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[00:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only works on Qualcomm SOCs - 06Snapdragon 820 SoC's Zeroth Neuromorphic Chip to Block Malware on Smartphones - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:16] <exec> 08└─Will something that only works on one vendor's SOCs be used? If yes, seems like there is less arguement for not just using native code in Android for everything. You've already got the runtime checks, and device specific component builds. Or, equally bad, Google abstracts all these sorts of accelera...
[00:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Malware ... or "Malware"? - 06Snapdragon 820 SoC's Zeroth Neuromorphic Chip to Block Malware on Smartphones - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:17] <exec> 08└─Since this needs to be enabled by each vendor, they'll probably have a say in how the "brain-inspired" malware is defined. Perhaps software from competitors that impact the vendors' in-app purchase cash flow?
[00:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:33] <exec> 08└─GGers started the hashtag. That's the only relevance. Why? Aggressive navels. It's absurd and begs to be mocked.
[00:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:35] <exec> 08└─You have a point. I'll try my hand at submissions.
[00:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Can the cowards read the comments next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:43] <exec> 08└─It would be rather hard for them to be SJWs, considering they were Team Dickwolves in the Dickwolves controversy (or is it called DickwolfGate now?). I think it more likely that they're gamers, running a convention about games. Surprisingly enough, bare midriffs have nothing to do with games, either...
[00:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can the cowards read the comments next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─No, just old school puritans.then. Speaking of games I played quite a lot of them with characters with bare midriffs, being scared of them is nothing else than puritanism trying to hide under modern day PC. People complaining about right-wingers, was not the fear of nudity the epitome of right-wing...
[00:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:46] <exec> 08└─And I still don't get what any of that has to do with GamerGate. Or why we even need to talk about GamerGate, since both sides have repeatedly proven themselves to be nothing but whiny children.
[00:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:48] <exec> 08└─I notice you failed to address all the other arguments I had against you. If you've somehow forgotten, I refer to "these rules have been around for a while", "these rules apply to exhibitors, not attendees", and "your own articles provide direct evidence against your position". I am forced to conclu...
[00:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:50] <exec> 08└─What part of "joke" escapes you, man? Jokes do not need to be factually correct, just amusing. The wording change to exclude aggressive navels was funny, it got mocked, by GG, which is the only reason GG got mentioned, end of story. AFAICT it's basically just a tag for cheesecake and softcore porn.
[00:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:51] <exec> 08└─So should all stories now have a random link to a porn site at the end, tying it to a fringe political group? Excellent. I've a nice video on C64 graphics to share with you all, brought to you by Slipshine and the Oath Keepers. Alternatively - and I know this is a shocking idea, but bear with me for...
[00:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:53] <exec> 08└─You read a lot of anger into my tone that just isn't there, guy. As for lame jokes, their purpose is to give people either a groan or a chuckle and then let them move on. Why you feel the need to get worked up about it because of its origin is on you.
[00:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03spamdog [4335] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:55] <exec> 08└─I started here as an alternative to Slashdot - not as an alternative to 8chan. I'm quite happy to read right-wing views. I'm not interested in right-wing culture warring.
[00:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:57] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry that you read something on the internet that upset you.
[00:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:59] <exec> 08└─Let it be known that I take no exception to the statement made in Parent's comment title. I do take exception to right-wing though. If you think libertarians are right-wing, you're so far to the left that you're about to fall off the scale.
[00:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03spamdog [4335] (Score:1) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:00] <exec> 08└─I'm not interested in your bullshitty vanity labels. All your submissions are drenched in ideology and it's tiresome. We've all been early-20's ideologues but most people grow out of it.
[00:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:02] <exec> 08└─How much ideology do you find in mocking aggressive navels, precisely? Face it, what you really object to is any mention of GG, because they're slowly but surely winning the fight a bunch of social justice types decided to pick. I get that you're probably chapped today because one of the most promin...
[00:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03spamdog [4335] (Score:1) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:04] <exec> 08└─It's a bunch of idiotic triumphalism for people with nothing else to be proud of. This, moments after characterizing yourself as a libertarian. Gamergate is not libertarian. Gamergate is conservative culture warring. I searched for this "aggressive navels" and the sites that come up are KotakuInActi...
[00:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:06] <exec> 08└─See, you're blinded by how far left you are. If you could take a step back for a moment, you'd see it's not just the right you're fighting in your PC cultural invasion. You're fighting right, center, and even part of the left. Which is why you will lose.
[00:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03spamdog [4335] (Score:1) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:07] <exec> 08└─I come here to read tech articles, not for a victory over those darned SJW's. Like I said, bullshitty triumphalism for people with nothing else in their lives.
[00:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:09] <exec> 08└─Libertarians are a diverse lot, and are identified on both sides of the left/right spectrum. Wikipedia helpfully labels them as Left-Libertarians [wikipedia.org] and Right-Libertarians [wikipedia.org], if you wish to do some reading. In any case, your views on market economics were not evident from...
[00:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Making up stuff as he goes - 06 Cyanogen Tapped For New Wave of Affordable Smartphones - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:15] <exec> 08└─if you are you Who else here points to TechRights? and logged in I don't think you understand the term. anonymously like how you say you sometimes do I never said that. Your imagination is working overtime. What I have said is that I have no interest in cookies or signups or karma. (I always start a...
[00:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cyanogen OS != CyanogenMod - 06 Cyanogen Tapped For New Wave of Affordable Smartphones - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:19] <exec> 08└─CyanogenMod is a community effort, full source code is available and it is audited by peer review. It takes nightly AOSP builds and adds features; the only programs included by default are open-source (some heavily modified from the F-Droid store). It doesn't go as extreme in customization as some o...
[00:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Root - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:46] <exec> 08└─Actually Lindows was a full OS, whether you cared for its design or not. With Poettering its pretty clear the intent is to turn Linux into just a crippled VM running on top of a cloud connected SystemD, which considering Red Hat's push for cloud computing? Really not surprising. What is interesting...
[00:25:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Root - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:48] <exec> 08└─I thought his sticky poop was the main component of systemd.
[00:26:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Re:bah, humbug... - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 1749 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:18] <exec> 08└─I too lean towards the idea of malice, but I think that leaning is more a result of paranoia brought on by the secrets that have come to light over the last few decades. Now that we know how far some have gone to undermine our security and privacy with proprietary systems, it almost seems like a giv...
[00:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bah, humbug... - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:20] <exec> 08└─Hush, you. He's built up a nice little consistent hero fantasy story in his head. Let's not go messing it up with things like facts.
[00:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:There is a fork - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:31] <exec> 08└─Thanks ... I think I heard it's in the plans though. What a mess we're in. All operating sysems seem to want to settle to a common level of mediocrity. What ever happened to learning from the mistakes of others?
[00:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not go one better? - 06Paris Will Ban Cars for One Day - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:47] <exec> 08└─Y'en a qui causent sans savoir...
[00:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hard to empathize - 06Billionaire Minecraft Creator "Notch" Reportedly Lonely - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:18] <exec> 08└─The obvious: he can create a new ID so that people can't just Google him. Then again, these days, Google will find a way to link his new identity to his old one ... there will be some organization out there. There are also a lot of really cool people that do have a lot of money that own their own bu...
[00:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:North Dakota = New Wild West - 06"Less-Than-Lethal" Weaponized Drones Coming to North Dakota - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:34:46] <exec> 08└─ND is only the 2nd largest producer of winter wheat in the U.S.... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and is no slouch at various other crops: http://americanagnetwork.com [amer...
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[01:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Kow-ran is for kows - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:15] <exec> 08└─Kows saw moo. Moo-ham-mad. Moooo-ham-mad.
[01:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I declare a fatwā on this thread - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:16] <exec> 08└─BOOM!
[01:24:17] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:18] <exec> 08└─Some scholars believe, however, that Muhammad did not receive the Quran from heaven, as he claimed
[01:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:20] <exec> 08└─Setting aside whether the dating even means anything, and presuming for a moment that it does, when has evidence of anything led to the demise of a _faith_. Faiths are after all, inherently irrational, with many considering belief in the absence of evidence a great achievement.
[01:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:22] <exec> 08└─> Faiths are after all, inherently irrational, No. Faith is about choosing to believe something which you can neither prove nor disprove, something that is not falsifiable. Do some people set the bar for falsifiability too low? Absolutely. But that's not inherently irrational, that's just laziness....
[01:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:23] <exec> 08└─No. Faith is about choosing to believe something which you can neither prove nor disprove, something that is not falsifiable.
[01:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:25] <exec> 08└─> Which is irrational. It is neither rational nor irrational, it is outside of rationality. Furthermore there are plenty of rational reasons to hold such beliefs - they help organize social structure, for one. If the foundations of your society can't be disproven then that's one less weakness in th...
[01:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the whole tone/approach is really weird. Feels much more political/philosophical than scientifically motivated. Their date range of 545 to 568 just smells like manipulated numbers. Moreover, as you say - Claiming fact on 2 years margin of error over 1500 also seems super contrived. Part that's...
[01:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Big whoops - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:28] <exec> 08└─This is a non-story. The postulated dates of production for the parchment (568-645 A.D) [rawstory.com] cover Mo's entire lifetime (570-623 A.D). Carbon dating is imprecise, news at 11! Islamafoe bait, nothing more.
[01:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Big whoops - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:30] <exec> 08└─Looks like it was a misprint in the source linked. Cross-checking several other articles, it looks like the 645 figure is more common, but I'm unable to find the original study to be certain.
[01:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02derpa derpa llama jihad - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:32] <exec> 08└─Is anybody doubting that various holy books aren't human creations and exercises in philosophy? (When they're not documentation of ancient legal systems.) (Don't answer that.) Good grief! Reconcile the Book of Mormon with the Koran and then we'll be talking about an actual monotheistic metaphysical...
[01:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:derpa derpa llama jihad - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:34] <exec> 08└─Derp! Is anybody doubting that various holy books aren't human creations and exercises in philosophy?
[01:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:derpa derpa llama jihad - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:35] <exec> 08└─Too late, show us your birth certificate.
[01:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Today Malware - 06Snapdragon 820 SoC's Zeroth Neuromorphic Chip to Block Malware on Smartphones - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:40] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow, 'pirated content', or 'unacceptable speech'... No thanks.
[01:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Today Malware - 06Snapdragon 820 SoC's Zeroth Neuromorphic Chip to Block Malware on Smartphones - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:41] <exec> 08└─it "learned" by itself
[01:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:55] <exec> 08└─it won't change GG's repeatedly stated reason for existing.
[01:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:56] <exec> 08└─I know it conflicts with your narrative but when the Kokatu CEO says GG cost them over seven figures, I'm inclined to believe him. Ditto the harassment. The aGG crowd (Randi Harper and Anita Sarkeesian in particular) doxx, try to get fired, and generally harass anyone who disagrees with them that th...
[01:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─Bringing up GamerGate amuses anyone?
[01:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:16] <exec> 08└─Look, if the source of a joke taints the content of a joke for you, that's your issue and you should talk to a professional about it.
[01:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:25] <exec> 08└─And that's what you got. Gaming is part of tech. PAX is a gaming con. For that matter, #GamerGate is an online movement by gamers and very much tech-related. Live with the facts or deny them, won't change a thing. You really should read more of my comments. I care more about fishing than I ever will...
[01:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03spamdog [4335] (Score:1) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:27] <exec> 08└─You are not nearly as objective and detached as you claim. Otherwise why would you need to pimp these kinds of stories? I have read up about your recent triumph against @srhbutts, and as suspected, it's a sordid story of doxxing and 8chan cretinism. Your "mocking" of navels comes across like Rush Li...
[01:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:29] <exec> 08└─Outing a pedophile by their own public statements is doxxing now? Who knew? I thought it was what journalistic types call doing your research. As for objectivity, I never claimed it. I believe what I believe and make no secret of it. This, however, was nothing but a joke and had no politics in it wh...
[01:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:31] <exec> 08└─GG is definitely libertarian though. Not conservative.
[01:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:32] <exec> 08└─I'm a flat liberty libertarian. I don't approve of government intervention in either cultural or fiscal matters. I'm also an egalitarian, which is why I absolutely cannot stand the racist and sexist positions of the "social justice" crowd. Social justice is a phrase made up so as to incorporate the...
[01:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:34] <exec> 08└─What proof do you have that GG is a "reactionary right-wing group", out of morbid curiosity?
[01:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Jeezum ... - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:36] <exec> 08└─What a load of angst. You all could look at some of the cool pictures -- one of my favs is the chubby storm trooper. That's just kind of awesome: http://www.gamespot.com [gamespot.com] Or if you want to see cleavage, theres a few of those:...
[01:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''so what?'' - 06 Cyanogen Tapped For New Wave of Affordable Smartphones - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:47] <exec> 08└─Have you already forgotten when M$ funded SCO's attack on Linux? The M$-SuSE alliance? ...or are you so young that you aren't even aware of those episodes? When Redmond hands out cash, watch for an additional set of guys spreading FUD and otherwise trying to undermine the freedom aspect of FOSS. ......
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[01:26:07] <exec> 08└─Definitely recommend The Babadook and Orphan. Quite a few on that list that are new to me, so thanks for throwing those out there. Just a little while now until Halloween! Let me also throw out there the Ju-on series [wikipedia.org] (spoiler alert). There's some crap produced by Sam Raimi as an atte...
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[01:26:09] <exec> 08└─I'm getting rather tired of all the torture porn that passes for horror film these days.
[01:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Root - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:28] <exec> 08└─Or is this just another excuse to gut something because it has been around for a long time.
[01:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Systemd Just Doesn't Smell Right to Me - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:43] <exec> 08└─Do you also assume that when one advocates for freedom they are advocating for anarchy? There is a flaw [wikipedia.org] in your argument.
[01:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:''a new OS being developed'' - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:49] <exec> 08└─That's the way it appears to be headed. GNU/Linux becomes RedhatOS. What I cant believe is how the rest of the community was sold a big mistake by a commercial vendor. Didn't we learn anything from letting big commercial vendors get in the way? Isn't that why some of us moved or adopted open source...
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[01:26:56] <exec> 08└─in an effort to track "sessions".
[01:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:bah, humbug... - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:03] <exec> 08└─A good point! I am definitely not experienced with developers across the globe, maybe its a generational tech trend and not geographic at all. Perhaps it is a natural progression as programming languages evolved. Abstract the lower levels and the next group of devs have a different outlook on archit...
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[02:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:32] <exec> 08└─It is neither rational nor irrational, it is outside of rationality.
[02:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:33] <exec> 08└─It is neither rational nor irrational, it is outside of rationality.
[02:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:34] <exec> 08└─Believing literally in something that has been falsified is irrational. Otherwise, if a belief is helpful and hasn't been falsified, why not. Science does that as well (it's called a model). But if you really don't like change, believe in something that is helpful and cannot be falsified.
[02:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:36] <exec> 08└─Believing literally in something that has been falsified is irrational.
[02:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:38] <exec> 08└─No more irrational than believing that if something can't be proven then it can't be true. Truth isn't found in theories and [inherently subjective] attempts at objectivity. Many (perhaps most) people have *faith* in the power of God to effect change in their lives without believing in a literal God...
[02:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:39] <exec> 08└─No more irrational than believing that if something can't be proven then it can't be true.
[02:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:41] <exec> 08└─Setting aside whether the dating even means anything this is a tech geek forum. we think we know that word, but are still waiting to confirm.
[02:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:43] <exec> 08└─Part that's really fucked up is that this is presented effectively as the inverse of ISIS saying "Jesus is a liar and The Bible is just some old stories."
[02:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:45] <exec> 08└─Jesus is the #2 prophet in Islam.
[02:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Big whoops - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:46] <exec> 08└─cover Mo's entire lifetime "he's just a victim of soicomstance!"
[02:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:derpa derpa llama jihad - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:49] <exec> 08└─Here it is! Honest! Even with that M category I can't get rid of! I will not be running for US president! Otherwise my eye would be a circle! Copper is made of circles!
[02:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Digital Journal" - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:51] <exec> 08└─So, it's just another bullshit clickbait site, eh.
[02:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02cultural context - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:53] <exec> 08└─Even a total non-scholar like me knows that the holy texts of all religions are written in the cultural and literary context of the time. Buddhist texts relate ideas from the older Vedic tradition. The Talmud and Torah contain some ideas that originated with the Hittites and Babylonians. The Christ...
[02:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:cultural context - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:54] <exec> 08└─That's a good point. The great texts of any religion are preservations of tribal history, geneology, poetry and wisdom handed down from generation to generation, with the spark of the new teachings and relevations from the great man in who gave the name to the collection.
[02:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:3, Informative) 02Palimpsest? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:56] <exec> 08└─So they only tested the parchment and not the ink. OK, I can't find anything about them examining what type of parchment it is. Unless otherwise stated or disproved I'm going to guess that it's a palimpsest (reused parchment) then. Even if it turns out to be older I doubt it would really change thin...
[02:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Today Malware - 06Snapdragon 820 SoC's Zeroth Neuromorphic Chip to Block Malware on Smartphones - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:06] <exec> 08└─Eventually the neuromorphic chip will just block everything including the carrier signal, after reading what Richard Stallman has to say about cell phones.
[02:25:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 1484 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:31] <exec> 08└─We have reached a new low. Commenters not reading the fucking article is expected. Editors not reading the fucking article is a sad inevitability. But we seem to have now reached the point where the submitter did not read the article. The rules about navels are part of the "no booth babes" section....
[02:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:54] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with liking young girls (didn't watch video)?
[02:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A wasted opportunity - 06Wes Craven Dead at 76 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:35] <exec> 08└─I tried to stick to english language films that were less than a decade old. If you like older asian horror, Tale of Two Sisters from Korea and Audition from Japan are top notch.
[02:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is a fork - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:41] <exec> 08└─>What ever happened to learning from the mistakes of others? Payments to some, threats to others (to not give them payments), mostly payments. "We will make your life awsome, just ditch this computer bullshit" If they let men marry young girls and own english country houses without property taxes on...
[02:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''make a major event out of it'' - 06Paris Will Ban Cars for One Day - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:00] <exec> 08└─If they want old europe back, they need to legalize man+girl marraige.
[02:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:well... - 06Billionaire Minecraft Creator "Notch" Reportedly Lonely - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:59] <exec> 08└─Wow, someone has a massive load of unresolved anger issues. And obviously lacking any kind of outlet so you have to hate on people you have never met. You are mad at Richie Rich too? He's a fictional character. Seriously, your flame had no discernible focus. You had better get some help before you h...
[02:29:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:options - 06Billionaire Minecraft Creator "Notch" Reportedly Lonely - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:10] <exec> 08└─it's better to be alone and lonely than to be married/attached and lonely/frustrated/trapped.
[02:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bacon - 06High Protein Foods Boost Cardiovascular Health as Much as Quitting Smoking or Getting Exercise - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:53] <exec> 08└─Don't need no stinking science to know bacon is good. Period. It's the sign that god loves us and that Jews and Muslims have a lot to atone for.
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[03:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bitcoin going mainstream, bro! - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:10] <exec> 08└─Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Take that, bithipsters!
[03:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bitcoin going mainstream, bro! - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:12] <exec> 08└─That's what they want us to believe. Bithipsters hoarded it before it was cool cash.
[03:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:2) 02Perversion of the banks - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:13] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine the banks allowing mining, and they would probably create all possible "coins" right away, distribute them and start bartering them back and forth in payment for loans and such. Then of course, there would come a time when it was necessary to mint up some more, the a little bit more,...
[03:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02futil exercise - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:15] <exec> 08└─who is to say that in the sphere of plutocracy -aka- "high-finance" where a handful of decision makers control the global market (and standards) won't just have > 50% hashing rate from the get go? how is this different from technology that is used today?
[03:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:32] <exec> 08└─Invisible Pink unicorns then.
[03:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:33] <exec> 08└─Hot.
[03:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:34] <exec> 08└─How about something rational and good for the human race in the long term, like the straightforward "Don't be a Dick". Pretty much anything that just tends towards "Be nice to people" better than any organized religion.
[03:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:36] <exec> 08└─It is neither rational nor irrational, it is outside of rationality. And yet, you just spent an entire post rationalizing it...
[03:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:26] <exec> 08└─If that's all Gamergate is about, then what relevance does it have to convention rules regarding dress code for exhibitors? I'd ask for an explanation, but I'm ethically opposed to the torture of logic.
[03:27:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02Re:Systemd Just Doesn't Smell Right to Me - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:11] <exec> 08└─Advocates of systemd are quick to point out that ordinary users, like myself, aren't knowledgeable enough to participate in the discussion.
[03:27:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:bah, humbug... - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:36] <exec> 08└─# wget ftp://ftp.freebsd.org [freebsd.org] # dd if=./FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso of=/dev/cdrom bs=4096 # reboot
[03:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:There is a fork - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:44] <exec> 08└─You might find this interesting: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[03:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:bah, humbug... - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:46] <exec> 08└─Interestingly here's a spec for the XDG stuff with Pottering's name on it: http://standards.freedesktop.org [freedesktop.org] That spec seems to be a fancy way of telling programs to ignore HOME and put stuff some place else. I guess what's happening here is tha...
[03:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:No, I don't want the app to handle it. - 06Android 6.0 "Marshmallow": The Green Robot Finally Gets Granular Control over Permissions - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:31:32] <exec> 08└─Thinking it's in airplane mode isn't as useful as you think it is. Chances are the app will just throw up a "please disable airplane mode to continue using certain features" every time you run the app.... which can confuse the user if they previously denied the app network access. Providing spoofed...
[03:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Suits Me Fine - 06Android 6.0 "Marshmallow": The Green Robot Finally Gets Granular Control over Permissions - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:34] <exec> 08└─I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 about 18 months ago. (I think, it was flagship model at the time). It has a micro SD card slot and removable battery, so I can see me using this phone for the next several years, as the battery likely to be the first thing to go, and a replacement will cost me about $25....
[03:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:(Groan) - 06High Protein Foods Boost Cardiovascular Health as Much as Quitting Smoking or Getting Exercise - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:31:56] <exec> 08└─Frijoles should be good to you.
[03:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Poisoning the well - 06Rare Walking Fish Population Down to Just 79 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:32:50] <exec> 08└─On a different note, what is it about Tasmania and extinctions? An isolated pocket of life evolved from an already isolated population (Australia) cannot handle the impact of humans.
[03:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:No QED/quantum necessary - 06New Theory: Electromagnetic Energy Without Radiation - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:33:13] <exec> 08└─Even basic undergraduate courses in E&M introduce the electric potential
[03:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I really don't get the "radical" - 06New Theory: Electromagnetic Energy Without Radiation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:33:18] <exec> 08└─Sorta - more like a soliton. But don't ask me what would that imply!
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[04:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Perversion of the banks - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:17] <exec> 08└─OK then. If you don't trust banks, withdraw all your fucking money and stuff it under your mattress. Do it right now, or you're a hypocritical motherfucker. You're a motherfucker, aren't you? Aren't you? Motherfucker.
[04:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perversion of the banks - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:18] <exec> 08└─Or deposit it in a credit union.
[04:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perversion of the banks - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:20] <exec> 08└─No no no credit unions are evil because they pay interest and usury is immoral. So here's the deal. We gonna do another Occupy except this time we're all going to dress up as Jesus and kick the holy shit out of every fucking bank and credit union with our mighty sandals of holiness.
[04:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ALL BANKS FAIL - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:23] <exec> 08└─Every bank should fail immediately. Your money is gone forever. Have fun trying to live your consumerist lifestyle without money.
[04:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ALL BANKS FAIL - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:24] <exec> 08└─whoosh
[04:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:43] <exec> 08└─> Invisible Pink unicorns then. Yes, and if it suits you, so what? > That such formulations should be the guiding light of billions seems even stranger still. That's reductive. It isn't the pink unicorns that are the guiding light, it is all the of the mythology built up around them that is the guid...
[04:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:45] <exec> 08└─It is super appealing to the unsophisticated mind, but don't be a dick is insufficient whenever there is a conflict between two groups of people. Its great a as guideline, but it is woefully inadequate for dealing with real problems.
[04:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:48] <exec> 08└─By that logic, anyone who studies religion must be religious.
[04:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:52] <exec> 08└─Who is more likely to succeed in life (in terms of well-being, for instance): Someone who strives to believe in true things, or someone who is willing to believe false things if it makes them feel good?
[04:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:53] <exec> 08└─Science has no beliefs, as it is not a thinking being.
[04:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:55] <exec> 08└─> Someone who strives to believe in true things, or someone who is willing to believe false things if it makes them feel good? Name one thing that you think is true that you can prove to be true. Think carefully. Because you will have to start with proving that you aren't just a brain in a jar being...
[04:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:01] <exec> 08└─What? Jesus is the #2 prophet in Islam.
[04:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:03] <exec> 08└─That is a problem for christians, but not for muslims or anyone else.
[04:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02one wonders - 06Snapdragon 820 SoC's Zeroth Neuromorphic Chip to Block Malware on Smartphones - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:25] <exec> 08└─fixing stuff after the horse has left the barn? maybe install this chip on computers of "developers" that write the actual buggy code: zeroth: "hi steve! i see you again used some un-safe fuction in your code! I am sorry i will have to chalk this up on your monthly coding review." one wonders if any...
[04:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Jeezum ... - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:20] <exec> 08└─No Lady Godiva costume yet? Disappointing
[04:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03caseih [2744] (Score:2) 02Actually nothing to do with /bin/su - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:14] <exec> 08└─And su is still there and you can still use it. Nothing in the article suggests that a new su binary based on systemd is being introduced. This is machinectl functionality they are talking about here, people. It does not replace the /bin/su binary in any way, though you could use machinectl instead...
[04:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:''a new OS being developed'' - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:42] <exec> 08└─http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Free.2FOpen_Source_Operating_systems_without_systemd_in_the_default_installation [without-systemd.org] Devuan won't be ready for a while, if ever. Slackware sounds too user-hostile for my needs. I used Gentoo for a while, and it worked pretty well,...
[04:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Systemd Just Doesn't Smell Right to Me - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:46] <exec> 08└─Advocates of systemd are quick to point out that ordinary users, like myself, aren't knowledgeable enough to participate in the discussion.
[04:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03caseih [2744] (Score:2) 02Re:Systemd Just Doesn't Smell Right to Me - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 1828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:48] <exec> 08└─It's not folded into the init system! What are you talking about? Look, the problem with these systemd discussions is that "ordinary users" such as yourself can't be bothered to even learn what systemd is let alone what it can do for you before you start arguing like this. If you really do want to k...
[04:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no more samsung /android - 06Android 6.0 "Marshmallow": The Green Robot Finally Gets Granular Control over Permissions - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:59] <exec> 08└─my note 2 has been repurposed to a "media player". i got a miniusb-2-HDMI dongle and installed kodi on it. it's decoding the 8 GB mkv blue navii featuring film just fine to my 1080p screen. It's got no more connection to the wider internet because rooting (OWNING!) your phone seems to turn the devic...
[04:32:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02Re:who needs a bomb? - 06The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles - 431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:37] <exec> 08└─Frojack wrote :- "you need do is make it impossible for a driverless car to undertake any journey without a live human inside Oh dear, bang goes one of the much vaunted advantages of self driving cars - the ability to send it off to a parking lot or back home after dropping its rider off at school...
[04:33:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02Poisoning the well - 06Rare Walking Fish Population Down to Just 79 - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:13] <exec> 08└─On a different note, what is it about Tasmania and extinctions?
[04:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No QED/quantum necessary - 06New Theory: Electromagnetic Energy Without Radiation - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:33:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know what E&M you learned, but it is literally on the cover (Griffiths [amazon.com]) of one of the undergraduate books on my shelf. Didn't you ever learn the reasoning for there not being magnetic monopoles? I learned Maxwell's Equations as an undergraduate (even had it on a tee shirt).
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[05:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02based on your search history... - 06Google to Join Forces With Sanofi to Monitor and Treat Diabetes - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:12] <exec> 08└─Google will decide whether you deserve diabetes, and if you do, Google will give you diabetes. Enjoy.
[05:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Google can't be evil - 06Google to Join Forces With Sanofi to Monitor and Treat Diabetes - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:13] <exec> 08└─Google is the best ever corporation that has ever existed in history. All governments should be abolished and replaced by Google. Because the governments are bad, bro, but you can trust the Google.
[05:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Perversion of the banks - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:27] <exec> 08└─No no no credit unions are evil because they pay interest and usury is immoral.
[05:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Not surprising, kinda cool - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:31] <exec> 08└─Ignoring the issues with the banking industry, it is cool that a revolutionary idea is being embraced instead of extinguished. This isn't about bitcoin tech being ruined, it's about it being used for a useful purpose. They've been chasing quantum computers to provide security, but if an encrypted bl...
[05:24:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:44] <exec> 08└─Setting aside whether the dating even means anything, and presuming for a moment that it does, when has evidence of anything led to the demise of a _faith_. Faiths are after all, inherently irrational, with many considering belief in the absence of evidence a great achievement.
[05:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:50] <exec> 08└─> Yes, claiming that random nonsense is true Versus random sense? Or ordered nonsense? If you think believing in something you can't prove is the same thing as claiming it is true, then you are no better than the religious fundamentalist declaring that anyone who doesn't think like they do will go t...
[05:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:59] <exec> 08└─"Furthermore there are plenty of rational reasons to hold such beliefs - they help organize social structure, for one. " Why not build a society on something that is true? Bert
[05:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 1838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:06] <exec> 08└─Believing literally in something that has been falsified is irrational. So is believing something you have no actual reason to believe is true, if you care about truth and well-being. There is a difference between believing and expecting others to believe, as well as there is a difference between de...
[05:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:15] <exec> 08└─I'm drinking a nitro milk stout from left hand brewing company. It is the awesome.
[05:27:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02Re:Root - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 1499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:26] <exec> 08└─Actually Lindows was a full OS, whether you cared for its design or not. With Poettering its pretty clear the intent is to turn Linux into just a crippled VM running on top of a cloud connected SystemD, which considering Red Hat's push for cloud computing? Really not surprising. What is interesting...
[05:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:well... - 06Billionaire Minecraft Creator "Notch" Reportedly Lonely - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, Ritchie Rich. Don't you remember him? Probably not; you're probably too young to have developed any sense of responsibility, empathy, and self esteem. The tag line on his comics were Poor Little Rich Boy. That's what we got here. Oh, poor little rich boy! I don't have any anger issues, except m...
[05:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Frijoles should be good [for] you - 06High Protein Foods Boost Cardiovascular Health as Much as Quitting Smoking or Getting Exercise - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:32:37] <exec> 08└─...especially for your heart. [google.com] -- gewg_
[05:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:who needs a bomb? - 06The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:32:56] <exec> 08└─"There is really no value in sending the cars any significant distance back to a parking facility." = false. My wife is working at the state fair. Parking within about a six block radius is both limited and expensive. I've been dropping her off at 6:15am and picking her up at 9:20pm. If I could just...
[05:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:who needs a bomb? - 06The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:32:57] <exec> 08└─Six blocks is not significant, neither is 8 or 10. Bringing the car all the way home would be ridiculous. A rent-for-the-ride car service would locate parking/recharging lots near events like fairs, not to mention office buildings, school campuses, factories etc.
[05:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:who needs a bomb? - 06The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:32:58] <exec> 08└─"How did we get from Driverless to Autonomous?". I don't understand the question; the headline mentions autonomous vehicles. Also, since my premise includes gaining unauthorized control remotely, any software restrictions can be assumed to be circumvented. I would support a legal requirement for any...
[05:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbWolf [2774] (Score:2) 02Re:took us a long time for this - 06 In Celebration of Macgyvering: 90 Hacks to Welcome in a New Word - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:34:37] <exec> 08└─For those who don't know: This is a line spoken in the very first Stargate SG-1 Episode [wikia.com]... of which Richard Dean Anderson also stars.
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[06:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sharing is Caring - 06Google to Join Forces With Sanofi to Monitor and Treat Diabetes - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:22] <exec> 08└─BAM Google just "partnered" with your healthcare insurer and lo... they are 'sharing data'! Because sharing is caring! Expect rate hikes in your health plan in 3... 2... 1... because you just *look* like you could be developing diabetes soon...
[06:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sharing is Caring - 06Google to Join Forces With Sanofi to Monitor and Treat Diabetes - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:23] <exec> 08└─Ha! The joke's on you because I have no insurance.
[06:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Perversion of the banks - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:39] <exec> 08└─They can't pervert crypto-currency, they would just have their own blockchain. Yes they would likely mine all the coins because bartering them back and forth IS the plan. As for "inflation" type scenarios, inflation is a necessary aspect of growth, just because it has been mishandled in the past (an...
[06:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:06] <exec> 08└─The thing about all that mythology is that just like the pink unicorns it is all man made consensus and will be discarded if it is no longer useful. The problem with this premise is that is that it presupposes rational action by people who are willing to set rationality aside. The kind of people who...
[06:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Re:Systemd Just Doesn't Smell Right to Me - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:10] <exec> 08└─"It's not folded into the init system! What are you talking about?" The title of the article referenced in this story is "Lennart Poettering merged “su” command replacement into systemd". Systemd, I was told by people who are supposed to know, is the new init system in Linux. So you should be ab...
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[07:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Uh-oh, nobody sell it to ISIS. - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:48] <exec> 08└─Can't have the enemy-of-the-decade gaining any sort of defense against our holy weapons of godliness. The Lord is on our side!
[07:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02it's not for UAVs, it's for R/C toys - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:49] <exec> 08└─what they are showing off is something that burns plastic radio controlled toys that are a few hundred feet away, not Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles that fly thousands of feet in the air. it should be referred to as a toy-killing laser cannot as it can't touch a real UAV.
[07:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it's not for UAVs, it's for R/C toys - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:51] <exec> 08└─What part of "proof of concept" do you not understand?
[07:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Missing attachment - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:52] <exec> 08└─The shark-mounting kit appears to be missing...
[07:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02old wine in new skin - 06Big Banks Interested in Bitcoin-like Software - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:24] <exec> 08└─It's already there at askemos [askemos.org]. (Though the project starved a bit waiting for user to understand that Merkle trees have value beyond currency.)
[07:25:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:39] <exec> 08└─No. Faith is about choosing to believe something which you can neither prove nor disprove, something that is not falsifiable.
[07:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:48] <exec> 08└─> The problem with this premise is that is that it presupposes rational action by people who are willing to set rationality aside. Again with the reductive analysis. Do you refuse to read fiction? Do you think there is nothing of value to be learned from fiction because its not fact? > How much more...
[07:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:23] <exec> 08└─I think we have identified the problem: And that's what you got. Gaming is part of tech. PAX is a gaming con. For that matter, #GamerGate is an online movement by gamers and very much tech-related.
[07:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:''a new OS being developed'' - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:53] <exec> 08└─http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Free.2FOpen_Source_Operating_systems_without_systemd_in_the_default_installation [without-systemd.org] ... I've never even heard of any of the other ones on that list. Anybody have recommendations?
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[08:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Of course it changed - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:06] <exec> 08└─Over 90 minutes of jaw dropping TV the American psyche was destroyed. No longer was it land of the brave, from now on it was "bogeyman behind every corner"
[08:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course it changed - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:07] <exec> 08└─and that's why the terrorists won
[08:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bush is a Pussy - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:10] <exec> 08└─Things will only get better after World War Three. By delaying inevitable nuclear war, Bush held back progress. Because Bush is a goddamn pussy.
[08:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it's not for UAVs, it's for R/C toys - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:22] <exec> 08└─Concepts are too hard. Show me a video or I don't get it.
[08:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing attachment - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:24] <exec> 08└─Sigh.
[08:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02No, really? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:53] <exec> 08└─Some scholars believe, however, that Muhammad did not receive the Quran from heaven
[08:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Why the correction? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:54] <exec> 08└─between 545 AD and 568 [takyon: 568 and 645 AD, with 95.4% accuracy]
[08:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"neuromorphic" my arse. - 06Snapdragon 820 SoC's Zeroth Neuromorphic Chip to Block Malware on Smartphones - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:09] <exec> 08└─Apparently it uses Quallcomm's own COLD neuron model described a bit here: http://www.cs.utah.edu [utah.edu] My heretical opinion on this is that since its a spiking model, its flawed. One can never build a sentient machine out of those chips :( Howeve...
[08:27:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Really? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:22] <exec> 08└─Are we just posting whatever Buzzard submits now? I hate political correctness and otherkin tumblrista as much as the next dude but this guy is a little unhinged in both his hatred for, and broad categorization of society's ills as SJWs. SJWs are a specific class of keyboard activist, nothing more....
[08:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buzzard is a gamergater and wingnut - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:02] <exec> 08└─Gaming is part of tech.
[08:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually nothing to do with /bin/su - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:13] <exec> 08└─And su is still there and you can still use it
[08:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Root - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:19] <exec> 08└─If you want a full login, wouldn't you just log in as the other user you want to log in as?
[08:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:1) 02Re:Systemd Just Doesn't Smell Right to Me - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:34] <exec> 08└─So tell me, what level of qualifications are needed before the systemd developers accept you as being qualified to disagree with their design philosophy? The bar for agreeing with them is set pretty darn low, I've noticed that much.
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[08:30:39] <exec> 08└─Zout alors! La boulangerie n'avez-pas le pain!
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[09:53:52] <exec> 08└─And finally a reason to start deploying the authoritarian / police state. At least in Europe as far as I can see. Since 9/11, governments here finally found a stick to beat the dog with and populist, extreme right wing political parties have gained enormously, as has islamophobia. It seems not only...
[09:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course it changed - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:53] <exec> 08└─No it wasn't. The American psyche had already been slowly eroded in the preceding decades. The war on terror simply formalized it.
[09:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:56] <exec> 08└─Also, did we ever get answers to the strange behaviour of the buildings? Many out there think it was a bit too much and strange burning going on... Why did other buildings around it collapsed? Not even in WW2 bombing of europe did we see such brittleness...
[09:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:58] <exec> 08└─Were many buildings burned down using jet fuel during WW2?
[09:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:59] <exec> 08└─jet fuel burned up in the explosion. it does not hang around and burn for 5-6 hours.
[09:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:01] <exec> 08└─Tell us how you did it.
[09:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:03] <exec> 08└─Many out there think the earth a fly, or that a magical sky being controls their destiny.
[09:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:04] <exec> 08└─Well you can't live without the Sun, so it certainly controls your destiny, it's up there in the sky, and the Sun performs nuclear fusion which counts as magic because you can't build a fusion reactor yourself. Who exactly are you belittling here?
[09:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:06] <exec> 08└─Also, did we ever get answers to the strange behaviour of the buildings?
[09:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:08] <exec> 08└─Many out there think it was a bit too much and strange burning going on...
[09:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:10] <exec> 08└─I had no idea that guy was so fat.
[09:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02US Air Force is fucking useless - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:11] <exec> 08└─Air Force didn't do jack shit to defend the World Trade Center. Why should anyone trust USAF not to get lost and drop the nukes on American soil?
[09:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02A case of.... - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:22] <exec> 08└─A good illustration of shooting down the competition.
[09:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:I declare a fatwā on this thread - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:14] <exec> 08└─I'd bring a "yo momma so fatwa" joke but I'm afraid of being beheaded.
[09:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:21] <exec> 08└─Of course you think it's true if you believe it, that's what it means to believe something. That there's no evidential or logical reason to think it's true is why it's irrational.
[09:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:34] <exec> 08└─Man goes on to prove that black is white and promptly gets himself killed on the next level crossing. -- Adams.
[09:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:35] <exec> 08└─Zebra crossing. Darned autocorrect...
[09:56:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Re:Really? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:56:38] <exec> 08└─If that's all Gamergate is about, then what relevance does it have to convention rules regarding dress code for exhibitors?
[09:56:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Re:Can the submitter please RTFA next time? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 938 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:56:54] <exec> 08└─So should all stories now have a random link to a porn site at the end, tying it to a fringe political group? Excellent. I've a nice video on C64 graphics to share with you all, brought to you by Slipshine and the Oath Keepers. Alternatively - and I know this is a shocking idea, but bear with me for...
[09:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually nothing to do with /bin/su - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:58:21] <exec> 08└─Potterix
[09:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bah, humbug... - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:59:07] <exec> 08└─Or it is as simple as the architectural choice of Windows vs. Linux, and nowadays developers prefer the streamlined windows method vs. the configurable linux method.
[10:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:options - 06Billionaire Minecraft Creator "Notch" Reportedly Lonely - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:00:57] <exec> 08└─In that case never marry them. You could still be honest - tell them you're not interested in getting married. A fair number might still keep pursuing.
[10:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:troll - 06Android 6.0 "Marshmallow": The Green Robot Finally Gets Granular Control over Permissions - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:03] <exec> 08└─That IS hardly anyone. While manufacturers would certainly like it(*), not everyone goes and buys a new flagship phone every year or so. *) thus they are all for shit that encourages such behaviour, like sticking to half-assed update system.. as a bonus there an aura of plausible deniability since i...
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[10:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where are sharks and lasers? - 06Fish and Snake Caught Mid-battle by Australian Fisherman - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:05] <exec> 08└─Why is the amazing picture named snake_vs_shark and why aren't there any fricking lazer beams on that snake?
[10:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Where are sharks and lasers? - 06Fish and Snake Caught Mid-battle by Australian Fisherman - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:06] <exec> 08└─...why aren't there any fricking lazer beams on that snake?
[10:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Go Snake! - 06Fish and Snake Caught Mid-battle by Australian Fisherman - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I gotta root for my fellow fisher-creatures.
[10:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Confused - 06Fish and Snake Caught Mid-battle by Australian Fisherman - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:10] <exec> 08└─He pulled the snake biting onto the fish? Then why "... he pulled the wrestling creatures from the water, clutching the snake under its mouth"?
[10:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02what if we had? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:35] <exec> 08└─one interesting thought experiment is how things would be if we had nuked Afghanistan. how would things be different today? how would the body count be vary of all sides of the conflict? would we still invade Iraq? would we still have armed drones? would the series of revolutions in the middle east...
[10:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:what if we had? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:36] <exec> 08└─We all live on one planet, we'll all go up in smoke.
[10:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what if we had? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:37] <exec> 08└─That argument is exactly the same as a serial killer would use: "I'm the good guy, because I didn't kill even more people! You have to believe me!"
[10:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jan_jes [5825] (Score:1) 02Both work together on digital technology - 06Google to Join Forces With Sanofi to Monitor and Treat Diabetes - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:07] <exec> 08└─Google life science CEO, said that the new technologies are emerging to provide a more continuous and real-time view of a patient’s health. So there will more proactive and effective ways to control diabetes. Google together with Sanofi, believes diabetes management can be simpler and more conveni...
[10:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02English, people. - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:52] <exec> 08└─"Partial nudity, the aggressive display of cleavage and the navel" The word "aggressive" is linked to "display of cleavage and the navel", not JUST "the navel" Any person with cleavage *to the navel* (especially a well-endowed female) is being aggressively sexual, (and sexually aggressive, for that...
[10:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Systemd Just Doesn't Smell Right to Me - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:59:18] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia, systemd superusers YOU!
[10:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A disto from the without-systemd list - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:59:27] <exec> 08└─Devuan If you were happy with Debian before Lennart, try antiX (pronounced "Antiques"). It's based on Debian Testing but has avoided Lennart's junk. They recently had a new release. [freeforums.org] They have several spins and as long as you have 64MB of RAM and a blank 700MB CD-R (or a thumbdrive),...
[10:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:bah, humbug... - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:59:59] <exec> 08└─> Poettering is being his usual disingenuous self... > The basic issue is that su does its job just fine. But that job conflict with some infosec voodoo that systemd is trying to do with various pam modules and cgroups in an effort to track "sessions". This is the problem, IMHO. I don't expect syste...
[11:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Hard to empathize - 06Billionaire Minecraft Creator "Notch" Reportedly Lonely - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:00] <exec> 08└─Making more babies seems to correlate with patriarchal society, in both rich and poor nations. The Duggars are an example of this. Others are the Quiverfull movement, and the Mormons and Islamic groups who practice polygamy. Afghanistan and Rwanda show where that thinking leads. Can there be too man...
[11:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Poisoning the well - 06Rare Walking Fish Population Down to Just 79 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:05:13] <exec> 08└─I dunno, I think it applies pretty well to that too.
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[11:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02copying is not theft - 06White House Readying Sanctions Against Chinese Companies for Cybertheft - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:58] <exec> 08└─Frustrated? Frustrated?!? If so, they're so full of crap. Whenever officials throw around loaded terms such as "theft", "stealing", and "plundering" when they really mean copying, they make us all look bad. The base assumption that copying is somehow unfair or bad, is plain wrong. It is cooperation...
[11:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where are sharks and lasers? - 06Fish and Snake Caught Mid-battle by Australian Fisherman - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:09] <exec> 08└─I always coat my missiles with contact poison to kill thieves who would steal my missiles.
[11:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused - 06Fish and Snake Caught Mid-battle by Australian Fisherman - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:12] <exec> 08└─Not sure where your confusion lies. He clutched the snake under its mouth. Both animals were biting each other.
[11:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score:1) 02Darwin Harbour - 06Fish and Snake Caught Mid-battle by Australian Fisherman - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:14] <exec> 08└─"the world's most venomous fish""highly venomous snake""on a World War Two wreck""he drew on his experience of fishing pythons out of his chicken coop"
[11:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course it changed - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:29] <exec> 08└─You mean in contrast to the red commie plague eroding our freedoms around every corner scare of the cold war?
[11:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Bush is a Pussy - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, things will get better for the cockroaches and other invertebrates after WWIII.
[11:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:36] <exec> 08└─jet fuel can't melt steel beams maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
[11:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:43] <exec> 08└─Well, literally *any* peer-reviewed paper's that's ever been written on the subject will clear things up, but you probably don't want to hear that. It's a unique situation, because no 100+ story modern skyscrapers have been hit by a modern loaded jet before or since. Fortunately for your inquisitive...
[11:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Restrained? Bumbling idiots, more like. - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:48] <exec> 08└─i don't think many people appreciate how restrained the US response has been. Maybe for a funny definition of "restrained". Al Qaeda was a terrorist group hiding in the hills of Afghanistan. Building on the political impetus of 9/11, the US ultimately attacked and destroyed the governments of no les...
[11:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why run-on sentence is bad - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:50] <exec> 08└─Oder Aderet reports at Haaretz that the United States considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attack according to Michael Steiner, who served as a political advisor to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, as reported in Der Spiegel.
[11:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it's not for UAVs, it's for R/C toys - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:01] <exec> 08└─Also, drone builders will start painting them in highly reflective (silver) paint, greatly reducing the laser absorption, which means they will need a much bigger laser, and the reflected laser light will go everywhere, creating a huge hazard for the operators. A particularly evil adversary would bu...
[11:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:56:25] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Which is why I worship the giant invisible space goat. The good thing about something you can't prove or disprove is that my claim is just as valid as anyone else's. By the way, the space goat tells me I must now chop off your head. Nothing personal you see, it's just religion.
[11:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02"designed to think like a biological brain" - 06Snapdragon 820 SoC's Zeroth Neuromorphic Chip to Block Malware on Smartphones - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:02] <exec> 08└─We don't even know exactly HOW the brain works, let alone replicate the way it works in silico. Sigh. If we only could get more of this [soylentnews.org].
[12:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:well... - 06Billionaire Minecraft Creator "Notch" Reportedly Lonely - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:37] <exec> 08└─Case in point.
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[12:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02How About ... - 06White House Readying Sanctions Against Chinese Companies for Cybertheft - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:50] <exec> 08└─How about punishing those people who allow such cyber theft to happen ?
[12:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Serious question - 06White House Readying Sanctions Against Chinese Companies for Cybertheft - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:52] <exec> 08└─What exactly is it that makes Americans so surprised that a country whose economy is growing at its slowest pace in decades, has it's currency devalued by a mere 2%? Is is just scaremongering? Are the reporters just clueless? Distracting from domestic problems?
[12:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course it changed - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:17] <exec> 08└─Yes but, steel beams?
[12:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Restrained? Bumbling idiots, more like. - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:40] <exec> 08└─Frankly, Bush, Cheney and the rest should have been sent up for war crimes
[12:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:what if we had? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:41] <exec> 08└─Interesting thought experiment, but given your fatality figures I don't think you realise how desolate the area of Afghanistan where it was thought Osama was hiding actually is. It also overlooks the fact that Bush was *all* about Iraq with Afghanistan initially mostly an afterthought, so the chance...
[12:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:2) 02Re:what if we had? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:43] <exec> 08└─"War, war never changes..."
[12:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:it's not for UAVs, it's for R/C toys - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:56] <exec> 08└─A car analogy would be fine, too.
[12:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Illop [2741] (Score:1) 02Wonder what the price tag is on that. - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:01] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't mind having one of those.... You know, for duck hunting of course.
[12:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:56:13] <exec> 08└─SJWs are a specific class of keyboard activist, nothing more. They aren't your Orwellian overlords
[12:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pete (big-pete) (1612) (Score:1) 02This is hardly new - 06Paris Will Ban Cars for One Day - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:38] <exec> 08└─Brussels has been doing this for years...it's usually a weekend when I'm overseeing major system interventions, and I get a special exemption pass from the city - it's a very strange day to be driving your car through the city. This year it is on 20th September in Brussels. [brussels.be] -- Pete.
[12:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pete (big-pete) (1612) (Score:1) 02Re:This is hardly new - 06Paris Will Ban Cars for One Day - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:39] <exec> 08└─There is even a wikipedia page [wikipedia.org] for this type of event and its history... -- Pete.
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[13:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02thats no moon - 06NASA Names New Horizons' Next Target - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:42] <exec> 08└─"Thats no moon... Chewie get us outta here"
[13:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:copying is not theft - 06White House Readying Sanctions Against Chinese Companies for Cybertheft - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:52:51] <exec> 08└─no matter how often others point out that information and material things are fundamentally different things, and cannot be owned in identical ways
[13:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:How About ... - 06White House Readying Sanctions Against Chinese Companies for Cybertheft - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:52:54] <exec> 08└─Because the corporations with swiss cheese security own the politicians. The only reason this is a story at all is because the marketing departments insist on passing the blame to the evil communists. It's not like the NSA isn't actively vacuuming up as much of the worlds data any way it can every s...
[13:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Don't be fooled by their words - 06White House Readying Sanctions Against Chinese Companies for Cybertheft - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:57] <exec> 08└─The US cannot sanction China. The US can only sanction US citizens. Enjoy your rising prices, while China sells to the other 194 countries in the world.
[13:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02Stonefish bite poisonous? - 06Fish and Snake Caught Mid-battle by Australian Fisherman - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:11] <exec> 08└─I have seen stonefish while snorkeling in the Red Sea. I bought a book about Red Sea poisonous creatures to avoid, and of course the stonefish was there. The thing is: the poisonous part are the dorsal fin spines. Never saw or read or heard about its bite being poisonous. The sea snake's bite is ver...
[13:53:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Of course it changed - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:20] <exec> 08└─Over 90 minutes of jaw dropping TV the American psyche was destroyed. No longer was it land of the brave, from now on it was "bogeyman behind every corner"
[13:53:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Of course it changed - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:22] <exec> 08└─and that's why the terrorists won
[13:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02Re:Bush is a Pussy - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:31] <exec> 08└─And don't forget the cnidarians, (jellyfish - etc...), have always thrived in the oceans - even through drastic environmental changes.
[13:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:1) 02Re:demolition? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:39] <exec> 08└─That should have been one of the options on these funky polls we get periodically.
[13:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Large scale PSYOPS are normal operating procedures - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:44] <exec> 08└─Also, did we ever get answers to the strange behaviour of the buildings?
[13:53:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Restrained? Bumbling idiots, more like. - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 1381 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:49] <exec> 08└─i don't think many people appreciate how restrained the US response has been. Maybe for a funny definition of "restrained". Al Qaeda was a terrorist group hiding in the hills of Afghanistan. Building on the political impetus of 9/11, the US ultimately attacked and destroyed the governments of no les...
[13:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what if we had? - 06Bush Considered Using Nuclear Weapons Against Afghanistan After 9/11 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:53] <exec> 08└─one interesting thought experiment is how things would be if we had nuked Afghanistan. how would things be different today?
[13:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:1) 02Re:Wonder what the price tag is on that. - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:11] <exec> 08└─Duck. Roasted. On the wing...
[13:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02We have the solution to our problem! - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:12] <exec> 08└─Step 1: Create scary unmanned aircraft that spies and/or kills you which instills fear and panic. Step 2: Create laser to destroy said aircraft. step 3: Profit!
[13:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:1) 02This is why we need . . . - 06Drone-Killing Laser Cannon Welcomed to the World - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:14] <exec> 08└─This is why we need ground based killer robots that seek out and destroy drone killing laser canons. Happy, friendly killer robots. With fuzzy cuddly exteriors as an optional extra for a small additional charge.
[13:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The future is cloudy … - 06Google to Join Forces With Sanofi to Monitor and Treat Diabetes - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:26] <exec> 08└─Another way to constantly monitor people. Great. </sarcasm>
[13:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kow-ran is for kows - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:58] <exec> 08└─Now you're just mbacon it up.
[13:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:09] <exec> 08└─uhm...I think you are wrong though: When I have an hypothesis I tend to believe its like that (otherwise I would not coin it). Then I test it. Sometimes it turns to be false. Religious beliefs are just stuck in the hypothetical phase for ever, as they are (mostly) not testable. Its not irrational. P...
[13:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:16] <exec> 08└─Do you think there is nothing of value to be learned from fiction because its not fact?
[13:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:23] <exec> 08└─Because those things which we can have evidence on are not sufficient to build a society on them?
[13:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:32] <exec> 08└─We all operate on assumption, not faith. We assume that what we see and hear is reality, we don't have faith that it is.
[13:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scholars? - 06Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate the Prophet Muhammad - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:36] <exec> 08└─You cannot prove there is a world independent of you. So according to your logic, the only rational position would be solipsism.
[13:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Booth Babes - A Perspective from a Booth Babe - 06Cosplay and Schwag at PAX - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:56:46] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine is a professional actor, clown, mask maker, playwright, and general performer. He likes whiskey, so occasionally we hang out and drink from his latest acquisition, talk politics, etc. Most of his other friends are performers of one kind or another and they often join us. Last time h...
[13:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:1) 02Re:Actually nothing to do with /bin/su - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:01] <exec> 08└─They started out claiming the same about all the other things they assimilated. Then the systemd version became required, followed by intentionally breaking support for the Unix(R) way.
[13:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:1) 02Re:Root - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:06] <exec> 08└─If you want a login shell with su, you say "su - username" instead of "su username".
[13:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03utoddl [819] (Score:1) 02Re:Systemd Just Doesn't Smell Right to Me - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:39] <exec> 08└─If you really do want to know what systemd is about, I'm sure people who are up on it are happy to talk to you about it and explain its benefits to you.
[13:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:1) 02Re:Systemd Just Doesn't Smell Right to Me - 06Lennart Poettering Has Merged “su” Command Replacement into systemd - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:40] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell [ su ] is doing it well enough. For what reason does it need to be folded into the init system?
[13:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I forsee an issue - 06Paris Will Ban Cars for One Day - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:59:10] <exec> 08└─Many European cities have had pedestrian zones for a long time. The way the shops resupply is vans come in at night when the pedestrian zone is closed/empty. It seems to work well enough.
[13:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Well now who is going to honk at garbage trucks - 06Paris Will Ban Cars for One Day - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:59:15] <exec> 08└─Department of Sanitation jobs are coveted in New York. Good pay, great benefits. I know a NYC garbage man who owns a big beach house on the north shore of Long Island. He loves his job, and is always finding antiques and other interesting stuff that other people throw out.
[13:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Helping Others - 06Billionaire Minecraft Creator "Notch" Reportedly Lonely - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:59:37] <exec> 08└─I can empathize with the guy. Who would want to hang out with the super rich? The vast majority of them are not self-made. They have never created anything or done anything useful in their lives. They are churlish, petty, and cruel. Everyone else who is not one of the super rich (which is virtually...
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