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[00:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I use f.lux - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:11] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I would go into the color settings of the monitor and remove blue. I've been doing this for years now and I think it does help. I also use a program called color toggle for the web browser and I have the little icon at the top of the firefox screen where I can toggle between normal and a b...
[00:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I use f.lux - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:12] <exec> 08└─Neat trick. I wonder if I can do it in laptop BIOS.
[00:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:I use f.lux - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:14] <exec> 08└─I use f.lux on my iDevices and just installed it on my MBP. I feel much less eye-strain when using my devices at nighttime (which I do often) now.
[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I use f.lux - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:16] <exec> 08└─I use a screen filter app on the phone that simply adds a % multiplier to brightness (potentially allowing you to put it too low and essentially... brick the phone?). Good to use since the lowest amount of brightness my phone gives off is more than what I need in a dark room and strains the eyes.
[00:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Tried it - didn't seem to help. - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:18] <exec> 08└─Best solution: Stop working so late. Life is too short.
[00:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Tried it - didn't seem to help. - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:19] <exec> 08└─You can adjust the settings to make the effect even deeper, although that makes stuff harder to read obviously.
[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Naive Approach - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:21] <exec> 08└─I have pretty shit sleeping even without the weed and booze so I take melatonin supplements to help me go to sleep. Problem is that you have to take them when you're really ready to go to sleep or else you get drowsy and then something exciting happens and you excite yourself right through that wind...
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Naive Approach - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:23] <exec> 08└─I just recommended melatonin [wikipedia.org] today to someone who was complaining about their sleep meds. It's amazing how many people haven't heard of the natural hormone responsible for regulating your body's sleep cycle... and directly linked to levels of blue light and applications like f.lux. I...
[00:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:3, Informative) 02redshift... - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:24] <exec> 08└─Redshift is cross-platform ( I use linux) and does the same as the others (fl.ux etc...). It works very well, and I have used it for over 2 years now in multiple timezones. Give it a try for 2 weeks, and then one evening disable it. It will surprise you how well you adapt...
[00:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03twistedcubic [929] (Score:2) 02Re:redshift... - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:26] <exec> 08└─Hear, hear! Redshirt is available in Debian, and the man page explains its easy configuration.
[00:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03lyserge [5797] (Score:1) 02Re:redshift... - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:28] <exec> 08└─Yep, I've been using Redshift and I never notice the tint these days unless someone comments on it. Since installing it I don't get that dead-behind-the-eyes feeling after an evening in front of a screen any more. I also use Twilight on my (Android) phone, does the same thing.
[00:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02Re:redshift... - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:29] <exec> 08└─I tried Red Shift for a few weeks (on Linux). Did not find it to make any positive difference regarding sleep patterns. I found out that it makes reading harder (less contrast) when the sun is below the horizon. What I did find makes a difference is go off caffeine completely. No tea, and no coffee....
[00:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Lux for Android - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:31] <exec> 08└─While my phone isn't keeping me awake (well, the screen anyways), the app Lux (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux) is pretty useful. The big thing for me is it allows dimming of the screen below the lowest brightness. This is huge for GPS functionality on all night road trips...
[00:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02VT100 - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:32] <exec> 08└─It's the theme [soylentnews.org] best suited for nighttime... and daytime SoylentNews. And it's better than Night Mode.
[00:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:37] <exec> 08└─I was left wondering why any species would waste energy developing "natural defenses of dead plants". It makes no evolutionary sense.
[00:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:41] <exec> 08└─One possible explanation is that un-decomposed dead leaves for a barrier on the ground to new plants springing up to compete with the tree. So the tree has some incentive to have leaves that fall not decompose for a time - especially over winter.
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow, look at this waste - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─A restatement without any new facts or reasoning. You convinced me!
[00:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Any DBAs want to comment? - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:29] <exec> 08└─You seem to confuse "good DBAs" with the common garden variety found in many many government agencies. Even if you run into a competent one, they have edicts handed to them from PHBs above them. Those PHBs were sold Oracle, and they put it in the budget, and by god they are going to use it, and anyt...
[00:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter... - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:33] <exec> 08└─>> Oracle is in the business of extracting value, not providing it. > You mean like a business?! What the hell!! No. Like a parasite. The fundamental premise of free trade is that both parties derive more value from the transaction than they started with. That is how wealth is created, it is not sup...
[00:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:govt != business - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:36] <exec> 08└─It is public money and should serve public good. If Postgresql (or your DB of choice) doesn't do the job, fund it until it does. The changes go back to the public.
[00:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Not enough, yet way too much - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─Things like healthcare have been going away for ages now because the cost of employees being sick doesn't have a line item on the budget.
[00:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Re:Hang on a second... - 06Probable Cause Required for Cell Phone Tracking in US 4th Circuit - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:48] <exec> 08└─No no no you ignoramus! Double-standards of the law [theatlantic.com] are the excuse.
[00:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:India's response - 06India Nixes Online Porn Ban Following Intense Public Outrage on Social Media - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:19] <exec> 08└─Racist and funny. The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. I guess that's fitting for a double entendre.
[00:41:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Not Video Games - 06What Video Games Are Teaching Banks About Your Habits - 493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:29] <exec> 08└─> a startup that makes behavior-predicting technology used by game-makers to retain mobile players. Translation: a company that specializes in manipulating people into continuing to fork over cash for useless in-game purchases. They aren't about video games, they are just another marketing company...
[00:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunnyItWorkedLastTime [4713] (Score:1) 02Re:Well... - 06TrueCrypt "Decrypted" by FBI to Nab USAF Sysadmin - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:00] <exec> 08└─Hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars! http://www.bash.org [bash.org]
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[01:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Australia has a senate? - 06Australia Recommends Crypto-Currencies Be Considered Real Money - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:11] <exec> 08└─Ain't that cute. Dang, dem Aussies pretendin they gots a real government. Haw-haw.
[01:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score:1) 02Re:I use f.lux - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:25] <exec> 08└─I have used f.lux on my computers for 6+ months. Can't say that it has helped me go to sleep earlier. It does make the screens much easier on my eyes. One of my computers, if haven't used it for several hours, when bumped out of screen saver will have regular color for a second before f.lux kicks in...
[01:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Naive Approach - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:31] <exec> 08└─I've tried it before with mixed results. I'll second Ethanol's opinion that you have to time it right.
[01:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:VT100 - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:38] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize that was an option. Thought it was just a one-off for April Fools or whatever it was. Awesome! New theme selected.
[01:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:53] <exec> 08└─Such an intelligent design, these trees have.
[01:42:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] 02Or just use UHT - 06Silver-Laced Bottles Prolong Shelf Life of Milk - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:50] <exec> 08└─Same idea as the irradiation post above, if it's ultra high temperature pasteurized and sealed properly, silver isn't necessary. http://itotd.com [itotd.com]
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[02:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oh no - 06China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:10] <exec> 08└─Now how will I advocate for Communism?
[02:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02What about America? - 06China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:11] <exec> 08└─I have a feeling that this has been going on in America, especially in the post-9/11 era. Corporate jobs, especially ones which involve overseas travel, provide good cover for intelligence agents. I wouldn't be surprised if a later Snowden (or other leaker) release revealed the existence of a struct...
[02:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Money - 06Australia Recommends Crypto-Currencies Be Considered Real Money - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:21] <exec> 08└─What if I want to use some other commodity as money? How far does this go?
[02:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money - 06Australia Recommends Crypto-Currencies Be Considered Real Money - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:22] <exec> 08└─About as far as other people will accept that commodity as a medium of exchange.
[02:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:redshift... - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:44] <exec> 08└─"dead-behind-the-eyes" ;-)
[02:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:redshift... - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:46] <exec> 08└─check the calibration ( and that it is set for right region). Depending on your monitor or other apps trying to change the screen, the effect may not be implemented. I used it for the first time in 2013 and I really couldn't believe how quickly I'd start feeling like sleep at 9pm (say).
[02:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02interesting! - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:51] <exec> 08└─Interesting article and good posts by peeps here. My wife has trouble sleeping some nights - I'm going to talk to her about melatonin. Am fortunate I don't have sleep problems, but I have always loved staying up the entire night: I like the serenity, that nothing much is happening.
[02:38:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:05] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I'm being unfairly pendantic here (again), but why would dead plants need natural defences from an evolutionary point of view? Are they defences that were in use whilst they were living that have just remained in death? I know deciduous trees pass toxins into their leaves to remove them from...
[02:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:08] <exec> 08└─One explanation is that the tree wants to prevent growth in its immediate vicinity for purely selfish reasons. Leaves dropped in fall that survive well into spring will suppress new saplings/plants from growing, thereby reducing competition against established trees.
[02:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:09] <exec> 08└─Just noticed earlier poster mentioned same thing, but yeah.. this makes sense.
[02:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:11] <exec> 08└─If you could devise a simulation (possibly using a genetic algorithm of some sort) of trees with leaves containing this enzyme vs trees without, to demonstrate its effect is directly responsible for creating the most successful (i.e. biggest) trees - couldn't you get published in Nature or something...
[02:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't matter... - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I just assume every single business I deal with on a daily basis is constantly trying to bleed me dry. It's my responsibility to defend every one of my pennies and research every option I have. I find I'm sometime stuck with the least worst option and oftentimes I find myself going without ins...
[02:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't matter... - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:06] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know anyone who loves using Oracle? I'm being serious. I have never read a comment online from an Oracle customer who were really happy with what they had. I have only limited experience with them, but at a previous job the PHB decided the new CRM system we were creating ourselves from s...
[02:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:26] <exec> 08└─we don't have the time or space to go into the details, but you really don't know much about me and your 'ideas' are borderline offensive. I do blame the country. we are supposed to increase our standard of life as generations progress. it WAS the american dream and for decades, it was a reality. th...
[02:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:34] <exec> 08└─so, I'm supposed to leave the concentration of the whos-who of tech companies to move to - where, again? I really don't understand that kind of thinking. if you don't want to live in the middle of computer-tech-ville, fine. that's your choice. but I do prefer to be in the middle of the action and fo...
[02:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:36] <exec> 08└─moving. so, its 'ok' to leave your home area because the system can't (wont!) support the middle class lifestyle? I'm a computer hw/sw guy. why the fuck SHOULD I move from the bay area? and what would that solve? I'll have even less companies to pick from, then, I'll have to leave my home and start...
[02:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:39] <exec> 08└─lets talk about what else you have to change when you move. I hear a lot of talk about moving to 'red states'. I'm a very progressive liberal person. how well will it work out for a guy like me to move to a conservative red state? you think that sounds good to me? move to a place where, if you're no...
[02:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:non-parents get the short end of the stick - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:55] <exec> 08└─companies are at an all-time high in terms of profits; and yet workers are at a nearly all-time low in keeping up with cost of living. unions from 50 yrs ago improved life much more than we have now. how have we let things get SO BAD???
[02:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not enough, yet way too much - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:02] <exec> 08└─A basic income would eliminate the need for unemployment insurance and food stamp programs, and paired with single-payer healthcare it would significantly improve everyones' lives and the consumer economy (buying products) and worker economy (buying labor), however pensions are something you earn th...
[02:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not enough, yet way too much - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:07] <exec> 08└─I believe the greatest cause of deviation from the ideal is the wielding of the club. Just putting the club down would make the world much closer to ideal.
[02:40:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02Re:The reflection content - 06Algorithm Demonstrates Removal of Obstructions, Reflections While Capturing Pictures - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:37] <exec> 08└─The most obvious application is the Google Streetview cars. Need to remove cars, people, take pictures in the rain or with dirty cameras, and see around corners to capture a sidewalk you can't drive down? I doubt we will see this on a smart phone anytime soon, but I could imagine that the street vie...
[02:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:GIMP - 06Algorithm Demonstrates Removal of Obstructions, Reflections While Capturing Pictures - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:56] <exec> 08└─Had me scared there for a second. The GIMP website [gimp.org] was good to go when I just checked it.
[02:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ban Porn? - 06India Nixes Online Porn Ban Following Intense Public Outrage on Social Media - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:47] <exec> 08└─Um. no thanks.
[02:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score:2) 02Re:Never will be used in the field - 06New Clot-Busting Treatment Targets Number One Killer - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:35] <exec> 08└─Symptoms sound like a heart attack? That could be any of: myocardial infarction (the classic heart attack), pulmonary embolism, gastric reflux, pancreatitis, aortic dissection, pericardial tamponade, aortic injury, and others.
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[03:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It is not that paranoid... - 06China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:21] <exec> 08└─Everybody forgets that heartbleed was a byproduct of a developer who had recieved USG funds, and had multiple serious security vulnerabilities found under his commits in the openssl codebase. OpenBSD and a few other projects have run across similiar actors and similiar 'chains of bugs' over the year...
[03:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about America? - 06China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:22] <exec> 08└─Given that corporations gladly give tons of information about us over to the government, what would the point be? Also, with the government trying to push through nonsense like CISA, the problem will only get worse.
[03:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money - 06Australia Recommends Crypto-Currencies Be Considered Real Money - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:32] <exec> 08└─Whaa? Drugs?
[03:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Android Solution? - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:03] <exec> 08└─I'm one of those crazies that uses a phablet as my primary computer and internet connection. Does anyone know of an equivalent to f.lux for Android? Is it even possible to accomplish such a thing on Android?
[03:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Android Solution? - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:05] <exec> 08└─https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor [google.com] for lowering screen brightness f.lux has Linux and iOS but no Android. Searching flux on Google Play shows some alternatives
[03:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:1) 02The best - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:07] <exec> 08└─Just chiming in that I use flux (desktops) and twilight (mobile), and am a huge fan. Among other things, converting my wife to use twilight has dramatically cut her before-bed-gameplaying insomnia, and red-shift-dims it for me, who must tolerate the it.
[03:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:25] <exec> 08└─Or remove fallen leaves from trees in one group and not for a control group, then see how they fare. You could do this in different ways without affecting the ground below e.g. suspend nets below tree branches.
[03:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Build your own stuff - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:08] <exec> 08└─public institutions don't develop their own software Munich: LiMux (a respin of Debian/Ubuntu) with an all-FOSS userland for all city employees has saved them €millions (That was 2012, so add a bunch more). [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [h-online.com] shared among similar institutions Munich agai...
[03:39:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] 02govt != business - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 436 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:22] <exec> 08└─It is public money and should serve public good. If Postgresql (or your DB of choice) doesn't do the job, fund it until it does. The changes go back to the public. Let Oracle sell to other corporations or private interests. But the public software infrastructure should not be held hostage by profit...
[03:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:46] <exec> 08└─Clearly, we need to raise taxes on the poor even farther, while ignoring that the effective tax rate on the rich is very small.
[03:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:non-parents get the short end of the stick - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:40:10] <exec> 08└─How did this garbage get modded up? More time off is needed for everyone because people are worked to the bone. It's not merely an issue for parents. Free time and disposable income are personal matters, not employer policies. Irrelevant.
[03:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Silver nanoparticles? - 06Silver-Laced Bottles Prolong Shelf Life of Milk - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks... what you described is exactly what went down. I am older and wiser now, but in my youth I did many an asinine thing. Fortunately lived to tell about it. I guess the most terrible thing is with as much experience as I have acquired, I *still* do quite asinine things from time to time. Usu...
[03:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting. - 06TrueCrypt "Decrypted" by FBI to Nab USAF Sysadmin - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:22] <exec> 08└─Many lawyers, in many cases, will tell their clients not to discuss the case. Not just before/during, but after. Simply, there's usually nothing to be gained by talking.
[03:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:Why does everyone think cracking right away? - 06TrueCrypt "Decrypted" by FBI to Nab USAF Sysadmin - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:34] <exec> 08└─they would splice into the power input so they can move it without powering it down.
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[04:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:13] <exec> 08└─Nope, never going to happen. And why not? Scientists are intelligent enough to know that constitutional rule of law does not exist in America today. Why not refuse to perform any research that they absolutely know for sure will be used to violate civil rights? Why? I'll tell you why. Pride. Scientis...
[04:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:14] <exec> 08└─Your civil rights are long dead and buried. The scientists can slide into the ruling class and benefit from their discoveries, eventually seeking eternal life. It's not evil to look out for #1 because there is no such thing as evil - just you and the people who rule over you.
[04:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:15] <exec> 08└─You're envious of the rich, aren't you? Hey, you know how you can get lots of money and become rich real fast? Murder everyone and take their money. Do it. Do it now. Do it just to find out how many people will declare that you are evil.
[04:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:17] <exec> 08└─That's the money making advice of a whining loser, so no.
[04:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:19] <exec> 08└─You'd murder everyone if a rich person told you to do it, wouldn't you? That's how Obama convinces poor people to kill in his name, right? You love Obama, don't you, because you follow the winner!
[04:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:20] <exec> 08└─Presidents and poor people are just tools to be used. Your Obama complex keeps you occupied while the real power brokers do their work.
[04:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:22] <exec> 08└─This reply is offtopic as hell as regards to the original story submission, but I just have to reply to my parent who asks would I kill in Obama's name. When one researches our own psychology, we find many of us, maybe even most, are recruitable as hitmen for the rich. This part of our human conditi...
[04:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nanomachines - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:24] <exec> 08└─>One step closer to real tricorders? nanomachines, son
[04:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nanomachines - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:25] <exec> 08└─If teenagers obtain tricorders: spy on and rape each other. If teenagers obtain phasers: stun and rape each other. If teenagers obtain transporters: teleport and rape each other. If teenagers obtain replicators: replicate dildos to rape each other.
[04:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nanomachines - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:27] <exec> 08└─Rape? Sounds like they all want it.
[04:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about America? - 06China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:35] <exec> 08└─Why do they need to plant government operatives in computer and online corporations when they already do such a good job of spying on their customers? (watching The Ipcress File on TCM as I type - paranoia is fuelled!)
[04:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is America! - 06China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:36] <exec> 08└─In this land of freedom, every black female lesbian veteran is free to unlock her potential and be the best she can be. We the government need to spy on you to make sure that you are not receiving any freedoms that are reserved for designated minority groups. For freedom.
[04:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Twilight for Android - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:20] <exec> 08└─Twilight for Android works respectably, and certainly makes a difference if I have to look at my phone at odd hours.
[04:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:31] <exec> 08└─There is no reasoning in evolution. Shit happens, and somethings stick around just because.
[04:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Your nick - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:33] <exec> 08└─I wondered where you came up with that. bated [google.com] -- gewg_
[04:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed and I wonder if there are other implications as well... like wouldn't a long lasting dense leaf cover on the ground help keep the soil a bit warmer, thereby protecting its surface roots from the cold?
[04:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Professor Nikolai Brilliantov? - 06Scientists Solve Planetary Ring Riddle - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:04] <exec> 08└─I was thinking Venture Brothers.
[04:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter... - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:39] <exec> 08└─If you thought my my post was in any way defending businesses, it's quite the opposite. Interesting that you assumed otherwise, that disturbs me about you, Anonymous Coward.
[04:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't care - 06What Video Games Are Teaching Banks About Your Habits - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:48] <exec> 08└─They aren't going to learn anything about me. I don't play video games.
[04:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a HORRIBLE idea. - 06Silver-Laced Bottles Prolong Shelf Life of Milk - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:28] <exec> 08└─A fictional TV show should never be used to support your position on anything (except culture).
[04:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Food Poisons - 06Silver-Laced Bottles Prolong Shelf Life of Milk - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:58] <exec> 08└─THEN they came out with skim milk, and 2% and 1%. Crazy shit. If you want a glass of water, there's the tap. If you want milk, there's the cow. Jeez, Louise, all the government ever did with milk, was to piss me off.
[04:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Entanglement - what is it? - 06Physicist Unveils Plan for Entangling Massive Objects - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:00] <exec> 08└─From your description it seems as though 4 bits were transferred and at the same instant. The only to work on is scale and distance.
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[05:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:10] <exec> 08└─Cheapest way to buy a scanner: buy a multifunction device and don't ever use it as a printer.
[05:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:11] <exec> 08└─A dedicated scanner usually provides better scan quality with more control. So it usually depends on what you need the scanner for.
[05:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:12] <exec> 08└─The worst thing about inkjet printers is that if you let them go unused for a few weeks the ink dries up and clogs the nozzles. Many times you have to replace the entire cartridge. If these printers have the same problem, but you can't even replace the nozzles, that would suuuuuck. Or blow, or clog,...
[05:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:28] <exec> 08└─I would tell Milgram to go to hell, I never obey orders, and I immediately leave any social circle that expects me to be a team player. Also I don't use Facebook.
[05:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nanomachines - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:32] <exec> 08└─They want it, but not from losers. Desperate losers will be doing all the rape. Therefore all Star Trek technology must be preemptively banned, to protect your popular daughters from getting raped by your neighbors' unpopular son.
[05:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02concealed imaging - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:33] <exec> 08└─You carrying dope, bro? Nope guess not. But hey lookit, da scanna says you got money in yo wallet. Don't you know theys a toll to pay for walkin thru this hood?
[05:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:I use f.lux - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:07] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I would go into the color settings of the monitor and remove blue. I've been doing this for years now and I think it does help. ...
[05:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02f.lux may not be helpful - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 2576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:32] <exec> 08└─However, there's been some recent research on colour at twilight and dusk, and the researchers believe that the LED colours in our monitors do not appropriately match the colours that stimulate the necessary parts of our body: So based on this, what are your opinions on screen-altering software lik...
[05:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:1) 02Some apps do not take latitude into consideration - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:33] <exec> 08└─I have not used the f.lux but I have used redshift, a similar program. What I find terribly wrong with redshift is how it makes the screen more red according to how high/low the sun is and not according to the time of the day. It does all the trouble to locate where on earth you are located and then...
[05:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:govt != business - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:57] <exec> 08└─PostgreSQL is completely free (both in money and in source code) and runs very well. Very competitive to Oracle when starting up or maintaining. How does that translate to spending more money than Oracle? If you're talking about making improvements in the PostgreSQL code base (which I think you are)...
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[05:41:42] <exec> 08└─domain not active is what I see as well.
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[06:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Captain Kirk Comments... - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:10] <exec> 08└─Deflector Shields Up Mr Sulu!
[06:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe 10 years ago. But unless you are working in publishing, nobody needs all that.
[06:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:oh no - 06China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:50] <exec> 08└─The FBI respectfully submits that it was their idea first.
[06:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money - 06Australia Recommends Crypto-Currencies Be Considered Real Money - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:06] <exec> 08└─Depends on how the government treats bartering.
[06:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Re:Money - 06Australia Recommends Crypto-Currencies Be Considered Real Money - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:07] <exec> 08└─Bartering is subject to VAT (Value Added Tax) in the UK ref: https://www.gov.uk [www.gov.uk] As I understand it, even if no cash changes hands VAT is due on what that good or service would have cost at typical rates outside of barter. Seems like a long closed...
[06:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I use f.lux - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:21] <exec> 08└─I've done that too.
[06:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Re:Naive Approach - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:33] <exec> 08└─A 4 hour sleep phase fits in with theories about "Segmented sleep", or "Bimodal sleep". (Quoted terms can be used for searching). Basically, the theory is we naturally have a night time sleep pattern that involves ~4 hours asleep followed by ~1 - 2 hours of wakefulness followed by another ~4 hour sl...
[06:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Re:Some apps do not take latitude into considerati - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:49] <exec> 08└─I suppose technically it is trying to align your circadian rhythm with the natural world outside your four walls. In days long past, at such a northerly latitude, you'd have stashed food and water away for the months of the year when everything is frozen and dark most of the time. Not much point bei...
[06:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02Firefox and ToggleDocumentColors - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:50] <exec> 08└─Set your own custom page text and background colours in FF and bind a shortcut key to it with ToggleDocumentColors [mozilla.org]. I only toggle the default page colours when there are css watermark images on a site, which are hidden when FF's user defined colours are selected.
[06:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:39:08] <exec> 08└─Plants cannot see or plan ahead of time and cannot see the consequences of their actions down the line, the way humans do. After a leaf falls, the tree cannot know what happens to it, because it is now disconnected from mothership. It only knows what is currently happening and how its actions change...
[06:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:40:45] <exec> 08└─It's simple market economics, not some sort of conspiracy. Yes, being near a concentrated hub of economic activity has its benefits, but that comes at a price. One that you seem to be finding out is too high right now. Twenty years ago when Silicon Valley was just starting it was reasonably affordab...
[06:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:GIMP - 06Algorithm Demonstrates Removal of Obstructions, Reflections While Capturing Pictures - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:02] <exec> 08└─Strange... I just had to verify subsequent postings... I am now getting "Domain not active" as well. Really odd. It *was* there. Now its not. Maybe I got tripped up on a cached copy of the webpage?
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[07:37:12] <exec> 08└─Federation bureaucrat orders the shields lowered, right now, for political reasons. Are your officers brave enough to disobey orders? Well let's see. Did the American Empire survive the Post-Atomic Horror? Is mindless bootlicking obedience expected in your future? Tell you what, mod me down for ment...
[07:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:23] <exec> 08└─I thought so too. Then I found out that Canon made multifunctions that refused to work as a scanner when the ink ran out / dried up...
[07:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:26] <exec> 08└─No. Epson would not intentionally ship a printer that you either had to constantly use or throw out the entire printer because one of the nozzles got plugged. That would be wrong.
[07:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:28] <exec> 08└─If the printer is left on 24/7 it wil flush the heads with ink to prevent this. If you replace the ink cartridge with an external kit you won't feel to bad about the waste.
[07:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:concealed imaging - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:49] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I don't speak jive.
[07:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:redshift... - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:46] <exec> 08└─My glasses have a blue light filter. Gives everything a slight red tint, but it is very subtle. Not sure how much it helps, but it is all the rage in Japan.
[07:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow! - 06ICANN Compromised... Again - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:30] <exec> 08└─There probably were, and they just didn't notice. Or didn't bother telling anyone .
[07:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:50] <exec> 08└─Renting is almost always more expensive. You have to pay the mortgage plus professional maintenance that you could do more cheaply yourself plus profit for the landlord. You can't even switch utility supplier to get a better deal. It will always be more than you would pay to own the same property yo...
[07:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:another side - 06Probable Cause Required for Cell Phone Tracking in US 4th Circuit - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:36] <exec> 08└─They have the guns, "The rule of Law" and years of conditioning the public into thinking they are sheep. They can do whatever the fuck they want.
[07:44:34] <crutchy> ~deop
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[08:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 029/11 Underwater! - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:30] <exec> 08└─Somebody crash a couple submarines into two subsurface subscrapers! OH NOES. And Don't Forget to talk about it for the next two fucking decades. 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 UNDERWATER!! OH FUCKING NOES! Never ever shut the fuck up about 9/11!!!
[08:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:9/11 Underwater! - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:32] <exec> 08└─Nobody mentioned 9/11, dickwad, you're the one who won't shut the fuck up.
[08:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02"Because"? - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:42] <exec> 08└─Because current space craft are capable of shielding radiation from Sol, the shield must protect against galactic cosmic rays.
[08:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Because"? - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:44] <exec> 08└─Because current space craft are already capable of shielding radiation from Sol, this new shield is not strictly necessary for shielding radiation from Sol, yet it may prove useful for shielding against galactic cosmic rays.
[08:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:"Because"? - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:46] <exec> 08└─Because current space craft are capable of shielding radiation from Sol, the shield must protect against galactic cosmic rays.
[08:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:56] <exec> 08└─On a distantly related note, the finnish bureucracy system already gives instructions on how to construct an ad-hoc scanner from a smartphone and cardboard..
[08:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:01] <exec> 08└─Been there, done that. I'm not real sure that it still applies, but some years ago, the wife brought home a cheap printer from - you guessed it, Walmart - and hooked it up. She just HAD TO print something, so she bought the cheapest thing Wally had. Days later, she caught the boys wasting paper and...
[08:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:concealed imaging - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:23] <exec> 08└─Your stubborn refusal to speak jive won't help you when the local thugs beat you and take your wallet.
[08:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter... - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:58] <exec> 08└─.Your suck at expressing yourself reflects solely on yourself. If you are disturbed by how people interpret your writing, don't write minimalist vague, sarcastic sentences that test Poe's Law.
[08:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:24] <exec> 08└─I disagree with you that the Illuminati got together and decided to form a cartel to destroy America. But that's not important. What's important is that blaming the country is not going to fix the situation you're unhappy about, because you can't fix the country. Vote for whoever, sure, but realize...
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[09:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02you mean Zoë Saldana? - 06Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's 'Uhura,' Will Fly on NASA's SOFIA Observatory - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:38] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows who Nichelle Nichols is.
[09:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Free energy is not free - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:50] <exec> 08└─Free energy is not really free. It affects something else usually. Today it might be beyond our knowledge as to how these deep waves affects everything, so we might want to "tap" this infinite source of free energy oblivious to the consequences. Just because it can be done does not mean it should be...
[09:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Free energy is not free - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:51] <exec> 08└─Did you just say TANSTAAFL?
[09:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Free energy can be used to kill terrists - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:52] <exec> 08└─Kill those terrists! For the freedoms!
[09:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Insightful) 02not the solution, just trouble - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:54] <exec> 08└─There's so much energy in those oceans. If the engineering challenges could be overcome tapping the currents, tides, and waves like these could solve a big chunk of mankind's demand for power.
[09:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, that got me to say farewell to Canon printers. A dubious error message that suddenly condemned the original print head as incompatible, resulting in a dysfunctional scanner. I found out that I wasn't the only one who got that error message, some people are even preparing a class action suit ove...
[09:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Finally! - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:23] <exec> 08└─It might be cheaper to buy and use one of these than just buying a cheap new printer off QVC and HSN specials whenever my HP cartridges get low.
[09:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:40:18] <exec> 08└─Have you ever heard of this new idea called "evolution"? Trees don't know anything. They can't plan at all, regardless of whether they or their constituent parts are alive or dead (which, incidentally, is not always a simple binary distinction). They don't need to. Random mutations - such as leaves...
[09:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Defences of dead plants - 06We Finally Know What Worms Use to Digest Dead Leaves - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:40:24] <exec> 08└─its just some silliness from the summary (or perhaps its in the WP already). I am not aware of any proposed function of polyphenols (which is the toxin the original paper [nature.com] talks about) in dead leaves. They are however well-known protectors against herbivory in living plants. I do not thi...
[09:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:00] <exec> 08└─you must not have had the kinds of landlords I have had. they put NO money into maintenance. what 'maint' they did, they did themselves, they fucked it up and ruined things. one time, the landlady tried to bilk me for over $400 on 2 items that had no damage at all. but oh - during the winter, the he...
[09:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:GIMP - 06Algorithm Demonstrates Removal of Obstructions, Reflections While Capturing Pictures - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:23] <exec> 08└─The website is back up again, but no mention of the black out. Apparently the domain registration had expired. Hopefully the original owners got it back, but I'm suspicious enough to check the next version thoroughly before installing it.
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[10:37:48] <exec> 08└─Now we can prove it! Death to Allah! Thanks be to MIT eggheads!
[10:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SOFIA is the B-Ark - 06Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's 'Uhura,' Will Fly on NASA's SOFIA Observatory - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, send the phone operator to join the non-essential personnel on the B-Ark.
[10:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02First alien kiss? - 06Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's 'Uhura,' Will Fly on NASA's SOFIA Observatory - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:01] <exec> 08└─Oh my!
[10:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a charming negress! - 06Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's 'Uhura,' Will Fly on NASA's SOFIA Observatory - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:02] <exec> 08└─In our century, have we learned not to fear words yet, or will this be marked flamebait? Charming black female negress.
[10:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:03] <exec> 08└─What color is the carpet in your mom's basement?
[10:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about America? - 06China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:25] <exec> 08└─"watching The Ipcress File on TCM as I type" Thanks for the metadata.
[10:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Re:Some apps do not take latitude into considerati - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:40:23] <exec> 08└─I am sure you do not want to sleep 1-2h a night in the summer and 18 hours during the winter. In the north it would be stupid to wake up and go to sleep according to the sun. I agree we should align to the sunlight, but in a such way that we are awake when there is as much sunlight as possible. Howe...
[10:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow, look at this waste - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:41] <exec> 08└─The magic word is "consultant". The second that a large government IT project appears, they appear like flies around shit. And, profit being what it is, they will churn out crap compatible with the crap specifications they are given, charge a fortune, take all the cash, then run when government want...
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[11:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how soon before universal translator - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:56] <exec> 08└─With a universal translator there would be no chance of misunderstanding so we can insult each other with perfect clarity. The resulting world war is sure to wipe out all human life which is exactly what humans deserve. All your mothers are lesbian necrophiles.
[11:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how soon before universal translator - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:57] <exec> 08└─> no chance of misunderstanding... lesbian necrophiles. I don't understand! Can you point me to a website with pictures?
[11:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Conclusion based reasoning - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:58] <exec> 08└─It is true when you study another language you begin to see your own so much more clearly. There are many words that are similar from one language to another but that's likely because of historical borrowing. How difficult it must be to untangle all those loanwords and get back to the original langu...
[11:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Conclusion based reasoning - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:00] <exec> 08└─Conclusion based reasoning serves to demonstrate that human cognition is biased toward quick easy answers. Now fund my research to conclude whatever you want me to conclude, baby.
[11:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:3, Informative) 02Wrong language - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:02] <exec> 08└─Snippet from the first line of the summary, with emphasis added by me: finds it fascinating that Hindu and Farsi are far more closely related to
[11:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong language - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:03] <exec> 08└─That's a fighting typo! War! It's war over this!
[11:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can't bite - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:05] <exec> 08└─All languages, the authors say, self-organise in such a way that related concepts stay as close together as possible within a sentence, making it easier to piece together the overall meaning.
[11:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't bite - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:07] <exec> 08└─Oh? I would not be quite so skeptical. Research into psychology, when it is not being used to study how to control people and force them to obey authority, has discovered that short term memory holds approximately five to nine things at any one time, so it might be a reasonable coincidence that lang...
[11:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't bite - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's a god damn breakthru. UPS him some medals.
[11:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Free energy is not free - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:31] <exec> 08└─Free energy is not really free. It affects something else usually.
[11:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not the solution, just trouble - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:33] <exec> 08└─Your point about the hubris we've shown is well taken. we already have the solution to our power problems and it's been bombarding Earth with free power since there was an Earth.
[11:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03negativefactor [3209] (Score:1) 02Re:"Because"? - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:47] <exec> 08└─For anyone curious as to why although is technically incorrect here... www.grammar-quizzes.com/9-1.html
[11:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Because"? - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:49] <exec> 08└─Also, the Sun is the proper name to use, at least among the scientifically and/or technically literate.
[11:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:12] <exec> 08└─I got one of those little black Canon multifunctions because we have one at work and it seemed to work pretty nice. The wholesale store was selling them for $99 so I picked one up (btw, a wholesale price on the ink replacement pack is $60). It wasn't until later at work when I was trying to fax some...
[11:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:17] <exec> 08└─I just bought a relatively inexpensive laser printer. It can sit for months and still be ready to print whenever I need it. Granted, mine does have the problem of not printing in color - but who really needs that? That's what Kinkos is for.
[11:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally! - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:19] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with laser printers? They are cheap for quite some times - I paid about $120 for a Samsung ML2010 some... let me see... 7 or 8 years ago. Mmmm... seems like you can find colour ones now dirt cheap (AUD65 [officeworks.com.au] for example?)
[11:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:concealed imaging - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:45] <exec> 08└─He says he's in great pain, and wants to know if you can help him. http://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lux for Android - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:02] <exec> 08└─There's a similar app, giraffine.dimmer [f-droid.org], in the F-droid repository.
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[12:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Remember those old days? - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:36] <exec> 08└─When WASPs controlled mindless nigger farmhands? The old days sure did suck. Now where's that emancipation proclamation for spiders? God damn God.
[12:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Doh... - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:37] <exec> 08└─Even a fungus [wikipedia.org] can do it O. unilateralis, also referred to as a zombie fungus, infects ants of the Camponotini tribe, with the full pathogenesis being characterized by alteration of the behavioral patterns of the infected ant. Infected hosts leave their canopy nests and foraging trail...
[12:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Doh... - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:38] <exec> 08└─Right, so you could weaponize the fungus for human hosts, drop it on your enemy's population centers, and wait for chaos to ensue.
[12:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nothing novel about mindless people - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:41] <exec> 08└─I see them every day. I could shoot some video and digitally remove the iPhone and you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference.
[12:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02Re:Conclusion based reasoning - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:54] <exec> 08└─This is a topic of heated debate, almost like religion. Well, because religion plays into it. Did gods/flying saucer people put us here with just one breeding pair, and thus one language? Or did humans evolve in several parallel tracks, each stumbling across the concept of language independently? So...
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[12:37:55] <exec> 08└─No, I don't think that is implied by evolution based models. It's allowed, but not implied. The thing is, just having the genetic capability to use language doesn't automatically gift you with even a simple language, so the capability could spread and the invention happen in several independent plac...
[12:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conclusion based reasoning - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:57] <exec> 08└─Look into twin languages (twins sometimes spend so much time together they acquire a language that only the two of them know, usually learning the actual language of their parents at the normal rate) and creoles/creolization (basically the creation of a language from non-linguistic input, sometimes...
[12:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong language - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:59] <exec> 08└─finds it fascinating that Hindi and Farsu are far more closely related to
[12:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't bite - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:04] <exec> 08└─DHL or else!
[12:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't bite - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:06] <exec> 08└─Can't. My server, she needs the UPS.
[12:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Can't bite - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:08] <exec> 08└─And then you get German, where all the verbs are piled up at the end of an extremely long sentence. -- > And then you German, where all the verbs at the end of of an extremely long sentence are put, get. In academic writing, sorting out the concepts is hard work because whole dense paragraphs of...
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[12:38:09] <exec> 08└─Apologies: that link is to the audiobook. The text is Appendix D of "A Tramp Abroad" http://www.gutenberg.org [gutenberg.org]
[12:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Really ? - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:11] <exec> 08└─Time to practice esperanto. Maybe by translating the summary. MITuloj diri, ke lingvoj ĉie sur la mondo, ne tute alia.
[12:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Acronyms - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:14] <exec> 08└─I am glad mendax defined the acronym in the footnotes, because I read PNAS in an entirely different way.
[12:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DNied [3409] (Score:2) 02Milk ?! - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:15] <exec> 08└─"Milk" doesn't really look like a good example for a word that is similar across the world. Cf. Italian Latte (and similar forms in all other Romance languages), Turkish Süt, etc.
[12:38:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02not the solution, just trouble - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:35] <exec> 08└─There's so much energy in those oceans. If the engineering challenges could be overcome tapping the currents, tides, and waves like these could solve a big chunk of mankind's demand for power.
[12:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02Re:not the solution, just trouble - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:37] <exec> 08└─You didn't get the bolded part of the solution. He was referring to solar energy. You know PV....
[12:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02i'll order one! - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:52] <exec> 08└─now if they can make it "flexible" we could weave a fukushima suit and re-inhabit all the world wide exclusion zones?
[12:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:13] <exec> 08└─The worst thing about inkjet printers is that if you let them go unused for a few weeks the ink dries up and clogs the nozzles.
[12:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Holy Cow, Really? - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:39] <exec> 08└─An article on how a cheaper, easier way to generate terahertz radiation could put real scanners in everyone's pocket, or enable much more viable mesh networks that could get us around the telecoms, and this is the thread that results? On Soylent? I am honestly astonished.
[12:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What about America? - 06China to Embed Internet Police in Tech Firms - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:56] <exec> 08└─They do that. What I gathered from going through the process with the CIA is that it's very difficult to arrange, because the companies they want to embed spies with nearly always have significant business interests in the countries where the US govt. wants to spy, and if the spy gets caught the com...
[12:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:GIMP - 06Algorithm Demonstrates Removal of Obstructions, Reflections While Capturing Pictures - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:20] <exec> 08└─I just looked at the provided link. I'm not familiar with the normal website, but the current thing requires javascript to show anything, and looks fishy to me. I suppose that that *could* be the normal way that they run their page, but it's not something I would trust.
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[13:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Disorder in men with a disorder - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:08] <exec> 08└─The study group consist of men eating bodybuilding supplements. From TFA: For the study, the researchers recruited 195 men age 18-65 who had consumed legal appearance- or performance-enhancing supplements (e.g., whey protein, creatine, L-carnitine) in the past 30 days and had stated that they work o...
[13:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Illop [2741] (Score:1) 02Re:Disorder in men with a disorder - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:09] <exec> 08└─I as well do not see much of a problem compared to the other McDonalds eating end of the spectrum. The only harm can be using to much whey/egg/milk/soy protein powder without consuming enough water as well, sure fire way to get golf ball sized kidney stones.
[13:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ugh - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:11] <exec> 08└─All that psychobabble made me puke coffee. Should have stuck with whiskey.
[13:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Doh... - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:21] <exec> 08└─Better than weaponize wasps for the same purpose, don't you think? Be it for the only reason I'm yet to see humans secreting web spiders for the wasps progeny. (grin)
[13:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Doh... - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:22] <exec> 08└─Or you could just use anthrax or smallpox. Much more infectious, much harder to contain. Who gives a fuck if it turns people into "zombies", particularly since all cordycepts does is motivate ants to seek high ground to disperse spores when it dies.
[13:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02ha ha ha - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:25] <exec> 08└─stupid spider! sry gtg now, have work to do so I earn money so I pay taxes. Oh, wait.
[13:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:how soon before universal translator - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:36] <exec> 08└─This was said in jest, but there is some truth to it. I want to say in class (I want to say in a Negotiations class) we talked a bit about how the ambiguity of language and how it plays out in making civilization work. As an example, consider the ambiguity of how slaves would be classified and treat...
[13:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Acronyms - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:54] <exec> 08└─"papers not accepted in science"? "papers nature accurately skips"?
[13:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Milk ?! - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:56] <exec> 08└─"Milk" doesn't really look like a good example for a word that is similar across the world. Cf. Italian Latte (and similar forms in all other Romance languages), Turkish Süt, etc.
[13:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Submission, DLM, - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:57] <exec> 08└─1. In the submission: The idea that all the major language families is nothing new, ...
[13:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:"Because"? - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:38] <exec> 08└─But it doesn't have that sci-fi futuristic zing.
[13:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Might be good for more than shielding - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:40] <exec> 08└─This is a huge piece of getting people off of the Earth, but it might be possible for this field to do double duty. Since this field will deflect radiation, it might be used as a magnetic solar sail to provide thrust to the craft. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Thrust...
[13:38:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NoMaster [3543] 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:55] <exec> 08└─I thought so too. Then I found out that Canon made multifunctions that refused to work as a scanner when the ink ran out / dried up...
[13:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:57] <exec> 08└─That fuckin explains it.... I threw that piece of shit away was about 1.5 years old.
[13:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score:1) 02Re:Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:04] <exec> 08└─same here, but i went with a color, duplex, network type. for the 10 times per year we need to print something, it just works. the thing cost about $500 in 2008, and the black toner's down to about 1/2; color toner has even lower usage than that. the alternative was that we continue hitting staples...
[13:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:05] <exec> 08└─They're not all like that. My Lexmark, for example, spontaneously goes through a quick cleaning cycle every few days to keep its head clear and ready — even if it's turned off (but still connected to power). You might think this would waste ink, but I haven't noticed any significant ink loss; ca...
[13:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:govt != business - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:18] <exec> 08└─I would mod you higher, but you're already maxed. What you said ought to be the gold standard for govt IT.
[13:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 2133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:48] <exec> 08└─What savings do you have when student loans you incurred to get that job siphon all of it away? What margin do you have when you're living in a market that pays salaries high enough to clear anything over your student loan payments, but then siphons it away again in higher cost of living? I'm frankl...
[13:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:02] <exec> 08└─I was defining the wage stagnation by this graph [wikimedia.org], which is wages versus productivity (there are lots of variations from a bunch of different sources, but they all show basically the same story). For the "women's lib caused it" hypothesis to be correct, we should have seen the split b...
[13:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:non-parents get the short end of the stick - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:13] <exec> 08└─You're right. The solution for society to make more money is to stop having any children. That is not the long-term solution you think it is.
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[14:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Looks like link to article got lost in translation - 06Laser Powered Ultrafast Electron Camera Lets Researchers Peer Inside Objects - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:08] <exec> 08└─http://phys.org/news/2015-08-ultrafast-electron-diffraction-reveals-rapid.html [phys.org]
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02conspiracy nuts seem less and less crazy - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:20] <exec> 08└─It seems that with every year that passes the conspiracy nuts seem less and less crazy. Perhaps they are just broken clocks, and some of them had to be right about something eventually; but nontheless the push in society to accept morbid obesity as beautiful and strong men as pathological is worryin...
[14:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:conspiracy nuts seem less and less crazy - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:21] <exec> 08└─That's because so many Oprah-worshipping fatasses suffering from Porcine Troughitis envied the sympathy the anorexics and bulemics were getting.
[14:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:conspiracy nuts seem less and less crazy - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:22] <exec> 08└─Look, both obesity and unbalanced muscle-building diets are unhealthy. Not equally unhealthy, of course, going from obese to overweight over the course of 10 years decreases your risk of metabolic disorders 56% in those same 10 years(going from overweight to healthy takes 92% off) Whereas protein ov...
[14:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Re:conspiracy nuts seem less and less crazy - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:24] <exec> 08└─the adult human nervous system can only metabolize simple carbs for some of its primary functions, and if you're having nothing but protein powder, you can be at real risk
[14:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Faux News? - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:25] <exec> 08└─faux News? Please never again link to that cesspool of bigotry and racism.
[14:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02What's why? - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:38] <exec> 08└─"[The] cocoon web has to endure falling debris, the elements and animal strikes for a long time — at least four to five times longer than [a] resting web," Takasuka said.
[14:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong language - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:59] <exec> 08└─It's also hardly surprising that Hindi and Farsi are related: Both are at least partially descended from the same proto-Indo-Iranian language, with Hindi splitting off after the invasion of India by the people usually called "Aryans". They're about as closely related as English and Russian - definit...
[14:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Milk ?! - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:12] <exec> 08└─Obviously there has to be a word for "sun" as well, because it is awkward to describe it each time as: "the yellowish disc above us that is so bright that looking at it pains the eyes". If at all, there might be a "compression" in force that causes common things to be shortened in form. E.g. "sun" p...
[14:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:SOFIA is the B-Ark - 06Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's 'Uhura,' Will Fly on NASA's SOFIA Observatory - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:24] <exec> 08└─Uhura wasn't non-essential. If she had been, she would have been as interchangeable as Yeoman Rand, and she wasn't. She saved the crew's butts on more than a few occasions (e.g. dealing with Mirror Sulu while the rest of them were re-kejiggering the transporters), and was in general much more involv...
[14:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:16] <exec> 08└─Canon scanners also clip the edges of your scans to save money. Your sheet is 8.5" wide but the scanning element will only do 8"
[14:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This just is! - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:27] <exec> 08└─A pencil-pusher at Epson discovered that due to recent market changes and changes in user behavior, it is now more profitable to reverse the current pricing trend... Corporate head-spinners began spinning on their heads to come up with a way to spin this onto the public... More at 11! If you ever th...
[14:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Illop [2741] (Score:1) 02Drm printing - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:29] <exec> 08└─Is why I still rock my Commodore MPS 1270a with a centronics to usb converter. 2 dollars a cartridge when you buy ten and you can run sheet paper or roll feed.
[14:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy Cow, Really? - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 1564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:53] <exec> 08└─I was so astonished about the level of discourse that I did not bother to write an on-topic response, even though this thing is close to research I am doing (a compact and (potentially) cheap THz spectrometer). Actually, this paper is far too early for the far-fetching pie in the sky stuff that the...
[14:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't matter... - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:35] <exec> 08└─Confirmed. You look for ways to argue with people no matter what is said. As someone aware of Poe's Law, and the context of my previous reply, the sarcasm should have been apparent. But here I go conversing with some Anonymous Coward.
[14:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:03] <exec> 08└─damn. you're harsh.
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[15:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:conspiracy nuts seem less and less crazy - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─most notably in that the adult human nervous system can only metabolize simple carbs for some of its primary functions, and if you're having nothing but protein powder, you can be at real risk.
[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Publicity - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:24] <exec> 08└─Well, lets see here. Dr. Achiro graduated about a year ago. He classifies himself as a psychotherapist. In Los Angeles. He just started his private practice. He lists student note-taker on his LinkedIn profile. This sounds like a recap of his masters and doctoral work and a publicity campaign to mak...
[15:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02I believe it - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:25] <exec> 08└─In one of the most popular diy soylent recipes, you add 20g of GNC Men's Mega Men Sport. Even with 20g, it delivers something like 2000% of your B vitamins, and similar results for most daily allowances (that is why it is used, easier to mix in a powder than multivitamin). When using the suggested s...
[15:37:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02ha ha ha - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:38] <exec> 08└─stupid spider! sry gtg now, have work to do so I earn money so I pay taxes. Oh, wait.
[15:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:1) 02More parastie fun - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:40] <exec> 08└─There are many examples of these type of controlling behaviors. I love finding this bookmark when I am bored and going through the last few months of new additions. http://dailyparasite.blogspot.co.uk [blogspot.co.uk]
[15:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:how soon before universal translator - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:53] <exec> 08└─Shaka, when the walls fell.
[15:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Submission, DLM, - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:17] <exec> 08└─>3. Considering Japanese or anything Finno-Ugric while extending the given example of "milk", I feel uncertain if there are any common roots past prehistoric grunting. Why, Milk in Japanese is MiLuKu, its clearly a close related language! On a more serious note, the paper says not much more: This ap...
[15:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:3, Touché) 02Universal language? - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:18] <exec> 08└─Already have a universal language: ANSI C.
[15:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02It's about respect - 06Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's 'Uhura,' Will Fly on NASA's SOFIA Observatory - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:31] <exec> 08└─Let me ask you a question: Do you want people in your daily life to treat you with respect? Your family? Your coworkers? The person serving you food?
[15:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Airplane! - 06Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's 'Uhura,' Will Fly on NASA's SOFIA Observatory - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─Is it just me or is that airplane of theirs bad ass looking? I mean, its got a huge death ray!
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:22] <exec> 08└─LOL. That's what I thought too, until the ink ran out every three months without printing anything and then even the scanner was locked out. It was an Epson, now it's sitting in the garage and replaced with a Cannon Laserjet which has a 2 year old toner cartridge that still works. I'll bet the new E...
[15:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:30] <exec> 08└─I got a Samsung CLP-315. It is not only color, but it works under Linux (although Mageia lacks some fixes and so it only works with the proprietary drivers). It never clogs, of course.
[15:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally! - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:35] <exec> 08└─A few years ago I found a HP CP1025nw on sale for $140 CAD, it was actually cheaper than black and white printers. I bought it and am still working on the introductory charges. Best part is (as I only print maybe a dozen times a year) I can leave it be for 10 months and OMG it still works! This on...
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Drm printing - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:38] <exec> 08└─The ribbon on my dot-matrix printer is getting weak, time to buy an ink roller and re-ink it.
[15:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:2) 02Re:Naive Approach - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:57] <exec> 08└─But do check with your doctor/pharmacist first if you're on prescription medication. Even if it has few side effects on its own, interactions are possible.
[15:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:2) 02Re:redshift... - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:02] <exec> 08└─Redshift, not Redshirt! Using Redshirt is likely to get you killed...
[15:41:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gringer [962] 02f.lux may not be helpful - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 2576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:17] <exec> 08└─However, there's been some recent research on colour at twilight and dusk, and the researchers believe that the LED colours in our monitors do not appropriately match the colours that stimulate the necessary parts of our body: So based on this, what are your opinions on screen-altering software lik...
[15:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03OwMyBrain [5044] (Score:1) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:33] <exec> 08└─you think that sounds good to me? move to a place where, if you're not christian and white and some other things, you're not accepted? I live in the bay area for many reasons, but one main one is that acceptance of those who do NOT believe in god. it is not a step-up for a guy like me to move to the...
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[16:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Energy and water - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:07] <exec> 08└─So... all the objections here that the article mentions are valid: economics(land and labor are expensive), technical limitations(can't grow certain crops this way), why bother(you could farm elsewhere traditional style). But they're also short term. We don't know how much bigger world population is...
[16:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02hydroponics experiences - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:09] <exec> 08└─to turn a defunct steel mill into a 70,000 square foot vertical farm
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disorder in men with a disorder - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─Well, there's an obvious parallel to eating disorders in females, where girls refuse to eat anything so they can be more proud of the way they look. It's still a problem even though it avoids obesity.
[16:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Ugh - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:28] <exec> 08└─Feelings of impotence?
[16:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Doh... - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:49] <exec> 08└─I'm yet to see humans secreting web spiders for the wasps progeny.
[16:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Doh... - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:51] <exec> 08└─I see you've never eaten natto.
[16:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Doh... - 06Walking Dead: How Wasps Control Spider Zombies - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:52] <exec> 08└─But somehow I have a hunch the slime in natto isn’t produced by humans, am I wrong?
[16:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how soon before universal translator - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:10] <exec> 08└─That's not an example of language ambiguity, but of a simple compromise.
[16:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Conclusion based reasoning - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:16] <exec> 08└─It has a lot of inconsistencies throughout the entire book, as well as countless inaccuracies.
[16:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] (Score:1) 02Re:Conclusion based reasoning - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:18] <exec> 08└─If you're in the evolution camp it just seems like it would also point to a single language.
[16:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conclusion based reasoning - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:20] <exec> 08└─Words are the least important part of the language. You could replace every word of a language with another one and still get essentially the same language; a dictionary would be enough for translating. Google Translate would be perfect on that one. What makes a language different is its structure....
[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong language - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:24] <exec> 08└─HINDI: a language commonly spoken in India. See what the difference is ?
[16:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't bite - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:32] <exec> 08└─Actually that's true only for subordinate clauses; for main clauses, the verb is strictly on the second position (well, there are exceptions also to this; in some cases you also have it at the beginning, for example in questions). Note however that the "verb" here is not necessarily the complete pre...
[16:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Submission, DLM, - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─Just yesterday read the saying (paraphrasing): "It takes uncommon minds to explore common things.". The research is more along those lines (at least I read the abstract now *g*). It seems obvious to us that the associativity of the brain would group related stuff when speaking too. But no one ever q...
[16:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Back in the dark ages... - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 1700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:43] <exec> 08└─...when I studied some natural language processing (from a computational point of view): about the only thing that you could say was that - for any given rule - you would find some damned language or dialect that violated it. Brains are apparently pretty flexible. The one example that has stuck with...
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:not the solution, just trouble - 06Scientists Track Subsurface Waves the Size of Skyscrapers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:12] <exec> 08└─we already have the solution to our power problems and it's been bombarding Earth with free power since there was an Earth.
[16:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might be good for more than shielding - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:31] <exec> 08└─They've already got a cryogenic high field magnet pork project [ams02.org] on the ISS (it didn't get the go-ahead based on its scientific merits), why do they need another?
[16:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might be good for more than shielding - 06A Superconducting Shield for Astronauts - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:32] <exec> 08└─There is very little meat being provided here, so expect this to be vaporware. The last time I ran the numbers, back when I was a cosmic ray guy, this was an unfeasible approach given the momenta of the particles you need to shield against. They say it would provide a magnetic bubble out to 10 meter...
[16:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:59] <exec> 08└─My exact problem. At the university I actually dug out my parent's old dot matrix printer. They never go bad (still used in high dust environments). Although the drivers were a little tricky; not to mention I tried making a banner, which used to be a standard feature of dot matrix printers but softw...
[16:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ankh [754] (Score:1) 02answer depends on your light source and your eyes - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─I've read a report that f.lux works from a guy who owns a recent very high contrast (black is really, really black) monitor. My experience is, not helpful enough with an older, more typical monitor where a "completely black" screen in a dark room still is visibly bright -- meaning it's leaking some...
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[17:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Energy and water - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:17] <exec> 08└─And of course, all of this ignores the much bigger objection: Fry: Well, I give up. What's the catch? suspiciously fantastic apartment salesman: Oh, no catch. Although we are technically in New Jersey. Fry: Not one place even remotely liveable!
[17:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Energy and water - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:19] <exec> 08└─Summary claims, "They cut down on the energy demands of shipping food from the countryside to city markets." But, electricity for indoor growing lights will dwarf this "savings" by multiple orders of magnitude. One of the pot grower/retailer operations in Colorado said they can't use traditional ban...
[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Energy and water - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:21] <exec> 08└─The carbon footprint of this New Jersey operation is almost certainly greater than that of the original steel mill.
[17:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:hydroponics experiences - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:22] <exec> 08└─I was torn between funny, informative, and insightful - I settled for funny. Good post!
[17:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MikeRo [1436] (Score:1) 02Re:hydroponics experiences - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:24] <exec> 08└─We need a - sadly true - option.
[17:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:hydroponics experiences - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:25] <exec> 08└─I mean, many of us are old enough to know the Internet as the place where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents; you really expect an answer?
[17:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Ugh - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, people who drastically change their diet and spend disproportionate amounts of time at the gym have other problems, bigger problems than their diet. The few times I visited /fit/ I realized that 99% of them are either homosexual, closet homosexual, or straight men wondering why they can't get...
[17:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02Re:conspiracy nuts seem less and less crazy - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─If it's just protein would it lead to rabbit starvation [wikipedia.org]? Note, the linked article describes this happening with lean natural meat. I'm not sure what's in the powder that might make it easier for the body to convert to what it needs; but AFAIK such conversion takes energy and that mig...
[17:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Universal language? - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:58] <exec> 08└─C90 or C99?
[17:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:you mean Zoë Saldana? - 06Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's 'Uhura,' Will Fly on NASA's SOFIA Observatory - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:09] <exec> 08└─Michelle Nichols was on Star Trek back when there was a special word for Whites having sex with Blacks -- Miscegnation. That didn't stop me (a White, blonde-haired blue-eyed male) from wanting to impregnate her, though. I would still impregnate her now, and then put Michelle in her starfleet skirt a...
[17:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Clogged Nozzles? - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:20] <exec> 08└─This. My last inkjet (and I do mean *last*) never ran out of ink. The heads would be hopelessly clogged long before the ink went dry. I spent a few dollars more for a color laserjet and never looked back. It is cheaper in the long run, as I no longer have to replace at least 1 cartridge due to a cl...
[17:40:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Re:Finally! - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:23] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with laser printers? They are cheap for quite some times - I paid about $120 for a Samsung ML2010 some... let me see... 7 or 8 years ago. Mmmm... seems like you can find colour ones now dirt cheap (AUD65 [officeworks.com.au] for example?)
[17:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:concealed imaging - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:50] <exec> 08└─Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da help!
[17:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I use f.lux - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:40] <exec> 08└─I have a screen filter that I put on my tablet as well. I believe that if you turn off the phone/tablet and turn it back on the screen filter would not start up with the device and so then you can have your screen reset(?). Then I assume you can go into the screen filter app settings and clear the c...
[17:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Naive Approach - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:50] <exec> 08└─Diphenhydramine HCl is what's in my Allergy Medicine. It's an antihistamine, typically used to control things like allergies. Though, apparently it's also used in some sleeping pills. Which is news to me. Melatonin is naturally produced by your brain. http://www.drugs.com [drugs.com]...
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[18:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02User account compromisation still needed - 06File Sync Services Provide Covert Way to Control Hacked Computers - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:09] <exec> 08└─Switcher can be deployed on the system through a malicious email attachment or a drive-by download exploit that takes advantage of a vulnerability in a browser plug-in.
[18:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Energy and water - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─Strawman. Greenhouses do not need to operate in the winter. They serve to extend the growing season, but not necessarily make it year round. Also, they can be (and are) passively heated by solar thermal energy, industrial waste heat, and geothermal which are a zillion times more efficient than using...
[18:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Energy and water - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:24] <exec> 08└─You might really like this article: http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Not sure if there is any update to it but it would allow marijuana companies to have a legit bank. It really is an awesome sto...
[18:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Energy and water - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─You are concerned about power. I am concerned about something else. Pollution. A former steel mill in NJ is going to make food? Uh I think we need a sticker on that to tell me NOT to buy that. Isnt NJ the nations leader in superfund sites?
[18:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disorder in men with a disorder - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:45] <exec> 08└─The only harm can be using to much whey/egg/milk/soy protein powder without consuming enough water as well, sure fire way to get golf ball sized kidney stones.
[18:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Re:conspiracy nuts seem less and less crazy - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:57] <exec> 08└─The linked article makes no mention of people being incapable of extracting the necessary energy from protein as in the post I replied to. It does say that there are poisonous byproducts from breaking down such an enormous amount of protein, which I mentioned in my reply. In any case, I agree with y...
[18:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Can't bite - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:55] <exec> 08└─Try reading "The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain
[18:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally! - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:31] <exec> 08└─> What's wrong with laser printers? The best color laser printer has the photo quality of an average inkjet. If you don't care so much about printing pictures, or documents with embedded pictures, then laser is the way to go.
[18:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:52] <exec> 08└─Want some money making advice? Buy this fund or one like it. https://personal.vanguard.com [vanguard.com] It tracks the market pretty closely and has a low cost with a mediocre ROI. Got the advice right from Warren Buffet himself. As I do not have the flo...
[18:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noldir [1216] (Score:1) 02Re:Naive Approach - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:00] <exec> 08└─I can tell you that I don't take medication containing Diphenhydramine HCl anymore. I have to chug down a double amount of caffeine just to stay awake trough the day..
[18:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't matter... - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:51] <exec> 08└─> Confirmed. You look for ways to argue with people no matter what is said. Confirmed. You look for ways to avoid responsibility for what you say. > As someone aware of Poe's Law, and the context of my previous reply, the sarcasm should have been apparent. The context in your head. Expecting your au...
[18:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:govt != business - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:57] <exec> 08└─PostgreSQL is completely free (both in money and in source code) and runs very well. Very competitive to Oracle when starting up or maintaining. How does that translate to spending more money than Oracle?
[18:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, absolutely. I have family that live in a long term impoverished area of the country. The branch of the family that left ~60 years ago is better off (financially, anyway). I don't know where you (and others) get the idea that you can dictate that every region of the country is equally affluent,...
[18:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep subject - 06Differing Views about Netflix's New Parental Leave Policy - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:45] <exec> 08└─Ahhh - I see . . . . That graph is probably more accurate than my memory. Funny, how closely that graph matches the ever-increasing impotence of unions. I suppose that because the stagnation of wages didn't affect me personally, I just don't remember it happening in the '70's and '80's. Only when it...
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[19:37:09] <exec> 08└─"All is not wine and roses at Tesla, despite the glowing press they receive." This is how you KNOW you're not reading serious journalism.
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:uhh - 06Tesla Stock Price Falls as Sales Target Cut to as Few as 50,000 Vehicles - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:11] <exec> 08└─Especially when the "glowing press" is for technical achievements, not fat production pipelines.
[19:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Not meeting orders... - 06Tesla Stock Price Falls as Sales Target Cut to as Few as 50,000 Vehicles - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:13] <exec> 08└─This is merely speculation on my part, but I think some of the issue is the new Model X production line will not be ready to fulfill 2015 sales orders by the end of the year. Buy your stock now, because this is about a low as it's going to be for a while. They're looking at building 1000 Model X and...
[19:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Re:hydroponics experiences - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:38] <exec> 08└─My biggest problem with the system is that I'm a horrible fish owner and I keep killing them off.
[19:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02That's nothing - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:13] <exec> 08└─Will they call this [soylentnews.org] disordered? (I hope not, since I ordered some to try it out....)
[19:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:how soon before universal translator - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:47] <exec> 08└─As an example, consider the ambiguity of how slaves would be classified and treated in the US constitution as originally formed. If it had be clearly anti-slavery the slave states would never have signed, and if it had been clearly pro-slavery the free states would never have signed. Differences of...
[19:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02There is a difference between field and current - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:18] <exec> 08└─When I read the headline, I immediately thought "that's not possible, that would violate energy conservation." But then I read this in the summary: When a DC electric current is passed through the conductor or the 2-D layer, the device should spontaneously emit terahertz radiation, the researchers s...
[19:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:redshift... - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:25] <exec> 08└─human eyes have receptors that measure light levels as well as colour, so a fixed filter would probably not be as effective. The monitor has a very large number of illumination states (2^24?) and therefore it is very subtle. Slow adaptation is preferred by biology!
[19:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:govt != business - 06UK.Gov Issues Internal 'Ditch Oracle Now' Edict to End Pricey Addiction - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:14] <exec> 08└─I tossed you a point for insightful even if I don't agree with you 100%. You've presented good food for thought. I think developer knowledge would be about the same between the two, although there are certainly more Oracle database people to choose from. Software components would be interesting to c...
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[20:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lack of sleep - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:11] <exec> 08└─Do the bacteria die from lack of sleep then? (You know, because the blue light keeps people awake). /BadJoke
[20:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02McDonalds... - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─Should stop using a microwave to cook their burgers and go back to cooking them on a grill. They're greasy, soggy, taste like shit, and give me explosive diarrhea every time I eat there.
[20:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:McDonalds... - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:14] <exec> 08└─"Doctor, it hurts when I eat at McDonald's." "So what do you think you should stop doing...?"
[20:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:3, Informative) 02light frequency? - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:16] <exec> 08└─It may be that the light has elements of UV in it, in which case it will cleave DS-DNA.
[20:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:light frequency? - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:18] <exec> 08└─This was my first thought as well. The specific wavelength range or ranges should be simple enough to duplicate and try in the diy/citizen science sphere.
[20:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02I don't get it. - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:20] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it would work on the surface, but how would this inhibit bacteria INSIDE the meat? Cold chills all the matter, but I wouldn't think the light would be absorbed beyond the exterior.
[20:37:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:uhh - 06Tesla Stock Price Falls as Sales Target Cut to as Few as 50,000 Vehicles - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─Especially when the "glowing press" is for technical achievements, not fat production pipelines.
[20:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:uhh - 06Tesla Stock Price Falls as Sales Target Cut to as Few as 50,000 Vehicles - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─Agreed, problems with suppliers due to being unable to keep up with demand for "high quality parts" appears to be a problem of being victims of one's success. Perhaps all would be roses if the florists could keep up with their orders.
[20:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:uhh - 06Tesla Stock Price Falls as Sales Target Cut to as Few as 50,000 Vehicles - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:28] <exec> 08└─Wine and roses are for faggots, I prefer briar patches and turpentine. Hair on my balls, hair on my balls, I got hair on my chest and hair on my balls. Oh fuck oh fuck nooooooooo I forgot to check "Post Anonymously!" No, please please don't post this! They can't know who I really am!!!
[20:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:3, Interesting) 02What has the stock price got to do with Mars? - 06Tesla Stock Price Falls as Sales Target Cut to as Few as 50,000 Vehicles - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:30] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk himself probably would not even care if angry investors throw him out of his company for lack of rising stock and dividends - as long as the company manages to make electric cars a commodity. Look at the "lunar roving vehicle", a dune buggy that cost $38M in then-dollars. He doesn't want t...
[20:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Ya think? - 06Tesla Stock Price Falls as Sales Target Cut to as Few as 50,000 Vehicles - 1663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─Lets look at this thing rationally. Tesla Motors has half of the market cap of Ford and yet that original 55K sales figure is something Ford would cancel the production line over, any product selling such low numbers would be deemed a loser. So Tesla is 'priced to perfection' in that idiots have bou...
[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Wow - 06File Sync Services Provide Covert Way to Control Hacked Computers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:39] <exec> 08└─I must say this is a very elegant hack. And very troublesome. Now excuse me while I go buy a few large USB drives.
[20:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:Wow - 06File Sync Services Provide Covert Way to Control Hacked Computers - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:40] <exec> 08└─The cloud is as secure as the... wait why is it more secure just because it's online somewhere else? Two factor authentication with a decent grade of encryption, such as a VPN client (IPSEC or I guess SSL.. but SSL seems to have its own share of issues) is more secure, but is incredibly less conveni...
[20:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:Wow - 06File Sync Services Provide Covert Way to Control Hacked Computers - 1464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:42] <exec> 08└─I wanted to comment on myself -- I wanted to be a bit more clear. I am making reference to the means of isolating the files from not being available on a public facing server or device that could then be used to exploit things as described in the article. It appears that a common denominator is not...
[20:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:hydroponics experiences - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:01] <exec> 08└─You guessed it! Things I did wrong that you listed: * introducing too many fish at once * insufficient monitoring of water content * random changes to environment (new plants/filters/etc) I did manage to get the tap water thing right, and used collected rainwater to start. For topping off (especiall...
[20:38:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03skullz [2532] 02Publicity - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 593 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:32] <exec> 08└─Well, lets see here. Dr. Achiro graduated about a year ago. He classifies himself as a psychotherapist. In Los Angeles. He just started his private practice. He lists student note-taker on his LinkedIn profile. This sounds like a recap of his masters and doctoral work and a publicity campaign to mak...
[20:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We hypocrites - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:35] <exec> 08└─We snicker at these people, or at least cluck-cluck our tongues at their pathetic-ness, but then we quickly post articles every time a new flavor of that soylent drink comes out.
[20:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Universal language? - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:43] <exec> 08└─How do you say "I love you" in ANSI C?
[20:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03benceno [2390] (Score:1) 02A decade late - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:14] <exec> 08└─At least in my city (Buenos Aires) so called "continuous ink" systems for most common printers have been available for around a decade and are a fairly common sight since cost per copy is even lower than a laser printer (still slower, of course). So the only new thing is that they are now offering t...
[20:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Time for a General Strike of all Scientists - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:33] <exec> 08└─The scientists can slide into the ruling class
[20:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02What are we currently treating as money? - 06Australia Recommends Crypto-Currencies Be Considered Real Money - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:15] <exec> 08└─an Australian senate committee recommends that digital currencies be treated as money
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[21:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get it. - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:26] <exec> 08└─Generally there isn't bacteria in the center of solid pieces of meat, thus why you only need to sear the outside of tuna. The center being raw isn't as much of a problem as mass media make it out to be. Anything even slightly processed, like all grocery store ham, will have had injections at some po...
[21:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:1) 02Irradiation - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:29] <exec> 08└─Looks like a cheaper, probably less effective form of irradiation [wikipedia.org]. Irradiation, of course, has been approved for food use for over 50 years. It could be enormously reducing the amount of food waste but isn't because the same sort of Luddites that are now campaigning to force GMO's of...
[21:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06File Sync Services Provide Covert Way to Control Hacked Computers - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:53] <exec> 08└─Yup, I don't store sensitive info (or at least I hope I don't!) on Teh Cloud but I do have a lot of pictures, notes, PDF books, etc. I find it very convenient. My concern is ransomware that encrypts my could drive and I have to delete it all. Not really bad but a pain and not something I could recov...
[21:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:hydroponics experiences - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:12] <exec> 08└─What I did wrong was: Let white flies colonize my plants and everything died. Let aphids colonize my plants and everything died. Let spider mites colonize my plants and everything died. Have no predatory insects (this is my house not the outdoors! [everything non-plant related lived]) Bug spray drip...
[21:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hydroponics experiences - 06 World’s Largest Vertical Farm Planned for Newark, New Jersey - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:13] <exec> 08└─agile development heh... :)
[21:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:conspiracy nuts seem less and less crazy - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:44] <exec> 08└─Rabbit starvation is not the same thing. Eat some oil or fat and it is not a concern. Carbs have nothing to do with it.
[21:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Acronyms - 06MIT Claims to Have Found a "Language Universal" That Ties All Languages Together - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:50] <exec> 08└─I had to suppress a giggle in grad school every time I read a paper from PNAS, I just couldn't read it as anything other than P-NAS.
[21:40:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:SOFIA is the B-Ark - 06Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's 'Uhura,' Will Fly on NASA's SOFIA Observatory - 523 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:12] <exec> 08└─Uhura wasn't non-essential. If she had been, she would have been as interchangeable as Yeoman Rand, and she wasn't. She saved the crew's butts on more than a few occasions (e.g. dealing with Mirror Sulu while the rest of them were re-kejiggering the transporters), and was in general much more involv...
[21:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Re:I already turned this upside down. - 06Epson: Cheap Printers, Expensive Ink? Let's Turn That Upside Down - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:08] <exec> 08└─At least our Epsom would keep printing when a color went out.
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[22:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02what a history - 06NASA Releases Photos of Illuminated Dark Side of the Moon - 2673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:09] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory [wikipedia.org] Originally known as Triana, named after Rodrigo de Triana, the first of Columbus's crew to sight land in the Americas, the satellite's original purpose was to provide a near-continuous view of the entire Earth and make tha...
[22:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Mysterious structure worshiped by colonists... - 06NASA Releases Photos of Illuminated Dark Side of the Moon - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:11] <exec> 08└─Bonus points for whoever can find the location of Dallos [wikipedia.org] first.
[22:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:McDonalds... - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:23] <exec> 08└─Order the Diet soda with the 4 big macs next time.
[22:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get it. - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:28] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that most bacteria that spoils food is aerobic. This means they need oxygen to survive in any real number. That is available in large quantities at the surface of meats, but not so much near the center (which makes sense as to why we need circulatory systems and cramp when we exe...
[22:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it. - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:29] <exec> 08└─opaque to visible light does not mean opaque to other frequencies. Shorter wavelengths (e.g. UV) will penetrate further - Xrays will go all the way through!
[22:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:Irradiation - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:31] <exec> 08└─wait wut? Anti-GMO folks are against irradiated food?
[22:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score:1) 02Re:Irradiation - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:33] <exec> 08└─Are there places you can actually buy irradiated food? I remember a story on 20/20 or 60 minutes long time ago that had people protesting outside some facility that irradiated food.
[22:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:1) 02Re:Irradiation - 06Blue LEDs Are the Future of Food Preservation - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:34] <exec> 08└─Well I know some foods imported for nonhuman consumption to/from Aussie get the irradiation treatment. There was a huge scandal about pet food that got irradiated resulting in pets dying.
[22:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Not meeting orders... - 06Tesla Stock Price Falls as Sales Target Cut to as Few as 50,000 Vehicles - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:46] <exec> 08└─Also, keep in mind that Tesla constantly has a $20+ dollar price fluctuations. It just so happened that this announcement occurred during the stock price downswing. The stock is acting as normal, but it just so happens that Tesla is announcing lower delivery rates for 2015.
[22:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Huh? - 06Tesla Stock Price Falls as Sales Target Cut to as Few as 50,000 Vehicles - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:49] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone buy them for the patent portfolio? They open sourced the whole shooting match . . .
[22:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ugh - 06Workout Supplement Overuse Emerges as New Male Eating Disorder - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:45] <exec> 08└─I could almost hear them crying as they posted replies like "W-women don't care about that, I know, I have a lot of women as friends!"
[22:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TestablePredictions [3249] (Score:1) 02Re:Holy Cow, Really? - 06Simple Device Could Convert DC Electric Field To Terahertz Radiation - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:10] <exec> 08└─It is not strictly wrong for intelligent soylentils to make sociological predictions about the tech. Sex and civil-rights violations will be two of the biggies here. The internet was another example invention capable of uplifting all humankind. Instead of that though it gets used porn, teenagers to...
[22:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Naive Approach - 06 How to Use Screens at Night Without Ruining Your Sleep - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:10] <exec> 08└─In this case, proper medical care isn't available due to religious objection, which is what I meant by the curendera thing. (Thanks, Obama! Most around here were fine with giving medical care to trans folks before Fox News started their hysteria with their “free Obamacare sex changes” thing. Eit...
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[23:37:34] <exec> 08└─I am not really sure why you believe McDonald's cooks their burgers in the microwave, you can generally see the grill from the front counter. The grill is pretty fool-proof too: it has an upper platter that lowers and cooks the meat from both sides is about 90 seconds. The meat is held in a heating...
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[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─> The specific wavelength range or ranges should be simple enough to duplicate From the title of the paper - Enhancing the antibacterial effect of 461 and 521 nm light emitting diodes... FWIW, 521nm is solidly in the green zone.
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[23:38:03] <exec> 08└─> Building them isn't the hard part anymore Gee, it is nice to be able to just make up bullshit that confirms your biases. Makes the world so much less complicated!
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[23:38:39] <exec> 08└─This is only tangentially related, but one of the most interesting series we've watched recently here is A&E's Life After People, which in several shows depicts vacant skyscrapers (after the total loss of humanity) possibly developing into fantastic towering ecosystems complete with new adaptations...
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