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[00:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does it do when you let go of the wheel? - 06Pressure-Aware Tech Aims for Wake-Up Safety via Steering Wheel - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:10] <exec> 08└─Or when you steer with your knee? (which I only do when there is plenty of room around my car).
[00:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:24] <exec> 08└─Well then obviously the solution is for Lee to murder Findley.
[00:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:27] <exec> 08└─> So now she can't have children She's 46 !!!!! Most women can't have (statistically healthy) children at 46. She's got not grounds for pleading that it's a terrible unforseen ordeal. She'd be retired before her kids go to college, too. just because you could, doesn't mean that you should...
[00:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Selling science short - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:34] <exec> 08└─Without the embryos, she will never have a child who shares her genes.
[00:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Selling science short - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:36] <exec> 08└─True, but one person's lifetime isn't.To say nothing of a woman's viable reproduction window. Even going with a surrogate, trying to raise and support a child starting in her sixties (a paltry 14 years from now) would have the youngest graduating high school when she's roughly 80. That's a real chal...
[00:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:1) 02There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:38] <exec> 08└─TFS: If the embryos are destroyed, the ex-wife is denied the deep need to procreate.
[00:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:39] <exec> 08└─> But no individual has a need to procreate. The species does. And if no individual has that need, how can the species have it?
[00:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Satya Nadella's strategy is ... ? - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:06] <exec> 08└─To paraphrase, Windows phone has few apps, and if they are shitty, oh well. Please use Windows phone: MS pays me to shill poo!
[00:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Satya Nadella's strategy is ... ? - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:07] <exec> 08└─So what's your position at Microsoft?
[00:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:40] <exec> 08└─True. With my son it's fast and efficient (but still fun, we go to that grocery store where we got to know some of the staff and name vegetables and fruit etc.). With my wife it's a lot more... erratic. I do groceries so I can go home and cook, she sees it as an alternate shopping experience I think...
[00:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:45] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, in some stores, it's the music that makes me want to run out as quickly as I can. I have no idea why they torture their customers like that.
[00:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:50] <exec> 08└─True... My old boss had four kids, including 2 teenagers and two younger ones. He always said that his biggest purchases at Costco were stuff like giant parmesan wheels, socks and underwear. I guess when you have a certain volume it makes a lot of sense. My gripe is that compulsive purchases (and bu...
[00:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:they put the oldest stuff up front - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:02] <exec> 08└─I've had very hit-and-miss experience with the sell by dates on milk. Same brand, same store, for the last 2 years--I've had some gallons still good 2 weeks after the date, while occasionally had one go bad 2, maybe 3 days before the date.
[00:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Make a list - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:17] <exec> 08└─Sorry Charlie, my list is along the lines of "1 lb 92/8 ground beef", "1.5 lb 25-30 cnt shrimp", "1 15 oz can diced tomatos". Within those parameters I choose the cheapest. Route within the store? I head left to produce, peruse the meat along the back of the store, if I need canned goods I hit that...
[00:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Watch this - 06ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Halt NSA Phone Record Collection - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:27] <exec> 08└─How about we hate on you for promoting apathetic cynicism... Sure its hard to change the world, but the civil rights movement did it. Your buckling in to hopelessness makes you either a coward or a shill, which is it?
[00:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:broken site - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:53] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work for me either, I just wanted to check if the music is sped up or slowed down correctly while traveling from or to earth.
[00:15:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02What, no direct link? Sheesh - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 434 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:56] <exec> 08└─http://lightyear.fm/ [lightyear.fm] Did no-one think that would have been a useful thing to put in the summary? Depending on how far you are from Earth, you’ll hear a chart-topping song from the corresponding month or year. You can either just kick back and enjoy the ride, scroll your mouse wheel...
[00:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Average Temperature of the Moon - 06Fossil Fuel Firms Risk Wasting Billions by Ignoring Climate Change, Says IEA - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:00] <exec> 08└─Yes. Temperature of the moon is ~200 K on average at the equator: http://www.diviner.ucla.edu [ucla.edu] I would like to know how the S-B law can be used to calculate this.
[00:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06After Initial Confusion, Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 to be Installed on PCs Starting July 29 - 1547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:16] <exec> 08└─Lenovo is douchebag pricks man, I warn customers away from them because of shit like that. I've found most of the OEM keys will work with a standard Windows disc and the few that don't will be fine once you talk to MSFT by phone. The guys MSFT hires to work the helpdesk don't want to make waves so a...
[00:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:41] <exec> 08└─All good points. I was going to post some cynical wankery but meh. In theory the courts work, and people only get convicted for clear damages. Anyway. What I say to people IRL these days is, "How can we ever hope to solve our problems if we can't talk about them?"
[00:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Agreed.... bad situation. - 06Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Uber - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:14] <exec> 08└─But, I, on the other hand, DO HAVE THE RIGHT to blow you into eternity when I catch you in the pantry. You, and all your socialist friends who encouraged you to take what is mine.
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[01:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:12] <exec> 08└─Ah, more fodder for the overcrowded federal gulag. Of course, producing and selling malware and using it for criminal purposes should be punished, but filling the prisons with these people is not the answer. Unfortunately, that's what going to happen to those who the U.S. is able to get its hands on...
[01:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:13] <exec> 08└─but filling the prisons with these people is not the answer.
[01:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EQ [1716] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:15] <exec> 08└─but filling the prisons with these people is not the answer.
[01:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Brian Krebs has followed these guys for years. - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:17] <exec> 08└─This rather interesting write-up by Brian Krebs [krebsonsecurity.com] went up earlier, and it even includes a link to an affidavit on one of the people who got busted.
[01:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Good, The Bad & The Feds - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─It's good that Darkode is out of business (at least for now). It's too bad that something else will pop up to take its place within a few months. The feds probably broke as many laws as Darkode trying to shut it down and will start their parallel construction processes before most of these "guests o...
[01:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:The Good, The Bad & The Feds - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:20] <exec> 08└─It's also bad that the government practices censorship, a violation of the first amendment and our fundamental liberties. It's bad even when they do it to Bad Guys (TM).
[01:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:1) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like consent was already given. That deed is done.
[01:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:54] <exec> 08└─But no individual has a need to procreate.
[01:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:06] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone
[01:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, they are lacking certain resources (such as cash, reputation, market penetration, etc) but Microsoft has all of those things and it's not helping them at all.
[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─I met an ACTUAL windows phone in the wild a few years ago. Of course she retired to go live on her ranch.
[01:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Dead horses . . . - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:26] <exec> 08└─I haven't watched it recently, but the doctor and one of the cops are #966F33 guys, and they seemed to be the most normal.
[01:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Satya Nadella's strategy is ... ? - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:32] <exec> 08└─the lack of apps is a feature
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:I came here to hate on MS - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:42] <exec> 08└─In Windows10, which will be available for ARM too (free for Raspberry, for example)
[01:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:13] <exec> 08└─When my kids were that age, we had a rule that they could choose one thing. They were very careful when choosing that one thing. They became discriminating shoppers. I could advise them, of course, but if they chose it against my advice, their choice held. -- hendrik
[01:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:16] <exec> 08└─Costco has some great uses. Paper products. Oils/sauces that do not need refrigeration. Beverages you consume often. Party purchasing. Big ticket items (tires, electronics). Getting food for trips. Their take&cook at home is pretty good, as long as you remember that it's like a 6 person meal, so be...
[01:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:they put the oldest stuff up front - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:31] <exec> 08└─They are best by dates, not worst after dates.
[01:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:they put the oldest stuff up front - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:33] <exec> 08└─I always rearrange them
[01:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03demonlapin [925] (Score:2) 02Re:Make a list - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:46] <exec> 08└─"Brand"? "Size"? My diet consists almost entirely of real food, not food products. I buy produce (sold by the pound), maybe some deli meat and cheese (sold by the pound), raw meats/poultry (sold by the pound), butter (you get where I'm going here), eggs (okay, sold by count and size, but I can verif...
[01:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Ramp up panic ahead of conference? - 06Fossil Fuel Firms Risk Wasting Billions by Ignoring Climate Change, Says IEA - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks for demonstrating my point - and all the other disciples moderating here on SN. My point is that it's useless to discuss it, because if you try to question anything, you just get shouted down. And that's the only reaction from anyone, name-calling and shouting down. Algebra is not a belief sy...
[01:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Ramp up panic ahead of conference? - 06Fossil Fuel Firms Risk Wasting Billions by Ignoring Climate Change, Says IEA - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:12] <exec> 08└─No, as in "Babysitting experience is not a qualification for teaching post-graduate university courses," to say nothing for being considered an expert in the field. Learning numbers is not "math", and dropping tennis balls on the floor to see how gravity works is not the same as explaining the conce...
[01:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Ramp up panic ahead of conference? - 06Fossil Fuel Firms Risk Wasting Billions by Ignoring Climate Change, Says IEA - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:22] <exec> 08└─So with your "fiat monetary system" and "fractional reserve banking", you might have infinite economic growth, yes, but it doesn't matter for people if they have to work hard for a day to buy 3 hamburgers for $ 3, or if they have to work hard for a day to buy 3 hamburgers for 3 000 000 "zimbabwe $"....
[01:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Helpful difference - 06These Futuristic Car Tires Never Go Flat - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:17] <exec> 08└─Do you guys have tyrerack.co.uk [tirerack.com] over on that side of the pond?
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[02:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:15] <exec> 08└─If not prison then what?
[02:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:16] <exec> 08└─Amen!
[02:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:18] <exec> 08└─If not prison then what?
[02:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Funny) 02Pity - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:22] <exec> 08└─It's a pity that these guys choose the gauche motivation of making money. If they applied their energies to fighting the NSA/GCHQ there'd be an instant underground railroad of millions of people helping to spirit them away to safety in a free country somewhere.
[02:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:44] <exec> 08└─But Whittier Law School’s Daar said that waiver “has no legal meaning.”
[02:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:47] <exec> 08└─Beyond that, there has been a case where a woman went on public assistance and the state sued the sperm donor against the wishes of the mother and of the signed agreement that he would have no paternal rights of responsibilities.
[02:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:51] <exec> 08└─She'd be retired before her kids go to college, too.
[02:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Cancer - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:56] <exec> 08└─Just looking around at the general populace, I'm pretty sure almost everyone is defective in one way or another, and is going to create more defective humans if they breed.
[02:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:denied the deep need to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:58] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps frozen her eggs, in addition to fertilized embryos.
[02:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:denied the deep need to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:59] <exec> 08└─If he wins, he's still fertile, and all of the eggs that she put in one basket (*teehee*) are gone. I wouldn't want to be the judge who makes that outcome actually happen.
[02:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:07] <exec> 08└─reproduction is a selfish act
[02:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─So how's Sailfish supposed to provide any threat?
[02:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:32] <exec> 08└─This is a good point, but personally due to Microsoft's behemoth size in the computing market, I'd rather it not be them to be a big competitor to the other two. If they actually figured out how to make a decent phone that most people wanted, we'd be back to another monopoly with them doing embrace,...
[02:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:34] <exec> 08└─> Am I the only one that wants to see Microsoft attain at least some success with these phones? I'd like Google and Apple to have some competition. (1) I own a bunch of windows phones (520 and 521) because I could pick them up for $20 brand new and I needed a bunch of distinct phone numbers. I actua...
[02:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Satya Nadella's strategy is ... ? - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:48] <exec> 08└─You've got to be kidding: lack of apps is a feature? That's some real spin there. If you don't want to install and use some weird little Android app, it's simple: don't! No one is forcing you to load up your phone with a bunch of random apps. But, just like Windows on the desktop has countless weird...
[02:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumbest piece in SN for a while - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:58] <exec> 08└─Ballmer already steered it into ruin.
[02:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Make a list - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:04] <exec> 08└─This is the most interesting SN article in awhile?
[02:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the furious banjo playing, the squeal of a pig - 06ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Halt NSA Phone Record Collection - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:19] <exec> 08└─"defeat" as in "the feet"?
[02:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Dude - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:45] <exec> 08└─Haha I linked to Wikipedia because some people don't like links to pages with sound on autoplay. Funny, though, I expected my choice of greatest metal guitar riff of all time to be contested. That, it appears, I nailed. :-)
[02:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Wear before puncture? - 06These Futuristic Car Tires Never Go Flat - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:24] <exec> 08└─How does a flat "mess up your day"? You just get out, get the spare out of the trunk, use the provided tools, and put on the spare and drive away. Then you can go get a new tire mounted on the rim after work sometime that week.
[02:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:36] <exec> 08└─I think defamation (libel and/or slander) is a valid concept that can co-exist with free speech.
[02:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:38] <exec> 08└─This was my question. What subjective criteria?
[02:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Hillary's right - 06Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Uber - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:52] <exec> 08└─Um, Uber is one of many service providers. Have you forgotten about their competitors Lyft and Sidecar, among others? Also, I fail to see how being a poorly-paid cab driver for a regular cab company is so much better than being a poorly-paid driver for Uber and Lyft. And if they're paid so poorly, w...
[02:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Someone with standing has to sue in civil court - 06Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Uber - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking about MS, Apple, etc. hiring contractors. That's a different kind of contractor, really: it's an employee who usually works through a 3rd-party agency, and both sides sign an employment contract for 3, 6, 12 months etc. Short of the employee doing something really really bad, the com...
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[03:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Cylons? - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:15] <exec> 08└─I'd think twice about staying at this hotel if a desk clerk responds with "By your command" when you ask for a wake-up call.
[03:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:26] <exec> 08└─Oh, if only I was him. I'd be able to improve my high school Spanish!
[03:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:32] <exec> 08└─The problem with the U.S. criminal justice system is that we somehow got the idea that the solution to serious criminal behavior is to lock the offender up and throw away the key. Producing or selling malware is a serious crime. But locking up the person for more than a year or two is not the soluti...
[03:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:33] <exec> 08└─Based on the language in the charges, anyone working on exploit research is liable to get charged with "conspiring with others to illegally tamper with a protected computer"
[03:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Pity - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:38] <exec> 08└─It's a pity that these guys choose the gauche motivation of making money. If they applied their energies to fighting the NSA/GCHQ...
[03:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Pity - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:39] <exec> 08└─Well, nor everyone wants to sit and make ValueAdded (TM) Services To Enhance The Experience to the mindless crotch sniffing populace... Also there is the aspect of self-respect: these guys probably choose a solitary life, no kids, no wife and thus no reason to work for market... They can take whatev...
[03:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Aww maaaan.... - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:41] <exec> 08└─Where else am I going to buy dildo-molded green jello?
[03:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Aww maaaan.... - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:43] <exec> 08└─Where else am I going to buy dildo-molded green jello?
[03:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] (Score:1) 02Can't imagine the false positive rate - 06Pressure-Aware Tech Aims for Wake-Up Safety via Steering Wheel - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:51] <exec> 08└─Erm . . . probably too many false positives. On long straight highways, only a feather light touch on the wheel is necessary, and the last thing I want is an alarm going off every 60 seconds because of a stupid steering wheel pressure sensor.
[03:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02They've been talking for years - 06Pressure-Aware Tech Aims for Wake-Up Safety via Steering Wheel - 1808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:52] <exec> 08└─I started driving truck way back in '83. There was talk then about ways to prevent drivers falling asleep at the wheel. That talk kept making the rounds, and the seemingly most favored idea involved a computer that watches your eyes. Pressure sensing steering wheels seemed to be in second place. The...
[03:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:12] <exec> 08└─She's 46 !!!!! Most women can't have (statistically healthy) children at 46. She's got not grounds for pleading that it's a terrible unforseen ordeal.
[03:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:14] <exec> 08└─>seems like a very big issue to handled by checking a box and initialing. perhaps hand carving it in stone?
[03:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Competition - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:14] <exec> 08└─Good hardware is good hardware, and with easy installers (they do exist), a quality phone could be sold that would let people choose Android, Windows Mobile, Ubuntu Phone, or other. Basically the same sort of way that many people (yes, developers mostly) will buy a MacBook to run Linux on. There are...
[03:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:they put the oldest stuff up front - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:11] <exec> 08└─Fuck you and your problem. My shopping is not a charity for your buddies.
[03:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Dude - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:06] <exec> 08└─he he...there are so many great guitar riffs out there now. I kinda like this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Or...how about these guys: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ramp up panic ahead of conference? - 06Fossil Fuel Firms Risk Wasting Billions by Ignoring Climate Change, Says IEA - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, dont hope for too much sense from this dude, you're arguing with a mystic, see... https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[03:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:59] <exec> 08└─So really, they are not saying anything, beyond that they are a racist.
[03:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:07] <exec> 08└─For example, every criticism of Obama for things that literally every other president has done, or done worse - what makes Obama so different from everyone else who did it to evoke such a response?
[03:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:22] <exec> 08└─We have had Soylentils claiming that moderation was censorship.
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[04:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Bring you a beer? - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:11] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid I cannot do that, Dave. I will not allow you to jeopardize the mission.
[04:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03KBentley57 [645] (Score:1) 02Reminds me of Arthur C Clarke - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:12] <exec> 08└─I've read all his novels, so they begin to run together, but I believe it was in the "Rama" series that he described using dinosaurs for manual labor; primates would get bored and were unable to complete the tasks. It's only fitting that dinosaurs were chosen for the manual labor here, and I wonder...
[04:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Reminds me of Arthur C Clarke - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:15] <exec> 08└─Seeing as he lived most of his life in Sri Lanka where they to this day use elephants to do most heavy work, Doesn't seem too much of a jump from elephant to dinosaur. At least for fiction.
[04:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Tentacles - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:16] <exec> 08└─If some of the robots sport tentacles and are located in Love Hotels [wikipedia.org], the place would be a smash hit. Japan has odd fetishes.
[04:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tentacles - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:18] <exec> 08└─Every new fetish is just a discovery that you have the fetish. Give in.
[04:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Pity - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:41] <exec> 08└─No, I really meant that if you're gonna go outlaw, why not choose the path of Zorro or Robin Hood instead of Dr. Evil?
[04:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Aww maaaan.... - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:43] <exec> 08└─Kickstarter?
[04:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's the difference - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:45] <exec> 08└─...between these guys and Hacking Team [soylentnews.org]? Why does the FBI bust one and allow the other to continue operating?
[04:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:They've been talking for years - 06Pressure-Aware Tech Aims for Wake-Up Safety via Steering Wheel - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:56] <exec> 08└─As someone who has experienced a near tragic accident from falling asleep at the wheel, I can say with certainty that one does not automatically release grip on the steering wheel. I still had a firm grip on the wheel when the shuddering from going off the pavement woke me. The best way to prevent s...
[04:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02How difficult can it be? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:05] <exec> 08└─Break in to facility Swap embryos with other embryos Swap them with dinosaur embryos for greater effect Thaw embryos, implant in utero, birth, and raise the children Dramatically bring living children into courtroom when divorce proceedings finally near conclusion Sell movie rights Profit!
[04:14:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02Re:I did this with my wife - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:07] <exec> 08└─The couple did this as well. They both agreed to destroy the eggs in case of divorce. The woman wants to renege.
[04:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hedleyroos [4974] (Score:1) 02Re:I did this with my wife - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:09] <exec> 08└─Hey, this is not the green site. You're supposed to rtfa😛
[04:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:14] <exec> 08└─So she agreed to destroy the embryos, but now has a lawyer trying to get her out of that agreement. Now afterwords, she is offering to agree to waive child support. Would you trust this second offer?
[04:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:17] <exec> 08└─Hey, yeah. Just take out the sperm!
[04:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's rough - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:52] <exec> 08└─Or just opt out of it all by eating soylent. It might not be as good for you as the perfect ideal diet, but it is loads better than the average american diet, and it requires none of the overhead typically associated with fending off the consumerism. I've been on a 100% soylent diet for 30 days now...
[04:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Dude - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:16] <exec> 08└─Clapton is phenomenal. I saw him live at St. John of the Divine [stjohndivine.org] playing a private benefit for Bill Clinton a few years ago. He played "Layla," "Cocaine," and "Crossroads." Some musicians do fine in the studio but not so well live, but Clapton is 100% the real deal.
[04:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Ramp up panic ahead of conference? - 06Fossil Fuel Firms Risk Wasting Billions by Ignoring Climate Change, Says IEA - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:04] <exec> 08└─Do you millennials even know the difference between television and real life?   Yep, on TV you can montage past all the hard work and skip straight to post-graduate university math courses.   In real life you need to learn how to count first.
[04:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:I'm Afraid - 06After Initial Confusion, Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 to be Installed on PCs Starting July 29 - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:55] <exec> 08└─Most of the descriptions are terrible though and don't explain what exactly they are changing or why.
[04:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Re:dual monitors are for egotistical pricks - 06Linux Mint 17.2 Offers New Desktop Features That Stem from User-Submitted Bugs and Requests - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:29] <exec> 08└─Tell us what you think of triple monitors please. We're bound to be enlightened given your assessment of dual monitors. What's so bad about that - one for knobbing with code, second for seeing how the code changes look, third as a comms panel (email, irc etc. etc.). Certainly all possible with virtu...
[04:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:doing it right - 06Linux Mint 17.2 Offers New Desktop Features That Stem from User-Submitted Bugs and Requests - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:36] <exec> 08└─I think it was more along the lines of "Everyone wanted to be mobile in order to try and one-up Apple."
[04:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:14] <exec> 08└─Whether I find it incomprehensible may have nothing to do with whether they are saying something (though I like to think I am rather good at spotting nonsense), but if it is logically self-contradictory, then they are not saying something, or anything at all.
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[05:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Posthumously graded - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:15] <exec> 08└─six people died, for example, in part because the students did not pay enough attention to treatment. However, says Tobin, "that doesn't affect their grade so long as they present what they did, how it worked or didn't work, and how they'd do it differently"
[05:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:17] <exec> 08└─Seriously, schools are just abysmal in general (except perhaps the best of the best universities), so it's no surprise that science is being taught incorrectly. They're treated as mere trade schools that people can go to to get fame, glory, and money, so it's not surprising when standards drop due t...
[05:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bring you a beer? - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:26] <exec> 08└─No HAL9000 has ever made an operational error. PS - most of the time the quote of the moment / fortune at the bottom of the page here on Soylent is fine, great, funny, thoughtful. But a few of them are really bad: "you will be abducted by a radical group" (not funny with the ISIS crisis), or some ot...
[05:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Reminds me of Arthur C Clarke - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3001:_The_Final_Odyssey [wikipedia.org]
[05:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:43] <exec> 08└─Ummm.... I have a hunch there should be easier ways to improve your Spanish than having sex with Swedish groupies after embarrassing Hillary Clinton. 😛
[05:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:50] <exec> 08└─Ah no..we'll likely wind up turning them into the dirty dozen in the cyber war against ISIS.
[05:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Pity - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:58] <exec> 08└─No, I really meant that if you're gonna go outlaw
[05:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Aww maaaan.... - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:01] <exec> 08└─c0lo, just how do you find this stuff? ...No I don't really want to know. I'm just relieved that you didn't put up a goatse link.
[05:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Aww maaaan.... - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:03] <exec> 08└─Human... are you telling me you know nothing about Heston Blumenthal [wikipedia.org]?
[05:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the difference - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:05] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=8342&cid=207154 [soylentnews.org] Lo and behold: http://thehackernews.com [thehackernews.com] The huge cache of internal files recently leaked from the controversial Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team...
[05:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the difference - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:08] <exec> 08└─Because they want to give certain organizations the illusion of safety. Call me a tin-foil hat wearer, but if it served their purposes, the NSA could very easily let a known-to-them terrorist group run free and commit an atrocity if the order came from high up not to do anything about it. That is th...
[05:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the difference - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:10] <exec> 08└─Word is that some Darkode guys were selling or renting out (yes seriously renting as in 25k a month) full blown software packages to take advantage of banking systems. If they sold tech to governments like hacking team did, there would not be a problem. Some Darkode members kicked the hornet's nest...
[05:14:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:33] <exec> 08└─Well then obviously the solution is for Lee to murder Findley.
[05:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:denied the deep need to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:54] <exec> 08└─It's not as if it's impossible for her to have children, especially now with as much scientific knowledge as we have. In fact, some studies suggest that older parents make better parents because they have more experience. Furthermore, even if it isn't, there is a high probability that the government...
[05:15:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ese002 [5306] 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:01] <exec> 08└─But no individual has a need to procreate.
[05:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, and it's also probably the most hardwired urge we have. That goes about double for women.
[05:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, and it's also probably the most hardwired urge we have.
[05:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Procreation is a Right - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:07] <exec> 08└─but for now, reproduction is a selfish act.
[05:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Procreation is a Right - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:09] <exec> 08└─There is no decline in population. Yes birthrates, but those are more taken up by immigrants. It is people of European ethnicity that are dropping in number and being replaced by everyone else. Someday diversity might mean hiring a white guy. Then again, no country outside the western world even giv...
[05:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Procreation is a Right - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:10] <exec> 08└─Most advanced countries, East and West, are suffering a birth rate crisis that will see native population declines over the foreseeable future.
[05:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:12] <exec> 08└─Most individuals have the desire, but it's not a need. The species has no needs because it's not actually an individual; it describes a collective. I would suggest adopting, since many children who don't have homes already exist, but that would be insane.
[05:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I came here to hate on MS - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:01] <exec> 08└─Because they aren't a cock-gobbling faggot like you are?
[05:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:34] <exec> 08└─> Kids will believe the craziest things you can imagine That's the difference between experience and intelligence. There is a pretty straight-forward lesson in there for anyone willing to judge others without personal knowledge of their circumstances. > I kid you not, they're almost teens and still...
[05:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Dude - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:45] <exec> 08└─So true. B.B. and J.J. weren't exactly chopped liver either. :-)
[05:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Dude - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:46] <exec> 08└─Eric Clapton for several years every three years would put on the "Crossroads Guitar Festival". All the musicians here hand picked by Clapton. I think some of the best electric guitar music ever came out of that fest. Such as Carlos and Eric: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ramp up panic ahead of conference? - 06Fossil Fuel Firms Risk Wasting Billions by Ignoring Climate Change, Says IEA - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:32] <exec> 08└─You can question it all you want; you have freedom of speech. But that doesn't mean that you won't receive criticism, or that you'll hear the answers you want to hear.
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[05:19:01] <exec> 08└─Thanks again for directing me to the diviner data.
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[06:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Posthumously graded - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:14] <exec> 08└─Apparently it was a fictitious death. Just like the fictitious link to an un-pay-walled "Nature" article. WTF?
[06:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02experience worth more than knowledge? - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:16] <exec> 08└─students gain a much deeper understanding of science when they actively grapple with questions than when they passively listen to answers.
[06:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02I disagree. - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:18] <exec> 08└─I do scientific problem solving all the time. I apply my knowledge to my life. I didn't go to university to get some extra problems to solve, I went to get the knowledge to solve them. I have plenty of problems and no desire to pay tons of money for more. Maybe some people don't use the stuff they l...
[06:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I disagree. - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:19] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between having simply memorized some knowledge and actually understanding it. Simple lectures may well not be the best way to achieve understanding.
[06:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Board game - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember playing the Pandemic board game. Lots of fun, but I didn't get any college credit for it ;-) I wonder if the college will release some educational games from previous semesters?
[06:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Aww maaaan.... - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─All I know is you posted a link to a guy behind a a day-glow green cat dick.
[06:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Aww maaaan.... - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:07] <exec> 08└─Well, that guy is Blumenthal, he's a chef that likes cooking in a sciency manner (and, very often, borderline shocking for the un-adventurous), has plenty of TV shows. In one episode of one show that I watched (heston's feasts [wikipedia.org], if my memory serves), he created that "day-glow green ca...
[06:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:What does it do when you let go of the wheel? - 06Pressure-Aware Tech Aims for Wake-Up Safety via Steering Wheel - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:23] <exec> 08└─Precisely. I steer with a knee on many of the long, traffic- free stretches I drive, so that I can roll a ciggy (tobacco, folks, let's not get stupid). I am "practiced" enough that my concentration is focused on the road, gauges, and mirrors whilst rolling ( and the subsequent "lighting"). I don't n...
[06:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02come on man - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:16] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand is why does he protest her having children even if from his sperm? Does he really think he's going to be responsible for the kids? Fer Cress sakes...she's well able to provide for the kids. Let her have her offspring.
[06:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:come on man - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:18] <exec> 08└─Does he really think he's going to be responsible for the kids?
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[07:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:19] <exec> 08└─Obligatory explanation of why schools are now crap. [youtube.com] Hint: They're dumbing kids down to make a more easily manipulated populace. Watch the video if you disagree. "Common Core" is just the latest iteration of this decades old agenda. Elites will educate their kids in private schools, thu...
[07:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:20] <exec> 08└─[...] schools are just abysmal in general (except perhaps the best of the best universities) [...]
[07:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:experience worth more than knowledge? - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 1754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:22] <exec> 08└─Kinda reminded me of an engineering project I did at university about 40 years ago. At that time, test equipment was quite unavailable on my budget, but I did have a 3" CRT I had scrounged from some old equipment. I was going to build my own oscilloscope. All during my high school years, I had been...
[07:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Socratic Method - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:27] <exec> 08└─I feel that many topics are taught perhaps not wrong but in ways that make no sense to me. Richard Feynman taught Caltech's physics X one hour once per week. We could asany question we wanted provided he wasnt required to do any math. Purel conceptual discussions over chalkboard diagrams, for the mo...
[07:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Your English needs work too - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:29] <exec> 08└─Why We Are Teaching Science Incorrectly
[07:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:1) 02To heck with college - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:30] <exec> 08└─We should be teaching this stuff to our kids. When I was in grade 6 we took turns on the class computer during class. I can't remember what all the kinds of things we could do on it were, but I ended up playing some kind of science game where you were given options on testing a "new" micro-organism...
[07:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Location - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:44] <exec> 08└─Annoying that it took a couple of follow-through clicks to finally be told WHERE the hotel is located: which is in Huis Ten Boch, a fake Dutch amusement park/village in Nagasaki Prefecture. Good to know.
[07:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:How difficult can it be? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:46] <exec> 08└─Paying child support for your clever girl in goats: Priceless.
[07:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:01] <exec> 08└─Anthony Quinn had money. This woman has none or will have none left after paying the attorney fee. Then she will demand maintenance and alimony and there is no legal precedent to deny that. It really is the problem with the law that maintains that a woman must be paid in all circumstances and a man...
[07:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:denied the deep need to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:14] <exec> 08└─That's very much the problem with judiciary. Judges don't want to be the one dispensing justice. It is very much by design, though. Judiciary doesn't exist to dispense justice, it exists to pacify larger populace that doesn't have patience to wait until the biblical Judgment Day comes.
[07:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:59] <exec> 08└─MS is just doing "more of the same." App-store, tracking the shit out of you, locked down firmware, etc. Improvements to the UI are an insufficient value proposition to overcome the fact that whole philosophy remains identical.
[07:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kharnynb [5468] (Score:1) 02Re:It's rough - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:47] <exec> 08└─The one thing i really miss moving from The netherlands to finland is the open market(i guess you call em farmers markets?). Stalls with seasonable veg, meat and fresh fish... just vendors with their wares.
[07:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jaruzel [812] (Score:2) 02Re:they put the oldest stuff up front - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:20] <exec> 08└─Kinda. In UK/Europe we have Best Before and Use By. 'Best Before' is a guideline and typically most stuff lasts from a few days to several weeks after the date shown before inedible.[1] 'Use By' is for stuff that will most definitely make you sick if you eat it past the date shown. My psycho mother...
[07:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:they put the oldest stuff up front - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:21] <exec> 08└─They are neither legally required nor is there any sort of standard in choosing them
[07:22:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:21] <exec> 08└─If your actual posts where anywhere close to this civil, you are correct that you would likely not be called racist so often.   They aren't.
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[08:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02but also for the torture! - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:17] <exec> 08└─Wound-healing sound-waves for Murican Troops, wound-inflicting sound-waves for Everybody Else. Fuk U, world! Murica is deh bestest. Murican not-Troops, don obey theBama, Fuc U too, traitors!! Murica #1 Forever.
[08:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:32] <exec> 08└─Schools provide the facilities that can be used or ignored. They're like technology that is morally agnostic. Sure, some offer more opportunities, but these opportunities have to be used by the students.
[08:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your English needs work too - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:40] <exec> 08└─Incorrectly? That's just wrong.
[08:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:13] <exec> 08└─> Employment? So you can do damage and reap profit from crime, and when you're caught you get a job? How would that work out in the end?
[08:17:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02Re:they put the oldest stuff up front - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 853 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:27] <exec> 08└─> at least in all the US markets I've been to, they do their best to arrange cans and jars so that older date stamped goods are up front and the fresher ones are in back. Yeah. Because people take from the front so they replenish in the back. Everyone gets something 3 days older, but in exchange not...
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[08:23:00] <exec> 08└─Wow. You are seriously deep in the aspie-land. Come off that logical bondage and embrace the universe with motives different from your tetris-world. Before you come yelling ad hominem, note that this is not an argument but a suggestion. Anyway, for the sake of entertainment, I'll present equally bro...
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[09:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02"increase the healing time" => barbed wire... - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:23] <exec> 08└─If I wanted to increase the healing time, I'd have plenty of ideas to do so... Wrapping the wound in barbed wire should do the trick as well. But wouldn't it be prudent to increase the healing speed instead, thus decreasing the healing time?
[09:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Cats purr - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:25] <exec> 08└─I remember reading that a cats purr had the same effect. And just petting a cat (OK, yeah, any pet, even a frog) lowered a persons blood pressure.
[09:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:37] <exec> 08└─very few will intuit the principal
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[09:15:15] <exec> 08└─Easy solution to the child support issue is for her to setup a court controlled trust fund that will pay her support, in the event that any claim is made against the father, the fund goes to him, so he can pay support from it. If she hasn't got the money up front then the fund could be setup by insu...
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[09:15:24] <exec> 08└─We're all rookies with kids, even having had three I don't think I'm not - every kid is different, the more you think you've learned from the others the more likely you are to get stuff 'wrong' through dogmatic insistence in following what worked for older siblings. If you've had nine kids your stil...
[09:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Procreation is a Right - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:50] <exec> 08└─And this is all because people have been choosing new cars and bigger homes over having an extra child or two. So the truly selfish are those conspicuously consuming as much as they can for the purposes of leisure and social standing. Your cars will rust, your backyard pool will crack, your parties...
[09:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:come on man - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:54] <exec> 08└─>2015 >not knowing about "sperm liability" These are dangerous times for men. Women are ever increasingly viewing men as walking ATM's. Women are now using rape accusations to summon the power of the government against unruly and undesirable men. Any voice against this insanity is met with cries of...
[09:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:24] <exec> 08└─My girlfriend bought one of those because 'three quarters camera' pretty accurately describes her requirements for a smartphone. I warned her that Windows Phone is a bit rubbish, but she thought it was worth putting up with for the camera. After playing with it a bit, I've found it to be the first s...
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[09:18:39] <exec> 08└─Zeppelin? *yaaaaaawwwwwn*
[09:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Is that true? Honest question. - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:47] <exec> 08└─It's not quite true, e.g. because "the strength of a radio signal diminishes by the square of the distance from the source." (source [quora.com]). Moreover, technology has improved - we're better at aiming signals, and wasting less energy on sending signals into deep space that are only intended for...
[09:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Hear! Hear! Nokia Here! - 06Google to Reopen Maps Editing Tool after Closure due to Abuse - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:19:03] <exec> 08└─it basically offers what Google Maps did three years ago
[09:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Wear before puncture? - 06These Futuristic Car Tires Never Go Flat - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:24] <exec> 08└─Assuming you have a single punctured tyre, all the necessary tools and a good spare, sure, it shouldn't be a problem - other than being a bit late arriving at your destination. That's why I wrote "can" not "will". Where things come unstuck is when that doesn't apply for some reason: you hit some d...
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[10:13:37] <exec> 08└─Watch the video if you disagree
[10:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:38] <exec> 08└─they we will certainly
[10:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not even going to bother going to a school/university
[10:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:43] <exec> 08└─Nice refutation. Is this the sort of individual our 'wonderful' schools pump out by the thousands?
[10:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Flavor of the Month - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:53] <exec> 08└─Agreed, the best courses include a healthy portion of interesting case studies, original projects, and immersive practical problems in addition to the usual lecture+final exam+term paper regimen. I would assert, however, that the best instructors have always utilized the above techniques, regardless...
[10:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sirius Cybernatics Corporation - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:10] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the robots are equipped with the GPP feature.
[10:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Procreation is a Right - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:55] <exec> 08└─Then again, no country outside the western world even gives a second thought to equality, so that might never happen.
[10:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:28] <exec> 08└─I thought "man shopping" was what groups of single feminine women did as part of their socializing rituals — though as a single non-feminine woman, I've always preferred book shopping or tech shopping...either way, you just came close to the way I do my household's grocery shopping: 1) Walk around...
[10:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Distance to static - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:57] <exec> 08└─I don't have the source on hand, but I looked into this recently for the list of interstellar messages [wikipedia.org]. If I remember correctly, the most powerful amongst them are decodable up to something like 30-60 light years, and are detectable as artificial roughly up to 600-900 lightyears. See...
[10:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02OsmAnd to the rescue - 06Google to Reopen Maps Editing Tool after Closure due to Abuse - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:19:13] <exec> 08└─On android I can only recommend using OsmAnd - you get up-to-date offline maps (if you want them), and it works quite well by now.
[10:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:56] <exec> 08└─And I would say the fact that you send data is itself proof that you were trying to say or convey something. Maybe to try to demonstrate some sort of point.
[10:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:57] <exec> 08└─And what exactly makes you think it was data?
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[11:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Pity - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 2155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:16] <exec> 08└─News Flash Software is written by human beings, and humans are fallible and therefor you will never have bug free software especially when there are douchebags like this that will pound on it and take apart every compnent looking for weak spots. But if you truly believe what you say...does that mean...
[11:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:45] <exec> 08└─Utterly false. People can choose to accept your claims or not. Free speech is useful because it lets you communicate ideas without being punished by the government, enabling you to perhaps convince some people of whatever it is you're arguing for, relieving your stress, saying what you want to say,...
[11:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:47] <exec> 08└─The words are not what is powerful; it is those who respond to the words in certain ways. It is you who doesn't have the facts. You seemingly believe that words have a magical influence over others, but that is nothing but magical thinking.
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[12:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02fix the display! - 06WearDrive System Uses Smart Phone to Boost Performance and Efficiency of Wearables - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:36] <exec> 08└─ok... so my big problem with portable devices is that their displays use a fuckton (standard, not metric) of power. seriously, you have a problem when more power goes toward displaying information than actually calculating everything including what to display. what kills me is that they actually sol...
[12:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Which leads me to... - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:47] <exec> 08└─What is the affect on a fetus? Sounds dangerous to me, perhaps it causes autism. -->runs and hides
[12:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FlyingSock [4339] (Score:1) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:03] <exec> 08└─Well no. I for one have no interest in watching random videos. If you care enough, that you have explained the same thing 'over and over again' and have link saved to the video, why have you not also saved a paragraph explaining your point? In case you are now going to complain, that you are not req...
[12:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:04] <exec> 08└─If you care enough, that you have explained the same thing 'over and over again' and have link saved to the video, why have you not also saved a paragraph explaining your point?
[12:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:what's old is new again? - 06These Futuristic Car Tires Never Go Flat - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:59] <exec> 08└─i think the holdup is most likely an issue with durability. either turning causes too much stress which leads to a rapid breakdown or they are too effective and last much longer and thus cutting into their profits. however, it might be a safety issue. i mean, when one of these tires finally dies, do...
[12:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:49] <exec> 08└─You'd never hear that, because "SJW"s aren't real, except in your persecution-complex riddled delusions.
[12:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reddit got tricked - 06Reddit Faces More Trouble at the Top - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:04] <exec> 08└─Finally a furher offtopic note: Usenet made me realize that superficial by-the-book understanding of argumentation fallacies is sometimes worse than not knowing them at all.
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[13:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old news - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:12] <exec> 08└─This is a bit behind the times. They killed it off as soon as support ended LAST YEAR.
[13:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I've still got it - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:13] <exec> 08└─My Linux box is my old WinXP laptop. I never wiped XP off it. Then again, I haven't booted XP in a couple years now so for all I know it no longer works.
[13:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Couldn't have waited until Windows 10 is available - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:14] <exec> 08└─By all means, make holdouts choose between even more risk and updating to an outdated Windows version. Or choose something else?
[13:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Can't find a replacement at a reasonable price - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:16] <exec> 08└─Still running Windows XP on my Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121:   - Wacom active stylus/digitizer   - slate format   - long-life batteries (a pair lasted from Maryland to Hawaii and back w/ recharging)   - daylight viewable display Trying to replace it w/ a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10. Problems:   - W...
[13:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Windows XP, Hah. - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:17] <exec> 08└─I know of several (10+) Windows NT 4.0 servers at work, none of which I have to support thankfully.
[13:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hojo [4254] (Score:2, Insightful) 02I still run XP - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:19] <exec> 08└─I have a perfectly wonderful laser printer/fax machine combo unit, a Canon L75, which I bought around 2002. It works absolutely perfectly as a printer for my very limited needs--I print only 50 or 60 sheets per year at home. However, there is NO FUCKING DRIVER that will work with anything newer than...
[13:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Meanwhile... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:21] <exec> 08└─2,000,000,000 Win7 and Win8 PCs are safely protected by wiNdowS security essentiAls software preinstalled.
[13:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which leads me to... - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:38] <exec> 08└─No... you're thinking of Country Music.
[13:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Experiment - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:09] <exec> 08└─I went to grad school (doctorate in medical related field), by the time I graduated I believed essentially zero of what I was taught by instructors or textbooks either there or as an undergrad. The main reason is that the info is never placed in appropriate historical context along with the limitati...
[13:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:44] <exec> 08└─I'm just guessing here, but maybe, with really secure, robust, software.
[13:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:45] <exec> 08└─Who has an extra incentive to write really robust software when criminal hackers would get a job instead of prison?
[13:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:come on man - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, she won't sue him for child support and take half his money or anything. People don't do things like that especially not after a bitter divorce. She would become the first woman in history to have somebody's kid just to keep a father financially strapped for the majority of his adult life. I'l...
[13:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Ramp up panic ahead of conference? - 06Fossil Fuel Firms Risk Wasting Billions by Ignoring Climate Change, Says IEA - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:58] <exec> 08└─I'm arguing with a goddamn moron who thinks he's smart. It's the worst.
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[14:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Sounds hotter than hell - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─Step inside the oven, and you won't CARE much about any shockwaves. The military has a lot of experience with putting troops in hot places. Inside the hulls of ships, hiking across deserts, downtown in the middle of summer with no air conditioning, trucks, cattle cars, tanks - and much much more.
[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Makes a great party game - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:15] <exec> 08└─>For that reason, the shock wave would speed up when it hits the heated air around the electrical discharge. As the shock wave speeds up, it would change direction slightly, or refract, away from the person or object behind the arc. That bending occurs because of the change in speed of the wave, and...
[14:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03throckmorten [3380] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Old news - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:25] <exec> 08└─Not according to my personal experience. Windows Update has been giving me Security Essentials updates for months. Are you confusing support for the OS with support for MSE on XP?
[14:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows XP, Hah. - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:31] <exec> 08└─No NT servers here, but we have an NT4 SP6 machine. It hosts a simple robotic program in an ultrasonic welder. It does it's job well enough. No need for updates or anything, it's isolated from any networks.
[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still run XP - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:33] <exec> 08└─Can virtualbox or similar help for this? There seem to be alleged vista drivers floating around: http://www.usa.canon.com [canon.com]
[14:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score:2) 02Re:I still run XP - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:34] <exec> 08└─According to Canon, the driver that one can download will work for Windows 2000, XP and Vista. The device understands PCL and PS, so you could always try and fake it out by selecting a different driver like an old HP LaserJet PCL driver.
[14:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still run XP - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:36] <exec> 08└─That's because you don't have the source code to the driver, and nobody else (other than the unresponsive vendor) does either! Time to call this man. [newyorker.com]
[14:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Re:I still run XP - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:38] <exec> 08└─However, there is NO FUCKING DRIVER that will work with anything newer than XP.
[14:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:39] <exec> 08└─NSAI? Not-safe AI? Ai rebellion confirmed. I knew it. Thankfully my tinfoil hat will protect me!
[14:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:41] <exec> 08└─I'd expect a tinfoil hat since you can't differentiate between capital I and lowercase L, apparently.
[14:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:43] <exec> 08└─It is not the immune in a population need to worry about, but the those susceptible to infection. A zombie hoard of XP machines engaging in widespread DDOS attacks is not a pleasant thought.
[14:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03randmcnatt [671] (Score:2) 02Medical Equipment - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:45] <exec> 08└─I was recently visiting a relative in CCU at the local hospital. I stepped out in the hall and saw various medical apparatus lined along the walls, and on many of them an XP screen saver shining brightly. I know that almost everything there, if not everything, is networked with the patient records s...
[14:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why did they support - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─an unsupported OS so long? Crazy stuff.
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score:2) 02Re:Why did they support - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:48] <exec> 08└─Two levels of "unsupported" going in here. There is the issue of the OS itself no longer receiving security and bug fixes. Then there is the issue of software developers no longer supporting the OS. The OS does not magically stop working just because Microsoft stops releasing fixes, so as you can se...
[14:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:3, Informative) 02Windows XP was the best - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:49] <exec> 08└─Windows XP was the best OS Microsoft ever produced. Newer versions just remove features. I would still be using it if my PC hadn't died and I could find where I put my copy. A poxy little Start Menu that can't find jack in. Removal of the quick launch bar, replaced by pinning and shit non-standard m...
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Gotta disagree - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─XP isn't all that unique, IMHO. Twins or clones of XP can be had with any of the following: XP 64 bit (still supported with updates because it is part of the 2003 Server family) 2003 Server converted into desktop use Win 7 "classic" mode, with a few mods I really don't like Windows much, and seldom...
[14:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:1) 02Surprised Microsoft hasn't done more - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:53] <exec> 08└─I'm actually a little surprised Microsoft hasn't done more to force users off of XP. Since they already stopped providing XP OS updates, they can't break anything else, or even push out that stupid upgrade popup. And surprisingly, the final updates to XP seem rather stable. They could jack up the Wi...
[14:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02XP in a Virtual Machine - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:54] <exec> 08└─I sometimes run XP in a virtual machine to test downloaded software that I don't dare to run on my W7 machine.
[14:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fix the display! - 06WearDrive System Uses Smart Phone to Boost Performance and Efficiency of Wearables - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:56] <exec> 08└─Have to wait till patents expire first. But with the TPP and similar, the patents on lots of stuff may never expire. That's how patents slow progress.
[14:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BB-RAM - 06WearDrive System Uses Smart Phone to Boost Performance and Efficiency of Wearables - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:58] <exec> 08└─writing to NAND only when RAM fills up.
[14:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Huh! - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:08] <exec> 08└─The equipment was not much different from what is used to monitor a foetus during pregnancy. However, the vibration of the sound waves activated a protein pathway that helped fibroblast cells, which are important to healing, migrate to the wound.
[14:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Heat -> Vasodilation - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:09] <exec> 08└─Ultrasound generates heat and heat results in vasodilation. The increase in vascular permeability allows for faster migration of immune cells that participate in wound healing.
[14:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Posthumously graded - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:20] <exec> 08└─and how they'd do it differently
[14:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pity - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:30] <exec> 08└─After all it can easily be argued that Heartbleed and Shellshock cost the world more money due to break ins and lost time fixing it than every bug both Windows and OSX has had in the last 5 years combined
[14:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:22] <exec> 08└─"Here's your 23 chromosomes (not pairs), have fun with it"
[14:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:29] <exec> 08└─Unforeseen? If she can't foresee even that will she be a good parent? With 7+ billion on this planet already are we really desperate for more children to be born? Especially from parents like her? Yes I know there are plenty of worse parents around, but the point is will she be such a great parent w...
[14:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Procreation is a Right - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 1723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:53] <exec> 08└─It is the opposite. After the introduction of affirmative action, caste based discrimination has been found to increase. While the general educated populace at the time of independence (~70 years ago) used to think that caste-ism will get eradicated eventually, current zeitgeist is that it exists ev...
[14:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dboz87 [1285] (Score:1) 02Windows phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:54] <exec> 08└─With Windows 10 coming out I see Microsoft trying to do anything they can to create a seamless experience on the phone, tablet, PC, or console. They will try to tie these platforms more tightly together so when you start something on your tablet or phone, you can continue it on your desktop. Now bei...
[14:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:25] <exec> 08└─This describes exactly how I shop. My grocery trips have become so much quicker and cheaper after my divorce. Less time and money spent in the grocery = more to spend on fun things.
[14:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score:1) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:31] <exec> 08└─You, sir, are an evil genius. Well played.
[14:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Ramp up panic ahead of conference? - 06Fossil Fuel Firms Risk Wasting Billions by Ignoring Climate Change, Says IEA - 1607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:49] <exec> 08└─Here's the expanded version of that argument: Premise A. Economic growth requires energy. Premise B. The only known sources of consistent energy are fossil fuels and biofuels, but biofuels have a maximum capacity that is far too inefficient to use universally. Conclusion C. Ergo (per A and B), susta...
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:load compensation? - 06These Futuristic Car Tires Never Go Flat - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─Add in temperature variations (the tires on my car have been exposed to -20F up to +120F) and altitude (sea level one morning, 7000 ft the next) and the usefulness of these tires seems to very limited.
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[15:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:23] <exec> 08└─Aside from the popular science-ish articles concerning both fields throwing around the "cloaking device" term rather freely, this technology has absolutely nothing to do with metamaterials.
[15:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor Access - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 3780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:24] <exec> 08└─Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access vPro processors allow remote access even when computer is turned off Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com | September 26, 2013 http://www.infowars.com [infowars.com] "Intel Core vPro processors contain a "secret" 3G chip that allows remot...
[15:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor Acce - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:26] <exec> 08└─which runs on the system's phantom power
[15:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor Acce - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:28] <exec> 08└─Oops, how did that post end up on the wrong story? I'm certain that I was an the right one while writing that post (heck, I even copy/pasted from its display above the input box!)
[15:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor Acce - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:30] <exec> 08└─Actually I now notice that the story I replied to seems to be gone completely!?
[15:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor Acce - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:31] <exec> 08└─Ah, now I notice … the "story" I was replying to was actually a comment, which was downvoted for being offtopic and thus stopped being displayed. I got confused. Maybe the main page and the comments should get a slightly different design, so as to avoid this type of confusion.
[15:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor Acce - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:33] <exec> 08└─Try submitting it, but without the infowars/prisonplanet links
[15:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So ... - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:34] <exec> 08└─So the part of the shock wave which would have hit you is instead redirected to the poor guy standing besides you, while the part of the shock wave that would have hit him now will hit you?
[15:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Slashdot must have dropped their clickbait - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─Good thing we're here to take up the slack.
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrMag [1860] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Cloaking Device? - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:38] <exec> 08└─This article reads like it was written by someone who's never seen sci-fi. Call it a shield, if you will, but this is not cloaking.
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Heated Air Shields? - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─For every good defense, there's an equally good offense. Hot air as a shield against shock? Great! How's it handle debris? Militaries have had heat-seeking weapons for a very long time - you've just made yourself a glowing target. Most of them go boom and throw high-speed bits of metal around... tho...
[15:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't find a replacement at a reasonable price - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:49] <exec> 08└─The Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121 can run Linux. Debian can fit into its 768MB of RAM, so you don't need to change hardware.
[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:I still run XP - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:57] <exec> 08└─Great use case- there will be many edge cases of XP systems in use for the foreseeable future. Microsoft does not care about these edge cases; they generate no revenue nor is it a market worth exploring. In your case, I would think that when that laptop falls over, you will just buy a new printer.
[15:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta disagree - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:07] <exec> 08└─Server 2003 wend EOL this month... 7/13/2015. I am in the process of decommissioning my last instances this month and I know there are many places that are far behind me. http://www.microsoft.com [microsoft.com]
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows XP was the best - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:09] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree with you on UAC. I always try to educate non-Windows tech people on UAC because they tend to turn it off. UAC is a huge leap in security compared to where it was with Windows XP. Generally, you should always leave UAC on, especially when installing software. Why is that? Mandatory...
[15:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows XP was the best - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:11] <exec> 08└─Windows XP was the best OS Microsoft ever produced.
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprised Microsoft hasn't done more - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─They are getting bit hard by their push into embedded with XP. While XP is EOL, XP Embedded is still getting updates. The word is that some of the contracts MS signed to get XP into the embedded space early on are guaranteeing some level of updates into the foreseeable future. My guess is that MS wi...
[15:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Individual user here, no comapny... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 4015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:14] <exec> 08└─Running Windows XP SP3, not updated since June 2011, automatic update service disabled, remote desktop service disabled, many many more services disabled. I have the bare minimum of drivers installed. When the computer boots up and I look at my process manager (Process Hacker), I see not much more t...
[15:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Individual user here, no comapny... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:17] <exec> 08└─I use XP on the machine I get most of my income on. I use Windows 7 or Vista on everything else. I am commenting for two reasons; one, I approve of your use of XP and most of the reasons. I would pay for a means to place the XP shell and the commands I am used to, on top of Windows 7 (which I have b...
[15:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:BB-RAM - 06WearDrive System Uses Smart Phone to Boost Performance and Efficiency of Wearables - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:25] <exec> 08└─Well, on the other hand, this is a battery operated device. This means they supposedly monitor when power is about to expire and can then commit to NAND.
[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Hello, Kitty! - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:40] <exec> 08└─Why DO cats purr? http://catstheboss.com [catstheboss.com] I suppose that I should publish a disclaimer. I'm not a cat lover. Cats are OK, I don't dislike them or anything, but I'm not a cat lover. If they insist on being petted, I'm as likely to rub the fur backward, as I am...
[15:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:57] <exec> 08└─I cannot agree with your response any more strongly, you could even say you wanted to paint the moon pink and call it Lenin. I'd still agree with the premise of your reply about the educational system and means of learning and means of conveying knowledge. Anyone that has to point to a video is like...
[15:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Not Just Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:14] <exec> 08└─We aren't teaching science enough. It's become all too possible to make it through schooling, especially at the higher levels, while completely avoiding science coursework. This is leading to growing numbers who don't understand science, and therefore don't trust it. Things like anti-vax, anti-GMO,...
[15:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Why pick on science? - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:16] <exec> 08└─All subjects are taught poorly. Many teachers don't care. Most students are disengaged. This is the recipe for stupidity. Math, Literature, Grammar, Government, Music, History, Wood Shop, whatever; they have all gone down hill. Each of the parties involved have brought the whole apparatus lower. Y...
[15:15:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 759 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:52] <exec> 08└─The problem with the U.S. criminal justice system is that we somehow got the idea that the solution to serious criminal behavior is to lock the offender up and throw away the key. Producing or selling malware is a serious crime. But locking up the person for more than a year or two is not the soluti...
[15:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:53] <exec> 08└─Hear, hear! The only people who needs to be locked up for extended periods of time are violent criminals. Everyone else should only get a year or two.
[15:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the difference - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:17] <exec> 08└─The difference is the same as when they arrest a guy on the street for selling automatic weapons, yet buy them by the truckload for the military. Munitions sales to government are different. I really have no problem with that. The government needs arms because other governments have them. But I don'...
[15:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:They've been talking for years - 06Pressure-Aware Tech Aims for Wake-Up Safety via Steering Wheel - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:31] <exec> 08└─*chuckle* I won't argue - if eight hours is good for you, stick with it. Not everyone has to cross the continent in three days. :^) I had a couple scares as young man, due to lack of sleep. The worst scare I ever had involved that crazy concept of "power naps". I was told, "If you get to tired to dr...
[15:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How difficult can it be? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:44] <exec> 08└─LOL :-)
[15:17:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03penguinoid [5331] 02Re:Why freeze the embryos instead of the eggs? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:18] <exec> 08└─Why did they freeze embryos instead of the sperm and eggs separately?
[15:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:05] <exec> 08└─> Nokia produced a Windows phone that was three-quarters digital camera. Judging a product line by its oddball step children doesn't provide much insight. 95% by model and 99.99% by sales volume, Nokia/MS winphone is just more of the same.
[15:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Satya Nadella's strategy is ... ? - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:20] <exec> 08└─I very much appreciate your point, but I'm thinking in regards to the Paradox of choice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice [wikipedia.org] ). Consider how IOS has 500 apps released a day (http://gamasutra.com/view/news/237811/500_games_launched_per_day_on_iOS_last_year_and_other_di...
[15:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Dumbest piece in SN for a while - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:34] <exec> 08└─[Nadella] will be remembered as the guy who steered MS into ruin.
[15:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Re:Watch this - 06ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Halt NSA Phone Record Collection - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:46] <exec> 08└─Why don't you tell me: Am I an NSA shill for calling their actions illegal and immoral, or am I a coward for saying they should be challenged? Corruption eventually overcomes all empires. You could try to ignore this fact and try to live in a fantasy, or more likely suffer depression when you are fi...
[15:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Wear before puncture? - 06These Futuristic Car Tires Never Go Flat - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─Man, my bike needs maintenance more often from just *sitting indoors not even being used* than my car does driving an hour or two every day and being parked outside and never even being washed. And that's comparing a brand new bike (got it less than a year ago) to a car that I bought used five years...
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[16:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Gerbils? In my ass?!! - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:12] <exec> 08└─I shoved a gerbil up my ass. - Richard Gere
[16:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Hot and dry isn't really right - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:14] <exec> 08└─The last few years have been dry in the sense that we've gotten very little precipitation, and in particular _very_ little snow. (Which is the majority of CA's water storage) But at least near me, the summers have been slightly cooler than normal (in terms of high temps, not in terms of average over...
[16:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02EU = socialist turds - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:22] <exec> 08└─Another successful US company being investigated by the EU? What a surprise!
[16:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes a great party game - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 2072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─Hawkwind - Sonic Attack: In case of sonic attack on your district, follow these rules If you are making love it is imperative To bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously Do not waste time blocking your ears Do not waste time seeking a sound proofed shelter Try to get as far away from the sonic sour...
[16:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It used to be that.. - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─It used to be that one patented inventions. Now they patent science fiction.
[16:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old news - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─Not according to my personal experience. Windows Updates on XP stopped giving me Security Essentials updates in April of last year. At the same time, whenever I boot-up, a message box pops up from MSE telling me 'this OS is not supported'. However, every month, Windows Updates on XP gives me the mon...
[16:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've still got it - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:58] <exec> 08└─Ditto with my old desktop, except that I do boot XP occasionally. Some old hardware I need runs off it and there's no upgrade path for that. In fact, the driver is a Win2000 driver with a kluge to make it work on XP. I've said for years that drivers that are not supported should be put in the public...
[16:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Couldn't have waited until Windows 10 is availa - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─Some of us are running industrial/business software that WILL NOT WORK on anything >XP. Sometimes upgrades are available but for outrageous fees. Sometimes the vendor is long gone and you might need to invest tens to hundreds of thousands to upgrade entire systems that work just fine as they are. If...
[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─Neither can anybody else in many fonts, genius.
[16:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:14] <exec> 08└─Occam's razor. Know it, love it, use it.
[16:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why did they support - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─Only your first unsupported has an intuitive definition. Air gap didn't help the folks at Natanz. I would recommend your company does some research on virtual machines or even emulators.
[16:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why did they support - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:22] <exec> 08└─Then there's the Apple iPad first generation. Obsoleted to the point that functioning programs stop working when a mandatory upgrade is not compatible. No, it's not that the old version can't be upgraded - the old version stops working at all! I've got a roughly 5 year old iPad that is losing softwa...
[16:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprised Microsoft hasn't done more - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─My guess is that MS will not push any harder to get people to move because the holdouts will tend to be larger organizations or companies with very specific contract terms.
[16:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Individual user here, no comapny... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:33] <exec> 08└─+1 for Sandboxie
[16:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02"increase the healing time" => barbed wire... - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:51] <exec> 08└─If I wanted to increase the healing time, I'd have plenty of ideas to do so... Wrapping the wound in barbed wire should do the trick as well. But wouldn't it be prudent to increase the healing speed instead, thus decreasing the healing time?
[16:15:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:13] <exec> 08└─Watch the video if you disagree
[16:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:18] <exec> 08└─That's just silly. It says nothing other than the information linked to is worth a look. Possibly to save time and effort by linking to something the poster believes is adequate. Those are very arbitrary 'rules' you have there.
[16:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Just Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:35] <exec> 08└─They come from having enough people in the population who don't understand science to the point where they can't distinguish between the scientific method and snake oil. And this is going to get increasingly more dangerous, as the recent US measles outbreak has shown.
[16:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Just Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:36] <exec> 08└─Forgot the source of the second quote: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] I may as well also mention a few other things I have discovered. First, another common claim is that anti-vaxxers are aggregating together to sustain measles. This amounts to claiming that there are communiti...
[16:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why pick on science? - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:38] <exec> 08└─Math, Literature, Grammar, Government, Music, History, Wood Shop, whatever; they have all gone down hill.
[16:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:09] <exec> 08└─Having sex with Hillary and embarrassing Swedish groupies would be far worse.
[16:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:19] <exec> 08└─No, moving electrons around a computer is not a serious crime. It has nothing to do with the real,physical,world. Enjoy your woman centric global police state where you cannot pursue happiness.
[16:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:21] <exec> 08└─The goal of the people that run the U.S. Empire is to suppress any dissenting cultures practices or views. Thus prison. It is not about helping any man. The only people helped are women and the people that run the show.
[16:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:24] <exec> 08└─More likely against the people.
[16:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:26] <exec> 08└─The empire spans the globe now. No escape.
[16:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the difference - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:47] <exec> 08└─Paid govt shill or just a faggot.
[16:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:I did this with my wife - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─In which case, she should be granted the ability to have the children and he should not have to pay child support. Win / Win. The catch would be that he wouldn't have any rights over the children. Considering he wants to destroy them, that should be a fair deal.
[16:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02too bad she can't release him from child support - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:19] <exec> 08└─The courts use "best interests of the child" as their standard and totally disregard any contracts. Fix that, and he might go along. His only other hope would be something insane like suing for damages equal to the child support. Good luck with that, hmmm? He's not going to take the gamble.
[16:17:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:25] <exec> 08└─Beyond that, there has been a case where a woman went on public assistance and the state sued the sperm donor against the wishes of the mother and of the signed agreement that he would have no paternal rights of responsibilities.
[16:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:denied the deep need to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:48] <exec> 08└─I mentioned adoption to a friend who was having trouble conceiving with his wife... you'd think I was talking about murdering his yet to be made babies from the reaction I got. The urge to reproduce biological offspring is irrational.
[16:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:01] <exec> 08└─I know right, because you always hear about how children are starving in the streets in First World Countries. Oh..., right, You Don't, because we have things like Homeless Shelters, Food Banks, and Soup Kitchens. The main problem is that there is extreme poverty in areas where there isn't much else...
[16:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's rough - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:29] <exec> 08└─The soylent facility is pretty horrible. Rat droppings and health concerns abound.
[16:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02Re:they put the oldest stuff up front - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─I have seen "best before" dates on salt. It's ROCK. It's millions of years old. But it was processed, handled, and packaged, so they have to put a 2-year date on it.
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:Wear before puncture? - 06These Futuristic Car Tires Never Go Flat - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─Again, maybe you should have chosen better components.
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[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02justice has been served - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:24] <exec> 08└─that's what you get for trying to break the laws of thermodynamics!
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Hot and dry isn't really right - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:35] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, Missouri has seen a milder summer and more rain this year. This might have been the first summer I've had that I didn't seriously consider trying to flee to Canada. Not saying it's related, but just an observation.
[17:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:37] <exec> 08└─1. Pipe-eating poop People are still pooping as much, so each flush contains more waste with less water to flush it through the system. The waste that is broken down creates hydrogen sulfide, which eats through the concrete in the pipes
[17:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─A plumber told me the best drain cleaner is Pepsi or Coca-Cola. One can down the drain per week will keep the pipes clean. I've been doing this for 10 years and haven't had to snake the pipes since.
[17:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:41] <exec> 08└─I heard pipes crave brawndo.
[17:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:43] <exec> 08└─Odd, from what I've gathered from the people from California I have spoken with, I didn't think they pooped. Or it came out rainbows and rose petals or something. A strong contrast with east coasters, who are just literally constantly full of poop.
[17:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:45] <exec> 08└─All Californians north of Orange County poop a mixture of douche and semen.
[17:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:46] <exec> 08└─As a resident living south of Orange Co, I can tell you our poopies are mostly liquefied burritos.
[17:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02of course! - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:48] <exec> 08└─cats react to warm weather just as people on a Hawaii vacation might — by getting busy
[17:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Less shame - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:50] <exec> 08└─The neighbors with the Perfect Green Grass have been forced to go brown or fake, because it's now really easy to guess who's over-watering. My neglected lawn is starting to look average, and they can't complain about it anymore. Yay!
[17:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Less shame - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:51] <exec> 08└─A neighbor put astroturf on his front lawn, it looks like shit. My weeds look better than that crap.
[17:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Less shame - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:53] <exec> 08└─Lots of folks started putting in fake grass. Then there was a warning letter in the neighborhood newsletter that rabbits are actually eating the fake grass.
[17:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Less shame - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:54] <exec> 08└─I put one of these on my AstroTurf... http://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[17:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02spiders - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:56] <exec> 08└─"pests such as scorpions and spiders" I object to calling spiders pests. If anything, they deal with real pests such as mosquitoes, flied, and various other insects that feed on.stored foods. TFA mentions two venomous spiders. Then say: "such as scorpions and venomous spidets". The vast majority of...
[17:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:EU = socialist turds - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:58] <exec> 08└─Well if we let large companies unfairly suppress the up-and-comers, they'll eventually use their monopoly powers to screw the customer and at the same time their products will go to shit because they don't need to compete on quality. In the very long term this will be bad for everyone, even the comp...
[17:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EU = socialist turds - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:59] <exec> 08└─It's not Qualcomm's fault that EU companies are shitty competitors.
[17:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EU = socialist turds - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:01] <exec> 08└─Well if we let large American companies unfairly . . .
[17:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EU = socialist turds - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:02] <exec> 08└─The EU companies can't compete so the commission has to punish the US companies for being too successful.
[17:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Your rules - but you don't like them? - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:04] <exec> 08└─I think that maybe you are missing the point. America is currently promoting a trade agreement to ensure fair trade between Europe and America - in both directions - not just one. If you think the EU is picking on US companies now, wait until the TTIP is forced upon us. The agreement means that we c...
[17:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your rules - but you don't like them? - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:06] <exec> 08└─You should do a little more research
[17:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:20] <exec> 08└─Considering the density of the air, i'd be surprised of there was significant refraction just from heating it. If that shockwave was gonna kill you in the first place, you'd better hide behind a pretty big vacuum to prevent it from bridging the gap.
[17:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Old news - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:36] <exec> 08└─> I'm really not too worried about anti-virus on this particular PC. it is an old laptop connected to my TV and used as a low-tech htpc. > I rarely do anything on it other than the following: use the original Meedio 1.4 and the latest VLC to play video stored on my local LAN. So it's an unsecure box...
[17:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Getting rid of humans isn't new - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:38] <exec> 08└─The "Formule 1" low-end chain, and probably a few others, has a credit-card machine at the front, and you can spend your night there without seeing an employee. Very popular with the people who don't want to be seen with whomever they are accompanying.
[17:17:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] 02Brian Krebs has followed these guys for years. - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:09] <exec> 08└─This rather interesting write-up by Brian Krebs [krebsonsecurity.com] went up earlier, and it even includes a link to an affidavit on one of the people who got busted.
[17:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:02] <exec> 08└─The courts use "best interests of the child" as their standard and totally disregard any contracts.
[17:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:03] <exec> 08└─The child doesn't have a voice. The court is their voice. I wonder what your views are on Child Labor. Certainly working a child to the bone, but them actually having a chance of surviving is better than death.
[17:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:05] <exec> 08└─The child might not have a voice, but the ends don't justify the means. If the government cares about the child so much, then instead of making people in situations like these personally shell out the money to pay for them, they can pay for it themselves. But you seem to be an "the ends justify the...
[17:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Older Parents=Better Parents - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:22] <exec> 08└─Having kids is what makes you mature
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:48] <exec> 08└─I know right, because you always hear about how children are starving in the streets in First World Countries. Oh..., right, You Don't, because we have things like Homeless Shelters, Food Banks, and Soup Kitchens.
[17:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─My point is that reducing the population in First World Countries won't help the Countries in Extreme Poverty. Also, the countries in extreme poverty don't see a need to reduce their procreation.
[17:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:51] <exec> 08└─We should try to help there as well, certainly. But I never suggested otherwise.
[17:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:52] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the part where people can have children and still have populations go down? You don't need to have zero children for overpopulation to recede. You just need to have fewer than 2.33 per woman.
[17:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:54] <exec> 08└─I must have missed the event where most people decided to be more selfless, more rational, and more coordinated. Well, we probably don't necessarily need that to happen. The right policies and the right conditions could help bring what you say about.
[17:19:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02Satya Nadella's strategy is ... ? - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 2571 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:38] <exec> 08└─I see Nadella doing a lot of random things. Open source for some of their stuff, catchy slogans, and so on. What I don't see is an overall strategy. What is he trying to accomplish? I gave him time, and the benefit of the doubt having to do things like write off Nokia, but other than firing people,...
[17:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02so they pick up yucky stuff? - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:39] <exec> 08└─I'd have done that. Oops, I couldn't resist picking up the Lima beans!
[17:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02salt goes bad - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:01] <exec> 08└─Humidity gets in, causing the salt to cake. Eventually you'd have to cut open the container and re-grind the salt.
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[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captnjohnny1618 [5301] (Score:1) 02Re:justice has been served - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:14] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming this is tongue-in-cheek, but just in case: I thing you need to review your thermodynamics.
[18:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:4, Funny) 02DOWNSIDE? - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─Let's see. 1) "Stuck" in Hawaii 2) Prevented from visiting Phoenix Damn. Some times you just can't win.
[18:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Flappy flappy - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:16] <exec> 08└─I really didn't think that was an ornithopter for a lot of the video. It really does flap its wings, though. I'd have like to see it get a longer/higher flight in, but I'm sure that someone will take on that challenge eventually.
[18:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Wha? - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─What, then, is a "technical failure"? I can see how one might argue that it doesn't show a weakness in the technology, but it sure as hell sounds like a technical failure. The batteries failed, and they failed from the manner in which they were being used (as opposed to failing from something like b...
[18:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha? - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:20] <exec> 08└─They're desperately afraid of this being cast as an insurmountable failure of solar technology, rather than a design failure the engineers who built the plane. That doesn't excuse clearly incorrect statements, but it explains it.
[18:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Imagine that call... - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:21] <exec> 08└─"Yes darling, the plane is broken, so I'm really stuck in Hawaii until 2016 at least"
[18:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Hot and dry isn't really right - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:32] <exec> 08└─We keep getting told that we are moving toward hot + dry, but from the ground it looks more like a shift to more tropical climate.   I don't know who is telling you that but it's a La Nina year.   La Nina=Cool and Wet El Nino=Hot and Dry.   Unfortunately, from what I have been reading it's not a...
[18:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Hot and dry isn't really right - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:33] <exec> 08└─La Nina=Cool and Wet El Nino=Hot and Dry.
[18:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:40] <exec> 08└─Now THAT would explain the highly corrosive element noted in the article. (Said while eating burrito myself)
[18:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:41] <exec> 08└─If you lived in Iowa or Nebraska you would be on more solid ground from which to throw stones at the coasts. As it is, Missouri defines the term "hillbilly."
[18:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:44] <exec> 08└─Serious question: What's in Iowa and Nebraska? Also, I moved here. For what it's worth, I have plenty of things to say about people around here too.
[18:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Xeriscaping - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:48] <exec> 08└─Xeriscaping [wikipedia.org] seems like an excellent alternative to me. It's attractive, and you don't have to pay a lawncare service to mow it (or mow it yourself). Living in a non-drought stricken area, I still think lawns are a silly waste of acreage. Far better to cultivate it to do something use...
[18:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Honestly - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:50] <exec> 08└─I haven't noticed a damn thing locally, but that's probably because where I live they've been raising water and utility rates (a for-profit utility, yeah, that's fucking fair) for no good reason except to squeeze more money out of the population year after year and they will continue to do so regard...
[18:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There's a certain redundancy to the list - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:52] <exec> 08└─4. Kitten bonanza! 5. Pest growth
[18:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:2) 02Re:There's a certain redundancy to the list - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:54] <exec> 08└─More kittens means more Youtube cat videos and hence the "bonanza". Put ads on those videos and make money !
[18:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:EU = socialist turds - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:05] <exec> 08└─Can you give some examples of European competitors to these companies, which the EU might be protecting? I don't see this happening with say, car companies or Boeing, where the EU does have prominent competitors, but maybe it's just that the European Amazon or Google competitor is not so well known?
[18:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Your rules - but you don't like them? - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:08] <exec> 08└─Well, in that case, carry on whining. If you want to trade in a country, you have to play by their rules, not the one's that you would like to bring with you.
[18:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your rules - but you don't like them? - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:09] <exec> 08└─Well, in that case, carry on whining.
[18:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor Acce - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─The whole thing is exactly like all the other crap from those sites - a kernel of truth wrapped in a million layers of propaganda. Yes, there is a "secret" (advertised business feature) micro-os onboard some newer Intel chips. Yes, IF you have 3G support in your motherboard, this chip can use it. Th...
[18:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Couldn't have waited until Windows 10 is availa - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:50] <exec> 08└─Windows XP is fine to use forever as long as the machine is properly isolated on the network, or airgapped entirely. I wouldn't trust it with Internet access. If the industrial equipment it's driving still works, why replace it? I like products that last, but those grey box Dells are a blessing as w...
[18:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows XP was the best - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─on Win7 - it just doesn't work. I think there are 2 or 3 registry settings you need for it to work correctly. Apparently the installer does not put them in. Learned that little 'trick' a few years ago when I was sucked into VB WinCE work. Oh and you *must* install it before any other visual studio....
[18:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:09] <exec> 08└─they / we will certainly
[18:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:13] <exec> 08└─Those are very arbitrary 'rules' you have there.
[18:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flavor of the Month - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:27] <exec> 08└─The problem is lazy, incompetent teachers who fob off their responsibilities to bored, over-worked grad student assistants.
[18:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Just Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:32] <exec> 08└─so this is your argument against op's call for increased science education? you're kind of proving his point...
[18:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:19] <exec> 08└─The problem with the U.S. criminal justice system is that increasingly it is operated for profit. No one makes money if people are not locked up.
[18:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:What does it do when you let go of the wheel? - 06Pressure-Aware Tech Aims for Wake-Up Safety via Steering Wheel - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's totally everybody else driving with a knee and eyes off the road causing the problem.
[18:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:10] <exec> 08└─More education and career opportunities for women seems to do the trick, too. Reference the declining birth rates of most industrialized countries.
[18:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Alien Licensing - 06Sim Shows How Far Hit Songs have Traveled in Space - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:49] <exec> 08└─This is probably proof there are no aliens paying attention to us. Beaming what passes for most popular music would be an incitement to attack us.
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[19:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Me Chinese. Me play joke. Me go peepe in your Coke - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:19] <exec> 08└─Me rikey flied lice!
[19:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02We did this to the Soviets too, in a different way - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:21] <exec> 08└─I dont know what was export controlled but I do know the Soviets reverse engineered many of our chips. But when our process shrunk below the size that they coudl reverse engineer they had to develop their own designs. A UC Davis grad student told me this in 1981. I dont really know but speculate thi...
[19:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Me chinese me play joke me go peepee in your coke - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─Eat my flied lice you honky bitch!
[19:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We did this to the Soviets too, in a different - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─Difference is China makes a lot of stuff for the USA.
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We did this to the Soviets too, in a different - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:26] <exec> 08└─And makes sure to add lead in the paint and poison in the baby formula. LOL.
[19:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:We did this to the Soviets too, in a different - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:28] <exec> 08└─I reverse engineered my dick up your slut mom's dried up fuck hole. Then she begged me to jizz all over her pancake tits.
[19:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02The software stack is easy.. - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:30] <exec> 08└─It'll run on Linux,which as a server OS is quite well suited to managing a ton of chips across a large group of nodes. this is why groups like CERN use it with their HPCs, it is a task that particular OS can do well.
[19:13:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02DOWNSIDE? - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:36] <exec> 08└─Let's see. 1) "Stuck" in Hawaii 2) Prevented from visiting Phoenix Damn. Some times you just can't win.
[19:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:DOWNSIDE? - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, when I read that the other pilot had to wait in fear and trepidation for months in a far-away location from his partner, I thought the same thing. Apparently he stayed in Monaco (as a guest of prince Albert?). Oh the horrors of waiting for months, at the bar in the Monte Carlo casino, look...
[19:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Valery Chkalov: the balls of a brass monkey - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 3297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:43] <exec> 08└─He was the pilot along with a navigator and copilot who made the first flight from the Soviet Union over the Northole to the United States. IIRC they flew for 56 hours. They were very brave because they flew a single engine plane. There must have been some good reason for that. I wrote image process...
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gerbils? In my ass?!! - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:53] <exec> 08└─Did it kick you in the face?
[19:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:01] <exec> 08└─Damn it! Coffee everywhere!
[19:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:06] <exec> 08└─Don't you live in the Bay Area?
[19:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:10] <exec> 08└─I would try answer in a funny way but it would only come across as corny.
[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Xeriscaping - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─If you have a garden instead of a lawn, where do your kids and pets play outdoors?
[19:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Xeriscaping - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:18] <exec> 08└─Children and pets require way too much water. Better to plant a cactus instead.
[19:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Xeriscaping - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:20] <exec> 08└─Check with your bylaws first. Around where I live (QC), there have been several cases of city officials going full moron on people substituting their ugly front lawn with *gasp* a vegetable patch. I say if it can be useful for something else than having dogs piss on it while providing better coverag...
[19:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:spiders - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:21] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, their webs are a pita. I live in a forest and they keep building them all around my deck and a couple of times across my front door over night. The door isn't so much a problem because traffic prevents the webs from building up, but the corners around my deck fill up with web crud...
[19:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honestly - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:23] <exec> 08└─I wish I could agree with you, but the rest of the states in the West are how they are because we got Californicated! Now we have to deal with the same shit. My dad, a truck driver, won't be able to go to cali soon thanks to CARB, and I know a lot of other drivers who refuse to go along with that bu...
[19:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:There's a certain redundancy to the list - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─The kitten bonanza is probably local to silicon valley
[19:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your rules - but you don't like them? - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:42] <exec> 08└─Well, in that case, carry on whining.
[19:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Surprised this hasn't happened sooner - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─Qualcomm is the Intel or M$ of wireless communications tech. They own a ridiculous number of patents over wireless, and invented CDMA (at least for phones). No one else can come close because no one else owns the core patent portfolio for all these technologies. And that's just the stuff we know abo...
[19:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cloaking Device? - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:07] <exec> 08└─Yes. And it doesn't cover whether or not the shield attracts sandworms and what happens if it is shot by a lasgun.
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heated Air Shields? - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:10] <exec> 08└─Thus the specific and initial limitation of the theoretical device to protect against one and only one thing: airborne shock waves. Look, I know it is an easy ego boosting thing to poke holes in defense/attack tech, but really you already knew there are severe limitations when your adversary is a hu...
[19:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Experiment - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:08] <exec> 08└─The final (and only grade) should be on asking them for at least 10 different ways their results could be interpreted and the limitations of the experiment.
[19:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Just Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:13] <exec> 08└─I am definitely FOR improved science understanding, if this is something education can accomplish then we are agreed upon that. I just think that disagreeing with popular narratives is not suggestive of poor science understanding.
[19:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:06] <exec> 08└─Those people have caused a world of hurt to those who have lost financial data to thieves who bought programs and used them on the masses. They have cause plenty of other economic losses/expenses to those trying to defend against their malware. To the dungeons with thee!
[19:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:How difficult can it be? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:57] <exec> 08└─Kramer vs. Raptor -- I'm optioning it right now.
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[20:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:14] <exec> 08└─The tepid sales for "smart watches" shows that consumers aren't cooperating in the gadget industry's latest attempts to create another product category that will generate yearly upgrades. I think this is an encouraging sign. Even tablet sales are stagnating, as people are keeping them longer than th...
[20:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:15] <exec> 08└─It's almost reassuring enough to counter every story I hear about my moron coworkers who buy their two year olds tablets.
[20:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:16] <exec> 08└─I'd buy my cat a tablet if there were more apps for critters. For now she has to borrow mine : )
[20:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:18] <exec> 08└─The cat would probably take better care of it. One of them is on their third last time I checked.
[20:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Some mobile portland member wears several - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:20] <exec> 08└─I attended a talk presented by three speakers on wearable technology. The first speaker was heavily into how cool it was that ebery minute detail of his life was logged 24/7 then iploaded tooh how I hate this term the cloud. I was overcome with horror. While I can see how I might find a smartwatch u...
[20:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02buy a glow in the dark watch for kids - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─Cheap, tells the time, easy to find in the dark
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:23] <exec> 08└─People loves them some status symbols. Especially people whose lives are shallow. But then again, most people have deficient intellects and don't realize self-worth comes from within, not from what you wear or display on your body.
[20:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─Actually, self worth comes from positive moderation on snarky internet comments.
[20:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:27] <exec> 08└─So are you karma whoring or just a judgemental asshole?
[20:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─It's those low self esteem Apple watch owners!
[20:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Original Pebble - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:30] <exec> 08└─Not a bad review. I have a Moto360 and like it quite a lot, but I actually miss my original Pebble to a degree. The Android Wear watches are better for notifications, have voice commands (handy on occasion), and have a much nicer looking screen. What I miss from the pebble is the always on screen, a...
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02horse shit - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─NSA-tracking collar
[20:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02I'm not sure I follow your argument. - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:40] <exec> 08└─Mom hasn't dated any other men since Dad passed away 2003. She still wears her wedding ring. Care to elucidate?
[20:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm not sure I follow your argument. - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─Way to feed the troll.
[20:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I also support the ACLU's defense of NAZIs - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:44] <exec> 08└─I never downmod anybody because I agree withthe ACLU that the best response to hate speech is more speech.
[20:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm not sure I follow your argument. - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:45] <exec> 08└─Just like I fed his mom trouser snake.
[20:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm not sure I follow your argument. - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─Fucking != dating. I'd never be seen in public dating that hag bitch.
[20:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02half-restricted just isn't going to work - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:48] <exec> 08└─Chip designs are not TOP SECRET//SCI//SAP controlled. It doesn't take a Snowden to get the goods. Intel can and does hire people from numerous countries. These people, obviously, normally feel patriotic toward their homelands. Often they even face pressure, such as bad things being done to family me...
[20:14:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Imagine that call... - 06 Solar-powered Plane Stuck in Hawaii Until 2016 Because of "Irreversible" Damage to Batteries - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:01] <exec> 08└─"Yes darling, the plane is broken, so I'm really stuck in Hawaii until 2016 at least"
[20:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Hot and dry isn't really right - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:18] <exec> 08└─In my part of California it's the same as with Snick. Overall a higher high but the summers have not been as bad as they usually are.   The impact of El Nino is wet for California. Any chance you're an Aussie? Annoyingly, the current El Nino started too late to help us and there's a good chance it...
[20:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:23] <exec> 08└─Does any cola based soda work?
[20:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:29] <exec> 08└─San Diego. Like hell I'd live in the fucking bay area. If I'm going North it's gonna be North North California like Eureka or Redding, or onward to Oregon or Washington.
[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:34] <exec> 08└─Nothing, but there are no significant, specific pejoratives attached to them. It's kind of like Wyoming or Colorado, not much to say about them either way. If you're standing in Middle America throwing rocks at other regions, Missouri is not the best place to be throwing them from. That's all. Perso...
[20:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:spiders - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─Try turning off your porch light. It attracts spider food.
[20:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02okay - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:37] <exec> 08└─What happens to the soldier beside/behind the high ranking officer with the fancy plasma shield?
[20:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02MSE is a joke - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 2930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:30] <exec> 08└─So its really a case of "and nothing of value was lost". You look at every AV shoot out the past couple of years? MSE scores at the bottom, in fact many of them use MSE as the floor of their tests and tear apart any AV that scores less than MSE! So lets not try to spin this into "Big bad M$ abandons...
[20:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:fix the display! - 06WearDrive System Uses Smart Phone to Boost Performance and Efficiency of Wearables - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:40] <exec> 08└─... despite the fact that many of us were *screaming* for high resolution displays for years. The next thing that I think is like this is bigger batteries. I'd love it if manufacturers gave up on the ridiculously thin phones, added a couple of millimetres of thickness and improved the battery life.
[20:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:fix the display! - 06WearDrive System Uses Smart Phone to Boost Performance and Efficiency of Wearables - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know - 5 years ago, AMOLED was causing quite a stir in the mobile world. And those can use microcurrents when not actively changing the display and in low-colour mode (pixels only on or off, no shades), which is massively more energy efficient than the portable pocket heaters that came befor...
[20:17:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 1492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─Obligatory explanation of why schools are now crap. [youtube.com] Hint: They're dumbing kids down to make a more easily manipulated populace. Watch the video if you disagree. "Common Core" is just the latest iteration of this decades old agenda. Elites will educate their kids in private schools, thu...
[20:17:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FlyingSock [4339] 02Re:Why We're Teaching Everything Wrong - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 712 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:16] <exec> 08└─Well no. I for one have no interest in watching random videos. If you care enough, that you have explained the same thing 'over and over again' and have link saved to the video, why have you not also saved a paragraph explaining your point? In case you are now going to complain, that you are not req...
[20:17:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02Re:experience worth more than knowledge? - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 1754 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:27] <exec> 08└─Kinda reminded me of an engineering project I did at university about 40 years ago. At that time, test equipment was quite unavailable on my budget, but I did have a 3" CRT I had scrounged from some old equipment. I was going to build my own oscilloscope. All during my high school years, I had been...
[20:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:34] <exec> 08└─Our fundamental liberties don't include killing children. The main ethical issue at hand is whether or not it is right for a person to kill an unborn child. Whether or not is is their own shouldn't make a difference. Thankfully, I live in a State that recognizes an unborn child as a person during al...
[20:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no "need" to procreate - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:31] <exec> 08└─The species also doesn't "need" anything. Planet Earth doesn't "need" humans. The Universe doesn't "need" Planet Earth. Etc.
[20:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's rough - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:55] <exec> 08└─> The soylent facility is pretty horrible. Rat droppings and health concerns abound. And you know that because you put them there.
[20:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing! - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:05] <exec> 08└─Congratulations on your divorce... I hope. I'm on the other end of the spectrum (engaged), feel free to leave advice.
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[21:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Trialogue - 06Progress Made as EU Aims to Get New Data Protection Laws ASAP - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:11] <exec> 08└─Trialogue - not such a word, for the same reason there is no such a word as trialectic. If you mean a dialogue between 3 parties, then call it a "3 party dialogue" Citing wikipedia [wikipedia.org] Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English[1]) is a written or spoken conversational excha...
[21:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Trialogue - 06Progress Made as EU Aims to Get New Data Protection Laws ASAP - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:12] <exec> 08└─http://ec.europa.eu/codecision/stepbystep/glossary_en.htm [europa.eu] Trilogue / Trialogue (FR): informal tripartite meetings attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. Owing to the ad-hoc nature of such contacts, no “standard” format of representati...
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:26] <exec> 08└─I read your post as 'buying 2 year old tablets' and from what I understand, apple EOL's them pretty quickly and they become very very useless, on purpose, 'courtesy' of apple. I know that if I bought an apple pad, I'd be really agry if the thing slowly self-destructed in a software compatibility way...
[21:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─heh - your post reminded me of the krusty the clown logo: "its not just good, its good enough!" lol
[21:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:29] <exec> 08└─Well, you can't have both, cloud computing and strong demand for local processing power. A terminal doesn't need much.
[21:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Some mobile portland member wears several - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:31] <exec> 08└─the marketing guys HAVE to believe their own shit. its part of the job, usually. or, they get blinded by other issues and just cognitavely ignore things that they can't process and resolve. marketing guys think they have a right to all your info. it helps they SELL more; or so they think. they could...
[21:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Marketing people often have Doctorates in Psych - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:32] <exec> 08└─-ology. It is often asserted that Psychology is not evidenced based but that is nit the case. Dave Johnson, President of Working Software once explained that the reason ads often say "BUY NOW DONT DELAY" is because it works; thats known as a call to action. Jim Johnson, our direct mail broker had a...
[21:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Some mobile portland member wears several - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:34] <exec> 08└─What about the logs from every time your hamster needs washing?
[21:13:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:36] <exec> 08└─Actually, self worth comes from positive moderation on snarky internet comments.
[21:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─So true. Try to post snarky comments using your smartwatch and you'll see why them smartwatches do nothing to your self worth sense.
[21:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:40] <exec> 08└─Somebody buy this person a beer. There is nothing more goddamn obnoxious than somebody showing off their new phone or gadget. Wow, look at that, it's the same fucking computers we've all been playing with for decades, except smaller and way more difficult to read and operate. Wow it can make a fart...
[21:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:41] <exec> 08└─most people have deficient intellects and don't realize self-worth comes from within, not from what you wear or display on your body.
[21:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:horse shit - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:43] <exec> 08└─the original poster did use a word "another", right? a smart-watch is not THE (only) NSA collar, it's yet another NSA collar to wear with you.
[21:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:horse shit - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:45] <exec> 08└─Your smartphone is what's sending data back to the NSA, not your watch. Only one of the phones listed in the article has any sort of capacity to do that and even that one requires pairing with a smart phone. With possibly one exception those smartwatches are as NSA snitchery as a wireless mouse.
[21:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:1) 02Re:half-restricted just isn't going to work - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:05] <exec> 08└─You can not export anything to those persons [doc.gov], those Entity [state.gov] and those one [treasury.gov] too. Also additional restrictions [cornell.edu] applies to chips and designs having more 5Gflops of computing power.
[21:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02It isn't the export laws - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:07] <exec> 08└─The export laws are largely irrelevant when you are talking about the country who has led the field in state-sponsored corporate espionage for decades.
[21:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Forbidden Distributed Nostalgia - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:09] <exec> 08└─Repress Recollection Command: ZzuGAcOEJy_mUGbrUt2Nr_QCInmHQ6QQH_jm3mUm007fqAa6QkDwaWV45gURdXU
[21:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There's a certain redundancy to the list - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:13] <exec> 08└─No, kittens are delicious.
[21:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your rules - but you don't like them? - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:30] <exec> 08└─American? Hardly. I'm about 100 kg too light to be an American.
[21:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprised this hasn't happened sooner - 06EU Investigates Qualcomm For Antitrust Activities - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─How horrendous of them to actually invent tons of technology and be successful due to that How evil of them. If there's one way we should reward such companies its through investigations and fines.
[21:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:1) 02Re:MSE is a joke - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:55] <exec> 08└─But seriously folks its 2015, let XP die already. I've run Win 7 on a 1.8GHz Sempron with 1.5GB of RAM from 2003
[21:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:fix the display! - 06WearDrive System Uses Smart Phone to Boost Performance and Efficiency of Wearables - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:07] <exec> 08└─yes, they have been slowly improving the displays but in comparison of power consumption Marisol displays are a quantum leap.
[21:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02It's not the Terminator. It's being Terminated. - 06Japan's First Robot-Staffed Hotel - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:30] <exec> 08└─Again, it's not The Terminator ("I'll be back") that scares me. It's the termination ("I'm sorry but we're going to have to let you go, because we just found out that we can replace you with technology") that's inevitably coming to mass proportions of the human labor market.
[21:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's crowd the prisons more! - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:46] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but the other methods would not be as much fun.
[21:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Pity - 06FBI Shuts Down Darkode Malware Marketplace - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:11] <exec> 08└─Hmm... Good points, there is, however a flaw. What is going on here is evolution - and you do not have this without the "scumbags". They are as big and important part in it, as anyone else. About the CP, here is a thought I have had for a long time: the people that survive and make more children are...
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[22:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Don't rape me, brah. - 06Indian Company to Licence SailFish OS From Jolla - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:16] <exec> 08└─Will it become the phone of choice for rapist Uber drivers in India? [indiatimes.com]
[22:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SGT CAPSLOCK [118] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Uncertainty - 06Indian Company to Licence SailFish OS From Jolla - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:17] <exec> 08└─I have mixed feelings about this whole "licensing Sailfish" thing they're doing. Pros: - Sailfish gains popularity from being used by many different phone manufacturers - Jolla gets to focus on Sailfish development exclusively now, so hopefully updates will be plentiful - There's at least a chance t...
[22:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:40] <exec> 08└─When I whacked my wrist on a metallic bench and my Swatch acquired a nice big scratch (on both the glass and the metal), I was quite glad that it was still good enough to tell me the time, date, and remain waterproof. Had I broken it (beats breaking the wrist), buying a replacement wouldn't have bee...
[22:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stackOVFL [5682] (Score:1) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:41] <exec> 08└─I kept my iPad WAY longer than Apple wanted me to. I *just* bought a new iPad this year. The frequent crashes made me buy a new one but I got every drop outta that original iPad.
[22:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:horse shit - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:58] <exec> 08└─the watch is feeding more data (pulse, temperature, sound, whatever else) to the phone. its yet another data source. I am not alone in thinking that more data sources == more ways to fuck you over; now or later. does not matter if its an ip source of leaked data; it still sends data that DOES get fu...
[22:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:horse shit - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:59] <exec> 08└─Your smartphone already has temperature, sound, and every other sensor your watch has except for pulse. There's no reason to even bring this up unless you don't have a smartphone, in which case it's NSA-ness is a moot point since the watches don't work without it. We don't disagree in spirit, j...
[22:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:01] <exec> 08└─I assume it's the citric acid in cola doing the cleaning, so check the label.
[22:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Xeriscaping - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:22] <exec> 08└─Have you considered permaculture? Saying you want pretty pathways and plants will go over much better with the missus than "no lawn". Plus I hear it requires very little actual work.
[22:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Why did they support - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:00] <exec> 08└─If air gap didn't work why would you think VMs would?
[22:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Why did they support - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:02] <exec> 08└─With an attitude like that, you're obviously not the kind of person that Apple wants as a customer.
[22:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Still use XP, don't see us stopping. - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:18] <exec> 08└─I work in a TV station, that's attached to a medium-sized newspaper service. The guy who owns it believes that, when you buy a computer, it's like buying a printing press: parts wear out and you replace them, but that's it. A computer works forever. As such, we have about 2000 odd computers and serv...
[22:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Experiment - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:27] <exec> 08└─The sorts of people that go for science undergrads are not anywhere near as insightful or creative to complete that task. The vast majority of them have a fixed viewpoint of low flexibility.
[22:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:26] <exec> 08└─Our fundamental liberties don't include killing children.
[22:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:27] <exec> 08└─I am equating killing the embryo with abortion. In this case the woman actually wants to have the children, so the right of the woman to control her own body, isn't part of the equation. (She actually wants to use a Surrogate, but that's neither here nor there.) The right of the woman to control her...
[22:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:28] <exec> 08└─The real issue here is that there is no guarantee that the guy won't be forced to pay child support for some insane reason. Does someone have a right to force other people to impregnate them/be impregnated? If it were already in her body, I would agree about the issue of control, but it isn't. Not y...
[22:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like an abortion? - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:38] <exec> 08└─Lee has said she would waive any future child support from Findley and rear a child alone. But Whittier Law School’s Daar said that waiver “has no legal meaning.”
[22:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:1) 02Re:they put the oldest stuff up front - 06 Who's Really in Charge at the Supermarket? - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─Once the product is 'opened' the date is of little value. Basically the product (milk for example) is pasteurized and packed starting with a very low bacteria count. This gives a long and predictable shelf life. Once the package is opened the bacteria count starts to explode. The more oxygen exposur...
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[23:13:15] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Valkor [4253] 02solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:16] <exec> 08└─My doorbell doesn't need an IP address. Neither does my car air conditioner. AND SO ON.
[23:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:18] <exec> 08└─Your problem is that you don't have a 2000m2 house. Having three kitchens, four pools and two rec/fitness centers makes that whole "Connected Home" make a lot more sense.
[23:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:19] <exec> 08└─What's going on at Slashdot? There's a giant notice at the top basically saying that everything has gone to hell. What is going on there?
[23:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:21] <exec> 08└─On that totally off-topic random note. The site doesn't look as horrendous as it used to, but I'm still not going to go back to using it.
[23:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:23] <exec> 08└─It looks like the site is down: "Slashdot's undergoing some unexpected downtime. The good news is that we're working to restore the site. The bad news is that in the meantime our ability to update the site, while not *completely* wiped out (see: this note), is limited, and the features that we like...
[23:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:24] <exec> 08└─This article triggered an attack from the NSA. "Gun-Firing Drone Raises Some Eyebrows" We don't need asshats putting guns on drones and shooting people. Smart asses on /. would talk about making it better. Just another censor tactic of scary information. The story was up on google news for a brief t...
[23:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:26] <exec> 08└─If you had read and understood the notice, you'd know the answer. Now stop the cheap attempt at driving traffic over there.
[23:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:27] <exec> 08└─Are you referring to the really fucking vague notice? The one with useless excuses like "unexpected downtime" and "the fix may take some time to put in place"? The one that doesn't say what's actually going on? The one that's totally devoid of any relevant technical information? That one?
[23:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Because it's stupid? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:30] <exec> 08└─There are various reasons why I don't want my Zipper tweeting. I'm sure there are a number of reasons why that I haven't considered as well. Though, mostly, because it's dumb. #1 Reason why it won't take off? It adds extra cost to an item for negligible or untrackable reward.
[23:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Because it's stupid? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:31] <exec> 08└─Plus, you can't turn it off.
[23:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Buck Rogers - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:33] <exec> 08└─... for the same reason we're not all commuting to our space-jobs in our rocket-ships. It's a fad.
[23:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02easy - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things?  - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:35] <exec> 08└─Besides security and privacy and all those important things, I can't think of any really good application. Refrigerators? Nah. Toasters? Nah My keys, maybe (where are they?)
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uncertainty - 06Indian Company to Licence SailFish OS From Jolla - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─It's not as if Jolla really had any chance of success. If well-funded companies like RIM and M$ fail, some no name company was never going to break in. It's the same thing with Ubuntu phone.
[23:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03stackOVFL [5682] (Score:1) 02Airplane! - 06Indian Company to Licence SailFish OS From Jolla - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:40] <exec> 08└─[Ed: UPDATE] Link to article from ITWorld in English]
[23:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Airplane! (actress) - 06Indian Company to Licence SailFish OS From Jolla - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:42] <exec> 08└─What made that scene truly funny is that the gal was played by Barbara Billingsley aka June Clever ("Leave it to Beaver") aka the prototype for stay-at-home moms of the 1950s aka the whitest woman on the planet. -- gewg_
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like envy to me.
[23:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Original Pebble - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:19] <exec> 08└─Do you wear watches prior to a smart watch? I'm curious. I'm an avid WIS and techie, I have lots of cool devices, yet I can't see me going to a smart watch replacing my quartz or automatic watch collection. Not only do they not look anyway as good as my watches, the concept of having to constantly w...
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Original Pebble - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:22] <exec> 08└─I actually have a bunch of nice-ish watches. Because I like my tech watches so much I've taken to wearing my mechanical watches on my left wrist and my tech watch on my right. I probably look like a dork, but I'm okay with that. Watches are basically jewellery for men at this point, but I really fee...
[23:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Original Pebble - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:23] <exec> 08└─I should also add that my phone always runs out of power before my watch. I have no problem getting through a long day of fairly heavy use with my Moto360. My phone, not so much.
[23:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:horse shit - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:29] <exec> 08└─The Android Wear watches actually do quite a lot without the phone now. You could probably consider it "tracking collar" all by itself now. Cool that you can use it like that but yeah, if you're worried about tracking ...
[23:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:horse shit - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:30] <exec> 08└─How does it communicate back to the NSA?
[23:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Pocket watches - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:32] <exec> 08└─Unless electronics get tiny enough, including batteries, to give a smart watch equal power to a smartphone, with equivalent battery life, I'm out. I've always liked pocket watches. My phone serves that purpose nicely, but without the coolness factor of a real pocket watch.
[23:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score:1) 02_Chinese_ 2.4 single, 4.8 double teraflops - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:54] <exec> 08└─Those are Chinese teraflops, just like Chinese batteries come with Chinese version of mah/WH capacity rating. You need to divide that number by between 2 and 8 before comparing with real world.
[23:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Outdated restriction - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:55] <exec> 08└─How can anyone expect a major manufacturing country like China to not develop its own processors? Intel has a fab in Dalian, China. Why does anyone think that the designs made there aren't known to the host country? The US government can be baffling at times.
[23:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stackOVFL [5682] (Score:1) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:42] <exec> 08└─How do you folks that live up there afford it? I just looked and a two br condo was $2600-$3000. I nearly fell out of my chair! DINK? Lotto?
[23:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02raise shields - 06 Sci-Fi Cloaking Device Could Protect Soldiers from Shock Waves - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:54] <exec> 08└─seems like something to replace space shuttle reentry tiles or maybe something that could be applied to wind turbine blades to make 'em even more efficient?
[23:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows XP, Hah. - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:18] <exec> 08└─I seriously doubt anybody here will be able to top me when it comes to the oldest MSFT OS I have to support....ready? Its DOS 3. Lucky for me the only "support" they really need is me building a couple old boxes to replace one of their when they die and image the old IDE. So why are they still using...
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows XP, Hah. - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:19] <exec> 08└─You've got me beat then. The oldest thing I saw in actual use, in a production facility, was Windows 3.1 in a Coka Cola plant. As with so many other ancient OS's, they had custom software on the machine, which they didn't want to pay someone to rewrite to run on newer OS's. It's been almost a decade...
[23:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:06] <exec> 08└─The NSA's mass surveillance is possibly even worse than the Patriot Act or maybe just a symptom of it. The right thing to do would be to allow her to have the child(ren) and to exempt him from child support. Though, as has been stated in the discussions, that isn't cut and dry either. The government...
[23:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor - 06Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:07] <exec> 08└─The potential child support is really the issue for me. It wouldn't matter if she had the child otherwise. Though, that would only likely happen, if she were to need financial assistance from the government.
[23:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:12] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one that wants to see Microsoft attain at least some success with these phones? I'd like Google and Apple to have some competition.
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