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[00:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Prone to addiction? - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:45] <exec> 08└─No. Prone to addiction. Addiction is mostly about filling a hole in your life. Loss, hopelessness, shame, etc. People who are fairly well adjusted generally don't become addicts. The famous rat in a cage experiment that "showed" that rats will OD on cocaine rather than drink water turned out to be a...
[00:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:end the war against effective drugs - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:52] <exec> 08└─how in the world is the use of drugs in any way natural?
[00:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:that didn't take much effort - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:54] <exec> 08└─You appear to be posting while on drugs right now.
[00:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Don't drink. - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:56] <exec> 08└─I smoke like a chimney, but I don't drink. At all. I don't like the effects of alcohol and I don't like the idea of becoming impaired. My personal theory is that those who both smoke and drink are just kinda hardasses who don't give a fuck.
[00:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Useless statistics - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:58] <exec> 08└─So how many percent of US adults who are not dependent on alcohol are dependent on nicotine? Without that information, the given figure is completely meaningless.
[00:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Reasons - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:06] <exec> 08└─It seems to me some of these efforts have been aimed at basically silly objectives. They seem to have fairly unlimited budgets for this kind of stuff, and may be counting a a mountain of sales down the road for robotic personal assistants. Riding a motorcycle might allow robotic shopping trips, or m...
[00:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Reasons - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:08] <exec> 08└─It is Toyota after all.
[00:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reasons - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:10] <exec> 08└─Something like this, but for a car, could reversibly turn existing, ordinary cars into self-driving ones. However, in some places where self-driving cars are legal, they are only allowed if a human has access to the controls. As far as I know, Toyota and Yamaha are still separate companies. Years ag...
[00:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:1) 02Includes - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:11] <exec> 08└─robot donor parts card.
[00:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] (Score:1) 02Previous work. - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:13] <exec> 08└─Most recent similar work I've seen, was the ghostrider entry to the first darpa race (example: http://archive.darpa.mil [darpa.mil] ), which tended to crash a lot, and never entered the main race. Calling this a humanoid robot, seems a bit of a stretch. Notic...
[00:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:If being scrutinized, go by the book! - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:25] <exec> 08└─Agreed... Anytime someone posts a suppression of a whistle-blower everyone automatically assumes the guy was a saint and the agency was tyrannical. The cited website is not likely all that reliable or balanced. I'd like to see the other side of the story. In fact, it should be incumbent upon submitt...
[00:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If being scrutinized, go by the book! - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:26] <exec> 08└─I never assume someone is a saint. At best I expect them to be flawed like a regular person. Often they are even more flawed than average because well adjusted people generally aren't willing to take the risks that come with going up against authority.
[00:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:First, retain a sense of scale - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:02] <exec> 08└─whatever state tyranny exists, it's obviously dwarfed by the private, free-market, corporate tyrannosaurs that stalk the cloud today. We can see this clearly by imagining
[00:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:2, Funny) 02Agreed, lame on all counts - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:09] <exec> 08└─Lame, TFA never gets to the point. It started out with 2 "axioms", but never created a theory form it. It kind of hinted at democracies, but didn't actually spell out any goals. A bunch of crap history and philosophy references. I hate this sort of talk, it comes off as an arrogant attempt to look l...
[00:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Myrddin Wyllt [5849] (Score:1) 02Re:not nearly enough - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 1619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:25] <exec> 08└─I also began boycotting Sony products after the Rootkit thing, although that probably didn't cost them a lot of business (maybe a lost PS3 sale, and a couple of CDs). The main thing I took away from it was an appreciation of just how bad a company Microsoft were - I had used Windows as my main oper...
[00:17:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Re:not nearly enough - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:26] <exec> 08└─Not good enough. Not even close. See, their fines and costs of replacement/settlement were laughable. From a corporate perspective, they still made money. The lesson wasn't punitive. It was the barest slap on the hand, amounting to "well, let's not get caught next time." It needed to be "these fucke...
[00:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Errm - 06Novena: A Laptop With No Secrets - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:11] <exec> 08└─Please elucidate then. How is this more open than the pi is, hardware wise?
[00:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:also music - 06Modern Art Was CIA 'Weapon' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:33] <exec> 08└─I've been taken seriously yet again! I wonder whether this was the same AC who had posted, two minutes earlier, about Poe's Law.
[00:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Modern art is the communist plot - 06Modern Art Was CIA 'Weapon' - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:51] <exec> 08└─One may read about Wassily Kandinsky, an early abstractionist, and "the difficulties he suffered in revolutionary Russia" in http://www.tate.org.uk [tate.org.uk] . There was a schism between him and the constructivists [wikipedia.org], and he fled the USSR. Another account of...
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[01:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:end the war against effective drugs - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:51] <exec> 08└─I'm sure elephants would too if they had thumbs and fire: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:end the war against effective drugs - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:52] <exec> 08└─how in the world is the use of drugs in any way natural
[01:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Don't drink. - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:57] <exec> 08└─Drinking enhances a lot of things besides cigarette smoking -- music, for example. And conversation. Of course, it doesn't help that cigs themselves are chemically addictive and being an inebriate waste-oid is probably not a good idea.
[01:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Useless statistics - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:00] <exec> 08└─The percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes was 17.8 percent in 2013, a drop from 20.9 percent in 2005, and the lowest rate of smoking since researchers began tracking this figure in 1965, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Adults (ages 18+...
[01:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Missing the obvious... - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:01] <exec> 08└─Because they're both fucking awesome.
[01:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Reasons - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:12] <exec> 08└─As a motorcyclist, there's absolutely no way in hell that I'd trust one of these things to handle the bike for me while I'm on it. I would, however, trust the robot to bring my motorcycle for me and drop it off at home. Motorcycles are a lot more complicated to drive and if you get it a little bit w...
[01:15:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] 02No Exit - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 583 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:43] <exec> 08└─"So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!" Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit What you are describing is simply the inevitabl...
[01:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With Support for 64 Spycams - 06 Seagate Unveils Enlarged Spy Drive With Support for 64 Spycams - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:38] <exec> 08└─I suspect it is not the data throughput that is important, but the number of seeks. I suspect it is another way of saying the drive does 128 IO OPs/s, or had a seek time of about 7ms (rounded down to allow for overhead).
[01:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soon... - 06 Seagate Unveils Enlarged Spy Drive With Support for 64 Spycams - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:39] <exec> 08└─"Seagate Opens Factory in Utah [gov1.info]"
[01:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time lords? I can see it now... - 06Time Lords Set for Three-Week Battle Over Leap Seconds - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:07] <exec> 08└─Just give me a moment here… but whatever you do, DO NOT BLINK!
[01:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Programmers, meet time - 06Time Lords Set for Three-Week Battle Over Leap Seconds - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:15] <exec> 08└─amen Poor code is poor code. WE had M$ screw big time when they code not get 366 days in year, and crashed mahines foe a full day. Anyoner with crashed server for a leap second needs to get a new coding staff.
[01:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:On first glance - 06European Parliament Urges Protection for Edward Snowden - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:54] <exec> 08└─Can you at LEAST wait till Congress actually passes the three-letter agency endorsed CISPA, which is opposed by just about every tech company in the US, before you start blaming the very thing those companies oppose on these corporations? Corporations aren't benefiting via CISPA. Government sharing...
[01:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Yes, I've read it. - 06European Parliament Urges Protection for Edward Snowden - 3557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:55] <exec> 08└─(C) facilitate information sharing, inter- 5 action, and collaboration among and between 6 the Federal Government; State, local, tribal, 7 and territorial governments; and cybersecurity 8 providers and self-protected entities (6) I NFORMATION SHARING RELATIONSHIPS .— 1 Nothing in this section shal...
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[02:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Cool! - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:30] <exec> 08└─Motor-terminators like in T. salvation...
[02:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Scary. - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:32] <exec> 08└─Hopefully those Asians are better at programming a vehicle to drive than driving it themselves.
[02:15:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Streisand - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:39] <exec> 08└─Man -- whoever it is who wants this research suppressed, just found the best way to make sure everyone knows about it. Power never learns, which is good.
[02:15:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zugedneb [4556] 02monsanto - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 264 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:43] <exec> 08└─Over the years I have come across articles, some linked from /. , saying that monsanto employees ended up in bureaucratic positions in the USDA... http://slashdot.org [slashdot.org] also, just google for "usda monsanto", and have a look at the hits...
[02:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is what (editorializing) stupidity looks like - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:48] <exec> 08└─This is what suppression looks like.
[02:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:No Exit - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:05] <exec> 08└─I didn't say that things were equal everywhere.
[02:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:First, retain a sense of scale - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:24] <exec> 08└─No, I got the reading comprehension down. Instead I'm left with the problem that this genuinely doesn't have a thing to do with the current subject. Plus, even if we were speaking of fascism, I wouldn't use anything from a communist politician of the 20th Century. That's seriously damaged goods.
[02:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hypocritical jerks - 06CIA Chief 'Outraged' by Personal Email Hack - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:28] <exec> 08└─and his family's addresses and phone numbers.
[02:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:On first glance - 06European Parliament Urges Protection for Edward Snowden - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:10] <exec> 08└─You quoted from the Gettysburg Address. But I agree that the actions of the NSA revealed by Snowden are illegal and probably unconstitutional as is the US's current treatment of Snowden.
[02:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, I've read it. - 06European Parliament Urges Protection for Edward Snowden - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:18] <exec> 08└─Perfectly Horrible paste job. Nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act shall be construed to provide new or alter any existing authority for an entity to sell personal information of a consumer to another entity for marketing purposes. No new authority to sell information. The existing...
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[03:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:1) 02There's been a few Russia makes trouble articles - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:37] <exec> 08└─... Recently. Does this mean it's time for more U.S.A. vs Russia movies to come out? Firefox with Clint Eastwood was great back in the day, how about a remake? Fly the plane by thought might seem a little dated, maybe if they add a brain implant and some thought controlled drones and missles it coul...
[03:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:end the war against effective drugs - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:10] <exec> 08└─"Andrei Simiæ, the Gaean philosopher, has theorized that primitive man, evolving across millions of years in chronic fear, pain, deprivation and emergency, must have adapted intimately to these excitations. In consequence, civilized men will of necessity require occasional frights and horrors, to s...
[03:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:that didn't take much effort - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:13] <exec> 08└─Here's a translation, because his statement was not at all clear. Among 2016 US presidential candidates, these are their positions on legalization of marijuana: Legalize for recreational as well as medical purposes - Bernie Sanders, Rand Paul, Jim Webb (no longer running), Lincoln Chafee (no longer...
[03:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't drink. - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:17] <exec> 08└─I know lots of people who only smoke when they drink. In fact at least one major dating website has that as an option to describe a person's smoking habits on their profile. My experience is that it is only women who do that, but I haven't bothered to ask any men because I'm not interested in kissi...
[03:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reasons - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:32] <exec> 08└─AI help me manage my traction
[03:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Streisand - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:48] <exec> 08└─We really some sort of severe penalty for any political or executive government interference in anything that benefits the public. Something with fines *and* jail time. How exactly do you propose to do that? It's impossible to prosecute the executive branch or put them in jail. The other branches ha...
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not nearly enough - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:04] <exec> 08└─While you were at Walgreens, I hope you picked up some Preparation H to deal with your butthurt.
[03:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Before there was Slashdot or blogs - 06The Mathematical Surprises of Triangles, Squares, and Pentagons - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:57] <exec> 08└─Before there was a nerd corner of the web, there was Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American, which were collected into a book every few years. So that everyone of a certain turn of mind could learn about and discuss Newcombe's Paradox, the game of Nim (and who should win), the...
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[04:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Overcompensation - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:38] <exec> 08└─You know Putin has got to have a very small penis.
[04:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes, Russia's aggressive moves are a concern - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:40] <exec> 08└─But the bigger picture is that Russia is declining in power, because of its population and economy, and this is projected to continue for decades into the current century. So the US administration and NATO have to be careful that Russia doesn't start another WW I (which was what happened as the Aust...
[04:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck Russians - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:42] <exec> 08└─One of their airliner blew up midair, taking with it all the crew and passengers, more than 200 people. A tragedy, and yet, can't help thinking about them blowing up the Malaysian airliner flying over Ukraine, and the Korean one over the Pacific. Yes, the US shot down Iranian airliner, and we didn't...
[04:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Interesting conclusion - 06Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Life Survives Under a Glacier - 1746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:56] <exec> 08└─There has been much speculation about whether or not life could survive on Mars, Europa, Enceladus, etc. It's clear now from the extreme environments on Earth, all of which harbor life, that the answer is almost certainly yes. Thus the conclusion is that if life can get started in most places, then...
[04:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fmr House Speaker John Boehner responds - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:25] <exec> 08└─What does this have to do with the urgent need to repeal the Affordable Care Act?
[04:15:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Reasons - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 23 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:36] <exec> 08└─It is Toyota after all.
[04:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:You made a story out of that? - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:00] <exec> 08└─forget what, again? ;)
[04:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Errm - 06Novena: A Laptop With No Secrets - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:52] <exec> 08└─Headphones aren't the only thing that may be plugged into a headphone jack. The output could be directed to an amplifier and thence to a bass shaker. Feeling vibrations with one's body can be fun. When watching a sensie flick, the sensation won't truly replicate the tossing about that happens in a m...
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[05:14:46] <exec> 08└─America's leader in the whitehouse has a huge black cock. She's not afraid to use it in her husband either.
[05:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, Russia's aggressive moves are a concern - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:48] <exec> 08└─But the bigger picture is that Russia is declining in power, because of its population and economy, and this is projected to continue for decades into the current century.
[05:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, Russia's aggressive moves are a concern - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:50] <exec> 08└─But the bigger picture is that USA is declining in power, because of its population and economy, and this is projected to continue for decades into the current century.
[05:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Russians - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:53] <exec> 08└─Ignorance is bliss, isn't it.
[05:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:54] <exec> 08└─Even the US Navy guy is saying "this is totally normal nothing to worry about". Why are we writing articles about this "omg look at what Russia is doing, alert alert!" I suppose with trashy blogs and mass media alike, overblowing the situation sells.
[05:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:56] <exec> 08└─And I am not saying that Russia isn't trying to provoke conflict. But if the US Military is saying it is a non issue, it probably is a non issue.
[05:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:58] <exec> 08└─Not quite. The article is saying that it is a non-issue to have aircraft "escort" the other planes, but generally there is an expectation of two way communication which apparently didn't happen. Overall though, the article is saying that this is happening more and more frequently - and THAT is reall...
[05:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:00] <exec> 08└─Sadly, many Americans simply don't have a clue why most of the world is cheering Russia.
[05:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02most important information missing! - 06This Graphene Detector Monitors All Forms of Light — and Is Lightning Fast, Too - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:05] <exec> 08└─does it come in blue? ;)
[05:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Still a Seagate - 06 Seagate Unveils Enlarged Spy Drive With Support for 64 Spycams - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:19] <exec> 08└─From what I understand while WD owns the brand its still using the Hitachi equipment which would explain why the Hitachi drives are so much better. IMHO Samsung and Hitachi were the best 2 brands to own by far and now that there are no more Samsung drives I've switched to Hitachi. As far as Seagate...
[05:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You made a story out of that? - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 3064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:21] <exec> 08└─I'd rather read an article on the anniversary of a huge moment in anti-DRM than yet another article about graphene. Take a look at the multimedia markets, and the state of anti-consumer technology practices (let's call a spade "a spade"): Music: widely available DRM-free via popular, market-leading...
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[06:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Fuck Russians - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:53] <exec> 08└─Y'all niggaz posting in a troll discussion.
[06:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting conclusion - 06Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Life Survives Under a Glacier - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:14] <exec> 08└─Does this imagination mill also produce hydrogen?
[06:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:First, retain a sense of scale - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:56] <exec> 08└─Plus, even if we were speaking of fascism,
[06:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:You made a story out of that? - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:18:22] <exec> 08└─Forget what? That a company bought a shitty third party "solution" without knowing jack and shit about how it worked and later found out it was made of snake oil and fail? I hate to break the news to ya but companies do dumb shit like that all the time, the only ones you hear about are the uber fail...
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[07:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:36] <exec> 08└─tre·ble1 ˈtrebəl/Submit adjective 1. consisting of three parts; threefold. "the fish were caught with large treble hooks dragged through the water" predeterminer 1. three times as much or as many. "the tip was at least treble what she would normally have given" noun 1. a threefold quantity or thi...
[07:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:37] <exec> 08└─I have never heard anyone use "treble" in anything but a musical context before. Why not "triple"?
[07:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02What's the opinion on these things? - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:39] <exec> 08└─The Chinese company Xiaomi, has $15 tracker currently on sale – the Mi Band.
[07:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:07] <exec> 08└─Feel free to enlighten us.
[07:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't drink. - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:48] <exec> 08└─I smoke like a chimney, but I don't drink. At all.
[07:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't drink. - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:50] <exec> 08└─but I haven't bothered to ask any men because I'm not interested in kissing them so I don't care if they taste like an ashtray.
[07:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dosage - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:57] <exec> 08└─all treatments were performed during the last 30 min of the dark (active) period. [...] alcohol (3 g/kg; intragastric) was administered
[07:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First, retain a sense of scale - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:11] <exec> 08└─frojack, I just hope that corporations love you as much as you love them! Remember, they are people, too!
[07:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03malloc_free [3034] (Score:1) 02Re:And most consumers.. - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:58] <exec> 08└─Or someone of Kim Kardasians (can't be bothered to look up the correct spelling for thename) status drops her draws for the public. Keep 'em distracted: here is a huge bubble butt!?!
[07:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Errm - 06Novena: A Laptop With No Secrets - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:19:34] <exec> 08└─Can't even boot a rasp in freedom. https://www.fsf.org [fsf.org]
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[08:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Science as accounting - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:37] <exec> 08└─Science is basically just accounting to find the simplest model (explanation) that matches reality. We hopefully get new models and new observations over time to re-test all candidates. For economics's sake, we spend most testing on the top candidates.
[08:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Feyerabend and Lakatos - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:38] <exec> 08└─Much has been written about this by Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://press.uchicago.edu [uchicago.edu] Personally I suspect much of the confusion over the scientific method is caused by pseud...
[08:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:39] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see the Critical Theorists are attacking the methods of Science directly now. Ignore TFA, it's is more Frankfurt School style critique with no substance or alternatives offered, as is the way of the SJWs they spawned. But! It's an excerpt from the Harvard University Press you say? Isn't Harvar...
[08:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:50] <exec> 08└─There is a huge vocabulary out there. No shortage in sight. Its all free. Use all of it you want.
[08:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:52] <exec> 08└─Treble hooks are for fishing... or for very tiny people to grapple up walls.
[08:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02interesting but obscene - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:01] <exec> 08└─frankly, i find all this speculation and prediction to be a waste of silicon and power. yes, you can push the limits on execution speed but it's already more than enough. what we should be moving toward is something like XMOS architecture where instead of waiting or predicting the outcome of the ins...
[08:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, Russia's aggressive moves are a concern - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:16] <exec> 08└─The only real economic challenger is China, and they are having growing pains right now. Who knows if it's sustainable.
[08:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Russians - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:19] <exec> 08└─Nodded troll for calling out the real troll, nice.
[08:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:26] <exec> 08└─We (the rest of the world) are sick and tired of the U.S. pretending to be morally upright, spreading democracy, harmony and white goods across the world when in actual fact it: Unilaterally bombs the sh!t out of crappy but otherwise relatively peaceful countries that just happen to be sitting on re...
[08:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02why most of the world is cheering Russia - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:28] <exec> 08└─Timeline of United States military operations [wikipedia.org] I have arbitrarily chosen a starting point of Y2000. Others might have chosen a different year. USA has been poking its nose into other folks' business for a LONG time. -- gewg_
[08:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Reasons - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:28] <exec> 08└─Are you an organ donor?
[08:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The technology is only part of the problem - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:23] <exec> 08└─I've done a lot of research in this topic, and if anyone is actually serious about what the underpinnings would have to look like, let me know in a message,
[08:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Meanwhile, in communist Alberta... - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:19:11] <exec> 08└─First, TransAlta will pay nearly $52 million in an administrative penalty, what the AUC understands to be the largest of its kind in Canadian history and approaching the maximum limit available under law. The penalty is composed of $26,920,814.31 in disgorgement of profits to cover TransAlta’s eco...
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[09:14:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] 02It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 471 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:45] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see the Critical Theorists are attacking the methods of Science directly now. Ignore TFA, it's is more Frankfurt School style critique with no substance or alternatives offered, as is the way of the SJWs they spawned. But! It's an excerpt from the Harvard University Press you say? Isn't Harvar...
[09:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'll try - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:46] <exec> 08└─Scientific Method: 1) Make observations[a] 2) Abduce explanations for the observations 3) Deduce predictions from your explanations[b] 4) Collect new observations and compare to predictions That's pretty much it, however to be convincing: [a] These observations needs to be stable and reproducible by...
[09:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reproducing experiments (Re:I'll try) - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:48] <exec> 08└─Reproducible doesn't work so well for historical events, such as the birth of the universe. Reproducability is a nice bonus, but not a prerequisite for science.
[09:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Reproducing experiments (Re:I'll try) - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:50] <exec> 08└─The event may not be reproducible, but the observation is. Everyone can put up an antenna and observe the microwave background of the universe, as often as he wants. Everyone can get a telescope and determine the distribution of galaxies, as often as he wants. And so on.
[09:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Reproducible works just fine... - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:51] <exec> 08└─Reproducible doesn't work so well for historical events, such as the birth of the universe Ah, but you didn't read his list correctly. First, you make observations (possibly of historical events). Then you form a theory. Using the theory, you make predictions. Your predictions are (obviously) not of...
[09:14:52] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02The scientific method is not a myth - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 350 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:53] <exec> 08└─The scientific method is not a myth. It's an ideal to strive for. Saying that the scientific method is a myth is like saying that ethics is a myth, pointing at the fact that probably no one ever has always acted ethical, that there are many people that act blatantly unethical, and that different peo...
[09:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02The Scientific Method is a myth... - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:55] <exec> 08└─...but I can't prove that.
[09:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ugh - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:56] <exec> 08└─What a load of sensationalist claptrap. This almost ranks up there with creationism & climate change denial. "Scientific method a myth! We've all been mislead! We need to go back to worshiping golden calves!" Sorry, the scientific method is real. It exists. Less clickbait, pls.
[09:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:05] <exec> 08└─Humor me, and google definition of treble You're welcome. No charge.
[09:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:07] <exec> 08└─It's all about the bass, no crappies! I would quadruple the fourfold pentitude of your verbosity, if only I knew what I was saying.
[09:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting but obscene - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:17] <exec> 08└─If you are bit banging on a CPU which does branch prediction you are probably already doing it wrong. Bit banging is a nice trick if you have a deterministic CPU like an avr or pic with no OS to interfer. But on just about anything else you should invest in a little bit of circuitry to implement the...
[09:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pixeldyne [2637] (Score:2) 02Love it - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:19] <exec> 08└─The article that is, and the submission. This is the kind of content I'd like to see more on SN.
[09:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Russians - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 2053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:37] <exec> 08└─Argh my clumsy fingers... Really though, we have two large power blocks on this planet, and as a species (the general populace) we are trying to figure out how to get along. How do we get along when we are divided as a species over stupid things like economic systems and predictions about what happe...
[09:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 1932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:45] <exec> 08└─Because we treat other people like dogs. We have done NOTHING in the mideast that I'm proud of. We have done a hell of a lot that I'm ashamed of. Are you aware that Iran was a democracy? Five years before my birth, Iran was "The place to be". The people were enlightened, wealthy, educated, and they...
[09:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:47] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The Russians are not much (if at all) better, but it is easy to wave the patriotic flag and think we're above such things. Thanks for the wake up call.
[09:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:49] <exec> 08└─It's an issue, but only because the US sailors were asleep, and/or had their heads up their asses while the Russians approached the carrier. Overflying a destroyer squadron was routine when I was in uniform. Overflying a carrier was pretty much unheard of. Where were all of OUR aircraft? The Russian...
[09:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:50] <exec> 08└─So then why this story? I doubt our military has been sleeping on the job, especially with this level of tension we've got. Feels like stirring the pot...
[09:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tu-142 - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:52] <exec> 08└─If you look up the Tu-142 Bear, and skim through it you can understand a little more about the response. One could assume these aircraft were providing relay for a Russian submarine, presumably closer to the Ronald Regan. If i were a military man... I would be darn sure my spiffy newly retrofitted N...
[09:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pixeldyne [2637] (Score:2) 02Betting man - 06Astronaut Scott Kelly Breaks US Spaceflight Record - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:44] <exec> 08└─I can't be certain but I would bet he's going to break the record tomorrow as well, so stay tuned for more. Okay, it's a poor joke. I wish him quick recovery once he's back on terra firma.
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[10:14:43] <exec> 08└─My concern is that everyone is starting up a startup without putting a lot of thought into the long-term value of the company. AFTER the investors have exited what will their be? Are you creating a company because you like craft beer and ping-pong, or because you want to create something of value to...
[10:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Reactionary responses here - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:01] <exec> 08└─I first read the comments about the article, then I read the article. It seems that so far the comments are reactionary, missing the point of the article. Nowhere did it say the scientific method is bunk, or incorrect, but that it has achieved the level of mythology. We at SN being more science orie...
[10:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Re:Reactionary responses here - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:03] <exec> 08└─All I see is strawman arguments. First, the summary is completely beside the point, e.g. "... none of which is really all that uniquely scientific": nobody is claiming that, and more over again. Second, there is simply no universally agreed upon definition of the "scientific method", so no need or w...
[10:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02One cannot prove a theory - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:04] <exec> 08└─In mathematics one can provide a theorem but only with respect to the postulates and rules of inference of the system within which that theorem holds true. The best you can do is falsify a bad theory. If a theory seems to be true the best you can do is gain a certain confidence, by falsifying all th...
[10:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:18] <exec> 08└─British English. Tyre, kerb, treble... Just a few words I had to re-learn over there.
[10:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:30] <exec> 08└─GOTO not considered harmful anymore?
[10:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Putin was going to be a Moscow taxi driver. - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:42] <exec> 08└─The soviets were far more afraid of the west than the west was afraid of the soviets. That led to them not having the means to provide pensions when their spies reached retirement age. Putin figured he could provide for himself by driving a cab. When communism fell he was a kgb agent in east germany...
[10:15:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Yes, Russia's aggressive moves are a concern - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:45] <exec> 08└─But the bigger picture is that USA is declining in power, because of its population and economy, and this is projected to continue for decades into the current century.
[10:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Chinese Periscope Photo - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:05] <exec> 08└─Back in the day I saw a photo that was snapped through the periscope of a Chinese sub that had penetrated a US carrier group to within torpedo range of a US ship. That sub then made it back to China where that photo was blasted all over the worldwide press. At one time it turned right up in google....
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[10:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:On first glance - 06European Parliament Urges Protection for Edward Snowden - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:12] <exec> 08└─We seem to be mixing levels here. I'm talking about the CEO of Lockheed-Boeing being on the golf course and finding out from his friend in the .gov that the Airbus quote for Somewheria Airlines is going to come in at $1.24 billion, but that if they come in at $1.235 they can swing the deal by leanin...
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[11:14:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Reproducing experiments (Re:I'll try) - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:58] <exec> 08└─The event may not be reproducible, but the observation is. Everyone can put up an antenna and observe the microwave background of the universe, as often as he wants. Everyone can get a telescope and determine the distribution of galaxies, as often as he wants. And so on.
[11:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On first glance - 06European Parliament Urges Protection for Edward Snowden - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:20] <exec> 08└─You fail to differentiate between the EU leaders on one hand, and the people, including the elected members of the EU parliament, on the other hand. Indeed, the leaders do seem to be deeply beholden to the USA leadership, which the people and the MEPs don't appreciate at all. Why the former is anyon...
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[13:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:07] <exec> 08└─No, they didn't restore the panels. There were two panels: one on each side of the GamerGate issue. I.e., one group wanting to talk about harassment (I believe that Zoe Quinn was one of the panelists), and a different group basically discussing the GamerGate side. They have now scheduled an "all day...
[13:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:08] <exec> 08└─I am never sure how seriously to take claims of online harassment. I've done a fair bit of online gaming, often with female characters. I haven't noticed any significant difference in the way I was treated. In other types of games (example: League of Legends), the whole community acts like a bunch o...
[13:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:10] <exec> 08└─If you're giving out personal information on the Internet, you're either an idiot regardless of your gender or utterly unafraid of the consequences.
[13:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:12] <exec> 08└─I have. I had a friend back in the day who always made a female alt no matter what game he played so he could bat his eyelashes and say some variation on "Help me, I'm dumb" and get free shit. Does not work with a male avatar. My personal experience has been people are far more polite and will bend...
[13:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:21] <exec> 08└─Linked 3words site does not function with JS turned off (NoScript). No thanks. If you can't make your site basics work without resorting to a fetid pile of javascript, then no thanks.
[13:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:3, Insightful) 02To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:23] <exec> 08└─We have a system like that already extant. It is an amazingly flexible system, with the precision level naturally adapting to the required level, surviving countless wars, migrations, triumphs and disasters while still being an tremendously useful tool for communicating information about specific lo...
[13:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Ippy [3973] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:24] <exec> 08└─As a walker, I like to visit places in the countryside that have no generally recognised name. I would find this system useful.
[13:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:26] <exec> 08└─Shill.
[13:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:28] <exec> 08└─It seems useful for that but I am not sure why it is any better than what we use today. How would you know the 3-word location? Because somebody told you or you had to look it up. Either way, you would need to query somebody (and they probably would show you a map) or some database or map to find th...
[13:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:29] <exec> 08└─The counterexample is some (mostly Germanic descendant) areas of the country will have roads with over ten names. Its not unusual for a physical slab of asphalt to run thru multiple small political municipalities all with different street names, and have a state highway designation name, and a count...
[13:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:31] <exec> 08└─I used to live in a house that had an address on a road, but was only accessibly at the front and walking along the raised footpath that ran just above that road. The house was split into three flats and, although all three flats had addresses on the same road with different numerical suffixes, one...
[13:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:33] <exec> 08└─In the country I live there would be "11A", "11B" and "11C". There would be a small sign next to the path saying "11B,11C -->" How is a postman supposed to know where "fetching some coffee" is? He'll translate it to 51.123521N,3.234566E, and then pull a google map at that location. God knows how he'...
[13:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:35] <exec> 08└─You could have done that - just provide the postman and visitors the precise latitude, longitude and elevation of your front door. Since we are talking about meters-level precision, they would be most likely using a map anyway with some electronic means of receiving a location. Just use the existing...
[13:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:37] <exec> 08└─Cute idea. The precision is high enough that you can move the "pin" over just a few meters and see several different word combinations. Find the one you like for your address. Ideal would be some sort of search function, or way to list all combinations within x meters of a particular point. Probably...
[13:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gargoyle [1791] (Score:2) 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:38] <exec> 08└─High precision but with no way to work out what the address nearby might be without having a the database of places and 3 word addresses on you all the time. At least with Latitude and Longitude, if you know the coordinate, you can tell what a lower resolution co-ordinate will be and remembering the...
[13:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:40] <exec> 08└─Their FAQ says: We have taken out offensive words and homophones (e.g. sale & sail), and have shuffled all of our similar sounding (e.g. plurals) 3 word locations as far away from each other as possible so it’s obvious if you have made a mistake. It’s better to be 400 miles out than 1 mile out s...
[13:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:42] <exec> 08└─We have taken out offensive words
[13:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:44] <exec> 08└─We couldn't find any results for ugly.snotty.slugs However, for me at least, it's dropped it in the middle of London, so that's appropiate. When googling the three words that crop up for my own address, the first result is a porn site. The major problem with this system is there's no way of knowing...
[13:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is a good rule - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:46] <exec> 08└─That will clearly never be used by yhe unscrupulous to rip people off.
[13:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:56] <exec> 08└─Harvard and their buddies, the breeding ground of fascist SJWs and haters of free speech.
[13:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Reproducible works just fine... - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:01] <exec> 08└─In pseudo-sciences like sociology and psychology, the measurement of results is generally subjective.
[13:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The scientific method is not a myth - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:03] <exec> 08└─The scientific method is absolutely a myth. No better place has this been observed the past week than the fucking idiot Ted Cruz using the "scientific method" to basically deny the Sierra Club funding on global warming. Cruz redefines what constitutes as "science" (probably some racist Biblical inte...
[13:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ugh - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:06] <exec> 08└─You are probably a spiritualism denier aren't you?
[13:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:21] <exec> 08└─You're not keeping up, aristarchus. FatPhil (I think it was) used 'yclept' a day or two ago, and contrary to all expectation, was correct. It's a word. And I've never heard 'croodle' spoken in conversation before (except by me), and only once in print in an H.P. Lovecraft story, but lo and behold it...
[13:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the opinion on these things? - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:25] <exec> 08└─Will these thing meet with the usual disdain and negativism reserved for consumer tech here on SoylentNews?
[13:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Love it - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:36] <exec> 08└─Do you have more sources for this kind of article? Not many like this turn up in sources I read or the RSS log.
[13:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Love it - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:37] <exec> 08└─I found the treatment quite superficial, though I agree that this topic would be quite interesting. It also read as an advert for their C compiler (which is C only, GPLv2, and therefore unlikely to be of significant interest to anyone).
[13:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Ippy [3973] (Score:2) 02Quantum of solace - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:40] <exec> 08└─Very deterministic thinking. But presumably a quantum computer would be able to execute all branches in the code simultaneously, even if there's a huge number of possibilities.
[13:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Yes, Russia's aggressive moves are a concern - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:57] <exec> 08└─Remarkable, but sad, that an ignorant and patently wrong statement like this gets modded all the way up because of its sophomoric bash-US tone. This is really turning into a pathetic echo chamber.
[13:15:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 803 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:08] <exec> 08└─We (the rest of the world) are sick and tired of the U.S. pretending to be morally upright, spreading democracy, harmony and white goods across the world when in actual fact it: Unilaterally bombs the sh!t out of crappy but otherwise relatively peaceful countries that just happen to be sitting on re...
[13:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 1410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:15] <exec> 08└─You doubt the military has been sleeping on the job - but I know it has been. I've stood watch, staring at a radar screen. On a carrier, CIC is a huge place, and there aren't two or three people watching those screens - there are a dozen or more. At least four people should have been watching air ra...
[13:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Graphene Detector - 06This Graphene Detector Monitors All Forms of Light — and Is Lightning Fast, Too - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:26] <exec> 08└─So it detects graphene?
[13:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Prone to addiction? - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:44] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Not shocking that addictive things are addictive and that people prone to addiction may be addicted to more than one thing. A quick Google search turned this up: smoking rates among people who go to AA are higher than the general public. Link: http://www.eurekalert.org
[13:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't drink. - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:01] <exec> 08└─Or the Acid freaks, who talk to like God when they're tripping. But you know, actually, they do not, they are just as stupid as before they ingested, but not able to accurately judge that. Ouch! Enhanced Ethanol_fueled is, actually, just plain old Ethanol. Ick!
[13:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:You made a story out of that? - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:54] <exec> 08└─Which is all fine and good but the original sub wasn't an article, it was a pile of links.
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[14:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Oh my! - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:06] <exec> 08└─This is a STARTTLing revelation! Failover to unencrypted is a terrible design.
[14:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Hurd? - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:07] <exec> 08└─"which should become commonplace shortly after Hurd achieves market dominance." Huh?
[14:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sensitive emails? - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:09] <exec> 08└─Why would a sensitive email ever not be end-to-end encrypted anyway?
[14:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:20] <exec> 08└─That argument falls flat on its face once a female plays a game that offer in-game voice chat. And many team based multiplayer games today work so much better with a mic. So they are faced with the choice of either risking it and using a mic or staying silent which can ruin their gaming experience a...
[14:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:21] <exec> 08└─I'd agree with this. For better or for worse, once a female gets on a microphone the entire dynamic seems to change in most of the multiplayer games I've played. It's not just something that happens in games either, although games have a way of amplifying any interactions, positive or negative.
[14:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:23] <exec> 08└─My experience indicates it depends strongly on game genre. Console FPS are one thing, modded minecraft is another. I think there's a strong maturity stereotype.
[14:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:25] <exec> 08└─Fair nuff but it stands otherwise.
[14:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:27] <exec> 08└─Does not work with a male avatar.
[14:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─Thousands of years of societal conditioning I expect.
[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:30] <exec> 08└─My friend used that in warez channels. He used this very obvious professional photo of a random hot girl and people would throw ftp accounts at him. Then he roped in this lesbian in irc who actually sent him scanned nudes of herself. She was pretty attractive so he turned it around and used her nude...
[14:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:32] <exec> 08└─The only real downside to playing a female avatar is you get less women flirting with you.
[14:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:34] <exec> 08└─Quinn wasn't one of the panellists. You're thinking of the "anti-harassment activist" Randy Harper, who is herself a notorious harasser.
[14:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02twitter vs SXSW - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:36] <exec> 08└─I was going to comment on the irony of online harassment (on twitter and elsewhere) being discussed at SXSW a decade after twitter became popular because it was released at SXSW but it turns out that was eight years ago not ten. Not sure that unicorn is going to survive until ten, so may as well dis...
[14:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─It's 2015. I would not even make a site that doesn't use jQuery, I'm not a masochist.
[14:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:44] <exec> 08└─Have fun back in 1998. As much as I detest Javascript's ability to control the browser, it's 2015. Anything beyond basic text and pictures requires it.
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:47] <exec> 08└─You mean zombie shill. That or Chuck Norris's character Walker, Texas Ranger. In that case, I'd apologize. Quickly.
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─Haha yeah I have a road by me that, for about 2 miles, has 4 different state and local numbers. The relevant XKCD standards link: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[14:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:52] <exec> 08└─Exactly, and the new standard is even worse, because the place name changes entirely every 3 meters. Playing around with the map, there seems to be no coherence whatsoever between adjacent grid squares, and thus no way to know that two 3-word addresses are next to each other without converting them...
[14:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:55] <exec> 08└─To follow-up your example, I have relatives in Cambodia. Outside of the city, addresses are... well, they exist but they are not readily accessible in general databases and may not in fact be useful. Sometimes they are basically "name + town". So, if I wanted to give the precise location for a house...
[14:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:02] <exec> 08└─The problem for me is that it's completely useless. Search on my postcode and the three words are harder to remember than the postcode, or even the address. Move a centimeter to the right and it becomes even worse but, as you say, totally uncorelated to anything useful. But the name of my street wil...
[14:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Informative) 02grid squares - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:04] <exec> 08└─Will it catch on?
[14:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02I like placenames. - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:05] <exec> 08└─As a kid, I found the Guinness Book in the library, and learned about places with long names, like Llanfairpwllgwyngyll [wikipedia.org] or, even more extreme, Bangkok [wikipedia.org]. As a grown up, I learned to appreciate place names like the (fictional) Your Finger You Fool [lspace.org] (thanks si...
[14:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:2) 02Re:Reproducible works just fine... - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:30] <exec> 08└─The basic sequence of observe/theorise/test holds true. You may not be able to create a new planet to test your theories, but you can produce reproducible tests that would disprove your theories. Or make predictions that could be tested by data from other planets.
[14:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:51] <exec> 08└─It's all about the bass, no crappies!
[14:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, I thought it was about how hard it is to make good bass speakers small enough to fit in a wearable device. I mean laptops have weak enough bass response as it is.
[14:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the opinion on these things? - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:59] <exec> 08└─Don't forget early adopter-itis. This is new and "cool" fad in China but I've had my fitbit for awhile, no longer care about it, and next time I launder it I'm not buying another. I don't even read the emails with my stats anymore. It was an interesting fad for awhile. The future is already here jus...
[14:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting but obscene - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:10] <exec> 08└─We're doing both. Predicting paths things is not really much to do with the CPU - it's about getting things into memory or the cache that you might need soon. It's about the interfaces, not the instructions themselves. And if you memory cache is the bottleneck, adding more "CPU's" to the same silico...
[14:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Love it - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:14] <exec> 08└─Topic yes. Treatment of it, no. I actually didn't find the explanation all that clear and I'm not a stranger to the way modern processors operate. The point of it also was clear - why would you need or want to do this? It didn't seems covered particularly well. I'd like more of this, but... literall...
[14:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:16] <exec> 08└─It's an old meme that applied back when it was written in 1968. Dijkstra was opposed to it because it was used heavily and some languages relied on it to solely control program flow and implement loops. Nowadays it can still be used but the idea is to use it as a last resort or very, very sparingly....
[14:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't drink. - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:40] <exec> 08└─I smoke a cigarette maybe once a year when I am having a heavy drinking session with my friend who smokes. That one cigarette when I have a booze buzz on is awesome. If I have more than one it will make me feel ill.
[14:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:CCTV - 06 Seagate Unveils Enlarged Spy Drive With Support for 64 Spycams - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:32] <exec> 08└─Or any property really. CCTV is a good deterrent and very useful for prosecuting criminals.
[14:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:not nearly enough - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 2234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:40] <exec> 08└─What is the goal here? Ideally, we want corporations, and people, to behave responsibly, and, more, to want to behave responsibly, even when no one is looking. Then we don't have to spend as much effort constantly looking over their shoulders. Making them afraid of punishment, and being harsh to mak...
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[15:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hurd? - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:17] <exec> 08└─I Hurd that on the grapevine.
[15:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Sensitive emails? - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:19] <exec> 08└─with the NSA powning both endpoints of course. Aside from rubber pipe decryption technology.
[15:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Email - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:21] <exec> 08└─Given that email crosses any number of unknown servers, you should be wary anyway. Email is just not safe without entirely separate encryption even if part of the transit is secured. You have no idea that the IT guy the other end isn't reading it, that the transit in-between doesn't involve forwards...
[15:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Email - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:23] <exec> 08└─Email has always been like this. Email is NOT secure. It can be read en-route by any number of points. If you want to send secure information, encrypt it separately and DON'T EMAIL THE KEY. That this is inconvenient, e.g. needing things like PGP and webs of trust, is the main road-block to secure co...
[15:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:36] <exec> 08└─I steered my wife away from online gaming. Her first few experiences with it were rather negative. She probably has more game time in her steam profile than I do (and that is saying something). Though in retrospect it would be funny listening to her tear a 12 year old a new one. She described it as...
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:43] <exec> 08└─That's what the feminists simply do not get. Guys do not have a problem with female characters. If the character is as badass as the male characters in a given selection, she'll get used. If she's the only selection, our enjoyment is based on the quality of the game. Leisure Suit Larry type games as...
[15:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:45] <exec> 08└─This. I've been playing for decades, women as playable characters has never been an issue. Even though the media would like people to believe it isn't the case, there are tons of awesome games that have always had multiple characters to select (male and female). Some of the largest franchises up unt...
[15:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 1852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:48] <exec> 08└─It's a little more complicated than that. The "GamerGate" panel (SavePoint) wasn't actually a "GamerGate" panel. In fact a lot of the GamerGate community was a little upset because the organizer wanted to distance SavePoint from GamerGate, but he used GamerGate to get the panel in the first place. I...
[15:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:50] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I had Zoe Quinn as one of the Levelup panelist, her and Brianna Wu have been invited to talk at the new all day summit with them, but they weren't on the original panel, which was Randi Harper, Caroline Sinders and Katherine Cross.
[15:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:52] <exec> 08└─I am never sure how seriously to take claims of online harassment.
[15:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:twitter vs SXSW - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:53] <exec> 08└─One of the panels was three people active in the #GamerGate hashtag (who will also all be panelists at the "summit" last I heard), so I'm going to assume they're at least willing to allow diverse points of view still. The "summit" though... I can't help thinking that's kicking a hornet's nest just f...
[15:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:twitter vs SXSW - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, the vegans were offended by BBQ, so that was eliminated.
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:08] <exec> 08└─Are you from Somalia? anonymous.speaks.online [what3words.com]
[15:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─I like to visit places in the countryside that have no generally recognised name.
[15:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:grid squares - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:25] <exec> 08└─Very true. It needs to be more than a marginal improvement to catch on. Everybody who needs that level of precision already has a system already for that. Hams are an interesting bunch... I had not thought about them. if anybody would use a system like this they would be the ones that would comes to...
[15:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Well.Look.Here - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:27] <exec> 08└─I.just.found Shaka.Walls.Fell [domaintools.com]
[15:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are startups such a good thing? - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:37] <exec> 08└─SEC rules allow a fool and their money to be parted, now with less paperwork. That said, I greatly prefer this to kickstarter. The kickstarter model: "If you pay for us to make this , we will give you a single copy. If you pay for 3 copies, we will also give you a special hat." The way it should wor...
[15:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty much. The reason they're pushing for the abolishment of the scientific method is because "soft sciences" (the humanities) like social science and culture studies can't reproduce their experiments. They want the prestige of being "sciences", but anyone with any REAL background in science...
[15:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Someone didn't google "scientific method"... - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:06] <exec> 08└─It is really interesting when the central thesis of your paper is devastated by Wikipedia (the first hit on Google). "The scientific method isn't real because no one can really describe it." Well they can. It is fairly simple. Impressive job Discover!
[15:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Huge growth! - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:27] <exec> 08└─Wait, if I read this correctly, by 2020 I'll have... 3 x 0 = 0 wearable devices!
[15:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:45] <exec> 08└─JMP is goto. Most compilers make liberal usage of them. You just do not see it in the language. if (x == 1) { dothis(); } else { dothat(); } With most compilers there are at least 1 (usually 2 if you are in debug) goto statements there and a conditional one. They are hidden. You do not see them much...
[15:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:why most of the world is cheering Russia - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:16] <exec> 08└─Well yes, but that is part and parcel with being top dog. People just get giggles from blowing sand in your face. It doesn't matter if it's anything but annoyance really. Most of the time we get into this crap because if we don't do anything people take offense also. If you do something someone else...
[15:16:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 1932 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:17] <exec> 08└─Because we treat other people like dogs. We have done NOTHING in the mideast that I'm proud of. We have done a hell of a lot that I'm ashamed of. Are you aware that Iran was a democracy? Five years before my birth, Iran was "The place to be". The people were enlightened, wealthy, educated, and they...
[15:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2, Informative) 02Used to happen every day - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:25] <exec> 08└─I am befuddled as to why this is even news. I was in the Navy in the early 80's, and served in a squadron aboard USS America, an aircraft carrier. When we were in the Indian Ocean, the Russians would send their Bears out every day to try to find us. Very often they did. This sort of thing happened a...
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[16:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Organic actuators are COOL - 06MIT Group Explores Bacteria Use for Comfort Wear - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:08] <exec> 08└─But they don't make it clear what kind of problem they'd solve with one. So you can make it actuate in the presence of water. What applications does that have that a strictly mechanical actuator managed by electricity couldn't solve?
[16:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Authentication - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:23] <exec> 08└─The SSL/TLS settings in your mail client is for the username/password, not for the mail. Yes, it also encrypts the mail, for a few milliseconds before decrypting it again and forwarding it in plaintext. If you want real e-mail encryption, use PGP or Gnu Privacy Guard. Outlook users may prefer X.500...
[16:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Re:Authentication - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:25] <exec> 08└─Mostly right. Yes, TLS is important to avoid exposing credentials in client-to-server communications. But part of the story is in server-to-server where no authentication is typically used. In that case, most servers will do opportunistic encryption, but that doesn't provide a lot of cover either as...
[16:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score:1) 02Software design 101 - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 2370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:26] <exec> 08└─A big issue here is many email clients are simply garbage and that getting GPG to work is basically the domain of expert users, at least from my own experience, often involving installing obscure plugins to an email client, unintuitive design such as complex configuration settings and so on. The fac...
[16:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yawn - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:28] <exec> 08└─What is the big deal anyway? This is as silly as someone who sends plaintext postcards being concerned that some postboxes could be transparent. You should assume that any unencrypted email is travelling across the internet plaintext, potentially intercepted by anyone who is interested. If your sens...
[16:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:51] <exec> 08└─> That's what the feminists simply do not get Not all feminists! lol
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─This is completely bull, and frankly I'm just too tired after over a year to argue. The dev in question was covered at least three times by the journalist who was at the very least friends with her, without disclosure. https://archive.today [archive.today] https://archive.today [archive....
[16:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:twitter vs SXSW - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─SXSW eliminated Iron Works BBQ? That really sucks. It's one of the best BBQ places I've ever eaten.
[16:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Help me get this stright - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─They canceled discussion panels on online harassment because they were harassed online. Is that right?
[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─Which is fine, just put the basic text into basic HTML. Then jquery the hell out of it as you like. That way the information content will show up with there's no javascript.
[16:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:16] <exec> 08└─There's not a single thing on the linked site that needs javascript, nor anything that could even be enhanced by javascript. Every feature can, and should, be implemented with plain HTML and server-side code. I'm never going enable javascript for any website that mandates it. If it requires javascri...
[16:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, but what, precisely do we need all that cross-site scripting for? The only things I can think of are ads, social media connections, spyware that shouldn't be on the net at all. I wouldn't personally bother blocking javascript if they weren't serving ads, malware and generally slowing the proces...
[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:28] <exec> 08└─Even in places that are less complicated, you can still have roads with 2 or more names. And sometimes that becomes 3 names when you hit the city limits. It causes a lot of grief when Google will use the state designation even though the street itself doesn't have any markings to suggest the state d...
[16:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:34] <exec> 08└─The big difference between a place's proper name and this 3 word system is that the 3 word system is designed for portability; being largely algorithm based with a 10mb footprint. Without relying on some cloud provider, I don't know how you would find Bob's Burgers. Or, how you identify one McDonald...
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─Oops, sorry that our missile hit your house. It was supposed to hit a target across the globe, but the operator accidentally used plural instead of singular.
[16:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reproducible works just fine... - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:14] <exec> 08└─"What is your rigorous distinction between "pseudo" sciences and "real" science?"
[16:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The scientific method is not a myth - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:17] <exec> 08└─Ah, and if a Nazi explained to you that killing at concentration camps was "ethical", then this would be a general flaw in ethics, rather than just a flaw in what that Nazi thinks is ethics?
[16:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:43] <exec> 08└─It's reasonably common in legal contexts. [wikipedia.org]
[16:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Love it - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:01] <exec> 08└─Also, their compiler project seems totally pointless. Want a C compiler that generates an SSA intermediate-representation and does lots of optimisations? We have that, it's called Clang, it's awesome, and it's used everywhere such a compiler is needed.
[16:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Love it - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:03] <exec> 08└─If you have better sources, please submit them. Many of us would like to see them. I don't see much like this.
[16:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:08] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the word compiler? We're talking about the code generated by a C compiler, not C programming patterns. The harm of GOTO doesn't apply here.
[16:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02similar to in-order - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:11] <exec> 08└─Seems similar to a technique used for in-order processors. Since conditional branch mispredictions are expensive (a misprediction has to discard instructions and refetch the correct branch), you execute both sides of a branch and simply "select" the correct result at the end. The "if" at the end sim...
[16:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:There's been a few Russia makes trouble article - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:22] <exec> 08└─Fly the plane by thought might seem a little dated
[16:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, Russia's aggressive moves are a concern - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:31] <exec> 08└─Everyone in this thread is missing the bigger picture, which is that the command-and-control, 19th century elites are losing their grip. Those elites span countries and languages and have much more in common with each other than their "countrymen." People who still cast these conflicts in nation-sta...
[16:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Russians - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:37] <exec> 08└─It's important to understand that the whole nation-state thing (ie. Russia vs. US, US vs. China, etc) is elites using the rest of us to fight proxy wars for their bank balances. How obscene is that? Instead of all of us fighting each other to the tune of millions dead, how about we all hang our elit...
[16:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:48] <exec> 08└─No. The Russians ARE better for now. For one they are not hypocrites. Russia says they are doing stuff for Russia, not for freedom, not for democracy not for whatever bullshit the US likes to say before they mess things up. I bet that part of the ocean the US aircraft carrier is in isn't US territor...
[16:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:52] <exec> 08└─Are the Russians still using fishing trawlers with lots of antennas to shadow US battle groups?
[16:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tu-142 - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:56] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. They do.
[16:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:1) 02Re:Tu-142 - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:00] <exec> 08└─All aircraft carrier battle groups have a couple of attack subs assigned to them.
[16:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prone to addiction? - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:26] <exec> 08└─Rats prefer sugar water to cocaine. I don't think you can read too much into rat studies.
[16:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dosage - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:52] <exec> 08└─Rats metabolize alcohol differently than humans. Dosage is usually calculated to produce a certain blood alcohol level that is comparable to that of humans.
[16:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:First, retain a sense of scale - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:09] <exec> 08└─Oh, but we are! Or perhaps you never heard of the movement from the 1920's called "Futurism", where all the techies of the time allied themselves in very strange ways to technical "final solutions" to all kinds of problems? There is a certain attraction among technical people, almost to the same ext...
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[17:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Good defense against zombies - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:08] <exec> 08└─The parent should call waitpid, either synchronously or in a SIGCHD handler.
[17:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Undead? Yes. Unperson, NO! - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:09] <exec> 08└─(Apologies to Mr Reginald Shoe c/o the estate of Terry Pratchett). May I be the first to express outrage at this exploitation of the vitally challenged and the vile perpetration of the stereotypical image of zombies as an attacking, brain-eating hoard. I suppose this is unsurprising considering that...
[17:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 021970s here again - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:10] <exec> 08└─Exploiting the popular fascination with zombies
[17:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my! - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:27] <exec> 08└─We covered this quite extensively, some months ago. At the time the story was about some ISPs stripping off the indication that the sender requested STARTTLS, or that the smpt server supported it, causing the mail to be transported in the clear. But STARTTLS has always been simply a request, and not...
[17:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Sensitive emails? - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:32] <exec> 08└─Because lots of people are involved in the decision of what's sensitive and what's not, and some get it wrong. I knew people in the healthcare sector who thought of nothing of forwarding all their email to hotmail. I can't imagine there aren't people in the financial sector who did the same when it...
[17:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Re:Software design 101 - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 2212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─It is true that getting a working GPG implementation is too difficult for most users and MUA built-in support is mostly dismal. There is much traffic on various crypto mailing lists about how things could be improved to the point that "Johnny's grandma can do it". (Please avoid going off on a tangen...
[17:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:yawn - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:42] <exec> 08└─yeah. this is like saying don't trust the notes you pass in class to not be encrypted unless you wrote it in a cryptic code yourself to ensure the content is encrypted and not readable by the systems/messengers/fellow students passing it on. Or the mail system as you said. Or notes on paper at the o...
[17:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:58] <exec> 08└─Where are you hanging out? In all the years I've been on the internet, I've never hung out anywhere that had a problem like that. Women get less shit on the internet than men do. The only times I've seen women getting extra mocking were referencing that old saying "The internet, where men are men an...
[17:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:06] <exec> 08└─In the decades you played video games, they were mostly designed to appeal to men. Games were a lower art form and would often use stereotypes of gender and race probably on a similar level as most mindless action movies. It seems that some people are really loosing their shit over the portrayal of...
[17:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:09] <exec> 08└─> he played so he could bat his eyelashes and say some variation on "Help me, I'm dumb" and get free shit. Does not work with a male avatar. It is so profoundly odd that you can see that and say that and still think that such treatment is not sexist.
[17:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─> This is completely bull, and frankly I'm just too tired after over a year to argue. I feel ya. Constantly proclaiming your rigid adherence to one of the thinest conspiracy theories ever has got to be tiresome as hell.
[17:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:17] <exec> 08└─That somebody gets favorable reviews for bad games is nothing new. And there's a very obvious reason for that: The primary source of revenue for game reviews is advertising from the game production companies, and if those companies stop getting favorable reviews they will pull their ads, which means...
[17:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:twitter vs SXSW - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:22] <exec> 08└─With your fiercely radioactive breath, you can turn any place into BBQ before you eat it.
[17:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:38] <exec> 08└─But it's just so Web 3.0, so disruptive man! Is the billion dollar Facebook check in the mail yet?
[17:14:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] 02To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 1459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:39] <exec> 08└─We have a system like that already extant. It is an amazingly flexible system, with the precision level naturally adapting to the required level, surviving countless wars, migrations, triumphs and disasters while still being an tremendously useful tool for communicating information about specific lo...
[17:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:44] <exec> 08└─Must be a Somali Pirate.
[17:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:51] <exec> 08└─It causes a lot of grief when Google will use the state designation even though the street itself doesn't have any markings to suggest the state designation.
[17:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:58] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong about Asia. I have spent some time SE Asia and you do run into the translation problem. That said, you would still need to know the place you are going to look up it's 3-word location. Then, you have to hope the location is up to date and accurate which is definitely not a safe assu...
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:00] <exec> 08└─Does anyone still give out verbal directions anymore? Whenever I give out directions I just put it in a simple SMS. Works just as well for coordinates. You can also attach a map from Google Maps or Here Maps. Besides just how do these word locations work if one only speaks Swahili?
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─More to the point, context can determine when a word is "offensive" or not. For example, a well-known word beginning with the letter "n" is offensive if you're making jokes, probably not particularly offensive if you're singing rap, and probably necessary when discussing history or Mark Twain. And t...
[17:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:06] <exec> 08└─I suppose offensive phrases can be generated using individually acceptable words. I have not found any "fun" phrases yet despite all kinds of experimentation. Someone is apparently filtering phrases, not just words. I suspect they're going to have fun with google bombing type issues, like if someone...
[17:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:1) 02The Fails, they haz it. - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:13] <exec> 08└─Good luck porting this to non-Latin locales. I imagine it can be done, and their website suggests it has been ported to at least one non-English language, but the manpower needed to get the same claimed benefits in every language? Not small and not unskilled, hence expensive. They admit can't automa...
[17:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02My neighbor is a plumber - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:15] <exec> 08└─https://map.what3words.com/plumber.obviously.responsible [what3words.com] Apparently he is obviously responsible!
[17:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Are startups such a good thing? - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:25] <exec> 08└─My concern is that everyone is starting up a startup without putting a lot of thought into the long-term value of the company.
[17:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This is a good rule - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:27] <exec> 08└─And we should care why? We don't actually have to support the greedy gullible, you know.
[17:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Feyerabend and Lakatos - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:38] <exec> 08└─But to squeeze a diverse set of practices that span cultural anthropology, paleobotany, and theoretical physics into a handful of steps is an inevitable distortion
[17:15:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] 02Re:It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 532 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty much. The reason they're pushing for the abolishment of the scientific method is because "soft sciences" (the humanities) like social science and culture studies can't reproduce their experiments. They want the prestige of being "sciences", but anyone with any REAL background in science...
[17:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:43] <exec> 08└─... as is the way of the SJWs they spawned. May....those SJWs...is there anything they can't do!?! Maybe more on-topic: Is there any conversation these boogeymen can't be crow-barred into?
[17:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll try - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:50] <exec> 08└─News at 11!! The caricature version of the scientific method you learned in grade school doesn't fully explain the naunces of modern experimental science.
[17:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll try - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:52] <exec> 08└─News at 11!! The caricature version of the scientific method you learned in grade school doesn't fully explain the naunces of modern experimental science.
[17:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The scientific method is not a myth - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:55] <exec> 08└─Translation: I find the person whose opinions I respect the least and use that as my basis for thought. What could possibly go wrong?
[17:15:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Reactionary responses here - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 1016 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:59] <exec> 08└─I first read the comments about the article, then I read the article. It seems that so far the comments are reactionary, missing the point of the article. Nowhere did it say the scientific method is bunk, or incorrect, but that it has achieved the level of mythology. We at SN being more science orie...
[17:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One cannot prove a theory - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:02] <exec> 08└─The best you can do is falsify a bad theory.
[17:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:21] <exec> 08└─Because what we really need in the vernacular is to infuse more legalese :P
[17:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the opinion on these things? - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:26] <exec> 08└─There's a joke about Pebble [pebble.com] in here somewhere...
[17:17:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:21] <exec> 08└─Sadly, many Americans simply don't have a clue why most of the world is cheering Russia.
[17:17:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02why most of the world is cheering Russia - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:24] <exec> 08└─Timeline of United States military operations [wikipedia.org] I have arbitrarily chosen a starting point of Y2000. Others might have chosen a different year. USA has been poking its nose into other folks' business for a LONG time. -- gewg_
[17:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:29] <exec> 08└─And as an outsider I don't even see how most of the bad things the US Gov has done actually would help the US people in the long run. Destabilizing the middle east and making groups the ISIS get stronger = more muslim extremists and more terrorists. Swapping a few big bad guys for thousands of bad g...
[17:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:33] <exec> 08└─The Russians should have been identified and intercepted
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prone to addiction? - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:09] <exec> 08└─Plenty of people have holes in their lives. Not all fill them with alcohol and nicotine. You can tell Mahesh about the rat playground: "We know that many people who drink alcohol also use nicotine, but we don't know why exactly that is," says Mahesh Thakkar,
[17:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dosage - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:36] <exec> 08└─Here is an example: rats in the ethanol treatment group (n = 12) were administered 3 consecutive doses of ethanol (2g/kg, i.p.) once per day for 3 days. [...] Blood ethanol concentrations were 185 ±20.7 mg/dl (mean ± SEM) at 1 hour after i.p. injection (the time of the TBI).
[17:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Reasons - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, but really motorcycles aren't that dangerous. They are more dangerous than cars, but most fatalities are the result of the motorcyclist driving too aggressively and slamming into something. The bulk of the rest are the result of being run over by a car. Just laying the bike down, even at great...
[17:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cool! - 06Yamaha Unleashes Motorcycling Robot - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:56] <exec> 08└─Finally someone pointing out the obvious. There is a lot of money available for deployment of autonomous motorcycles, because a gas tank gives your armed land drone hours of autonomy, access to tight and rugged areas, while carrying a pretty decent payload. Current robots in that category are either...
[17:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CJDNS - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:49] <exec> 08└─For somebody who claims to have researched the problem, you do not mention the best solution I am aware of: Cjdns [wikipedia.org]. You also claim that a no central naming system is possible. However namecoin exists. It is essentially a centralized database stored in a decentralized manner using muta...
[17:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not nearly enough - 06Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal: 10 Years Later - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:45] <exec> 08└─Sony's Music and movie arm sabotaged the electronics arm. It may be that people are avoiding Sony products. Every time I find out somebody has a PS3, I explain how Sony screwed them over by removing "Other OS" functionality and PS2 backward compatibility (so Sony can just resell the older game you a...
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[18:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Undead? Yes. Unperson, NO! - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I actually thought this was going to be another article about how contracts are written in such a way to favor the tech company, and that they laugh behind closed doors about all the stupid zombies doing work for them.
[18:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1970s here again - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:12] <exec> 08└─VLM, every time you post stuff, I can't help but think, "that's something my dad would say." I'm not considering that a bad thing necessarily, but this is about the fourth damned time it's happened. You... you don't live in central Illinois do you?
[18:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Organic actuators are COOL - 06MIT Group Explores Bacteria Use for Comfort Wear - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:21] <exec> 08└─But they don't make it clear what kind of problem they'd solve with one.
[18:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Hurd? - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:33] <exec> 08└─A geeky way of saying "When Hell freezes over", "When pigs fly", etc.
[18:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─Gamers have always been the default target by the media. Before video games it was pen and paper. Then it was games make you violet satanic worshipers. Now it's games make you sexists women hating harassers. The media will push whatever they think will get them the most readers. Bashing gamers, who...
[18:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:20] <exec> 08└─What's more conspiratorial. Tens of thousands of people got together to harass women out of the gaming industry in a coordinated year long effort, or lazy journalists won't admit they were wrong not to disclose friendships and now use the controversy to generate clickbait that draws angry people to...
[18:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is that based on their behavior and their rhetoric, that problem isn't what GamerGate is protesting.
[18:14:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 824 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, but what, precisely do we need all that cross-site scripting for? The only things I can think of are ads, social media connections, spyware that shouldn't be on the net at all. I wouldn't personally bother blocking javascript if they weren't serving ads, malware and generally slowing the proces...
[18:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:grid squares - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─I was hoping something like DNS would take root, since IPV6 addresses are hard! But with ibeacons and stuff that identifies you based on your nearest seat and which table on what floor in office building, the real question is: How to make it easy for consumers to not see the things around them that...
[18:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:30] <exec> 08└─Why would we have to supply links to example usage when the first definition in the dictionary is exactly the way it was used in the story? Why does that usage come as a surprise or revelation to anyone old enough to post on the internet? Why would someone who, for whatever misfortune in education,...
[18:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Huge growth! - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:36] <exec> 08└─That "the Market will treble" says nothing about you, so no, you did not read it right. I've learned never to say never. There were a couple years back in the day where I actually couldn't imagine why anyone would want to have a telephone in their pocket. Such arrogance to think you couldn't be out...
[18:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Re:Huge growth! - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:38] <exec> 08└─Er, *whoosh*...
[18:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the obvious... - 06Why Smoking and Drinking Often Go Together - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:43] <exec> 08└─I was going to say -- Firstly, where is my funding to reproduce this study in adherence to the scientific method. Secondly, I propose we add a third item -- Marjiuana, to study the medical benefits from combining it with the others. I am prepared to make such sacrifices for well funded voyages of di...
[18:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Streisand - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:21] <exec> 08└─I agree it is difficult to get the executive branch to vote against their own health care, pay raises, or anti-corruption investigations (look what scott walker did in Wisconsin for a good example of how not to be seen while showing off how to do it). People should not vote for those types, but I gu...
[18:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Working as intended. Problem? - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─It seems some people have forgotten elementary school science. Butterflies come from caterpillars. Caterpillars come from butterflies. They are kind of the same thing really. Caterpillars are critters that mostly eat plants, including crops. Crops are plants we care about. We use poison to kill crit...
[18:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Working as intended. Problem? - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:30] <exec> 08└─Monarchs do not provide significant value in the ecosystem. We have a strange obsession with them because we tend to think they are pretty. They are crappy pollinators, they don't provide decent food for anything, and they aren't needed for milkweed control. It would be unsurprising to discover that...
[18:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Urbit - 06Design of a Digital Republic: Part 1, Goals - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:21] <exec> 08└─That, and they use cloudflare.com I don't trust cloudlfare because they hijack HTTPS connections.
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[19:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:06] <exec> 08└─To describe the effect to which you refer, I enjoy the expression: "Pissing in a sea of piss."
[19:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:07] <exec> 08└─If you are over the age of 20 you have a 90% chance of having it. Chickenpox is one of those families.
[19:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:09] <exec> 08└─Probably higher than that even. 'Chicken-pox parties' were still a thing when I was young, and I'm barely of my 20s. ...Huh, just googled it. Apparently they have a vaccine now. Beats having pox scars. What a time to be alive.
[19:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:11] <exec> 08└─Is this professional journalism or a kitchen where we make an omelet together and kid each other a lot?
[19:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You had chicken pox? You have Herpes. - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:13] <exec> 08└─GASP!!!! This is groundbreaking stuff right?
[19:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I've got it - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:14] <exec> 08└─Got it from my mom, prolly by the time I was 1-2 months old. Haven't had a cold sore in some 20 years though, so it's not like it's ruining my life.
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02I saw the career builder city ranking thing and... - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:26] <exec> 08└─Though it makes sense that the New York city metro area would be the worst, I don't consider it an insightful article. Population density is not weighted high enough(15%). Ammo manufacturing is weighted to high(15% and who is going to make the ammo). I suppose they just picked some variables and kep...
[19:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Organic actuators are COOL - 06MIT Group Explores Bacteria Use for Comfort Wear - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:36] <exec> 08└─What applications does that have that a strictly mechanical actuator managed by electricity couldn't solve? In the absence of electricity, all of them!
[19:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02What's that smell? - 06MIT Group Explores Bacteria Use for Comfort Wear - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:38] <exec> 08└─A downside would be if these actuators made your undergarments smell like natto *BEFORE* you sweated in them and left them in a pile at the bottom of your gym locker for a couple days*. * For those of you who haven't tried natto, it pretty much does smell like dirty gym socks.
[19:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's that smell? - 06MIT Group Explores Bacteria Use for Comfort Wear - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:40] <exec> 08└─The smell isn't just from the fermentation either. The smell of B. sub isn't particularly appealing.
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Hurd? - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:51] <exec> 08└─"which should become commonplace shortly after Hurd achieves market dominance." Huh? It's been a tough couple years since they finally release Duke Nukem Forever...
[19:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hurd? - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:52] <exec> 08└─That is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and that is the GNU project's kernel. It began development before Linux and still isn't stable. Part of the problem is the difference between micro kernels and monolithic ones. But the other problems include the lack of ma...
[19:14:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 992 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:13] <exec> 08└─No, they didn't restore the panels. There were two panels: one on each side of the GamerGate issue. I.e., one group wanting to talk about harassment (I believe that Zoe Quinn was one of the panelists), and a different group basically discussing the GamerGate side. They have now scheduled an "all day...
[19:14:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:27] <exec> 08└─That's what the feminists simply do not get. Guys do not have a problem with female characters. If the character is as badass as the male characters in a given selection, she'll get used. If she's the only selection, our enjoyment is based on the quality of the game. Leisure Suit Larry type games as...
[19:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:24] <exec> 08└─The system is called "telling someone the name of the place."
[19:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:34] <exec> 08└─One mis-spelling or even get the words in the wrong order, and you can be anywhere on the planet.
[19:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a good rule - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:55] <exec> 08└─So one more of the vestiges of the rules we put in place in the 1930s to stop rampant corruption and market crashes is being removed. About the only thing left is FDIC. I have advice for anyone thinking of investing like this. *run*. Do not look back. You are more than likely are going to lose all o...
[19:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Feyerabend and Lakatos - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:08] <exec> 08└─Experimental Cultural Anthropoligy would be immoral, but it could, in principle, be the same sort of science as AstroPhysics or Paleontology. The problem is that people don't merely observed, but are observed to be observing, so you get the kind of problems that Quantum Physics has to deal with comb...
[19:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:13] <exec> 08└─May....those SJWs...is there anything they can't do!?!
[19:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:56] <exec> 08└─Winston: item - "treble" - Replace all non-musical references with "triple." Delete all definitons except musical. Modern dictionary is nearly 1 whole word thinner, this is a good day. "Treble" and "bass" expected to be merged into "scale" next year. --BB
[19:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Huge growth! - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:06] <exec> 08└─It wasn't a whoosh. It just wasn't funny.
[19:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:25] <exec> 08└─void * memcpy(void *dst0, const void *src0, size_t length) { char *dst = dst0; const char *src = src0; size_t t; if (length == 0 || dst == src) /* nothing to do */ goto done; [ several lines omitted ] done: ret...
[19:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:26] <exec> 08└─The only thing I can think of is to maintain a single return statement in the function to keep things simple.
[19:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, Russia's aggressive moves are a concern - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:50] <exec> 08└─I think both are true, though I acknowledge that my sources are biased in favor of the US. China is growing in power. Japan appears to be relatively stable. Austrailia and Britain seem to be declining, but I'm not sure about the rest of the EU. I'm also not sure about New Zealand. Indonesia seems to...
[19:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Russians - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:57] <exec> 08└─"Divide et impera" (divide and conquer) "Panem et circenses" (bread and circus) What we need is young people being taught the full meaning of these two thousand years old lines. Especially how and why governments get the first easier through the second.
[19:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─You might want to read "The Authoritarians" [umanitoba.ca] (online and free) to get a grasp of why some people might think that's a good idea. The book was discussed [soylentnews.org] on this very site last year, though I think this [goodreads.com] is a better review.
[19:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:1) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:14] <exec> 08└─Or maybe people weren't asleep, and those planes were being tracked and targeted by other weapons that nobody wants to talk about, plus whatever aircraft were already patrolling. And maybe, just maybe, Putin can tell the difference between grandstanding and starting WW3.
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02New investment... - 06This Graphene Detector Monitors All Forms of Light — and Is Lightning Fast, Too - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─Come to your buy tin-foil underwear! Get it here! Best prices on the internet! Lead lining optional: pricey, but less chafing! (Do not wash with grandma's silver)
[19:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:If being scrutinized, go by the book! - 06USDA Scientist Punished for Pollinator Research - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:01] <exec> 08└─The cited website is not likely all that reliable or balanced. I'd like to see the other side of the story. In fact, it should be incumbent upon submitters to at least look for the other side. It certainly seems a bit late in the game to try to suppress the neonicotinoid link. Seems like pretty...
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[20:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Zahi Hawass - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:07] <exec> 08└─I guess they have a new minister of antiquities. I know people were complaining about Zahi Hawass obstructing investigations of what's underneath the sphinx and whatnot. I don't know how accurate that is, but it'll be interesting to see what happens now. http://www.smithsonianmag.com
[20:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Proofreading is Your Friend - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:08] <exec> 08└─"The article oges on to to tell us that the "infra-red and muon" scanning will look at four pyramids form the outside..." even a simple spellchecker would have caught one of these.
[20:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nefertiti - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─Nefertiti? You mean to say she's... she's... DEAD?!?
[20:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:22] <exec> 08└─And the vaccine reduces the chances of shingles compared to natural inoculation.
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:23] <exec> 08└─Also CMV: 58.9% of individuals aged 6 and older are infected with CMV while 90.8% of individuals aged 80 and older are positive for HCMV
[20:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:25] <exec> 08└─So if say we're up to hundreds of cancers, you probably have a whole bunch of them? Tip: You cannot deduce how common something is from how many variations there are. Herpes is known to be very common but you have surely noticed how the general public assume there's something seriously wrong with wh...
[20:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Don't get fooled again - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:29] <exec> 08└─You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says
[20:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Good defense against zombies - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:38] <exec> 08└─You're sooooo ancient. You probably trip on your own smelly, unkempt, posixly correct beard. Now we have systemd. With simple unit descriptions it manages our processes, our services, our filesystems, soon our contacts, our subscription to the gym and our romantic affairs. Nothing can go wrong with...
[20:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my! - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:05] <exec> 08└─Well, you're +4 Informative now. At least for the first hop, mail and credentials are encrypted.
[20:14:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Email - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 1206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:14] <exec> 08└─Given that email crosses any number of unknown servers, you should be wary anyway. Email is just not safe without entirely separate encryption even if part of the transit is secured. You have no idea that the IT guy the other end isn't reading it, that the transit in-between doesn't involve forwards...
[20:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─They picked the wrong group this time. Unlike other media, the consumers of games are conditioned to win no matter how long it takes or how hard it is.
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:52] <exec> 08└─Who said it wasn't sexist? I said it wasn't harassment. Sexism is not harassment.
[20:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:twitter vs SXSW - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:07] <exec> 08└─Then some vegans suggested BBQ tempeh, which is disgusting, and it started to gain some traction until the pro-health vegans complained about the carcinogens in smoke. Now, only tasteless food that makes you hate yourself is allowed so Taco Bell is catering.
[20:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, but what, precisely do we need all that cross-site scripting for?
[20:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:19] <exec> 08└─My point was that I *did* already know the word, but thought "using the definition I already know, this makes no sense grammatically." Between a musical term that has no synonyms and a pointless replacement for another word in common usage, I'm going to say the latter should be thrown out.
[20:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting but obscene - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:38] <exec> 08└─I will nit PIC your comment (pun intended). An AVR or a PIC are not deterministic. Even without an OS they have to process interrupts which are unpredictable and disrupt flow and timing. You could make interrupts wait their turn for CPU time but then they aren't interrupts anymore. The XMOS line o...
[20:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 1436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:51] <exec> 08└─A lot of C code I've seen uses this coding style for housekeeping. It might not be relevant in a function this simple, but it's easier to maintain the style for every bit of the code. The idea is to make sure that everything that needs to be cleaned and/or set (mallocs are freed, error values set/cl...
[20:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─to keep things simple.
[20:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:41] <exec> 08└─Tracking is what we did aboard destroyers. The aircraft made an "attack" run on us, and both of our guns as well as the missile launcher tracked them. They weren't just pointed up there, they were locked and loaded, and actively tracking. And, we felt rather impotent in most cases, because it was th...
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[21:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Nefertiti - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:10] <exec> 08└─Her legendary beauty has also become MUCH more subjective.
[21:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02history - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:11] <exec> 08└─You can read some of the technical history here and numerous linked pages. http://www.touregypt.net [touregypt.net] Basically in the 60s/70s they figured out the water content is too high and the monuments are too large for ground penetrating radar to be of much us...
[21:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02"infra-red and muon" scanning - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:13] <exec> 08└─You are not going to see anything inside with infrared scanning. Is this some sort of stupid kickstarter joke? Muon scanning sounds better. I don't know anything about it so I will assume it is plausible for now. Since muons are related to cosmic radiation, I am relieved that if we create some rad...
[21:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:"infra-red and muon" scanning - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:15] <exec> 08└─You are not going to see anything inside with infrared scanning.
[21:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Secret door - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:16] <exec> 08└─Cool. We might finally find out what's behind Gantenbrink's door [wikipedia.org].
[21:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─I've had both. No fun. Though I'd take chicken pox over shingles any day. All this means nothing though if I can't eat bacon. These folks are just chock full of good news these days... :)
[21:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Don't get fooled again - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─Actually ... I got it from Agnes. She got it from Jim. We all agree it must have been Louise who gave it to him. Now she got it from Harry, Who got it from Marie, And everybody knows that Marie ... got it from me! (A nice jaunty ditty by Tom Lehrer [youtube.com])
[21:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Good defense against zombies - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:45] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of one of the greatest things I have ever read. I think it was in a book about Perl. "If you fork your children, you must sleep on their zombies when they die."
[21:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1970s here again - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:51] <exec> 08└─"Everyone is high" "This world is full of idiots" "Get off my lawn"
[21:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:1970s here again - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:52] <exec> 08└─You... you don't live in central Illinois do you?
[21:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:1970s here again - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:54] <exec> 08└─Airplane! [wikipedia.org] was reactionary parody comedy against cruddy disaster movies, not a unique force in itself.
[21:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:02] <exec> 08└─Wait, this whole stupid thing is now about oppression of fictional women and not real ones? Fuck me in the goat ass, this is stupid.
[21:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:15] <exec> 08└─GamerGate was quite against other forms of dishonest reviews and business practices than Social Justice ones. Does nobody remember Doritosgate? (fuck this gate-shit, but this is what it was called) And paid-reviews has been suspected if not proven for years.
[21:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:16] <exec> 08└─How many times has somebody posted your home address along with threats to kill you and your immediate family (along with their home addresses)?
[21:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Help me get this stright - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:24] <exec> 08└─Yes. Then they reinstated the panels due to more harassment. Then they removed one of the panels and expanded the other to a whole-day event due to a third wave of harassment.
[21:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yawn,,, - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:26] <exec> 08└─Wake me when it's over.
[21:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:JS crapola - No thanks - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:43] <exec> 08└─Anything beyond basic text and pictures requires it.
[21:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:To what end? - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:57] <exec> 08└─It's a matter of point of view. Around here we have highway 99, which is also Aurora within the city limits. Inside the city it's Aurora and it's not unless you want to leave the city that calling it 99 makes any sense. Somebody who's coming to the street from the east or west would turn onto the sa...
[21:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumb - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:24] <exec> 08└─This is retarded.
[21:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The scientific method is not a myth - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:09] <exec> 08└─Plainly, as someone that has a degree in the field, you do not know what ethics is. Firstly, it is a process, not a product. Secondly, everyone "acts ethically" whenever a choice must be made whose outcome can't be reliably tested. Finally, ethics is the study of applying reason to subjectivity for...
[21:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:40] <exec> 08└─Thrown out? Please indicate how that happens? Revise the FIRST definition in every dictionary? Obama Presidential order?
[21:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:similar to in-order - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:19] <exec> 08└─Executing both sides of a branch seems unfulfilling. You still have to select which branch gave the right result which I imagine is dependent on what is in the if() which you were avoiding in the first place. Executing both branches is a worse idea the longer either block gets. I guess it would be e...
[21:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Another garbage "article" from HugePickens.com - 06US Jets Scramble to Intercept Russian Planes near US Aircraft Carrier - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, that nice Mr Putin [youtube.com] is just doing what any other self-respecting, red-blooded man would do. What could possibly go wrong?
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[22:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:15] <exec> 08└─And this won't even be a net positive reactor. I mean, I get it, we need to experiment and learn more, but that's quite a bit of money.
[22:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03modest [3494] (Score:1) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:16] <exec> 08└─I read that the goal is to extend the period of time a reactor can sustain plasma. I don't physics (at this level), but wouldn't sustaining the plasma for a longer period of time would mean a positive reactor could be created with this design?
[22:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:18] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. It certainly could be a contributing factor to that because the warm-up and cool-down periods on reactors eat a lot of power. But it doesn't necessarily mean that the design will yield any sort of meaningful productive capacity. The technical limits of extracting the produced energy alon...
[22:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:20] <exec> 08└─All of the big investments will be made obsolete by smaller reactor designs: http://nextbigfuture.com [nextbigfuture.com] http://nextbigfuture.com [nextbigfuture.com] http://nextbigfuture.com
[22:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:3, Informative) 02Beware the first link - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:21] <exec> 08└─First link is pretty full of CPU sucking animations. Maxed out 4 cores in milliseconds. Quote: the institute completed the world's largest nuclear-fusion machine of its kind Well its the only one of its kind. So far nobody has demonstrated sustainable controlled nuclear fusion. This is just another...
[22:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Beware the first link - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:23] <exec> 08└─It's part of the plan. They figure if they can put enough high density animations close enough together, they'll fuse and emit subanimated particles with a net positive frame production. It works in theory.
[22:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02As a reaction to the suicidal immigration policy - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─The Black Sun Rises!
[22:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02How it was built has already been solved - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:38] <exec> 08└─Some French dude figured out it was built from the inside out.
[22:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Herpes - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:00] <exec> 08└─I used to get the cold sores all the time, but on my gums right at the base of my teeth. You can imagine what flossing and Stim-u-dent toothpicks did to them. Bled like a stuck pig. But I've been clear of them now for many years. Very strange. Incidentally, not only is the chicken pox virus similar...
[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I saw the career builder city ranking thing and - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:19] <exec> 08└─Engineers and construction workers each got 15%. Is that because we need official drawings and someone to cut the plywood to board up our homes??
[22:14:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Oh my! - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 710 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:41] <exec> 08└─We covered this quite extensively, some months ago. At the time the story was about some ISPs stripping off the indication that the sender requested STARTTLS, or that the smpt server supported it, causing the mail to be transported in the clear. But STARTTLS has always been simply a request, and not...
[22:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my! - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:43] <exec> 08└─Unencrypted, failed SPF, no reverse DNS, banner mismatches,
[22:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Software design 101 - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:58] <exec> 08└─It is true that getting a working GPG implementation is too difficult for most users and MUA built-in support is mostly dismal.
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Software design 101 - 06Do Not Rely on STARTTLS to Automatically Encrypt Your Sensitive E-mails - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:00] <exec> 08└─Another feature I would suggest is making configuration of the clients easier by a standard that would allow users to simply specify the email address (and password) to the client, using the domain part of the email address the client would use another protocol, probably DNS, to get the address and...
[22:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:31] <exec> 08└─Whoever has the MMORPG players is bound to win eventually. It is probably more related to the stereotypical low social status video game players have. It is easier to pick on nerds, geeks, 12-year-old boys, etc. because everyone else is already conditioned to dismiss them.
[22:16:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gargoyle [1791] 02Re:Cute, high precision - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 1355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:38] <exec> 08└─High precision but with no way to work out what the address nearby might be without having a the database of places and 3 word addresses on you all the time. At least with Latitude and Longitude, if you know the coordinate, you can tell what a lower resolution co-ordinate will be and remembering the...
[22:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I Think Someone Was Watching Too Much... - 06New Addressing System Abandons Numbers for Just Three Words - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:55] <exec> 08└─Stargate SG-1 [wikipedia.org]. I've got a wormhole you can go through, baby!
[22:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02One can invest in anything other than corporations - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:06] <exec> 08└─Suppose someone who earned $100k/year wanted to invest in silly hats. That's OK! He just can't invest in startups. I can see the point of certification if one qualified by passing some manner of professional exam. Like do you even know what it means to "Buy Puts" or to "Go Long"? Even some people wh...
[22:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Dot-Com Boom was a 'learning opportunity' - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:08] <exec> 08└─I came within five days of foreclosure. My understanding is that 400,000 computer programmers were thrown out of work. A friend who once worked at Be, Inc. told me that one of their very best engineers managed to get by by driving a forklift at Home Depot. I don't consider "learning opportunities" t...
[22:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This is a good rule - 06SEC to Allow Small Investors to Crowdfund Startups - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:15] <exec> 08└─So one more of the vestiges of the rules we put in place in the 1930s to stop rampant corruption and market crashes is being removed.
[22:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:It's a method not a rule book, DERP! - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:30] <exec> 08└─I think that's the problem, science shouldn't be prestigious because it's science. Science should be prestigious because of all the things it's done for us, not because it's been labeled as prestigious. Same goes for art. I've never met an artist that got offended for not being called a science. I f...
[22:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Reproducible works just fine... - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:40] <exec> 08└─Allegedly the blue light from monitors causes macular degeneration. Never mind that the whole idea is ridiculous and that monitors haven't been in common use anywhere near long enough to make such a determination. People need to realize that medical doctors aren't scientists and have no idea how to...
[22:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:The scientific method is not a myth - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:47] <exec> 08└─If you're using the scientific method, then it's science. That doesn't mean that it's good science or that the results will be useful. You could engage in Phrenological research and still be conducting science. In that case you'd eventually discover that there was no demonstrable merit in it and aba...
[22:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:today's word of the day - 06Wearable Tech Market To Treble In Next Five Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:19] <exec> 08└─Nothing worth doing is ever easy :)
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[23:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, and no. Spend a billion Euros on conventional clean energy development in Germany and what do you get? A bunch of solar panels in a sub-optimal latitude and some wind turbines along the coast. Spend a billion Euros on fusion plasma containment and what do you get? Possibly something as importan...
[23:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:12] <exec> 08└─Well, I'll admit, pie-in-the-sky research is a necessary activity. That's just a big price tag to swallow, even if I'm American and don't have to pay a Euro of it.
[23:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:14] <exec> 08└─Compared to the LHC and ITER, a Billion is peanuts for massive fundamental physics research these days. Your problem if you don't pay a Euro for it (unlike the previous two), is that you don't get any claims if they actually do find something.
[23:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:15] <exec> 08└─It's 12.50 Euro per German inhabitant. Stated that way, it doesn't sound particularly expensive.
[23:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:A billion euros - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:17] <exec> 08└─Fat Man. Little Boy. Surely there's a Jared from Subway joke in there somewhere.
[23:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Beware the first link - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:20] <exec> 08└─First link is pretty full of CPU sucking animations. Maxed out 4 cores in milliseconds.
[23:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Beware the first link - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:21] <exec> 08└─Quote: the institute completed the world's largest nuclear-fusion machine of its kind [called a stellarator] Well its the only one of its kind.
[23:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Beware the first link - 06Starting Up the German "Sun" - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:23] <exec> 08└─AFAIK this is a different kind of design from a Tokamak. The ITER Tokamak reactor is supposed to be doing its "near production scale" experiments in the coming decade, and for a more than 10 billion euro pricetag. It's supposed to break-even and experiment with how the hell you harvest all that ener...
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:"infra-red and muon" scanning - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:37] <exec> 08└─you can rent a FLIR sensitive enough to detect basement wall moisture quite easily.
[23:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:"infra-red and muon" scanning - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─Muon scanning is where you measure the muons that are penetrating the pyramids. They come down from the sky via cosmic ray showers. If you have a lot of mass in the way, a certain amount of them will interact and get absorbed, etc. If there is a large chamber, you'll measure more muons than if it wa...
[23:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Calling six-figure marketing guys! - 06Egypt to Scan Pyramids, Seeking New Discoveries - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:42] <exec> 08└─Title: Egypt to Scan Pyramids (...) (...) the study, known as "Scan Pyramids," This is a serious study, which will lead to actual discoveries: They didn't waste time trying to find it a cute name.
[23:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not surprising - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:56] <exec> 08└─I don't think people normally choose to do it the old fashioned way now that there's a choice. My parents purposefully exposed me to the Chicken Pox via a pox party for the simple reason that it was the lesser of two evils. Chicken pox is a serious health problem, but when you're a child it's much l...
[23:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Herpes - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:05] <exec> 08└─I had them all before I hit 21. Only found out about it when they drew my blood for a routine exam. The nurses at that clinic been giving me the dirty looks and naughty smiles ever since... Which would have been fine if they weren't mostly from the male staff :/ Still, I never felt more proud :D
[23:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02George Carlin - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:07] <exec> 08└─Finally, a disease people from New York city mis-pronounce: Hoipes... Last one was...... Tuboyculosis
[23:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:1970s here again - 06How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:24] <exec> 08└─We appear to be moving into the 80s already. I thought it was just the fashion and toys (though I noticed the new Pound Puppies are actually clones of the original), but every store I've gone in over the past week was almost exclusively playing songs from the 80s, including U Can't Touch This and Ic...
[23:15:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 1852 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:44] <exec> 08└─It's a little more complicated than that. The "GamerGate" panel (SavePoint) wasn't actually a "GamerGate" panel. In fact a lot of the GamerGate community was a little upset because the organizer wanted to distance SavePoint from GamerGate, but he used GamerGate to get the panel in the first place. I...
[23:15:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:47] <exec> 08└─This is completely bull, and frankly I'm just too tired after over a year to argue. The dev in question was covered at least three times by the journalist who was at the very least friends with her, without disclosure. https://archive.today [archive.today] https://archive.today [archive....
[23:15:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] 02Re:No, they didn't... - 06SXSW Receives Threats, Cancels Online Harassment Panel, then Restores it - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:49] <exec> 08└─What's more conspiratorial. Tens of thousands of people got together to harass women out of the gaming industry in a coordinated year long effort, or lazy journalists won't admit they were wrong not to disclose friendships and now use the controversy to generate clickbait that draws angry people to...
[23:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02It's trivial to disprove Kepler's Law - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─Kepler obtained the data to which his Kepler's Law was quite a good fit by timing star and planet transits with, more or less, a gunsight, a grandfather clock and his naked eyes. Suppose I bought a decent spotting telescope at walmart, used my iPhone as the timer - its clock ultimately derives from...
[23:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One cannot prove a theory - 06The Scientific Method is a Myth - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:02] <exec> 08└─The idea that science is valid is not scientific
[23:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:01] <exec> 08└─If you had duplicate cleanup bits in the same function (from multiple returns in this case) then wouldn't you just extract those duplicate pieces into a new function?
[23:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Delwin [4554] (Score:1) 02Re:hmm... - 06Compiler Jump Threading - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:02] <exec> 08└─Every function has overhead, so no. Even inline is only a suggestion to the compiler, not a hard requirement.
[23:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Still a Seagate - 06 Seagate Unveils Enlarged Spy Drive With Support for 64 Spycams - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:55] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reply! Very informative and interesting. I appreciate it. I know what to look out for and why. Cheers!
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