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[00:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The video more the pitch of motors - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:38] <exec> 08└─I have sensitive hearing to pitch and volume of sounds. The description her face is sounds more of pain. She endded the noisy slow flying "bird" or "bug". Now, will she arrested for destroying the property of someone else who was authorized to by other to fly in the area. If not, then we can all sw...
[00:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apes v monkeys - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:40] <exec> 08└─we are humans; hominids; great apes; apes; monkeys; primates; mammals; reptiles; tetrapods; fish; vertebrates...eukaryotes...terrestrial life.
[00:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Apes v monkeys - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:42] <exec> 08└─The earliest mammal came from a line of animals that, were they extant today, we would recognize as reptilian; and the ancestors of the earliest animal to walk on land would, similarly, today be recognized as a fish. For details, consult a great many resources, including: http://www.amazon.com
[00:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02IT'S A BOMB - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:43] <exec> 08└─PANIC PANIC PANIC CALL 9/11 PANIC PANIC PANIC Oh. Not in USA. Never mind.
[00:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:45] <exec> 08└─Animals do not generally like being stared at, because being stared at generally means that one is being threatened, hunted, or challenged for dominance. I doubt very much that it has anything to do with some kind of instinctive response to "hovering insects" or "predatory birds". Neither birds nor...
[00:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:47] <exec> 08└─Sheldrake is a crank. Were the phenomenon he describes reproducible, it would overturn the Standard Model of Particle Physics and earn him a near-instant Nobel Prize. That nobody else can reproduce his claims...well, it's no different from any other pseudoscience bullshit artist scamming people by w...
[00:44:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02Garbage - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:56] <exec> 08└─Best Windows 10 resource I know is a Linux or MacOS desktop trash can, where it all belongs.
[00:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IRC - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:24] <exec> 08└─You should ask that in your distribution specific IRC channel, not #openbsd !!
[00:45:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03No Respect [991] 02My biggest Windows 10 problem - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:25] <exec> 08└─is where to find a good deal on Windows 7 Pro.
[00:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows Firewall ON-OFF - CommandLine - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:39] <exec> 08└─Works like a champ, thanks!
[00:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Addendum - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:42] <exec> 08└─I get that you would want to "ignore the obvious useless posts" but why do you have to be a jerk to the one person that actually provided information? "good for you". You're the kind of asshole nobody really likes hanging around. You're a smug piece of shit. Next time you ask for help, how about try...
[00:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:The worm was better - 06The Life and Death of The Worm at NASA - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:23] <exec> 08└─I guess we disagree. I like the meatball styles better.
[00:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:which theory? - 06What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:27] <exec> 08└─It's a figure of speech. Gosh, really ... pedantic much.
[00:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:how does mealworm protein compare to plant prot - 06Edible Insects: How would you like your meal(worms)? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:02] <exec> 08└─You will need to clarify the eating of Athletes Foot.
[00:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Where the fuck is my 8k monitor? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:31] <exec> 08└─I found a lot of examples of that in the $100-350 range. Included in a search for "1080" because it takes in a 1080p signal or something and promptly turns it into 640x480. The one I posted looks legit though. DLP and 3000 lumens would seem to be high-end specs as well. Here's a few more to look at:...
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[01:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get Ready for Gay game releases! - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:35] <exec> 08└─I've never heard of those, but then I'm not gay.
[01:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cool story, brah. - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:36] <exec> 08└─Windows - my partition has been deleted.
[01:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cool story, brah. - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:38] <exec> 08└─He did it without destroying his partition table?? Such a haxxxcxxor!
[01:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The video - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:49] <exec> 08└─But, Eth, this is what you do here on SoylentNews already!
[01:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apes v monkeys - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:54] <exec> 08└─Then why not call ourselves single celled organisms, or RNA viruses, or primordial ooze? You really think there is no a rational reason to draw distinctions between different types of life by dividing them into mutually exclusive categories?
[01:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:59] <exec> 08└─it would overturn the Standard Model of Particle Physics
[01:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:00] <exec> 08└─Animals do not generally like being stared at, because being stared at generally means that one is being threatened, hunted, or challenged for dominance.
[01:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I gave up... - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:24] <exec> 08└─You've read the EULAs for all the printer drivers he could possibly be using, and they all state they can only be installed on one machine? Wow! Either you're talking out of your arse, or you must have been really bored to think reading all those EULAs was worth doing.
[01:45:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02The pits of hell - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:27] <exec> 08└─I hear that in the seventh level of hell, you can find the developers that wrote Windows 10. Beware though, they try to get you to sign an EULA that gives them the rights to monitor your eternal soul.
[01:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Solution to Every Windows 10 Problem - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:46] <exec> 08└─I'd be surprised if that worked on anything newer than Windows 7. It was apparently last updated in 2011, that's before Windows 8 was released, the executable download is newer, but I expect that is only to update it to install the latest version of Debian.
[01:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Addendum - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:00] <exec> 08└─A large part of the problem is that google search has gone to shit. Putting quotes around a phrase no longer means exact match, it means search for these words with quote marks. I don't know how to specify exact match any more. Also, the advertising and SEO has taken over, even in the section after...
[01:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:vertical farming - 06 Clever Technical Breakthrough Could Make LEDs as Inexpensive as Incandescents - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:09] <exec> 08└─actually, they are both issues because even if you got all your power for free, you still have to invest millions into LEDs.
[01:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:The amount of work - 06The Lost Tunnels of Liverpool - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I doubt you have to reach to anything sinister, although he may have had some sort of financial interest in the land above the old quarries, and if he could make the land stable enough to build on, the wages would not be an issue. It just depends on whether the buildings above were built befor...
[01:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Not for me - 06The Life and Death of The Worm at NASA - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:40] <exec> 08└─The worm does NOT appeal to me, at all. It may be "elegant", but it's just to damned simple. Blame it on my military background, maybe.
[01:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Like, Kafkaesque, yo - 06Two North Carolina Teens Hit with Child Porn Charges After Consensual Sexting - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:34] <exec> 08└─An indication of police state is that people that did nothing wrong are made scapegoats and thrown under the bus to scare another 100 from doing the same thing. In a police state, fear is equivalent to respect.
[01:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not that easy - 06Want Your Kids to Learn Coding? Train the Darn Teachers First - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:02] <exec> 08└─This is beyond true. I had a good friend of mine apply for a recruiting position. She was abused by the interviewer because she only had an associates degree.... U need a fuckin Bachelors to use the telephone and search on linkedin apparently lol.
[01:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:which theory? - 06What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:47] <exec> 08└─It's a figure of speech.
[01:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I will have the first derivative please, - 06Edible Insects: How would you like your meal(worms)? - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:07] <exec> 08└─If you read the summary a little more carefully, you'll realise it it said crickets were no more efficient than turning chicken feed into protein than chickens. Nothing about how efficiently worms turn their food into protein. Other points to note, this is only one study, and we don't know how good...
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[03:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can I get one, so I can destroy it? - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:04] <exec> 08└─Eat C4, Chromebook! Fuck you, Linux!
[03:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cool story, brah. - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:16] <exec> 08└─Big talk from an Internet Tough Guy with an inability to understand what's right in front of him. The point was that the partition was deleted because that was the one app that needed it. I doubt a simpleton like you could be expected to grasp such subtlety from a simple statement like that. Oh no!...
[03:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02that's besides the point! - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:17] <exec> 08└─Most of us have heard of the Unity game engine
[03:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:3, Insightful) 02cold metal rod - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:19] <exec> 08└─This post contains an apt but very graphic sex analogy. Every time I see an article where people praise some proprietary software for going GNU/Linux-compatible, I wonder: just how deluded are these folks with their accolades? "One less reason to use Microsoft Windows - my partition has been delete...
[03:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Apes - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:30] <exec> 08└─But you can convert chimpanzees into moneys.
[03:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apes v monkeys - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:39] <exec> 08└─This is just a lack of understanding of modern classification. You can't have a group that arbitrarily excludes some of its descendants just because they are covered in fur. Just like birds are dinosaurs you are a fish. That doesn't make you less human or keep us from telling you from an orangutan(w...
[03:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:44] <exec> 08└─I expected that kind of reaction. All I said was that it was thought-provoking. And I thought it was very interesting when during one of his lectures someone asked about precognition and he said, very clearly, without any hedging whatsoever, (paraphrasing) "No, we've done precognition experiments ma...
[03:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:46] <exec> 08└─I expected that kind of reaction. ... "No, we've done precognition experiments many times but never found any statistically relevant experimental evidence for precognition or predicting the future."
[03:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:48] <exec> 08└─It is called time of day. Your father works a regular work day, he comes home at a regular time, the dog learns that pattern just like any other pavlovian response. The times he gets it wrong you don't notice because nothing actually happened, it's confirmation bias.
[03:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:49] <exec> 08└─> Neither he nor I nor the dog would have any way of knowing when he would decide to return home. So, your father is going to town for non-work reasons, but you have no idea why he was going to town? Or you did know and thus you had an expectation of the time he would return and the dog picked up on...
[03:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:51] <exec> 08└─> In typical dogmatic skeptic fashion That's an interesting turn of phrase. It is interesting that it is practically Sheldrake's own words. He's got a real bug up his ass about dogmatic skeptics. So much so that he's created a very elaborate website [skepticalaboutskeptics.org] "dedicated to counter...
[03:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:53] <exec> 08└─Animals do not generally like being stared at, because being stared at generally means that one is being threatened, hunted, or challenged for dominance.
[03:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:55] <exec> 08└─And I daresay that being stared at all their lives could easily be one of the many factors that makes it difficult to keep many animals alive for long in captivity.
[03:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:56] <exec> 08└─> The truth is that nobody is watching all that footage captured by CCTV. So go ahead and pick your nose. Well, nobody's watching your footage seeing as how you you aren't a pretty girl. [bbc.co.uk]
[03:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:58] <exec> 08└─That should be easy to test, shouldn't it? Put a hidden speaker somewhere in the enclosure and have it reproduce the sound of a drone. If the chimps start attacking it, then there's evidence the sound is what they react to, and perhaps what humans react to as well. It would be interesting to drill d...
[03:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It is the noise! - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:00] <exec> 08└─> But what is it, a response to hovering insects or predatory birds? Duh! Drones are noisy as fuck. If that thing had a whisper mode like blue thunder, those chimps would not have given it a passing thought. I keep waiting for someone to build noise-cancellation speakers into those guard-rings that...
[03:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:It is the noise! - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:01] <exec> 08└─That is true they're noisy, but the traction that drone stories get in the media, when most people have never heard a drone in real life, indicates it's not the sound that provokes the antipathy. I hypothesize it has something more to do with social boundaries being crossed. The idea that someone ca...
[03:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It is the noise! - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:03] <exec> 08└─I can touch you, can kill you, and no matter what you do against this instrument of my will you cannot touch me, cannot see me, and cannot even know where I am controlling this instrument from.
[03:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It is the noise! - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:05] <exec> 08└─I believe the thought process was: WTF this noisy shit. - Great, it's another man-made object. - Whoa, looks expensive as hell. - Let me get a twig. - NOT THE MOMMA NOT THE MOMMA NOT THE MOMMA
[03:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IRC - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:38] <exec> 08└─Whew! OCD crisis averted.
[03:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idiots - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:46] <exec> 08└─There are people who have to use Windows to get money from other people and stuff. Out of these, there are people who would like having some SSD space left after installing their OS. Hint: Windows 10 has been heavily optimized. Personally, I'd rather be using OpenBSD to do my work, but I think Windo...
[03:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Addendum - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:00] <exec> 08└─You really should be using IMAP for email, it is a lot less hassle when switching mail clients and you can use it on multiple machines. For Office you can just copy the files onto a USB stick and install from that, it doesn't need to be installed from a CD. Also CD/DVD drives can be shared over the...
[03:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not for me - 06The Life and Death of The Worm at NASA - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:39] <exec> 08└─If he was a Seabee, he could climb out and kick your ass. The Seabees that had to set up in hot zones had to be tough SOBs.
[03:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not for me - 06The Life and Death of The Worm at NASA - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:42] <exec> 08└─Kumbaya my Lord. Kumbaya. Let's do away with the military because you can't hug with nuclear arms.
[03:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:The worm was better - 06The Life and Death of The Worm at NASA - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:49] <exec> 08└─Well, if you look closely at that image you linked, the only one with the worm logo blew up. I rest my case.
[03:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02The worm isn't proper writing in any font - 06The Life and Death of The Worm at NASA - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:51] <exec> 08└─The "N" like a child's scrawl, with curves that make it much too wide; the A and S connected in a way that they would never be in print or handwriting, while the other letter separations are maintained; the As missing any hint of a crossbar. It's not just simplified for clarity or recognition, it's...
[03:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jury Nullification - 06Two North Carolina Teens Hit with Child Porn Charges After Consensual Sexting - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:20] <exec> 08└─It's astonishing to me how little respect people have for the law
[03:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like, Kafkaesque, yo - 06Two North Carolina Teens Hit with Child Porn Charges After Consensual Sexting - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:39] <exec> 08└─I doubt it, I haven't checked but I'm sure all life insurance policies will have nullification clauses in the in the case of suicide. I'm sure it is just because of Christian moral bullshit. Something like, it is God who should decide who should live or die, therefore if you take your own life you a...
[03:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inverse correlation between sexuality and viole - 06Two North Carolina Teens Hit with Child Porn Charges After Consensual Sexting - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:53] <exec> 08└─Dogs are peaceful and fuck anything that moves. They are also retarded wolves. I believe I'm seeing a pattern here. We shouldn't repress our children. If they can't control their urges themselves they should be sent where they belong. With the monkeys in the zoo.
[03:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:It's not that easy - 06Want Your Kids to Learn Coding? Train the Darn Teachers First - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:11] <exec> 08└─(a) a teacher's salary is barely liveable
[03:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:The Sirius Institute? - 06 Woman Plans a Dolphin-assisted Birth in Hawaii - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:38] <exec> 08└─When a good proportion of the comments are more about the submission of the story rather than the story itself, I think that's probably a pretty good indication that it's maybe time to reconsider what gets posted.
[03:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Case for eugenics - 06 Woman Plans a Dolphin-assisted Birth in Hawaii - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:57] <exec> 08└─- Hi! Is this the Netherworld? - I'm here because of killing myself and my family. *looks around* - Hey! Where's my family? - D'oh!
[03:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eight miles? - 06Welsh Village Almost Completely Cut Off - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:26] <exec> 08└─Still, Someone must have bought groceries in those 10 days. You would think they could have placed a call from the grocery store to the phone company.
[03:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:which theory? - 06What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:58] <exec> 08└─It's a figure of speech.
[03:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What if they went nowhere? - 06What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:01] <exec> 08└─2. The carbon dioxide leaked into space - more plausible, particularly without a magnetic field (see above)
[03:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02Re:Battery Cages. - 06Edible Insects: How would you like your meal(worms)? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:32] <exec> 08└─Dude, it's a chicken.
[03:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02find a way to gut/skin it - 06Edible Insects: How would you like your meal(worms)? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:48] <exec> 08└─Suggestion: have a robot that rips the thighs off of grasshoppers, then pushes out the meat with a blunt metal probe. Get me the meat like that, as nice clean entrail-free burger, and I'll gladly eat it.
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[04:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:07] <exec> 08└─i dont know about the rest of you but i can't stand the small screens on these so-called computers. how can anyone be expected to do anything of significance on an eleven inch display and a cramped keyboard? did they learn nothing from the "netbooks" fiasco? all i really want is a machine with a big...
[04:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:08] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of netbooks in the 13" and 15" range with 1080 displays and build quality that rival traditional laptops. I could get all of my non-work work done on a Chromebook (the beauty of my job is that work work doesn't follow me home). Only problem is, I already have a laptop, and I like Gn...
[04:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Free? - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:10] <exec> 08└─I see one free course. I see two courses for $500 (actually, it looks like one course, offered in two different languages) One course for $995. Almost missed a course priced at $1062. Everything else is $2000, up to $2500. It doesn't look like these courses are aimed at the poor, or the underprivile...
[04:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Cool story, brah. - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:22] <exec> 08└─Better watch out, bro, tough-guy is so tough that he once deactivated his Facebook account to stick it to "the man." To show you how little he cares about authority, he's even saying he's gonna delete that Facebook account someday. He has nothing to lose!
[04:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apes v monkeys - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:46] <exec> 08└─You really need to get outside more or go even more pedantic and realize all classifications are in existence for convenience only. No we are not fish, for if we were the reason for having multiple classifications would cease to have meaning. I have never seen it before, but you managed to argue sem...
[04:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 2598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, I frequently had no particular idea when or why he would be going to town or therefore when he might decide to come home. You would be hard-pressed to design a more randomized study (of a single subject, obviously). And I had no idea about Sheldrake's ideas at the time, so confirmation bias is...
[04:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:58] <exec> 08└─Cows come to the barn at milking time. All livestock comes to the barn at feeding time. Animals have a sense of time, whether that sense is accurate or not - and those milk cows are often times quite accurate. Dogs? Dogs are somewhat more intelligent than some other animals. Maybe the dog was taking...
[04:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I gave up... - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:31] <exec> 08└─I tried to buy an HP printer before ultimately returning it. the EULAs are fairly boiler-plate.
[04:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always been the case - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:02] <exec> 08└─if all the OS did was launch programs why would you have to redo your workflow if you changed OS?
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[05:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Sounds good to me - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:08] <exec> 08└─IMHO, people who fly RC aircraft and helicopters have spent a lot of time and money learning how to fly, and in the process learning how not to be an ass. Drone pilots, on the other hand, plunk down a few hundred bucks, attach a gopro to their new toy, and go to town. IMHO, if your drone is within r...
[05:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds good to me - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:09] <exec> 08└─I actually trained a monkey SWAT team to take out unwanted drones. Unfortunately, they ran off somewhere, probably have been captured and put in cages by now.
[05:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:21] <exec> 08└─You mean like ... taking notes? Diagnosing Wifi problems with simple terminal commands and so on? I use my Chromebook C720 almost every day for work when I'm at a client. I used to dread having to lug around my P.O.S. HP laptop.
[05:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Re:small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, nobody likes small screens. That's why mobile computing never took off. It's like you go online on a PC or not at all. Nothing like waiting to get home to my PC so I can SSH into my server to reboot some poorly written webapp, couldn't do that from a netbook on the road. That would be blasphem...
[05:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Can I test out? - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:24] <exec> 08└─If I pass your final can I get the free Chromebook without paying tuition?
[05:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:cold metal rod - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe they just resigned to the spying, and simply want to do their work faster without having to reboot to a different OS? Note that the OP did not mention anything about a "hate", you did.
[05:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:11] <exec> 08└─> And I had no idea about Sheldrake's ideas at the time, so confirmation bias is a particularly bad explanation. My use of the term "confirmation bias" is completely unrelated to your use of the term. To put it simply, once you think there is a pattern you start looking for confirmation of that patt...
[05:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:13] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting turn of phrase. It is interesting that it is practically Sheldrake's own words. He's got a real bug up his ass about dogmatic skeptics. So much so that he's created a very elaborate website "dedicated to countering dogmatic, ill informed attacks leveled by self-styled skeptics"...
[05:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:21] <exec> 08└─Animals do not generally like being stared at
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[06:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Sounds good to me - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:11] <exec> 08└─As an avid hunter I think it would be more sporting to go with a bow. Also, I usually eat what I kill, but sometimes I just donate the meat. If you have no use for the drone, please give it to your local hackerspace natives. We're doing some conservation research to determine the limiting factors of...
[06:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02being driven by the celebrities - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:12] <exec> 08└─How about being driven by the common citizen who would like to keep the press on the ground, behind the fence, and not peeking in windows.
[06:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:being driven by the celebrities - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:13] <exec> 08└─LOL. You've given up wishing to be a celebrity already. Dancing naked in your kitchen with all the windows open didn't work out like you'd planned?
[06:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:being driven by the celebrities - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe his ass isn't as big as a Kardashian ass?
[06:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 2215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:17] <exec> 08└─Freedom of the press, vs property rights. You can't put restrictions on the press, but you can't infringe on the rights of property owners, either. Actually, a 350 ft ceiling seems rather reasonable. I shouldn't have to tolerate drones, RC aircraft, or even aircraft buzzing my property at low level....
[06:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:19] <exec> 08└─where DO my property rights end?
[06:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02private armies - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:21] <exec> 08└─Oh no - a private army? No way. Sergeant army, maybe. NCO's get stuff done. Privates like to sit on their asses, bitch and complain, and do nothing. Then they have the nerve to demand weekend passes, leave, benefits, educational opportunities, social events, and so much more. I'll take a sergeant or...
[06:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:23] <exec> 08└─I think you engage in a little bit of reductio ad absurdum. Your ownership of the land does not grant you the absolute right to do anything on it, or keep absolutely everybody off of it. Similarly, the phrase free press does not give them trespass rights. I suspect you know this, but it made a bette...
[06:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:32] <exec> 08└─You mean like ... taking notes? Diagnosing Wifi problems with simple terminal commands and so on?
[06:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:34] <exec> 08└─that can easily be done on a hand held device like a smartphone. why bother with a netbook when a phone could do what you need?
[06:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:1) 02Re:cold metal rod - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 2279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:52] <exec> 08└─I think the kind of people this Unity Editor is aimed at typically don't mind proprietary software, or they wouldn't be using it in the first place. I'm sure there are plenty of other game engines and development tools that are free software and work sufficiently well. I suspect this will just help...
[06:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:27] <exec> 08└─Cows come to the barn at milking time. All livestock comes to the barn at feeding time. Animals have a sense of time, whether that sense is accurate or not - and those milk cows are often times quite accurate. Dogs? Dogs are somewhat more intelligent than some other animals. Maybe the dog was taking...
[06:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:34] <exec> 08└─> being stared at generally means that one is being threatened, hunted, or challenged for dominance. NSA.
[06:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Windows 10 Resource - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:31] <exec> 08└─ITYM rd /s
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[09:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One China - 06China's Censorship Apparatus Employs "Great Cannon", a Selective Nation-State DoS Tool - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:09] <exec> 08└─China is # One
[09:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One China - 06China's Censorship Apparatus Employs "Great Cannon", a Selective Nation-State DoS Tool - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:10] <exec> 08└─china is pound one unchained i snoop
[09:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:34] <exec> 08└─Actually, I can keep anyone off of my property. Anyone, and everyone. I have even told police officers that they are no longer welcome, and that they must leave, or face trespassing charges. Seriously - two badasses with guns and badges thought that they could intimidate me, and I told them to get t...
[09:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:35] <exec> 08└─Quite the storyteller, are you. First you make a grandiose claim that you can eject anyone you please from your property at any time, then you admit that in reality you cannot do that. Then you claim you can press charges against police officers, but later you admit that the worst you can do is file...
[09:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:37] <exec> 08└─Some people are much more tolerant of cognitive dissonance than others. Some people are even totally aware that they have any! Take for example the average "pro-life" person who is in favor of capital punishment, war, and concealed carry. Not the slightest clue do they have. So go easy on Runaway....
[09:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:39] <exec> 08└─Freedom of the press just refers to what they publish, not to how they go about getting the materials. A journalist that breaks into somebody's house looking for something to report on would go to prison in any sane country. Personally, I think that they should be allowed to use drones, at least in...
[09:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can I test out? - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:54] <exec> 08└─No. We made up exclusive acronyms and mnemonics for our courses to make sure you pay attention. You know Please Do Not Take Sales Persons Advice? We changed it, smart ass.
[09:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get Ready for Gay game releases! - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:05] <exec> 08└─I only buy my Gay Niggers games that have been endorsed by the Gay Nigger Association of America.
[09:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Re:Cool story, brah. - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:10] <exec> 08└─I see you already covered your tracks by posting as AC. That'll show him!
[09:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cold metal rod - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:16] <exec> 08└─Because other pieces of software don't lock me in their software ecosystem. I can stop using Unity and I'll only lose the ability to use Unity. If I stop using Windows, I lose access to every single piece of Windows-only software.
[09:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02A word of caution, and an alternative. - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:18] <exec> 08└─I've been using Unity3D extensively at work for the past 2 years and you should be warned that you will still need Windows to create Windows Phone applications, the same way Mac OS X will be needed if you plan on working on an iOS projects. It may be outside of your scope, but it's kind of important...
[09:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Apes v monkeys - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:38] <exec> 08└─The short version is that all apes are monkeys, but not all monkeys are apes.
[09:45:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 588 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:41] <exec> 08└─Sheldrake is a crank. Were the phenomenon he describes reproducible, it would overturn the Standard Model of Particle Physics and earn him a near-instant Nobel Prize. That nobody else can reproduce his claims...well, it's no different from any other pseudoscience bullshit artist scamming people by w...
[09:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:The sense of being stared at - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:51] <exec> 08└─> plate tectonics You are doing that false equivalence thing. Yes, many scientific advancements were famously contrary to the commonly accepted theories. But for every one of those theories that over-turned well-established consensus there have been millions of theories that were total bullshit. Th...
[09:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02They need an explanation? - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:05] <exec> 08└─which could explain the drone antipathy felt by many humans.
[09:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Garbage - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:18] <exec> 08└─Stone tablet? The odds are pretty good. A brick tablet, on the other hand, would probably be Apple.
[09:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always been the case - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:02] <exec> 08└─At least one of those posting will instruct the reader to turn off the firewall
[09:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always been the case - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:03] <exec> 08└─The answer is B. Poster B is retarded. By the way, if your Windows 10 upgrade gets stuck with a black screen, disable everything you can in the BIOS. Then after it has booted once you can enable everything again. Disabling SELinux doesn't remove any security because much like Windows Firewall it did...
[09:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Dam not this again... - 06 Clever Technical Breakthrough Could Make LEDs as Inexpensive as Incandescents - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:18] <exec> 08└─Middle of ocean farming sounds good... There are already [theguardian.com] experiments on the way, although they are focused on CO2 binding rather than food production :-) We need to figure out how to seed the right, edible algea to use it for nutrition...
[09:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:for non-Amazon women - 06Want Your Kids to Learn Coding? Train the Darn Teachers First - 4023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:29] <exec> 08└─Here's how I introduced my 12 year old niece to programming: We sat down with graph paper, pencil, and the computer. I drew boxes on the paper for CPU registers. One for program memory, another for code (since the [modified] Harvard model is the norm now). Then I wrote a minimal list of 16bit x86 as...
[09:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you had been put in solitary confinement... - 06 Woman Plans a Dolphin-assisted Birth in Hawaii - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:49] <exec> 08└─He specifically mentioned their ability to detect a fetus in a human even before the woman knew she was pregnant. He also mentioned that they get very protective of expectant moms.
[09:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:this is silly - 06 Woman Plans a Dolphin-assisted Birth in Hawaii - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:50:11] <exec> 08└─> Exactly. Sea water is swimming with bacteria. It is also about 3.5% salt while your body is a tad under 1% salt. It is a rare bacteria that can thrive in both concentrations.
[09:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:which theory? - 06What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:51:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. And you don't know how to use it.
[09:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dvader [1936] (Score:1) 02Re:I will have the first derivative please, - 06Edible Insects: How would you like your meal(worms)? - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:51:26] <exec> 08└─Speaking of expensive foods, a high cost means one or more people along the production line has spent a lot of effort making it. Effort that could have been used for something else, like curing cancer or making even more food. Unless there are other cost-less benefits like less environmental polluti...
[09:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Nyuzi (was Re:Nyozi) - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:53:31] <exec> 08└─Thanks : ) It is actually showing up in my google search now.
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[10:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02"free Chromebook" - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:04] <exec> 08└─Isn't "free Chromebook" the oxymoron to end all oxymorons, as Google took the free Linux ecosystem and exploited it to build a walled garden on top of it that is the exact opposite of the hacker ethos that made the Linxux operating system possible in the first place? Why would a Linux foundation sup...
[10:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02if you're interested in this sort of thing... - 06The Lost Tunnels of Liverpool - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:45] <exec> 08└─if you're interested in this sort of thing google for "Urban Exploration"... there's some seriously cool-spooky-awesome photography of these structures floating around, covering old/disused tunnel complexes amongst other things. A good site (for the UK) is the 28 Days Later forum [28dayslater.co.uk]...
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[11:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Facefuck access for all! - 06Facebook's First Full-scale Internet Drone - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:05] <exec> 08└─People in remote parts of the world should be working to build their own infrastructure to provide their own internet access instead of wasting their time putting twat selfies on fuckbook.
[11:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds good to me - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:27] <exec> 08└─We're doing some conservation research to determine the limiting factors of drone populations in order to determine the appropriate hunting season and legal limit of drones. Apparently, we'll have to take it in our own hands to prevent a drastic spike and crash of wetlands and urban nesting drones s...
[11:48:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tathra [3367] 02Re:Like, Kafkaesque, yo - 06Two North Carolina Teens Hit with Child Porn Charges After Consensual Sexting - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:42] <exec> 08└─It seems the girl already has made a plea deal
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[12:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This must be the shitposting thread - 06China's Censorship Apparatus Employs "Great Cannon", a Selective Nation-State DoS Tool - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:16] <exec> 08└─China will use the Great Cannon to DDoS the Zentradi invasion fleet
[12:44:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 2215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:32] <exec> 08└─Freedom of the press, vs property rights. You can't put restrictions on the press, but you can't infringe on the rights of property owners, either. Actually, a 350 ft ceiling seems rather reasonable. I shouldn't have to tolerate drones, RC aircraft, or even aircraft buzzing my property at low level....
[12:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:40] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956 wrote :- 350 ft. Hmmmm. That roughly coincides with the "effective range" of a lot of centerfire firearms
[12:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Obligatory.... - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:59] <exec> 08└─Want a free Chromebook? All you have to do is take a Linux course offered by the Linux Foundation ...
[12:46:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Ask Cortana - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:45] <exec> 08└─or the H1-B in Redmon watching you masterbate.
[12:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score:1) 02Re:The Solution to Every Windows 10 Problem - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:00] <exec> 08└─And welcome systemd :-)
[12:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Perhaps he was driven by inner demons - 06The Lost Tunnels of Liverpool - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:42] <exec> 08└─There is a movie in which a telephone lineman receives a vision: DIG So he digs. And digs and digs and digs. His wife comes home to find their backyards all dug up: "Why are you doing this?" "It softens the dirt." He's holding a garden hose, see. I myself am quite obsessive, whenever Bonita asked me...
[12:51:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Battery Cages. - 06Edible Insects: How would you like your meal(worms)? - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:51:52] <exec> 08└─If you don't already know what a Battery Cage is then DON'T FIND OUT.
[12:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Chickens love their little babies too. - 06Edible Insects: How would you like your meal(worms)? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:51:56] <exec> 08└─Need you be so cruel?
[12:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02YHBT - 06Edible Insects: How would you like your meal(worms)? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:52:02] <exec> 08└─Leprosy: it's what's for breakfast.
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[13:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, they are freeing the employees to be fired at any time by their corporation. Freeing employees to be traded and sold like commodities. Freeing employees to have to complete for work in a race-to-the-bottom for wages. Wonderful, this new economy is.
[13:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:05] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Contractors? Contractors aren't eligible for benefits, among other things. No cheap group health insurance, among other things. Benefits such as maternity leave are history. There can be no collective bargaining is such an atmosphere - when two or more "contractors" collude to fix pricing, t...
[13:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:06] <exec> 08└─It is the same as the "everyone is part time" thing that Walmart and other big retailers did back in the 90's. They would actually threaten to fire my poor mom if she dared work over 24 or whatever hours a week. Of course they still expected her to get the work of a full time employee done. Now that...
[13:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:08] <exec> 08└─Of course news outlets always try to sell the working public on these "new economy" changes. Who do you think owns the news outlets? News is nothing more than mass entertainment and influence peddling. Wealthy businessmen have been known to buy a newspaper and run it without any profit just for the...
[13:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03LowSpeedHighDrag [5592] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Training? - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:10] <exec> 08└─Not a single mention of the cost of training in this. The cost in time and money for training new hires is high in many jobs and it doesn't change between a temp or contractor vs a full time employee. There is a lot of value in keeping your already trained people on staff. Not to mention the loss of...
[13:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Training? - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:12] <exec> 08└─Outsource to a body shop. They'll tell you what you want to hear: they work for cheaper, their staff are self-motivated, self-taught go-getters, not like the fat, greedy, lazy, complacent dead-beats you've had on your own staff.
[13:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LowSpeedHighDrag [5592] (Score:1) 02Re:Training? - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah I've heard that one before. I could say 'Fool me once...' but it didn't even fool me the first time. We do hire contractors where I work but mostly because we can both hire and fire them easily in the early stages of employment. Evaluating how they will work out is nearly impossible until they...
[13:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02To Do And Notice - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:15] <exec> 08└─Spend some time hanging out at your favorite wifi spot. Bring a notebook; I prefer the quad-ruled bound notebooks, like a composition book but with graph paper. Over time introduce yourself to each of the staff, be real pleasant. Write down when each employee starts work, when they leave, how many e...
[13:44:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02being driven by the celebrities - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:42] <exec> 08└─How about being driven by the common citizen who would like to keep the press on the ground, behind the fence, and not peeking in windows.
[13:44:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:51] <exec> 08└─Some people are much more tolerant of cognitive dissonance than others. Some people are even totally aware that they have any! Take for example the average "pro-life" person who is in favor of capital punishment, war, and concealed carry. Not the slightest clue do they have. So go easy on Runaway....
[13:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:52] <exec> 08└─The cognitive dissonance is your own. Murdering prenatal and/or postnatal babies is the most heinous of acts, committed against the most innocent and most helpless of all people. A very high percentage of capital punishment candidates are beasts in man form, guilty of heinous acts, such as murdering...
[13:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:56] <exec> 08└─It's faily obvious that my property rights don't extend into infinity.
[13:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always been the case - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:25] <exec> 08└─The linux equivalent nowadays is to tell people to run it with sudo.
[13:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like, Kafkaesque, yo - 06Two North Carolina Teens Hit with Child Porn Charges After Consensual Sexting - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should have checked... It's commonly included, but with a 12 month or so waiting period.
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[14:44:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:05] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Contractors? Contractors aren't eligible for benefits, among other things. No cheap group health insurance, among other things. Benefits such as maternity leave are history. There can be no collective bargaining is such an atmosphere - when two or more "contractors" collude to fix pricing, t...
[14:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 1845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:08] <exec> 08└─> It would be nice if they bluntly stated that the American worker is being fucked Attention workers: you are being fucked. We thought you figured that out long ago, but in case anyone wasn't paying attention, well here you go. Now, what are you going to do about it? Vote? Hah. You'll have a choice...
[14:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:10] <exec> 08└─The glut is artificially created, engineered by "lobbyists" in Washington, bribing our representatives. Corporations benefit from globalization and trade agreements - no one else does. Globalization is corruption run amok.
[14:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:12] <exec> 08└─So you would prefer a law that says you can only buy iPhones made in the USA. I refer you back to the debate between two puppets. You're never going to fix anything by hoping for the laws to change in your favor. They won't. But even if your iPhone is made in Utah, why should there be a trade agreem...
[14:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrsam [5122] (Score:1) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:13] <exec> 08└─That's strange. I've been a contract consultant, in IT, for over twenty years. Somehow I have group health insurance, and a retirement plan. How did that happen? You know, I think the main difference between myself, and many others, is that I don't spend a lot of time brooding how I've been "fucked"...
[14:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Greater concentration of wealth - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:17] <exec> 08└─Flexibility comes at the cost of stability/sense of security. This tips the scale of bargaining power towards those already with wealth/financial security, and leads to greater accumulation of wealth to the few. To avoid ugly scenarios, labor regulation will need to be tweaked - a tall task in the...
[14:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02also known as - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:19] <exec> 08└─AKA the race to the bottom. People will get paid less, but expected to provide their own training and work equipment.
[14:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Evolve or die - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 2993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:21] <exec> 08└─This is the simple rule of nature at work. Things have changed. Progressives changed the rules and now everyone is learning to adjust to them. Of course everything was supposed to just stay exactly the same, only 'better' because of their 'enlightened' rule but they never account for free will in th...
[14:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's the Uber driver model - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:22] <exec> 08└─Great, we can all be underpaid. I'm sure we'll see more of this as corporations figuring out how they can contract out more and more "non-essential" parts of what they do. However, there are limits, particularly when it comes to software development - IT contract projects are notoriously prone to fa...
[14:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:04] <exec> 08└─Great post - but I would argue that there is some value in giving the press some latitude. We see that already, regarding activities by the police. If I, Joe Blow, happen to approach a police barricade, the cops are often unwilling to acknowledge my presence, let alone answer questions. Let someone...
[14:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:20] <exec> 08└─Because I don't want some shitty spyphone? Cell phones are mere tracking devices, which is why I don't use them.
[14:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:21] <exec> 08└─What would you call a chromebook then?
[14:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:1) 02Re:small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 2711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:22] <exec> 08└─I have a chromebook and like it a lot. I'm a soylent techie, so my story may not be universal, but here are some things that I like about it: 1 - PRICE: You can get a chromebook for $129. ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY NINE dollars (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/acer-11-6-chromebook-intel-celeron-2gb-memory-1...
[14:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory.... - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:29] <exec> 08└─Does your laptop support Coreboot? Because Chromebooks run open-source Coreboot instead of UEFI. You can run most popular Linux distros on it. If you aren't running an open BIOS, you were rooted from the beginning.
[14:46:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:The video - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:03] <exec> 08└─But, Eth, this is what you do here on SoylentNews already!
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[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that Comcast has no technical reason for doing this and that it's solely a business tactic: http://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] In other words, they have no reason for doing this other than the...
[15:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Simple solution - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:03] <exec> 08└─EVERYONE cut their cables. Just cut it. Let Comcast go bankrupt. Let their assets be divied up among their creditors. Just sit back, and let it happen. Wait a little while, to see a new crop of competitors take Comcast's place. Unless, of course, congress barges in with another "to big to fail" fias...
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[15:44:05] <exec> 08└─Customers who exceed this limit will have to pay $10 for every additional 50 GB needed after that, or sign up for an unlimited data plan for an additional $30 per month.
[15:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bornagainpenguin [3538] (Score:1) 02Oh no you don't! - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:07] <exec> 08└─sign up for an unlimited data plan for an additional $30 per month.
[15:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:21] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I won't dignify your absurdity with the latin phrase. The fact is, the US and a few other countries fostered the industrial age, with in turn led to this new "digital age". Those nations poured generations of work into where we are today. And, today, the corporations that grew out of our nati...
[15:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:24] <exec> 08└─That's strange. I've been a contract consultant, in IT, for over twenty years. Somehow I have group health insurance, and a retirement plan. How did that happen?
[15:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:25] <exec> 08└─Times are changing. WIth the right combination of education, skills, perseverance, and luck, people can be very successful. Of course, the "good old boy" network can be invaluable, if you happen to be a "good old boy". Most refer to that as "networking". All the same, you cannot remain unaware that...
[15:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cold metal rod - 06Experimental Unity Game Engine Editor Released for Linux - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:02] <exec> 08└─No... wine works for some Windows software, but why bother? I've found everything I need in the repos. I thought I couldn't do without MS Money, but kmymoney fills the bill. Gaming is catching up. Gimp is suitable for Photoshop, although there is a Photoshop version that runs under wine. etc,etc.
[15:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apes v monkeys - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─If you're cool with calling us eukaryotes, vertebrates, and mammals, you have no rational reason to object to calling us apes, fish, or monkeys
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[16:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Lost opportunity for fat government contract - 06Linux Foundation Releases PARANOID Internal Infosec Guide - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:06] <exec> 08└─Not long after Working Software released Working Printlogger, I got a call from a man who could not tell me even his name. He wanted to know whether I could develop a custom build that could not be removed. His, uh... "Company" kept its printer in a securely - like men with guns - room with the prin...
[16:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Assholes - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:15] <exec> 08└─> Not to mention that Comcast has no technical reason for doing this and that it's solely a business tactic: And for actual proof, in Chattanooga Tennessee where they compete with EPB's gigabit service, there are no caps. Here's the list of all the zip codes where Comcast is capping users [stoptheca...
[16:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple solution - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:18] <exec> 08└─> EVERYONE cut their cables. Just cut it. Let Comcast go bankrupt. Not going to happen. Internet service is more profitable than television service. If people actually did what you propose, it would just increase Comcast's profit margin.
[16:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FreeUser [5423] (Score:1) 02No, their profits will go down - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:20] <exec> 08└─Not going to happen. Internet service is more profitable than television service. If people actually did what you propose, it would just increase Comcast's profit margin. Internet may well be more profitable than television service, but it does not follow that cutting the cord will increase Comcast'...
[16:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:1, Spam) 02Antennae need not yield poor reception - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:23] <exec> 08└─Consider the Deep Space Network - the HiRez of Pluto is real nice, eh? I still don't own a television [theonion.com] but if I did I would use a large steerable antenna mounted on the roof of my house. (YAGI antenna?) Those were at one time quite popular and cost quite a bit less than one month of Co...
[16:44:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, they are freeing the employees to be fired at any time by their corporation. Freeing employees to be traded and sold like commodities. Freeing employees to have to complete for work in a race-to-the-bottom for wages. Wonderful, this new economy is.
[16:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrsam [5122] (Score:1) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:43] <exec> 08└─Well, funny that you mention it, but the first time I've heard of H1Bs was from my very first pimp, some 20-years ago. He was a very nice gentleman, and one day he was telling me all about these Indian job shops have been packing 6-7 H1Bs into a company-owned house, and then renting them out for rat...
[16:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02level the playing field - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 2203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:51] <exec> 08└─This is about exploitation, not evolution. Of course change, and evolution, always happens. This change, to flex labor, could be to everyone's benefit, but seems more likely to be just another of the many unfair and unwise changes employers have made to tilt the playing field even more their way. Th...
[16:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02What about Firefox's predictive connections? - 06China's Censorship Apparatus Employs "Great Cannon", a Selective Nation-State DoS Tool - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:10] <exec> 08└─Will you already get infected when you move your mouse over a link to a Chinese web site in Firefox?
[16:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not to worry - 06China's Censorship Apparatus Employs "Great Cannon", a Selective Nation-State DoS Tool - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:11] <exec> 08└─The NSA will just block it for you in your router.
[16:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Free? - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:58] <exec> 08└─It's aimed at people with a training budget and fancy a free chromebook.
[16:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Chromebook == Non-Free Software - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:04] <exec> 08└─The applications are all in O how I hate this term The Cloud. How many cloud service providers release source? Of those that do how many comply with the Free Software Definition? The Linux Foundation should not be encouraging use of Chromebooks; there are all kinds of ways they could give away noteb...
[16:47:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Garbage - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:33] <exec> 08└─So basically like Linux distros
[16:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jury Nullification - 06Two North Carolina Teens Hit with Child Porn Charges After Consensual Sexting - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:47] <exec> 08└─>> Jurors do not have the right to willfully ignore the law. > Maybe not, but they still in all cases have that power. Undeniably true. I'd have approached the statement from the direction that jurors have the right to interpret the law such that the spirit and intent of the law is given precedence...
[16:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:which theory? - 06What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:23] <exec> 08└─Lay off the ouzo, motherfucker. I was replying to the other guy. I was in agreement with you - at least I thought I was, after reading your last post I can't even tell what your point is.
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[17:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Assholes - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:16] <exec> 08└─That's interesting. What's also interesting is that there are no caps here either. We were in Qwest's territory until Centurylink bought them and Centurylink hasn't introduced caps. The two main reasons why we stuck with the slower speeds from DSL were that they weren't capped and they weren't Comca...
[17:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, their profits will go down - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:20] <exec> 08└─> They are only doing this in areas where they have no broadband competition (another posted a link to the list of Zip Codes where Comcast is hosing their customers). I am the one who posted that. I fail to see how the fact that comcast can't gouge in areas where there is competition is relevant to...
[17:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02In what way is the parent post spam? - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:24] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Moderator failed to hover mouse
[17:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:41] <exec> 08└─> So you would prefer a law that says you can only buy iPhones made in the USA. I don't know about runaway, but I would prefer a law that says all products in the marketplace must meet minimum manufacturing standards for human resources and environmental accountability. Same way we have minimum stan...
[17:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:46] <exec> 08└─> But, how about your sons and daughters Bad argument. The single greatest predictor of a child's financial success in life is the wealth of their parents. His kids will do just fine.
[17:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:48] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention how most corporations will look very unfavorably on employees, even contractors, that also work for other corporations. You'll have the choice of part time for one or nothing at all.
[17:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dcollins [1168] (Score:2) 02Devastating to Workers - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:58] <exec> 08└─Pretty much like any business advocacy, the claim that this will be good for workers is total bullshit. (See also: Globalization raising worker salaries and making everyone a creative manager.) The truth is that the rise of algorithmic, just-in-time staffing is devastating to workers, because they c...
[17:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Very interesting - 06California News Photographers Want to Keep Their Drones - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:43] <exec> 08└─I can foresee anti-drone kits being sold by an enterprising business. Something that quietly shoots a net of fibers, or even a single long fine one, that will tangle in the drone propellers and slowly bring them down. You don't want something that brings the drone crashing down immediately, that wou...
[17:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory.... - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:11] <exec> 08└─My current laptop runs on 100% free software. Can the same be said about Chromebooks?
[17:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jury Nullification - 06Two North Carolina Teens Hit with Child Porn Charges After Consensual Sexting - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:35] <exec> 08└─Such standards are great, but they are a very recent phenomenon. You might remember the terms "yellow journalism" and "muck-raking" from your American history class in high school.
[17:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:for non-Amazon women - 06Want Your Kids to Learn Coding? Train the Darn Teachers First - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:53] <exec> 08└─I am talking about 30-40 year old women, not 12-year olds. If only I were teaching a 12 year old! You're doing splendid. More power to you. I hope your niece succeeds and is rewarded later in life for her success. Maybe in a generation these stupid, anti-Amazon ideas, which are promulgated by cisfem...
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[18:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Koen [427] (Score:2) 02Tuvalu - 06'Role Model' Bhutan Takes Zen Approach to Climate Change - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:04] <exec> 08└─Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) [wikipedia.org] is a very small Polynesian country, it's a group of islands with about 11000 inhabitants, perhaps only known for having the .tv top level domain. The highest point is about 4 meters above sea level and they risk to disappear completely below the waves...
[18:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02dumb mountain goat! - 06'Role Model' Bhutan Takes Zen Approach to Climate Change - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:05] <exec> 08└─so. this is were the wealthy world destroyers go for a last resort(*) to enjoy the 5-dollar shanghaied hocker? i think this place sucks. not that i have been there or anything. it is indeed presteen. however if they were really considered about global warming they would kick out all visitors from co...
[18:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dumb mountain goat! - 06'Role Model' Bhutan Takes Zen Approach to Climate Change - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:07] <exec> 08└─you're an idiot! butan-ium burocrazy hasn't been infected by democrazy, so no problem! know the boss and your golden!
[18:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dumb mountain goat! - 06'Role Model' Bhutan Takes Zen Approach to Climate Change - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:09] <exec> 08└─you're both idiots! "mosquito free" isnt a asset like oil, gas or coal so butan has nothing to fear execpt bad PR for their future excess prostitution-with-no-condom high-society resort image. wow i'm so chemcial dump democratic-dump resort island lol.
[18:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lost opportunity for fat government contract - 06Linux Foundation Releases PARANOID Internal Infosec Guide - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:18] <exec> 08└─wat?
[18:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02MANA is japanese(*) - 06Linux Foundation Releases PARANOID Internal Infosec Guide - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:19] <exec> 08└─linux is DEAD! it was born 20 years ago in a basement. lusting for chicks and a better world. today the chicks and the better world has caught up to the basement. with better docs we would have n00b basement supporting the aging linux founders with smalls chickens and morte-ages of their own, but NO...
[18:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Assholes - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:30] <exec> 08└─But but but.. it's a free market!! Why are you trying to punish success??? If customers don't like it, they'll just switch to one of the many alternatives!!
[18:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, their profits will go down - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:36] <exec> 08└─If ISP service is the more profitable line and the less profitable line goes away, basic math says the total business is now more profitable.
[18:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple solution - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:37] <exec> 08└─A lot of the people who have cable also have their Internet service, so they would be losing out overall.
[18:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Antennae need not yield poor reception - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:42] <exec> 08└─You don't need a large steerable antenna if you're in or near a metro area. A simple rabbit-ears will do, and work just great for receiving modern HDTV broadcasts. Yeah, if you're in the sticks a large one is useful, but if you're in a city, you can replace cable TV with a $5 set of rabbit ears, and...
[18:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:1) 02Comcast is Evil. - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:44] <exec> 08└─that includes broadcast networks and HBO for its internet customers.
[18:44:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 1605 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:58] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I won't dignify your absurdity with the latin phrase. The fact is, the US and a few other countries fostered the industrial age, with in turn led to this new "digital age". Those nations poured generations of work into where we are today. And, today, the corporations that grew out of our nati...
[18:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:level the playing field - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:14] <exec> 08└─I hesitate to write this, for fear of being "labeled". I believe that we are in the midst of what is called "bread and circuses". The US Constitution has become toilet paper to those who wield power. I fear for the younger people who will have to deal with the consequences. What we need is a "stirri...
[18:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can we please have a moratorium on these articles? - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 2420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:17] <exec> 08└─1. This sounds like something straight out of a Dice-spoonfed Slashdot article, where 50% of the submitted articles are laser-focused on career topics. I assumed that one of the founding principles of SoylentNews was to get away from that. 2. This is coming from the echo chamber of Harvard Business...
[18:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:vertical farming - 06 Clever Technical Breakthrough Could Make LEDs as Inexpensive as Incandescents - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:56] <exec> 08└─If the bulbs are as cheap as incandescents, or at least significantly below $10, annual electricity cost should exceed the bulb cost. It's been argued that vertical farming is a joke, but I think it's plausible given a set up using some sunlight, along with advanced/cheaper blue and red LEDs, and th...
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[19:44:14] <exec> 08└─Tuvalu is a shame, and the idea of a displaced country does set alarm bells going. However more people claimed asylum in Germany yesterday than live in Tuvalu, and more claimed it today, and probably tomorrow. The impact of Tuvalu is insignificant - assuming that .tv domains don't vanish.
[19:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Assholes - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:38] <exec> 08└─FWIW, EPB's fiber TV is limited in that you can only do 2 simultaneous HD streams. You can do more SD streams, I don't really know since I don't have EPB TV at all. But you might want to verify what centurylink is actually providing you.
[19:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, their profits will go down - 06How Comcast is Changing Tactics in Response to Cord Cutters - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:45] <exec> 08└─> If those people simply drop the cable service, Comcast will lose out. Perhaps you don't understand that the reason cable tv is not particularly profitable is because the majority of your cable bill is passed through to the programmers. When you cut the cord you also cut comcast's costs.
[19:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrsam [5122] (Score:1) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:16] <exec> 08└─Sorry to bust your left-wing talking points, but 35 years ago my family arrived to the fruited plain with absolutely nothing in their pocket.
[19:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:17] <exec> 08└─> Sorry to bust your left-wing talking points, but 35 years ago my family arrived to the fruited plain with absolutely nothing in their pocket. Anecdotes are not data. I said predictor not guarantee. Furthermore, that correlation has only gotten stronger over the last 35 years upward mobility has st...
[19:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:small screens - 06Linux Foundation Giving Away Chromebooks - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:35] <exec> 08└─Somebody else's problem? I wouldn't use one. I prefer a big screen and local data and so on... but sometimes in order to get paid, I can't rightly complain about what I have been given. Fortunately, no one has handed me a chromebook. I am pretty clear their target audience is not for the one I am in...
[19:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Apes v monkeys - 06Not On My Watch: Chimp Swats Film Crew’s Drone - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:33] <exec> 08└─Getting back to the real issue at hand (and it does tie into what you have written) I think the chimp swatted it because whatever it was that the chimp thought it was swatting was fucking annoying. Regardless of the brain controlling either. I'll be back after I go get some more crap to fling. Faili...
[19:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reading comprehension problems - 06 Woman Plans a Dolphin-assisted Birth in Hawaii - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:50] <exec> 08└─No. The expert, whose lifelong work is the study of the suborder, was relating these things which has seen over decades of observation. The advocacy website puts in 1 place the observations of various experts on the topic. You could use a remedial reading course. Additionally, I hope you aren't assi...
[19:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:which theory? - 06What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:07] <exec> 08└─Point taken, I will try to be more careful next time.
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[20:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Full of Darkie Matter - 06Astronomers Detect the Farthest Galaxy Yet With Keck Telescope - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:06] <exec> 08└─The Universe is held together by Niggery Love
[20:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ebin maymay - 06Astronomers Detect the Farthest Galaxy Yet With Keck Telescope - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:07] <exec> 08└─Top keck [imgur.com].
[20:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02More concern needed - 06'Role Model' Bhutan Takes Zen Approach to Climate Change - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:17] <exec> 08└─Tuvalu is insignificant In the big picture, so is your neighborhood. If it was YOUR property that was being subsumed by saltwater, I'm sure your attitude would change radically. If that area being lost to the sea was also your ancestral home, extrapolate accordingly. If the area being inundated has...
[20:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Watching logs - 06Linux Foundation Releases PARANOID Internal Infosec Guide - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:31] <exec> 08└─This caught my eye...from the article: Watching logs You should have a keen interest in what happens on your system. For this reason, you should install logwatch and configure it to send nightly activity reports of everything that happens on your system. This won't prevent a dedicated attacker, but...
[20:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Ahh freedom. - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:16] <exec> 08└─Those nations poured generations of work into where we are today. And, today, the corporations that grew out of our nation's hard work have stabbed us in the back.
[20:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:level the playing field - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:35] <exec> 08└─Cool story, bro. However, I see not the life of any I know in your text... Can u fuck cunts? IF NO: CONSUME more to be impressive or drown your sorrows IF YES Did ur cunt gave u children? IF YES: consume to pacify children and frustrated wife IF NO: lucky sod, or just youn...
[20:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Can we please have a moratorium on these articl - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 2935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:39] <exec> 08└─1) It could well be a Dice spoon-fed article, if the summary was presented differently. We have a topic for Career & Education, sadly sticking our heads in the sand about the changing landscape of the working environment wont stop it changing. We should be paying attention, this change of attitude h...
[20:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Always been the case - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:11] <exec> 08└─Windows problems? That is like from an Aesop's fable. The peasant boy with a problem that he doesn't know how to solve asks numerous village adults and they provide inane or useless advice, some of which would clearly harm him if he tried to do whatever they said. After sitting for a while on a rock...
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[21:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:More concern needed - 06'Role Model' Bhutan Takes Zen Approach to Climate Change - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:25] <exec> 08└─True it's a tragedy, although the Maldives with a population 30 times bigger is just at risk. The scale of global tragedy is too large to comprehend.
[21:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devastating to Workers - 06The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:45] <exec> 08└─For a long form discussion of this topic, see Kurt Vonnegut, "Player Piano" (from 1952!) Plot summary here, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "... This widespread mechanization creates conflict between the wealthy upper class—the engineers and managers who keep...
[21:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always been the case - 06Best Windows 10 Resources - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:15] <exec> 08└─Poster G: I got a call from "This is windows calling", they fixed all my problems. It only cost $875 per year.
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