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[00:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:19] <exec> 08└─Leave it to a geek website to shit on someone for a typo. There's gotta be at least one neuroscience dissertation's worth of research explaining that phenomenon.
[00:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03buswolley [848] (Score:2) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:20] <exec> 08└─Funnily, I was that Anom and I was making fun of myself for sloppy typing.
[00:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:22] <exec> 08└─Multiple personality disorder, eh?
[00:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:25] <exec> 08└─From one Doctor to another, much congrats to you and welcome to the club.
[00:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:37] <exec> 08└─According to my wife who loves Anime. It would be, because of "Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children", the Movie. Apparently chicks dig Cloud. She also loved Kingdom Hearts. Probably the only game she ever really got into and finished.
[00:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not angry at episodic per se, but what it impli - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:41] <exec> 08└─So don't buy it cuz it sucks. Problem solved.
[00:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02To Large - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:47] <exec> 08└─The game is way too large. It just goes on and on.
[00:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Gender Policing - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:06] <exec> 08└─we simply apologize and move on
[00:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:37] <exec> 08└─Back in 1984 I was in my freshman year at a small college. One of the guys on the floor was a pretty unlikable guy. Didn't seem to do much but sit in his room and smoke. A good chunk of the way through first semester he's pulling about a 1.something GPA. We asked him what would happen if he flunks o...
[00:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:38] <exec> 08└─> If I can't answer any questions about my product, the process by which I create my product, > the market that I'm selling to, are you going to trust me with thousands, or millions of dollars Yet again you move the goalposts. Two founders on stage, one of them spends significantly more time making...
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─Yours is a very grade school version of science: form a hypothesis, do an experiment, adjust hypothesis, rather, rinse, repeat. Science is much more than that, and much more exciting than that. Astronomers don't do science by your definition, and apparently field biologist don't either. Whole fields...
[00:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Old idea - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:03] <exec> 08└─Because there are so many harvest-able resources inside an asteroid, right? We know there are, because TFS says so: "You have organic compounds, you have water—all the building blocks you would need to build your family Death Star."
[00:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:39] <exec> 08└─Time to derail with "who wins in a battle, the Enterprise or an Imperial Star Destroyer where winner is defined just for today as fewer civilian casualties... well I think the SD wins."
[00:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Score -1, Troll - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:08] <exec> 08└─Nope. Just wanted to know how that would have fitted into your narrative. No need to lecture me on conflict as we were intimate for a time. Your hand-waving about rebels attacking a star destroyer standing in for pearl harbor is weak, man. That doesn't fit into the timeline (nor your point). The emp...
[00:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Out of control - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:29] <exec> 08└─The internet has made this possibly the easiest ever bit of civil disobedience
[00:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds cool - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:46] <exec> 08└─One of the early versions of the Quake engine, or was it the Doom engine, I forget the details could handle up to three monitors, which you could array left, right and center. In those days it was tricky enough to get three monitors to work at all. We had some high end computers with lots of slots a...
[00:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:13] <exec> 08└─When you say greater and greater. You mean 1 - 2 % more market share this year, right? As opposed to a more significant change, which you are implying, but isn't actually happening. Don't get me wrong, I love the thought of harnessing that nuclear reactor in the sky, but it's not economically viable...
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[01:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New Driver of Innovation - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:09] <exec> 08└─I predict a boom in the availability of drones that weigh 0.54 lbs.
[01:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Driver of Innovation - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:10] <exec> 08└─Drone swarms. Instead of one big 10 lb drone - twenty 0.54 lb drones that can be controlled as one big swarm and can carry cargo suspended between them all. Maybe they can even pull a Voltron and join together in midflight to form one giant drone.
[01:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:New Driver of Innovation - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:12] <exec> 08└─Any "payload" is counted as part of the drone's mass. I'm not sure if they'd classify a bunch of drones lashed together as a single drone, or just divide the mass of the shared payload among all the drones, but either way you'll be going over the limit.
[01:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:New Driver of Innovation - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:14] <exec> 08└─Yup, it's a safety excuse for now, but when the drones weigh as much as small insects, they'll just have to claim terrorism or something. Of course, the FBI and military will get their hands on them first.
[01:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:17] <exec> 08└─I don't remember voting for this.
[01:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:19] <exec> 08└─Representative democracy. You live in one.
[01:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02experience - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:23] <exec> 08└─I remember once I ended up building a roll-your-own scheduler for reasons I won't go into. The algorithm resembled: ignore_t = nil //initialize while true //forever t = getSystemTime() t = roundToMinutes(t) if there are any tasks matching minute t and t not-equals ignore_t...
[01:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Atomic Clocks! - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:25] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the good old days of dial up Internet where you added a utility that connected with an atomic clock somewhere to adjust your PC clock to "accurate" time.
[01:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Oh, the days of TTL chips - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:27] <exec> 08└─What the guy writes roughly describes the behaviour of a fringe OS from the days computers were built with a lot of the TTLs he mentions. Microware OS/9 comes to mind (though that relinquishes on "tsleep(1)", not 0). To confuse the summer intern a bit more, someone should now try to explain how Linu...
[01:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:44] <exec> 08└─congrats!
[01:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Now about a SOURCE of power.... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:46] <exec> 08└─Somebody better be investing a lot in electrical generation, or brown outs will be an everyday event.
[01:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now about a SOURCE of power.... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:48] <exec> 08└─The grid will be mostly fine if the cars typically charge at night (when nobody else is drawing much power). In fact, initially, the grid may become more efficient as the power plants can run at a more consistent load.
[01:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 2295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:58] <exec> 08└─I'm going to have to disagree with you on that. A remake can be just as good as, or even better than, the original. A good remake will fix things that were never part of the artistic vision, but were forced by technical limitations or time/budget constraints. For FFVIIR, this would be like fixing tr...
[01:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gender Policing - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:29] <exec> 08└─I think the number of AC's in this thread are causing some confusion (I think I count at least 3). I should actually register an account.
[01:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gender Policing - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:31] <exec> 08└─I should actually register an account.
[01:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gender Policing - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:32] <exec> 08└─No I shouldn't.
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 3935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─It is fairly sad. I'd like to be proud of my skin color, even if I'm ashamed of the acts of (some) of my ancestors. I'd like to be proud of my gender assigned at birth and the various experiences that's given me, even if that gender doesn't describe me very well. I'd like to be proud that in relatio...
[01:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Old idea - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:20] <exec> 08└─I think Niven postulated some sort of magical power source that would heat a nickel/iron rich rock to molten, then inflated it like a balloon with steam. The physics sort of works, if you've just got the ability to alter the orbit at will you could move it in close to the sun to get it hot enough, m...
[01:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Like voting - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:12] <exec> 08└─One of the issues is the first past the post system....Had everyone been able to vote for another candidate after their favorite candidate was eliminated someone else would have been elected...
[01:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TIME is a shadow of itself - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 1883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:43] <exec> 08└─I have the misfortune of having an opportunity to take a look at Time magazine every time I visit my grandmother. (She used to subscribe to U.S. News and World Report, which despite Mort Zuckerman's unparalleled pompous buffoonery, retained a semblance of class until they stopped printing on paper i...
[01:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TIME is a shadow of itself - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:44] <exec> 08└─Be glad it isn't newsweek. That magazine has never been worth the paper it was printed on.
[01:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Not a torrent client! - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:18] <exec> 08└─As I argued elsewhere last time this thing was brought up. This is not a working torrent client. It cannot speak to any other working client. It. Is. Broken.
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[02:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02What, this dude isn't dead yet? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:12] <exec> 08└─He hasn't been executed by an unfortunate accident yet? By the beard of the Dear Leader, the civilized world is inefficient.
[02:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:3, Informative) 02Probably good? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:13] <exec> 08└─It's probably good. I mean, the poor guy hasn't been getting any publicity for like, aaaages. Me, cynical and sarcastic? Neeeever...
[02:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Driver of Innovation - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:23] <exec> 08└─So make the drones less than 0.54 lb with more of them. Thirty 0.4 lb drones gets you a 4 lb payload that is still under the limit.
[02:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:New Driver of Innovation - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:24] <exec> 08└─There is no way that's more cost-effective than buying a single 12-pound drone and paying the damn $5 fee.
[02:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Driver of Innovation - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:26] <exec> 08└─Depends on your goals. Paying the fee isn't just paying the fee. Its getting put into a database, a database that will be made available to god knows who. I'm sure more businesses won't have a problem with it because they are already licensed for all kinds of other things. But private owners have al...
[02:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:31] <exec> 08└─I don't remember the constitution giving the government such a power, either.
[02:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:33] <exec> 08└─Apparently your memory is quite poor: Clause 3, section IV - All unmanned aircraft are subject to licensing by the federal aviation administration.
[02:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FAA won't let me Play - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:35] <exec> 08└─Or let me be me So let me see Oh sorry, this song reference is too old for ya. Well fuck you! Gonna mod me down on Soy but then It'll feel so empty without me
[02:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 025 miles? - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:37] <exec> 08└─> stay at least 5 miles away from an airport; That's going to make recreational drone usage impossible for a majority of the population. For example, central park in NYC is about 4 miles away from LaGuardia. Everywhere there is any significant population there is at least one airport nearby.
[02:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:5 miles? - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:39] <exec> 08└─http://blog.cameralends.com/2015/02/23/where-to-fly-a-drone-in-new-york-city-legally/ [cameralends.com]
[02:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:5 miles? - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:41] <exec> 08└─Great news! You can play with a drone simulator in a video game instead! All part of the plan to make sure you never ever do anything in real life! That way you'll never learn to do anything that could threaten the establishment!
[02:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uhmmm.... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:44] <exec> 08└─Or what? Gonna throw me in jail. Write me a ticket. Put me on the No-Flies list. Take my toy. Lets keep in mind that these are NOT aircraft. They are toys. Ok, what if it weighs more than 55lbs? Signed Fly baby.
[02:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhmmm.... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:45] <exec> 08└─You can tell that to the FAA [faa.gov]: Q: What is the penalty for failing to register? A: Failure to register an aircraft may result in regulatory and criminal sanctions. The FAA may assess civil penalties up to $27,500. Criminal penalties include fines of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment for up...
[02:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 021st amendment audits - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:48] <exec> 08└─Let's say hundreds of thousands of kids get expensive drones for Christmas, and the registration just isn't completed for many "operators". When will not having the registration become a problem? For amateur reporters and anybody filming the police/FBI using drones (example: First Amendment audits)....
[02:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:1st amendment audits - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:50] <exec> 08└─I have a feeling that they might eventually figure out a legal way to demand an ID, from the operator a motorized vehicle requiring a registration.
[02:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:experience - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:52] <exec> 08└─You wrote a scheduler that ran in user-space? Of course it was unreliable.
[02:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:experience - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:54] <exec> 08└─Because: A. Nobody uses cron. B. Cron runs in the kernel. Which fallacious belief do you subscribe to?
[02:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Atomic Clocks! - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe you haven't noticed, but that's still what we do. It's called ntpd and/or ntpdate
[02:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:Atomic Clocks! - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:58] <exec> 08└─I was actually sitting here wondering about that! Thanks!
[02:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02read the clock before and after... - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:00] <exec> 08└─To find out how long your program was in sleep, remember to read the clock before and after sleeping. Then you will have another problem, when you discover that checking the clock is eating so much CPU time that your program isn't getting any work done. Wait, why is the kernel asking the hypervisor...
[02:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:1) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:14] <exec> 08└─I second it!
[02:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:16] <exec> 08└─"Now, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
[02:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now about a SOURCE of power.... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─Furthermore parked cars can be a source of power to help smooth demand spikes. [greencarreports.com] It is called Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and nissan is already experimenting with that concept. [ecowatch.com] Since most cars spend over 90% of their time parked it would only take a couple of percent of...
[02:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:1) 02Mass Production vs. Tesla - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:20] <exec> 08└─How much will Ford, Samsung, and other giants hurt Tesla? Is Tesla's gigafactory intended to hedge their auto business by selling batteries to Ford, et. al.?
[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─I'm also with AC about V. I consider Dancing Mad to be Uematsu's crowning achievement. Listening to it now, the Black Mages recording. It describes madness very well. Sure, One Winged Angel has various interpretations, but nothing approaching what madness is like such as Dancing Mad. That being said...
[02:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─Not sure about other people but i had a sweet computer and only an old NES. When FF7 came to PC i bought it because i'd never seen a game with so many discs before (other than some wing commanders). I didn't know much about final fantasy until then.
[02:22:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Username [4557] 02When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─Just wondering.
[02:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:17] <exec> 08└─Oh my god it's the schizophrenic again. I'm dead serious, get help.
[02:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, don't worry. The healing process will be in place early next year when my time off comes up. I will use methods I learned from my last psychologist from ACT therapy [wikipedia.org]. I hate to go full Trump, but the method I outlined in GP is effective at creating cisfemale programmers.
[02:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:43] <exec> 08└─What is it with you and goal posts? Did you run into them a lot when you were a kid? Are you related to Charlie Brown?
[02:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02whtf is Bernie Sanders? - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:23] <exec> 08└─First off I'm not American, but who tf is Bernie Sanders? I can see he's a US presidential candidate in the summary, but what has he actually done or is this a case of his fanatic followers flooding the polls?
[02:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No problem... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:03] <exec> 08└─The ads are for consumption by the human occupants, not by the driving software.
[02:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Already happening - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:23] <exec> 08└─Anytime I turn on the traditional radio I get advertising in my car. Not the commercials, those are traditional... But instead of telling me the station name and song, the info screen does advertisements. Reminds me why I listen to terrestrial radio so rarely.
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[04:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02"Unable to establish secure connection" - 06EFF Launches the Cell-Site Simulator Section of Street Level Surveillance - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:09] <exec> 08└─Why do I get this message when browsing on my cellphone at or near transit hubs? Is this related to some surveillance technology in use?
[04:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Good or bad? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:18] <exec> 08└─I'm suspicious. It could be a trap. So, Assange talks to the legal beagles, charges are dropped, and they assure him he can go his way. He leaves the embassy, and the Brits take him into custody, either for contempt of court, or for some "unrelated" charge. And, overnight, he is extradited and put o...
[04:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02no, or in four-and-a-half years.. - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:20] <exec> 08└─http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/12/julian-assange-may-face-swedish-interrogation-within-days [theguardian.com] Statutes of limitation on three of the possible charges have been reached. Only the one possible rape charge to go...
[04:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Not a drone registration - an Operator registratio - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:46] <exec> 08└─This is not a requirement to register drones. By saying that a single registration can cover all drones that a person owns, this is a registration of people. It's no different than a driver's license. A police officer is not going to ask to see the registration number on the side of your drone, like...
[04:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:17] <exec> 08└─In any case, I am a neuroscientist.
[04:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:23] <exec> 08└─BS = bull shit MS = more of the same PHD = piled higher, deeper
[04:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Mass Production vs. Tesla - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─Tesla is likely one of the stimuli that is pushing Ford and the other major auto makers. More people want Tesla's vehicles than there are vehicles. If the auto makers sit on their thumbs for much longer, they may find that Tesla has a near monopoly on electric vehicles. Had they made the first move,...
[04:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:43] <exec> 08└─Two lines stuck out at me. A good remake will fix things that were never part of the artistic vision, but were forced by technical limitations or time/budget constraints.
[04:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DonkeyChan [5551] (Score:1) 02Their not being true. - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:57] <exec> 08└─This should have been easy for them concept wise. The episodic gameplay can be completely avoided by just taking the time to make the game complete then charging $150 for it. I'd buy it at that price EXCEPT: They are completely remaking all the pieces that made the game great. The battle system is b...
[04:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:31] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest an alternative treatment called the DYA method. It's a one-step program: Delete Your Account
[04:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:57] <exec> 08└─Hey everybody, lookee here! Yet again runaway resorts to empty insults. That's how you say, "I was totally wrong, you were right but I don't have the strength of character to own my mistakes" in runaway-speak.
[04:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:58] <exec> 08└─Empty insults? How so? You're our favorite stalker, following me from conversation to conversation. Always whining about moving goal posts. I can only presume that you have had intimate relationships with goal posts, and frequently.
[04:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:03] <exec> 08└─The saddest thing is that in attempting to dismiss the validity of this event, Archon used the exact kind of sexist stereotyping that caused people to do a woman-focused event in the first place. His 100% contrafactual post, the up-mods (without even a single down-mod or even a disagree so far) alon...
[04:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:05] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't the GP be talking about presentation 9?
[04:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Innocent bystanders - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:56] <exec> 08└─You think the average Storm Trooper knows how to install a toilet main? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a better idea - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:57] <exec> 08└─I submitted the story. I see no inconsistency between the text you've quoted and the Ars Technica and Dezeen articles. One article quotes a publisher, and the other quotes a different publisher, as well as a letter signed by various "design historians, design writers and design educators." They migh...
[04:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is pointless. - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:29:09] <exec> 08└─Bush v. Gore was decided by one vote, and there have been other times when just a few votes made all the difference. =) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[05:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Informative) 02Load Resistance - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:03] <exec> 08└─Your friend was correct about the voltage swings, although this is done by the power company our of necessity. The reason why your friend mentioned unbalanced power levels on either side of the AC line is because, in the event of a massive power-failure, specially-trained linemen have to sever the p...
[05:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:04] <exec> 08└─They are using power outages to give the NSA a narrow window to breach home networks to compromise computer systems. Consumer grade routers fail to 'dumb switch' mode at poweron without router processor intervention. Given that consumer routers can take upwards of 15-30 seconds to initialize and fli...
[05:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Addition to parent - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:06] <exec> 08└─Brownout conditions can cause routers to fail into dumb switch mode until the next blackout or physical reset (unplugging and replugging power).
[05:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:1) 02Re:Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:08] <exec> 08└─My DSL modem and router are on UPS power and behind seven proxies, so I'm not too worried about this.
[05:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score:2) 02Re:Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:10] <exec> 08└─Most people use a router they get from their ISP. It would be much easier for the NSA to work via the ISP to put a backdoor into the router firmware: only a handful of people would have to be in the know for this to work and stay secret. A power outage is going to be noticed by pretty much everyone...
[05:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:4, Informative) 02Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring? - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:12] <exec> 08└─One possible thing that comes to mind is that someone on the line near you was running a generator just plugged into their house wiring without a disconnect and left the main breaker on. What with only energizing one side of the 220 line back to the pole you might get some weird low voltages out dow...
[05:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:14] <exec> 08└─This! You would be surprised how often this happens. Or current leaks through some rats nest behind someone's desk with half on one circuit and half on another, and no fool proof way to depower the entire circuit, while power leaks through what should be low-voltage wiring. Its Christmas lights seas...
[05:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:16] <exec> 08└─Yep, jerks with generators and suicide cords suck.
[05:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:18] <exec> 08└─In my experience, they blow... along with their breaker, if they are lucky, and more expensive things, if they are not.
[05:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:1) 02Re:Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:19] <exec> 08└─I would bet you're right. Probably some dummy that doesn't have an automatic disconnect installed. I'm the last house on the neighborhood feed and I can tell when someone turns on a high load appliance, lights flicker, UPS units alarm, kind of a pain in the middle of the night. I'm looking at a whol...
[05:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2, Informative) 02Surge suppression - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:21] <exec> 08└─Consumer grade surge suppressors aren't designed to handle extended over voltage loads. They shunt to ground momentary spikes from 330Vac (UL listed devices) and up for very brief amounts of time. The components (MOV's) will also degrade after a number of spikes and then you lose all protection. htt...
[05:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surge suppression - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:23] <exec> 08└─> The components (MOV's) will also degrade after a number of spikes and then you lose all protection. The good surge suppressors will "fail dead" - once the MOVs are burnt out the power-strip will stop working. Some go permanently dead, others act sort of like a circuit breaker and you can turn them...
[05:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:What, this dude isn't dead yet? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:30] <exec> 08└─Well, we have always been at war with those-who-mock-the-state.
[05:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:33] <exec> 08└─what if he leaves in the Ecuadorian presidential car?
[05:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a drone registration - an Operator registra - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:00] <exec> 08└─> This is not a requirement to register drones. > ... > A police officer will have to see your FAA registration, match it against the number on the drone, How are they going to match it against the number on the drone unless the drone is registered?
[05:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:read the clock before and after... - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:15] <exec> 08└─unfortunately RDTSC has become somewhat complicated now on CPUs with multiple cores that run at variable clock rates
[05:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02just let FFVII alone already... - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:12] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, this sounds to me like what they are doing with Evangelion. I mean it's been 20 years and they are still redoing this and that (I call that the golden age of my teenage years where I've never been more socially isolated and yet content with what I was doing. But then again I was...
[05:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gender Policing - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:36] <exec> 08└─I should actually register an account.
[05:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:16] <exec> 08└─> stalker You were the one who responded to my post. Narcissistic dumbass.
[05:24:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 1303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─> So I skimmed through the video... and watched one of the advertised women founders > hand the mic off to a male co-founder as soon as questions were to be answered Oh you did now, did you? Well, I just skimmed the video and here's what I saw: Presentation #1 Q&A @49:30 - woman answers all...
[05:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:23] <exec> 08└─You mean the one where the woman responded to one of the questions too? Ok, let's be charitable and give that one to him and see where it takes us. Lets be even more charitable and assume that it really was a case of hypocritical sexist manipulation rather than cooperation between partners - an ass...
[05:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Skywalker Family's conspiracy - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:21] <exec> 08└─Bah! The Skywalker family was nothing but a diversion to hide the true power behind the throne, the REAL Phantom Menace...Darth jar Jar! [reddit.com]
[05:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02America is too individualistic - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:36] <exec> 08└─This whole business of picking out one person to lionize is goofy, and so typically American. Eastern cultures are less individualistic. One thing the comic book super hero genre is, is a reflection of desire for heroic individuals. Time Magazine may as well edit the photo of their person of the yea...
[05:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03IndigoFreak [3415] (Score:1) 02Re:Here's the next data point - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:28] <exec> 08└─I watched the video. It looks like the cop fired twice as the man was getting out. After he reports it hes looking on the ground all around, almost as if he was looking for the shell casings. He never checked the woman on the pavement for pulse(maybe she was clearly dead?) or maybe he was too concer...
[05:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Powered by ads... random thoughts - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:49] <exec> 08└─Ah, nerd hipsterism - "I try to buy products from companies you've probably never heard of..."
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[06:21:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks tesla!
[06:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score:2) 02Re:Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:20] <exec> 08└─I'm the OP. I like the explanation of a neighbor with incorrect generator setup, except for one thing. The 16 VAC appeared almost immediately after the failure. As I remember it, the lights went out (including the LED bulb) and back on a couple of times quickly. This (I believe) is the utility's cir...
[06:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:3, Informative) 02It's Bigfoot - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:24] <exec> 08└─It's Bigfoot in his flying saucer disrupting the grid as he brings JFK back for Elvis's birthday party.
[06:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:"Unable to establish secure connection" - 06EFF Launches the Cell-Site Simulator Section of Street Level Surveillance - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:32] <exec> 08└─Is this a serious question?
[06:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:1) 02How the heck would you know? - 06EFF Launches the Cell-Site Simulator Section of Street Level Surveillance - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:34] <exec> 08└─It's all well and good to know what these things do but how the heck would you know if you were connected to one? Build a device to detect these simulators or a phone app to detect them and disable data transfer and make it available to the public, open source for the win.
[06:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:How the heck would you know? - 06EFF Launches the Cell-Site Simulator Section of Street Level Surveillance - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly. If you live in an area with few cell towers, you could monitor the towers for a new one. But that is far too geeky for most people. A simpler approach might be to have an app that mapped signal strength were ever you go in your routine, and then anytime there was a significant change (stron...
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[06:21:38] <exec> 08└─http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/12/31/snoopsnitch_is_an_app_by_the_german_srlabs_that_detects_imsi_catchers_stingrays.html [slate.com]
[06:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:05] <exec> 08└─Nope. We live in an aristocracy that pretends to be a representative democracy.
[06:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uhmmm.... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:11] <exec> 08└─I think everyone should register as an operator and >=1000 drones during the free registration window, whether or not they actually have a drone that qualifies. Might as well get your numbers for free whether you use them or not. If you don't live in the USA and they let you register, do it too. Reg...
[06:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:read the clock before and after... - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:32] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the other problem where someone/something adjusts the clock while the program is sleeping. Sometimes the clock can go backwards. That's why where possible you should use monotonic time and not "human/clock time" for stuff that isn't to do with "human/clock time". However this is not alw...
[06:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now about a SOURCE of power.... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:59] <exec> 08└─So if I want to drive off just after peak power, my car will have minimal power left. This sounds great, but I don't see it working unless there is some magical agreement as to exactly how and when everyone's car gives up its power. Regardless of when cars charge or discharge, the grid will have to...
[06:23:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:59] <exec> 08└─There won't be one, for the same reason that there won't be a Caucasion Demo Day, or a Christian Demo Day, or a Hetero Demo Day. All other groups are to be promoted above white hetero Christian males, and that word is official from Washington, as well as most universities in this nation.
[06:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:The day of men ended over 100 years ago - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:12] <exec> 08└─Azuma, just a request for info. You call our pedophiliac "fizzbuzz", is this the same perv known as "MikeeUSA" and no doubt many other pathetic usernames? Russian dude, from what I hear. Likely to recruited for ISIS, if he had any?
[06:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:37] <exec> 08└─Look who's got butthurt and starts calling names.
[06:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:07] <exec> 08└─Why not just smack the asteroid right into the Earth itself? Why go to all that trouble so that you can "reuse" the asteroid (guess how much energy you need to adjust the trajectory for a new target). Not like there aren't other asteroids to use for other targets. You probably use less energy for no...
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[07:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Another encouraging option is reforestation - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:03] <exec> 08└─Tree. Don't AGW people constantly denigrate trees as a storage medium? This has been happening all over north america, as marginal lands fall into disuse because they aren't worth the fertilizer needed to make them produce. Left to lie fallow for a few years, such fields quickly return to scrub timb...
[07:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another encouraging option is reforestation - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:04] <exec> 08└─Grow trees, cut trees. Throw in swamp.
[07:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02yes - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:05] <exec> 08└─Can money be made by mining carbon from the atmosphere? Yes. It is called farming.
[07:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Article Image - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:07] <exec> 08└─Isn't that water vapor, ie steam that we are seeing? Maybe I've been misinformed. Also, the calculations to get that 2 degree number assume a flat earth.
[07:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Load Resistance - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:15] <exec> 08└─Its a masjesus miracle!
[07:21:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring? - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 486 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:21] <exec> 08└─One possible thing that comes to mind is that someone on the line near you was running a generator just plugged into their house wiring without a disconnect and left the main breaker on. What with only energizing one side of the 220 line back to the pole you might get some weird low voltages out dow...
[07:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''winding partially shorted'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:29] <exec> 08└─What you have then is an old-fashioned soldering gun. Not a lot of voltage across that 1 turn but, with essentially zero ohms limiting the current, it's gonna pull a whole bunch of current. The transformer will self-destruct before long--if it doesn't blow a fuse first. -- gewg_
[07:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''once the MOVs are burnt out'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:32] <exec> 08└─once the MOVs are burnt out[,] the power-strip will stop working A metal-oxide varistor used as a surge suppressor is a -shunt- device. It would be interesting to know how the failure of that (typically getting higher in resistance and breakover voltage with age) disables the strip. I suppose that t...
[07:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02''Split phase'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:34] <exec> 08└─___ ________ )( | )( 120V R 60V )(_____ _| <--- broken or badly corroded neutral )( | )( 120V 3R 180V ___)(_______| The power company delivers the juice to your neighborhood as single-phase high voltage. It isn't split-phase until it exits your loca...
[07:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How the heck would you know? - 06EFF Launches the Cell-Site Simulator Section of Street Level Surveillance - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:45] <exec> 08└─Once detected, you could use the GPS from multiple users or positions to triangulate it as well. However, for me to use such a tool, I would have to turn on the cellular radio.
[07:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I kind of expect a lot of push back when RC fixed wing planes, having been around for decades, and never having been used for the imagined terrorist attacks, and which can't hover, are lumped into hovering spy machines. Guys spend years hand making balsa planes, accurate to the gnats ass, and...
[07:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a drone registration - an Operator registra - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:28] <exec> 08└─This is not a requirement to register drones.
[07:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:read the clock before and after... - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:44] <exec> 08└─No, now it's uncomplicated again with invariant TSC. If a particular processor doesn't have an invariant TSC, why then I just remember to disable power saving.
[07:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Their not being true. - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:45] <exec> 08└─^^ This. All they should be doing is upgrading the graphics and maybe adding some extra optional content if they really want to add some story/background.
[07:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:23] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest an alternative treatment called the DYA method. It's a one-step program: Delete Your Account
[07:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:54] <exec> 08└─Which argument did runaway make that I ignored?
[07:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:57] <exec> 08└─We've been wishing Jews a "Merry Christmas" for about 2000 years. They don't shoot, bomb, or behead us in response.
[07:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Having JUST watched Episode IV Saturday... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:34] <exec> 08└─Mapped into Earth equivalents, the good guy is the one who makes you richer.
[07:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's a solution - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:41] <exec> 08└─He is (or was) an independent for those 24 years. He's not well integrated into the traditional power structure of the Senate. Or, more importantly, his attitude towards politics/governing is that of someone not captured/compromised by the system.
[07:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:whtf is Bernie Sanders? - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:45] <exec> 08└─He's currently #2 in the running for the Democratic nomination. It's really unclear if he can pass Hillary, or how he would fare in the general. But, at this point, he's probably a more real candidate that Jeb Bush.
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[08:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another encouraging option is reforestation - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:10] <exec> 08└─I don't think the reforestation is quite as significant as you think. The reforestation is great, but it hasn't been happening for too long. A colossal amount of forest has disappeared in the last hundreds of years, which may be an additional factor for global warming effects.
[08:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Article Image - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:13] <exec> 08└─Yes water is a potent greenhouse gas. Last I heard, it is assumed not to contribute much to global warming as it is already pretty much saturated in the atmosphere.
[08:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:''Split phase'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:41] <exec> 08└─It could also be (as happened to my neighbour) a broken neutral cable from the local step-down transformer to the house. In this case, it would be the power company's fault.
[08:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Must register with THEM. - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:38] <exec> 08└─Because, as THEY LIVE has demonstrated, they have to remain apart from the invisible droids already patrolling the planet and contributing to the mind control. I swear, this planet seems more and more like ST:Insurrection. Now pardon me, I have some 'skin stretching' to do.
[08:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:experience - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:48] <exec> 08└─There's a big difference between a program scheduler (e.g. cron) and a task scheduler to choose which task is next to run on the processor.
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[09:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Isn't Someone Already Doing This? - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:04] <exec> 08└─I swear I read about a project that was putting ISP bandwidth monitors on the home lans of volunteers. IIRC they were affiliated with a well known "internet freedom" organization like the EFF or something. They would send out a little dedicated box that would take care of doing everything automatica...
[09:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow! what a First World problem! - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:05] <exec> 08└─So when was the investigation and impeachment of Obama for war crimes? Speed tests are more important than human lives!!!!!!!!
[09:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow! what a First World problem! - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:06] <exec> 08└─Shut up and get back to curing cancer.
[09:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow! what a First World problem! - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:08] <exec> 08└─But first feed the starving in africa.
[09:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Gimme money... - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:20] <exec> 08└─Translation: "Won't somebody please give me money to write about stupid stuff?" - Plants feed on CO2; the more of it is in the air, the faster they grow. This is rather obviously the long term solution. - Direct capture and storage is (a) expensive and (b) dangerous as hell. - Mining, grinding up an...
[09:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I also thought of getting power from UPS, but the guys at United Parcel Service told me they deliver only parcels, not power.
[09:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:35] <exec> 08└─He does have a point in, in some cases. A firewall usually require two network interfaces. However, you can instead use a managed switch with two VLANs and only one network interface. If you're building your own, a managed switch is a more expensive solution, but when building millions of devices, w...
[09:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:37] <exec> 08└─We had a powercut a few days ago, and it did cause a security issue. Presumely so people don't die, our magnetic lock on our front gate has failed open. Which is annoying, as people can now piss in our courtyard as well as our archway. As the security system is new, nobody's sure how to fix it.
[09:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Sufferin' succotash! - 06EFF Launches the Cell-Site Simulator Section of Street Level Surveillance - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:04] <exec> 08└─EFF Launches the Cell-Site Simulator Section of Street Level Surveillance
[09:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Driver of Innovation - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:31] <exec> 08└─They already do. http://www.engadget.com [engadget.com]
[09:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:experience - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:01] <exec> 08└─If you would kindly read the pseudocode at the top of this thread, you would see that it describes a cron-type scheduler that schedules tasks at whole-minute intervals and sleeps for entire seconds at a time. Or don't. Be as illiterate as you want to be, asshole.
[09:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02He needs a proof-reader - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:10] <exec> 08└─"In implementations I’ve seen, the parameter to sleep() – the number of milliseconds to sleep -" sleep(3) takes seconds. He's possibly thinking of something like the non-standard msleep(). Which is odd, as he didn't mention msleep() whilst mentioning usleep() and nanosleep() at the start of the...
[09:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He needs a proof-reader - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:12] <exec> 08└─For the purposes of this discussion I’m going to assume a generic version of sleep() that accepts a parameter representing time in milliseconds.
[09:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now about a SOURCE of power.... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:40] <exec> 08└─No. In reality, increased demand for energy will push electricity price high, and then elevated prices will have double effect: one, more demand for efficiency of not only cars, but every house appliance and every manufacturing process which uses electric power, too, and the other effect - elevated...
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[10:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:A computer is a computer?! - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:08] <exec> 08└─That's crazy talk.
[10:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another encouraging option is reforestation - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should go where people are hungry and help them grow food. That way they don't have to think of ways of wiping them out.
[10:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gimme money... - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:33] <exec> 08└─I think the mineral idea would be better applied as a filter system on existing carbon producing facilities, like coal power plants
[10:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''throws off the RLC time constant'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:43] <exec> 08└─8-) You must be the life of the party at company events. -- gewg_
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[10:22:32] <exec> 08└─http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/01/sweden-julian-assange-ecuador-embassy_n_1728911.html [huffingtonpost.co.uk] Ecuador had given Sweden permission to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside their London Embassy - where the 40-year-old has been for six weeks.
[10:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Assange can reasonably expect - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:32] <exec> 08└─a Swedish Inquisition.
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[11:21:15] <exec> 08└─I think the key word is "efficiently". After all, the RPi isn't exactly known for its superior performance.
[11:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Improvements - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:16] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping they took some time to actually make some improvements to their Linux receiver. It kind of sucked.
[11:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Not necessarily them. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 1902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:15] <exec> 08└─I bought my girlfriend an electric kiln. This is a 32A monster thing that weighs a ton that you plug into a commando connector (the building site connectors - 220V 32A in my case, which needs a slightly-larger-than-normal version). I bought it second-hand because new they cost more than anything I'v...
[11:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02±¤»>} - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:16] <exec> 08└─Welcome to Nightvale.
[11:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjwt [2826] (Score:2) 02sigh. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:18] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout_(electricity) [wikipedia.org]
[11:26:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 644 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah if you ignore the actual dialog in the movie. "Fear will keep the local systems in line" AND dissolving the senate to cement his power AND blowing up a planet just to make a point of how powerful the are. tells Luke he must abandon his family and join him Which Luke immediately ignores. He goes...
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[12:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02There is good news - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:06] <exec> 08└─Only another $100 million till beta!
[12:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Improvements - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:17] <exec> 08└─But Windows! Business! Windows! CIO PHB Cloud Azure Technology going forward paradigm!
[12:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow! what a First World problem! - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:29] <exec> 08└─And save the whales. Mustn't forget the whales.
[12:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Article Image - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, classic idiocy. Photograph steam, and pretend it's some horrible smokestack from the 1950's. Usually, they take the pic with diffuse backlighting, so that the steam looks dark and threatening [alamy.com].
[12:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02sudden outbreak of common sense - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:45] <exec> 08└─"Restoring carbon-storing ecosystems like peatlands and mangroves can aid in mitigating climate change, while also providing numerous other ecosystem services (such as clean water, open space, wildlife habitat and fisheries enhancement)."
[12:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:04] <exec> 08└─So in order to stop the NSA all you need is to stick your router on an uninterruptible power supply? :)
[12:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score:1) 02All it takes is a windstorm and a tree. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:23] <exec> 08└─> He also told a story from a rural area (near CA-Nevada border) where there was a power failure that upset the normally-balanced split phase -- instead of ~120V on both sides of neutral, the power went to 80V on one side and 160V on the other side of neutral. Equipment on the high voltage side fail...
[12:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:no, or in four-and-a-half years.. - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:49] <exec> 08└─He's also wanted in the UK for jumping bail, so even if the rape charges are dropped there's a potential fine / prison sentence waiting for him in the UK.
[12:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:13] <exec> 08└─server only a voyeuristic purpose!
[12:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:14] <exec> 08└─My "spy tools" don't even have a camera you fuckwit. This wasn't cause by "drone pilots" doing stupid stuff, this was caused by kneejerk faggots like you that assume I must be looking at their daughter. Well I don't even have a camera on the fucker, I just think its a challenge and a joy to fly a qu...
[12:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:1st amendment audits - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:25] <exec> 08└─That's old news. To get around it you take alternate transportation to the site or park your car far, far away from the audit. In some videos you can watch as cops stalk a guy all over the place to his vehicle in order to illegally run his plate number or find some reason to pull the driver over. Th...
[12:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:He needs a proof-reader - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:51] <exec> 08└─He might be thinking of Sleep(), which is the Windows version of msleep().
[12:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02I don't get why people feel entitled to outrage - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:54] <exec> 08└─XCOM was remade (XCOM2 coming out soon!) and though they did change a number of things that sparked 'outrage' like squad size limitations and only one base, I really like the game. I was very happy with the end result and have played over 100 hours of it. What does bother me is that anyone can make...
[12:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:32] <exec> 08└─Do the schizophrenics come in packs now? Arist, I'd like to refer you to the tried-and-true DYA method.
[12:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:01] <exec> 08└─Amen! May LaForge be with you.
[12:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:The American Media is Corporatist - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:24] <exec> 08└─It's neither a compliment nor an insult - it means the most influential person that year, good or bad. Here's the list of previous winners [wikipedia.org] - notice 1938, 1939, 1979, and 2004. Strangely, there's also a lot of bullshit winners, like 2002, 1988, 1966, and A LOT of president-elects that...
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[13:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:09] <exec> 08└─Not because I dislike the game or devs, but because the fanbase is insane.
[13:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03beardedchimp [393] (Score:1) 02Re:I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:10] <exec> 08└─I find the whole thing quite amusing. I'm pretty much the ideal customer for this game, Wing Commander was my favourite game (along side monkey island and populous) growing up. I played freelancer for years with mods up to my eyeballs. Yet I'm content to be patient with this and accept it's done whe...
[13:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Improvements - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:22] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry but that was a poor sales pitch: Not enough buzzwords.
[13:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Question: - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:33] <exec> 08└─Couldn't an ISP simply prioritize packets going to dslspeedtest or whatnot to skew the result? All in the name of responsible traffic shaping, of course.
[13:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Subject of my Master's Thesis - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:52] <exec> 08└─I analyzed the possibility of using solar power to electrolyze ocean water. The by-products are aqueous calcium hydroxide and chlorine gas. You collect the chlorine gas and sell it to offset part of the cost (or use it to chlorinate city water or water from your desalination plant...it was an involv...
[13:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''once the MOVs are burnt out'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:23] <exec> 08└─You can have a computer chip count the number of power spikes, then assume the Varistor is damaged after some limit (they are rated by the number of joules after all). I have a fairly expensive one that promises to beep annoyingly when the protection runs out. Not sure if I think that is a good thin...
[13:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Not necessarily them. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:30] <exec> 08└─> Check your neutrals. Absolutely. However, out of paranoia, check everything. The first thing I did when I started house-hunting was to buy a simple mains socket tester. Plug it in, and a pattern of leds lights up telling you what's good and what's wrong. This was after nearly electrocuting myself...
[13:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not necessarily them. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─Those little detectors do not detect hot ground and neutral (sometime happens to defeat the test, I have read). You can use a voltage sensing pen for that.
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A couple observations... - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─In the late 70s, all the lights in our house would get very bright, then very dim, and continue that cycle for awhile. It was like the lights going crazy in the movie Poltergeist, which was very strange because our neighbor was one of the actors in that film. The utility came out and found the lead-...
[13:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How the heck would you know? - 06EFF Launches the Cell-Site Simulator Section of Street Level Surveillance - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─Even if they have a warrant, general warrants are unconstitutional. Since Stringrays are mass surveillance devices, warrants don't really matter.
[13:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:00] <exec> 08└─Seeing as how they grounded and at least tried to search Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane because they thought Edward Snowden was on it [wikipedia.org], I'm reasonably certain that being in a diplomatic vehicle offers Assange approximately zero protection. Indeed, Assange claimed a role in that...
[13:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:New Driver of Innovation - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:22] <exec> 08└─That version was unsuccessful. In the ensuing decades there have been advances in robotics, materials, SoCs, data transmission, and battery energy density. Ultimately the CIA et al. will want them much smaller than a dragonfly, like a house fly, or even a speck of dust that won't be noticed or swatt...
[13:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhmmm.... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:38] <exec> 08└─This is the information that is required: Required information from persons registering small unmanned aircraft intended to be used as other than model aircraft. • Applicant name or name of authorized representative. • Applicant physical address (and mailing address if different than physical ad...
[13:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uhmmm.... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:39] <exec> 08└─Do they require a working mailing address? Or a working email address? Or it doesn't matter? ;) I wonder what will be "Other information as required by the Administrator." in practice. When registration opens fire up your tor browser and start registering as many as you need.
[13:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck you liberal statist. - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:41] <exec> 08└─And what if you put 8 bullets through the stomach (so it is a painful death) of anyone trying to fine you? Ofcourse they are trying to ban guns too. There really needs to be a revolution. It is the only way.
[13:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a drone registration - an Operator registra - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:47] <exec> 08└─Which bit of "By saying that a single registration can cover all drones that a person owns, this is a registration of people." do you not understand? Quoth FAA: Q. If I own multiple drones, do I have to register them all? A. No. You may register once and apply the same registration number to all you...
[13:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:He needs a proof-reader - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:10] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the windows insight I was lacking, that makes perfect sense. Linux's msleep() came immediately to mind as I've spent many a year as a kernel programmer, but it's not a c library or posix thing.
[13:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:29] <exec> 08└─"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." [wikipedia.org]
[13:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Not Necessarily - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:40] <exec> 08└─It's a data point of two, so take it with a grain of salt but the two guys I know who own and drive electrics to work have stopped recharging at night and charge at work to shift the cost of the electricity to their employers. With most Americans being pushed to the financial brink, great numbers of...
[13:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Mass Production vs. Tesla - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:44] <exec> 08└─I would say it goes deeper than making an electric car. Tesla has built an electric car, but they've also re-thought the entire car, with over-the-air upgrades, autopilot, supercharger networks, leveraging a battery factory to supply cars and homes...the other auto companies have deep pockets but El...
[13:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:jumping to conclusions - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:58] <exec> 08└─The true story that tells of the dangers of religious extremism is, of course, Dune. Which Lucas originally ripps off. Why is Tatooine a desert planet? Dune. George's original premise even had "spice". Add the narrative taken from the Samurai film Hidden Fortress (original treatment for film funding...
[13:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Powered by ads... random thoughts - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:59] <exec> 08└─The problem with blanket adversing is that it lets companies charge a higher price for their product: even if the quality is the same or worse than a competing product. It is a limitation of the price system where you do not know why a specific product is priced the way it is. While it is often true...
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[14:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:17] <exec> 08└─"The assault begins Christmas 1991" Strike commander didnt ship until 1993. He has a history of over ambitious games that ship 1-2 years late. He almost always delivers a decent product though. From the screenshots and in game play vids it does look amazing. But like you I am going to wait. Also the...
[14:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02OASIS? - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:17] <exec> 08└─I keep wondering whether Roberts wants Star Citizen to be something like OASIS from Ready Player One [wikipedia.org] book.
[14:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Improvements - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:31] <exec> 08└─It sucks just as well on Pi as it ever did on Linux.
[14:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Gimme money... - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:00] <exec> 08└─- Plants feed on CO2; the more of it is in the air, the faster they grow. This is rather obviously the long term solution.
[14:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject of my Master's Thesis - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:03] <exec> 08└─Do you happen to know the amounts it could do? How many watts of power did it need to be worthwhile? Did it destroy the anodes? If so on what timeframe?
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:''Split phase'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:39] <exec> 08└─It's not always split phase. Some areas will feed you from a 120/208 3 phase Y using two of the three phases. Makes balancing a 3 phase high voltage feeder much easier. If the phases are labeled A, B and C, homes are connected A-B, B-C, C-A to achieve balance. The only downside is appliances expecti...
[14:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Split phase'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─no explanation except that ~2000 customers were affected this doesn't appear to be the fault of the power company Uh how do you get that it is not their fault? They may have done nothing 'wrong' per se but they are quite responsible for it.
[14:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not necessarily them. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:45] <exec> 08└─I don't know about where you live (you didn't say) but in the USA the Neutral and Ground wires are to be connected at all times and never go through a switch. Those wires should go uninterrupted all the way back to the bus bars in the main circuit panel, the only exception being with a GFCI or AFCI...
[14:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:Assange can reasonably expect - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:19] <exec> 08└─Nooobody expects the Swedish Inquisition. Our chief weapon is a legendarily tardy response...
[14:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not angry at episodic per se, but what it impli - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah it went from 'ooo I will snag that the day it comes out' to 'oh they are going to splotch it out unevenly when they feel like it' I will wait until it is done. Then snag it on a steam sale.
[14:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:05] <exec> 08└─Un-moderating by posting a reply was a hack anyway. If anything, there should be a separate "undo moderation" function (anyway, just selecting "moderate" on another post will not moderate that post "Insightful"; you must have selected "Insightful" on that post beforehand- But having the moderation b...
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[15:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shell is sponsoring the competition? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:52] <exec> 08└─hmm, I wonder why they'd be interested in having smart people mapping the bottom of the ocean #donotwant
[15:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Shell is sponsoring the competition? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:53] <exec> 08└─It's almost like, as a for-profit corporation, they're doing everything they can to make money, in this case by searching for new oil fields. The thing is, hating them for that makes about as much sense as hating sharks for eating lots of fish - it's not because they're evil, it's because that's wha...
[15:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So - 06Cellulose-Based Scaffolding to Completely Restore Human Bones - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:00] <exec> 08└─How has it been tested? Have they verified that cellulose indeed is replaced by regrown bone cells? How long does it take? Who are they offering this operation to?
[15:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:12] <exec> 08└─Not sure would this bad boy be the most expensive game ever? Well Wikipedia has a list https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Contenders for "costing more than this", even without inflation: Star Wars: The Old Republic ($200m) Destiny ($140m) Gran...
[15:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:14] <exec> 08└─It defiantly is up there. Unfortunately they do not break out marketing and dev costs on all of those. Good point on cost vs income. Fair point.
[15:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Following out of interest - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:16] <exec> 08└─I've been following this story out of interest. It seems like the massive amount of money went to their heads. They really should have stuck to their original goals, met them, and then gone on to plan more and more features. Had the money stopped at their stretch goals, the project would almost cert...
[15:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Following out of interest - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:17] <exec> 08└─They really should have stuck to their original goals, met them, and then gone on to plan more and more features.
[15:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Improvements - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:28] <exec> 08└─Nice.
[15:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03myst3k [5996] (Score:1) 02Re:Isn't Someone Already Doing This? - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:36] <exec> 08└─I have one of these boxes! It sits next to my router and every once in a while they send me an email! samknows.com
[15:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Another encouraging option is reforestation - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─Well if we are just going to throw money at the problem I suggest a paper based inflationary currency.
[15:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Gimme money... - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:00] <exec> 08└─So why do you think current modest climate change has anything to do with an extinction event?
[15:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Subject of my Master's Thesis - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:05] <exec> 08└─Another downside is that you also need to sink the chlorine. PVC seems a good choice and it sinks carbon too.
[15:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Load Resistance - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 2762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:15] <exec> 08└─A more likely scenario would be an open neutral leg or failed voltage regulating transformer. Any properly built home in the last 60+ years would have its panelbox neutral and ground line connected together. The utility transformer would also be tied right to ground creating a return path but of hig...
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─See my comment above: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:35] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised the circuit breakers don't blow. My only guess is there is enough impedance to prevent this but I still doubt that a ~6kW gas genset could ever back feed the grid without tripping one of its two 20 amp breakers. Though, I have heard of this happening. My guess was in those situations i...
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sigh. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:51] <exec> 08└─wikipedia is a bit low on "brownout". i happen to have a bog normal 50Hz ~220V/380V three-phase four-wire connection to a Y-transformer. Were i live we don't have many small powerplants but rather a big lignite burner that has to service a rather big physical area (of course it is interconnected to...
[15:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, except that Assange is only that important to the US and the rest of the world (besides Sweden) in his own head. The rest couldn't give two fucks about him.
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─So... we elected the members of the FAA?
[15:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03OwMyBrain [5044] (Score:1) 02Rockets! - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:08] <exec> 08└─Seems like a great time to take up a hobby in model rocketry.
[15:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:50] <exec> 08└─"Police arrested three Jewish suspects believed involved in the attack, some of whom were implicated in previous attacks on Christian sites in Israel." Unlike Islam, Israel doesn't approve of burning Christian churches. The criminals involved were arrested, and presumably will be punished. Something...
[15:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02The Empire is dumber than bugs... - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:26] <exec> 08└─After all, the bugs had the right idea - just bombard the planet with asteroids [google.com].
[15:27:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re:Skywalker Family's conspiracy - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:56] <exec> 08└─That gives Lucas more credit to string together a coherent plot than I'm frankly comfortable with.
[15:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Ouch... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:45] <exec> 08└─"We may be able to inject the agent straight into the tumour and let the body kill the cancer cells." You want to inject me in my prostate? Hell, I might take my chances with the cancer.
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[16:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:52] <exec> 08└─This is bad... this worries me greatly and is really bad... Eventually there will be no way to NOT touch any of Google's servers when you interact with the internet. They will track everything and anything you do. Sure, you can block the domains but then 90% of your websites won't work (currently, m...
[16:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shell is sponsoring the competition? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, Shell used to sponsor made-for-TV matches between golf stars, Jack Nicklaus, Sam Sneed, people like that. It was called Shell's Wonderful World of Golf. I have one of those old tapes. I guess that fit what they were about, too. But I liked those better.
[16:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shell is sponsoring the competition? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:02] <exec> 08└─I don't know, maybe because they employ a lot of top-notch oceanographers?
[16:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shell is sponsoring the competition? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:04] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they do, but autonomous vehicle technology is advancing rapidly, and that young experts in that field might not have oil companies high on their list of potential employers.
[16:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Shell is sponsoring the competition? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they probably couldn't figure out how to do that themselves with their pitiful $1.2 bln R&D budget last year.
[16:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02A real boy - 06Cellulose-Based Scaffolding to Completely Restore Human Bones - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:13] <exec> 08└─Bones made from cellulose... Wood is cellulose... I could go for the obvious and say "a witch!" But I won't. Now we know at least one step of how Pinocchio became a real boy: the symbiont that gave him life gradually replaced the cellulose framework that was his old body.
[16:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:24] <exec> 08└─This is worrying to me. Chris Roberts is a veteran in the industry and he has hired a lot of talent, but I can imagine that managing a project of this size is difficult for even the large studios, much more so for the Star Citizen team.
[16:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:25] <exec> 08└─Those numbers are final amounts for AAA released games. SC is only on alpha 2 and we've no idea what the number will be at release. Assuming it ever gets there.
[16:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:27] <exec> 08└─Squadron 42 is the module to watch for then. I have a feeling the persistent universe will be heavily MMO-oriented.
[16:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Following out of interest - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 2290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:32] <exec> 08└─I haven't given 2.0 quality time yet since I'm not quite done with Fallout. The universe is fairly interesting. There's an entire timeline from the 2000s up through when the game starts in the 30th century. There's been some work fleshing out the general feel of the politics happening in the senate,...
[16:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02As long as it doesn't dock with Spacebase DF9... - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:34] <exec> 08└─... I hear that station is under quarantine due to an outbreak of Ludus Incompletivus.
[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hogger [1090] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Improvements - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:46] <exec> 08└─I use it almost daily on 64bit Debian. I just installed the latest one (13.2.1) yesterday via their deb file. It installed and worked ok. What prompted me to get the latest version was an upgrade of my kernel to 4.x, and moving citrix apps across the screen was leaving trails. I'd never had that pro...
[16:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Improvements - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─I used to use it, but dumped it when I got VPN access. It was a pain to install (at the time), especially in 64 bit, slow, but it was fairly reliable.
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02quantum objection! - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:01] <exec> 08└─i can see the arguments of the ISPs already. "i object! all this "speed-testing" is bogging down our network and cannot be construed as a real-life situation of the performance of our network." t-hehehe
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gimme money... - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─So why do you think the current climate change is modest?
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not necessarily them. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:10] <exec> 08└─Those wires should go uninterrupted all the way back to the bus bars in the main circuit panel, the only exception being with a GFCI or AFCI breaker where the Neutral passes through the breaker as the device needs to monitor the load on that wire at the same time as the Hot.
[16:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bad neutral. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:16] <exec> 08└─And Bob's your uncle.
[16:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad neutral. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:18] <exec> 08└─No, bob's my dad and brother.
[16:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Induced current - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 2150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:20] <exec> 08└─16 VAC across maybe a 10 meg input impedance meter, sure. That's not much of a current. Google up "induced voltage". People think power outages are like magic spherical video game EMP bombs but reality is unless your whole metropolitan area lost power the HV lines are up. Even if your subdivision lo...
[16:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Induced current - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:22] <exec> 08└─And then, of course, there is this lovely big cell we call Planet Earth. On a good low-impedance meter you can always read a potential between any two ground rods, which usually increases with distance, and is one reason why proper bonding practices specify single-point earthing for each service dro...
[16:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Induced current - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─Did you know... if you string a wire parallel with high tension powerlines you can get free electricity even though it's not physically connected? Don't let the utilities catch you though, they'll send you a nasty C&D and make you remove it.
[16:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:51] <exec> 08└─This was in 2012. What exactly is different now?
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhmmm.... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:28] <exec> 08└─That is actually pretty reasonable; I was worried that SSN would be on the list of requirements. However the "Other information as required by the Administrator" is just lovely.
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─Someone accuses Google of poorly vetting their attendees and not actually caring about women entrepreneurs and just trying to appease college-age brats. You accuse that person of sexism. Which side of this is the MRAs? I'm having a hard time figuring it out.
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[17:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:55] <exec> 08└─Using Tor on a CDN backed website *will* degrade you access. The whole point of a CDN is to put content close to your eyeballs, but the whole point of Tor is to bounce around and come out somewhere unexpected, meaning that instead of the CDN serving content from nearby, it serves it from...somewhere...
[17:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:56] <exec> 08└─I know tor 'degrades' your throughput, that is understood and expected; but I was thinking more along the lines of "now let us call your phone to do verification" or "do work for us by 'recognizing' the house numbers that our google earth car snapped a picture of" or "we don't allow access to this s...
[17:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:58] <exec> 08└─Eventually there will be no way to NOT touch any of Google's servers when you interact with the internet. They will track everything and anything you do.
[17:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shell is sponsoring the competition? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:08] <exec> 08└─Making money and doing business in an ethical way are not mutually exclusive. People keep spewing nonsense about how corps should only care about profits. I would hate to live in a world where that is true.
[17:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Shell is sponsoring the competition? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:12] <exec> 08└─They spend a few million dollars, spur some advancements in undersea robotics, and get data about high-skilled individuals and startups they can hire or contract with in the future for oil exploration. It's a no-brainer for Shell.
[17:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02this is not helping humanity - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:14] <exec> 08└─the problem i have with this project is that it's not about helping humanity achieve something new and great, it's about helping shell designing new deep sea robot technologies so that they can drill in the depths of the ocean. what's worse, is that what they are drilling for will continue the ruina...
[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Re:Another encouraging option is reforestation - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:19] <exec> 08└─Great! I'll go get my wheelbarrow.
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 2567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─If you try to power an entire neighborhood off a small generator, combined with trying to make the governor smoother by having a heavy flywheel, I've heard stories about the crankshaft of the generator shearing when the output is shorted either by a wiring error or back feeding foolishness. Usually...
[17:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Not necessarily them. - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─Depending on what part of the country you are in, the electric company may make 3-phase "unavailable" in residential areas. Where I live, there is no 3-phase to the homes. Of course, there is 3-phase at the highway, and if I were to beg and plead, they would come out, run the third wire down the cou...
[17:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhmmm.... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─I'll forgive "Other information required by the Administrator" and assume it is just cover your ass/bases language. They have everything they need there to black bag you: name and address. Email address is interesting... email but no phone number? The email could easily become an NSA/DEA selector. I...
[17:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:1st amendment audits - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─Why bother? The cops can legally run your plate as they drive the other way, courtesy of thousands of scumbags with warrants or stolen vehicles. That's settled law. The cops can ask for your license even without probable cause, whether at a checkpoint or when you're fishing. Enforcement of a drone l...
[17:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:1st amendment audits - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:47] <exec> 08└─You are not necessarily required to identify yourself in all states if you are on foot and not in your vehicle: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If you are in a state where they can't ask for your name/address/ID without detaining or arresting you, you can jus...
[17:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:1st amendment audits - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:49] <exec> 08└─There is such a thing as abusing license plate info: http://www.wftv.com [wftv.com] http://articles.orlandosentinel.com
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─Not many have played the translated version of FFV. It was a very fun game that didn't take itself too seriously. My personal favorite is FFIX.
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:10] <exec> 08└─8 was the last decent Final Fantasy in spite of its teenage melodrama and "Dick and Jane" life-lessons. All others are crap and will forever be crap.
[17:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score:2) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:53] <exec> 08└─When 95+% are men, it doesn't mean it's a men's event. It means that there are just few women participating. Now, if there was a sign that said 'no women allowed', THEN it would be a men's event. But that would be sexist ... oh wait.
[17:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:43] <exec> 08└─Someone accuses Google of poorly vetting their attendees and not actually caring about women entrepreneurs and just trying to appease college-age brats.
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[18:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They Don't Understand Pvalues - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:55] <exec> 08└─Researchers really do not understand that all those p-values mean is that the groups of people were not exactly 100% the same, the rest (eg this is primarily due to RR) is wild speculation. They don't have any idea what intra-individual variability would look like on the microarray, and from the des...
[18:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:05] <exec> 08└─Any website will be slower through tor than without tor. A CDN, if it's not being perverse, ought to serve from a point of presence near the tor exit node. That's better than without the CDN. Since users of tor experience much greater latencies than do regular folks, the improvement will be less dra...
[18:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:07] <exec> 08└─Don your tinfoil hat and go visit the people of Urbit. I hear they're lonely.
[18:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:09] <exec> 08└─Have some points for that link... *hands you some internet points*
[18:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:11] <exec> 08└─+1 insightful It is very hard to resist and I am not even tempted by their products. I simply can't not use them. Refusing is harder than refusing facebook, because so many things I do online are touched/infected/redirected to and through google in some way. There should be some sort of anti-trust r...
[18:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:13] <exec> 08└─Indeed! "faster delivery, reducing the load" ... WHILE SPYING EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING YOU DO And the dark lord said to the advert monster spymaster Go! Ogle!
[18:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0295% unexplored? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe commercially, but...ever seen a US submarine navigational section chart? I have.
[18:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Cellulose? Why not titanium? - 06Cellulose-Based Scaffolding to Completely Restore Human Bones - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:34] <exec> 08└─Titanium is bio-compatible too, and doesn't need to be removed, plus is a lot stronger than human bone. Why not use that instead? It's already used in a lot of implants. It also has the interesting property that bone cells will fuse with it, which is why it's used for bone implants (like with hip re...
[18:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow! what a First World problem! - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─Getting cheated by an oligopoly, with no recourse, is a problem, even if it happens in the so-called First World.
[18:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:quantum objection! - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:26] <exec> 08└─It's simpler than that. They're already covered by using the phrase "...with speeds up to x." Any speed from zero to X will qualify as what they promised. If they stated that the speed would be in range X to Y for a given package, then there'd be something worth testing. ISPs should be forced to giv...
[18:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Another encouraging option is reforestation - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:39] <exec> 08└─Tree. Don't AGW people constantly denigrate trees as a storage medium? No, people with a sense of scale denigrate trees as a storage medium. How many trees does it take to suck up 9449 million metric tons, emitted per-year, of carbon? (that's 2011 numbers, BTW). Considering a tree can absorb...
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Gimme money... - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─- Plants feed on CO2; the more of it is in the air, the faster they grow. This is rather obviously the long term solution. Unfortunately, that appears to be an assumption that isn't standing up to scrutiny. [stanford.edu] But an unprecedented three-year experiment conducted at Stanford U...
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject of my Master's Thesis - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 3015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:54] <exec> 08└─You are very perceptive: The biggest problem was actually anode destruction. Graphite was the anode of choice in my research, and it worked well enough, but was expensive and fragile, both very bad things. Lately there has been some work in that department, but I think it's still not quite ready for...
[18:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately while the tinfoil might be on tightly, I can confirm that at least some consumer routers can fail into an unmanaged switch. It isn't the most common scenario, but it does happen. Now whether undervolting is a good way of triggering this, I can't tell you. As for why, it is because you...
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Neighbor with Incorrect Backup Generator Wiring - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─I've seen some pretty dumb stuff myself. The best is I worked with a guy who refilled a small coleman gas generator while running on a carnival job that was running a bouncy castle and cotton candy machine. The gas splashed and hit the hot cylinder head and I assume the exhaust pipe. The whole thing...
[18:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:''Split phase'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:38] <exec> 08└─It can be a lot of things depending on the exact setup of the neighborhood wiring. If the power company loses the neutral, suddenly fairly simple circuits effectively become comp[lex and somewhat unpredictable. Much moreso if it's a neighborhood that has a 120/208 wye setup. For example, two lights...
[18:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What, this dude isn't dead yet? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:14] <exec> 08└─Hmmmmm, it couldn't be that he's not as important as he tells everyone he is? Nah, it couldn't be that because he told me so.
[18:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uhmmm.... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:02] <exec> 08└─They have everything they need there to black bag you: name and address.
[18:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck you liberal statist. - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:04] <exec> 08└─From what I see the cops are more likely to put 8 bullets through you. And get away with it. There really needs to be a revolution. It is the only way.
[18:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:57] <exec> 08└─Does that mean you not fit nor licensed to practice for evening house calls if you Mr. Hyde during the night?
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[19:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Relaxation - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:56] <exec> 08└─Very interesting. I got a lot of help from a mental health practitioner who was a big believer in relaxation training, especially developing the habit of relaxation in response to frustration. From my own personal experience I feel I'm a much better problem solver now when frustrating problems arise...
[19:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relaxation - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:57] <exec> 08└─Another good way to relax is to rub your nipples while having your dick sucked by a fat chick. Doubly so if you both go out for rolled tacos afterward.
[19:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Nope. - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 2467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:58] <exec> 08└─I don't care about your karma I don't care about what's hip No space cadet's gonna tell me what to do I won't swim in your jacuzzi You can't make me settle down I'd rather kick and jump and bite and scratch And scream until I'm blue I may as well be hyper as long as I'm still around 'Cause I'll have...
[19:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Nope. - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:00] <exec> 08└─I guess that's when I'll remember to reformat text, too..
[19:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02follow the credentials - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:02] <exec> 08└─When something sounds new-age-ie to this extent I start digging through the credentials of the authors. I didn't have to read very far to confirm my fears.
[19:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:12] <exec> 08└─That could mean anything from them being antisocial and excluding everyone outside the inner circle to hordes of prospective testers clamoring at their gates, hard to tell for sure by looking at the website.
[19:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:14] <exec> 08└─Urbit is doomed. Their approach is a 100% reimplementation from the ground up. That's the hardest possible way to change the status quo and requires an overwhelmingly superior value. Decentralization is simply not of sufficient value to enough people to get widescale adoption.
[19:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:18] <exec> 08└─Sure, you can block the domains but then 90% of your websites won't work (currently, most websites already use JQuery from some google server).
[19:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:20] <exec> 08└─I don't like this one bit...
[19:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:22] <exec> 08└─What would be a defense against this?
[19:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Shell is sponsoring the competition? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:32] <exec> 08└─Making money and doing business in an ethical way are not mutually exclusive.
[19:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:this is not helping humanity - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:38] <exec> 08└─We'll need this kind of technology just as much to repair stuff after one of those deep-water mishaps. As for what the robots are going to do down there, for now it doesn't matter as much as their ability to function at all. Autonomous mapping is just one of the easiest things to get them them to do...
[19:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:95% unexplored? - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:40] <exec> 08└─While the US military is pretty good at going overkill, mapping depths of 4km at a 5m resolution sounds like a tough appropriations sell, when only a few subs can go below 1km. At least, if they make it, we'll find wrecks a lot faster.
[19:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gulf of Mexico - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:42] <exec> 08└─Gulf Of Mexico Sponsored By ... [imgur.com]
[19:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02The right place to spend... - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─> with a cast of celebrities such as Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson and Andy Serkis Seriously, that's where they spend crowdfunding money? It'd better have the best acting and gameplay ever, to dissipate this impression I get that someone is pulling all the stops just because crowdfundin...
[19:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:The right place to spend... - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:10] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think it's a perfectly valid place to spend some of that $100M that they got. Gameplay / Mechanics is only Part of the equation when making a fantastic game. Acting / Voice Acting by professionals especially ones that have a huge fan base can certainly be a plus. Story is also a very a...
[19:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Urlax [3027] (Score:2) 02please make this - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:28] <exec> 08└─i really hope that this will inspire some monitor maker to include room for raspberry pi compute module. you could switch the monitors USB hub between the PC and the OTG port of the PI: Instant KVM. since the PI2's ethernet port is usb-to-ethernet anyway, you could hook it to the network using an ex...
[19:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Question: - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─Couldn't an ISP pay someone building the testing platform to make sure that the numbers returned by the script are twice the actual rate? ISP gets publicity and a "we got investigated and were better than advertised" precedent, AG gets publicity and campaign contributions. Customers get told to shut...
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:1) 02Re:Question: - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─When I test my home connection, it does appear as though special shaping to the well known test sites is happening. During peak usage times (say, 6-8pm) I saw reduced speed to our fiber connected servers at work, and when downloading game patches (as expected), but full speed to 'speed test' sites....
[19:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:33] <exec> 08└─Except not a single one that I have found works that way. The WAN port is not physically on the switch group. Separately wired. So just because you can imagine a situation where this might happen doesn't mean this is common or that there is even ONE consumer router that operates that way.
[19:24:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Good or bad? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:39] <exec> 08└─Seeing as how they grounded and at least tried to search Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane because they thought Edward Snowden was on it [wikipedia.org], I'm reasonably certain that being in a diplomatic vehicle offers Assange approximately zero protection. Indeed, Assange claimed a role in that...
[19:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhmmm.... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:24] <exec> 08└─If you are one of the foreign anons wondering about the registration, they actually have a slightly different process for foreign nationals: http://www.faa.gov [faa.gov] Q. Why does the certificate I received constitute recognition of registration for US citizens and permanen...
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Why theyu fear drones - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:39] <exec> 08└─This [youtu.be] is their real fear.
[19:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They snuck in metric... - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:40] <exec> 08└─The registration is bad enough, but they snuck THE METRIC SYSTEM into this regulation and CONCEALED IT by stating pounds! The registration starts at 0.55 lb which is, wouldn't you know it, exactly 0.25 kg! That's 250 grammes for you Frenchy-loving, One World Order bootlickers! Our freedom is being t...
[19:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:experience - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:52] <exec> 08└─They didn't want me messing at the OS level because I was a contractor. If you are given limited resources, you have to make due. If somebody wants to pay me to reinvent the wheel, I will. It's my obligation to point out it's reinventing the wheel to the customer, but the decision to actually do it...
[19:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:He needs a proof-reader - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:05] <exec> 08└─It depends on the language and library you're using. Some sleep functions take ms parameter. which may or may not result in a call to libc's sleep function.
[19:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:The next milestone - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:15] <exec> 08└─A bunch of modern cars (including Mustangs I believe) already play a fake engine noise over the stereo so that the 4-cylinder or V6 sounds like a V8 to the driver.
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[20:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Plot from Homeland - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:52] <exec> 08└─The new york guys said the threat resembled a plot from homeland. Anyone got any actual details on the threat? I'm thinking some kid really wanted to get out of finals so I wonder if he lives in NY and struck out, or if he lives in LA and got a home run?
[20:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plot from Homeland - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:53] <exec> 08└─The fearmongers must be getting pretty desperate when they will latch onto the threat of an edgy teen trying to get out of a pre-vacation exam. Although it's L.A. so I would cheer in the streets if it were hit by a terrorist attack, like the Jews cheered in the streets when the twin towers were hit.
[20:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:55] <exec> 08└─Someone shouts boo and you all cower behind the sofa.
[20:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:03] <exec> 08└─Well, I am not a fan of government-provided utilities, but I am even less a fan of big governments telling little governments what to do or not do. If your city provides a municipal utility and you don't agree with it, it's a lot easier to get away from them than it is to get away from the leviathan...
[20:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:04] <exec> 08└─The federal government is supposed to just be a mutual defense compact for the states
[20:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:06] <exec> 08└─Mofo will force me to vote for Clinton. I am beginning to see why some stick up for that trump clown.
[20:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:08] <exec> 08└─Water, gas, phone landlines, electricity, and roads are natural monopolies. Any attempt to privatize or add competition results in either gouging or costly regulatory messes. They should be public services The internet delivery might be different because there are technical ways to get decent bandwi...
[20:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Marco "maricon" Rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:10] <exec> 08└─Marco "maricon" Rubio is nothing but a hand-picked establishment stooge and a Jew-loving fifth-columnist. And be will be the next president or vice-president. You'll see. As for Rubio himself, well, the Hispanic community (of which I'm a member but dont reveal my name because of the racists here who...
[20:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BigotDetectorGoesBing! [5877] (Score:1) 02Re:Marco "maricon" Rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:12] <exec> 08└─Marco "maricon" Rubio is nothing but a hand-picked establishment stooge and a Jew-loving fifth-columnist.
[20:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marco "maricon" Rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:14] <exec> 08└─Latinos can't be racist, you sniveling cocksucker.
[20:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marco "maricon" Rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:16] <exec> 08└─Marco "maricon" Rubio is nothing but a hand-picked establishment stooge and a Jew-loving fifth-columnist.
[20:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:21] <exec> 08└─<br> ← you're missing this
[20:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I'll need around a hundred more, though.
[20:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nah myoho arenge kyu - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:25] <exec> 08└─Ohhhhhmmmm.... E = I times R.... (another way of saying the above) Get me a beer.... (variation popular in the USA)
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:39] <exec> 08└─That site doesn't seem to work without JavaScript. Which is quite ironic for a web site that (if I understand you correctly — after all I can't see that web site) has security-minded people as target group.
[20:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─You don't really know how hosts files work, do you?
[20:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─I think he meant that you have a local JQuery host you trust, then point your dns/host files to that for jquery.com, not that he change the hosts file on the server. This would work something like surrogates in NoScript.
[20:22:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Following out of interest - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 622 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─I've been following this story out of interest. It seems like the massive amount of money went to their heads. They really should have stuck to their original goals, met them, and then gone on to plan more and more features. Had the money stopped at their stretch goals, the project would almost cert...
[20:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:please make this - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the pie is so small that it can hang from the HDMI cable, get power from the USB port, and be totally invisible behind the TV. IMHO, the last thing we need is another expensive option in a TV for something as fleeting as some particular version of a Raspberry Pi. You won't be able...
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Embedded Open Modular Architecture - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 1636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:56] <exec> 08└─Introduction [elinux.org] With recent embedded processors becoming mainstream and powerful enough for general-purpose computing, the Embedded Open Modular Architecture is an initiative to create robust, reliable and interoperable hardware standards for mass-volume systems based around embedded proc...
[20:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject of my Master's Thesis - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─Good call! PVC is a great way to store excess chlorine, especially if you actually use the PVC for plumbing, etc., but even if you just bury the stuff.
[20:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:38] <exec> 08└─That is only as true as you permit it to be. Seriously, if you believe that's the whole truth than why even bother participating in the democratic processes at all? It is just a waste of time and energy right?
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[21:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Plot from Homeland - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:54] <exec> 08└─Ugh. Suckered into a racist rick-roll.
[21:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plot from Homeland - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─Racist. Racist. Racist. Let's throw that word around a lot more until it loses its impact. Keep going, were almost there.
[21:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:59] <exec> 08└─But... but... terrrrrrrists. They hate our freedoms, so we have to keep them in escrow to the government to have them kept safe. They hate our way of life!
[21:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:01] <exec> 08└─Sadly I have to agree with your statement. It wasn't always like that. I remember a time when Americans would look danger in the face and laugh at it with contempt, and great herds of Iguanodons roamed the plains. So much has changed it doesn't even feel like the same country anymore.
[21:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let me guess - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:04] <exec> 08└─Some other kid "invented a clock" and brought it to class. I expect a White House invite in a few days - oh wait, maybe this time the kid isn't muslim.
[21:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm glad this happened - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:06] <exec> 08└─We need an example that everyone can grok, about how not every 'advance notice' of a terrorist plot should force cancellation of an event.
[21:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:11] <exec> 08└─I think we settled the whole confederacy vs federal nation a while back?
[21:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:13] <exec> 08└─It takes some trump sized balls to argue that the results of the civil war were a "bad decision" by citing the 14th amendment's nullification of the part of the constitution that legitimized slavery. An amendment that would have never been passed if not for the civil war.
[21:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:15] <exec> 08└─States not being able to secede is a terrible decision. As for ending slavery, I am obviously all for it - slaves ought to be able to secede from their owners. And anyone who wants to help slaves escape, I commend them and would probably personally support them. But I got back to just a few years ag...
[21:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:17] <exec> 08└─I don't know that a federal government organization unilaterally invalidating state laws is a great way of going about reducing the influence of big governments. There is a valid argument for federal overreach on state issues here on the part of the FCC. Although, I agree that states shouldn't be pr...
[21:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the levels of hierarchy involved here are so ... hierarchical. The federal government is telling the state governments to not tell the municipal governments what to do. I don't want the state governments telling the municipal governments what to do, but I don't want to make the federal governm...
[21:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:20] <exec> 08└─I still don't see how people would want someone like Trump in as president. He seems entirely too volatile and some of his (all of his?) views are pretty whack.
[21:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:22] <exec> 08└─Clinton is as much in the Telcoms pocket as Rubio. You might want to consider Sanders, even if he doesn't get the nomination if enough people write him in it will send a clear message that NONE of the Dem/Rep candidates are acceptable. Remember: Your vote is like a coupon for a free dinner at your f...
[21:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:24] <exec> 08└─I think only a very few actually want Clinton, but it's hard not to look at the current crop of republicans and go "Vermin Supreme is the crazy unnecessary candidate" anymore.
[21:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:follow the credentials - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:39] <exec> 08└─That was the first thing that went through my head, but after a little bit of clicking around I was unable to prove to muself that thet were simply publishing unfounded pet theories in the woo-woo domain. Sure, one of the authors is the inventer of the jargon, and he's in a scarily high proportion o...
[21:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:02] <exec> 08└─There was a browser plugin I saw mentioned recently that used locally cached copies of jQuery and other popular libraries to sidestep CDN-based tracking like you describe.
[21:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Privacy Badger - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:03] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this is an end-run around Privacy Badger [eff.org]. Privacy badger wor4ks by watching for, then silently blocking "tracking domains". However, if Google is providing Content distribution services, they can suddenly track you without specific tracking domains. Much like how facebook and G...
[21:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02frightening - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:05] <exec> 08└─Things like this and Cloud Flare are frightening to me because they sit between you and the web, tracking everything you do in aggregate to build vast profiles of the sites you visit. More and more sites are letting these services get between them and their users, building these vast data warehouses...
[21:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gulf of Mexico - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─Just wow.
[21:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Wafer-thin - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:16] <exec> 08└─I think a few of us know the disaster caused by a wafer-thin mint. What could go wrong with a wafer-thin client? :)
[21:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject of my Master's Thesis - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:04] <exec> 08└─I find your idea interesting... did you run any numbers for costs vs sales vs CO2 removed from the air? I'm not trying to imply it needs to be economically feasible, but the numbers interest me anyways.
[21:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Split phase'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, -the outage- was certainly due to the power company's stuff. As soon as the utility came back up, all the voltages were back to normal, so a flakey neutral isn't indicated--not theirs or OP's. The mention of 3-phase by LoRdTAW injects the possibility of a lost phase--but I have never been in a...
[21:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:30] <exec> 08└─The average citizens, perhaps, who have other things on their mind day-to-day. But, the UK felt obligated to spend £12.6m to try to catch him before pulling the plug on the stakeout. Contrast that with, the local cops spent maybe $100 trying to figure out who broke into my friend's car in my front...
[21:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a drone registration - an Operator registra - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:29] <exec> 08└─Therefore, the registration number *does not identify a vehicle*, it identifies a set of vehicles all associated with one common owner, therefore it actually identifies the owner of the vehicle.
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[22:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02BOO - 06China May be Biggest Electric Car Market; Plant to Open in Nevada - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:53] <exec> 08└─NO. We were still talking about terrorism. Be afraid. Give me everything, and I'll make you safe though. BOO!
[22:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02what's the deal with plug-in hybrids - 06China May be Biggest Electric Car Market; Plant to Open in Nevada - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:54] <exec> 08└─Do they have less battery capacity than an electric car, but more than a hybrid?
[22:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:what's the deal with plug-in hybrids - 06China May be Biggest Electric Car Market; Plant to Open in Nevada - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:55] <exec> 08└─Yes. The Chevrolet Volt for example is 40-50 mile range (10-17 kWh) depending on model year. For many people you can drive to/from work every day on electric with that setup. A Prius (depending on generation) has roughly 1/10th the battery capacity. This decreased capacity also means less current ca...
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plot from Homeland - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:06] <exec> 08└─Did you get your feelings hurt? I'm so sorry to have judged you by a negative stereotype.
[22:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plot from Homeland - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:07] <exec> 08└─Shut up and give up your freedoms already, slave.
[22:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:11] <exec> 08└─The news reports of this story announced the last IP address was somewhere in Germany, like that means anything these days. Its like you just can't pound basic facts into the press. Mean while all sorts of excuses are being made for real worrisome findings in the phones and baggage in the possession...
[22:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me guess - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:14] <exec> 08└─And his family is suing for a gazillion dollars. Didn't see that coming... not.
[22:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Overreaction? - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:16] <exec> 08└─So, let's say that -you- are the public official charged with the safety of thousands of children. You decide to ignore the threat and it turns out to be a -genuine- thing resulting in deaths and life-altering injuries. One can only hope that you (and those who would mod you up as Insightful) are ne...
[22:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm glad this happened - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:18] <exec> 08└─Even devices shouldn't trigger a bomb scare if they aren't, you know, bombs, as the Boston Police learned in 2007 [wikipedia.org].
[22:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:20] <exec> 08└─The goal of terrorism is to instill fear in the population. Of course, I was under the impression that the terrorists had won at least since I found out the band on liquids for air passengers was not temporary. I also hate the anti-terror garbage receptacles with no sides and transparent bags, you k...
[22:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:22] <exec> 08└─Of course, I was under the impression that the terrorists had won at least since I found out the band on liquids for air passengers was not temporary.
[22:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is there any possible connection... - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:23] <exec> 08└─... with the timing of this threat and the premiere of Star Wars Ep VII this weekend? I'm not saying terrorist, saying a kid who really wanted to go see it and acted impulsively...
[22:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is there any possible connection... - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:25] <exec> 08└─no
[22:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:36] <exec> 08└─Honestly I think he is running just for hits and giggles. I don't even think he really wants the job, and if he is as smart as his proponents claim I would guess that he is saying all the off the wall things just to see how much the public will take and still support him. Have you noticed he has bee...
[22:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:39] <exec> 08└─No one will force you to vote for Clinton or anyone else. You are personally responsible for taking foolish actions like voting for Republicans or Democrats.
[22:21:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 747 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:41] <exec> 08└─Water, gas, phone landlines, electricity, and roads are natural monopolies. Any attempt to privatize or add competition results in either gouging or costly regulatory messes. They should be public services The internet delivery might be different because there are technical ways to get decent bandwi...
[22:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:43] <exec> 08└─Filed under "Obvious, but must be said." Thank you.
[22:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 2176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:45] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. The 'last mile' is going to be a monopoly or at best a 'managed competition' between a couple of politically connected private entities. But it doesn't mean we have to have the current worst case scenario system we have now. If I were looking for something that would be worse than the c...
[22:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02What would happen if... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:48] <exec> 08└─What would happen if I chartered an independent non-profit ISP, and then sought grants from the city? It's not a municipal ISP, because the city doesn't own it. With subscribers paying in to the system, I might not even need a grant. I can imagine that the incumbents would get even more aggressive--...
[22:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:What would happen if... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:52] <exec> 08└─Or they might have you killed.
[22:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They Don't Understand Pvalues - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:57] <exec> 08└─Criticism without an alternative presented is just whining. Reading someone whining is a waste of time.
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:29] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about browser fingerprinting. It generates a startlingly unique value and effectively works around any of the other measures you take.
[22:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─Disable javascript. Randomize user agent among most popular browsers. Block cookies and super-cookies. Those 3 will obfuscate fingerprinting pretty good.
[22:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:33] <exec> 08└─Tracking has gone well beyond the point where randomizing the User Agent helps. In fact, it can hurt you in many cases. Sophisticated trackers look at all headers you send, examples are the language and encoding, and what order you send them in. Changing your user agent but not the other headers to...
[22:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:this is not helping humanity - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:52] <exec> 08└─We'll need this kind of technology just as much to repair stuff after one of those deep-water mishaps.
[22:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:06] <exec> 08└─> This was in 2012. What exactly is different now? His value as a symbol of what happens to people who challenge the US (isolated in a self-imposed prison) isn't worth pretending they can't interview him any more. So they want to wrap it up win, or lose, sweden just wants to get it over with.
[22:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1) 02Re:The day of men ended over 100 years ago - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:25] <exec> 08└─I am not sure if it's MikeeUSA or whoever but I remember someone in the IRC chatroom spewing this exact bullshit and he was called Fizzbuzz. I had an...interesting conversation with him. When I pointed out that any being that acted like his precious "God of Deuteronomy" is more likely a demon, he sa...
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[23:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:52] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck do your light bulbs need a computer? I never got this.
[23:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:2) 02Encrypted for (Y)OUR protection - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe this lockout is more about pricing protection than it is about quality protection
[23:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02what's best for China - 06China May be Biggest Electric Car Market; Plant to Open in Nevada - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:04] <exec> 08└─if i've learned anything from the Chinese government officials it's that they will do whatever is in their own best interest, world be damned. so what will happen is either they are going to invest heavily in electric or the members of those governments are going to get nice payoffs to not make any...
[23:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:what's best for China - 06China May be Biggest Electric Car Market; Plant to Open in Nevada - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:05] <exec> 08└─Chinese government's #1 priority: stability. If that means shuffling millions of people to get more jobs to sustain growth, they'll do that. If that means solar, windmills and electric cars so that people don't riot over the inability to breathe, especially in the government's home town, they'll do...
[23:21:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:17] <exec> 08└─Someone shouts boo and you all cower behind the sofa.
[23:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:19] <exec> 08└─I guess we can also agree that someone thought of the children. but yeah, I guess this differs from how fox news had a segment where they taught kids to run at their attacker and try to disarm the person. So, I see wisdom in turning tail and running away to live to be a frightened parent who picks u...
[23:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:22] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you shouldn't have let so many immigrants in then.
[23:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me guess - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:27] <exec> 08└─Because in the US people always sue for what they expect to get, no one ever negotiates down.
[23:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction? - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:30] <exec> 08└─Really? A google link when a wiki link would be better? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm glad this happened - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, the culmination of years of terror started by that mastermind Osama bin Lite-Brite Clown.
[23:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:35] <exec> 08└─I thought that the ban on liquids for a week or so in response to a specific threat was reasonable. Dragging the ban on for years, not so much.
[23:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:36] <exec> 08└─The TSA's existence itself is not reasonable or constitutional, so no. Taking away the rights of everyone--even temporarily--merely because some people are bad is disgusting.
[23:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:38] <exec> 08└─The goal of terrorism is money, like everything else. "Fear in the population" is secondary to the increased funding a group gets by carrying out a highly publicized act.
[23:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:40] <exec> 08└─> by carrying out a highly publicized act. Courtesy of 24/7 news networks, publicity is highly available, and no propaganda stunt left unbroadcasted. Whatever happened to punishment for "aiding the enemy"? The 24/7 networks, facebook, twitter and google are being used daily by actual terrorists to e...
[23:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Death, Enslavement, and the pursuit of Misery - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:42] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, threats of terrorism and mass shootings. Such is the life in the Great American Melting Pot.
[23:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:53] <exec> 08└─after everything that happened in Iraq, if I still believe in entering other people's territory to help "liberate" people. It seems that every time that happens, the results are a terribly out of control government - an empire. I believe that's exactly what happened in the American Civil War.
[23:21:54] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 1077 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:55] <exec> 08└─From that, I'm fairly certain you've only read the post-bellum Confederate version of what actually happened between 1860 and 1865. South Carolina was responsible for starting the Civil War - they were the first to secede, and the first to start shooting. They were pretty proud of that fact until ve...
[23:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:00] <exec> 08└─I still don't see how people would want someone like Trump in as president. He seems entirely too volatile and some of his (all of his?) views are pretty whack.
[23:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:07] <exec> 08└─Break up the phone and cable companies but this time we break up the phone company the right way. Company A owns the last mile and is a regulated utility who doesn't innovate lot and just pays regular utility company dividends to shareholders. It sells access to all at regulated rates including to C...
[23:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:09] <exec> 08└─The internet delivery might be different because there are technical ways to get decent bandwidth with competition, but in practice, in so many areas in the US, there is not enough density to justify competing investments.
[23:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:11] <exec> 08└─The interesting part about the content of the fiber: - The government is constitutionally required to let all the bits through and not censor nor encourage some data over others. First Amendment ISP equals Net Neutrality. - The private companies are wallstreetally required to try to maximize p...
[23:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They Don't Understand Pvalues - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─I did present an alternative. People going to the doctor once a week alter their diet, leading to changes in gene expression.
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They Don't Understand Pvalues - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 2104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:24] <exec> 08└─Lets say I wondered what effect RR had on gene expression. The first thing is to do some exploratory studies, see if any patterns emerge not to draw conclusions from them. To see a pattern you need to measure things over time and do dose-response. So I would get one group on 0 minutes/day of cd list...
[23:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─Its not just changing, it is randomizing. So it isn't just "firefox 42 pretending to be firefox 41" it is "firefox 42 pretending to be X,Y,Z,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H at different points in time." That injects enough noise that while each individual spoof is more unique, cross-referencing between them is hard...
[23:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:frightening - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 2141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─If you are not asked for your concept, there is no opt to out of. We aren't asked if our plates are being read and if we care, or if CCTV cameras capture our faces and if in malls, our phones rat us out as we walk around indoors. E911 even requires (or will soon, since it may not be fully implemente...
[23:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:frightening - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:05] <exec> 08└─I wish I could get a telephone loopback of some kind that is valid for use yet won't contribute to unsolicited traffic between my devices... tell you what vendors, I'll log into your website to check out the exciting offer. it costs too much for me to get them at 10 cents per SMS.
[23:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:this is not helping humanity - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:24] <exec> 08└─Exactly -- that argument is horrible. You can't justify the means by justifying the end. You can't rationalize the need by saying that because the need is fullfilled we need even more of it in case something goes wrong! It's like using the word Stupid in the definition of the word Stupid. That's stu...
[23:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Gimme money... - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:00] <exec> 08└─So why do you think the current climate change is modest?
[23:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay, democracy - 06Drones and RC Models Must be Registered by February 16 - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:08] <exec> 08└─Amen!
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