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[00:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:36] <exec> 08└─An "unrelated matter". Nice police state they've got there. How the hell did things get this bad?
[00:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:37] <exec> 08└─You let it happen. It's happening. You could have stopped this. This is the future you chose. Why didn't you listen?
[00:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:38] <exec> 08└─What is up with these bullshit accusations on this site lately? It feels like a flood of shills have begun hammering the discussions with "its futile, give up" type messages. The "powerful" have chosen this future, the average citizen has not. The "choices" are between different flavors of the same...
[00:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:40] <exec> 08└─I'd like to say the shill pay is good, but it's not. Mostly attaboys and $5 gift cards to national chain restaurants. These economic times are tough...
[00:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:42] <exec> 08└─Given that he's had a few well-documented issues with the ATO - amongst other things, they say Bitcoin is a bartering or trade currency & is therefore taxable while he says it's not and isn't, and one of his companies has recently gone into receivership after a long-running dispute with the ATO abou...
[00:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Statement from Mr. Wright - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:44] <exec> 08└─"Wow, I sure am glad that Wired and Gizmodo named me in their publication! Thanks guys! t. Craig Wright"
[00:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Lack of innovation... - 06Ethernet Switch Sales Flat, But 40 Gbps Sales Take Off - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:57] <exec> 08└─It's down to getting the hardware support for it. 802.11ac Wi-Fi rollout has been pretty swift. It's supported by high-end smartphones, laptops, and my $100 Chromebook. Theoretically, the most expensive 802.11ac devices packed with antennae could be capable of transmitting 6.77 Gbps. 1-2 Gbps is mor...
[00:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:39] <exec> 08└─I'm divided. I view there to be no need for civilians to own weapons of killing in a civilised society. Which sounds negative. However, I appreciate it as a sport, though, which is vaguely positive. But only vaguely - the only time I've shot a firearm was for competitive sport, and I did extremely w...
[00:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:40] <exec> 08└─Bravo, again. I was going to reply to his "tool" comment with the question of which day-to-day problem a gun, as a tool, will help you solve: but I guess you mostly answered that already. A good butt will probably help you knock a nail into a soft wood, I guess, and maybe a single barrelled shot gun...
[00:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:42] <exec> 08└─> I'm personally far more worried about the places that mass-market alcohol as an impulse item. I don't fear the sane/sober gun owner next door. I fear the crazy/drunk/high driver on the street. *slow hand clap* Equating alcohol with both mental illness and with narcotics Take a fucking bow.
[00:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03eof [5559] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:53] <exec> 08└─It may make more sense to focus on shootings instead of homicides. Only counting fatalities does not fully reflect the harm done by any form of weapon. I don't know how guns would compare to knives when injuries are counted. Guns have more potential for causing multiple injuries in a given incident;...
[00:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:54] <exec> 08└─Not true, you're just spouting propaganda. The US does not have the worst firearm murder rate - that prize belongs to Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica. In fact, the US is number 28, with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people. I guess you're qualifying it with "developed"? Maybe you don't consider Argen...
[00:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:where can i book a seat? - 06U.S. Spy Plane Deploys to Singapore Amid South China Sea Tensions - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:52] <exec> 08└─"so far the chinese are just "playing in the sand" albeit with grown-up toys that can move quiet a bit more sand on the beach then your regular plastic baby-shovel."
[00:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Aliens - 06One Person One Vote? Or One Voter One Vote? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:17] <exec> 08└─They would definitely need to establish proof of residency to vote: Valid documents could include any of the following: 1. Unexpired visa from their home planet 2. Cygnus Consular card, which can be obtained from their planets embassy at White Sands 3. Utility bills such as H3 refuelling, FTL phone...
[00:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:nothing about - 06A Look at AMD's GPU Plans for 2016 - 1706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:26] <exec> 08└─Single card 4K is tough, and some PC games will be far more demanding than console titles even on lower resolutions. It seems to me that the game developers are getting better at making games that will run on a wide variety of machines at lower levels of detail, but can benefit from the latest hardw...
[00:51:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Say Goodbye - 06Trump Advocates Closing Parts of the Internet; Obama and Clinton Renew War on Encryption - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:30] <exec> 08└─The endless focus on winning ensures that nothing changes and the inevitable cycle of the GOP proposing crazy shit, and the DNC then making it the new normal, goes on and on. At some point though, "either" can implode and disappear and that's when it would be nice to have some other party waiting in...
[00:51:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Say Goodbye - 06Trump Advocates Closing Parts of the Internet; Obama and Clinton Renew War on Encryption - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, almost nobody votes for those those parties because they have no chance to win. Those parties have no chance to win because almost nobody votes for them. Do you notice something?
[00:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Say Goodbye - 06Trump Advocates Closing Parts of the Internet; Obama and Clinton Renew War on Encryption - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:42] <exec> 08└─Thank you for more calmly, and thoroughly explaining the logistics and justifications for my feelings of utter hopelessness in my country's political theater show. It may be misanthropic, but I don't believe participation in such a system will yield meaningfully positive results when the people at t...
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[01:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02turns out - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:36] <exec> 08└─it is better to have the toilet paper roll with the next square in front of the roll after all. Thanks D-Wave.
[01:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02My big concern - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:37] <exec> 08└─... has always been programming quantum computers. I imagine it will be *much* harder to write software for these systems, and probably, unlike classical computers, require *far* more than just basic elementary school math to write a simple application. If this is fixed, then there's the problem of...
[01:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:-1, Troll) 02Damn Whites - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:45] <exec> 08└─This would not be a problem if Whites were not allowed to be police officers or work for police departments. You tell a White to do something, he or she does the exact opposite. Whites have done nothing but turn police departments into protection rackets and hit squads. It should be mentioned here t...
[01:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Try... - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:47] <exec> 08└─Mexicans, Central/South Americans, Arabs, and africans, and see which of them won't sieze your assets, legally or otherwise on a daily basis.
[01:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:57] <exec> 08└─I'll help you out. Every sentence in the post you replied to is a meme. It's happening! [imgur.com] Why did you let this happen? / Why didn't you stop it? [kym-cdn.com] Etc. [google.com] Origin story [knowyourmeme.com] ACs will post dank maymays for truly epic lulz. It can't be stopped.
[01:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:59] <exec> 08└─>spoonfeeding
[01:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:01] <exec> 08└─The readership gets older, starts seeing the same things come round again. "Hey lets put up Trump so everyone's glad when Bush III gets in", or "Lets invade yet another arab country because TERRORISTS". Views change from trying to fix the world to making the best of a bad job. At least pointless act...
[01:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:03] <exec> 08└─> Now activism involves witty tweets and multiple shares from "makeameme.com". There is evidence [qz.com] that slacktivism makes people much more likely to participate in real-world activism too. So, get off my lawn old man.
[01:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:04] <exec> 08└─My impression, just based on skimming a few articles, is that the raid was unrelated. But the bitcoin story moved up the timeline. If the guy actually has a couple of hundred million in difficult to trace/impound nearly liquid assets that would make him a serious flight risk, able to buy his way to...
[01:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03OtherOtherWhiteMeat [5965] (Score:1) 02Data you don't back up.... - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:06] <exec> 08└─Data you don't back up is data you don't want to keep. I really hope he has backed up his wallet.dat file. And has stored the passphrase in a really secure place. To think that 1.1 million Bitcoins won't ever get spent because he's forgotten his passphrase is almost enough to make me cry.
[01:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Extortion? - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:08] <exec> 08└─Was the latest Bitcoin revelation actually an extortion scheme? [theverge.com]
[01:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:What cables to buy? - 06Ethernet Switch Sales Flat, But 40 Gbps Sales Take Off - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:17] <exec> 08└─SFP goes at least to 4G SFP+ is 10G QSFP is 40G - 4 colors SFP25/28 (not quite sure the exact name) is 25G/28G CXP is for 100G (10x10G) QSFP28 is for 100G (4x25G), and you use 4 of them for 400G... Not sure if they will call the new ones for 50GigE SFP56...
[01:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Unscrupulous Leadership - 06Qualcomm Faces EU Antitrust Charges Over "Predatory Pricing" - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:30] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when Whites run a company. They lie their asses off and hire foreign slave-labor and work them like dogs, then they behave like mob goons and try to buy everybody off illegally like Al Capone did. Al Capone, of course, was White and as we all know Whites are untrustworthy and la...
[01:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Think before you speak - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:44] <exec> 08└─Your post made me think of the stereotypical rusty milsurp SKS for $200. Due to (shrinking) supply and (expanding) demand those same rust buckets are going for $400 now, but still, conceptually, the era of nothing being on the market except exotic indestructible glock 9s is now gone. Or never was re...
[01:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02What I'd like to know ... - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:27] <exec> 08└─Given that you have to prove your age and fitness to buy the product, and considering the kind of relationship too many have with their guns... Is that bundled in the cable's porn package?
[01:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ultra Locavore - 06WTO Authorizes Over $1B in Sanctions Unless USA Guts Country-of-Origin Meat Labels - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:43] <exec> 08└─You may possibly have a point, but around here, we live right near the farms. Also, having lived/living on a farm myself, grow a pair. Farms are dirty. Eggs come with chicken shit on them. I'm less concerned about the hygiene, and more concerned about the treatment of the animals, and the chemicals...
[01:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why the fuck should I care? - 06Mozilla to Cease Development of Firefox OS - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:23] <exec> 08└─I think you're confused, Slashdot is that way -->
[01:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad day - 06Mozilla to Cease Development of Firefox OS - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:29] <exec> 08└─How can Opera be behind the curve? They now use the same Blink rendering engine as Google Chrome, making them a part of the browser monoculture.
[01:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:google cloudination - 06Google Fiber Mulls Los Angeles, Chicago Expansion - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:50] <exec> 08└─Does this service require an actively used login to google's software services?
[01:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02San Diego Too - 06Google Fiber Mulls Los Angeles, Chicago Expansion - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:51] <exec> 08└─I was recently contacted by a recruiter looking for a GIS/Survey technician to work on a feasibility study for a major Telco on behalf of Google, to investigate the feasibility of bringing Google Fiber to San Diego. * I kneaded my dick with excitement † and told them all about the rad qualificatio...
[01:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:San Diego Too - 06Google Fiber Mulls Los Angeles, Chicago Expansion - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:53] <exec> 08└─San Diego was hidden there in the summary. They also have Phoenix, Tampa, Jacksonville, San Jose, Portland, Louisville, and Oklahoma City on the map [google.com]. ‡ This part isn't true.
[01:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Only on Call 50% of the Time - 06Ask Soylent: Are There Standard Practices for on Call Work? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:48] <exec> 08└─The requirement to be instantly available
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[02:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My big concern - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:37] <exec> 08└─Oh no. You mean we'll have to pay professional programmers instead of hiring dirt-colored coders for dirt-cheap? No no no this is simply too expensive. Cancel funding immediately. This line of research is a dead end.
[02:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:My big concern - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:39] <exec> 08└─No, you'll have a greater polarization in the skill of programmers. There will be useless script kiddies writing major applications, and PhDs in Quantum Physics writing the kernels.
[02:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02This is huge - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:41] <exec> 08└─Cost is irrelevant to a company like Google, particularly when this much of a speed-up is possible. There are a huge number of problems that Google would like to tackle that it simply can't right now. But 8 zeros is a game changer. It might even be possible to pass the Turing test with something lik...
[02:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is huge - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:43] <exec> 08└─The human brain doesn't need quantum annealing or whatever to pass a Turing test. 1)- Why would quantum annealing help? This seems to be in at least large part a software problem. 2)- This isn't a general purpose speedup, why would it help with AI? The problems quantum computers are meant to help wi...
[02:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:This is huge - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:45] <exec> 08└─We need GPUs because they do certain tasks faster than CPUs. It's the same with quantum computing. Whether that's useful is another question. There seems to be machine learning applications [medium.com] for quantum computing, which explains why Google is interested. Quantum computing could be a shor...
[02:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02to selling personal info to advertizers - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:47] <exec> 08└─need more fast!!!!
[02:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But after installing Windows 10 - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:49] <exec> 08└─The system can perform computations at roughly the same rate as a Gateway 486 PC running MS-DOS.
[02:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But after installing Windows 10 - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:50] <exec> 08└─Those Microsoft bastards are gonna pay for slowing down my rig.
[02:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Damn Whites - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:53] <exec> 08└─So was Robin Hood.
[02:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Damn Whites - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:55] <exec> 08└─Robin Hood was checking his privilege by giving away stolen riches to uglier people.
[02:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02The solution is simple - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:57] <exec> 08└─The state comes in with some bogus charges, confiscates stuff from the mayor, councilmembers, chief of police, etc. They then drop all charges and keep the stuff they confiscated. Bonus points if they get a value of 6 figures from each. Then at least the bullies in charge will understand the issue.
[02:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Data you don't back up.... - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─Hmm. That does bring up an interesting point. Bitcoins can be lost forever. The supply of new coins is dwindling and is supposed to be finite, meaning the supply of new ones will end entirely. This means that eventually this deflationary pressure of currency going missing will become a problem and e...
[02:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Data you don't back up.... - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:16] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin [wikipedia.org] Supply growth 25 bitcoins per block (approximately every ten minutes) until mid 2016,[2] and then afterwards 12.5 bitcoins per block for 4 years until next halving. This halving continues until 2110-2140 when 21 million bitcoins have been issue...
[02:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Think before you speak - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 2488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:54] <exec> 08└─I think it's cute you assumed a knife. Quite frankly, that's "pure fantasy" right back at you. Also, you put words in my mouth. I never suggested a knife was as dangerous as a gun, and in fact, made no comparisons about weapon choices at all. What I suggested was that mentally ill people are just as...
[02:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Think before you speak - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:59] <exec> 08└─Europe. People like to cite one European country or another to the United States. "Great Britian has only 5% of our gun deaths!" Or some similar nonsense. When comparing, one must compare the fifty states and the District of Columbia to all of Europe. The sizes and populations are far more comparabl...
[02:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:19] <exec> 08└─This is going to make me sound totalitarian as fuck, but I actually really liked the soviet model of community armories. You check a gun out when you need one for hunting or other sport, then return it when you're done. You check one out longer term if there's a known threat to your life. Then if so...
[02:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:34] <exec> 08└─Only a hoplophobe wants to compare the "harm done by any form of weapon". My weapons are all well behaved. None of them hops off the shelf when I am absent, to go wandering the streets, searching for a victim. That's because weapons are inanimate objects, with no motive to kill. A human being has to...
[02:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:36] <exec> 08└─Again - Great Britain is about the size of one of our states. How does our homicide rate compare to ALL OF EUROPE?!?!?! Please stop repeating the dishonesty.
[02:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:39] <exec> 08└─A banner is a flag, or in this context, part of a web page. Try not to use confusing words. Not being a smartass; you literally confused me.
[02:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:42] <exec> 08└─"Your characterization of them is not consistent with their stated purpose." I'm not familiar with this particular site, but many organization's stated purpose is at odds with their real purpose. Both left and right have their "think tanks" and such, with high sounding stated goals and purposes. Dig...
[02:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Block-chain polution - 06Overstock to Issue Shares on the Bitcoin Blockchain - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:52] <exec> 08└─>It's kind of like multi threading bitcoin. You know what they say: 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use multithreading." Now they have two problems.'
[02:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Ultra Locavore - 06WTO Authorizes Over $1B in Sanctions Unless USA Guts Country-of-Origin Meat Labels - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:58] <exec> 08└─Do you actually think farms should be sanitized? Like hospitals, every surface disinfected and scrubbed sparkly clean? Methinks you have a rather twisted fantasy of how farming and nature is supposed to work.
[02:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score:1) 02Sad day predicted years ago & a way forward - 06Mozilla to Cease Development of Firefox OS - 2889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:40] <exec> 08└─See comments here on Mitchell Baker's blog post from 2012: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com [lizardwrangler.com] An example from "roscoe": https://blog.lizardwrangler.com
[02:49:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02no room for also-rans - 06Mozilla to Cease Development of Firefox OS - 1897 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:49] <exec> 08└─The mobile world just doesn't have room for also-ran operating systems. Both iOS and Android are overwhelmingly complex beats that take all your development effort and then some. If you're not trying to learn some baroque, obscure framework like Chromecast's casting, you're running to stand still re...
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[03:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Leniency it's easy - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:34] <exec> 08└─Senator Marco Rubio of Florida asked the U.S. Department of Education to "demonstrate leniency" toward Corinthian Colleges
[03:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Leniency it's easy - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:35] <exec> 08└─It's not Corinthian that is the beneficiary of this leniency - it's their victims.
[03:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Lies by omission are just as bad as by commission - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:37] <exec> 08└─Just the one named guy, Mark Pelesh, shows a crapton of political donations across both parties. Not going to bother finding lists of all of the officers and running them through opensecrets.org too. This is why we hate DC, and it is also why we hate the media because they always seem to report thin...
[03:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies by omission are just as bad as by commissi - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:39] <exec> 08└─Articles about donations to Rubio aren't lies of omission. They are articles about Rubio that don't mention any other republicans either. But you are so primed to be a victim that you see persecution where there is none. Stupid SJW.
[03:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Now Put Corinithians in Prison - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:41] <exec> 08└─This is actually a bailout for the people responsible for corinthian college. They knew full well that they were providing a substandard product but they didn't give a damn because the loans passed 100% of the risk to the students and the government. The college still got paid no matter what. We ba...
[03:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:This is huge - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:52] <exec> 08└─There has been some controversy around D-Wave, doubts that their hardware really does quantum computing, and isn't just so much snake oil. Quantum computing is the cold fusion of computer science. Maybe they've really done it. If so, buckle up, it will be revolutionary. For starters, the RSA public...
[03:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:to selling personal info to advertizers - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:54] <exec> 08└─Great comment, other than the last thing Google wants to do is sell your information. They have a greater incentive to keep it to themselves than any other company; their business pretty much depends on it.
[03:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The solution is simple - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:08] <exec> 08└─I prefer the state coming in and charging the mayor, police chief, and every cop and prosecutor involved with grand theft. Send each and every one of them to prison, for no less than five years each. As the level of responsibility increases, so does the length of the sentence. RICO laws apply here.
[03:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Turnabout is fair play? - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:09] <exec> 08└─That made me smile for a moment. After I thought about it for another moment, I realized that all the bigwigs probably drive gov't-provided cars. (Ever see Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tricked-out patrol car?) To raid their homes, you'd need a judge to sign off on that. It might take a while to find a judge...
[03:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02Civil Forfeiture - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:11] <exec> 08└─I always thought that Civil forfeiture was bad, for the exact same reason other people have mentioned, people in mid management positions who want to keep the stuff they seize without having to prove that a criminal act, took or was taking place. I don't remember where I read it, but investigating t...
[03:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:27] <exec> 08└─It looks like a typical AU$1.5 - 2 million house in the area to me. Oz real estate prices are stupid, Sydney prices are particularly stupid, and North Shore prices are crazy stupid. If it has a water view it could easily be worth 5 times that...
[03:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Ultra Locavore - 06WTO Authorizes Over $1B in Sanctions Unless USA Guts Country-of-Origin Meat Labels - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:16] <exec> 08└─You don't know this dude, he nearly got hit by a car picking up a quarter in the middle of a 4 lane highway, yes THAT fucking tight and greedy. I honestly would not be surprised if he cut a deal on the side to let some chemical toilet bunch dump shit on his land, i know he has been busted at least o...
[03:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Now that the dreaded TPP has been passed'' - 06WTO Authorizes Over $1B in Sanctions Unless USA Guts Country-of-Origin Meat Labels - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:20] <exec> 08└─That's not what happened. The final form of TPP has been completed and has been sent to the 2 chambers of Congress.[1] The text has also been made public by New Zealand for all to read (all 6000 pages). Before that, it was decided that TPP will get fast-track treatment (an up-or-down vote without th...
[03:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score:1) 02Article headline in error -- FireFox OS continues - 06Mozilla to Cease Development of Firefox OS - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:02] <exec> 08└─Firefox OS itself looks like it will continue, so maybe that investment will still pay off: http://www.cnet.com [cnet.com] "Mozilla isn't pulling the plug on Firefox OS completely, but the carrier partnership p...
[03:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Another geekphone owner - 06Mozilla to Cease Development of Firefox OS - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:14] <exec> 08└─Very, very, very disappointed in Mozilla...I was one of those people installing Firefox on everybody's computers and evangelizing. Now they completely lost the plot. Mandatory chromification. Tracking while PR-ing about not tracking. (eg Pocket) Ads on new tabs. It's been getting worse for years.......
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[04:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Leniency it's easy - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:41] <exec> 08└─It's not Corinthian that is the beneficiary of this leniency - it's their victims.
[04:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Lies by omission are just as bad as by commissi - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:44] <exec> 08└─I am very sorry, but evidently you got your education at a Corinthian school: "Stupid SJW" is an oxymoron. You may not be familiar with that word, what with the degree and all those hundreds of thousands of dollars of loans for Corinthian colleges. It means "sharp fool", or "clever stupidity", and...
[04:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This is huge - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:00] <exec> 08└─D-Wave is admittedly not a "universal quantum computer". It is a "quantum annealer", capable of solving a much narrower class of problems. It won't be able to break RSA. The true universal quantum computers may begin to rocket from a handful of qubits to thousands and millions in a very short time....
[04:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anything established on in-house fiber? - 06Ethernet Switch Sales Flat, But 40 Gbps Sales Take Off - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:55] <exec> 08└─yaha. what if the pci-e ssds are 10 or 50 or 1000 meters apart? pcie ssd are 256 gb and "cheap". if the cpu supports 6 or 7 or 8 GT/s (gigatransfers) then the pcie ssd is not going to waste and then 1 gigabit ethernet is your bottleneck. so yes i would like more in-house bandwidth?
[04:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:not only illegal immigrants - 06One Person One Vote? Or One Voter One Vote? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:18] <exec> 08└─You're measuring 2 different things. 1) Hispanic includes far more than Mexico. It also includes Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and a whole bunch of countries south of Mexico. 2) Immigrants != heritage. There are many hispanics born here that are not immigrants. While the growth has slowed down, it is still...
[04:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:3/5ths precedent - 06One Person One Vote? Or One Voter One Vote? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:28] <exec> 08└─representation counting changed to eligible voters, not simply "persons"
[04:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:3/5ths precedent - 06One Person One Vote? Or One Voter One Vote? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:29] <exec> 08└─the framers had intended that some people should be counted
[04:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:No Taxation Without Representation - 06One Person One Vote? Or One Voter One Vote? - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:50:00] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure your premise is valid. Even the peak of any newspaper in recent years was only about 2 million. [theawl.com] That's the peak for the last 20 years. "The O’Reilly Factor averaged 3.381 million viewers" [deadline.com] (per night) I couldn't find reliable numbers for web news, but I bet...
[04:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't even get paid for it - 06Ask Soylent: Are There Standard Practices for on Call Work? - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:51:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I did something similar. Road trip in the Appalachians. Told my boss best of luck hoping that I'd be in reach of any kind of tower. He kept on joking about Deliverance and crazed hicks, but he eventually, reluctantly had to accept that I was about as available as an honest politician for two w...
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[05:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I hate crowdfunded vapor - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:37] <exec> 08└─Lemme get all cranky pants and rain on the parade... Yea, really kick ass..... if it actually becomes real. Every swingin dick thinks they can sell a product for a buck over the bill of materials and even crazier notions. Then if they manage to even get enough idiots to fund them they have to actual...
[05:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies by omission are just as bad as by commissi - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:50] <exec> 08└─Actually, "Stupid SJW" isn't necessarily an oxymoron. Stupid is not the same as Ignorant, nor is it the same as Uneducated. You can go to a college or university and get an education. Hopefully the education will cure ignorance, but nothing cures stupidity. Have you ever met a very intelligent perso...
[05:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies by omission are just as bad as by commissi - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:51] <exec> 08└─This is a tedious game, where the first one to accuse the other of being a SJW is the winner. Grow up, you guys.
[05:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Lies by omission are just as bad as by commissi - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 1964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:53] <exec> 08└─No, you grow up first! I don't want to grow up! I don't want to go to school! Just learn to be a Parrot! And recite a silly rule! Hey, do I win a prize, or if I clap do I get the Julia Roberts Tinkerbelle? I love tinkering with belles! And, in case you missed it due to both a lack of native intelli...
[05:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies by omission are just as bad as by commissi - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:55] <exec> 08└─Are you seriously defending jmorris as being wise?
[05:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Data you don't back up.... - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:51] <exec> 08└─Is $2M+ worth it to dig through hundreds of tons of trash? http://www.zdnet.com [zdnet.com]
[05:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Think before you speak - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 2621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:35] <exec> 08└─The primary unstated, false assumption you are making in your argument is that the people who commit crimes using guns are all perfectly rational people able to make long-term plans and delay gratification while designing well-thought-out plans to kill as many strangers they have no personal beef wi...
[05:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:56] <exec> 08└─QVC and the like sell shitty jewelry for that price
[05:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:08] <exec> 08└─If it shoots a bullet by action of a cartridge, and is ever in a dealer's inventory, it gets a background check. its been this way for decades.
[05:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:20] <exec> 08└─One of you doesn't know the definition of "rate". [thefreedictionary.com] If we are 50x the size, and we have 50x the gross, then we have the same rate. If we are 50x the size, and 100x the gross, then we do not have the same rate. Since you asked, this has a nice breakdown by country [wikipedia.org...
[05:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:spy plane? - 06U.S. Spy Plane Deploys to Singapore Amid South China Sea Tensions - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:11] <exec> 08└─Looks like a passenger plane because it is a 737 painted grey. The adversary that that makes the mistake of thinking it wasn't intended to get into a scrap by itself would quickly be educated to the fact it can drop a whole lot more than sonar buoys and depth charges. Maybe clicking the first link i...
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[06:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:1) 02Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:39] <exec> 08└─How about they work on some kind of campaign finance reform...
[06:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02idiots - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:40] <exec> 08└─Balanced Budget? Are they fucking insane? Disaster.
[06:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:idiots - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:41] <exec> 08└─It's a bloody fiat currency anyways, it's time to collapse the ""central banks" and steal all the gold again. You know, just like we did multiple times before. I swear I'd login but I'm drunk and I don't remember my login...
[06:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:idiots - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:43] <exec> 08└─Balanced Budget? Are they fucking insane?
[06:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Mormon Wars! - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 1806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:45] <exec> 08└─They met in Salt Lake City, did they? Do you not remember the Mormon wars? And I am not referring to the Missouri troubles that had the governor call out the national guard. No, when the frigging Latter Day Assholes declared war upon the United States of America? No? You do not recall? How convenien...
[06:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Wouldn't buy, because... - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 1478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:52] <exec> 08└─... there is no mention of free GPIOs and such. I don't understand the Raspberry as a cheap desktop to introduce kids to computers. Maybe I'm wrong, but my perception was that the Raspberry was mainly to get kids to build stuff themselves, as in connect and control their own hardware and gadgets. Th...
[06:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies by omission are just as bad as by commissi - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:06] <exec> 08└─step away from the keyboard...
[06:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Lies by omission are just as bad as by commissi - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:07] <exec> 08└─NO, you step away, you collaborator with the destruction of all that is good in the world! America had a chance! I have been on this planet for 2400 years, and holding Athens in its prime aside, American represented the greatest hope for humanity. And now, they throw it away for a dwindling chance a...
[06:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Lies by omission are just as bad as by commissi - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:10] <exec> 08└─Well, sophmoric, yes. You got a problem with that? Anti-social Gamer-gate sociopath misogynist libertarians need love, too. He is our jmorris. There are many like him, but he is ours.
[06:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is huge - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:28] <exec> 08└─I don't recall if Diffie-Hellman will also be broken [by a quantum computer], but I think so.
[06:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:This is huge - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:29] <exec> 08└─http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2555 [scottaaronson.com] Has a great post talking about what has and hasn't been shown in the new Google paper.
[06:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Damn Whites - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:45] <exec> 08└─The only White in Albuquerque I remember was Walter.
[06:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:08] <exec> 08└─You're being taken advantage of. Blinded studies confirm even wine "experts" can't tell the difference between different wines. And, if you're a wine "collector", fine wine == tulipmania. Pray you're not the one left with the rotten grape juice if/when the bubble bursts.
[06:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: 1MB block - 06Overstock to Issue Shares on the Bitcoin Blockchain - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:57] <exec> 08└─So why do that? Why not just increase the block size for the main chain and be done with it?
[06:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MH 370 - 06U.S. Spy Plane Deploys to Singapore Amid South China Sea Tensions - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:43] <exec> 08└─You do realize that MH370 disappeared halfway between Australia and Antarctica
[06:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How would that work in North Dakota? - 06One Person One Vote? Or One Voter One Vote? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:50:33] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, I'm sure a GOP-sponsered voter "fraud" bill will be coming soon to stop that.
[06:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another geekphone owner - 06Mozilla to Cease Development of Firefox OS - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:51:09] <exec> 08└─Took me a long time to find the main menu my first time encountering th word-less menu-bar. 3 horizontal bars? Really?! Is this a slot machine of something?
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[07:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:38] <exec> 08└─I won't touch anything with the AGPLv3; its the license people use when you want to say you're open source but make sure no one touches it. While we could meet the requirements for it, I don't want to have to keep track of what version we're using and publish the source each time we update it as req...
[07:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:39] <exec> 08└─How dare you not share your valuable innovative changes with the community. What are you, some kind of anticommunist! How dare you use Communist Software with impunity. Neckbeards everywhere shall comb our dirty beards in your direction.
[07:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:48] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a terrible reason to gut the First Amendment.
[07:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:50] <exec> 08└─We have all the 'campaign finance law' we need. "Congress shall make no law...." I used to favor unlimited donation but require disclosure but you prog assholes have managed to convince me even that is far too dangerous. So unlimited anonymous donation is the only way.
[07:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:55] <exec> 08└─First time I heard about this there were something like two states. Now its only a few away from a convention. The summary is wrong about one thing: [cloudfront.net] The worry back then was a runaway convention opening up a whole can of worms. However, the convention of states route allows the state...
[07:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:56] <exec> 08└─The worry back then was a runaway convention opening up a whole can of worms. However, the convention of states route allows the states to dictate to their delegates the only subject areas they are allowed to address, and any attempt to deal with or vote outside the mandate is repudiated by the stat...
[07:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:58] <exec> 08└─Well it all comes down to federal overreach in the end. You ask for a real fail-safe, in a discussion about government? What Fail-safe do you have now?
[07:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:00] <exec> 08└─My view on this is that no one has yet come up with a rational explanation for why a convention is required.
[07:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02It's bad enough now. - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:02] <exec> 08└─With the general contempt for the Constitution by the so-called "Justice" department, DHS, FBI, NSA, CIA, state and local police forces, the current constitution is being treated like a floormat [albeit, well-praised in public by said institutions]. Adding more amendments now would be a large corpor...
[07:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:It's bad enough now. - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:04] <exec> 08└─Troll much? Why would citizens vote for any of that?
[07:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:It's bad enough now. - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:06] <exec> 08└─Do the people have to vote for the changes, or just the state policitians?
[07:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Wouldn't buy, because... - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:09] <exec> 08└─but my perception was that the Raspberry was mainly to get kids to build stuff themselves, as in connect and control their own hardware and gadgets
[07:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Quantum Annealing on jmorris! - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:52] <exec> 08└─Quantum Annealing on jmorris! Quantum Annealing on jmorris! Once again! Quantum Annealing on jmorris! I will pray if it has any chance of doing anything and I don't have to actually do anything! Quantum Annealing on jmorris! ONE _ MORE _Time! Quantum Annealing on jmorris!
[07:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Civil Forfeiture - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:08] <exec> 08└─We see another problem here, extralegal activity. That's why this case has devolved to a lawsuit rather than merely just not happen. Thus, civil asset forfeiture bypasses law in yet another way, by creating a revenue stream not beholden to the legislature (New Mexico has the same legislative "power...
[07:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:23] <exec> 08└─I prefer the term "fauxtivism". :-)
[07:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:05] <exec> 08└─Nobody can say I ain't a giver. Google is yer bud, learn to use it. Allow me to demonstrate. According to motherjones.com (your team) Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence was founded as Legal Community Against Violence in SanFran (full of pinks) in consultation with Handgun Control Inc, I'm sure you w...
[07:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ultra Locavore - 06WTO Authorizes Over $1B in Sanctions Unless USA Guts Country-of-Origin Meat Labels - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:49:29] <exec> 08└─It's not a problem that your farms have shit. That's normal. What the heck do you expect farms with lots of animals to smell of? Roses? It's not like those animals get and use flush toilets. The real hygiene/safety problem is your slaughterhouses/processing plants get too much shit into your meat/mi...
[07:49:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Hoist by our own petard - 06WTO Authorizes Over $1B in Sanctions Unless USA Guts Country-of-Origin Meat Labels - 690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:31] <exec> 08└─The US was a heavy backer of the WTO (including having cops beat up and arrest protesters that opposed it back in 1999) because they saw it as a way for US megacorps to not be bound by third-world countries' laws about labor and environmental protections and such. Now they're learning that the WTO a...
[07:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Depends on Your Point of View - 06WTO Authorizes Over $1B in Sanctions Unless USA Guts Country-of-Origin Meat Labels - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:49:40] <exec> 08└─By the way aren't Mexican vegetables technically from America? Are they from America for legal purposes? Can you stick "Grown in America" on them without breaking the law? ;)
[07:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:not only illegal immigrants - 06One Person One Vote? Or One Voter One Vote? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:50:19] <exec> 08└─Are they really that much smaller than native Texans?
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[08:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 2807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:40] <exec> 08└─I have no problem publishing the source for rehash (the codebase that powers this site; licensed GPLv2), even if we're not required to by license. However, what defines net access is so vaguely defined as to be barely understandable. Here's an example. Let's assume in a hypothetical world that we sw...
[08:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:41] <exec> 08└─most non-GPL projects who have either been stuck with GCC 4.2, or switched to clang.
[08:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Mormon Wars! - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:55] <exec> 08└─Some of my best friends are Mormons.
[08:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:59] <exec> 08└─You ask for a real fail-safe, in a discussion about government?
[08:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:02] <exec> 08└─Forcing an end to our shitty two party system? Stopping the drug war permanently? Explicitly taking action against mass surveillance so that even our mentally retarded judges can understand that it's forbidden? Of course, the problem with this is that I don't trust the government one bit, so they wo...
[08:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:04] <exec> 08└─Ending the drug war is a simple legislative change, but then the same would be true of starting it back up again. I seek a more permanent protection of our rights. Yes, we should enforce existing laws, but our courts are so retarded and authoritarian that they need it spelled out for them explicitly...
[08:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:06] <exec> 08└─As others already remind, the Constitutional Convention which gave us our current constitution was equally limited to tweaking the Articles of Confederation. Mission creep happened and it happened almost instantly. No, the protection is that just like last time a Convention can only propose Amendmen...
[08:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:It's bad enough now. - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:09] <exec> 08└─That too is up to the voters.
[08:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Insightful) 02Re:It's bad enough now. - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:11] <exec> 08└─Who says the citizens get a say? And who says that most citizens aren't unintelligent authoritarians?
[08:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Troll) 02Only now, at the end, do you realize true power - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:13] <exec> 08└─Notice well, or Nota Bene, my dear and precious Soylentils, who shows up to comment on this post, almost, just almost, as if by design? Could it be, perhaps, that there is a vast, or maybe a very tiny, right wing conspiracy afoot! What are they trying to achieve? What are their goals? And what do th...
[08:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Only now, at the end, do you realize true power - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:14] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, the John Birchers sponsored your latest post?
[08:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Only now, at the end, do you realize true power - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:16] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, the John Birchers sponsored your latest post?
[08:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Only now, at the end, do you realize true power - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:18] <exec> 08└─More and more, I am seeing the rightwing madness emanating from two capitals: Riyadh, and Salt Lake City, Wahabhism and Mormonism.
[08:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Proposed Amendment - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 2097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:20] <exec> 08└─Here is a proposed amendment. The Supreme Court has usurped the legitimate powers of the Legislature, the Executive and the governments of the States unto itself. To correct this problem there shall be an explicit corrective power for the Congress and the States. By two thirds vote of both chambers...
[08:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proposed Amendment - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:22] <exec> 08└─By two thirds vote of both chambers of Congress any decision of the Supreme Court can be declared an abuse of the Court's authority and rendered null and void. A ruling so declared shall have no impact on case law, no binding precedent and in fact shall be considered as an improper overreach for the...
[08:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02My suggestion - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:24] <exec> 08└─An amendment to the Constitution explicitly permitting unilateral secession by states. The civil war determined that sescession requires bilateral agreement between the state involved and the feds. But an amendment could change that. Free Cascadia! [wikipedia.org]
[08:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I hate crowdfunded vapor - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:26] <exec> 08└─Well, your rant has but only one flaw. You think they'll think about honoring the warranties.
[08:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:2) 02Its all about the community - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:28] <exec> 08└─I have had a Zaurus and NSlu2 and a O2 Joggler. Each fine machines with lots of promise and each one had its "community" time where enough people were doing enough to keep the interest alive. Each is still usable today but when basic packages don't get upgraded for years at a time, my and it would a...
[08:46:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:The solution is simple - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:23] <exec> 08└─I prefer the state coming in and charging the mayor, police chief, and every cop and prosecutor involved with grand theft. Send each and every one of them to prison, for no less than five years each. As the level of responsibility increases, so does the length of the sentence. RICO laws apply here.
[08:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:01] <exec> 08└─For sport, that seems like a workable model. Hunting too. It can even be your own gun that you check out. I believe the UK's now like this model - the guns always reside in the local gun clubs. Toddler parent killings remain at a steady 0, unlike some other countries.
[08:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:18] <exec> 08└─WTF, Runaway! Are you _asking_ to be doxed? So far we know, you have guns, they are on a shelf, and you do not expect them to go wandering the streets! Can you not see that this is an invitation to a gun robbery? Where do you think criminals get guns? Can they pass background checks? Oh, yeah, most...
[08:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Hoist by our own petard - 06WTO Authorizes Over $1B in Sanctions Unless USA Guts Country-of-Origin Meat Labels - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:54] <exec> 08└─Treaties cannot be unrepealable becuase it is illegal under US law for congress to enter such a treaty in the first place. if they do it anyway it's just null and void, and has no effect in US law.
[08:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:drivers? - 06A Look at AMD's GPU Plans for 2016 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:19] <exec> 08└─I bought a used ATI AGP card about 1 month before xorg dropped support for it. I was like: "..bbbut ATI is supposed to have better support than (S3) Unichrome!"
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[09:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Nothing new - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:38] <exec> 08└─Nothing new in principle... pretty much like the US govt - seemed like a good idea at the time, but reeks nowadays. The syrup mafia evolved much quicker, though.
[09:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Federation uses Canadian Dollars?! - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:39] <exec> 08└─Damn you Maquis rebels! You've been told replicated syrup is good enough! Cease trading with the Ferengi at once!
[09:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 2499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:50] <exec> 08└─I could have worded that better. You're fine as long as you're not shipping GCC itself as part of your application. Applications compiled with GCC are linked against libgcc (which is GPLv3) + system libc, Normally, this would cause the GPLv3 to apply, but there is a runtime exception for libgcc that...
[09:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:51] <exec> 08└─However, the problem gets worse. Let's assume for the moment that net access applies to anyone using the site because its part of our stack
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:52] <exec> 08└─I was just referring to the license, not its technical merits. I haven't even looked at the thing, the license alone makes it a complete non-starter. To be fair, Access is a fancy frontend to JetDB, which was meant to be used in a manner similar to SQLite is today; it just happens a lot of people us...
[09:45:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:idiots - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:04] <exec> 08└─Balanced Budget? Are they fucking insane?
[09:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Mormon Wars! - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:07] <exec> 08└─"Origin"? I assure you "some of my best friends are black" predates that frothy mixture by decades.
[09:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Mormon Wars! - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:09] <exec> 08└─I assure you "some of my best friends are black" predates that frothy mixture by decades.
[09:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is parent truly Offtopic? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:11] <exec> 08└─4 of 11 links in TFS: utahpolicy.com - Do I really have to explain this one? Deseret News - Salt Lake City, Utah The Universe—Brigham Young University - Do I really have to explain this one? KSTU-TV - Salt Lake City, Utah More than 1/3 of the sources have a geographic commonality. Though I'm not i...
[09:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Mormon Wars! - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:13] <exec> 08└─small furry creatures from Alpha Centari, or Kolob.
[09:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:20] <exec> 08└─Ending the drug war is a simple legislative change, but then the same would be true of starting it back up again. I seek a more permanent protection of our rights.
[09:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:22] <exec> 08└─What's the penalty in the constitution for a supreme court that ignores the constitution?
[09:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:24] <exec> 08└─How about we grow some common sense
[09:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:04] <exec> 08└─He was raided because his tax affairs are under investigation. The bitcoin connection came to light because of leaked conversations with his lawyers. He was likely talking to his lawyers because he was under investigation. So the two events are related, but possibly not in the way most people seem t...
[09:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Think before you speak - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:58] <exec> 08└─Nope, because the data is always given per 100,000 of population, therefore all countries apart from the absolute tiddlers are comparable directly. Congratulations on being able to think of something else to put on the left hand column of the table, now the data for the right hand column please - wi...
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[10:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Just wait - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:39] <exec> 08└─Just wait for the other big electric car manufacturers crush this new technology with law suits and cheaper alternatives. This will never make it to market because all people really want is massive electricity guzzling muscle machines that have terrible fuel efficiency.
[10:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:00] <exec> 08└─' "you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this License, and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or imp...
[10:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:01] <exec> 08└─Ugh, this is why I shouldn't post when I'm half dead. I posted the text of Apache2 in that spot. The actual patent text from the GPLv3 is: You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee,...
[10:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:04] <exec> 08└─Sure it's a little bit more work but it is valuable work. More to the point isn't it exactly down SN's alley, for the people by the people? Everthing is online these days and the "browser is the operating system". That's why we need AGPL, it's a great license. Don't dismiss it so quickly amigo!
[10:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:06] <exec> 08└─Dude... As long as you do not modify the Software in question, AGPL does not impose on you any restrictions that are not in the GPL already. Basically: - if you modify the software - and someone else may access it via a network then you have to provide the source. Is it really that hard...
[10:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:idiots - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:19] <exec> 08└─The real target will be to gut parts of the bill of rights, starting with the 4th amendment.
[10:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mormon Wars! - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:24] <exec> 08└─Earliest recorded political use, maybe. There's many other much earlier examples of similar phrases in a similar vein, though. For example, here's one from a biography of an Irish Catholic priest published in the first half of the 19th century: And on another occasion, when he thought it necessary t...
[10:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Mormon Wars! - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:25] <exec> 08└─I confess to having completely misread your post! I saw the link (mentioning Santorum in the URL), but when I followed it, I got a mostly blank page with no visible textual content, hastily retreated, and presumed that you were referring to Santorum's use of the phrase, not noticing that you'd quote...
[10:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:33] <exec> 08└─You ask for a real fail-safe, in a discussion about government? What Fail-safe do you have now?
[10:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:38] <exec> 08└─What rights would those be?
[10:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:41] <exec> 08└─You want proof you say? Look no further than the Trump social phenomenon and tell me what meaning "common sense" has? Common with what? And the Tea Party hardliners before? And the "house prices never go down" and mortgage backed bonds before them?
[10:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Absolutely necessary - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:54] <exec> 08└─The bill of rights and the constitutional amemdments need completely rewriting - in modern American, rather than archaic English. They first need rewriting such that they keep exactly the same meaning as they do now, as agreed by decades of precedent, but such that they are unambiguous. After that,...
[10:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Wouldn't buy, because... - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:05] <exec> 08└─Took me one afternoon, worked perfectly, peaked the interest of my son. Currently I'm working on an alarm-clock. It's a wooden box with 3 SW-controlled power-outlets and Speakers. "Display" will probably be a binary clock [wikipedia.org]. To have a frontend to configure alarm-times, sleep-mode for p...
[10:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Wouldn't buy, because... - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:06] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't buy, because there is no mention of free GPIOs and such.
[10:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Its all about the community - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:08] <exec> 08└─they went out of their ways to have a "Pi-2 bus" connector [pine64.org] so hardware and code that uses that interface on the RPI2 would also work on this board.
[10:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02not enough - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:29] <exec> 08└─forgiving the "debt" of people you swindled is like having the mafia break one of your knees and then say they forgive you so they wont break your other knee. i have a better solution. how about we refund everyone's money even if we have to pull every last penny out of the scum that make up these ho...
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[10:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jpkunst [2310] (Score:1) 02Re:Alternative Mobile OS - 06Mozilla to Cease Development of Firefox OS - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:52:32] <exec> 08└─Up until a month ago I would have said Blackberry 10 (note: not the old Blackberry OS), but Blackberry went Android with its latest phone and the future of its own OS seems uncertain.
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[11:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02FTFY - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:39] <exec> 08└─An electric car has been tested that managed a huge 1,100 mile range on a single charge^H^H^H^H^H set of non-rechargeable batteries. FTFY.
[11:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02sounds good for tractor trailers - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:40] <exec> 08└─while electric cars are great and all, the US has a huge market that has yet to be tapped: electric tractor trailer trucks. since many are going long distances, having a lighter battery that goes further would be a huge advantage. maybe install 100 automated battery swap locations around the country...
[11:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:50] <exec> 08└─Mr. Walter White, well he makes meth in a secret location and sells it too. He's breaking the law, but he is also fighting for the right to sell his meth for a price - and to customers - of his own choosing. Seriously, get the law changed or move out of Quebec. Even if the law is stupid and wrong, i...
[11:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the Syrup Mafia - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:52] <exec> 08└─the cutest mafia around since the Handicapped Mafia.
[11:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:08] <exec> 08└─I think you misunderstand the GPL, the AGPL, the FSF, and RMS. All you would need to do is this: 1. Someone asks you for the source. 2. You tell them to go look at the official ZeroDB sources. You offer to look up the exact version used if said person is willing to pay you for the time you spend doi...
[11:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mormon Wars! - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:29] <exec> 08└─Modded up for a) being polite and b) not being a defensive knee-jerk savaging[1] of the poster who disagreed with you. I know it's of very minor consequence and amounts to bugger all in the real world, but thank you for being civil to someone you originally disagreed with. [1] Now I've read that bac...
[11:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:45] <exec> 08└─I suppose your peculiar ideological slant emphasizes your argument by presenting you as an implicit fourth example
[11:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't even get paid for it - 06Ask Soylent: Are There Standard Practices for on Call Work? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:53:41] <exec> 08└─"...grin and bare it..." That would be "grin and bear it". I doubt I'd grin if you bared it at me!
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[12:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Obvious response - 06Mystery Science Theater 3000 Revival Ending Campaign With Star-Studded Telethon - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:39] <exec> 08└─Tom Servo: "No celebrities were harmed ... we think." Crow: "Are you sure? It certainly looks like some of them were semi-comotose!"
[12:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:FTFY - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:47] <exec> 08└─An electric car has been tested that managed a huge 1,100 mile range on a single charge^H^H^H^H^H load of non-rechargeable batteries.
[12:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02aluminium shortage planned? - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:51] <exec> 08└─if all those paris talks were of serious nature (and not just "pull-wool-over-your-head-we're-goin'-nuclear") then anticipate a huge new demand for aluminium for solarpanels and frames and whatnot. i betcha the nuke lobby is doing some hard-core calculation to figure out if helping to push this type...
[12:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02"single charge" - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:53] <exec> 08└─If a single charge only goes 1100 miles, how do they foresee swapping out batteries only every 3 months? I saw the article says owners would have to add water occassionaly, is that the "charge" referred to?
[12:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:1) 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously, get the law changed or move out of Quebec. Even if the law is stupid and wrong, it's the law. Until then you're just a criminal.
[12:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:15] <exec> 08└─It's the reading of the term "import" which suggests it applies when incorporated as part of a larger distribution.
[12:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02I for one.... - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:21] <exec> 08└─....welcome the open source encrypted db overlords with a resounding 3k5ycgtkw0'e9t8ghmc0qrfuc90qcaermghc'q9cxrhm'cg9wqhm5t,gwuefc,xqercg Back to the license, not an expert but I don't see what other options you have if you don't want somebody to get your product, mod it, use it for commercial cloud...
[12:45:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] 02Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:30] <exec> 08└─How about they work on some kind of campaign finance reform...
[12:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only now, at the end, do you realize true power - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:09] <exec> 08└─What is it about SoylentNews that attracts schizophrenics? Even most of Ethanol-Fueled's comments are more coherent than this drivel.
[12:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Proposed Amendment - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:12] <exec> 08└─Here is a proposed amendment. The Supreme Court has usurped the legitimate powers of the Legislature, the Executive and the governments of the States unto itself. To correct this problem there shall be an explicit corrective power for the Congress and the States. By two thirds vote of both chambers...
[12:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Absolutely necessary - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:16] <exec> 08└─even alcoholics with a history of mental illness
[12:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Leniency it's easy - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:39] <exec> 08└─Right, I understand that Rubio is corruptly screaming that Corinthian should be able to continue bilking the government and students. What's actually happening, though, is that the Dept of Education has cut off money to Corinthian and is relieving the debts of the defrauded students. Which is exactl...
[12:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:48] <exec> 08└─So lets assume the keyboard warrier put down their cheetos and emerge from their mom's basement. They organise a large protest, and they even manage to keep squabbles over the name - People's Front of Judea or Judean People's Front, or the Popular Front of Judea. So they organise and they protest. T...
[12:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anything established on in-house fiber? - 06Ethernet Switch Sales Flat, But 40 Gbps Sales Take Off - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:13] <exec> 08└─If your house is 1000 meters across and have a need to bulk transfer at ssd speeds at that distance it'd be faster to just get into your gold plated Bentley and drive your storage to the other side of the compound.
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[13:44:37] <exec> 08└─8 hours but just 2 movies? Is that filler or will there be more than just Hodgson's 2 favorites? I watched a good portion of the Thanksgiving streaming event but the booze kicked in eventually. As for the new cast/voices for this revival, I will judge it when it comes out. I have been happy with Rif...
[13:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:will look - 06Mystery Science Theater 3000 Revival Ending Campaign With Star-Studded Telethon - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:38] <exec> 08└─For Christmas, nothing beats the original MST3K episode of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and if you're into something a little slower and more disturbing, the MST3K for Santa Claus (1959)... featuring Lucifer.
[13:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:"single charge" - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:51] <exec> 08└─You're supposed to use the rechargeable Lithium battery for day-to-day short runs. The Al-air is just for occasional long runs where the Li won't do. Thinking out of the box... If there's room for X Li and X Al batteries, and you only need the Al rarely, wouldn't it be better if you could just have...
[13:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:the Syrup Mafia - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:03] <exec> 08└─Until they cover you with friggin ants and later drown you in a pool of syrup.
[13:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:18] <exec> 08└─Evidence that you're misreading: GPLv3, [www.gnu.de] section 5, last paragraph A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volu...
[13:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:34] <exec> 08└─No matter what anyone says corporations are not people and do not share the same rights as people. Let us not forget that corporations get special rights that people do not get. Campaign finance reform does not "gut" the First Amendment. It simply returns the First Amendment to the people where it b...
[13:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Absolutely necessary - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:20] <exec> 08└─There are probably about 20 accounts that are *queueing up* for that accolade!
[13:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolutely necessary - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:21] <exec> 08└─As usual, interpretation is what counts. It was within living memory that having a few beers at lunch, several packs of cigarettes throughout your day, and the better part of a bottle of scotch after hours was considered a healthy practice of working professionals. It was hardly two decades ago that...
[13:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I hate crowdfunded vapor - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:31] <exec> 08└─you mean like about every other investment in history?
[13:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Wouldn't buy, because... - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:36] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info. This was neither mentioned in the summary, nor in TFA, nor on the kickstarter page.
[13:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02misleading - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:24] <exec> 08└─18^8 times faster than a conventional computer *simulating* a quantum annealing. The speedup would not be that great if you compare to a conventional computer programmed to solve the same problem the classical way.
[13:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The solution is simple - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:38] <exec> 08└─Don't forget "Under color of law". Up those penalties by a decade for those in law enforcement.
[13:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:22] <exec> 08└─Well there are some people who are avid hunters like myself, and there it is a tool for the legal harvest of wild game. Also there are places where dangerous wild animals live so carrying a magnum class handgun is just a good idea for personal protection which I do as well. Then again my firearms li...
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[14:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just wait - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:52] <exec> 08└─Well they only said how far it went on a charge, not how fast it was able to go that entire time.
[14:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sounds good for tractor trailers - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:56] <exec> 08└─maybe install 100 automated battery swap locations around the country That would be 'good start'. But not nearly enough by a factor of at least 500x (even that may be too small). A typical long haul guy can crack off 600-800 in 1 shift. Swapping with another dude to finish the shift. Some trucks nev...
[14:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"single charge" - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:01] <exec> 08└─First saw an Al-air battery in a car at a trade show in the 1980s -- not a new idea. The problem at that time was low peak current. Stores lots of energy, but can't deliver high power bursts for acceleration. TFA didn't really say much, but it seems like the Al-air battery in this test car is used i...
[14:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nesh [269] (Score:2) 02Re:"single charge" - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:03] <exec> 08└─that's because these are not rechargeable batteries but primary cells: meant to be used once and discarded/recycled after use. See https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] This is not new tech either. This kind of setup has been tested in 1989 but in combination...
[14:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing new - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:11] <exec> 08└─The syrup mafia evolved much quicker, though.
[14:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Wow - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:17] <exec> 08└─When your best defense is that you're not as bad as North Korea, you have some real issues.
[14:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Market-based solution - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:18] <exec> 08└─Start buying your syrup (assuming you use the real stuff) from northern New England instead. Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine all make a lot of syrup.
[14:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:49] <exec> 08└─Corporations are not people. Corporations are a specific legal entity made up by the government. They are not granted rights by the constitution. They only get the rights the government grants them. The elected representatives are well within their rights to pass a law probihibiting corporations fro...
[14:46:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02It's bad enough now. - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 768 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:18] <exec> 08└─With the general contempt for the Constitution by the so-called "Justice" department, DHS, FBI, NSA, CIA, state and local police forces, the current constitution is being treated like a floormat [albeit, well-praised in public by said institutions]. Adding more amendments now would be a large corpor...
[14:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Proposed Amendment - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:32] <exec> 08└─In other words ... The constitution isn't rules so much as guidelines. 2/3 of Congress can do whatever it wants, and the constitution can go fsck itself.
[14:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:2) 02Re:Wouldn't buy, because... - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:51] <exec> 08└─its hidden deep in the Kickstarter QA section under "What type of hardware interfaces that Pine A64 have?" Depending on the model, all the Pine A64 has 46 dedicated GPIO pins, three UART, two i2c bus, two SPI bus, i2s audio, SPDIF out, IR receiver, Speaker out, 3v3, 5v, and ground. In the “PLUS...
[14:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Buzzfeed? - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:58] <exec> 08└─Really, we're doing links to that clickbait shithole now? Makes some of the British tabloid stuff look like responsible journalism. I mean, would even the Sun or the Register take the time to report on a gem like this?: http://www.buzzfeed.com [buzz...
[14:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:19] <exec> 08└─Also, it sounds like he got some sort of massive tax credit for something he never actually did. It's hard to follow, so I may be misreading.
[14:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Squidious [4327] (Score:1) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:48] <exec> 08└─In general, an individual can buy a gun from another individual in the same state with no background checks. Exchange cash for gun, no other information or record keeping is required. All perfectly legal. Some states and local areas may have more restrictive laws, but most states fall under the very...
[14:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF? - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:01] <exec> 08└─And Chicago has a much higher rate of gun murder than the rest of the nation. Remove Chicago from the US rate, and we move much, much closer to that of Great Britian. Of course, there is dishonesty about Britian and Europe's "civilized" nations murder rates. Great Britain simply doesn't count their...
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[15:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Two words: - 06U.S. Embassy Worker Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Stalking and Extortion Charges - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:41] <exec> 08└─dirt bag
[15:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Delwin [4554] (Score:1) 02Re:FTFY - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:00] <exec> 08└─Months? I go through 1,100 miles (about four tanks of gas) in just under a month. Fill the tank about once a week.
[15:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:FTFY - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:01] <exec> 08└─You add water every couple of hundred miles. Then every 1100 miles that this is the source of power, you replace around 55 pounds of aluminum plates and send the old ones for recycling. It's likely to end up as a range extender for smaller lithium-ion batteries. You'd drive your first fifty miles or...
[15:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Closed system=heavy. - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:10] <exec> 08└─I figured out 15 years ago that Electric Vehicles will always be at a disadvantage for long-haul uses: precisely because they have to store the reaction products, while vehicles venting to the atmosphere after reacting with free oxygen (including hydrogen vehicles) do not. THS points out that this d...
[15:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:THS==TFS - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:12] <exec> 08└─null dummy text. MOre null dummy text.
[15:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:22] <exec> 08└─This wouldn't happen in the US. We have guns. STOOOPID NOOCKS.
[15:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:26] <exec> 08└─It's a sticky situation alright.
[15:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Market-based solution - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:29] <exec> 08└─As the story notes though, nowhere near as much as Quebec, which produces 77% of the world's supply. We even have a maple syrup strategic reserve. I kid you not. It was big news up here a few years ago when millions of litres of syrup, worth $18 million, went missing [globalnews.ca] from the reserve...
[15:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ban Corporate Political donations. - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:01] <exec> 08└─Happened in Canada. The government of the day also banned Union donations that a rival political party benefited disproportionately from.
[15:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:idiots - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:07] <exec> 08└─More likely they'd start with the 2nd. Maybe they'd hit the sixth, fifth, second, fourth, and first simultaneously.
[15:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─What I would really like to see out of said Convention would be an affirmation of the original 9th and 10th Amendments. Probably something greatly restricting the commerce clause would be the way to go. I do not see how a drug war is even possible given the 9th Amendment. That's just the blindingly...
[15:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Delwin [4554] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:29] <exec> 08└─Impeachment.
[15:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Only now, at the end, do you realize true power - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:44] <exec> 08└─There is a correlation between websites' use of javascript and paranoia levels. Less than 20 lines attracts people who are already paranoid and greater than 500 lines causes paranoia.
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lukehasnoname [3303] (Score:1) 02Re:Proposed Amendment - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:49] <exec> 08└─Repudiating the SCOTUS involves passing an amendment or a Congressional bill. They just don't do it often.
[15:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proposed Amendment - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:51] <exec> 08└─Um, no. You obviously missed the concept of checks and balances introduced by the authors of the Constitution. The Supreme Court has authority most limited in scope of any of the three branches of government. They can't draft executive orders or legislation. (Think about that - that's pretty limited...
[15:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The solution is simple - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:09] <exec> 08└─That's cool, but probably not necessary. Put cops, prosecutors, and judges into prison with the people they've busted for five years. Some of them will be dead very soon. Others will become someone's bitch. Few will leave prison unchanged. And, zero will ever again exercise any authority over their...
[15:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:31] <exec> 08└─Then what?
[15:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Data you don't back up.... - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:42] <exec> 08└─The free dumpster diving market will determine that.
[15:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Think before you speak - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:33] <exec> 08└─Well, then, if you insist on deaths per 100,000, that's fine. But - INCLUDE ALL OF THE US AND ALL OF EUROPE, or else break it down. You do realize that the highest murder and gun death rates in the US are in Democratic strongholds? If you want to compare the United States to Great Britain, then you...
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[16:44:43] <exec> 08└─People in that line of work are generally nepotist psychos if not CIA spooks.
[16:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the right to your life... - 06U.S. Embassy Worker Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Stalking and Extortion Charges - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:44] <exec> 08└─should not be abused. then again... there is that constitutional convention coming up. >;D
[16:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:will look - 06Mystery Science Theater 3000 Revival Ending Campaign With Star-Studded Telethon - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:55] <exec> 08└─What? No Pod People? [wikia.com]
[16:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Cannon fodder - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:09] <exec> 08└─" now we just need to standardize the loading and unloading of goods and we can put a large amount of the population in the unemployment line!" Or on the ground in the Middle East.
[16:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score:1) 02Re:Closed system=heavy. - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:17] <exec> 08└─I'll take this heavier variant where everyone driving carries their own shit with them and don't burden others, instead of the lighter variant where every driver dumps shit in the atmosphere for everyone else to breathe, even the non-drivers and even the non-humans.
[16:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:30] <exec> 08└─...in the US. We have guns.
[16:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:31] <exec> 08└─That's just a clever way of justifying law breaking. If I'm a maple syrup producer and comply with the law, I'm not going to be happy at all at someone who rakes in extra profits by breaking the law, and even less happy if the authority that is imposing a monopoly on me just turns a blind eye to the...
[16:45:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Wow - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:35] <exec> 08└─When your best defense is that you're not as bad as North Korea, you have some real issues.
[16:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02Re:Market-based solution - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:40] <exec> 08└─"Smuggling syrup" is funny. Stealing a truckload of syrup is sort of funny. $18 million, involving an ongoing multi-truck operation, is serious business. And replacing good maple syrup with WATER is heinous.
[16:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Re:Market-based solution - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:42] <exec> 08└─Or make your own. It isn't that hard.
[16:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:57] <exec> 08└─Having to publish all your code and all the code you depend on each and every time you release is precisely what the GPLv3 sets out to do. Practically speaking, just dump all the Gzips you depend on into a single folder and add a button called "download all (per GPLv3)" that concatenates all the Gzi...
[16:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:15] <exec> 08└─The free speech clause of the 1st amendment only has value as a way of making sure that all ideas survive or die based on their inherent merits and not on the political power wielded by those who favor the idea. Since money is allowed to be political power, the only way to achieve the goal of lettin...
[16:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, fight reason and democracy with money.
[16:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:48] <exec> 08└─How about we grow some common sense
[16:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Wouldn't buy, because... - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:12] <exec> 08└─Actually he was already asking me, and also asking if he can get two spare-wires and some grey dough around the size of a brick. Wonder what he was planning ... ;-)
[16:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:This is huge - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, as I thought. Thanks for the informative link. Ample reason for caution about what D-Wave has really accomplished. They have NOT demonstrated an asymptotic speedup over the best classical algorithms. It's still quite possible, even probable, just that D-Wave has not really done it, not yet. Per...
[16:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SC15, terabits.... - 06Ethernet Switch Sales Flat, But 40 Gbps Sales Take Off - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:22] <exec> 08└─If you're talking about the LAN and not your WAN/internet connection how about buy a cheap and dumb 1 gigabit switch? I doubt it really benefits most people in typical small offices - not so many deal with large files (videos, VMs etc). But if it would really benefit them, your office snack/latte bu...
[16:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Think before you speak - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:51] <exec> 08└─> If you want to compare the United States to Great Britain, then you have to take one of the less lethal states to compare. Nope. That's called "cherry picking", and is right out. Either do stats properly or don't do it at all.
[16:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:17] <exec> 08└─Where a case can be made - where it is actually a *tool* - then yes, that satisfies any criterion I'd want to see in place. But do you object to the government knowing what weapons you have, by having them registered? (By the way, the NSA has someone reading Soylent, so they already know.) Some 2A o...
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[17:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Who is actually blocked - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:33] <exec> 08└─It says 7% of the worlds browsers don't support SHA256, which I can accept. But what percentage of that 7% can't upgrade or install a modern browser alongside their antique (if for some reason they absolutely must continue using IE5 for something -- which sadly is a real thing. ) If 95% of the users...
[17:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who is actually blocked - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know which versions of web browsers are supported, but the major browsers no longer install on at least old versions of OSX. I still support the forced transition instead of downgrade support.
[17:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Re:Who is actually blocked - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:36] <exec> 08└─Current Firefox installs down to SnowLeopard which was released in 2009. The last PPC-based Mac (that can't update to Snowy) was released in 2006. No question you still have people out there using PPC Mac's, but I think it's time... Maybe someone can backport SHA-256 to Firefox 16.
[17:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:38] <exec> 08└─I see the problem - some people with older systems will be unable to use https. Many of them won't even understand why. On the other hand, if we don't force-deprecate SHA1, many end users - and too many web services - will never bother to update. And we will be in exactly the same position in 2 year...
[17:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:40] <exec> 08└─That's fine but...... I have a openWRT router that I can't upgrade and don't want to. It is not in danger of MIM attacks do to where/how it's used. But I have to keep an old Browser to access it. A better idea would be to let me change the TLS like I used to before FF x.x.x was forced on me. Or even...
[17:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Mark Fuckerberg - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:41] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck cares what Facebook warns about? Fuckerberg can go choke on a bucket of dongs.
[17:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Easy... - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:43] <exec> 08└─Two options: 1) A small number of users get an obvious error message that says they can't connect securely. 2) The entire world thinks they're connecting securely while secretly getting downgraded and probably having no idea there's an MitM in place. Break the 7%. No question it's better than see an...
[17:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Insightful) 02Granny - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:45] <exec> 08└─Can't have granny being blocked from facebook... That'd be aweful. FB *IS* the internet!
[17:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dublet [2994] (Score:2) 02Sweet but.. - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:48] <exec> 08└─Looks like a pretty sweet kind of device but there's no mention of how much energy it needed to produce that 1.3MW. I'll presume a lot more than that.
[17:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Sweet but.. - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:50] <exec> 08└─Why? They fired a short 1.3MW microwave pulse into the gas to create a plasma. Last time I checked microwave generators are fairly mature technology and not terribly inefficient, so I would expect the input energy to be not terribly higher than that. Note that they're not talking about generating 1....
[17:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02aspiring models - 06U.S. Embassy Worker Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Stalking and Extortion Charges - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:59] <exec> 08└─Okay, so the moral of this story involves aspiring models, but I can't quite figure out what it is.
[17:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Nothing new - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:39] <exec> 08└─It's worse than you thought. The progs are destroying perfectly good Murricun mafias [reason.com] in leftist courtrooms. We must stop the outrage!
[17:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:46] <exec> 08└─You could do the same thing. It's your own choice. Break the law, take a risk, make a profit. Comply with the law. Pay the monopoly, get screwed. I mean, you are happy to pay and fund those monopoly guys. ie losing some of your real profit. But then complain that some other guys make some extra mone...
[17:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:48] <exec> 08└─Why do I get punished for being a law abiding citizen?
[17:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the Syrup Mafia - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:51] <exec> 08└─How about the "soda fountain syrup rackets" in NYC during the 1920s-1930s. There were other similar rackets for kosher chicken and other foods at the same time. http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[17:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Syrup futures market? - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the type of problem that a futures market is good at solving? At least the problem of low-yield years would benefit from futures speculators. The problem of production limits to prop up prices sounds like OPEC's playbook, but syrup and oil are quite different markets. The maple syrup mark...
[17:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Can you really? - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:19] <exec> 08└─We're 30 years into this, and it's still not really clear whether "we didn't modify libfoo, here's a link to their source code repo" is a legally acceptable answer to a GPL request.
[17:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:32] <exec> 08└─No matter what anyone says corporations are not people and do not share the same rights as people. Let us not forget that corporations get special rights that people do not get.
[17:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 1799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:33] <exec> 08└─Would you not agree that those with money are able to buy significantly more representation? There are other activities which would support a candidate and would be deemed illegal, such as systematically calling known opposition voters on election day to tell them their loved ones are hospitalized,...
[17:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:37] <exec> 08└─It won't be long now before people of this mindset suggest that, in addition to money being speech, it is an exercise of free speech to shoot someone with whom you disagree.
[17:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a terrible reason to gut the First Amendment. Hmmm.....I don't see "give money to" anywhere in that ammendment.
[17:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 1873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a terrible reason to gut the First Amendment. Yes, because speech and money are identical. I'll bet no one here can tell the difference between a sum of money and speech. But heck, let's test my theory out, which of these is speech?* S: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all m...
[17:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, fight reason and democracy with money.
[17:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:45] <exec> 08└─We have all the 'campaign finance law' we need. "Congress shall make no law...." "...respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Gover...
[17:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:08] <exec> 08└─The fundamental right to control your own body. The right to control your own property (the drugs).
[17:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:16] <exec> 08└─Also everyone seems to have a different definition
[17:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's bad enough now. - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:22] <exec> 08└─That too is up to the voters.
[17:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02Pi board layout sucks - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:42] <exec> 08└─The rate of new Pi hardware and huge (do not under-estimate) community constantly churning out new stuff and revisiting old is making this the platform to cling too.
[17:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:38] <exec> 08└─... where "Say what you want on the nuances of when taking a life is justified and the power to do so sometimes being necessary" means "equate owning a gun with killing someone".
[17:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:39] <exec> 08└─You accept guns can be used to kill? You accept that guns can be used to kill? Hey guys? Did you know that forks can be used to eat? And weedwhackers can be used to trim plants? And vehicles can be used as transportation? Or stamps can be used to send letters? What kind of dimwitted fuckwit are you...
[17:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:42] <exec> 08└─Equating alcohol with both mental illness and with narcotics
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[18:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Who is actually blocked - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:39] <exec> 08└─No question you still have people out there using PPC Mac's, but I think it's time... Maybe someone can backport SHA-256 to Firefox 16.
[18:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:42] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with using an old browser to access that router, and a new one for accessing the internet? It even gives you additional security, as an internet exploit won't be able to access your local router even if you're logged into it during browsing the net.
[18:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:44] <exec> 08└─target.com just served me a HMAC-SHA1 cert on checkout. They didn't learn much from their data breach last year.
[18:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:46] <exec> 08└─Why would they? You don't actually think corporations care about you do you?
[18:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Mark Fuckerberg - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:48] <exec> 08└─Really, secure connections should only be needed for truly sensitive data like banking. It is a rather sad state of affairs that a login to some dumb social media site is considered a matter of life and death.
[18:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mark Fuckerberg - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:49] <exec> 08└─Well you might like having all your non critical communications in plaintext and monitored by a half dozen countries, but I don't.
[18:44:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pendorbound [2688] 02Easy... - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 376 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:51] <exec> 08└─Two options: 1) A small number of users get an obvious error message that says they can't connect securely. 2) The entire world thinks they're connecting securely while secretly getting downgraded and probably having no idea there's an MitM in place. Break the 7%. No question it's better than see an...
[18:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy... - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:53] <exec> 08└─I find it hard to believe this 7% isn't finding most of the internet dysfunctional already. If you're using windows XP with service pack 2 or lower, you have a lot more issues than this. The bigger problem is that you may not get an "obvious" error. I had this kind of issue a few weeks ago when a ve...
[18:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy... - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:55] <exec> 08└─I have an Ancient GnuSense Laptop that I have not gotten around to upgrading yet. I get similar mysterious failure. Sometimes websites will work for a while, then suddenly refuse to (looking at you ixquick). I strongly suspect lack of support for newer hash algorithms is the problem.
[18:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02What about a browser-based solution? - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:57] <exec> 08└─Why not simply have browsers deny any connection with SHA1? This will protect users of modern browsers from forced downgrading (because the browser won't accept the downgrade), but not block the users of outdated browsers (because those will, of course, not refuse to use SHA1).
[18:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:What about a browser-based solution? - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:59] <exec> 08└─Are... are you really advocating a new version of software as a solution to issues caused by people not upgrading to new versions of software?
[18:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:What about a browser-based solution? - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:01] <exec> 08└─Why not simply have browsers deny any connection with SHA1?
[18:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OpenPGP - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:02] <exec> 08└─One thing that worries me is that OpenPGP uses SHA1 for fingerprints. A longer hash would be even more unwieldy.
[18:45:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02Re:Sweet but.. - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 1181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:04] <exec> 08└─Why? They fired a short 1.3MW microwave pulse into the gas to create a plasma. Last time I checked microwave generators are fairly mature technology and not terribly inefficient, so I would expect the input energy to be not terribly higher than that. Note that they're not talking about generating 1....
[18:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sweet but.. - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:06] <exec> 08└─You can't characterize an amount of energy as being "a lot more than [1.3MW]", because megawatts are a unit of power.
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[18:45:08] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm glad to see that Klinger finally escaped the Army and Korea. On a more topic friendly note: I'm also glad to see ongoing progress and research in this field. If it pans out, one day(hopefully sooner than later) we will finally have sustainable, clean energy. One hope I have is to see the F...
[18:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:aspiring models - 06U.S. Embassy Worker Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Stalking and Extortion Charges - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:17] <exec> 08└─Okay, so the moral of this story involves...
[18:45:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02FTFY - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:34] <exec> 08└─An electric car has been tested that managed a huge 1,100 mile range on a single charge^H^H^H^H^H set of non-rechargeable batteries. FTFY.
[18:45:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] 02Re:FTFY - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:37] <exec> 08└─You add water every couple of hundred miles. Then every 1100 miles that this is the source of power, you replace around 55 pounds of aluminum plates and send the old ones for recycling. It's likely to end up as a range extender for smaller lithium-ion batteries. You'd drive your first fifty miles or...
[18:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Closed system=heavy. - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:49] <exec> 08└─I agree, that is why I specified "long haul" applications. Sometimes while I am riding my bike in traffic, I feel like I am taking one for the team with all the fumes.
[18:46:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously, get the law changed or move out of Quebec. Even if the law is stupid and wrong, it's the law. Until then you're just a criminal.
[18:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Re:Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:36] <exec> 08└─Can't you just put the source code in a cookie, so that every visitor to the site gets it? Boom! Problem solved.
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:03] <exec> 08└─It might be too late for you to stop drinking the kool-aid if you think propaganda doesn't work on absolutely everyone.
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is parent truly Offtopic? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:20] <exec> 08└─As your politics are in line with the farthest reaches of the Democratic party...
[18:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:31] <exec> 08└─Treason has a particular definition. And who will decide what is unconstitutional and thus, treason? If one can be imprisoned for doing something unconstitutional, they can be imprisoned for obeying the constitution as well.
[18:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:35] <exec> 08└─Excellent, that means that the last time the supreme court was even thought to have ignored the constitution was 1805, but turns out they hadn't. What's the practical punishment for a supreme court justice who ignores the constitution?
[18:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Pi board layout sucks - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:02] <exec> 08└─I don't know if the current Pi boards still suffer from the problem where the USB and Ethernet port don't physically line up.
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[19:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:53] <exec> 08└─Does that really matter in practice? You think the hackers will spend time cracking SHA1 to MITM your connection? If the hackers wanted to they would most likely hack Target directly just like they did before. And it would still probably be easier than cracking SHA1. Same probably applies to most si...
[19:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mark Fuckerberg - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:57] <exec> 08└─Secure connections should be used for all transmission of credentials.
[19:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mark Fuckerberg - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:59] <exec> 08└─It is a rather sad state of affairs that a login to some dumb social media site is considered a matter of life and death.
[19:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Then have them use http instead of SHA1 https... - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:08] <exec> 08└─It's just as secure.
[19:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Then have them use http instead of SHA1 https.. - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:10] <exec> 08└─IPSEC is supposed to let you secure legacy protocols like HTTP and gopher.
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Then have them use http instead of SHA1 https.. - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:12] <exec> 08└─IPsec has SHA1 as well.
[19:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02dumbass - 06U.S. Embassy Worker Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Stalking and Extortion Charges - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:30] <exec> 08└─Extortion is bad. It's also dumb, considering how many perfectly legit erotic videos are available on the web from willing participants.
[19:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:will look - 06Mystery Science Theater 3000 Revival Ending Campaign With Star-Studded Telethon - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:41] <exec> 08└─If we're going to devolve into listing good MST3Ks: Cave Dwellers [youtube.com] BOggy Creek 2 Laserblast Future War Space Mutiny Operation Double 007 (featuring Neil Connery) any movie in any form by Coleman Francis [wikipedia.org] Time Chasers (the director is trying to make a sequel) Pumaman
[19:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"single charge" - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:01] <exec> 08└─IANAEE, but couldn't you add capacitors or something like that to store up power for those sudden bursts of acceleration?
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Closed system=heavy. - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:07] <exec> 08└─That is true, but electric motors can be close to 100% efficient at converting electricity into motion. Think a typical figure is 98%. (However, not every kind of electric motor is that good.) In contrast, gasoline engines max out at about 30% to 35% efficiency. And that is only at the optimum RPM a...
[19:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Closed system=heavy. - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:09] <exec> 08└─>"This battery design actually get HEAVIER with use" True, but the system could be designed so that you can dump the AlOH periodically independently of changing the whole battery. If you did that when adding water, it would be a minor inconvenience. A good design would be a car that could hold five...
[19:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:26] <exec> 08└─But you can't take your argument all the way. Sooner or later you will run up against a law so unjust that disobedience would make one a hero of the people. Of course, you could stand by your position anyway, even for laws such as slavery, but I don't suppose you want to go that far? Anyway, why do...
[19:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lame Name Game, but still Shame - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:37] <exec> 08└─Mr Roullard is also quick to point out that the FPAQ didn't unilaterally award itself its powers, rather that they were agreed by "100% of the delegates who represent Quebec's producers, when we voted them [in]".
[19:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:15] <exec> 08└─Do you contend that unlimited campaign finance doesn't have a deleterious affect by shifting the metric for quality of ideas much more to being about which idea benefits an oligarchic minority in the short term?
[19:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:20] <exec> 08└─It won't be long now before people of this mindset suggest that, in addition to money being speech, it is an exercise of free speech to shoot someone with whom you disagree.
[19:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:23] <exec> 08└─Hmmm.....I don't see "give money to" anywhere in that ammendment.
[19:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, because speech and money are identical.
[19:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:31] <exec> 08└─Because propaganda is as free as air. Run as a monopoly. On Mars.
[19:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:51] <exec> 08└─Government, by its very nature, is an invention of humans, run by humans, staffed by humans. Its not going to be perfect. The Constitution isn't perfect. The people who wrote it weren't perfect. There is no reason to expect a Constitutional convention would be perfect. We have no chance of achieving...
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[20:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:35] <exec> 08└─You know walled gardens are making their corporations rich when everyone wants one of their own. How many different apps do I need to pay for stuff these days? Ridiculous, but it's a sign of just how profitable this new Web 3.0 or whatever you want to call it actually is. Boo hiss.
[20:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:36] <exec> 08└─The Market will provide. The Market gives, and the Market takes away. Praise the name of the Market.
[20:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02walmart haters - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:38] <exec> 08└─I know a lot of people hate Walmart. And, for good reason, what with the reports of Walmart cheating their workers of pay. Lot of hate for Apple, Google, Amazon, and EBay and Paypal too. And, oh yeah, Microsoft. And Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, IBM, etc. But I like some of the things Walmart does. A...
[20:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02If the clouds oblige - 06Geminids Set to Light Up Winter Sky in Year's Best Meteor Shower - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Meteor Shower can help me find Gemini. I've always found it hard to find Gemini by the connect the dots method. Luckily there's an app for that. [google.com] Quite a few of them actually.
[20:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cloudy - 06Geminids Set to Light Up Winter Sky in Year's Best Meteor Shower - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:48] <exec> 08└─Well at least I know which days *will* be cloudy.
[20:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Showers? - 06Geminids Set to Light Up Winter Sky in Year's Best Meteor Shower - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:50] <exec> 08└─> will be almost overhead as seen from the UK, making it ideally placed for observers The UK is a great place for observing showers alright.
[20:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who is actually blocked - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:00] <exec> 08└─Facebook, "caring" for its users? Uh, OK...
[20:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:06] <exec> 08└─If the hackers wanted to they would most likely hack Target directly just like they did before. And it would still probably be easier than cracking SHA1.
[20:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:08] <exec> 08└─Facebook already has a work-around [facebook.com] to force downgrade to http from their https-by-default policy. (I find it odd that facebook, which is all about duping everyone into releasing every private detail of their lives to the world is even bothering with https).
[20:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy... - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:16] <exec> 08└─Can I still have the option to visit a site in cleartext? I promise not to log in if they take away the ability for me to log in and share personal data in clear text. It may be I just want to read something and don't want to have to replace old hardware to do it. Sort of like how hard it has become...
[20:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Then have them use http instead of SHA1 https.. - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:26] <exec> 08└─dammit. Sound like MD5 all over again. To this day, POP, SMTP, SIP (possibly a stretch to include this one), PPPoE all use MD5 hashing as their strongest form of authentication.
[20:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmsleight [5933] (Score:1) 02Re:dumbass - 06U.S. Embassy Worker Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Stalking and Extortion Charges - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:47] <exec> 08└─It a power thing, not a nude thing.
[20:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:dumbass - 06U.S. Embassy Worker Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Stalking and Extortion Charges - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:48] <exec> 08└─" ... ,considering how many perfectly legit erotic videos are available on the web from willing participants."
[20:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cannon fodder - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:15] <exec> 08└─Unsure which side you are saying they would be on.
[20:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02the client is responsible for the database logic - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:21] <exec> 08└─I see "the client is responsible for the database logic" ... so why not use SQLite locally? If you have to download and decrypt the data to do queries, why have a server? "Even if attackers successfully infiltrate the server, they won't have access to the cleartext data." But if the client can decry...
[20:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:38] <exec> 08└─OK - as an individual, I am limited to $2700 in donations to any candidate for election in each of the primary election and general election cycles. I can give as much as I want to a political party (or several parties, if I so desire). I suggest all organizations be subject to the same limits. No...
[20:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doesn't comprehend my political leanings - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 1842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:07] <exec> 08└─You haven't been paying attention at all. My politics border on anarchy: Anti-Capitalist (Communist--as Marx described it: Democracy everywhere) which means that civil liberties are a given. I have little regard for Right^Wrong Wingers (Capitalist Authoritarians) which includes most Democrats. [poli...
[20:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:14] <exec> 08└─We have no chance of achieving perfect. So I wonder why you bring it up? Isn't it just another form of, "We shouldn't waste money going to space until we solve every social problem on earth"?
[20:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Its getting close - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:23] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't it make sense? If you seize control of whoever decides constitutionality and one can be imprisoned for violating the constitution, you have a means to imprison your foes arbitrarily.
[20:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02Re:Pi board layout sucks - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:53] <exec> 08└─You're right, the face of the Ethernet connector on the original Pi is a good 3mm back from the USB. I can't believe that I allowed a device with such a hideous fault into my house without noticing.
[20:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02what was that old saying? - 06Update: Education Department to Cancel $27M of Corinthian Colleges Students' Debt - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:18] <exec> 08└─There's an old saying about privatizing the profits and socializing the risks - is this its poster child? Does the poster have a big facepalm?
[20:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn Whites - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:56] <exec> 08└─Good analogy to reasoning too often heard. It seems to have gone over the head of a few people, though.
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[21:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:43] <exec> 08└─While I only go to Walmart maybe once every 2 years, there are many folks out there who make their weekly Walmart trip (or many times a week). What could tip the scales is Walmart offering a discount on purchases similar to cash back on credit cards. It's annoying how many places don't take my Ameri...
[21:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure anyone is getting rich on these payment apps other than the same credit card clearing houses that were doing to all along. Because, in the end, these all get tied back to a credit card (or direct draw on a bank account) somewhere somehow. Some of the rush to develop these apps is based...
[21:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure anyone is getting rich on these payment apps other than the same credit card clearing houses that were doing to all along. Because, in the end, these all get tied back to a credit card (or direct draw on a bank account) somewhere somehow. Some of the rush to develop these apps is based...
[21:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:47] <exec> 08└─Wallmart Gardens
[21:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03karmawhore [1635] (Score:2) 02Re:If the clouds oblige - 06Geminids Set to Light Up Winter Sky in Year's Best Meteor Shower - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:58] <exec> 08└─Orion begins to rise in the southeast in late evening (for me). Very recognizable. Just to the south of that, you'll see Aldebaran in Taurus (very bright star), and the V of the bull's horns is mostly brightish stars and easy to make out. If you follow from the bottom of the V back through Aldebaran...
[21:45:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Mark Fuckerberg - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:21] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck cares what Facebook warns about? Fuckerberg can go choke on a bucket of dongs.
[21:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Mark Fuckerberg - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:24] <exec> 08└─As if Facebook isn't already happily handing them over at the drop of a hat.
[21:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Sweet but.. - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:49] <exec> 08└─You do know that this version of the device is never intended to produce power, or even break even, right? This is a research project for plasma containment only. So it doesn't matter how much power it took, because there was never an expectation of return. TFA: Wendelstein 7-X, the world's largest...
[21:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Sweet but.. - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:50] <exec> 08└─While there never was an expectation of positive return, it DOES matter how much it takes to run it. OTOH, that 1.x Megawats was over a really short period of time. It was probably supplied by a bank of capacitors. So I doubt that it involved much power. Still, he's studying design of containment, s...
[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:aspiring models - 06U.S. Embassy Worker Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Stalking and Extortion Charges - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:03] <exec> 08└─Distance relationships are hard to manage and having some sort of "sexual activity" from far away can help maintain intimacy. If you are in the same situation and are willing to miss out on that part of relationships because of the fear of some asshole doing something illegal, then that is your deci...
[21:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Alcohol Turbine Generator - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:46] <exec> 08└─Or you could skip the aluminum/water and put in a alcohol based turbine generator in the car and stop off at any gas station or liquor store when you need to refill.
[21:47:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quacking duck [1395] 02Re:Market-based solution - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:11] <exec> 08└─As the story notes though, nowhere near as much as Quebec, which produces 77% of the world's supply. We even have a maple syrup strategic reserve. I kid you not. It was big news up here a few years ago when millions of litres of syrup, worth $18 million, went missing [globalnews.ca] from the reserve...
[21:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Market-based solution - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:14] <exec> 08└─Or make your own. It isn't that hard.
[21:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Syrup futures market? - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:17] <exec> 08└─Canada's maple syrup strategic reserve was created precisely to protect producers from low-yield years and prevents wild, speculative price swings. Or at least that's what the PR says.
[21:47:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02Even if we could .. - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:25] <exec> 08└─I won't touch anything with the AGPLv3; its the license people use when you want to say you're open source but make sure no one touches it. While we could meet the requirements for it, I don't want to have to keep track of what version we're using and publish the source each time we update it as req...
[21:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:07] <exec> 08└─Just because corrupt politicians make something LEGAL it does not follow that is isn't corruption. Your system is so corrupt corporations can buy politicians in the open. And you are defending it?? Jesus christ....
[21:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:14] <exec> 08└─It's cute you think that this convention would propose anything that would primarily benefit the people rather than the corporate lobby. Perhaps you have been asleep these past few decades? I would suggest you start with reading about how the recent TPPA was negotiated...the little you can find on t...
[21:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Getting rid of bad federal judges - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:50] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The Constitution says that federal judges serve "during times of good behavior". That means that they have a lifetime appointment--unless they screw up royally. (Federal Judge Mark Fuller, an extremely partisan (Read: crooked) [google.com] Alabama Republican, recently lost his job after punc...
[21:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Wouldn't buy, because... - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:08] <exec> 08└─Not really. They originally made it difficult to access the header by unpopulating it because it is 1.8V logic and just about anything you connect to it without taking precautions is going to kill it. They vastly underestimated the determination of the hacking community of course and now there is a...
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[22:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JamesNZ [4399] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:46] <exec> 08└─Why exactly does Mozilla want Buildbot to remove the word "slave"? Bit of a weird request.
[22:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:47] <exec> 08└─I don't find this weird at all, coming from Mozilla...
[22:44:48] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:48] <exec> 08└─It's a change in terminology to better reflect change in architecture really. Before you had a Slave and Master, and the master had to tell the slave what to do and keep it in line. Now a days the worker systems can take initiative, working off of hooks... so I guess we can now call them "hookers,"...
[22:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:50] <exec> 08└─But they'll keep using a software called Bro. Fucking hypocrites.
[22:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:52] <exec> 08└─Same reason that someone requested Django to do it. [djangoproject.com] An SJW threw a tantrum.
[22:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:54] <exec> 08└─It's also funny in light of using something called "Bro." If Mozilla was really so worried about feelings and appeasing the SJW crowd, shouldn't they be lobbying for that project to rename itself? Isn't that demeaning to women by implying that a female can't detect network intrusions?
[22:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Slave - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:56] <exec> 08└─15 grand to do $> grep -R slave * > ~/todo ? 15 ... GRAND?
[22:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slave - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:58] <exec> 08└─and to fund a week long trip to Vegas for the development team; trip report will be routed to /dev/null.
[22:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Django websockets? - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:00] <exec> 08└─Sign me up. All Django really needs after that is some kind of best-friend javascript mixin that's built around furthering its DRY design and I'll just be thrilled to no end.
[22:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02X USD for Y task - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:02] <exec> 08└─I think it is great these projects are receiving money but what I don't like are the strings attached. Here's X USD for project Y to do Z... This is how Mozilla got in the pocket of Google. Is this some sort of similar attempt to corrupt these projects? How long until we hear "and if you don't do X,...
[22:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:4, Insightful) 02like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─"Their award will be used to remove the term "slave" from all documentation" Seriously? Master/slave when in the context of software, or circuits, etc needs to be purged from the code and documentation? I like the idea of Mozilla giving some money to some of the projects it uses... but the ear mark...
[22:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:05] <exec> 08└─Their award will be used to make Django suitable to be a back end for Web apps which use WebSockets.
[22:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:07] <exec> 08└─Now, with the extra funding, maybe the Django team will be able to purchase some necessary hardware. Such as more female plugs for their male... Uh oh.
[22:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:09] <exec> 08└─So they're giving 15k to remove the word slaves from a project that used it as a technical term with no offense intended or likely committed. Ten times that to another project that is far more associated with the word slave than "Buildbot" ever was. Then they give even more than that to a project na...
[22:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:11] <exec> 08└─Reading comprehension isn't really your strong suit, eh? You do realize that statement you quoted was pointing out how absurd and hypocritical the things Mozilla was asking for to be done, right?
[22:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:13] <exec> 08└─Except they never say they are offended. What you quoted was pointing out the hypocrisy of Mozilla. Way to completely miss the point. *golf clap*
[22:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02consider it done! - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─i'll gladly fix their buildbot issue. i'll replace "slave" with "esclavo" [twimg.com]
[22:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:17] <exec> 08└─If it works with a rooted device, I might use it. Android pay is kind of dickish that way.
[22:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Pointless - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:19] <exec> 08└─Unless this is usable anywhere except Walmart, then it is simply not competing with the others listed. It's simply an extension of their app, no different than Starbucks' app. The only thing noteworthy here is that they're announcing they will not support the standard options.
[22:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Americans are doing it wrong again. - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:20] <exec> 08└─There is a nfc standard for payments. I can pay with my credit card by waving it over the machine. I can use my banks app to pay using the nfc antenna in my phone using the same tech. Why you need Google Wallet, or Apple Pay, or any other random system? Why can't you just use standard payment termin...
[22:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:4, Insightful) 02What's the Point? - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm living in a box... but what is the point of using these apps? I can either (a) pull my wallet out of my back pocket, grab my chipped credit card, swipe/insert my card, sign if needed, or (b) pull out my phone, enter my password, find an app, and do whatever I need to do to authorize/pay. I...
[22:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:47] <exec> 08└─Care about us? Of course not. But I would think they care about themselves, and that breach was expensive. $67 million of expensive [nbcnews.com]
[22:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mark Fuckerberg - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:57] <exec> 08└─> Really, secure connections should only be needed for truly sensitive data like banking. No, secure connections should be used for ALL data. Otherwise it calls attention to itself and makes it easy for attackers to focus on the most valuable network traffic. This is a case of "a rising tide lifts a...
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy... - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:03] <exec> 08└─You may be interested in Gopher. Browser support has been removed over the years, rather than maintained, however. I have interest in (but have not tired) CJDNS, but that does not meet your "cleartext" criteria. Gopher should work fine over it though (If you have an IPv6 aware gopher host)
[22:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Miracle of funding - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:24] <exec> 08└─I googled for the images of the device's coils, this article from 2010 shows one: http://webmoritz.de [webmoritz.de] Article is in German, click on the picture to enlarge it and see how smug those two men and that magnet look. It's worth it. Can you imagine,...
[22:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1) 02Re:dumbass - 06U.S. Embassy Worker Pleads Guilty to Cyber-Stalking and Extortion Charges - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:41] <exec> 08└─People like that scare the living shit out of me. For a long time now I've thought a person's sexual desires and behavior can tell you all you need to know about their character; this one says "sociopath."
[22:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Revival, OK, but what about a chat app? - 06Mystery Science Theater 3000 Revival Ending Campaign With Star-Studded Telethon - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:51] <exec> 08└─You and your chat friends would have silhouette avatars and screen-share a bad movie listening to each other heckling it.
[22:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:41] <exec> 08└─Part of having a society is that crying out "fiat justitia ruat caelum" and doing your own thing can't be taken lightly. To a certain extent you're stuck following other people's dumb ideas. Keep in mind they think your ideas are dumb too and the truth is you're probably both right. It's a fairly co...
[22:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:43] <exec> 08└─Hmmm.....I don't see "give money to" anywhere in that ammendment.
[22:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:45] <exec> 08└─Just because corrupt politicians make something LEGAL it does not follow that is isn't corruption.
[22:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:I hate crowdfunded vapor - 06Kickstarter: Pine A64, Cheaper and More Powerful than Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:45] <exec> 08└─I've backed over 70 Kickstarter campaigns. Thus far, exactly zero have failed to deliver - though some deliver quite late, and a couple are still pending. This isn't generally true, but you (or at least I) can easily tell which are legit and which are blowing smoke. For example, I backed the Udoo an...
[22:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to selling personal info to advertizers - 06Google Finds a 100,000,000x Speedup on Certain Problems Using D-Wave - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, just as a farmer regularly turns up fresh dirt but isn't in the business of selling dirt, it's like that with Google.
[22:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Wired and Gizmodo "Out" Possible Bitcoin Inventor, Who is then Raided Over "Unrelated" Matter - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:21] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the explanation. I wasn't aware of that meme.
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[23:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:45] <exec> 08└─> Isn't that demeaning to women by implying that a female can't detect network intrusions? It is no more implying that than referring to buildbot slaves implies freemen can't compile.
[23:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:46] <exec> 08└─Wow. No shit Sherlock? It's as if that was my entire point. Great job, Captain Obvious. 👍
[23:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:47] <exec> 08└─This post brought to you by Aspergers Man!
[23:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slave - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:51] <exec> 08└─for i in `find -type f`; do sed -e 's/master/glorious_leader/g' -e 's/slave/puny_follower/g' < $i > temp && mv temp $i; done That'll be $15k.
[23:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slave - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:53] <exec> 08└─I get a compiler error: "Unable to find file 'postglorious_leader.h'"
[23:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slave - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:55] <exec> 08└─That's because your compiler is a bigot. WONTFIX
[23:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:02] <exec> 08└─If those are really the issues you have, don't use the products in question.
[23:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:04] <exec> 08└─And seeing as I don't have those issues, most of the rest of your post serves to flame an imaginary person you projected onto me. But that's ok. I agree with your argument; although its a bit weird to actually watch someone burn an effigy of oneself. Thanks for that. My original post had 2 parts: pa...
[23:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:06] <exec> 08└─It's ok. Those of us with elementary school level reading comprehension got your point. GP is simply a tard.
[23:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mod parent up - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:08] <exec> 08└─It reminds me of Julia Robert in the movie "Erin Brocovich" - she had a way of getting angrier the longer she ranted.
[23:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TRIGGER WARNING: TRIGGERED - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:09] <exec> 08└─Bro: $200,000. Bro is network monitoring software, which is at the heart of Mozilla's intrusion detection system for our network. Their award will be used to build the Comprehensive Bro Archive Network, a public repository of modules and plugins for Bro.
[23:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02apple swift - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:11] <exec> 08└─not sure if someone already mentioned here already, but someone else on soylent irc (in the batcave maybe) linked a pull request in apple swift's github codebase to replace the master and slave with leader and follower or some shit. some people gettin their sjw on
[23:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:apple swift - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:13] <exec> 08└─The use of exclusively English terms is clearly discriminating against users of other languages. Therefore I propose that instead of "leader" they use the German translation of that word: "Führer" ;-)
[23:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:apple swift - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:15] <exec> 08└─That's racially insensitive. It needs to be in ebonics.
[23:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Americans are doing it wrong again. - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:25] <exec> 08└─http://business.time.com/2012/07/17/retailers-get-7-25-billion-customers-get-surcharges/ [time.com] Walmart and others save money by not paying the credit card company. They can also collect the data on customer purchases.
[23:45:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] 02What's the Point? - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 726 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm living in a box... but what is the point of using these apps? I can either (a) pull my wallet out of my back pocket, grab my chipped credit card, swipe/insert my card, sign if needed, or (b) pull out my phone, enter my password, find an app, and do whatever I need to do to authorize/pay. I...
[23:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the Point? - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:28] <exec> 08└─I look forward to being able to go out and only carry my phone. Not carrying a wallet is one less thing to worry about. Also if someone steals my phone they will NOT be able to use it to pay for stuff, whereas cards (even chipped ones) can be cloned/MITM'd or outright accepted no questions asked by...
[23:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the Point? - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:30] <exec> 08└─Nail on head. I'm in Canada so NFC cards are becoming pretty common. I can pull my card out, tap a terminal, and paid in under 5 seconds. For larger transactions, chip & pin. Pulling out my phone, entering a password, finding the appropriate app, entering in another password??... is NOT faster or mo...
[23:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the Point? - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:32] <exec> 08└─I find the iPhone version both faster and easier than using my card. I carry my phone in my shirt pocket, so it's easier to reach and pull out than my wallet. With the phone, I don't have to find an pull out the appropriate card. All I have to do is touch the phone to the card reader while touching...
[23:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who is actually blocked - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:53] <exec> 08└─Facebook do care about their users, because the number of users affects the valuation of the company. The wrong decision here could lead to a drop in Facebook's monthly unique visitors. Even if investors understand the reason for the decrease, the stock price might suffer.
[23:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Embedded devices - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:24] <exec> 08└─It makes you wonder how many are embedded devices that (for good or bad) are talking to external systems. If so, that's a serious update nightmare that is already causing problems with other vulnerabilities.
[23:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:1) 02Re:Oblig. MASH reference: - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:37] <exec> 08└─...we will finally have sustainable, clean energy.
[23:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:will look - 06Mystery Science Theater 3000 Revival Ending Campaign With Star-Studded Telethon - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:05] <exec> 08└─You can add: Bride of the monster - featuring Bela Lugosi in one of his last appearances in film. Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell
[23:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can you really? - 06ZeroDB Encrypted Database Now Open Source - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:32] <exec> 08└─Well, the GPL is clear that you are allowed to download a copy of libfoo on their behalf and charge them for the service.
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