[01:10:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there's a few magazines that were pretty interesting back in the day: Byte Dr. Dobbs Journal C++ Report (1990s) I'm leaving out the Sunday newspaper-sized ones that were mostly ads.
[01:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:syntax, so trivial, yet so important - 06Forgotten Language: Jorf Could Have Been Python (or Ruby) - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
may be a good idea in the future. I already have my own nexus -- it's called the journal -- and so do you.
[01:04:19] <exec> 08└─A "guest editorial" or "journals-submitted-as-articles" nexus may be a good idea in the future. I already have my own nexus -- it's called the journal -- and so do you.
[01:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Books - 06Nexuses and You - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:21] <exec> 08└─I like this idea, but we'd need to have high standards to make sure we don't publish a rant. I'd suggest plenty of links and ample evidence (with bias to be expected) to back up the editorial. Hmm… I'm not sure this would work. It's still an interesting possibility. We'd want to avoid the Bennett...
[01:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Books - 06Nexuses and You - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:22] <exec> 08└─Nah, this is an NCommander thing. He's just busy with a new job lately so I'm taking up ideas for new nexuses in attempt to make them actually useful instead of just theoretically useful and technically enabled.
[01:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Books - 06Nexuses and You - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:24] <exec> 08└─theoretically useful and technically enabled.
[01:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Books - 06Nexuses and You - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:26] <exec> 08└─Speak it, brother. Sometimes I wonder if rube goldberg was onto something by making an overcomplicated thing that actually worked, as opposed to overcomplicating things in order to generate work. many projects I've been asked or tasked to work on were sadly the latter and not the former.
[01:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:on NASCAR - 06Nexuses and You - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Work (40 or more hours of the 168 each week) - 06Nexuses and You - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
<exec> 08└─That would actually be pretty awesome. You could have all sorts of rules about sealants used and ballast weights carried. Aero(hydro)dynamics would become much more important. Commentators screaming "HE'S GOT A LEAK IN THE CABIN AND THE BILGE PUMP'S NOT WORKING!! CAN HE MAKE IT TO THE LINE BEFORE HE...
><exec> 08└─That would actually be pretty awesome. You could have all sorts of rules about sealants used and ballast weights carried. Aero(hydro)dynamics would become much more important. Commentators screaming "HE'S GOT A LEAK IN THE CABIN AND THE BILGE PUMP'S NOT WORKING!! CAN HE MAKE IT TO THE LINE BEFORE HE...
[01:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:on NASCAR - 06Nexuses and You - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:31] <exec> 08└─And then have cars disqualified for modifying their bilge pump system into a water jet--or just limit the capacity of their battery so the bilge pump can only be ran at above normal speed for a few seconds before loading down the gas engine. At least the races wouldn't ever get canceled for light ra...
[01:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:on NASCAR - 06Nexuses and You - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:33] <exec> 08└─Hehe. That's quite the image! I'd be interested in some kind of racing nexus, but I doubt we'd have the articles to fill it. NASCAR is too boring, though. Give me Formula 1, rally sports (dirt and snow racing cars), maybe even local leagues, but go beyond that. Why not airplane races and skiff racin...
[01:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Usage? - 06Nexuses and You - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:35] <exec> 08└─You can't reasonably undo what is done, but I don't expect more than 5% of the users are going to even give a damn about this feature. It sounds like yet another marginal feature driven by a handful of marginal loudmouths, pulling development resources from more widely useful features. Those loudmou...
[01:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Usage? - 06Nexuses and You - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:18] <exec> 08└─"Well, we're boned." Even people like me, who live hundreds of miles from the coastline right near one of the worlds' largest supplies of fresh water. Not because my home will be underwater, but because the billion people or so who live near the coasts will be desperately wanting both my home and th...
[01:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Command.com is part of DOS'' - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
make sure people are not offended, so we have to give them a way to avoid what they don't like :)
[01:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Addition or Division - 06Nexuses and You - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:46] <exec> 08└─You know me, always one to worry if someone's going to be offended. Seriously though, it's more about giving everyone a more fine-grained ability to increase their perceived signal to noise ratio; protection from "meh" rather than from offense.
[01:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Work (40 or more hours of the 168 each week) - 06Nexuses and You - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:47] <exec> 08└─There's a not-completely-insignificant cadre who grouse about stuff related to wages|workplace conditions|big layoffs... A nexus for Labor or some such descriptor would allow easy filtering of that. Of course, since it seems that those folks can't resist clicking those items and commenting about how...
[01:04:47] <exec> 08└─There's a not-completely-insignificant cadre who grouse about stuff related to wages|workplace conditions|big layoffs... A nexus for Labor or some such descriptor would allow easy filtering of that. Of course, since it seems that those folks can't resist clicking those items and commenting about how...
[01:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Work (40 or more hours of the 168 each week) - 06Nexuses and You - 1635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:49] <exec> 08└─It's a plot. The intelligentsia, duped by the puppetmasters of global capital, are suppressing the revolutionary potential of the lumpenproletariat by denying them even the exposure of discussion, let alone equal space to air their grievances. Chomsky is the modern counterpart to Marx, who analytica...
[01:04:49] <exec> 08└─It's a plot. The intelligentsia, duped by the puppetmasters of global capital, are suppressing the revolutionary potential of the lumpenproletariat by denying them even the exposure of discussion, let alone equal space to air their grievances. Chomsky is the modern counterpart to Marx, who analytica...
[01:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Work (40 or more hours of the 168 each week) - 06Nexuses and You - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:51] <exec> 08└─That's a good idea. I think we'd need to define the difference between the proposed Liberty nexus and a Labor nexus. I can see ambiguities. Myself, I've entered the murky depths that separate the bleeding-heart libertarian perspective and the socialist perspective. Proposal: the Liberty nexus should...
[01:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Work (40 or more hours of the 168 each week) - 06Nexuses and You - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:53] <exec> 08└─You have some good thoughts. Just a couple of nitpicks. Work-or-starve isn't what we have, at least not in the USA. You can actually be at the bottom of the barrel, and not starve (although your nutrition probably won't be the best). Yeah, I've been there. There are ways to manage, many of them run...
[01:04:53] <exec> 08└─You have some good thoughts. Just a couple of nitpicks. Work-or-starve isn't what we have, at least not in the USA. You can actually be at the bottom of the barrel, and not starve (although your nutrition probably won't be the best). Yeah, I've been there. There are ways to manage, many of them run...
[01:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Iceage - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:07] <exec> 08└─>has this changed? Um, no - it's just as possible as it ever was, maybe, maybe not, we're not really sure. What is pretty sure is that we're creating change - the actual nature of that change is best described as "unknown, got some models based on data from before homo sapiens left Africa, we think...
[01:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:1) 02Re:Iceage - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:08] <exec> 08└─There's a persistent cold area south of Greenland that may be a consequence of global warming. I don't think an ice age is a possible outcome, but parts of Europe may not warm as fast as the rest of the world.
[01:05:08] <exec> 08└─There's a persistent cold area south of Greenland that may be a consequence of global warming. I don't think an ice age is a possible outcome, but parts of Europe may not warm as fast as the rest of the world.
[01:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Iceage - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Iceage - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:09] <exec> 08└─The idea is still out there: Shutdown of thermohaline circulation [wikipedia.org].
[01:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Iceage - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:11] <exec> 08└─That means the heat gets dumped somewhere else, doesn't it ? North America & Europe get an ice age and the gulf becomes a living hell maybe, you are still getting a big change that the current infrastructure is not built for.
[01:05:11] <exec> 08└─That means the heat gets dumped somewhere else, doesn't it ? North America & Europe get an ice age and the gulf becomes a living hell maybe, you are still getting a big change that the current infrastructure is not built for.
[01:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For thousands of years... - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:13] <exec> 08└─People, _one_ thousand of years ago, the pinnacle of our technology was a windmill. _Three_ thousand years ago, not even that. Stop assuming that humanity will stagnate "for thousands of years". Because if we do, global warming and sea level will be the _least_ of our problems.
[01:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:2) 02Time to stop screwing around - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 2214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:2) 02Time to stop screwing around - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 2214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:15] <exec> 08└─Alright, we should all know by now that we're not going to solve this problem with business as usual, or by waiting for some miracle politician/company/technology to come save us. We've known this would happen for at least 20 years now, and how much closer are we to fixing it? Kyoto? Remember that?...
[01:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Stop calling this crap research - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Stop calling this crap research - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:16] <exec> 08└─Stop calling this crap research. Computer modelling in any field is not research, it is speculation. And it is worthless speculation. I'm so sick of hearing graduate students and professors who never got off the government paycheck (grants, student loans, etc) pretending that tweaking the parameters...
[01:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02In the immortal words of Bender - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02In the immortal words of Bender - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:18] <exec> 08└─"Well, we're boned." Even people like me, who live hundreds of miles from the coastline right near one of the worlds' largest supplies of fresh water. Not because my home will be underwater, but because the billion people or so who live near the coasts will be desperately wanting both my home and th...
[01:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh? - 06Site Server Reboot Schedule - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:35] <exec> 08└─Note that this is different/better than the commonly available radio play which was remade at some point.
[01:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh? - 06Site Server Reboot Schedule - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:39] <exec> 08└─The AC was likely referring to the other other site. The one with run by that shady character and, heaven forbid, did have a 2 day gap in the stories.
[01:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Why so many? - 06Site Server Reboot Schedule - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:44] <exec> 08└─Redundancy. With the exception of the load balancer, we can pull the plug on any machine, and the site stays up and functioning. At a minimium, that requires two web front-ends, and two databases. We've had machines go out of service for an extended period (hydrogen was down for an extended period r...
[01:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:StatCounter et al and JavaScript - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:58] <exec> 08└─The stereotype is that the average Linux user is more savvy
[01:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:StatCounter et al and JavaScript - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:59] <exec> 08└─I'm running linux. However, my useragent usually says I'm on a Mac. Amazing how many sites, especially .gov sites, refuse to work under linux, but work fine if you lie about it.
[01:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Good News - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:05] <exec> 08└─> Android alone, without any of the added Google stuff, is vastly more open than Windows, almost to the point of Linux. And the number of chrome users who use "android alone" is zero. Even of the total number of android users, the percentage is so small it is a rounding error. But thanks for yet aga...
[01:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Good News - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:07] <exec> 08└─Android alone doesn't do anything. Drivers for stuff like the radio stack will never be open source.
[01:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Good News - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:08] <exec> 08└─I agree. We ushered in a new era of more of the same. My present problem is that much of my connected life is controlled more than just those two bosses. For anyone that has many bosses that compete with one another for your attention, you know how stressful that can be. At least we have a choice be...
[01:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm not convinced this is wrong - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:10] <exec> 08└─Linux market share has been flatlining forever. Go to the source data, and the conclusions don't add up.
[01:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2, Troll) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:15] <exec> 08└─Linux is a kernel.
[01:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:16] <exec> 08└─glibc definitely provides common services for computer programs.
[01:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:18] <exec> 08└─You don't know shit. Command.com is part of DOS, just like sh is part of BSD. The utilities you mention are just what you called them - utilities. They are programs that run under an OPERATING SYSTEM. Iidiot mods.
[01:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Command.com is part of DOS'' - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:20] <exec> 08└─Are you that young that you have never heard of 4DOS or NDOS (drop-in replacements for MICROS~1's command interpreter)? -- gewg_
[01:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:''Command.com is part of DOS'' - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know what those are, and even recall that you invoke them with SHELL=xxxxx in config.sys. But I fail to see your point? I can replace any arbitrary file in a linux install too with one of my own creation. Does that mean the original file wasn't part of the operating system? If that's your arg...
[01:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:23] <exec> 08└─If command.com and sh are part of the OS, then bash is, too, because it fulfils the role of sh on Linux. And bash is GNU.
[01:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:25] <exec> 08└─Command.com is part of DOS just like sh is part of BSD [01:06:27] <exec> 08└─That name which must not be spoken?? -- gewg_
is just emacs and .'' - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Its not like GNU is just emacs and .'' - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:27] <exec> 08└─That name which must not be spoken?? -- gewg_
[01:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:30] <exec> 08└─Honestly as long as it compiles my code I don't give a fuck what you call it.
[01:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you'd like Gentoo then : )
[01:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Onion... not - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qj8p-PEwbI [youtube.com]
[01:10:51] <exec> 08└─I agree that C's switch statement is poor syntax. It's one of the gotchas that the execution path continues into the next case statement if there is no break statement. Ranks up near the newbie gotcha of using = when == was meant, and not getting any compiler error about the mistake because it is va...
[01:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:syntax, so trivial, yet so important - 06Forgotten Language: Jorf Could Have Been Python (or Ruby) - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
ass="time">[01:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:If that's all.... - 06Long-Sought-After 'Glueball' Particle May Have Been Discovered - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:51] <exec> 08└─It is something interesting, although there's still maybes in there. I'm not convinced there's a need for a byline from janrinok though. Its not a subject that's going to get much on-topic discussion even in the best of circumstances, perhaps a "Like" and "Disike" button for logged in users on each...
[01:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Just me? - 06A MARC in the Silicon: Sequencing E. coli with the MinION - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:11] <exec> 08└─And people were complaining that there are no domain experts on soylentnews - thanks for proving them wrong with this article. 6 months? 6 months? I can't even get ambiguous icons in a GUI changed in 6 months! As someone with a bit of a background in security, ONT needs to know that DRM (nicely expa...
[01:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02questions - 06A MARC in the Silicon: Sequencing E. coli with the MinION - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:12] <exec> 08└─What is it called when multiple cells are sequenced to reduce errors? What kind of accuracy does MinION get? Do you simply use it for longer in order to get more accurate results? Will Oxford Nanopore Technologies be able to move into a bigger/alternate domain, like transcriptome sequencing? You men...
[01:07:12] <exec> 08└─What is it called when multiple cells are sequenced to reduce errors? What kind of accuracy does MinION get? Do you simply use it for longer in order to get more accurate results? Will Oxford Nanopore Technologies be able to move into a bigger/alternate domain, like transcriptome sequencing? You men...
[01:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:questions - 06A MARC in the Silicon: Sequencing E. coli with the MinION - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:14] <exec> 08└─What is it called when multiple cells are sequenced to reduce errors?
[01:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My hacking story - 06Target Stores Attacked by Pornographic Pranksters - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:28] <exec> 08└─yes, it really did work that way ( from someone who used to buy from them often back then, was always cool waiting for your package to come screaming down the roller belt from the 2nd floor )
[01:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:My hacking story - 06Target Stores Attacked by Pornographic Pranksters - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:29] <exec> 08└─YES! The roller system provided that suspense and anticipation that we can't really get without staring out a window knowing the delivery guy will arrive soon... But being in the store was more palpable, because unless you wandered around looking at more stuff to buy, all you could do was wait and w...
[01:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Delusion - 06Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of The Rich - 2970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:36] <exec> 08└─"Deserving" is a subjective [differencebetween.net] metric. It is very hard to attribute who is deserving of wealth because it is truly in eye of beholder. Is a nice person more deserving than a dick? Is a nice person who inherited their wealth more deserving than a dick who worked for it? While GP...
[01:08:36] <exec> 08└─"Deserving" is a subjective [differencebetween.net] metric. It is very hard to attribute who is deserving of wealth because it is truly in eye of beholder. Is a nice person more deserving than a dick? Is a nice person who inherited their wealth more deserving than a dick who worked for it? While GP...
[01:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:The poor only have one problem - 06Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of The Rich - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:The poor only have one problem - 06Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of The Rich - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:50] <exec> 08└─" If you are really impoverished, you can really only plan ahead about 1 meal, because your brain is so focused on that it can't really think about anything else. If you are working-class, you are generally planning ahead until the next paycheck, so up to 2 weeks, because you know where your next me...
[01:09:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02Re:eh? - 06US Nuke Plant to be Closed; Another Poised to Follow - 1065 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:22] <exec> 08└─Exactly, look at Obama and Soylndra, no different than Cheney and big oil. In fact if you look at who was on the boards of the companies that got in excess of 100 million? You find these "green companies" are filled with the top 20 donors to Obama's campaign. Just another case of "meet the new boss,...
[01:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:eh? - 06US Nuke Plant to be Closed; Another Poised to Follow - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:32] <exec> 08└─Real sustainability is in feeding the waste into breeder reactors for further fuel. Also, if Chernobyl is any indication it is far from forever that we have to wait so don't worry toooo much about radioactive problems. One big issue with solving the problems is that they are not usually financially...
[01:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you've got docker - 06Text-to-Speech Tool for Desktop Linux Reaches Beta Status - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:01] <exec> 08└─After the web server is up, any four year old can use the web app. Snippy much?
[01:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you've got docker - 06Text-to-Speech Tool for Desktop Linux Reaches Beta Status - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:01] <exec> 08└─After the web server is up, any four year old can use the web app. Snippy much?
[01:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Computer Language magazine - 06Forgotten Language: Jorf Could Have Been Python (or Ruby) - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there's a few magazines that were pretty interesting back in the day: Byte Dr. Dobbs Journal C++ Report (1990s) I'm leaving out the Sunday newspaper-sized ones that were mostly ads.
[01:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:syntax, so trivial, yet so important - 06Forgotten Language: Jorf Could Have Been Python (or Ruby) - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:51] <exec> 08└─I agree that C's switch statement is poor syntax. It's one of the gotchas that the execution path continues into the next case statement if there is no break statement. Ranks up near the newbie gotcha of using = when == was meant, and not getting any compiler error about the mistake because it is va...
[01:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:syntax, so trivial, yet so important - 06Forgotten Language: Jorf Could Have Been Python (or Ruby) - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:55] <exec> 08└─At the time of Pascal, languages where not 'marketed'. There was no reason for it. The inventor btw. is Nicolaus Wirth. He invented more languages like, Modula, Modula II, Modula 3 and Oberon. Researchers usually don't feel the need to 'market' languages.
[01:10:55] <exec> 08└─At the time of Pascal, languages where not 'marketed'. There was no reason for it. The inventor btw. is Nicolaus Wirth. He invented more languages like, Modula, Modula II, Modula 3 and Oberon. Researchers usually don't feel the need to 'market' languages.
[01:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03angelosphere [5088] (Score:1) 02Re:syntax, so trivial, yet so important - 06Forgotten Language: Jorf Could Have Been Python (or Ruby) - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:01] <exec> 08└─Erm ... And that is the reason why I can mot cope with Lisp. Everything in ( and ) makes it incomprehensible to me. Everything a kind of list or graph makes it in-programmable for me. Even the simplest problems cause me to do some brain acrobatics to formulate it in Lisp, if I'm at all able to do it...
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[01:11:20] <exec> 08└─This submission smacks strongly of someone with a glass-completely-empty attitude in a world half-full/half-empty glasses. It also smacks of someone who mistakenly believes they're much smarter than everyone else and can't see why anyone else might want something they can't perceive a need for. I pe...
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[01:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:I have an anti-drone gun - 06Anti Drone Rifle Developed - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:11] <exec> 08└─It's not a toy, it's a weapon... If it's in range, it's going down. It's that simple.
[01:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score:2) 02Re:I have an anti-drone gun - 06Anti Drone Rifle Developed - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:12] <exec> 08└─So just what is your position? All drones have free reign and can fly anywhere? I doubt that, but you seem to be saying that. I'm not an attorney and I doubt you are, either, but I'm sure the law would be on my side if I downed an unidentified drone flying in my yard and I wasn't violating any laws...
[01:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:I have an anti-drone gun - 06Anti Drone Rifle Developed - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:13] <exec> 08└─I doubt that, but you seem to be saying that.
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[01:12:15] <exec> 08└─My original comment was partially tongue-in-cheek, but yes, I will shoot down any unidentified drone in my yard, "statutorily" or whatever, and I'll do it in a safe, responsible manner. I don't speak for all gun owners, so I can't say all of them will be as safe and responsible as me. I doubt drones...
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[02:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:YES - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:20] <exec> 08└─Other interesting reading: Resuscitation: a Speculative Scenario for Recovery [alcor.org] Dear Dr. Bedford [alcor.org] (reading anything about Dr. Bedford is pretty interesting Memorial service for "Carl Harper" [alcor.org] (scroll down to get to it, or read the whole story) Mike Darwin's blog [chr...
[02:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:YES - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:21] <exec> 08└─Medical Time Travel [alcor.org] He's Dead, Jim :)
[02:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:YES - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:22] <exec> 08└─James Halperin's novel The Truth Machine takes place in the same story universe and is also pretty interesting, although it doesn't touch on Cryonics very much. Both novels are available freely online.
[02:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02It's a real industry - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:24] <exec> 08└─Around 2003, I was out of work and looking for a job - and a cryonics company in South Florida was hiring. I investigated, quickly decided it was nothing I wanted to get into, but I did find it to be a compelling story. Cryonics is a "real industry" with competitors, advancing technologies, politics...
[02:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:LOL OpenBSD - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the audit revealed a vulnerability, which was fixed. Looks like it all worked out. BTW, LibreSSL exists as a result of audited OpenSSL code.
[02:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:1) 02Re:LOL OpenBSD - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:35] <exec> 08└─The vulnerability was not exploitable, using existing code path as the stack Canary was always smashed before any exploitation could occur. It is still a vulnerability as that function could be called elsewhere in an exploitable context at some point in the future.
[02:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LOL OpenBSD - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:36] <exec> 08└─Sorry about that moderation error
[02:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop calling this crap research - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah wow this is complete garbage. Computer modeling is not perfect. No one says it is. But computer modeling is incredibly valuable. Hurricane prediction is vastly better, epidemics can be better dealt with, and machines of all kinds are optimized and improved like living things. Is it possible onl...
[02:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Future headlines. - 06Site Server Reboot Schedule - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:49] <exec> 08└─Physicists hurry to name elements, as soylent's server load increases. After experiencing phenomenal growth for the past several years, and now reaching a few hundred million unique visitors daily, soylentnews' server farm has expanded from 9 / 114 named elements, to 113 / 114 named elements. Physic...
[02:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Good News - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:06:13] <exec> 08└─That's not what he (or at least most people) was referring to. Currently, even desktops and laptops without closed BIOS, etc, are few and far between.
[02:06:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:06:23] <exec> 08└─DOS was an "operating system" - the "disk operating system" to be precise.
[02:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The theory of glueballs - 06Long-Sought-After 'Glueball' Particle May Have Been Discovered - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:03] <exec> 08└─Well, it's a bit more evidence in favour of the Standard Model if it does pan out. The theory has it that glueballs should have been detectable at the particle accelerator energies that have been available for some time, but no one has ever yet unequivocally seen them. It's one of the most important...
[02:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Re:Delusion - 06Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of The Rich - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:44] <exec> 08└─You are redefining greed that boarders on doublespeak. Doing something to save money is not greed in its own right, it can be the management of limited resources. Not tipping a waiter could just be driven on not rewarding bad service, not a reflection of greed. It is hard to give credence to your pe...
[02:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:eh? - 06US Nuke Plant to be Closed; Another Poised to Follow - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:34] <exec> 08└─Solyndra was one of many companies funded by the same program. That program in its entirety had the highest return on investment of any program of government handouts to business. The entire reason for the program in the first place was that the 'free market' was not getting the job done because the...
[02:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Magneto has a new ability - 06Hacking the Mind - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:42] <exec> 08└─Mind control. I think the X-men are really in trouble now.
[02:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Awful submission - 06AT&T to Promote Numbersync, Will Allow Same Number on Many Devices - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:35] <exec> 08└─The article you linked to states that the feature won't cost anything beyond the $10 fee that is already required to add a tablet to a mobile data share plan with AT&T
[02:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:My brainwaves? - 06 Hackers Can Steal Your Brain Waves - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:00] <exec> 08└─and cleaner....
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[03:03:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02Television Documentary - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:25] <exec> 08└─I've seen a documentary about this very subject on TV. It seemed to have it's plusses and minuses. On the minus side the robots were violent and drunk, but there seemed to be the possibility of romance with purple-haired, one-eyed maidens.
[03:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02emergency services - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:33] <exec> 08└─In-the-field cryonics is already useful for preventing brain damage for those with injuries. Moonshot life extension for the rich is just an added bonus for the industry. https://www.newscientist.com [newscientist.com]
[03:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:More of the same - 06Spreading Life Throughout the Universe - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:18] <exec> 08└─takyon, bro. i refuse to let you ruin another project because we already know what will happen if we build another environmental containment lab. it will be just like the Titan project. first we build the lab, then you bust open the containment door and start jerkin' it while yelling "PAAANSPEEEERRR...
[03:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02USAian euphamisms - 06Nexuses and You - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:46] <exec> 08└─Now I wonder if you recognize the saying "Watching the submarine races". [urbandictionary.com] -- gewg_
[03:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Submission declined - 06Nexuses and You - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:04] <exec> 08└─What about a submission declined nexus?
[03:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Submission declined - 06Nexuses and You - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:06] <exec> 08└─i like this idea. it might turn into /b/ tho, so i suspect you wouldnt be able to put absolutely everything declined in there. but still, worth trying.
[03:05:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] 02Re:If it's true.... - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:16] <exec> 08└─but-but-but the Profits! We NEED the oil profits!
[03:08:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Delusion - 06Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of The Rich - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:52] <exec> 08└─Getting rid of your "rich" returns you to normal, and makes someone else very happy. Getting rid of your hands, cars or children is quite a logistical nightmare. Not a great analogy
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[04:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Insightful) 02super? - 06Significant Advance in Stabilizing Perovskite Solar Cells - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:24] <exec> 08└─The difference was dramatic. The metal oxide cells lasted 60 days in open-air storage at room temperature, retaining 90 percent of their original solar conversion efficiency.
[04:03:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdavidb [5690] 02YES - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 1276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:33] <exec> 08└─I already am a walking anachronism. I play emulated 8 bit games, watch 80s, 60s, 40s, and 30s cartoons with my kids, and my phone has real buttons and can't run apps. I would enjoy being given another hundred years of life, yes. I would enjoy meeting my grandchildren's grandchildren. I would enjoy c...
[04:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Depends - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:40] <exec> 08└─My enjoyment would be directly proportional to the success of my pre-preservation investments.
[04:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Searing look at being an anachronism - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:43] <exec> 08└─Spider Robinson wrote a story with no science fiction in it called "The Time Traveler", about someone who was caught in a Central American coup and held in custody without newspapers for ten years. He found himself with no place to go and nothing to do. It was, you see, the decade from 1963 to 1973....
[04:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02liberty? - 06Nexuses and You - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:16] <exec> 08└─games, meta and breaking news are fairly clear, but what would liberty cover? my concern is that it coule be too broad to be meaningful unless you have a specific narrow definition in mind?
[04:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Iceage - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:40] <exec> 08└─That's still possible, yes, but it could just keep getting warmer. Either way, the world is going to change, and our current human civilisation as a whole is ill-suited for dealing with that.
[04:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02dude! - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:46] <exec> 08└─i read this really great .sig somewhere.... "You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into." ;)
[04:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:questions - 06A MARC in the Silicon: Sequencing E. coli with the MinION - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:49] <exec> 08└─That works as long as you have more than one sequence to play around with
[04:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:questions - 06A MARC in the Silicon: Sequencing E. coli with the MinION - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:50] <exec> 08└─Will Oxford Nanopore Technologies be able to move into a bigger/alternate domain, like transcriptome sequencing?
[04:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social engineering. - 06Target Stores Attacked by Pornographic Pranksters - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:10] <exec> 08└─Because only in 1 out of 100 cases it's really a hacker. In the other 99 cases it really is someone who has forgotten to print his tickets and there's even a chance your name would be blackened in social media, news etc if you refused something so "simple". And what's the impact of most of these hac...
[04:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Delusion - 06Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of The Rich - 4040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:16] <exec> 08└─I don't know, I find the word fits pretty well, with the exception of the inordinate nature of it. (Anyway I advise you not to read on as I tend to blabber on and on, possibly reaching a point where I agree with you at the end). The reason why I define greed in such a way is because some choice may...
[04:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Delusion - 06Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of The Rich - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:18] <exec> 08└─If I were a rich man, I'd rather hang out with hookers than rich snobs. I know she and her friends want my money, but they're fine with not having all of it :). Just like the bartender - if you think he doesn't want your money try not paying for your drinks. Even Jesus seemed more friendly with "sin...
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[07:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Targeted by a nation state? - 06China Hacks on US Continue, Facebook to Warn Users About Potential State-sponsored Attacks - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:01] <exec> 08└─Does that perhaps include being targeted by the United States of America?
[07:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Let me be the first - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:09] <exec> 08└─Let me be the first to offer congratulations to citizens of the Great White North! Hosers! Your long national nightmare is over.
[07:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't vote for Trudeau, but his acceptance speech was nothing short of inspirational. Check it out. [youtu.be] It was about hope, and pride for our country, and about how we can, really, make this better place for everyone. This was vote against fearmongering, and hate, and avarice, and greed, an...
[07:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 1833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:13] <exec> 08└─Anyone is better than politics of the dethroned Harper. Remember the "you are either with us or with pedophiles"? That has stuck with me and why I made sure to vote. http://www.theglobeandmail.com [theglo...
[07:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:15] <exec> 08└─(OK, it was pretty Obamaesque, but I'm still stoked.)
[07:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02John Oliver Explains it All - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:16] <exec> 08└─John Oliver did a 15 minute bit about the 3 candidates in the election just last night. See it here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[07:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:John Oliver Explains it All - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:18] <exec> 08└─Yawn.
[07:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Its not a cloud Its a Meta Cloud - 06Walmart Targets Cloud Lock-In - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:24] <exec> 08└─OneOps, which is based on software gained through its acquisition of the startup of the same name two years and a half years ago. Jeremy King, the chief technology officer of the retail giant’s sprawling engineering division, claimed in an official post that the framework allows for “seamless”...
[07:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction: - 06Diesel Fumes Alter Half the Flower Smells Bees Need - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:35] <exec> 08└─OK, so what the hell is NO4? Huh? Chemistry Biaches?
[07:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not just diesel - 06Diesel Fumes Alter Half the Flower Smells Bees Need - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:36] <exec> 08└─Nitrous oxides can be produced in many ways, including in electric motors. While I believe the researchers on the effects on bees, I don't see any good reason to focus the blame on diesel, other than to score cheap political points.
[07:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:19:40] <exec> 08└─RMS has a point. It may have been hard to see back when Linux was useless without GNU. If you were running Linux, you were also running GNU. But now, the largest Linux distribution is not using GNU, and thus logically you cannot expect people to guess that you are talking about GNU/Linux when you sa...
[07:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"*/Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:42] <exec> 08└─The summary talks specifically about */Linux, which by definition must include both GNU/Linux and Android/Linux. I am pretty sure the 5% figure is way too low.
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[08:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:05] <exec> 08└─Another major democracy rejects hard austerity. It's a shame that the UK will have to suffer for another five years before we get this chance, unless the government collapses after the EU vote.
[08:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Who's leaning on who? - 06L'Espresso says UK Blocked Sweden from Questioning Assange - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:24] <exec> 08└─The UK was the US' lapdog even back in Thatcher days. And "New Labour" was nothing more than Old Conservative. And the Conservatives are what they've always been (except with some of the socially blinkered elements filtered out thanks to UKIP). What I don't understand is how the UK could actually ha...
[08:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:another data point - 06L'Espresso says UK Blocked Sweden from Questioning Assange - 3647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:27] <exec> 08└─For not interviewing a known criminal (in the UK at the very least) at his behest in his hideout? Sorry, but that's not proof of a conspiracy as much as refusing to play games by Assange's rules. My comparison with Assange is really to a prisoner on the roof of a prison. It's like saying that we sho...
[08:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:another data point - 06L'Espresso says UK Blocked Sweden from Questioning Assange - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:28] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the media spin in quite real as well. Nowhere I could see in that correspondence does Paul Close refuse Swedish access to Assange as the story asserts, he just advises against it due to likely (but unspecified) complications, probably due to legal issues. The Ecudorean audthorities howev...
[08:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:LOL OpenBSD - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:13] <exec> 08└─It was likely something inherited from OpenSSL rather than something they introduced. TFA isn't clear on where it came from. I just wish LibreSSL would get more traction outside the BSD community; OpenSSL is a horrid codebase.
[08:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:2010 - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:19:05] <exec> 08└─w3schools should not be used as a measure of anything. Who cares who exactly is visiting w3schools on a grand scheme of things?
[08:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Good News - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:19:11] <exec> 08└─Even of the total number of android users, the percentage is so small it is a rounding error.
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[09:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me be the first - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:09] <exec> 08└─Ditto here. And please let this mean you will torpedo that abhorrent TPPA while you are at it. You will have my eternal gratitude.
[09:15:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gnuman [5013] 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 1833 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:11] <exec> 08└─Anyone is better than politics of the dethroned Harper. Remember the "you are either with us or with pedophiles"? That has stuck with me and why I made sure to vote. http://www.theglobeandmail.com [theglo...
[09:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:John Oliver Explains it All - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:17] <exec> 08└─The uploader has not made this video available in your country. Yeay internet!
[09:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Who's leaning on who? - 06L'Espresso says UK Blocked Sweden from Questioning Assange - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:34] <exec> 08└─Ecuador to Sweden: "Sure"
[09:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:another data point - 06L'Espresso says UK Blocked Sweden from Questioning Assange - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:37] <exec> 08└─There's nothing so special about Assange that a) anyone wants him (probably even the Ecuadorians by now), or b) he should be an exception to normal procedure.
[09:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03basicbasicbasic [411] (Score:2) 02Re:More than just the structure - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:12] <exec> 08└─Actually the brain's "neuroplasticity" is well known - the hippocampus and amygdala increase in size with electroconvulsive therapy and continue to change with more treatment - and this changes the "flow" through them.
[09:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:LOL OpenBSD - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:26] <exec> 08└─I hope that it doesn't. It's a stop gap. There are two horrible things about OpenSSL. One is the implementation. LibreSSL is cleaning this up (though, after a massive reindent / reformat, making it annoying to compare code with OpenSSL). The other, and perhaps the more dangerous, is the API. It does...
[09:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:30] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the alternatives aren't great, especially with interop with other code. (I'm discounting C++, and ObjC as they're directly descended from C)
[09:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:32] <exec> 08└─C coders who insist that all variables need to be declared at the top of the function they're used in are the problem. If they'd have gone straight to using a more local scope for that pointer, the memory would not have leaked, and the buffer overflow would have become impossible. Learning to use sc...
[09:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:liberty? - 06Nexuses and You - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:00] <exec> 08└─How about a nexus for FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS ?
[09:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:19:40] <exec> 08└─Part of an OS is the user interface. Bash and the core gnu tools are a user interface. Almost every linux system ships with them, and therefore their OS is "GNU/Linux". Sure, if you use busybox and dietlibc or similar, you're free of GNU, but otherwise not.
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[10:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02lysozyme protein crystal - 06Quantum Coherent-like State Observed In A Biological Protein For The First Time - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:59] <exec> 08└─What is a crystallized protein?
[10:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me be the first - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:17] <exec> 08└─Totally not going to happen. If Harper was doing his best George Bush impression [including doing his best to make Canadian politics more like the US, an us vs them, if you are against us, you are a terrorist, on and on], Trudeau is clearly a puppet. There are a bunch of very wealthy men that will t...
[10:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:40] <exec> 08└─C coders who insist that all variables need to be declared at the top of the function they're used in are the problem. If they'd have gone straight to using a more local scope for that pointer, the memory would not have leaked, and the buffer overflow would have become impossible. Learning to use sc...
[10:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:41] <exec> 08└─The error is because of where the declaration is done, but in checking you stay inside of the memory area you should when you use the data structure the pointer pointed at.
[10:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Rejected because ... - 06Nexuses and You - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:06] <exec> 08└─Gewg_ - your story regarding the Air France bosses was 9 days old (5 Oct) before you even submitted it. Those who committed the assault have been arrested. A quick search on DDG reveals more than 20 news outlets worldwide covered the story at the time it happened. It's been news, has run its course...
[10:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Submission declined - 06Nexuses and You - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:10] <exec> 08└─yes, good point. i retract :)
[10:19:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Uh? - 06Site Server Reboot Schedule - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:06] <exec> 08└─and nothing bad happened.
[10:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:Future headlines. - 06Site Server Reboot Schedule - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:18] <exec> 08└─Clearly using Unobtanium as temporary replacement isn't working well either!
[10:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 2216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:05] <exec> 08└─My post wasn't very clear. My point was that RMS's ARGUMENT in favor of GNU/Linux is not logically consistent. His argument is that GNU is an important part of GNU/Linux, therefore it should be called GNU/Linux. Linus wrote an angry rebuttal at one point, but I cannot find it at the moment. There ar...
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[11:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02terrahertz radiation damaging DNA - 06Quantum Coherent-like State Observed In A Biological Protein For The First Time - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:57] <exec> 08└─Don't use the TSA bodyscanners! There have been issues known for years. http://www.technologyreview.com [technologyreview.com]
[11:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:21] <exec> 08└─Hahahaha, very funny :) Now for the dick part: there are 23 [wikipedia.org] countries in North America, including always forgotten Greenland. Oh Greenland, so close but yet so far.
[11:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:22] <exec> 08└─Was hoping for Liberal minority so they'd have to cozy up with the NDP to get real things done: except for the fear they might cozy up to the Cons... When the numbers went full into majority, I went to bed.
[11:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:24] <exec> 08└─^ This ^ That was exactly what I was hoping for. I don't like any of the leaders, but Harper the least. Unfortunately now that there's a Liberal majority for the next 4 years I think we'll be just as bad off. Justin voted in favor of bill C-51 which is a bill for increased "cyber security" so I'm pr...
[11:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:John Oliver Explains it All - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:28] <exec> 08└─Yay, VPN!
[11:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Dynasty - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:30] <exec> 08└─Stop encouraging dynasties.
[11:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 0243? - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:32] <exec> 08└─He's 43? He looks 25! Okay, here's hoping he actually does what is right for Canadians! Yeah, I know... What's right?
[11:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:16:47] <exec> 08└─>The mistake in the article was a off-by-one error. Most modern languages makes a program to crash if you are off-by-one. With C you are in a more dangerous situation. Which is readily solved by a custom allocator. A multitude of projects go that route. But in this specific case I agree with the sen...
[11:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Why should we...'' - 06Nexuses and You - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:12] <exec> 08└─France is a place that often blazes the trail. In 1789, they rounded up their idle rich and chopped off their heads. They currently have a 35-hour workweek with no reduction in weekly earnings relative to what they had been earning. Meanwhile, the Volkswagen workers in Tennessee allowed themselves t...
[11:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:00] <exec> 08└─I think you'll find the term is overloaded and used to refer to both the Kernel and the O/S distributions commonly built around that kernel.
[11:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:20] <exec> 08└─So let's call it "Linux/GNU". If all RMS is interested in is maintaining the distinction, then I'm sure he won't insist on first billing. I mean it not being an ego thing in any way for him.
[11:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:22] <exec> 08└─Perhaps to separate it from things such as Android/Linux?
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[12:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02thanks dick heads. - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:55] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when a few fuck it up for the majority.
[12:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only when buying? - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:56] <exec> 08└─So you only need to register it when you buy it? Not when you build it yourself? Well, then the way to get a legal unregistered drone should be clear! ;-)
[12:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02Re:lysozyme protein crystal - 06Quantum Coherent-like State Observed In A Biological Protein For The First Time - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:36] <exec> 08└─http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+a+crystallized+protein%3F [lmgtfy.com]
[12:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Targeted by a nation state? - 06China Hacks on US Continue, Facebook to Warn Users About Potential State-sponsored Attacks - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:46] <exec> 08└─This isn't some one way street where China is the only aggressor. Though i'm sure the US government wants to paint that picture so we forget about their little NSA snafu. I'm pretty sure everyone, and I mean everyone, is hacking everyone else.
[12:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:03] <exec> 08└─The bigger dick part: Only two really matter; one more than the other (hint, hint: USA). The other 21 are 3rd world toilets full of brown people. 20 of them wouldn't make a dent in the world economy if they ALL disappeared. Mexico is lucky enough to provide slave labor the their neighboring US while...
[12:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:06] <exec> 08└─Step one was getting rid of the fascist. Step two is getting the election laws changed so that we can vote for who we want without accidentally re-electing the fascist. Step three is a closer approximation of democracy.
[12:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:43? - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:13] <exec> 08└─Killing C-51 and the TPP, restoring the science sector, re-hiring Parks Canada, NRCan and DFO as well as retaking fisheries management from private corporations and the energy sector and bringing back the long form census would be some pretty good places to start. ... But he's probably just going to...
[12:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:liberty? - 06Nexuses and You - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:03] <exec> 08└─Basically anything that's more political than science/tech-related. With an outer boundary of someone besides the submitter must be likely to find it interesting.
[12:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Iceage - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:28] <exec> 08└─I think the Gulf Stream is a different issue: if you look at the map, you see that New York City is at the same latitude as Naples, Madrid and Thessaloniki (those are vacation destinations if you want to visit somewhere warm). So, they have the same insolation year-round. That means the difference i...
[12:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop calling this crap research - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:35] <exec> 08└─Stop calling this crap research. Computer modelling in any field is not research, it is speculation. And it is worthless speculation.
[12:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop calling this crap research - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:37] <exec> 08└─A computer model is the same thing as a theory. It is just an easier way to see the consequences of some equations. That said, there is zero legitimate reason for this speculative stuff to be in the news. These people are going to end up destroying all public support for science when things work out...
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[13:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:04] <exec> 08└─Clearly there are a few people who are fucking things up by invading a shared common resource (the space above our heads) with their modern, point-and-shoot flyable, remote control helicopters? (Why was the term "drone" needed, we've had a term to describe these devices for decades?) There's a long...
[13:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02NIH - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:05] <exec> 08└─Its a classic NIH example, will they basically add "drone" to existing RC airplane and FAA and AMA insurance rules or will they have to go all "maker" and pretend the past doesn't exist and NIH some crazy new system?
[13:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DIY Multirotors - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:07] <exec> 08└─When this story showed up on slashdot, I started researching drone components to see what the current model du jour was for 250 class multirotors. It seems the best bet for software is cleanflight or betaflight (a fork of cleanflight with reworked equations) running on a naze32 board. These are only...
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[13:15:35] <exec> 08└─At $workplace I enjoy being able to halt DB server #7 with transparent failover, clone it in the NAS and rename the clone to "test DB", upgrade or otherwise F around with the test DB, swap it in for DB#2 in production once I trust the changes, or delete the test DB image and start over, then more or...
[13:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02woot many servers... - 06Ongoing Site Server Reboot Schedule [updated] - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:39] <exec> 08└─I thought you run the site from pentium 3 with an SSD (why not?)... Pending Wed 2015-10-21 0500 UTC sodium Primary Load Balancer Pending Wed 2015-10-21 0500 UTC magnesium Backup Load Balancer What loads are you guys balancing? ps. with 9 servers there is room for many more tr...
[13:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, i think it's time to start writing the Liberals and let them know how their constituents feel, let them know what WE want.
[13:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Wrong guy elected - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:27] <exec> 08└─Wow what a love fest for our northern tier "Hope and Change" good luck with that, look what we got stuck with vs what we were promised. Anyway how about some contrarian balance? I was hoping they'd elect a crazed warmonger who would invade the USA, 1812 style, and torture our formerly northern tier...
[13:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Big, dirty crack hoes: - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if we'd been able to vote for Rob Ford, i'm sure he would have been Prime Minister and then... whoah... look out, you, you Americans... we'd invade you like snot from a kids nose, you bet! You've got lots of that there cocaine stuff down there... man, like snot. You'd have to watch out then, e...
[13:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Opportunity - 06Walmart Targets Cloud Lock-In - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:38] <exec> 08└─But moving assets between clouds is extremely challenging
[13:16:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:another data point - 06L'Espresso says UK Blocked Sweden from Questioning Assange - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:50] <exec> 08└─There's nothing so special about Assange that a) anyone wants him (probably even the Ecuadorians by now), or b) he should be an exception to normal procedure.
[13:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:So many advances - 06Significant Advance in Stabilizing Perovskite Solar Cells - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:03] <exec> 08└─This is the 1984 vs Brave New World fallacy. With robots and renewable power it's far easier and more reliable to balance social welfare to flat line or even reverse population growth. It's been done in Europe, China and Russia even after baby booms using everything from oppression and scarcity to p...
[13:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:YES - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:15] <exec> 08└─Aw, man, I missed the link to He's Dead, Jim [alcor.org]
[13:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:22] <exec> 08└─Best to invest in yourself. Work on increasing your general ability to provide value. Work on being flexible and capable of learning new skills at all times.
[13:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:25] <exec> 08└─It's TNG. Abolishing money was a pipe dream of Roddenbery in the 80's, but apparently not in the 60's.
[13:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 2516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:48] <exec> 08└─This fairly well summarizes why I don't C++ as a good solution: The C++ FQA [yosefk.com]. The language is fundamentally broken and does not prevent these problems in the real world. Plus when using the STL, and smart pointers and such, when something breaks, it can be absolutely close to impossible...
[13:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:53] <exec> 08└─Calculus is also too difficult for humans. Doing all those calculations just to make a rocket go seems wrong. We should all be using paper planes. And live in caves. Then there are other benefits a more modern language could bring than just memory management
[13:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just diesel - 06Diesel Fumes Alter Half the Flower Smells Bees Need - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:10] <exec> 08└─The story is about NOx or mono-nitrogen oxides. They require very high temperatures to form and are a byproduct of combustion. Motors producing NOx? The only possible thing I can think of are brushed DC motors with commutators.
[13:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Good News - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:28] <exec> 08└─Chrome is "added Google stuff", so zero is correct.
[13:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it's just "Linux" - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:50] <exec> 08└─A mess.
[13:20:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02Because Android and DD-WRT are not GNU - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:57] <exec> 08└─Linux is a kernel, and there are several different operating environments that run on top of Linux. These include GNU, Android, and various embedded environments used in network gateway appliances and the like. Among these, only GNU/Linux aims to replicate the functionality of UNIX, and the term is...
[13:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Because Android and DD-WRT are not GNU - 06Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:20:59] <exec> 08└─This is a very short yet descriptive post. I can't believe the amount of brain dead posts above and below that are arguing the clearly defined boundaries between GNU and the Linux kernel.
[13:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't be a dick - 06Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes Of The Rich - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:00] <exec> 08└─I clearly am you complete fucker.
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[14:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Funnier than hell! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:56] <exec> 08└─I got nothing more to add.
[14:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Funnier than hell! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:57] <exec> 08└─"please tell us how you got this info?" "sorry, cuzz; homie don't play dat!" dayum!
[14:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They're 1&1 accounts too. - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:59] <exec> 08└─A few years ago AOL transfered their mail and account services to 1&1. I'm not sure about the technical details but I have 1&1 mail.com accounts that logins to aol.com. And, while it doesn't work nowadays, just a few month ago I could login to my mail using the aol.com webmail interface. BTW my favo...
[14:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:2) 02Back to the Future? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:00] <exec> 08└─This feels like an article from 1996, not a post on BTTF2-Day-Eve.
[14:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BS on the posted emails - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:02] <exec> 08└─There isn't any way you're going to have classified email on an AOL account.
[14:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BS on the posted emails - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:04] <exec> 08└─RTFA: "the spy chief had forwarded them from his work email."
[14:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:BS on the posted emails - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:06] <exec> 08└─He's kin to Hillary Rodham?
[14:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:BS on the posted emails - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:08] <exec> 08└─What a dummy! All emails are limited in attachment size now usually to 25 MBs only. If he wanted to access them at home he should have just dropped the files in his cloud account instead! Like Dropbox, or Google Drive, or Baidu. Then he can access them anywhere, from any device. And they are in the...
[14:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02LOL! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─“I can’t believe he did this to the head of the CIA,’’ the source added. “[The] problem with these older-generation guys is that they don’t know anything about cybersecurity, and as you can see, it can be problematic.”
[14:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03useless [426] (Score:2) 02AOL? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:11] <exec> 08└─Someone should tell the director that security through obscurity never works.
[14:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Quantum mind - 06Quantum Coherent-like State Observed In A Biological Protein For The First Time - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:02] <exec> 08└─Apparently - not knowing anything about this condensate and googling - if this state can be produced internally, then it might support Penrose's theories on human cognition. Just producing it using radiation wouldn't be useful, as we're thinking even when in faraday cages, so this experiment does no...
[14:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:1) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:33] <exec> 08└─Finally I can call Canada the liberal paradise it's supposed to be
[14:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:another data point - 06L'Espresso says UK Blocked Sweden from Questioning Assange - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:05] <exec> 08└─For not interviewing a known criminal (in the UK at the very least) at his behest in his hideout?
[14:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:So many advances - 06Significant Advance in Stabilizing Perovskite Solar Cells - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:19] <exec> 08└─Who fixes their robots when they break? Who corrects the code when they mis-behave? Who will they imagine will fawn over them and constantly tell them they're the greatest thing since sliced bread? I bet you Jamie Dimon doesn't even know how to operate a power drill. Lloyd Blankfein has probably nev...
[14:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:05] <exec> 08└─Thank you for writing a good review about alternative programming languages without stooping to the childish level of ignorant name calling that many "programmers" display. They're just scared their limited skills and inability to learn new languages will finally be exposed.
[14:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:10] <exec> 08└─C is obviously too hard for humans such that do a "snprintf(buf, buf_len, ".%s", bndec)". :-)
[14:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:13] <exec> 08└─I like how he thinks that 'a modern language' will somehow magically solve all problems. You're not going to get rid of complexity; you can only 'abstract it away', i.e. move it somewhere else [imgur.com]. You're not going to solve anything that way.
[14:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:''Why should we...'' - 06Nexuses and You - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:40] <exec> 08└─Not the source - I don't care about the source very much as long as it is credible. I live in France but I get my news from all around the world. But this was an old story. We in Europe have had better working conditions than, say, the US for many decades but I don't think that justifies a specific...
[14:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If it's true.... - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:02] <exec> 08└─Throwing the used cans and bottles (filled with used condoms) at the homeless is much more entertaining and just as environmentally friendly.
[14:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If it's true.... - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:03] <exec> 08└─Throwing the used cans and bottles (filled with used condoms) at the homeless is much more entertaining and just as environmentally friendly.
[14:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:If it's true.... - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:04] <exec> 08└─Okay: Thousands of solar powered ice makers in the arctic to replenish the lost ice. Coming up with a solution ... that counts as doing something right?
[14:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Iceage - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:16] <exec> 08└─or if the Clathrate Gun Hypothesis caused some of the famous mass extinctions (let's pray that that isn't true).
[14:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Iceage - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:17] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, the Gulf Stream didn't pass Antarctica.
[14:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Enough with the human-induced apocalypse articl - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:32] <exec> 08└─Also, way too many graphene articles.
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[15:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02neat - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─Neat material. What happens after you used it up though? Store it? Break it down and get the mercury and orig materials out of it?
[15:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:neat - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:59] <exec> 08└─Nah, you just ingest it. Perfectly safe!
[15:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:neat - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:01] <exec> 08└─Yummy yummy yummy, I got mercury in my tummy . . . https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:neat - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:02] <exec> 08└─Agreed. If you could break this stuff down and recover mercury, you could have a nice little business. Wonder what other materials are like to this for what other heavy metals? Hal Clement had a neat bit in his short story “The Mechanic” which had mankind mining the oceans using genetically engi...
[15:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:neat - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:04] <exec> 08└─> What happens after you used it up though? Store it? From TFA: "After contact with SLP, mercury remains permanently bound and can be stored safely without further environmental risk."
[15:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Funnier than hell! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:14] <exec> 08└─It's all fun and games until you get exported to Gitmo. It's one thing to social engineer the password of a low-level secretary. But to get the personal email of the head of the CIA is just plain stupid. On the parts of both the victim and the perpetrator. Let's just hope it's all just personal stuf...
[15:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Back to the Future? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:17] <exec> 08└─Does Michael J. Fox have a steady boyfriend, or is he still whoring around?
[15:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BS on the posted emails - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:22] <exec> 08└─Again, unless you're talking about FOUO, or perhaps similar to HRC, something that wasn't classified at the time, he can't forward classified email to an AOL account.
[15:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:AOL? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe he thought if he uses dial-up the security apparatus would have to retain a wiretap order to spy on him.
[15:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:AOL? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:27] <exec> 08└─Especially when the security is obscure to the person trying to use it.
[15:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02false flag - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:29] <exec> 08└─I call false flag. It is too surreal to be, well for real.
[15:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:thanks dick heads. - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:36] <exec> 08└─A few regulators, that is. The solution here is not to expect a large group of people to not have idiots, but rather to fix the regulations so that they aren't onerous.
[15:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:40] <exec> 08└─Clearly there are a few people who are fucking things up by invading a shared common resource (the space above our heads) with their modern, point-and-shoot flyable, remote control helicopters? (Why was the term "drone" needed, we've had a term to describe these devices for decades?)
[15:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh? - 06Ongoing Site Server Reboot Schedule [updated] - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:03] <exec> 08└─Candlejac^hj%$#@+++NO CARRIER
[15:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:woot many servers... - 06Ongoing Site Server Reboot Schedule [updated] - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:15] <exec> 08└─We appreciate your thoughtfulness!
[15:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Quantum mind - 06Quantum Coherent-like State Observed In A Biological Protein For The First Time - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:27] <exec> 08└─Penrose's theories on human cognition.
[15:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:51] <exec> 08└─Another major democracy rejects hard austerity. It's a shame that the UK will have to suffer for another five years before we get this chance, unless the government collapses after the EU vote. I blame the centrists and the left. They wanted to punish the lib dems for being a small part of the last...
[15:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:55] <exec> 08└─Well in the last 20 years, the Liberals balanced the budget 8 times and the Conservatives perhaps twice, depending on this year where the budget is projected to be balanced. The Conservatives also ran the largest deficit in the history of Canada while chanting "we're conservative, we know how to be...
[15:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:John Oliver Explains it All - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:05] <exec> 08└─That would have been a more useful post if you had named the country. You could have posted AC if you didn't want to disclose what country you are in.
[15:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:43? - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:10] <exec> 08└─And opening the southern border for USians fleeing hard economic times :)
[15:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Voter turn-out - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:13] <exec> 08└─National stats: 68% of those eligible to do so cast their vote.
[15:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Its not a cloud Its a Meta Cloud - 06Walmart Targets Cloud Lock-In - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:23] <exec> 08└─It's t̶u̶r̶t̶l̶e̶s̶̶ abstractions all the way down!
[15:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:another data point - 06L'Espresso says UK Blocked Sweden from Questioning Assange - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:37] <exec> 08└─Shill for a shilling? Shill for a pound? How much do they pay you to shill, Ledow. I see people address you with the facts every day, and you ignore them.
[15:18:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02chemical name is incorrect - 06Diesel Fumes Alter Half the Flower Smells Bees Need - 535 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:58] <exec> 08└─Nitrous Oxide is N20; laughing gas. Used by dentists and demanded by patients. NOx is various NO compounds -- like nitrogen oxide and nitrogen dioxide. Nitrogen dioxide is probably what is affecting them based on previous studies. If it's not the nanoparticle sized pollutants screwing them along wit...
[15:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02Re:For thousands of years... - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:53] <exec> 08└─People, _one_ thousand of years ago, the pinnacle of our technology was a windmill. _Three_ thousand years ago, not even that. Stop assuming that humanity will stagnate "for thousands of years"
[15:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Compare to the NEO threat - 06Two Degree Celsius Warming Locks In Sea Level Rise for Thousands of Years - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:06] <exec> 08└─"Great care must then be taken to verify any Earth collision predictions that are made." http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] I think climate researchers should look to the NASA NEO program as role models. Astronomy has a history of correct predictions, so people trust them. Astronomer...
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[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:neat - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as permanent in chemistry. If its a polymer, UV in sunlight will break it down. If its a hydrocarbon, it probably burns pretty well. Eventually the mercury is coming back out, and in high concentration. May as well do it intentionally at a refinery to recycle the Hg.
[16:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Funnier than hell! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:11] <exec> 08└─Never ... Ever ... Make the boss look foolish.
[16:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Funnier than hell! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:12] <exec> 08└─A little too funny, if you ask me. John Brenner probably doesn't know a damn thing about network security, but he has employees who do. Is it really possible that nobody told him: "don't use your AOL account for sensitive documents"? Or that they did tell him, and he did it anyway?
[16:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Applause - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:22] <exec> 08└─If he really has revealed yet more mishandling of classified information, then I applaud him for having the guts to do this. Nonetheless, we can be assured that no penalty will be paid by the person who actually may have sent classified information to his private email account (just as Hillary has n...
[16:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:AOL? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:26] <exec> 08└─More importantly, someone should inform the idiots cheering the TLAs that we can't afford these types collecting our private information. They've proven time and again that even if they were benevolent—and they aren't—they just can't be trusted to keep it from (other) criminals. (Nowhere near as...
[16:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:false flag - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:28] <exec> 08└─So CIA is trying to win sympathy in their war on teen angst? [psychologytoday.com]
[16:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:false flag - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:30] <exec> 08└─Everything is a false flag, even the moon landing which was actually done by Russia.
[16:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:thanks dick heads. - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─No, it's not the regulators that are the problem here. It's the folks that failed to act responsibly. Right now it isn't yet a huge problem, but waiting as these things get less expensive, more powerful and more common before acting is foolish. It's already going to be hard enough to set up the rule...
[16:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:45] <exec> 08└─The answer to your question is obvious. Your label, "point-and-shoot flyable, remote control helicopter" has 48 characters while "drone" has 5.
[16:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Drone-nuts will counter! - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:46] <exec> 08└─"I'll just buy a regular legal RC helicopter, mount a camera the old way, and go legally hover over people's bathroom windows until they make everything illegal"
[16:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03slash2phar [623] (Score:2) 02Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:49] <exec> 08└─It's hardly even worth pointing out at this stage.
[16:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:50] <exec> 08└─Drones aren't convenient penis extenders for cowards is why. The people you see fighting against regulations on firearms are mostly people using them as penis extenders rather than people with legitimate reasons for owning firearms. People hunting, shooting targets and/or with legitimate need for se...
[16:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Great, more bureaucracy... - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:52] <exec> 08└─A federal license for, basically, a toy. A tool, if you prefer. This is another typical example of "pre-crime" [wikipedia.org] regulation: because someone, somewhere might commit a crime with a drone (you know, like actually injuring someone), we have to have laws and regulations that prohibit the b...
[16:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Let me be the first - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:57] <exec> 08└─"oh, now that we're in power, we found out things that now we can't do any of that stuff."
[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:super? - 06Significant Advance in Stabilizing Perovskite Solar Cells - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─They sound right on the border of being spacecraft qualified. It would be a huge PITA but almost survivable for a spacecraft where the extreme annoyance would be worth the extra couple watts generated. On the other hand, miss a launch window or two due to booster problems or scheduling or WTF and t...
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─There is no door into summer.
[16:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:27] <exec> 08└─I saw it as an in-joke about Hollywood accounting practices.
[16:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Searing look at being an anachronism - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:31] <exec> 08└─One of the good Callahan's Place stories--before the series got weird...
[16:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Target + Security - 06Target Stores Attacked by Pornographic Pranksters - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─Which precious snowflakes? People who graduate from abysmal schools, or people who want no part in that waste of time? With all the absurd zero tolerance standards, puritan rules, and authoritarian policies at schools, I would say it's the students of these places who are treated as special snowflak...
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[17:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:59] <exec> 08└─It seems so. It also appears the Ubuntu Phone teams is woefully understaffed! From the article: The company will push out a bug fix and says it's contacted all 15 users [...] (two of whom were Ubuntu staffers)
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02impressive! - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:00] <exec> 08└─who knew that 15 people actually got a Ubuntu Phone! ;)
[17:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So... - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:01] <exec> 08└─One click installs...still a good idea for a device that is meant to be the one-and-only-convergence-miracle? [Spoiler Alert] NO
[17:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score:1) 02Seems to me... - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:03] <exec> 08└─The hackers are getting wiser and not the other way around. Private-centric malware is usually opportunistic - exploit something that has been pervasiveness through uncovering of unexpected, unknown flaws. On the other hand, professional, corporate and state-sponsored malware is usually pervasive by...
[17:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:neat - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:16] <exec> 08└─> If its a polymer, UV in sunlight will break it down. So don't store it in sunlight, now it is permanent.
[17:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:neat - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting here that there's a lot of mercury already in the crust which we have nothing to do with. The reason it is there rather than in our livers is because while it can't be permanently stored anywhere, it can spend the majority of its lifespan sequestered away from biological organisms....
[17:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02too lazy to RTFA, but... - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:19] <exec> 08└─Why put this on the inner surface of a vessel rather than putting it everywhere on a sponge-like filter? Compare catalytic converters, etc., where you want as much surface interaction with the fluid passing over it as possible. Or if not sponge-like, how about powder-like, like an activated charcoal...
[17:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Funnier than hell! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:34] <exec> 08└─Most likely some big-shot hubris. "No one's going to tell me how to handle my mail - besides, WTF is going to hack MY MAIL? I'm the head of the CIA, no one has balls that big!"
[17:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Back to the Future? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:38] <exec> 08└─He's busy acting in the 8th installment of Star Wars VIII, the return of Yoda.
[17:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BS on the posted emails - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:44] <exec> 08└─+1 correct
[17:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LOL! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:47] <exec> 08└─In a series of phone conversations with The Post, the hacker described himself as an American high school student who is not Muslim and was motivated by opposition to US foreign policy and support for Palestine.
[17:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:false flag - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:56] <exec> 08└─The Russians got lost and landed on uranus. The Vikings already went there and did that anyway. http://img.addfunny.com [addfunny.com] http://previews.123rf.com
[17:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:false flag - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:57] <exec> 08└─What, you're saying they're making the argument "Our director was a moron who had his email pwned by a reasonably smart kid, so clearly we are the best use for more funding"? I'm voting Hanlon's Razor on this - never attribute to malice what can be easily explained by stupidity. It's doubly stupid w...
[17:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For this special occassion... - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:59] <exec> 08└─I had to go back to the 90's for this one. ahref=http://www.ammahls.com/random/roflcopter-etc/roflcopter.gifrel=url2html-11940 [soylentnews.org]http://www.ammahls.com/random/roflcopter-etc/roflcopter.gif >
[17:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:thanks dick heads. - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:10] <exec> 08└─There's always idiots. But we don't always let regulators walk all over us just because there are idiots.
[17:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:15] <exec> 08└─No, because "drone" also means the honking great expensive things the government has which are planes rather than helicopters, and which do not require direct human control to navigate. Therefore lots of extra words are needed to distinguish the two. And clearly you end up with something at least as...
[17:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─No, because "drone" also means the honking great expensive things the government has which are planes rather than helicopters, and which do not require direct human control to navigate. Therefore lots of extra words are needed to distinguish the two. And clearly you end up with something at least as...
[17:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Drone-nuts will counter! - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:19] <exec> 08└─However, the ones with the skills to do that have had the skills to do that for decades and managed to live their lives not doing it, so have no reason to start now. Cameras small enough to be carried by RC copters have existed for well over a decades too, it's not really the camera tech that has ch...
[17:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:23] <exec> 08└─The whole situation is rather ridiculous because the 2nd amendment doesn't even apply to firearms owned by private citizens. It applies to arms in general that are used in conjunction with the national guard.
[17:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great, more bureaucracy... - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:25] <exec> 08└─Why do you point at the "petty bureaucrats"? What empires can they build? They are not law makers, they are the ones who are tasked with carrying out the laws. The reason you need to fill out a form 27B/6 is because of some yet new wrinkle in the law that gets passed down. An onerous Byzantine syste...
[17:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Great, more bureaucracy... - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:27] <exec> 08└─That's the point: they are not lawmakers. But Congress has given their agencies the authority to write regulations, so they do. What empires can they build? You clearly haven't worked for the government. You want your position to be upgraded? Then you need to justify more people and a bigger budget....
[17:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Horse's Mouth - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-anthony-foxx-announces-unmanned-aircraft-registration [transportation.gov] Not sure why you would link to any other site. I’ll be surprised if they don’t force them to use transponders like every other aircraft, since idjit...
[17:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Quantum mind - 06Quantum Coherent-like State Observed In A Biological Protein For The First Time - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:16] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the Penrose-Lucas philosophical handwaving, and yes, this work is does nothing to progress that theory at all. If anything it counters it, as it reinforces the idea that you seem to need to beam energy into the system in order to attain that state, which kind of weakens the presumtion that y...
[17:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:41] <exec> 08└─Regarding the LibDems and reform. AV was still an idiotic sham in my opinion. PR was never offered. It was a similar sham to how the US healthcare reform happened, there was at no point a single payer or NHS type option on the table to vote for or against. Different outcomes that do nothing useful,...
[17:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jez9999 [5922] (Score:1) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─Is there an undubbed version somewhere? The constant voiceover is very irritating, I just wanna hear him speak the original French and English.
[17:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong guy elected - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:04] <exec> 08└─They have sort of invaded with hockey teams and assorted comedians and rock singers. Does that count?
[17:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:06] <exec> 08└─The Door into Summer... I read that for the first time in high school while I was taking a drafting class. I really wanted a Drafting Dan. I read it again around the time I first learned AutoCAD, and was struck by its similarities to and differences from Drafting Dan. I returned to the novel around...
[17:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tempus Fugit - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:17] <exec> 08└─There's more in the mind than the body, this feeling, that sits at the end like a circular line that is drawn at an angle, I see when I'm with you, to navigate waters and finally answer to YES!
[17:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:38] <exec> 08└─Every point that you make is either true of all languages that run on a *NIX system, not true of C++11, or not true for the last decade or so.
[17:21:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Work (40 or more hours of the 168 each week) - 06Nexuses and You - 1635 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:10] <exec> 08└─It's a plot. The intelligentsia, duped by the puppetmasters of global capital, are suppressing the revolutionary potential of the lumpenproletariat by denying them even the exposure of discussion, let alone equal space to air their grievances. Chomsky is the modern counterpart to Marx, who analytica...
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[18:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wear a sweater - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:56] <exec> 08└─So what you're really saying is... Moms were right all along?
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems to me... - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─New platforms are also attractive to hackers because there is a lot of new ground to cover. Getting in on the ground floor can be a lot of fun.
[18:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hold on to logic for just one moment - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:11] <exec> 08└─Proving that the more complex the OS, the easier it is to hack
[18:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:2) 02Re:Hold on to logic for just one moment - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu phone are a niche market.
[18:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold on to logic for just one moment - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:14] <exec> 08└─Android's a language now?
[18:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold on to logic for just one moment - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:16] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter how "complex" the OS is if the users are willing to copy/paste any "sudo" command they find on the internet. That's not a problem with just Ubuntu users either. The Arch Wiki is filled with mis-information and bad configs that people just mindlessly copy and paste commands as root. An...
[18:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Only a matter of time... - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:18] <exec> 08└─App stores are childishly easy to put malware into and an exploit isn't terribly hard to come up with on pretty much any platform these days with agile programming all the rage. It is only a matter of time until somebody invests the effort to worm their way into putting malware into an actual distri...
[18:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:thanks dick heads. - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:22] <exec> 08└─Are you okay with the police using these machines?
[18:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:27] <exec> 08└─Words mean things.
[18:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:31] <exec> 08└─Are you aware that consumer-drones include options for autonomous flight? Set some GPS waypoints and it'll fly the route without any human intervention. Why is something like that not worthy of being called a drone? It certainly isn't a remote control device in the way usually think of them.
[18:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:40] <exec> 08└─Oh, right, this is the argument that the second amendment is that one oddball amendment in the bill of rights that actually grants rights to the government rather than to the people. Keep in mind that the people who wrote and ratified the 2nd amendment had just overthrown their government. It's fair...
[18:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 1892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:41] <exec> 08└─Even though you went way off topic I still have to agree. I love guns, half because I like shooting and half because I respect the extreme engineering feats that go into them. I wouldn't mind carrying one because I like shoulder and concealment holsters (no particular reason, I just like them for th...
[18:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Great, more bureaucracy... - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:45] <exec> 08└─someone, somewhere might commit a crime with a drone (you know, like actually injuring someone) The injuries are already happening. This example being particularly amusing. [theblaze.com]
[18:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:lysozyme protein crystal - 06Quantum Coherent-like State Observed In A Biological Protein For The First Time - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:30] <exec> 08└─It was a stereotypical justification for space manufacturing and space stations and all that probably 30 years ago, on the assumption the tough cases would have less surface contamination in zero-G. Space stations is gonna cure cancer and every other disease known to mankind and ... It never really...
[18:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Targeted by a nation state? - 06China Hacks on US Continue, Facebook to Warn Users About Potential State-sponsored Attacks - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:44] <exec> 08└─To me it seems more like Facebook trying to scare more users into giving them their real phone numbers. From the article: When Facebook sees someone logging on from a different browser or computer, it sends a one-time passcode to their mobile phone that must be entered in order to access the accoun...
[18:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Targeted by a nation state? - 06China Hacks on US Continue, Facebook to Warn Users About Potential State-sponsored Attacks - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:45] <exec> 08└─Does that perhaps include being targeted by the United States of America? No, too much alarm fatigue. [wikipedia.org]
[18:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me be the first - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:59] <exec> 08└─I don't know. Perhaps being in the US has made me overly cynical, but I can *hope* that the change will produce the desired results without expecting it.
[18:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:09] <exec> 08└─depending on this year where the budget is projected to be balanced.
[18:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:16] <exec> 08└─(OK, it was pretty Obamaesque, but I'm still stoked.) You can still be stoked. Obama is an excellent speech-giver.
[18:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:31] <exec> 08└─They'd probably find this [xkcd.com].
[18:20:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02Re:C is too difficult for humans - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 2650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:00] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the alternatives aren't great, especially with interop with other code. (I'm discounting C++, and ObjC as they're directly descended from C). Of the alternatives I've looked at: Go was a good attempt, but I honestly think they dumbed down the language far too much. I'm not super exper...
[18:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:chemical name is incorrect - 06Diesel Fumes Alter Half the Flower Smells Bees Need - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:27] <exec> 08└─I think hyperturtle is right, we're talking here about the higher-valency nitrogen compounds, the stinky brown gas that hurts your nose, which you get when you dissolve a coin in nitric acid. laughing gas is N2O (N valency +1). I think it doesn't easily change into one of the other nitrogen oxides....
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[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Marathons - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─New Years Eve I suddenly realized it was 2015 and watched a BTTF with my wife that night after our family New Years Eve party. The next day I put the whole trilogy on for our kids - they had never seen it and were thrilled. Recently the trilogy showed up on Amazon Prime Instant Video and when the wh...
[19:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Star Wars 7 - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:57] <exec> 08└─" Huge demand for tickets to the first screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has put a strain on cinema websites. "
[19:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Star Wars 7 - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:59] <exec> 08└─For a second there I thought I was on that website with the slanted line and the little dot. Turns out it was just Ethanol-Fueled!
[19:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:3, Interesting) 02What about arid climates? - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:08] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't mention whether there Is a corresponding increase in spread for naturally arid regions. The flu season in AZ (primarily in Jan & Feb.) does seem to correspond with the minimum temperature (and min. dew point), but it's rather dry in terms of relative humidity for 9 months out of...
[19:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:What about arid climates? - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:10] <exec> 08└─Well, anecdotally, I definitely seem to get sick more often ever since I moved to to my current location which is pretty damn dry compared to my old one.
[19:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Weird Al - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:12] <exec> 08└─I may be bias since I actually am a Mechanical Engineering doing HVAC design for buildings for a living - but why is dew point in quotes? Is dew point any harder to grasp for those that are outside the industry than "encryption", "carburetor" or "RFID tag" are for those that don't deal with those it...
[19:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Hose Pipe? Oh, yeah: its from the BBC - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:14] <exec> 08└─Humidity in winter is often maintained indoors via artificial means. Because windows are closed, the air stays warm, and can hold plenty of humidity. In fact if you want to cut your heating bill run a humidifier [detroitnews.com] in your home. 100% humidity in warm air is a lot more actual water con...
[19:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Relative humidity - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:15] <exec> 08└─It was noticed that viruses require certain humidity levels to survive long ago, there were engineering solutions to this public health risk never explored beyond a trickle of papers. People prefer thier mandatory injections I guess.
[19:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Hold on to logic for just one moment - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:30] <exec> 08└─Insightful. And one reason to not like sudo. Root access should require a different password than the main account.
[19:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score:1) 02less complex != more secure - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 4074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:32] <exec> 08└─"The more complex an OS is the easier it is to hack" is an incredibly dumb, ignorant and stupid statement that shows fundamental ignorance of how OSs work and how to best protect the system. In fact, an OS with more complexity is far, far more secure than one that is simplistic. I will explain why....
[19:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:less complex != more secure - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:34] <exec> 08└─tl;dr
[19:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:neat - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe. If you keep it dry or sterile. But I wouldn't put it past some bacterium to decide the stuff was yummy. and release the mercury in an available form. OTOH, if this is a new synthetic (not previously see in nature) then it might take awhile before that happens. The various plastic eaters are j...
[19:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:BS on the posted emails - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:16] <exec> 08└─Well, you should actually say "shouldn't be able to". He's a bureau chief, and may well be able to do things he shouldn't be able to do. OTOH, unless he intentionally took steps to allow it he probably couldn't forward the classified email. Probably. So it's reasonable to suppose that he didn't.
[19:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LOL! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you for that correction. I read that as he was against american support for palestine.
[19:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:2) 02Re:Great, more bureaucracy... - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:06] <exec> 08└─It's about accountability. People are already showing that they'll blithely interfere with firefighting operations and fly drones over crowded areas, and in many cases, you simply can't determine who's responsible. Requiring registration would make it possible to hold people accountable for their ac...
[19:18:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Let me be the first - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:17] <exec> 08└─Let me be the first to offer congratulations to citizens of the Great White North! Hosers! Your long national nightmare is over.
[19:18:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dry [223] 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:30] <exec> 08└─Well in the last 20 years, the Liberals balanced the budget 8 times and the Conservatives perhaps twice, depending on this year where the budget is projected to be balanced. The Conservatives also ran the largest deficit in the history of Canada while chanting "we're conservative, we know how to be...
[19:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:36] <exec> 08└─Some links: https://www.liberal.ca [liberal.ca] https://www.liberal.ca [liberal.ca] From the second article: “If the Liberal Party of Canada earns the h...
[19:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Region locked video? - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:41] <exec> 08└─I was surprise to get the "The uploader has not made this video available in your country" in Canada of all places. I guess they expect me to use the Crappy flash player on the CTV website.
[19:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LOL OpenBSD - 06Bug-Hunt Turns Up Vulnerability in LibreSSL - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:22] <exec> 08└─If you use libtls instead of libssl from LibreSSL you ditch the openssl API.
[19:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction: - 06Diesel Fumes Alter Half the Flower Smells Bees Need - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, this AC is correct. Nitrous Oxide is an NOx compound. See page 2 of this EPA technical bulletin [epa.gov]
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[20:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Wars 7 - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah back to the future had its moments. Oh wait you're talking about the latest star wars cash in. I admit to being very suspicious that the supply chain is already flooding with star wars christmas toys and "wisely" the movie isn't being released until a week before christmas so even if its a tota...
[20:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:2) 02Back in Time - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:02] <exec> 08└─There's a group in my town throwing an "Enchantment under the Sea" 50's-style dance this week.
[20:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Star Wars VII... - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:04] <exec> 08└─I get to see it a day early. It's nice knowing someone who rents the entire theatre for the night. No lines, screenings the day before release, givaways. Now... Did Luke go to the dark side? Is it going to be better than episodes II and III?
[20:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Wars VII... - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:06] <exec> 08└─Growing up in the 90s, suffering from the U.S. being months ahead of the rest of us with things like trek and SG1, and worst of all in 2005 when Serenity was release in the US 6 weeks ahead of the UK. I have a nice dose of schadenfreude when I see modern release dates. Star Wars: It will be released...
[20:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BTTF IV... - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:07] <exec> 08└─It's going to be announced tomorrow but here's the stolen trailer... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What about arid climates? - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:18] <exec> 08└─but it's rather dry in terms of relative humidity for 9 months out of the year.
[20:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about arid climates? - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:20] <exec> 08└─People are usually interacting with each other inside, not outside when it is cold though.
[20:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:What about arid climates? - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:22] <exec> 08└─maybe germs spread in the winter and take a vacation in the summer.
[20:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Hose Pipe? Oh, yeah: its from the BBC - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:23] <exec> 08└─How exactly does running a humidifier cut your heating bills? Running one causes extra evaporation, and that requires heat energy. Moist air also holds more heat than try air, so it takes more energy to heat up and also loses more heat when you open the door to the outside. Humidity will make your h...
[20:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Hose Pipe? Oh, yeah: its from the BBC - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe read all the way down to the third paragraph in the link I posted? Yeah, I know. What am I thinking.
[20:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score:2) 02It's a dry heat. - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:27] <exec> 08└─Sounds to me like another reason to give radiators, baseboard heaters, heated floors, and such another look. I also recall setting a bowl of water on top of our radiator for a natural humidifier when I was young.
[20:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a dry heat. - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think people did that because they noticed they got fewer colds with water on the radiator. I think They did it because they were getting nose bleeds from dry air.
[20:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dry suspends virus - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:30] <exec> 08└─I suspect the virus lives out its life when wet, but the dry air keeps it in suspended animation. I know there are seeds which can be dried properly and will grow many years later. Left wet they rot and are useless. I know people who use air filters- maybe there's something to that.
[20:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:So... - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:41] <exec> 08└─So how many clicks would have stopped this? Two? Five? 20?
[20:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hold on to logic for just one moment - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:47] <exec> 08└─(original AC here) I understand and I find it very appealing as well (as in I need one for both technical and irrational reasons), but I'm also very much aware that we are a tiny minority, so the niche market qualification applies.
[20:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Back to the Future? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:28] <exec> 08└─Well he's not whoring around or anything IIRC, but I do understand he's still one of the movers and shakers.....
[20:16:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] 02Re:AOL? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe he thought if he uses dial-up the security apparatus would have to retain a wiretap order to spy on him.
[20:17:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:thanks dick heads. - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:00] <exec> 08└─No, it's not the regulators that are the problem here. It's the folks that failed to act responsibly. Right now it isn't yet a huge problem, but waiting as these things get less expensive, more powerful and more common before acting is foolish. It's already going to be hard enough to set up the rule...
[20:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:thanks dick heads. - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:03] <exec> 08└─Chuckle... khollow acts like we have some control over regulators... how very quaint.
[20:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Only when buying? - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:06] <exec> 08└─Same thing goes for some guns I believe. You can buy a mostly finished gun kit with no registration worries whatsoever. As long as you have the tools and metal working skills, you can finish the gun. I seem to recall the ATF being very nervous about the maker community and their ability to finally m...
[20:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Great, more bureaucracy... - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:28] <exec> 08└─Have you filed your federally mandated disaster plan for your rabbit?
[20:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great, more bureaucracy... - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:29] <exec> 08└─> ...basically, a toy. A tool, if you prefer. So just like the gun I keep on my farm.
[20:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Horse's Mouth - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 1893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:31] <exec> 08└─I'll be surprised if they have 5% of the budget required to police people. It's easy to police airplanes, even down to the hobbyist stuff, when the hobby is priced well outside of the reach of your standard non-living slave wage. I sincerely fail to see how they will be able to regulate something wh...
[20:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:The Darkness is Behind Us - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:52] <exec> 08└─This is something they'll have a long time to cry over once the Tories have forced through (which is seemingly what all those new Tory peers in the House of Lords were for) the boundary changes. I do, in part, blame the younger generation for not voting in larger numbers; had they done so, it is ver...
[20:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong guy elected - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:19] <exec> 08└─Quiet you, or they might unleash Celine Dione on us again.
[20:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Voter turn-out - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:21] <exec> 08└─That's nothing, in the US people are often so compelled to vote that they have been known to leave their graves to cast ballots in certain states. Now that's turn out!
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[21:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Wars 7 - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:08] <exec> 08└─Disney seems to do sci-fi pretty well. I have the feeling it'll be more action-packed and tropey than we are all use to (for the originals) but the overall quality will be high. It'll be better than episode one, for sure. If they want a successful reboot (ie, people buy the new SW toys and not the o...
[21:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Star Wars 7 - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:09] <exec> 08└─> I admit to being very suspicious that the supply chain is already flooding with star wars christmas toys I wouldn't. Every star wars movie, except perhaps the first, have been marketing tour de forces. You are probably just old enough to see through it better.
[21:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Wars 7 - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:11] <exec> 08└─The neat thing about elitism is that you can criticize people for liking good movies.
[21:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Wars VII... - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:16] <exec> 08└─Adding insult to injury its already October 21st in Moscow and in the sandbox, as far as I can recall plus or minus daylight savings time etc. Or at least its darn close. So around the time I'm eating dinner on the 16th, the Germans will be watching because it'll be the 17th in Berlin. The relevant...
[21:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Hose Pipe? Oh, yeah: its from the BBC - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─I read the third paragraph, and they make the claim that you will 'feel' warmer, but the link offers no actual data/evidence to how that translates into a significant (or even insignificant) cost saving.
[21:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Hose Pipe? Oh, yeah: its from the BBC - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:35] <exec> 08└─Because. You will be satisfied with 65 degrees, rather than cranking it up to 75. You know, some things don't need links. Some things have been known for hundreds of years before the phrase "citation needed" was coined.
[21:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Hose Pipe? Oh, yeah: its from the BBC - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:37] <exec> 08└─your hands and lips crack
[21:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Hose Pipe? Oh, yeah: its from the BBC - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:38] <exec> 08└─Humidity really does make a big difference for nosebleeds. Now, granted, it mostly affects children who can't keep their fingers out of their nose , but they are definitely more common in the winter than in the summer (and may be related to dry, crusty winter boogers).
[21:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'd just like to point out - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:04] <exec> 08└─>>[The] problem with these older-generation guys is that they don't know anything about cybersecurity It may come as a surprise to younger generations, but this generation of old guys is also the generation that invented much of the technology that underlies computers and the interwebs. This guy did...
[21:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:26] <exec> 08└─Right in the part where it is stated the poster and the professional quoted in the summary can't even agree. Mostly.
[21:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:30] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And that programmed route capability kicks in at about $1500 the last time I checked. Probably less now. You can program them to fly to a certain spot and altitude, hover and take the video or stills, then return when battery gets to a certain level. You don't even have to maintain contact...
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:38] <exec> 08└─You don't get to read the text as convenient and then bitch about other people disagreeing. It is a binding phrase and it wouldn't be in there at all if it weren't. Hence why the national guard gets to have all sorts of weapons that you and I aren't able to own. And no, having wide-spread gun owners...
[21:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:41] <exec> 08└─What about the part about a "well regulated Militia"? How does that fit into your view of the 2nd amendment?
[21:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:43] <exec> 08└─You can spy on people too.
[21:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Great, more bureaucracy... - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:49] <exec> 08└─Requiring registration would make it possible to hold people accountable for their actions,
[21:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:50] <exec> 08└─Amazingly enough, I see an article about that episode today: https://mises.org [mises.org]. I wonder if the author is following along here.
[21:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Why should we...'' - 06Nexuses and You - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:00] <exec> 08└─"Meanwhile" was a bit metaphorical on my part. Those events in Tennessee happened in February 2014. I thought I did have a story on that make it to the front page but, looking now, apparently not. I have commented on that multiple [soylentnews.org] times. [soylentnews.org] In the latter instance, an...
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[22:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Be the change you want to see in the world - 06Tired of Waiting for Feds, New South Wales Mulls Extra Science for High Schoolers - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:15] <exec> 08└─Of course government moves slowly to update STEM in education, and of course bigger governments move slower than smaller ones. And if you don't trust your government not to waste money, fight crazy wars you don't believe in, punish people for crimes you don't think are crimes, etc., why would you ex...
[22:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Senior Science? - 06Tired of Waiting for Feds, New South Wales Mulls Extra Science for High Schoolers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:16] <exec> 08└─Chris Pyne's idea that senior science should be made compulsory.
[22:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Senior Science? - 06Tired of Waiting for Feds, New South Wales Mulls Extra Science for High Schoolers - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:17] <exec> 08└─I presume that at the high school level the students choose courses from a set of compulsory ones required to pass in order to graduate, and a set of electives. It wouldn't surprise me; when I was in high school in Canada science took a back seat. There were no compulsory science courses, you just h...
[22:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Before prop 13 in 1978... - 06Tired of Waiting for Feds, New South Wales Mulls Extra Science for High Schoolers - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:19] <exec> 08└─Our high school offered Electronics, Aeronautics, Chemistry, Biology, Photography, Auto body, Auto mechanics, Physics, Building construction, Metal shop, Wood shop, Crafts, Cooking, Film as literature, etc. All gone but the basics.
[22:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Before prop 13 in 1978... - 06Tired of Waiting for Feds, New South Wales Mulls Extra Science for High Schoolers - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:21] <exec> 08└─And Electronics wasn't taking the guts out of a Radioshack clock and stuffing them into a pencil case. We took blank circuit boards, etched the circuit paths, assembled the components, had to explain how it worked, learned theory and component characteristics, repairs, testing, both A/C and D/C circ...
[22:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Before prop 13 in 1978... - 06Tired of Waiting for Feds, New South Wales Mulls Extra Science for High Schoolers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:22] <exec> 08└─And Electronics wasn't taking the guts out of a Radioshack clock and stuffing them into a pencil case.
[22:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Ethical trial? - 06UK NHS to Treat Diabetes Patients With Stem Cell Injections in Trials - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:29] <exec> 08└─We don't need no stinking ethics committee we're the NHS! Well when things go wrong I guess they can always fall back on "The clinical experience with stromal cells is still in its infancy". Your kidneys are working better, sorry we gave you cancer. I just hope the patients are given excellent infor...
[22:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Ethical trial? - 06UK NHS to Treat Diabetes Patients With Stem Cell Injections in Trials - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:31] <exec> 08└─Oh for fuck's sake. There's always risks in clinical trials. Patients are always informed about the known risks and the possibility of unknown risks. They're always backed with animal trials that suggested low risk of side effects compared to efficacy and literally years of prior review. Might as we...
[22:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Very Courageous Minister - 06UK NHS to Treat Diabetes Patients With Stem Cell Injections in Trials - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:32] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a Yes Minster [youtube.com] episode. The government actually taking a risk rather than foisting it on some private drug company!!?
[22:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Type I or Type II? - 06UK NHS to Treat Diabetes Patients With Stem Cell Injections in Trials - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:34] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't mention it, but are we talking about the entirely preventable Type II diabetes here? Maybe what they should get instead is a dose of responsibility.
[22:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Wars 7 - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:47] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-fueled: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] JUST LET IT IN
[22:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Wars VII... - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:52] <exec> 08└─Here's the new and final trailer, you be the judge: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The guy at 0:50 sounds cheesy to me.
[22:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02"Antique computer" - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:54] <exec> 08└─My favorite prediction in Back to The Future II was the "Antique" Macintosh computer at the antiques store. These days "vintage" computing is actually a thing, and early Macs are one of the popular items. Of course, many people believed from day one the original Mac would be a classic, and Back To T...
[22:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:What about arid climates? - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:08] <exec> 08└─That's interesting. It's the water vapor itself that interacts with the virus? I figured it would need to condense to have any effect. That would make more sense as far as flu data goes. Although, in arid climates, the total water vapor content is closely coupled to air temps, so it would be diffic...
[22:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Re:Weird Al - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:11] <exec> 08└─So there's this I may be bias since I actually am a Mechanical Engineering doing HVAC design...
[22:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Hose Pipe? Oh, yeah: its from the BBC - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 2136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:17] <exec> 08└─I disagree that this is one of those things that doesn't need proof. You made a claim that increasing your humidity will lower your heating bills. I'm countering that the change would be insignificant or even a net increase in heating bills. Some googling brings up this answer that asserts that humi...
[22:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nonsense - 06The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:25] <exec> 08└─When it is cold a couple of things happen. 1. You get the snots, so you touch you face...taking the germs from your hands and smearing them in/around your mucus membranes. 2. Your body is busier generating heat and less able to fight off infections. The viruses don't magically appear with winter and...
[22:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:38] <exec> 08└─there could at least be a 'are you sure?' or a 'enter your sudo password' or something. There is a reason that there isn't one click installs on the desktop versions and that reason is because it is reckless and stupid.
[22:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems to me... - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:41] <exec> 08└─"a shell script that has the ability to elevate its privileges to the root user and extract a tar file that contains images that are flashed when the phone is rebooted into recovery mode”.
[22:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Only a matter of time... - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:50] <exec> 08└─This attack vector (malware in a distro) has been used already. [zdnet.com] Not only in distros but also in commonly used packages, not to mention the Kernel itself [arstechnica.com]. The long expected explanation of the kernel.org never really materialized as far as I can remember.
[22:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:less complex != more secure - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:53] <exec> 08└─It seems you you are passionate about this, but saying that it "is an incredibly dumb, ignorant and stupid statement that shows fundamental ignorance of how OSs work and how to best protect the system." is fucking rude as fuck. Yes, ignorant perhaps, but dumb and stupid? Fuck off.
[22:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:less complex != more secure - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:55] <exec> 08└─less complex != more secure True, perhaps. However, less complex is definitely easier to secure.
[22:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Meh - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:57] <exec> 08└─Not really newsworthy. So you install and run a program that does something malicious, and you're surprised that it does something malicious? Heck, most "legitimate" apps are also malware: they track you and send private data to their masters.
[22:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Re:too lazy to RTFA, but... - 06Colour-Change Polymer Offers Sustainable Solution to Mercury Contamination - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:12] <exec> 08└─I would guess, for the purpose of the experiment, that the surface area of the given container could be obtained with much greater precision.
[22:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BS on the posted emails - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:40] <exec> 08└─He did, however, have his entire 42-page SF86 form in that account - it is the document used to apply for a security clearance and thus contains tons of background information on him.
[22:49:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03useless [426] 02AOL? - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:45] <exec> 08└─Someone should tell the director that security through obscurity never works.
[22:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:false flag - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:54] <exec> 08└─>It is too surreal to be, well for real. Welcome to reality, enjoy your stay.
[22:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:thanks dick heads. - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:12] <exec> 08└─And frojack acts like we don't have some control over regulators... though I would consider that more foolish than quaint.
[22:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:25] <exec> 08└─And that programmed route capability kicks in at about $1500 the last time I checked. Probably less now. You can program them to fly to a certain spot and altitude, hover and take the video or stills, then return when battery gets to a certain level. You don't even have to maintain contact with them...
[22:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:invevitable, but maybe there's a compromise - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:28] <exec> 08└─Old-schoolers flew their traditional remote-controlled mini-airplanes and copters at large parks, in the boonies, or miniature landing-strips put there for that purpose. Cameras on that equipment were also lot more rare back in the day. And most importantly, the old-skool operators had manners and a...
[22:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:36] <exec> 08└─You don't get to read the text as convenient and then bitch about other people disagreeing. It is a binding phrase and it wouldn't be in there at all if it weren't. Hence why the national guard gets to have all sorts of weapons that you and I aren't able to own.
[22:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:37] <exec> 08└─As an on-topic aside, I believe unarmed remote control vehicles (and perhaps some of the armed versions too!) would be one of the arms protected by the Second Amendment as it gets incorporated into infantry warfare doctrine in the US. How is an impromptu militia going to use a battlefield unmanned a...
[22:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:39] <exec> 08└─You don't get to read the text as convenient and then bitch about other people disagreeing. It is a binding phrase and it wouldn't be in there at all if it weren't. . . And BTW, the 2nd amendment was never ratified. The text that was ratified was not the same as the text that passed the Senate and a...
[22:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:43] <exec> 08└─That is non-binding. It is a justification for why the Second Amendment exists.
[22:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Drones but not guns - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:46] <exec> 08└─Seriously, just read that first phrase A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State
[22:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02ADS-B transponders.. - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:56] <exec> 08└─Federally mandated transponders will then be like this: https://buy.garmin.com [garmin.com] Drones will have to be 2kg plus, just to carry the transponder. Then"hobbyist" flyers will likely go back to "ordinary" looking rc planes (better flight time as a trade off to lack of ho...
[22:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Based on timing - 06Ongoing Site Server Reboot Schedule [updated] - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:07] <exec> 08└─Reboot magnesium, verify it, do the failover (reversing their roles), let the DNS propagate, and then reboot sodium (now the secondary)?
[22:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Based on timing - 06Ongoing Site Server Reboot Schedule [updated] - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:08] <exec> 08└─Would work great if they weren't both going down at the same time.
[22:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Region locked video? - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:34] <exec> 08└─Apparently most of Global News's videos are not geo-locked. Subset of a longer clip: Global News 2015 Federal Election Live Results (5:07:00) [youtube.com]
[22:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends - 06The Science Surrounding Cryonics - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:03] <exec> 08└─Of course such an article is not surprizing, seeing how it comes from misers.org! Darn Vienna Circle Libertarians always dissing the Star Trek!
[22:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Spontaneity of life? - 06Spreading Life Throughout the Universe - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:21] <exec> 08└─I have a hard time understanding why people cling so tightly to the panspermia hypothesis. To me it is much more exciting to have life spontaneously arise when a few pre-conditions are met. Experiments have successfully shown that proteins can spontaneously form, that the formation of cell walls occ...
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[23:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Good start - 06Let’S Encrypt Authority X1 and Let’S Encrypt Authority X2 Receive Cross-Signatures - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:57] <exec> 08└─From TFA: You can see an example of a server using a Let’s Encrypt certificate under a new cross-signed intermediate here. [letsencrypt.org]
[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Good start - 06Let’S Encrypt Authority X1 and Let’S Encrypt Authority X2 Receive Cross-Signatures - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:58] <exec> 08└─What browser are you using? It looks fine for me on the latest Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
[23:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kramulous [255] (Score:1) 02Re:Senior Science? - 06Tired of Waiting for Feds, New South Wales Mulls Extra Science for High Schoolers - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:09] <exec> 08└─Being compulsory could backfire. One of the good things about taking sciences at high school are that the class sizes are relatively small. The people in the room generally are a little brighter and, more importantly, want to know the material. If you introduce the general population, the level of s...
[23:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pixeldyne [2637] (Score:2) 02Wrong way - 06Tired of Waiting for Feds, New South Wales Mulls Extra Science for High Schoolers - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:13] <exec> 08└─If the 'senior science' is anything like in Western Australia, might as well just give up now because it's a useless time filler. Instead make physics compulsory. Kids don't have problems with physics, they have problems with bad physics teachers.
[23:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Marathons - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:33] <exec> 08└─Although in the movie it was supposed to be based on their fictional "hover" technology, that news camera that floats down and takes a picture after Griff crashes in to the courthouse... well, today we would call that a "drone". Oh, and news where the content changes happens all the time now, althou...
[23:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Marathons - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, and news where the content changes happens all the time now, although not due to time travelers mucking with timelines.
[23:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Wars 7 - 06Films - "Back to the Future" Day - 21 Oct, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" - 1607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know if I'd worry about the merchandising. Allow Yogurt to explain. [youtube.com] They're just being a good little corporation and milking consumers for all they've got. Let's hope J.J. knows better than to include Jar-Jars or even the cringe-worthy Trade Federation. I might give Ewoks a pas...
[23:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The missing metrics - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:38] <exec> 08└─The numbers I would like to see (and which never seem to be included with the hand-waving articles) are 1) How much time elapsed between the release of the software and the time the flaw was reported to the developers? 2) How much time was there between the devs being notified and when the patch was...
[23:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Complexity == more verification needed - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:51] <exec> 08└─As MICROS~1 has demonstrated repeatedly with its ridiculous time-to-patch performance, [google.com] the more complex the interactions of your code, the longer it takes to check that fixing 1 thing doesn't break 20 other things. In contrast, having code that does 1 thing, does it well, and interacts...
[23:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Not just phones are affected - 06Malware App Infects Ubuntu Phone - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:53] <exec> 08└─You can install Ubuntu on a lot of tablets [pcadvisor.co.uk]. I've installed it on my Asus Nexus 7" and it works pretty well. Note the 1st sentence from the link states: Ubuntu Touch is a mobile operating system which is currently in beta.
[23:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Funnier than hell! - 06CIA Director's AOL Account Allegedly Pwned - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:27] <exec> 08└─As you can see from the case of Keith Alexander, there are different rules for officials who are sufficiently high up, so there's absolutely no surprise that he was doing this.
[23:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:2) 02Congress shall pass no ex post facto law - 06All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:55] <exec> 08└─Okay, they can maybe force registration going forward, but existing drones should be grandfathered to be free and clear of such obnoxious, overbearing rule making.
[23:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Based on timing - 06Ongoing Site Server Reboot Schedule [updated] - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:10] <exec> 08└─Same physical server?
[23:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score:2) 02Re:Voter turn-out - 06Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:50] <exec> 08└─That's preliminary, not counting the people who registered on election day. I worked as a poll clerk yesterday and just over 10% of our voters were same-day registrations. If this is at all representative of the nation as a whole, expect that number to rise a fair bit.
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