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[00:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Never thought I'd see 14 nm - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:01] <exec> 08└─Back in the 80's I went to a trade show and was talking to a grizzled old vet who must have been in his 40s (I was in my 20s). We were wondering if CMOS or NMOS was going to win, CMOS was the dark horse as it was so vulnerable to static electricity. One of the few things we agreed on was the process...
[00:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Binary Blob Alert! - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:02] <exec> 08└─Binary blob required for Skylake now. Have fun...
[00:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Baseless? - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:13] <exec> 08└─Estonia is not China, so no.
[00:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure... - 06Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:29] <exec> 08└─If I walk up to you and place my hand on your exposed forearm, will my "devices" be able to pick up your "transmissions"? Kenneth, what's the frequency?
[00:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:limited usefulness - 06Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:37] <exec> 08└─limited usefulness
[00:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Officially Yes... - 06NSA Bulk Call Records Collection Extended for Last Time - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:49] <exec> 08└─What happens after that, probably anything and everything.
[00:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Settlement... - 06Uber Drivers Granted Class-Action Status in California - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:14] <exec> 08└─Do regular cab drivers get all of the things you mention?
[00:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Settlement... - 06Uber Drivers Granted Class-Action Status in California - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:15] <exec> 08└─Franchises do the same thing. Doesn't make a franchise branch owner an employee of the franchise.
[00:29:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] 02Re:Kill CEIP - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:28] <exec> 08└─The trouble with a lot of the "kill it" tips, is that if enough people *do* kill it and MS thinks its not getting its daily dose of OUR DATA, they just send out another "update" to UN-kill it.... I suspect those who value their privacy *and* still use Windows (????) will be playing whack-a-mole with...
[00:29:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02Re:Other updates to be avoided - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 1501 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:42] <exec> 08└─My anonymous friend, It seems that you will need to repeat the posting of this data regularly. I fear that without regular promotion, the lack of uproar that people wonder about... seems to be adequately explained somehow by your needing to repost this regularly. I would like to see SN take a poll t...
[00:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:30:02] <exec> 08└─switching away
[00:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02YouTube - 06Netflix Takes Gamble With Epix Film Cull in U.S. - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:49] <exec> 08└─I written this before on SN, but I too have totally mined out Netflix's DVD and streaming selection. More and more I watch content on Instructables and YouTube. The more I watch there, the more inspired I feel to undertake my own projects and as I do, the happier I feel generally. For example, I've...
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[01:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02flops... - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:06] <exec> 08└─any word on the FLOPS rating for the chips? LINPACK would be nice, but theoretical peak DP/SP would be useful, especially if the graphics units are usable.
[01:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:21] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't expect to find all the rare earths in the same place. But by finding plenty of the REs that are in common usage, the west has proven reserves. They can continue to prospect for the "heavies" at their leisure, having driven successfully the Chinese prices down. Great head fake. Its still...
[01:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:23] <exec> 08└─And then the US mines re-open, and the US plants come out of mothballs and start processing again. The mere existence of these US mines have driven the Chinese prices so low, that it doesn't pay to run the plants and deplete the local resources.
[01:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:recycle REs! - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:27] <exec> 08└─I'd settle for more people to recycle the common stuff: glass, metal, paper, and plastic.
[01:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:And so it begins... - 06Russian Site Blocking Continues, Data Localization Requirement Takes Effect - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:14] <exec> 08└─there's a huge number of people in other countries that enjoy a relatively free experience on the internet.
[01:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''stay with [Lose98]'' - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:43] <exec> 08└─9x hasn't been supported since 2003. (The level of "support" 9x got after the release of W2k was quite sad anyway; M$ moved up the EoL date from July 11 to June 30 after a vulnerability was revealed that they didn't want to fix.) Most importantly, many of the "Windoze" apps written in the last 15 ye...
[01:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Other updates to be avoided - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:54] <exec> 08└─I have never installed any updates on my Windows XP system, and just to make sure, I took the hard drive out of the computer and replaced it with one that contains devuan linux. No update is going to get at my Windows on a shelf.
[01:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:Other updates to be avoided - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:55] <exec> 08└─2652664 is not a real one, it's a typo for 2952664, which you also list. And it still needs 2977759 added to the list. Furthermore, I mentioned this in my reply to the post that you just copied!
[01:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:03] <exec> 08└─Those engineers can keep their Windows tools.
[01:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:05] <exec> 08└─Most CAM (computer aided machining/manufacturing) software is Windows based.
[01:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:11] <exec> 08└─There's freebsd, there's devuan, and there's funtoo. And there's another one whose documentation is written in an East European or Balkan languages. Check out the devuan mailing list. There's lots of people there tweaking their OS, tinkering with inits, writing service supervisors, wifi and network...
[01:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:15] <exec> 08└─We have a $20,000+ seat of Mastercam, the use of which is my full time job, and which I've been using for about twenty years. Can you direct me to a non-Microsoft OS that will run it well? Not sarcastic BTW.
[01:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 2007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:24] <exec> 08└─This is why it's so important to stand up for principle and not take the easy way out. What are people's remaining reasons for using Windows? "I'm sorry, but it's just what I'm familiar with and I don't want to learn something new. Aw come on, it's not open source, but is that really such a big deal...
[01:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:You've blown it M$ - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:26] <exec> 08└─If Linux ever gets anywhere close to Windows in terms of the supported games, then bye bye Microsoft. Forever.
[01:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Dungeons of Daggorath - 0640 Computer Role-Playing Games That Did Their Own Thing - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:31:36] <exec> 08└─You may be interested to know that Roguelikes (and Roguelites) are one of the fastest growing game genres. Roguetemple forums [roguetemple.com] aggregates new roguelikes and hosts various related discussions from updates to classic rouguelikes to new games in-development. The mechanic combinations y...
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[02:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not unusual - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:03] <exec> 08└─It's not that dodgy, in fact one of the NSA's original goals before they got jacked by paranoia was to keep the country secure from cyber threat by fostering sufficient crypto and research. As such, they're everywhere in the field of cryptography and they help push along the bureaucracy of selecting...
[02:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not unusual - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:04] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Unlike the case of them deliberately weakening DUAL_EC_DRBG [wikipedia.org] when it came to DES 30 years earlier they improved the strength of the S-boxes - making them more resistant to differential analysis which had not even been (publicly) invented at the time.. Although they apparently...
[02:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:flops... - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:17] <exec> 08└─Here's word on Skylake graphics having about 1,152 GFLOPS. It might not reflect real world, so take it with a grain of salt: http://www.digit.in [digit.in] Gen 9 Graphics: Gamers Rejoice While processing capabilities...
[02:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:flops... - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:18] <exec> 08└─Ironlake was the GPU integrated into the actual 2nd generation i-series chips (ie. Westmere). Westmere is kind of the forgotten generation because it was sandwiched between Nehalem and Sandy Bridge.
[02:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:recycle REs! - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:37] <exec> 08└─illiterate AC? shocking! here's the part that went over your head! all new RE metal shipments should be taxed to subsidize the recycling.
[02:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:recycle REs! - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:39] <exec> 08└─people recycle a lot. the problem occurs with companies that accept the material to be recycled. instead of recycling it themselves, they pay another company to take it overseas to be recycled... but it never makes it there because it gets dumped in the ocean.
[02:29:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Settlement... - 06Uber Drivers Granted Class-Action Status in California - 1046 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:34] <exec> 08└─If the drivers win, and get a judgment that says they are employees and not independent contractors, then they will reap all sorts of gains from that, like: - Health insurance, if they work more than 29 hours a week. - Minimum wage. - Overtime pay. - Compensation for gas and mileage on their vehicle...
[02:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Kill CEIP - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:53] <exec> 08└─4 Applicable only between the hours of 10pm and 3am GMT. 5 MS reserves the right to revoke or change terms at any time without warning or explanation. 6 Offer void in Nebraska [orain.org].
[02:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:''stay with [Lose98]'' - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:58] <exec> 08└─If you have a 9x-compatible app that you just can't live without, WINE running under Linux is the way to get that going.
[02:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Professional tools'' - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:21] <exec> 08└─still works best on Windows The "still" part reveals how little you know about that company's flagship product. AutoCAD was originally developed for UNIX. [google.com] It was later that it became Windoze-only. . There is a (now retired) architect who used to post regularly in the Mint forum. He uses...
[02:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:''Professional tools'' - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:23] <exec> 08└─still works best on Windows
[02:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''but since I'm debian-derivative based'' - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:27] <exec> 08└─Have you given antiX a test drive? It's based on Debian Testing. No Lennart anywhere in sight. -- gewg_
[02:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Mastercam'' - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:30:34] <exec> 08└─Last tested 2006-02-07 [codeweavers.com] Perhaps you could do your own test and update their database. -- gewg_
[02:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:The real deal - 06Obama to Test Survivor Skills on Bear Grylls Show - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:13] <exec> 08└─Do they get anything right, ever? Yeap... accounting.
[02:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile in Russia... - 06Obama to Test Survivor Skills on Bear Grylls Show - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:36] <exec> 08└─based on that video they may be gay, but all the passion is gone
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[03:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Not unusual - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:03] <exec> 08└─>they're everywhere in the field of cryptography Yeah, that's the fundamental issue. Couple that with the fact that they want to compromise crypto and make no bones about it, and I'm pretty skeptical.
[03:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Name Says It All - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:05] <exec> 08└─So, not only do they want your secrets, they want you to help them get them. Yes, it's open-source software and the source code can be examined, but the NSA skeptic in me thinks this sounds very dodgy.
[03:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In light of the recent chinese attacks - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:07] <exec> 08└─this is towards NSA's and *our* interests. Of course we shall fork and audit.
[03:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Never thought I'd see 14 nm - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:16] <exec> 08└─Nah, 14nm is like 60-something atoms. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] For comparison, the atomic radius of unstrained silicon is 111 pm (0.111 nm). Thus about 90 Si atoms would span the channel length, leading to substantial leakage.
[03:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Worth waiting for? - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:21] <exec> 08└─If I'm in the market for a 15" laptop running on Core m5 or Core m7, is it worth waiting for Skylake? Would the difference in price likely to be above the price/performance regression line?
[03:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FIVR - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:23] <exec> 08└─Dare I ask why a "fully integrated voltage regulator" is a good idea? Voltage converters use relatively bulky inductors and capacitors. While you can make those components smaller by raising the frequency; you lose some efficiency during switching. I suspect they want to make sure the chip gets a ca...
[03:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re-opening - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:41] <exec> 08└─and the US plants come out of mothballs and start... ...offering the new workers a tiny fraction of what they had been paying before. The race to the bottom continues. The Free Market and Neoliberalism are so awesome! -- gewg_
[03:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares? - 06NSA Bulk Call Records Collection Extended for Last Time - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:14] <exec> 08└─They aren't even really giving it up, but instead just REQUIRING the phone companies to keep all this data for them to troll through later.
[03:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:1) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:34] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I could get by on FreeBSD if I had to, but I have a preference for GPL software.
[03:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:1) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:49] <exec> 08└─"Massive" is what I said, and exactly what I meant - except for Person C, the gamer. I know three people who I can say for certain run Windows: Person A: Microsoft can do no wrong! If they're doing something bad, it's because all the other companies are doing it but nobody cares to notice! Apple's p...
[03:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tannasg [5446] (Score:1) 02Re:Grizzly - 06Obama to Test Survivor Skills on Bear Grylls Show - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:31:17] <exec> 08└─Meh Neutral on Obama (I'm not American), but would pay good money to see that idiot Grylls get his comeuppance from one of his nicknamesakes..all part of the great circle of life, Grylls eats crunchy frog, Grizzly eats crunchy 'Bear'..
[03:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:much manpower! such wow! - 06Three More Astronauts to Launch to ISS Soon - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:17] <exec> 08└─Oy! Why are you deleting your journal entries! I'm too busy to stay on top of your comings and goings on an hourly basis! Your writing is of worth (in some crazed meth loving sort of horror show, but I can relate in ways) dammit, don't tease me with entries to find them taken from me!!! Yes, I'm tal...
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[04:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Previous story - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:03] <exec> 08└─It was previously mentioned that the way to get ice cream to melt slower is to put in less of the expensive stuff--specifically, less cream. Why WalMart Ice Cream Doesn't Melt [soylentnews.org] -- gewg_
[04:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Previous story - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:04] <exec> 08└─I'll take the fancy nevermeltice protein additive!
[04:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Previous story - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:06] <exec> 08└─or just chill marshmallow and pretend its ice cream =D
[04:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:08] <exec> 08└─from the will-it-give-us-the-poops dept.
[04:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:10] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that imagery, I think. How do I Un-Read that?
[04:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Buzzy says - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:11] <exec> 08└─"My life is not your problem", buzzy says.
[04:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:13] <exec> 08└─Aaargh! Surgery! Take the pictures out of my head! On another note: There is something like lactose free milk and cream (thus: lactose free, milk/cream bases ice cream), and also lactose intolerance is caused by lack of the enzyme "lactase", which can be consumed together with lactose to avert the n...
[04:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:2) 02Wrong Direction - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:15] <exec> 08└─It's 2015 - I don't let my house get above 75 in the summer, and I dont worry about saturated fat. What I want is a high-fat icecream with less sugar.
[04:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong Direction - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:17] <exec> 08└─I still leave the house in the summer to enjoy the warm weather. Admittedly, here in Europe even outside the temperature is never above 75 (because we measure in Celsius), but it gets pretty hot, and slower-melting ice-cream would be welcome.
[04:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02one with nature - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:18] <exec> 08└─A cheaper alternative [wikipedia.org]
[04:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not unusual - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:25] <exec> 08└─I believe their SELinux has been thoroughly vetted, and no problems were found it it. Nobody has found any holes in it, or hidden features.
[04:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Even if there wasn't NSA trust issue... - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:28] <exec> 08└─From readme at github: Redshat only It comes with its own puppet master! Not sure if you can use your own credential store, but it comes with an LDAP server too. Even if this was from the EFF, I would have to pass. We already have management infrastructure for our organization, thank you. Seems this...
[04:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Worth waiting for? - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:44] <exec> 08└─I would wait for Skylake over Broadwell since systems will be out in the coming weeks and months. Or take advantage of Broadwell inventory clearance by keeping an eye on a deal site [slickdeals.net]. Skylake's improvements on mobile should be real enough. Here is some of what they are advertising ov...
[04:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worth waiting for? - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:45] <exec> 08└─Thanks - 30 pct better battery life alone is prolly worth the wait. IF they can deliver that.
[04:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:FIVR - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:47] <exec> 08└─http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation/3 [anandtech.com] Prior to Haswell, voltage regulation was performed by the motherboard and the right voltages were then put into the processor. This was deemed inefficient for power consumption, and fo...
[04:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:recycle REs! - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:10] <exec> 08└─They're just lengthening the cycle to appeal to our scuba-diving trash collector great-grandchildren on Earth: Waterworld.
[04:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:31:01] <exec> 08└─There's always PCLinuxOS — it's kind of cobbled together from what the creator evidently felt was the best of every other distro (Synaptic package manager, RPM-based, Mandriva-derived admin tools, etc.), but thus far it's systemd-free, offers a pretty wide variety of desktop environments and has p...
[04:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in Russia... - 06Obama to Test Survivor Skills on Bear Grylls Show - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:32:13] <exec> 08└─Mate Putin is a Survivor (and a bunch of other things)... one has to be in order to scale the heights he has in Krelim and maintain it as long as he has. He doesn't need to host a survival show, he's already up on stage in one already.
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[05:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score:1) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:10] <exec> 08└─My aunt is lactose intolerant, and she gets away with eating with the kids by having yoghurt with active cultures. seems they can keep working even after you eat them. just make sure it says "contains active cultures"
[05:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:11] <exec> 08└─> Eating any kind of ice cream will have me able to shit through a screen door without hitting a wire. So, you are saying that ice cream gives you the mighty butthurt?
[05:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:12] <exec> 08└─Ice cream isn't the best for the lactose-tolerant either. Sure, it tastes good, and we can subsequently shit on screens and hit them, but all the sodium leaves one with hot dehydration and cottonmouth afterward.
[05:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong Direction - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:16] <exec> 08└─> What I want is a high-fat icecream with less sugar. You are in luck. It is sugar that makes ice cream creamy. Anyone who has been on the adkins diet knows that if you try to make ice cream with fake sugar you end up with rock-hard frozen milk that is at best popsicle-quality. But the latest labfoo...
[05:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02I just want more strawberries - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:18] <exec> 08└─I just want more strawberries in my strawberry ice cream. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe 100 years from now we'll have some magnificent creation of science, the additive won't give you cancer, and it'll taste as good as it possibly could. The $billionaire that comes up with it will be quoted as, "If I had a...
[05:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I just want more strawberries - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:20] <exec> 08└─Good to see that scientists are working on first-world problems like making slower-melting ice cream rather than solving world hunger or something. No, I really mean that -- people who can't be fed shouldn't have been born. Meanwhile, I'll be snackin' on my delicious Rocky Road and Butter Pecan. Ahh...
[05:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I just want more strawberries - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:22] <exec> 08└─Eat strawberry sorbet/sherbet instead.
[05:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not unusual - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:32] <exec> 08└─What do you think about systemd and Microsoft's analytics campaign happening at the same time?
[05:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if there wasn't NSA trust issue... - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:37] <exec> 08└─As I understand the submission, they neither intended nor claimed to release a "product". They open source their own implementation so others will be able to turn it into a community asset. Which was the idea of open source in the first place: Not some big companies feeding freeloaders but developer...
[05:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Sounds legit - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:39] <exec> 08└─Well if we have the source code then the software is safe right? No way to hide malicious backdoors in open source right? (Rhetorical question, if you don't already know go check out http://www.ioccc.org [ioccc.org] )
[05:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Protect Your Keys - 06Bug in Visual Studio GitHub Commit Tool Leads to $6,500 Amazon Web Services Bill - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:45] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Once that information enters your Windows computer, all bets are off.
[05:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:sanity checks! - 06Bug in Visual Studio GitHub Commit Tool Leads to $6,500 Amazon Web Services Bill - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:58] <exec> 08└─This is ridiculous. How many times now has the outrageous bill happened? You'd think that someone who spends a few dollars on apps once in a while isn't going to suddenly run up a big bill. Someone's 3 year old child gets hands on Mommy's or Daddy's smartphone, and accidentally spends $6000 on apps...
[05:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Kill CEIP - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:30:39] <exec> 08└─who value their privacy *and* still use Windows
[05:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can somebody explain why? - 06Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, et al Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Codec - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:36:34] <exec> 08└─Video compression is perceptual - it is all based on how the human brain perceives things - the shortcuts our brains take in processing visual stimuli. It is possible that compressed video looks like shit to your cat because cat brains process visual input differently than humans. Thus there are no...
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[06:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:37] <exec> 08└─Terribly misogynistic shit happens in third-world villages all the damn time. But what actual insight can anyone here possibly have about it?
[06:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:38] <exec> 08└─Terrible shit happens all over the globe by the upper caste all the damn time. That's my actual insight.
[06:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:40] <exec> 08└─> Terrible shit happens all over the globe by the upper caste all the damn time. That's my actual insight. Well gee, that is so generic as to be basically meaningless. But if you say its an insight then it must be insightful to you.
[06:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:41] <exec> 08└─Perhaps that some of the folks who post here are so full of themselves and their "white male oppression" fantasies that they will post: a) support for the statements of those who say the women made it up. b) derogitory statements about the women, for lulz c) bullshit posts including the term "SJW" w...
[06:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:43] <exec> 08└─While the next two posts proved your ability to prognosticate, I don't think baiting the same tired old misogyny is insightful. At best it is just something for the zugnub and f-fueled types to use for public masturbation - makes them feel good about themselves while the rest of us who have to see i...
[06:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:45] <exec> 08└─Since we live in the world of woman, some things can not be said. But I will say them anyways: I wonder how it feels to torture a man to death. I want to do all the shit. Poking out the eyes, needles in the testicles, pulling out the teeth, burning of the fingers... And, lo and behold, these male vi...
[06:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:47] <exec> 08└─As a light-skinned man with Straight White Male Privilege, I ask: Where is that place? I'd move to it! It's the next best thing to Serbian rape camps [wikipedia.org] and much more modern with less risk of being killed unlike those Durka-Durka [wikipedia.org] places.
[06:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02She shouldn't return - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:48] <exec> 08└─She shouldn't return anyway to such a fucked up place. It's not likely the police can get any witnesses to testify against the village elders ("he said she said"). So what could they do given a limited budget? Maybe if her sister is raped there would be actual evidence.
[06:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:She shouldn't return - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:50] <exec> 08└─> She shouldn't return anyway to such a fucked up place. Duh. If only life were that easy. That's the only place she has family. Given just how backward the village is, she probably doesn't have much more than 5th-grade education. What are her options? Having no support network makes her vulnerable...
[06:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:52] <exec> 08└─This is a country that can put satellites in orbit, yet these reprehensible, socially backwards kinds of things are still allowed to happen. I can't pretend to have a clue about their culture, but for crying out loud, you'd think the intelligent scientific types would drag the rest of the country ou...
[06:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:54] <exec> 08└─> you'd think the intelligent scientific types would drag the rest of the country out of the 15th century already! Easier said than done. The country has a billion people in it and the middle-class, which is less than 5% of the population, exists solely in the cities, not out in the boonies where th...
[06:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, I can understand the India hate within Western countries. But it's pretty hypocritical to hate on India when your governments are in bed with scum like the Saudis and Turks -- scum so dastardly that any sane society would have wiped them off the face of the map by now, if those dastardly s...
[06:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:57] <exec> 08└─You are ignoring the vast difference between India and any other country besides China. The massive population carries a lot of cultural momentum. Screwed up stuff happens in every country, but you're comparing apples to oranges. Third world conditions (I presume this village counts) make this stuff...
[06:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:11] <exec> 08└─> all the sodium leaves one with hot dehydration and cottonmouth afterward. If your ice cream has added sodium it is fucked up. Ice cream consists of 4 ingredients - milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks. And then whatever flavoring - like vanilla, chocolate, ginger, mint, pistachios, etc When you make home...
[06:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Melts in your mouth not in your hand - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:19] <exec> 08└─If not even jet fuel can melt this new icecream then how will it melt inside my mouth? Not a fan of brainfreeze.
[06:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds legit - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:40] <exec> 08└─s/safe/safer/g Ftfy
[06:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"today" - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:41] <exec> 08└─"The NSA today revealed it has uploaded source code to GitHub to help IT admins lock down their networks of Linux machines." "today" ... that made the rounds in early July, if you care to look at the linked article date
[06:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Rare earths aren't - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:31] <exec> 08└─Just as a matter of info: "rare earths" aren't really rare [geology.com], in the sense of being hard to find. Instead, they are elements that tend to be more evenly distributed in the earth. Instead, you find areas where they are just marginally more concentrated, and then dig up huge masses of eart...
[06:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:1) 02Re:limited usefulness - 06Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:53] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen of Bluetooth earpiece wearing a-holes talking very loudly while wandering around the super market, a highly constrictive neck band would be an improvement.
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[07:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:17] <exec> 08└─The idea that doing any of these things would be "fun" and "I want to do all the shit" puts you right beside all those people, not against them.
[07:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:18] <exec> 08└─choose your friends, choose your enemies
[07:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:21] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the link, bro :D Witch brings me to the next topic: the jewish lies: look at this "camp brothel" made by the nazis in the "third reich", according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Those pictures are an other...
[07:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:1) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:22] <exec> 08└─The insight that sometimes racism is not completely irrational?
[07:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:1) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:27] <exec> 08└─You conveniently missed the part where I said "I have no clue about their culture" so maybe you could cut me some slack? I don't pretend to have the answer for their cultural problems, I'm just stating the obvious. How would this benefit me in any way? I realize this site is mostly IT types and mayb...
[07:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:30] <exec> 08└─Never have I seen anti-semitism condensed to its purest genocidal form. Yes, if we wipe them all out . . . . Of course, the alternate solution is that they wipe us all out. . . . The real question is: Who is us? We may not be who you think we are, or even who we think we are. Those people may by ou...
[07:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:31] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of Jews in the world besides those who reside in Israel. And I did also advocate wiping out a shitload of Muzzies and seculars who didn't have the balls to properly stand up to Erdogan. If I am advocating genocide, I am advocating it to the entire Middle-East.
[07:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:33] <exec> 08└─Who are Muzzies? I thought it meant mosquitos. Some people don't live in your world.
[07:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 1524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:35] <exec> 08└─Oh, that makes it alright? Indiscriminate genocide is better that the more specific versions? No, Eth, what you said was just wrong. Wrong on many levels. This is what makes you such a poor troll! If you want to provoke Soylentils, you will have to use a much finer brush. Not genocide, but patric...
[07:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:36] <exec> 08└─India is a huge country, and it's still extremely socially stratified. Ancient and barbaric customs like those described still persist in some places in rural India, even though there are laws against them. Discrimination by caste was made illegal in the 1950s, but it's probably going to take a lot...
[07:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:38] <exec> 08└─This is a country that can put satellites in orbit, yet these reprehensible, socially backwards kinds of things are still allowed to happen.
[07:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:1) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:40] <exec> 08└─The rest of the world thinks similarly about the US.
[07:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:41] <exec> 08└─And what the fuck you gonna do about it? We own your country. We own your elected officials. Your people will follow us right off a cliff and won't raise a single objection doing so. America, Fuck yeah!
[07:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:43] <exec> 08└─Americans have even sent men to the moon, and yet there's no lack of backwards kinds of things, especially among religious people. It's just sheer luck that the dominant religion in America doesn't allow for things like gang rape as punishment; I'm pretty sure if it did, it would happen in America,...
[07:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02All for diversity but... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:45] <exec> 08└─This is an important piece of news, but I don't see why its on SN. There really isn't anything to discuss, and it already has international traction. Unless Phoenix666 is trying to out the misogynists by their reactions :P Not even a link to become an internet activist
[07:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All for diversity but... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:47] <exec> 08└─It is always worthwhile to "out" the misogynists. In their native habitat, it looks like they are just seeking a mate. But then we realize that they hate the opposite sex, and are really closet homosexuals. Of course, they do not know this, so if we can "catch them in the act", and make clear to...
[07:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:All for diversity but... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:48] <exec> 08└─Meh, social crusades aren't really my thing. The best thing is to always stay calm and clearly address points you disagree with. Getting all angry is the worst thing you can do, and will only serve to emotionally polarize the people you are trying to "save". Although re-reading your post, it is hard...
[07:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Not a first - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:50] <exec> 08└─Other countries, such as America, sentence people to get raped all the time -- and this is done by the official judiciary system, not some illegal group. Think "Don't drop the soap" jokes.
[07:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Why is this story here? - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:52] <exec> 08└─Awful shitty things happening there. Why do I need to read about it here? Please show your work and explain EXACTLY why. kthxbye
[07:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if there wasn't NSA trust issue... - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:28] <exec> 08└─I modded you up because I'm glad you pointed out the importance of sharing, and how it can be picked apart. That said, the gp said nothing about a product, just pointed out that this is more of a configuration so "source code" makes it seem a little disingenuous even if accurate. What's with the "bi...
[07:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Some 9x apps won't work via WINE - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Some of us were kicking this one around the other day. The sticking points seem to be VisualBasic and some versions of DirectX. [soylentnews.org] -- gewg_
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[08:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Crazy! - 06Why SixXS Does Not Provide Circumvention - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:27] <exec> 08└─As a shareholder, I DEMAND they immediately stop doing this, and accept any and all offers of money in exchange for any service being rendered.
[08:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why ISIS does not provide circumcision - 06Why SixXS Does Not Provide Circumvention - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:28] <exec> 08└─Oh, but they do. Except they are cutting a lot deeper and higher than the usual, dickhead.
[08:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:54] <exec> 08└─> You conveniently missed the part where I said "I have no clue about their culture" so maybe you could cut me some slack? Oh I saw it and recognized it as the bullshit passive-aggressive excuse that it was. > I'm just stating the obvious. The "just stating the obvious" is the oldest passive-aggress...
[08:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:00] <exec> 08└─>I want to say, that in spite of my initial and continuing desire to see you >banned from SoylentNews, I do in fact hold out hope that you could actually >become a cogent and rational contributor to our discussions. I hold the same >hope for The Mighty Buzzard, and even jmorris and khallow. Yes, I f...
[08:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:1) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:07] <exec> 08└─You poor little thing, so starved for attention you have to troll on online forum for negative attention. Have a free hug on me.
[08:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:10] <exec> 08└─> It's just sheer luck that the dominant religion in America doesn't allow for things like gang rape as punishment; Nah, we just did lynch mobs - and usually pardoned the participants - until a few decades ago. Still get them occasionally as Brandon Teena and Matthew Shepard would testify. Strange f...
[08:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not unusual - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:53] <exec> 08└─systemd could be useful if somebody forked and cleansed it from bloat. Too bad nobody will.
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[09:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:2) 02Couldn't even change the name? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:17] <exec> 08└─A name change would have been satirical. Using a person's real name on a toy that looks like them. without their permission, is unprofessional.
[09:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Touché) 02kramit - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:18] <exec> 08└─Harris Faulkner said the company's portrayal of her as a plastic hamster "was demeaning and insulting".
[09:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:00] <exec> 08└─Erm...how is it anti-Semitism if he's saying wipe out both Saudi Arabia and Israel?
[09:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is this story here? - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:14] <exec> 08└─Why do I need to read about it here?
[09:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Not unusual - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:56] <exec> 08└─Useless is. They're short on workforce, tho. Why don't you help?
[09:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:2) 02Re:Never thought I'd see 14 nm - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:16] <exec> 08└─I think 14nm on a silicon die closer to 30 atoms wide. I'm goingn by memory on very little sleep. So, I likely am not accurate on this. I wrote a paper that mentioned quantum wires in the early 1990's. We theoretically can go down to 1 atom wide. So, until we get to under 1 nm there is room to shrin...
[09:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Worth waiting for? - 06Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Chips Launched - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:24] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that *most* of the battery is drained by the led screen, and it's drawing continously. So 30% on a component that is already drawing a small amount and stays idle most of the time, probably shouldn't be a big deal. It's a great feat in and of itself, but not that important in a practical/c...
[09:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Baseless? - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:39] <exec> 08└─Monopolies are not intrinsically bad, the problem is the influence on the market that someone with a monopoly can exert. The other mines have not closed because they're empty, they're closed because the current low price makes it uneconomical to mine and sell the metals that they produce. The two da...
[09:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to get a list of installed updates - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:32:24] <exec> 08└─systeminfo | more
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[10:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2, Interesting) 02True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think that you can generalise that you need advanced maths to program. You would definitely need it in certain situations, but in 27 years of paid programming I've needed it maybe twice. I've done mostly banking software and I've needed to understand some advanced accounting principles but t...
[10:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:06] <exec> 08└─Every program is maths. Every programmer needs maths to code. It’s not because you have never needed to use quaternions or Fourier’s transforms that you don’t do maths when you program. SQL requests are algebra for ****’s sake!
[10:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:1) 02Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:08] <exec> 08└─Well, true, you don't really need much mathematical knowledge in order to become a decent programmer. But the "way of thinking" is pretty much the same for both things, in my opinion. How do I get from representation A to representation B, how can I make this look like that, how can I find out it th...
[10:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:10] <exec> 08└─The word you are looking for is Algebra. I was OK at Maths (yes, it has a S at the end) in school/collage, but great with algebra. I believe this is what helps give a good foundation with coding.
[10:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02HTML - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:12] <exec> 08└─Very bad examples used. HTML and CSS is programming now? Flash was also mentioned in TFA I guess, so that's a bit better, but HTML and CSS is learning how to format a document, really. I'm not saying it's simple, but it's not programming.
[10:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Looks like her? Huh? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's just me, but I sure don't see any resemblance. The toy looks like any girlie-girl toy, with overly large eyes in an overly large head. It has a characteristic cutesy animal face, not even vaguely human. In the photos it appears to be beige and white, whereas Ms. Faulkner is many shades da...
[10:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02I have news for you lady - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:23] <exec> 08└─Not only does the toy not look like you but it is also smarter than you...
[10:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Weird - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 1789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:24] <exec> 08└─This is a weird one. I would like to laugh and laugh about this as I laugh about everything Fox News anchors do professionally, but... the toy is actually named "Harris Faulkner". Strangely it doesn't show up in searches on Hasbro's toy store website, but it comes right up on Amazon by just searchin...
[10:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02I see no problem here - 06Why SixXS Does Not Provide Circumvention - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:33] <exec> 08└─Sixxs tunnel broker is just an IPV6 tunnel broker, just like any else IPV6 tunnel broker. Once you got an IPV6 address from them, you can run whatever you want over it, including your own tunnels and encryption stuff. It's no different from having a public IPV4 address by your ISP. And more, I use H...
[10:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:19] <exec> 08└─India, or the US?
[10:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02UPDATE ... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:26] <exec> 08└─Relevant to this story : But There Was No Order to Rape Sisters, Says UP Village [ndtv.com]
[10:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares? - 06NSA Bulk Call Records Collection Extended for Last Time - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:30:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly. People need to stop repeating the myth that this specific type of mass surveillance is ending.
[10:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:And so it begins... - 06Russian Site Blocking Continues, Data Localization Requirement Takes Effect - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:30:56] <exec> 08└─Do you have an example of a page with HTML5 adverts.? I have not seen any adverts on any site for quite a while. I use"ScriptBlock" (and allow only sites that I really need), "Ghostery" (to block all trackers, no exceptions) and "uBlock Origin" (to also block trackers and adverts) I would like to al...
[10:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clickity click - 06Russian Site Blocking Continues, Data Localization Requirement Takes Effect - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:31:14] <exec> 08└─"Government wants something good for its popultion” sounds as legit as alien rapture in frozen Hell.
[10:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:56] <exec> 08└─Which bothers me, because I don't want my personal information on some non-free proprietary user-subjugating piece of trash. There should, frankly, be laws against that. Not visiting doctors just isn't an option. Same for governments and schools: Non-free proprietary software shouldn't be allowed to...
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[11:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:21] <exec> 08└─I wonder what effect carbonated water would have. According to the article, "The acid in carbonated beverages might play an important role in this association." The article also points out that they just found a correlation, not necessarily a causation yet.
[11:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:32] <exec> 08└─Boolean algebra is more logic than math.
[11:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:35] <exec> 08└─How many maths did you study?
[11:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:36] <exec> 08└─Not as unlikely as you'd think. I'd be willing to bet at least a third of the good code monkeys out there would have a hell of a time doing anything beyond highschool math longhand anymore. If you don't use something, you eventually lose it.
[11:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Here we go again - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:39] <exec> 08└─Another idiot who doesn't know better. Just because a programmer has not needed maths does not mean its not important. If you program professionally, you will need mathematics a lot more than memorizing syntax. If not, a huge amount of satisfying programming work will be beyond your reach forever. A...
[11:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:41] <exec> 08└─I would agree that a programmer does not even need to know how to multiply; the programmer merely needs to understand the effect of multiplication and therefore when to use it. However... > I spent a lot of time learning to Google like a pro. > you’ll need to be skilled at copying and pasting I do...
[11:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score:1) 02The machine does the computations - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:43] <exec> 08└─A computer, well, computes, sure you have to understand what you functionally want it to do for you, but god forbids, you do not have to understand the maths involved in most cases. The most blatant example is that generally, when a developer needs to apply a well known math formula, he just downloa...
[11:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03morpheus [1989] (Score:2) 02Nothing to know to become a journalist either ... - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 1841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:45] <exec> 08└─The two articles cited in the TFA display an amazing combination of arrogance and disrespect for professional programmers mixed in with a feeling of self-importance. Without having a clear idea of what either of the fields (mathematics and `coding') involves, both authors declare that one does not n...
[11:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02Re:Couldn't even change the name? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:52] <exec> 08└─http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/2FB5/production/_85331221_harris.jpg [bbci.co.uk] IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE HER AT ALL. Just madness...
[11:27:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02kramit - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:53] <exec> 08└─Harris Faulkner said the company's portrayal of her as a plastic hamster "was demeaning and insulting".
[11:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:57] <exec> 08└─An employee must have had a brain fart and used a name they had heard on TV and forgot that they had heard it rather than coming up with it themselves. For TV shows, don't they have the legal department clear character names to protect against this? Even if the use of the name is defensible, it's ge...
[11:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03korla_plankton [1597] (Score:1) 02financial gain - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:59] <exec> 08└─'wilfully and wrongfully appropriated Faulkner's unique and valuable name and distinctive persona for its own financial gain' Because all the little kids who watch fox news are of course going to want a doll of their favourite personality. Hmm that sounded more like sarcasm in my head...
[11:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02but is it fair use? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:00] <exec> 08└─it seems to me that if the character was named after the lady that it should be covered by fair use as it should be considered parody. it doesn't seem like there is a real case here at all.
[11:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nice move - 06Why SixXS Does Not Provide Circumvention - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:15] <exec> 08└─Actually that's pretty nice of them. The requesters obviously have no idea that an IPv6 tunnel is completely different from a VPN tunnel. They have a need ("no snooping") and they have totally not the slightest clue about the actual problem, they just blabber some words ("tunnel") they heard in the...
[11:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:37] <exec> 08└─Racism is always irrational. Culturalism isn't though.
[11:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:28:50] <exec> 08└─It is common to have multiple accounts and even anonymous posts attacking certain users. They don't hope to get anyone banned, but put the idea in the mind of the hapless reader that these certain users are a nuisance, might be insane, are an old problem and are to be ignored. Even when E-Fueled's c...
[11:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this story here? - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:08] <exec> 08└─Because SoylentNews is people, not news for nerds. This is a story that I personally knew nothing about until I saw it here and it has given me new insight into the state of gender equality in the world. Really, there's no reason to object to this story being posted here that I can think of, care to...
[11:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:26] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there. And it's funny.
[11:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if there wasn't NSA trust issue... - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:57] <exec> 08└─the gp said nothing about a product, just pointed out that this is more of a configuration so "source code" makes it seem a little disingenuous even if accurate.
[11:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:News in June - 06NSA Bulk Call Records Collection Extended for Last Time - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:31:22] <exec> 08└─(tl;dr: The bulk data collection deadline was extended, so this is news. Automated submissions are generated only when the submission queue is running on empty. Editors are cautioned the submission is the entire story and need to edit accordingly. The posted story contained less than 40% of the orig...
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[12:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:07] <exec> 08└─Fromt TFA: Expenditures on other beverages, including green tea, black tea, coffee, cocoa, fruit or vegetable juice, fermented milk beverage, milk and mineral water were not significantly associated with OHCAs of cardiac origin.
[12:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02In the future - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:08] <exec> 08└─When you're sitting there in agony dying that lingering cancer death, you'll wish you had had a bit more carbonated beverage.
[12:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Good - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:10] <exec> 08└─Beer and champagne are still safe to drink then.
[12:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:21] <exec> 08└─Logic is mathematics, unless you're speaking about philosophy, but I've never encountered any programming problem that required me to use philosophy (and frankly, I've got no idea what such a programming problem might look like).
[12:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:22] <exec> 08└─As soon as jquery publishes a math lib every programmer can have a beautiful mind.
[12:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:27] <exec> 08└─How many maths did you study?
[12:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:29] <exec> 08└─So you think algebra is not mathematics? Or are you under the delusion that maths is what you learn in the maths class at school?
[12:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:31] <exec> 08└─More likely, these people never truly understood it in the first place and just memorized some formulas, since that's all schools really require of you.
[12:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02HTML - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:33] <exec> 08└─Very bad examples used. HTML and CSS is programming now? Flash was also mentioned in TFA I guess, so that's a bit better, but HTML and CSS is learning how to format a document, really. I'm not saying it's simple, but it's not programming.
[12:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:35] <exec> 08└─I transitioned myself from the world of RTFM to the "I have a prob, I search online for the solution". But that makes sense only if you have a sufficient background to discriminate among solutions. Else your cobbled up project that does not require any math is likely to crumble when it enters the re...
[12:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:37] <exec> 08└─It depends what you are doing. If you're programming something low level, like embedded software direct to the metal, or a creating a fundamental library, then you can do it all out of your head, with perhaps the occasional reference of a manual, a spec or a datasheet. But if you are creating a comp...
[12:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:39] <exec> 08└─Seeking out other people's experience is fine, but not mindlessly copying and pasting other people's code.
[12:27:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03morpheus [1989] 02Nothing to know to become a journalist either ... - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 1841 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:40] <exec> 08└─The two articles cited in the TFA display an amazing combination of arrogance and disrespect for professional programmers mixed in with a feeling of self-importance. Without having a clear idea of what either of the fields (mathematics and `coding') involves, both authors declare that one does not n...
[12:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing to know to become a journalist either . - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:42] <exec> 08└─Mathematics (do not call it math, please) has become a scary word but it is an easy and straightforward subject at the undergraduate level as taught to most non-majors.
[12:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02"How do I make a website red" - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:44] <exec> 08└─Come on! You don't even have to know what a number is for that. <body style="background: red"></body> If you're not using basic arithmetic somewhere you're not really programming. Why are people so fucking afraid of "math" and why do they boast about be so goddamn awful at it. Do people boast that t...
[12:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Nope, no math here... - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:46] <exec> 08└─Of course, real programmers never write boolean logic statements (e.g., in a IF), where they need to understand the commutativity, associativity and distributivity of the operators. Nor would real programmers ever write SQL queries, where you have similar properties for the relational operators. Nop...
[12:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope, no math here... - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:47] <exec> 08└─That depends. Are you going to be some copy-pasting loser web 'programmer', or a programmer who actually understands what they're doing? Lots of people are apparently content being the former.
[12:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Googling isn't coding - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:49] <exec> 08└─To code you need an organized, analytical mind that can analyze a problem, cut it into smaller parts if needed, and then come up with solutions.
[12:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Couldn't even change the name? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:55] <exec> 08└─Farris Haulkner, Hasbro's latest edition to its Littlest Pet Shop collection ...
[12:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds legit - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:54] <exec> 08└─If the NSA was trying to sneak a backdoor into Linux, would they really do it this openly? No, they'd have some submitter submit valid, useful patches for a period of time to build up a reputation, then slip in the goods. And for all we know this has already happened. I'm more inclined to think this...
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[13:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:3, Funny) 02burn the witches - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:01] <exec> 08└─HIV is God's way of punishing homosexuality! Gay sex is the only way to get HIV! Burn them! Especially any women or children who have been having gay sex with gay men!
[13:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Inability? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:02] <exec> 08└─Inability to use BCC
[13:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:13] <exec> 08└─Looking for causation is a snipe hunt. Science is about finding simple formulas that can summarize the relationships between many observations. The more focused on causation, the less productive the field of research and more pseudosciency it is.
[13:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score:1) 02Easy fix - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:16] <exec> 08└─Drink carbonated coffee or carbonated green tea. The bad and good effects will cancel each other :-)
[13:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:3, Informative) 02Depends - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:17] <exec> 08└─Is there a safer way to make our beverages bubbly?
[13:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Safer - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:19] <exec> 08└─Is there a safer way to make our beverages bubbly?
[13:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:31] <exec> 08└─MP3 decoder http://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:32] <exec> 08└─You don't need math. You need to understand basic algebra. You need to understand how computers actually work and how your language actually works so that you know what you're doing. And you need to have the kind of mind that breaks things down into little steps. Unless you're writing a very specifi...
[13:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Mathematics is more than numerical calculation - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:35] <exec> 08└─Mathematics is a very broad field which does include numerical calculation. But it is far more than just that! Boolean algebra. Set theory. Algebra. I regularly use all of these when I am programming. At its simplest, an algorithm is a mapping of inputs to outputs. Or, more specifically, a mapping...
[13:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:42] <exec> 08└─I was OK at Maths (yes, it has a S at the end) in school/collage,
[13:27:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 671 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:47] <exec> 08└─I would agree that a programmer does not even need to know how to multiply; the programmer merely needs to understand the effect of multiplication and therefore when to use it. However... > I spent a lot of time learning to Google like a pro. > you’ll need to be skilled at copying and pasting I do...
[13:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:51] <exec> 08└─I would agree that a programmer does not even need to know how to multiply; the programmer merely needs to understand the effect of multiplication and therefore when to use it.
[13:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Don't complain! - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 1537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:59] <exec> 08└─Don't complain about such people in the field. This attitude keeps us nerds well supplied with jobs. Eventually, the phone rings and some desperate project manager asks whether we are available, because "it just stops working once a week.". True, we don't get the more satisfying job to lay down a so...
[13:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02HTML is not programming and math is not just numbe - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:01] <exec> 08└─You *do* need to know math write good code in most areas. The problem is, what you were told is "math" is just a tiny little subset of it (arithmetic). Geometry is math too. Set theory is math. Abstract algebra is math. Graph theory is math. Yes, even logic is math. I hate this idiocratic millenial...
[13:28:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02Weird - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 1789 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:13] <exec> 08└─This is a weird one. I would like to laugh and laugh about this as I laugh about everything Fox News anchors do professionally, but... the toy is actually named "Harris Faulkner". Strangely it doesn't show up in searches on Hasbro's toy store website, but it comes right up on Amazon by just searchin...
[13:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whatever - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:17] <exec> 08└─I know this doesn't add anything to the discussion, so mod me down, but what 'effing ever who gives a sh*t.
[13:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rename it "Megyn Kelly"... - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:19] <exec> 08└─And package it with another one named "The Trump" and it will sell millions. Perhaps add an accessory, like a Tampon.
[13:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice move - 06Why SixXS Does Not Provide Circumvention - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:30] <exec> 08└─I fully agree, that's basically why I decided to submit this story here - to give them some more visibility.
[13:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:All for diversity but... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:18] <exec> 08└─No, nothing like that. I don't usually submit stuff like this and didn't expect any insightful discussion (in fact it's played out about how I thought it would). But I submitted it because I hadn't heard about it and found it deeply appalling and thought, "This is a culture that we outsource our job...
[13:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this story here? - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:23] <exec> 08└─99% of what I submit is fully within the tech & science realm. Many of us on SN have regular contact with India or Indians because so much tech work has been outsourced to that country and so many folks from there have come to our respective countries to work next to us in tech; this therefore seeme...
[13:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:58] <exec> 08└─Actually if you think long term? This is a VERY smart move for America, why? Because China is selling THEIR minerals at pennies on the pound, but as we all know these are finite resources, those mines aren't gonna last. If they want to sell their resources for the equivalent of a handful of beads? L...
[13:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares? - 06NSA Bulk Call Records Collection Extended for Last Time - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:38] <exec> 08└─One thing I keep telling people about this is that since the data is now held by a 3rd party the NSA, FBI, etc now don't need a warrant to get at the data all they have to do is ask and at worst send a somewhat polite letter requesting the data. Also for those who think this is a partisan issue...
[13:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:where to store authentication tokens? - 06Bug in Visual Studio GitHub Commit Tool Leads to $6,500 Amazon Web Services Bill - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:32:48] <exec> 08└─I'm a cash-only person because I want to minimize the ability of others to track me as much as possible. I also wouldn't want to use an ATM because they often run non-free proprietary user-subjugating software, which I refuse to use myself or encourage others to use.
[13:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:How to get a list of installed updates - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:33:43] <exec> 08└─Really? Nice! Thanks for that!! I do notice that it produces only the list of KBnnnnn IDs and lacks the additional information that is provided by wmic, but it is still a very useful tool nonetheless. I'll add it to my toolbox. Much obliged! I'm newly on Win7Pro and have not yet delved into the hel...
[13:34:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:34:14] <exec> 08└─IT WORKS to keep sufficient obedient "Stockholm syndrome" customers from exploring cheaper and better alternatives.
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[14:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02betterdige's law... - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:02] <exec> 08└─NO!!!! But to be serious... Current news media has already been stripped of any details. Partly to save money, but also to stretch stories out since the source of stories is unified. As an objective analyst it becomes clear that there are huge holes in the media reporting. The shape of the hole refl...
[14:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey, Submitters - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:03] <exec> 08└─Stop tacking on inane questions at the end.
[14:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Data Source - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:05] <exec> 08└─Hang on a moment... these automation things... what data do they operate on? Either is is the product of the journalist's job, namely gather, interpret and present the news, in which case this saves zero work because the journalist still has to generate the data (barring 'editing for the newsroom' w...
[14:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Inability? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:16] <exec> 08└─Well if he's got a disability, we better start sending him $800 a month.
[14:27:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:25] <exec> 08└─Fromt TFA: Expenditures on other beverages, including green tea, black tea, coffee, cocoa, fruit or vegetable juice, fermented milk beverage, milk and mineral water were not significantly associated with OHCAs of cardiac origin.
[14:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:27] <exec> 08└─I agree. Frankly soda is huge cocktail of stuff. Several different kinds of acid, sugars, oils, caffeine, phosphorus. Just getting rid of sugar spike alone helps with your diet. For the past 2 days I am leaving them alone (1.5 pounds down but that could just be variation). Hopefully I can stop. I av...
[14:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:28] <exec> 08└─Yes I thought that too. When I hear "carbonated" I think "Junk food". A poor article that does not make clear that it is the *sugar* causing the problems... The acid in human stomachs is several orders of magnitude stronger than soda water... Phosphoric acid (in cola drinks), is probably not great.....
[14:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy fix - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:32] <exec> 08└─According to the title it's still safe to drink carbonated drinks while in a hospital.
[14:27:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03schad [2398] 02Depends - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:34] <exec> 08└─Is there a safer way to make our beverages bubbly?
[14:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:3, Interesting) 02How much? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:36] <exec> 08└─Sure would be nice if the article bothered to mention how much "large amounts" or "large quantities" is, instead of looking like a big scare story. I have a crony who drinks one of those skinny 8 oz Pepsi cans over a 12 hour work day and barely manages to finish. He would call my daily 16.9 oz bottl...
[14:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about sparkling water - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:38] <exec> 08└─I drink a lot of sparkling water. It's unsweetened and doesn't contain a lot of ingredients, just carbonation and a little flavor. I see it as a much better alternative to soda. Does this pose a risk?
[14:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mathematics is more than numerical calculation - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:53] <exec> 08└─tl;dr - Error checking and exception handling takes up a lot more time and code than the basic task at hand. This requires the programmer to understand the requirements rather than just the math, but some parts of the programmer's skill-set for checking/handling these issues can be compared to basic...
[14:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:00] <exec> 08└─Also "college" has no "a" in it.
[14:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe but take something like this https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I just googled that up. I knew it existed because I have been using it for a different thing I am working on. But there are at least 4 different sorts on there that were invent...
[14:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"How do I make a website red" - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─Why are people so fucking afraid of "math" and why do they boast about be so goddamn awful at it. Do people boast that they only speak one language? Do people boast that they can't read? Do people boast that they can't write?
[14:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Googling isn't coding - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:20] <exec> 08└─To code you need an organized, analytical mind that can analyze a problem, cut it into smaller parts if needed, and then come up with solutions.
[14:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03guizzy [5021] (Score:1) 02It all depends - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:24] <exec> 08└─It all depends on what you code of course. The programmer making in-house software for an enterprise for payroll or to organize an employee list probably doesn't need much. I expect people writing code that has to be highly optimised like device drivers, computer graphics engines, database software...
[14:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02How times change.. - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:26] <exec> 08└─Some of my oldest computer science studybooks say "Faculty of Mathematics". Do you want to know why? Because, in that time, Informatics/Computer science wasn't yet important enough to re-name the faculty to "Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics" :-) I vaguely remember some prospectus saying: "if y...
[14:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Couldn't even change the name? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:37] <exec> 08└─What Massa already said. The toy doesn't look like the news anchor. The ONLY similarity I see between the two, is the name. So - some broad has laid claim to her name, and her name cannot be used by anyone, anywhere? Where's Joe? He can sue someone for G.I. Joe. And, Barbie, or Barbara - she and Ken...
[14:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Looks like her? Huh? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I don't see it. One is a fake plastic triviality that's probably full of stuff that's bad for humans to come into direct contact with, and the other is a toy made by Hasbro.
[14:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like her? Huh? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:42] <exec> 08└─I looked up a list of other Littlest Pet Shop characters [hasbro.com]. Most of them have names that could be real people. Are courts going to be flooded from lawsuits from "Otis Beasley"'s and "Kiki Russo"'s now? There is no resemblance between the cartoon character and the Fox News person. That's p...
[14:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I have news for you lady - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:43] <exec> 08└─"it is also smarter than you" That's cold man. True, but cold.
[14:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:1) 02Deliberate use of Streisand Effect? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:50] <exec> 08└─Not being a regular viewer of Fox News I have never heard of Ms. Faulkner....now I have. If there are 20 people in the world who made the connection between that toy and her, I would be surprised. This one smacks of headline grabbing.
[14:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Deliberate use of Streisand Effect? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:52] <exec> 08└─LOL, I wouldn't have known who she was, either. But, you're probably understimating. I'll bet there are between 50 and 60 people who could have made that connection. At least 40 of them are rabid right wingers, so it shouldn't have mattered anyway.
[14:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:16] <exec> 08└─So - it is your position that lowere castes don't do terrible things? Surely not! Lemme change continents for this one - http://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk] These men certainly aren'...
[14:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:22] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Zug's posts speak volumes more than he can possibly be aware of.
[14:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03eof [5559] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:41] <exec> 08└─Semite |ˈsemīt| noun a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs.
[14:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:42] <exec> 08└─Jews and Arabs are both Semitic. I thought everyone knew that. I think that Persians (Iran, primarily) are not Semitic, and Sumerians are not Semitic, but pretty much everyone else in the mideast can lay claim to kinship with the Jews. If they want to, that is. https://en.wikipedia.org
[14:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:43] <exec> 08└─You're from Ohio, then? http://chagrin-falls.org [chagrin-falls.org] I've got a story about going through that town - but it's a rather long one . . . .
[14:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:54] <exec> 08└─> the intelligent scientific types would drag the rest of the country out of the 15th century already Still waiting for that to happen here in the USA.
[14:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:56] <exec> 08└─The movie, "India's Daughter", produced in honor of that girl who was brutally raped, then died. It would give you some insights into Indian culture. The girl wanted to be a nurse, so badly. But, many people were against her getting an education, because she "belongs in the kitchen, barefoot and pre...
[14:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Sure... - 06Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:31:56] <exec> 08└─"Mesh networking," the new party game.
[14:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03taylormc [5751] (Score:1) 02Magnetic iron(y) - 06Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:06] <exec> 08└─In a case of convergent evolution, coupled with supreme irony, hearing aids (which use magnetic inductance for their "telecoil" feature) are now using Bluetooth to coordinate settings across the width of the human head.
[14:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02If you think this is really final, check history - 06NSA Bulk Call Records Collection Extended for Last Time - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:24] <exec> 08└─It will be dragged out on one excuse or another, until finally they just explicitly ignore the rules.
[14:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:35:02] <exec> 08└─- Governments agencies looking for terrorists, child pornographers, or by random NSA agents looking for a good webcam to jerk off to.
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[15:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cyxs [124] (Score:1) 02Re:Data Source - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:07] <exec> 08└─When have we really seen journalists asking questions or questioning the facts in cases recently? The current crop of the big named news groups takes things at what people say without any real background then take what they says to a panel of "experts" on this subject. Its very laughable with what i...
[15:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02This one secret could save you thousands! - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:09] <exec> 08└─There, I already automated headlines. Content should be pretty easy too.
[15:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Inability? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:20] <exec> 08└─I thought it was 800 Euros each month. No one wants dollars anymore.
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Inability? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:21] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I have $/€ syndrome.
[15:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02email? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:22] <exec> 08└─stopped reading after that. the stupid commoners STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND that email is about as non-private as you can get. a sealed envelope mailed is safer than email, these days. paper mail requires too much work to be spied on, so all the spying goes via electronic means. and so, let me understa...
[15:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:36] <exec> 08└─If it is just the carbonation, then a comparison with fruit juices should be illuminating - orange juice is just as acidic, almost as sugary, but not carbonated. Cranberry juice keeps the sugar, but switches from acidic to basic.
[15:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02Re:Good - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─Let's cheer up then! Where did I put that bottle of Dom Pérignon of mine?
[15:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:2) 02Re:What about sparkling water - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:46] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly. They say 'carbonated beverage' but I think they mean soda-pop or whatever you call it in your area. I don't think fizzy water would have the same effect as soft drinks. I'd bet (as mentioned) that the acids and sugars in pop have a lot to do with it.
[15:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02Most natural and healthy bubbles - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:48] <exec> 08└─Of course there is a safer way. And a thoroughly natural one too: just fart in you soda can!
[15:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:04] <exec> 08└─Algebra is not mathematics? Do Americans call it "math" because they only know just one? (It's always mathematics or maths in the UK.) Just about everything is mathematics, but the substance of the article is correct, none of it is advance mathematics. I'm sure most of use have seen plenty of exampl...
[15:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HTML - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:18] <exec> 08└─Typesetting is a profession.
[15:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:HTML - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:19] <exec> 08└─The submission title uses the word code, but the summary uses both coding and programming. To my mind they are similar but distinct, the way geek and nerd are sometimes used synonymously by the public but have distinctions within the more knowledgable community. HTML is not programming, but it *is*...
[15:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:"How do I make a website red" - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:32] <exec> 08└─Why are people so fucking afraid of "math" and why do they boast about be so goddamn awful at it. Do people boast that they only speak one language? Do people boast that they can't read? Do people boast that they can't write?
[15:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope, no math here... - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:35] <exec> 08└─I do not think that word means what you think it means. Somehow formal education keeps doing Computer Scientists a disservice in equivocating math and logic. Math is one language of logic. Programming is another. Syllogism is yet another. You need to be impressively, shockingly good at logic to even...
[15:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HTML is not programming and math is not just nu - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:41] <exec> 08└─Logic is not a subset of math. Math is a subset of logic. Anyone that takes the time to know what logic is understands that priority problem.
[15:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02configurors... - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:44] <exec> 08└─a lot of people think about themselves as programmers, but they are not. they are configurors. they configure packages an libraries of things to work. Java is not programming in most cases, it is configuring. thus: programming =! configuring
[15:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Math vs Maths? - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:46] <exec> 08└─Here's a question for the Brits and others who say "maths". When we say "math", does it just somehow sound wrong to you? It is merely a colloquial difference and shouldn't matter, yet "maths" sounds wrong to me.
[15:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02insulting - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:48] <exec> 08└─The Slate article is simply jaw dropping. This is a new low in the media siege against tech and an insult to women programmers everywhere. Ms. Fine, you should be ashamed of yourself. Feminism is dead. Math is hard. Everyone can code.
[15:29:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re:Looks like her? Huh? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I don't see it. One is a fake plastic triviality that's probably full of stuff that's bad for humans to come into direct contact with, and the other is a toy made by Hasbro.
[15:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like her? Huh? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:02] <exec> 08└─That's purely imagined, as purely imagined as Pink claiming the Statue of Liberty resembles her.
[15:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Looks like her? Huh? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:04] <exec> 08└─The question yet to asked is "Was your mother a hamster and did your father smell of elderberries!"
[15:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:09] <exec> 08└─I'd think they'd still run the names through a search engine. The fallout if they accidentally had a toy named after an ax murder or something is worth the effort to make sure the name isn't associated with anything (bad or good).
[15:30:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 1524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, that makes it alright? Indiscriminate genocide is better that the more specific versions? No, Eth, what you said was just wrong. Wrong on many levels. This is what makes you such a poor troll! If you want to provoke Soylentils, you will have to use a much finer brush. Not genocide, but patric...
[15:30:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 733 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:08] <exec> 08└─You are ignoring the vast difference between India and any other country besides China. The massive population carries a lot of cultural momentum. Screwed up stuff happens in every country, but you're comparing apples to oranges. Third world conditions (I presume this village counts) make this stuff...
[15:30:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03penguinoid [5331] 02Not a first - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:23] <exec> 08└─Other countries, such as America, sentence people to get raped all the time -- and this is done by the official judiciary system, not some illegal group. Think "Don't drop the soap" jokes.
[15:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this story here? - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:31] <exec> 08└─Never apologize. Never explain. Your freinds don't need it, and your enemies won't believe it. You just submit whatever the hell you want to submit, and joke all the rest of them if they can't take a fuck.
[15:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02Re:The Name Says It All - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:13] <exec> 08└─It falls short of being simple.
[15:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02Protected Integrity Management Platform - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:23] <exec> 08└─Protected Integrity Management Platform (PIMP) is how I knew it was called. Is this a fork?
[15:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:2) 02Re:Rare earths aren't - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:13] <exec> 08└─Awesome! I'm gonna set up a seawater extraction plant in Nebraska!
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score:2) 02Re:Kill CEIP - 06Avoiding the Windows 10 Upgrade Due to Privacy Concerns? Be Concerned Anyway! - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─The trouble with a lot of the "kill it" tips, is that if enough people *do* kill it and MS thinks its not getting its daily dose of OUR DATA, they just send out another "update" to UN-kill it.... I suspect those who value their privacy *and* still use Windows (????) will be playing whack-a-mole with...
[15:37:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03slinches [5049] 02Re:Let the slide begin - 06Netflix Takes Gamble With Epix Film Cull in U.S. - 706 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:11] <exec> 08└─I don't think they want to be just another TV channel. I'm betting that the content rights owners are trying to jack up their contract rates now that they're expiring and some of Netflix's competitors are more willing to pay a premium for content to help improve their position in the market. Maybe e...
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[16:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:02] <exec> 08└─But it's still shitty for those of us who don't want to abuse the spectrum.
[16:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:03] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with the new trend toward software defined radios. The FCC is mandated to regulate spectrum usage, both in wifi devices and cell phones. But because hardware developers are so figgin lazy and cheap they increasingly will not separate radio management from packet handling. So the p...
[16:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02wtf? - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:04] <exec> 08└─So, who "crafted" this cruft? Was(were) the author(s) ignorant, or (shudder) devious?
[16:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Yet another strike against my criminal life. - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:06] <exec> 08└─Like, I really give a damn about something like this? I got the hardware. It's pretty much a proven fact that the guy who has his hands on the hardware not only "owns" it, but he "pwns" it as well. Oh - the manufacturer put in a "security feature" to prevent me diddling with it? Whoop-ti-do. That "f...
[16:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet another strike against my criminal life. - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not too worried about this and figure it won't go Orwellian, however I would like to address your point. You should give a damn, it adds another item to a list of possible crimes you could be charged with. Just because it would be near impossible to enforce doesn't mean we should let it slide.
[16:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet another strike against my criminal life. - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:10] <exec> 08└─Just because it would be near impossible to enforce doesn't mean we should let it slide.
[16:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet another strike against my criminal life. - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:11] <exec> 08└─Alright, I guess this took more than mere "days", but who remembers it? https://www.cs.cmu.edu [cmu.edu] [cmu.edu]
[16:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Informative) 02Follow-up - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:13] <exec> 08└─More info that should take some of the worry away here: https://www.techdirt.com [techdirt.com] Yes, some of it is just analysis but there is new information as well.
[16:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow-up - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:15] <exec> 08└─"Not intentionally killing firmware" is not the same thing as "not doing something that will have the effect of killing firmware". Manufacturers aren't going to respond to this by allowing firmware changes and just preventing the radio part from being modified, because it's more efficient for the ma...
[16:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow-up - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─Yep. The problem is that the manufacturers don't differentiate the firmware that controls the radio from the rest of the router. This is why you can do things with open firmware like enable foreign channels or increase power output for the radio beyond what the FCC allows. It's easier for them to ju...
[16:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02More reason to secede - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:18] <exec> 08└─Just another reason why we ought to be permitted to end our marriage to this abusive institution. If you think giving comments to the state in a link is effective, I know a whole hoard of abused women you'd fit in well with. You're fooling yourself same as then. Your rulers will take your input, but...
[16:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score:2) 02Anybody else read this as... - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:38] <exec> 08└─"Inability to use BBC..."? Especially since both "BCC" and "BBC" are present in the article rather close together? I couldn't figure out how the inability to use a TV/news network caused a leak.
[16:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02The Downside of FOIA - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:39] <exec> 08└─Every email client should throw a fit and require an explicit manual over-ride whenever sending a message with multiple recipients. A window should pop-up containing a list of every recipient in a big font, it should pause for at least 5 seconds before the user even has the option to click OK. In th...
[16:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 2002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:51] <exec> 08└─I drink only carbonated drinks, and only full-sugar carbonated drinks, and only full-caffeinated carbonated drinks and I'm constantly remarked upon as being "skinny" (I also have no trouble sleeping, never nap during the day, and don't have a problem with alertness or tiredness - over or under). My...
[16:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotLove [3304] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:53] <exec> 08└─This post is idiocy. Just because you can find an outlier (in this case, yourself) doesn't mean it's a general rule. We have very solid science for what sugar and acid do to a body. Your personal experiences doesn't nullify that. Have you been in a car accident and been saved by your seat belt? No?...
[16:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:54] <exec> 08└─"Then seat belts should not be required for anyone!" Actually - that is correct. If the nanny state is looking out for everyone, you can expect that eventually everyone will be dependent on the nanny state. Seat belt use should be voluntary.
[16:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:56] <exec> 08└─> Seat belt use should be voluntary. It is voluntary, just stay off those nanny-state roads and stick to the roads on your private property and you will have no trouble with the law.
[16:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:00] <exec> 08└─> I wonder what effect carbonated water would have. None. The article itself says that "mineral water" had no association. Mineral water is just carbonated water with some extra minerals like calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate, etc. One significant difference between mineral water and plain carbonated...
[16:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Safer - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:08] <exec> 08└─Guinness uses a 75/25 mixed blend of N2 and CO2.
[16:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02You're talking about dihydrous oxide? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:12] <exec> 08└─That's some scary stuff man. I try to avoid it. Mixing dyhydrous oxide with carbon dioxide? You're living dangerously! If you're not careful, you could end up with this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:29] <exec> 08└─You need to understand how computers actually work and how your language actually works so that you know what you're doing.
[16:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:42] <exec> 08└─So, yes, theoretically you can be bad at math and good at programming, but it still seems a rather unlikely combination...
[16:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:HTML - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:46] <exec> 08└─Animation coding can most definitely involve algebra, geometry, and even a basic understanding of calculus. Flash ActionScript comes to mind. Want to make a circle transform into an ellipse, and then an octagon? Try doing that without maths.
[16:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:53] <exec> 08└─Give me the programmer than knows when to consult stackoverflow any day, rather than the one who's too proud to seek out other people's experience.
[16:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"How do I make a website red" - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:03] <exec> 08└─but lots of teachers in the primary grades
[16:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:HTML is not programming and math is not just nu - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:12] <exec> 08└─By logic we usually mean a very wide field which spans as far as philosophy. Mathematical logic, or formal logic (which is what parent and gp must have alluded to) is uncontroversially a sub-field of math. Saying it the other way may seem sexy, but it just doesn't compute (tm). One cannot derive any...
[16:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:HTML is not programming and math is not just nu - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:14] <exec> 08└─Logic is not a subset of math. Math is a subset of logic.
[16:29:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02I have news for you lady - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:31] <exec> 08└─Not only does the toy not look like you but it is also smarter than you...
[16:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:36] <exec> 08└─Pick a random given name + family name combination. Make sure it isn't offensive (e.g. Mike Hunt) or outright weird, or something that would sound alien to your target market (unless it has some intentional foreign ethnicity). Chances are—whatever you chose—someone with that name will be unhappy...
[16:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:37] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is, the name appears to have been successfully trademarked. So I presume no one at Hasbro legal OR the trademarking office heard of Google. Or, I suppose, Ms. Faulkner is not a tenth as famous as she thinks she is, and when they Googled it her results didn't stand out from baby name...
[16:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Deliberate use of Streisand Effect? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:45] <exec> 08└─If she plays her cards right, they may still be digging up these toys throughout the galaxy billions of years in the future. Sure, most will probably look like turds, but it's cheap immortality, if you can get it going.
[16:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:31] <exec> 08└─Found one! [wikipedia.org]
[16:30:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02All for diversity but... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:51] <exec> 08└─This is an important piece of news, but I don't see why its on SN. There really isn't anything to discuss, and it already has international traction. Unless Phoenix666 is trying to out the misogynists by their reactions :P Not even a link to become an internet activist
[16:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is this story here? - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:01] <exec> 08└─> Many of us on SN have regular contact with India or Indians Ugh. This is something that happened out in the boonies where they don't even have electricity. Your association is worse than judging someone living in the heart of san francisco based on the actions of people in the most isolated areas...
[16:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:1) 02Re:I just want more strawberries - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:28] <exec> 08└─Thank-you, Marie Antoinette. :)
[16:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02Re:Not unusual - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:31:44] <exec> 08└─Useless is dead: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net [darknedgy.net] «uselessd has entered the final stage of uselessness, its ultimate expression of nihilism - the state of deprecation and utter nonexistence. That's right, goyim shkutzim. uselessd is dead. The last release was uselessd-8 on November 16...
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[17:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:12] <exec> 08└─I own the hardware. Any 'restrictions' will prove useless and will be removed, even if I don't necessarily take advantage of the added functionality.
[17:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:13] <exec> 08└─Which is fine unless somebody complains and you wind up with a massive fine. Even with devices that are operating within the FCC's regulations are a problem due to congestion. There's probably a dozen or more WAP within range here and I shudder to think how bad it is for people who live in apartment...
[17:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:15] <exec> 08└─It's shitty for those who care the slightest about software freedom or freedom in general. Instead of punishing abuses when they happen, they've chosen to ban something entirely merely because abuses could happen. Basically, what you said.
[17:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:17] <exec> 08└─That's the thing. This is like banning cars that can exceed the speed limit rather than ticketing people who speed. it's lazy government over-reach.
[17:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet another strike against my criminal life. - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:23] <exec> 08└─You might be eating your words one day. Most devices these days are single SoCs, there's not much you can diddle with. If they introduce a SecureBoot like mechanism with signed firmware, tied to a hard-wired CPU key, you'll be boned.
[17:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02GPL implications - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:28] <exec> 08└─Wild speculation here, IANAL. The firmware contains gpl stuff? then one cannot distribute it if you cannot assure freedom is preserved, right? And what about an OS? if the firmware does not allow to meddle with the OS and the OS contains GPL stuff, you cannot redistribute things on such a closed sys...
[17:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:GPL implications - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:30] <exec> 08└─Sure you can. You can openly distribute the firmware source but still require the router to only accept trusted, cryptographically signed firmware bins. The firmware is open source, it does not mean that the hardware has to accept ANY firmware. This is already done all over the place with phones, ne...
[17:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jummama [3969] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:GPL implications - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:31] <exec> 08└─GPL3 was introduced with specific verbiage to mandate that the user is allowed to make changes, and actually use them on the device that it is inteded for because of a loophole that Tivo was taking advantage of. I don't remember if it was a simple checksum or a cryptographic signature, but they had...
[17:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:2) 02Sounding What Alarm? - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:33] <exec> 08└─Unless my Google-fu is weak, Here's where I was able to find mention of this campaign by the organizations named in the unquoted paste from Hackaday. ThinkPenguin [thinkpenguin.com]: https://www.thinkpenguin.com [thinkpenguin.com...
[17:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:betterdige's law... - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:40] <exec> 08└─That's problematic, but the bigger issue is that there just isn't 24 hours worth of news out there to be had. At least not without doing a lot of BS stories that most people aren't interested in. Back in olden times when there was one or maybe two hours of news coverage on the TV it wasn't as much o...
[17:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:email? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 1647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:57] <exec> 08└─It is probably easier to educate regular people vs. doctors since the latter often develop an overblown ego which makes them feel that their opinion on everything is paramount, and they deal with stupid questions on a daily basis. I'm sure many of them nod since they probably have heard such informa...
[17:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anybody else read this as... - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:59] <exec> 08└─Wow. A double narcissism post. First you demonstrate your selfishness by starting your post in the subject line, thus fucking up the flow of anyone reading the body of your post. Then you ask a question that is practically no different than telling us about a dream you had last night. Get over yours...
[17:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02and why is this a big deal? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:02] <exec> 08└─Why are we even helping people to hide the fact that they have a dangerous disease that could spread to others? Is it that we want to support them in lying about it, and thus in spreading it? There is more justification for an HIV list than there is for a sex offender list. There is nothing special...
[17:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02HIV pos/neg - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:04] <exec> 08└─Civilian HIV testing is really strange with privacy. They won't tell you results over the phone, won't send you results in the mail, won't have someone random meet you at the clinic to tell you. They are overly-serious and it takes a lot of time. You have to have an appointment to learn your results...
[17:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JavaDevGuy [5155] (Score:1) 02Correlation v's Causation - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:35] <exec> 08└─Even the lead author states this is not an indicator of causation so why the conclusion that fizzy drinks are bad for you? This is just as likely to be an indicator of overall poor nutrition yet the submitter states 'put the soda down and back away' and makes the correlation = causation error, did t...
[17:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:53] <exec> 08└─Algebra is not mathematics?
[17:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a first - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:19] <exec> 08└─America isn't a country.
[17:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I just want more strawberries - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:31:54] <exec> 08└─You're always going to have a large amount of milkfat/solids in ice cream. Sherbet has a lot less milkfat and a lot more fruit. Sherbet in the United States must include dairy ingredients such as milk or cream to reach a milkfat content between 1% and 2%. Products with higher milkfat content of 10%...
[17:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Re-opening - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:33:04] <exec> 08└─...offering the new workers a tiny fraction of what they had been paying before. The race to the bottom continues.
[17:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Hypochondria trigger? - 06Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:33:31] <exec> 08└─Wi-Fi has become so pervasive that telling people not to use Wi-Fi is akin to telling people to get the fuck out of your exclusive society because society belongs to the elites who are exactly like you.
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[18:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:04] <exec> 08└─Doing this is not physically impossible. The core problem is that matching velocities with an orbiting object requires as much fuel as going out to the furthest point the object reaches. You save no fuel by softly docking or landing on it. So you have to basically crash into it, and have your craft...
[18:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think they are planning on using propellent to match speed with the comet; that's the job of the tether system. The basic idea seem to be that you put the hitchhiker probe on a lower energy orbit that *intersects* the orbit of a higher energy comet, then fire a tethered harpoon at the comet...
[18:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my first thought is that there is too much delta-v for a grappling hook and cable to be practical. It'd be worse than trying to accelerate your skateboard by hooking on to race cars during a race. Hooking on to passing cars happened in Snow Crash, but that after all is fiction, no matter how s...
[18:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03guizzy [5021] (Score:1) 02Is that an issue? - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:35] <exec> 08└─Is there even a widespread issue with people polluting the spectrum with modified routers, or is this just another politically convenient fix for a non-existant problem?
[18:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Re:betterdige's law... - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:45] <exec> 08└─Even if they do manage to get news down to "bare fact", the comment feeds below can only aspire to opinionated drivel.
[18:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:email? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:05] <exec> 08└─each time I visit the doctor (once a year) I am asked if I want to sign up for online doctor access where they could correspond with me over email or send lab reports back to me that way. I think they are just describing it to you in layman's terms. No Dr in their right mind is going to violate...
[18:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:email? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:06] <exec> 08└─nope, I've been told that if I pay a bit more for my HC, I will get email access to my doctor and I can converse with him/her in any way I want. THAT is scary shit that never should have been 'a thing' to begin with. and hippa regulations? I've had pharmacists call and leave messages on my voicemail...
[18:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soybean [5020] (Score:1) 02Re:email? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:08] <exec> 08└─> stopped reading after that. That's your problem right there. Willful ignorance. Ironic given that half your post is devoted to flaming other people for their supposed willfull ignorance in the face of your educating them. They did not send email with test results. They sent an email newsletter to...
[18:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:and why is this a big deal? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:14] <exec> 08└─> Why are we even helping people to hide the fact that they have a dangerous disease that could spread to others? Go back to the 1980s. If we don't give people medical privacy, they will avoid treatment all together. And then they won't even know they are contagious.
[18:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:and why is this a big deal? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:15] <exec> 08└─methinks you have not walked in the shoes of those who may have a VERY different view point, having lived thru it. people like you are the most dangerous kind; you are all too willing to sacrifice privacy for your own selfish reasons. this is the most personal info and it has NO BUSINESS being publi...
[18:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:34] <exec> 08└─Science is about finding simple formulas
[18:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Depends - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:43] <exec> 08└─> It is more work, though That is an understatement. Also yeast isn't a very popular flavor profile outside of a certain type of drink.
[18:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most natural and healthy bubbles - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:51] <exec> 08└─I do not recommend the above...
[18:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02Re:Most natural and healthy bubbles - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:53] <exec> 08└─No one ever suffered a cardiac arrest of cardiac origin for having drunk his/her own fart in a soda.
[18:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:11] <exec> 08└─Just because it doesn't contain a big scary formula doesn't make it not math. In fact, if you can parse that (unwieldy) sentence you just did math! [wikipedia.org]
[18:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:HTML is not programming and math is not just nu - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:53] <exec> 08└─which is what [...] gp must have alluded to
[18:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:HTML is not programming and math is not just nu - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:55] <exec> 08└─Math is a subset of logic.
[18:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:53] <exec> 08└─I find it interesting because I thought the caste system had been banned in India. That this made it to the Indian Supreme Court demonstrates how prevalent it still is.
[18:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:56] <exec> 08└─...South-African-men-rape-babies-as-cure-for-Aids.html These men certainly aren't "upper caste". There is no caste system in South Africa.
[18:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:57] <exec> 08└─There is no caste system in South Africa.
[18:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:25] <exec> 08└─I guess it would not make sense if you did not know what "semite" means.
[18:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:02] <exec> 08└─Damn, The Buzzard is so far off the right he's even intolerant to lactose! (Joke blatantly stolen from Clone High)
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:sanity checks! - 06Bug in Visual Studio GitHub Commit Tool Leads to $6,500 Amazon Web Services Bill - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, reminds me of a policy change print media has tried to push on their customers. They push "automatic renewal" on us. I know print media has been in decline, but it doesn't excuse policy trickery that smacks of desperation. They even try to tell us that, actually, we wanted it, and it's for us....
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[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02We the millennials - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:02] <exec> 08└─I'm putting all you scientists on blast. We the millennials, bro.
[19:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Messen with me... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:03] <exec> 08└─This is the one messing with me... http://mandelaeffect.com [mandelaeffect.com]
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─All depends on the material science that goes into the harpoon and how long of a tether they can use. A skateboard could safely tether to a race car if it had a mile long tether. With diamond nanothreads exceeding 500x the strength of steel, and being much lighter, I don't see why this is impractica...
[19:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my first thought is that there is too much delta-v for a grappling hook and cable to be practical.
[19:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:17] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skitching [wikipedia.org] There was a game for Sega Genesis called Skitchin' that you had to get around town by hanging onto cars. It was actually a pretty fun game. My armchair analysis seems to think that the deta-v might be too great for a tether. Just some napkin ca...
[19:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Surface Material - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:19] <exec> 08└─The surface strength of comets is still not well constrained but believed to be in the 1 kPa – 100 kPa range [4,5]. Philae has been designed for compressive strengths between 2 kPa and 2 MPa. For a compressive strength less than 2kPa, Philae’s baseplate would touch the ground (but then effective...
[19:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surface Material - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:20] <exec> 08└─We suggest the minimum surface compressive strength for comet C67 to be about 1 MPa.
[19:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:32] <exec> 08└─I wish I could mod-up more. This is spot on.
[19:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet another strike against my criminal life. - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:40] <exec> 08└─I have the t-shirt
[19:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:betterdige's law... - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:00] <exec> 08└─You've got it exactly backwards. CNN (just to pick one example) doesn't report 24 hours worth of news. They report 1 hour of news (actually less, since this includes a lot of filler), and repeat it every hour. And if the journalists actually took the time to dig into the stories, instead of just tra...
[19:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:burn the witches - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:15] <exec> 08└─See. I don't know why people always want to burn them. It's clear that the gay is transmitted in airborne carcinogens like smoke. There's just no other way to explain the sheer number of flamboyant and depraved secretly gay fundamentalist types. No other way.
[19:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HIV pos/neg - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:33] <exec> 08└─> Civilian HIV testing is really strange with privacy. That's because it isn't about privacy. You even inadvertently hit on it when you said they require a "councilor or something" - it is about making sure that the patient has the best possible options open to them if they need it. Anyone who is c...
[19:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:HIV pos/neg - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:34] <exec> 08└─How does forcing you to meet with a councilor give you the best possible options? That is literally a restriction on your options. What if you wanted to opt for not speaking to anyone about it? You could also know for a fact that you are positive but your job requires annual testing (like the US Arm...
[19:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HIV pos/neg - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:35] <exec> 08└─> How does forcing you to meet with a councilor give you the best possible options? That is literally a restriction on your options Options for dealing with it. You sound like one of those people who thinks the GPL is a fraud since you aren't free to remove the GPL from the code.
[19:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:51] <exec> 08└─Anecdotes about how an individual consumes a certain diet and doesn't incur certain symptoms is of no scientific value. Only populations with measured diets and activities are useful, because there *is* a different in our personal genetics and how we adapt to our environments. You have a point about...
[19:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03BeaverCleaver [5841] (Score:1) 02Re:"How do I make a website red" - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:06] <exec> 08└─As usual, Maddox has an opinion on this: http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net [thebestpageintheuniverse.net]
[19:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:16] <exec> 08└─> I find it interesting because I thought the caste system had been banned in India. It has been banned exactly as much as racism has been banned in the US. In fact, just like there are whiny "oppressed white males" in the US, there are whiny "oppressed upper castes" in India. [time.com] PS, just be...
[19:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:25] <exec> 08└─choose your friends, choose your enemies
[19:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:28] <exec> 08└─No, he is 100% aware. If you go through his posting history you'll see on at least one occasion that he's openly accepted that he is a tribalist and that his moral compass is purely guided by an us-versus-them mentality. In all my decades on the internet I have never met someone so willing to own...
[19:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:35] <exec> 08└─> Racism is always irrational. Culturalism isn't though. Lol, talk about splitting hairs. Race is culture. Perhaps you don't remember the times when irish, italians and germans were all excluded from the "white" race. [vox.com]
[19:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:51] <exec> 08└─Huh. I feel like I've only ever heard the term "anti-Semitic" used to mean "you hate Jews." Interesting.
[19:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:52] <exec> 08└─Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as an ethnic, religious, or racial group.
[19:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:19] <exec> 08└─You think that's bad? Try eating a few dozen black licorice vines and wait a few hours... Liquid tar!
[19:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Ice Cream Pipeline - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:38] <exec> 08└─So where is this mythical pipeline of slow-melting ice cream? Wisconsin?
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[20:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Messen with me... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:06] <exec> 08└─Are you really so floored by the fact that people mentally rewrote some cursive script into a more common name that looks similar? Really?
[20:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Multiverse? - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:07] <exec> 08└─Is this the physics equivalent of multiculturalism being forced down our throats? I'll pass, thank you very much.
[20:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:08] <exec> 08└─What is this some sort of joke. Maths?? Mathematics is a mass noun, and therefore there is no need to pluralize either the full word or its abbreviation. For example. The faculty are on strike. It is NOT the faculties are on strike. That meat looks like good steaks. NOT That meats look like good ste...
[20:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03furiousoyster [594] (Score:1) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:10] <exec> 08└─"Maths" is the preferred abbreviation for mathematics in the UK.
[20:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:12] <exec> 08└─Doesn't make it correct though.
[20:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:14] <exec> 08└─English is their language.
[20:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:15] <exec> 08└─I often feel like the faculties of the majority of people online MUST surely be on strike. It's the most logical explanations.
[20:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:17] <exec> 08└─What is this some sort of joke. Maths??
[20:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So it's a theory and not a law why? - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:19] <exec> 08└─Oh, because it's a theory and not a law. At least yet. And theories don't come about because someone waves their hands and says, "Let there be...," either. So, it is a nice reality distortion field that the summary has going for it and makes the article truly DR-worthy.
[20:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Jumping ahead... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:21] <exec> 08└─I do like these thought experiments, and if they can manage some real experiments that'd be pretty great. However, since we don't even understand gravity fully I think hopping to the multiverse is a bit of a stretch. Headline grabbing journalism courtesy of some over-excited scientists. Whether we'r...
[20:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Yet another strike against my criminal life. - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:54] <exec> 08└─> That "feature" will be cracked within days. Yeah? Is that why it took nearly half a decade for the PS3 to be permanently cracked and after nearly two years neither the xbone nor the ps4 have been cracked? And those are devices with tons of demand for cracking, orders of magnitude more demand than...
[20:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:More reason to secede - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:59] <exec> 08└─If you split into a separate nation you would not have overlords that have final say over your opinions?
[20:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:More reason to secede - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:01] <exec> 08└─They'd be easier to handle. What I'd like is competition: pick who you want to follow, regardless of where you live.
[20:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:More reason to secede - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:02] <exec> 08└─> If you think giving comments to the state in a link is effective, I know a whole hoard of abused women you'd fit in well with. Every single abused woman in the country is benefiting from the FCC's embrace of net neutrality after a massive petition response. Are those the women you are talking abou...
[20:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:betterdige's law... - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:19] <exec> 08└─Would you say SN suffers in the same way?
[20:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02This article brought to you by sn.exe - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:24] <exec> 08└─This article brought to you by sn.exe
[20:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Re:Inability? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:39] <exec> 08└─Here, have 800 rubles.
[20:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inability? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:40] <exec> 08└─Ignoring your dictionary pedantry - calling the sender stupid is itself stupid. Sending a CC that should have been a BCC happens all the damn time. This person made an error that practically everybody on the net has made at least once in their lives. The problem is not with the sender, the problem...
[20:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:HIV pos/neg - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:56] <exec> 08└─Lol, looking mature there, AC : ) You are advocating for a mandatory talk about options to deal with HIV, whether you are positive or not. Would you settle for a note that comes in the mail with your results that gave you a phone number to call if you wanted to discuss options? If i am wrong, it isn...
[20:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HIV pos/neg - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:57] <exec> 08└─> Lol, looking mature there, AC : ) Really? What exactly in that post do you consider immature? Drawing the parallel between two forms of willful ignorance? > You are advocating for a mandatory talk about options to deal with HIV, whether you are positive or not. Yes. I am. Because treating negative...
[20:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:17] <exec> 08└─I have not as yet been able to discover the reason for these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I do not feign hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena must be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, or based on occult qualities, or mechanical,...
[20:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:18] <exec> 08└─Actually, I don't think science can ever be about "why" since it is not possible to ever prove something is true. Science can do "not why" (disprove) to some extent, but never answer "why".
[20:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:22] <exec> 08└─Mineral water is not necessarily carbonated. But carbonated water is a carbonated drink. I built a poor-man's carbonation system that
[20:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03irk_m [522] (Score:1) 02Nonsensical article - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:39] <exec> 08└─See this [science20.com] for a tear-down of this article. Spoiler: the data in the article proves nothing much at all (there is a correlation of 0.3 between money spent on carbonated soda and incidence rate of cardiac arrest).
[20:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HTML is not programming and math is not just nu - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:43] <exec> 08└─Syllogisms are not a subset of math. You can tell because no one in any math department has ever taught a class concerning it.
[20:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HTML is not programming and math is not just nu - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:46] <exec> 08└─Gödel's incompleteness theorem does not mean what you think it means. Math is dependent on logic. Logic is not dependent on math. For math to work it must be logical. Logic works without any use of math, it is merely a convenient medium. Anything else is ego-stroking.
[20:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:56] <exec> 08└─you are a strange kind. sometimes talk to people like you. conversations go like this. me: you know isis executes woman for not having sex with them? you: yeah... what I say then: I would like to torture them to death... what you hear: "I would like to torture a nice, ethnic human being to death..."...
[20:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:36] <exec> 08└─The USA put men on the moon over 40 years ago, but they still have Texas... And people who murder abortion doctors, they don't have socialized medicine and they willfully ignore climate change (for religious and financial reasons).
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Sure... - 06Magnetic Fields Provide a New Way to Communicate Wirelessly - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:40] <exec> 08└─"Mesh networking," the new party game.
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[21:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Multiverse? - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:09] <exec> 08└─You don't like multiverse theory, so you are complaining about scientists trying to disprove it. Is there a universe in which you aren't a retard?
[21:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:14] <exec> 08└─They also add u's to words that don't need them. What do you think British people can't speak poor English?
[21:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:16] <exec> 08└─http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=math&allowed_in_frame=0 [etymonline.com] But the American abbreviation is actually older then the British abbreviation. In fact how many other abbreviations can you name that remove the middle of the word and not the end of the word. I can't really think of a...
[21:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:18] <exec> 08└─It's the self-esteem movement in America. "I'm no good at math" sounds like the speaker is only bad at one thing. BUT "I'm no good at maths" could be an admission of being bad at as many as 7 things.
[21:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:21] <exec> 08└─So if it makes it into the dictionary then its all good? Ok I suppose you will support the use of works like: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com [oxforddictionaries.com] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com [oxforddictionaries.com] ht...
[21:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:23] <exec> 08└─No, it's the fact that it's been a part of UK English for over 100 years that makes it "all good". Either way, yes, the Oxford English Dictionary is one of the definitive dictionaries on the English language.
[21:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:24] <exec> 08└─So all of those words posted are proper and correct words to use because they are in the dictionary correct? Wait till they start putting leet speak and txtin shorthand in the titles of articles.
[21:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:26] <exec> 08└─The English language changes all the time, and you sound butthurt, bruh.
[21:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:28] <exec> 08└─You know whats funny though bruh, no one has actually confronted the point I made that Mathematics is a mass noun and needs no pluralization. Maybe if someone proved me wrong on the actual facts of the matter I wouldn't be so butthurt. (Ohh and no just because it is in a dictionary doesn't prove me...
[21:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:30] <exec> 08└─Mathematics already has an 's' on the end and I always assumed the term was short for "Fields of Mathematic[al] Study" You can live in whatever delusional world you want but you'll find people ALL OVER the internet say "maths" - stack overflow seems to have more uses of the term with an s than witho...
[21:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Jumping ahead... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:32] <exec> 08└─I also love how he refers to it not just being a consequence of "maths" but a consequence of "theoretical physics" and then refers to string theory... ...which current almost exclusively resides in the realm of mathematics with little if any experimentation backing it up. This is a complete load of...
[21:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:42] <exec> 08└─This is possible: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But trying to attach a cable to a comet that's traveling many times faster... You'd need a lot of cable that can be released at high speeds and won't tangle... And you definitely have to be very ver...
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:58] <exec> 08└─I do object to them restricting modifications. It's my property. If I don't control it, it cannot be trusted.
[21:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:More reason to secede - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:17] <exec> 08└─Every single abused woman in the country is benefiting from the FCC's embrace of net neutrality after a massive petition response. Are those the women you are talking about?
[21:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is that an issue? - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:23] <exec> 08└─I think its called "we're the government, and we're getting in, and we're not allowing 3rd party vendors to lock us out of all those people that refused windows 10 and run a terror OS called linux"
[21:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02sounds like an opportunity for open hardware - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:25] <exec> 08└─one of the thing that's pretty obvious here is the issue is that the CPU in a router is directly integrated with the radio. this seems like a situation where some funds could be raised to actually get a RISC V chip made for the CPU of the router. add a simple radio chip that is independently configu...
[21:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:betterdige's law... - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:36] <exec> 08└─Yup, FoxNews does that as well. To elaborate, the "filler" is getting a few people to discuss the news and react emotionally and hysterically with opinion (specifically the agenda of that particular news network) rather than fact. Think Reddit, except that everybody has Downs Syndrome and is speakin...
[21:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score:2) 02The irony... - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:44] <exec> 08└─So we had this journalist article about no math needed to be a programmer and now we discover that we don't even need a journalist to report news? The question becomes, who's writing the journalist emulator program? Hopefully no math needed... -dbe
[21:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:HIV pos/neg - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:18] <exec> 08└─What exactly in that post do you consider immature? Drawing the parallel between two forms of willful ignorance?
[21:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HIV pos/neg - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:19] <exec> 08└─> Pretending you were just drawing parallels between to very dissimilar things is silly. Whether you think it was an attack or not, your restatement of my intention as being to refer to dissimilar things is by far the most immature thing in this thread. > I think that is weak because every carton of...
[21:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02they are in the same boat - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:21] <exec> 08└─I'm concerned who will get this information. If it ends up in the hands of the wrong people, such as hate groups, it could be dynamite."
[21:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:they are in the same boat - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:23] <exec> 08└─> everyone that got the email has HIV and this is not inclined to share the contents of the list. (1) No, just people who have gone to the clinic and signed up for email newsletters. (2) Even if that were true, that would be terribly brittle. In case you haven't noticed, the internet makes it super...
[21:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:40] <exec> 08└─Carbonated beverage "excess" could just be a marker of overall poor dietary choices not the cause of the problem.
[21:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:48] <exec> 08└─> Alternatively, I'm looking into an adapter to refill the Sodastream CO2 container myself from a bigger, cheaper CO2 bottle I tried that when I started. Or rather I bought an adapter for the big tank and just hooked it directly to the sodastream so I didn't have to dick around with the paintball si...
[21:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:37] <exec> 08└─I was OK at Maths (yes, it has a S at the end) in school/collage,
[21:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Couldn't even change the name? - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:17] <exec> 08└─But in all fairness (and balancedness), it does not resemble a hamster to any great degree, either.
[21:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah..... white males have absolutely nothing to complain about. We can't right? The moment we do, it's automatically disingenuous to any conversation possible, simply because we are white males. It's technically impossible to oppress any white male in existence. Cuz we own everything or something r...
[21:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02i challenge you... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:20] <exec> 08└─Honestly it is more than just trolling and antisocial behaviour. But see, as long as there are people in the country who have to train to kill and interrogate, that is the police and military, I see no reason to be the emo newfag, who everyone knows will not be around when the fight comes. You know,...
[21:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:45] <exec> 08└─> Huh. I feel like I've only ever heard the term "anti-Semitic" used to mean "you hate Jews." Interesting. Everytime I've heard someone go dictionary pedant about semites being arabs too it turned out that they were anti-jewish and looking to fuzz up the converation.
[21:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Dunno about you... - 06Slower Melting Ice Cream in Pipeline, Thanks to New Ingredient - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:33:22] <exec> 08└─That's funny, that is. Modded so.
[21:33:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02Re:Even if there wasn't NSA trust issue... - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:33:54] <exec> 08└─As I understand the submission, they neither intended nor claimed to release a "product". They open source their own implementation so others will be able to turn it into a community asset. Which was the idea of open source in the first place: Not some big companies feeding freeloaders but developer...
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds legit - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─I think everyone in the thread may be missing something. Sure.. The NSA is good at compromising code. We all know that. What they also happen to be very VERY good at are side channel attacks. This code would seem to have something to do with security, and the NSA being able to understand that code.....
[21:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Working for someone else is passe - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 2542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:45] <exec> 08└─the "bottom" is economically superior The vast majority of USAians have lost a significant portion of their wealth in the last decade--with many having lost more than half. **Better than complete poverty** is just more Reactionary bullshit. Starting with FDR and ending with Reagan, USA had 5 decade...
[21:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:recycle REs! - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─Uh... illiterate AC fucktard here... all new RE metal shipments should be taxed to subsidize the recycling.
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[22:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Yeah, no... - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no... sorry, that was me. Had the burrito for lunch. My bad.
[22:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:26] <exec> 08└─Whats wrong with awesomesauce? I wonder if they have weaksauce too: yep http://www.oxforddictionaries.com [oxforddictionaries.com]
[22:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:30] <exec> 08└─So you've proven that the law of mediocrity crosses the bounds to other universes, have you? If there are parallel me's out there somewhere, then maybe the other universes each have their own math as well. Hence, maths. Much more Twilight Zone than those who put out the truth that "maths" is perfect...
[22:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Jumping ahead... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, although he referenced quantum mechanics as well. The article is not a waste, just a layman's intro to the multiverse concept with the news that they may be able to experimentally test for it. At worst just driving web traffic, but it was well written.
[22:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02WHICH MultiWorld theory? - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:37] <exec> 08└─It's important to remember that there are several quite distinct multiworld theories, and most of them are not affected one way or the other by the truth of the others. It sounds like the one they are talking about is m-brane theory, when they talk about looking for the evidence, but when describing...
[22:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02test pattern - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:38] <exec> 08└─Headline: "it is Science that can be Tested" Below the headline: "The race is now on to find a way to test the theory" Make up your mind - which is it? Is it testable or not?
[22:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:48] <exec> 08└─Given some parameters, it is actually pretty easy to work out the maximum delta V you could get from this. You need the length of the line (S) and the maximum acceleration the craft can stand (A). Assuming the line is strong enough not to break, the anchor holds, and you hit zero relative velocity a...
[22:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:51] <exec> 08└─With diamond nanothreads exceeding 500x the strength of steel, and being much lighter, I don't see why this is impractical.
[22:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Director Cayote - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:57] <exec> 08└─This plan of lassoing comets seems familiar. Is Wile E Coyote the new science director of NASA?
[22:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Good luck - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:59] <exec> 08└─Good luck finding comets that don't rotate.
[22:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:14] <exec> 08└─CTRL+F NSA It would ensure that somebody always had the master key to your router, and is another NSA end-run around that annoying privacy and warrant thing.
[22:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is that an issue? - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:38] <exec> 08└─Well, if comcast, Verizon, et al. start doing LTS-over-Wifi, and gobbling up 2.4Ghz and 5 GHz bandwidth, they have an interest in limiting how consumer-grade equipment being locked down for a variety of reasons.
[22:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:email? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:20] <exec> 08└─Which is why a shitload of companies now sell secure solutions to stupid doctors.
[22:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02damn you - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:21] <exec> 08└─It's because of people like you that HIPPA exists. Now my wife can't easily take care of that stuff for me. What a pain, and all so you can pretend you have privacy. (you don't actually get it due to contractors and affiliates) You don't even need that privacy. Nobody does. Why are you so concerned?...
[22:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:16] <exec> 08└─There's always this [bbc.co.uk] story, of a woman who drank four to eight litres of Coke a day.
[22:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:44] <exec> 08└─Do coders who are also good at math even do their own math anymore? I thought nowadays they just offloaded their work to MATLAB or automagically exported [mathworks.com] their MATLAB algos to C/C++ libraries if they had to go that route.
[22:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:Googling isn't coding - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:25] <exec> 08└─Your point being? (pushes suspicious bag under desk)
[22:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i challenge you... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:39] <exec> 08└─You know, you didn't actually have to demonstrate the truth of my words. Don't get me wrong, it's always nice to have backup, but you didn't have to put yourself out on my account.
[22:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:i challenge you... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:40] <exec> 08└─don't understand you. from a lot of points, life is a nightmare. sometimes I speak them... this is all an aspect of life. there are a lot of people like this. evolution made them at some point, maybe to aid the tribe? we are also a port of life. what we say is also a part of the whole truth. would y...
[22:32:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:45] <exec> 08└─Racism is always irrational. Culturalism isn't though.
[22:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:48] <exec> 08└─I assure you, you want a racist doctor. A doctor that knows which medicine to prescribe to which race is a much better doctor than a doctor who believes that all people are the same. And since I know someone is going to think "that's not real racism", let me just preemptively direct that someone to...
[22:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:32:50] <exec> 08└─> A doctor that knows which medicine to prescribe to which race is a much better doctor than a doctor who believes that all people are the same. Yeah, I really want a doctor who is going to prescribe medicine based on my race rather than my symptoms. That is the pinnacle of scientific medicine. Top...
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