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[00:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bet on Musky - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:20] <exec> 08└─Musky is much sexier than Pukin.
[00:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score:1) 02Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:22] <exec> 08└─SpaceX is new and cheap. Others lag big time, being government-operated and/or government-tied. Russia can never get their pricing right - mainly because of the way Russian military industry operates. They have a complex mesh of subsidies, cross-subsidies and political pricing for everything even re...
[00:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:33] <exec> 08└─What?
[00:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:39] <exec> 08└─Well, they jolly well better find a way of home porting the lot in Bristol. Sane people in Scotland shall be headed towards their own "Brexit" from the UK. Alba shall be abandoning those Tory twats. Sassanach Saxons, the lot. Always were Germans, if you scrape down deep enough, all stiff knees and s...
[00:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:the other UK - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:42] <exec> 08└─Yes. Left them no way for them to fend off US carpetbaggers and CIA-fueled "popular revolutions".
[00:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:the other UK - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:44] <exec> 08└─Countries the US has invaded: Afghanistan, Iraq Countries the US has avoided: North Korea See any connections beyond big bad Red China?
[00:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:the other UK - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:46] <exec> 08└─They had a revolution and coup d'état in 2014 and there's been political instability ever since. In those circumstances, I see a likelihood that nuclear weapons (had they been retained) could be mishandled. I don't think you're implying that Euromaidan would have been avoided, if only the Ukraine w...
[00:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Question ? - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:48] <exec> 08└─What is the general view of our European and British members of Mutual Assured Destruction line of defense. Even with Brexit, GB is a strong member of NATO and its' location ensures its' strategic significance in world military and political 'jousting'
[00:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Question ? - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:51] <exec> 08└─Yes. Scotland should also definitely depart from Oceania, when they detach from Airstrip One.
[00:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02The problem is bigger. - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:25] <exec> 08└─The problem is bigger than just hitting a bottom limit on shrinking. The bigger problem is they have hit an upper limit on clock speed before you get into space heater territory, an upper limit on how many transistors you can put into a single CPU core before you pass so far beyond the point of dimi...
[00:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:"Greater Good" vs "Market Manipulation" - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:46] <exec> 08└─Has there been a month without a critical flaw in Flash Player in the past two years? When is it right to simply say, "ENOUGH!" Adobe has made it clear they do not plan to invest the resources needed to make it safe, they are in fact trying to migrate their content creators away from Flash. It is ju...
[00:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:59] <exec> 08└─Especially for the majority of Americans that think the Democrats are too far right.
[00:29:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:00] <exec> 08└─Nothing will get better by voting for evil
[00:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:27] <exec> 08└─You made my point for me. All of your reasons are precisely what I said, seeing them as tools, Want to know something scary? You think about guns more often than gun owners do.
[00:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kenny Blankenship [5712] (Score:1) 02"...a no confidence vote he was expected to lose." - 06Prime Minister of Nepal Resigns - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:41] <exec> 08└─Is that a double negative?
[00:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kenny Blankenship [5712] (Score:1) 02Re:Nostaligia for the Glory Days? - 06"You have died of dysentery" -- The Oregon Trail in Computer Class - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:47] <exec> 08└─Two phones, you say? https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
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[01:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:29] <exec> 08└─Boeing and friends will just make sure that The Good People of DC ensure that the crazy newcomer from a Blue State doesn't get the juiciest classified contracts. Once the profit margin is made on these, they can compete at the low end and point out to SpaceX that slim margins are a dangerous way to...
[01:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:31] <exec> 08└─The danger here is that SpaceX has had a long history of conspicuous success. The more successful they are, the harder it becomes to choose favourites like that. In the short term SpaceX is stealing oxygen in the commercial space launch business, which lets them grow much faster than their competito...
[01:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed, they already lit a fire under the ULA's [wikipedia.org] ass. SpaceX are the AMD to Russia/ULA's Intel.
[01:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:35] <exec> 08└─I'd argue it's more than that. SpaceX has clearly stated their goals, which are far beyond LEO, and are acting appropriately to realize that future. In order to have giant rockets transporting bulk materials to Mars, they realized from the start the existing paradigms weren't going to work. Essentia...
[01:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03morpheus [1989] (Score:2) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:37] <exec> 08└─the real takeaway is that when sleazy corporations realize they're on a losing path, they start to play dirty - competing not on the market, but through bribery and biased legislation. I sincerely hope SpaceX can dodge or crush any of these efforts, because it seems like that's about the only thing...
[01:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:39] <exec> 08└─I'll suggest that SpaceX is cheap because they have actually put a production line in place. Not ones & twos, but a real line. The Dragon 9 first stage uses 9 engines + one for the second stage. When I toured the Hawthorne plant (a mechE friend works there) in March they were on schedule to turn out...
[01:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Uh huh - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:42] <exec> 08└─Price war between McDonald's and the little restaurant I like to visit with the Michelin star winning chef. I'm all for SpaceX but they still have a lot of homework left to do.
[01:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Interesting horse race - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:44] <exec> 08└─Can an young, upstart capitalist do better than an established infrastructure supported by the state? I though we already answered this with the Cold War. Perhaps this is a refresher lesson. Should be fun to watch. The price for space access should be getting pretty good. I wonder if we are heading...
[01:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:55] <exec> 08└─Heh. I knew this forum still attracted hackers.
[01:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nah the worst case scenario... - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:19] <exec> 08└─Is getting no-fly listed while still in America. Just in time to find out either Trump or Hillary won, and that Russia's threats about cobalt enriched nuclear torpedos wasn't merely posturing...
[01:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yay - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:27] <exec> 08└─The Free Market wins again
[01:24:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02What Moore Giveth Programmers Taketh Away - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:38] <exec> 08└─How many cores does your iToy have? Now how many threads do your apps run? Yeah multithreaded programming is difficult, but then so is singing on the street for tips. I made six bucks just now. Deal with it.
[01:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 2362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:58] <exec> 08└─I thought on this a little more.... By no means am I a weld engineer or materials engineer, but I did some quick references to see the feasibility of welding this new alloy. Gold has a melting point of 1064°C and a boiling point of 2700°C while titanium melts at 1668°C and boils and temperatures...
[01:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:01] <exec> 08└─Personally, I hate the metal taste of steel silverware.
[01:25:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:17] <exec> 08└─She was never suspected of being a rapist. Where did you see that?
[01:25:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:22] <exec> 08└─So then, just to make it clear, you are going on record [...]
[01:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Firefox 48" - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:55] <exec> 08└─The project just spent tens of thousands of dollars to remove all instances of "slave" and "master" from their source code. All the while, market share has plumetted to single digits. I get where you are coming from, but the SJW mentality at Firefox has destroyed a once joble project.
[01:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Autoplay videos - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:00] <exec> 08└─Firefox doesn't seem to come with Flash installed. I still don't have even a standalone flash player on my tablet PC - I have concerns about what it might do to the battery life, and I so rarely need it. Worst-case I just bookmark the tab and watch it on my laptop later (my laptop's battery never la...
[01:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Greater Good" vs "Market Manipulation" - 06Firefox Sets Kill-Flash Schedule - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:12] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that if Adobe really cared, they'd have complained earlier. Instead of doing that, like they did when iOS killed flash, they've just shrugged their shoulders and moved on. I'm sure they secretly cannot wait for flash to die so they can finally put that behind them. After all, it's not like...
[01:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:26] <exec> 08└─Not really, gun control, climate change, energy and economic policy; most Americans aren't right of center on those. If they were, then how do you explain the revolts going on both in the GOP and Democratic base? The only people that really buy into the lunacy are low information voters and the peop...
[01:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:33:08] <exec> 08└─If someone temporarily cuts off the Colorado, it will be back soon, and fast. At that point, the odds are that no-one will cut it off again for a really long long time...
[01:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama to the rescue - 06Guantánamo Prisoner Cleared for Release after 14 Years - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:34:09] <exec> 08└─Obama spent 7.5 years trying to preserve goodwill of his opponents to get stuff from them despite systematic unflinching opposition. He didn't get Gitmo, but he go Iran, Cuba, Obamacare, tax raises, gay acceptance... He could have used the bully pulpit to get Gitmo (call them cowards every day for t...
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[02:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Brilliant - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:24] <exec> 08└─Q: So you got a better idea? A: "New physics". Yeah, that's the ticket. It's "new", you see.
[02:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bet on Musky - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:32] <exec> 08└─Dude, what is your problem? Yeah, he's probably overrated as a genius, but his real genius is having a vision other than “get disgustingly, unimaginably rich off the blood of innocents” and getting shit done. The world would be a better place with more "Egon Musky"s.
[02:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02I thought it was a good price too... - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:43] <exec> 08└─until SpaceX charged me an extra $50 per checked bag. Was I pissed.
[02:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I thought it was a good price too... - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─Huh. Sounds like you're just jealous because the dildo you ended up flying in was larger than the one in your carry-on.
[02:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:01] <exec> 08└─The UK is a member of NATO. She is allied with her former enemies, France and the United States, both of which are nuclear-armed (specifically, both have submarines carrying ballistic missiles). The signatories of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty [cfr.org] declared their intention "to undertake e...
[02:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:27] <exec> 08└─I read somewhere that these were effective if only because the Taliban would avoid sending bomb trucks through those checkpoints. They didn't get the memo either. But they were afraid of them. Placebo Theater. Anti-Tiger rock in my back yard works the same.
[02:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Moore Giveth Programmers Taketh Away - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:42] <exec> 08└─God, how I love your posts.
[02:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02We are so proud of our engineering. - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:07] <exec> 08└─While it is true engineering has achieved many great things, we ain't got nothing on nature's engineering. "Conventional knee and hip implants have to be replaced after about 10 years due to wear and tear." Meanwhile nature provides a self-assembling, self-repairing knee and hip that lasts 60 years...
[02:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:24] <exec> 08└─Clinton and Trump both use the same technique: if asked a question you don't know the answer to, then you answer a question that you do. The difference between a good politician and a bad one is how easy it is to spot that change.
[02:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:30] <exec> 08└─It's a valid double standard. [...] The Dems put themselves out there as the party that works for the common people instead of the ultra-wealthy and big businesses
[02:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:35] <exec> 08└─If you think that's what the revolt in the GOP is about, you are way, way too far from the event to see what's going on. The GOP revolt is about Washington insider people with an R by their name not being conservative. Ponder for a moment how many of Obama's pet bills got through a Republican House...
[02:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:37] <exec> 08└─But yes, I'm the one that's misinterpreting 90% of voters wanting gun control and neither party actually giving out to them.
[02:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:33:22] <exec> 08└─Excellent. Made me laugh when I needed it. Thanks.
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[03:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CP Violations - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:29] <exec> 08└─I thought this article was going to refer to 4-chan or something similar.
[03:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:CP Violations - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:30] <exec> 08└─It's "I Don't Know Shit About Particle Physics but I'm Gonna Comment Anyway: The Discussion."
[03:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:CP Violations - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and?
[03:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Entropic arrow of time - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:36] <exec> 08└─The entropic arrow of time is another way of stating the "past hypothesis." Namely, you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow because entropy was lower yesterday than it was today and it'll be higher still tomorrow. That's basic thermodynamics, which itself is simple statistics. Follow that backwa...
[03:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:52] <exec> 08└─Not to be a stick in the mud here but what in Musk's corporate history makes him so different from those evil corporations?
[03:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Without fake bomb detectors... - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:42] <exec> 08└─How will they detect fake bombs?
[03:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:get a grip, it is size of transissor - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:59] <exec> 08└─You seem to be describing FinFET or what Wikipedia tells me falls into the more general category of multigate devices [wikipedia.org], which is a response to the fact that modern gates are small enough that electrons just jump over them if you don't do anything special.
[03:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like they're describing hardness - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:14] <exec> 08└─I thought the development in artificial joints was going toward ceramics? Lower heat conductivity reducing discomfort when changing outside temps and generally closer in properties to bone? Ceramics are being made in clever ways to increase fracture toughness.
[03:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:19] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about metallurgy, but I think sintering (fusing metallic powder) might lend itself to the manufacturing of implants. It allows creation of porous metal bodies. Living tissues could grow into the pores in an implant. I would assume people are using sintering for that purpose already...
[03:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:To make a better movie - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:46] <exec> 08└─4, like the corners of a CUBE, is it? Who am I? Picasso? Maybe I'm behind the times, but doesn't a cube have 8? How many quadrants are there on a globe?
[03:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:To make a better movie - 06Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:48] <exec> 08└─Can't tell. I think I read that it took a picture every two hours. If that is accurate, then using 1 out of 12 in the animation would produce the effect I'm looking for, I think [youtube.com]...
[03:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:29:24] <exec> 08└─If people don't fight back and demand adequate oversight, there is nothing more I can offer. I can only keep telling you that blaming the objects of desire (money, power) is the wrong way to go at it. It only serves the running gag and evades the issue.
[03:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:29:32] <exec> 08└─No, that's what the democrats hired Trump for. I doubt the emails would reveal that many democrats registered as republicans to vote for him though.
[03:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:29:56] <exec> 08└─It's also completely irrelevant. Mere popularity can't (or rather, shouldn't) override the constitution. Until the constitution is amended, all this gun control nonsense (both existing gun control and proposed gun control) is totally unconstitutional, but a grand majority of people don't seem to car...
[03:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:03] <exec> 08└─LOL Wut??? Wow. This is the cognitive level of Hillary supporters?? We're doomed!
[03:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:10] <exec> 08└─A minority? A grand majority of voters vote for either Republicans or Democrats, and a grand majority of people seem to support authoritarian policies of various kinds. Is it really a minority?
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[04:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Send some Musky probes! - 06Newly Discovered TNOs Are in Orbital Resonance With Neptune - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:29] <exec> 08└─Do these far-out objects look more like a tuning fork or more like a cock and balls? Let's get some nerds on this problem and send shaft shaped probes to investigate. Of course the only cool guy trendy enough to spearhead this project is Egon Musky himself.
[04:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brilliant - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:37] <exec> 08└─I have one rule - New is always better.
[04:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is SpaceX making money? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:03] <exec> 08└─They are privately funded with billions in the bank and could well be charging much less than the true launch cost. After all, Musk's other business ventures, Tesla and SolarCity, are losing money hand over fist.
[04:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:15] <exec> 08└─What?
[04:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:16] <exec> 08└─Whoooosh! For someone who thinks its one of the best shows ever, you have completely missed it.
[04:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:19] <exec> 08└─Not completely missed it. My first words were "Not sure if you're serious or not". Many of us on here on Soylent News have trouble understanding whether someone is joking or not. Text-only communication (as opposed to face-to-face) further hinders that problem. The same problem that makes it hard to...
[04:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:27] <exec> 08└─If South Korea had decided to develop nuclear weapons, would the US be as happy with them as they are now. A Convenient counter to China and North Korea. Or would they be treated as just another Asian nuclear power to be feared and 'contained'? Same could be said for Japan. You dont have to worry ab...
[04:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Security Theater! - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:52] <exec> 08└─This is a good example of what I hated so much about being placed under non-technical bosses. What in the hell do I do if one of them gets his hand shaken by a con-artist? If I fight it, I am "not a team player", and let go. If I go along with it, the truth comes out, sooner or later, and I now hav...
[04:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''ceramics [...] closer in properties to bone'' - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:31] <exec> 08└─...thus not getting you strip-searched by TSA because you didn't set off their little thingie. Sounds good to me. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds like they're describing hardness - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:32] <exec> 08└─Another thing is lubrication... so the joint does not erode off toxic scrapings. The joint is plenty sturdy, but like an engine with insufficient lubrication, scraping happens, and the moving surfaces wear out of tolerance pretty fast. Now, the dental work looks like a good use for this. Natural to...
[04:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 414 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:36] <exec> 08└─Also to note, if you're welding titanium, it must be done in an inert atmosphere (100% argon, no humidity). Additionally, you need to reduce the heat input as the heat affected zone around the weld will become very brittle. That pretty much leaves you with TIG, Plasma, or specialty MIG processes lik...
[04:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Titanium was plentiful in the Soviet Union'' - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:43] <exec> 08└─Hmmm. Either things changed in 2 generations or I got hold of some Cold War propaganda. After that guy set down his MiG-25 in Japan in 1976, [wikipedia.org] the word was that when it was examined, there was a lot of steel used where the USA inspectors assumed there would be titanium. -- OriginalOwne...
[04:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We are so proud of our engineering. - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:46] <exec> 08└─Fully agree ... Thank You !
[04:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How has this not been discovered previously? - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:48] <exec> 08└─An alloy of two very commonly used elements - you'd think all these two element combinations would already be catalogued in a CRC reference or something similar. Shit, try and buy a domain name with two letters, they are all gone.
[04:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:10] <exec> 08└─Thanks for being another person on this site who points out the steaming, crosseyed, grunting bullshit people like him put out. I can't comprehend what makes people behave like this, but knowing I'm not alone in this seemingly endless war is a relief.
[04:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Vancouver in the United States - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:28] <exec> 08└─Vancouver Wa was originally a private fur trappers fort, the North West Company IIRC which soon merged with the Hudson Bay Company (they were at war for a while), which became a British fort. and then American. BC did not become part of Canada until 1871. Vancouver, BC was founded in 1886, made poss...
[04:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02download script - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:57] <exec> 08└─There was a perl script called fetchyahoo to download messages from a Yahoo webmail account. The project looks dead. [sourceforge.net] Ya I know, messages never really get deleted from these services.
[04:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:How much Debbie? - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:02] <exec> 08└─Oy! I was hoping I was joking... This probably explains why these two won it. We apparently have a system where everybody is just trying to vote against each other. What is the solution for this?
[04:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Questionable data - 06Does Your State Have What it Takes to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:34:06] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the Colorado river is nearby, is it possible to sink a well and get to the underground water? There are submersible brushless pumps that run on DC. ( It probably would not be legal, but what "they" don't know won't hurt them. You could not make as much of an impact to the Colorado Rive...
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[05:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm scared - 06Newly Discovered TNOs Are in Orbital Resonance With Neptune - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:22] <exec> 08└─How long before one of these things slingshots off of Neptune and crashes into Earth wiping us all out? Should I grab my coat and hat and get on the next shuttle now? No wait! I think we finally found our Lesser Evil [wordpress.com]
[05:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:CP Violations - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:34] <exec> 08└─Exactly!
[05:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entropic arrow of time - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:36] <exec> 08└─If we put the two together and assume that matter and antimatter were made in equal proportions by the mechanics of the Big Bang, then we get a picture of a similar "mirror" to our own universe made of antimatter that shares our own Big Bang but with its arrow of time pointing in the opposite direct...
[05:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entropic arrow of time - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:38] <exec> 08└─No, as I understand it the two interact all the time, because of the behavior of photons and virtual particles, and possibly the behavior of information around the singularity of a black hole. But that is to say, I don't understand it :P
[05:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:51] <exec> 08└─SpaceX are the AMD to Russia/ULA's Intel.
[05:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:56] <exec> 08└─Beyond intent - Musk doesn't try to legislate his competitors out of existence. I guarantee Musk doesn't have people on his payroll going around to legislation critters saying stuff like "if you could make Araine/ULA/Blue Origin go away, that would be great." He just builds a better mousetrap. As a...
[05:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Instill democracy? - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:52] <exec> 08└─Hillary can fuck you both ways. Ask anyone.
[05:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Without fake bomb detectors... - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:55] <exec> 08└─With a genuine real fake bomb detector.
[05:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Fantasy metals - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, of course, we make this by mixing gold and titanium, two very precious and valuable metals. Not iron or aluminum, or anything convenient or mundane like that. Next we'll add platinum and make a superconductor. Maybe silver and palladium as well, for a space-time catalyst.
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[06:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Not good news... - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:22] <exec> 08└─This shows what those paying attention to the markets already knew: valuation today is based on speculation and how people feel, not real due diligence. When the market starts bouncing around like this, capping the allowed amounts daily, with literally no fundamentals underpinning these moves in eit...
[06:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not good news... - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:24] <exec> 08└─Have you ever met people? Absolutely everything they do is based entirely upon rumor. "Due diligence" does not exist except in rationalizations and fairy tales fabricated on the spot to justify actions based on rumor.
[06:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not good news... - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 2179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:26] <exec> 08└─And even then, doing the best due diligence based on the best info available is a crapshoot. The "best info available" is what the people who are gaming the system to make money from your following their advice make available to you. Remember when everyone, even the President of the USA, was "stre...
[06:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Guidance? - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:28] <exec> 08└─Since when does Pokemon Go tell you which shares to buy or sell?
[06:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Guidance? - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:30] <exec> 08└─Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! buy stock.
[06:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump's response: - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:53] <exec> 08└─"See, Hillary even violates the great laws of physics!"
[06:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting horse race - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 1814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:15] <exec> 08└─"Can an young, upstart capitalist do better than an established infrastructure supported by the state? I though we already answered this with the Cold War. Perhaps this is a refresher lesson." While I'm cheering for what SpaceX does, let's not forget a couple of factors. - SpaceX is one of the hobbi...
[06:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 1945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:33] <exec> 08└─I think there's a much better quote than that, from "The Grand Design": Chief Scientific Advisor: Scenario one. Riots in West Berlin, buildings in flames. East German fire brigade crosses the border to help. Would you press the button…? The East German police come with them. The button…?Then som...
[06:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:37] <exec> 08└─Even more impressive if you know that learning and saying those convoluted lines were so stressfull over the long term that Nigel Hawthorne had to take tranquilisers to deal with it...
[06:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is bigger. - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:33] <exec> 08└─The problem with tweaking the crap out of performance critical code is that today's CPUs are so complex (and our algorithms too) that humans (even the shit hot ones) struggle to produce better code than the compiler. Try doing a better job than hotspot on a 64 bit processor. Hotspot has more metrics...
[06:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:59] <exec> 08└─At my day job I machine implants and medical devices out of grade 5 Ti (Ti6Al4v) and 17-4 H900 (hardened stainless). As a hobby I make medieval armor, and am almost done with a pair of Titanium gauntlets.
[06:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:39] <exec> 08└─Until the constitution is amended, all this gun control nonsense (both existing gun control and proposed gun control) is totally unconstitutional
[06:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:30:45] <exec> 08└─Fail to imagine it all you want, but its the truth [baltimoresun.com]: Donald Trump Jr. offered Mr. Kasich both foreign policy and domestic policy. (HINT: Thats everything the president does) "What the hell would Trump do?" the aide reportedly asked Trump the younger. "He would make America great ag...
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[07:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nibiru - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:17] <exec> 08└─Nibiru lives....
[07:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02By Jove! - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:19] <exec> 08└─I thought Jupiter and Saturn were the Solar System's tits. Saturn has nipple rings. The Big Red Spot is breast cancer.
[07:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Not good news... - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I hate to recommend a Moore movie, as he's a pretty dreadful documentary maker, but his 2009 film /Capitalism: A Love Story/ was actually quite interesting. He was making a movie with a slightly different bent, but the crash gave him pause, and made him redirect his efforts to the corporatism...
[07:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They should make... - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:33] <exec> 08└─Rising stock prices raise the libido of your pokemon, causing them to procreate faster when you pair them in the luv luv pokeball. Declining stock prices cause the effect to go down, placing more demand on trading/buying premium pokemon :) It's a win win situation for Nintendo and it's subsidiaries...
[07:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump's response: - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:58] <exec> 08└─That's not new, politicians have long since mastered the art of sucking and blowing simultaneously.
[07:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02I'm no physicist, but that wiki needs work - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:00] <exec> 08└─The "Thus, we see that a complex phase gives rise to processes that proceed at different rates for particles and antiparticles, and CP is violated." looks like pure bogosity. In order to conclude that the amplitudes are different, they've made a whole load of assumptions which are not "there is a co...
[07:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Lubrication and wear - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:54] <exec> 08└─Joints don't have to be replaced after 10 years - more like 25. I have a very active friend who got an artificial hip joint in his mid-40s. He is still playing football (soccer, for you Americans) 20 years later, and expects to need a replacement in 5-10 years. As I understand it, the hardness of th...
[07:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Lubrication and wear - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:56] <exec> 08└─In America... insurance. Vendors ask for the moon... and get it. Not only that, factor in the cost of that blonde bombshell that interrupts TV every five minutes informing everyone if they have ever had someone try to help them, and it went wrong, even years later, lawyers are standing by... who is...
[07:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:05] <exec> 08└─Have you tried to remove the marks with an acid?
[07:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We are so proud of our engineering. - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:12] <exec> 08└─Nature had billions of years as a headstart. Humanity has only had around a thousand years to discover these advanced processes, yet we are already on the initial steps to replicating nature's processes. Natural engineering is beautiful, I agree, but for humans to understand and apply these concepts...
[07:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:51] <exec> 08└─It's pretty odd that the founding fathers crafted a constitutional amendment whose only purpose was to remind us that the government has the power to give members of the military guns. What an oversight! You seem to be saying that the "well-regulated militia" part of the amendment restricts the righ...
[07:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:30:59] <exec> 08└─The people who vote for candidates from either party are the ones who will doom us. Your post above makes it seem as if you're planning on voting for Trump; you're not much better than the ones voting for Hillary, if at all.
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[08:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02As completely independent as my two butt cheeks - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:23] <exec> 08└─Check the references, they're basing these papers on each others' prior work - and have even collaborated on some of those prior papers.
[08:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As completely independent as my two butt cheeks - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, thank you, for reminding us all that science is as incestuous as two brothers sucking each others cocks.
[08:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The big short - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:37] <exec> 08└─Is another must-see movie. Michael Burry predicted the mortgage market collapse based on fundamentals but had to wait a long time for it to actually collapse, pissing off his clients. https://en.m.wikipedia.org(film) [wikipedia.org]
[08:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Rumours of a free market - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:42] <exec> 08└─Are hereby summarily dispelled. Why people haven't worked out that this is just some stupid game yet, played by immoral people with other people's money, I don't understand. OK, perhaps it's because the perceived amount of value they're playing with is 10 times the amount of actual value of actual t...
[08:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rumours of a free market - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:44] <exec> 08└─the real world that pretends to be productive
[08:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:Is SpaceX making money? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:35] <exec> 08└─you sure about those other two companies loosing money?
[08:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:59] <exec> 08└─Since Japan was bombed, there hasn't been another nuclear attack. That looks to me like something short of impunity.
[08:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:14] <exec> 08└─Gold has a melting point of 1064°C and a boiling point of 2700°C while titanium melts at 1668°C and boils and temperatures ...
[08:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:19] <exec> 08└─Just thinking out of the box - but have you tried introducing her to chopsticks? (I prefer them over forks simply because they have a much nicer motion for the hand) Or for that matter - tried utensils with a different material in the handle? I grew up with utensils with bakelite handles and still p...
[08:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Titanium was plentiful in the Soviet Union'' - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:23] <exec> 08└─It was Soviet doctrine of mass produced military systems, something they learned from WW II. Steel is much cheaper and easier to produce in quantities then titanium. MiG-25 was to be deployed on a massive scale. Making them expendable also meant saving on excessive survivability.
[08:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We are so proud of our engineering. - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, but we should research more into nature's way if we want to survive any global event which would severely damage our technological tree base. So far we haven't done much to elevate our toughness and resistivity, quite to the contrary. And it is not a coincidence. It pays more to make the world...
[08:26:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:47] <exec> 08└─frojack (1554) wrote: The employee booking her in identified her as a defendant because he had an order from the district attorney stating that she was a defendant.
[08:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:56] <exec> 08└─> She was never suspected of being a rapist. Well, let's see who thinks she might be a criminal... > being tossed into prison and treated like any other criminal Ah, you do. Nice sneakers - shame about the shotgun holes in them.
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[09:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02will be used to entrap terrists - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:19] <exec> 08└─DHS/FBI/NSA gonna love this shit for gaslighting normals into becoming terrists. Keeping US fucking safe, from US!
[09:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Not gonna invest in that tech... - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds too bullshitty: "The key insight with Cinema 3D is that people in movie theaters move their heads only over a very small range of angles, limited by the width of their seat." "the technology could work in any context in which 3-D visuals would be shown to multiple people at the same time, suc...
[09:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Rumours of a free market - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:49] <exec> 08└─Even if people's figured it out doesn't mean they won't stop playing it. After all a free market or a fair system is not necessarily a pre-requisite for gambling. As long as a system where there have to be winners and losers, even if unbalanced, there will be folks who will take a punt. Heck, most f...
[09:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Rumours of a free market - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:50] <exec> 08└─Good points well made. Unfortunately the bread and circuses that are provided mean that there probably won't be too much critical analysis of whether basing your social and economic system upon this game is a wise thing to do or not. Ooooh - shiny!
[09:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I acted Pro Se in a felony case - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:54] <exec> 08└─> DA lied, ..., he alleged she was a defendant in a rape trial. > The DA never suspected she was a perpetrator. Yes, but everyone else who saw or heard his lie, no matter how indirectly, *did* (at least have grounds, depending on how much faith they have in the DA or the system, to) suspect she migh...
[09:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:33] <exec> 08└─Arse or not, anything which is predicated upon a fuck-up is the fault of the person who made the fuck-up. Just because there were consequences he couldn't foresee is irrelevant, they aren't exactly unexpected - it's not an environment where these kinds of things are unheard of, and she was known to...
[09:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:41] <exec> 08└─If there would be the need to keep them apart, then yes, the staff would need to know that. It's not unusual to try and keep people apart in order to prevent collusion (even solitary has been abused for this purpose).
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[10:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Metastasis strategy - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:33] <exec> 08└─When you rely on having means to do something else you deem more important, it is not necessary to do it yourself. It is if none else does it, but it is better if there are many others who do that and even better if there are other buyers beside you, who keep them alive and fed. If there is no real...
[10:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:06] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is, with the current musings coming from the EU about having armed forces under EU control, it probably would make sense to keep Trident as an EU-controlled strategic defence and split the cost between all of the member states.
[10:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:the other UK - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:10] <exec> 08└─Not really. North Korea doesn't have a particularly compelling nuclear deterrent (at least one of their 'tests' was faked - or they managed to find a way of producing a nuclear explosion with no increase in background radioactivity - and their launch vehicles have a habit of exploding on the launchp...
[10:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:00] <exec> 08└─(partly answering my own question) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:30:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02Re:Landed on her feet - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:30:27] <exec> 08└─Landed on her feet They should have tied a piece of buttered toast [youtube.com] to her back
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[11:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Siri gives me a stiffie - 06Our Health Data is Being Ingested Into Silicon Valley's Gaping, Proprietary Maw - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:17] <exec> 08└─Can I get her gaping proprietary maw down on my pole?
[11:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As completely independent as my two butt cheeks - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:36] <exec> 08└─They may be attached to the same organism, and share a lot in common, but my butt cheeks can certainly operate independently.
[11:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:going vertical, are we? - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:58] <exec> 08└─Stacking separate chips does help with yields, reducing costs, but the stacking process isn't cheap yet, so it make sense for expensive stuff.
[11:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:What Moore Giveth Programmers Taketh Away - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:01] <exec> 08└─Now how many threads do your apps run?
[11:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:coming full circle back to good programming - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:06] <exec> 08└─That sounds a bit extreme, but the other extreme is just as unhealthy. I had a couple of experiences where I realised that computers really are very fast. The first was attending a talk given by Alan Kay about 10 years ago. He showed a video in the middle of it and then told us that his entire prese...
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[11:27:45] <exec> 08└─Why do you use the word "you guys"?
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[12:23:40] <exec> 08└─Really? So one can move to New York, while the other moves to Seattle?
[12:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As completely independent as my two butt cheeks - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:41] <exec> 08└─That's about the gist of their theory too. They explain the "tilt" by blaming the 9th planet, which is also tilted... So it's tilted because one of the planets are tilted. And god exists because it says so in the bible which he wrote.
[12:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Rumours of a free market - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 2590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:02] <exec> 08└─I'd extend and expand FatPhil's remarks to include the religious obligation to donate, err, I mean invest in 401K schemes. And just like ritual recitation of prayers in church, to recite to each other in a group the capitalist prayer of "The stock market only goes up and is the best investment" Some...
[12:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:19] <exec> 08└─Since Japan was bombed, there hasn't been another nuclear attack.
[12:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is bigger. - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:16] <exec> 08└─You buy the myth that Java has ever, or ever can, approach native speed but look down on 'code monkeys.' Uh huh. Yea, lets listen to your advice. And to get to the root of your argument, the overly complex, not understandable by humans, CPU is the root of the power consumption problem. It is the end...
[12:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:The court clerk violated the law and my rights - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:39] <exec> 08└─Now imagine the shit developers go through now a days where we have to create forms that have to handle shit that may only happen .00001% of the time, and if we don't we get shit on because our system can't handle it. A computer system is way more inflexible than a paper form where you can write in...
[12:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why should I change? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:11] <exec> 08└─What, if any, of their services have you used? Do you still use them? What are your plans in light of the buyout?
[12:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:About two years to late - 06Democratic Party Chair to Resign Over Wikileaks Emails - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:52] <exec> 08└─I was referring to the ridiculous statement "to have 100% of the uranium supply of the US destroyed due to large nuclear explosions." - LOL! So clueless...
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[13:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, they're not... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:18] <exec> 08└─If I tested positive, I'd do what any reasonable innocent person would do: 1) GET A LAWYER. 2) GET A SECOND OPINION myself as the lawyer advises (which I'd guess is have my physician order a more reliable retest.) 3) Shove those results back in the face of the prosecutor and have charges dropped. Bu...
[13:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02LOL - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:19] <exec> 08└─for #1 you need money for #2 you need more money for #3 they ignore you Prison! for you!
[13:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they're not... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:21] <exec> 08└─Annnnd really doesn't solve shit. You are still apprehended. You still have a record of arrest, which gets you bonus TLC from police. You can still be held even when the manufacturer of a product testifies on your behalf. http://stopthedrugwar.org
[13:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Law of Headlines says No - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:23] <exec> 08└─Guilty is guilty. All confessions are final. Go directly to prison.
[13:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Law of Headlines says No - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:26] <exec> 08└─Then why did you pick the banana peel of damaging nights?
[13:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02It's important to understand the meaning of these - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 2378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:28] <exec> 08└─I really don't have a problem with the tests themselves, inaccurate or not. The limitations of the tests are well-known. They are probably still more accurate than drug-sniffing dogs (while dogs have a phenomenal sense of smell, they react more to what their handler wants them to do, than to what th...
[13:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gemini - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:30] <exec> 08└─So apparently Harris County is great if you've been wrongly accused of drug charges, but is a pit of misogyny for rape cases https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Something screwy here.
[13:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gemini - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:32] <exec> 08└─The prosecutors, police, and prison guards are all different people. It seems like, at least in this specific place, the prosecutors seem to take their job seriously, the prison guards are a nightmare, and the police are somewhere in the middle.
[13:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Typo - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:34] <exec> 08└─Are Questionable Drug Laws Filling U.S. Prisons?
[13:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What could go wrong? - 06Our Health Data is Being Ingested Into Silicon Valley's Gaping, Proprietary Maw - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:43] <exec> 08└─What could go wrong? These companies are in this game for the benefit of humanity and myself in specific. They tell me so themselves. Google for instance tells me that their motto is "Don't be evil" and I believe them... Seriously though, do NOT WANT. It's already bad enough that your credit score i...
[13:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What could go wrong? - 06Our Health Data is Being Ingested Into Silicon Valley's Gaping, Proprietary Maw - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:45] <exec> 08└─Seriously though, do NOT WANT. It's already bad enough that your credit score is determined (in part, but in part nonetheless) by who you're FB friends with and what you post on that site (e.g. here or here);
[13:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What could go wrong? - 06Our Health Data is Being Ingested Into Silicon Valley's Gaping, Proprietary Maw - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:48] <exec> 08└─OP here, I just would like to categorically state that none of my devices is allowed to connect to any IP within the ranges owned or operated by FB. (Before anyone tries to rip my 'grumpy old man' card from my hands)
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[13:23:57] <exec> 08└─limited by the width of their seat. Thus, it is enough to display images to a narrow range of angles and replicate that to all seats in the theater.
[13:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not good news... - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:21] <exec> 08└─given their access to data the rest of us are not privy to
[13:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Free markets - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:33] <exec> 08└─"stock price fell by 18%, the maximum amount permitted in one day on the Tokyo stock exchange." Does trading also shut down after an 18% rise?
[13:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Without fake bomb detectors... - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:27] <exec> 08└─They'll use real bomb detectors. If they don't detect it, it must be a fake bomb.
[13:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03E_NOENT [630] (Score:2) 02Re:Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:16] <exec> 08└─Fascinating stuff. And this is in CHROMIUM (the free and supposedly vetted version) of Chrome? I see dark days ahead. Historically I haven't been concerned about Mozilla and privacy (you can opt out of data collection I believe) but if Firefox tanks or fails to keep up, what's left? Only browsers th...
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[14:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:37] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is the public, and a system of elected judges that is absolutely unique and makes very little sense. In almost everywhere else in the world, the whole point is for judges in particular to *not* be accountable to the public so that they can be more impartial and not as swayed by p...
[14:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Typo - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:42] <exec> 08└─It IS all about filling prisons. Keep them po' folks locked up, so that the rich bastards can make a dollar. Unjust laws, questionable methods of enforcing the laws, and questionable tests used to enforce the law - it just goes on and on.
[14:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Is that Actually how it Works? - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:44] <exec> 08└─Why would they not do an actual test after the arrest? Typically stuff like this is just to test if that white powder is flour like the guys says or something that is probably drugs. That show "Border Security" is always careful to say that "this package of white powder seems like drugs, so we will...
[14:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─Planet nine is Pluto!
[14:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Free markets - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:40] <exec> 08└─The falling stock price is the price people are paying to buy from a seller, right? So you can probably still sell/trade but at a fixed price?
[14:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Entropic arrow of time - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─That's basically right, though it wouldn't say anything about multiverses -- only that universes come in pairs of matter and antimatter. Maybe our is the only such pair; maybe there're innumerable such pairs; maybe only some have laws of physics that include antimatter; and maybe (much more likely)...
[14:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─If by "suck ass and limp along financially" you mean provide cheap rockets that get supplies/satellites to orbit, then yes.
[14:25:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Re:Where is the price war? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 795 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:27] <exec> 08└─Beyond intent - Musk doesn't try to legislate his competitors out of existence. I guarantee Musk doesn't have people on his payroll going around to legislation critters saying stuff like "if you could make Araine/ULA/Blue Origin go away, that would be great." He just builds a better mousetrap. As a...
[14:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is SpaceX making money? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:38] <exec> 08└─"Sure" is a strong word. I would never bet my life on Wall St. numbers. But TSLA earnings per share have been negative or zero since at least 11/4/2014 http://www.streetinsider.com [streetinsider.com] SCTY is a similar money pit.
[14:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the other UK - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:10] <exec> 08└─The US is going to invade the UK ?
[14:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:30] <exec> 08└─We weld titanium all the time using pulsed NdYAG in an open air machine using nozzle delivered 100% argon shield gas. And yes, these are medical parts. However, we are running a job welding titanium heart pumps in a glove box. But only because the shape of the part makes nozzle delivered gas coverag...
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[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Returning to his roots? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:32] <exec> 08└─So, the guy who wandered into a hot spring in Yellowstone was just going back to his roots? http://www.dailymail.co.uk [dailymail.co.uk]
[15:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02what if life arose more than once? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:34] <exec> 08└─Does there have to be a LUCA? Why not several mergers and splits? Life is messy. This LUCA idea is neat, perhaps too neat.
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they're not... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─How rarely do people wash their hands if a field-test for GHB (Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate) that gives a false-positive on soaps is considered remotely useful? Or is this a case of the user not reading the direction explaining common false-positives?
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Law of Headlines says No - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─Oh crap. Some Manchurian candidate somewhere was just activated...
[15:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:53] <exec> 08└─Um I though to point of posting a bond is that you lose it if you don't comply with the terms. If you lose the bond either way, what is the point of complying with the terms? (besides avoiding contempt of court) If I want to sell things door-to-door were I live, I am required to post a $10,000 bond...
[15:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:55] <exec> 08└─The way it goes down is this: The police get a false positive on the test, then (at least in my state), they take everything you own via civil asset forfeiture, thus making it impossible for you to afford a lawyer. You're given a choice to plea guilty for a lesser punishment (which allows the cops a...
[15:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity, which state are you talking about, so I can avoid living there? Also, is that for everybody, or just racial and religious minorities? In a lot of jurisdictions, WASPs are exempt from this sort of treatment.
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is that Actually how it Works? - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─I wrote about it in the post below yours [soylentnews.org], so see there for more information. Just to answer your question: they do a lab test... it just takes them a few weeks. Of course, the arrestee spends those few weeks in prison. Once the labs confirm it's flour, you're free to go - have fun...
[15:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Is that Actually how it Works? - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─The only reason anyone would keep flour in a tied up plastic bag is to pass it off as drugs. So either they’re trying to scam someone or they’re trying to sell drugs. Both are illegal.
[15:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Land of the Free! - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:09] <exec> 08└─The answer to the headline seems to be "yes", for once. I blame the editors for not reversing the question. Next time, try "Are drug tests that fill U.S. prisons accurate?" or something :) Anyway, I wrote a post about this exact thing [soylentnews.org] a few days ago, referencing the NYT article fro...
[15:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Filling US prisons leads to questionable drug test - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:11] <exec> 08└─FTFY
[15:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Fire all law enforcement. - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:13] <exec> 08└─I have the perfect solution for BLM and other types of persecution complexes. Get rid of all public law enforcement, and release all prisoners. Life will just go back to the old days where the rich and middle class is protected by private security, while those in the ghettos just kill each other off...
[15:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:What could go wrong? - 06Our Health Data is Being Ingested Into Silicon Valley's Gaping, Proprietary Maw - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:23] <exec> 08└─Way to miss the point. GP was using facebook as an example, were the decisions don't matter as much. (It is only money after all). Credit agencies treat lack of information as worse than bad information. That gives you an incentive to get into their system.
[15:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Nibiru - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:41] <exec> 08└─No, that is planet X, as in _ten_. This is planet _nine_ we are talking about. Or Pluto II "this-ones-big-enough".
[15:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cbiltcliffe [1659] (Score:1) 02Re:As completely independent as my two butt cheeks - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─Hey, cool it. He's got a really fat ass, but it's still not polite to point it out!
[15:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cbiltcliffe [1659] (Score:1) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:52] <exec> 08└─I was just thinking the same thing: "We had a planet nine, until you idiots decided to reclassify it as a 'dwarf planet'."
[15:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Conservation of Angular Momentum - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:54] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the paper. Does it discount the possibility that the sun was struck and absorbed something whose orbital axis was askew from the sun? If the earth managed to degrade in its orbit before the sun ran out of fuel, the angular momentum of the earth and sun would be conserved. If the earth'...
[15:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02"where's the toilet?" - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 1669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:46] <exec> 08└─if one assumes that neutrinos don't really exist and are rather a violation of energy and impulse conservation then this CP-violation drops short. i think THE experiment that made everybody accept the reality of neutrinos was made inside/around a nuclear reactor. if we further more postulate that "r...
[15:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:42] <exec> 08└─We can still nuke Muslims though right? We can be racist about them cause they're terrorists. How about Blacks?
[15:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:09] <exec> 08└─Most of the Ti welding I've seen is aerospace. However I once saw a weld trial for golf clubs. Anyway, how do you handle backside shielding for your open air application? Is it open root and you're getting enough argon to the backside or is it just partial penetration for something like a fillet wel...
[15:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cbiltcliffe [1659] (Score:1) 02Re:zip - 06Researchers Release Free Decryption Tools for PowerWare and Bart Ransomware - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:48] <exec> 08└─That kind of suggests these weak ransomwares are using the same key on all their encrypted documents,
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[16:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:what if life arose more than once? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 2309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:46] <exec> 08└─The paleontological tree of life was strong enough in Darwin's time for him to conclude a very likely probability of a single universal common ancestor...and that conclusion has become overwhelming with the scientific advances of the past 150 years. The coffin was already nailed shut by the time of...
[16:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Thermal vents? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─False. Everyone knows that Luca lives on the second floor.
[16:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─You get your bail back (which goes back to the bail bondsman), but the bondsman charges a fee and you don't get the fee back. The fee is pretty high, because sometimes people skip bail, and then the bail bondsman is the one who is out the money. Bail bondsmen are up there with payday loans in terms...
[16:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:08] <exec> 08└─It's not that you don't get the bond back. It's that in order to pay the bond, if you don't actually have the money on hand, you have to go to a bail bondsman, and the bondsman gets to keep a fee, typically around 10%. So, if you are an innocent person without a lot of savings caught up in the crimi...
[16:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:10] <exec> 08└─My understanding of bail bond is that you would get the money back from the government. But most people need to go through bail bondsman (i.e. basically take a loan). The fee for the bail bondsman is usually some percentage of the bond (10%?). What the GP was saying is you wouldn't get that back. Fo...
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:14] <exec> 08└─Every state except New Mexico and Montana has some degree of civil asset forfeiture abuse. New Mexico prohibits it, and Montana prohibits it unless a criminal conviction has already been obtained. The situation described does seem unusual, though; in most cases, the seizure is limited to what you ha...
[16:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Typo - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:20] <exec> 08└─"poor lighting which may be encountered in the field can distort the officer's perception of colours" Nonsense - "looks black to me, so must be guilty" is probably accurately perceiving the colour, it's the second part of it that's flawed.
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire all law enforcement. - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─hmm, how about a solution to the 'justice' system that would actually be helpful instead deconstructive. Off the top of my head: Fix obvious problems: arresting people based on crap drug tests? really asset forfeiture before a trial finding guilt? how does that even make sense plea bargaining system...
[16:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire all law enforcement. - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─Justice John Paul Stevens once dissented, saying that a particular asset forfeiture case constituted an excessive fine, but he was the only one.
[16:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Drug tests load prisons - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:33] <exec> 08└─Private for profit prisons are packed with innocent poor people who are worth 50k a year to our corporate overlords!
[16:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:seasick - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:54] <exec> 08└─I do the head wiggling thing because I have limited vision in one eye. In traffic it is a little annoying because I need at least 1 head movement to compute distance, 2 to compute speed, 3 to compute acceleration. I really should wear my "reading" glasses more. They give me "3D" vision in real life....
[16:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score:2) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─"We had a planet nine, until you people with infinitely more experience in studying celestial bodies than me decided to reclassify it as a 'dwarf planet'."
[16:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─People need to stop being so butthurt about something they have no skin in the game for.
[16:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conservation of Angular Momentum - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:17] <exec> 08└─The article said that Planet Nine could explain the tilt, but that this does not prove the existence of the planet, nor does it rule out the many other theories that have been put forward.
[16:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Metastasis strategy - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:30] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that SpaceX used to have a lot more outside parts in its rockets last decade. But they found that several of their rocket failures came from these sourced parts. By making almost all of the supply chain internal, SpaceX improved the reliability of their rockets. While your approa...
[16:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is SpaceX making money? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:41] <exec> 08└─So re-investing in the long-term to build up scale and increase efficiency is a bad thing? With this kind of thinking, no wonder most new businesses fail.
[16:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Is SpaceX making money? - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:42] <exec> 08└─"Losing a bit of money is great" - the accountant.
[16:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:11] <exec> 08└─If the US decides to nuke them again, what's to stop them? The UN? With their own nukes it would be a little trickier.
[16:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:12] <exec> 08└─(If it matters, I'm not British.) The UK is a member of NATO. She is allied with her former enemies, France and the United States, both of which are nuclear-armed (specifically, both have submarines carrying ballistic missiles).
[16:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:going vertical, are we? - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:01] <exec> 08└─The problem with "different" techs is that they have to be similar enough to be stacked. Thru-Silicon Vias are tiny, so you don't want any difference in thermal expansion between the layers
[16:28:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02coming full circle back to good programming - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 1089 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:06] <exec> 08└─The incredible increase in computer capacity and speed over the years has enabled some really sloppy and wasteful programming. Maybe soon we can refocus on making software small and good again, instead of bloating programs with libraries by the dozens, and reckless memory management that asks for tw...
[16:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:coming full circle back to good programming - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:09] <exec> 08└─Naturally everything can be taken to an extreme, but as a general statement I would agree with the statement that "computers are fast and processing time is cheap." As a general statement, I would rather have some easy-to-understand code that is 20% slower than a spaghetti code which only Linus Torv...
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[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zika - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-fueled is not pro-life or pro-choice; he is pro-killing babies, preferably without a choice.
[17:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Zika - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:44] <exec> 08└─Don't hold back... Tell us how you /really/ feel.
[17:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02yebbut - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:46] <exec> 08└─Nobody's saying that the olympics are the problem. It's the Brazil that's the problem. Attending the olympics in Mogadishu probably wouldn't be any less suicidal than any other trip to the place, that doesn't mean attending the olympics there would be a good idea.
[17:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yebbut - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:49] <exec> 08└─Nobody's saying that the olympics are the problem.
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:yebbut - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─There's probably some translation problems WRT "non-games travel" meaning just going there for carnival or a business meeting vs if they cancelled the sames and there was no travel to Brazil at all.
[17:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they're not... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:14] <exec> 08└─That's not how it works. As others point out, you'll need a pile of money. That may be OK for you, but for most even where it's possible, they can ill afford that and will have been effectively punished for nothing. Others simply can't afford it. Meanwhile, the police have that magic color change te...
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─Not every US state elects their judges, it seems to be more common in western states. Only the state-wide attorney general and district attorneys here are elected, and unless you do something big they take no notice of your case. The soulless assistant district attorneys handle everything else, push...
[17:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gemini - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:31] <exec> 08└─yeah, you're comparing harris county cops/jail vs houston cops/system. they are very different even though houston is in harris county. Both police orgs are too large to describe universally but in general harris county cops are a bunch of fascists while houston cops are somewhat laid back(for cops)...
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is that Actually how it Works? - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:39] <exec> 08└─This post is frightening. I do not want to live on the same planet as you. My supermarket sells powdered sugar in a plastic bag. The hipster co-op across the street even sells powdered sugar and flour in unmarked plastic bags, and they provide twist-ties as well. You're an small-minded idiot, you're...
[17:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Is that Actually how it Works? - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:41] <exec> 08└─I'm worried of getting pulled over every time I carry my climbing gear and chalk bag...
[17:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the Free! - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:44] <exec> 08└─> The answer to the headline seems to be "yes", for once. I blame the editors for not reversing the question. The law of headlines doesn't apply when the "journalist" uses a CYA question to avoid retribution from powerful beings.
[17:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Alternative - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:12] <exec> 08└─The team's prototype requires 50 sets of mirrors and lenses, and yet is just barely larger than a pad of paper
[17:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:34] <exec> 08└─> Which do you think is easier to memorize in class? I'm amused that you believe major scientific classifications are based on keeping the numbers low enough to remember the list in class... Maybe we should have mountains, insects or space objects like the colors in the early Unix GUIs: you only get...
[17:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:35] <exec> 08└─The traditional name is Planet X for a reason...
[17:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm scared - 06Newly Discovered TNOs Are in Orbital Resonance With Neptune - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─> How long before one of these things slingshots off of Neptune and crashes into Earth wiping us all out? Do the orbital calculations include at least half of 300 million people praying for a quick painless death after January 20th?
[17:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Entropic arrow of time - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:29] <exec> 08└─I'm even less qualified than you, because I don't understand how the gravity-driven collapse of all matter into a single point, which is then followed by a Big Bang spreading it again (rinse-repeat), should result into equal quantities of matter and anti-matter...
[17:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Entropic arrow of time - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:31] <exec> 08└─That seems somewhat unlikely. Case in point: You can do an experiment today that generates antimatter and traps it in an inadequate magnetic bottle until all the particles individually escape and annihilate with normal matter. If the antimatter were actually "time reversed normal matter", that would...
[17:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:24] <exec> 08└─Yes. That is the better quote of a scene containing rational arguments - not of a scene satirizing the way this is always, inevitably approved.
[17:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:Duh. Of course they are remaining a nuke power - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:39] <exec> 08└─Slow slide into insignificance? Hell, no! We'll do it the British way with a stiff upper lip and grasp that greasy pole descending into insignificance with both hands! We'll even grease our hands first to slide down it quicker to show just how forthright and brave we are! Trident is a colossally was...
[17:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like they're describing hardness - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:59] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure about dental work either - with dental work you have two factors to consider - wear of the replacement material, and wear of the opposing tooth enamel because of the replacement material. As it happens, one of the reasons gold crowns are popular among dentists is that they have almos...
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[18:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02classified - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:40] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure there's classified classifiers that are really good at detecting certain unlicensed pharmaceutical flowers and that this goes way back to the old days of computation. In non classified areas I'm pretty sure there was a big DNR project decades ago to track the spread of invasive weeds...
[18:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Smart Flower Recognition System - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:41] <exec> 08└─After I RTFS, it was a little disappointing to learn that MS Research + Chinese Academy of Sciences didn't genetically engineer an intelligent flower and an automated Turning tests for flowers. Automated flower facial recognition just isn't as nearly excited after dreaming about smart flowers. My de...
[18:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Smart" flowers? - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:43] <exec> 08└─Why does the system ignore dumb flowers?
[18:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:"Smart" flowers? - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:45] <exec> 08└─it's more complex than the title suggests: it needs to target flowers which are smart enough to have disposable income but dumb enough to react positively to ads...
[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Zika - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:56] <exec> 08└─Dude, there is trolling, and there is hitting teacups with fire hoses. Tone it down a little, you know, like taking her in a back alley and slapping her around for a bit. That will teach her to not become a victim and grow those babies correctly? You're correct about one thing: PEOPLE should receive...
[18:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zika - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:57] <exec> 08└─PEOPLE should receive mandatory testing for Zika in affected areas
[18:24:01] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:yebbut - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:02] <exec> 08└─Nobody's saying that the olympics are the problem
[18:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yebbut - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:04] <exec> 08└─degraded into something wholly hijacked by commercial interests
[18:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Recommended Reading - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:07] <exec> 08└─"The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, also Laurie Garrett's "The Coming Plague". Both are about emerging diseases. Lots of tasty tidbits about ebola. The Hot Zone closes by pointing out that "The human race is a trillion pounds of meat just waiting for a virus".
[18:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what if life arose more than once? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─Why not something more extreme? A fossil record of something that lived separately awhile and died out. I mean if something grew here, why not there too? A standard issue bad car analogy would be ever Ford manufactured (distinct from rebadged) car is a direct descendant of the model T. That doesn't...
[18:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Re:Thermal vents? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─Hey that is the kid who lived upstairs from me. I think I have heard of him before.
[18:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:No, they're not... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─That is why asset seizure laws are so popular in connection with drug arrests. Thanks to the complete disregard for the 4th and 5th amendments, your assets can be seized and you must cooperate in their seizure (by volunteering passwords and fingerprints). That way you will not have a pile of money t...
[18:24:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02It's important to understand the meaning of these - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 2378 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─I really don't have a problem with the tests themselves, inaccurate or not. The limitations of the tests are well-known. They are probably still more accurate than drug-sniffing dogs (while dogs have a phenomenal sense of smell, they react more to what their handler wants them to do, than to what th...
[18:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:46] <exec> 08└─It's a bit of a dirty sleight of hand. The BOND is refunded once you show in court for your trial as required. The catch is that the bond is set well above what most people can come up with, so you must go to a bail bondsman. He will post the bond, but he will charge you 10% which is non-refundable....
[18:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gemini - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:55] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. In the rape story, the order was handed down from the DA. The same DA that is at the forefront of overturning false convictions. Seems odd to me.
[18:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is that Actually how it Works? - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─The drug laws themselves are illegal and fraud needs some sort of proof. By your logic card writer possession should be illegal, though i'm sure there are perfectly legitimate uses for them, like city pool membership cards, etc. IOW, you're a treasonous slave, you're just too brainwashed to know it.
[18:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Is that Actually how it Works? - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:07] <exec> 08└─They don't just test baggies though. They'll also test that little bit of white powder in your trunk. The one from the flour bag breaking open when you were coming home from the grocery store yesterday. Or that white smear of powdered sugar from when you dropped the doughnut. Or (this has happened)...
[18:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is that Actually how it Works? - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:09] <exec> 08└─Heh, be careful what you wish for. Although I'm sure there is nothing in your life that could possibly be misconstrued by law enforcement as somehow being illegal. In particular by someone who really, really wants to find something, anything at all. Good luck with that. But please don't wish that he...
[18:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:01] <exec> 08└─People need to stop being so butthurt about something they have no skin in the game for.
[18:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score:1) 02Mass and Distance - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:05] <exec> 08└─It is believed to have a mass of 5-20 earths and the orbit is 250 AU or more, and highly elliptical. (By comparison, Neptune has a mass of 17 earth masses, and Pluto is at a distance of 30 - 50 AU.)
[18:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02conspiracy - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:07] <exec> 08└─pluto was demoted in a conspiracy by the lizard people, to hide the fact that this would be Planet X.
[18:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Free markets - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:32] <exec> 08└─Occasionally, the price of a stock may rise or fall to their upper or lower daily limit price as a result of strong positive or negative public sentiment.
[18:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entropic arrow of time - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:00] <exec> 08└─"I'm nowhere near qualified to be speculating on the matter...." But are you qualified to be speculating on the antimatter?
[18:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02+1, You Made Me Laugh - 06Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, Moore’s Law Roadmap Predicts - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:01] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I needed that. I learned how to write this stuff at Kuro5hin, but it dropped dead when its entire data center was shut down. Now we have http://dontsuemebro.com [dontsuemebro.com] Be sure to ask Boaty McBoatface about physics.
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[19:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:classified - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:38] <exec> 08└─Well hopefully this plant recognition software will nip the invasive weed problem in the bud. Wouldn't want to beat around the bush. Or perhaps Microsoft is just leading us up the garden path.
[19:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Smart" flowers? - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:42] <exec> 08└─Once they do that I suppose it's all guns and roses from there
[19:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Link? - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:45] <exec> 08└─The article implies that this system is (will be?) available to hobbiests, but I can't find a link or any further information. Anyone have better luck?
[19:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Link? - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:47] <exec> 08└─Ubergizmo says [ubergizmo.com] "The app doesn’t actually exist yet, but if and when they do release this engine, perhaps botany hobbyists might be interested in checking it out." I doubt MS will have versions for Android and Apple, wanting to sell their own OS, and if it is it won't be free. And a...
[19:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Edible-GO augmented reality app... - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:49] <exec> 08└─Tags all the edible and hallucinogenics shrooms and flowers. Game mode: 1/6 tags incorrectly labels hallucinogenics as edibles. Survival mode: You in the forest for weeks on end living off the land. Russian roulette mode: 1/6 tags labels poisonous as edibles. Microsoft Labs: Innovating.
[19:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Drug tests load prisons - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:09] <exec> 08└─If many of those people were given that 50k a year instead for sure that even much of the guilty ones won't be criminals anymore.
[19:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One of the problems with modern psychology - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:10] <exec> 08└─I found this video to be very informative when it comes to explaining one of the huge problems with modern psychology that everyone around here always talks about. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Psychology and neurology are very interrelated. Many people who have psycholog...
[19:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Nope... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:12] <exec> 08└─#1: You're convicted based on a lab test, not a field test. So the field test, if it's faulty, will never result in a conviction. If it's not drugs then the lab test won't make an error. #2: You should probably know if the white powder in the bag is cocaine. Did you go to a dealer and try to buy dru...
[19:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Not gonna invest in that tech... - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:32] <exec> 08└─Also, while the total degrees I can traverse may be small in absolute terms, they are huge when factoring in the degrees which make a difference... namely between my eyes.
[19:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:seasick - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:35] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, I have never been very impressed with stereoscopic video. Few are because it isn't true 3D. Sight doesn't occur in the retina, it occurs in the brain and has far more information than the retina provides. There is, of course, stereoscopic vision, but also rangefinding and clues to 3D t...
[19:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:38] <exec> 08└─The ribbing is called a lenticular image/lens. You can still see them around. That technology has been used for 3D TVs, but it tends to only work well from one viewpoint. I have a 3D camera that uses that as the display, but you have to line up really well. It pops when it works. The most famous exa...
[19:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03githaron [581] (Score:2) 02Re:Metastasis strategy - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:24] <exec> 08└─From my understanding, they also had a problem with timescale. Everyone else in the space industry was used to operating on slow timescales for big money. SpaceX was simply moving too fast to wait for them and wanted to do it for cheaper.
[19:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did They Screw Mozilla? - 06Verizon to Buy (Parts of) Yahoo! For $4.83 Billion - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:31:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, a checkout of plain chromium source from May or so. And from what I suspect, there are other transfers that may happen outside the DOM/ResourceRequest layer.
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[20:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03curril [5717] (Score:1) 02Re:what if life arose more than once? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:04] <exec> 08└─...modern DNA analysis has superglued it and then buried it under the Roosevelt Dam.
[20:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Deep sea vents - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:08] <exec> 08└─I thought I had read about a hypothesis like this some 15-20 years ago.
[20:24:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number6x [903] 02Re:No, they're not... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 900 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:22] <exec> 08└─That is why asset seizure laws are so popular in connection with drug arrests. Thanks to the complete disregard for the 4th and 5th amendments, your assets can be seized and you must cooperate in their seizure (by volunteering passwords and fingerprints). That way you will not have a pile of money t...
[20:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:34] <exec> 08└─Bond is used in different ways! Yes, the $10,000 bond that you post for selling door-to-door is like you described (although, it's more likely there to pay the sales tax if you skip out, and limited to that). In getting out of jail, there are three primary ways (any of which can be augmented, e.g. w...
[20:24:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02Typo - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─Are Questionable Drug Laws Filling U.S. Prisons?
[20:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re: lenticular imaging - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:29] <exec> 08└─Those still exist [3dstereo.com]. Had to revise my search terms to avoid "3D" and "Video" (used "Stereo animation"). According to Wikipedia, those work by magnifying small image strips. The resolution required may be prohibitive to do the same thing with video. Though the stereoscopy article reminde...
[20:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:32] <exec> 08└─Yes I can verify that is the word to google for.
[20:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02I'm disappointed. - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:35] <exec> 08└─Ever since there was such a thing of a digital photograph I've been waiting for a true holographic screen, and the knowledge and technology is there but no one has put it together yet. All you would need would be a high resolution LCD screen backlit by a laser. The LCD screen would hold the moire pa...
[20:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:The big short - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:17] <exec> 08└─I get that. I read (and was convinced by ) analyses that there was a bubble in 2007. But I didn't have the cash to make money shorting things, and betting on when the bubble would burst.
[20:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Rumours of a free market - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:26] <exec> 08└─It makes people happy. The whole point of a "productive society" is to make people happy. If the way they get their entertainment isn't Doctor Who, or reading Tolkein or designing custom PCBs to drive LED cubes, whatever. To each their own. (Except for: Star Wars Prequels, Last JJ Abrams directed St...
[20:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Free markets - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:31] <exec> 08└─Fascinating. I now want to find an (a) English and (b) detailed explanation of how the market works that is (c) written for intelligent laypeople. It seems far better at eliminating HFT than the US markets.
[20:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Free markets - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:34] <exec> 08└─Trading doesn't seem to shut down after 18%. But the price cannot drop lower, which may in effect shut down trading. There is an upper limit as well. It may be more or less than 18% (maybe a rise by 21%, so that a max up and a max down cancel?)
[20:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:40] <exec> 08└─Just about all titanium medical device laser jobs are partial pen. Mainly butt and fillet type welds to secure pins or tool to a handle/shaft. Very easy to weld on an XY table or rotary. The heart pump job was an example of a partial pen job that has difficult geometry to easily shield. So we just s...
[20:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:I wanted the jury to hear a recorded phone call - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:34] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you lucked out. Not knowing the details, that's a very stupid reason to want to go to trial. Hell, go to the press if you feel strongly about it, but its hard for me to imagine why it wouldn't be considered irrelevant and prevented from being entered into the record. And, if it were,...
[20:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing the forest... - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:57] <exec> 08└─Because there are multiple users with the same type of opinion, and "guys" is basically a catchall for people, not just men. But that could just be my little bubble of experience. Its left as an exercise for the user to determine if they should be included.
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[21:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nationalize social media now - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:22] <exec> 08└─Cue the apologists who claim that Facebook is a private sector corporation and can censor anything at all, which is entirely true. Except the problem is that social media has become so essential to our society that Facebook censorship can effectively make unpersons, and people who aren't on Facebook...
[21:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:nationalize social media now - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:24] <exec> 08└─Another good reason to not use facepalm. Glad I left there.
[21:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nationalize social media now - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─Something is horribly wrong with you if you joined FB in the first place!
[21:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02New York Post!? - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:28] <exec> 08└─Seriously, guys...the Post is one of those "Two-Headed Martian Elvis Lovechild Weight Loss Secrets Revealed!" tabloids. And, while it's entirely possible for them to sometimes do not-miserable reporting, they are never a good primary source. Something like this, especially, I'd want to read from som...
[21:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New York Post!? - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:30] <exec> 08└─Bigfoot giving a blow job to Nessie
[21:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:New York Post!? - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:32] <exec> 08└─Attacking the messenger again? Yawn. http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[21:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02junk? - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:34] <exec> 08└─The NY Post just says they blocked it. It doesn't give any context - they didn't admit to blocking it for political reasons, that seems to just be assumed. Could it have been an anti-phishing/spam block? That wouldn't be surprising, after all. They said they fixed it - just whitelisted it perhaps? I...
[21:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:junk? - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36892533 [bbc.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.com] Yes, they say it was their automated anti-spam system.
[21:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why? - 06Cloned Sheep Age Normally - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:44] <exec> 08└─The cloned sheep have to die before their telomere lengths can be measured.
[21:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Cloned Sheep Age Normally - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:47] <exec> 08└─"There is nothing to suggest that these animals were anything other than perfectly normal," says Sinclair. They had slight signs of arthritis (Debbie in particular), but not enough to cause problems. "If I put them in with a bunch of other sheep, you would never be able to identify them," he says. T...
[21:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Cloned Sheep Age Normally - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:49] <exec> 08└─That is nonsense. They could easily take blood samples now. Also, if they wanted, they could easily do biopsies on other tissues. This sounds like excuses, I bet they did check the telomeres and decided they didn't like the results for some reason.
[21:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02they don't have to die - 06Cloned Sheep Age Normally - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:51] <exec> 08└─The cloned sheep have to die before their telomere lengths can be measured.
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:they don't have to die - 06Cloned Sheep Age Normally - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:53] <exec> 08└─There, added a word for you.
[21:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:"Smart" flowers? - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─Smart flowers are the ones whose flowers, leaves, or pods provide smart drugs or their precursors.
[21:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Zika - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:21] <exec> 08└─Eth, a good troll should be funny. This was just gornographic. No wit, no deadpan snarking, no "is this a Poe or what?" feeling...you're losing your edge, man :/
[21:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Returning to his roots? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:36] <exec> 08└─You know that saying about half of the population being below average - how come even the /summa cum laude/ grads are dumb as fuck too? (And for those looking for real snark - oh, psychology, OK, so no loss to the scientific world.)
[21:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:Returning to his roots? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:37] <exec> 08└─Nothing new there...Jellystone hardboils one every four or five years. Shockingly, alcohol is sometimes involved.
[21:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:Thermal vents? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:45] <exec> 08└─No, it was Luca Brasi, but he sleeps with the fishes.
[21:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deep sea vents - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:49] <exec> 08└─You did, it's reiteration time. We gotta make the kids think that it's all new, just happened in their time.
[21:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, they're not... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:03] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares if you've used. They're testing substances in your car or on your person. Soap can test as cocaine. Yes, you read that right. And if it doesn't, the officers can just say it's positive. http://www.mcall.com [mcall.com]
[21:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:It's important to understand the meaning of the - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:17] <exec> 08└─Jury nullification isn't a real solution to the problem of an unjust law or unjust legal system. The reason is that jury nullification only works for defendants at least 1 juror likes personally. Which can be a problem if you're in the Bible Belt with an all-white all-conservative-Christian jury, an...
[21:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the Free! - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:38] <exec> 08└─...seriously? You're not "missing" when you're incarcerated. You're incapacitated (I don't mean that in a legal sense). You do get a phone call, and I have to imagine they let you try again on occasion if no one picks up. Anyone not destitute and with a normal social network should be able to handle...
[21:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─Huh? I'm not sure which article you're responding to, but I'm fairly certain it's not this one. As pointed out above, #1: You're convinced based on a lab test that might be finished a month or two after your arrest. If you can't afford the bail or bond to get out of jail, you're pretty much fucked....
[21:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:50] <exec> 08└─You're going to lose your home, everything in it, and your job after disappearing for a month.
[21:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score:2) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:40] <exec> 08└─So do you feel we should arbitrarily ignore what definitions we set for the planets in order to appeal to the general populations' feelings on Pluto being "left out"? Because that seems to be the only reason people want Pluto to still be a planet. If people are annoyed that this new hypothetical pla...
[21:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:41] <exec> 08└─Did you read my comment? I'm pretty sure I implied that scientific classifications are not to be related to the general public's feelings... Going by average distance from the Sun, Pluto IS planet 10 (Ceres is 5). This new one might be planet 35 or 173 for all I care. Give it a name when it's been c...
[21:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score:2) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:44] <exec> 08└─My original post is referring to the comment that the people in the International Astronomical Union that reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet are idiots for doing so, which I disagree with. I am making the assumption that the poster was not, in fact, involved in the astronomical community nor a mem...
[21:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know what you're saying. I don't see how whether you call it a "planet" or "dwarf planet" has a significant impact on *anyone*, including scientists.
[21:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Free markets - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:20] <exec> 08└─some things I found from a naive search of the Web regarding HFT on the TSE: http://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com] https://www.saa.or.jp [saa.or.jp]
[21:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Send some Musky probes! - 06Newly Discovered TNOs Are in Orbital Resonance With Neptune - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:29] <exec> 08└─I think somebody has inadequacy issues. :)
[21:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Simple explanation - 06Hints for Leptonic CP Violation or New Physics? - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:56] <exec> 08└─It's very simple: In this universe, there's almost no "antimatter" and tons of "matter". But to balance this out, there's an alternate universe where this is reversed (except the names are swapped: from their perspective, what we call "antimatter" is "matter"). This is also the universe where humans...
[21:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting horse race - 06Price War Between SpaceX and Russia - 2234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:24] <exec> 08└─- The SpaceX engineers were not educated by SpaceX. They learned on tax dollars what does and doesn't work. It is valuable knowledge that SpaceX didn't pay for. (Conversely, Nasa suffered a brain drain). This seems dubious to me. For starters, NASA has never built a rocket. That stuff has always bee...
[21:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Without fake bomb detectors... - 06Iraq Finally Bans Fake Bomb Detectors - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:39] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of relabeling "Pokemon Go" as "Iraqi bomb detector" and make billions of dollars.
[21:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a couple pieces of titanium sheet - 06Super-Hard Metal 'Four Times Tougher Than Titanium' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:41] <exec> 08└─cheap tooth paste :-) that made me think about why cheap toothpaste is always so foamy :-)
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[22:23:30] <exec> 08└─Yup, something "horribly wrong" with all of them.
[22:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:nationalize social media now - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if that was supposed to be funny. I read it as a somewhat serious suggestion. Not with mandatory posting (as the last sentence implies) but with a mandatory account.
[22:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:New York Post!? - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:36] <exec> 08└─Don't believe the unwalled-aliens-throwing-meteors conspiracy theorists: Dinosaurs went extinct from the drop in fertility when they discovered how to deepthroat.
[22:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:New York Post!? - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─There, that was easy, wasn't it? So why not just link to Auntie Beeb in the first place? b&
[22:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New York Post!? - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:41] <exec> 08└─Why u hate News Corp?
[22:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:junk? - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:45] <exec> 08└─So it's the same old story. Dem stooges don't want anything bursting their newsbubbles aka safe spaces. So they report an inconvenient truth as spam.
[22:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:they don't have to die - 06Cloned Sheep Age Normally - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─now it just reads like killing them for improved accuracy! you made it worse!
[22:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:they don't have to die - 06Cloned Sheep Age Normally - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:58] <exec> 08└─I see the SN powers that be are now editing other people's posts. Oh well, the party had to end sometime.
[22:24:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:what if life arose more than once? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 2309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:46] <exec> 08└─The paleontological tree of life was strong enough in Darwin's time for him to conclude a very likely probability of a single universal common ancestor...and that conclusion has become overwhelming with the scientific advances of the past 150 years. The coffin was already nailed shut by the time of...
[22:24:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Thermal vents? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:49] <exec> 08└─False. Everyone knows that Luca lives on the second floor.
[22:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thermal vents? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:53] <exec> 08└─Near a thermal vent?
[22:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Not gonna invest in that tech... - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:17] <exec> 08└─IIC this only means that moving your head a few feet to the left, you won't see the 3-D billboard imagery more from the side, but the same as you would on your original position. That is, you won't be able to move around the 3-D image. This is the same as with 3-D glasses, but in this case moving yo...
[22:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Free markets - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure; this suggests it's done in the way you say: TSE sets a price range, known as the "Daily Price Limit", within which price fluctuations are limited in a single day.
[22:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Free markets - 06Nintendo Stock Price Drops on Pokémon Go Guidance - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:28] <exec> 08└─Hmmm.... the Bloomberg one makes me wonder if the Nintendo jumps last week were driven by algorithms rather than humans. Or a mix, humans say Nintendo doing cool stuff, then a feedback loop....
[22:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm scared - 06Newly Discovered TNOs Are in Orbital Resonance With Neptune - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:41] <exec> 08└─From TFS: In addition, the orbital motions of these objects are in resonance with Neptune's orbit, which was somewhat unexpected.
[22:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, Minister - 06UK Parliament Renews Trident Nuclear Deterrent - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:56] <exec> 08└─It apparently was one of Margaret Thatcher's favorite programs [yes-minister.com].
[22:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:1) 02Re:Vancouver in the United States - 06Rape Survivor Sues after Texas Authorities Jailed Her for a Month — as a Sexual Assailant - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:31:44] <exec> 08└─Ages ago, I read that the city of Coevorden [wikipedia.org] (NL, 35 000 souls) tried to establish a "sister city" link [wikipedia.org] with Vancouver (CA, 603 000 souls), but I think it was politely shooed away for not being important enough. ("Vancouver" comes from "van Coevorden")
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[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Salt and high fructose corn syrup - 06FDA Calls for Lower Sodium Content in Restaurant and Manufactured Food - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:12] <exec> 08└─It's entirely possible to make great food with little of either of these. The trouble is that it either A) spoils much faster, B) must use more or different spicing/flavoring - increasing cost - or C) must be better and more flavorful in the first place. Then, let's say you do this. Your competitor...
[23:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Salt and high fructose corn syrup - 06FDA Calls for Lower Sodium Content in Restaurant and Manufactured Food - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─There's no scientific basis for the limits that the fda is looking for. Anybody who isn't sensitive to sodium with high blood pressure shouldn't be cutting back. Low sodium levels are more dangerous than high ones. Listing the sodium contents is more than sufficient to deal with the health impacts o...
[23:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Salt and high fructose corn syrup - 06FDA Calls for Lower Sodium Content in Restaurant and Manufactured Food - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:15] <exec> 08└─Physicsmajor, based on your name I suspect you are projecting the methods of physics onto health/nutrition/medical research. These are not "science" in the usual sense. What goes on here is a series of fads while nothing ever really gets figured out. I wouldn't worry too much about any chatter comin...
[23:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Not Convinced: - 06FDA Calls for Lower Sodium Content in Restaurant and Manufactured Food - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:17] <exec> 08└─In those people whose genetic makeup means they are blood pressure sensitive to salt or who have other health problems linked to sodium it makes sense to control it. I'm not convinced that it's that well correlated with better health in the general population. But we go through fads where substance...
[23:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02war on salt overrated? - 06FDA Calls for Lower Sodium Content in Restaurant and Manufactured Food - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:20] <exec> 08└─http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/ [scientificamerican.com] https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com]
[23:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02America, please - 06FDA Calls for Lower Sodium Content in Restaurant and Manufactured Food - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:22] <exec> 08└─We got gob loads of Asians, Latinos, Carribeans, Italians, Greeks, Turks, Levantines, Ethiopians, Spaniards who season and spice the food so that we don't have to salt the crap out of them. Don't tell them to use less salt. Tell them to make it more tasty. NOTE: Ok, I give. I've been to China and It...
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:nationalize social media now - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─Teenagers? University and college students? Travellers keeping "in touch" with friends at home? People with active social lives and a need to share?
[23:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Minitru Sends New York Post Story Down Memory Hole - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:45] <exec> 08└─The link in the summary redirects my browser to a story from 2010 called "Trove of JFK photos sold at auction." The redirected URL: https://nypost.com [nypost.com]
[23:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Not shocked - 06Facebook Admits to Blocking Wikileaks Links in DNC Email Hack - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:47] <exec> 08└─Systems like Facebook and Twitter are simply too big to be allowed to exist. There is no way you can prevent them from being misused, the target is simply too big and attractive. It -WILL- be abused because the reward is large and the risk of meaningful punishment small whether the punishment comes...
[23:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Cloned Sheep Age Normally - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:57] <exec> 08└─could possibly do all kinds of shit, including an MRI, etc, but maybe they don't have the budget to perform more expensive procedures that are possibly a lot easier/cheaper when in cadaver form... just speculatin'...
[23:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smart Flower Recognition System - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:12] <exec> 08└─I had to read the summary twice to fully grok what was being said, and boy, was that second read a real letdown.
[23:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What we really need - 06Microsoft Cultivates Smart Flower Recognition System - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:21] <exec> 08└─... is a system to classify snowflakes..err.. millenials oh. We have one? They post it themselves? Wow. Okay. Including their sex liv..oh.. pornhub.. right moving on
[23:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Recommended Reading - 06Risk of Olympic Travel-Associated Importation of Zika Virus - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:40] <exec> 08└─Do they make decent points, or is it more along the lines of timely fear-mongering that Crichton make a career out of?
[23:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Returning to his roots? - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:50] <exec> 08└─average
[23:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Deep sea vents - 06Thermal Vents May be the Wellspring of Life - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─Right, the hypothesis, along with several alternative hypotheses, already existed. These researchers found evidence that is consistent with it.
[23:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Is that Actually how it Works? - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:51] <exec> 08└─urine idjit, username, i know both drug users and non-drug users, and non-drug users who are rabidly anti-drug (because they are fraidy cat morons), and THEY ALL use baggies ALL the time for ALL kinds of shit that has nothing to do with drugs or passing off white powder as drugs... as i say, urine i...
[23:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope... - 06Are Questionable Drug Tests Filling U.S. Prisons? - 2682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:05] <exec> 08└─GP here. Yes, I have savings enough to be out of work unexpectedly for several months. Could probably stretch to a year if needed. I'm hoping to have my home paid off soon so I have one less monkey every month who wants money from me. To give your other comment a nod (which was refreshing instead of...
[23:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Not gonna invest in that tech... - 06Researchers Create Glasses-Free 3D Display Prototype - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:28] <exec> 08└─Drivers, please be sure to engage the autopilot as you view the 3-D billboards. Thank you.
[23:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You mean "planet ten" - 06"Planet Nine" Might Explain the Solar System's Tilt - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's be consistent by using a horrible definition that was not built on its merits, but simply railroaded through for political reasons. Then, to avoid obvious confusion, we will call things that aren't planets "dwarf planets". But dwarf planets are not planets, even though they're called plan...
[23:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WHY ARE YOU YELLING THE PAPER TITLE AT ME?? - 06Newly Discovered TNOs Are in Orbital Resonance With Neptune - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:51] <exec> 08└─N/T
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