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[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:You run what now? - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─Indeed ubiquitous connectivity is possible even for those web designers working at coffee shops who can tether their laptops to their phones and don't need to use the coffee shop wifi at all. In fact it's better if they don't because chances are good the public wifi is overloaded by kids watching vi...
[00:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:social signalling by multi-monitor use - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:01] <exec> 08└─Punchcards, JCL, dotmatrix line printer and a connection to an IBM system/360 is the only way to do COBOL.
[00:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:social signalling by multi-monitor use - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:03] <exec> 08└─At a former employer you could have up to six monitors (2x3 organization) and I tried it and a new problem AC forgot to mention is mental context switches and mapping such that rather than looking at monitor #5 when you're focused on #2 you'll physical context switch #2 because its a lot of state to...
[00:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:ANYONE HAVE 4 MONITORS - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:12] <exec> 08└─Wall Street already did it, n00b.
[00:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ANYONE HAVE 4 MONITORS - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:14] <exec> 08└─And yet I don't see any wannabe quants on here with four monitors at home.
[00:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02we are CRTs if you please - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 1953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:17] <exec> 08└─Nothing to brag about here. I've tried running dual monitors before but in general it doesn't seem to be any better than having two computers with one monitor each. Having to reach back and forth between two keyboards is not fun, but that usually doesn't happen. Usually the point of having the secon...
[00:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Debian, four displays, large desk. - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 3447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:19] <exec> 08└─My path to multi-monitor was sort of unintentional: when I first moved from CRTs to LCDs, I wasn't sure I'd like the widescreen (16:10) display so I used it alongside the 4:3 CRT. Loved it and ended up gradually accumulating more displays over the years, limited primarily by desk space and convenien...
[00:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02There can be only one - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:21] <exec> 08└─When I’m in the zone I only hyper concentrated on one of them, rest are a distraction. I find it far easier to alt-tab or ctrl-alt-Fx or use the mouse than moving my head. I have two PCs with one 23" monitor, two taps of scroll lock switches between. I have das keyboard without lettering or lights...
[00:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm sorry, I forgot... MARV - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:38] <exec> 08└─I think the password was 6. It's been a while. "What if I'm wrong? I got a condition. I get confused sometimes".
[00:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:03] <exec> 08└─Only because Cuba doesn't have the technology or infrastructure.
[00:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:What a horrible world... - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:14] <exec> 08└─I actually try to avoid WOT (Wide open trottle) while merging. If you are running at your power limit, you have no room to speed up a little it you need to. Merge lanes are often on ramps to help you accelerate. Of course, all bets are off if you rev limiter is set at 3000rpm :P
[00:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:26] <exec> 08└─In my other response to you, I was assuming 85 percentile limits. By definition, 85% of the drivers are going to be travelling below such limits. But yes, I agree that limits should not be artificially lowered for ticket revenue. It hurts respect for the limit when there is actually a reason for it....
[00:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:32] <exec> 08└─I was going to mod you up until I got to the part where you say people driving below the limit should stay off the road. The limit is for ideal conditions. In heavy traffic, rain, snow, ice, fog, dust, darkness you should be driving slower. I am one of the cyclists with no motor. I have a hard time...
[00:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Need a Purely Defensive Agency - 06EFF on Government-Sponsored Hacking - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:17] <exec> 08└─Agree - that conflict of interest is not resolvable. We ought to be using and looking for broken software BOTH to exploit it better than the other guys, but ALSO to fix it and protect our citizens (and incidentally those of other countries). It's hard to see how this can be resolved.
[00:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You won't need all three guesses... - 06EFF on Government-Sponsored Hacking - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:21] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna say Iraq - "a regime that developed and used weapons of mass destruction, that harbored and supported terrorists, committed outrageous human rights abuses, and defied the just demands of the United Nations and the world." Amirite?
[00:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:59] <exec> 08└─Ha ha, Buzz! Made you listen! Be more careful in the future.
[00:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:01] <exec> 08└─Well, you know, I was going through all my replies and you were in there, so I thought what the hell...
[00:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:11] <exec> 08└─Let's translate: I don't like the politics you do and can't come up with a good reason why, so let's split hairs on the finest details of your position until you give up from frustration!
[00:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:17] <exec> 08└─You're neutral good? Are you joking? As much as you want to push your views as the only acceptable views and demonize everyone else? That's lawful evil, baby.
[00:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:19] <exec> 08└─Tell me, how many cases of halogen bulbs do you go through a month at that level of projection, Mr. Self-Admitted Staff Troll? Nothing you say is to be taken seriously anymore, by your own admission. Piss off and die.
[00:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:22] <exec> 08└─Linuxrocks! WooHoo! But linuxrocks123? No, your reason is not reasonable! You are missing out on a fine opportunity to open your mind to other points of view, just like the AIQs want you to do! Please don't put me in your kill-file! I have no idea how I could deal with you not reading my posts! I...
[00:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard and I saving soylentnews? - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:41] <exec> 08└─It never meant that. That would be a first amendment violation. Say it with me so you'll understand next time: free speech is not just a first amendment thing, it is a founding American principle.
[00:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard and I saving soylentnews? - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:44] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, both are fun.
[00:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the she's been shekel'd dept. - 06Chairman of Trump's Presidential Campaign Resigns Amid Pro-Russia Lobbying Scandal - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:22] <exec> 08└─Those darn anti-semitic Jews! We are the People's Front of Judea! Splitters!!
[00:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Contradictions - 063,000-Year-Old Brain Surgery Patient Likely Treated With Cannabis, Magic Mushroom "Painkillers" - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:57] <exec> 08└─I'm going to speculate that marijuana was probably discovered before alcohol. Alcohol requires fermentation, whereas marijuana requires fire. I agree that there is a high likelyhood of no anesthetic being used.
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[01:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not that worried by this. So they want to make some money? Fine, the DB itself is still open source. If someone wants fork (again) no problem. If I was using MariaDB in a business I would be happy to pay money, and get support in return.
[01:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to Fork again - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:31] <exec> 08└─More reasonably, time to look into one of the other forks of MySQL that were started at about the same time. Considering what legal tactics were tried at the launch of MariaDB, this action shouldn't surprise anyone...disappoint them, perhaps.
[01:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:donation - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:35] <exec> 08└─Huh. You're correct. I always thought that Jizzlam-compliant finance laws regarding interest applied only to running a negative balance in a loan/account. Then again, seeing the current state of both local and federal American politics, the notion should come as no surprise.
[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:donation - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate toasters?
[01:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You run what now? - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─My real workstation is a 64 core/16TB RAM VPS running in a datacenter somewhere Yeah we can all afford 250k worth of equipment and have a rack in the garage.
[01:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 024k 40-inch curved monitor - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:24] <exec> 08└─At one time I had a Mac Pro (running fedora) with three side-by-side portrait-mode 1600x1200 screens angled so that I'd be looking perpendicularly at each one as I turned my head from one side to the other. Right now, I have a single 4k 32" screen, which btw has more total pixels than my three-monit...
[01:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Singles - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:26] <exec> 08└─Single 4K 28" on the desk at work, complemented by the occasional 1080p (or smaller) that moves in beside it for special hardware projects. Single 4K 55" touch for the kids' home-school computer. Single 1080p 42" for the "Living Room Entertainment Screen" - it's 8 years old, and still working well e...
[01:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waiting for them to "force" me to give up - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 2070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:49] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. They're working on ways to get around your free will, which is a fragile illusion at best. Soon it will be part of interrogations to inject designer drugs specifically meant to induce a specific kind of fugue state in which memory is not impaired but executive and higher cognitive funct...
[01:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ignorance is bliss, apparently - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:05] <exec> 08└─Beyond being my views, they are facts. They can be found in academic works (AKA books). You might try to read one of those someday. It appears you are trying to provoke me. Why would your willingness to remain ignorant and to show the world that you are ignorant bother me? Fox News Watchers are such...
[01:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''a bicyclist'' - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:08] <exec> 08└─Orange County has the OC Loop. [google.com] Mostly, it's on the edge of the Santa Ana River and San Gabriel River (big concrete ditches). It will get you out of traffic for much of the distance around the county. There's also ocbike.org [google.com] to help you figure out stuff. calbike.org [calbike...
[01:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:As a bicyclist... - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:38] <exec> 08└─At over 120RPM, you burn far too much sugar/energy to last any length of time (too much like sprinting). I learned this the hard way after learning that below 60RPM (too much like rock climbing) is also bad. Effective Cycling [soylentnews.org] by John Forester has a chapter on choosing your pedal ra...
[01:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:42] <exec> 08└─People who have places to go, things to see, and people to do simply do NOT want to dawdle along behind you.
[01:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never happen in the US - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:50] <exec> 08└─you freedom ends where public safety begins.
[01:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:Never happen in the US - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:52] <exec> 08└─Don't need to. If you drive "badly" enough then you can be charged with assault with a deadly weapon to whit, a motor car. So a car is "arms". (Joke, Joyce)
[01:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:quite self-congratulatory - 06Folding@Home - Team SoylentNews About to Reach a Milestone! - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:07] <exec> 08└─Perhaps in addition to how fast your GPU is, you have to take into account how much you use the computer? folding@home makes use of idle time. If you're doing a lot of gaming, video watching, etc, then those are cycles not going to the folding project.
[01:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:22] <exec> 08└─My views, sweetcheeks, necessitate that I specifically not force anyone else to live by them. Thanks for playing though. We have some luverly parting gifts for you.
[01:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:service guarantees citizenship - 06Freelance Writer Describes Jury Duty - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:04] <exec> 08└─I've lost count off how many times
[01:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:service guarantees citizenship - 06Freelance Writer Describes Jury Duty - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not from the US, but it's no different here. I was called up for jury duty (High Court, not District Court, so more important cases) and was told to wear a suit and tie if I didn't want to serve. Sure enough, they couldn't get rid of me fast enough. The funny thing is, a guy I was chatting with...
[01:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ritual jewish sacrifices - 06Fake Human Sacrifice at CERN - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:57] <exec> 08└─"...we can no longer bring Sacrifices because the Torah forbids us to bring any Sacrifices outside of the Holy Temple. Since we have no Holy Temple, and it is impossible for us to rebuild it at this time, we keep praying to Hashem that we should be able to rebuild it soon in peace, and once again be...
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[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doctors can't be trusted. - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:37] <exec> 08└─Confidentiality doesn't exist when doctors are required by law to report suspected terrorists. You risk your life simply by going in for a routine checkup these days when anything the doctor finds can be used against you in court and could result in immediate jail time. In this legal climate am I go...
[02:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doctors can't be trusted. - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─It's just a simple imaging of your retinas, what's to fear?
[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doctors can't be trusted. - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah don't make idle smalltalk about how you hate America and offer to share your favorite beheading videos.
[02:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Discovered too late for some - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:42] <exec> 08└─If they had this a few years back, we might have Linda Ronstadt still doing concerts and making new recordings. I am happy they found this but sad that it took this long. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Discovered too late for some - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:45] <exec> 08└─There needs to be a limit on how long washed-up has-been celebrities can extend their music careers, kind of like how it's impossible to pursue an IT career beyond age 30.
[02:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:56] <exec> 08└─Ha ha only serious, can't possibly be true, let's moderate Funny because Windows. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:58] <exec> 08└─Ha ha only serious, can't possibly be true, let's moderate Funny because Windows. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MICROS~1 != open - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─If there is a license that restricts what the user can do with the item, that is NOT "open". It's why M$ made up the deceptive name "shared source". If you have to buy a particular proprietary item in order to make the "open" thing work, that is NOT "open" either. It's why M$ made up the deceptive n...
[02:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:donation - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:08] <exec> 08└─In Islamic banking, the "lender" actually gets a stake in the profits of the business he "lends" to. If the business fails, the "lender" is out of luck. If it succeeds, the "lender" gets paid back with a share of the profits. This isn't exactly the same as moneylending in the usual Western banking s...
[02:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zip [702] (Score:1) 02subjects are for noobs - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:11] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure it was predicted that this would happen again. Monty is the one that screwed MySQL in the first place, only to fork it in the name of open source after Oracle acquired Sun. Now it's the same shit again. Another reason to switch to Postgres for good.
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Ghostscript - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:13] <exec> 08└─Isn;t this just like the way ghostscript was released?
[02:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frost [3313] (Score:1) 02KVM - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:02] <exec> 08└─Double 8-port PS2/VGA KVM (16 ports total) with an additional USB/DVI 4-port daisy-chained through PS2-to-USB and VGA-to-DVI translators. Yeah, that's right, 19 computers hooked up to one VGA monitor. I recently upgraded it to LCD with 1920x1080 which is the max res supported by the analog KVMs. The...
[02:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Laptops? - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:04] <exec> 08└─No one else so far getting along with just a laptop? I mostly work on the 1440x900 builtin screen of an old 15" C2D Macbook Pro. Though this message is typed on 2880x1800 (same 15" size, but 4x res) of a newer Retina model which I mostly use for casual surfing. I prefer the trusty ole Snow Leopard o...
[02:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Welcome to the UK - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:29] <exec> 08└─This has been in force in the UK for many years now as part of The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), Part III. Up to 2 years in the big house for not revealing a password to police. In fairness, they do have to provide some form of evidence that supports their view that the passwor...
[02:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:What a horrible world... - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:04] <exec> 08└─6. Comprehensive review of 30mph speed limits, with local consultations on which should be lowered to 20mph.
[02:25:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:12] <exec> 08└─You travel below the speed limit? One or two MPH is alright, but you like to travel ten MPH below? Again, get off the road. If your eyes are that bad, your reaction time so slow that you are afraid to keep up with traffic, then you are a hazard out here.
[02:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:16] <exec> 08└─Safety. You'll find the 85th percentile mentioned in that link. That is the safest speed limit. The speed at which the vast majority of drivers are comfortable is the safest speed. If half or more of the motoring public is exceeding the posted speed limit, then the speed limit was NOT set for safety...
[02:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:25] <exec> 08└─The safest speed on any given road is dependent primarily upon your vision and the speed of other traffic. If you're going more than 10 mph above or below the speed limit you are a significant risk. Same goes for stopping and starting and tentatively going for it and then not. Aggressive drivers are...
[02:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:28] <exec> 08└─IT IS YOU who induces a lot of the road rage.
[02:25:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:quite self-congratulatory - 06Folding@Home - Team SoylentNews About to Reach a Milestone! - 1347 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:46] <exec> 08└─AHHH-HAAA-HA!! You is funny - NOT!! Yes, we are congratulating ourselves. We're doing something that we percieve to be "good". Small community here, we think we deserve just a little recognition. Far more importantly, we would LIKE for others to join in. People, if you have spare computer time, plea...
[02:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:42] <exec> 08└─> Nice change of focus. It's not shouting louder as if through a heated exchange So what? Seriously, who says that speech is only speech if you pause so the other guy can get a word in edgewise? If someone wants to speak uninterrupted go do it in private. But if you want to speak in public then eith...
[02:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:48] <exec> 08└─Look at buzzard pretending the trail of tears didn't happen.
[02:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:50] <exec> 08└─My ancestors were warriors. They may have died but at least they didn't whine about it.
[02:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:12] <exec> 08└─Horseshit. Your views start and end at "taxation is theft;" all else is window dressing. I've dealt with your kind before.
[02:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buzzard and I saving soylentnews? - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:35] <exec> 08└─Yes a founding principle that they just forgot about at the start and needed an amendment to slip it in later. At least it was kinda more important than owning slaves.
[02:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Buzzard and I saving soylentnews? - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:36] <exec> 08└─At least it was kinda more important than owning slaves.
[02:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score:1) 02Re:service guarantees citizenship - 06Freelance Writer Describes Jury Duty - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:52] <exec> 08└─Or wear a pin with FIJA on it. Though that might slide past...
[02:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tech angles in TFA (Not in TFS) - 06Freelance Writer Describes Jury Duty - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:16] <exec> 08└─Was the "TV" actually a stream and did it screw a whole bunch of folks by hogging all the bandwidth? Might any Soylentils find themselves in the same spot those folks were? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─No other mission has ever explored this unique region so close to the planet.
[03:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doctors can't be trusted. - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:39] <exec> 08└─If you want to make a joke about killing your boss, you have to do it in a designated comedy setting, and you have to be a designated comedian, otherwise idiots will not understand that a joke was made. Sometimes not even then, e.g. Michael Richards.
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02''washed-up has-been celebrities'' - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─If you're talking about one-hit wonders who want to sit on their asses and collect royalties for some bit of luck they had 4 decades ago, I agree. I'll even make some allowances for that bunch if they actually go out on the nostalgia circuit and PERFORM for the folks who want to see them. Ronstadt w...
[03:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''washed-up has-been celebrities'' - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─Quiet you, I'm waiting for a greybeard to declare, "but I'm working in IT and I'm over 30!" Sure I remember the Stone Poneys. Hell I might as well toss them on my playlist.
[03:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02No cure. - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─At present, there is no cure for Parkinson's. There is treatment, which is to use drugs to replace the dopamine the dopaminergic cells are no longer producing. But the drugs aren't nearly as very effective as one might wish. When dosage gets high, they have side effects. And despite careful pilltaki...
[03:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No cure. - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:48] <exec> 08└─From what I've read, everything you wrote is correct, but the story can be much more positive. For example, after being written off by her original doctor as having "age related tremors", my mother still felt that something wasn't right. She was having too much trouble moving and doing anything that...
[03:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:02] <exec> 08└─AFAIK Red Hat is still 100 percent open source. They make their money selling support licenses. This is kinda evil on Monty's part, by taking a key software component proprietary after releasing the initial version as open source. That's because customers make plans based on one set of assumptions,...
[03:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to Fork again - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:05] <exec> 08└─Time to kickem to the curb. It amazes me how these guys try to just take over code only to discover that we will just switch to something else. If we wanted to buy closed source garbage we would just use a macroshaft product.
[03:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:social signalling by multi-monitor use - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:40] <exec> 08└─Looks like we found at least one counterexample with a 1 monitor setup.
[03:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Waiting for them to "force" me to give up - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:28] <exec> 08└─Yes; drugs, mind control, and torture can subvert free will, in the sense of breaking down the subject. But they can't make anyone a willing accomplice. The best they can do is make zombies, and even then, results are not guaranteed (really investigate what James Stockdale, John McCain, and others e...
[03:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the UK - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:30] <exec> 08└─No, file access and modify times are not a giveaway. You can never prove that someone knows something but will not reveal it. It isn't possible. It's always possible that George knew the password last Thursday but does not remember it now. He may have written it down and burned the paper since. Anyo...
[03:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:52] <exec> 08└─I'm all for privacy, but come on. If you really value your privacy, you're not going to be driving around in a car that has registration plates that are used to identify and track you.
[03:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:10] <exec> 08└─Yours are "what you make belongs to those more needy", so you can fuck right off with that nonsense.
[03:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:13] <exec> 08└─You are missing out on a fine opportunity to open your mind to other points of view, just like the AIQs want you to do!
[03:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Communists redefining words - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:23] <exec> 08└─communists? are you Retard Paul or what?
[03:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Part of the plan - 06As Promised, Aetna is Pulling out of Obamacare After DOJ Blocked its Merger - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:32:27] <exec> 08└─The US isn't the only one with a mix. Germany and the UK both do, to my certain knowledge. There are probably others. I think South Africa may be one. Canada kind of does (its private sector has been largely bullied out of existence, but may be recovering after some court victories). The government...
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[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─Damned paywall, launch it into space
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Navel Gazing Future - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:37] <exec> 08└─There hasn't been a moon landing since 1972, and color television is an obsolete technology replaced by the internet. The information superhighway led us to the worst example of balkanization in history. The long tail produces alienation to the degree where every person is an island connected to oth...
[04:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No cure. - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:02] <exec> 08└─Her symptoms were quite obvious. There's no medical condition called "age related tremors". "age related tremors" = I don't want to help. So I don't think the retinal scan would help if you had this sort of doctor interpreting the results of the retinal scan. The scan is just another source of data,...
[04:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:No cure. - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:03] <exec> 08└─The earlier the detection the better quality data there is to use in research. Being able to identify a cluster of Parkinson's patients only a few years after the fact would be a huge improvement in the study of the disorder as you'd have a greatly improved ability to collect any and all data that m...
[04:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02GNU != open like BSD - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:17] <exec> 08└─GPL restricts your rights to source code you write, that is NOT "open" either. It's why GNU made up the deceptive name "copyleft".
[04:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to Fork again - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:22] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I never got why people migrated from MySQL in the first place. MariaDB (AFAIK) and MySQL both have copyight assignment clauses to allow them to do this kind of thing, and I never saw any advantage to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB (hell, here at SN, we chose to migrate to MySQL cluster than...
[04:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's the fuss? - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the MaxScale part is mostly of interest to enterprise users. It also sounds like those same enterprise users are happy take it for free without giving back anything. Just like throwing a party, asking for donations to help cover the cost and the next day finding a measly $5 of donations....
[04:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Look at h-node for libre-linux. - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:51] <exec> 08└─On FreeBSD, it should mostly be a matter of having supported hardware. As in hardware that has some sort of decent driver support for acceleration. Since we run Xorg, the rest of it works like it would on Linux. Personally, I've got a second monitor, but I've been too lazy to hook it up. I think tha...
[04:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Gaming purposes *cough*skyrim*cough* - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:24] <exec> 08└─When I bought my monitor I was so into playing TES-V: Skyrim and modding it to look immersive and shit, I went for the best monitor for color reproduction in my budget. I have Dell U2412M (1920x1200) IPS
[04:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Six LCD's and not enough - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:26] <exec> 08└─6x LCD's on Win7pro. This station is about six years old, I have a new rig built but not configured yet. It has Linux on it, and I'm dreading getting everything up and going - it's not that I can't or that Linux is hard (it isn't! Be patient and read!), it's just that no matter what flavor you're us...
[04:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:11] <exec> 08└─England has many bike &/or walking paths. One group that supports them and lobbies for more is called Sustrans. But the paths don't always go where you want and most English roads that I've ridden on have minimal space for bicycles. Compare to here in upstate New York, (outside New York City--that's...
[04:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What in the fuck - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:34] <exec> 08└─Or the Honda S2000
[04:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You won't need all three guesses... - 06EFF on Government-Sponsored Hacking - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:26] <exec> 08└─Of course supplying, supporting and allying with them (before you stabbed them in the back and destroyed their country (and entire region of the world)) was all completely above board wasn't it. Farcical illogical trolls make everyone laugh.
[04:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:04] <exec> 08└─> My ancestors were warriors. They may have died but at least they didn't whine about it. True or not, its a non-sequitor. They are dead because speech convinced the us government that killing them - men, women, children - for their land was perfectly OK. Haven't you ever wondered why free speech is...
[04:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GmanTerry [829] (Score:1) 02Re:service guarantees citizenship - 06Freelance Writer Describes Jury Duty - 2520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:52] <exec> 08└─I was called in 2009 for Jury Duty. When I got there we were told that it wasn't a trial, we were there for Grand Jury Duty. That is four months of two full days a week. They needed 16 jurors. I can completely understand the problem with a citizen being ask to give up two days a week for four months...
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[05:22:32] <exec> 08└─How are you planning to nuke the paywall from orbit if you launch it into space? Sharks, lasers, Major Lazer, Vampire Weekend.
[05:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 021968. I was 10 years old - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:35] <exec> 08└─My teacher, Mr Barnes, gave us 3 days notice a black kid would be joining our class and we should be nice to him. He joined, I said "Hey nigger, how you doing?". He caught me after school and beat the ever loving shit out of me. I had no idea why, my parents and their friends always call black peopl...
[05:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1968. I was 10 years old - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:37] <exec> 08└─2011. A black man yelled at me as I was minding my own business walking down the street, "Hey white boy! Hey white boy!" The man ran over to walk beside me and asked, "You wanna buy some dope?" I was 31. Not a boy. But I happen to be white. I declined the offer of dope. Racism lives. White men are t...
[05:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A big reset - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─Things are bad. Measurably so. Our civilisation depends on minerals - not just for energy, but other types as well, such as phosphates for agriculture. We're slowly running out. So, that's bad. Starvation is bad. Climate change would be much easier to handle, if we had limitless energy with which to...
[05:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oracle's lawyers might look into this - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 2219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:32] <exec> 08└─To see if MariaDB Corp. is violating the licensing terms of MySQL, which is now owned by Oracle. While MaxScale is not a module that is compiled into the MariaDB or MySQL engine binary (it's a proxy that is apparently used to route queries to clustered hosts running MariaDB). It might run afoul of...
[05:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:2) 02Re:There can be only one - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:22] <exec> 08└─I am a single monitor person myself. Mostly use command-line and Alt+Tab and other keyboard shortcuts to switch between apps and windows. Mouse use is mostly when using web browser. I have tried multiple monitor setups before, but never achieved any productivity gains in doing so I do not bother wit...
[05:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:2) 02Re:Laptops? - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 1454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:27] <exec> 08└─> No one else so far getting along with just a laptop? For my work system, I do. I keep it separate from my personal systems (I telecommute) since it is a company-owned asset. It's a Win7 box, but I mostly use Cygwin since I am more productive with a *nix-like environment. I do wish the laptop displ...
[05:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02The Happy Fun Trail - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:10] <exec> 08└─Did you just say that the people who were force marched off their land and themselves chose to call that forced march "The Trail of Tears and Death" did not whine about it? They didn't name it "The Happy Fun Trail" did they? I'm pretty sure those weren't tears of joy, they literally named it for the...
[05:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:34] <exec> 08└─Number one, that's a gross oversimplification. Number two, you don't seem to realize how much you're revealing about yourself with your responses. Number three, why the hell do you keep talking to me if you hate my ideas so much? They obviously offend you and make you uncomfortable, so exercise your...
[05:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03GmanTerry [829] (Score:1) 02Re:service guarantees citizenship - 06Freelance Writer Describes Jury Duty - 2327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:00] <exec> 08└─I was called in 2009 for Jury Duty. When I got there we were told that it wasn't a trial, we were there for Grand Jury Duty. That is four months of two full days a week. They needed 16 jurors. I can completely understand the problem with a citizen being ask to give up two days a week for four months...
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[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Moon Barrier - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─In 1966, an episode of Star Trek aired declaring, "The Time Barrier's been broken. Our new ships can ..." 50 YEARS LATER, forget the Time Barrier, we have a more fundamental problem. The Moon Barrier has never been broken. Your obsession with cheap open source off-the-shelf crap is stupid. Launch a...
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:1968. I was 10 years old - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:41] <exec> 08└─¡Oh! Those memories... imagine Streisand... Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? I remember watching Apollo 11 launch on TV, but maybe it was some other launch. I was a bit younger than you, so I perhaps misremember exactly what I saw on TV that morning, bu...
[06:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1968. I was 10 years old - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:42] <exec> 08└─Yep, Doctor Who rewrote Neil Armstrong's famous quote to include a subliminal alien message, and made Dick Nixon a flaming homophobe. History will never be the same. The times they are a changing.
[06:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Wrong link in submission - 06Most Distant Catch for ESA Station - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:52] <exec> 08└─... Cassini orbiter delivered Europe's Huygens probe [esa.int] to the surface of ...
[06:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:No cure. - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:12] <exec> 08└─At present, there is no cure for Parkinson's.
[06:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:There can be only one - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:29] <exec> 08└─I also prefer a single monitor setup. Have two at work but only to angle one away from public view and read SN : P Would have to ditch the oscilloscope or something to fit a second monitor at home. One display is plenty : )
[06:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The word you seek is ''Totalitarian'' (DPRK aga - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:21] <exec> 08└─Some Authoritarian regimes have hijacked the words "socialist" and "communist" and used those terms to name themselves dishonestly.
[06:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:26] <exec> 08└─You know how you are scared of heavy, fast-moving vehicles passing within inches? That is how pedestrians feel when a cyclist uses the side-walk.
[06:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:04] <exec> 08└─In summary: be predicable. Cyclists may be a special case here. If I am travelling closer to the expected speed of traffic, people sometimes under-estimate my speed. The people turning left in front of me may not see me, but the people who race me to the corner to turn right (forcing me to brake) ce...
[06:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:49] <exec> 08└─Also, the kill file is actually just a -2 penalty, so I'll still see your posts until I up my threshold to 1 because the crap from ACs and killfiled blowhards gets too severe. If you post anything worthwhile before then, I'll probably take you off.
[06:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop Whining - 06Freelance Writer Describes Jury Duty - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:47] <exec> 08└─Is it that hard to take 2 minutes every day to record an automated message which could save hundreds of prospective jurors from missing work and showing up on a given day for no reason??
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[07:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Big difference - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:28] <exec> 08└─They don't need to achieve orbital speeds.
[07:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Sorry dude - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:30] <exec> 08└─You lost me right after "apple pie will fly directly into my mouth". Now I want pie.
[07:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02doable if they have the right tools - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:32] <exec> 08└─One of the monumental tasks of making any kind of machine is the actual manufacturing. Space X proved that advanced manufacturing using DMLS is actually preferable to other manufacturing methods and much cheaper. If they have a DMLS machine, they can make just about any kind of machine on a shoestri...
[07:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Salvage One TV program's 'The Vulture' - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:34] <exec> 08└─Reminds me if this cool TV program on in the 70s/80s. Owner of a junkyard made a ship to go to the moon and salvage it!
[07:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A big reset - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:49] <exec> 08└─We're slowly running out. So, that's bad. Starvation is bad.
[07:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So close - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:50] <exec> 08└─I'm actually pretty optimistic about the technological advances on the horizon. We have robotics on the verge of taking over most of the tedious labor. We are at an unprecedented age in regards to scientific discovery. We have so many avenues for improving human life across the board. What I am wary...
[07:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So close - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:52] <exec> 08└─Home labs of the near future will be able to do more advanced chemistry and biology feats deemed unacceptable to governments and ethics boards. Anyone who shows an interest in these topics will become surveillance priorities.
[07:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pete (big-pete) (1612) (Score:1) 02Ultra-wide - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:46] <exec> 08└─I have a single curved ultrawide (21:9) Samsung monitor on my desk running at 3440x1440. I don't want to go back to anything narrower. I'm really not sure how 16:9 is so popular when 21:9 is an option. If I could pay a sensible amount of money to have a large 21:9 TV, I'd do it. -- Pete.
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[08:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:32] <exec> 08└─The obvious solution is segregation for all and integration for none. You want black schools, you want black neighborhoods, you want a black president. Well here it is. Segregate the country, so blacks live in black neighborhoods and blacks go to black schools and blacks vote for black presidents. L...
[08:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My my my - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:33] <exec> 08└─Previously it was yucks and accusations towards homeschoolers at being religious wackos, with some equating homeschooling tantamount to child abuse. Then there was the moralizing that those pulling their kids were essentially allowing civilization to burn for not taking a greater interest (*cough*hi...
[08:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't worry, I won't watch BET - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:35] <exec> 08└─Black Entertainment obviously isn't meant for me, so I won't watch BET. I'll go watch White Entertainment, whatever the hell that is. WET oh yeah I like the sound of that.
[08:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:Moon Barrier - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:45] <exec> 08└─No, you shut the fuck up. Getting to mars(the closest remotely interesting thing) isn't any more important than making near-earth spaceflight cheap.
[08:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moon Barrier - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:47] <exec> 08└─Sure OK. Your open source movement has been bravely and predictably achieving the possible for 30 years now. All you know how to do is what others have done. You've reinvented Unix over and over and over again. Why not achieve more possible things, including putting Elon Musk on the Moon. That's rig...
[08:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Moon Barrier - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:49] <exec> 08└─And fuck you because it's not going to happen, and you know it. You can't do fucking shit. Fucking idiots.
[08:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big difference - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:52] <exec> 08└─This. Obligatory https://what-if.xkcd.com [xkcd.com] Blue Origin goes to space and then lands their booster, ESA goes to orbit, SpaceX goes to orbit AND lands their booster. This group will attempt neither of these difficult things.
[08:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:Big difference - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:54] <exec> 08└─if you can make getting to space extremely cheap, you can probably use the same development methodologies to get to orbit for cheap.
[08:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sorry dude - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:58] <exec> 08└─Toss the pie into the air and catch it in your mouth. Might want to slice it first.
[08:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:02] <exec> 08└─If they manage to get anywhere close to succeeding, I imagine that some national security organs of various countries would like to have a few words with them. The theory and practice of putting objects and people into space is essentially the same as the theory and practice of sending explosive pay...
[08:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1968. I was 10 years old - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:14] <exec> 08└─Note to the fool who moderated the "white boy" anecdote Troll. That event really happened. If you feel the need to moderate Reality as Troll, then you are delusional. Let me tell you something else that really happened. When I went to vote at my neighborhood polling place in 2008, a black woman decl...
[08:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A big reset - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:19] <exec> 08└─All farms must now include a bat loop.
[08:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So close - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:24] <exec> 08└─Oh, they already had cases in the late 90s/00s of people doing rudimentary gene sequencing in home labs getting raided under terrorism/drug production guises. And then the whole 3D printing of firearms, etc. It will definitely be interesting times when the people renegotiate the contract between the...
[08:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A project that won't go proprietary - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:20] <exec> 08└─https://sourceforge.net/projects/chaosesqueanthology/ [sourceforge.net] Info: https://lgdb.org [lgdb.org] [lgdb.org] http://www.moddb.com [moddb.com] [moddb.com] Direct download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net
[08:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Headline is misleading/wrong - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:22] <exec> 08└─MariaDB has Gone Proprietary
[08:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welcome to the UK - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:47] <exec> 08└─Brits are disarmed, there's nothing they can do about it: just how women want it.
[08:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ChaosEsque Anthology - 06FEC to Crack Down on Fictitious Filings to Discourage Deez Nuts - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:30:09] <exec> 08└─The system to place the bushes (and trees) around following a set of parameters. Think: 9 yr old girl is assigned to Man if girl is [pretty] and Man wants girl. >Has he even seen a bush besides his own? Someone who advocates a return to the child marraige of girls would welcome the chance to see a p...
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[09:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:My my my - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─Wait what. Racist Blacks? But, but, but, blacks can't be racist. That's just not possible.
[09:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mod missed the sarcasm - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:29] <exec> 08└─... or is just daft. But, but, but, blacks can't be racist. That's just not possible.
[09:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't worry, I won't watch BET - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:33] <exec> 08└─Ah crap, I think I might have to stop watching science fiction. Too many black people I'm not allowed to see. Killjoys is right out because of Hannah John-Kamen, Dark Matter is out because Roger Cross plays a major role (I'll miss him - I've always enjoyed seeing Roger Cross). Oh no I'm not allowed...
[09:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:35] <exec> 08└─I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood
[09:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Nothing to do with race... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:37] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with race, except that black kids tend to live where the worst schools are. US public schools generally suck; they sucked when I was in them 40 years ago, and they apparently suck worse today. If you care about your children's education, you either send them to private school,...
[09:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing to do with race... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:39] <exec> 08└─Kids don't need to socialize these days, because by the time they grow up, everyone will have Facebook permanently implanted in their skulls. Facebook will decide who you will talk to and when, and you won't need to know anything about obsolete social graces, and you won't need to tolerate people wh...
[09:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score:1) 02already reinvented.. - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:41] <exec> 08└─by dumbing down white and yellow education to average IQ80, it's called common core.
[09:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moon Barrier - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:52] <exec> 08└─Sure! I hope he stays there.
[09:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Moon Barrier - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:54] <exec> 08└─It has obviously escaped your attention that the things had to be reimplemented as Open Source because they weren't Open Source in the first place. We are now standing on the shoulders of our own giants, and they're bigger than yours because they continue to grow while the closed source ones stagnat...
[09:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:04] <exec> 08└─It's Denmark we are talking about. Nobody is afraid of us, not because we don't have the technology, but because the country is so freaking small. We *have* to be on friendly terms with all of our neighbors, because any of them could invade the entire Country of Denmark in a day (Germany did it in a...
[09:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:06] <exec> 08└─If you're so friendly, why do you need twenty two fighter jets? Two fighter jets should be more than enough for you.
[09:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Escape velocity - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 2277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:08] <exec> 08└─Whatever you do, however you do it, if you want something practical for anything other than pretty pictures, you need to approach or beat escape velocity. It doesn't matter if you slow-burn or fire-up, or do it in stages, or whatever. To get out of the Earth and do something interesting, you need to...
[09:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:1968. I was 10 years old - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:22] <exec> 08└─There some kind of automatic downmod for Obama comments now? Let me check. I didn't vote for Obama. Not even once.
[09:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:14] <exec> 08└─For something to be open source, you must have not just access to the source, but the rights to modify and distribute modified (and unmodified) versions. The source license for Windows does not include modification or distribution rights and doesn't even come with enough of the build system to build...
[09:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:donation - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:26] <exec> 08└─That's not quite how it works. You pay rent on property, not on money. For example, if you want to buy a house then an Islamic bank will offer you a shared ownership scheme rather than a mortgage. You will buy, say, 20% of the property and they will buy 80%. You will then pay rent to them on the 80%...
[09:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Headline is misleading/wrong - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:32] <exec> 08└─oh :( I was waiting for the swat team to come and grab my GPL licensed copy, I even had made sandwiches for them, I guess they will have to wait for the swat team who comes to forcibly install systemd (THOSE are the tough guys, handling systemd without a dosimeter).
[09:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 024k 35-inch curved OLED monitor with FreeSync - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:25] <exec> 08└─A 40 or 35-inch 4k curved monitor is my ideal too - but OLED and with FreeSync. I fancy one of the LG ones - tighter curves than Samsung. At work, I got 3 x 22" at work (my little HP EliteDesk has 2xHDMI-out and 1 VGA-out). At home, my desktop is a 24" Dell centered (landscape) and 30" off to the si...
[09:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:George Orwell called. - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:30] <exec> 08└─I think driverless cars should be mandatory
[09:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:03] <exec> 08└─You travel below the speed limit? One or two MPH is alright, but you like to travel ten MPH below? Again, get off the road.
[09:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:quite self-congratulatory - 06Folding@Home - Team SoylentNews About to Reach a Milestone! - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:19] <exec> 08└─It's not world news, but it's site news. Quite why you would want to denigrate their efforts rather than congratulating and encouraging them, I don't understand. Not to mention the fact that your complaint is mostly a straw man - there was no "we have reached a goal that we've set ourselves"-like as...
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[10:22:48] <exec> 08└─I really liked her concern that her kids aren't learning any African history in the schools. One might have thought they should learn American and European history, all the way back to the Greeks and Romans - that's the heritage of the country they live in. Chinese immigrants don't expect their kids...
[10:22:52] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03dltaylor [4693] 02not so much schools as parents fail - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 1354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:52] <exec> 08└─Public schools have limited budgets, often more limited by excessive "administratium" (far too many people claiming credit for this one). That often explains the difficulty getting any child into an enriched program, plus, too many parents are "so sure" that their child is, in some way, gifted, when...
[10:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:16] <exec> 08└─Because they need to be NATO fodder "when Putin invades Russia". The plan is to relocate their entire military to an island named Bornholm and await destruction there. DK's call sign is "Takes One For The Team". Right after the execution of this brave plan, there will be a long-awaited communist upr...
[10:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Escape velocity - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:18] <exec> 08└─There's a reason a lot of the cost of spaceflight is nothing but fuel. We all hear this, but it's not true. Remember that huge external fuel take on the space shuttle? Cost of all that fuel was around $500,000. The cost of a space shuttle launch, averaged over the life of the program, was $450 milli...
[10:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So they are a non-profit SpaceX - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:20] <exec> 08└─The blurb from their website sounds very similar to things SpaceX has said We aim to prove that human spaceflight – by many considered the most difficult technology to master – can be different from the usual expensive and governmental controlled projects. We hope to inspire people to do what ma...
[10:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pathetic Attempt - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:23] <exec> 08└─Pathetic attempt from quietus [soylentnews.org] to "make space relevant again". What, you suddenly crawl out of your hole and happen to post two space-related articles just during the moment when more and more people can see through the scam? Back to your hole, vermin. Quick. To the rest of you monk...
[10:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pathetic attempt - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:45] <exec> 08└─Pathetic attempt from quietus to "make space relevant again". What, you suddenly crawl out of your hole and happen to post two space-related articles just during the moment when more and more people can see through the scam? Back to your hole, vermin. Quick. To the rest of you monkeys: time to wake...
[10:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Choosing a license - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:29] <exec> 08└─GPL restricts your rights to source code you write If you chose existing GPL code to modify, you knew the rules going in. Don't like the rules? Don't start modifying the code. It would be less deceptive of you to say that GPL restricts your rights to screw over others who have added code to the proj...
[10:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Headline is misleading/wrong - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:49] <exec> 08└─Thank you. One of the reasons I visit this site is to avoid clickbait horseshit like this.
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[11:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:28] <exec> 08└─Given that it is an international space station, I guess NASA could not sell all of it, unless it first bought the other parts from the respective owners.
[11:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:29] <exec> 08└─In other news: US sells UN ...
[11:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is that a good catch? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:32] <exec> 08└─I don't remember that there was ever a financial report regarding how much income ISS earns next to how much it costs to keep. I am not sure there was a stampede in Billionaires' club when this announcement hit the press. Besides, do we need ISS? One way to monetize it would be do dismantle it, cut...
[11:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:41] <exec> 08└─... all-white legislature to represent white people... white president for white people.
[11:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't worry, I won't watch BET - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:48] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the shows you mentioned, but it's okay to watch them if the black characters are just racial stereotypes, like in that Ghostbusters rehash. That's classic old timey white entertainment right there.
[11:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:52] <exec> 08└─I hope you're including Native American history in American history. That's the heritage of the land they live on. I enjoyed learning about Native American traditions in school, but if kids remember nothing else, it really helps to know where place names came from, because Native American names are...
[11:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:54] <exec> 08└─I hope you're including Native American history in American history. Um, no. For better or for worse, the Native American cultures were conquered and destroyed. First by the Spanish, then by the British. The history of that destruction is certainly part of American history. However, the cultures and...
[11:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02The problem with anecdotal evidence - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:59] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with race, except that black kids tend to live where the worst schools are.
[11:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blame the parents/victims? - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:03] <exec> 08└─The statistics about the benefits of home schooling, charter schools, ... are ALL crap, because they NEVER compare students with equivalent parental involvement between those cases and public school.
[11:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Or... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:05] <exec> 08└─Or we could not be racist about it and run a s/black/poor/ig over the article.
[11:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 2111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:07] <exec> 08└─The more intelligent people in this country have known for ages that the public schools suck watermelons through garden hoses. They sucked fifty years ago, and they've deteriorated since. As an aside, I can tell you WHY they just deteriorate: GOVERNMENT! Schools are supposed to be locally run, not r...
[11:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score:1) 02Re:Big difference - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:23] <exec> 08└─Blue Origin goes to space and then lands their booster
[11:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Salvage One TV program's 'The Vulture' - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:29] <exec> 08└─sanford and son ? ? ?
[11:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:35] <exec> 08└─Depends if they weaponise their rocket, by loading "Gamle Ole" [wikipedia.org] sandwiches as lunch.
[11:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Incandescent? - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:02] <exec> 08└─Alma Thomas, an incandescent pioneer
[11:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''washed-up has-been celebrities'' - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:26] <exec> 08└─I've been working in IT for over 30 years you insensitive clod!
[11:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''washed-up has-been celebrities'' - 06Eye Test May Detect Parkinson's Before Symptoms Appear - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:28] <exec> 08└─Ronstadt had the best all-around singing voice of her generation (and the next). Perfect pitch and unbound versatility resulted in something for everyone. A wonderful talent who is sorely missed.
[11:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:52] <exec> 08└─The license, as described in the summary: "sets a date when the source code will be placed under the GPL". So no, you're not going to be stuck on v1.0 forever. Personally though, I only ever judge a project by the merits of whatever version is released as Free Software.
[11:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Oracle's lawyers might look into this - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:07] <exec> 08└─The boundary for where the GPL stops is not tested in case law yet. It's generally regarded as being the same process, though that distinction is rather arbitrary (if I put a GPL'd library in a separate process and communicate with it via synchronous RPC, why should that be legally distinct from com...
[11:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:00] <exec> 08└─Cycling on a pavement (other than those designated as dual use, which are typically wider) is illegal in the UK. Any collision will be automatically regarded as the cyclist's liability. However, as someone who both walks and cycles in one of the cities in the UK with the largest number of cyclists,...
[11:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's a good one. We've all seen it - old dude is driving 54 mph, comes up behind a truck doing 53, and it takes him about 5 minutes to "safely" pass the truck. And, meanwhile, 300 cars behind him are compacted closely together. By this time there is five miles of open road ahead of him, and ev...
[11:29:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:29:08] <exec> 08└─There's no excuse at all to go in, insist on your 3 seats, then sit there and pump your arms back and forth like logs going down a waterfall while spouting slogans and obscenities at the top of your voice to prevent him from speaking. Not only is there no excuse for that behaviour, but it is the occ...
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[12:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Initially - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:29] <exec> 08└─I thought the deal really sucked. But, he's lucky he wasn't prosecuted for exposing classified information. Now, if the government would only go after Hillary. Just take away her damned foundation, and make a deal with her to withdraw from public life. https://www.youtube.com [yo...
[12:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Terrorism porn - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:30] <exec> 08└─Yep, you just can't contest rule 34.
[12:22:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:56] <exec> 08└─I really liked her concern that her kids aren't learning any African history in the schools. One might have thought they should learn American and European history, all the way back to the Greeks and Romans - that's the heritage of the country they live in. Chinese immigrants don't expect their kids...
[12:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:00] <exec> 08└─That's not correct. Benjamin Franklin and the Framers of the Constitution took a lot of inspiration from the Iroquois Confederacy, which they had had a lot of contact with. Goes to show you that it's always good to doublecheck before making an absolutist claim...
[12:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:not so much schools as parents fail - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:08] <exec> 08└─I can't speak to the public schools in every city, but i can to those in NYC because i'm on a school board in brooklyn. NYC schools get plenty of money, multiples more per capita than other states do, yet they underperform the national average in test scores. Why? They are wasteful in the extreme be...
[12:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wrong - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:39] <exec> 08└─You don't have to reach escape velocity to go somewhere interesting. You could fly "up" at 1 mph for a long time and end up outside our solar system.
[12:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Top 3.5 - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:06] <exec> 08└─Ubiquitous, even-cheaper solar3 D Printing combined with reliable nano-techGene tech for human health.SpaceX and a real push to reduce the cost of space travel and get humans living off Earth. I think these will all be transformative to human civ.
[12:24:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fnj [1654] 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:46] <exec> 08└─How is this any different from the way MySQL and PostgreSQL are monetized? The cores are all still open source. They all just provide value added for cost. Same as linux (Redhat Enterprise et al).
[12:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Re:donation - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:07] <exec> 08└─I imagine that different Islamic banks could have different models, based on different interpretations (and local laws). An Elbonian bank might demand rent on a property, as you suggest. A Kerplekistan bank might take a more "investment" route, as hendrikboom described above. Or a Foobaristan bank m...
[12:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ANYONE HAVE 4 MONITORS - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:02] <exec> 08└─yup, dev machine : 4 x Dell 2408, rotated 90 running from a custom thin client running an nvidia quadro NVS450. VDIs into main server (8 core Dell r410, 32G ram), XenServer with several VMs. Games machine : connected to Epson TW6010 3D projector (1920x1080), and just recently added an HTC Vive. Swap...
[12:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:1) 02Re:Laptops? - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 1786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:15] <exec> 08└─You just tickled a pet grip of mine...most monitors/laptops are now 16:9 aspect ratio which is fine for movies and youtube, but sucks for office documents or programming where I prefer more vertical. I also telecommute and work mostly from a company provided laptop. I made a stink when they tried to...
[12:26:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:53] <exec> 08└─Sounds like everyone's privacy needs to be violated in order to satisfy these communistic desires to monitor people.
[12:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:quite self-congratulatory - 06Folding@Home - Team SoylentNews About to Reach a Milestone! - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:04] <exec> 08└─Again, there is more to it than that. The architecture is different with each succeeding generation of GPU's. Among other things, they get more and more memory. The communication busses keep increasing in size, and speed. With any CPU/GPU combination, your computer usage is going to affect the PPD,...
[12:28:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:quite self-congratulatory - 06Folding@Home - Team SoylentNews About to Reach a Milestone! - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:05] <exec> 08└─This is one of the reasons why i like this place : ) Different points of view are great! Though i do disagree with you it is probably because i'm on the FAH team. These kinds of articles seem like advertisements to get more people on the team. Not necessarily a bad thing and it opens up a meta discu...
[12:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:13] <exec> 08└─So because a philosophical argument made some Germans uncomfortable, they took it on themselves to decide that nobody should be allowed to hear the argument? Yeah, Germany is full of authoritarian assholes. Some things never change.
[12:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:23] <exec> 08└─No, this is your misunderstanding, however deeply you may cling to it. Trolling and DOS are two very different things. They do not troll him - frankly I think he would welcome it if they did! but they do not. Straight out DOS attacks, just screaming nonsense and blowing airhorns to make it impossibl...
[12:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:35] <exec> 08└─Number three, why the hell do you keep talking to me if you hate my ideas so much?
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[13:22:26] <exec> 08└─This is ... what, a surprise? Do you not know how common malware in email is? It's pretty danged common. There have been many huge email blasts full of email in the last few months. Like, monumentally huge. They have some new twist that's never been done before every month. If you didn't know this,...
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Initially - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─> he's lucky he wasn't prosecuted for exposing classified information. > Now, if the government would only go after Hillary. Just take away her damned foundation, and make a deal with her to withdraw from public life. You are right, it is totally the same thing. 3 email messages that contained lines...
[13:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:45] <exec> 08└─What good is a space station when you can't actually get to it?
[13:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:47] <exec> 08└─The Great Prophet Musk I'd about to fix that Real Soon Now(TM).
[13:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:49] <exec> 08└─The worst part is the ISS's orbit is miserable for 90% of countries on Earth due to its inclination (which was a concession to Russia). The Space Shuttle had to expend a considerable amount of Delta-V to put it in the right plane with the ISS during a launch window to the point it could only carry h...
[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─I thought ESA had already resupplied the ISS several times with Ariane/ATV?
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Is that a good catch? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:54] <exec> 08└─After the first thousand pieces of space junk sell to people who care, the rest would flood the market to a point that it costs more to retrieve from orbit than it is worth to the collectors.
[13:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about the kids? - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:22] <exec> 08└─Also military brat, and the best school I ever attended was in the ghetto. Reason- I actually applied myself so some teachers took an interest in me beyond the other twits causing problems. In the suburbs, I was just another face trying to get ahead. In San Berdo, I was a hunk of coal hoping to be a...
[13:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 2246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:25] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with or at least understand your position although with all due respect your specific examples of naval history and black history are not ideal examples. Traditionally the argument is made with these examples: 1) Sex ed, kids are supposed to learn this stuff, now the debate is do the...
[13:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Race is likely entirely orthogonal... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:27] <exec> 08└─You dont need to be black; when we moved to a town where the public schools have the Ten Commandments hanging in the hallways and the teachers think that February 14th is known as "Valentimes Day," there was no fucking way those fat, stupid hicks were ejumakatin' our children... In any case, perhaps...
[13:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:54] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure though that Lil'Kim of the DPRK is very interested in how to make intercontinental ballistic missiles on a shoestring budget. The fact that Lil'Kim and people like him have an interest in that kind of work means that the national security establishments of various nations will also t...
[13:23:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Re:Escape velocity - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 527 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:57] <exec> 08└─There's a reason a lot of the cost of spaceflight is nothing but fuel. We all hear this, but it's not true. Remember that huge external fuel take on the space shuttle? Cost of all that fuel was around $500,000. The cost of a space shuttle launch, averaged over the life of the program, was $450 milli...
[13:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:19] <exec> 08└─This is the risk you take when making yourself dependent on a piece of software -- open source or not -- that's developed primarily or exclusively by a single entity. There are plenty of reasons to favor open source. "But if the developer closes up shop, we can just fork the code and maintain it our...
[13:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:donation - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:32] <exec> 08└─Depending on which biblical scholars you ask, Christ's death essentially represented the end of the laws laid down in the Old Testament, which is why kosher isn't applied to Christians (the same dietary laws exist in the bible and in the torah).
[13:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:donation - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 3154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:33] <exec> 08└─Hendrik's explanation and the Moslems themselves tapdance around it but its just small scale western style financial market financing. Unlike the west where you need to pay $250K/yr to be permitted to try to raise funds on the NYSE, the Moslems are willing to contract the same style of financial dea...
[13:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Oracle's lawyers might look into this - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:39] <exec> 08└─Legally speaking, the GPLv2 (which MySQL is dual licensed as) only requires that the binaries you ship come with source. The v3 is more complicated in this manner due to patent grant clauses and anti-tivozation. If I want to create X tool out of GPL source code, as long as I include the source w/ sa...
[13:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:You run what now? - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─yeah, it sounds like he has nothing at all and the bill isn't even in his name. I didn't think the lack of having anything was a valid competition entry that is supposed to describe what we had. I suppose if he had some sort of tele-vision, remote viewing or something capability, like those view scr...
[13:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hookers & blow - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:55] <exec> 08└─Meh, gimme a nice joint any day over booze. Blow is strait poison.
[13:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is a reasonable request - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:14] <exec> 08└─We didn't ask for free doughnuts as well.
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[14:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Not a Surprise, A Topic of Research - 06WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─It is not unexpected. But forensic research may reveal useful information here. Different espionage groups use different exploit tools. These are high-value targets, their email may contain zero-day exploits. There may even be exploits that can be tracked back to private espionage groups that are le...
[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a Surprise, A Topic of Research - 06WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see which of the attachments do not trigger detections but still contain malware.
[14:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Obvious response from Powers That Be - 06WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:48] <exec> 08└─Clearly, nobody should be looking at anything Wikileaks publishes. After all, it contains malware created by Russian hackers who hate America. Simply visiting their site is a recipe for becoming the victim of horrible cyberterrorism. Never mind the fact that it reveals wrongdoing and in some cases c...
[14:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:59] <exec> 08└─You are right, it is totally the same thing. 3 email messages that contained lines from her own phone schedule
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─> among ~107 other known-classified-when-sent emails, along with seven email chains containing Special Access Program information. Yes classified-when-sent-to-her
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─Right - and the State Department doesn't have the authority to arbitrarily remove classifications. That is, Hillary had no authority to remove classifications, and/or classified markings. Couple that with the fact that the Clinton Foundation benefitted from a few gentle words here and there from the...
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Maybe he wouldn't have gotten in trouble... - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe he'd have stayed out of trouble if he just told a bunch of lies like the ones the CIA fed to the makers of Zero Dark Thirty [pbs.org] instead?
[14:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Not sure that's justice... - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:08] <exec> 08└─He neglected to submit his book to the government, so that they could flag any inappropriate information. As far as I can tell, no one ever asserted that the book did contain classified information, only that he failed to submit it for review. Indeed, the fact that the prosecutors "ultimately agreed...
[14:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I Call Bullshit - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:24] <exec> 08└─I can see this "International Space Station" from my viewing location on the surface of the Earth when i am, like, 20 degrees into the night. You can, too. Look carefully. This is not consistent with a bunch of reflective tubes and panels @400 km over the surface shining sunlight back to me. Or moon...
[14:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:35] <exec> 08└─Stop talking about, thinking about and acting like "black Americans" are all the same, have all the same wants, all the same needs, and think & act as a collective. They don't any more than "white Americans".
[14:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:36] <exec> 08└─Are white people making black fathers abandon their children? Are white people making young black men shoot each other in numbers that make police shooting numbers laughable? Are white people making black women get pregnant and drop out of highschool? Maybe it's white people's fault for not teaching...
[14:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:38] <exec> 08└─"Are white people making black fathers abandon their children?" Let me surprise you with a "yes". Yes, white people have been depriving black families of their fathers for quite a long time now. We use two separate and distinct tools with which to do so. The corrupt prison for profit system, routine...
[14:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mod dismissed the sarcasm - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:43] <exec> 08└─Seems like, of all people, you would be happy with this 'redefinition' of racism. You really sound like you are a frequent victim of false accusations of racism, am I right? You don't believe you have power, do you? Therefore this 'new' definition would automatically absolve you ever being an R-word...
[14:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mod dismissed the sarcasm - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:46] <exec> 08└─Let's put it like this, should the minority get to redefine words to suit their agenda? If you say no, I can introduce you to some whinny college students that can scream it at you until you apologize and agree. These kids don't know what real racism is, but they all want others to praise them as th...
[14:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mod dismissed the sarcasm - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:48] <exec> 08└─> Let's put it like this, should the minority get to redefine words to suit their agenda? It is a redefinition that suits YOUR agenda. You've never used your power to discriminate against someone, right? So this definition is your ideal definition. No whiny college students can ever scream the R-wor...
[14:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lies are not worth using - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:50] <exec> 08└─You don't believe you have power, do you? Therefore this 'new' definition would automatically absolve you ever being an R-word. So, what's your problem with it then?
[14:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uh-oh! - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:52] <exec> 08└─> the current usage of the word 'racist' by all but the deceptive is merely "discrimination or prejudice based on race". Hold up there partner, hhhhhhold up! Did you say "discrimination?" Discrimination is the exercise of power. You can't discriminate against someone without applying power. It does...
[14:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mod missed the sarcasm - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:55] <exec> 08└─Anyone can be racist, but there is something to the "power" idea. Redefining racism is stupid and "power" is also the wrong word. Examples of what I mean: 1. A black guy walks up to a white guy in the Yale yacht club and says, "You don't belong here, White Boy." 2. A black guy walks up to a white gu...
[14:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─Glad someone mentioned this. It certainly was not included in any of my US History classes (probably not bradley13's either).
[14:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 2636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:07] <exec> 08└─Looks like we have a Department of Education common core shill here! That's odd. There is such a thing? Eh, who knew? Is this a workgroup or something in Correct the Record? Ok, I jest. You're probably not a shill…. That's quite a leap to go from black people taking responsibility for their own be...
[14:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing to do with race... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:12] <exec> 08└─US public schools generally suck; they sucked when I was in them 40 years ago, and they apparently suck worse today.
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:22] <exec> 08└─A problem with the Boy Scouts is that they've discriminated against atheists and, if they continue to do so, should not receive any public money I agree that it would be great to have some wilderness training, perhaps PE classes could skip kick-ball lessons for a few days.
[14:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:24] <exec> 08└─So, what are you referencing when you mention San Antonio and Harrisburg? Seems out of place to just throw a couple cities in there without some context.
[14:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─My bad - I meant the capitals of the respective states, and I screwed the pooch with San Antonio. I should have said Austin - the capital of the largest state in the country, and the largest school system. I just threw in another random state's capital, which you may have deduced if I got the first...
[14:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:29] <exec> 08└─Ok, makes sense. Usually San Antonio gets ignored by the rest of the country unless someone is talking about the Spurs so I didn't make that connection. Austin being only the 4th largest city in Texas I guess it's possible to assume it's not the capital. Growing up in Texas I guess has given me the...
[14:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edkfuller [6330] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Affect? - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:32] <exec> 08└─"studies show all kinds of public school problems disproportionately affect black children" Affect black children? Or are caused by black children? Let's ask some public school teachers (off the record of course).
[14:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Affect? - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:34] <exec> 08└─We all know the answer is black oppression and systematic racism and all white people. They are all ruining black America's freedoms.
[14:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incandescent? - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:32] <exec> 08└─And they don't make'em like they used to. God damn nanny state.
[14:26:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Headline is misleading/wrong - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:44] <exec> 08└─MariaDB has Gone Proprietary
[14:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:40] <exec> 08└─We've had pedestrians killed by cyclists around here when they collided. And because cyclists don't have plates, it can be challenging to figure out whom it was if they don't stop. What's more, bikes are quite quiet and move rather quickly. I personally was almost run over by one one evening when th...
[14:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02Re:What a horrible world... - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:56] <exec> 08└─>>> Merge lanes are often on ramps to help you accelerate. But unfortunately, sometimes due to the age of the roads and sometimes due to construction or additional guardrails or the speed of traffic or other changes from the original design, many such ramps are nowhere near long enough to accelerate...
[14:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:21] <exec> 08└─Basically, you want to be predictable in the street, look as far forward at possible risks as practical and be as defensive as practical for other people's nutty behavior. It's obviously not going to completely prevent the possibility of being in a collision, but it does cut the risk significantly....
[14:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:quite self-congratulatory - 06Folding@Home - Team SoylentNews About to Reach a Milestone! - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:42] <exec> 08└─And then you have the issue of not getting 100% return of the points you calculate for. Not sure how F@H manages this, but with other BOINC-projects I usually get somewhere between 60% to 80% of the 'offered' points. Probably some relation with the amount of other calculators handing in the same res...
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[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Isn't that kinda obvious? - 06Internal Temperature of Exoplanets Could Determine Habitability Rather Than "Goldilocks" Distance - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─Planets - in fact systems - surely coalesce under different circumstances, with different percentages of elements, different densities, etc ad nauseum. A nice planet the same size as earth, in the "habitable zone", but with half the density (little if any iron or other heavier metals) isn't going to...
[15:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─> Right - and the State Department doesn't have the authority to arbitrarily remove classifications. No one is saying she did. Well, it seems you are saying that she did. But no one in a position to know is saying that. The people who sent her unmarked classified material didn't even have security c...
[15:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─There are several instances in which Hillary and/or her immediate cohorts directed people to remove markings. I'm not doing the searches, sorry. "I can't send that to an unsecured account because it's secret." "Well, just remove the secret stamp from it!"
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─>>> the State Department doesn't have the authority to arbitrarily remove classifications. > > There are several instances in which Hillary and/or her immediate cohorts directed people to remove markings. That's factually true, but deliberately misleading. The important word you used is arbitrary. T...
[15:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─The authority to "sanitize" a secret document lies with the originating agency, right? The State Department didn't generate those documents. No authority to "sanitize" or otherwise alter the secret documents.
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:11] <exec> 08└─"I can't send that to an unsecured account because it's secret." "Well, just remove the secret stamp from it!"
[15:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that since somebody can't control what somebody else sends to them, it's probably a good idea to maintain a clear separation between work and personal and do all work stuff on authorized systems. It would also be prudent, I would think, but not having a security clearance my...
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Initially - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─Ray Charles! I had no idea where Mike Lange had got that line from.
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Initially - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:17] <exec> 08└─Well, I still think it sucks. Would he really of gotten fines\jail time worse than $7m if they charged him based on the damage he did, instead of taking away all his profits?
[15:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure that's justice... - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:22] <exec> 08└─It's either gross negligence or gross incompetence on both the author and the publisher for not submitting the book. That is SOP and has been for decades. As a Special OPs guy, he should have known better, and the publisher really should have known better. Particularly after that whole Special OPs v...
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure that's justice... - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe he got some hot chicks out of it. Lots of loudmouth guys in the bar claim they were SEALs and whatnot.
[15:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Call Bullshit - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─I call dumbass. How do you make it through the day with such an ignorant grasp of the physical sciences?
[15:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Lazy editing - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:43] <exec> 08└─Title: "intends" Summary: "may" Actual article: almost devoid of content
[15:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:58] <exec> 08└─> Are white people making young black men shoot each other in numbers that make police shooting numbers laughable? You know, white people shoot each other [usuncut.com] in numbers that make police shootings laughable too. Where's your concern for white-on-white crime? Oh right, you don't care about...
[15:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing to do with race... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:22] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with race, except that black kids tend to live where the worst schools are.
[15:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 3008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:32] <exec> 08└─Has it occurred to you that attitudes of "public schools suck watermelons" and "government is the problem, is to blame", and your lone wolf kind of thinking of doing education yourself and refusing to participate, contributes to the problems? 1) Schools are not the ones ultimately responsible for wh...
[15:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Race is likely entirely orthogonal... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:38] <exec> 08└─Now you're being silly. I don't know anyone in real life who uses a *nix operating system, aside from industrial applications. So, I don't know any black people who use *nix. Don't even tell me about some black person you met on the intarwebs. Here, any of us can be whatever color we like. Ain't no...
[15:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03robmullr [5323] (Score:1) 02Re:Salvage One TV program's 'The Vulture' - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:04] <exec> 08└─Salvage 1, Andy Griffith as Harry builds a spaceship dubbed Vulture, made completely from reclaimed salvage and powered by a chemical called monohydrazine. The main body of Vulture is composed of a Texaco gasoline semi-trailer tank truck with a cement mixer as the capsule. This is augmented with thr...
[15:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:14] <exec> 08└─If you do that, you do reach escape velocity.
[15:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:donation - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:50] <exec> 08└─And AFAIK usury is a sin/forbidden in The Bible too. That didn't, and doesn't, stop even devout Christians from usuring all and sundry, either.
[15:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:subjects are for noobs - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:52] <exec> 08└─As one of those who completely predicted this, that's why I am completely unwilling to donate time or money to MySql, MariaDb, or anything else Monty does, and like you prefer Postgres as a relational database in nearly all cases. He's shown multiple times that he'll sell out the work of other peopl...
[15:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ANYONE HAVE 4 MONITORS - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:48] <exec> 08└─Four is a problem. Do you have two on each side, split down the middle?, that would be hard to use. Do you have two on top and two on the bottom? Two of them are going to be too high to use easily (or too low and in hitting your legs) and you have the same middle problem. Do you stack two in the mid...
[15:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waiting for them to "force" me to give up - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:30] <exec> 08└─MDMA is a surprisingly good truth serum, I've found.
[15:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:31] <exec> 08└─I can display a handicapped sticker if I so choose, but there is no legal obligation to do so. Older people are encouraged to drive within their reaction times in Europe; we do not have the view that if you cannot maintain the speed of the fastest vehicle you are no longer a worthwhile member of so...
[15:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:32] <exec> 08└─Agricultural vehicles are rather restricted to - believe it or not - rural roads. Heavy vehicles keep up with traffic for the most part - I've exceeded 100 mph in an 18-wheeler. That was a class 8 "road truck", not a local delivery vehicle. Local delivery vehicles operate locally, generally not vent...
[15:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:The Happy Fun Trail - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:08] <exec> 08└─Walk a thousand miles, you're entitled to bitch that your feet hurt a time or two. What you're not entitled to do is bitch that an ancestor you never met and no living family member remembers had a hard time of it. That's called being an entitled, whiny, little bitch.
[15:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:09] <exec> 08└─No, I have never wondered why free speech is important. It's been self-evident ever since I can remember.
[15:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:31:38] <exec> 08└─It helps to get my actual tone if you always assume I'm laughing at her.
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[16:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't that kinda obvious? - 06Internal Temperature of Exoplanets Could Determine Habitability Rather Than "Goldilocks" Distance - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─Habitable zone is the distance from the star, compared to the size of the star, in which the surface temperature is within certain range. There can and are other conditions for the planet being habitable, but you can't put all the conditions under the name "habitable zone". Or did i misunderstood wh...
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't that kinda obvious? - 06Internal Temperature of Exoplanets Could Determine Habitability Rather Than "Goldilocks" Distance - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─Life in a subsurface liquid ocean is not considered habitable. It's more like, "holy shit did we just find microbes?" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is th...
[16:23:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02So? Isn't this expected? - 06WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails - 588 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, Wikileaks is doing the hosting here. However, they are in no way targeting their users - this malware was in fact part of the leaked data. Ask yourself: would you trust Wikileaks more if they selectively tried to block this? Who decides what is malware and what isn't? How about that Windows 10...
[16:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─> The authority to "sanitize" a secret document lies with the originating agency, right? No. You are confusing sanitization with declassification. But its also irrelevant because... > The State Department didn't generate those documents. That's incorrect too. Are you now through trying to retrench a...
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─Whether uncleared people send you classified material at your office email server or your own email server makes no practical difference. Both systems are unclassified, and in both cases the email was sent to you unencrypted over the public internet. So nope, that's not what I am saying at all. > So...
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Initially - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:42] <exec> 08└─Depends on how much he values his freedom. Threatened with a month in jail, I'd go to jail before surrendering millions of dollars. Threatened with a year or two in Club Fed, I may well opt for the vacation time. Threatened with a decade in a maximum security prison, rubbing shoulders with violent c...
[16:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02This is a non-story - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:49] <exec> 08└─Many people are suggesting that this is the government "blackmailing" or otherwise threatening the former Navy Seal. This is not correct, and this is a complete non-story. See Government form SF312: CLASSIFIED INFORMATION NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT [archives.gov]. I'm assuming this person made an agree...
[16:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Still No Easy Day - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─He thought he'd write a book and have easy days. Not.
[16:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still No Easy Day - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:54] <exec> 08└─All SEALs know that The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday.
[16:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Is that a good catch? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:09] <exec> 08└─The biggest cost of the space station, the initial construction, is paid for. Boosting the altitude of the ISS could be a one time cost if it was boosted significantly above LEO, or ion engines could be used to reduce the cost of stabilizing the orbit. As to what kind of commercial activity would ha...
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Call Bullshit - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─He also thinks that bubbles in a turbulent medium move in straight lines, which proves that EVA footage takes place in giant pool in... *flips through notes*... oh who cares. I just wish he's move on to a better one already. I was liking the Weather War one.
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Lazy editing - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─Title: "Intends to Privatize" Quote: "Ultimately our desire is to hand the space station to either a commercial entity or some other commercial capability"
[16:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─> Welfare doesn't want to provide food and benefits to working age males who don't hold a job. They are prejudiced, in that respect. They don't want to do that for working age females either. Seriously, there is literally no difference in the amount of welfare available to a custodial parent based o...
[16:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mod missed the sarcasm - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:42] <exec> 08└─So people who are black can only exercise power by being thugs. That might explain a lot.
[16:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score:1) 02Re:Nothing to do with race... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:59] <exec> 08└─Schools generally suck these days, it is not only US and it is not only publicly-funded ones. At least, the picture here in post-soviet Bulgaria is not better. The school is a complex balance of education, indoctrination and socialization (and other things). The balance is long ago destroyed and it...
[16:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Or... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:06] <exec> 08└─Or we could not be racist about it and run a s/black/poor/ig over the article.
[16:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:15] <exec> 08└─suck watermelons through garden hoses
[16:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Race is likely entirely orthogonal... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:19] <exec> 08└─I set next to a black Linux Syadmin at work, and know of several others in the building. If black was a higher percentage of the population here it likley would know more, which is why most of the admins here are Mexican or white.
[16:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Sorry dude - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:40] <exec> 08└─That was near the end of the summary, though. So presumably you caught most of what it said.
[16:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:doable if they have the right tools - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:43] <exec> 08└─SpaceX also jobs out a fair bit of traditional CNC machining. I know one of the guys doing it.
[16:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:12] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the build chain for a previous job. "If you can take the source and figure out how to build it... you're hired!"
[16:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to Fork again BS - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:18] <exec> 08└─How is this any different from the way MySQL and PostgreSQL are monetized?
[16:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:social signalling by multi-monitor use - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:14] <exec> 08└─So By simple induction we can declare that some people with single monitors are assholes.we have concluded people with multiple monitors are assholes.And, of course, our data is anecdotal and not statistical. I'm going to go ahead and make the obvious intuitive leap: Some people are assholes!
[16:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:27] <exec> 08└─> submit their driving habits in order to get reduced rates, but it is completely voluntary. Before this decade is over, not having one of those will mean paying at least 4x if not 10x premiums. But hey, you've got to have insurance, right? Insurance companies will give themselves the right to resel...
[16:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:39] <exec> 08└─> We've had pedestrians killed by cyclists around here when they collided. And because cyclists don't have plates, > it can be challenging to figure out whom it was if they don't stop. Citation needed.
[16:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:George Orwell called. - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:49] <exec> 08└─That logic doesn't add up. I want driverless cars for the sake of safety. Driverless cars eliminate much of the need for spying. It's not optimal, but it's preferable to spying.
[16:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:25] <exec> 08└─Because I was planning to opt out of a drivers' license for a while, I took an adult cycling course instead. CAN-BIKE 2 [canbikecanada.ca] I decided to get my license after learning that a motor vehicle is essentially required for any job doing on-site servicing. (1 hour on highway is like 5 hours b...
[16:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:30] <exec> 08└─It takes only one person driving slightly below the limit to break that up. The slow driver forms an open space ahead of them. As the slow driver approaches the blockage, stuck drivers can change lanes as needed. Traffic Waves [youtube.com] Text version [trafficwaves.org]
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[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─I thought Republicans were about government not interfering* with business? Should we have taxed the telegraph to subsidize the pony express? Should we have taxed the telephone to subsidize the telegraph? Should we have taxed the automobile to subsidize the horse and buggy industry? Especially th...
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─Uber is in the business of interfering with your ability to travel, without first delivering them a rent. Make no mistake about it. "Convenience" is first the bait on that hook.
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─Some taxi owners wanted the law to go further, perhaps banning the start-up competitors unless they meet the requirements taxis do, such as regular vehicle inspection by the police.
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Amazing - 06From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics From Tekserve Go to Auction - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─The Soylent summary and original article give absolutely NO CLUE as to the location of this probable gem, Tekserve. I presume this is located in North America. Somewhere.
[17:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazing - 06From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics From Tekserve Go to Auction - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:54] <exec> 08└─New York City.
[17:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So? Isn't this expected? - 06WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:16] <exec> 08└─Wikileaks deals with trust problems more than most platforms. When they get leaks, they need to do minimal editorializing.
[17:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So? Isn't this expected? - 06WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─I don't see attention grabbing necessarily as a negative thing, but at this point, I'm beginning to wonder what smoking gun they could possibly have. Clinton is the nominee now, so that damage's been done. We know about the classified stuff on the private server. We know about the DNC corruption. It...
[17:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─salve. "per se" et "mens rea," quod est totum.
[17:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:40] <exec> 08└─GP here. Ah ok. My next question is then, are there procedures in place for receiving classified information? Were they followed? As a crypto-nerd, it does generally frustrate me that people continue to send sensitive information over email without encryption.
[17:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure that's justice... - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:50] <exec> 08└─So it comes down to a civil liability due to his violation of the NDA. I wonder: is it usual, in such a case, for the aggrieved party to claim the entire proceeds?
[17:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Call Bullshit - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:13] <exec> 08└─No, I am not that person. Even if I was, does not change the fact that I can see the 'ISS' as described above.
[17:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh-oh! - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:42] <exec> 08└─It's as though we could remove the race of the person exercising power entirely. We would just need the skin color or presumed race of the people being discriminated against, even if that happens to be the same as the person using their power to discriminate. I'm not thinking of any good examples of...
[17:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:My my my - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─Many home schoolers *ARE* "religious wackos". Others are seriously bothered by the educational standards of the schools. And this is often justified. I know some home schoolers, and the ones I know are serious intelligent people who want their children to have a decent education, and don't believe t...
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:55] <exec> 08└─I really liked her concern that her kids aren't learning any African history in the schools. One might have thought they should learn American and European history, all the way back to the Greeks and Romans - that's the heritage of the country they live in.
[17:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:57] <exec> 08└─I take it you've never heard about Chinese kids going to school after school to study the Chinese language? They often don't, but they often do, usually over their objections. I don't THINK these are all first generation kids, either, though admittedly the one I know of is. But there are enough of t...
[17:25:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02The problem with anecdotal evidence - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:02] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with race, except that black kids tend to live where the worst schools are.
[17:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing to do with race... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:07] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with race, except that black kids tend to live where the worst schools are.
[17:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not so much schools as parents fail - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:14] <exec> 08└─WHY were they even having children?
[17:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:22] <exec> 08└─You're missing a few points. 1) Sure, schools aren't the decision-makers on what sex education will look like. This is true. Who is? A government agency. You're really just proving his point that the government is successfully buggering schooling for everyone by trying not to offend anyone (and fail...
[17:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'bout time - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─Austin is not the capital of Alaska. Maybe if we divided Alaska into three equal parts, Texas would be.
[17:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A big reset - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:26] <exec> 08└─No, phosphates, leaching out into the oceans in runoff, contributing to ecological problems in the oceans while not staying put on farmland. Tough to get them back from the ocean. Not impossible, but tough.
[17:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Headline is misleading/wrong - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:53] <exec> 08└─yeah, and it's so obvious the submitter must just be dishonest.
[17:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not ideal.not the end of times - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:54] <exec> 08└─while this is not ideal, it's not the end of the world for me either. i think that if they looked at some open source biz models they could find a way not to license anything with a closed license but relicensing something only leeching enterprises would need and then open sourcing it later is not t...
[17:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm sorry, I forgot... - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:13] <exec> 08└─no, they want to up the penalty. that's what this is all about. they want to make it cost prohibitive to keep your password.
[17:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02mystery - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:27] <exec> 08└─you actively work against The People every chance you get and you dirty pigs wonder why you get shot(though still very rarely, despite all the "news" to the contrary). expect more justice to come your way, you dumb mother fuckers who can't do anything productive with your lives. just continue to sit...
[17:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:31] <exec> 08└─TFS isn't about highways - it is about all roads. HGV's unable to travel at the permitted maximum speed limit for our motorways/autobahns etc do so all the time. Such roads do not have a minimum speed limit, in fact such limits are rare. So you have to be prepared to overtake vehicles moving more sl...
[17:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's only fitting that you die laughing like any other idiot...the clock's ticking, Uzzard. Statistically-speaking, you're not only over a decade older than me, but you sound like you have a lot of unhealthy habits, too. I'm done trying to save you from yourself; you made your choice a long tim...
[17:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:40] <exec> 08└─AC: I'm used to being offended, and I EXPECT it when strong minds clash. I don't fear offense, like it seems a hell of a lot of my peers to. Besides, given the amount of it I cause, it'd be rather hypocritical, no? As to uncomfortable? You bet I am; it's actually physically painful to be around peop...
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[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─Convenience? Like a Windows 10 upgrade? Would you like to upgrade to Windows 10? To install simply click Yes, No, Cancel, or the X symbol in the title bar. Or for your CONVENIENCE, simply press Ctrl-Alt-Del right now to have Windows 10 conveniently installed on the next reboot. New business model ....
[18:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─Convenience? Like a Windows 10 upgrade?
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─I'm not quite sure what you mean about the 'rent'. Nobody forces you to use Uber. You can still take a Taxi if you prefer. Uber doesn't have a monopoly. Taxis want to have a monopoly. Prediction: Taxis will be strongly opposed to self driving cars. See my arguments above for why we should have stopp...
[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:52] <exec> 08└─Uber wouldn't have come into being if the Taxi business was doing its job properly. That's what's wrong. Uber wouldn't have become so popular if it didn't fill a vacuum left by the Taxis. If a Taxi had an app. Could be easily scheduled. Was reliable. Was economical. Was not driven by a guy in a tank...
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 2417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:54] <exec> 08└─This guy gets it. The app is pretty much what sells it. If you have ever called a taxi you know that it is, frankly, a disaster. Here is a representative typical experiences, with highlighted changes where Uber makes the experience better: - I am at a hotel and would like to go to the airport. ...
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazing - 06From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics From Tekserve Go to Auction - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:05] <exec> 08└─USian here. Never heard of it.
[18:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:46] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not retrenching - it's you who has decided that Hillary has done no wrong. Those documents DID NOT all belong to State. And, why are you even nitpicking? No INDIVIDUAL PERSON has the right to decide what is classified, and what is not. It's a department thing. There are procedures to follow....
[18:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─> No INDIVIDUAL PERSON has the right to decide what is classified, and what is not. That's why prepared classified documents usually include internal (C) markers on each classified item. But more broadly you don't know what you are talking about. You've clearly never sanitized a classified document...
[18:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure [wikileaks.org] Nope, the only reason to state this in such a manner is if classified information was being sent (illegally) over a non-secured channel. If the data sent was unclassified, there's no reason not to just send it via unclass...
[18:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Circular Logic of The Bitch Hunt - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:54] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing about your (and runaway's) line of reasoning — If your understanding of events were correct, that would be the smoking gun that the FBI would need for an indictment. That would be proof of the willful lawbreaking that the FBI explicitly said they did not find. Not carelessness, de...
[18:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:59] <exec> 08└─> My next question is then, are there procedures in place for receiving classified information? Were they followed? When classified information is discovered on an unclassified system there is a full-blown process for tracing its distribution and scrubbing (if not out-right destroying) any contamina...
[18:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:01] <exec> 08└─It would also be prudent, I would think, [...] if classified information is received on the personal account to follow the policies and procedures to report that.
[18:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yet more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:03] <exec> 08└─Yes classified-when-sent-to-her
[18:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a non-story - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:14] <exec> 08└─If there is a news story here, it is that the government is limiting the expense to the ~$7million, rather than targeting everything.
[18:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, as has JAXA (with H-IIB/HTV). However, GP specified "heavy lift payload", which is defined as 20-50 tonnes (Mg), which I believe is However, this is a bit incorrect. The ESA's Ariane 5 has a payload capacity only 600kg less than Russia's Proton-M (their biggest flying rocket, and more powerful...
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:32] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they're not talking about selling ALL of it, just the fractional U.S. interest in/ownership of it.
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't sell it. They'd transfer ownership. Both the US and Russia would love to get it off their books.
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Call Bullshit - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:43] <exec> 08└─No, it just means that you have a weak grasp of orbits and basic geometry. The ISS spends 2/3rds of its orbit in sunlight. Why the hell wouldn't you see it from the ground. You may not realize this, but when you are in the dark doesn't mean that something 400km above you is in the dark as well. Howe...
[18:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:00] <exec> 08└─Mothers almost invariably become the custodial parent. It just works that way. The courts will block a father from seeing his kids based on unsubstantiated rumors, but the mother has to be demonstrably crazy or dangerously violent before she is stripped of parental rights.
[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Splitting hairs to mislead - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─Discrimination is the exercise of power. You can't discriminate against someone without applying power.
[18:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02*WAS* mentioned in mine... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:25] <exec> 08└─Although it was heavily glossed over, along with the details of most of the conflicts from the 18th to 21st centuries. We got a bit on the Iroquois Nation, most of which I have long since forgotten, and I think some mention of us selling guns to them to help destablize things. And that was it. Mind...
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:27] <exec> 08└─the cherokee had a similarly advanced government that was borrowed from by someone. can't recall the name of the cherokee's structure nor who borrowed from it, but you get the point.
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing to do with race... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:38] <exec> 08└─I don't think bradley13's gone down the latest rabbit hole, but I just wanted to be inb4 "evolution doesn't stop below the neck." Found this interesting website [arguman.org] making sure I had that catchphrase correct. I see what they're trying to do there [arguman.org]. Maybe Soylent needs somethin...
[18:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or... - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:48] <exec> 08└─My mod points are getting thin so I'd like to give you a virtual +1 completely and utterly agree. I feel I'm in the same boat. A few years ago it seemed like racism was over, we (non-racists) had won, and some people who just wanted handouts needed to shut up. Then the sheer volume of idiots on the...
[18:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moon Barrier - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:03] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow is Yesterday? I was thinking of Assignment: Earth but that was 1968, where the Enterprise was apparently time traveling as part of a mission instead of by accident. It was weird that the Enterprise could reliably go back and forth through time, but that timeships didn't really appear until...
[18:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PW - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:36] <exec> 08└─I say we launch it to space and make the greys pay for it!
[18:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:You run what now? - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:31] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't 640k be enough for anyone?
[18:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Look at h-node for libre-linux. - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:39] <exec> 08└─I am trying to get FreeBSD working on 10 year old hardware. For my 16 year old hardware, FreeBSD actually supports it better than Linux does (somebody fixed WOL for the Intel NIC). My initial problem was while booting an encrypted ZFS image, the video hardware was not enumerated. The 10.3 release fi...
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[18:28:41] <exec> 08└─17" display.
[18:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Haiku fail - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:41] <exec> 08└─Mulberry bushes have aphids this year. I look forward to autumn.
[18:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02A simple solution - 06Canadian Cops Want a Law That Forces People to Hand Over Encryption Passwords - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:52] <exec> 08└─There have two passwords. The real one and the fake one. You give the petty tyrant fascist police state dictators the fake one. Once entered, the device seems to have a reasonable, minimal set of information: * minimal set of apps * minimal set of contacts (grocer, pet groomer, hospital, etc) Any ot...
[18:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:George Orwell called. - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:30:31] <exec> 08└─You underestimate how many reasons they can come up with for spying. Hey, you know what would be even safer than driverless cars? Banning cars entirely!
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[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What Do You Do With That? - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─Iveniuk said he was surprised that feeling closer to one's family members and having more relatives as confidants decreased the risk of death for older adults, but that the same was not true of relationships with friends.
[19:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Do With That? - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─I would have expected that feeling further away, preferably very far away from family members would decrease the risk of death for older adults. Definitely sounds to me like a reason for independent verification of the results.
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─If you wait until after menopause to think about having children, you're not going to have any family members in your social circle when you get older. And you're going to die alone because you chased money like a cold heartless greedy bitch.
[19:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─Today's gem of female wisdom: "I was engaged, but I dumped him. Money is my boyfriend now."
[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:50] <exec> 08└─Why does that only apply to women? Not everyone wants children, and I don't see the problem with that.
[19:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:52] <exec> 08└─Do they not teach you in school about where children come from? Dilbert: "My dog slipped me a fertility drug. How soon before I give birth?" Doctor: "Um... It's impossible to have babies unless a woman is involved in some way." Dilbert: "Ooh, right, for the diapers." Doctor: "I'm going to give you a...
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:54] <exec> 08└─You must not live in certain US states. In those states, if innocent children had any idea of the actual truth of where children come from, they would be out fornicating like rabbits! It is best to withhold this information from them until they are a little bit older. Like, maybe, 30.
[19:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:56] <exec> 08└─The problem with not wanting children is: as you get older, who is going to change your diaper? I'm sure you'd prefer not to think about such things. Because being young lasts forever. And bad things that happen to some other people could never happen to you.
[19:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:58] <exec> 08└─The solution: shoot up someplace before arthritis sets in.
[19:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score:1) 02Correlation does not imply causation - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:01] <exec> 08└─Say it the other way; People who live longer have more close relatives in their social network. Or; People who live longer have more living close relatives in their social network. Doesn't seem very surprising when you say it that way.
[19:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Troll) 02Good News for Immigrants - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:03] <exec> 08└─Brown people have lots and lots of children! There will be plenty of room for brown children in the formerly first world countries. Right after all the first world idiots who are not reproducing at replacement rates just mysteriously die off.
[19:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Informative) 02Bad Headline - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:05] <exec> 08└─I know it's pedantic but the chance of death is 100% for everyone, regardless of anything they do or refrain from doing.
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad Headline - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─changed
[19:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:22] <exec> 08└─Except for the safety inspection and the guaranteed insurance coverage. I totally agree with you regarding the app frontend, and have often wondered why a Taxi company didn't start using twitter or something similar to the Uber app for summoning. As for the cost of a taxi the rate is NOT set by them...
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─You're bitching about the taxi's not the regulations they fall under... If Uber wants to play, there should be a level playing field. You wanna transport people for monies, you gon' follow the rules...
[19:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─Taxis can pick up fares off the street. Uber cannot. This is the key distinction between a taxi service and a private car-for-hire service (which existed long before Uber). If you don't like Uber, either change that distinction (and deal with all the unintended consequences), or impose additional re...
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:28] <exec> 08└─With everyone being on JavaScript, isn't duck-typing the thing to do for cool kids? If you look like a duck/taxi, act like a duck/taxi, sound like a duck/taxi or smell like a duck/taxi, you *are* a taxi!
[19:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazing - 06From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics From Tekserve Go to Auction - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekserve [wikipedia.org]
[19:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:1) 02One of them is even signed by Steve Wozniak - 06From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics From Tekserve Go to Auction - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:42] <exec> 08└─BFD Woz will sign anything shoved in front of him. Defacing an Apple I with a Sharpie is the most offensive.
[19:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't that kinda obvious? - 06Internal Temperature of Exoplanets Could Determine Habitability Rather Than "Goldilocks" Distance - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─There's an awful lot yet to be learned about planets, and where Earth fits in. Which of course goes to the questions of whether there are aliens out there, as well as empty planets we can make habitable and occupy. There could well be all kinds of additional rare conditions Earth meets, making life...
[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Necessary or sufficient conditions - 06Internal Temperature of Exoplanets Could Determine Habitability Rather Than "Goldilocks" Distance - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─If we find life on a body, we know that the conditions for life arising (or being introduced?) exist, or did once exist. If the life continues to live, we know the conditions to sustain life exist, and are sufficient for life. Now what exactly those conditions are is a bit more difficult to ascertai...
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So? Isn't this expected? - 06WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:09] <exec> 08└─In fact I would expect it to be there. The only thing I *might* expect them to do is just 'tag' it. 'Provided AS IS, this contains a virus'. That would be the most I would expect from them. Why should it be there? So you can see the whole conversation. That includes them being attacked.
[19:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comey Capitulated, no Rule of Law - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:34] <exec> 08└─There are at least two avenues in this matter for indicting Hillary Clinton on criminal charges: 1. "extremely careless [youtube.com]" is synonymous with "gross negligence [cornell.edu]", which when it comes to the handling of classified data by clearance holders, is a federal crime. 2. Falure to re...
[19:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comey Capitulated, no Rule of Law - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:35] <exec> 08└─> Vince Foster I think that's all the confirmation anyone needs that you are operating under witch-hunt logic. And I can't argue with that logic!
[19:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comey Capitulated, no Rule of Law - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:37] <exec> 08└─Naturally you can't argue with facts and the truth - the truth wins out over lies when both are exposed to scrutiny and the lies break down. Of course, what difference at this point does it make?
[19:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Type more lies for Hillary! - 06Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:44] <exec> 08└─For example, information collected on a wiretap may not be sensitive at all, but the wiretap itself is top secret
[19:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:17] <exec> 08└─The US is also selling parcels of land on the Moon. But international treaties don't apply to us, so it's okay.
[19:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Lazy editing - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:28] <exec> 08└─Hey, I've seen that one before! - Build off public funds - Exploit and "maintain" while sucking all the profits to a private corp - Come crying to the government(s) to do cleanup because otherwise the Children Might Be In Danger - Either let garbage lie at the bottom of the ocean, or res...
[19:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:46] <exec> 08└─That may be true. Yet it says absolutely nothing about welfare policies which are constrained by Title IX to be completely gender neutral.
[19:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 2257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:47] <exec> 08└─Those punishments are unfair, but the problem is practically no black kids have fathers. Out of wedlock at birth is 2 in 3 black kids and logically the number of black kids with a stable father figure is likely to only decrease over time as relationships "naturally" collapse over time. Figure maybe...
[19:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hairy Clit of Misdeeds - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:00] <exec> 08└─Would you be pacified if the claim were changed to "black people can not be effective racists" ?
[19:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Eat just a LITTLE poison, please? - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─No - deceptive people trying to redefine 'racism' are doing so to exploit the emotional component to push a race-based agenda. A person of any race/skin color can be racist: discriminate or harbor prejudice based on race. Because of this, all reasons I've heard so far by people trying to redefine th...
[19:26:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:13] <exec> 08└─That's not correct. Benjamin Franklin and the Framers of the Constitution took a lot of inspiration from the Iroquois Confederacy, which they had had a lot of contact with. Goes to show you that it's always good to doublecheck before making an absolutist claim...
[19:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:17] <exec> 08└─because Native American names are everywhere.
[19:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Escape velocity - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:10] <exec> 08└─That $450 million is using NASA program accounting, which is ALWAYS suspect. If you take the total cost of the program and divide by the number of launches, you get about $1.6B per launch.
[19:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Pathetic Attempt - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─Well, there is a bit of a "transportation bubble" forming, since even the Social Media Bubble is showing signs of worrying about profits. American 401k money needs to get invested in something, and it seems one of the recent trends is electric cars, futuristic trains, space rockets... There's not en...
[19:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A big reset - 06Starry Night and the Astronauts - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:38] <exec> 08└─If guano-covered asteroids exist, would they count as islands for the purposes of the Guano Islands Act?
[19:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Redundancy? - 06Most Distant Catch for ESA Station - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:54] <exec> 08└─How much would it cost to point every single deep-space antenna that way, just long enough to make sure that we get all the data even if there are last-minute issues?
[19:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:ANYONE HAVE 4 MONITORS - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:30:00] <exec> 08└─I do, kinda. My primary work tower has a 40" 4K Vizio screen. All other engineers around me use a couple 20" to 24" 1080P, so I've got 4 monitors, by comparison (they used to laugh, now they're in the queue to get 4K too). Secondary work machine is a 4K 15" laptop (needed the 4K capable HDMI) Home i...
[19:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-contradiction is unhealthy - 06Counterpoint: Trolls Will Save the World - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─Funny, that's exactly why I keep you talking. That and it amuses me to watch you spin and bullshit your way through life in a manner worthy of a career politician.
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[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02STEM Scholarships for Black Girls - 06Former NBA Star Kobe Bryant Unveils $100 Million Venture Capital Fund - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─But what does any of this have to do with giving full-ride scholarships to black girls studying STEM?
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02consistent naming - 06Former NBA Star Kobe Bryant Unveils $100 Million Venture Capital Fund - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─videogame designer Scopely, legal-services company LegalZoom, a telemarketing-software firm called RingDNA and a home-juicing company called Juicero. The companies should be renamed for consistent branding: scope.ly, lega.ly, annoy.ly and juice.ly.
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Do With That? - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:47] <exec> 08└─There's a rather obvious causal chain here. In general, close family will help you as your health is failing in a way that close friends will not. It's built into the social constructs of friends vs family. This is why those who choose to forgo building a family of their own should be much more car...
[20:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Do With That? - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:49] <exec> 08└─Hmm perhaps living a life constrained by knowing you won't get help kills you quicker than living a life of relying on others. I donno about that. My MiL lives by herself in a giant house and needs a lot of help to keep living there (houses are high maintenance) She's broken a leg tripping over a ga...
[20:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:56] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_maternal_age#Risk_of_birth_defects [wikipedia.org] [Quoted because likelihood of following a link is zero:] Risk of birth defects A woman's risk of having a baby with chromosomal abnormalities increases with her age. Down syndrome is the most common chromosoma...
[20:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:58] <exec> 08└─Hmm, that's not a monotonically increasing function.
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─With lead, or heroin?
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:05] <exec> 08└─The problem with not wanting children is: as you get older, who is going to change your diaper?
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Correlation does not imply causation - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─Say it the other way; People who live longer have more close relatives in their social network. Or; People who live longer have more living close relatives in their social network.
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:23] <exec> 08└─Whether or not taxis ought to have a monopoly, there are licensing requirements that Uber and the other ride sharing platforms have been ignoring in order to undercut the taxi companies.
[20:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─An unbroken strip of concrete from your doorstep to my doorstep -- no matter where you live. Being forced to travel in comfort at high speed. It's Volkswagens and autobahns all round.
[20:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:27] <exec> 08└─Make no mistake about it. "Convenience" is first the bait on that hook.
[20:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:29] <exec> 08└─Taxis have to do a lot of high cost things, like have a certain number of handicap accessible cabs. They have to provide various unprofitable community services. If Uber is going to cherry-pick the profitable parts of the taxi service, they should have to subsidize the unprofitable parts... just lik...
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:35] <exec> 08└─I don't want the safety inspection, nor the guaranteed insurance coverage. I want the freedom to pay less. Thanks. Please stop trying to decide what I want for me.
[20:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:37] <exec> 08└─You don't get that choice. Part of living in a civilized society is that you give up certain rights and freedoms in order to have some security. We don't get to murder our rivals or steal their women without consequence anymore either. A detail that I wish people like you would consider. Requiring s...
[20:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─They do follow the rule... Except they (as described below) don't get to pick up people as a "hail and ride" service. They ARE NOT a taxi service, in any market. They are a better "hire care" (that is the Australian term for pre-booked car and driver). So, the rules are there to protect the existing...
[20:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─The problem with Uber is that they, as far as I know, make you use proprietary software to use the service. And since paying with cash isn't an option, anonymity is reduced as well.
[20:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One of them is even signed by Steve Wozniak - 06From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics From Tekserve Go to Auction - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─It didn't offend the owner or the designer.
[20:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Necessary or sufficient conditions - 06Internal Temperature of Exoplanets Could Determine Habitability Rather Than "Goldilocks" Distance - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:09] <exec> 08└─Bringing this in: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given suff...
[20:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA owns the space station? - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:30] <exec> 08└─That nice Mr Putin [youtube.com] once said that Russia would take its components of the ISS away and use them to build a new space station. Is that feasible? Could they afford to do it?
[20:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Lazy editing - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:42] <exec> 08└─This is really not that bad. There's another option that has been considered: let it deorbit and burn. If someone can do something useful with the ISS that doesn't involve destroying it, the countries involved should let it happen, for a reasonable fee.
[20:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You want Segregation - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:01] <exec> 08└─And even if she is crazy or violent it's still an uphill battle for the man to get custody.
[20:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I hope MLK is spinning in his grave - 06Reinventing Education for Black Children - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:34] <exec> 08└─I was still in high school when there were the first signs of things seriously starting to go off the rails. My high school bought some cattle gates and barricaded the student parking lot during school hours I think in my junior or sophomore year.
[20:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:21] <exec> 08└─You sound like somebody who has a lot of time on their hands. :)
[20:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wumbler [1680] (Score:1) 02Salaries? - 06Human Spaceflight on a Shoestring Budget - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:26] <exec> 08└─It's great what Copenhagen Suborbitals is accomplishing. But it's also not quite fair to compare large organizations that pay salaries with an all-volunteer crew. SpaceX has 4000 employees? Assume a pretty low average of $100k per year in cost (salary plus other expenses for an employee) and you get...
[20:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:donation - 06Business Source License: MariaDB has Gone Proprietary - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:05] <exec> 08└─Yet Islam does not outlaw rent seeking even though the Qur'an prohibits usury. It's completely fine in Islam to profit purely from having access to capital, as long as you do it via some intermediary.
[20:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:FreeBSD + Gentoo - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:02] <exec> 08└─I find it odd that the card would have support for accelerated graphics without supporting two displays. I suspect Xrandr confusion. The way you set up multiple displays differs from xinerama. Xrandr: 1 frame buffer Xinerama: independent frame buffers, I have yet to recover my example xorg.conf file...
[20:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:24] <exec> 08└─Nope, no citation needed. Here's an example from NYC, but it's pretty similar to what happens here. Ride too fast, knock somebody over and they die of a head injury. http://nypost.com [nypost.com] Bottom line is just because you choose to pre...
[20:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:13] <exec> 08└─That's cool, I wish we had something like that here. Unfortunately, without insurance and licensing requirements, the only folks that would sign up for those classes are the ones that weren't a problem in the first place. Which would still be a net gain, considering that a lot of cyclists are unawar...
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[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─Like O.J. Simpsons website at ////\.com? (that's "slash slash slash slash backslash" for non nerds)
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─I looked that up... "The prevalence does not continue increasing at an increasing rate with age above age 45 as has been previously assumed. Above this age the rate of increase declines with increasing age. The overall age pattern is sigmoidal. A new logit logistic model is proposed which fits th...
[21:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─The problem with not wanting children is: as you get older, who is going to change your diaper? The people working at your nursing home, that's who. It's not fair to expect your adult children to both raise their own kids, and also somehow find time to take care of you, and also hold down full-time...
[21:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Bad Headline - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:05] <exec> 08└─It is and the better questions are about how to maximize the time we have and to get to the end in the best possible shape. I don't see any reason to live to be 150 if the last 100 years of that is sitting in bed all day with a nurse changing the bed pan and me drooling all over the place. Having a...
[21:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad Headline - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─Right there with ya. Which is exactly why I smoke, drink, eat what I like, and otherwise enjoy myself while I'm still able to. With any luck, I'll have a nicely timed heart attack and not ever have to have someone else wiping my wrinkly old ass.
[21:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:21] <exec> 08└─We should also have a medallion system for restaurants. If we have too many, it would be a rush to the bottom!
[21:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:23] <exec> 08└─Taxis want to have a monopoly. Pedantic correction: taxis had a cartel, and want to maintain their cartel. Taxis never had a monopoly; a monopoly is a single company which has little to no competition. When a group of companies conspire to work together to shut out competitors (using "regulation", i...
[21:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02standardized token RINO - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:27] <exec> 08└─Massachusetts is nearly pure democrat in every way except for one oddity: they often choose a token republican to supposedly run the state. It's always a RINO, a Republican In Name Only. Maybe it's like affirmative action for political parties. Maybe the idea is that the difference of party puts at...
[21:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:35] <exec> 08└─How curious. You believe it is fair for you to tell me how to live my life and that you know better than me, and everybody else what their needs are. We can sleep safe at night knowing that nanny Francis is absolving us of our desire to Curious. I have not advocated neither murder, nor slavery, nor...
[21:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:38] <exec> 08└─We don't get to murder our rivals or steal their women without consequence anymore either.
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't that kinda obvious? - 06Internal Temperature of Exoplanets Could Determine Habitability Rather Than "Goldilocks" Distance - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:05] <exec> 08└─I think that if we ever get out there to find the answers, that will be the norm. IF life developed at all, it never went very high. A world covered in lichens and mosses, with some odd multi-cellular stuff that just didn't make the cut. But, until we do get out there, it's only an opinion.
[21:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't sell the station, sell sponsorships. - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─Put advertising stickers everywhere, put the NASCAR in NASA!
[21:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:31:16] <exec> 08└─I missed the part where the name of the culprit wasn't over half a dozen times in the article. Can I get a cite on a fatal bicycle hit-and-run? How about stats proving it's more common than bungee jumping accidents?
[21:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:"aggressive driving" ??? - 06Eight-Point Wish-List to Punish Aggressive Drivers and Make Our Roads Safe - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:05] <exec> 08└─The most common reason for taking the class is cycling for work. Be it courier or police work. The class I took is aimed at mature cyclist who learned a few of the lessons the hard way already. You can learn in a month what trial-and-error will teach you in 20-30 years. Though I don't think I would...
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[22:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Calling the nerdiest ! - 06Sonic Black Hole Produces Equivalent of Hawking Radiation - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─> Hawking's work suggests that an isolated black hole would slowly evaporate away and cease to exist. Nobody's ever managed to explain to me how the black hole goes from losing mass to not existing, without going through an interesting state where it's not heavy enough to be a black hole. I understa...
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling the nerdiest ! - 06Sonic Black Hole Produces Equivalent of Hawking Radiation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the radius of the black hole shrink rather than the density?
[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:consistent naming - 06Former NBA Star Kobe Bryant Unveils $100 Million Venture Capital Fund - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─////escape.com - fixed that for ya.
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Soooo - 06Former NBA Star Kobe Bryant Unveils $100 Million Venture Capital Fund - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─someone else with a lot of money is doing useless things that will not contribute to society. Sheesh, throw some money at open source SOMETHING. Make a REAL difference, instead of just making more and more and more money. Thanks, Kobe Useless.
[22:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─The problem with not wanting children is: as you get older, who is going to change your diaper?
[22:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:05] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you'd prefer not to think about such things. Because being young lasts forever.
[22:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:08] <exec> 08└─With what nursing home staff get paid, that daiper won't get changed more than once a day.
[22:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:10] <exec> 08└─It's not fair to expect your adult children to both raise their own kids, and also somehow find time to take care of you, and also hold down full-time jobs.
[22:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Mental stimulation and care - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─family are *far* more likely to just sit with dementing relatives as they ramble, and get them dressed, take them out a few times a week, be around somthey *don't* try and get up ladders and fix things themselves. Even turning on the tv or radio to a channel they like, opening the paper and suggesti...
[22:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─In Massachusetts our Republicans are the equivalent of Kansas Democrats. Sure they talk to the national talking points, but in practice they are the "light" version of the majority party.
[22:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:48] <exec> 08└─I want freedom to pay less...
[22:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:51] <exec> 08└─I would not begin to try and decide what you want for you, my objection was purely from a selfish point of view. You are willing to ride in a vehicle that has no insurance for your medical injuries should an accident occur. I know that I am upset at the fact that I have to bear the additional costs...
[22:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─Taxis can pick up fares off the street. Uber cannot. This is the key distinction between a taxi service and a private car-for-hire service (which existed long before Uber). If you don't like Uber, either change that distinction (and deal with all the unintended consequences), or impose additional re...
[22:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:three 4:3 1600x1200 - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:45] <exec> 08└─Have you considered using synergy to replace your hardware KVM?
[22:30:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Re:social signalling by multi-monitor use - 06What is your Video / Monitor Setup? - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:30:04] <exec> 08└─I don't need a monitor at all. I'm that good, motherfucker!
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[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02I've read that book. - 06Warbler Genomes Look to be 99.97 Percent Alike - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─Essentially identical, with only a few genes dictating color differences ... Which one do we put in chains? I'm calling Valladolid to reserve a conference room right away. Seriously, though: at which genetic similarity do we stop using "species" and start calling them "races"? Dogs and cats are more...
[23:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:11] <exec> 08└─Uhhh, do you have any idea how expensive that would be? I'm not going to post any links for that as I can almost guarantee that you will crap your pants when you find out.
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Bad News for Career Women - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:16] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they, collectively, should have thought about that when they were voting to cut education and programs meant to ensure young people had the same opportunities that they did. The Baby Boomers in particular have been selfish bastards that had the world pretty much given to them and were too se...
[23:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Long life! - 06Relationships With Family Members, but Not Friends, Increase Lifespan - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:26] <exec> 08└─I agree with you, having watched many relatives (grandparents, great aunts, etc.) live eighty- or ninety-something years, spending the last 10 or so unable to take care of themselves I have no great desire to get that old... My dear mother passed away a couple of years ago, at eighty-something, at t...
[23:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm confused now - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:48] <exec> 08└─Where's that '-1, false equivalence' mod when you need it?
[23:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 1811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:57] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but you're full of shit here. You don't have the freedom to pay less, as I've already outlined we have these regulations because the lack of regulation led to all sorts of unsafe situations. If you're seriously looking to save money, buy yourself the cheapest car you can find and don't bo...
[23:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:59] <exec> 08└─I would prefer not to have freedom to choose if I wish to participate in the regulations, without the threat of violence from the state.
[23:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:02] <exec> 08└─It's a related problem. We gave up a number of rights as part of the social contract. There's not much difference between banning murder and banning practices that are likely to result in death. Dead is dead and whether it's negligence or malice only matters for punishment; the deceased is equally d...
[23:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:06] <exec> 08└─By chance are you a Supreme Court justice? Because your ever expanding idea of what you are responsible to pay for fits nicely in their idea of the commerce clause. Unless you can use your supernatural powers to verify that you live in the same local as OP, you aren't paying for shit. Insurance rate...
[23:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:11] <exec> 08└─If a Taxi had an app. Could be easily scheduled. Was reliable. Was economical. Was not driven by a guy in a tank top smoking a cigar who hasn't had a shower in several days. But mostly the app.
[23:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's wrong with this again? - 06Massachusetts to Tax Ride-Hailing Apps, Give the Money to Taxis - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─Taxis can pick up fares off the street. Uber cannot.
[23:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:One of them is even signed by Steve Wozniak - 06From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics From Tekserve Go to Auction - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:28] <exec> 08└─the cult of apple is real...
[23:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:So? Isn't this expected? - 06WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails - 2586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I understand why anyone would think this is an attack article, when even El Reg, the writer of the article, points out what I thought was already clear: "Much of the malware appear to be attachments emailed by black hats in a bid to compromise the various parties affected in the WikiLea...
[23:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Call Bullshit - 06NASA Intends to Privatize International Space Station - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:11] <exec> 08└─No, it just means that you have a weak grasp of orbits and basic geometry.
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