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[00:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02All the eggs in one basket - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:10] <exec> 08└─This makes it very easy to list all the game companies I avoid.
[00:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:so - 06Early Life Stress and Adolescent Depression Linked to Impaired Development of Reward Circuits - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:21] <exec> 08└─So once you are a cynical bastard you tend to stay a cynical bastard and have a hard time seeing things in a non-cynical way? I can buy that.
[00:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Great... - 06Early Life Stress and Adolescent Depression Linked to Impaired Development of Reward Circuits - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:23] <exec> 08└─Now I can cite a source when I say, "Tomorrow won't be better" and my "friends" (those sychophants) all say, "You don't know that!" /sarcasm
[00:45:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 1512 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:46] <exec> 08└─With the sheer number of studies being made, you're almost sure to find some measurements that go against the general trend of global warming and ice melt. This particular study was of snowfall accumulation. Which is not a 1:1 with ice - in particular, the way snow compacts into ice isn't well-known...
[00:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:CBS All Access - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:21] <exec> 08└─If CBS wanted my money, they'd put this on Netflix. I'm not subscribing to a monthly service for a single TV show I may or may not like (doubtful I would, since this is done by the same buffoons who were behind JJ's crappy movies), so BitTorrent it is.
[00:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing the idealism is being all high and mighty and allowing an entire planet of sentient beings to die of a natural disaster. Picard could have saved that planet, was told he could save them and not even have to tell them he was saving them and thus not interfere with their natural develop...
[00:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:R+D - 06Glowforge Claims $28M in Pre-Orders - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:17] <exec> 08└─DONE! https://www.kickstarter.com [kickstarter.com] Admittedly, FSL is providing software and control on a laser almost identical to that 500 dollar laser on Amazon. Unfortunately, from what I've read these lasers still suck and the sup...
[00:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:systemd shim - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:50] <exec> 08└─GNOME could keep moving into systemd territory until even a shim is not enough. So what's the problem exactly? No one's forcing you to use Gnome, and it's a piece of crap anyway. Why everyone seems to think Gnome is the de-facto standard Linux desktop environment is beyond me. It's the absolute wor...
[00:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:52] <exec> 08└─Except that GTK+ is used in Gnome3, which is absolute worst desktop environment available on Linux. It's a terrible toolkit to work with, and is so crappy that the low-resource LXDE has switched to Qt. That's great that RH contributed to the kernel (but only 1/6 of it, so don't pretend like the majo...
[00:48:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] 02Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 968 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:51] <exec> 08└─It's a tough one. I've done this for a few "grandmas" and it can be difficult for them to adapt to new user interfaces. I've been burned by the Windows 10 update once, and I don't trust previous Windows versions to not dark pattern a naive user into "upgrading". I don't think simply turning off upda...
[00:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:26] <exec> 08└─WTF? This is cruel and inhuman advice. "Get her a nice Windows 10 PC/laptop"? "tell her how much you love her"? Giving someone a stinky turd straight from your ass while telling them you love them is generally considered horribly rude, disgusting, and disrespectful behavior. You would make someone a...
[00:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Interesting - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:35] <exec> 08└─It's really intriguing why usually on both the green and this site, any submission about solar energy gets chopped down in the comments. It's always but this, but that. Why is that?
[00:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good laws don't need to keep up with technology - 06The Law Can’t Keep Up With Technology…and That’s a Very Good Thing - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:40] <exec> 08└─That's why we don't have "vehicular manslaughter."
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[01:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:07] <exec> 08└─That valuation is simply put, insane. They are a one hit wonder, most of the revenue is already banked and does anyone think there is another five billion worth of in-app purchases left in the Candy Crush Saga players? Plus all of those inane TV ads have to keep being paid for to keep the idiots pla...
[01:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:08] <exec> 08└─It's not too far from other recent valuations for holders of massive customer databases full of excessively personal info. Oh, and this one makes an old game, too.
[01:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2, Informative) 02Sniff Sniff - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:10] <exec> 08└─What is this that I smell? another video game industry crash? Seriously this is getting out of hand, micro-payments, aggressive drm, badly thought out yearly releases of the same game and top it all up with an economic bubble
[01:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:48] <exec> 08└─It's more like this: Unscrupulous businessman - "I have a useless product, X, which nobody will buy because it's expensive and useless. People prefer product Y which is out of patent and the competition is making for cents on the dollar." Advisor - "Looks like a solution looking for a problem. We ca...
[01:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:50] <exec> 08└─Skeptics will say, "I'm not doing anything about it until you prove we know EXACTLY how we are screwing it up."
[01:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:52] <exec> 08└─They used a new measuring tool, and they got different results than the older tools. How do you go from that to "we know nothing"? Maybe there are things you just don't want to know? You're sitting in a bar. You count the money in your pocket three times. The first two times you get $52.55. The thir...
[01:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:The end.. - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 1619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:02] <exec> 08└─C'mon, AC! Learn from the masters! Just look at frojack's post above. It is a thing of beauty. First, do NOT use terms like "myth", "fraud", "hoax", or "lie". If you do, everyone will know you are a climate denier and stop reading. Instead, just mildly suggest that the source for the article is "odd...
[01:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score:1) 02Re:just more bullshit - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:05] <exec> 08└─From what ive read the increasing antarctic ice just confirms a warming trend in that the surface ice over the land is melting and when it gets to the sea it refreezes.
[01:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Ocean levels will still rise - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:06] <exec> 08└─There are multiple contributors to sea levels rising, and a particularly important one is the fact that warming sea levels cause thermal expansion which *could* have a massive impact on sea levels. I don't recall how much exactly, or how much of a contribution it would make in comparison with the en...
[01:46:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 1469 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:30] <exec> 08└─Pass. Every Trek series has went downhill with the exception of parts of DS9 which bucked the trend. The problem is the producers are captured by SJWs. The original ST:TOS has a little Cultural Marxism but the later incarnations were rancid. Picard was a pussy who was content to just sit on his ass...
[01:46:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:33] <exec> 08└─Agree on the ripping off of B5. If you want to see what SciFi can be, watch Babylon 5. The low budget got in the way at times but the quality of the storytelling beat the snot out of all but a couple of isolated Trek scripts. Thank heaven it ended before 9/11 though because JMS would have probably h...
[01:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:51] <exec> 08└─The second case was actually in the first season (coincidentally, I just watched it within the last week; s1e13). And Archer did seem rather out of character to just say "oh alright" under the circumstances. Although T'Pol for the entire show so far had been telling him to stop trying to help people...
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[01:47:56] <exec> 08└─KDE for one doesn't require systemd, and never will because KDE actually cares about running on non-Linux platforms (esp. the BSDs).
[01:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:59] <exec> 08└─RedHat does not deserve to be on this list. Everything they do is open-source and GPL, to a fault; new installs of Fedora need external repos for even multimedia codecs and freetype rendered fonts. RedHat has developed almost everything we have come to associate with a FOSS desktop, from GTK+ to Net...
[01:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:The editors are just trolling us now - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:04] <exec> 08└─Headline: The stupid; it burns!!
[01:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Herpes - 06You Probably Have Herpes, the WHO Says - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:30] <exec> 08└─Nah... Not only I didn't show any symptoms, when I got back from leave, over half my unit were tested positive for either or both. Well, the base doctor didn't even flinch. Though I'm guessing he was mostly relieved at that point considering the previous year's triple outbreaks of base wide dysenter...
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[02:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02One thing I've learned at my age - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:57] <exec> 08└─is never trust a fart.
[02:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:08] <exec> 08└─The IP will be worthless and the user base will be gone within 5 years. These things are a terrible investment after they've already made it big. Apparently Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) had their profit fall 73% in 2014. It would make more sense to invest in these things as some kind of limited partn...
[02:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:51] <exec> 08└─Imagine if the global warming researchers were in charge of SETI, just considering the endless news releases we would get blows my mind. "Its ALIENS!" "Did you rule out Satellites?" "Now we did. Its ALIENS!" "Did you rule out pulsars?" "Now we did. Its ALIENS!" "Did you rule out reflections from spa...
[02:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd Study - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:56] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting point. So if sats' optics are degrading... what other components are also degrading, and which other measurements might be therefore inaccurate??
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[03:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:One thing I've learned at my age - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:56] <exec> 08└─Well, not an old fart, like me, anyway. Anyway, I'm willing to donate to this project. Anything I can do to help my fellow man/woman. :)
[03:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:One thing I've learned at my age - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:57] <exec> 08└─Not me, I'm holding out. It worked with mom, it will work with these guys too.
[03:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why not pet waste? - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:59] <exec> 08└─Is "waste" meaning poop? Because my dogs generate a lot of steaming piles.
[03:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Flame toilets - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:01] <exec> 08└─Makes me remember flame toilets, I was considering one of these for our cabin: http://www.storburn.ca [storburn.ca] but before I bought it, the factory burned down - I took that as a sign.
[03:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Flame toilets - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe their misleading marketing should have been a sign. Burns either propane or natural gas ... NON-POLLUTING The STORBURN toilet is self-contained and does not discharge any effluent into the soil or harmful gas into the atmosphere. All that remains after the incinerator cycle is sterile ash.
[03:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Unity - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:04] <exec> 08└─This sounds sort of like some energy fantasy. If I understand this correctly, if we collected the crap of every person on the planet, we could provide enough energy for 1.9% of the world's population. Of course to get all of that crap, you'd have to drive bazillions of miles through remote locations...
[03:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:14] <exec> 08└─It does move Activation into mobile devices, where they have been struggling to produce anything of interest. If the Candy Crush designers have even one more hit using their current engine they may pay for themselves in a year. But mostly I suspect its an IP grab.
[03:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:16] <exec> 08└─The IP will be worthless and the user base will be gone within 5 years.
[03:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:18] <exec> 08└─If you're trying to convince the guys who brought you Call of Duty: Modern Black Warfare Ops XXIV that they need to be original to keep selling... Well friend, you're barking at the wrong tree. Besides, they're probably right. If the same bored office workers can keep on playing solitaire and minesw...
[03:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Frozen Bubble - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:20] <exec> 08└─But why pay microtransactions for Bubble Witch when Frozen Bubble is free and Free?
[03:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a surpise - 06Early Life Stress and Adolescent Depression Linked to Impaired Development of Reward Circuits - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:31] <exec> 08└─Don't forget genetics... Yeah, people treated you like crap and that made things worse, but a lot of this was decided before you were born. On the bright side, you are in control of your decisions... maybe not your moods, but if you don't let emotion get on top of the pre-frontal cortex, your decisi...
[03:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Online only... - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:41] <exec> 08└─They can stream it without commercials, or with deleted scenes or some other added value to get the viewer to pay for the service.
[03:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Online only... - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:43] <exec> 08└─The pilot episode will air on TV, the rest will be available at your favorite torrent site.
[03:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:58] <exec> 08└─I gotta agree, first season of B5 was fucking awful for just about any reason you can name. It got radically better later on, tho IMO was always rather uneven. But I thought the spinoff Crusade was generally pretty good, at least if you like character-driven stuff, and Peter Woodward was fantastic....
[03:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Enterprise was kinda like reading a history book. Lots of "Oh, that's what happened" type background on the rest of the franchise, which I appreciated. It had its problems (I had to just ignore their one-note technobabble -- everything is a relay!) but the whole ended up surprisingly good.
[03:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:00] <exec> 08└─You're *really* stretching the definition of side-loading to fit what Apple allows.
[03:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:systemd shim - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:15] <exec> 08└─I sometimes wonder if the systemd encroachment is nothing more than the systemd guys doing a "because we can". On the other hand, some folks just don't like change such as init scripts - sorry to offend anyone, but the flexibility of scripts is not something you want in a system directory. And I hav...
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[04:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Seaweed tastes good and is good for you - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:53] <exec> 08└─When I lived in Santa Cruz I would eat the kelp that washed up on the beach. The Japanese are heavily into eating seaweed but Westerners only eat it when they dine at Japanese restaurants. Kelp grows like weeds in much of the world's oceans. I once met a scuba diver who had thousands of dives in his...
[04:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Bacon crisis? - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:54] <exec> 08└─Sigh, you can't replace animal products with plant products and call the problem solved. Sure, it might taste good, but a bit of bacon isn't going to kill anybody. Humans are omnivores, we do best when we eat a diet that contains both meat and vegetables. But, we don't have to have the vegetables at...
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[04:44:55] <exec> 08└─Dulse.
[04:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Flame toilets - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:09] <exec> 08└─Depends on your definition of pollution and harmful gas, I suppose. They're supposed to smell like singed hair when "cycling" and they can't smell too good between cycles. All in all, I think the composting approach is better, if conventional septic systems aren't an option.
[04:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Unity - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:11] <exec> 08└─Plus, it'd probably be better used as agricultural fertilizer. I bet you could get better energy return doing that BTW.
[04:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:26] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, all of these types of games end up showing some signs that people get tired of the gameplay and/or become less susceptible to the monetization scheme. Even with a new coat of pant one or two times per year it starts to wear thinner as time goes on and you have to come up with s...
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[04:45:29] <exec> 08└─Just like a lot of other tech mergers, in a year or two, there will be a 90+% writedown of the "asset", with an "oh, well, at least we tried".
[04:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not a surpise - 06Early Life Stress and Adolescent Depression Linked to Impaired Development of Reward Circuits - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:45] <exec> 08└─I think it's pretty well established that mental health isn't just nature or nurture, people with mental illness tend to get it from both sides. The findings of the paper are certainly consistent with my personal life experience. It's difficult to get enthused about anything when you're surrounded b...
[04:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Author Networks - 06Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:58] <exec> 08└─They should create graphs of who has published with who on the results returned from the search.
[04:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The end.. - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:30] <exec> 08└─If it's not easy, you can bet it's the right course of action!
[04:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What for? - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:51] <exec> 08└─For example I recently did this. I suggested an iPad almost immediately.
[04:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:50:11] <exec> 08└─Just wait for Black Friday and get her a nice new Windows 10 PC/laptop or maybe something from Apple. She's your grandmother and this may be her last computer, get her something nice and tell her how much you lover her.
[04:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Charging when? - 06Solar Vehicle Charging at Home - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:51:11] <exec> 08└─Grid tie is useful, but it doesn't make it work here in Oz. Now that the gov subsidies are ending and FIT contracts expiring, the power companies meter both ways and pay ~6 cents/kwHr in, and charge ~28 cents back out. So every Kw/hr you "store" for later still costs you 22 cents. (At the same time...
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[04:53:59] <exec> 08└─When I lived alone in Miami, during non AC months the power company charged me less for usage than their "customer charge" and other fixed fees - my total bill was running under $20 per month. Add a wife and two kids, double the size of the house, and now we're lucky to see the bill under $200 per m...
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[04:54:00] <exec> 08└─I live in a 2000 square foot house in Florida, I've lived 4 similar Florida houses over the past couple of decades. Our power bills run about $0.10 per square foot per month most of the year, up to $0.20 psf during the hottest summer months. The power company (and my "smart" thermostat) says our con...
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[07:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:36] <exec> 08└─It seems that they just don't get that privacy is a basic human right; or that it is completely possible to have unbreakable encription that there is no "service provider" or "tech company" involved at all. But then again maybe they do and if you use self signed keys to encrypt stuff then you will b...
[07:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Ah, the conspiracy nuts vindication - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:44] <exec> 08└─1) Sell books and ebooks below cost for a 20 consecutive years, 2) Kill off all the book stores, then 3) Open your own book store. 4) build a big cloud company 5) Profit! And they saw this conspiracy from day One! Such presence!
[07:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Seaweed tastes good and is good for you - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:54] <exec> 08└─There is a reason most salt water farms are located in the sea itself or use water piped from it: Salt water tanks are rather expensive (esp. large scale) and relatively high maintenance; but doable. Not sure how cost effective it would be though. Lobsters are probably not going to help that equatio...
[07:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02argh^1000 - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:02] <exec> 08└─I hate the word "bofin" beyond rational measure, but I can sometimes get around it because it is some Brittishism or whatever. But American B----???? fuck. I couldn't even finish TFS. Bof this you bofin speakers!
[07:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lack of appreciation of the term ''boffin'' - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I can tell. You didn't even bother to put the 2nd f in it. I'm USAian and I really like it. I thought El Reg's headline was perfect, so I left it as-is. The closest we have to "boffin" this side of the pond is "egghead". -- gewg_
[07:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wrong texture. - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:05] <exec> 08└─Bacon is crunchy and about 1/16 inch thick. Dulse I've had raw in the past, was closer to 1/64 inches thick. Even if frying it makes it crunchy, the difference in thickness means that the mouthfeel will never be the same. Give me bacon and give me death. Some pleasures are worth dying young for.
[07:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:Unity - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:20] <exec> 08└─If you claim (or suggest so) that this won't pay off, you should support it by numbers. How much infrastructure do you actually need per unit of energy production? Also, you may not need to add new infrastructure that would otherwise not be built. If a sewage treatment plant needs to be upgraded any...
[07:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Unity - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:21] <exec> 08└─Well then make it a health issue and deal with that, but don't feed us BS about what an amazing energy source this would be, because it isn't when it is so widely distributed that the extra 1.9% in usable gas you'd get by collecting it all, would be consumed by the vastly greater amount of energy ob...
[07:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whaddya know? - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:22] <exec> 08└─Conservatives were right all along: green energy is full of shit!
[07:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:37] <exec> 08└─This news article: http://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com] suggests that part of the draw was the percentage of women that Candy Crush type games reel in. That might mean that the historical track record of the ga...
[07:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Sniff Sniff - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:43] <exec> 08└─"Is this another game industry crash?" We can only hope. The state of things is abysmal.
[07:48:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Online only... - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:12] <exec> 08└─The pilot episode will air on TV, the rest will be available at your favorite torrent site.
[07:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:systemd shim - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:49:36] <exec> 08└─KDE for one doesn't require systemd, and never will because KDE actually cares about running on non-Linux platforms (esp. the BSDs).
[07:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:Be nice to grandma... - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:51:17] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I was going to say. Best use for her likely is a new machine running current Windows, with auto updates enabled. It may not be what any of us would want, but it's likely what she needs.
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[08:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02East Podunk - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:37] <exec> 08└─Not every place in the world has has a cloud. Some small countries, even some off the coast of Australia, are lucky enough to have electricity, let alone a reliable internet.
[08:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Re:East Podunk - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:38] <exec> 08└─It's called New Zealand you insensitive clod
[08:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:East Podunk - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:39] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more North than East. The Kiwis pretty much got their shit together.
[08:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Powell's Bookstore - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:56] <exec> 08└─Portland? I believe they are going after Powell's bookstore. From Googling "Powell's city of books" [google.com]... Powell's City of Books at Burnside www.powells.com/locations/powells-city-of-books Powell's Books Powell's City of Books is the largest used and new bookstore in the world, occupying...
[08:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Powell's Bookstore - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:57] <exec> 08└─Amazon said they have no plans to open any other stores, at this time. But if they did, you can be sure it wouldn't be in Portland.
[08:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Lack of appreciation of the term ''boffin'' - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:15] <exec> 08└─Why can't we leave it as just "scientist"?
[08:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of appreciation of the term ''boffin'' - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:16] <exec> 08└─Boffin has connotation of person sitting in lab cackling manically while fizzy potions pop and things explode. It makes things a little light hearted.
[08:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too thin for a direct replacement - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:19] <exec> 08└─the difference in thickness means that the mouthfeel will never be the same Well, it is patented. How much genetic engineering did they have to do to warrant that? Would just a bit more effort get it to grow thicker? Develop a lamination process? Use it as-is make a bacon sandwich that is 33 percent...
[08:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Too thin for a direct replacement - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:20] <exec> 08└─Well, it is patented.
[08:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02a good start - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:22] <exec> 08└─I'll raise my antennas only when somebody emulates s.daniele or parma ham, compared to which bacon tastes like algae.
[08:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:This only proves that we know nothing - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:52] <exec> 08└─We know that we're pumping energy into a chaotic system. We know that, when you pump energy into a chaotic system then it will either settle at a new equilibrium, or it will oscillate unpredictably. We know that there are two stable states for this system where humans would find it very hard, if not...
[08:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:The end.. - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:08] <exec> 08└─And it could NOT be the right action, since it requires such finely honed deception in order to be possible at all.
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[09:45:41] <exec> 08└─North Korea doesn't need electricity, you decadent barbarian.
[09:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Re:East Podunk - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:42] <exec> 08└─The Kiwis pretty much got their shit together.
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[09:46:43] <exec> 08└─you'd have to drive bazillions of miles
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[10:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Glorious Penguin Piss! - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:57] <exec> 08└─Gimme that good stuff!! Pee directly into my mouth!!!
[10:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Neat idea - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:10] <exec> 08└─So, instead of carrying your passport with you, you will have to carry some other form of photo id so that authorities can confirm who you are and retrieve your passport data.
[10:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Not a good idea perhaps...? - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:11] <exec> 08└─With various Governments' current record of security, I'm not sure that putting every passport holder's details into the 'cloud' is such a good idea. Maybe a few 10's of thousands of passports are reported missing each year, but that is significantly better than every passport being compromised, eve...
[10:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:21] <exec> 08└─In the UK you are required to provide your keys or face 2 years jail: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] As for NZ where you presumably are: http://www.stuff.co.nz [stuff.co.nz] Popular Li...
[10:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:23] <exec> 08└─Well, with one-time pads, you can create as many "decrypted" versions as you want. It works as follows: Step 1: You have your secret data (S), create a one-time pad and encrypt it with that pad. Now you have an encrypted text (E) and a big key (K). Step 2: You have harmless replacement data (R). You...
[10:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Eskimo diet - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:46] <exec> 08└─The Japanese, French and Scandinavians seem to live quite long and supposedly have healthy diets that aren't even close to vegetarian - significant amounts of fish or even meat.
[10:46:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02How is it on a sandwich with lettuce and tomato? - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:49] <exec> 08└─"When you fry this algae, it tastes just like bacon." "Oh? That's really cool. What kind of oil do you fry it in?" "Bacon grease."
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[10:49:16] <exec> 08└─I recall watching DS9, (and TNG, VOY) on Free-to-view BBC2. Did they skip season 5? (I know for certain that season 6 was on BBC2, as I bought some Dominion War novels in Canada, and later saw the stories broadcast on TV in the UK)
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[11:46:08] <exec> 08└─The Brits have never gotten basic human rights. Magna Carta, after all, was a statement of landed baron's rights versus the crown and didn't free any serfs. The English Civil War was about religion, not parliamentary authority per se.
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[11:46:29] <exec> 08└─Why wouldn't their lives be shorter? That's not a dietary problem beyond possible starvation. These are people living in the extreme north prior to the invention of modern transportation. You make it sound like the lack of veggies made them malnourished. And that's not really the case.
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[12:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Australia Post - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:39] <exec> 08└─Australia Post may try to innovate, but it won't help if they can't get the basics right. I'm based in Australia, and the company I work for has completely stopped using Australia Post. They misplace so much stuff that if we absolutely have to send a hard copy document it's worth spending the $10 on...
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[12:45:40] <exec> 08└─either that or the people hired to fill out the postal address on the envelopes are retards
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[12:45:42] <exec> 08└─Completely agree, AU post lost so much market share by adjusting too slowly to the technological advances. The drone delivery may give them back the edge, if they were not completely useless. Few more examples of how "great" they are: 1. Express post next day guaranteed delivery from Sydney to Melbo...
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[12:45:44] <exec> 08└─when the robot and drone armies become sentient, we can take comfort knowing that at least they aren't human
[12:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:45] <exec> 08└─Seriously. They deliver more stuff to more people in more places more accurately more efficiently than any other organization on the planet. And their system? Some of it is super-fancy technology like very good OCR. Some of it is hand-sorting. They adjust what they're doing so that they aren't tryin...
[12:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Whaddya know? - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:13] <exec> 08└─Not sure what you been eating, I'd call mine more like brown energy.
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[13:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Powell's Bookstore - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:32] <exec> 08└─Did you see the Amazon store has only 6k titles? I don't think they're after a City of Books. A normal B&N store has triple that amount in stock, let alone a City of Books with millions of titles.
[13:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Might as well - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:33] <exec> 08└─Amazon might as well go into brick-and-mortar retail, because their price advantage in books has been wiped out in the past few years. Publishers have increased the cover prices of their books by a substantial amount over the past few years so that they can give the expected 25-40% online discount....
[13:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Might as well - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:35] <exec> 08└─It could be Kindle Fire Phone bad. But we will see. Maybe starting to show profit made them yearn for the simpler, good old days.
[13:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Turnabout is fair play - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:37] <exec> 08└─Amazon has been using B&N as its showroom since the get-go. Barnes and Noble should send marketers over to camp out (covertly) in Amazon's new bookstore and copy any promotion or innovation that looks good.
[13:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bacon crisis? - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:52] <exec> 08└─I don't know a single damn person who's giving up bacon over that news of the latest thing that's bad for you, the whole "crisis" is only in the heads of the media. It's like the BPA thing, most people either didn't care or don't even know why "BPA-free" is listed on plastic bottles in the first pla...
[13:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of appreciation of the term ''boffin'' - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:59] <exec> 08└─yes, an almost mad scientist. Or mad but not evilly mad. Tesla would be a boffin, but not mad. Unless you had a capitalistic plan that was researched by the Heartland Institute, then Tesla would have been marketed as mad, but he'd be too busy doing his thing to care and history would note that he wa...
[13:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Unity - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:21] <exec> 08└─It's already being done in many places. NYC does it, though, the exact percentage of solids used for fertilizer isn't listed: http://www.nyc.gov [nyc.gov]
[13:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unity - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:24] <exec> 08└─This UN(?) outfit is making the proposal, they are the one that must come up with numbers, convincing numbers instead of some vague aggregates.
[13:48:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02Re:Odd Study - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses [nasa.gov] https://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] Don't read the headlines. Read the whole articles.
[13:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02HERE'S WHY!!!!!!!!!!111111 - 06Google Tests Its Ad Tech On Billboards. Here's Why. - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:10] <exec> 08└─That's a clickbait headline. Don't do that.
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[14:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wait for it... - 06Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound to Help the Blind See - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:38] <exec> 08└─Google announces "Glass for the Blind" featuring an ad-supported "enhanced audio experience".
[14:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02CRAN and R-Forge - 06Open Source R Code to Get New Hub With Help From the Linux Foundation - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:46] <exec> 08└─I'm a little confused, I've used CRAN and R-Forge looks interesting. So this is a third competitor because of NIH or its intended to wipe out CRAN and R-Forge or they're actually re-launching R-Forge and pretending the old one doesn't exist or is it a political thing where people aren't getting alon...
[14:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:00] <exec> 08└─If you're rich, you're used to everybody jumping to your command immediately. By contrast, the post office is dedicated to serving everybody equally, so you'll wait in line just like everybody else even if you're Bill Gates.
[14:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Google drones - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:01] <exec> 08└─Mark my words, these things will be found to "accidentally" do Google's spying missions, peeping into our houses as they deliver packages.
[14:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02The other story - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:10] <exec> 08└─http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-3-released-after-linus-torvalds-scraps-brain-damage-code/ [zdnet.com] This one had me laughing. Linux didn't throw a fit, no one took offense and walked away, no one got offended. 4.3? Sounds boooring. I'm rather amused at Linus' antics, personally. He may be a l...
[14:46:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02Not a good idea perhaps...? - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 1006 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:24] <exec> 08└─With various Governments' current record of security, I'm not sure that putting every passport holder's details into the 'cloud' is such a good idea. Maybe a few 10's of thousands of passports are reported missing each year, but that is significantly better than every passport being compromised, eve...
[14:46:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 1098 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:34] <exec> 08└─Well, with one-time pads, you can create as many "decrypted" versions as you want. It works as follows: Step 1: You have your secret data (S), create a one-time pad and encrypt it with that pad. Now you have an encrypted text (E) and a big key (K). Step 2: You have harmless replacement data (R). You...
[14:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:36] <exec> 08└─Sure, just memorize two 4GB one time pads.
[14:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02So public key cryptography is fine? - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:39] <exec> 08└─Public key cryptography is not unbreakable. It will just take you a very long time to break it. Moreover, if you have a working quantum computer, you can break it in reasonable time. Therefore I conclude public key cryptography is safe from this law. :-)
[14:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:3, Interesting) 02History of DES - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:40] <exec> 08└─There's an interesting history bit from the development of DES: It was known to _some_ that a new technique, differential cryptanalysis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis [wikipedia.org]) could be used to attack such ciphers. IBM conferred with the NSA and the DES released to...
[14:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Log? - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─I've got a log for them - they better get it quick before I flush. WTF does anyone put up with this crap? I mean, even if you grew up in a country where the crown can put you in prison for stupid crap, WTF put up with it? Have yourselvses a nice little revolution, and tell the successors they better...
[14:47:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Unity - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 823 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:37] <exec> 08└─This sounds sort of like some energy fantasy. If I understand this correctly, if we collected the crap of every person on the planet, we could provide enough energy for 1.9% of the world's population. Of course to get all of that crap, you'd have to drive bazillions of miles through remote locations...
[14:49:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Odd Study - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:00] <exec> 08└─It seems like an odd study, it mentions no clear publication date. The full text [ingentaconnect.com] is available on line and contains only the statement: MS received 9 May 2015 and accepted in revised form 19 September 2015
[14:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft reformed? - 06Microsoft-Connected Xamarin Demolishes the Freedom of Android - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:52] <exec> 08└─I never called what Apple now allows users to do "sideloading". The only times I used that word were when I said "although you can't just sideload pre-built iOS apps like Android" and that it "is more secure than Android sideloading". And, if WillR's comment [soylentnews.org] is accurate, Google is...
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[15:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02.mil - 06Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound to Help the Blind See - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:41] <exec> 08└─I always assumed this kind of tech would come from .mil first, so you got 25 webcams on a tank and nobody can sneak up on it. They've got the money and motivation. The idea being that your average sleep deprived private has less than 180 degrees field of vision, but a magic sound system like this co...
[15:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:03] <exec> 08└─I get more courtesy, professionalism, and attention to detail from the teenager who bags my groceries at the supermarket than I do from the people who work at the USPS.
[15:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:04] <exec> 08└─His problem is they aren't going out of business or rebranding like other corporations "are supposed to do". And they're national so everyone in the country gets in on the hate. My MiL still hates this sub chain that went out of business about a decade ago. I would imagine people younger than twenty...
[15:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Google drones - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:06] <exec> 08└─our houses
[15:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Linux-libre 4.3 is out as well - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:17] <exec> 08└─Now with added extra freedom, like usually. Say no to blobs. http://www.fsfla.org [fsfla.org]
[15:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:East Podunk - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:29] <exec> 08└─we still have so much "not together"
[15:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neat idea - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:31] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Sounds to me like we just scrapped passports. Just use your driver ID... o_O
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a good idea perhaps...? - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─"We think it will go global."
[15:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:47] <exec> 08└─It seems that they just don't get that privacy is a basic human right
[15:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Log? - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:51] <exec> 08└─WTF put up with it? Have yourselvses a nice little revolution, and tell the successors they better learn a lesson.
[15:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Turnabout is fair play - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─For books only, BN already has a better deal online than Amazon. BN and Amazon almost always have the same online price for a given book. BN has regular coupons. Their free-shipping membership is much cheaper than Prime. (The only time BN loses badly online is when they sometimes randomly and inexpl...
[15:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Seaweed tastes good and is good for you - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:18] <exec> 08└─There are edible and useful things all around us that most people in modern society don't recognise as such. Example: I live in Brooklyn in the middle of one of the most urbanized environments on Earth. Even here there are a lot of wild edibles and useful materials you can collect. Mulberry trees, g...
[15:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Boffin - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:36] <exec> 08└─Boffin sounds like a plush toy that you trip on in the middle of the night because your toddler left it in the hallway.
[15:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Parsimony - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:01] <exec> 08└─To me closed loops are more appealing from an efficiency perspective. NYC produces a lot of sewage, and instead of being flushed out to sea it would be good to use it as an input into another useful application, like producing electricity, biogas, or for composting into fertilizer. Naturally doing t...
[15:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─If the Candy Crush designers have even one more hit using their current engine they may pay for themselves in a year.
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:15] <exec> 08└─What IP is there to grab? There's nothing remarkable about the code behind that game. They got lucky with an initial combination, a la the Eternal Golden Braid, and then the MBAs moved in and fucked it up.
[15:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06New Online Star Trek Series in 2017 - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:18] <exec> 08└─I started watching seriously a few episodes in to season two and it worked for me. Although at some point (during season three?) I did watch season one. There are events in season one that have significant payoffs later. I remember the season one stories being tough to watch on their own but boy did...
[15:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 7 - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:52] <exec> 08└─In my experience XFCE is a lot more intuitive than KDE when coming from Windows. One launcher menu and a taskbar is what these people need. NOt friggin "Plasma active activities" whatevertf those are.
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[16:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:12] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's reasoning for the OneDrive storage offering downgrades: "A small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average."
[16:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:13] <exec> 08└─See, I'd be more concerned about "suddenly reduced available hardware at the whim of a corporation" Their service had a feature that people liked, and because they couldn't make enough of a profit on delivering what they promised, they just deliver something else instead.
[16:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:14] <exec> 08└─If microsoft can tell what's stored there, they can read what's stored there. That means no (or transparent to microsoft) encryption. Which means unknown third parties accessing my data.
[16:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:16] <exec> 08└─If you offer "unlimited", do not be surprised when some users take you at your word and try to use an "unlimited" amount.
[16:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zappy [4210] (Score:1) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:18] <exec> 08└─Well "unlimited" (marketing speak) hasn't really been unlimited http://www.merriam-webster.com [merriam-webster.com] for some time now. Why act surprised.
[16:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:20] <exec> 08└─Now, you get UNLIMITED* storage for you photos, videos and documents! *Actual capacity lower. See our web site for details.
[16:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Poor microsoft - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:21] <exec> 08└─Poor, poor microsoft... Getting so abused by their users who take advantage of microsoft's pure goodness of letting them pay for an unlimited account. So much abuse that they have to suffer. Won't you take pity on them?
[16:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hunchentoot [4874] (Score:1) 02Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:23] <exec> 08└─One of the reason I quit reading slashdot was because the community had a pattern of posting information laced with so much FUD that it became a waste of time to bother reading. Microsoft in particular was something people seemed to especially enjoy publishing failures as news stories. Predictably a...
[16:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait for it... - 06Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound to Help the Blind See - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:30] <exec> 08└─Blind man walks past McDonalds... "Hungry? How about a Big Mac value meal! Walk past starbucks.... "How about a nice tall iced mocha latte with a cappuccino blast topped off with whipped cream!" Walks past a Wal-Mart... "Stop in for huge savings on items like fake christmas trees and cook ware!" Bli...
[16:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:55] <exec> 08└─Of course, the problem with going out of business periodically is that all the institutional knowledge goes away with it. The other thing is that the USPS does a lot of things that are unprofitable but extremely useful, like - Creating and managing a consistent and clear addressing system for every...
[16:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:56] <exec> 08└─4. The existence of junk mail. Don't forget the piles of waste that you can only get through first class presorted mail.
[16:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02related video - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:00] <exec> 08└─Someone made a video about advances in automation, with an emphasis on automated vehicles, called "Humans Need not Apply": https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:The other story - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:11] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say flaky. Out there? Yes. GNU, the OS, actually works. And it was working by 1989 with a full suite of userland tools, services and compilers. It just so happens that Linus got his kernel working and made a useable OS out of GNU before there was a useable Hurd kernel. Linux was released...
[16:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Neat idea - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:28] <exec> 08└─Technically you only need use "someone's" drivers license or ID card, not necessarily yours. This could get really weird WRT immigration. Policy is to issue IDs pretty much for the asking and punish violations after they are detected, if they punish at all. (Your state may vary). "So Mr. VLM your pa...
[16:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Informative) 02Access to the data - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:49] <exec> 08└─Is this what the former British Empire has come to? Pathetic... As I recall, some thirty eight classes of agencies are intended to have access to the data, all the way down to local councils (i.e. local town governments). The justification for the legislation is, of course, fighting serious crimes l...
[16:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Turnabout is fair play - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:17] <exec> 08└─> Even if books were slightly more expensive in stores, people would pay the difference to get away from shipping and having to get a package. Every time I see a package on my front porch, I figure I just saved a minimum of an hour driving around to find and buy something.
[16:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:The Eskimo diet - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:39] <exec> 08└─I [harvard.edu] won't [livescience.com] make [npr.org] any [washingtonpost.com] value [sciencemag.org] judgements [livescience.com]. Just sayin'.
[16:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Sniff Sniff - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:46] <exec> 08└─Exactly. When the money people descend, you know a thing is about to crash & burn.
[16:57:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmoschner [3296] 02Re:Tough one - 06Ask Soylent: What Computer to Get Grandma - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:57:17] <exec> 08└─Don't rule out a Chromebook. Cheaper to buy/replace and less on the machine software wise to maintain. If someone is already on board the google ecosystem it makes it that much easier.
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[17:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:42] <exec> 08└─... but also avoid 'services' that access your data. I seem to remember Microsoft's "Don't get Scroogled" campaign. Now they're sucking up personal information with Windows 10, looking at what's stored on OneDrive, etc. Nice.
[17:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:43] <exec> 08└─Clearly, you must be a pedo who is hiding all his pedo-things in OneDrive. What other reason could you have to make your data inaccessible to Microsoft and your friendly LEOs? Did I mention that the LEOs are your friend? THere is no reason not to trust them. They have your best interest at heart cit...
[17:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:45] <exec> 08└─75 TB is about 16,000 DVDs (assuming that each DVD is filled to capacity, which they rarely are, so the actual number would be even higher). So I doubt that "movie collections" is the actual reason, some spokesman probably just pulled that out of his ass. Otherwise, yeah, you're right.
[17:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:47] <exec> 08└─DVDs are old-skool. Blue-ray and 4K are the pirates' booty now.
[17:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:49] <exec> 08└─Chances are that the people with Tb's didn't really car about encryption anyway - it wasn't "private" information, mostly commercial movies, etc., which may be why it was unencrypted. Anyone with a brain storing confidential information of any amount would presumably be encrypting it and not show up...
[17:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:50] <exec> 08└─> No Thanks, I'll keep my files where I can control them. Yeah... about that... didn't you get the memo about MS, Google and Apple agreeing that local storage is bad for you? Expect them to buy WD, Seagate and the others pretty soon, to "shore up [their] own supply", and discontinue customer product...
[17:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:52] <exec> 08└─Well it's worked for ISPs and cell providers, so why not MS?
[17:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:54] <exec> 08└─More importantly, Don't use it as an excuse to punish honest customers making reasonable use of it (the average user was using MORE than their arbitrary low limit anyway!), because you were an idiot and promised the world to those who would instantly take advantage of your offers to the maximum.
[17:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─Unlike YCombinator, this site is not yet big enough for Microsoft to pay people so that you see "both sides of the coin".
[17:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hunchentoot [4874] (Score:1) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:59] <exec> 08└─If that is the prevailing community attitude then it never will be as big or respectable as a news source.
[17:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:01] <exec> 08└─The only criterion for respectability is adherence to the truth, and that's not even done in the summary or the article but in the comments, so whine less and inform more :)
[17:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:02] <exec> 08└─I would rather be factual than respected. The respect I value the most is self-respect.
[17:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:04] <exec> 08└─Instead of complaining, how about writing one of those thoughtful posts that talks about the other side of this story?
[17:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hunchentoot [4874] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:06] <exec> 08└─Youre right. Posting a thoughtful article takes time and research. I'm already spending too much time just replying to your comment during my day. For now I am just read-only however your statement stands, if my convictions were stronger I would participate more directly.
[17:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03drpylons [5057] (Score:1) 0275 TB? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:07] <exec> 08└─That's a hell of a lot of porn, yo.
[17:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Training - 06Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound to Help the Blind See - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:15] <exec> 08└─Tested on the device, blind people with no experience of using it were able to match the shapes to the sounds as often as those who had been trained
[17:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:40] <exec> 08└─They deliver more stuff to more people in more places more accurately more efficiently than any other organization on the planet.
[17:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02God's Gift to Muggers ? - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:44] <exec> 08└─FTFA :- Starship's robots can drive intelligently on the sidewalks at pedestrian speeds. They know their location and can navigate .... whilst seamlessly merging with pedestrian traffic. The robots can detect obstacles, adjust speed or stop and safely cross the streets.
[17:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Google maps cannot find my house - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:45] <exec> 08└─How will their drones find it? I would think a giant air cannon shooting my packages to me would be more reliable.
[17:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Most advanced, stable - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Most advanced, stable - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:58] <exec> 08└─> I was getting tired of the less-advanced-than-before releases. Me too, which is why I haven't updated any of my android apps in over a year. Every app I liked keeps updating with more bloatware. Security? I'm still on android 4.1, so that's a lost cause.
[17:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a good idea perhaps...? - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:17] <exec> 08└─I am not 100% sure, but I believe this is only a "cloud" fancy way to make news. AFAIK, most countries have their passport databases with some sort of online access even today. Whether they've been broken into, we'll not really find out until somebody comes out (with this info)
[17:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Turnabout is fair play - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:53] <exec> 08└─Every time I have to chase down a package some delivery person left at the office, I become willing to pay full cover price for a book. (I actually did that last weekend, because the book I got was so big it wouldn't fit in my mailbox.) But most of the stuff I order isn't for sale in the store. But...
[17:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of appreciation of the term ''boffin'' - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:20] <exec> 08└─Tesla built a machine to shake the Earth apart&emdash;what's your criterion for madness? https://books.google.com [google.com] https://books.google.com [google.com]
[17:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:Unity - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:46] <exec> 08└─Title of TFA: WASTE TO WEALTH: Sustainable Wastewater Management in Uganda.
[17:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Los Angeles - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:52] <exec> 08└─At the Hyperion plant, which treats much of the sewage from the Los Angeles area (and where a scene from Soylent Green was filmed), "about 80% of the power needs for Hyperion are met from methane gas generated on-site from all that poop." [healthebay.org] If I recall correctly, the facility was exte...
[17:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:07] <exec> 08└─It does move Activation into mobile devices, where they have been struggling to produce anything of interest.
[17:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fishy-dishy - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:20] <exec> 08└─uhm .. that's like one buck per person on the planet? huh?
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[18:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Funny) 02My hovercraft is full of eels... - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:35] <exec> 08└─...and my nipples are exploding with delight. It's been a problem [youtube.com] since the early '70s, long before the Google. b&
[18:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Lost in Translation - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:36] <exec> 08└─It's been a problem since the early '70s, long before the Google.
[18:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Travel Plans - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:38] <exec> 08└─Did anyone see the mistranslation and make travel plans based on it?
[18:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Travel Plans - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:40] <exec> 08└─Well, you could always change the festival once you get there.
[18:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Travel Plans - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:41] <exec> 08└─Well, on the bright side, if there are ever SN meet ups at conferences like /. had in the old days, now they'll have a name.
[18:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Of course it is useful - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:43] <exec> 08└─it raises some interesting questions as to how useful automated translation software (such as Google Translate) can be.
[18:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course it is useful - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:45] <exec> 08└─And this is exactly how AI will work. It mimicks a complex skill humans sometimes fail at as well. All it needs is to be good enough for X, and it's amazing progress. Last century, no English speakers would be able to read this at all
[18:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course it is useful - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:47] <exec> 08└─it raises some interesting questions as to how useful automated translation software (such as Google Translate) can be.
[18:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02food network channel - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:48] <exec> 08└─Did anyone see the mistranslation and make travel plans based on the it?
[18:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Not just google - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:50] <exec> 08└─Many years ago I was doing computer install in France. Had a professional translator with me. Asked for bias rate and the translator froze. I then had her ask "7 blacks driving at 9600 kph followed by 1 white car". The other guys looked confused then replyed "8 cars at 4800 kph no car following". A...
[18:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Things happen :) - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:52] <exec> 08└─http://languagehat.com/squirrel-institute/ [languagehat.com]
[18:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:01] <exec> 08└─Which is why before placing your data on any cloud server, you encrypt it yourself before you upload it.
[18:46:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:06] <exec> 08└─If you offer "unlimited", do not be surprised when some users take you at your word and try to use an "unlimited" amount.
[18:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:10] <exec> 08└─"You get up to unlimited storage!"
[18:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Poor microsoft - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─To be fair, they probably didn't expect individuals to have that much bandwidth. I couldn't upload 75TB to the cloud this decade, even if I had them to start with.
[18:46:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:15] <exec> 08└─Unlike YCombinator, this site is not yet big enough for Microsoft to pay people so that you see "both sides of the coin".
[18:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:21] <exec> 08└─The mods here are backwards. AC 'insightfully' beats down the only reasonable 'troll' line of thinking from hunchentoot. Whose point that SN is going going gone green site already, may have not gone far enough, might even be more redit quality with the way this articles comments went.
[18:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:23] <exec> 08└─AC 'insightfully' beats down the only reasonable 'troll' line of thinking from hunchentoot.
[18:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait for it... - 06Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound to Help the Blind See - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:33] <exec> 08└─The Googles, they do nothing!
[18:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Training - 06Smart Glasses Translate Video into Sound to Help the Blind See - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:36] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is... the training was useless? That would be the pessimist view, yes. The optimist would likely say it's so intuitive the training was unnecessary.
[18:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CRAN and R-Forge - 06Open Source R Code to Get New Hub With Help From the Linux Foundation - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:45] <exec> 08└─"This is the first of a series of $200,000 total of grants that the R Consortium's Infrastructure Steering Committee intends to award over the coming months." Is there an evil goal here? https://www.r-consortium.org [r-consortium.org]
[18:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─His problem is they aren't going out of business or rebranding like other corporations "are supposed to do".
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know when the last time you went to a post office
[18:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02You are doing it wrong! - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:12] <exec> 08└─The correct answer is Pneumatic tubes! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The other story - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:22] <exec> 08└─It seems the GNU folks have moved the goalposts over the last ten years, or whenever it was that I last paid attention. So it seems that now the userland tools are the "OS"? Before it was "linux is the OS, but it wouldn't be useful without the userland tools", now it is "the userland tools are the O...
[18:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most advanced, stable - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:26] <exec> 08└─You could just stop updating gnome
[18:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MorePower [5891] (Score:1) 02How many boffins died to bring us this information - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:54] <exec> 08└─Aren't boffins the spies who died bringing info on the second Death Star to the rebellion? Seriously, the summary has a footnote to define "eukaryote", a term we all learned in high school science class, but repeats the mystery word "boffin" without any clue what this word I've never heard before mi...
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[19:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02D'man keepin' us down - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:36] <exec> 08└─Us poor down-trodden honkies. Next you know, they'll ban Abba and Barry Manilow.
[19:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:D'man keepin' us down - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:37] <exec> 08└─I thought those were already banned in public places.
[19:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Affirmative! - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:39] <exec> 08└─Obama does not care about White people.
[19:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Travel Plans - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:51] <exec> 08└─Sausage Fest?
[19:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Won't someone think of the Children?! - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:58] <exec> 08└─...And then we have the Japanese, where you can have a Dick Sucker and Clitoris Cookie while watching the Giant Penis Parades. [google.com] How Europeans got so prude is beyond me, but they need to fix their birthrates so the state needs to step in and do something -- other than just replace the Eur...
[19:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score:2) 02Power Squid de geso - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:00] <exec> 08└─I'm recently back from a vacation in Thailand. I generally didn't have a problem communicating but there was one incident where someone was trying to show me something but didn't know the English for it. They pointed to some lights out on the water and their phone (also Google Translate if memory se...
[19:46:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] 02Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:10] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's reasoning for the OneDrive storage offering downgrades: "A small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average."
[19:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 2093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:25] <exec> 08└─I realize what I'm going to say will not be popular, but I do want to ask this question: At what point does usage of an unlimited service constitute abuse? I'll clarify: When AT&T started throttling its unlimited users they were making claims that they were downloading more than the average broadb...
[19:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:26] <exec> 08└─They're claiming that somebody was using 75 TB.
[19:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:38] <exec> 08└─Well, the the troll mod on the GP post is definitely unfair, in my opinion. I agree with the OT post of the original, but the troll mod is really being used as "disagree with your original premise". I really like the way that the Disagree mods work, tagging, but not down-voting. In general, I think...
[19:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:39] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's only Microsoft, they aren't singled out. All large organizations are used like punching bags. You may only feel this way because you have a tighter affiliation with Microsoft than most people. I write C# most days so i depend on their existence. But i also have a sweet collection...
[19:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:41] <exec> 08└─If truth is posted that is of interest to a community, THAT is important: the corporate driven TPP (from what was leaked) wants government funded news to stop... they want only publicly/CORPORATELY funded news... news paid for by big business which WILL, of course, not tell you about TRUTH (or only...
[19:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:43] <exec> 08└─Rational thinking has an anti-MS bias. Their "fuck you, pleb" attitude towards their customers is generally far more important than the quality of their products.
[19:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:44] <exec> 08└─I thought "fuck you, pleb" was their product and software was just an additional option (with additional expense naturally). With that in mind, their attitude is totally rational.
[19:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:24] <exec> 08└─OK, so basically no complaining about anything.
[19:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Most advanced, stable - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:50] <exec> 08└─Watch it, pixie.
[19:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Re:East Podunk - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:04] <exec> 08└─Polygamy is still illegal here
[19:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Insane - 06Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 Billion - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:00] <exec> 08└─For some values of "fucked". 5.9 Billion buys a yacht or two, wouldn't you think?
[19:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a surpise - 06Early Life Stress and Adolescent Depression Linked to Impaired Development of Reward Circuits - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:31] <exec> 08└─This is the study you were looking for: http://www.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org]
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[20:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:D'man keepin' us down - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:40] <exec> 08└─pssst, between you and me, they should
[20:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Promising - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe now the GOP will be open to a single payer health plan. If not, they will not have a base left to pander to.
[20:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Promising - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:44] <exec> 08└─You don't understand the right wing mindset well enough. It's far more important for them to stop the vague set of people they don't like than it is to help the people they do like. In general people on the left are constantly confused when their "look, government spending disproportionately benefi...
[20:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Invisible Hand - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:45] <exec> 08└─It's just the Market doing its job, removing the deadwood.
[20:45:46] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02It's the economy, stupid - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 1095 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:47] <exec> 08└─Huge numbers of people are out of work. Not just officially unemployed, but not even counted because they've given up hope of finding a job and thus aren't even looking. People with no prospects for work look for means of escape, including self-medication, and are less likely to care much about what...
[20:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's the economy, stupid - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:49] <exec> 08└─No, this is more idiotic medical research: Mortality rates are presented as deaths per 100,000. These are not age-adjusted within the 10-y 45–54 age group.
[20:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:3, Insightful) 02"healthy old age" - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:50] <exec> 08└─Not without an income, medical care or housing. "It is difficult to find modern settings with survival losses of this magnitude" No it's not. Try the great depression.
[20:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02SJW's - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvITn5cAVc [youtube.com]
[20:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Lost in Translation - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:01] <exec> 08└─Of course it's already strange that the databases were composed [wikipedia.org] of records, [wikipedia.org] but it's completely strange that those records were composed of fields. [wikipedia.org] :-)
[20:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My hovercraft is full of eels... - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:02] <exec> 08└─The meat is rotten, but the booze is holding out. Computer translation of "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." --fortune
[20:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course it is useful - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:10] <exec> 08└─If you're attempting to be deliberately obtuse, you're doing a lovely job. Keep up the good work! If you're attempting to troll, not so much. In that case, keep trying -- you can do much better than that!
[20:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not just google - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm just ignorant, but what? I'm assuming that this is some kind of technical analogy with the "blacks" representing some voltage or bandwidth and the "white" representing a sync signal or something, but that still seems wrong. What does this represent in non-obscured English?
[20:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:30] <exec> 08└─Which is why before placing your data on any cloud server, you encrypt it yourself before you upload it.
[20:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:43] <exec> 08└─That seems like a project to me to make that happen No kidding. I have ~2500 DVD/BR discs I have archived. That is coming in around 38TB. It took about a year just to copy them all. Then to drop them across an internet network connection would take a rather long time. Someone took some serious effor...
[20:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 2199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:58] <exec> 08└─I couldn't agree more. MS has done things that I thought Google was nuts to do, and they made it bigger and worse in some regards. I never thought that line would get crossed, and then zillions of people comment that "oh well I jumped off the bridge so stop being a party pooper and jump to your deat...
[20:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:CRAN and R-Forge - 06Open Source R Code to Get New Hub With Help From the Linux Foundation - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:24] <exec> 08└─I've used CRAN and R-Forge looks interesting. So this is a third competitor because of NIH
[20:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:47] <exec> 08└─I bet the lunch box delivery services in India beat the USPS. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:42] <exec> 08└─This is all great information. The problem is that only the intelligent and the people that care will take these steps, and even have alternate partitions for the concerns you cited. The law will most heavily fall upon those that have no defenses, much like how cattle have been domesticated and are...
[20:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Eskimo diet - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:28] <exec> 08└─By that logic, cats (obligate carnivores) should be the dominant species on the planet. Hat tip here to Danny John-Jules for his portrayal of The Cat. ...and to Rob Grant and Doug Naylor for the creation of that wonderful character. "Mine. Mine. Mine." "Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish." -- gewg_
[20:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:The Eskimo diet - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:32] <exec> 08└─Hat tip here to Danny John-Jules for his portrayal of The Cat. ...and to Rob Grant and Doug Naylor for the creation of that wonderful character. "Mine. Mine. Mine." "Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish."
[20:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A behind-the-curve Soylentil - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:43] <exec> 08└─Dear Newbie, We've covered the topic of El Reg-isms previously. [soylentnews.org] You need to catch up. ...and become more cosmopolitan with your vocabulary. -- gewg_
[20:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Unity - 06Vast Energy Value in Human Waste: UN University - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:05] <exec> 08└─Then why mention the fact that IF we collected worldwide poo production, we could generate gas for 3 countries? That statistic is stupid because we'd have to spend the gas of 10 countries to get there.
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[23:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02not the most expensive fuelling station - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:16] <exec> 08└─Counting interest, the costs for Iraq could come to $6 trillion [reuters.com].
[23:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:not the most expensive fuelling station - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:18] <exec> 08└─That's an obscene amount of money spent on not improving anything for ourselves, Iraqi citizens, world stability, or even American military hegemony. It's more money than the GDP of some G-fucking-8 nations.
[23:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:not the most expensive fuelling station - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:19] <exec> 08└─Yes it was expensive, but what are you thinking of with the G-8 GDP comment? Now the money spent on combating opium would make the world GDP list, somewhere around the 140th poorest country. It it was all in one year. The most frustrating aspect for me is how there is no documentation for where this...
[23:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:not the most expensive fuelling station - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:21] <exec> 08└─Don't you know? Having transparency for 25-30% of the US budget would pose a risk to national security.
[23:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:not the most expensive fuelling station - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:23] <exec> 08└─And I see a quote from a Rumsfeld idiot: "Action needed to be taken," said Steven Bucci, the military assistant to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the run-up to the war and today a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington-based think-tank. Bucci, who was unco...
[23:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02dept - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:25] <exec> 08└─should have been from the 'corporate-welfare-is-freedum' dept.
[23:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I chuckle when I hear this song - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:26] <exec> 08└─If tomorrow all the things were gone, I’d worked for all my life. And I had to start again, with just my children and my wife. I’d thank my lucky stars, to be livin here today. ‘ Cause the flag still stands for freedom, and they can’t take that away. And I’m proud to be an American, where...
[23:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I chuckle when I hear this song - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:28] <exec> 08└─where at least I know I’m free.
[23:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:3, Interesting) 02My father-in-law's theory - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:30] <exec> 08└─And I think he's right: the purpose of the federal government is to provide jobs for otherwise unemployable people. Ever go to the DMV, post office, county clerk, etc. and encounter a completely incompetent worker? They have a job though... Now he's a bit cynical so maybe not all of the people emplo...
[23:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:My father-in-law's theory - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:32] <exec> 08└─And I think he's right: the purpose of the federal government is to provide jobs for otherwise unemployable people. Ever go to the DMV, post office, county clerk, etc. and encounter a completely incompetent worker?
[23:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My father-in-law's theory - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:34] <exec> 08└─Welfare would probably be cheaper and more efficient.
[23:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:My father-in-law's theory - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:35] <exec> 08└─I never understand why Republicans are against welfare for citizens but are all for welfare for the military industrial complex. I guess pork is more important than health.
[23:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02simple solution - 06U.S. Dept. of Defense Spends $43 Million on the "World's Most Expensive Gas Station" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:37] <exec> 08└─the Department of Defense said that all the people who worked on the project were gone, now, so they could not provide answers
[23:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Affirmative! - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:44] <exec> 08└─The trend started around 1999. And his mother is white.
[23:06:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Promising - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:46] <exec> 08└─You don't understand the right wing mindset well enough. It's far more important for them to stop the vague set of people they don't like than it is to help the people they do like. In general people on the left are constantly confused when their "look, government spending disproportionately benefi...
[23:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:It's the economy, stupid - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:50] <exec> 08└─Actually, looking at the percentages makes it more obvious: http://s7.postimg.org [postimg.org] This is for the whole population (not just whites), but I bet the age shift is even stronger for that subgroup. Also, the last author on this paper has a nobel prize: In October 2015 i...
[23:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:SJW's - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:53] <exec> 08└─Crap he's on to us! Let's hope he doesn't realize that our suicide-inducing mind-control rays can be easily blocked by tinfoil.
[23:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:An explanation/example - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:55] <exec> 08└─Yep, definitely wanted to kill myself after visiting that link. Good point AC.
[23:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02legalize it - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:57] <exec> 08└─Legalize heroin. And cannabis, cocaine, lsd, meth, etc.
[23:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Wow, really? - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:58] <exec> 08└─The alarming rise of suicide among white men of USA becomes 'rise in death rates for middle-aged white Americans'. No mention of gender when if it is male? Check! Suicide becomes death in middle-age? Check! Great going. First define the problem away from unwanted solutions, then try to find solution...
[23:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow, really? - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:00] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure no-one gives a toss about middle-aged white men.
[23:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Wow, really? - 06Alarming Rise in Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:02] <exec> 08└─Probably, but nobody cares about the huge number of young black men that just disappear either. Personally, I think they're both serious problems that need addressing, but because it involves men, it's considered less important than fictitious issues like the pay gap. Things are starting to change,...
[23:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:My hovercraft is full of eels... - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:12] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're going back *that* far "Unseen idiot" and "Distant madman" were both translations (round trip) of "Out of sight, out of mind". I believe one was a translation into and back from Russian. This would (I think) have been in the 1970's or 80's.
[23:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Of course it is useful - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:19] <exec> 08└─Will the AI take into account political correctness, even if the language is spoken correctly? Recall the infamous "Ooga-Booga" debacle of Google Translate. Here's some background -- the phrase "Ooga booga" is associated with Africans in a pejorative manner based on stereotypes of what their spoken...
[23:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course it is useful - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:22] <exec> 08└─If you're attempting to be deliberately obtuse, you're doing a lovely job. Keep up the good work! If you're attempting to troll, not so much. In that case, keep trying -- you can do much better than that!
[23:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just google - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm just ignorant, but what? I'm assuming that this is some kind of technical analogy with the "blacks" representing some voltage or bandwidth and the "white" representing a sync signal or something, but that still seems wrong. What does this represent in non-obscured English?
[23:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Won't someone think of the Children?! - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:29] <exec> 08└─How Europeans got so prude is beyond me, but they need to fix their birthrates so the state needs to step in and do something
[23:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vodka and rotten meat - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:31] <exec> 08└─[...] it raises some interesting questions as to how useful automated translation software (such as Google Translate) can be. Have any Soylentils run into issues like this while using automated translation software?
[23:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:2) 02Lost in Translation - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:33] <exec> 08└─In related news, the mayor has declared through a translator that "All your base are belong to us." Tune in at 11 for more on this developing story.
[23:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score:1) 02Lost in translation - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:35] <exec> 08└─Anyone assuming that automatic translation is relatively error-free are naïve. Context, culture, argot and idioms all make automatic translation difficult, and because sometimes there are no 1:1 mapping of words and their semantics details and precision is usually lost in not only automatic transla...
[23:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lost in translation - 06Galician Cuisine May Be More Risque Than You Think - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:36] <exec> 08└─[...] requires you to know what "it" is.
[23:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:48] <exec> 08└─It might be hard to successfully sue them for looking at files, because their current privacy policy [microsoft.com] says When you use OneDrive, we collect data about your usage of the service, as well as the content you store in order to provide, improve and protect the services.
[23:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:54] <exec> 08└─In fairness, the movie collection wasn't the only thing in that 75TB usage quote. It also included backup of several entire PCs.
[23:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:56] <exec> 08└─mostly commercial movies,
[23:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Why I don't use cloud storage - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:58] <exec> 08└─This whole thing is disheartening. Now where am I going to backup my random bits and files? dd if=/dev/random of=/mnt/m\$_one_drive
[23:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:03] <exec> 08└─http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2015/0618/Unlimited-means-unlimited-Did-AT-T-mislead-their-customers-video [csmonitor.com] All evidence is that unlimited means unlimited by the offerer. It might be physically impossible for a user to actually use an unlimited amount, but the offerer can't impose a...
[23:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:10] <exec> 08└─"Unlimited" means literally without limits. If there are any limits placed on it whatsoever, it's not unlimited. A 3rd grader could tell you this. Marketing wankers need to stop trying to have their cake and eat it, too. I would rather be told the number I can use without them getting mad at me, tha...
[23:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:12] <exec> 08└─Are you aware that we live in a finite universe, therefore the term unlimited is useless, and that a third grader could tell you that? Do you really have the expectation that M$ has a bottomless hard-drive in their data-center?
[23:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral (not that MS will learn it) - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:14] <exec> 08└─I'll clarify: When AT&T started throttling its unlimited users they were making claims that they were downloading more than the average broadband user does.
[23:08:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02Re:Soylent: can we dial the anti-MS bias? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:27] <exec> 08└─Rational thinking has an anti-MS bias. Their "fuck you, pleb" attitude towards their customers is generally far more important than the quality of their products.
[23:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:75 TB? - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:30] <exec> 08└─No it's not
[23:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They're probably running out of space - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:32] <exec> 08└─From Windows 10's automatic file uploading nonsense.
[23:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02false summary - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:34] <exec> 08└─TFS says Office 365 Home, Personal and University customers are now limited to 1 TB of OneDrive storage instead of unlimited storage. The 100GB and 200GB OneDrive plans are discontinued.
[23:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Never got the unlimited plan - 06Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:35] <exec> 08└─I'm an Office 365 customer. I read the blog posting about a year ago that they were going to offer unlimited storage. I tried over the past year or so to get the unlimited deal, and was never able to. I even contacted Microsoft about it and got some bizarro answer as to why I still only had 1TB avai...
[23:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Australia Post - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:08] <exec> 08└─Actually the drones might help. I find AUS Post staff very rude, especially so in my suburb.
[23:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing tops the USPS - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:18] <exec> 08└─Bill Gates does not wait in lines no matter where he goes. I've seen him in person sail through any lines, with obsequious minions and everyday people rushing to hold doors, bypass lines, jump queues etc. And this was back in the day (20 years ago) when he didn't travel with an army of UZI toting se...
[23:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:God's Gift to Muggers ? - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:27] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly. This will become an entire new sport. Creative ways of gathering groceries while recycling delivery bot parts into ghetto toys.
[23:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You are doing it wrong! - 06Deliveries in the Modern Age - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:31] <exec> 08└─Pneumatic tubes are fine until someone orders a hardback book, a turkey, or really anything much bigger than a double-ended dildo and a pack of D cells. Unless of course you've got really big tubes in mind, à la Futurama?
[23:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:The other story - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 1684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─You are very confused. No one moved anything. GNU is what we interact with. From the shell to the command line tools and the compilers and libraries that built them. From those tools, all other software was built like Apache, Xorg and Gnome. That is what makes my computer useful. Linux provides the...
[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most advanced, stable - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:46] <exec> 08└─That's all software, not just android. Cutting functionality and features is the new progress. Gotta destroy everything so it can be reinvented more poorly later.
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most advanced, stable - 06Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released, It's Now the Most Advanced Stable Version - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─S... s.... systemd!!!!!
[23:10:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] 02Re:East Podunk - 06Australia to Test Virtual Passports - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:03] <exec> 08└─It's called New Zealand you insensitive clod
[23:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:25] <exec> 08└─Very nice in theory if you only write to the encrypted file once. Otherwise if you do significant updates to the encrypted file when they seize all your stuff and require you to produce the "F" you may not have access to an up-to-date "E" to generate the "F" from "R". You might not even have access...
[23:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:27] <exec> 08└─The Brits have never gotten basic human rights. Not really (from Liberty [liberty-human-rights.org.uk]'s web site): 1950 The European Convention on Human Rights was agreed in the aftermath of the Second World War. British lawyers played an instrumental role in the development of the Convention, and...
[23:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:29] <exec> 08└─I missed out a link there. The second blockquote is from the Independent [independent.co.uk].
[23:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:History of DES - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:34] <exec> 08└─They made DES weaker in some ways (smaller key) but stronger in other ways - resistant to differential cryptanalysis. So back then they probably wanted it weak enough for them to break but not weak enough for others to break.
[23:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Access to the data - 06UK Wants to Ban Unbreakable Encryption, Log which Websites You Visit - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:38] <exec> 08└─They will find you and put you in jail for violating their laws. This is not a game like sidestepping DRM where you upset a recording studio. They will charge you with data crime laws, conspiracy to commit terrorism, and any number of fabricated charges to frighten those with the skills to do so to...
[23:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah, the conspiracy nuts vindication - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:47] <exec> 08└─ITYM "such prescience", no? I wonder whether the prices will match the shipped price, or the price less shipping. I wonder whether they'll sell used books for a penny. I wonder whether the staff will include more robots than people.
[23:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might as well - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:53] <exec> 08└─I used to LOVE getting the Dover catalog in the mail. This would have been late 80s and into the 90s. The books were awesome and the prices were outstanding. Then, one day I noticed that the prices were much more than before. I don't even know if they put out the catalog anymore.
[23:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Turnabout is fair play - 06Amazon Opens Physical Bookstore in Seattle - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, you point out one horror story which, in actuality caused you no inconvenience at all, and use that to condemn all delivery. Have you had NO SUCCESSFUL DELIVERIES in the intervening years? Do you seriously think getting in your car and driving across town to pick up every little thing you need...
[23:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:The Eskimo diet - 06Boffins Solve Bacon Crisis with Newly-Patented Plant - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:18] <exec> 08└─You need a bit more than just adding legumes to the rest of the vegetables. People who go totally vegetarian need to be very careful, or they'll become sick. And I mean careful about their diet. E.g., in addition to legumes and other vegetables, you need mushrooms. (In response to another post, yeah...
[23:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pangea - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:28] <exec> 08└─Warming can also lead to another glaciation period (commonly referred to as an "ice age", but technically we're still in an ice age until all polar ice caps completely melt) by shutting down thermohaline circulation. [wikipedia.org]
[23:13:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:The end.. - 06NASA: Antarctica Ice is Growing, Not Shrinking - 1619 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:36] <exec> 08└─C'mon, AC! Learn from the masters! Just look at frojack's post above. It is a thing of beauty. First, do NOT use terms like "myth", "fraud", "hoax", or "lie". If you do, everyone will know you are a climate denier and stop reading. Instead, just mildly suggest that the source for the article is "odd...
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