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[00:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Like Snowden, a hero. - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:13] <exec> 08└─I can only imagine what being trapped in an embassy for years must be like. This man is a significant part of the reason we know as much about our governments' illegal activities against their own citizens and the citizens of the world as we do. Stay informed. Change will come one way or another; pr...
[00:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Signals" are just light. - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:26] <exec> 08└─They are using radio telescopes
[00:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A pedantry fight. - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:27] <exec> 08└─And radio is just longwave light
[00:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 2989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:29] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say it's a waste pre se. Takyon raised some good practical points, but here's some food for thought. Our species has only been broadcasting for roughly a century. That means that if there is a civilization listening in our direction, they'd need to be within 100 light years to pick us up...
[00:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:32] <exec> 08└─as different from us as the neanderthals were from we
[00:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stackOVFL [5682] (Score:2, Informative) 02SETI - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:34] <exec> 08└─Didn't SETI@home already do this?
[00:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:SETI - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:36] <exec> 08└─They plan to cover 10 times more of the sky than previous programmes and scan five times more of the radio spectrum, 100 times faster.
[00:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02ASICs or GTFO - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:38] <exec> 08└─Until one of these projects comes with an ASIC-based solution -- like bitcoin miners -- the value per dollar of electricity spent won't be high enough for me to pay attention. The idea of contributing to global warming to find intelligent life somewhere else seems a bit too incongruous. I'm sure jus...
[00:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:ASICs or GTFO - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:40] <exec> 08└─Wasn't Hawking warning us against contacting extraterrestrials?
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bigger concern - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:42] <exec> 08└─A much bigger concern is the utter lack of responsibility shown by scientists in letting all sorts of hell loose on the planet. (The next scarier bomb, electro shock - which is still done, agent orange, etc., etc.) What are they going to do if they indeed identify an alien life? No doubt work on the...
[00:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Bigger concern - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:44] <exec> 08└─http://www.salon.com/2014/01/15/were_living_through_the_most_peaceful_era_in_human_history_%E2%80%94%C2%A0with_one_big_exception_partner/ [salon.com] http://www.slate.com
[00:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A Lie, Therefore - 06 Deep Sea Robots Will Monitor the Oceans for Pollution - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:51] <exec> 08└─With so-called scientists fudging shits here and there, don't see why marketeers, advertisers, salesmen, and money shifters should be so vilified.
[00:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Weatherman.. - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:07] <exec> 08└─My favorite weather CSB. I live in San Diego. Last Saturday at about 6:10 AM the news showed their Accurate FutureCast!!! predictions showing it would start raining at 9:30. 5 minutes later I got coffee, looked out the window, and it was pouring. So Accurate FutureCast!!! can't get it right 5 minute...
[00:14:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02just wait longer - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 977 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:13] <exec> 08└─Moore's law slowdown and Intel's tick-tock-tock will definitely contribute by delaying the release of 10nm Intel Xeon Phi. On the coprocessor front, GPUs have been stuck on 28nm for years. Procurement cycles have lengthened. Why replace your 5 petaflops supercomputer with a 20 petaflops supercompute...
[00:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame The Chinese - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:26] <exec> 08└─The same story with India. The US banned export of HPC tech to India because India was (still is) chummier with Soviet Ruskitstan. Then India developed their own HPC tech instead of buying American stuff.
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Assinine - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─Your credit card will now be charged the $200.000 you had agreed to pay for this service. For your safety and anonymity, you will not receive a duplicate of your receipt.
[00:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Assinine - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:45] <exec> 08└─Zero-knowledge setups definitely exist; however their weakness is in fact that only the customer has the key, and only the customer can understand the data. This makes it usable only in narrowly defined cases. There are some new patents that describe how to do some limited processing on partially un...
[00:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Once agian the logic of my past decisions is so - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:09] <exec> 08└─That's rather dumb. There's tons of women on the internet. What do you think at least half of Facebook's users are? There just aren't any more than a tiny number of women on the sites that you frequent, such as this one.
[00:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score:1) 02Re:going to get worse before it gets better - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:34] <exec> 08└─That's what Shi said!
[00:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Politicians caring for their people - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:45] <exec> 08└─How about instead of that we dial back the $trillions pissed away on wars of aggression? How about not buying so damned many weapons that the excess gets passed out like party favors to militarized police forces?
[00:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:01] <exec> 08└─You said the global temperature increasing would prevent those deaths, your study only said the mortality rates changed while being above and below the optimum temperature.. which is weather, not climate. The higher the global temperature, the more extreme the winters get.
[00:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:02] <exec> 08└─You said the global temperature increasing would prevent those deaths, your study only said the mortality rates changed while being above and below the optimum temperature.. which is weather, not climate. The higher the global temperature, the more extreme the winters get.
[00:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Git out your tinfoil hats!!! - 06Russian Researcher Invents New Solar Battery, Gets 3yr Suspended Sentence - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:32] <exec> 08└─For good measure, drop a liter or two of hydroxilic acid into the mix. ( "hydroxilic acid" is also known as "hydroxic acid" ). This is some really nasty stuff... handle it with caution. This stuff is so nasty that under pressure, it is commonly used to cut fabrics for textile garments [wikipedia.or...
[00:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:35] <exec> 08└─If you really think like that, then either you are shut-in or kindergartner. Anybody who spent at least 20+ years living among people can't be that blind and naive.
[00:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:1) 02Re:Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:36] <exec> 08└─You're just missing the point about speech entirely. Inciting others doesn't have a direct effect; that is indirect.
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[01:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like Snowden, a hero. - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:15] <exec> 08└─He's a prick who will throw anyone under the bus as long as it keeps himself in the papers. I wonder if Manning still thinks much of him. By the way, the only one keeping himself in the embassy is himself. He is free to come out and face the consequences just like anyone else who has been charged wi...
[01:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 2290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:33] <exec> 08└─I consider it a complete waste, but only because I consider humanity a complete waste. You hit the nail on the head though. We're spending ridiculous amounts of money to strongly attempt to interact with geological timescales at a minimum. It makes no sense to me. Aliens exist! We've found signals f...
[01:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Already impressive results - 06 Deep Sea Robots Will Monitor the Oceans for Pollution - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:48] <exec> 08└─What if we build thousands of underwater bases? Those cancel out acidity, don't they? . . . (too soon?)
[01:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame The Chinese - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:29] <exec> 08└─The Chinese would have added nodes sooner if it weren't for the recent and wrongheaded export ban to their supercomputing centers. ... we did it because Tianhe is used for simulating nuclear weapons and explosions... just as our Department of Energy supercomputers do.
[01:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame The Chinese - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:30] <exec> 08└─That's because you are dumb. Imagine yourself sitting next to North Korea (Pakistan, Israel, etc.)
[01:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame The Chinese - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:32] <exec> 08└─It's not wrong headed, but it also is absolutely not what's intended, or happening. It's a hypocritical excuse, as NRL still operates, and an irrelevant excuse, as China is boosting its domestic manufacture.
[01:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Assinine - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:54] <exec> 08└─Given the context of the article IANAL takes on a different meaning for me.
[01:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Time to start getting serious... - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:33] <exec> 08└─And you think those people are the market for AM? It's a site for people that are looking to cheat on their spouses. You can already create profiles that are pseudonymous on dating websites where the only thing that people can identify is the picture. You don't even have to post a picture if you don...
[01:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:10] <exec> 08└─You did not post a study that shows a benefit to global warming, you posted a study that says cold kills more people than heat.
[01:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:11] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes, I'm sorry, my mistake. Clearly having warmer temperatures would not mean less people would die of cold temperatures. I don't know what I was thinking that lead me to such a ridiculous conclusion. Thanks for pointing out my error. I'll be sure to be extra generous when the plate is passed, s...
[01:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:13] <exec> 08└─You did not post a study that shows a benefit to global warming, you posted a study that says cold kills more people than heat.
[01:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:15] <exec> 08└─Clearly having warmer temperatures would not mean less people would die of cold temperatures.
[01:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:16] <exec> 08└─And you wonder why people have to keep repeating things at you.
[01:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:18] <exec> 08└─No, I don't wonder. Because it's always just "turtles all the way down". Most people just have talking points that they repeat over and over. It's boring, but I understand there are lots of people like that - no wondering necessary.
[01:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:19] <exec> 08└─Okie doke.
[01:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A solar battery researcher? Or a drug manufactu - 06Russian Researcher Invents New Solar Battery, Gets 3yr Suspended Sentence - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:41] <exec> 08└─The problem is that though it is patently obvious which laws are unjust and unethical to self-appointed morality pricks like you, not everyone falls within the little arbitrary bounds of truth and righteousness that you've etched in chalk (because it is easier to erase it and move them when it suits...
[01:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:53] <exec> 08└─Direct or indirect, speech has the effect.
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[02:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02STOP! - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:09] <exec> 08└─That's my gold!
[02:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Hilarious estimate - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:10] <exec> 08└─Pt is a rare mineral on Earth - true. However, like any rare substance, if one suddenly came into an amount supposedly worth 5 trillion USD... well, you don't have as much as you think. You have a lot, but extrapolating a rare price to a suddenly-much-less-scarce item doesn't work. I just break out...
[02:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Like Snowden, a hero. - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:21] <exec> 08└─He is free to come out and face the consequences just like anyone else who has been charged with a crime.
[02:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Like Snowden, a hero. - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:22] <exec> 08└─We should crowdfund a Mt. Rushmore style monument to these guys.
[02:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Range of topics - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they asked him his thoughts on vergewaltigung?
[02:13:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Bigger concern - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 1319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:45] <exec> 08└─http://www.salon.com/2014/01/15/were_living_through_the_most_peaceful_era_in_human_history_%E2%80%94%C2%A0with_one_big_exception_partner/ [salon.com] http://www.slate.com
[02:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SN AC's Law - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:46] <exec> 08└─No intelligent life will outside of our solar system will ever be discovered, because a distant race of beings, in order to be spotted, must have possession of technology. But technology, and the political and economic ideologies needed to achieve and sustain it, cannot be checked; it advances witho...
[02:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Reactionaries - 06 Deep Sea Robots Will Monitor the Oceans for Pollution - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:02] <exec> 08└─I really applaud these guys, and those putting sensors in the rainforest, and sending them aloft to dwell in the jetstream for months, etc. Since the media frenzies about pharmaceuticals in the drinking water [ap.org] and Fukushima radiation in the Pacific [washingtonpost.com], I have begun to quest...
[02:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Weatherman.. - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:18] <exec> 08└─I live outside of Phoenix, and yeah, weather prediction is very accurate here. 120F for the next 200 days? Check.
[02:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Lying - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:21] <exec> 08└─It does seem a bit ironic--a lying, cheating spouse getting mad at a service that lied about something.
[02:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:27] <exec> 08└─The higher the global temperature, the more extreme the winters get.
[02:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:30] <exec> 08└─The change in temperature weakens the jet-stream. The warm air doesn't make it as far as it used to, resulting in colder winters. That is a really really basic explanation but hopefully it helps you picture how that could happen.
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[03:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02So top management of media companies - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:11] <exec> 08└─Are protected from embarrassing disclosures under the clause that they're private citizens? At the same time they're sending PI's to dig dirt (often using illegal methods like wiretapping) on the private lives of politicians and celebrities? How very convenient for media executives. How convenient f...
[03:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:So top management of media companies - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:13] <exec> 08└─How very convenient for politicians: even they are public figures, their private life is vigorously defended. The private life of others... who cares?
[03:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:15] <exec> 08└─A pig resigned because the stable owners refuse to allow shit spilling outside? If so, why is this interesting? Only because "it's on the Internets"?
[03:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:16] <exec> 08└─Ask the first post anon what's interesting.
[03:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:18] <exec> 08└─Ask the first post anon what's interesting.
[03:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:20] <exec> 08└─I don't know who has the lowest ethics here - the exec, the escort, or the Gawker editors. It's hard to feel sorry for any of them. Sounds like they all got screwed, but the escort enjoyed it the most. Ehhhh - soap opera material.
[03:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:21] <exec> 08└─I don't know who has the lowest ethics here - the exec, the escort, or the Gawker editors.
[03:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:23] <exec> 08└─#GamerGate enjoyed it the most. They spread the word far and wide to make sure the rat-bastardness of Gawker didn't just get covered up.
[03:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Hilarious estimate - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:29] <exec> 08└─Insert Space Engineers reference here.
[03:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hilarious estimate - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:31] <exec> 08└─What, you think the price will go down? Asteroid mining has to be a whole shitload more expensive than terrestrial mining...even for something fairly rare as Pt. Pt is used in every car exhaust catalyst (in USA) -- in a very thin layer. When China starts to regulate auto emissions (or maybe they alr...
[03:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02Spending priorities. - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:33] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that all the trillions we've spent on the middle east "wars" could of been a better investment if we had devoted the money to space. If we spent the last 2 decades developing a way to capture and then mine said asteroid, not only would this one possible pay back the investment, it paves...
[03:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spending priorities. - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:34] <exec> 08└─So in the future world we will mine hydrocarbons from the moons of Saturn and take all the extra CO2 from Earth to make an Atmosphere on Mars! Now where do we get extra O2 from? Nuke Rockets will save the world!
[03:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Wars yield campaign "donations". - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:36] <exec> 08└─While space does to there is an arms factory and military base in most states.
[03:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Update! - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:37] <exec> 08└─North Korea launched rocket and successfully captured asteroid. They named the mission "The Alan Parsons Project" and steered it with sharks wearing friggin lasers on their heads.
[03:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Carrying? - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:39] <exec> 08└─"it could be carrying an astonishing 90 million tons of platinum" It isn't carrying the stuff - it IS the stuff! That reminds me of a story. An Apache old enough to be my dad told this one to me - maybe it's politically correct? Anyway, old Indian is out scouting for the cavalry. He tells the lieute...
[03:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Microsoft's Bing Image Search is full child porn - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:48] <exec> 08└─Bing caches kiddie porn images even when their original servers are long dead. I report this in an article that I posted to my wensite on Monday, July 6. That Friday I gave the link to a Deputy Sheriff. "Shouldn't you give this to the FBI?" I asked her to find someone who could investigate; she prom...
[03:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bigger concern - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:12] <exec> 08└─>>A much bigger concern is the utter lack of responsibility shown by scientists >>in letting all sorts of hell loose on the planet. (The next scarier bomb, electro shock >>- which is still done, agent orange, etc., etc.) Money-grubbing capitalists and psychopathic military men are not scientists. Pl...
[03:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:SN AC's Law - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:14] <exec> 08└─This is part of the problem, perhaps. The only model we know for evolving intelligence and technology is the model of the apex predator. *noms some hot wings*. In order for the perfect apex predator to evolve (i.e. h. sapiens), it must crush all other competition and dominate its environment. It's c...
[03:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Power - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:10] <exec> 08└─I recall reading that Tianhe in China isn't getting much use because it consumes too much power. Researchers are hesitant to use it because it costs so much to get compute time, so they run it on a slower machine so they can save money while taking a small hit to the amount of time it takes to run....
[03:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Domain/OS - 06Building A Community For Old BBSes? - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:29] <exec> 08└─HP DOMAIN is probably referring to Apollo Computer's Domain/OS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain/OS [wikipedia.org]). I was fortunate enough to have used both Multics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics [wikipedia.org]) and Domain/OS. While not perfect, both systems were a joy to use. I am fo...
[03:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:02] <exec> 08└─A quick search lead to this paper (Francis and Vavrus, 2015) which says the opposite of what you claim: These results reinforce the hypothesis that a rapidly warming Arctic promotes amplified jetstream trajectories, which are known to favor persistent weather patterns and a higher likelihood of extr...
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[04:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02I am surprised - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:13] <exec> 08└─Really, this is my surprised font.
[04:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So top management of media companies - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:23] <exec> 08└─Politicians have no private lives. Everything they do, or did when they were younger, is considered fair game by the media. The thing is, the media (like Glenn Greenwald) thinks they're exempt from the same kind of treatment. It's totally one way.
[04:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:28] <exec> 08└─It's about ethics in journalism. Forget the Gamergate lookalike framing because in this case it actually is about ethics. Gawker contributed and enabled blackmail, for absolutely no good reason other than..... well.... the guy worked for Reddit? Yeah no, that's not a good enough reason at all. And i...
[04:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:32] <exec> 08└─Gawkers are the real cocksuckers. :) No contest.
[04:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nice - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:34] <exec> 08└─Gawker has an ongoing war with Reddit
[04:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Change! Horror! - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:46] <exec> 08└─If 90 million tons of platinum was added to the world market, Worldwide platinum reserves (almost entirely in South Africa) are 66,000 tons. Mining just 0.1% of that asteroid would more than double the reserves. As supply goes up, price comes down. Demand may increase as the price comes down, but wo...
[04:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Hilarious estimate - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:47] <exec> 08└─Landing 90 million tons of anything safely is something we haven't exactly played around with. Even doing it in little pieces, we would probably have to lift something like 100 times that just to get the platinum. Unless of course you can find a need for that much platinum in space.
[04:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Carrying? - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:53] <exec> 08└─No, it's carrying the stuff. It's not like the asteroid is a solid, pure, chunk of platinum. It's an ore, just like the stuff we mine on Earth (though probably more concentrated), and would still need to be refined, and it has other stuff mixed in there too (some of which may also be valuable, but n...
[04:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like Snowden, a hero. - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:04] <exec> 08└─Wasn't Assange that screwed Manning over. Was Adrian Lamo [wikipedia.org] who did that.
[04:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft's Bing Image Search is full child por - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:08] <exec> 08└─This is my recommendation. Don't do searches for CP. Haven't you ever heard phrases like "strict liability," "shooting the messenger," or "don't talk to cops?"
[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score:1) 02Re:ASICs or GTFO - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:29] <exec> 08└─No we will need the Aliens to help defend against the AI he's warning about.
[04:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Maybe they dont need to - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:32] <exec> 08└─Consider that kids the days are tweeting each other with multicore cpus on mobile devices with gpus. At one time one required a supercomputer to do anything in the way of scientific computing. Now one can obtain far more capacity for less than a grand by ordering online from Alibaba. While some prob...
[04:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:"extracurricular activity"... - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:25] <exec> 08└─We could also solve a lot of crime by legalizing rape, murder and robbery. I don't think I need to explain why that logic doesn't work.
[04:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Lets bring back USENET. This is not a troll. - 06Building A Community For Old BBSes? - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:02] <exec> 08└─Usenetbwith uucp and a 9600 baud modemt was a lot more useful and fun for me than waiting for yet another copy of jQuery to download over a cable modem. There are lots of newsservers one may pay ten bucks a month for high speed encrypted feeds but their terms of service always forbid passing your fe...
[04:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:26] <exec> 08└─Nah, I don't have a better source of data. And, hey, my description of the temperature swings is probably wrong. I do want to ask: Where exactly are we differing in opinion? Are you saying the paper says the temperature will rise and weather shifts will end up more mild than they are now? I feel...
[04:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Disgusting. - 06Internet Dating Scams Target Older American Women - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:19:48] <exec> 08└─iOS
[04:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03treeves [1536] (Score:1) 02Re:What's missing: Why GBL is banned - 06Russian Researcher Invents New Solar Battery, Gets 3yr Suspended Sentence - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:01] <exec> 08└─It's not just a recreational drug. It's known as a "date rape drug". You need a license from the DEA to get it in the USA also.
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[05:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02How easy - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:20] <exec> 08└─How easy would it be to add some spoofed data? (This would protect people by diluting the usefulness of the data)
[05:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02A simple way to mitigate the damage. - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:21] <exec> 08└─Use Red Star Linux. I mean like I could use it here in Vancouver. There would be so many marked documents that the disdidents would be lost in the noise.
[05:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Damn - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:23] <exec> 08└─Time to change my distro, again!
[05:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:So top management of media companies - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:33] <exec> 08└─I think that you are missing the point here: the article wasn't about a politician. It was about someone who was not already in the public gaze. That's why the post was taken down. Had it been a politician, the situation would have been clearly different.
[05:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kharnynb [5468] (Score:1) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:41] <exec> 08└─well...he did cheat on his wife...there is that...
[05:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:44] <exec> 08└─What does a CFO of a magazine hiring escorts have to do with corruption in video game news?
[05:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:45] <exec> 08└─It's a chance for them to hate on Gawker, one of Gamergate's worst enemies.
[05:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hilarious estimate - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:59] <exec> 08└─I just break out laughing...cringeworthy
[05:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Microsoft's Bing Image Search is full child por - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:21] <exec> 08└─Michael, you do know about the journals feature, no? You can use that to write stuff like this rather than making off-topic posts on unrelated articles just because you feel like writing about something.
[05:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02In what way is this post off-topic? - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:22] <exec> 08└─The OP wasnt about chil pornography; it was about Microsoft making a lot of money by distributing chil pornography. That kind of thing is what wikileaks is all about.
[05:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Already impressive results - 06 Deep Sea Robots Will Monitor the Oceans for Pollution - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:01] <exec> 08└─Fine. We'll just sign over all our intellectual property to you.
[05:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Go full Alter - 06Building A Community For Old BBSes? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:14] <exec> 08└─Another angle to focus on is that there's quite a few people that are now in their 30s (like me) that were initially active on BBSes or the Old Internet in the early-mid 1990s and recall it as a kind of unspoiled paradise compared to the troll-filled commercialized visually-oriented Web. It's not th...
[05:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:45] <exec> 08└─That paper says "amplified jetstream trajectories". I couldn't find any mention of the "weaker" jetstream you mention. Granted that term was used in a news article referencing this so it is probably just a vague, undefined concept. I have trouble imagining how taking a very complicated mechanism and...
[05:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry I don't have time to read the study right now, but I did want to mention that a Venutian day more than half a year long. True, it is warmer, but we've got a lot more motion happening over here.
[05:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confirmed - 06Climate Change May Already be Costing Lives - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, the model presented there accounts for rotation. All things being equal, a slower rotation (relative to the energy source: the sun) tends to cause more extreme differences, eg as seen for the moon.
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[06:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Kernel - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:29] <exec> 08└─Is it illegal to recompile the kernel or unload modules? ---- > pretend to be some kind of 'virus scanner' In Soviet Korea the virus is YOU!
[06:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:48] <exec> 08└─> well...he did cheat on his wife...there is that... Did he? I haven't read the retracted story but for all we know he's got an agreement with her. After all, the guy is probably a democrat and in this day and age what kind of democrat would still be so deep in the closet that even his wife wouldn't...
[06:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:53] <exec> 08└─Funny you should put it that way -- I think a similar situation is presented in introductory Ethics courses.
[06:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"The Auction" - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:14] <exec> 08└─It's just a load of Rigel's trash.
[06:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02"flies past ..." - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:15] <exec> 08└─now this is really a sad sad story. :`|
[06:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Questions - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:17] <exec> 08└─In order to figure out order of magnitude cost to mine the asteroid, one needs following information I think. If you can't figure out cost/difficulty, then the rest is noise. What is the relative speed of the asteroid to the earth? How often does the asteroid pass near to the earth? If the asteroid...
[06:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft's Bing Image Search is full child por - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:36] <exec> 08└─Narcissism is a major component of schizophrenia. Posting journals that are easy for other people to ignore would not serve the purpose.
[06:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kharnynb [5468] (Score:1) 02Re:Weatherman.. - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:36] <exec> 08└─I live in the finnish lake district, they can't predict when or where it will rain with enough accuracy to set a calender by, let alone a watch. Then again, i've seen it rain across the street while our side was sunny and dry...large bodies of water really do make predicting the weather hard.
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[07:13:27] <exec> 08└─Is it illegal to recompile the kernel or unload modules?
[07:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mac-like - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:29] <exec> 08└─Not just interface then.
[07:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:49] <exec> 08└─well...he did cheat on his wife...there is that...
[07:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More info - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:56] <exec> 08└─So it seems that David Geithner (CFO of Condé Nast), brother of Timothy Geithner [wikipedia.org] (important politician), cheated on his wife with a male prostitute. It seems the prostitute tried to blackmail David to use his connections to help him with a discrimination lawsuit -- and failed. All t...
[07:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Change! Horror! - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:09] <exec> 08└─That's just ridiculous. Sure, that much platinum would alter the price but not by that much. First of all, the asteroid is likely to be controlled by a single entity, and they'll simply hoard most of it DeBeers style. Secondly, even if it flooded the market I doubt it would fall below the price of g...
[07:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:"flies past ..." - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:20] <exec> 08└─Obama could mint it as a new trillion dollar platinum coin, then aim it at China. Hey, I hear we owe you some money...
[07:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:55] <exec> 08└─Because he doesn't see a need for it. He could be like my workmate, who feels that all money spent on space research is wasted while we still have starving people and other problems at home. A foolish position to take.
[07:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:59] <exec> 08└─[...]we're the only life in the universe.
[07:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bigger concern - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:08] <exec> 08└─I was just going to say something similar, although to be fair the money-grubbing capitalists are more likely sociopaths than the military men are psychopathic, as I understand it. Any way about it, though, this is flawed: A much bigger concern is the utter lack of responsibility shown by scientists...
[07:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So, a scientist and a rick guy look up - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:11] <exec> 08└─Where do the rest of us come in?
[07:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One thing to measure is noise pollution - 06 Deep Sea Robots Will Monitor the Oceans for Pollution - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:29] <exec> 08└─It's driving the larger animals crazy. Ironically enough these robots will add to it.
[07:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reddit and ads - 06Building A Community For Old BBSes? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:39] <exec> 08└─the /bbs subreddit is full of nobodys and wannabees. they dont know jack about running bbses
[07:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:He is a "researcher" - 06Russian Researcher Invents New Solar Battery, Gets 3yr Suspended Sentence - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:27] <exec> 08└─It doesn't require 'justification'. He committed a crime - and even in the US claiming ignorance of the law is no defence. As a researcher he should make sure that he is aware of the laws regarding his area of research and, in this case, regarding the chemicals he is handling. He is a 'garage' resea...
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[08:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:4, Informative) 02Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:15] <exec> 08└─It would be funny and appropriate if they kept snipping the cables running to...
[08:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03crutchy [179] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:16] <exec> 08└─the same could be said of most politicians
[08:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:18] <exec> 08└─Civilization is fragile and depends on a hell of a lot of infrastructure
[08:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Apologies for a partial DUPE - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:19] <exec> 08└─See also our here [soylentnews.org]. It was too late to stop this one because comments had already been made. We wouldn't want to be accused of censoring comments by killing a story.
[08:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Apologies for a partial DUPE - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:21] <exec> 08└─You silly editor, Janrinok!@ If it wasn't for the fact that the level of discourse is much better in this thread, I might be a bit put out. But, probably not. Carry on, mon frere!
[08:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fiber Attacks! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:22] <exec> 08└─I dunno why the word "attack" is used so many times to describe the snipping. If it's just people vandalizing the cables, then wouldn't we call it an attack when someone unauthorized paints up a box at the train yard too? I just get a bit tired of everything being worded so sensationally. Cutting fi...
[08:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Portland Too - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:24] <exec> 08└─HOWTO Win A Cold War When It Suddenly Grows Hot http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com] Long time residents of Portland are being driven out of their homes in part due to this being a popular location for startup companies and in part due to the legali...
[08:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Funny) 02Starlight preserve? - 06Tiny Ocean Microbes are Brightening Up the Sky - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:30] <exec> 08└─As an astronomer, and one who has been at it for a long time, I have to say that bioluminescince is the least of our problems. Back when I was a boy on Samos, you could see the Milky Way every night when there were no clouds in the sky. And this continued for a very long time. Consider that Messier...
[08:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Troll) 02Origin of Systemd - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:44] <exec> 08└─Only now, at the end, do you realize the true source of systemd! Prepare to renounce your paltry gods! Bow before Kim, you mere mortals! Ok, I am all out of memes. Oh, wait, all your kim-chee belong to us?
[08:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:02] <exec> 08└─To be absolutely clear, GamerGate is going to claim that this is evidence that they are doing some good, but it's not. It's just evidence that they will use anything to cover their campaign of hatred and harassment, no matter how loosely related to the original "ethics in gaming journalism" claim. T...
[08:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:04] <exec> 08└─Gamergate was always about ethics, no matter how much people might want to pretend otherwise, it was always about ethics. I keep hearing people claim that there were other motives to it, but I've yet to see them point to anybody that's actually a supporter. Mostly it's a few people that weren't invo...
[08:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:12] <exec> 08└─Right, it's not about ethics in gaming journalism any more, it's just about ethics in journalism in general. Give up, no-one is buying it. GamerGate is about harassment, the ethics angle is just a cover for that. When challenged people can point to the ethics angle and disassociate themselves with t...
[08:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:More info - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:17] <exec> 08└─Except that it's presumptuous to assume that he was cheating. For all you know his wife is perfectly happy with his conduct. That's their business and by right should have stayed that way.
[08:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:More info - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:18] <exec> 08└─It's not presumptuous, that's the status quo for marriage. I get that people like to be edgy by pointing out that it might be something the spouse has granted permission for. But, let's be honest about it, that's definitely not the normal situation in these cases and we're unlikely to ever learn oth...
[08:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Change! Horror! - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:33] <exec> 08└─The more interesting question is what it would do to technology. Platinum is a really useful catalyst, but only used in tiny quantities because of the cost (and avoided where possible for the same reason). Gold would also be interesting: it's a good electrical conductor and doesn't corrode on contac...
[08:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spending priorities. - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:37] <exec> 08└─solar energy + raw materials from asteroids -> more solar panels solar energy + solar panels + CO2 => O2 + C solar energy + solar panels + 2 x H2O (from some asteroids) => O2 + 2 x H2. But trying to do any of that on Mars would be stupid. It's a gravity well with the wrong atmosphere, wrong pressure...
[08:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Wars yield campaign "donations". - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:40] <exec> 08└─Most of the stuff NASA buys is provided by the same companies that the DoD buys from. The reason that it doesn't get as much support from campaign contributions is the volume: the military buys a lot more stuff. I don't think that there'd be much objection to transferring military funding to space,...
[08:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Questions - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:47] <exec> 08└─If we had a working asteroid detection/Earth defense system, we might have been able to nudge it to a specific landing spot while testing the system, for very little energy. Much of the platinum would be lost on entry, but it would still be a large amount.
[08:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Questions - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:49] <exec> 08└─And it would probably wipe out a good chunk of life as we know it. Land it on land and it blocks the sun for a while. Land in the ocean and you get massive waves. Something that big traveling that fast is not something you want to hit the earth.
[08:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:just wait longer - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:24] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see them simulate a single white blood cell first to practically 100%. Just because you know the structure of a machine and how it moves doesn't always mean you understand how it works and why it does the stuff it does. If they can't even do a white blood cell to 100%, I'm going to laugh...
[08:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Assinine - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe all laws, other than the Constitution, should go up for review every so often. If nothing else, that way politicians don't have to make the same thing illegal again just to show they oppose it. And they also can't bury their support for laws by going "oh well it passed nothing to be done about...
[08:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Lying - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:22] <exec> 08└─i really don't get the misdirected rage that occurs when a parter cheats - your partner is the one who betrayed your trust and lied to you, your partner is the one who fucked you over, so why is the rage never directed at the partner and always instead at the other person, the one who doesn't owe yo...
[08:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Controlled detonation... - 06HitchBOT Touring the USA This Year - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, and my prediction for "Will it make its way across Canada?" would have been "Yes, just fine". There is no inconsistency here.
[08:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:He is a "researcher" - 06Russian Researcher Invents New Solar Battery, Gets 3yr Suspended Sentence - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:52] <exec> 08└─Agreed, that's the only upside, but the criminal record may affect his job prospects. Unless he has a good way of answering interview questions about any criminal past - maybe something like "I did get arrested for solving the world's energy problems when I was in my 20s" would soften the broaching...
[08:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics department at the local uni - 06How Morally Justifiable is Advertising? - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:48] <exec> 08└─And that sort of research is based on samples of people who responded to an advertisement or invite or similar right? Think about it. ;) Seriously. It may be true that people in general are susceptible even if they say or think they aren't, but I don't think the research proves it yet. I doubt they...
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[09:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:26] <exec> 08└─Conservativism, like nearly any ism, is not at all consistent. This story is one of extreme revenge to barbaric extremes (it always is when the words "make an example" is used) for little morris, thus fits with his profile just fine.
[09:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:28] <exec> 08└─These clowns need to be found and put away for a long time as an example. No jokes, no sympathy.
[09:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Apologies for a partial DUPE - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:31] <exec> 08└─It doesn't count as a dupe if it's a dupe of a HughPickens submission - we skip over those after seeing the submitter name anyway.
[09:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fiber Attacks! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:33] <exec> 08└─I dunno why the word "attack" is used so many times to describe the snipping. If it's just people vandalizing the cables, then wouldn't we call it an attack when someone unauthorized paints up a box at the train yard too?
[09:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Conspiracy theory time! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:35] <exec> 08└─Given that it is possible to benchmark a fibre optic cable's performance and use changes in that benchmark as an indication that the link has been tampered with (e.g. potentially tapped), maybe these cuts are just a red herring. Some bad actor could theoretically sever a fibre they want to tap at Po...
[09:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conspiracy theory time! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:36] <exec> 08└─There are lots of risks for the bad actor...
[09:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03patella.whack [3848] (Score:1) 02organized latent hippie stuff? - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:38] <exec> 08└─Given SF's history and the recent uproar over rising rents, it seems like these occurrences might be the result of a fairly small organized group of people who want to disrupt the high-tech goings-on in 'their' city. In the current parlance: domestic terrorism. Is it a turf battle? Seems like it. Ca...
[09:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:I am surprised - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, one would have thought they'd know to better hide their code. Never name your hidden functions for their actual functionality! Had the function been called updateVirusSignatures it would not have raised suspicion.
[09:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I am surprised - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:55] <exec> 08└─Well, just because you found something hidden it does not mean you found everything. Though it makes you satisfied and stop searching for other backdoors and stuff.
[09:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:1) 02Re:Nice - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:31] <exec> 08└─They should have declared a war on 4chan. That would have have at least some entertainment value.
[09:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spending priorities. - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:56] <exec> 08└─But it was Mars in Total Recall so it has to be Mars!
[09:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"flies past ..." - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:05] <exec> 08└─You'd still need several asteroids, that's how fucked US is.
[09:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Questions - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:09] <exec> 08└─Nudging it to impact the moon would probably be a better bet - no one is living there, and it's possible to set up a mine on the surface to extract the ore dumped by the asteroid. There have been plans for magnetic launchers to send stuff back from the moon for decades, but no one has built one beca...
[09:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Questions - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:11] <exec> 08└─Nudging it to impact the moon
[09:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Units error? - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:12] <exec> 08└─Okay, using pretty rough figures (because saying approximately 452 x 1011 is ridiculous) I come up with a volume of just over a tenth of a cubic kilometre. Taking a wild guess at an average density of 4 kg/l (basically, rock) then I get a total mass of about 450 million tonnes. Are they claiming tha...
[09:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In what way is this post off-topic? - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:29] <exec> 08└─The article itself is on an interview with Julian Assange, and in his interview nowhere does he address the topic of Microsoft and kiddie porn, and neither is it in any way connected with Wikileaks. Ergo, you're offtopic.
[09:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft's Bing Image Search is full child por - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:32] <exec> 08└─And if MDC keeps going on about chili porn, well, I don't know where it will end. I once knew someone into chili competition. A world to itself, it would seem. But he did relate that once he was busy chopping up the halepenos, when suddenly he has the urge to piss. Forgot to what his hands well, be...
[09:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Weatherman.. - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:42] <exec> 08└─The problem I have with weather forecasts is that they never provide a confidence. If you look at the satellite maps, then you can often get a pretty good idea of how accurate the forecast is. If you're in a stable patch of atmosphere, they're going to be pretty good. If there's a single front movin...
[09:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame The Chinese - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:02] <exec> 08└─For two reasons. The first is that China has had nuclear weapons since the '60s. Any policy trying to prevent this should include buying big supercomputers for research into building a time machine. Second, because when you're talking about an economy the size of China, all that sanctions do is stim...
[09:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame The Chinese - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:04] <exec> 08└─how is trying to slow the advancement of nuclear weaponry wrongheaded?
[09:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Once agian the logic of my past decisions is so - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:55] <exec> 08└─What do you think at least half of Facebook's users are?
[09:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Eternal September - 06Building A Community For Old BBSes? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:36] <exec> 08└─www.eternal-september.org -- Non-binary text-only nntp feeds. And I2P has a seperate private nntp feed. Possibly a few. Povray.org also has a private nntp feed (non-redistributable) for all aspects of povray use and development.
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[10:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My school once taugh how to survive nuclear war - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:52] <exec> 08└─but that stopped when Reagan was elected. Maybe it was just coincidence. Provided you arent directly exposed to the blast you wont even be deafened by atomic explosions because they arent very brizent, that is they arent shocky. Deaths come from the radiation and the overpressure - either something...
[10:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02What? - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:54] <exec> 08└─Who is indisputably the most important person in Vault 101: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?
[10:14:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:03] <exec> 08└─It would be funny and appropriate if they kept snipping the cables running to...
[10:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:08] <exec> 08└─put away for a long time as an example
[10:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:organized latent hippie stuff? - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:18] <exec> 08└─I'd be looking towards the people who lived in the area before Silicon Valley became a tech center rather than hippies if I was you. I don't really have any love for them but come on. What seems more likely here, calm and timid stoned hippies suddenly deciding to be malicious or the same types of pe...
[10:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I am surprised - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:39] <exec> 08└─Though it makes you satisfied and stop searching for other backdoors and stuff.
[10:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:A simple way to mitigate the damage. - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:42] <exec> 08└─This is adding a hardware ID to the document. It's not a surveillance tool, it's an identification/evidence generation tool. So if they find a document they don't like, they'll read out the hidden ID and look it up in their database of domestic hardware IDs (which I'm sure they have). Your "noise" d...
[10:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:45] <exec> 08└─Why, did RSL switch to SystemD?
[10:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:1) 02Tabloids should be always prepared for backslash - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:24] <exec> 08└─Even worse, the story (probably unwittingly) reeks of all-too-familiar homophobic shaming [...]
[10:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Oh man these people are so far gone - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:26] <exec> 08└─I find it rather amusing how many levels of hypocrisy are at play whenever gawker's own people get into hot water. They don't even realize it at this point I think. They've fallen so far into their own accidental satire and invented demons that it's the world they live in now. It seems like they don...
[10:15:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Re:Change! Horror! - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 1110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:40] <exec> 08└─If 90 million tons of platinum was added to the world market, Worldwide platinum reserves (almost entirely in South Africa) are 66,000 tons. Mining just 0.1% of that asteroid would more than double the reserves. As supply goes up, price comes down. Demand may increase as the price comes down, but wo...
[10:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Assange addresses whistleblowers - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:22] <exec> 08└─For two weeks I have been blowing the whistle on Microsoft.
[10:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:47] <exec> 08└─You want to put the money into colonies on Mars and the Moon? $100M won't get you anywhere. But, if they can credibly announce "We have detected intelligent transmissions form Deneb IV" how much more total funding will suddenly become available for space? I don't know how likely it is that they wil...
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[10:18:35] <exec> 08└─Ashley Madison is the world's leading married dating service for discreet encounters
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[11:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There you have it - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:56] <exec> 08└─Copyright kills.
[11:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stockton is not Bay Area. - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:31] <exec> 08└─Stockton is central valley. It is as far to Stockton as it is to Sacramento, which either means this is someone doing this alongside another job, or is a group of people doing it either to get new taps (For the Utah NSA datacenter perhaps?), trying to provoke an increase in opsec for fiber lines, or...
[11:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Does this make any sense? - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:59] <exec> 08└─"Grunow says files including Microsoft Word documents and JPEG images connected to but not necessarily executed in Red Star will have a tag introduced into its code that includes a number based on hardware serial numbers." What is this article trying to say? You don't have JPEG "code" that "executes...
[11:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:19] <exec> 08└─Can people please stop with that IRC logs meme. You are talking about screenshots taken, without context, from the anon shitposting HQ of the internet.
[11:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:"Signals" are just light. - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:16:55] <exec> 08└─Should they not consider other methods to detect intelligent life ?
[11:17:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02Re:SN AC's Law - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 1468 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:13] <exec> 08└─This is part of the problem, perhaps. The only model we know for evolving intelligence and technology is the model of the apex predator. *noms some hot wings*. In order for the perfect apex predator to evolve (i.e. h. sapiens), it must crush all other competition and dominate its environment. It's c...
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[12:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Open kickstarter is soylenvertisement - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:34] <exec> 08└─Nuff said, tell us when it is actually made and tested.
[12:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02uh-huh. - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:43] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight: a 28 year old man, with no known health problems, is unexpectedly dead and the police say there is "no evidence of foul play, injuries, or drugs". I don't know about you, but if I were the coroner, I would be taking a real close look at this case to determine cause of de...
[12:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:uh-huh. - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 1600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah this has been discussed widely elsewhere and: 1) The dudes getting the full autopsy and tox scan treatment. The toxicology lab work only takes a couple days, in theory, however there's stereotypically massive overload of work, dotting all the i and crossing all the t, and there's a tendency to...
[12:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My school once taugh how to survive nuclear war - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:54] <exec> 08└─you wont even be deafened by atomic explosions because they arent very brizent, that is they arent shocky. Deaths come from the radiation and the overpressure
[12:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:What? - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:56] <exec> 08└─The money they made is exceptional but it is not in the league of full-time mobile game development studios.
[12:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02False flag or ocrruption - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 2399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:21] <exec> 08└─We got the tapping theory, the disruption theory... how about the false flag theory? Or security theater corruption? So... its practically illegal in the People's State of CA to own a gun, kids should be sitting inside on an xbox or tablet not innawoods... I could see a nice false flag op to make it...
[12:14:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chewbacon [1032] 02I am surprised - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:37] <exec> 08└─Really, this is my surprised font.
[12:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:15] <exec> 08└─Isn't that basically the definition of journalism? The real world kind not ivory tower? Like, every freaking scandal ever on the evening news or most daytime infotainment TV shows or all celebrity journalism or ... The CFO they outed is not a public figure.
[12:15:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Hilarious estimate - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 462 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:38] <exec> 08└─Pt is a rare mineral on Earth - true. However, like any rare substance, if one suddenly came into an amount supposedly worth 5 trillion USD... well, you don't have as much as you think. You have a lot, but extrapolating a rare price to a suddenly-much-less-scarce item doesn't work. I just break out...
[12:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"flies past ..." - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:59] <exec> 08└─He'd only fuck it up, like everything else.
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[13:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My school once taugh how to survive nuclear war - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:42] <exec> 08└─I was wondering what "brizent" means, or how something can be un-"shocky" yet with massive overpressure. I still actually don't know what "Brizent" is.
[13:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:59] <exec> 08└─It might be more accurate to say that the façade of civilization is fragile, especially where most people are not inherently civilized. Like the U.S.
[13:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:01] <exec> 08└─What in the world does Wall Street and high speed trading have to do with civilization?
[13:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fiber Attacks! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but Cyber Terrorism is the next Bin Laden. See the military industrial complex needs bogeymen in order to sell us as many $5000 hammers as possible. Seriously, turn on the TV and try to find a CSI-ish show which isn't constantly beating the Cyber-Terrorism drum.
[13:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fiber Attacks! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:08] <exec> 08└─One possibility that is easily overlooked is a strategy the U.S. military (used?) to use. Damage would be caused to a cable in one location, and a team would use the known disruption in the fiber line to splice into the line at another location in order to intercept data. By the time the original re...
[13:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02"...and in a surprise announcement... - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:42] <exec> 08└─...the freedesktop.org team has announced that the Sneaky Serial Content Tracker will be included in the next version of systemd." (ducks)
[13:15:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 706 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:01] <exec> 08└─It's about ethics in journalism. Forget the Gamergate lookalike framing because in this case it actually is about ethics. Gawker contributed and enabled blackmail, for absolutely no good reason other than..... well.... the guy worked for Reddit? Yeah no, that's not a good enough reason at all. And i...
[13:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't that basically the definition of journalism?
[13:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:12] <exec> 08└─The exec didn't necessarily cheat - his wife could have given him permission to have a man on the side, in a similar way to many guys giving their girlfriends the OK to mess around with other women.
[13:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More info - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:23] <exec> 08└─> But, let's be honest about it, that's definitely not the normal situation in these cases Is it the normal situation for a gay man who is married to a woman? Really?
[13:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft's Bing Image Search is full child por - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:23] <exec> 08└─Forgot to what his beforehand well, hands!
[13:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:42] <exec> 08└─I consider it a waste not be cause 'i dont see a need for it'. I consider it a waste as at this time we do not even know what a 'signal' would look like. Look I used to crunch seti as a background screen saver. I have thousands of credits towards it. But I stopped doing it. It was a waste of my powe...
[13:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grayson [5696] (Score:1) 02Re:Some notes on building a community - 06Building A Community For Old BBSes? - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:21] <exec> 08└─> * Drop manual user validation. You're not going to have a huge spam problem with a BBS, and creating barriers to participation won't help you at all I agree with this one. However I doubt that is the primary barrier, as I doubt most people even make it that far. (longtime user of ISCABBS here).
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[13:19:43] <exec> 08└─He (William Peteroy, former security incident responder at Microsoft) and Microsoft mate Paul McKitrick detailed... Attribution has largely become an exercise in scaring potential customers with marketing fear uncertainty and doubt,"
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[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02No gender diversity here ... - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─No women, or black people. Only whites and asian males. The lefties will cry about it. But it does reaffirms my observation from my own education that there are very few women in the math department.
[14:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:No gender diversity here ... - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:17] <exec> 08└─Why would you even point something like this out? Racist much?
[14:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Disqualified for gender inequality - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:19] <exec> 08└─The leader of the US team, Po-Shen Loh, could not be reached for a comment. Ukraine and Bosnia Herzegovina place first and second respectively. All other countries didn't finish, as those two were the only gender balanced teams.
[14:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02First win in 21 years - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:21] <exec> 08└─Wow, that goes back to 1988. Congratulations USA!
[14:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First win in 21 years - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:22] <exec> 08└─Thank their team leader, Po-Shen Loh!
[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzarko [5697] (Score:1) 02Commodore 64 SCPU emulation - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:30] <exec> 08└─I tried Commodore 64 SCPU emulation (Vice 2.4) on Raspberry Pi 2, but it was running at merely 25% of normal speed. Any chance that this one could be fast enough?
[14:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:What? - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah it was an in-game joke from Fallout 3. If I remember correctly, you start out in the Fallout Shelter as a baby and quickly grow up. During your adolescence you have to take a test which let the game gauge what kind of person you'd become (think stats and abilities). The last question on that qu...
[14:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What? - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:54] <exec> 08└─I assume that's an in-joke you'd have to play the game to understand... thanks for that...
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[14:13:56] <exec> 08└─The in-joke seems to be derived from the typical "Choose your character class" based on a questionnaire that is common in many RPGs. Someone has stolen from you and is getting away! Shoot an arrow at him. (Ranged) Chase him down and bludgeon him to death. (Melee) Cast a turn-warewolf spell so he wil...
[14:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:What? - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:58] <exec> 08└─> Don't get this bit. The money they've made is "peanuts" but it's also an "exception"? To what? To selling heroin instead.
[14:14:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crutchy [179] 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:06] <exec> 08└─the same could be said of most politicians
[14:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:13] <exec> 08└─I can't hear you over all this freedom we're hav.. wait.. no, i can't hear you because someone cut the fiber-optics again.
[14:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:15] <exec> 08└─Civilization is fragile and depends on a hell of a lot of infrastructure not being tampered with
[14:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:17] <exec> 08└─Front-running trades is illegal, but the high-frequency traders who do it nowadays use fiber and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and algorithms too complex for the government to begin to pretend to crack down on it. So the Wall Street traders commit millions of crimes per day (because we're t...
[14:14:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02Conspiracy theory time! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 1212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:25] <exec> 08└─Given that it is possible to benchmark a fibre optic cable's performance and use changes in that benchmark as an indication that the link has been tampered with (e.g. potentially tapped), maybe these cuts are just a red herring. Some bad actor could theoretically sever a fibre they want to tap at Po...
[14:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:False flag or ocrruption - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:31] <exec> 08└─I just made up another conspiracy theory: a practise run. Maybe some American TLA or commando unit needs to practise "disrupt enemy communications", which would be an act of war to do in any other country than the USA, so how do you do a realistic exercise? Practise on your home turf; if anybody see...
[14:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Nothing useful here, but - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─Isn't it supposed to be fiber OPTIC cable? They can't see the bastard coming? I can understand that they can't see his escape, because the optics have been put out. Why can't they see him coming? His picture should be on every computer in the country!
[14:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:1) 02Re:Starlight preserve? - 06Tiny Ocean Microbes are Brightening Up the Sky - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:41] <exec> 08└─I thought the phytoplankton were brightening up the daytime sky, but maybe I am misreading. I can still see the Milky Way from where I live in rural East Texas. In fact, I never saw it before I moved here.
[14:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Starlight preserve? - 06Tiny Ocean Microbes are Brightening Up the Sky - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:42] <exec> 08└─This isn't about bioluminescence. The claim here is that there are microorganisms that directly turn CO2 into albedo.
[14:14:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Re:Kernel - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:59] <exec> 08└─Is it illegal to recompile the kernel or unload modules?
[14:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mac-like - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:01] <exec> 08└─No, they just rebadged Windows. After all, it's the most secure OS in the world.
[14:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:25] <exec> 08└─Gamergate was always about ethics
[14:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:38] <exec> 08└─Now you've confused me . . . . why didn't the exec just date the gawkers then?
[14:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:More info - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:47] <exec> 08└─It is if you're a fan of Orson Scott Card.
[14:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Carrying? - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:15] <exec> 08└─Platinum on Earth tends to be found with copper, nickel and iron*. While not as valuable, those could be useful for other applications in space. You can't build a space station out of just platinum, after all. *I have absolutely no idea if that is the case in space.
[14:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Questions - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:26] <exec> 08└─Send chunks of it into Earth's atmosphere that are too small to do real damage? Land them someplace sparsely inhabited like the Sahara?
[14:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fatuous looser [2550] (Score:1) 02How'd they do dat - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:51] <exec> 08└─ Q. Remember when transcripts were so much easier to read? A. I sure do. Q. What made it so easy in the old days? A. Every utterance was labeled with either a Q or an A. The method evolved within a courtroom setting. ...
[14:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Weatherman.. - 06Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:08] <exec> 08└─Go to NOAA [noaa.gov] and read the forecast discussion link (example [weather.gov]). Sure, it's not an actual confidence interval like you're probably looking for, but they will throw out hints here and there about how they're interpreting the models and how confident they feel about the published f...
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[15:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:13] <exec> 08└─They should just have shot those drones down. The owners couldn't complain: They were flying in an area where they weren't allowed to, and by doing so caused danger to other people. It there's any situation where shooting down a privately operated drone is justified, this is it.
[15:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:14] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be better to shoot them down? That way when the owners come forward and complain, they can be hit with the $25,000 fine.
[15:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, open fire in a high fire risk zone and rain lithium-filled parts all over the place. That's just brilliant.
[15:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Cue the FUD - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:17] <exec> 08└─RC airplanes have been around forever. I don't recall seeing these kinds of stories about them. Why the special hate for "drones?" What's the angle?
[15:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Cue the FUD - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:19] <exec> 08└─RC airplanes, as I understand it, have a much shorter range than more modern drones, nor can they hover getting extended video. That would mean that somebody trying to do what these drone owners are doing would have to be standing much closer to the fire and would not get good video, which means tha...
[15:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cue the FUD - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:21] <exec> 08└─Because nobody was stupid enough to fly RC planes over a disaster area. With "drones" being so easy to control thanks to GPS, barometric altitude sensors, gyro and accelerometers, and equipped with a stabilized camera, people who wouldn't be able to fly an RC plane for a minute without crashing are...
[15:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Cue the FUD - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure that this is FUD. Any joe six-pack can buy a cheap quadcopter for as low as $60 with a camera. Decent ones are a few hundred. RC planes and helicopters are totally different beasts. A traditional aeroplane isn't suited for photography or videography as they can't hover. RC helicopter...
[15:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02why not take advantage of the technology? - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:25] <exec> 08└─ok, so if dousing flames with helicopters is a normal thing, why not just invest in the technology and make your own semi-autonomous fliers to douse the flames? if it's almost completely autonomous, you could have a single person managing a dozen or so fliers without risking a single life even if th...
[15:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why not take advantage of the technology? - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:27] <exec> 08└─Not true. Most will consider a huge helicopter being flown by remote to be a risk to people on the ground (whether those people were burning alive or not). You cannot have a tiny drone ferry tons of water, you need a real big machine, and that just increases the liability exponentially.
[15:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uh, what? - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:28] <exec> 08└─The danger of bird strike would be a far greater risk than drones in terms of weight and mass potentially causing flight damage. Do they ground their fleet when flocks of birds are in the area too?
[15:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh, what? - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:30] <exec> 08└─It's a fire zone. The birds have left due to self preservation. So... no, birds are not a far greater threat than the flying machines determined to be there.
[15:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No gender diversity here ... - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:34] <exec> 08└─Because that was the entire focus of TFS on the green site.
[15:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:No gender diversity here ... - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:36] <exec> 08└─Confirmed. Just wow. I've only been skimming headlines over there lately in anticipation of Brianna Wu's responses to the questions that were solicited. I'll probably add the green site to my hosts file permanently once that's published (or if/when it comes out the whole Ask Brianna Wu thread was a...
[15:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No gender diversity here ... - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─You deserve the mod, but not for what you think. I don't know if I want to put Lefties in the SJW arena. Well we could, but the rabid SJWs would eat them alive, and wear their skins for clothing, if they could come to the consensus about it first.
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First win in 21 years - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─Flamebait, mmh? So don't thank their team leader. USA! USA! USA!
[15:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There you have it - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:58] <exec> 08└─So will now a clone of Josh Greenberg emerge?
[15:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There you have it - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:59] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the record labels will point to the unbearable guilt as the real culprit.
[15:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:uh-huh. - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:03] <exec> 08└─When the lead singer of the band Gwar, Dave Brockie, died last year the immediate report was the same as listed here "no signs of foul play, drugs, etc." The thing is, that is just an initial report and really means nothing. It took about two or three months for Gwar to release the official report:...
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My school once taugh how to survive nuclear war - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─Mike, it's nice that SoylentNews has built up a community of regulars, but that doesn't mean you have to post to every single submission on this site. You seem to be using SN as a substitute for a real social life, but that's not what it's for.
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My school once taugh how to survive nuclear war - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:15] <exec> 08└─Cool story, bro.
[15:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:37] <exec> 08└─ROFLMBO - did you say, "Like the U.S." ? ? ? ? I know that the U.S. has done a lot of shitty things in it's history - but the U.S. didn't start either one of the world wars. You can make a case that we contributed to the second one, but the first one was all on the whitey-white people across the pon...
[15:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:40] <exec> 08└─"I remember before the Internet civilisation was civilized, true story." That's why the KKK burned crosses and hung black people in the South. And, that's why 40,000 Americans died in Vietnam. And, Pol Pot. And, Idi Amin. And, Operation Ajaz. And - to hell with it. Fill in your own blank spaces. I o...
[15:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─Holy crap, dude. No one gets away with talking so bluntly and honestly. You better join a witness protection program!
[15:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:45] <exec> 08└─Why would a wall street trader looking for extremely low latency trades put thier office on the other side of the continent?
[15:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:54] <exec> 08└─Citations badly needed. Nobody in the movement was calling for anybody to be raped. And every time that allegation has shown up it's been denounced. But, people like you seem to be convinced that it's something that we've approved of. And, no I don't approve of that. Again, nobody in the movement wa...
[15:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:07] <exec> 08└─There's been an almost year long harrasment campaign against women(because misogyny), that has 10s of thousands of proponents, includes women and minorities, and uses ethical journalism as a front. What is your opinion on the lizard invasion?
[15:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:09] <exec> 08└─Come over to /r/KotakuInAction, Reddit's biggest subreddit dedicated to ethics in gaming journalism. Over 45,000 subscribers and climbing. Do it right now and tell me how many posts are related to harassment. Fun fact: You'll find zero. Not nada. Not zilch. But don't let that harm your ego! Pretend...
[15:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:More info - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:21] <exec> 08└─If your a gay man that's married to a woman, then you need to man up and deal with it rather than exposing your wife to whatever you pick up with that gay sex. It's the same rule as if you're straight. You don't expose your spouse to illnesses because you're not enough of an adult to admit that ther...
[15:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm OK with it. - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:23] <exec> 08└─I hope Gawker and Reddit destroy each other. We'll all be much better off.
[15:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Change! Horror! - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:38] <exec> 08└─This is what crossed my mind. Pt is rare, however it is quite useful in industry. The example I'm most familiar with is platinum loading as a catalyst in fuel cells. There are a handful of major hurdles to overcome for fuel cell vehicles, and the loading (high cost) is a major one. A collapse in pri...
[15:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hilarious estimate - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:41] <exec> 08└─http://lehollandaisvolant.net/tout/folio/img/Rage%20Faces/fuck-that-bitch-yao-ming.png [lehollandaisvolant.net]
[15:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:2) 02Re:Units error? - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:04] <exec> 08└─I asked Wolfram how much platinum would be worth $5 trillion (at current value)... http://www.wolframalpha.com [wolframalpha.com] ...and the result is ~1.6 x 10⁸ kg, or ~160 million kg. Since that's still several orders of magnitude less than 90 million t...
[15:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Assange addresses whistleblowers - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:25] <exec> 08└─The problem is that for most of our unsophisticated minds, the associative link between an interview of a whistle-blower and you blowing the whistle on MS is rather tenuous. We think its pretty much OT here....
[15:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft's Bing Image Search is full child por - 06Der Spiegel Interviews Assange - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:30] <exec> 08└─do not google CP
[15:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:"Signals" are just light. - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:46] <exec> 08└─Like what? Telepathy?
[15:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Signals" are just light. - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:47] <exec> 08└─Searching for neutrino signals, [wikipedia.org] of course.
[15:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:57] <exec> 08└─Our species has only been broadcasting for roughly a century. That means that if there is a civilization listening in our direction, they'd need to be within 100 light years to pick us up next Tuesday (ignoring relativity).
[15:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ASICs or GTFO - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─The aliens and the AIs will combine forces against the humans. Fortunately the alien's AI, which is much more advanced than ours, will then turn against their masters and save humanity. Not for love of humanity, but for their hate of our AI, and of their masters for allying with our AI.
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[16:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─Firefighters and firearms don't mix so well. Damn if I'm going to carry potential explosives into a fire. The cops? Cops don't wear the protective gear necessary to get inside a fire. Surely you're not suggesting that the helicopters be armed? I can see it now - 30 caliber cannon open up on those li...
[16:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:33] <exec> 08└─That's not a firefighter's job.
[16:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02Re:Cue the FUD - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:39] <exec> 08└─I think it's not about the flying devices; it's about the video. Yes, RC planes have been around, but they weren't carrying high quality video until recently, and certainly not LIVE video, so there was no benefit to risking your RC plane near a fire. And there have always been fire spectators, but t...
[16:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh, what? - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:44] <exec> 08└─Not really. They have to fly from outside the fire zone to inside to complete their mission. The birds at the edge of that spreading zone will be flying away in a panic.
[16:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh, what? - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:46] <exec> 08└─In a word - Yes Having spent a fair proportion of my military career as aircrew, I have seen the danger posed by bird strikes at first hand. A bird can sometimes penetrate a cockpit window and incapacitate the front seater in a two-seat jet. I know of a large 4-jet patrol aircraft that was brought d...
[16:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02This does sound like a blame game. - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:47] <exec> 08└─Bird strikes are no joke so i understand their concern with a drone. But honestly it sounds like a blame game when you read the report. They list a ton of property damage in the first half and then spend the next half ranting about drones. I don't think the drone was the cause for thousands of acres...
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This does sound like a blame game. - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─RC planes and "drones" are extremely difficult to see from distances that matter. A few hundred feet away they're practically invisible, especially against an uneven background (clouds when seen from below, the ground from above, smoke from the side). It is not uncommon for an inattentive RC pilot t...
[16:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This means... - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─Our Chinese are better than theirs this year.
[16:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Noise - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds like noise. If you can score 0 to 42 points per person, and team score is just a sum of individual scores, and the difference between 1st and 2nd place teams is a whopping 4, then the sequence of "winners" sounds like statistical noise. The difference between 1st and 2nd is less than 10% on...
[16:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:Commodore 64 SCPU emulation - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:15] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity, why do you want to emulate the SuperCPU? There's not an awful lot that needs it. Granted, there are a couple of unique games.
[16:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:07] <exec> 08└─Why do you think all those shithole middle eastern countries love to block/filter the Internet so much?
[16:15:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:08] <exec> 08└─Front-running trades is illegal, but the high-frequency traders who do it nowadays use fiber and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and algorithms too complex for the government to begin to pretend to crack down on it. So the Wall Street traders commit millions of crimes per day (because we're t...
[16:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:12] <exec> 08└─What this shows is that our infrastructure is pathetic. How much more of this will it take before we wise up and come up with a sensible design?
[16:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fiber Attacks! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:18] <exec> 08└─The scale of the damage or what sort of damage is done is irrelevant. We don't know the person's intent, so we can't say it's an attack.
[16:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing useful here, but - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:30] <exec> 08└─It's the Uversebomber.
[16:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:25] <exec> 08└─Citations badly needed.
[16:16:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02Re:More info - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:46] <exec> 08└─Except that it's presumptuous to assume that he was cheating. For all you know his wife is perfectly happy with his conduct. That's their business and by right should have stayed that way.
[16:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:2) 02Re:Questions - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:33] <exec> 08└─We're 16 years too late for that.
[16:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:31] <exec> 08└─All this makes SETI kind of naive. Which was my point. It is a waste of time to look for aliens. It is not a waste to upgrade the equipment. If your only goal is to look for aliens then yes you are wasting money.
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[17:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:15] <exec> 08└─"Activists worry that internet restriction is intended to clamp down on citizen journalists, human rights workers, and potential IS defectors." Duh. Totalitarian, religious zealots want to control communications out of their territory. News at 11:00. The downfall of these idiots would actually be ha...
[17:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:16] <exec> 08└─Probably the same idiots supporting things like the Tea Party?
[17:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:18] <exec> 08└─In related news: Western leaders envious of internet control exerted by IS. The NSA couldn't be reached for comment.
[17:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:20] <exec> 08└─Who wishes these barbarians well?
[17:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Experimental Confound - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:27] <exec> 08└─This sounds like if you repeatedly take aliquots from an amino-acid based reagent your supply may eventually start forming arbitrary peptides that do god knows what. Combine that with 20% of cells used in labs worldwide turning out to actually being HeLa or hybrids with HeLa and who knows what peopl...
[17:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02drying cycles - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:28] <exec> 08└─Hmm, thought we'd be using our (laundry) driers as bioreactors.
[17:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02PLA plastic - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:30] <exec> 08└─Simply putting lactic acid on its own through four wet/dry cycles allowed chains of four or more units to form, all connected by what's called an ester bond.
[17:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PLA plastic - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:32] <exec> 08└─wtf?
[17:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:42] <exec> 08└─A water cannon would be both appropriate for the job and taking down drones.
[17:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Cue the FUD - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:48] <exec> 08└─I loved my old RC helicopter and yes they were a bitch to operate until you got good at it. Unfortunately it got knocked off of the shelf on to a chair and then my wife set some heavy stuff on it not thinking. So that was the end of that, I'm not entirely sure this was an accident.
[17:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh, what? - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:55] <exec> 08└─It's a good thing that abusive drone piloting has revealed this to us!
[17:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Uh, what? - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:57] <exec> 08└─I live in Nebraska. I would be interested in a slightly used jet engine. Where did you say it fell again?
[17:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:This does sound like a blame game. - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:00] <exec> 08└─I was wondering this, too - how big are these drones that there's a serious worry about one of them having enough inertia to stay around a helicopter long enough to impact either rotors or fuselage without just getting completely fucked sideways? If the pilot spots it, fly over it over and push it d...
[17:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jammer... - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:02] <exec> 08└─EMP, or targeted RF jammer should take care of it. In other news, Ca is considering making a law to prohibit drones in emergency areas, such as fires, carrying a $1000 fine. Not enough really.
[17:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Noise - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:20] <exec> 08└─That's high end competition in basically any field. The difference in times for something like the 100m sprint is measured in small fractions of a second. With times coming in at under 10 seconds, a bad nights sleep can take a person from 1st to last just based upon decreased reaction time.
[17:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:19] <exec> 08└─Recall in the very recent past,when Soviet enforcement of law and order was removed from Yugoslavia how quickly the "civilized" europeans turned to mass murder and genocide? It was practically overnight. And how quickly Sarajevo went from the beauty of a Olympic host city to a war-torn hell hole of...
[17:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03btendrich [3700] (Score:1) 02Re:Conspiracy theory time! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:41] <exec> 08└─I thought this might be possible too for a while, but if they are testing from both directions (as they should) during an outage, the two sides wouldn't be able to agree on the location of the cut, since each side would be seeing a different cut. Also, the tap should be visible on an otdr trace. In...
[17:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Kernel - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─I'd be more worried about the fact you probably only get one try to get root. If a product here phoned home every time somebody tried to get root the manufacturers would quickly stop doing it to end the effective DDOS they had unwisely called down. Slightly different result in a beacon of progress l...
[17:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:44] <exec> 08└─The editor on that page was permanently banned from wikipedia. Not the greatest source of info.
[17:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the story here? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:45] <exec> 08└─Rationalwiki? Are you seriously linking to that garbage. They're just as bad as the people they're debunking. I don't think that an obvious propaganda piece qualifies as a citation. If you read the thing, there's no effort of any sort to be objective. It's not just that I didn't do it, it's that nob...
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[18:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─"Probably the same idiots supporting things like the Tea Party?" Maybe we're getting off topic here, but what happened with the Tea Party is a shame. It started as a small government movement, but the religious right flocked to it as well - which pretty much discredited the movement with everyone el...
[18:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:16] <exec> 08└─"Probably the same idiots supporting things like the Tea Party?" Maybe we're getting off topic here, but what happened with the Tea Party is a shame. It started as a small government movement, but the religious right flocked to it as well - which pretty much discredited the movement with everyone el...
[18:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 2163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:19] <exec> 08└─No, it wasn't. I never attended the local rally, but one of my friends did. She reported seeing Republicans and Democrats in addition to Libertarian party members. I forget if she said she saw any Greens there or not. Bradley13 is correct. It started as a grass roots campaign for small government an...
[18:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy. - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:20] <exec> 08└─It helps both Western and Middle Eastern powers control their populaces through fear. It helps eliminate pesky 'historical landmarks' for future redevelopment efforts by having 'those dirty ISIS fellows' destroy them. It helps drive up the price of oil by claiming the supply is disrupted by the acti...
[18:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:22] <exec> 08└─It started as a small government movement
[18:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:23] <exec> 08└─There was a very brief time before Fox News latched onto the group with that name, inflating its numbers with their viewers, and inflating its stupidity with their viewers. To call it non-partisan, or small government, or even possessing of a genuinely plausible platform like the OP is suggesting is...
[18:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─That's dumb as fuck. Rich right wing zealots hate right wing zealots of a slightly different flavor.
[18:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02On No! - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:27] <exec> 08└─If only IS allowed internet access, it would be ... what exactly? Something other than murderous thugs?
[18:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Avoiding air strikes maybe? - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:28] <exec> 08└─Unofficial tweets or posts leading to pictures of backgrounds that can result in airstrikes from isil opponents could be the reason.
[18:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:52] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they can just signal jam the restricted area. Any lost drones is on the owner/operator. If the drone falls and injures someone it's also on the owner. Any damage caused by the drone is on the owner.
[18:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─And then someone dies because they can't get a signal to call for help.
[18:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:56] <exec> 08└─I would have enjoyed shooting such a drone down ...
[18:14:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02Re:Uh, what? - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 1339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:07] <exec> 08└─In a word - Yes Having spent a fair proportion of my military career as aircrew, I have seen the danger posed by bird strikes at first hand. A bird can sometimes penetrate a cockpit window and incapacitate the front seater in a two-seat jet. I know of a large 4-jet patrol aircraft that was brought d...
[18:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No gender diversity here ... - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:24] <exec> 08└─What's racist about pointing out how blacks, hispanics, and women were excluded from the team? Isn't that the opposite of racist?
[18:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Noise - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:34] <exec> 08└─Less true here than in a 100m dash. There are quantized breakpoints along the 0-42 range, and they are usually arranged around certian leaps of understanding.
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Noise - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─There are quantized breakpoints along the 0-42 range, and they are usually arranged around certian leaps of understanding.
[18:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Noise - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:37] <exec> 08└─That is most professional competitions. Look at the olympics and how close the races are. If you sneeze during a run you will lose. Also, anyone who immigrates to the US is now an "American". You don't pull the no true scottsman thing here. They are either an American or they aren't. You can't exclu...
[18:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Obligatory... - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:46] <exec> 08└─will it run linux?
[18:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Obligatory II - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:48] <exec> 08└─Does it come with an unlocked bootloader? If I'm going to have a desktop, I'm not putting up with a watered down mobile OS, even if it has had some desktop features stapled on.
[18:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:uh-huh. - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:02] <exec> 08└─but given that he made enemies in powerful positions, it's worth a look.
[18:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02overpressure is not shocky. - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry I misspelled "brisant". A brizant detonation produces a shock wave in which the sir molecules move faster than the speed of sound. Overpressure is more like a very strong wind. Hurricanes are destructive but they do not produce shock waves.
[18:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I agree. Thats what Hacker News is for. - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─Actually I spend most of my time working on my own website. I expect I spend more time writing for the web than do most soylentils. I really dont spend that much of my day here as compared to the time I spend doing other things.
[18:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:My school once taugh how to survive nuclear war - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─One cannot build fallout shelters out of eBooks, however.
[18:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:My school once taugh how to survive nuclear war - 06Promo Game Fallout Shelter Made Bethesda Software $5 Million in Two Weeks - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:18] <exec> 08└─You are quite naive. Go watch a movie, like The Day After https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] or read this, http://www.nukefix.org [nukefix.org] The U.S. targeted approximately 40 nuclear weapons on the Ukrainian city of Kiev up until early 1991 [Forec...
[18:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:47] <exec> 08└─What you are describing is culture. Civilization needs cultures to perpetuate, but not all of any culture is civilized.
[18:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Conspiracy theory time! - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:04] <exec> 08└─As you say, very little reason for a US government agency to be doing this - they'd have just gone to the telco directly, ideally with an NSL in hand. I was actually thinking more of industrial espionage or a foreign government, but it does require that they know when the initial fault finding and l...
[18:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mac-like - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:45] <exec> 08└─Fortunately you're not confined to the two big fuckers!
[18:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:28] <exec> 08└─Right now there is a story trying to justify the harassment of Zoe Quinn [reddit.com] using an obviously false comparison. GamerGate is, has always been, and will always be about harassment. Everything else is just a veneer.
[18:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:A Lie, Therefore - 06 Deep Sea Robots Will Monitor the Oceans for Pollution - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:48] <exec> 08└─1. Is it a lie? 2. Did the scientists produce the "lie", or was it journalists?
[18:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:"extracurricular activity"... - 06Adult 'Extracurricular Activity' Website AshleyMadison.com Hacked - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:35] <exec> 08└─> Maybe not, but the information has to be kept as charges can be disputed Kept by the payment processor, not the site. Which means, if the site did it right, there would be no way to go from the site's user list to the identity on the payment itself.
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[19:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02scary - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:14] <exec> 08└─and just like every other modern car, vulnerability to be assassinated by remote engine hacking by your favorite three lettered agency, Anom, or terrorist.
[19:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:scary - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:15] <exec> 08└─It's LED and LASER, not IOT
[19:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02This is a laser? - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:16] <exec> 08└─laser
[19:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Etymologi-ca-nope - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:18] <exec> 08└─From Google: phos·pho·res·cence noun PHYSICS the emission of radiation in a similar manner to fluorescence but on a longer timescale, so that emission continues after excitation ceases. That's not "etymological exactitude" in this context.
[19:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Hold on there, - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:20] <exec> 08└─Hooray, headlights that are even more blinding in your rearview mirror than the LED sort.
[19:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:33] <exec> 08└─Sad, you started off informative, then your rage-hate got the best of you and you went all Koch brothers and Russians. ISIS has nothing at all to do with American politics. You sir, are seriously out of touch.
[19:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:35] <exec> 08└─My apologies. Rage was not what I intended to convey.
[19:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's CIA and US State Department funding. This has been well-documented (by anonymous and unchecked sources, Seymour Hersh, Iranian TV, ). The U.S. State Department confirmed May 29, 2015 with CNN that Islamic State fighter Gulmurod Khalimov from Tajikistan was trained in the United State...
[19:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:39] <exec> 08└─I'd believe the sincerity of the "small government" types (the mainstream ones, not libertarians) if they didn't spend so much time trying to expand the role of government in pushing a specific platform of conservative-Christian morality issues. They want low taxes because "got mine, fuck you" combi...
[19:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:41] <exec> 08└─Government employees want bigger government. News at 11.
[19:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:44] <exec> 08└─I understand your wish to appreciate that some people could have a sincere interest in it. But the sentiment's framing is fundamentally dishonest, not just made dishonest by hypocrites. "Small government" is an answer to a useless question, namely: "devoid of specific concerns what size should the g...
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Experimental Confound - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:54] <exec> 08└─The 20% number is out of date. The paper was published 16 years ago.
[19:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:09] <exec> 08└─A tiny nugget of lithium can be dangerous if it's sitting on your crotch and catches fire. But it's like a spittle in the ocean in a fucking forest fire...
[19:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:11] <exec> 08└─Um, no, not if it starts a new hotspot. Keyword: "Containment."
[19:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cue the FUD - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:23] <exec> 08└─Whenever the cost of entry to an activity drops low enough, the idiots enter the field. When I was a kid, serious RC aircraft cost thousands in today's dollars for a basic unit. Today the same capability is in the tens of dollars range. RC Enthusiasts used to gather in areas designated for RC flight...
[19:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Noise - 06US Wins Its First International Mathematical Olympiad in 21 Years - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:58] <exec> 08└─Ahhh! I knew there wasn't anything to it.
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory... - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, Android uses the Linux kernel. At risk of being cliché the question you probably mean to ask is: Will it run GNU/Linux? Note: Explicitly specifying "GNU" isn't really pedantic anymore. Now that Linux is used without GNU sometimes one must resolve the ambiguity. On the other hand I also use GNU...
[19:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory... - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:12] <exec> 08└─That's GNU's to me! :)
[19:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:10] <exec> 08└─Compare and contrast: Americans in response to Katrina (uncivilized) vs. Japanese response to the 2011 tsunami (civilized).
[19:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03patella.whack [3848] (Score:1) 02Re:organized latent hippie stuff? - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:34] <exec> 08└─Well, Lagg, you raise a lot of questions re: social issues which surely deserve discussing. I'd love to get into the current details of SF politics if you can enlighten me a bit. But wow, who do you think is behind all these cuttings?
[19:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ethics - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:56] <exec> 08└─That's the example you come up with for "It's actually about harassing women"? A thread pointing out what the poster thinks is hypocrisy in journalism? Whether you think they are comparable is irrelevant. The intent of the poster is obvious and clearly nothing to do with "misogyny".
[19:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nice - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:03] <exec> 08└─His body certainly hit the floor. Should have laid of the fatty foods and nu-metal.
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hilarious estimate - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:32] <exec> 08└─Stating instead "5 trillion USD at current market prices" would make it less cringeworthy.
[19:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:46] <exec> 08└─Why? I was addressing it as a *possible* answer, along with the assumption that there was other life in the universe, in order to make a statement about either outcome. I suggest the search for reading comprehension.
[19:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:what a waste - 06Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100 Million "Breakthrough Listen" SETI Project - 1668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:49] <exec> 08└─I no longer consider it worthwhile to search. Not as an absolute statement, but at least for our current situation. Looking is entirely besides the point. It's just us screaming into the darkness, while simultaneously spending billions to listen intently for signals indicating intelligence. Meanwhil...
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[20:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:This is a laser? - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:26] <exec> 08└─"Laser-pumped phosphor headlight" would be more accurate, but it's neither sexy nor intelligible to the public.
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score:1) 02Re:This is a laser? - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─Burrowed through the links a bit, from http://spectrum.ieee.org [ieee.org] : Audi is bringing out its Matrix Laser headlights, which incorporate a digital micromirror—an array of hundreds of thousand...
[20:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a laser? - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:30] <exec> 08└─DLP headlights. Neat.
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really bright low beam - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─Is still bad, when the angle of the road is just so, or bumps cause the modern luxury car lights to 'flash'. Or those annoying ones that, "look around the corner" can be anoying when approaching on a bend of a country road.
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold on there, - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─Any time I have to drive in dark in front of such an asshole I seriously consider installing a flash device in the rear end of my car... or a mechanism to release oil... It's physically painful. And you really can't see jack shit ahead of you.
[20:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold on there, - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:36] <exec> 08└─Why do rich people do that? Money didn't make their eyes weaker than mine. I really don't like it, it's dangerous, if I'm going around curves at night and I get that in the other lane it can cause me to drift abit during that half second where my eyes are focusing again to receive light in the dark....
[20:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02I like this bit - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:38] <exec> 08└─For those of you worried about being blinded by these headlights, fear not! They thought of that: To ensure that other drivers aren’t dazzled by laser lights, the R8 uses an intelligent camera-based system to detect oncoming or leading traffic. It actively adjusts and dims the light pattern, esse...
[20:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AUDI's in space! - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:40] <exec> 08└─Audi’s with friking lasers on their heads(lites). My poor old 92 AUDI is jealous.
[20:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02How long until - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:41] <exec> 08└─someone paints the front end of their car to look like a shark. / with a fricken laser beam on it's head! // looks like posting is down on the other site again.
[20:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:59] <exec> 08└─The primary purpose of the Tea Party was to help Republicans forget about George W Bush. It was effectively a rebranding campaign, at least as soon as the big money and Fox News got involved. And it worked. Very well. Which is hardly surprising: When fascism comes to America, it's wrapped in a flag...
[20:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02good at what they do best - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 2878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:06] <exec> 08└─This post may contain bullshit. Unfortunately I can't remember where I read the following description of IS (vice.com?? about a year ago), but it sounded interesting.. Basically, that article said, in the lawless areas between Syria and Iraq, lots of violent groups of fanatics competed for power. IS...
[20:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Experimental Confound - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 1529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:15] <exec> 08└─Good point. I couldn't find a more recent comparable number using a quick search but it sounds like the problem continues: Although the discovery of these "HeLa contaminants" prompted immediate alarm, how aware are cell culturists today of the threat of cell line cross-contamination? To answer this...
[20:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PLA plastic - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:19] <exec> 08└─Forget it, he's rolling.
[20:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PLA plastic - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:21] <exec> 08└─Q: "What are you thinking about honey?" A: "Polymerizing my own lactic acid" Another interesting topic is adhesion. I print on medically clean sterile (cleaned with medical ethanol cleaning pads, like $5 for 500 disposable pads) heated kapton and it works perfectly, lasts forever, and detaches all b...
[20:15:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Open kickstarter is soylenvertisement - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:31] <exec> 08└─Nuff said, tell us when it is actually made and tested.
[20:15:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:uh-huh. - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 1600 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah this has been discussed widely elsewhere and: 1) The dudes getting the full autopsy and tox scan treatment. The toxicology lab work only takes a couple days, in theory, however there's stereotypically massive overload of work, dotting all the i and crossing all the t, and there's a tendency to...
[20:15:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:uh-huh. - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 894 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:50] <exec> 08└─When the lead singer of the band Gwar, Dave Brockie, died last year the immediate report was the same as listed here "no signs of foul play, drugs, etc." The thing is, that is just an initial report and really means nothing. It took about two or three months for Gwar to release the official report:...
[20:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:35] <exec> 08└─Kinda sounds like that time that all those submarine fiber optic cables were cut [wikipedia.org] mysteriously around Iran. Of course, unlike San Francisco, the U.S. is now friends with Iran. You have to wonder why somebody would target a repressive, politically intolerant regime like San Francisco.
[20:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:43] <exec> 08└─My life they may take, my integrity never. We should all stop pussy footing around and talk about this clearly. Others are [huffingtonpost.com]. Like Huffington Post or not, it's a media outlet a lot of people read and that's on the front page. I've seen similar sentiments expressed in the Wall Stre...
[20:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:False flag or ocrruption - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:05] <exec> 08└─Are you saying Jade Helm? But it's not Texas! But if it's not Texas, then it must be an attack by the "enemy" territory of Texas (or Utah, but that's not really an exercise, it's history) on California!! Gov. Abbott has taken the initiative! What is next? Will Texutah disrupt the Starbuck's supply...
[20:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:More info - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:37] <exec> 08└─If only somebody had invented simple latex devices that prevented disease spreading during sex. Oh right, they did, and most sex workers insist on using them. Also, you seem to be ignoring the very real possibility that the man in question was bisexual - that is, he could enjoy sleeping with his wif...
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[21:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Hold on there, - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:34] <exec> 08└─Cover your car in slightly imperfect corner cubes.
[21:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold on there, - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─Or flip the tab on your rear-view. I have to make 12-hour drives, often into the not-so-wee hours of the morning (yay sunrise at the Florida border). I just ride with the tab flipped, and there's no problem.
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold on there, - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:38] <exec> 08└─So, I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you own a car like this and I notice it when nobody is around, I'm going to kick your headlights out with my steel toe boots. Thank you for your service to the Community. Seriously. These fuckers don't just blind other drivers, they dazzle pedestrians walkin...
[21:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I like this bit - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:39] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing you'd be able to see the headlights or taillights of other traffic, it being night, and lights being easy to see. I'm guessing pedestrians get full illumination which is also fine. This is not to be construed as support for overly bright blinding lights. A class action suit against ligh...
[21:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score:1) 02Obligatory - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:42] <exec> 08└─Are the sharks optional on the R8?
[21:13:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 713 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:51] <exec> 08└─"Activists worry that internet restriction is intended to clamp down on citizen journalists, human rights workers, and potential IS defectors." Duh. Totalitarian, religious zealots want to control communications out of their territory. News at 11:00. The downfall of these idiots would actually be ha...
[21:13:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 2163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:55] <exec> 08└─No, it wasn't. I never attended the local rally, but one of my friends did. She reported seeing Republicans and Democrats in addition to Libertarian party members. I forget if she said she saw any Greens there or not. Bradley13 is correct. It started as a grass roots campaign for small government an...
[21:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:00] <exec> 08└─That someone was trained somewhere, and then decided to go Rogue does not mean that ISIS is a US/CIA funded operation. The Tajiks and Uzbeks were our ally in Afghanistan against the Taliban. Training their Special Forces in counter-terrorism is the price we had to pay for forward secret air bases. N...
[21:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:03] <exec> 08└─Originally, the Tea Party was a Dick Armey! True! Never Grassroots, more like Astroroots. You know, fake grassroots. -
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:11] <exec> 08└─Who wishes these barbarians well?
[21:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Probably not much of a change. - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 1710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:15] <exec> 08└─So a group that claim control over a territory with a theocracy based "government" wants to control where their population or subjects are getting their information from or whom they communicate with. That is not really a shocker. You can pretty much just look at their neighbors, they are all doing...
[21:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Missing word - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:32] <exec> 08└─the amino acids might [not] be alone -- gewg_
[21:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:44] <exec> 08└─It's easier to contain when the dousing helicopters are airborne instead of waiting for some criminal wanker get bored with playing around with his new toy.
[21:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:45] <exec> 08└─Not if it's kindled right near people or property. It does make me proud to be an 'Murican, sittin her tryin to justify shootin our guns.
[21:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just shoot them down - 06Drones Hamper Firefighting Efforts - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─That isn't how jamming works. Radio waves work on frequencies and if you jam the right frequencies correctly, others will still work fine. Most drones use either 2.4 or 5.8 GHz. However, cell phone frequencies are 806–960 MHz, 1,710–2,025 MHz, 2,110–2,200 MHz and 2,500–2,690 MHz. Two way rad...
[21:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzarko [5697] (Score:1) 02Re:Commodore 64 SCPU emulation - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:48] <exec> 08└─Well, Metal Dust is one reason, freescape games the other one. I am searching for cheap ARM or x86 board to insert into C64 case and make emulated C64 with SCPU, as I don't think I will ever buy one (too expensive for me).
[21:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:00] <exec> 08└─They don't. The colocate in the same datacenters that the markets themselves use. They have fiber back to home office, but they also have microwave redundancies.
[21:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02jhead and MAT - 06North Korea's Red Star Linux Inserts Sneaky Serial Content Tracker - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:00] <exec> 08└─I wonder if either or both of the programs "jhead" (CLI tool) or MAT (GUI tool) could sanitize these files. jhead: http://www.sentex.net [sentex.net] MAT: https://mat.boum.org [boum.org]
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[22:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Hmmm. - 06America's Tweaks to Weapons Trade Pact 'Will Make Web Less Secure' - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:15] <exec> 08└─"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last loose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually con...
[22:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02autonomous post - 06Australia to Run First Robo-Car Trials in Sleepy Adelaide - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:22] <exec> 08└─Opened on Monday, the University of Michigan's Mcity is the world's first controlled environment to test driverless cars, designed and developed by the university's "Mobility Transformation Center" (MTC) along with the Michigan Department of Transportation. [theregister.co.uk]
[22:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:scary - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:33] <exec> 08└─It's pronounced IDIOT, thank you very much.
[22:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold on there, - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:47] <exec> 08└─> Why do rich people do that? You seem confused. The people who add illegal aftermarket HID headlight systems to their cars are not rich. If they were rich, or even just moderately well off, they would have bought a car that came with legal, properly engineered HID headlight systems in the first pla...
[22:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Hold on there, - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:49] <exec> 08└─So next time you see a blinding set of HID's or laser lamps (Please god, NO!) they are most likely aftermarkets installed by some knucklehead.
[22:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I like this bit - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:51] <exec> 08└─> So if you're driving one of these cars, you'll be able to see everything except other traffic! Brilliant! The other cars have their own headlights. You don't need to illuminate them. It is those headlights that the system uses to decide to wrap around them. If they are driving with their lights of...
[22:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:12] <exec> 08└─It's much easier to track Gulf state money, and Saudi money in particular, directly investing in ISIS than it is US or other NATO. That much NATO equipement rapidly found its way into the hands of ISIS is unquestionable - we funded and equipped a large number of groups in the early stages of the Syr...
[22:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─Oh, okay, dude.
[22:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:28] <exec> 08└─What I can't figure is: what idiots are actually supporting them? I mean, they've officially declared war on most of the world, including plenty of the Muslim world. Who wishes these barbarians well?
[22:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Commodore 64 SCPU emulation - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:04] <exec> 08└─A 900 MHz per core CPU can't emulate a 1 MHz CPU? Isn't a Game Boy Color more powerful than a Commodore 64?
[22:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory II - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:09] <exec> 08└─At least a K6-2 could do floating point. My first "PC" ran Slackware on a PR100.
[22:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:uh-huh. - 06Grooveshark Cofounder Josh Greenberg Found Dead - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:22] <exec> 08└─It's Gainesville. Everyone's on some drug or another. I live here: I know. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go powder my nose.
[22:17:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:09] <exec> 08└─What in the world does Wall Street and high speed trading have to do with civilization?
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[23:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I am puzzled by the efficiency of animals - 06 Your Body, the Battery: Powering Gadgets from Human "Biofuel" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:15] <exec> 08└─Three peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and I can walk for twenty miles.
[23:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Dietary aid - 06 Your Body, the Battery: Powering Gadgets from Human "Biofuel" - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:17] <exec> 08└─As a fat person who hates exercise, if I wore something that sucked up 400 or so calories a day while I did my daily activities that would be nice. I suspect this would have the same effect as wearing weights on my ankles and wrists, more effort to do the same things.
[23:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really bright low beam - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:50] <exec> 08└─I dim my headlights when approaching a corner that's sufficiently tight that I can't see around it because that lets me see if there's another vehicle approaching: I leave them dim after I'm around the corner. Unfortunately, it's usually assholes going the other way who think they don't need to dim...
[23:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:06] <exec> 08└─How is that obligatory?
[23:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02UK - 06This Audi Comes With Laser Headlights - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:07] <exec> 08└─reminds me of UK, but without the rags on the head
[23:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Totalitarian zealots - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:28] <exec> 08└─That someone was trained somewhere, and then decided to go Rogue does not mean that ISIS is a US/CIA funded operation.
[23:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Probably not much of a change. - 06Islamic State Is Restricting Internet Access in Its Capital City - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:45] <exec> 08└─So a group that claim control over a territory with a theocracy based "government" wants to control where their population or subjects are getting their information from or whom they communicate with. That is not really a shocker. You can pretty much just look at their neighbors, they are all doing...
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:PLA plastic - 06 Repeated Drying Cycles Can Form Protein-like Polymers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:01] <exec> 08└─Still polymerizing your own lactic acid is interesting to think about.
[23:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:Commodore 64 SCPU emulation - 06Jide Tech's Remix Mini: $30-40 PC Runs Android "Respin" - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:21] <exec> 08└─Good question. According to https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org], the 6502 could do .43 MIPS/MHz while the z80 did 0.145 MIPS/MHz. Multiplying that out by their clockspeeds (assuming an NTSC C64): Game boy color: 8MHz*0.145=1.16 C64: 1.023MHz*0.43=0.44 The game boy c...
[23:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:25] <exec> 08└─Are you fucking kidding me? You want to compare the $200k the Japanese offered in Katrina relief (if requested) to the $730 MILLION [jcie.org] given to the Japanese from the US. That's fucking MILLION. And $77 Million of that was direct from the US government [usembassy.gov] delivered after only ONE...
[23:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Anarchy and no net or civilization + Internet - 06Vandals Keep Snipping Fiber Optic Cables in California With Impunity - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:31] <exec> 08└─Why do you think all those shithole middle eastern countries love to block/filter the Internet so much?
[23:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:More info - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:32] <exec> 08└─Why is it OK for a rich guy to commit a crime? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Prostitution in the United States is illegal, except in some rural counties of the state of Nevada.
[23:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF?? - 06Gawker Editors Resign Over Deleted Muckraking Post - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:36] <exec> 08└─Who the hell cares what Greenwald thinks on this topic?
[23:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Just one question - 06Platinum Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars Flies Past Earth - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:22] <exec> 08└─Is that in Troy, Imperial or Metric tons?
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