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[00:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Interesting - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:56] <exec> 08└─It is actually impossible to count them precisely! There are infinite variants.
[00:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Medium dot Com - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:57] <exec> 08└─Lots of Italics, exclamation marks, and quotation marks, in an article pitched at slightly slow teens, must be Medium dot com.
[00:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:08] <exec> 08└─Kill the Wabbit....Kill the Wabbit.... Culture is listening to The William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.
[00:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Of Music and other pleasures - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:17] <exec> 08└─+1 on Claude Debussy Finlandia - Sibelius ...and this simply proves there's a heaven: Spiegel im Spiegel for Cello and Piano - Arvo Pärt http://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good idea for a post - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:19] <exec> 08└─If it's not baroque....
[00:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Erik Satie - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:24] <exec> 08└─Better link: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Surely you mean gratis - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:26] <exec> 08└─I think you meant to say Free (gratis), not free (libre). I would enjoy either, but free (libre) would move towards jazz music.
[00:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02... - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:28] <exec> 08└─I grew up with my father who played piano and was an avid listener of classical music. Didnt matter where he was, the radio was tuned to the local classical station. At home he amassed a large collection of CD's when CD's were still new and the old AAD/ADD/DDD labels were still used to denote whethe...
[00:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Stravinsky - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:30] <exec> 08└─Stravinsky's repertoire covers the good bits of the stuff that came before him plus the good bits of more modern music. Charles Mingus gives you the best survey of good jazz. Devo wrote the next 200 years worth of music back in the 70s. Some of its awesome, and some of its terrible. That about cover...
[00:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Mozart Piano Concertos - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:32] <exec> 08└─No love for Mozart's Piano Concertos? Not even the 21st? I still remember the first time I heard that one, a couple decades ago on this new fangled thing most folks had never heard of a "CD". Had to be careful not to turn the volume up on the andante second movement or you'd blow your speakers becau...
[00:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Mozart Piano Concertos - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:33] <exec> 08└─This was around the time "switched on bach" came out
[00:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Nothing very original but... - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:35] <exec> 08└─Beethoven's Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata' - III. Allegor, ma non troppo - Presto (Annie Fischer's performance is my favorite but I think a clean recording of Schnabel would have won me over). Satie's Gymnopédie 2 & 3. Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt, Op.23 - I Dovregubbens hall (Here's a...
[00:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Skrillex! - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:37] <exec> 08└─SKRILLEX - Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites! [youtube.com] classic dubstep, bro.
[00:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chopin Berceuse Opus 57 D Flat Major - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:39] <exec> 08└─Chopin Berceuse Opus 57 D Flat Major https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com]
[00:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My Way... - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:41] <exec> 08└─The right way... https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[00:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03prospectacle [3422] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 1830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:51] <exec> 08└─Ok let me put it another way, if you are saying that the browser concept is flawed, not simply that there have been some implementation problems or bugs (which of course there are in every piece of software), but that the concept itself is flawed, then what speifically is this flaw? Also, why is it...
[00:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Quantum Physics is Not Real Science? - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:24] <exec> 08└─If hard science isn't science wattawegonnado?
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:I disagree - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─What I meant is that particles just follow the laws of physics. There's nothing random about that. Many particles in a system will look random to us, but each individual particle will just follow the law, as if it 'knows' what to do. To a particle the law is very clear, but to us it obviously isn't....
[00:23:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 737 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:19] <exec> 08└─I can't possibly list all the great things that could come. Having transportation to get home is a huge factor in if I'm going to go out to dinner and drinks with friends. Last bus to my place goes at 9:30 PM and it's nearly impossible to get a cab that will leave the downtown. 30 minute drive out t...
[00:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:58] <exec> 08└─Those are great arguments that automated cars shouldn't phone home, not against automated cars in general. Not that the ills you fear are here right now if you don't totally disable Onstar.
[00:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Driverless cars exist now - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:03] <exec> 08└─There is an observation that if you want to see what you will be doing in the future, look at what the rich are doing now.
[00:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:You sound old and crusty - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:28] <exec> 08└─You sound old and crusty [l]ike my neighbor who rejects the internet in favor of his newspaper.
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[01:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:08] <exec> 08└─There's a finite number of digits, yet still an infinite number of numbers.
[01:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:09] <exec> 08└─I have to take off my shoes to count to sixteen, you insensitive clod.
[01:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BS - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:12] <exec> 08└─The number of useful characters, for a literate person however, is “only” between 3,000 and 6,000. That is still a huge number compared to the 26 letters of our alphabet. But you can't compare apples and oranges!
[01:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:24] <exec> 08└─Despite my mom's efforts to educate me about classical music when I was young I'd have to say Chuck Jones had a far greater impact. For this question I'll set aside the emotional pieces and go with the power of nature against the organization with the overture to The Magic Flute.
[01:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - but not quite napalm - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:26] <exec> 08└─I remember a few years ago driving to work in the morning; just as I went past the airport and into a cloud of burnt jet fuel the ABC* put The Ride on - turned the volume right up. *Australian Broadcasting Corporation, my main source of classical music on radio.
[01:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score:1) 02Scarlatti - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71iUAFFQ8ik [youtube.com] K517 nuff said Maybe bruckner a close second https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:11] <exec> 08└─NO on that! UI's running/working differently on different platforms is a huge dev, testing, and maintenance headache and cost. WYSIWYG is a good thing.
[01:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The word is that Edge isn't even "new" - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:21] <exec> 08└─caniuse.com/#compare=ie+11,edge+14 In my Blocked Items listing for that page: caniuse.com/js.php?1449817488 Talk about your Klein flash of naming conventions. 8-) -- gewg_
[01:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The word is that Edge isn't even "new" - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:23] <exec> 08└─s/Klein flash/Klein flask -- gewg_
[01:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02New Information - 06Dawn Mission Team Reports First Results From Ceres - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:06] <exec> 08└─Vesta is a dry, differentiated object with a surface that shows signs of resurfacing
[01:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:19] <exec> 08└─You'd have the same 'freedom' of mobility with or without a driverless car, but driving isn't a freedom, as in a right, it's a privilege.
[01:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:25] <exec> 08└─Your paranoid dystopian vision is rather Kafakesque. I commend you.
[01:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 3337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:29] <exec> 08└─They'll never be allowed to *not* phone home. That's the problem; The technology itself requires massive amounts of communication between the other drivers (only way to get "super harmonic" traffic) and the roads itself. Privacy is impossible when one car literally watches thousands, and thousands o...
[01:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:swallowable neodymium magnets - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:17] <exec> 08└─Just a tiny bit of websearching can get you mail-order sources for all kinds of magnets in the US.
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[02:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:54] <exec> 08└─Not as I do. In certain instances, I'm entirely ok with governments doing that, such as with gun laws. But crypto? No.
[02:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:55] <exec> 08└─Time to encrypt our 3d printed gun designs!
[02:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:BS - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:07] <exec> 08└─Linguistics is quite complex and highly political. An article introducing teen readership to a linguistics subject can't be expected to do anything short of copping-out. On a more factual basis, the Wikipedia has this to say: In contrast to the popular conception of Chinese as a primarily pictograp...
[02:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02I missed the word "radical" in the article - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:08] <exec> 08└─It's what he calls "components". IIRC, there are 214 of those "Kangxi Radicals" made from simple strokes, basic shapes that (mostly) compose the complex characters. So, once you know these, the complex characters are assemble like syllables from characters. An interesting sidenote is that many consi...
[02:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:I missed the word "radical" in the article - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:09] <exec> 08└─很搞笑的文章
[02:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02rd - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:48] <exec> 08└─I think I will go with motorhead.
[02:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blue Danube Waltz - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:49] <exec> 08└─Blue Danube Waltz - good for docking spaceships. and, this morning, good for driving on icy roads.
[02:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03joekiser [1837] (Score:1) 02Favorites - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:51] <exec> 08└─Devil's Trill https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Four Seasons https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Der Erlkönig https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Brandenburg No. 5 https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] and No. 3...
[02:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:They don't deprecate versions <11 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:02] <exec> 08└─Eh? Isn't anything from IE9 and below gonna be unsupported come January [microsoft.com]?
[02:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:08] <exec> 08└─Actually - you WILL use the fonts that I've installed on my system. I really don't give the smallest damn how the author of the page intended the fonts to be rendered. I've blocked all the internet fonts, because I'm on a very slow DSL, and it just pisses me off that my bandwidth is wasted downloadi...
[02:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:13] <exec> 08└─Cross site scripting is the first, and probably the worst part of the whole concept. Just stop it. Visit your favorite news site (MSM) or Facebook, or whatever. Start counting how many sites you implicity trust, by loading the pages. Do you REALLY trust all those sites, most of which you have no ide...
[02:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03prospectacle [3422] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:15] <exec> 08└─I don't *really* trust most of the sites I visit, which is the point of a sandbox. There are also browser settings or plugins to block ads, block scripts that aren't on a whitelist, block plugins or require click-to-load, block cookies, clear cookies on exit, etc. I would guess the browser is far an...
[02:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:17] <exec> 08└─And, I think it a legitimate complaint that I have to use a boatload of addons to make the browser useful. All of my addons are fighting tracking, advertising, and cross site scripting, all of which overlap. Advertising, I could probably live with, if it were sensibly done, and didn't hog bandwidth....
[02:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:19] <exec> 08└─People will start to do that the moment there's an accessible platform to develop and deploy desktop apps consistently (as much as possible) across OSes and devices. I don't want to build UIs in HTML and JS either, but the alternatives are either very opinionated, propriertary, over-engineered, not...
[02:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The word is that Edge isn't even "new" - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:24] <exec> 08└─Disregard that, I suck cocks. -- gewg_
[02:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Quantum Physics is Not Real Science? - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe it isn't hard science at all if the situation is as that person described? What are we going to do? Well, we should be far more cautious around fields of 'science' that are known to be unscientific.
[02:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reduce dependency on car - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:59] <exec> 08└─Elevated walkways do exist, for example this one: http://www.amusingplanet.com [amusingplanet.com] As another commenter wrote, they're practical mainly in urban areas.
[02:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:06] <exec> 08└─Is Meccano compatible with old-style Erector sets from the 50s?
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[03:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:03] <exec> 08└─such as with gun laws. But crypto? No.
[03:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:04] <exec> 08└─Let them take the guns, you're powerless to prevent them from outlawing crypto.
[03:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:05] <exec> 08└─Are you really sure handguns and rifles will protect you from tanks and ABC weapons?
[03:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who needs backdoors... - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:07] <exec> 08└─Google/Apple/whoever will just grab the raw mic feed as it travels to the app... or does the app have direct, exclusive access to the hardware? They could also grab the speaker output (easier if bluetooth is in use). I suppose that if you're the target of a serious investigation they could use the G...
[03:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Offtopic) 02FBI Director can suck a dick - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:09] <exec> 08└─I will agree to their world of no privacy from the government at all..... when Senators, Congressmen, the President, and the FBI director are all as naked and public as they wish for me to be to them . As soon as they get naked (literally too), publish their bank account numbers, publish their socia...
[03:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Government certified? - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:11] <exec> 08└─I want the phone the government doesn't like...
[03:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:23] <exec> 08└─More interestingly for me, is that there are over a dozen ways to pronounce a single word or letter, all with different meaning. My problem is that it's impossible for me to tell. Had a Chinese-American girl in college literally lose her mind trying to get me to speak Chinese. Not only could I not p...
[03:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:24] <exec> 08└─Ugh, that describes me...I'm missing about 60dB in each ear and am badly tone-deaf. My girlfriend is trying to get me to learn Mandarin (she's Cantonese but speaks both fluently). I honestly cannot hear the different tones unless the speaker is speaking very slowly, and for some reason i can't relia...
[03:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:25] <exec> 08└─More interestingly for me, is that there are over a dozen ways to pronounce a single word or letter
[03:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Bugs Bunny and the Classics - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:36] <exec> 08└─Bugs Bunny introduced me to it.
[03:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Classical" music? - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:44] <exec> 08└─Let's Get Rocked does it for me
[03:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surely you mean gratis - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:58] <exec> 08└─libre if (cc) media, though right? gratis almost certainly intended; great eye. would +1 you if I wasn't AC through and Cly through.
[03:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:... - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:00] <exec> 08└─Mars from the Planets was Valentine Michael Smith's nation's first Earthly anthem, which I grok is a tidbit Soylentils might appreciate. Oh, I hope I grok rightly! ;)
[03:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Franz Liszt. Eric Satie. - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:13] <exec> 08└─Choose your own adventure for the former; everything you can find by the latter, he didn't write much. Brian Eno is someone to watch in latter times, and his collaborations are often with strongly talented people. Not quite an Erdo.
[03:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Contemporary Classical - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:15] <exec> 08└─Ludovico Einaudi https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] http://www.last.fm [www.last.fm] Roberto Cacciapaglia https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] http://www.last.fm [www.last.fm] Similar artists: http://www.la...
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─That can "DSL"
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─To be fair, this isn't a good site to use to attempt to disprove Betteridge's law
[03:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:56] <exec> 08└─So, that postdoc of yours never turned into a tenure-track position, didn't it?
[03:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No good deed goes unpunished - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:51] <exec> 08└─Well, next time someone finds such vulnerabilities they'll just sell them for all they're worth. At least then if the hacker gets caught he at least made some money. That's the sort of behaviour they want to encourage it seems.
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[04:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02It's called Greenland - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:56] <exec> 08└─Because the vikings found it covered in grass when they originally came across it and settled there.
[04:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's called Greenland - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:57] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Etymology [wikipedia.org]
[04:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Still wondering - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:59] <exec> 08└─The real question is if Iceland was ever green-free.
[04:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Global Warming - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:01] <exec> 08└─So how did they stop the global warming 100,000 years ago? Is it when the Flintstones went from evil dino power to green foot power?
[04:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:12] <exec> 08└─but lots of people who are also opposed to gun control only seem to care about the second amendment. When the government violates other parts of the constitution, they do not care much.
[04:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:14] <exec> 08└─> Do as I say > Not as I do. It is almost as if the government is made up of hundreds of thousands of different individuals with different motivations and interests that range from tightly coupled to in opposition. Who let that happen?
[04:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:16] <exec> 08└─There is no difference between protecting yourself with one dangerous technology and protecting yourself with another dangerous technology.
[04:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Medium dot Com - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:28] <exec> 08└─And yet, somehow, the simple explanation went wanting.
[04:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BS - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:31] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing English is just as bad
[04:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BS - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:33] <exec> 08└─s/you that/that you/
[04:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:51] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're going that route, I guess we should provide a link [youtube.com] for those very few who might be unfamiliar with the music, and for those who haven't had a chance to hear it in a while.
[04:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:53] <exec> 08└─Gotta second this, nothing like flying over a ridge in my Havoc about to make some tank drivers have a VERY bad day in War Thunder while having Valkyries playing in the background, it sounds like...victory! Of course since I have been flying Brits lately I felt like having some Brit music would be i...
[04:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Classical" music? - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:58] <exec> 08└─ELP did lots of symphonic tracks: Fanfare for the Common Man, Allegro Barbaro, Romeo and Juliet, Toccata, Copeland's Hoedown, a bunch of stuff on the Works Vol. I album (including a concerto written by Emerson), etc.. They even toured with a full orchestra in 1976-ish, but they lost a lot of money b...
[04:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Short List - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─I've always been mighty fond of Mendelssohn's The Hebrides. Debussy's La Mer Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody Various works by Chopin And last but not least, my childhood favorite because my father played it every day when he got home from work, Beethoven's Moon...
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02monteverdi - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─check out on youtube, "monteverdi madrigals (or madrigali)" if you are there, also search for "girolamo frescobaldi" maybe not classical in strict meaning, but nevertheless...
[04:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Schumann's Symphonies - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:32] <exec> 08└─Let me put in a few words for Robert Schumann, who was a transitional figure between the Viennese Classical and Romantic eras, like Beethoven. He composed a large number of piano works and chamber music (string quartets and the like), and vocal music, but only four symphonies. All of the symphonies...
[04:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02While I Am More Partial... - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─To Jazz, Blues/R&B, Good old Rock 'n' Roll and the like, I have some classical favorites such as: Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik [youtube.com] Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz [youtube.com] Mozart's Symphony #40 In G Minor [youtube.com] Mozart's Horn Concerto #4 Rondo Allegro [youtube.com] Debussy's Cla...
[04:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They don't deprecate versions <11 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:44] <exec> 08└─The PoS version of XP is supported until 2019. It's binary compatible with the "normal" XP, people just install the patches manually.
[04:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They don't deprecate versions <11 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:46] <exec> 08└─IE9 stays supported on Windows Vista only until Vista itself is EOL'd in 2017. Here's some more info: http://www.ghacks.net [ghacks.net]
[04:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Getting the M$ stuff you want - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:48] <exec> 08└─With all of Redmond's forced "upgrades" lately, it seems that having a Visduh install is the superior way to get the pile^W stack of MICROS~1 stuff you want. Who could ever have imagined that "Visduh" and "superior" would ever appear in the same sentence? -- gewg_
[04:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sign your own name next time, dumbass - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:11] <exec> 08└─In order to be witty, you have to possess wit. You're only halfway there. -- gewg_
[04:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Quantum Physics is Not Real Science? - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:43] <exec> 08└─If the most basic, fundamental building blocks of the universe aren't subject to the rulez of science then what is?
[04:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Embrace fuzziness - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:45] <exec> 08└─Exactly this. We can calculate Pi to millions of digits, but it's only a mathematical curiosity. It only takes forty or so digits of Pi to calculate the diameter and circumference of a circle the size of the known universe with an error less than the width of a hydrogen atom. More than a dozen digit...
[04:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I disagree - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:52] <exec> 08└─> there must be a way to at least describe their behavior. > Science just hasn't found out how to predict it yet. That sounds like a statement of faith. Has physics converted the secular into the religious now?
[04:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soylentils - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:54] <exec> 08└─If the comments here are indicative, it shows that we are just as science illiterate as any others, but worse, since we pretend otherwise.
[04:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:OK, so this isn't a gluino then? - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:31] <exec> 08└─Thank you! Much more informative. Graviton discovery would be a big deal! We are plumbing the depths here. I thought it was interesting that there was no sign of dark matter here. If dark matter is a real thing (which it certainly seems to be), then it must be truly unusual if the LHC is not seeing...
[04:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:24] <exec> 08└─Your paranoid dystopian vision is rather Kafakesque. I commend you.
[04:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:25] <exec> 08└─This assumes that there is centralized control of *every* car.
[04:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:26] <exec> 08└─Highly speculative why? Aside from the obvious, that any control system tried by government will probably be centralized, we also have the huge factor that this unloads a large liability off the hands of the manufacturers of self-driving cars.
[04:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:32] <exec> 08└─Call me cynical, but I'm having a hard time choosing between handfuls of people dying almost instantly here and there, and tens (hundreds? thousands?) of millions of truck drivers out on the streets without a job. I'm not one of the 1%, but I'm not confident in my ability to not get caught in the cr...
[04:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I was trying for a while but gave up - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:56] <exec> 08└─they actually know they are ad-fodder. When I explain how they're all being tracked, they all click the Like button. It doesn't change their behavior.
[04:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02It's already the land of strip clubs - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:07] <exec> 08└─There is a strip club on every streetcorner here. One of my very best friends is a bartender at a strip club. When I visited her recently one of her strippers expressed admiration for my being a busker. "But you're a dancer" I protested. "Yeah but when people come here, they're paying to see me. You...
[04:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:latency cube - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:07] <exec> 08└─Well, yes and no.
[04:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Washington DC? - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:48] <exec> 08└─how about you idiots do everyone a favor and rail against "defense" spending so that we have some money for science.
[04:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Washington DC? - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:50] <exec> 08└─Some of those asteroids have the same resources in arguably better concentrations. And better sunlight. Due to a much smaller gravity well it would normally be easier and cheaper to get the supplies _intact_ to the surface of those asteroids than to the _surface_ of Mars, not merely "waving while st...
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[05:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:1) 02Re:It's called Greenland - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:20:57] <exec> 08└─Hello, McFly!!! I knew this is Jr. High school in the 70's. Is our education system really this bad?
[05:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Global Warming - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:00] <exec> 08└─You haven't heard? The EPA mandated that catalytic converters had to be installed on all dinosaurs.
[05:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:1) 02New Star Wars prequel... - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:02] <exec> 08└─So they found traces of an old beryllium sphere from the Aluminum Falcon and went from there? Dammit Chewbaka, I thought I told you not to leave beryllium laying around after repairs!
[05:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Be the change you want to see... - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:04] <exec> 08└─Well, there's plenty of evidence world-wide for a sudden 3-4 meter rise in sea levels over a 500-1000 year period about 127kya, followed by another quick (500-1000 year) rise of 6m or so about 120kya. As far as I know that's not really disputed by anyone except the total sea-level-rise-denialist cra...
[05:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:14] <exec> 08└─I think you will find you are dead wrong about this.
[05:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:15] <exec> 08└─They've got nothing to hide.
[05:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:20] <exec> 08└─The important thing is not leave them on the kitchen counter in reach of the kids. Heaven forbid that your 5 year old find that copy of PGP.
[05:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:22] <exec> 08└─Copy of PGP on a counter? Okay grandpa its past your bedtime.
[05:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:1) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:24] <exec> 08└─I'm getting tired of this shit. California has most of the anti-gun laws on Obama's wish list (short of confiscation) and none of them make any difference at all in crime rates. The many of California's laws deal with cosmetics as in "OMG, it looks scary so we have to have a law against it". All the...
[05:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I missed the word "radical" in the article - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:43] <exec> 08└─It's what he calls "components". IIRC, there are 214 of those "Kangxi Radicals" made from simple strokes, basic shapes that (mostly) compose the complex characters. So, once you know these, the complex characters are assemble like syllables from characters.
[05:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:47] <exec> 08└─I was surprised to learn that there is a much higher percentage of people who speak Chinese who have perfect pitch than that of English or other European language speakers. Chinese is a tonal language, which means there is meaning in the tone of the word.
[05:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:49] <exec> 08└─The Egyptians used ideographs, mostly. And look were that got them. There is a large advantage to having a written form of spoken language, instead of the esoteric symbol system.
[05:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:51] <exec> 08└─More interestingly for me, is that there are over a dozen ways to pronounce a single word or letter, all with different meaning.
[05:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:02] <exec> 08└─Kill the Wabbit....Kill the Wabbit....
[05:22:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 283 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:03] <exec> 08└─Despite my mom's efforts to educate me about classical music when I was young I'd have to say Chuck Jones had a far greater impact. For this question I'll set aside the emotional pieces and go with the power of nature against the organization with the overture to The Magic Flute.
[05:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:06] <exec> 08└─Despite my mom's efforts to educate me about classical music when I was young I'd have to say Chuck Jones had a far greater impact.
[05:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rock 'n' Rollers' covers - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:14] <exec> 08└─Glad somebody mentioned Keith Emerson and the funky bunch. It would be interesting to know how many folks got the Classical bug from listening to some rockers' take on The Masters. Walter Carlos[1] did a cover of Brandenburg Concerto #2 on a Moog synthesizer in the 1960s that was pretty great. (Like...
[05:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Joe Walsh and copyright - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:15] <exec> 08└─James Gang|Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh recorded a tune called The Bomber and included part of Ravel's "Bolero". Maurice Ravel died in 1937, yet his estate sued Joe and the gang because Ravel's will specified that the entire song had to be performed--not just bits. Future pressings of the record had t...
[05:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02Re:Of Music and other pleasures - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:23] <exec> 08└─Watch Karl Richter playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue [youtube.com].
[05:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:03] <exec> 08└─Except mainframes made more sense in some regards. With terminals hooked up to mainframes, the clients were as thin as could be. Today, the clients are fat but are doing the work of thin clients. The reason they are fat is because of security, multi-threading, pretty graphics, playing videos or musi...
[05:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:09] <exec> 08└─It's an interesting comment you make. The original intention of HTML was to not have to worry about things like WYSIWYG. It's only by adding all the other extra stuff that has turned it into WYSIWYG.
[05:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:20] <exec> 08└─I like the way that Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation voices it (from the video review of Spore [youtube.com]) In short, NO. In long, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....
[05:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure...? - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:31] <exec> 08└─I don't know, I'm too busy fighting with this mother fucking Windows 10 forced upgrade bullshit that they infected my computer with! FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!!! I have a right to NOT want your free offer... That one guy at work who runs Linux is making a lot of sense right now... :-/
[05:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:48] <exec> 08└─The technology itself requires no such thing. Which currently existing prototype depends on talking to all the cars around it (given that none of the cars around it have the technology)? The more advanced features do require communication, but there is no technical reason the car cannot generate a n...
[05:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Washington DC? - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:05] <exec> 08└─you write as if they had a budget the size of the US military! the truth is that they have minuscule budget in comparison but have still managed some amazing feats.
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[15:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Playing with fire - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─The Brazilian government is generally in hot water these days. The country's credit rating has been downgraded. Thousands are in the streets demanding the impeachment of the president. Shutting off what millions of brazilians use on a daily basis for a stupid reason like this is a dangerous move. Re...
[15:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Playing with fire - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:35] <exec> 08└─Thousands are in the streets demanding the impeachment of the president. Shutting off what millions of brazilians use on a daily basis for a stupid reason like this is a dangerous move.
[15:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02It's okay for people to be free - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:37] <exec> 08└─Brazilian telco's have been lobbying for months to convince the government that WhatsApp's voice service is unregulated and illegal (not entirely unlike the taxi industry's posture on Uber), and have publicly blamed the "WhatsApp effect" for driving millions of Brazilians to abandon their cell phone...
[15:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's okay for people to be free - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:39] <exec> 08└─Now, it can be a problem. If 90% of the cost reduction of your new way of producing power from coal comes from dumping the coal ash into the local reservoir because you don't legally count as a power plant and don't face the same regs and 10% comes from doing things a new way, the government has goo...
[15:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's okay for people to be free - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─It is ok. The problem is when the gov and 'free' enterprise become one in the same. The interests of the people become the interests of the corporations. Corporations are after more profit thats it. That is their whole lot in life. But when the gov owns the corporation (or the other way around) the...
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's okay for people to be free - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─Under communism, the government has absorbed the companies and you have one entity controlling everything. Under fascism, the companies have absorbed government and you have one entity controlling everything. These are, of course, completely different, and really hate each other. (See the Eastern Fr...
[15:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02the official excuse - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─seems to be that the police requested whatsapp to release info on some drug trafficker, and they refused
[15:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Verification of ISO for the paranoid - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:51] <exec> 08└─If they were coming after you, you'd be paranoid, too.
[15:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Verification of ISO for the paranoid - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:53] <exec> 08└─as opposed to the gpg signature provided on the website? dumbass
[15:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Verification of ISO for the paranoid - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:55] <exec> 08└─You can't trust the gpg because it's been cracked by the US department of homeland homeland.
[15:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Mass Adoption - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:57] <exec> 08└─I tried Tails out. It's pretty amazing what they've managed to accomplish in such a small space. Is it perfect? No. But then what is. But I think the bigger point is that if many many people were using the sorts of encryption and anonymizing software that Tails uses, we'd all be much better off. Can...
[15:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score:1) 02Better than humans? - 06Artificial Intelligence Passes the Turing Test of Penmanship - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:04] <exec> 08└─How can a program be better than humans at recognizing figures, isn't the goal to get the result a human would pick?
[15:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Better than humans? - 06Artificial Intelligence Passes the Turing Test of Penmanship - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:06] <exec> 08└─The real goal is to pick the what the human intended when he wrote it. Some people have trouble doing that with their own handwriting.
[15:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Better than humans? - 06Artificial Intelligence Passes the Turing Test of Penmanship - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:08] <exec> 08└─Better than the human average maybe?
[15:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Bad news for CAPTCHA - 06Artificial Intelligence Passes the Turing Test of Penmanship - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:10] <exec> 08└─So much for that method of keeping bots out of our forums. Of course, we're approaching this threshold from the other direction as well; there may well be a day that Neil Harbisson [wikipedia.org] and Steve Mann [wikipedia.org] have an existential crisis when signing up for web forums. [thepunchline...
[15:36:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─Where money solves every injustice.
[15:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:21] <exec> 08└─Your rights were violated. Here, have absolutely nothing. Case closed. So much better. Though ideally it would be millions instead of a nickel.
[15:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:23] <exec> 08└─My attitude on this: Sure, monetary payments from lawsuit damages / settlements don't really compensate for being locked up unjustly. On the other hand, they are a far sight better than having no penalties at all for locking somebody up unjustly. Of course, there is another solution, but one that no...
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:34] <exec> 08└─It is if those "civilians" are shooting people's dicks off.
[15:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:36] <exec> 08└─You guys are a bunch of dicks
[15:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:37] <exec> 08└─Including the female soldiers?
[15:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Re:Priorities? - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:44] <exec> 08└─Would you rather lose your legs, or have surgery performed and an immunosuppressant administered? In today's society you certainly don't need your legs. Sure, they're helpful, but functionally they're really not needed. Yes, you do lose certain functionality, there is a social stigma, you will not e...
[15:36:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Up to 60? - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:46] <exec> 08└─decided to perform up to 60 penis transplants on "men injured in combat."
[15:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Up to 60? - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe they expect up to 59 transplants to fail. Or maybe even more, but at 60 attempts, they give up.
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Organ donor... - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:50] <exec> 08└─I signed up years ago for the organ/tissue donor program when I kick the bucket. I had no idea it might involve being a boner donor.
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:It's called Greenland - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:06] <exec> 08└─In other words, the name was one of the earliest recorded instances of false advertising.
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:It's called Greenland - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the world's oldest real estate scam. And people are still falling for it.
[15:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Still wondering - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:11] <exec> 08└─and gluten-free???
[15:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Be the change you want to see... - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─I think that any sudden rise in sea level would reflect global events. With a lot of research, you may or may not pinpoint the bulk of the rise to one or two sources, but the effects would almost have to be global in nature. I can't imagine how you could cause half the ice in the northern hemisphere...
[15:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:37] <exec> 08└─The antis are out in full force this morning. If you aren't paying attention, this is their plausibility argument against self-defense: Nobody will bear arms against the government and win. Well here you go: Are you sure that the government, with their infinite resources, won't break your personal e...
[15:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, the "Think of the kids!" argument. I honestly didn't see that coming. Well here you go: paedophiles use encryption to perpetuate abuse against children, therefore it must be banned. Do you see the slippery slope of your argument for government monopoly on technologies? Government shouldn't...
[15:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:44] <exec> 08└─He doesn't care. Authoritarians know they are right and no one has ever been able to convince them otherwise. From Caesars, to Tsars, to modern mini-fascists, they are all the same. They take what isn't theirs and ban what they don't use until there is nothing left but concrete walls, snitching neig...
[15:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do as I say - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:48] <exec> 08└─That link, no only is irrelevant to "Obama's wishlist", but does not say what you think it does. Note that paper is not at all what you think it is nor what the writer of that news piece. They lumped 61% of all firearm fatalities being suicides in with the crime rate and called that authoritative. T...
[15:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FBI Director can suck a dick - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:54] <exec> 08└─No, I'm willing to be more flexible than that. If the argument is that in an entirely transparent world, the state of security will be found to be much higher, then I'm willing to consider it as an experiment.
[15:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Knock me down with a feather! - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:58] <exec> 08└─I rarely comment on such things, but I would watch that movie mate... sounds bloody good, actually! -Cheers
[15:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not as exciting as it first looks like - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:59] <exec> 08└─Achieving the industry-standard FIPS 140-2 accreditation reinforces our Enterprise Privacy Platform as a legitimate and trusted secure communications ecosystem for the US Government.
[15:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:I missed the word "radical" in the article - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:21] <exec> 08└─Hangul, the Korean writing system, is purely phonetic and syllabic. It was designed by King Sejong the Great and they still celebrate its invention on Language Day today. It's flexible in a way that Chinese and Japanese aren't. For example, su in Japanese (す) is just that, the sound "su." The cons...
[15:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:I missed the word "radical" in the article - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:23] <exec> 08└─it was referring to components specifically, and not radicals.
[15:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Bugs Bunny and the Classics - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:45] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reply! To clarify, the video game WAS at an arcade. It had an a seat facing a video monitor, a steering wheel, shifter (2? gears), and an accelerator pedal. Display was in color. (Might have had a brake pedal, too. Can't remember.) As best as I can recall, it was some time after Jun...
[15:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Bugs Bunny and the Classics - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:46] <exec> 08└─As best as I can recall, it was some time after June of 1982 and before March of 1985 with my best guess being somewhere near the midpoint of that span
[15:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:"Classical" music? - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:03] <exec> 08└─Rick Wakeman is ok. Awesome work with Yes (and the one ABWH album), but his solo album was surprisingly terrible.
[15:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:11] <exec> 08└─Custom "widgets" is a good idea, though. At least it will be when everyone agree on all points which is not going to happen exactly soon.
[15:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The word is that Edge isn't even "new" - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:25] <exec> 08└─Which is it, "clean break" or "reuses old IE code?" It is just a rebranded software with some older "features" dropped. With some new code, naturally.
[15:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure...? - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:33] <exec> 08└─Which Linux? I am currently testing Kubuntu after using Windows 8 for a year. Sigh. Long story. Zorin is next on my list to try. Just have to rip systemd out. Kubuntu 14.04 is quite good. I am looking for a non-systemD Linux distro when I rebuild in the new year. It is my resolution for 2016: No Mic...
[15:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score:1) 02Re:I disagree - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:19] <exec> 08└─Do some reading on Bell's theorum [wikipedia.org] and Hidden variables theory. [wikipedia.org] We used to think that the "randomness" of quantum mechanics was really that we just didn't understand the rules. Once we understood the laws of physics completely, the randomness would go away and determin...
[15:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:23] <exec> 08└─With no-fault insurance, this ought not to even be a question
[15:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─That's the difference between a privilege ("freedom") to do something and a right (freedom) to do something.
[15:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:00] <exec> 08└─But you're not removing drivers from the roads. If you have a car to transport you now, you'll still have a car to transport you later. The only difference is your hands won't be on the steering wheel as you try to shave / put on makeup while you eat a bagel and drink coffee trying reading the morni...
[15:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:14] <exec> 08└─Who will assume liability for this "experienced driver" model? How is it going to respond to top down orders from governments with control over its operation?
[15:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wait - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:41] <exec> 08└─It's called google+
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[16:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:The ruling class - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:38] <exec> 08└─And I should point out that he's not the first member of the ruling class to attempt to block a wind farm due to it spoiling his view. Ted Kennedy [reuters.com] did the exact same thing when the view from his family estate on Martha's Vinyard was threatened by a proposed wind farm, and managed to de...
[16:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The ruling class - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:39] <exec> 08└─I think it funny how these turbines sitting several miles offshore (which you'd need to have someone point out to you because you really have to try to look for them) would so completely ruin the scenery that tourism would plummet. This isn't a ruling class vs. people thing, this is just a people th...
[16:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:The ruling class - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:41] <exec> 08└─Whatever else you may thing about Trump - he is a member of the ruling class. He thinks his shit don't stink
[16:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:4, Funny) 02"dangerous experiment with wind energy" - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:44] <exec> 08└─He's got a point. I mean you never know when one of those air currents will melt down and then BOOM! The whole of Scotland could be covered with air. I mean, have these people really thought this through?
[16:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That golf course will make Scotland great again - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:46] <exec> 08└─It's going to so great, you won't believe it. It'll be the greatest course on the British Isles, if not all Europe. The other developers in Scotland are total LOSERS, they failed miserably on EVERY SINGLE PROJECT they ever attempted. What a joke! And look at my poll numbers! I'll tell you the ones y...
[16:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:4, Informative) 02An American Thing? - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:48] <exec> 08└─Where I'm from (Atlantic Canada) we have an area known as "The south shore", which is a popular cottage area. It also has some pretty great steady winds for turbines. A few years ago our provincial power company was going to put up a series of turbines in the area, but the "residents" of the area pe...
[16:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:An American Thing? - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:49] <exec> 08└─Such resistance is dumb, and yes, we do have that in the United States. The most famous case is Teddy Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, fighting tooth-and-nail to stop a windfarm in Cape Cod. They published pictures of what the wind turbines would look like from the shore, and you really coul...
[16:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:An American Thing? - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:51] <exec> 08└─Obsession with property values isn't a uniquely American thing, but it as an American thing. There's this entitlement that says that no investment should ever lose value. That damn it I've earned my X(which to be fair, is true) and I should be faced with no risk to it. That's an okay attitude to hav...
[16:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hurting himself - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:53] <exec> 08└─His blowhardary is going to end up hurting his business in many cases. It will help him in others. If he wasnt 24/7 on TV showing what sort of person he is. He probably could have got the project shut down or at least tied up in paperwork for years (his usual MO). Instead the counsel and courts deci...
[16:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:It's okay for people to be free - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:00] <exec> 08└─Now, it can be a problem. If 90% of the cost reduction of your new way of producing power from coal comes from dumping the coal ash into the local reservoir because you don't legally count as a power plant and don't face the same regs and 10% comes from doing things a new way, the government has goo...
[16:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's okay for people to be free - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:02] <exec> 08└─Property rights aren't a panacea for tragedy of the commons, as neatly as you might think that would put a bow on your libertarian ideals.
[16:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:the official excuse - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:05] <exec> 08└─TFA doesn't really indicate why they might want to shut it down other than "they don't like it" or what it is. A quick search suggest this software is an instant messaging program that uses encryption in such a way as to make it impossible for third parties to snoop on or monitor the messages. No wo...
[16:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02"unregulated" is not synonymous with "illegal" - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─To make an unregulated service illegal, you bastids first have to buy a law MAKING the service illegal. In the absence of that law, an unregulated activity or service is just that - unregulated. So, you'll have to ante up your bribe money, telephone companies!
[16:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not reasonable that millions of users be affected - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:09] <exec> 08└─from http://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk]: Judge Souza said it was "not reasonable that millions of users be affected by the inertia of the company".
[16:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:not reasonable that millions of users be affect - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:11] <exec> 08└─Takeaway: if you have enough users(/products), you are above the law. Well if the majority of people don't want something to happen, surely you're just listening to the voice of democracy? The problem here is that companies are simply too large and too walled-gardens. In the past if Shell broke the...
[16:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Verification of ISO for the paranoid - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:21] <exec> 08└─Well, to those of you who are moaning about this, if you see these hashes posted in a bunch of other places too, and they match what you compute yourself, then that's still stronger assurance of authenticity I'd think. Every little bit of data you can use to further authenticate it helps.
[16:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score:1) 02Re:Mass Adoption - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:23] <exec> 08└─From a purely selfish point of view, I wish they'd get it back below 1Gb in size (maybe they will once Claws Mail is jettisoned for good?) as I have an old 1Gb USB keyfob which I've used for Tails for years, until the last version but one, that is...
[16:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Better than humans? - 06Artificial Intelligence Passes the Turing Test of Penmanship - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:34] <exec> 08└─The goal is to recognise the symbols correctly. Humans can't always do it (especially, but not only, if they are unfamiliar with the written language presented), so there's room for improvement.
[16:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:They knew the consequences. - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:09] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the Soylent people ask what they should do to make the site better... This is one of them: a vote if a statement is a fundamental truth, and if yes, it can not be modded down. If the statement is not a fundamental truth, than the opposite is correct: u should fuck around on all places on t...
[16:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Now thet the topic is up, let me ask: - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:10] <exec> 08└─Was all the murican blood payed worth the saved jews? U would pay for jews in blood anytime, anywhere? Ah, Troll I see... What, the questions is to deep for retarded murican mind or what? Is the murican blood spilled today worth what u get for it? Also, WTF is it u get for it btw?
[16:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doctor Feelgood Set Me Up With Some Happy Pills - 06First Serotonin Neurons Made from Human Stem Cells - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:28] <exec> 08└─First-generation antidepressants were anti-serotonin drugs. Second-generation "antidepressants" are pro-serotonin drugs, that sometimes have the side effects of making depressed patients suicidal. Now that the patents on the SSRIs have expired, hopefully medicine will abandon the silly idea of depre...
[16:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:1) 02Re:Be the change you want to see... - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:53] <exec> 08└─It had been slowly cooling for 8,000 years or so. How did we know it was going to start warming? Oh, yeah, the increasing carbon dioxide in the air.
[16:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Signal by Open Whisper Systems - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:32] <exec> 08└─For a slightly less expensive (free) and OSS encrypted calling and sms check out Signal [whispersystems.org] available on IOS and Android. The github repo is here [github.com] which contains some other interesting looking projects too.
[16:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:04] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, consider how many Chinese cannot now read classical texts, because of the simplification of the characters.
[16:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:05] <exec> 08└─It always struck me, about computer languages: they call it "code", what are they hiding?
[16:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tadas [3635] (Score:2) 02Re:Rock 'n' Rollers' covers - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:38] <exec> 08└─Was Carlos the one who did Switched on Bach and others (though the others I'm remembering are probably me-too albums.
[16:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Several I should say - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:57] <exec> 08└─Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D, from the original one-hit wonder maybe?
[16:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:video streaming - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:45] <exec> 08└─I haver always been confused by that. With streaming video, you still download the video. The only difference is that your computer automatically deletes it for you.
[16:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The big news. - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:05] <exec> 08└─...You are not wrong. fellow AC. What I hate about HTML 5 is that they did away with version numbers, so that you can no longer prove that your implementation is conformant. You are essentially chasing the goal-posts set by Chrome.
[16:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The halting problem only applies to Turing mach - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:38] <exec> 08└─Correction: that program should run 1 or 2 cycles, depending on implementation. Assuming Compaq Basic, the first number will be .76308, which is less than 0.99999.
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[17:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ungracious? - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─I don't see why this is ungracious. They aren't compelled to make sure their new code releases are backwards-compatible with non-Philips bulbs. It would be a dick move to purposefully break backwards-compatibility a la Microsoft Office products, but it is only for PR reasons to go out of their way t...
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Ungracious? - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:38] <exec> 08└─They aren't compelled to make sure their new code releases are backwards-compatible with non-Philips bulbs.
[17:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Demand free (as in libre) hardware and software - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─If it's going in my house, and going to connect to any local out public network, I demand access to everything. Yes, this dreamscape limits my options and/or results in custom created solutions with Arduino/Raspberry Pi. Long term, though, I have support and confidence these will never stop working....
[17:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02whoops - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─i think Philips may have inadvertently triggered the rise of an open source competitor. hackers don't like getting dicked over and their hardware isn't exactly complex.
[17:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I feel you - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:50] <exec> 08└─"I think I do feel Scottish," It's called a prostate exam.
[17:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The ruling class - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:55] <exec> 08└─last time I saw an offshore windfarm while standing on the coast, In the Netherlands, it actually looked pretty cool in the distance. You could barely see the blades, but what it did is actually add a feature to the desperately flat grey-on-grey horizon.
[17:35:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02To quote a wise Scotsman - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:56] <exec> 08└─Trump can take his money and shove it up his arse [wikipedia.org]
[17:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:An American Thing? - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:03] <exec> 08└─Ah, I remember that. I also remember saying that NS Power should have offered the complainers the choice of building a wind farm or a good ol'-fashioned coal burner on the site.
[17:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:An American Thing? - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:05] <exec> 08└─My father works in a government department that decides where to put new powerlines and his job is basically to work around all the idiots who don't want power lines to cross their property for various retarded reasons as well. Mostly "it's an eyesore" and "electromagnetic radiation will make my dog...
[17:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wall - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:06] <exec> 08└─He should just build a wall...
[17:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score:1) 02Re:Wall - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:08] <exec> 08└─He should just build a wall...
[17:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's okay for people to be free - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:20] <exec> 08└─In fact, the private/public (and sometimes personal) property dichotomy (trichotomy?) could be said to be the root cause of tragedy of the commons in the first place.
[17:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No its not ok. - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:23] <exec> 08└─At least in Brazil. Like it or not, the are a sovereign nation and they get to decide on their own what is OK or not. Not you, not me..
[17:36:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02Re:the official excuse - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:25] <exec> 08└─TFA doesn't really indicate why they might want to shut it down other than "they don't like it" or what it is. A quick search suggest this software is an instant messaging program that uses encryption in such a way as to make it impossible for third parties to snoop on or monitor the messages. No wo...
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gotta love monopoiles with power - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:29] <exec> 08└─"they are stealing our customers" "whaaaaaaa" " make it illegal, ya, that will do the trick"
[17:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Mass Adoption - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry to burst your bubble, but Claws Mail does not take much space. That is its idea - being lightweight. Thunderbird/Icedove they are replacing it with is much larger.
[17:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:12] <exec> 08└─And who's to say it wouldn't be multiple millions? The court does not concern itself with trivialities, and would not be dealing with nickels and dimes. The payout would be big enough to correct the behavior of the government.
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:15] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps things would go too far, and people who should be locked up wouldn't be because there's a risk to those doing the locking up.
[17:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:29] <exec> 08└─There must be such shootings, but mines or IEDs are probably the usual causes: From the Voice of America piece: According to the BBC [bbc.com], research indicates that up to seven percent of combat veterans suffer genital injuries, many from blasts from improvised explosive devices.
[17:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:33] <exec> 08└─ESPECIALLY the female soldiers! For all your real-world futa hentai needs, join the army!
[17:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Priorities? - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:43] <exec> 08└─As mentioned in the summary, this operation was done successfully in South Africa. The South African patient "was reported to have recovered function in the organ, including urination, erection, orgasm and ejaculation, but sensation is expected to take two years to return fully," says Wikipedia, cit...
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Up to 60? - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:47] <exec> 08└─Except we've got this one tentacle demon on loan from Japan whose humvee hit a mine. It was raining dongs for HOURS.
[17:37:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] 02Cock up - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─Would that be the term for a successful, or unsuccessful operation?
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Organ donor... - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─Well,, now you can rise from the dead.
[17:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Be the change you want to see... - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:24] <exec> 08└─Say WHAT?!?!?!?!?! What EVER made you believe that the earth had been cooling for 8000 years? Really - PLEASE - post a citation to something that would make anyone believe that. Something somewhat credible, at least, please don't just post some anecdote from some fool who can't even spell "science"....
[17:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Signal by Open Whisper Systems - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:03] <exec> 08└─Seconded. It's what I use. Also, check out: https://www.eff.org [eff.org]
[17:39:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02Medium dot Com - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─Lots of Italics, exclamation marks, and quotation marks, in an article pitched at slightly slow teens, must be Medium dot com.
[17:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:BS - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:23] <exec> 08└─150 symbols is enough is vastly underestimating the systems complexity
[17:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:BS - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:26] <exec> 08└─Stuart: Ooh, Sheldon, I’m afraid you couldn’t be more wrong. Sheldon: More wrong? Wrong is an absolute state and not subject to gradation. Stuart: Of course it is. It’s a little wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable; it’s very wrong to say it’s a suspension bridge.
[17:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:41] <exec> 08└─The Egyptians used ideographs, mostly. And look where that got them.
[17:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:07] <exec> 08└─What I meant is that the fonts would be hard-wired into the hypothetical "vector browser". There would be no down-loading fonts once the browser is installed. True, there may be a DOM-based emulator as an option, but heavy users of the vector browser would probably want to download it. And, I don't...
[17:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:09] <exec> 08└─I've decided that's an impossible, overly idealistic goal. WYSIWYG allows everyone to see the same thing and not have surprises on different platforms. Customers and bosses want to review and approve a given layout and have that vetted layout be what end-users actually see. They don't want to approv...
[17:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not likely a graviton - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:15] <exec> 08└─It's not a graviton. The graviton is expected to be a spin 2 massless particle. If it did have mass, then the range of effect of gravity should be short (like weak and strong forces, which have massive force carrier particles), whereas only gravity and photons (electromagnetic) have long distance ef...
[17:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:06] <exec> 08└─Just so I understand, you're saying that since you're a statistical outlier, we should base our public policy on your life and experience, correct? If I'm a statistical outlier because I'm *not* obese, then this country has some serious, serious problems and we should definitely make some huge chang...
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[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Ungracious? - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:38] <exec> 08└─"It would be a dick move to purposefully break backwards-compatibility" Drop the "backwards-" from that statement, and that is precisely what they did. They intentionally broke compatibility with anyone and everyone who hadn't paid the extortion fee to become a "freind of Philip". At least that's ho...
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Demand free (as in libre) hardware and software - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:40] <exec> 08└─They will never have NSA mandated backdoors to create a foothold in my private LAN.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02smart customers vs stupid customers - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─I think Phillips did the right thing. They probably thought their stupid customers would make tech support calls, or get mad, if third party bulbs did not work like their special Phillips bulbs. In response, they decided to set the software to not work at all with third party bulbs. It turns out the...
[18:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:smart customers vs stupid customers - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:45] <exec> 08└─It isn't a smart vs. dumb thing, its a informed vs. uninformed thing. As for the walled garden approach, there really is no big problem to solve. If a customer uses unsupported products with your own you simply say "sorry we can't guarantee 3rd party products". This has been around for a long time....
[18:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:smart customers vs stupid customers - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:47] <exec> 08└─> You can't make everyone happy. In a simple case like this you can. You put a checkbox in the GUI that says "enable unsupported bulbs" and you default it to off. Philips gets a gateway that stops "stupid customers" from increasing the support load on philips and regular customers get the functional...
[18:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:smart customers vs stupid customers - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:49] <exec> 08└─I think even dumb customers will understand that not all LED bulbs do fancy colour changes, Even if they do not understand that, there is at about a 50% chance that they will call the correct manufacturer to complain. I suspect they wanted dumb customers to call the wrong manufacturer to complain ab...
[18:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Feels - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:56] <exec> 08└─Because his mother was born in Scotland, he might be able to claim UK citizenship. Then, surely, he could get himself made a baron, and go sit in the House of Lords.
[18:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:The ruling class - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:03] <exec> 08└─Are you sir looking to resurrect the Bull-Moose party? [wikipedia.org]
[18:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:An American Thing? - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:11] <exec> 08└─HOLY SHIT!! I remember someone making that comment ^_^
[18:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:16] <exec> 08└─Is that height relative to ground on the inside of the owner's property or outside? Or is it relative to the grade of the primary building/grade of the property? Its an important designation because one way of cheating a poorly worded rule like that is first building a 3-meter tall mound of earth an...
[18:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wall - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:18] <exec> 08└─> He should just build a wall... And make the wind farm pay for it.
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03CHK6 [5974] (Score:1) 02Scotland: 2 Trump: 0 - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─It's not like Trump was developing a hospital, orphanage, research center, school, or municipal service. It's an already built gold resort for the ultra rich. What I can see Scotland still has a great golf resort and will be getting a wind farm. That puts the score in Scotland's favor.
[18:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Playing with fire - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:27] <exec> 08└─The government seems completely in the pocket of the telcos. The carriers are trying to shore up their messaging service against over the top services. In this country, most carriers have given up and just offer unlimited messaging as a bundled service. The Brazilian telcos are simply 10 years behin...
[18:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:It's okay for people to be free - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─Everybody is interested in their own personal profit and there is no way to change that. What can be done is to eliminate power of people over people so that they can't take advantage of others in the name of profit. Then if they want profit they can only get it by producing value for their fellow m...
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not reasonable that millions of users be affect - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─Ah, but the libertarians/ancaps/neoliberal-economists sophists have a casuistic explanation for that too! Any such failing of capitalism in the way you describe is only because the government was meddling. If the government was sufficiently small, this would never happen. If it happens, then the gov...
[18:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Tempoarily? - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:44] <exec> 08└─So is that supposed to be temporally or temporarily? #typo
[18:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:29] <exec> 08└─Why? It is far more likely that they will say your rights are violated, but that you suffered no real harm, therefore, you get a token payment to shut up and go away.
[18:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─Go back and re-read Bevins. You are missing the point here... Per Bevins, It is EXACTLY because you don't have to prove HARM that Bevins is interesting. The mere act of having a constitutional right violated is harm enough. Bevins puts the teeth in the constitution that the founders forgot.
[18:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:47] <exec> 08└─I apologize for completely misrepresenting the situation as civilians only shooting soldier's dongs off when most of the damage has been caused by makeshift bombs.
[18:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:52] <exec> 08└─It's sexist if we leave them out.
[18:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Coulda been worse! - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:03] <exec> 08└─Some politicians need a huevos transplant as they have no balls... except h cliton.
[18:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:It's called Greenland - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:32] <exec> 08└─I knew this is Jr. High school in the 70's. Is our education system really this bad? Apparently it was in the 70's...
[18:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Be the change you want to see... - 06Greenland Was Once Ice Free - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:43] <exec> 08└─That should say decreased albedo, of course.
[18:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Medium dot Com - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:40] <exec> 08└─Exclamation points
[18:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:OMG! - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:08] <exec> 08└─<overanalyze> Actually, ASCII has 127. It's 7 bits, not 8. And 33 of those are unprintable control codes, so we're down to 94. Depending on whether you consider uppercase and lowercase different letters, that would bring us down to 68. If we reasonably don't consider space or underscore letters, 66....
[18:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:35] <exec> 08└─For the discussion, I'll discuss 3 categories of applications: 1. Brochure-ware: public-facing sites or applications that want to present a pretty or fashionable style for marketing reasons. 2. Business-oriented (CRUD) applications that want to look professional and up-to-date, but a bit less concer...
[18:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I disagree - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:51] <exec> 08└─Wrong. QM is as deterministic as Newtonian mechanics, it's just that underlying variable (say the wave function) cannot be observed empirically. Since we cannot fully determine the initial condition, we cannot fully predict the future outcome - best we can do is to estimate the outcome statistically...
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[19:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─The story is an interesting read, and documents how easy it was to be callously abandoned in that day and age. (Not nearly as callous as being sold into slavery by your own disaffected relatives, mind you!).
[19:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:34] <exec> 08└─It is historical fact that they were making slaves of each other long before the Europeans arrived. It was rather standard practice in tribal warfare to either enslave the losers or wipe them out entirely.
[19:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:36] <exec> 08└─inter-tribal warfare != "by your own disaffected relatives"
[19:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:38] <exec> 08└─but aren't we all relatives to some extent ...
[19:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Surely a hook for a TV show - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:40] <exec> 08└─I'm sure we'll soon get to learn how "this unforgiving island is a challenge for the most experienced survivalists, with deadly poisonous things everywhere and disease-inflected bugs swarming our poor candidates and filming crew" Also, should we feel good or bad for the boy's dad, who obviously was...
[19:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Surely a hook for a TV show - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:42] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the TV show, since there are permanent residents (French Government for the most part). Also, this story may be just about totally unknown in the US, due to our understandable focus on the build up to the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War during this period. Its wa...
[19:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Sunk? Sank? - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:43] <exec> 08└─crashed into a reef and sunk
[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sunk? Sank? - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, he should of, but irregardless of that, your a grammer natzi.
[19:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Demand free (as in libre) hardware and software - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:54] <exec> 08└─And how do you know that your Arduino / Rasberry Pi doesn't have a backdoor? Broadcom is suddenly a great, anti-establishment company?
[19:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:smart customers vs stupid customers - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:59] <exec> 08└─It is very simple to write other people's code. "Can't you just . . .?" Suppose their new code had a conditional to check for each of their own bulbs to handle them differently: if {philips_type_1) then do something else if (philips_type_2) then do something different . . . else i...
[19:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:smart customers vs stupid customers - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:00] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure they would have stated whether this was the case. Also, bad coding practice to not have a general fallback.
[19:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:smart customers vs stupid customers - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:02] <exec> 08└─In what world do people have to call tech support TO PUT IN A LIGHT BULB? I can't stand all the "smart" features everywhere nowadays. I mean in the past, you got in your car and drove away. Now, you get in your car, it won't start because the door is ajar, it won't start because the seat belt isn't...
[19:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:The ruling class - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:18] <exec> 08└─Much needed renewable energy
[19:36:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NickFortune [3267] 02"dangerous experiment with wind energy" - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─He's got a point. I mean you never know when one of those air currents will melt down and then BOOM! The whole of Scotland could be covered with air. I mean, have these people really thought this through?
[19:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:An American Thing? - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─What is it that American's (obviously not all Americans) seem to have against these projects?
[19:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:35] <exec> 08└─I thought Trump was the wind farm.
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:No its not ok. - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:54] <exec> 08└─True I don't get to control Brazil or Brazilians. But if I am a Brazilian it's not right for other people to tell me what I can and can't do.
[19:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:the official excuse - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:57] <exec> 08└─It also uses your data plan where ever possible, and abandons the telco sms layer. Whatsapp is basicly a repackaging [wikipedia.org] of XMPP (jabber) to intentionally add some incompatibilities with the standard protocol including a non standard (and totally in-effective) encryption layer. It is sto...
[19:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:not reasonable that millions of users be affect - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:03] <exec> 08└─The company is not only too big to fail, it's too big to punish.
[19:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:not reasonable that millions of users be affect - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:04] <exec> 08└─Easy way to fine them without affecting operations is to issue shares, distributed to the victims. Doesn't affect the company's cash flow or profit and loss, just the share price.
[19:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:not reasonable that millions of users be affect - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─the inertia of the company
[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Verification of ISO for the paranoid - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─except is the original data was replaced with a backdoor'ed one. then everyone is helping to propagate that 'this one is a good one' even though it isn't I only trust the GPG sig.
[19:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02FFS! - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─I JUST put 1.7 on a friends flash drive a couple days ago. Grrrrr.....
[19:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:FFS! - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:25] <exec> 08└─I JUST put 1.7 on a friends flash drive a couple days ago. Grrrrr.....
[19:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:00] <exec> 08└─Our law is based on the idea that it is better for 10 guilty men to go free than to imprison one innocent, so I don't see the problem.
[19:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:15] <exec> 08└─"For meritorious conduct in battle, here is the 10" upgrade"
[19:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:16] <exec> 08└─"For meritorious conduct in battle, here is the 10" upgrade"
[19:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Organ donor... - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:40] <exec> 08└─Well,, now you can rise from the dead.
[19:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03lrmo [838] (Score:1) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:36] <exec> 08└─Also, there are just certain sounds in certain languages that English speakers really have a hard time recognizing. My wife is Serbian, and they have like five ways to say what sounds to me like "ch" (depending on the diacritical mark above the "c"). She tells me that the inability to recognize thos...
[19:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:05] <exec> 08└─Except that WYSIWYG doesn't work either and does have surprises. Some people with poor eye sight require larger fonts and that alone means everyone won't see the same thing. Then there are those who are fully blind. Again, the website is a different experience for them. As for me, it drives me nuts...
[19:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:40] <exec> 08└─If you have a mobile phone that's on, you're already tracked. If you have a laptop with wifi, the NSA can probably track you if they wanted to. If you have a car with a license plate and you drive in certain areas, you're already tracked. Even if you have a fake license plate you're still being trac...
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[20:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Geography - 06Revealed: PRESTON, the UK's Surveillance Facility in London - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:38] <exec> 08└─Sigh PRESTON is no where near LONDON, it's like 200 miles up the WCML.
[20:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Geography - 06Revealed: PRESTON, the UK's Surveillance Facility in London - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:39] <exec> 08└─That's what they WANT you to think!
[20:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Geography - 06Revealed: PRESTON, the UK's Surveillance Facility in London - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:41] <exec> 08└─Located inside the riverside headquarters of the Security Service, MI5, in Thames House, PRESTON
[20:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nothing from Nothing Leaves Nothing - 06Revealed: PRESTON, the UK's Surveillance Facility in London - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─Ya gotta have something - B. PRESTON
[20:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:53] <exec> 08└─Participating in slavery and/or genocide is abhorrent and disgraceful regardless of how many steps are involved and the nuances of 'who started it'. Slavery exists today as it did before America and days of European Empires. It's all the same, it's disgusting and people of all races and nationalitie...
[20:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:54] <exec> 08└─Exactly, it's no less abhorrent but stop acting like all the colored people were living in harmony for millenia before white men showed up and invented it.
[20:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:56] <exec> 08└─Nice strawman you've got there.
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:58] <exec> 08└─> Do your research. Go google it! On the internet that's how you say "I'm wrong but my ego is too fragile to admit it!"
[20:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sunk? Sank? - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:03] <exec> 08└─That's Nazi, not natzi.
[20:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Sunk? Sank? - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:05] <exec> 08└─Its "thats". Thank s.
[20:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sunk? Sank? - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:06] <exec> 08└─Thats as a relative possessive pronoun is sloppy English, but it does mean the same as that's. If you want to be proper about it, it would be that's.
[20:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sunk? Sank? - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:08] <exec> 08└─You gave him a pass on "should of", "irregardless", and "your" though?
[20:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sunk? Sank? - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:11] <exec> 08└─I guess it was written by the sort of morons who get other things backwards like "drink driving."
[20:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03BrockDockdale [5983] (Score:2, Insightful) 02I thought... - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:13] <exec> 08└─...this was going to be an inspiring and heartwarming story of how separate groups would learn to work together, shunning the norms of a society thousands of miles away, disregarding the opinions of a public they might never see again... how boundaries of race and class would dissolve when people's...
[20:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03BrockDockdale [5983] (Score:1) 02Re:Ungracious? - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah to me this "ungracious explanation" sounds pretty level-headed and certainly way less hysterical than this summary and all the petty outrage. Doesn't seem all that "embarrassing" or like "backing down" from anything either. There's enough real drama in the world without making it where it doesn...
[20:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Ungracious? - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:20] <exec> 08└─I think their device was advertised to be standard compliant. For it not to be complaint with the standards as advertising is false advertising. For them to claim that it's compliant with the standards and then to make them no longer compatible after people purchased it is not acceptable. Had they a...
[20:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:whoops - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:24] <exec> 08└─Your average consumer doesn't give a shit though, and throws money at the company with the most advertising. The average person seems to have a very limited ability to extrapolate what their behaviour will result in in the long term.
[20:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:smart customers vs stupid customers - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:30] <exec> 08└─It is weird how the corporate apologists come out of the wood-work on stories like these. I wonder how much overlap there is with other groups who side with power by pretending the powerful are victims.
[20:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A disadvantage with standards - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:33] <exec> 08└─I think this is a disadvantage with standards. Progress moves more slowly. It's easier for a company to add new features to something by itself but doing so may break certain standards causing certain devices to be incompatible with other devices. Trying to stay in line with a standard to keep your...
[20:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:A disadvantage with standards - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:35] <exec> 08└─Version the standard, and make the standard backwards compatible where possible. The original lock-out was an Apple-esque dick-more on the part of Phillips. Between Apple, Phillips, and Sony, some of these companies seem to think being a dick is a contest.
[20:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too Late... - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:37] <exec> 08└─Damage control isn't going to work. From now on I won't be buying any of Philips products.
[20:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Smart bulbs are a dumb idea - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:39] <exec> 08└─I've got a switch on my wall. I flip it or slide it, I get light. Magic. I flip it back, my current drops to 0. If I go to the other end of the world, I insert a timer on an LED bulb and drive off. You have a zigbee-enabled light, tied into your home internet, you can turn it on from your phone, and...
[20:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Feels - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─> Because his mother was born in Scotland, he might be able to claim UK citizenship. I'm pretty sure that Trump is no true Scotsman.
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wall - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:09] <exec> 08└─An 3 meter tall mound would need a permit too.
[20:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03BrockDockdale [5983] (Score:1) 02I believe Nelson said it best... - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─ha ha! [youtube.com]
[20:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Playing with fire - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:24] <exec> 08└─Every Brazilian knows what's the real reason for the shutdown: pro-impeachment movements were organizing through WhatsApp. The government wanted to crack down on the organizers of protests, WhatsApp didn't collaborate. The president already admitted publicly she'd rather watch the country burn to th...
[20:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Playing with fire - 06Brazil Tempoarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─Well, the motive attributed to this move didn't pass the sniff-test for me so I spent a couple seconds on Google news. The rest of the media is reporting the cause of the shutdown as: A São Paulo judge ordered the country’s telecommunications carriers to block WhatsApp for 48 hours, beginni...
[20:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:38] <exec> 08└─Personally I'd love to see any government official who knowingly violates the constitution to be charged with treason, on the theory that a democracy's authority stems from the people, and therefore any violation of the contract that bestows that authority is a direct assault on the integrity of the...
[20:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah but the officer version only looks good and doesn't do any actual work : P
[20:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Medium dot Com - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:55] <exec> 08└─I do English English, not US English, so it's exclamation mark.
[20:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why Chinese is so damn hard. - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:25] <exec> 08└─This is the most complete description of why Chinese is such a terrible language to learn: Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard, by David Moser [pinyin.info]. Some interesting excerpts: After finishing the article I had a sudden discouraging realization: Having never studied a day of Spanish, I could read a...
[20:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bugs Bunny and the Classics - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:39] <exec> 08└─You're probably remembering "Spy Hunter" from 1983, which used a version of Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" as its theme music. Very much bass-heavy intro followed by brass. Personally, I really enjoy the version of it from the Blues Brothers soundtrack. Go take a listen and see if it sounds familiar t...
[20:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Getting the M$ stuff you want - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:38] <exec> 08└─it seems that having a Visduh install is the superior way to get the pile^W stack of MICROS~1 stuff you want What Windows stuff would I want? And you realise it's been 20 years since that name was generally seen.
[20:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank you - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I was thinking it was probably about the energy of emitted photons, and it sounds like that's the same thing.
[20:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:The halting problem only applies to Turing mach - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:57] <exec> 08└─I agree that it should run about half a million cycles. But if you have a true random number generator you don't know for sure. It's a vanishingly small chance, but execution could outlast the universe.
[20:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 2234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, aether theory was a very different beast - as I recall it was born of the assumption that EM waves must be waves *in* something. It didn't actually explain anything, it just filled a gap we assumed existed. Contrast that with Dark Matter and Energy, which offer explanations for several obs...
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[21:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Geography - 06Revealed: PRESTON, the UK's Surveillance Facility in London - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:38] <exec> 08└─Evildoers, remember to wake up early: Google says the MI5 opens at 9AM. There's no such information provided for MI6.
[21:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:54] <exec> 08└─What color is it?
[21:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:56] <exec> 08└─Oy vey! Feel guilty, goyim! Only the Whites ever had slaves! Remember the 6,000,000!
[21:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:58] <exec> 08└─They were enslaved by their own people, and sold. I have no white guilt as I never owned slaves, and neither did my parents. If you have some defect in your life take responsibility for it.
[21:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:59] <exec> 08└─I don't know that that happened in Africa, but I believe there are records of that happening in the North of the Black Sea back when the Athenians were first starting a business importing slaves.
[21:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I thought... - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:10] <exec> 08└─Muh humanist ideals! We're all the same, go against your natural instincts! It's all Western society's fault, goy!
[21:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I thought... - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:12] <exec> 08└─That would've been a movie.
[21:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I thought... - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:14] <exec> 08└─Something along those lines sounds like a great Star Trek: TNG episode. There's a reason I like that show so much: the crewpeople depicted on it are not human, not like us. The real story about Star Trek is that the "Mirror Universe" you see in some episodes, where the humans are basically evil bast...
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02No good thing lasts forever.... - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:34] <exec> 08└─I noticed that phenomenon picking up several years ago on /., it's a shame that they have found SoylentNews. :-) I figured that the Big Corp.'s PR Dept.'s had finally found a chink in the 'tech-savvy' crowd.(or they were hoping/trying to...YMMV) *sigh* Oh well, it was nice while it lasted...
[21:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Smart bulbs are a dumb idea - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:41] <exec> 08└─intra. home intranet, or just a home network. (these things are grating to my psyche, sort of like how its "Mordor" with a "d"...) internet is interconnecting networks that are combined somehow--via multiple routers not under your control, marketing hopes, dreams, promises of ponies, onhubs, persona...
[21:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Smart bulbs are a dumb idea - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:43] <exec> 08└─Shoot me for forgetting the 's... "your home's Internet [connection]", hence the Timbuktu line. "protocols and stacks and queues" could have been perceived as an indicator that I know what an internet thingy kinda is. Sure you could keep your bulbs only on your intranet, but "they" tell you how grea...
[21:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─In your defense, he is a blowhard. It seems to me, that with his hair, he should not bring up the subject of eyesores. Just sayin'....
[21:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02What a Fool - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 2432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:23] <exec> 08└─I grew up near that beach, and I used to play on it as a small boy. I still have friends in that area, and I remember the controversy surrounding the golf course when plans fir it were first submitted. I left the area and moved to England for work when I was 21. When Scotland got its own devolved go...
[21:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a Fool - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:25] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they could compromise by siting the wind turbines on the golf course. The view of the sea would be unspoilt, construction and maintenance costs would be lessened, and Mr. Trump would make money off the lease.
[21:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:What a Fool - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:26] <exec> 08└─There's the flaw in your plan right there: Trump being able to make more money out of his personal arrogance :-)
[21:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Tempoarily? - 06Brazil Temporarily Shuts Down WhatsApp, and Other Social Networks Could be Next. - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:00] <exec> 08└─#thanks
[21:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Verification of ISO for the paranoid - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:14] <exec> 08└─if you just download the torrent and the hashing and checksummage will be handled by the torrent client.
[21:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It actually helps to have it posted here - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:15] <exec> 08└─A suitably able adversary could deliver a previously prepared copy of the site the the checksum changed, but there's no way they've feasibly prepared a false copy of this page in advance. Sure they could do DPI and sed the real checksum out for their one, but that's a lot harder to actually do than...
[21:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FFS! - 06TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015) - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:22] <exec> 08└─protip: tails comes out a few hours after a new stable firefox release (which itself is every six weeks). nowadays tails will check to see if there is a new version and will alert your friend. I believe you can even update it without having to grab a new .iso and stick it on the flash drive. don't k...
[21:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:One Nation under Dollar - 06U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: 9-11 Detainees Can Sue Federal Officials - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─I understand the sentiment (vengeance-based justice seems to rule much of the US legal system) but it would not be inappropriate. - Firstly, the costs involved would be huge to have one or more additional legal cases attached to every event. - Every time this happened a huge "blame game" woul...
[21:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:14] <exec> 08└─WMDs I was like meh. However, THESE ATROCITIES MUST NOT STAND!
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:18] <exec> 08└─AKA: "The Purple Rod"
[21:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Priorities? - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:33] <exec> 08└─I think you need to reevaluate people's biological motivators. They are incredibly strong to the point of insanity at times. Not having a penis means you are "not a man" - you would have to pee sitting down. It means you cannot procreate -at least not naturally and assuming you still have functionin...
[21:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Organ donor... - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:44] <exec> 08└─Just like Osiris. Who also had a penis transplant.
[21:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Knock me down with a feather! - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:58] <exec> 08└─Well..Senator Palpatine might have filled that role, but that would have been a long time ago.
[21:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Signal by Open Whisper Systems - 06Silent Circle Encrypted Phone App Cleared for U.S. Gov't Use - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:02] <exec> 08└─Or you could set up your own XMPP server and stop all these companies forking it! Secure comms are more useful using a federated, open protocol. Anyway, whisper is only xmpp with a couple of minor changes. Perfect forward security is already part of the spec. The main change they made was to ellipti...
[21:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:11] <exec> 08└─The assumption that "that stuff must exist to make our equations work" exists, and searching for it, has been a successful one, and a driving force, in physics and chemistry for centuries. I highly recommend reading "The Neutrino" by Asimov. While it might seem dated (written in the 1960s, QCD is ki...
[21:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02How do we know it's not a gluino? - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:26] <exec> 08└─That line certainly seems to suggest that this particle is not a gluino, but can anybody offer an explanation as to why that is the assumption? Or was the statement possibly taken from before the new particle was detected? It seems to me that "We just found some evidence suggesting there may be an u...
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[22:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:37] <exec> 08└─Notice, I didn't say it was a better film, just much more though provoking. They should've spent a little more effort on the "aerial view" of the city, though. Star Wars was just a boilerplate science fiction plot made with Hollywood storytelling values.
[22:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:35:38] <exec> 08└─The thing about Star Wars is that it made that boilerplate. And I don't mean "It was an early movie to fit the model". I mean George Lucas was literally one of the first people to apply the Hero's Journey as a generic template for a script. Believe it or not, action flicks up until that time, awful...
[22:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:35:39] <exec> 08└─Well, if you go back and watch "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), you'll see the same plot elements. An interesting, but ragtag bunch "heroes" is assembled to defend the village against the mighty enemy, which is led by a charismatic but vicious chief. The heroes bicker among themselves, lose, and then...
[22:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:35:41] <exec> 08└─I'll agree that Logan's Run was much more of an interesting story, but that is why it came in behind Star Wars in popularity. The public(in general) just want entertained by the 'good guys winning and getting the girl', while the 'bad guys are dead or gnashing their teeth in frustration and humiliat...
[22:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02so the real question is... - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─why does it cost $20 to see a damn movie now?
[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:so the real question is... - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─Because americans are so fat we can fit fewer of us in a theater.
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02U.S. - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─"That means about 230 million people went to see the film, slightly more than the population of the U.S. at the time." So, I'm a US citizen, but I watched the movie in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Was I counted? Or, was I counted twice? Also, with the currency exchange at the time, I think the movie ticket...
[22:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kylo Ren murders his father, Han Solo - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:49] <exec> 08└─Speaking of Star Wars, did you know that Han Solo dies at the end of The Force Awakens? By his own son too, Kylo Ren. Pretty brutal.
[22:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kylo Ren murders his father, Han Solo - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:35:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and that whole scene with Jar Jar was totally mindblowing.
[22:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kylo Ren murders his father, Han Solo - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:35:53] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? Jar Jar is blowing Han Solo in the final scene????
[22:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good... - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:54] <exec> 08└─The fewer people that fund and support this crap, the less money there will be for the MPAA and companies like Disney to erode the public domain and sue fans for taking photos of their stupid collectible toys. I hope they all go bankrupt...
[22:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I saw the original on opening night - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:56] <exec> 08└─Wasn't planning to, but I carpooled with 2 guys to night school (welding). We were on our way home when we went by the theater. "Hey guys, wanna see Star Wars?" "sure, why not". So I got off the freeway, we did a couple more joints, bought our tickets, and enjoyed the midnight showing.
[22:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Geography - 06Revealed: PRESTON, the UK's Surveillance Facility in London - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:00] <exec> 08└─It's GRIM oop NORTH lad.
[22:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:17] <exec> 08└─Go google it! On the internet that's how you say "I'm wrong but my ego is too fragile to admit it!"
[22:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:18] <exec> 08└─> It can also mean "I'm not going to do your homework for you!" Then why are you posting trying to convince us of anything in the first place? > You do realize that 90% of the responsibility to learn is on the student, right? Ok, this student just took that responsibility and learned that there is z...
[22:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:23] <exec> 08└─This still happens to this day with unwanted daughters. They are traded away for goods as unwilling brides then all manner of evils happen to them once they are out the door. The slave trade is alive and well in the same place it was invented.
[22:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:25] <exec> 08└─Oh, grow up. Here, have a heaping helping of white privileged microaggression. It has been documented that the slave trade flourished in Africa well before Whitey pulled himself out of the Dark Ages. Africans and Arabs traded openly, and freely. That slave trade continues today. Slaves were often so...
[22:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:27] <exec> 08└─might ease white guilt
[22:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sunk? Sank? - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:35] <exec> 08└─Sankificated. -W
[22:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02On a more serious note.... - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:41] <exec> 08└─I really like your summary, it explains the 'out of touch with reality: How humans REALLY act' reaction I frequently felt while watching. Thanks for the POV. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of things/concepts of the Star Trek Universe I really like! (disclaimer: I am a big fan of the whole Star...
[22:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:I thought... - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:42] <exec> 08└─And it might've been if it'd been called Gilligan's Island, not 'Sand Island'...
[22:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I thought... - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:44] <exec> 08└─Careful not step in bawana.
[22:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Ungracious? - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:52] <exec> 08└─What the hell does Apple have to do with this? They do not make any lightbulbs.
[22:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Ungracious? - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:54] <exec> 08└─sounds like you need to read up on the story. [hackaday.com] The short version is that, ZigBee standards be damned, your future non-Philips lights won’t be allowed to associate with the Philips bridge. Your GE and Osram bulbs aren’t Friends of Hue. DIY RGB strips in your lighting mix? Not Frien...
[22:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Smart bulbs are a dumb idea - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:16] <exec> 08└─I have 5 lamps and 4 bulbs in a ceiling fan fixture in my master bedroom. So 5 switches, all over the room. OR I can pick up my phone, swipe down to get the gadgets, and click a scene button. Or just call out "Alexa, turn off the lights". In the winter the lights come up slowly in the morning As for...
[22:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Keurig - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:17] <exec> 08└─Backlash coming from DRM, sounds like Keurig. Keurig was recently sold, the stock has been awful since 11/2014. Is that b/c of the DRM in Keurig 2.0? Can somebody elaborate?
[22:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Keurig - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─The DRM was the nail in the coffin, but the real reason was the expiring patent allowing competition in the k-cup market. When any company can now produce coffee pods, undercut the Keurig price and probably taste the same or better... well, your business model just imploded.
[22:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Appendage - 06Wounded U.S. Soldiers to Receive Penis Transplants - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:51] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I do see how placing an IED that is likely to destroy someone's genitals is similar to shooting someone in the groin. Perhaps you can see how placing anti-personnel mines, which also tend to wound the genitalia, is similar to placing an IED. The U.S. has laid such mines, and as a non-sign...
[22:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:I will never speak Chinese - 06A Simple Explanation of Chinese Characters - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:13] <exec> 08└─You would think a couple of countries with over a thousand years of history togethr would have blended more.
[22:44:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02The word is that Edge isn't even "new" - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 512 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:14] <exec> 08└─...nor "open". The Shameless Openwashing of Rebranded Internet Explorer, "Edge" [techrights.org] Despite all the openwashing, 'Edge' is proprietary and standards-hostile. It is "cancer on the Web", to use a popular characterisation of Internet Explorer, whose extremely bad reputation 'Edge' is mere...
[22:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The halting problem only applies to Turing mach - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:01] <exec> 08└─A true random number generator would be getting input from the outside world. Of course you would not be able to prove whether or not it halts by examining only the system itself.
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[23:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Publicity - 06FBI Arrests Shkreli of the Drug Price Hike Fame - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:35] <exec> 08└─Whoever said there is no such thing as bad publicity? If the guy hadn't been sociopathically confident that hurting the weakest among us would go unremarked he never would have drawn the attention of the FBI in the first place.
[23:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02No pity for the wicked - 06FBI Arrests Shkreli of the Drug Price Hike Fame - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:37] <exec> 08└─All I can say is: Good riddance
[23:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Channeling the Simpsons.... - 06FBI Arrests Shkreli of the Drug Price Hike Fame - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:39] <exec> 08└─"Ha Ha!" - Nelson ( I really do love seeing karma in action. Couldn't have happened to a nicer Wall Street sociopath )
[23:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02priceless - 06FBI Arrests Shkreli of the Drug Price Hike Fame - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:41] <exec> 08└─two LP records [wikipedia.org]: $2 million bail: $5 million living large: priceless
[23:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score:1) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:35:52] <exec> 08└─But that was simply an Americanised retelling of the Akira Kurosawa original called The Seven Samurai. However, that doesn't mean that hollywood didn't get some movies right. Just that it hadn't become an established 'formula' that gets applied to nearly every single movie that comes out of the majo...
[23:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:35:54] <exec> 08└─Stars Wars is not The Seven Samurai retold. Not even close - that was a town that hired seven warriors to defend them against bandits that had been exploiting the crap out of the town with a sort of mafia/protection racket thing. No, the Kurosawa movie that Stars Wars copied is The Hidden Fortress....
[23:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:35:56] <exec> 08└─The Magnificent Seven was based on an Akira Kurosawa movie called Seven Samurai. Star Wars was heavily influenced by another Akira Kurosawa movie called Hidden Fortress. That's probably why they share certain elements.
[23:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:35:58] <exec> 08└─I won't argue with you that big budget movies have to fit the hero saga mold to get funded, particularly after the success of Star Wars, but I won't go as far as to say that Star Wars made that boilerplate. Even at the time it was called a "space western" for a reason - it fit the classic western mo...
[23:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:00] <exec> 08└─It also had naked Jenny Agutter.
[23:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:02] <exec> 08└─A more insightful comment has never been made around here ;) Totally agree. That woman was 10 times Carrie Fisher. At a minimum. Maybe only 3 times when Carrie was in the bikini, and closer to 12 when Carrie was on Hoth.
[23:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Logan's Run was much more interesting - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:05] <exec> 08└─And don't forget Farrah Fawcett! She was in it for 30 seconds or so, but it was before she was discovered. Not long after she was discovered and when Logan's Run hit TV, our local independent station aired the movie. And every commercial break had the 10-second promo: "Stay tuned for more Logan's Ru...
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[23:36:07] <exec> 08└─Going to agree with you on Logan's run being a more thought provoking movie, and in some ways, a much better one. The acting was great, and they cast it well. However, the Star Wars universe really stayed with you. It may be too harsh to say it was boilerplate. I dunno really. The two movies were ve...
[23:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so the real question is... - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:11] <exec> 08└─It doesn't cost me anything. Well nothing over and above what I pay for internet access. Why do you pay $20 to see a damn movie?
[23:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so the real question is... - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:13] <exec> 08└─I largely stopped going to movies back in the 80s when, overnight, all the theaters jacked their ticket prices by a factor of two. It went from, like, $3.50 to $7.00. What am I talking about? Clearly the industry trade group [natoonline.org] proves me wrong. But then why did N.Y.C. Mayor Koch try to...
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[23:36:16] <exec> 08└─I hope I wasn't counted as a juvenile.
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kylo Ren murders his father, Han Solo - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─It's Han's death wish. "Jar Jar, please... fellate me like you used to... for the last time." Powerful stuff.
[23:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Is Something Wrong With Me? - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:23] <exec> 08└─Here's what I remember as a 9 or 10 y/o kid -- Star Wars was OK, but I loved Star Trek The Motion Picture. Honestly, I've never been able to get into Star Wars. I did see the remaining two movies, but on VHS, and only once each. While they were OK, they just never sparked my imagination. As corny as...
[23:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Is Something Wrong With Me? - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is something wrong with you, but let's stick to what you're saying right now.... While I can't see how those two movies didn't spark your imagination, I can completely understand why you loved the first Star Trek movie as much as you did. That movie was beyond awesome at the time, and hon...
[23:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Something Wrong With Me? - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:28] <exec> 08└─From Big Bang Theory [wordpress.com]: Sheldon: You know, in difficult moments like this, I often turn to a force greater than myself. Amy: Religion? Sheldon: Star Trek. Did you see Star Trek: The Motion Picture? Amy: No. Sheldon: Don’t. It’s terrible.
[23:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02What a concept... - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:30] <exec> 08└─Let's consider a place where they count the number of tickets sold, regardless of value. It's still not completely fair because the number of theaters, alternatives, and the population aren't the same, but it's a lot more accurate when it comes to how popular a movie is. To the desperation of US-sty...
[23:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a concept... - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:32] <exec> 08└─I notice that no black-and-white film qualified for that last list.
[23:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:What a concept... - 06Star Wars (1977) Continues to Hold a Record That Will Not be Beaten in 2015 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:34] <exec> 08└─Fanny by Gaslight Wow, a porn film in the top listing
[23:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:03] <exec> 08└─It's not really a straw man when so many people forget to take into account nuances like this.
[23:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:07] <exec> 08└─You mean something like this? http://lmgtfy.com [lmgtfy.com]
[23:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:09] <exec> 08└─Do my research for me.
[23:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:13] <exec> 08└─They were enslaved by their own people, and sold.
[23:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:18] <exec> 08└─> you're not going to see anybody but deluded 'white' social justice warriors feeling the guilt associated with their self-hate. > I'm a 40+ year old 'white' boy. I don't feel guilty for jack diddly shit Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
[23:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:20] <exec> 08└─Wow, yes, no one can genuinely disagree. If they disagree, that means they actually agree.
[23:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:23] <exec> 08└─He didn't just disagree, he vociferously denied his own culpability when no one accused him of culpability in the first place. That's what the Shakespeare quote means my illiterate friend.
[23:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Historical revisionism. - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:25] <exec> 08└─He didn't just disagree, he vociferously denied his own culpability when no one accused him of culpability in the first place.
[23:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surely a hook for a TV show - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:28] <exec> 08└─Also, should we feel good or bad for the boy's dad, who obviously was still enjoying a desert island with 6 women and died less than 17 month before rescue came?
[23:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On a more serious note.... - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:41] <exec> 08└─> one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter Maybe you don't know this, but that quote is from the 1975 novel Harry's Game about the troubles in northern ireland. Much more palatable when the freedom fighters are white christians fighting white christians.
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:On a more serious note.... - 06What Happened When Slaves and Free Men Were Shipwrecked Together - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:42] <exec> 08└─First off, Khan was a genetically modified psychopath. That was the problem, and why they outlawed the science. All the 'super men', for some strange reason, kept concluding the best idea was to kill everyone in the Federation and then bring their obviously superior genetics to the rest of the galax...
[23:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ungracious? - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:57] <exec> 08└─Some of the hardware is more compatible than other hardware, but all of it responds to "light up" commands. Pretty colors may or may not display as Philips intended, but the lights light up. That should be where Philip's concern begins and ends.
[23:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ungracious? - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:59] <exec> 08└─Technically it meets the definition of ungracious, because it was unwelcome and unacceptable as a statement. That being said though, it's probably only because they refused to acknowledge their previous actions were bad. IMO, that was the ungracious part. "The change was made in good faith". I'm gue...
[23:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No good thing lasts forever.... - 06Follow-Up: Philips Backs Down Over Light Bulb DRM - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:13] <exec> 08└─I doubt it has anything to do with corporate PR soylent isn't big enough to warrant the effort.
[23:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An American Thing? - 06British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt to Block Wind Farm - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:56] <exec> 08└─> To be fair, there are some suggestions that wind turbines are harmful to birds & bats, That is much less of an issue a couple of miles off shore. Sure there are some sea birds and the bases of the windmills will surely turn into artificial reefs attracting birds that eat the fish living on the ree...
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