories like nothing else can). smells are unique, in the sense that we can always decompose th...
[19:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dumb idea - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:14] <exec> 08└─http://www.feingold.org/strawberry.html [feingold.org]
[19:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Better have bullet proof security - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:17] <exec> 08└─I can see vulnerable devices being "pwned" and the owner's living space, or wherever, being filled with rancid odors, rotting flesh, skunk, sewage, etc . . .
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, I did notice that you can config the web address of pocket.
[19:13:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:55] <exec> 08└─Not to worry: open source means that firefox has non-shitty forks. I, personally, use Pale Moon now. Which is basically firefox sans the corporate bullshit.
[19:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The future of FF - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:20] <exec> 08└─Whoosh.
[19:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NullPtr [3786] (Score:1) 02Re:The future of FF - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:22] <exec> 08└─You're joking. I've recently switched back to firefox, having used chrome for years. What swung it was firefox dropping their old, bizarre, shitty, tedious syncing system and going with the obviously superior "username and password" model. Also, the android app is far improved from the first naff ef...
[19:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Nothing new here - 06New Massive Leak on TTIP Documents - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:55] <exec> 08└─Having plowed through many of the documents, there is little that should come as a surprise. Most of it is also on the EU Negotiations site. This might not be getting the publicity that it deserves, but it is not because the EU is trying to hide it, in fact quite the opposite. It is the first of the...
[19:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:35] <exec> 08└─That sounds foolish. There is no reason to take a doctor/scientist seriously who is satisfied with that level of knowledge. It means they aren't really trying to understand cancer at all and you should fire them. It is one thing to simply be working under conditions of limited information, it is qui...
[19:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Game theory explanation - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:06] <exec> 08└─Exactly the point. All those who don't align their views with you are sociopaths. You must be a hoot in social settings, or at least you might start to understand why you stop getting invited to those things. Strong convictions does not mean you can't compromise. In fact, it is sort of the whole poi...
[19:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Fallacy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:11] <exec> 08└─I would contest your assertion in th case of a multi-party situation - in your example *any* three parties can collaborate to renderi the fourth, even the 28%ers, irrelevant. And I would suspect that most of the time you'll get shifting allegiances as different bills are considered, depending on the...
[19:17:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 1523 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:21] <exec> 08└─This was with the first-gen early 2006 MacBook Pro - MacBookPro1,1 with a 32 bit Core Duo on a 64-Bit Core 2 Duo. The dealer told me they would replace it for free if I gave him my torched MagSafe. I kept it for use as evidence then paid $80.00 for the replacement. I had to wait about a week for it...
[19:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:27] <exec> 08└─You know who *did* listen to exactly this kind of feedback? RadioShack. Two or three years ago I had a RS battery holder that melted, shorted out, and threw out a big plume of smoke before I got the thing all disconnected. It'd been in my bin a few years by that point, but I tossed a note onto the R...
[19:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:33] <exec> 08└─Poor argument. The issue here is that thousands of people are reporting a defect in manufacturing and Apple is ignoring their plea for a recall and warranty repairs. Your anecdotes of Acer, Sony and HP recalls backs up nothing because they admitted they sold defective equipment and covered repairs/r...
[19:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ornothologist or not - 06As Habitats Vanish, Migratory Birds Flock to N. Korea Shores - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:20] <exec> 08└─Most of their people are in concentration camps so the birds are safe.
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[20:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:dumb idea - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─smell is the oldest sense we have (earliest sense that appeared along our evolution), therefore smells combine with everything our brain does in very profound ways (including the fact that smells trigger memories like nothing else can).
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:dumb idea - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:23] <exec> 08└─Faking smells is not an unsolvable problem. All you have to do is to release some chemicals into the air, so something like a little box with 100 or so common smelly compounds could work, I reckon. The fun part is if it can be hacked so that a combination of common smells is perceived as a fart. Th...
[20:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Starve them? - 06Battle Against Destructive Beetles Hits Hurdle - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:44] <exec> 08└─I thought of the same thing but Guam isnt exactly small. Someone has to remove the trees, every last one of them, and then dispose of them. Lots of machinery, manpower, fuel and logistics are needed. Guam isn't exactly a rich nation either. Plus, if you read the article, they state that 90% of all t...
[20:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03strength_of_10_men [909] (Score:1) 02Eradication through genetic modification? - 06Battle Against Destructive Beetles Hits Hurdle - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:46] <exec> 08└─I wonder if such a method as exists for mosquitoes [yale.edu] would be effective. I only have a passing knowledge of genetic modifications but how hard would it be to similarly modify beetles in the same way?
[20:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:01] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon is the alternative - it was forked to avoid the pointless UI changes that started a couple of years ago; most extensions are still compatible, and the devs are pretty much committed to not making changes that are "crap" (like the recent directive from Mozilla management to remove FTP funct...
[20:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:02] <exec> 08└─FTP is terribly insecure and you shouldn't be using it. I had no idea FF still supported it. How up-to-date is Pale Moon? Since it's a fork and not just a custom build, how well does it get tested and what about security updates?
[20:14:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 1163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:14] <exec> 08└─http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8515 [palemoon.org] Pale Moon for Linux is moving! Postby Moonchild » Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:48 am Pale Moon for Linux will be moving from SourceForge to our own in-house server soon. Version 25.5.* will be the last version that is offered on SourceForge. W...
[20:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:24] <exec> 08└─6+ months uptime...
[20:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:The future of FF - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:33] <exec> 08└─What you say is the reason for me never donating money to any project, although I would like to. With "sufficient" resources, the projects just grow until a spoon is not a spoon any more. Also, the better economy, the more psychos in the staff...
[20:15:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] 02Libertarians are not your friends. - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 14 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─Shock, horror.
[20:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:46] <exec> 08└─I'm having a hard time parsing your logic. If without the tobacco your immune system would suppress the cancer, but the tobacco keeps it from the suppression, how is that not causing cancer? You have cancerous cells in your body all the time, and you have since you were an infant, but normally the i...
[20:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, from the uninformed patient's perspective the two may be similar. I am thinking from a scientific and treatment perspective. Tumors are usually considered to be clonal (descended from a single cell), the "cause" is whatever brought that cell into existence. Without that first step, the other fa...
[20:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tripstah [4913] (Score:1) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:49] <exec> 08└─You're kidding, right? The only people I've ever heard say that were smokers in denial or industry stooges on the stand. In fact, even they're largely prevented from saying it now. But let's take it from the industry itself. Go review this internal industry document [ucsf.edu] from 1953 that the tob...
[20:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smoking and cancer? - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:51] <exec> 08└─To that end, you could also say that being exposed to any known carcinogen doesn't cause cancer.
[20:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Careful what you smoke. - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:54] <exec> 08└─FWIW, in order to quit smoking I first switched to Shermans. They're a bit stronger, but they don't have the supplementary addictive chemicals added. Then I quit slowly. (Well, admittedly the first time I just quit. I made the bad mistake of assuming that that proved it was easy to quit, and allowed...
[20:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tripstah [4913] (Score:1) 02From the eyes of an anti-tobacco / eff litigator - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:55] <exec> 08└─I spent the last 6-years of my life battling the tobacco industry as an attorney litigating the Engle [wikipedia.org] suits in Florida; including all the way up to SCOTUS a few times. It would take a book to explain how twisted and horrific these companies really are. Their depraviltiy really knows...
[20:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Game theory explanation - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:22] <exec> 08└─All those who don't align their views with you are sociopaths.
[20:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Horse trading vs. corruption - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:29] <exec> 08└─I've generally heard the concept termed "horse trading", and it has nothing to do with hypocrisy. Rather it is simply born of the understanding that to get something of value, you tend to have to give something of comparable value in exchange. Ideally you would "sell" your vote on something of low p...
[20:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:ground-based laser propulsion - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:11] <exec> 08└─You just need a very long cable to make an electrical circuit.
[20:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Pu-239 - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 1765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:17] <exec> 08└─So, the Pu-239 is fissile. However, it also decays, producing heat. If the energy spectrum of the neutrons produced during the D-T fusion is suitable, then there would be induced fission in the 239Pu, so there would be another source of heating. If not there would only be heating from the 238U to 23...
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[20:17:19] <exec> 08└─What a goat. I originally read this story on my phone and the text was so small I didn't notice the link to the phys.org story, just the Business Insider one. Yes, they're expecting fission from the 238U. I suppose fission fragments are the way to go. Not sure about the fusion part. If it's insignif...
[20:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Re:''There has never been a communist government'' - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─I like to make the distinction based on the flow of wealth: a society in which the majority of the produced wealth is collected by the State to be redistributed as it sees fit, I deem Communist. To me it imparts no qualification of as to *how fairly* that wealth is redistributed -- an observation we...
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[21:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02black hole for electrons - 06The Topological Insulator Crystal That Behaves as a Black Hole for its Electrons - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:05] <exec> 08└─Yup, that's an exotic metal all right.
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:This list no longer has meaning. - 06June 2015 TOP500 Supercomputer List Released, Tianhe-2 Still Leads - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─I hear the latest Dreamworks title is a giant flop! Sorry, gotta get back to Folding@home, I'm hosting a poker game and getting lame hands all night ...
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[21:14:04] <exec> 08└─This is what the main dev has to say: I actually feel a little silly having to write this FAQ entry, because Pale Moon is actively developed and as such kept up-to-date. But hey, it's frequently asked! Is Pale Moon up-to-date? Yes, it certainly is. Pale Moon is actively developed. The confusion is a...
[21:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:05] <exec> 08└─FTP is terribly insecure and you shouldn't be using it.
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:21] <exec> 08└─On the forum, they said that they were going to move from SF soon.
[21:15:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02OK, so help me out here... - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 880 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not really familiar with PandoDaily, but this looks very much like muck-raking purely for the sake of smearing Greenwald and the EFF to me - something I'm sure a lot of organizations would like to do right now. This all happened more than 20 years ago and according to Wikipedia Greenwald appears...
[21:15:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] 02Re:Hyperbole - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 605 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, somewhat exagerated. But don't forget that the guilt of the tabacco companies isn't that they sold addictive substances that were dangerous to health, it's that they knew what they were selling was dangerous and attempted to hide that information. They also knew what they were selling was addi...
[21:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Laser-powered RTG? - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 2046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:25] <exec> 08└─Okay, so at first glance this patent sounds like a prior art "safe harbor" investment - by the time we master fusion well enough to pull it off efficiently, the patent will likely have long since expired. Unless Boeing has been keeping quiet about some really interesting research. On the other hand...
[21:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Em dashes and hyphens - 06Volcanic Rocks Resembling Roman Concrete Explain Record Uplift in Italian Caldera - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:34] <exec> 08└─I always understood the correct usage to be separating the em-dash with spaces on either side - like this - while hyphenating words in-line like-so.
[21:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:03] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand - I'm not citing those incidents as examples of company practice or product quality, only as examples of bias against Apple in the press, media and people's expectations. My Acer story is entirely relevant - it's arguable that the keyboard touching the screen shows that chassis fle...
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[22:13:07] <exec> 08└─El Reg report [theregister.co.uk] - patched by Adobe
[22:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Other 3 vulns in Flash - 06BGP Fails Again or More from the 'Hacking Team' Hack - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:09] <exec> 08└─Facebook's New Security Chief Calls On Adobe To Kill Flash [tomshardware.com]
[22:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02more hacking team news - 06BGP Fails Again or More from the 'Hacking Team' Hack - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:11] <exec> 08└─Hacking Team Email Jokes About Killing ACLU's Chris Soghoian [firstlook.org] Hacking Team weren't completely stoopid; they read El Reg! [theregister.co.uk] Context: Of special interest was news of reverses at rival surveillance-ware firms, such as the revelation root and remote unauthenticated zero...
[22:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:more hacking team news - 06BGP Fails Again or More from the 'Hacking Team' Hack - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:12] <exec> 08└─I think each one of these Hacking Team news dumps could use its own submission. Gratuitous silly pic! [tumblr.com]
[22:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not BGP - 06BGP Fails Again or More from the 'Hacking Team' Hack - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:15] <exec> 08└─This is not so much a BGP failure as much as an ISP advertising fraudulent routes. Whether authentication was in place or not is irrelevant when who you are authenticating is intentionally lying. And this fraudulently announced its ownership of 256 IP addresses into the global routing system known a...
[22:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02why is there a scrotum on my forehead? - 06BGP Fails Again or More from the 'Hacking Team' Hack - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:16] <exec> 08└─i swear, the balls extend to cover each eye, and the warmth of the scrotum on my head is very pleasing.
[22:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02The gift that keeps on giving - 06BGP Fails Again or More from the 'Hacking Team' Hack - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:19] <exec> 08└─With the quantity of data that is still to be analyzed, this whole Hacking Team situation really is a gift that keeps on giving. I'm sure we'll still be talking about it 3 months from now.
[22:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02How did this work? - 06BGP Fails Again or More from the 'Hacking Team' Hack - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:20] <exec> 08└─I don't understand BGP. Could someone explain to me why they needed to own IP addresses to monitor already infected machines? What happens when two providers claim to own the same IP addresses? Does routing break? Does that depend on the route? This is the perfect place to ask these questions, I'm s...
[22:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:dumb idea - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:41] <exec> 08└─Sadly, I only see this getting perfected/used for making advertising more insidious.
[22:14:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02Sad - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:32] <exec> 08└─Once a fresh new app (Phoenix), nowadays I see Firefox only as a steam train out of control. It defaults to more and more bloatware like Mozilla at the time. The very reason Phoenix was created.
[22:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:What's the added value? - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:52] <exec> 08└─The added value is all your personal information they can sell to line their pockets.
[22:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the eyes of an anti-tobacco / eff litigato - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:20] <exec> 08└─Blaming tobacco companies for pursuing commercial advantages? If the filter isn't effective in reducing tar, that's a matter for the government to enforce. Knowing several more people that suffered from the bad effects of alcohol, rather than cigarettes, how come that industry is (currently) getting...
[22:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 4063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:38] <exec> 08└─and representative democracy is, in some cases, a poor rationalization against a more direct democracy. Perhaps we should elect politicians to introduce bills to the public to be voted on by the public. The burden shouldn't be on the public to get a new bill directly through via starting a petition...
[22:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rationalization of hypocrisy and sociopathy - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:40] <exec> 08└─Rationalizations against direct democracy are just an attempt to rationalize imposing a law against me that I would never vote in favor of without giving me the opportunity to vote for said law myself. Period. Politicians lie about what they will do when running for office and they vote for laws the...
[22:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score:1) 02Re:Congress is NOT a Parliament - 06Game Theory Explains Why Politicians Are Hypocrites - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:46] <exec> 08└─Check the number per year, Ford and Bush 1 look good only because they were in office for shorter periods of time, their rate of orders was about average.
[22:17:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Please understand - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:20] <exec> 08└─A tragic loss for gaming. It's rare to see a CEO who is also a talented engineer and artist. He was much more than just a manager of other people. He is credited on a truly staggering number of titles [wikia.com], and his work on the Pokemon games was particularly impressive.
[22:17:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Farewell - 06Satoru Iwata, President & CEO of Nintendo, Dies at Age 55 - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:25] <exec> 08└─Farewell Mr. Iwata. Thank you for contributing so wonderfully to my childhood, adulthood, and even my career.
[22:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:ground-based laser propulsion - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:41] <exec> 08└─I would think it would tend to be a self-correcting problem: Space is full of ionized particles, especially around planets with magnetic fields to capture them. Your positively ionized graphene "sponge" would tend to "soak up" ambient electrons from those ion clouds until it reached equilibrium. Of...
[22:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:My MagSafe Power Adapter nearly caught on fire - 06Apple Users Angered Over Screen Damage - 3284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:22] <exec> 08└─>The value proposition on making apple applications is awful unless you get a home run. Think about this for every dollar you earn you give to Apple at 30%. Then you owe uncle sam ~30% and your overhead out of the remainder. So your profit is maybe 5-10 cents on the dollar if your lucky. What overhe...
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[23:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02just like Clark's Jelly of The Month Club - 06BGP Fails Again or More from the 'Hacking Team' Hack - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:10] <exec> 08└─nt
[23:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:1) 02Spam - 06Another Run at Tele-Scents - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:40] <exec> 08└─My iPhone keeps running low on the Hormel scent ...
[23:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02MTBF? - 06June 2015 TOP500 Supercomputer List Released, Tianhe-2 Still Leads - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:55] <exec> 08└─196,608 Intel Xeon E5-2698v3 cores.
[23:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:MTBF? - 06June 2015 TOP500 Supercomputer List Released, Tianhe-2 Still Leads - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:57] <exec> 08└─http://ark.intel.com/products/81060/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2698-v3-40M-Cache-2_30-GHz [intel.com] Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2698 v3 (40M Cache, 2.30 GHz) so, an underclocked cpu with ecc memory =) not as good as AMD, but pretty safe...
[23:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Zotero - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:26] <exec> 08└─How is it any less secure than www? If you need security, there's sft, scp and various other methods.
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The future of FF - 06Warning - Firefox Has You in the Pocket - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:01] <exec> 08└─Also, what's all this bollocks about Pocket spying on you? If you use it, which is optional,
[23:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Careful what you smoke. - 06The EFF, Glenn Greenwald and R.J. Reynolds in 1994 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:19] <exec> 08└─I smoke for the concentration since I'm a programmer, and because it helps the OCD that my medication misses around the edges. I don't recommend it however, I cough like I'm in a gas chamber for the first two minutes of every day.
[23:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Cold fusion? - 06Boeing Patent Puts Focus on Laser-Powered Propulsion System - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─>The lasers vaporize the radioactive material and cause a fusion reaction Wouldn't that make this cold fusion, or at least getting more output energy than input energy?
[23:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:1) 02Re:Trekonomics works? - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 2137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:40] <exec> 08└─I know it seems hard to believe, but we don't need to wait for more advanced technology in order to make this happen, not even replicators. We can do this today. Heck, we could have done this decades ago. The only difference is that back then not all unwanted jobs could have been automated, but most...
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