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[07:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Trolling is the best idea I can come up with - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:13] <exec> 08└─Jesus systemd. If you dislike it maybe one of these videos might change your mind.
[07:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:1) 02Re:Trolling is the best idea I can come up with - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:14] <exec> 08└─It's like watching the "Triumph of the Will" would sway me to join the Nazi party.
[07:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Missed Opportinuty? - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:15] <exec> 08└─Is this the biggest missed opportunity in the history of Linux? eg, an opportunity to rid linux of this systemd cancer...
[07:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Missed Opportinuty? - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:17] <exec> 08└─If only we could have nuked it from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.
[07:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Funny) 02Aieghhhhh! - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:19] <exec> 08└─It's Balrog! Evil from the most ancient times and the depths of hell, or at least the depths of Moria. I just wanna say, like, dudes and dudettes, thou shall not pass, m'kay? Systemd shall not pass ("Fly, you fools!" "I am trying to buy you time! Run! No, seriously, run!" ) Nope, not gonna happen!...
[07:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Aieghhhhh! - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:21] <exec> 08└─addendum: I was so scared of the Balrog, I said BSD when I meant "Slackware". My bad. Apologies.
[07:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02systemd is a lot like Windows 10 - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 1777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:22] <exec> 08└─(Yeah, that's right, I said it.) The core is very competent and robust, and it actually runs pretty fast, but the interface is ghastly, and the software engineers and project managers are some of the most divisive pricks in the industry. It's only normal for them to surround themselves with complete...
[07:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:systemd is a lot like Windows 10 - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:24] <exec> 08└─Not that you're old, but being able to comment about early 2000's Java means your at least older than LP. We need more insight from the older coders, because the kids nowadays are growing up with shiny tools that make them spoiled and want to build systems that do the work for them. Nothing inherent...
[07:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:systemd is a lot like Windows 10 - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:26] <exec> 08└─I suspect that there are some real advantages in using Systemd, but only a very small number of people actually want or need those features. The problem is that it is being shovelled down the throats of all Linux users. I have had arguments (mostly on the other site) about the usefulness of systemd...
[07:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Shiny toys, come and get em'! - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:28] <exec> 08└─Systemd does some very cool stuff, no doubt about it. However, from LP's own talk about cgroups there is little need for all this magic on desktops! So why isn't this a server optimized package to be optionally installed for those who need such capabilities? From the same talk, systemd now controls...
[07:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03liquibyte [5582] (Score:1) 02Re:Shiny toys, come and get em'! - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:29] <exec> 08└─package.mask kde-misc/kcmsystemd sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration sys-apps/systemd sys-apps/systemd-readahead sys-apps/systemd-sysv-utils sys-apps/systemd-ui sys-devel/systemd-m4
[07:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Uh oh.... - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:31] <exec> 08└─Are they using metal detectors and bomb sniffing dogs at the conference site? One lucky disgruntled Linux aficionado can decapitate the entire Systemd conspiratorial Mafia! And now for something serious! As someone who really doesn't give a rat's ass about systemd so long as my Linux iMac and my And...
[07:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh oh.... - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:33] <exec> 08└─Are they using metal detectors and bomb sniffing dogs at the conference site? One lucky disgruntled Linux aficionado can decapitate the entire Systemd conspiratorial Mafia!
[07:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Unlikely to change many minds... - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:35] <exec> 08└─Whether you love systemd or hate it, it looks like it's not going away. If you dislike it maybe one of these videos might change your mind.
[07:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Then, as now - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:36] <exec> 08└─The weathermen were always wrong. But at least in those days, the weathermen (aka priests) could tell you why the forecasts seemed to be off. The reason was probably that the sailors didn't listen closely enough to what they had to say.
[07:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Looting vs Archeology - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:38] <exec> 08└─There doesn’t seem to be much difference. Some guy digs up old stuff and sells it off. Archeology is just sanctioned looting.
[07:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Looting vs Archeology - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:40] <exec> 08└─No, archeology is a human endeavor to understand where we came from. Corrupt archeologists are sanctioned looters.
[07:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Still some mystery! - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:42] <exec> 08└─In college a few years back I got a bit depressed thinking that humanity had worn out the mysterious. I knew there were still some things left, but my silly younger self couldn't understand... These stories really help me understand that the adventure is still out there. Things to do, discover, expl...
[07:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Poseidon could not be reached for comment - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:43] <exec> 08└─Stunned Archaeologists Drown in Undersea Death Trap
[07:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Every month a new example of bad cops - 06To Protect and to Serve - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:49] <exec> 08└─Bond Set at $1 Million for Louisiana Marshals Charged With Killing 6-Year-Old Jeremy Mardis http://www.nbcnews.com [nbcnews.com]
[07:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Every month a new example of bad cops - 06To Protect and to Serve - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:51] <exec> 08└─Woe be unto them that give broad, unchecked power to small-minded men.
[07:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Every month a new example of bad cops - 06To Protect and to Serve - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:52] <exec> 08└─Again - probably 85% of all cops are "good guys". But, the system attracts the bad guys. And, the good guys, being indoctrinated into the system, tend to want to protect their "brothers".
[07:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Every month a new example of bad cops - 06To Protect and to Serve - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:54] <exec> 08└─It is a high stress job. Just about everyone you encounter doesn't trust you, can't be trusted, is a crook .. etc. Pretty soon you come to the realization that everyone is guilty of something and they deserve whats coming to them. You wake up one day and realize that you don't have any friends that...
[07:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Every month a new example of bad cops - 06To Protect and to Serve - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:56] <exec> 08└─Each year thousands of U.S. workers die from injuries on the job
[07:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score:1) 02Re:Every month a new example of bad cops - 06To Protect and to Serve - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:58] <exec> 08└─does it already include STDs attracted on the job?
[07:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2, Flamebait) 02Re:Every month a new example of bad cops - 06To Protect and to Serve - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:00] <exec> 08└─Suppose someone says "don't drive down this street, or I'll kill you" and meant it. Sure, you could take another route home, but would you really consider such homicidal intent justified? Suppose a police officer says "don't grow a marijuana garden or I'll arrest you" then "don't resist arrest or I'...
[07:26:01] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Every month a new example of bad cops - 06To Protect and to Serve - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:02] <exec> 08└─I'm repeating myself, but if you 85 "good" cops who turn a blind eye to 15 bad cops, what you really have is 100 bad cops.
[07:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Insightful) 02Strange definition of "good guys" - 06To Protect and to Serve - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:04] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't consider people who defend scumbags like this to be "good guys". And while the number of cops who directly murder, severely injure, or sexually assault people might be somewhat small, pretty much all cops engage in unjust and/or unconstitutional behavior (such as Stingrays, DUI checkpoint...
[07:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Strange definition of "good guys" - 06To Protect and to Serve - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:05] <exec> 08└─I hope that you can see that raping random women, or shooting random suspects are orders of magnitude worse than snooping on your telephone calls. Officers enforcing drug laws may be viewed as dupes, whereas officers beating a man to death just because he is black can only be viewed as evil. "The sy...
[07:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Strange definition of "good guys" - 06To Protect and to Serve - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:07] <exec> 08└─I hope that you can see that raping random women, or shooting random suspects are orders of magnitude worse than snooping on your telephone calls.
[07:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Strange definition of "good guys" - 06To Protect and to Serve - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:09] <exec> 08└─> And mass surveillance shouldn't be trivialized. It's a threat to democracy itself. This. Except that essentially no one doing mass surveillance is doing it with malicious intent. They literally think they are keeping the nation safe. Their perspective is so massively warped, but they honestly beli...
[07:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Strange definition of "good guys" - 06To Protect and to Serve - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:10] <exec> 08└─One is an evil of intent, the other an evil of ignorance or obedience. It is an important distinction, the analogy that comes to mind is murder vs. manslaughter. No one is trivializing the threat of mass surveillance, but on a human level there is a huge difference. Give me the cop running a stingra...
[07:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strange definition of "good guys" - 06To Protect and to Serve - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:12] <exec> 08└─I don't care about evil intent; I care about what they are doing. If they are so ignorant that they believe these things to be good, then they are, to me, bad people.
[07:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Strange definition of "good guys" - 06To Protect and to Serve - 2041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:14] <exec> 08└─You are running on a whole lot of presumption. It is clear this line of thinking has you upset and you just want to voice your opposition to such horrors. However, that emotional grip can lead you into a personal trap. Either you will get yourself judged unfairly, or you will react and harm another...
[07:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Strange definition of "good guys" - 06To Protect and to Serve - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:15] <exec> 08└─It is clear this line of thinking has you upset and you just want to voice your opposition to such horrors. However, that emotional grip can lead you into a personal trap.
[07:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:0, Troll) 02Not so fast - 06To Protect and to Serve - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:17] <exec> 08└─Shocking. Revolting. Careful here. There be dragons. This strikes me as the typical 2½ wave feminist hit job. Yet it's the perfect storm with what we know from video evidence about police abuses. Mod me down, but I'm going to question this story. I might have believed it if the girl in question had...
[07:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Not so fast - 06To Protect and to Serve - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:19] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with feminism. This isn't a bunch of over politicized college SJWs falsely accusing a frat. This is 100% failure of the police to police their own. Every officer that allows this sort of thing to happen without attempting to put a stop to it is an accessory after the fact in m...
[07:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not so fast - 06To Protect and to Serve - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:21] <exec> 08└─> This has nothing to do with feminism. kuronei has her own issues that result in her seeing everything as an attack by evil feminists. She's like that systemd spammer who used to try to make every single story into a systemd story. At some point you decide that not only has she lost the benefit of...
[07:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so fast - 06To Protect and to Serve - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:23] <exec> 08└─In before #blacklivesmatter. These victims live to tell their harrowing stories. TPP, TTIP, and TISA will make it all the worse.
[07:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Not so fast - 06To Protect and to Serve - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:24] <exec> 08└─Become powerful, not weak victims.
[07:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not so fast - 06To Protect and to Serve - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:26] <exec> 08└─Victim-blaming can be part of the solution, though 'education-and-self-confidence-before-becoming-a-victim' might be a better term. If 20% of the people bit the dick off their attackers I think you'll see a reduction in oral rapes. The victims need the self-control to fight back instead of whining a...
[07:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Not so fast - 06To Protect and to Serve - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:28] <exec> 08└─Yeaaaah, a big WTF to your post. "And...? Not that I doubt it. What a conflict in sympathies and antipathies." Victims are mad, family is caring. That is the most typical situation possible, family never wants to believe horrible things especially with the possibly guilty party saying they didn't do...
[07:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Candidate for a prison bitch - 06To Protect and to Serve - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:29] <exec> 08└─Being forced to give oral sex in prison seems to be an appropriate punishment.
[07:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CATO tracks police misconduct every day - 06To Protect and to Serve - 2258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:31] <exec> 08└─They do it via the National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, at http://www.policemisconduct.net [policemisconduct.net] . Here are some examples from today: San Juan, Texas: An officer was suspended after a rollover crash that left several injured. The report indicates alcohol may have been invo...
[07:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Bite down, hard... - 06To Protect and to Serve - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it will probably turn out terrible for the first woman who does this but... bite the mother-fuckers dick off. It's going to be impossible for the asshole to explain how his dick ended up in a citizen's mouth during a traffic stop. If it was voluntary then why would she bite him? Killing her ma...
[07:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bite down, hard... - 06To Protect and to Serve - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:34] <exec> 08└─What is to stop him or his buddies from covering it up. "This woman attacked me during a traffic stop." "Suspect with blood on her face and she proceeded to reach for my gun." Nobody is going to check the officer's penis after statements like those. Cops, DAs, and the like do this for a living. I th...
[07:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Good cops? - 06To Protect and to Serve - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:36] <exec> 08└─The greatest Evil is when the Good do nothing. To get your badge, or become an officer of the court (lawyer, judge, balif, etc.), you swear an oath to uphold the Constitution and the law. They have betrayed both the trust of the Public and that oath sworn on their Honor before God, Family and commun...
[07:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Guns and Pedos - 06To Protect and to Serve - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:38] <exec> 08└─http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/11/09/pedophile-police-cover-up-alleged-in-maine.htm [courthousenews.com]
[07:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02neither - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:40] <exec> 08└─The internet will replace us all.
[07:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:neither - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:41] <exec> 08└─Even us Anonymous Cowards will be replaced by a Markov chain generator. By the by, have I told you about the interesting evening I spent recently with a grain of salt?
[07:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:neither [anti-trust laws] - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:43] <exec> 08└─The internet will replace us all.
[07:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:neither [anti-trust laws] - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:45] <exec> 08└─Agreed, especially when reality TV has replaced the entirety of the Discovery and History channels. Does anyone ever remember what TLC stood for? They sure as hell don't. Syfy? What a joke, even that is mostly reality TV. I am done paying for these shitty reality TV channels so that I can get hockey...
[07:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:neither [anti-trust laws] - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:47] <exec> 08└─There already is a subscription-per-show model. VUDU, Amazon Instant Video, and Apple iTunes (among others) all have season passes for the vast majority of new television shows. You pay so much per season, and the next day after each episode airs on "live television," it's uploaded to the cloud for...
[07:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tnt118 [3925] (Score:1) 02Re:neither [anti-trust laws] - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:48] <exec> 08└─Seriously, though, the cable model is well overdue to die and be replaced by a pay-per-view model or a subscription-per-show model. The Internet makes such more practical and more natural. The forced bundling is seriously annoying. Why should I have to pay for 99 other shows just to watch ONE? Anti-...
[07:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tnt118 [3925] (Score:1) 02Re:neither [anti-trust laws] - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:50] <exec> 08└─I had also wanted to add the official NHL streaming package now has the option to pay for only 1 team instead of the entire league. So you get 1/15th of the games for... 80% of the price. They may think that pricing is fair but I sure don't.
[07:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02cable cards and tuners - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:52] <exec> 08└─No box at all has been possible for some time, if your TV has tuners capable of tuning all the cable channels (you would be surprised how many TVs are sold that don't have tuners at all, or can only tune the public airwave. Many TVs were sold with a cable card slot on them, where you put in somethin...
[07:26:53] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:cable cards and tuners - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 436 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:54] <exec> 08└─> No box at all has been possible for some time, if your TV has tuners capable of tuning all the cable channels Not anymore. A few years ago the cable companies lobbied the FCC to let them encrypt everything. Even local broadcast channels. They lied their asses off about how it was actually better f...
[07:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cable cards and tuners - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:55] <exec> 08└─And now besides a cable card, which my cable company rents out for $2 per month, you also need a tuner adapter to get all the channels.
[07:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02muah - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:57] <exec> 08└─Since when has inconvenience stopped the media industry?
[07:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Informative) 02U-Verse is buggy as hell - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:59] <exec> 08└─Got their latest and greatest DVR last June. Stupid little bugs, like you pause then restart, takes a second or two for sound to start. Search is broken. The UI sucks some serious ass. Fast forward then hit play, it doesn't back up several seconds. These are all minor bugs that are dirt simple to fi...
[07:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Satellite has great set top boxes - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:01] <exec> 08└─I've found satellite providers have great set top box UI. I've Dish now and it's sensible and easy to use. I had DirectTV a while back and it was also easy to use. I've used a number of cable providers and found them all horrible and needlessly complicated. It's as if they went out of their way to m...
[07:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Satellite has great set top boxes - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:02] <exec> 08└─The last time I used Dish, the box had an RF remote control plus it was fast enough to animate menu/guide scrolling. The Motorola/Arris crap Charter (cable) uses is so slow I can see it redrawing its ugly, commodore64-resolution menus, sometimes several seconds after pressing a button. Sometimes it...
[07:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Satellite has great set top boxes - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe that is because Dish and DirecTV saw themselves as being in competition with both each other and the local cable company while the cable companies don't think they have competition from anyone. Just thinking outloud. I wonder if ATT's purchase of directv will make it suck.
[07:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the only way to fix it: a standardized protocol - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:06] <exec> 08└─cable companies aren't UI engineers and they want to keep costs to an absolute minimum, so they are never going to sufficiently fix this on their own. the only way to actually get this fixed for everyone is to require cable companies use a standardized protocol. there was no compatibility with cable...
[07:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:the only way to fix it: a standardized protocol - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, we're all aware that your answer to everything is jackbooted thugs to enforce the glorious people's republic's edicts.
[07:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:the only way to fix it: a standardized protocol - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:09] <exec> 08└─I feel like there should be a happy medium between your "Jack Booted Thugs" and the Balkanization we currently have.
[07:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:the only way to fix it: a standardized protocol - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:11] <exec> 08└─Balkanization? We're talking cable boxes here. Let them stay incompatible and let the cable companies die by their own incompetence as they deserve. Anyway, good luck finding a happy medium between liberty and oppression. There are always going to be times where no matter how good your idea, people...
[07:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:the only way to fix it: a standardized protocol - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:13] <exec> 08└─We're talking cable boxes here. Let them stay incompatible and let the cable companies die by their own incompetence as they deserve.
[07:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02stop making tvs - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:15] <exec> 08└─make monitors! Then you can get a chromecast or roku or fire or appletv.... or your home computer / xbmc / rpi and do what you want., This smart TV (that could replace the set top box) is a waste of money toss into the screen. Yes the other functional is nice, but SIMPLFY the process. One cable betw...
[07:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Cable missed the boat - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:17] <exec> 08└─Cable signed it's own death warrant over a decade ago and continues to shot itself in the foot by refusing to unbundle channels. Between that and (once again) ADVERTISERS, cable is deader than a doornail. 10 years left? Certainly less than 20. They need to reinvent themselves with a whole new busine...
[07:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Cable missed the boat - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:18] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that the most boneheaded decision is to broadcast shows on a set schedule. Seriously, why not just present customers with a menu of programs and let them start and stop them on demand obviating the need for DVRs or being in front of your TV at set time to catch a show. A DVR is just a...
[07:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Cable missed the boat - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:20] <exec> 08└─Because you're forced to decide between watching something live and being unable to skip commercials like you used to or you get to skip commercials, but have to watch after the fact.
[07:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Cable missed the boat - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:22] <exec> 08└─The reason I gave up broadcast/cable was commercials, but streaming on demand does not prevent commercials at all. Example, youtube. So I'm not clear why on-demand streaming is not really on these companies' radars.
[07:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Rid yourself of "Appointment TV" - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:24] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one here that uses something like MythTV? My backend box has 8 x 2TB drives in it, I've got tens of thousands of shows recorded on it that I can watch at my leisure. I tell it what I want to watch, it figures out when to record it and from which source, automatically flags the commerci...
[07:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rickter [842] (Score:1) 02Re:Rid yourself of "Appointment TV" - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:25] <exec> 08└─I just bought a Magnivox DVD Recorder w/ Hard Drive (basically a DVD DVR combo machine - to upgrade from and SD to upscaled DVD quality). Then, a few months later, I find out that I'm going to have to have a cable box, which means I'll have to manually change the channels on the Cable box so the DVR...
[07:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Cable missed the boat - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:27] <exec> 08└─Cable signed it's own death warrant over a decade ago and continues to shot itself in the foot by refusing to unbundle channels.
[07:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:3, Informative) 02Bad ui, or just bad? - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:29] <exec> 08└─my set top box (provided and branded by one of the big telcos) is awful. Regularly can't find the internet, forgets how much time to add at the end or beginning of shows.. Then has a software update every few weeks. "Smart" tv isn't much better.
[07:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comcast = Worst Company in History - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:31] <exec> 08└─OK, maybe hyperbole. But not by much.
[07:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Shouldn't need a cable box - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:32] <exec> 08└─People seem to have forgotten that the "cable box" was basically just a scam to get you to have to buy hardware from the cable company instead of just using the tuner in your TV. Even after going from analog to digital, there is absolutely no reason the digital tuner in a modern TV could not recieve...
[07:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Crowdfunding! - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:34] <exec> 08└─Where do I chip in $20?
[07:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Crowdfunding! - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:36] <exec> 08└─You chip it in your brain, of course!
[07:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Wow - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:38] <exec> 08└─"Last year, Kennedy, a 67-year-old neurologist and inventor, did something unprecedented in the annals of self-experimentation. He paid a surgeon in Central America $25,000 to implant electrodes into his brain in order to establish a connection between his motor cortex and a computer." Now, that's w...
[07:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Wow - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:39] <exec> 08└─the guy is 67. he has 0 fucks at this point.
[07:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:41] <exec> 08└─The part where he can't talk after one of the surgeries is pretty scary too, even though he says he understood everything that was going on and was not the least bit worried... Pretty crazy stuff. And it's not like he had (as far as we know) cancer or something incurable illness that meant he could...
[07:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Wow - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:43] <exec> 08└─Yes... the ultimate scientific investigator. I figure 95% of advances in science are done by men of his mindset. They are few and far between, like you say, putting their money where their mouth is.... they know exactly what they are looking for and have the determination and dedication it takes. F...
[07:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Insightful) 02the problem - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:45] <exec> 08└─Kennedy says the agency began asking him for more safety data, including on the neurotrophic factors he was using to induce neuronal growth. When Kennedy couldn’t provide the data, the FDA refused to approve any more implants.
[07:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the problem - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:46] <exec> 08└─protect us from monstrous people
[07:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:the problem - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:48] <exec> 08└─I think the OP was referring to those corporate leeches who use financial coercion to force the sale of whatever it is they want... in this case - they may want a YOU as a lab rat. Financial and debt pressure being what it is, if it were made legal, there are those who would not think twice about co...
[07:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:the problem - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 1491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:50] <exec> 08└─"these rules exist to protect us from monstrous people and corporations." Nonsense. Those rules are bought and paid for by those same "monstrous people and corporations". Here, specifically, if you'd just read the rest of the full article you'd be able to see that such regulation can only hope at ex...
[07:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:the problem - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:52] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how to mod you. It'd be great if we had "insightful troll". Obviously many rules are in place to protect the people. I'm not sure I can fathom how you can throw out the effort of generations for the sake of an online discussion... Those rules are under constant attack by the aforementio...
[07:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Honeywell 3/16 - 06The Man Behind 'The World's First Home PC' - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:54] <exec> 08└─Went in expecting a story about the '68 Honeywell 3/16 and its Neimen Marcus catalog appearance "If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute." Was disappointed. Oh well...
[07:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Honeywell 3/16 - 06The Man Behind 'The World's First Home PC' - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:55] <exec> 08└─There are multiple candidates for "first PC", including programmable calculators (Turing Complete). A Japanese company produced one around 1965-ish, using RPN. I couldn't google up the name for reason. They sued HP when HP came out with their own RPN calculator a bit later.
[07:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honeywell 3/16 [Programma 101] - 06The Man Behind 'The World's First Home PC' - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:57] <exec> 08└─My mistake, the calculator I'm thinking of is the "Programma 101" by Italian company Olivetti. Not a Japanese company. http://royal.pingdom.com [pingdom.com]
[07:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honeywell 3/16 - 06The Man Behind 'The World's First Home PC' - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:59] <exec> 08└─The listing of the '68 Honeywell 3/16 was not the first appearance of a computer in a consumer catalog. The Heathkit EC-1 http://www.heathkit-museum.com [heathkit-museum.com] first appeared in Heathkit's catalog in 1960 and it came in both kit and pre-built form.
[07:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honeywell 3/16 - 06The Man Behind 'The World's First Home PC' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:01] <exec> 08└─"If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute."
[07:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honeywell 3/16 - 06The Man Behind 'The World's First Home PC' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:03] <exec> 08└─"Chips again, mom?"
[07:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh fuck, not this again - 06The Man Behind 'The World's First Home PC' - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:05] <exec> 08└─"Firsts" aren't
[07:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Turns out its a huge troll - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:06] <exec> 08└─Other sites are reporting that it really doesn't exist, and we've all been trolled.
[07:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tinder Fight Club - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:08] <exec> 08└─Those are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
[07:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Tinder Fight Club - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:10] <exec> 08└─So it's like Tinder Fight Club?
[07:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Brilliant - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:12] <exec> 08└─life isn't a role-playing game, you don't get cash and item drops from enemies you defeat irl. whether you won the encounter or not, its still stealing.
[07:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Who gives a shit? - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:13] <exec> 08└─And since back alleys are not safe, why not build an arena for them and the witnesses, and optionally provide melee weapons? Exotic animals optional.
[07:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Who gives a shit? - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:15] <exec> 08└─We could form a club [wikipedia.org] of like-minded enthusiasts.
[07:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Who gives a shit? - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:17] <exec> 08└─Boxing doesn't tend to include weapons, mind.
[07:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Who gives a shit? - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:19] <exec> 08└─Let people remove themselves from the gene pool, everybody benefits.
[07:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:programmed by - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:21] <exec> 08└─I'll hit you in da face
[07:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Perfect! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:22] <exec> 08└─or as they spell it, moslems
[07:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02Re:Perfect! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:24] <exec> 08└─>or as they spell it, moslems, as they are mentally disabled I'm not Christian, but "moslem" is actually the older alternative spelling of the word. I'm not sure what you're raving on about.
[07:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:26] <exec> 08└─Wait, do we need an app to start fights? Isn't picking a fight relatively easy? Would be funny if you used this app and the guy you picked a fight with was a 6'10" former USMC drill sergeant who met you in the alley. My new startup is going to combine this app with Twitch live streams. It's gonna be...
[07:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:28] <exec> 08└─I have only one question concerning your startup, will it have pizza rolls? If so I would like to contribute to your kickstarter.
[07:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:29] <exec> 08└─"Hey! You don't look like your picture at all! This is BS"
[07:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:31] <exec> 08└─First time in the history of the internet that guys will actually strive to look smaller than they are.
[07:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score:1) 02Re:Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:33] <exec> 08└─Gives a whole new meaning to "sorry, yeah, that was a really old pic".
[07:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:34] <exec> 08└─The perfect app for users which fit the criteria: 1 - want to fight 2 - presumably have an ability to fight 3 - lack the ability to pick a fight themselves 4 - are competent users of technology I never thought I'd see the day when meatheads used their iPhones to pick fights. Welcome to the future. N...
[07:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:36] <exec> 08└─I think the point is that if they agree to the fight that there's less likelihood of being arrested.
[07:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:38] <exec> 08└─An agreement to let someone perform an illegal act on you is usually void and the act is still illegal. So if the fight occurs in a manner that doesn't line up with the laws on consent in sporting activities, both parties could end up on the hook for a crime. This will vary state by state so it will...
[07:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, but in cases like that both parties would be prosecuted. Hence why it's likely to be somewhat less likely to result in criminal charges. And even if it is prosecuted, it would be very difficult to prosecute as both parties involved would undoubtedly take the 5th when it comes to testifying.
[07:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tell 'em step off, I'm doin' the hump! - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:42] <exec> 08└─Hasn't duelling been outlawed, in certain parts of the world?
[07:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Here's what it's like - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:43] <exec> 08└─"Emacs no good. KDE no good. llvm no good." (pauses) "Reddit no good. Linus Torvalds is an idiot. I use MICROSOFT. Xbox and Windows RULE." ...
[07:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Here's what it's like - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:45] <exec> 08└─A wise choice, AC, to remove systemd from the list of epitaphs and obscenities. Microsoft, well, OK. Gnome, well OK. Vi editor, well OK. But its good to see our society has some sane limits to civil discourse. I can totally see someone getting killed in a back alley for saying "Your mom goes down fa...
[07:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's what it's like - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:47] <exec> 08└─Sigh . . . nearly ready to put on some astronaut diapers and drive 15 hours to give you a nice solid roundhouse kick to the neck . . . but I'm out of practice. My coordination, balance, and range of motion are all crap today. If you want a truely worthy opponent for a high-level fistfight, you might...
[07:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:49] <exec> 08└─The world has officially gone to pot.
[07:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:50] <exec> 08└─> The world has officially gone to pot. If that were true there would be no need for this app because everybody would be too chill to fight.
[07:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:52] <exec> 08└─No, if the world had gone to pot, everyone would be sitting on their sofas eating cheetos, and staring at a blank TV screen.
[07:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Pathfinder - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:55] <exec> 08└─which can be used to set up fistfights with total strangers
[07:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Interesting) 02Surprisingly negative responses - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:58] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why all the response are negative. This is to set up fights between consenting adults who want to fight. What the hell is wrong with that? This is no different than the various fight club and MMA type organizations in principle, you can already go and throw down there, this just o...
[07:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Surprisingly negative responses - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:01] <exec> 08└─This "late" in evolution, a lot of the people living are here because others had fought and killed (for them). The important thing for them is to feel safe, protected, embedded, and to conform. The rest of the spectra in the human psyche is material for mental care, according to them. Do not try to...
[07:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprisingly negative responses - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:04] <exec> 08└─"No officer, it wasn't murder, he consented for me to punch him in the head." See how that flies in court.
[07:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprisingly negative responses - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:05] <exec> 08└─"No officer, it wasn't rape, she consented for me to fuck her." See how that flies in court. Wait, what?
[07:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprisingly negative responses - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:07] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why all the response are negative.
[07:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprisingly negative responses - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:09] <exec> 08└─The majority here is more or less geek, so a lot of the visitors here have probably been bullied while growing up. This rumblr thing sort of belongs here because of the 'new tech' aspect, but its audience are the bullies that the geeks here probably still hate. Some rumblr participants are probably...
[07:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Surprisingly negative responses - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:11] <exec> 08└─What the hell is wrong with that?
[07:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprisingly negative responses - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is plenty of opportunity to fight already, according to one set of rules or another? Start a boxing club, a wrestling club, an MMA club, join a martial arts dojo. There are probably more that I'm not even thinking about. Personally, I think boxing just sucks, but I enjoyed wrestling when...
[07:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:3, Informative) 02Whooosh... - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:15] <exec> 08└─This whole board has been pranked.
[07:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whooosh... - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:16] <exec> 08└─Totally expecting to see this on the next list of "Fake Viral Stories You Fell For".
[07:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Whooosh... - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks to my new app Prankr, I wasn't fooled!
[07:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Whooosh... - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:20] <exec> 08└─I have no excuse... only DAMNIT!!!!! Please don't cut my editorial pay.....
[07:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality check... - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:22] <exec> 08└─Worst-case, GM goes bankrupt in a decade or two
[07:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality check... - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:24] <exec> 08└─> ... and has to abandon vanilla cars ... They did get bankrupt, which is how they ran away from some of their structural issues. They'd probably have to go bankrupt again to "safely" ditch their assets related to small car manufacturing.
[07:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality check... - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:25] <exec> 08└─I admit I might be over dramatic. What I meant is that they will not be relevant to the (passenger) car market. They might do OK in the pickup market for a while, same for Trucks. Of course it takes a while for a dinosaur to implode, and the writing will be on the wall.
[07:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Reality check... - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:27] <exec> 08└─This is the problem with EVs right now, the up front price premium will pay for a lot of gasoline ...
[07:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Reality check... - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:29] <exec> 08└─True, the transportation market (autos and motorcycles included) is not a bastion of rational decision making. Even though "cool factor", image and how people feel about vehicle in general are major contributors to buying decisions, EVs are at a disadvantage due to the price premium they carry. Most...
[07:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality check... - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:31] <exec> 08└─I think this is the right calculation, if you cannot be assured to hit charging stations, and maybe not able to have multiple vehicles. For example, probably 100 miles/day covers most people, but having a vehicle that can go 400 miles on a tank? Priceless. And I live somewhere with above average num...
[07:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reality check... - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:32] <exec> 08└─> but having a vehicle that can go 400 miles on a tank? Priceless. Rent one for the 4-5 times a year that a normal person needs to drive 400 miles on a tank. Everytime I drive cross-country I rent a car anyway, most of them are rented without any mileage limitations.
[07:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reality check... - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:34] <exec> 08└─> This is the problem with EVs right now, the up front price premium will pay for a lot of gasoline Do not underestimate the value of near zero maintenance. Never having to drop it off at the shop to be worked on or even worry about stuff breaking. No oil changes, no belt changes, no spark plug chan...
[07:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible Name - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:36] <exec> 08└─And then they add an "Usain Mode"...
[07:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Terrible Name - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:38] <exec> 08└─Lol. Yet another example of nominative determinism [wikipedia.org] in the wild. LIke Anthony Weiner and Diana Nyad.
[07:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible Name - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:40] <exec> 08└─Kodak did the same dumbass thing years ago. They developed a camera that you could load without fiddling with the film itself, just a drop-in cartridge, and named it Instamatic. Later on, they decided to make an instant-developing camera competing with Polaroid, and that name would have been perfect...
[07:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible Name - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:41] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that "bolt" is the more mechanical term (and it makes me think of Frankenstein's monster), while "volt" is the more electrical.
[07:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Terrible Name - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:43] <exec> 08└─lightning bolt
[07:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible Name - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:45] <exec> 08└─lightning bolt
[07:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:slight problem - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:47] <exec> 08└─I thought the law was you could only have four forward-facing white lights
[07:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:slight problem - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:48] <exec> 08└─I heard an interesting idea from someone once, obviously flawed but made me think, that car makers intentionally make hybrids/EV look "unique" for the purpose of virtue signaling. It's entirely possible to make a hybrid look just like a normal car, but those models don't sell as much as the outwardl...
[07:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:slight problem - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:50] <exec> 08└─Ugly?!? Beauty is subjective. More, why does that matter in the slightest? On the scale of importance, cleaning up the environment and saving the world from Climate Change is by far the most important consideration. After that, surely an efficient ride that doesn't sacrifice comfort is more importan...
[07:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:slight problem - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:52] <exec> 08└─Ugly?!? Beauty is subjective. More, why does that matter in the slightest?
[07:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02$20K for 100 miles - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:54] <exec> 08└─I won't pay $40K for 200 miles range, but I will pay $20K for 100 mile range. Since most of the cost is buried in the battery this sounds achievable. I'm not interested in spending $20K to do something I don't need to do, in fact, something I actively don't want to do, which is sit on my butt for 20...
[07:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:$20K for 100 miles - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:56] <exec> 08└─I won't pay $2K for 10 mile range, but if I could get a 3 mile range for $600, that might be something to take the kids to school in. Bonus if it's legal to drive on the sidewalk. Meanwhile, we're just pedaling instead.
[07:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: $600, 3 miles - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:59] <exec> 08└─You may be interested in an "electric bicycle". They are scooter style, have a 48V Lead-acid battery. In the US they are limited to 750W, in Canada 500W (I can out-power the Canadian version up a hill). I don't consider them bicycles because it (at least the model I tried) is impossible to pedal...
[07:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:$20K for 100 miles - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:00] <exec> 08└─> Do they mean 200 mile range and the battery dies from excessive depth of discharge after 100 cycles? No. > do they mean 200 miles is a shallow enough depth of discharge that I could realistically get 200K miles out of it? Yes. > I suspect lots of marketing money will go into making the power conne...
[07:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:language scams - 06Dumb Cuneiform: Memorialize Your Tweets in Cuneiform - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:02] <exec> 08└─The website certainly is not reassuring... They say: We take the letters from your message and transliterate by syllable, as nearly as we can, into cuneiform. So they don't translate to old persian but just use the persian alphabet. Just take a look at the first example translation on the website, i...
[07:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02My Opinion - 06Dumb Cuneiform: Memorialize Your Tweets in Cuneiform - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:04] <exec> 08└─My opinion for what it's worth is that this looks like a bit of fun. The translation might be a bit off, and it's hardly something that's ever going to be hugely valuable, but still, it's no-where near as bad as having some stupid Chinese thing tattooed on your neck.
[07:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My Opinion - 06Dumb Cuneiform: Memorialize Your Tweets in Cuneiform - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:06] <exec> 08└─My tattoo says "true love" in Chinese. But someone who actually spoke Chinese said my tattoo said "cheap prostitute". I have learned to live with the ambiguity of translation. Although, one of these is just wrong. #hashtag #immortalTweet #ImmortanJoe #IMayAlreadyBeDead
[07:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rufty [381] (Score:1) 02Re:Uhm..... - 06RATS: the Radio Transceiver System, an Open Source Communication Tool for the Security-Obsessed - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:08] <exec> 08└─The ham radio tcp/ip network. http://www.ampr.org [ampr.org] And for broadband, http://www.broadband-hamnet.org [broadband-hamnet.org]
[07:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Giant spotlight - 06RATS: the Radio Transceiver System, an Open Source Communication Tool for the Security-Obsessed - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:13] <exec> 08└─Never mind the concerns over spectrum usage. But perhaps more than anything it could be a boon for people living under governments that censor and monitor on-line communications, allowing local groups to coordinate without so much as touching the compromised networks.
[07:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Awesome freedoms! - 06'Pompeii of the New World' Reveals Power of Mayan Commoners - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:32] <exec> 08└─and lets not forget how much the government subsidizes the production of so many things that ends up being thrown away.
[07:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Awesome freedoms! - 06'Pompeii of the New World' Reveals Power of Mayan Commoners - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:33] <exec> 08└─The problem TFA has though is that the freedom aspect is completely made up. There's no evidence presented that shows that they could make those decisions. We know about the conditions European serfs lived under because we can read the writing left behind. There's nothing like that here.
[07:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Awesome freedoms! - 06'Pompeii of the New World' Reveals Power of Mayan Commoners - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:34] <exec> 08└─Doubt feudal lords cared when you did your dishes, whether you made a pot or your kids made it as long as their feasting tables were full and they had enough supplies for wars. Far more likely they just set certain targets (with minimums)-how much wheat, how many sheep, how many pigs and by when. Th...
[07:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ahead of their time. - 06'Pompeii of the New World' Reveals Power of Mayan Commoners - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:38] <exec> 08└─I misread the title as "...Power of Mayan Commodores" as in 64. Could explain their intricate calendar.
[07:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:correlation not causation - 06Pedometers: the New Prescription for Rheumatoid Arthritis - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:53] <exec> 08└─I didn't bother to buy a fitbit, I installed some random pedometer app on my phone, it also differentiated bike vs walk, was kinda cool. My employer has an insurance rate reduction tie-in to reporting "steps taken" on their little nudge stay healthy website, $50 a month seems to motivate a lot of pe...
[07:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:correlation not causation - 06Pedometers: the New Prescription for Rheumatoid Arthritis - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:54] <exec> 08└─Well duh captain obvious. Of course it takes more than just a pedometer. But the point is that a pedometer is a tool that makes it easier for people to make better choices. The pedometer is not the goal it is just part of the process.
[07:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:correlation not causation - 06Pedometers: the New Prescription for Rheumatoid Arthritis - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:57] <exec> 08└─As long as the rock keeps the relevant species of bear away, I'll definitely buy one.
[07:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:So Satoshi is cool and all, but... - 06Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated for Nobel Prize - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:18] <exec> 08└─If you posit thousands of nodes cooperating to validate transactions and prevent double-spends, then sure, lots of alternatives to block chains can be made. The whole "can't forge it because it's too much work" aspect is a short sighted fallacy, IMO. I would prefer something reputation based where a...
[07:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:So Satoshi is cool and all, but... - 06Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated for Nobel Prize - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:19] <exec> 08└─I don't think you're talking about a ledger system, I think you're talking about a web of trust reputation system with an insurance system backing it up. Besides not being a ledger system, this relies on governments to make the private insurance companies cough up payment when it is due. A blockchai...
[07:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:So Satoshi is cool and all, but... - 06Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated for Nobel Prize - 2153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:21] <exec> 08└─While I am talking about a web of trust, I am not talking about government enforced insurance payments - I am talking about trusted "insurance providers," who, in essence, are putting their own trust reputation on the line when they back a transaction. If you are new to the system, you can either ge...
[07:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MAD? - 06U.S. Navy Launches Trident Missile from Submarine, Seen All Over West Coast - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:43] <exec> 08└─Right, so as not to let the limeys be caught with their knickers down. /article.pl?sid=15/10/09/1545236 [soylentnews.org] /article.pl?sid=15/05/19/0255231 [soylentnews.org]
[07:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Letting Russia and China know - 06U.S. Navy Launches Trident Missile from Submarine, Seen All Over West Coast - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:48] <exec> 08└─California is "near" them? Thank you for your insightful comment Ms. Palin.
[07:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Letting Russia and China know - 06U.S. Navy Launches Trident Missile from Submarine, Seen All Over West Coast - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:31:50] <exec> 08└─You misread; GP is saying California is not near them.
[07:32:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03moondrake [2658] 02Re:Glass, or crystal? - 06 Japanese Scientists Invent Nearly Unbreakable Glass - 1270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:32:14] <exec> 08└─hmmm... Hold up a glass to the light. If the glass acts as a prism and you see a rainbow you are holding crystal. If not, it is just plain glass. Except when the glass is cut in such a way as to act like a prism When struck, crystal produces a musical...
[07:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reinventing sapphire crystal - 06 Japanese Scientists Invent Nearly Unbreakable Glass - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:32:30] <exec> 08└─current processes can't produce it in large pieces, for things like windows. fine for watches though!
[07:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Reinventing sapphire crystal - 06 Japanese Scientists Invent Nearly Unbreakable Glass - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:32:31] <exec> 08└─This seems like a solution in search of a problem to me.
[07:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...nearly unbreakable - 06 Japanese Scientists Invent Nearly Unbreakable Glass - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:32:33] <exec> 08└─Ah, but if you round the corners with this patented radius...
[07:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hatsune Miku - 06The Robot Rock Band, Want to Build a Vocalist - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:32:43] <exec> 08└─This. I don't see how this is news considering that the vocaloid series has helped produce a ton of albums. How different is compressorband? Do the robots themselves compose the music?
[07:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: facebok idiots - 06'Fast Internet' for All by 2020 Pledged - UK Prime Minister - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:32:58] <exec> 08└─Oh, AC, does that include me with my "shadow profile" because I allowed some other facebook users to photograph me?
[07:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: IPv6 - 06'Fast Internet' for All by 2020 Pledged - UK Prime Minister - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:33:12] <exec> 08└─Both North America and APNIC have run out of IPv4 addresses. The IPv6 Privacy concern has largely been addressed with the concept of a "temporary address"
[07:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:Fast Fast Fast - 06'Fast Internet' for All by 2020 Pledged - UK Prime Minister - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:33:18] <exec> 08└─I admit that my first thought was "it'll be to plug the telescreens into". (terminology may be off; I haven't read Nineteen Eighty Four in a long time.)
[07:33:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Android - 06The Perils of Loading Native Libraries on Android - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:33:34] <exec> 08└─Yes. The UI is equally poor across a wide variety of resolutions. Kudos to Android for solving this problem.
[07:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Android - 06The Perils of Loading Native Libraries on Android - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:33:41] <exec> 08└─Though I wouldn't be surprised to find out that nerds have become easier since the 70s -- wink wink, nudge nudge, knowwhatimean?
[07:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bram [3770] (Score:1) 02Re:Android - 06The Perils of Loading Native Libraries on Android - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:33:43] <exec> 08└─I still use ant, and Android.mk Makefiles. Blazingly fast. Command line builds rule!
[07:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Salute? - 06Jetpack Pilot Soars Over NYC's Hudson River, Salutes Lady Liberty - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:04] <exec> 08└─He should have tea-bagged Lady Liberty. It's what successive US governments (and their corporate masters) have been doing to the US people for quite some time, I hear.
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[08:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Privacy - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:07] <exec> 08└─This is great! It makes it all the easier for businesses and the government to track you. But if you like privacy, then it's not so great. Let's hope that cash doesn't disappear completely, thereby removing the choice entirely.
[08:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02no, thanks - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:08] <exec> 08└─do not want
[08:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score:1) 02Negative interest rates, i.e. money tax - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:09] <exec> 08└─This will make it even more easy to auto-expire any savings you might accumulate. The Swedish Riksbank is already doing this [wikipedia.org]
[08:25:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:systemd is a lot like Windows 10 - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 1187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:25] <exec> 08└─I suspect that there are some real advantages in using Systemd, but only a very small number of people actually want or need those features. The problem is that it is being shovelled down the throats of all Linux users. I have had arguments (mostly on the other site) about the usefulness of systemd...
[08:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:systemd is a lot like Windows 10 - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:26] <exec> 08└─I suspect that there are some real advantages in using Systemd, but only a very small number of people actually want or need those features. The problem is that it is being shovelled down the throats of all Linux users.
[08:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:systemd is a lot like Windows 10 - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 1755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:28] <exec> 08└─We're mostly BSD for our *NIX boxes now, but we still have quite a few Linux systems around running stuff that we can't get to work on BSD. I actually don't mind systemd at all when it works, but hate it with a passion when it goes wrong; it's often quicker just to re-install from a backup image or...
[08:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shiny toys, come and get em'! - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:32] <exec> 08└─Systemd does some very cool stuff, no doubt about it. However, from LP's own talk about cgroups there is little need for all this magic on desktops! So why isn't this a server optimized package to be optionally installed for those who need such capabilities?
[08:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Finally - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe they'll find the damn instructions to the Antikythera device.
[08:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strange definition of "good guys" - 06To Protect and to Serve - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:11] <exec> 08└─> Some ARE evil, using surveillance for selfish purposes, to ruin lives, to steal or blackmail. These are the things that need to be discussed, No, that's a given. What really needs to be discussed is how the surveillance makes it so much easier to take shortcuts in the pursuit of the "bad guys" and...
[08:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stop making tvs - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:54] <exec> 08└─I sort of agree. My ideal system is: Monitor HTPC with tuner PCIe card and/or cable/sat interface PCIe card (standard protocol req'd) Integrated amp + speakers No set top box (card suffices; USB gadget could be used instead of PCIe card) and no AVR - the HTPC replaces that. No separate DVD/BD player...
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[09:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Heating - 06Germany to Get 33% of its Electricity From Renewables This Year - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:19] <exec> 08└─The energy Germany gets from Russia is in the form of gas. AFAIK only a small part of that gas is used for electricity; most of it goes into heating of houses. I don't see a mass transition to electric heating (and I'm not sure the grid would currently support that). The campaign for better house in...
[09:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What we are forgetting. - 06Germany to Get 33% of its Electricity From Renewables This Year - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:20] <exec> 08└─Although this might seem like good news, what we keep forgetting in these reports are the costs to manufacture, maintain AND to dispose of those renewable energy devices. Having direct contact with one of the engineers, I asked the following question when he was telling me about the manufacturing pr...
[09:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Privacy - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:30] <exec> 08└─Let's hope that cash doesn't disappear completely, thereby removing the choice entirely.
[09:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03G-forze [1276] (Score:2) 02Re:Privacy - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:32] <exec> 08└─I like technological advancements and the convenience they may bring as much as any nerd, but this is a scary development. Already today, there are people not eligible for a bank account for some reason or another. What happens when there is no cash to use? The possibilities of creating a whole new...
[09:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03robpow [1575] (Score:1) 02Re:Negative interest rates, i.e. money tax - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:35] <exec> 08└─The way I read it the negative rate affects interbank lending and not retail customers. People's savings accounts typically return a percent or two so with inflation near zero that's still a net gain.
[09:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Negative interest rates are easily avoided - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:37] <exec> 08└─Negative interest rates are so easily avoided that they really make very little sense. Maybe if some mega-corp is parking money short term, they will get hit, but otherwise? Withdraw your cash, rent a safe deposit box, and put your money in the safe. Alternatively, put your cash into gold, and put t...
[09:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Negative interest rates are easily avoided - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:38] <exec> 08└─Don't you know that only reason you would want large amounts of cash is for drug dealing or tax evasion?!?
[09:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Negative interest rates are easily avoided - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:40] <exec> 08└─> Alternatively, put your cash into LEGO, and put the gold in the safe. FTFY [telegraph.co.uk]
[09:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02EU - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:42] <exec> 08└─Good. Seems that they are transitioning onto the Euro, like everybody else.
[09:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Positive impact? - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:44] <exec> 08└─I can forsee tradesmen giving even bigger discounts, once cash becomes rare..
[09:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Aieghhhhh! - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:54] <exec> 08└─Devuan's working pretty well for me on my personal laptop currently. (Apart from the lack of control I have over the HDMI using xrandr.)
[09:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Shiny toys, come and get em'! - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:03] <exec> 08└─strange that you should have worded that as "that the systemd developers despise" rather than "that despise the systemd developers". Yours, Greybeard, one of the latter.
[09:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh oh.... - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:07] <exec> 08└─There are other Linux distributions and you can always use FreeBSD.
[09:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh oh.... - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:08] <exec> 08└─You might consider trying (and backing if happy) devuan. They did a pretty good job sofar, even if they look like condemned like any people trying to oppose lennax.
[09:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh oh.... - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:10] <exec> 08└─You nearly get it, but are missing the most important thing - "don't" is a passive thing. I'm happy doing "don't", as I don't have to do anything. However, "change distro" is an active thing. And that rightly pisses me off. Not least as I have my own finely-tuned deployment scripts that I've evolved...
[09:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:2) 02Re:Unlikely to change many minds... - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, exactly. love systemd or hate it, it looks like it's not going away.
[09:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Diversity - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:14] <exec> 08└─I have no opinion on the technical merits of systemd itself. I am not qualified to pass comment. However, I do have an opinion on the process whereby very few distributions offer the choice of using or not. I believe that reduction in choice for anyone other than linux gurus is bad. systemd reminds...
[09:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Hoorah for the scientists! - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:26] <exec> 08└─It's not as if the headline should have read "Grateful Archaeologists Led to 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks" or anything. Let's hope what they actually find (what's under/inside) is well-preserved, and remains that way.
[09:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cable missed the boat - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:42] <exec> 08└─Unbundling is coming to Canada next year some time. It's being forced on the cable/sat companies. Right now they are busy selling long term contracts with lots of bundling to sucker... err customers looking for "deals."
[09:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02better box or no box - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:46] <exec> 08└─There'll still be a box. And it will be even worse.
[09:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:58] <exec> 08└─If he had zero fucks he wouldn't be doing this. What this shows is he really gives the fuck about finding out more in this field than most people do. So much fuck that he's willing to risk fucking up his own brain and life.
[09:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Down to earth - 06To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:07] <exec> 08└─I was a bit skeptical, knowing too many neuro-researchers that try to link e.g. speech and genome, but this is surprisingly down to earth, and can be very useful as well as a source of knowledge, e.g. on speech errors. Pity that it's over now.
[09:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pathfinder - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:09] <exec> 08└─They use a very old ruleset known as IRL.
[09:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Cut out the middle man - 06Dumb Cuneiform: Memorialize Your Tweets in Cuneiform - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:30:32] <exec> 08└─> Job's laser clay tablet engraver Yeah it looks shiny, but it's way overpriced for the specs and doesn't engrave properly if you are "holding it wrong". > the world has changed a lot since then, and seems to take itself much more seriously. I think it's just that the geek world has shifted out of t...
[09:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:I applied as a background vocalist for a group - 06The Robot Rock Band, Want to Build a Vocalist - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:33:33] <exec> 08└─"If you go back in time, pre-TV era there were some damn ugly yet highly successful musicians. I don't think hot lip sync dancers add much culturally." In 1979, The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" pretty much summed up that statement. The first video presented on the brand new MTV and the prop...
[09:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Android - 06The Perils of Loading Native Libraries on Android - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:34:20] <exec> 08└─I didn't see any technical opinions from the AC proving that "Android isn't a flawed system, it is a flaw." Android is a flawed system like many real world systems in use, but I see zero evidence that it is a failed project whether commercially or technically. In your reply you have provided zero vi...
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[10:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What we are forgetting. - 06Germany to Get 33% of its Electricity From Renewables This Year - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:25] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's not just anecdotal evidence, it's an anecdote based on hearsay. You have proven that you can google up the number of wind turbines in the country easily enough, but somehow you were unable to plug the words "wind turbine disposal" into your preferred search engine. Here [bbc.co.uk], I've...
[10:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What we are forgetting. - 06Germany to Get 33% of its Electricity From Renewables This Year - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:26] <exec> 08└─OK, fair enough, yet your link still fails to convince, at least me, that there isn't going to be a big pile of crap somewhere. But hey, at least we will get some playgrounds out of the deal with a fresh smell of burning resin as a bonus.
[10:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score:1) 02Re:What we are forgetting. - 06Germany to Get 33% of its Electricity From Renewables This Year - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:27] <exec> 08└─Recycling and reuse are completely alien concepts to you, are they?
[10:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tiny?! - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:46] <exec> 08└─What about the cash cows :( Anyway, sounds like marketing speak.
[10:26:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Shiny toys, come and get em'! - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 1602 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:08] <exec> 08└─Systemd does some very cool stuff, no doubt about it. However, from LP's own talk about cgroups there is little need for all this magic on desktops! So why isn't this a server optimized package to be optionally installed for those who need such capabilities? From the same talk, systemd now controls...
[10:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FreeBSD dual-boot - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:16] <exec> 08└─I just downloaded FreeBSD. (Boot drive failed, might as well refine my set-up) I plan to use full-disk encryption, then dual-boot Ubuntu off a second hard-drive. That way, proprietary software like steam can not clobber my work (or at least not exfiltrate it in clear-text).
[10:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh oh.... - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:17] <exec> 08└─PCLinuxOS is still holding steady against systemd as well — I've been using it since last December, and have been very happy with it.
[10:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"OOPS!" With a Hydrogen Bomb. - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:23] <exec> 08└─Well maybe that would be hard to obtain but the laboratory preparation of the VX Nerve Agent can be found in Wikipedia. It's not a "Nerve Gas" rather it is a liquid with the consistency of motor oil and is regarded as an "Area Denial Agent" because it evaporates slowly, thereby denying the enemy the...
[10:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03basicbasicbasic [411] (Score:2) 02Re:Hoorah for the scientists! - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:37] <exec> 08└─The title actually makes it sound like we should stun archaeologists more often.
[10:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so fast - 06To Protect and to Serve - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:10] <exec> 08└─> If 20% of the people bit the dick off their attackers I think you'll see a reduction in oral rapes. I doubt it. People who commit that sort of crime aren't looking up dick-biting statistics on wikipedia before they go and do it. They are people with little to no empathy and poor impulse control: T...
[10:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Candidate for a prison bitch - 06To Protect and to Serve - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:13] <exec> 08└─> Being forced to give oral sex in prison seems to be an appropriate punishment. Never understood this line of reasoning. Who is he giving oral sex to in prison? Well, surely that's going to be a convicted rapist. So... what you're saying is, people who are convicted of rape should be sent to a big...
[10:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Oregon Health & Sciences University cops beat me - 06To Protect and to Serve - 3321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:20] <exec> 08└─they repeatedly pounded my head into concrete in retaliation for my having urinated on the floor of a holding cell that was not equipped with a toilet. I was in there for many hours, I was not offered any food nor water, nor access to a telephone, nurse call button nor legal counsel. I was imprisone...
[10:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the only way to fix it: a standardized protocol - 06 What Will Replace the Cable Box: a Better Box Or No Box at All? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:48] <exec> 08└─Anyway, good luck finding a happy medium between liberty and oppression.
[10:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Whooosh... - 06Rumblr is Like a Dating App, But for Fistfights - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:38] <exec> 08└─These and many more stories can be created using our new app /Trollr/. Select the forums you wish to troll with your latest made up stories, and share them with your friends.
[10:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Reality check... - 06All-Electric Chevy Bolt to be Sold in All 50 US States, GM Says - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:30:01] <exec> 08└─> Its actually a little large and uncomfortable to park, lacking the need to compensate, I'm used to smaller cars. What changed such that you do now need to compensate? > My wife ... Got it, no need to answer the above. Midlife crisis in full swing, clearly.
[10:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Awesome freedoms! - 06'Pompeii of the New World' Reveals Power of Mayan Commoners - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:31:40] <exec> 08└─> Far more likely they just set certain targets (with minimums)-how much wheat, how many sheep, how many pigs and by when. They didn't care how you achieved them, where you planted stuff (within the boundaries of what you were > assigned), how you planted stuff. I'm sure many lords worked like this,...
[10:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:correlation not causation - 06Pedometers: the New Prescription for Rheumatoid Arthritis - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:00] <exec> 08└─Clearly the negatives of the degenerative disease aren't great enough for people to *do the actual exercise the doctor ordered*. A pedometer simply *removes the ability to lie to your doctor*. Why the fuck should anyone care about the wellbeing of someone who would otherwise deceive the people who a...
[10:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As dumb as I think bitcoin is - 06Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated for Nobel Prize - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:32:31] <exec> 08└─Molten salt thorium reactors can handle it.
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[11:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Nickel and dime - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:36] <exec> 08└─In addition to privacy questions there is also the opportunity for abuse by the banks. If it is like it was in Norway, then the banks will use it to tack on all kinds of service charges even though they are saving money. I don't know the situation now, but a while back the banks in Norway gave the d...
[11:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They seem bent on fulfilling - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[11:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02How do you pay a criminal to do a job for you?? - 06Can You Imagine a 'Cashless Society'? Sweden is Nearly There - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:48] <exec> 08└─If Sweden has no cash, how does one pay a criminal if one needs a 'job' done?? What about if one wants to buy some black-market 'stuff'; how does one pay?? One may want to exercise ones options on one or both of the above in the future; how should the deal be done if cash is no longer an option?? Do...
[11:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:1) 02Devuan status - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:03] <exec> 08└─Devuan's working pretty well for me on my personal laptop currently. (Apart from the lack of control I have over the HDMI using xrandr.)
[11:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:"OOPS!" With a Hydrogen Bomb. - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:24] <exec> 08└─MDC pls. Nerve gas would barely tickle systemd devs braincells. Try giving them omega-3 instead.
[11:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DIY Debian without systemd - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:25] <exec> 08└─For all the moaning about devuan forking Debian (not the way I would have done it), it's really not hard to build your own Debian install discs without systemd. I use the image on most of my installs now and have a jessie install that comes with sysvinit / rc. Everything still works. The only real g...
[11:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Set up Devuan/Slackware booths or talks - 06'systemd' Developers Have First Conference - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:27] <exec> 08└─I am betting that any talk against cancerd^W systemd will be prohibited at this conference.
[11:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Looting vs Archeology - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:37] <exec> 08└─No, archaeology is actually more like this: Some guy digs up old stuff, studies it, obtains further knowledge of the past, and makes a contribution to humanity's understanding of its history. Most archaeology doesn't involve golden artefacts or anything so spectacular that could be sold off. A lot o...
[11:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hoorah for the scientists! - 06Stunned Archaeologists Find 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:44] <exec> 08└─It's not as if the headline should have read "Grateful Archaeologists Led to 22 Ancient Greek Shipwrecks" or anything.
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