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[02:55:55] <exec_> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Student loans are a bad idea... - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 2841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:56] <exec_> 08└─An English degree costs basically the same as an engineering degree, but the earnings potential of an engineer is typically much higher. By that rationale, the English degree should be much less expensive. Except that it costs about the same for the university to provide the degree. Yes, the enginee...
[02:56:03] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:The issues I see - 06Space Mission to Test Modified Gravity Model - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:04] <exec_> 08└─I fail to see the troll, in the above post, it feels like gibberish but so does the paper. The abstract quite accessible but the paper quickly become impenetrable to someone outside the field of space probe desing.
[02:56:06] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:The issues I see - 06Space Mission to Test Modified Gravity Model - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:08] <exec_> 08└─After further reading, would replace space probe desing with deep knowledge of cosmology.
[02:56:10] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:The issues I see - 06Space Mission to Test Modified Gravity Model - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:12] <exec_> 08└─They mention Yukawa because it is the form that 1/r^2 forces take when their carriers have mass. In other words, if you can show that gravity takes a Yukawa form, it proves that the graviton has mass. The funny thing is that if gravity has a Yukawa form that can be detected bu such a probe, it might...
[02:56:20] <exec_> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:It naturally follows of course... - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:22] <exec_> 08└─So if they're only doing it because they can afford the hit, then I'm not going to be impressed from an idealism point of view. The same reason they're leaving Pakistan equally applies to the U.S. If they cared about privacy for their U.S customers as a policy, then they would also pull out of the e...
[02:56:23] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It naturally follows of course... - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:26] <exec_> 08└─Since you did not bother to RTFA let me point out the flaw in your jumping of the gun logic: The truth is that the Pakistani government wanted the ability to monitor all BlackBerry Enterprise Service traffic in the country, including every BES e-mail and BES BBM message. But BlackBerry will not comp...
[02:56:28] <exec_> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:It naturally follows of course... - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:31] <exec_> 08└─Laws requiring the company assist law enforcement with criminal investigations and laws demanding complete, unfettered, unrestricted, and unlimited access to all company data are two completely different things. Put your tinfoil away please.
[02:56:34] <exec_> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Way to lose more profits BB!! - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:35] <exec_> 08└─Corporations have one duty and one duty only: profit.
[02:56:39] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:History - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:40] <exec_> 08└─No, you're right. Blackberry allows Saudi Arabia, India, and apparently the UAE, to monitor its customers. All had threatened to ban Blackberry phones. http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] http://www.zdnet.com
[02:56:44] <exec_> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:People called Bernie Sanders crazy for this - 06Arkansas Has a Growing Population of Climate Change Refugees - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:46] <exec_> 08└─there's like 150 years(at current usage rates) of coal in the ground, dude. That's not some triviality.
[02:56:49] <exec_> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:People called Bernie Sanders crazy for this - 06Arkansas Has a Growing Population of Climate Change Refugees - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:51] <exec_> 08└─it's just... hard to risk your life for justice when you've got a good home and are well fed, maybe?
[02:57:02] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:classic rm mistakes - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:03] <exec_> 08└─That "Why is this command taking so long" is the WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD. You go from zero to absolute terror in about 3 seconds, then it's ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C time. I feel your pain.
[02:57:41] <exec_> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Pleasant???? - 06Beer Domesticated Man - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:57:42] <exec_> 08└─I think that's just because you've only tried bad beer, a.k.a. pisswater. If you've tried a variety of good beers, I'm sure you'll find one or three that you enjoy.
[02:58:47] <exec_> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Beef gate - 06Algebra Scores Prompt Second Look at Revamped Regents Exams - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:47] <exec_> 08└─Algebra is education's beef gate. It's the real test for whether or not you're capable of abstract and critical thinking. In theory, many other subjects also test abstract and critical thinking: science, geometry, calculus, literature. But algebra FORCES it. It's possible to brute force your way thr...
[02:59:29] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score:1) 02Re:How about an "I told you so"? - 06Paris Attacks Plot was Hatched in Plain Sight - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:30] <exec_> 08└─It depends on how many white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics, or other non-Muslim extremists there are in the US don't you think?
[02:59:35] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:How about an "I told you so"? - 06Paris Attacks Plot was Hatched in Plain Sight - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:36] <exec_> 08└─And that only drives home the fact that the "immigrants" are not asimilating. They have no desire to assimilate.
[03:00:06] <exec_> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Node.js Sysadmins - 06Node.js Sysadmins: Get Ready to Patch - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:07] <exec_> 08└─I don't think any self-respecting sysadmin would be running Node.js in the first place. If not for technical reasons: > '5' - 3 2 // weak typing + implicit conversions = headaches > '5' + 3 '53' // Because we all love consistency > '5' - '4' 1 // string - string = integ...
[03:01:23] <exec_> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Let the wildlife be wild. - 06Japan to Resume Whaling, Fleet Sails to Antarctic Tuesday - 588 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:24] <exec_> 08└─I'm a carnivore, and I don't have any problems with killing and eating animals for food. However, I do object to harvesting wildlife. With seven billion of us, that's just the wrong way to go about it - there is too much danger of driving species extinct, of destroying food chains that we barely und...
[03:01:26] <exec_> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Let the wildlife be wild. - 06Japan to Resume Whaling, Fleet Sails to Antarctic Tuesday - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:28] <exec_> 08└─What do you kill if you don't kill wildlife?
[03:01:31] <exec_> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Let the wildlife be wild. - 06Japan to Resume Whaling, Fleet Sails to Antarctic Tuesday - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:33] <exec_> 08└─Unfortunately, the corporations continually get the government to redefine what it means to raise animals humanely. It's now humane to raise chickens in conditions so crowded that you need to cut off their beaks. And look into exactly what the term "cage free" means. That said, one shouldn't over em...
[03:01:34] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let the wildlife be wild. - 06Japan to Resume Whaling, Fleet Sails to Antarctic Tuesday - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:37] <exec_> 08└─I'm not sure how it worked out, but the Japanese have tried to farm whales: http://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] A company in the USA has been breeding killer whales, but has been ordered to stop doing so in California: https://www.reefs.com
[03:01:42] <exec_> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:While We're At It - 06Japan to Resume Whaling, Fleet Sails to Antarctic Tuesday - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:44] <exec_> 08└─"nuke a gay whale for jesus" .... "I fail to see what jesus adds..." The point is that so many adherents of the other religion of peace, are into nuking things and other war, gay bashing, against any sort of environmental protection, and do it all in the name jesus. It's an obvious dig at right wing...
[03:01:47] <exec_> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Also, Norway and Iceland - 06Japan to Resume Whaling, Fleet Sails to Antarctic Tuesday - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:49] <exec_> 08└─There are 3 nations that actively and commercially kill wales. 1. Norway 2. Iceland 3. Japan https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Iceland has steeply accelerated its commercial whaling, and Norway's quotas are still higher than Japan's...
[03:03:43] <exec_> 08*** score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02Re:Don't support their business model - 06How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce - 452 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:44] <exec_> 08└─They'd rather close a store than let unions exist at all. http://www.cbc.ca [www.cbc.ca] It was totally illegal and nobody buys the fairy tale that the store was unprofitable to begin with, but so what? That u...
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[03:55:55] <exec_> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02muskloop - 06The Race to Create Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Heats Up - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:56] <exec_> 08└─As the summary mentions neither Hyperloop-named company [wikipedia.org] has Elon Musk on board, but he is helping both with the test track and competition. I really like this approach.
[03:56:02] <exec_> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bziman [3577] 02Student loans are a bad idea... - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 2841 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:04] <exec_> 08└─An English degree costs basically the same as an engineering degree, but the earnings potential of an engineer is typically much higher. By that rationale, the English degree should be much less expensive. Except that it costs about the same for the university to provide the degree. Yes, the enginee...
[03:56:06] <exec_> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Student loans are a bad idea... - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:56:08] <exec_> 08└─I sure get the idea there are a lot more engineers out there than needed, and a helluva lot less good mechanics. If I had a do-over, I would have done my other passion and become a really good grease monkey, and not had to deal with management types. I know several really good independent auto mecha...
[03:56:12] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Typical Congressional idea - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:14] <exec_> 08└─Many freshly minted college graduates look for jobs that are 1. Fun, e.g. involves travel abroad, work in a resort area, or sports/exercise 2. "Creative", e.g. work in music, art, publishing, cooking 3. Makes the world a better place, e.g. political advocacy, or aid for developing countries Unfortun...
[03:56:16] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The issues I see - 06Space Mission to Test Modified Gravity Model - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:56:18] <exec_> 08└─Thanks for the reply (I guess a Yukawa fanboi must have been the one to mark it "Troll" :) ). So I see how this makes for a nice test of graviton mass, but what if gravity is 1/r^(2+epsilon) or some sort of polynomial expression? I'll have to dig into the paper a bit. It isn't very often those theor...
[03:56:37] <exec_> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Way to lose more profits BB!! - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:56:39] <exec_> 08└─Spying is not good for a privacy-oriented company's bottom line.
[03:56:41] <exec_> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02BlackBerry was kicked out in summer ... - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:43] <exec_> 08└─The truth is that Pakistan has announced back in July that BlackBerry will be shut down in the country by December Pakistan to shut down BlackBerry services by December over 'security' [reuters.com]. BlackBerry is trying to make this look like a principled stance. But my gut feel is that they are le...
[03:56:47] <exec_> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02People called Bernie Sanders crazy for this - 06Arkansas Has a Growing Population of Climate Change Refugees - 1361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:49] <exec_> 08└─So I'm expecting some blowback myself. But ISIS and the broader Syrian situation has a real relationship to climate change. Not some direct "X caused Y without any ambiguity" relationship where you can talk about in absolutes, but it was absolutely the case that Arab Spring(as we were calling it at...
[03:56:55] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Linatux [4602] (Score:1) 02Re:People called Bernie Sanders crazy for this - 06Arkansas Has a Growing Population of Climate Change Refugees - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:56:56] <exec_> 08└─I don't believe history shows terrorism being spawned by droughts or harsh economic conditions - really closer to the opposite. It might be a last straw for some, but it really is just a straw. There are many other much more important factors in play. I'm sure Bernie knows better
[03:57:11] <exec_> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02Re:Urgh - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:12] <exec_> 08└─Absolutely. I use this feature on a regular basis to compare two backups of the same directory (hard link backups with rsync). "du -sm dir.day-2 dir.day-1" tells me what amount of data has changed between the two backups.
[03:57:26] <exec_> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02Re:Commands need fewer options - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:27] <exec_> 08└─My favorite gotcha is the difference between the for loop and the while loop in bash. While loops create subshells with a new environment while for loops do not.
[03:57:31] <exec_> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:thirty years ago - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:33] <exec_> 08└─I use GNU Parallel now instead of xargs, much better in my opinion, especially not having the fudge about with whitespace handling.
[03:57:35] <exec_> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02After three decades... - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:37] <exec_> 08└─I still find a command line a hundred times easier and more intuitive than any graphical user interface.
[03:57:39] <exec_> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02ln -f directory - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:41] <exec_> 08└─In the early 90s, Solaris made it possible to hard-link directories. So, out of curiosity, I tried "ln -f /usr/bin /test" Fine, it works! Now, let's delete this: "rm -r /test" OUCH! Now, I understand why most systems prevent users from hard-linking directories, even if it's technically possible.
[03:57:58] <exec_> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:Pleasant???? - 06Beer Domesticated Man - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:59] <exec_> 08└─There needs to be a -1 Heresy mod.
[03:58:03] <exec_> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Pleasant???? - 06Beer Domesticated Man - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:04] <exec_> 08└─Well, admittedly, I have not tried the entire range of beers. But I've tried craft beers and not particularly liked them. I've tried various versions of American piss water and disliked them. I've tried German beers and hated them. I tried a South African beer when I was in that part of the world an...
[03:58:06] <exec_> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cellocgw [4190] 02let there be song - 06Beer Domesticated Man - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:07] <exec_> 08└─Do, the stuff that buys me beer, Re, the guy who serves the beer, Me, the guy who drinks the beer, Fa, where I'll go for beer, Sol, I think I'll have a beer, La, la la la lala beer, Ti, No thanks I'll have a beer! And that brings us back...
[03:58:10] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stoned ape theory - 06Beer Domesticated Man - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:12] <exec_> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna#.22Stoned_ape.22_theory_of_human_evolution [wikipedia.org]
[03:59:54] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about an "I told you so"? - 06Paris Attacks Plot was Hatched in Plain Sight - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:55] <exec_> 08└─> You're a good guy Runaway, keep us honest. That's sarcasm, right? Especially given your userid, it's gotta be sarcasm. Runaway is one of the most emotionally driven posters on the site, all anger, fear and credulous tribalism.
[03:59:57] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about an "I told you so"? - 06Paris Attacks Plot was Hatched in Plain Sight - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:59] <exec_> 08└─> And that only drives home the fact that the "immigrants" are not asimilating. They have no desire to assimilate. No, it is the reverse. Quivering children like you have enough clout that society ends up pushing them away from assimilation. They speak the language natively, they swim in the same po...
[04:01:14] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Contemporary Shame Culture. - 06Anti-Racism Billboard Campaign Displays Nearby Geolocated Comments - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:14] <exec_> 08└─> Shaming people for their actions This is shaming people for their words. It is about as pure an example of freedom of speech as you can get - one side says something the other side says something in response. > does not alleviate the core problem What do you suggest would alleviate the core proble...
[04:02:54] <exec_> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Run away diesels are gnarly - 06Swan Song for the V8 Engine? - 2408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:55] <exec_> 08└─Thanks for the post! I had not considered a leaky oil seal on a turbocharger as the fuel source for a runaway diesel. Now that you point it out, its obvious. Here I was, rejecting anything with a turbocharger, only because I heard they would shred themselves into a pulp when they went, and feed the...
[04:03:37] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Optimal Configuration? - 06Swan Song for the V8 Engine? - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:38] <exec_> 08└─The only reason is to squeeze more cylinders in a compact space, otherwise they'd have radial engines like the old airplanes. There's also Ford V4 engines in British cars, they look exactly like a small block Ford V8 with the rear 4 cylinders cut off. Then there's Mazda rotory engines, discontinued...
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[04:55:54] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02I use enlightenment - 06Enlightenment E20 Arrives - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:55] <exec_> 08└─I build it straight from git. It is seriously awesome. The per screen virtual desktop is the killer feature. The configurability is match only by programmable tiling wm. However, when the binary config crap itself, it suck big time.
[04:56:02] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Good - 06The Race to Create Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Heats Up - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:03] <exec_> 08└─As someone who opened up all the patents for his electric vehicles, perhaps he's just doing something good for people. Perhaps he's one of the few that seems to have 'enough money', rare thing that it is these days. Perhaps he's the 'anti-Jobs'.
[04:56:05] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06The Race to Create Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Heats Up - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:07] <exec_> 08└─To be fair, opening up the electrocar patents is also a good long-term business decision. The lack of basic infrastructure (recharge stations) is a main hurdle towards electric car adoption. With many more players able to enter the market using free Tesla patents, the pressure to build the infrastru...
[04:56:13] <exec_> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02This will get outlawed - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:15] <exec_> 08└─This scheme will get outlawed pretty quick. The reality it will expose will burn too many of the powerful who can stop it. 1. If there is a direct financial interest between funding education and post graduation income they will not long leave the details to the whim of the student or fate, You can...
[04:56:17] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02How is this new? - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:18] <exec_> 08└─I for one have been paying income based student loan payments for a few years now. That is government loan based repayment and one of the few options available to students taking out loans. How is this income contingent plan different from the pre-existing income contingent repayment plan?
[04:56:38] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:... - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:38] <exec_> 08└─Thanks for the reply. I think this (replicant) might be my next phone.
[04:57:08] <exec_> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:People called Bernie Sanders crazy for this - 06Arkansas Has a Growing Population of Climate Change Refugees - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:08] <exec_> 08└─All the military prediction reports talk about food and water security impacted by climate change. http://csis.org [csis.org] The quest for control of strategic resources has always been a critical component of geopolitics. In the future, as the w...
[04:57:22] <exec_> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:This is good...and bad... - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:23] <exec_> 08└─I too will agree. I like ls to use color by default. My reasoning: a) it adds semantic information to what would otherwise be a homogeneous wall of filenames; b) you can turn it off it you don't like it; and; c) it lets new users know the colorization "feature" exists in an relatively unobtrusive...
[04:57:30] <exec_> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:classic rm mistakes - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:32] <exec_> 08└─Chest pains.. HNNNNNG
[04:57:48] <exec_> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:After three decades... - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:49] <exec_> 08└─Neal Stephenson wrote a rant/essay about that: http://www.cryptonomicon.com [cryptonomicon.com]
[04:57:50] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ln -f directory - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:52] <exec_> 08└─Nobody should have a certain feature, just because you're a goddamn idiot who can't use it properly. How fucking selfish you are.
[04:57:53] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ln -f directory - 06GNU CoreUtils Gotchas - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:55] <exec_> 08└─A user hard linked / in one of his subdirectories, and you want to clean out his files. How fucking fucked you are.
[04:59:06] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck that - 06Algebra Scores Prompt Second Look at Revamped Regents Exams - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:07] <exec_> 08└─Graph theory concepts get more mileage in informal reasoning. I find that informal use of calculus gets shelved because most of my practical problems admit linear approximations.
[04:59:12] <exec_> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:geometry - 06Algebra Scores Prompt Second Look at Revamped Regents Exams - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:13] <exec_> 08└─I've had a lot to drink, so I can't reliably mod you up (or apparently reliably aim at supermutant enemies in the Commonwealth), but (given the properties of what I've drunk) I thought I'd say this: Additional staff to aid in the search processes to hire professors from underrepresented identities...
[04:59:15] <exec_> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:geometry - 06Algebra Scores Prompt Second Look at Revamped Regents Exams - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:17] <exec_> 08└─asshole, gaslighting cocaine snorting mangers!
[04:59:29] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Beef gate - 06Algebra Scores Prompt Second Look at Revamped Regents Exams - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:30] <exec_> 08└─That's very cute, but you're incorrect. It's perfectly possible to memorize facts and procedures ("brute force") in order to pass algebra classes. In fact, that's what a grand majority of students do, because that is how it is taught. "Do this, this, and this to get the right answer when you see a p...
[04:59:41] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keystone Kops - 06Paris Attacks Plot was Hatched in Plain Sight - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:42] <exec_> 08└─You are probably undersimplifying. My bet is they do something like "p less than 0.05 that person fits the terrorist profile" and record a "discovery" in a report. If they don't do this at the expected rate, the next guy will do it and seem more productive. So that guy gets the promotion or whatever...
[05:00:27] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What I want to know - 06Paris Attacks Plot was Hatched in Plain Sight - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:00:28] <exec_> 08└─It's obvious, really. The USA intelligence officials have stated multiple times that they only collect meta-data, not the contents. Recipients are meta-data: collected. Magazine cover is content: not collected.
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[05:55:55] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:I use enlightenment - 06Enlightenment E20 Arrives - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:56] <exec_> 08└─Also there is some posts on thedalywtf about rasterman being an asshole, but I experience otherwise. I made a patch, he suggested real improvement to it and merge it into the mainline. Also I did find the source quite easy to understand, and I mostly program in java. The supposedly experienced C pro...
[05:55:57] <exec_> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2, Informative) 02For those who were not 'Enlighted' by the Summary - 06Enlightenment E20 Arrives - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:58] <exec_> 08└─https://www.enlightenment.org/ [enlightenment.org] http://wayland.freedesktop.org [freedesktop.org]
[05:56:00] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Development dynamics & politics - 06Enlightenment E20 Arrives - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:02] <exec_> 08└─There are 2 distros that I know of that were developed around the Enlightenment desktop environment. Elive started out as payware and has since become a gratis, community-driven project. Bodhi (Sanskrit for "Enlightenment") is another. Last Spring, Jeff Hoogland, chief developer of Bodhi Linux, beca...
[05:56:15] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Student loans are a bad idea... - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:17] <exec_> 08└─Oh how green the grass looks over the fence. Yes I'm so sure mechanics get to do as they please without some corporate suit who owns the chain of the dealership/service station that the mechanic works at having to drill him how to up-sell at every oil change....
[05:56:19] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Student loans are a bad idea... - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:21] <exec_> 08└─I would have done my other passion and become a really good grease monkey
[05:56:23] <exec_> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Yes I am not skeptical at all - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:25] <exec_> 08└─by partnering with Vemo Education, a Reston-based financial services firm
[05:56:49] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It naturally follows of course... - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:50] <exec_> 08└─mod this way up
[05:56:59] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the best predictor of the future is the past. - 06Blackberry to Exit Pakistan Over Government Data Retention Requests - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:00] <exec_> 08└─Maybe they deserve more than a 0.5% share of the global smartphone market.
[05:57:13] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People called Bernie Sanders crazy for this - 06Arkansas Has a Growing Population of Climate Change Refugees - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:14] <exec_> 08└─> I don't believe history shows terrorism being spawned by droughts or harsh economic conditions - really closer to the opposite. Really? You can't just leave us hanging like that. Or is this one of those cases of "I believe it so it must be true, don't bother me with logic or evidence."
[05:59:16] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck that - 06Algebra Scores Prompt Second Look at Revamped Regents Exams - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:17] <exec_> 08└─I would not argue with you about that, calculs call for a formal approach else I get the details wrong and my approximation diverge wildly from what I would have calculated....
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[06:55:54] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PS4s are terrorist devices...!!? - 06Italy to Monitor PlayStation Network for Terrorism - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:55] <exec_> 08└─Funny how recent investigations from the WSJ concluded that the attack was telegraphed in ISIS monthly a month before the attack. Maybe reading their news letter will help with detecting them? Who am I to know: I dont own a PS4, so maybe they know something I dont ;)
[06:55:56] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Those damn kids! - 06Italy to Monitor PlayStation Network for Terrorism - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:57] <exec_> 08└─They listen to music I disapprove of! They must be terrists!! Throw them kids in jail and off my lawn!
[06:56:05] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:I use enlightenment - 06Enlightenment E20 Arrives - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:06] <exec_> 08└─Also there is some posts on thedalywtf about rasterman being an asshole, but I experience otherwise.
[06:56:08] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02E has really gone mainstream... - 06Enlightenment E20 Arrives - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:09] <exec_> 08└─Their web page links to * go-ogle * failbook * pay-palscam *hurl*
[06:56:28] <exec_> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:This will get outlawed - 06Purdue Experiments With Income Contingent Student Loans - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:29] <exec_> 08└─3. If they can make people sign binding agreements to turn over a portion of income, what other conditions could they attach to improve their odds of a profit. The mind boggles. Are all the civil libertarians reaching for smelling salts yet? What is they start requiring they can pretty much direct y...
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[07:00:41] <exec_> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Moving Goalposts - 06Paris Attacks Plot was Hatched in Plain Sight - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:41] <exec_> 08└─Wow, you've moved the goalposts so far we're not even playing the same sport anymore. You used the word "refugee" three times in your post. And the word "immigrant," never. I guess we're talking about immigrants, now?
[07:03:08] <exec_> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully no big dogs in the yard. - 06New Amazon Delivery Drone Prototype Adds Wings and Rear Propeller - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:08] <exec_> 08└─Perspective can really be confusing. Like the fisherman who holds the fish as far out in front of him as he can.
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[07:55:57] <exec_> 08└─I haven't played a multiuser game in ages. However even back then, in days of Quake, players could meet in a map and exchange information without even using the chat. They could talk with gestures, for example... But chat is also available, both text and voice - and, combined with gestures and noise...
[07:56:06] <exec_> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:I use enlightenment - 06Enlightenment E20 Arrives - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:08] <exec_> 08└─I really liked enlightenment when I tried it way back in the e12(?) days... Very snappy and simply gorgeous. Unfortunately I had hacked it in on top of a fedora install and never did get things running well enough to be completely satisfied with it. It seemed light on native applications too, which...
[07:56:09] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I use enlightenment - 06Enlightenment E20 Arrives - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:11] <exec_> 08└─It seemed light on native applications too, which force me back to kde.
[07:57:24] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People called Bernie Sanders crazy for this - 06Arkansas Has a Growing Population of Climate Change Refugees - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:25] <exec_> 08└─the reason why 'global warming' was re-badged as 'climate change' is because your theory has already been debunked over and over and over and over..... when the next ice age hits us, maybe then you'll wake up or probably not... stupid people are stupid
[07:57:29] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gini index? - 06Arkansas Has a Growing Population of Climate Change Refugees - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:31] <exec_> 08└─Other factors like the Gini index? [wikipedia.org] If the 1% has more then half of everything, and the country becomes poor, they'll be swinging from the lampposts in no time at all. Gated communities or not.
[07:57:35] <exec_> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People called Bernie Sanders crazy for this - 06Arkansas Has a Growing Population of Climate Change Refugees - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:36] <exec_> 08└─Canada is uniquely poised to benefit with its high volume of fresh water and low population
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