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[00:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:24] <exec> 08└─Most people don't have a 2000 m2 house. Therefore, most people don't need the IoT. Also, I don't believe you have a 2000 m2 house either
[00:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:26] <exec> 08└─you are correct. none of those things needs an ip-addr. and not every iot solution means that every object gets one. this is part of the problem; for some reason, there is a perception that iot is always about routable ip. some of us use xbee, IR, zwave, other kinds of data transports. and - surpris...
[00:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:28] <exec> 08└─You got it quite nicely. The IOT has to beat simplicity and cheap. That is hard to do. A toggle switch costs a couple bucks at most. A connected one? Start around 15-20 at a minimum. Then needs another 200-500 dollars worth of controller to keep up with it. What does it do? Oh the exact same thing b...
[00:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:31] <exec> 08└─Actually I'd like it if my doorbell were connected to the internet, or at least to the network in my apartment. Then I could easily tie it into a camera that takes a photo of everybody who rings my doorbell. Also I'd like to be able to control my AC from my smartphone. Yes, security, blah blah bl...
[00:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03multixrulz [5608] (Score:1) 02Re:What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:32] <exec> 08└─I got a similar response for a download stats page at sourceforge. That was actually for one of my projects, which I've removed from SF due to the latest installment in the hostile takeover story with GIMP et. al. I just noticed that the homepages for both of my projects at SF, which I set up to red...
[00:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:34] <exec> 08└─CSB. Some 35 years ago I went to the desert with a couple friends to do some target shooting. One guy, whom I worked with daily but didn't really know, brought an RC airplane. With the guts of a .22 pistol attached. He flew that thing around shooting his gun. It was kinda kewl, but scared the crap o...
[00:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Nothing new: - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:36] <exec> 08└─"There's a giant notice at the top basically saying that everything has gone to hell." Haven't things been going to hell there for years?
[00:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:39] <exec> 08└─Frankly my dear AC, I don't really give a damn.
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Buck Rogers - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:41] <exec> 08└─some parts of iot are a fad. some parts are just a marketer's wet dream. and everyone else who wants to mine your info. but for some of us in the field (I consider myself more of an outlier) don't buy into the cloud and our iot 'things' just talk to each other and -benefit- the end user. clouds suck...
[00:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:44] <exec> 08└─Computers are supposed to make life easier, more enjoyable, simpler. In actual use, computers are often frustrating pieces of crap that frustrate, confuse, and hamper you. Why is that? Primarily because some moron decided to use the computer for a purpose, or in a way, that the computer really isn't...
[00:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:45] <exec> 08└─"Do you REALLY want thirty devices in your home, all of which must be routinely updated and scanned for malware?" Only if you are the one making money from the software update and malware protection racket... I mean service.
[00:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:47] <exec> 08└─All kinds of stupid crap can happen when you put all your devices online. agreed. and so, don't agree to put all (or even many) of them online. let them talk locally and with one of your trusted proxies or gateways. default should be to deny public (outbound) comms at your firewall for all things th...
[00:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:49] <exec> 08└─I have no IoT appliances and plan to avoid them as long as possible. If it ever becomes hard to find appliances that are not connected, I'll promptly root any I get using my very non-IoT tools.
[00:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Tools - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:50] <exec> 08└─[cue folk guitar music] If I had a hammer, it would have an ip address, and it would have that address, all over this l-land! I'd send packets in the Morning! I'd send packets in the Evening! I'd send packets about a song, about, a love between, my brothers and sisters, [end music] and get a cease a...
[00:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Tools - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:53] <exec> 08└─I do have a hammer, but not one that is connected. That bad boy is an Eastwing 15 oz, solid steel and made in the USA. And it is the perfect tool for uninstalling IoT crap from my appliances.
[00:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Because what's being sold as IoT... is not IoT - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:54] <exec> 08└─There is no real "Internet of Things" — devices that interoperate with and talk to each other in useful ways. What we do have are just "Internet Things" — things that just happen to use your Internet connection to talk back to the manufacturer. Yay.
[00:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a bunch of ludite chumps. - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 2471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:57] <exec> 08└─Ok, I get it. You're (all 10 of the first responders, at least) old. Only expensive things got IP addresses when you were young. And you are pissed off that the old ipad 1 you bought with hard earned money doesn't work anymore, except for when it rats out your browsing habits to some set of nefariou...
[00:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a bunch of ludite chumps. - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:58] <exec> 08└─You put up a lot of words, and no benefits. Like, literally none. I don't like it because I like owning things, not leasing them. But, more importantly, I don't like the IoT because I don't see how it makes my life in any way better. Like, there's no solution I have for a connected house. I mean, i...
[00:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uncertainty - 06Indian Company to Licence SailFish OS From Jolla - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:03] <exec> 08└─It's a repeat of the death of PalmOS, except Sailfish is doing it before the hardware gets any popularity in the market. I hope they prove me wrong.
[00:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Some mobile portland member wears several - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:34] <exec> 08└─some really smart people that I know are at google and I can't understand how they can look the other way, like that.
[00:15:15] <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 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:15] <exec> 08└─Your dad died. Ha ha! - Nelson
[00:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02This is good for all of us - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:23] <exec> 08└─Looks like AMD will never again compete with Intel, which leaves Intel with no competition for the desktop and server markets. The Chinese are smart and are willing to shovel a ton of money at the problem. That gives Intel competition sometime in the future, which is good for us 99%'ers.
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Winblows Phone - 06Nadella: Microsoft Isn't Killing Windows Phone and Will Go It Alone - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:43] <exec> 08└─You mean like the XBOX? Heh.
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[01:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:What's going on at Slashdot? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone did a good turn and fucked the bastards up.
[01:13:43] <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? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, the one that says they are reloading code. What is unclear here? Are you aware how these interwebs things work?
[01:13:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 1589 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:52] <exec> 08└─Computers are supposed to make life easier, more enjoyable, simpler. In actual use, computers are often frustrating pieces of crap that frustrate, confuse, and hamper you. Why is that? Primarily because some moron decided to use the computer for a purpose, or in a way, that the computer really isn't...
[01:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03multixrulz [5608] (Score:1) 02Re:Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:56] <exec> 08└─This comes close to my reason for disinterest in an IoT future. I was recently given a saw with a laser guide built in. It seemed like it might be a good idea, although I would never have bought it for that feature. Turns out it was completely pointless. It didn't help me cut any straighter, and of...
[01:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a bunch of ludite chumps. - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─Cool, own them, then. Or wait until your utility function justifies owning them, and then own them. This implies paying for them. Which today seems to be seen as evil (I can't believe they are charging $X for that thing I'd only pay $y for! The nerve! And now they want to fund it with ads! Double ne...
[01:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Airplane! (actress) - 06Indian Company to Licence SailFish OS From Jolla - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:17] <exec> 08└─"Golly!"
[01:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Trialogue - 06Progress Made as EU Aims to Get New Data Protection Laws ASAP - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:26] <exec> 08└─Your pentalogue between you, yourself, me, myself and I could be a the only way for great justice.
[01:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:The software stack is easy.. - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:30] <exec> 08└─My wish is that it will ONLY run linux, and they make it so cheap that PC/laptop/server manufacturers buy them and switch everyone over to linux. Now we only need to get more people making that KILLER linux and app..... ...sigh. Too many people making YET ANOTHER LINUX. Really was hoping Shuttlewort...
[01:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:25] <exec> 08└─If you live near San Francisco, you can get welfare, low-income housing, and other perks even if you make $100k and have 3 kids. If you're non-white, it's automatic.
[01:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still run XP - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:11] <exec> 08└─Similar here, we have a very nice (for small office) ledger-sized (11" x 17") printer/scanner/fax with document feeder that works perfectly with a Win98SE ThinkPad. Scans a stack of double sided pages directly to pdf using Acrobat 5. Not on a network, I have some older USB sticks that have a driver...
[01:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Re:Windows XP was the best - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:29] <exec> 08└─What does any of that mean? If I press yes on the UAC prompt how does that not let the software do whatever it like to my system? Is it not the sudo of Windows? Anyway, sure, that all applies to installing software but I never said install. I said run. Many programs I have here cause the UAC prompt...
[01:19:35] <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 - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:35] <exec> 08└─It's really not about the work that is laid upon you. You can consider this being a price in addition to the possible price tag (if you choose/have to live in a country, with paid higher education) and a formality. What you get as a bare minimum is access to scientific databases, which would cost yo...
[01:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:experience worth more than knowledge? - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:38] <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. [Tale of woe snipped for brevity.]
[01:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:experience worth more than knowledge? - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:41] <exec> 08└─Haha, that is the sort of experience that allows someone to tell others to get off their lawn later in life! ;)
[01:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Socratic Method - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:45] <exec> 08└─We could asany question we wanted provided he wasnt required to do any math.
[01:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why pick on science? - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:00] <exec> 08└─I would think having a deep, academic understanding of why the math works would be far more important than merely being able to perform calculations quickly.
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[02:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02He's the man who never returned - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:24] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one with the song MTA running through his head now?
[02:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02electricity IVs? - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:26] <exec> 08└─Naaah... the next iGadget Apple will push will be an elegantly-white-with-the-Apple-logo-glowing-in-pale-blue... sealed gel acid/lead battery; then, finally, we are going to see some bulging muscles in hipsters carrying those.
[02:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:1) 02Electricity addicts - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:28] <exec> 08└─"Will scenes of addicts tethered to outlets with electricity IVs spread?" Sounds like some scenes from Real Humans and Humans.
[02:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03useless [426] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Could be interesting - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:30] <exec> 08└─Seeing how they will arrest you for using open outlets [techtimes.com]
[02:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Could be interesting - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:32] <exec> 08└─Yes I was about to refer to this. Bit of a mixed message there.
[02:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Unlikely. - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:34] <exec> 08└─Will scenes of addicts tethered to outlets with electricity IVs spread?
[02:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, security, blah blah blah, but let's finally dispense with this charade that nobody around here wants their everyday appliances to communicate over something as standard as TCP/IP. Certainly nobody who's ever messed around with Arduino, anyway.
[02:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah because home-automation is such a niche market.
[02:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:57] <exec> 08└─...and... I'm not interested in seeing advertisements on either of these things, or the many other IoT devices. Particularly since I already paid for the device. Remote control of devices is of remarkably limited real-world usefulness [turning lights on/off, remotely reconfiguring your router, etc]....
[02:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing new: - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:07] <exec> 08└─Haven't things been going to hell there for years?
[02:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:19] <exec> 08└─You said "unreliable", and I can only confirm that. I was doing some home automation, and my conclusion is that it's largely a liability. Too many of those switches and sensors keep failing. Some just need a new battery, but other are becoming genuinely dead because they are assembled from cheapest...
[02:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:What a bunch of ludite chumps. - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─Like how we own our PC hardware? Oh no wait, they're pretty far along the road of locking us out of our own electronics unless we want to use a Big Brother-approved setup. First they came for our unlocked bootloaders, and I said nothing because I didn't run Linux. Then they came for our unlocked har...
[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:What a bunch of ludite chumps. - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─It's more impressive when you use words like Luddite and you actually spell them correctly. Sometimes things are already Good Enough. We don't need to make them exponentially more complicated, prone to failure, and insecure.
[02:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like she discovered the UNIX philosophy - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:29] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_philosophy [wikipedia.org] I have to say I agree. Modular is good.
[02:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03vali.magni [5678] (Score:1) 02One word : security - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:31] <exec> 08└─How anyone hopes to secure the IoT is an open question, and probably impossible given the ever increasing types of devices and data being made available.
[02:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Trialogue - 06Progress Made as EU Aims to Get New Data Protection Laws ASAP - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:54] <exec> 08└─Add another 5 personalities and you'll have to form a jewish or christian church, and observe the the decalogue [wikipedia.org]
[02:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:half-restricted just isn't going to work - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:02] <exec> 08└─Intel can and does hire people from numerous countries.
[02:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02non usamerican POV - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:08] <exec> 08└─USamericans rely heavily on their own ingenuity. And they forget that brains are everywhere, it's just a matter of time and money. The Chinese have both, and also have many more brains.
[02:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Old news - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:23] <exec> 08└─now they have started automatically putting video from your computers camera onto Bing Video automatically, "exposing" you.
[02:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows XP was the best - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:02] <exec> 08└─And yet it seems like only yesterday that everyone hated the new XP, Windows activation, Fisher Price UI were objects of hate and everyone loved Win2k.
[02:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Cats purr - 06Sound Waves Could Help Speed Wound Healing - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:34] <exec> 08└─So, does rubbing a cat on a paraplegic person do the same thing?
[02:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:I disagree. - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:14] <exec> 08└─It looks to me, the gp pointed out that for many it is insufficient to learn fundamentals through application and thus, the need to have theoretical and applied courses that build on top of each other.
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[03:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Fuckerberg can choke on a bucket of dicks. - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:17] <exec> 08└─Fuckerberg can choke on a bucket of dicks.
[03:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Problematic - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:18] <exec> 08└─Use of radio frequencies has long been regulated by the FCC, and a license is necessary to use devices over a specific wattage with good reason. Assuming for a moment you made a generally available UHF wifi gizmo broadcasting with enough power, the signal *will* interfere with anything else on that...
[03:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Re:Fuckerberg can choke on a bucket of dicks. - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:20] <exec> 08└─Fuckerberg can choke on a bucket of dicks.
[03:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bandwidth capacity - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:22] <exec> 08└─My limited knowledge of data transmission over radio prevents me from knowing if this is a problem, but... What is the capacity of these frequencies compared to higher frequencies? My crude understanding is that data density increases with frequency, so low frequency means low data transmission rate...
[03:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:He's the man who never returned - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:35] <exec> 08└─I'm actually surprised somebody besides me even knew about that song! Kudos!
[03:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02I don't get it. - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:41] <exec> 08└─You can solve this issue with the slightest bit of awareness. If you know your device won't make it through the duration of your day, you can buy a battery to fix the problem for, like, 10 USD. I imagine prices over there are comparable.
[03:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:02] <exec> 08└─I think this hits the nail on the head, no pun intended. It's not the "Internet of Things", it is "My Personal Network of Things" that is going to be the revolution. Trying to get every device to talk to every device will be a nightmare. But having a custom wireless network where all of your devices...
[03:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:07] <exec> 08└─A few choices [makeuseof.com].
[03:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:33] <exec> 08└─I can just imagine getting an email from my refigerator. "Please tend to the 14 day old milk rotting away on the second shelf." Like, I'm going to drop whatever I'm doing, come home to the refrigerator, and get that sour milk out of the poor suffering thing.
[03:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:35] <exec> 08└─> sour milk... the poor suffering thing [pinimg.com]
[03:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a bunch of ludite chumps. - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 1617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:43] <exec> 08└─I don't think we have the right software skills yet to create the "Internet of Things" as envisioned by the futurists. First, how is this IoT going to exchange data? Have you looked into RDF? Or OWL? These specs have been around for a while, but they've never caught on as a common protocol. Of cours...
[03:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03spamdog [4335] (Score:1) 02Re:What a bunch of ludite chumps. - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:45] <exec> 08└─I think this guy's schizophrenia got connected to the internet.
[03:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Because reasons - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:47] <exec> 08└─1) It's insecure 2) It's a massive privacy invasion 3) It's pretty much not needed by anyone except hipsters 4) The cost/benefit analysis doesn't pan out for anyone, not even for hipsters if they're honest with themselves 5) Nobody but hipsters thinks IoT is kewl 6) Yet more network mumbo jumbo for...
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[04:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Indium Tin Oxide - 06Solving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:33] <exec> 08└─I worked with Indium Tin Oxide in the development of conductive coatings almost 20 years ago. The pigment was added to the epoxy component of a two component epoxy-amine floor clear topcoat of a floor coating system. We didn't work with vapor deposition, just dispersed the pigment into the epoxy res...
[04:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Oyster card - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:49] <exec> 08└─Doesn't need batteries. Doesn't break easily if you sit on it. Fits conveniently in wallet. Costs 1/100th the cost of an iPhone. Isn't habit forming. Doesn't have people lining up for days to buy one from a specialty shop. I still have my Oyster card and I haven't been in London in 6 years (though I...
[04:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Balderdash [693] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:18] <exec> 08└─I already have enough notifications on my smartphone without my fucking refrigerator telling me that the milk is almost out of date.
[04:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Balderdash [693] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:20] <exec> 08└─I can see the advertisement: "10% off all orders if you subscribe your refrigerator to our new Foodland(tm) network! We'll keep an eye on your refrigerated products and give helpful recommendations for replacing items which are approaching the expiration date." On page 17 of the EULA will be a line...
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[05:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score:2) 02No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:17] <exec> 08└─I don't wear a watch of any kind. Why would I clutter up my arms with a stupidwatch just to see the notifications I can already hear/feel from my phone?
[05:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:18] <exec> 08└─I used to wear a watch. Prolonged use made my hand numb and caused pain. Thanks to my phone my watch was not as useful anymore so I stopped wearing it years back. My hand got better relatively quickly.
[05:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bandwidth capacity - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:37] <exec> 08└─What matters is the width of the channel, not so much where the channel sits. Higher channels more naturally lend themselves to wider spacing though.
[05:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02So which is it? - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:38] <exec> 08└─Advanced signal interleaving technology? The basic idea behind the system is to actively monitor nearby TVs that are tuned into a local UHF video signal and to use advanced and efficient signal-canceling technology to send wireless data over the same channel without interference between the data and...
[05:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Works only for sparsely populated areas? - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:40] <exec> 08└─Since the lower frequencies are not as easily blocked as the common WiFi frequencies, I'd expect it is more difficult to avoid interference between neighbouring hot-spots. Together with the lower frequency (lower bandwidth), this sounds like an option only for very sparsely populated areas...
[05:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 1986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:31] <exec> 08└─The problem is that in practice, tech vendors will do something over an established protocol (TCP/IP as an example) but put their own easily-crackable proprietary twist on it which will be figured out (maybe keep the packet source/destination ports and ACK mechanism intact but scramble the rest with...
[05:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows XP, Hah. - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:19:16] <exec> 08└─Friend's company went around scarfing up XT motherboards for the same reason, well up into the Pentium era -- their cloth cutter software couldn't speak to newer hardware, and replacing it was a $100,000 job to no particular benefit.
[05:20:55] <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 - 3976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:20:55] <exec> 08└─Wishful thinking! I will be brutally honest with my reply... it may rile some feathers ... but this has been my experience doing things as I have. I always wanted so bad to understand thoroughly what I was doing - but I often took too long to do it. You know... business perspective. The guys who bui...
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[06:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Berky [5657] (Score:1) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:20] <exec> 08└─I do not 'wear' a phone. To me, a (classic) watch is both useful, and stylish.
[06:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:21] <exec> 08└─So you can read them more conveniently without having to fish your phone out of your pocket.
[06:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:23] <exec> 08└─45 years ago the hip thing to do was to toss away your watch just like Captain America (Peter Fonda) in the beginning of "Easy Rider". Wearing a watch symbolized being tied to corporate America. A slave to the clock, having to turn yourself in every morning and checking out every night. Not being ti...
[06:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:24] <exec> 08└─I still wear a literal "stupidwatch", i.e. an old-fashioned watch with gears and springs and such. Likely the only electronics inside is the quartz movement. I can look at it at a glance and know what time it is, while taking out my phone just to check the time takes substantially more effort and in...
[06:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Only if you're 20... - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:27] <exec> 08└─As long as the designers are in their 30's, I'll never get a smartwatch. They haven't learned yet that the remarkable vision they have starts going to hell in their 40's, and those tiny little icons and text sizes are gonna turn into an indecipherable blur. The most remarkable thing about smartphone...
[06:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Only if you're 20... - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:28] <exec> 08└─You don't want a Dick Tracy phone/tv watch?
[06:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pesky mothers - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:30] <exec> 08└─Those pesky mothers just keep on giving birth to smartwatch-less infants! Outrageous! There should be a law!
[06:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khedoros [2921] (Score:2) 02Uses - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:32] <exec> 08└─"One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch"
[06:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02K.I.S.S. - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:36] <exec> 08└─Its not just Windows anymore.... Things are just getting too damned complicated. Very few, if any, understand what is going on.
[06:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:K.I.S.S. - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:38] <exec> 08└─Well thanks to the Unix philosophy we can just replace the buggy utilities if need be. Since every small program just does one specific thing right? Right?
[06:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Bandwidth capacity - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:49] <exec> 08└─Plus isn't this basically encryption over airwaves? How is this different from what we discussed a couple of days ago: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[06:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 2016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:41] <exec> 08└─An excellent example of why the IoT worries me. Here are four devices, priced around the $200 mark. They have a button to "ring the doorbell" and a camera to see who is at the door. I can see this being a useful addition to a home. The problem that I see is that they are completely inoperable with a...
[06:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Individual user here, no comapny... - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:20:03] <exec> 08└─I am going to steal your computer and take it home, where it will never leave my side. Seriously, you hit on a lot of my gripes and reasons why XP will remain my everyday OS for the foreseeable future. Win 7/8 make me wish to do their UI devs great bodily harm. Worth noting: security patches show ha...
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[07:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:30] <exec> 08└─Really? A "good chance to get rolled" by pulling your phone out of your pocket. First, I hope you also go out and buy lottery tickets, because it's only slightly more likely that you will be robbed in this fashion. Second, if you live in an area where you are more likely to be rolled for flashing yo...
[07:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:31] <exec> 08└─oops, quote was wrong "good way to get rolled", not "good chance".
[07:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:1) 02Re:Only if you're 20... - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:34] <exec> 08└─Look at the angle and placement of your wrist when you hold it in such a way to be able to navigate your surroundings, and video chat at the same time. Now, think of where the camera on the watch will be pointing during a vid call. Do you really want to examine the inside of my nostrils whilst talki...
[07:13:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimios [201] 02Re:K.I.S.S. - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:46] <exec> 08└─Well thanks to the Unix philosophy we can just replace the buggy utilities if need be. Since every small program just does one specific thing right? Right?
[07:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02"Dying"? - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:01] <exec> 08└─I would strenuously object to OTA TV being labeled "dying". As more people ditch cable TV, more people will -- and already are -- relying on broadcast TV for part of their news and entertainment. It's often as a complement to something like Netflix, so maybe that's how the statistics are being cooke...
[07:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Indium Tin Oxide - 06Solving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:09] <exec> 08└─Curious as to why there would be a need for a "conductive floor"? I worked in building computer rooms and fab-labs back in the 70s and early 80s and at that time never ran across anything like that. We were more concerned with static discharge, so I'm guessing it could be a method for grounding the...
[07:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:57] <exec> 08└─You must live on the Islands. Aloha!
[07:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:18] <exec> 08└─I am daily wearing a Vostok Amphibia watch. It costs like $55 plus shipping. This watch is an automatic mechanical watch, not needing any battery and as long as you wear it daily you do not need to wind it up either. I have been wearing this watch both while diving (it is watertight to 200m), drivin...
[07:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Reanimated Undead Corpse Of Steve Jobs - 06Why We Are Teaching Science Wrong, and How to Make It Right - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:30] <exec> 08└─does not permit me too. I didvquite a lot of work on Working Software's Spellswell and Lookup, and ported Spellswell to BeOS. But I often post from my iPad. While I could port Spellswell to iOS it would do no good.
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[08:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:26] <exec> 08└─It is not so convenient if you are over 40, and your lenses have hardened - focussing on small, nearby objects, and then refocussing on distant objects is not convenient at all. Also, if you go out and about, you will likely hit the damn thing causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage - typically g...
[08:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:33] <exec> 08└─Spoken like someone who has never lived in a major city or waded through the crowds in one. It's a lot easier to have your phone snatched out of your hands because you couldn't resist looking at the latest notifications than it is to have a properly fastened watch ripped off your wrist or your pocke...
[08:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Evil plan ahead? - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:39] <exec> 08└─So they say people will not be able to live without their smartwatch. Well, what could be the reason? Will they send out killers to eliminate everyone who isn't wearing a smartwatch? Or will it be something more indirect, like making sure that you cannot get food if you don't wear a smartwatch? Or m...
[08:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03josh64 [4204] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't get it. - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's true, set up a battery pack vending machine between the platform and the gates at the station. If your phone is flat just buy a battery wait a few minutes for it to start charging and then tap off.
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[09:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:40] <exec> 08└─Fake degrees are just a response to idiotic employers who require degrees when none should be necessary. Oftentimes, even if your skill is demonstrable, you won't even get a chance. I can't say I shed a tear over the employers who technically get 'ripped off'; they hold all the cards, after all. Eve...
[09:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Perfectly honest - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:41] <exec> 08└─"To me, if he was dishonest about this, what else is he lying about?" -Random comments Even the most honest person would likely lie or steal if they were hungry, had no money, and had no other means. When you set up a system that makes it nearly impossible to get a job without having some insanely e...
[09:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:02] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm over 40, started to wear a watch as a child and ever since wore one, and I didn't smash my watch even once. I also don't have problems to read my watch. Indeed, I can even read my watch if I intentionally blur my view of it. That's the advantage of a classic clock hands display; if you kno...
[09:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:07] <exec> 08└─A watch is very useful. If you would wear a good and comfortable watch for one month, you would not want to put it away. I am not talking about smartwatches but normal watches showing nothing more than the time and maybe the date. A mobile phone requires too many steps for giving the time: Digging i...
[09:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Smartphone alone is enough - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:16] <exec> 08└─For smartwatches in 2015, those core use cases appear to be activity-tracking and notifications – 90% of Pebble owners use notifications every day, according to Migicovsky – with watch-face customisation also scoring highly in Pebble's case.
[09:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mvdwege [3388] (Score:1) 02So, what are smartwatches for? - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:18] <exec> 08└─To show that you're wealthy. [wikipedia.org] D'oh!
[09:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Could be interesting - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:04] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly, many years ago (10+? Can't remember exactly) someone did get arrested for charging their phone from a train company socket and it went all the way to court. The judge made the guy pay the train company for the electricity he uses (£0.01p) and the judge made the train company...
[09:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03gargoyle [1791] (Score:1) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:28] <exec> 08└─That should be a wooshing sound you can hear, but the woosh was in the other wing of the house.
[09:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, security, blah blah blah, but let's finally dispense with this charade that nobody around here wants their everyday appliances to communicate over something as standard as TCP/IP.
[09:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:The software stack is easy.. - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 2178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:52] <exec> 08└─The problem with that idea is this....Linux sucks as a desktop. I'm sorry but it really blows in that role and the reason is simple, its just not built for that role. If you look at the amount of money spent on Linux development and where it goes? Desktop is a joke, its not even enough to be conside...
[09:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows XP, Hah. - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:20:30] <exec> 08└─That is why I never bothered researching a VM, the hardware to interact with the lathe is an ancient ISA board which uses IIRC phone cables to go from the back of the box to the lathe itself. While the thing may be older than dirt I gotta give the company that made it credit, they came up with a sim...
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[10:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02May help AMD - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:46] <exec> 08└─This delay may give them more time to catch up in the die shrinking game. This is good news for competition.
[10:14:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02Only if you're 20... - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:23] <exec> 08└─As long as the designers are in their 30's, I'll never get a smartwatch. They haven't learned yet that the remarkable vision they have starts going to hell in their 40's, and those tiny little icons and text sizes are gonna turn into an indecipherable blur. The most remarkable thing about smartphone...
[10:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:K.I.S.S. - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:40] <exec> 08└─Yep. All systemd does is bring your Linux box up. Simple, small, what could possibly go wrong?
[10:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02why those packages - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:42] <exec> 08└─i noticed that the single most installed email server in the world isn't listed, but "wamerican" a list of words, is listed. Since when have lists of words been bigger security risks than part of the telecommunications infrastructure? Maybe they looked at its history and decided that it's bulletproo...
[10:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Indium Tin Oxide - 06Solving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:08] <exec> 08└─Instant bumpercar rings? Just coat the floor and ceiling and your off to the races!
[10:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get it. - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:27] <exec> 08└─You can solve this by not using a phone to pay for things. It is a time tested solution that has been working for centuries.
[10:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Oyster card - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:29] <exec> 08└─But the need to take your wallet out to get the Oyster card is a downside. There's the chance of it being snatched there and then, and there is the possibility of pick-pockets seeing where you keep your wallet then following you to snatch it. I wouldn't buy an Apple Watch just to use for this, but i...
[10:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oyster card - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:31] <exec> 08└─In my wallet, right next to my Blue Oyster card.
[10:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:03] <exec> 08└─To quote from the prophet Barnum, “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
[10:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:28] <exec> 08└─Do you REALLY want thirty devices in your home, all of which must be routinely updated and scanned for malware?
[10:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:46] <exec> 08└─Very true. Indeed. People can't see inside you because they don't know you, never spent time with you, and aren't your friends. All they can see is how you look. I tried this once, going into the same business, shaved and well groomed. Then a few days later went into the same business wearing simple...
[10:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Original Pebble - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:51] <exec> 08└─I have both the new and old pebble; I have had the original since it the kickstarter; and the pebble time since it arrived a month ago. The new one is much nicer on the wrist; has a better diaplay and the glass front feels much more premium. The battery life is about the same as far as I can tell ar...
[10:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:horse shit - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:00] <exec> 08└─Your smartphone is what's sending data back to the NSA, not your watch
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[11:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Except... - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:13] <exec> 08└─AMD's projected new chips won't be out for another year or two anyway, meaning they will be out just in time to be behind the curve yet again. And last I checked none of them were expected to be on a new process (IE still 28 nm... 3 years later?)
[11:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except... - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:14] <exec> 08└─Which is probably a big factor in why Intel chose to delay. Why push yourself if no one else is pushing either?
[11:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:15] <exec> 08└─despite going to increasingly smaller lithography, intel is sticking to their x86 game plan which consistently results in high power consumption. there is a clear reason that all but a few smartphones use ARM, lower power consumption. intel even tried to scale down x86 to work on a smartphone and th...
[11:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:17] <exec> 08└─frankly i've found intel's scheme of constant change to be bothersome because it means that unless you upgrade inside of two years, you have to buy a new motherboard if you want to upgrade your processor.
[11:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:26] <exec> 08└─They fire them, even though apparently they'd been doing a good enough job to not be fired for all that time. It's just nonsensical.
[11:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Augmented Reality - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:04] <exec> 08└─I think a lightweight civilian version of something like the "CopSpace" goggles in Charles Stross's novel Halting State would be much more useful, and much more likely to succeed in the marketplace. Imagine glasses with cameras far more sensitive than your eyes, that can overlay an image to let you...
[11:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:1) 02Code your own - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:05] <exec> 08└─I love my pebble time. It helps me read texts and notifications at glance. voice replies to sms are fun. Its water proof and works with my android phone. But best of all for free I can use the cloudpebble online IDE and using C or javascript code my own watch faces and apps, it even has browser base...
[11:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02smartwatch, glass, VR, IoT, echo, etc - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:06] <exec> 08└─Right now there's a whole lot of technology that may or may not be cool, but just isn't sticking. People are trying to find the next big thing after the iPhone, and it hasn't happened. What I don't see is a compelling reason to have any of this stuff. In 25 words or less, none of these things can ex...
[11:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No comment - 06ARIEL Mission to Reveal 'Brave New Worlds' Among Exoplanets - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:16] <exec> 08└─Nothing to discuss, but that doesn't mean we're not reading.
[11:17:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02Because it's stupid? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:01] <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.
[11:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:The software stack is easy.. - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:19:08] <exec> 08└─Hurts to say, but yes... i use linux at home and looove it, but can't really recommend it to others unless they have the interest in experimenting with it simply because i don't have the time to drop everything and help them if they get confused about something (but it is the same with windows too,...
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[12:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Health food? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:05] <exec> 08└─So is there any indication that it is actually more healthy than average food? Actually the advertising as "heath food" makes me sceptical: Is there a drawback they have to compensate with "but it's healthy"? BTW, I got an error message about an "invalid token" or similar (didn't think of saving the...
[12:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Except... - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:17] <exec> 08└─Zen is scheduled to come out next year, deliver a massive 40% IPC improvement [anandtech.com] (feasible because of Bulldozer's bad architecture), and will apparently be skipping 20nm and going directly to 14nm [wccftech.com]. Some of its APUs may come with high bandwidth memory 2.0 next year. On GPU...
[12:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:20] <exec> 08└─Where as AMD provided you a CPU upgrade path, to give new life to your older machine.
[12:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Only if you're 20... - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:03] <exec> 08└─Smartwatches could be great if they could implement some sort of eye-tracking holographic display. A 1.5 inch display just isn't enough. Bendable OLEDs mean that you can have a band display wrapped around your wrist, but that's not much better.
[12:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02“Don't Panic.” - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:13] <exec> 08└─“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazi...
[12:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:“Don't Panic.” - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's indeed a stupid idea to put a watch on your digit. That's why I prefer wristwatches.
[12:17:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Re:What a bunch of ludite chumps. - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:28] <exec> 08└─Like how we own our PC hardware? Oh no wait, they're pretty far along the road of locking us out of our own electronics unless we want to use a Big Brother-approved setup. First they came for our unlocked bootloaders, and I said nothing because I didn't run Linux. Then they came for our unlocked har...
[12:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:What a bunch of ludite chumps. - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:32] <exec> 08└─A Luddite was someone who opposed new technology because it would take their job. That doesn't even remotely apply here. Furthermore, not all change is good. You are essentially using the appeal to novelty fallacy. The Internet of Things (or something marked with 2.0, or re-branded in some other in...
[12:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Couldn't have waited until Windows 10 is availa - 06Microsoft Kills AV Updates for XP, Exposes 180 Million Users - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:53] <exec> 08└─Judging from the previews, Windows 10 should be named 8.3, and we won't get an alternative to Windows 7 until Windows 11. From what I've heard, the RTM version does not fix the Windows 8isms that the preview has. So, today or in a couple of months doesn't make much difference. It's a choice between...
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[13:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:1) 02Re:Health food? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:18] <exec> 08└─So is there any indication that it is actually more healthy than average food?
[13:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:19] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this will pass muster with my kosher- and halal-observing friends.
[13:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:20] <exec> 08└─Given some of the practices exposed by undercover cameras in slaughter houses strong moral instruction in relatively human dispatch is far from wacky.
[13:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:22] <exec> 08└─Why? Do you have any indication that it is dangerous to have them as friends? Actually I'd say historic evidence points more at it being dangerous not to have them as friends.
[13:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Going Up? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:24] <exec> 08└─An appropriate marketing slogan might be: "Looks the same coming up as it did going down."
[13:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:37] <exec> 08└─unless you upgrade inside of two years, you have to buy a new motherboard if you want to upgrade your processor.
[13:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Insightful) 02management's unrealistic scheduling - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:38] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of concessions that "tick tock" was aggressive and optimistic. Would it be so bad to make a more realistic schedule that takes into account a few basic facts of nature, in particular, the Law of Diminishing Returns? Moore's Law is wrong, the doubling of speed and capacity has to end...
[13:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:49] <exec> 08└─Until they get hit with a massive data breach and you find out all the stuff that should have been done, but wasn't.
[13:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:1) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 4026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:51] <exec> 08└─It's nothing to do with the degree, but the dishonesty. You can't lie to an employer like that and get away with it. Notice he "resigned", not was sacked, because he may have been able to claim that he did a perfectly adequate job of it despite lying. A degree does not prove that you have knowledge...
[13:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:53] <exec> 08└─A degree proves that you have the capacity to learn, the will to learn, the ability to learn, and the fortitude to keep at it.
[13:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VeasMKII [2271] (Score:1) 02Windows support? - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Maybe. Why don't they try ubiquitous support for your watch first before spouting such nonsense. http://www.engadget.com [engadget.com] Haven't had any use other than time keeping out of my watch since I've had a Windows Phone. All because the company a...
[13:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why those packages - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:47] <exec> 08└─Meh - I'd rather it was well auduted!
[13:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02why "it's still worrying" - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:48] <exec> 08└─So, Linux has come this far. This is cause for celebration! get in there and keep up the good fight! More players welcome - we aren't exclusive. :)
[13:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oyster card - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:33] <exec> 08└─Can you enter with your smartphone, and then leave with the Oyster card? Because if not, you'd better be very good in predicting when your battery will fail.
[13:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So … - 06ARIEL Mission to Reveal 'Brave New Worlds' Among Exoplanets - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:42] <exec> 08└─So the mission is to find dystopian worlds?
[13:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:Because it's stupid? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:28] <exec> 08└─Nah, that's just when they get it wrong. When done right, you add value by following these simple steps: Make it look niceMake it easily recognizableHype it like crazyOvercharge And presto! You've just created a status symbol and thus the crap will fly off the shelves, no problem*. Bonus points if y...
[13:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure where you came up with this idea. I pre-ordered an iPad when they were first announced, and it's still in use. Yes, it runs an old version of iOS, but that shouldn't be surprising. It is surprising though that Apple later changed their App Store to provide old versions of apps to old de...
[13:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The software stack is easy.. - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:23] <exec> 08└─and a joke tax loophole.
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[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02How to find them - 06Astronomers Bring a New Hope to Find 'Tatooine' Planets - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─1. Find the bright center to the universe. 2. Look the opposite direction.
[14:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Health food? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:26] <exec> 08└─http://oregonprogress.oregonstate.edu/summer-2015/next-big-thing-sea-vegetables [oregonstate.edu] As food for people, dulse is an excellent source of minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants, and it contains up to 16 percent protein by dry weight. That inspired Toombs, a professor in OSU’s College of...
[14:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Health food? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─That makes it a nutritious food, but not necessarily a healthy food.
[14:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:31] <exec> 08└─Who says it was a bearded dude? For what it's worth, a number of kosher/halal commandments do make sense. Shellfish are bottomfeeders, without appropriate monitoring/testing it's very easy to ingest shellfish that contain toxins that will harm you. I live in New England and every summer there's stor...
[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 1940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:33] <exec> 08└─I've found that many people are strange in their own way. Being too strange is like trying to define the obscene: you know it when you see it. While I agree that some religious beliefs or observations can appear to be quite illogical in our present era, some of the practices are rooted in what was s...
[14:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Also.. - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:35] <exec> 08└─Know what other health food tastes like bacon? Bacon.
[14:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also.. - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:36] <exec> 08└─Word, brah.
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dusty monkey [5492] (Score:2) 02Re:Except... - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:48] <exec> 08└─The process size of all foundries have been lies for years now. For instance the smallest gate lengths in intels 22nm tri-gate process (ivy bridge) were actually 25nm, and thats on the entire chip. Not a single gate length less than 25nm in its "22nm" chips. How is it 22nm then? It isn't. Pure and s...
[14:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:53] <exec> 08└─Want to quote some citations on x86 being more power hungry than ARM? I've heard this argument over and over, but it doesn't hold up. For low power devices, cell phones and such, yes, it does appear that ARM is more power efficient than x86. But we're not talking about performance at all, just the r...
[14:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:55] <exec> 08└─plan which consistently results in high power consumption If you ignore that they have gone from 125W to ~5W for the same or better performance. Atom chips are on par with the performance of a pentium 4 from 10 years ago. (the charts do not lie) I have an Intel NUC. To get that performance 10 years...
[14:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:management's unrealistic scheduling - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:56] <exec> 08└─Moore's Law is wrong, the doubling of speed and capacity has to end it's just a question of when, engineers all know that. But does management, really?
[14:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02year 2/3 - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:58] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with this move, and complaints (around the web, not just here) that AMD isn't offering enough competition for Intel miss the mark. The problem is EUV from ASML [wikipedia.org]. Multiple patterning with 193 nm lithography is getting too expensive. EUV rollout has been too slow....
[14:14:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:06] <exec> 08└─They fire them, even though apparently they'd been doing a good enough job to not be fired for all that time. It's just nonsensical.
[14:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 1662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:11] <exec> 08└─I've met some great self-taught programmers and IT staff. I've also seen the results of complete idiots (as in, he was unfamiliar with the concept of an "array") who thought they were self-taught programmers that managed to find an environment where their idiocy wasn't caught. The damage included: C...
[14:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02There isn't just one version of Islam - 06Destroyed Iraqi Holy Sites Find New Life Online - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:18] <exec> 08└─There isn't just one version of Islam. I remember when that gold dome mosque [wikipedia.org] in Samarra was destroyed [wikipedia.org]. Theory was that it was bombed to create conflict between the Shiites and the Sunni (which was already heating up). I don't know what the majority of "Islamic State"...
[14:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:39] <exec> 08└─I couldn't agree more. I have a number of very good all mechanical watches and the one I use the most is a Benrus military watch. My only complaint with it at the moment is that it isn't an automatic winding watch. Apart from that it is a very good watch properly jeweled, accurate time (runs 3 secon...
[14:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Only if you're 20... - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:44] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I saw a font size adjustment on my Android Wear watch. I'm also well ver 40 and have no trouble, with or without my glasses. That's just a single piece o data of course, but I do find it quite readable, as I did with my Pebble.
[14:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:So, what are smartwatches for? - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:50] <exec> 08└─I thought it was to show that you are douche. Also it could mean you have more money that brains which does not mean you are rich.
[14:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you use it - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─you should fund it.
[14:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pyg [4381] (Score:1) 02Re:Problematic - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:21] <exec> 08└─I would have to say that most of the SN audience could pass the Tech without much study at all except for the FCC part 97 regs and I'm a bit surprised more of this crowd doesn't also overlap with amateur radio as the orientation seems philosophically similar but the demographics are quite different....
[14:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Dying"? - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:29] <exec> 08└─Those broadcasts could be over the internet on demand instead instead of hogging an entire wavelength that is ignored by 99% of the people in its reach. With the increased bandwidth you could increase the available bandwidth to those same affected people. Then not only can they stream from the netwo...
[14:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't get it. - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:56] <exec> 08└─Or turn it off if it gets below 20%. This technology only requires that the phone be on when checked.
[14:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Oyster card - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:00] <exec> 08└─Don't think there was anything in the EULA for the oyster card that says it has to be kept in your wallet; most people I know keep them in the little plastic mini-wallets you get with them or just loose. Alternatively keep them in your wallet and just don't take it out - they're RFID with a range of...
[14:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02TFL have to pay a percentage on Oyster - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:04] <exec> 08└─For non Londoners you may be wondering why Transport for London as so keen on these alternative payment systems. Oyster works really well and is very robust. TFL have to pay the company that runs Oyster a fixed percentage on all transactions done using the Oyster payment system so they are very keen...
[14:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:28] <exec> 08└─The IOT has to beat simplicity and cheap. That is hard to do. A toggle switch costs a couple bucks at most. A connected one? Start around 15-20 at a minimum. Then needs another 200-500 dollars worth of controller to keep up with it. What does it do? Oh the exact same thing but from across the room.
[14:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:29] <exec> 08└─where despite advancements like Fieldbus You have also almost hit on why there is no 'smart home' sort of thing. Every manufacture wants to be 'the owner' of the bus. Each one with its own protocol. Each one with its own SDK. Each one that you need to buy into their eco system for it to work right....
[14:16:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 2016 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:35] <exec> 08└─An excellent example of why the IoT worries me. Here are four devices, priced around the $200 mark. They have a button to "ring the doorbell" and a camera to see who is at the door. I can see this being a useful addition to a home. The problem that I see is that they are completely inoperable with a...
[14:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Re:Who serves whom? - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:06] <exec> 08└─Half true. The original version of the book wasn't about the internet. But when Gates realised that he missed the bus, the book was heavily edited for subsequent editions. Wiki article. [wikipedia.org]
[14:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:54] <exec> 08└─Mod Points... my kingdom for mod-points... (errhhh... maybe a beer for mod-points, but still!)
[14:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Original Pebble - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I was really tempted to get one. The biggest thing holding me back was probably the looks.
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[15:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:2, Funny) 02bets? - 06Hackers of US Airline United Given Million Free Flight Miles - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:11] <exec> 08└─What if the hackers are on the super-secret No Fly List?
[15:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bets? - 06Hackers of US Airline United Given Million Free Flight Miles - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:12] <exec> 08└─Well at least they have a million miles then :)
[15:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Health food? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:34] <exec> 08└─Seaweed vs. bacon: it's not rocket science.
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that was several thousand years ago. Granted that did continue until relatively recently, but still it's not a particular problem now. If we banned foods that could make us sick if not properly handled, we wouldn't be eating anything. Some of the worst foods for food poisoning these days ar...
[15:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:01] <exec> 08└─There is one thing Intel could do to raise performance: boost the core counts for its mainstream chips. AMD promises to improve IPC of Zen by 40%, compared to 5-10% for the latest Intel launches. They are also switching from clustered multithreading (Bulldozer) to simultaneous multithreading (Zen)....
[15:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:05] <exec> 08└─But how important, really, is being able to put a new processor in an > 3 year old motherboard?
[15:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:08] <exec> 08└─Intel Core M seems to be a great chip with high performance and low power consumption, although it is very expensive. They have consistently improved power consumption and idle power on mobile (laptop) chips to the point where Atom and Core M might converge soon.
[15:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─Having a degree != being competent; not even remotely. There are many competent people who have degrees, and many competent people who don't.
[15:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:23] <exec> 08└─That's like saying "looking both ways before crossing the street != not getting in an accident.
[15:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:26] <exec> 08└─But self-education shows that...
[15:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:29] <exec> 08└─It does no such thing.
[15:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:33] <exec> 08└─Give every interviewee the fizzbuzz test and just as many with degrees will fail as those without degrees. In my experience. We give them a laptop now that has no powercord so they can't sit in there for hours. We don't even care what language they write it in or whether it is a console app, website...
[15:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 023D Tours - 06Destroyed Iraqi Holy Sites Find New Life Online - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:37] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised there aren't 3D tours of monument sites like these, say using the Unreal engine or something even more detailed. Televisions are big enough to make it immersive.
[15:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:52] <exec> 08└─The battery died in my watch and I kept forgetting to replace it, then I lost the watch. That was 1995 and I haven't missed it a bit. There's a clock on everything, everywhere you go. As for vision, I'm getting closer to 50 and it's getting to be a real bitch -- a shuffle between my distance glasses...
[15:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─It's a lot easier to have your phone snatched out of your hands because you couldn't resist looking at the latest notifications than it is to have a properly fastened watch ripped off your wrist or your pockets picked.
[15:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:01] <exec> 08└─I'm retired. I had an automatic self-winding watch but it kept stopping.
[15:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02out of milk? - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:30] <exec> 08└─x=x+1 only works on a computer. strangely enough this simple awesomeness is completely forgotten in the computer HISTORY/evolution world: a new (free?) OS gets developed (in a garage?)=x to successfully displace "milk-your-wallet" OS and to enable a new generation of computer users x=x+1 who keep ad...
[15:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Problematic - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:42] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there is a fair overlap already - I'm formerly DL5YZ from the 1970's.
[15:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score:1) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:00] <exec> 08└─Anal Pumpernickel (776) [soylentnews.org] wrote [soylentnews.org]: I just love the idea of everything phoning home, DRM everywhere, and all the security issues that this will bring about. How retarded can people be?
[15:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll keep my mechanical watch, thanks - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─Apple EOL'd iPad 1 at iOS 5, it came out in 2010 and had a short life for new updates (only two years), but mine (and many others) still works just fine. iPad 2, which came out in 2011, had a much better processor and amount of ram and is still running the newest iOS for getting the newest apps. Som...
[15:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good timing - 06 It's Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:17] <exec> 08└─Personally I bear no part of the country any special ill will except for Chicago, Washington D.C., and Barstow, CA. May they all be swallowed up by the vengeful ground.
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[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─This is very true. For example a 2 liter of pepsi is considered 'low fat'. Now is that healthy to drink? Not really. Is it OK to drink? Sure but dont do it all the time.
[16:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─I've asked a number of people about the chicken and cheese question. The best answer I've received said that it is about keeping Life (milk is meant to support the life of the young) separate from Death (meat is dead flesh). The other answers boiled down to just doing what they are told.
[16:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also.. - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:51] <exec> 08└─Bacon... the other white meat.
[16:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Bacon Grease - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:53] <exec> 08└─Making bacon on the griddle is only half the fun. Reusing the grease in something else makes it taste even better. Mmm bacon brownies.
[16:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:14] <exec> 08└─Intel doesn't use X86 anymore. X86 is just the executable format that gets turned into micro-operations and processed. The same micro-operations exist on all processors now. And the unit that transforms X86 to micro ops is tiny compared to the out-of-order scheduler and branch prediction units. Powe...
[16:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:year 2/3 - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:18] <exec> 08└─I would not wait around on that chip. If I had a choice between the two obviously pick the later. But wait on it? Not so much. I think you are right about Broadwell at this point. Everyone is waiting on Skylake. We should see a decent clearout of inventory in the next few months of Broadwell equipme...
[16:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02May you live in interesting times... - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─Intel suffers massive 14nm delays, buys Altera (which couldn't figure out 20nm), ends tick-tock... Either someone's resting on their laurels, or some heads should start rolling, because IBM and TSMC are pretty positive about their 7nm roadmap.
[16:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:May you live in interesting times... - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─IBM hasn't shown off anything that Intel couldn't do itself in a few years. Intel will use EUV and SiGe eventually. By using slow and incomplete EUV to create their 7nm demo chip, IBM is tying the fate of 7nm to ASML's EUV lithography, which has been delayed for decades and won't be ready for anothe...
[16:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:May you live in interesting times... - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:23] <exec> 08└─TSMC has announced that they plan to output 7nm FPGAs in 2017. Even if they slip by one year, the schedule in TFS still has Intel doing 10nm Tock in 2018.
[16:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02naming - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:25] <exec> 08└─What's the deal with all these -lake suffixes? At first glance none of them even make any sense, which seems like a weird thing to base a mnemonic on.
[16:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 1734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:37] <exec> 08└─I don't lie about my degree and I wish I didn't have to compete with people who do. But.. I don't entirely agree with you either. There is noting (job relate anyway) that I was taught in College that I couldn't have learned through books and the internet. I'm sure somebody out there has done exactly...
[16:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, but you equate degree with relatively lower chance that degree holder will not fuck up. Should the degree-holder be better equipped? Yes, it should be that way. But we have all encountered degree-mill graduates in our various walks of life for whom a piece of paper says nothing. There are other...
[16:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:47] <exec> 08└─You have a problem with something that happens to your potential recruits before the interview if that's the case. Your headhunter or HR department or whoever it is screening resumes is getting lousy candidates. Or you are paying far below market rates and/or have lousy working conditions so all you...
[16:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:49] <exec> 08└─Give every interviewee the fizzbuzz test and just as many with degrees will fail as those without degrees. In my experience. We give them a laptop now that has no powercord so they can't sit in there for hours. We don't even care what language they write it in or whether it is a console app, website...
[16:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There isn't just one version of Islam - 06Destroyed Iraqi Holy Sites Find New Life Online - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:57] <exec> 08└─The "Islamic State" call themselves Sunni (which is why Iran, a Shiite country has been sending its troops to fight them). Shiites are mosty known for extremism and Sunnis are more moderate. But these Sunnis aren't muslims anyway. They are soldiers of fortune the way I see it. It is possible that th...
[16:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:13] <exec> 08└─I'll keep your eyes-warning in mind, I'm not far behind you. As for the cost, I paid rough $130 for my Pebble watch and have had it a little over a year with only a tiny knick in it to show for it. The convenience it offers me does exceed that price, but not enough for me to get an Apple Watch.
[16:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:20] <exec> 08└─I've had a few phones stolen from me over the years as described, but just as I have never won the lottery as the GP suggests, I have never had my watch stolen or my wallet picked out of my pockets. These days smartphones fetch far higher prices than typical watches, are usually worth much more than...
[16:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Evil plan ahead? - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:32] <exec> 08└─No need to send killers, when you can just mind-control the people through their smartwatches.
[16:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maliqua [5681] (Score:1) 02Re:Code your own - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:39] <exec> 08└─my watch also tells time. IDK the battery life but its somewhere north of one year, I'll follow up with an update when the battery finally dies
[16:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pyg [4381] (Score:1) 02Re:Bandwidth capacity - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:13] <exec> 08└─IIRC FCC part 97 (amateur radio/ham) requires data transmissions to be limited to 100 KHz wide and 56 Kbps on frequencies below 928.0 MHz. So yes. Also below 28 MHz, limited to 300 bps, 28-54 MHz 1200 bps, 144-148 MHz 19.6 Kbps. This of course is not what is technically possible with spread spectrum...
[16:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pyg [4381] (Score:1) 02Re:Bandwidth capacity - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:15] <exec> 08└─For reference 802.11a-n channels are 20-40 MHz wide so if you took 400-700 MHz and used it like 802.11n you could fit 7-14 channels... also you would have a lot of pissed off hams who just lost their precious 30 MHz of 70 cm band.
[16:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02UHF TV channels != UHF band - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:21] <exec> 08└─The UHF TV channels are not the entire UHF band. That's the discrepancy. No, editor, this isn't talking about taking up all the UHF HAM channels or kicking 2.4 Ghz Wi-Fi out of the way to make room for Wi-Fi. This is discussing using the UHF portion of the TV spectrum (as opposed to the VHF portion,...
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[17:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yay! More irrelevancy from Netflix - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:12] <exec> 08└─Never has any movies I want to watch and I really don't care about Orange is the new Black. We have it strictly for my wife. At least we still get DVDs...
[17:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Jealous - 06Free Broadband for Five NYC Housing Developments - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:20] <exec> 08└─I can't really begrudge the fact that some poor folks are going to get "high speed" internet. But, if they get more than the sometimes almost 2 meg that I have to PAY for, I'm going to be jealous as all hell. When is congress going to inquire about those "last miles" that AT&T and the rest of the ga...
[17:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jealous - 06Free Broadband for Five NYC Housing Developments - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:22] <exec> 08└─AT&T just spent the past 3 days digging up my front yard. I think they are finally starting to realize they need to put in fiber. This is not exactly some 'big city' either. They actually did a pretty nice job of it too. Though they did kill some grass :( The down side is the price. 120 intro...
[17:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Jealous - 06Free Broadband for Five NYC Housing Developments - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:23] <exec> 08└─They didn't kill any puppies, did they? Or kittens? Just some grass, I can probably go along with.
[17:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Give me fiber - 06Free Broadband for Five NYC Housing Developments - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:26] <exec> 08└─or give me death!
[17:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:bets? - 06Hackers of US Airline United Given Million Free Flight Miles - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:34] <exec> 08└─TL;DR. Past caring. :)
[17:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02bundle deal - 06Hackers of US Airline United Given Million Free Flight Miles - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:36] <exec> 08└─TSA and no-fly lists and customs search and seizures and rendition and Guantanamo Bay are all parts of a big bundle. The whole damned thing pisses me off. it keeps me on a slow burn - every time I look at a headline, I'm reminded that I'm pissed. And, regardless of your views of any individual invol...
[17:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bets? - 06Hackers of US Airline United Given Million Free Flight Miles - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:37] <exec> 08└─Do not forget black out dates ! The dates we have avialable is Feb 30, is the good for you?
[17:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Health food? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:57] <exec> 08└─You mis-read the error: instead of "invalid token"
[17:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:05] <exec> 08└─Being too strange is like trying to define the obscene: you know it when you see it.
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:May you live in interesting times... - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─I doubt they can transition from 16nm to 7nm in 2 years. I'll believe it when I see it.
[17:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:59] <exec> 08└─Should the degree-holder be better equipped? Yes, it should be that way.
[17:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:10] <exec> 08└─We don't have an HR department and we don't trust resumes (people lie). There is no barrier between the development team members that sit in the interview and the "recruit". Anyone can interview. Everyone gets fizzbuzzed and we review their code after they've left the interview. What they have writt...
[17:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:11] <exec> 08└─We require it to be interactive and you get to type/select the start and end numbers. All programs (we care about) require inputs. But yes, that is it exactly : ) It is supposed to separate those who can from those who can't. It is simple for those who can. We've had many attempts that never even co...
[17:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02When the smart watch is essential - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:05] <exec> 08└─The smart watch's notifications can be essential when you suffer from attention deficit. You see the notifications on the watch face, which you see often because it is on your wrist, and they stay there until you deal with them. This can alert you to essential activities, which can range from catchi...
[17:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We got it all on UHF! - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:44] <exec> 08└─You get to drink from the FIREHOSE !!!
[17:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SGT CAPSLOCK [118] (Score:2) 02Re:easy - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:19] <exec> 08└─Talk about security! Geez. How many stories does Soylent post on the front page about "XXX Has Been Hacked" in a month? Those are just big companies or government agencies. It'd be too pointless (because it's so frequent) to talk about everyone who has a private network compromised each day. A refri...
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[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay! More irrelevancy from Netflix - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:14] <exec> 08└─I'm enjoying Bobs Burgers (got better in season 3) and Knights of Sidonia. The last movie i saw on there was great, Robot and Frank. Isaac Asimov probably would have liked it. I wish they had more old sci-fi shows though.
[18:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Bah - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─That culture is simplistic and infantile and if you are raising your kids to speak Spanish in any other context than being able to issue formal commands to low-budget workers, then expect your kids' emotional growth to be stunted watching that crap.
[18:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Bah - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:17] <exec> 08└─Generalizations are never true, for one exception disproves. It seems you don't have any recommendations, but that doesn't mean none exist! Raise a brood on a steady diet of English television and see how they fare: Kardashians, MTV, reality anything, whatever the latest "compete to be a pop singer"...
[18:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Bah - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─How surprised are we that E-Fueled lacks the cognitive advantages of knowing multiple languages.
[18:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Bah - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:20] <exec> 08└─You may change your mind in about 2 hours and 1 minute (see queue for more details).
[18:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:22] <exec> 08└─learn another language if you can. try something exotic. there are plenty of Spanish speakers in America, go for something more rewarding. (and no, NOT FRENCH)
[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:24] <exec> 08└─At least with Spanish, you've got plenty of people to practice it on. But personally, I prefer German so that I can sound angry even if what I'm saying is "I love you a whole lot".
[18:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Ever been homesick? - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:26] <exec> 08└─Every immigrant appreciates it when someone makes an effort to speak their mother tongue. Every time I say "Mi nombre Miguel. Tu nombre?" they are completely overcome with joy - even if they speak fluent English.
[18:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Ever been homesick? - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:27] <exec> 08└─"they are completely overcome with joy" You really believe that? I've been on "the other side" a few times. I've strolled thorugh towns and neighborhoods where no one spoke English. Some odd ball walks up out of nowhere, and says, "Hello, Joe, how are ya?" I wasn't overwhelmed with joy. Yeah, I know...
[18:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:30] <exec> 08└─The point of learning a language is to communicate, not to feel smugly superior to everyone around you.
[18:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:32] <exec> 08└─Rewarding? Useful = rewarding. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Spanish is the third largest language by total...
[18:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:1) 02El Chapulin Colorado? - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:34] <exec> 08└─I never watched it much, but my first high school Spanish teacher tried to get us all hooked on El Chapulin Colorado. Might be good for some laughs? Back in that class I could barely follow the show but maybe at this point my Spanish has improved enough I should give it a whirl. [wikipedia.org]
[18:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Press 1 for English... - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:35] <exec> 08└─Every time I hear this I press 0 which usually connects me to a human, then I start talking like a retarded babbling Klingon.
[18:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02Movies are a good start - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 2089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:38] <exec> 08└─I have found some of my favorite mind-bending movies happen to come from great spanish-speaking minds (read: most not mexican, some yes). I would advise on seeing most of Alejando's Amenabar work, especially "Abre Los Ojos" (the original, miles-ahead better version of Vanilla Sky, still featuring th...
[18:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ramloss [1150] (Score:1) 02Very few options - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:40] <exec> 08└─The shows that TFA mentions have little variety: nine are series about drug dealers, six are soap operas and only five other shows do not fall into these two categories. "El Chapulín Colorado" is a comedy and may be of interest to those learning the language, but it's from the 70's and its age real...
[18:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Problem is you have to fly United - 06Hackers of US Airline United Given Million Free Flight Miles - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:53] <exec> 08└─The problem is to redeem them you have to fly United. I really hate flying, especially on the race to the bottom of service American carriers. Then add in the TSA and the supposedly "random" enhanced screenings I always get as well as the always "random" checked baggage search I get.
[18:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Health food? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:12] <exec> 08└─For example a 2 liter of pepsi is considered 'low fat'. Well, how much fat is actually in Pepsi? Not much. Which makes it a true (though misleading) statement. It's up to you to know that a bajillion calories and grams of sugar also isn't good for you.
[18:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:UHF TV channels != UHF band - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:03] <exec> 08└─UHF takes up the space between 400 and 700 megahertz
[18:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Oyster card - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:39] <exec> 08└─Alternatively keep them in your wallet and just don't take it out - they're RFID with a range of a few centimetres and so will work quite happily through fabric/leather.
[18:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Egocentric baubles - 062015 Smartwatch Comparison Guide - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:48] <exec> 08└─So are you karma whoring or just a judgemental asshole?
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:_Chinese_ 2.4 single, 4.8 double teraflops - 06U.S. Export Restrictions Lead to Chinese Homegrown Supercomputing Chips - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:40] <exec> 08└─You need to divide that number by between 2 and 8 before comparing with real world. News Flash: The rest of the world's chips are also made in China.
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[19:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02not top gear - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:20] <exec> 08└─I am looking forward to 'not top gear'.
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JavaDevGuy [5155] (Score:1) 02Re:Bah - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:26] <exec> 08└─Yep, far better to stick to the cultural greats from the past like Dallas and Dynasty.
[19:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:30] <exec> 08└─Herring shouldn smelten fine from Garbitsch, und Garbitsch shouldn smelten fine from Herring. Herring und Garbitsch [wikiquote.org]
[19:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:36] <exec> 08└─French is still quite a useful language to have in many parts of Africa, the Far East, and some minor locations dotted around the globe. And, of course, where I currently reside - France. It will be my 4th language but age is beginning to slow the learning process quite significantly. Still, it make...
[19:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't always have to understand it to enjoy it - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:40] <exec> 08└─Like this guy: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] ;)
[19:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jealous - 06Free Broadband for Five NYC Housing Developments - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:50] <exec> 08└─Well the website says 'not available in your area'. Considering they put the box in my yard I would SAY I probably can get it... Looks like the data cap is 1TB. Even if I do not get it. It at least adds a bunch of value to my house. As apparently data connections are now a selling point...
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How about killing the toxic mold? - 06Free Broadband for Five NYC Housing Developments - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:52] <exec> 08└─New York Housing Authority has a serious problem with toxic mold growing on the walls. The residents file complaints but it is not cleaned up. While I am uncertain I expect a HEPA filter and a few UV lamps pointed at the walls would help. The mold causes many health problems, particularly ashtma in...
[19:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Health food? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:28] <exec> 08└─If you really think it's that easy, you should eat deadly nightshade. After all, as fruit it should be much more healthy than for example a steak.
[19:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─The actual prohibition was for boiling a young goat in its mother's milk: http://biblehub.com [biblehub.com] Thus prohibiting a practice which does sound a bit twisted (or sadistic if you're boiling the young goat alive). But it doesn't actually prohibit eating a cheese burger...
[19:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Your friends are religious wackos - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:40] <exec> 08└─Kosher food has its advantages. Last time I checked, it was subject to higher standards of inspection than USDA required, and not just the superstitious parts. Halal food stores also have really good food you can't find elsewhere, though I can't speak for the inspection standards wrt halal specifica...
[19:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bacon Grease - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBKitZNAko0 [youtube.com]
[19:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02backdoors to put you in prison - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:18] <exec> 08└─Backdoor sin both Intel v(pro) and amd stalled too? Make sure you don't have thoughts women wouldn't like, such as supporting marrying girls rather than women (as used to be legal in the USA before feminism and is legal in all old religions) Only the Unitarian progressivism is allowed in the USA
[19:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:36] <exec> 08└─Because there are two parts to learning: First, learning that there is something you should know, but don't, and second, learning the stuff that you should know but don't. It's obvious how to do the second step, but it's easy to already fail at the first step and therefore never getting to the secon...
[19:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:48] <exec> 08└─I'm curious, what would be the advantage of this: Some people might not do lines 4 and 7 and opt to concat fizzes and buzzes together instead
[19:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Watch? Boring crap. - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:45] <exec> 08└─What I'd want is the iSavant/Virtual Savant. A wearable device that will give me "savant-like" abilities and more. Facial recognition, object recognition[1] and rapid counting (like in Rainman), eidetic memory, rapid math (look at a column of numbers, add them up), virtual telepathy and telekinesis...
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[20:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, all in all, I'd say having grey matter is more than a little inconvenient. But, then again, in most cases I think it beats the alternative :P
[20:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02No you cannot - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─All Intel chips have the backdoor called vpro vt amt on chipset, including an inbuilt Vnc server. Many amd chips have this too. So no. You cannot be secret. This is woman's America. This is what they want: "perverts and pedis" In prison. Men used to marry girls before women gained power. (Last us st...
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:No you cannot - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:22] <exec> 08└─While the parent is apparently an insane pedophile he does make an important point: we cannot trust the hardware. It might be "hacked" from day one.
[20:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:No you cannot - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─"insane pedophile"? I think he's been backdoored a few too many times.
[20:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay! More irrelevancy from Netflix - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:35] <exec> 08└─I wish there was a way to filter the spanish shows out. I do not speak spanish, and I have no desire to use my free time to sort through the now trending to find English shows.
[20:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bah - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:38] <exec> 08└─Generalizations are never true, for one exception disproves.
[20:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Bah - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─Indeed how could any people compete with the refined heights of the Dukes of Hazzard or Hee-Haw? I don't have any particular affinity or enmity toward Spanish, but it's worth considering that their empire was one of the largest the world has ever seen, and that that language is spoken by more native...
[20:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:1) 02Re:Bah - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:43] <exec> 08└─I'm sitting my kids down in front of Spanish Netflix television right now as we speak. They love it! The truth is they are reading the English captions, so maybe it's helping them in some other way...
[20:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─My German host father had a phrase to prove which language was more beautiful, ("the two young girls walk in the woods"): "Die zwei junge Maedchen gehen spazieren in die Waelder." vs. "Les deux jeunes filles promenadent dans les bois." He sang the former and spat the latter. Delivery counts. :-)
[20:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Ever been homesick? - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:50] <exec> 08└─Everyone expects you to speak English because it's the international language. Few people expect you to speak Tagalog (or other language). None expect English speakers to try. When you do, it's appreciated*. *Except in France. French are bigger language bigots than Americans or British.
[20:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:52] <exec> 08└─Language is also a window into a different world view; immersing yourself in one and the culture that goes with it is the closest thing you can experience to living in a parallel universe, barring major advances in quantum mechanics. Language can be a status symbol and a social weapon too. Post-colo...
[20:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:El Chapulin Colorado? - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:56] <exec> 08└─Back in that class I could barely follow the show
[20:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02La Reina del Sur - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:01] <exec> 08└─La Reina del Sur is my favorite spanish soap opera. it is from 2011 or so and has 4 or 5 seasons. it is about a girl from mexico who flees to spain after her boyfriend is murdered by drug dealers and she hides in melilla on the north coast of africa working as an accountant for a bar. after her seco...
[20:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Has anyone watched these? - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:02] <exec> 08└─How many of them have English/Spanish subtitles/audio tracks? Rewatching something you enjoy while flipping between them in various combinations could be helpful in picking up the story and intent.
[20:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Jealous - 06Free Broadband for Five NYC Housing Developments - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:14] <exec> 08└─Same basic Deal here, once the box is in, it has to be connected. They're probably not done rolling it out. I'm really looking forward to fiber service here.
[20:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jealous - 06Free Broadband for Five NYC Housing Developments - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I hope that is it. As when they put DSL in they never bothered to mark my house as available for it. The box is right across the street... Though the pricing looks to be a bit steep at 70-150 a month depending on where you are at. So it looks like they are pricing it at levels I am rather 'meh...
[20:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem is you have to fly United - 06Hackers of US Airline United Given Million Free Flight Miles - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:31] <exec> 08└─Stop looking suspicious bledand you won't get pulled. You walk up with dark glasses and a hoodie they will know you are troule
[20:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Binary? Pffff - 06Astronomers Bring a New Hope to Find 'Tatooine' Planets - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─Exotic System Of "Quintuplet" Stars All Orbiting Each Other Discovered [techtimes.com] two binary star pairs and a lone fifth star are all gravitationally bound together
[20:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Except... - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:26] <exec> 08└─It may be misleading and each manufacturer may have their own definition of 32/28/22/20/16/14/10/7 nm, but it doesn't matter much. What matters is that a.) it is harder to make components smaller, b.) they are making components smaller, and c.) there are benefits (cost, performance, power consumptio...
[20:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:33] <exec> 08└─Not all computers are built with high-end parts. As high-end parts become middle and low you can continue to upgrade your machine for cheap.
[20:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:backdoors to put you in prison - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:48] <exec> 08└─yeah I too miss the dark ages... (I'm kidding you moron)
[20:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:07] <exec> 08└─You did not answer my question. He said that it "should" be a certain way; that sounds like a moral statement to me. Why "should" formal education prove superior? Formal education is just one means of obtaining an education. Lots of top universities post their curricula and even lectures online. Sel...
[20:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:20] <exec> 08└─The advantage is not creating a third array. Your line still creates a third array. I haven't used R before but i cannot find a definition for "which". Do you have a good reference to use? I'm not saying creating a third array is wrong, just that almost everyone does it differently. Some may do the...
[20:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:21] <exec> 08└─https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/which.html [stat.ethz.ch] This is the closest I can find to showing what it does (probably doesn't help): function (x, arr.ind = FALSE, useNames = TRUE) { wh <- .Internal(which(x)) if (arr.ind && !is.null(d <- dim(x))) ...
[20:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:23] <exec> 08└─Interesting, apparently this is a more optimal R solution: fzbz <- function(n){c(n,"fizz","buzz","fizzbuzz")[1+(!n%%3)+2*(!n%%5)]} for (a in 1:100) print(fzbz(a))
[20:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:24] <exec> 08└─And there I thought you were talking about this popular drinking game (at least when I was young...): http://www.jeuxaboire.fr [jeuxaboire.fr] (in French) Same idea, much more fun to play (as long as you win), it's one of those games where getting out of a losing streak i...
[20:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:out of milk? - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─social sciences or liberal arts major?
[20:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:02] <exec> 08└─It's not the "Internet of Things", it is "My Personal Network of Things" that is going to be the revolution.
[20:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:solution in search of a problem - 06Why Have We Yet to Be Enchanted by the Internet of Things? - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:03] <exec> 08└─The Internet of Things stuff would become more interesting and useful when we get iSavant/Virtual Savant wearable devices: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] I would have been more excited about "Virtual Savant" features (and "Virtual Telepathy", "...
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[21:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:12] <exec> 08└─While I've met and befriended many bilingual people, I've developed a stereotype over the years that anyone with 4+ languages is insane. Something about the doublethink needed to assimilate that many cultures' worldviews at the same time, I don't know. Oddly, the Swiss seem to be resistant to this e...
[21:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:13] <exec> 08└─The Swiss don't learn Flemish. Flemish is spoken in another country well to the north. Perhaps you meant "Romansh", but Swiss don't usually learn that either. While one of the four official languages of Switzerland, the number of speakers has been dwindling for decades, and few Swiss from outside th...
[21:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:16] <exec> 08└─Swiss has lost many local versions of languages over the years. My father, born outside the town Glarus in canton Glarus, family spoke "Swiss-Swiss" or as my father called it "Low German". Never did get a straight answer of what he meant by that. When he went to Switzerland for one summer, he picked...
[21:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:17] <exec> 08└─Tell that to janrinok [soylentnews.org].
[21:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:19] <exec> 08└─I've had about 8 years of learning Spanish. I still can't speak it very fast or well, but I can read and write it more than well enough to get by, long as anyone I have to interact with is patient enough to wait for me to write out whatever. That's probably due to not interacting with enough people...
[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] (Score:1) 02Ĉu ne ? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:20] <exec> 08└─Se vera, mi estus stulta. Mi rehaltadis lerni esperanton.
[21:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Ĉu ne ? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:22] <exec> 08└─Eew, gross.
[21:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Causation? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:24] <exec> 08└─Does becoming bilingual cause a big brain or does a big brain cause becoming bilingual? I didn't notice any drawbacks from being pretty bilingual yet, even with the idiomatic stuff. On occasion it happens that there's a word in the other language that fits spot on, or a well suiting metaphor, so I m...
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Causation? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:26] <exec> 08└─Does becoming bilingual cause a big brain or does a big brain cause becoming bilingual?
[21:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02"Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages" - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─As opposed to bilinguals of 1 or more than 2 languages. *rimshot*
[21:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No you cannot - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─Explain what is insane?
[21:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Explain insanity - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. Example: repeatedly posting complaints in online forums about not being able to marry young girls, and expecting somehow not to get modded down as troll on each post. Taking a clinical view, I have to wonder what the poster hop...
[21:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Explain insanity - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:40] <exec> 08└─Mra s are male feminists. Men used to marry young girls. Hopefully the south will rise again and reinstate the practice as they were the last to ban it. No victory is forever. Women and their supporters will not reign for all of time over all the earth.
[21:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:No you cannot - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:42] <exec> 08└─Why is this -1 troll? Wish i had mod points... to mod up his point (which is valid, i believe). +1 Informative
[21:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay! More irrelevancy from Netflix - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:51] <exec> 08└─I agree. I look through the listings, find one that looks interesting, start it... and it's in some greek/spanish/fucking who knows what launguage I don't care to learn. I set my preferences to english only but shit still shows up.
[21:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Demographics - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:17] <exec> 08└─Netflix has recently added Spanish-language shows on its service in the US. And the company says American subscribers are loving it.
[21:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03twistedcubic [929] (Score:2) 02Re:Demographics - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:18] <exec> 08└─I could be because many of the promoted American English-language shows suck. So I appreciate this topic because lately I've been looking at non-American stuff for this reason.
[21:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Demographics - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─Me too. I've been watching some great British shows, a bonus is I understand their language, it's almost english. Hollywood keeps shitting out the same boring crap.
[21:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Problem is you have to fly United - 06Hackers of US Airline United Given Million Free Flight Miles - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:50] <exec> 08└─No you don't. I was a United 1k when I worked at my old job (flew more than 100,000 miles in a single calendar year), and UA miles can be redeemed on any Star Alliance partner. I've used UA miles to fly on Signapore Airlines to Japan in first class, several times in Lufthansa in first or business (t...
[21:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:backdoors to put you in prison - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:09] <exec> 08└─Fuck you you faggot. May the south raise again
[21:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 1773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:26] <exec> 08└─In my experience, having a degree is not a sign of increased competence in IT. That said, it is an indication of the ability to do a lot of silly things for no benefit other than approval of the authorities. It also tends to indicate a certain amount of wealth, and membership in certain social group...
[21:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:27] <exec> 08└─Anyone who claims to have never lied is very likely a liar. Therefore, everyone is a dishonest person to some extent. I'm not so much trying to defend this lying as being good as I am rejecting the excessive vilification of people who simply wanted a job in a crazy corporatist world.
[21:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:47] <exec> 08└─Only once did someone complete it under 15 minutes. He found a better offer and we couldn't hire him.
[21:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:48] <exec> 08└─That hasn't worked well for us because someone somewhere always offers more. You end up with developers that only care about money and barely learn the system before leaving for another company. You'll spend the next two months fixing their work. I would say our salaries aren't high but they are goo...
[21:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:why those packages - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:59] <exec> 08└─Many decades ago is all I can say. The oldest use I've encountered of it (that I remember, sort of) was a somewhat ditzy character in a 1930's SF story. And it seemed that the usage was expected to be recognized without explanation. (Certainly, I didn't need any explanation, though I don't recall ev...
[21:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Before Hairyfeet shows up again... - 06Linux Foundation Serves Up a Tasty Dish of Bugs - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─Before Hairyfeet shows up again with his usual drivel: [soylentnews.org] In the same timespan that a FOSS vulnerability in known to exist, the number of Windoze users who get pwned by fresh exploits is greater by orders of magnitude. Patches for Heartbleed were available within 6 days of revelation...
[21:18:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] 02Re:Could be interesting - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:52] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly, many years ago (10+? Can't remember exactly) someone did get arrested for charging their phone from a train company socket and it went all the way to court. The judge made the guy pay the train company for the electricity he uses (£0.01p) and the judge made the train company...
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[22:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:17] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you meant "Romansh", but Swiss don't usually learn that either.
[22:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:22] <exec> 08└─Awel zunne, ik denk dagge der 'n bietje neffens zit, met dien Zwitsers en hun Vloms. Probeert het nog 'ns, maar nu een aantal steenworpen noordelijker, s'il vous de plâit. Switzerland was the only place where I've ever asked politely if they spoke English, because I was tired, in the train station:...
[22:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:"Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages" - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:28] <exec> 08└─As opposed to people that can read or write in two languages but can only speak one.
[22:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:"Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages" - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:30] <exec> 08└─"Spoken" was not the part I was calling out.
[22:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:2) 02Re:"Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages" - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:31] <exec> 08└─So where do C, Java, Python, Ruby, etc. fit in? Or is speaking programming languages now required for earning your nerd card?
[22:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Touché) 02Are you calling Americans stupid? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:33] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you are...
[22:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02joder español - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:34] <exec> 08└─I slap my ballsack in protest.
[22:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Explain insanity - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 1990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:47] <exec> 08└─Insanity is the inability to observe what is in front of you, to properly process information based on what it actually is, not what it appears to be and not being able to tell the difference while carrying out a good handling. Moving the chair out of the way just right, for example. Throwing the ch...
[22:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:No you cannot - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:49] <exec> 08└─the first poster validates the reason that anon posters should be completely ignored.
[22:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No you cannot - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:51] <exec> 08└─Let me guess: you want stone mountain dynamited.
[22:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:No you cannot - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:52] <exec> 08└─yes, intel chips have secret codes. yellow books are not easy to come by and most people have never heard of them. me, included (lol). but what does that have to do with tcp/ip? you can spoof your mac addr. you can spoof your IP (lots of ways). tell me: what does the hardware have to do with networ...
[22:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score:2) 02Additional Resources - 06Chatting in Secret While We're All Being Watched - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:54] <exec> 08└─Off-the-Record [cypherpunks.ca] - library and reference on the Pidgin plugin as well ChatSecure [guardianproject.info] - Mobile app that implements OTR; compatible with any other XMPP client using OTR namely Pidgin SMSSecure [smssecure.org] - Mobile app to replace Android's native SMS application. A...
[22:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bah - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:10] <exec> 08└─You are right, it makes no sense. The thought that a single specific example throws out general characteristics is stupid. People, in general, have five toes per foot. Oops, this guy over here has six toes (I've actually met someone who does), so I guess people generally don't have five toes per foo...
[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:20] <exec> 08└─Ich bin eine scheisse kopf?
[22:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:21] <exec> 08└─I guess, but you would know better than I. By the way, you want to combine those last two words into one, and capitalize the "s". And you got the article wrong.
[22:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:27] <exec> 08└─My H.S. German teacher said "don't just learn the language, think it also", it helped a lot. And once you learn a second language, learning more is even easier.
[22:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:28] <exec> 08└─There are benefits to learning most languages, but French is certainly the one to learn if your motivation is smugness.
[22:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck Spanish With A Fork - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:30] <exec> 08└─"The point of learning a language is to communicate, not to feel smugly superior to everyone around you." If I want to learn a language to feel smug and be a prick, what business is it of yours? I see the OP in the thread was modded down. Is this /. ? it's beginning to feel like it.
[22:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:16] <exec> 08└─If you've got a dual 'Sandy Bridge' i3, then the obvious upgrade would be a second-hand or surplus 'Sandy Bridge' i7 quad, which would be a significant upgrade, not a new-model i3 dual which (even if it was made to work on your motherboard) would offer relatively modest improvements.
[22:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:doesn't matter - 06Intel's "Tick-Tock" Strategy Stalls, 10nm Chips Delayed - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:18] <exec> 08└─Want to quote some citations on x86 being more power hungry than ARM?
[22:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:12] <exec> 08└─All employment contracts state the employer owns all code media etc etc and patents the employee creates during the term of employment: ie the employee is owned and can't do hobby opensource projects at home. Why would anyone work for you bloodsucking fucks?
[22:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's advocate - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:13] <exec> 08└─Ours doesn't. You can even work on personal projects at work. But once you check code into company owned version control it becomes work product and the company owns the copyright and will likely patent it (theyhave a few already). Myself and two other guys do "collaborative" for fun projects during...
[22:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:UHF TV channels != UHF band - 06There is a Way to Use Dying UHF Channels for "Super Wi-Fi" Data Connections - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:54] <exec> 08└─Your editorial correction though makes it look more like you think he's talking about the whole band and correcting the size. It would be much clearer if you instead pointed out the article is about a portion of the band used for TV channels in the US. "[Ed: Actually, the UHF band is larger but the...
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[23:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:30] <exec> 08└─Holy cow, was that Swiss German blended with Flemish and wrapped up with French? I had a Belgian girlfriend once who would do that and throw in Mandarin every now and then to keep you on your toes. Crazy as a loon, that one.
[23:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:31] <exec> 08└─How deep you go is a factor. Knowing a few thousand words to get around and effect basic communication is do-able across more than 4 languages. You can probably also manage to read "The Alchemist" with a dictionary to spot you. But if you want to appreciate the humor or real literature it's a whole...
[23:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Ĉu ne ? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:35] <exec> 08└─Awesome! That's only the time I've hauled out my Esperanto dictionary since Slashdot interviewed Shatner. Drawing a blank on "rehaltadis" though. Why did you learn it? Fun, or something else?
[23:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Causation? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's different if you grow up bilingual. Me I start transposing prepositions and losing deft turn of phrase when I'm in another language too long.
[23:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages" - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:44] <exec> 08└─I would say they're pretty similar in their affect on the brain, except it's probably more analogous to speaking Spanish to a Portuguese speaker. If you go slow you can make yourself understood, but if you go fast you miss the bigger picture and finer points, in much the same way that if you know Ja...
[23:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are you calling Americans stupid? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:46] <exec> 08└─If Americans lived in countries the size of our states, each with a different language, more of us would be multilingual as well.
[23:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are you calling Americans stupid? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:47] <exec> 08└─...and maybe you'd get the joke then.
[23:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02About language - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:49] <exec> 08└─I'm tired, so this comment may make even less sense than my usual ones. Douglas Hofstadter once wrote about the "semantic web" for laypeople. Maybe, if you have multiple languages, there are more spots in your semantic web that are close to words in at least one of those languages. My personal three...
[23:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:About language - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:51] <exec> 08└─2) First comes reading, then listening, then writing, then speaking, then discussing, lastly joking. It takes time.
[23:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:About language - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:52] <exec> 08└─It also makes reading so much easier when you have an idea what those glyphs on the page are supposed to sound like.)
[23:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:About language - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:54] <exec> 08└─1) Don't be afraid. You *will* make a fool of yourself. Deal with it.
[23:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rosetta Stone - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:56] <exec> 08└─are there good alternatives to this expensive software?
[23:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:49] <exec> 08└─From H. W. Fowler: To say a French word in the middle of an English sentence exactly as it would be said by a Frenchman in a French sentence is a feat demanding an acrobatic mouth; the muscles have to be suddenly adjusted to a performance of a different nature, & after it as suddenly recalled to th...
[23:14:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] 02Movies are a good start - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 2089 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:56] <exec> 08└─I have found some of my favorite mind-bending movies happen to come from great spanish-speaking minds (read: most not mexican, some yes). I would advise on seeing most of Alejando's Amenabar work, especially "Abre Los Ojos" (the original, miles-ahead better version of Vanilla Sky, still featuring th...
[23:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't always have to understand it to enjoy it - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:00] <exec> 08└─Just about every TV news station in San Diego has one of those barbie weather girls now.
[23:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nop [1246] (Score:1) 02Programmes from Spain - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:05] <exec> 08└─There are several good programmes from Spain, some older, some newer, from different genres. For kids, cartoons: D'Artacan David el Gnomo Don Quijote de La Mancha Ruy, el pequeno Cid Willy Fog For teenagers and family all around: Verano azul Historic fiction, adventure and romance: Aguila Roja Curro...
[23:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Health food? - 06Bacon-Flavored Health Food Has Arrived - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:56] <exec> 08└─Well, how much fat is actually in Pepsi? Not much. Which makes it a true (though misleading) statement. It's up to you to know that a bajillion calories and grams of sugar also isn't good for you.
[23:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kramulous [255] (Score:1) 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:16] <exec> 08└─There is a big difference between knowing something and thinking you know something. Yes, the books are available for everyone. However, one group is forced to know it because they'll be tested on it.
[23:17:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Re:A response to foolishness - 06Government IT Official Ran Law Enforcement Data Systems for Years With Faked Degrees - 4026 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─It's nothing to do with the degree, but the dishonesty. You can't lie to an employer like that and get away with it. Notice he "resigned", not was sacked, because he may have been able to claim that he did a perfectly adequate job of it despite lying. A degree does not prove that you have knowledge...
[23:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A non-Muslim's ignorance about Islamic sects - 06Destroyed Iraqi Holy Sites Find New Life Online - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:49] <exec> 08└─Saudi Arabia is Sunni. Y'know, the bunch that requires women to be covered head to foot and won't let them drive cars. A place with religious police. This is the lot that publicly chops of the heads of dozens of people each year. So, yeah. "Sunnis are more moderate". Religion is about controlling th...
[23:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:smartwatch, glass, VR, IoT, echo, etc - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:34] <exec> 08└─I'm anticipating a particular development. Furthermore, as Alan Kay noted, the best way to predict the future is to invent it. That's why I've been working on it since Mar 2015. I won't say what it is but I'll leave these hashes: ce4a80f063acc6f7845fcd595b35bc32 and 32582cccc06bfa2b8266accd18514ed11...
[23:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:“Don't Panic.” - 06Pebble Boss: "One Day, People Will Not Be Able to Live Without Their Smartwatch" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:39] <exec> 08└─Does that mean that ringwatches are out of fashion again?
[23:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oyster card - 06Transport For London Cautions Users Over Pitfalls of Apple Pay - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:01] <exec> 08└─Be careful in London when leaving a station, plenty of robberies going on, bad guys on mopeds or bikes snatching nice phones when you walk on the street. never heard of anyone getting their oyster card stolen.
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