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[00:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Why is this such a big deal? - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:28] <exec> 08└─In California smoking in jail/prison has been outlawed for a good 15-20 years. Money is illegal in jail/prison. Ramen is cheap and readily available in the prison 7/11, however the hell that works. It doesn't surprise me a haircut would cost 1 ramen, a tattoo 2 ramen, shiving a dude in the shower 10...
[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is this such a big deal? - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:29] <exec> 08└─Prison conditions are now so bad that legal things (necessities of life) are being traded as currency in prison. Traditionally, illegal things are more lucrative due to the higher mark-up.
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this such a big deal? - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's not necessity, but desire. What are prisoners eating? Food As Punishment: Giving U.S. Inmates 'The Loaf' Persists [npr.org] Watch People Try Nutraloaf, The Controversial Prison Food That’s Been Called ‘Cruel’ [huffingtonpost.com] Dining Critic Tries Nutraloaf, the Prison Food for Mi...
[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this such a big deal? - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:33] <exec> 08└─Expands on the Time link: Maricopa inmates learn to live vegetarian [arizonasonoranewsservice.com]
[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this such a big deal? - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:35] <exec> 08└─If ramen is valued in the way this press release says, it implies to me that prisoners are hungry. That suggests that the food provided to them may be inadequate in its amount, kind, quality or timing. A Guardian op-ed [theguardian.com] says that prisoners aren't wasting away, but are given "high ca...
[00:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02not merely replacing cigarettes - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:38] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that ramen has been used this way in prison for a while now. Maybe 1 pack = $1? I guess the news here is that someone is studying it. And ramen noodles are not merely replacing cigarettes. Gibson-Light said the same is happening with noodles replacing stamps and envelopes...
[00:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Why are we warehousing humans instead of helping them develop acceptable-to-the-outside-world practices?
[00:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─1. Legalize it. 2. All remaining inmates receive training in farming fruits, vegetables, grains, and of course, cannabis. 3. The government starts handing out partial subsidies for hydroponic equipment. 4. See what happens to the cartels, and see how many billions of dollars are saved.
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is that sense prisons are like the school system - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─A lot of things HAVE been tried to improve them and nothing seems to work or doesn't work consistently or does work but is too expensive on a wider scale. A lot of charities doing good work in this area have religious affiliation or motivation https://www.prisonfellowship.org [prisonfellowship.org]
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─Why are we warehousing humans instead of helping them develop acceptable-to-the-outside-world practices? This is the US way: many developed countries have understood that society as a whole, in the long run, benefits from investing in things like a rehabilitative penal system and education. In the U...
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Not In Federal Prison, Apparently - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:48] <exec> 08└─I was surprised to see this, as I was under the impression that pouches of mackerel [wsj.com] were the modicum of exchange: Mr. Levine and his client were prisoners in California's Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex. Like other federal inmates around the country, they found a can of mackerel -- the...
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Sort of correct - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─I write to prisoners so I know something about how things work in those places, certainly more than most of you. In prisons there are three basic forms of currency: ramen noodle soups, instant coffee, and postage stamps. A soup; a "shot" of coffee, enough to make one large cup; and postage stamps ar...
[00:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:13] <exec> 08└─At present there's no evidence to suggest that a lack of backdoors is actually holding investigations back with any frequency. Cases where there's evidence locked in an encrypted volume are rare. The criminals they catch tend to be stupid enough that they hand the police the relevant data without ne...
[00:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─Backdoors? I'd be more concerned with bugs. MS doesn't exactly hire the best and brightest or bother to retain them long enough to properly secure the OS. Right now the average length of employment is less than 18 months at a go.
[00:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:19] <exec> 08└─Why would the right wing want to ban encryption?
[00:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In Germany? - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:30] <exec> 08└─Political consumption. Merkel is mowing away the grass before the feet of right-wing populists (and the CSU). It's not only this encryption thing; she also in recent weeks made moves against the burqa/burkini,
[00:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Control - 06Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:42] <exec> 08└─It's literally acceptable for women to publicly call for men to be castrated,
[00:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great Journalism 101 - 06The New York Times and Other News Organizations Targeted by Hackers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:25] <exec> 08└─As long as they stay out of the Ukraine, Trump's OK with it.
[00:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:must keep the dolphins away from women - 06U.S. Federal Agency Proposes Ban on Swimming With Dolphins Near Hawaii - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:48] <exec> 08└─He was talking about lungs filled with saltwater, and potential decompression issues, obviously.
[00:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama did it - 06U.S. Federal Agency Proposes Ban on Swimming With Dolphins Near Hawaii - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:53] <exec> 08└─True, though the concept of "unitary of the executive" was mostly solidified when Cheney used it as a weapon against any dissent. Before and after that, there were more cases of various agencies butting heads.
[00:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Won't somebody think of the dolphins?!! - 06U.S. Federal Agency Proposes Ban on Swimming With Dolphins Near Hawaii - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:01] <exec> 08└─In my country it is illegal to approach a marine mammal closer than 100 metres, and has been for a long time. If the marine mammal approaches you, there's nothing you can do and you won't be prosecuted. In reality there are very few prosecutions as people treat whales and dolphins with respect (gene...
[00:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems sensible - 06U.S. Federal Agency Proposes Ban on Swimming With Dolphins Near Hawaii - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:09] <exec> 08└─I was thinking mostly about the businesses whose bottom lines would be negatively impacted by the regulation, who thus oppose it, but whose bottom lines would also be negatively impacted by the bad press about, say, a newborn dolphin-birthed baby getting eaten by dolphins. I agree there's such a thi...
[00:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Almost placebo - 06User Illusion: Everyday 'Placebo Buttons' Create Semblance of Control - 1651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:31:04] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly certain there's a bug in one of the lights close to where I live. It's one of those lights like the second type you mention that won't give the walk signal until the light changes. It's also a light where it's always green along the main road unless something triggers it to change, either...
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[01:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02easy to build bombs are big and heavy - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:26] <exec> 08└─what will be frightening is if DPRK figures out how to make small, lightweight bombs, such as the W-30 that is detailed on the web somewhere. Oh.
[01:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02coincident with foreign ministers' meeting - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:27] <exec> 08└─Every year there's a meeting of the foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea. This launch came during or around the time of their meeting. http://www.scmp.com [scmp.com] All three of them ex...
[01:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02You get a "commissary" order form - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:40] <exec> 08└─If you have any cash on you when arrested it goes on your "money account". People outside can put money on your money account by paying cash; it can be mailed in as mail to an inmate is inspected. If there is any cash in the envelope then it is removed and the amount added to the account. If you don...
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─Because it is repugnant to offer services that aren't available to the population at large. As it is, nearly $80,000 in services are available just warehousing prisoners. Exactly how much more should be spent to help further "develop" them? Not to mention for a large segment of prisoners, it's not l...
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[01:22:49] <exec> 08└─Why are we warehousing humans instead of helping them develop acceptable-to-the-outside-world practices?
[01:23:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:09] <exec> 08└─There wouldn't be a legitimate need for it even if there were terrorist attacks that were facilitated by encryption. Sacrificing everyone's privacy to stop a few terrorists is unjust beyond belief, and therefore such a false need could never be described as legitimate.
[01:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reboot, hold down... - 06NASA Regains Contact With Long-Silent Solar Science Spacecraft - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:42] <exec> 08└─It was offline because it was automatically downloading Windows 10 for several weeks.
[01:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:GMOs vs hybrids - 06Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:23] <exec> 08└─A gene is a gene is a gene. Base pairs don't know from species, they determine it.
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[02:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Oblig - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─Prolly shot a booger out a whale blowhole. Norks suck. Best Korea LOL.
[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In other news - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:30] <exec> 08└─DJT Fires PM
[02:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─honestly, why is anyone bothering to even reason with NK leadership at this point? we should crush their meager forces while we still have the chance.
[02:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:35] <exec> 08└─we should crush their meager forces while we still have the chance.
[02:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:55] <exec> 08└─Put them to work. Let them (voluntarily) farm vegetables and cannabis on the prison grounds. A small portion of the weed or profits goes to the prisoners (which they might be spending at the canteen or on phone calls), and the rest gets sold in state-run dispensaries or wholesale to independent disp...
[02:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Idiot AC - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:58] <exec> 08└─The US authorities and most citizens prefer a punitive instead of a rehabilitative approach, despite the fact that most prisoners are eventually let out of prison alive.
[02:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not new. - 06Gene Therapy Via Ultrasound and Microbubbles - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─A new approach...a new tool..."We can use ultrasound energy in combination with small, gas-filled bubbles to selectively open up cells to allow the delivery of therapeutic agents,"
[02:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Control - 06Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:53] <exec> 08└─I would propose that there's a difference between physical violence and psychic violence, and it's not just one of degree. In particular, when I've been subjected to physical violence, doing things like asking my inner Iron John for help haven't really done a lot of good. The inner Iron John works b...
[02:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:hmm - 06Google to Disparage Pop-Up and Interstitial Adverts - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:51] <exec> 08└─^- this basically. I've used DDG in the past but ultimately went back to Google because several times I simply couldn't find what I wanted in a DDG search.
[02:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't sue generics - 06The Cheerios Theory of Branded Medicine - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think it says what you're trying to say. If you had an adverse reaction to the active ingredient in a drug prescribed to you, then obviously the manufacturer of the drug is not liable, generic or not. The physician who prescribed it to you is!
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[03:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Bad press a factor? - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─How many people have made the news, nationally and/or locally, for putting themselves in peril while playing the game? One pair of bozos walked off of a cliff, and made national if not world news. How many have done idiotic things, and only made the local news? How many more simply weren't reported?...
[03:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Bad press a factor? - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:25] <exec> 08└─Darwin didn't write The Game. He just explained the mechanics of it.
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─Most games are like that. After a couple of months people have got what they want out of it. Why should this one be any different? To keep people interested they will need to infuse more interesting bits into the game on a continuing timeline. Oh there will be a dedicated group that keeps going. But...
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score:1) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─I think it would be more accurate to compare Pokémon Go to to other games strongly tied to large online player-base such as DotA 2, League of Legends, or World of Warcraft. In this arena successful games generally hit their peak years after release. Games that don't last that long are generally see...
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Many of the most avid players - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─Probably walked off cliffs, got lured into armed robberies, were eaten by alligators, etc.
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─honestly, why is anyone bothering to even reason with NK leadership at this point? we should crush their meager forces while we still have the chance.
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─Because China would be forced to at least bomb/invade a close US ally, or admit that it is afraid of defending all of its allies from US aggression.
[03:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this such a big deal? - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:59] <exec> 08└─No, it implies they need a currency. They can't get tobacco, the old currency. They can't get money. Ramen is cheap, is worth a small enough amount of $$$ to make it worth trading for, and easy to get, as long as you have money from an outside source or a prison job making maybe $0.10/hr. If they'r...
[03:23:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:03] <exec> 08└─1. Legalize it. 2. All remaining inmates receive training in farming fruits, vegetables, grains, and of course, cannabis. 3. The government starts handing out partial subsidies for hydroponic equipment. 4. See what happens to the cartels, and see how many billions of dollars are saved.
[03:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02insecure, as usual - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─No inmate should have contact with any person who has committed a crime. All contact with others, guards and doctors included, should be supervised. By "contact" I mean everything. Banging on the plumbing counts; there shall be no Morse code. Farting counts; you may only smell your own. No contact i...
[03:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02other countries - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:53] <exec> 08└─Apparently France and Germany want the other countries to have their way with their infrastructure. As that is exactly what will happen. Do they honestly think China, Russia, and NK will not try for it? Heck even the US and GB would get in there.
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[04:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad press a factor? - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:39] <exec> 08└─Niantic doesn't give a sh*t. They don't respond to reports of private or dangerous sites in a professional manner. I have reported one site, provided web links and photos to show ongoing construction, fences, etc. and their response: "insufficient evidence". It's just like Uber and every other rapid...
[04:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Stability - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:43] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many were drove off by consistant stability issues. I stopped playing because I couldn't stay logged in. They were reluctant to increase capacity because it is that initial fad stage, but it pushed away people who might have actually been longer term players. When there are less people...
[04:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Finally - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:45] <exec> 08└─Natural selection in action.
[04:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02The game sucks - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not surprised the game has passed its peak. It's really not all that good. Characters in actual Pokemon games go around fighting wild Pokemon and NPCs, and catching the wild Pokemon. One would expect an AR Pokemon game to do the same thing. Instead, you can't fight except at a gym, and you gain...
[04:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, no. - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:02] <exec> 08└─> a couple of well placed cruise missiles would end the North Korea Problem, Its thinking like that which killed a quarter million iraqis and brought us ISIS.
[04:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, no. - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:03] <exec> 08└─Doing this the wrong way would result in Seoul erupting into a sea of fire and blood, nukes or no nukes. Seoul is only about 50 km from the DMZ and well within the range of North Korean conventional artillery. If a cruise missile is launched at Pyongyang and even if it succeeds in a decapitation str...
[04:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I get this. Then again, a couple of well placed cruise missiles would end the North Korea Problem, and let China defend it's actions concerning obvious nutjobs looking for nukes.
[04:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:28] <exec> 08└─Why are we warehousing humans instead of helping them develop acceptable-to-the-outside-world practices?
[04:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Outlaw math! Good idea! - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a bunch of suits and bureaucrats essentially saying "I don't know anything about this, but it's scary, so ban it." Idiots. May as well try to ban literacy while you're at it; after all, terrorists communicated by way of written language.
[04:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:external costs? - 06WIPP Leak Could Cost over $2 Billion - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:57] <exec> 08└─> Did the utilities contribute to the externality in the first place? Come on, how twisted can your logic get? Of course they did, the utility companies chose to build nukes instead of coal plants or some other type. And by the time our current crop of nukes were built the long term storage/isolatio...
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[05:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Well deserved - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:18] <exec> 08└─I grok why they are honoring him. One of the best and amongst my personal favorite authors ever. I grew up reading his Sci-Fi. Have space suit will travel, the moon is a harsh mistress, the number of the beast, job; a comedy of justice, stranger in a strange land, starship troopers, farnhams freehol...
[05:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02How to destroy Niantec - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:28] <exec> 08└─1) Publish rumors and gossip throughout the Internet that new Pokemon Go characters are coming out that are exclusive to the "Real World". 2) Keep spreading, in the face of rebuttals (Just like how the Internet already works), further gossip that only special places will have them 3) Hack Niantec an...
[05:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:32] <exec> 08└─Games that don't last that long are generally seen as flops You just described 99.99999% of the games out there. Very very very very very few stick around a long time. Pokemon has a bit of nostalgia wrapped around a decent game mechanic (egress). But almost all games have a 2 week 'wooot' then a 2...
[05:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Finally - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:38] <exec> 08└─...they caught them all
[05:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:56] <exec> 08└─The only 'clean' way out for the US and China at this point is a collapse of the NK leadership. China is not interested in that at this point. As more than likely it would end up carving off a part of china at some point to what would end up as Korea. So China will continue to kick the ball down the...
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[06:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes Boss I Doing The Needful - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:19] <exec> 08└─I make flow chart of the coding, you approve flow chart.
[06:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:27] <exec> 08└─Umm... in his later years his writing turned anti-semitic which is what "Starship Troopers" is about, the Nazis wiping out the Jews. Not sure why they are honoring Rush Limbaugh but it must be related to his political works of fiction.
[06:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:29] <exec> 08└─I realize you have a right to an opinion but I don't see any anti-Semitism in starship trooper, but rather a satirical story about the world under a dominating Federal government that controlled all aspects of life. Want to know more... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org...
[06:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:32] <exec> 08└─They had to choose between Limbaugh and a black man... Rush won unanimously. ...ducks... ...runs...
[06:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:34] <exec> 08└─"anti-semitic" thats news to me. got a reference? a quick google isnt showing me much.
[06:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:48] <exec> 08└─I suspect PMG is the "1.0" game of a new genre. Someone is bound to do it better - I'd say in the next year or so.
[06:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re China and Russia - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:12] <exec> 08└─Good point but not the whole thing. Consider also that the US has been very aggressive in courting other nations (Philippines, Vietnam, etc.) to take a stand against China in parallel with expanding NATO against Russia. China has no option but to keep the DPRK close to its bosom. Consider also the r...
[06:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:08] <exec> 08└─At least in Germany these voters are mostly computer-illiterate people in the 60+ age group. They just want "control" over some unseen evil in a world that is increasingly "too young" for them to understand.
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[07:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02dependency management - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:22] <exec> 08└─havent read TFA, but that sounds a lot like Robert Martin's "Single Responsibility Principle" which itself was another way of saying that most ancient of programming slogans "loose coupling, tight cohesion". or has he got some new insight (yeah i know, i should read TFA!)
[07:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"well-paid programmer"? - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:24] <exec> 08└─Do not make me laugh. .......too late. HA HA HA HA Sure OK. Put your GitHub profile up there, call it a portfolio. Go to interviews where they ask for a sales pitch of the projects on your GitHub profile. Interviewers ask you to clarify certain points of your documentation. Wait, what. Are they pump...
[07:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Did I miss something? - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:26] <exec> 08└─Did I miss something or are he just suggesting message passing? (Or possibly not exposing the internal of an object (ie, mimd the private/public)?)
[07:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:37] <exec> 08└─Takes a bit. Let us see. Hmmmm. Bugs. Our enemy, trashed Rio, bro! But that is the deal, bugs, bug minds, bug ass-blasters, the only thing the understand is superior firepower! Hmm, just like Nazis? Oh, no, they were white, just deranged. Maybe the Japanese, whom some American soldiers described...
[07:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:The game sucks - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:57] <exec> 08└─I haven't tried it yet, but I suspect they could adopt a "seasons" structure where substantial rule changes are introduced periodically (probably with major updates to coordinate with the 3DS titles).
[07:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:re China and Russia - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:19] <exec> 08└─Good point but not the whole thing. Consider also that the US has been very aggressive in courting other nations (Philippines, Vietnam, etc.) to take a stand against China in parallel with expanding NATO against Russia. China has no option but to keep the DPRK close to its bosom.
[07:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:40] <exec> 08└─As much a necessary. It is cheaper to rehabilitate than not. You can ignore the moral arguments, but rehabilitation decreases the recidivism rate so that once they leave prison, people are less likely to commit further crime (or alternatively, have learned how not to get caught, if you are cynical)....
[07:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:insecure, as usual - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:49] <exec> 08└─Nice idea to not let the criminals teach the criminals, but that would be like solitary confinement, a practice already considered inhumane. Would they be cycled one at a time for exercise (alone) and sunlight outside of their cell? Would they all interact with an army of therapists to maintain huma...
[07:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:GMOs vs hybrids - 06Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:26] <exec> 08└─When genes are exchanged between species in nature, it's called "horizontal gene transfer." Wikipedia lists some examples. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The "vectors" by which genes are transferred in genetic engineering exist in nature, where they...
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[08:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02driving like a human - 06Auto Part Suppliers Team Up for a Cheaper Self-Driving System - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:22] <exec> 08└─1. Slow down for cops. 2. Speed up and try to hit hippies. 3. Honk and whistle at women. 4. Scream at and scare young children.
[08:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Kill! Kill! - 06Auto Part Suppliers Team Up for a Cheaper Self-Driving System - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:23] <exec> 08└─"capable of mimicking true human driving capabilities" So, basically,killing lots of people.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[08:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, but who are the bad guys? I've always seen it as a satirical criticism of the system more than of the bugs. So if it is referring to nazis/jews (which it isn't particularly, for reasons you seem to touch on) then it's anti-nazi.
[08:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:01] <exec> 08└─I played Go a fair bit as I had fun hunting and exploring. However, Niantic made it that once you get up to about level 15+, everything starts breaking out of pokeballs very very easy, and you could never get enough balls unless you either bought them or camped on a spot. I can accept the fact that...
[08:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:03] <exec> 08└─Except it's not a new genre, it's a team-play watered down, and aesthetically cartooned up (hmm, actually that's also a down), version of Ingress from 2012.
[08:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:The game sucks - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:10] <exec> 08└─The freemium part of Go is bloody insane. Certain items are only obtainable on level-up, but the game is setup once you get to a mid-level (15 or so), everything starts escaping or breaking out of balls. While you can get balls for free at pokestops, you'll never get enough to always have them on ha...
[08:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Also, all over TV - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:46] <exec> 08└─It's not just common sense. Pretty much every fictionalized jail show (e.g. Orange is the New Black) or "realistic" jail show (e.g. Sixty Days In) has Ramen as currency. I feel like it's like news outlets going gaga over the fact that shanks exist. Duh. I know that, because I was minimally exposed t...
[08:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:51] <exec> 08└─Seems very grower oriented, what about the manufacture of methamphetamines? They could get Uncle Fester to teach some classes.
[08:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Getting better - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:00] <exec> 08└─The number of prisoners is trending down. So, it's getting better! And, far more importantly, private prisons are being phased out (at the federal level). That should take some powerful lobbyists in favor of long term sentences out of play.
[08:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Sort of correct - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:04] <exec> 08└─A stemp = a Ramen?
[08:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let's starve people to death - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:09] <exec> 08└─How is that not cruel and unusual?
[08:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Control - 06Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:11] <exec> 08└─it's a public place - I'm free to go there whenever I want. So why do Starbucks keep locking me out? Might it not instead be private property, such that those who are in charge of it may make their own rules about what's permissible there.
[08:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Control - 06Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:34] <exec> 08└─Aesthetic offensiveness has nothing to do with it when it comes to acceptability. I remember at uni a huge group of us, equal gender mix, watched "Dick" (it was one of the girl's 20th birthdays, and was one of the presents). With no vocal objections, male and female alike, straight and gay alike, we...
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[08:27:02] <exec> 08└─user_pref("media.autoplay.enabled", false);
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[09:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Small problems are not trivial - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:34] <exec> 08└─> Professional programming is about dealing with software at scale. Everything is trivial when the problem is small and contained No! There are many, many, many problems which are difficult to manage even on one CPU. Ever tried solving a QCD problem? Or modelling a beam of 1e13 protons in the CERN b...
[09:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, but who are the bad guys? I've always seen it as a satirical criticism of the system more than of the bugs. So if it is referring to nazis/jews (which it isn't particularly, for reasons you seem to touch on) then it's anti-nazi.
[09:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:50] <exec> 08└─>Dougie Howser is a dead give away! As an SS officer? yeah but that was the movie, which heinlein being dead, had no say in. >Whose side are you on? none, just seeking information. i've read a lot of heinlein including his letters in grumbles from the grave and i got no sense of antisemitism.
[09:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Welcome to the 1950s! - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:35] <exec> 08└─Let's hope Trump instigates some Strategic Defence Initiative to protect the US against this new threat!
[09:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Also, all over TV - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:51] <exec> 08└─Are these fictionalised shows dystopic - I know I've seen similar in dystopic sci-fi? If so, then this story is news because it's saying the signs of dystopia are increasing.
[09:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Also, all over TV - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:53] <exec> 08└─The fictionalized shows are supposed to be contemporary. Some cases (e.g. Orange is the New Black) are worse than the real source materials they are based on, but not dramatically so. But, yeah, realistic, not distopian. By the way, I have no problem with treats being the currency in prison. Oreos o...
[09:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Not In Federal Prison, Apparently - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:07] <exec> 08└─That seems very weird. I'm sure I could fashion a bladed weapon out of a tin like that. How do they get in to the facility?
[09:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Not In Federal Prison, Apparently - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:08] <exec> 08└─That seems very weird. I'm sure I could fashion a bladed weapon out of a tin like that. How do they get in to the facility?
[09:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:insecure, as usual - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:16] <exec> 08└─In low security prisons, it's fairly common for prisoners to be taken out during the day to a place of work, where they're supervised pretty much as a normal employee (often they have to wear a tracking tag of some kind so that authorities are alerted if they go anywhere unauthorised). It wouldn't b...
[09:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's starve people to death - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:19] <exec> 08└─If it's done on a big scale, it's obviously not unusual. Therefore it is not cruel and unusual.
[09:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02"lost attitude control" - 06NASA Regains Contact With Long-Silent Solar Science Spacecraft - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:14] <exec> 08└─I.e. became a stroppy teenager. It has been communicating these last couple of years, it's just that it's only been saying "I haaaate you".
[09:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:At this point they don't even need evidence - 06The New York Times and Other News Organizations Targeted by Hackers - 2734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:11] <exec> 08└─It's worse than that; the CNN made up the story about the NYT being hacked! At least the NYT claims their Russian NYT servers were only DDOSed and not hacked according to RT (RT phoned the NYT to ask them about it [rt.com]). They obviously don't believe anything the CNN says —good for them! :D So...
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[10:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Why is NLRB approval needed or wanted? - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:21] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, the NLRB is just the dancing partner of the big unions. While working with the big unions may bring some initial advantages, I'm not sure that's a camel you really want in your tent. The idea of a union is very simple: "we will sink or swim together". They tell their employer w...
[10:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Small problems are not trivial - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:41] <exec> 08└─Even worse. Looking at the examples in the article, this guy writes business software in Java and thinks that dependency injection somehow replaces event handling.
[10:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:58] <exec> 08└─I'd point out that the movie [wikipedia.org] bore only a passing resemblance to the novel [wikipedia.org], mostly in the name, the names of some characters and the enemy. Just about everything that made the novel a good read was cleansed from the movie. And the movie was, predictably, awful.
[10:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:00] <exec> 08└─In the book, nukes are used far more liberally, including against civilian populations. They are not a last resort, but a personal weapon every human soldier was equipped with
[10:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:02] <exec> 08└─In the book, nukes are used far more liberally, including against civilian populations. They are not a last resort, but a personal weapon every human soldier was equipped with
[10:24:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:45] <exec> 08└─On one hand, they've a more desperate and even, yes, legitimate, need for such drastic measures...
[10:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Remember when Google promised Nice ads? - 06Google to Disparage Pop-Up and Interstitial Adverts - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:44] <exec> 08└─I get a lot of ads from Google that are, admittedly, quite welcome. Every time I have been looking for some specific thing, Google has always excelled in not only finding me the thing I was looking for, but who has some for sale. Unobtrusively. But its right there on the search page. Those links, u...
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[11:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:07] <exec> 08└─Ah, OK. I've not read the book, only seen the film. Verhoeven lays it on thick in that one, it's oozing satire from every frame.
[11:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:12] <exec> 08└─There have been times/situations when a personal weapon with even 10 times less the power of a Hiroshima/Nagasaki [whichever was the smallest] would have been handy... Hell, I'd even settle for 100 times less! :-)
[11:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:14] <exec> 08└─Nah, the guy was a military brat that never got to see actual combat. And thus he continually fawned over rigid chains of command etc. Damn it, he laid out his house like it was the deck of a navy ship.
[11:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score:1) 02Re:The game sucks - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:36] <exec> 08└─The difficulty with this approach is that the game is just broken on such a fundamental level. It's not impossible but the game needs to have it's core mechanics striped out and replaced to make it any good at fulfilling the core fantasy of pokémon at which point it really wouldn't be the same game...
[11:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:10] <exec> 08└─What you cannot see, you cannot control. Since right wingers want to control everything/everyone, you need to be able to see everything/everyone. Hence the 'need' for backdoored encryption (or 'need' for the prohibition of wearing hoodies/masks on certain venues).
[11:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Outlaw math! Good idea! - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:25] <exec> 08└─No no... it;s more like outlawing some parts of maths... Like you're allowed to add and subtract, but no multiplication and division (because that's too close to wizardry for them to understand :-) )
[11:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02DSPs For Graphics - 06Microsoft HoloLens and its 24-Core Chip - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:54] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's 24 DSP system reminds me of Namco's System 22 hardware [wikipedia.org] which had up to 8 DSPs to implement texture mapping and suchlike. That was the hardware for the arcade version of Ridge Racer [wikipedia.org] and Time Crisis [wikipedia.org].
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[12:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How many union guys... - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:38] <exec> 08└─How many union guys does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Ten. What, you gotta problem with that ?!?
[12:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Soylent Green - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:49] <exec> 08└─...is clearly the solution. Apparently we have the people.
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[13:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Thank-you, itchy, + suggestion - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:27] <exec> 08└─Thank-you for continuing to scratch your itches publicly in useful ways. As for the suggestion: maybe it might be a useful addition to allow votes or moderation on articles? You can probably get substantively the same information from page-views, but having explicit upvotes and downvotes on articles...
[13:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02new features eh. - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:29] <exec> 08└─Don't slashdot yourself.
[13:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Feature Request: Colorize New Posts - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:31] <exec> 08└─It would be most handy if soylent had a way to colorize new posts in a discussion. Something as simple as storing a "last viewed" date in a cookie or dom storage and then applying a "new" style to any post newer than the stored date stamp. Even slicker if it can be done with css trickery so javascri...
[13:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I like 'em. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─Keep the subjects; they're handy. Especially on those wall-of-text comments.
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:I like 'em. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─Keep them, for all the reasons stated, and also because SoylentNews continues to show the rest of the world how it should be done.
[13:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Other - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:44] <exec> 08└─n/t
[13:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Mostly useful - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:46] <exec> 08└─Exactly like this. The subject is the tl;dr of the comment.
[13:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Simile. Possibly useful. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─Comments without subjects are like books without titles.
[13:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Meaningful Subjects - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:50] <exec> 08└─I wrote a regexp using FoxReplace [mozilla.org] that wipes the Subject: field any time I post. That causes soylent to throw a "Filter error: Please enter a subject" if I submit without filling in a subject. That helps remind me to write a meaningful subject for each post I make. That's because I thi...
[13:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Meaningful Subjects - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:52] <exec> 08└─Slashdot does a good job - if its just a "re: Subject" they hide the subject. But if a post has a brand new subject, then they display that. Sounds like a good thing to copy/plagiarise/rip off.
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Subjects are handy - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:54] <exec> 08└─n/t
[13:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02to see at a glance - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:56] <exec> 08└─(nothin' 'ere, mate)
[13:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the flow of the conversation - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:59] <exec> 08└─(why'd you look? You knew there'd be nothing here.)
[13:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We should just have subjects and toss comments. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:01] <exec> 08└─
[13:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02US has already banned them - 06UK MPs Propose Banning Microbeads - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:10] <exec> 08└─Here's a story about the US ban [cnn.com]. When the ban passed I inadvertently bought a tube of microbead toothpaste that was on sale and I could definitely notice the difference. The beads made my gums hurt for several hours after brushing.
[13:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cautionary Tale - 06UK MPs Propose Banning Microbeads - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─The whole microbead saga is yet another example of companies seeking profit that ignore the cautionary principle and end up fucking over everybody in the process. They get away with an "oops my bad" and don't have to pay a dime in penalties much less remediation efforts. At one time "all scientific...
[13:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Why is NLRB approval needed or wanted? - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:21] <exec> 08└─Of course, the flip side of a union's implicit threat is often forgotten: the employer is free to say "ok, then you're fired".
[13:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score:1) 02Or... - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:24] <exec> 08└─Or these private colleges will turn around and rebrand Graduate Assistants as unpaid interns.
[13:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─since Heinlein was an Annapolis graduate and a career Navy man
[13:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:46] <exec> 08└─Australia is not worried since the NORKs use Bing maps for targeting.
[13:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this such a big deal? - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:10] <exec> 08└─Fascinating! (Especially to someone like me who routinely eats Soylent and Soylent knockoffs.) This whole thread has been one of the most interesting discussions here in awhile - been a long time since I blew all my daily mod points on one thread.
[13:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Also, all over TV - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:17] <exec> 08└─By the way, I have no problem with treats being the currency in prison. Oreos or whatnot. It's just sad that it has to be something based on its filling/nutritional value, not taste.
[13:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is this such a big deal? - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:19] <exec> 08└─It's fascinating, and not at all surprising. The interesting thing about economies and ecologies is that they arise naturally almost regardless of the circumstances, but nobody can predict the exact form they will take.
[13:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:30] <exec> 08└─It is cheaper to rehabilitate than not.
[13:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:How about auto-play video? - 06Google to Disparage Pop-Up and Interstitial Adverts - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:43] <exec> 08└─Google wouldn't penalize autoplay video because that would hurt YouTube.
[13:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:external costs? - 06WIPP Leak Could Cost over $2 Billion - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:24] <exec> 08└─Utilities didn't prevent the US from building long term storage for radioactive waste for half a century.
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[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is this real, or BS booking? - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─Are they generating 100% of the energy themselves, or is this one of those BS "credits" things where they "buy" green energy from some other country but still generate "dirty" energy themselves, like how someone in New York can get their energy from wind farms in Texas? If it is the former, then it...
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:41] <exec> 08└─http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=compare+USA+and+costa+rica+energy+use [wolframalpha.com] -- About 480:1 on total energy use http://www.wolframalpha.com [wolframalpha.com] -- About 65:1 https://www.google.com [google.com] --...
[14:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank-you, itchy, + suggestion - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, I like the upvote idea. As an occasional submitter (which I'm hoping to get back to soon... so busy) that kind of feedback let's you know if you're submitting stuff people want to read, but maybe not comment much on.
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new features eh. - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─Or help to DDoS others: http://www.darkreading.com [darkreading.com]
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Feature Request: Colorize New Posts - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─+1 to that. pipedot has been doing it for a while and it's very very helpful.
[14:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02The Secretary? - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:58] <exec> 08└─So, we got the Secretary of the Department of National Security to sign off on Soylent? Cool. Them Russians better not be hacking us!
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02as threads advance. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:17] <exec> 08└─(n/t)
[14:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Burma Shave - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─(Somebody had to do it. Sorry.)
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02✉✂✖❌❎ - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:21] <exec> 08└─➡➡➡ ㊙😉😶😶😶☑☑☑ ⛅ ⛪✌❤☕
[14:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Doesn't have to be all or nothing - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Why not make them optional?
[14:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't have to be all or nothing - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:26] <exec> 08└─For replies, yes, that could be an option, it would indicate "same subject as parent". For new top-level posts, definitely not. A post without a subject (inherited or not) is like a commit with no commit message. Laziness should not be encouraged.
[14:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02 - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:28] <exec> 08└─For replies, yes, that could be an option,
[14:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re: - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:30] <exec> 08└─That's a blank title, not no title. It still takes up the vertical space on the page. OK, the score would also do that, but were there to be a change to optionally actually remove the title, then the score would be moved, I'm sure, as the devs aren't stupid.
[14:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03YorithTheDreamer [5874] (Score:1) 02Great for Lurkers - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:32] <exec> 08└─This is my first comment explicitly because titles are great for lurkers. I quite like having headers and wish replies had them used more.
[14:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Useful feature - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:34] <exec> 08└─When somebody replies to one of your comments, you see the subject and can tell what they're replying to, instead of just blindly clicking the link to find out. But then again, people like OriginalPoster don't even have accounts at all, so I guess tracking isn't a universally-appreciated feature.
[14:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:2) 02Article Reply Subject: good. Every other sux. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:36] <exec> 08└─I use the subject to figure out whether I'm interested in expanding the discussion. Subjects like "Summary is wrong", or "I ran the numbers", or whatever are usually very worthwhile reads where just putting the 200+ word comment would be really stupid. Similarly, the Reddit Reader is worthless becau...
[14:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Cautionary Tale - 06UK MPs Propose Banning Microbeads - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:47] <exec> 08└─I'd hope somebody uses that list to make sure testing is done, rather than to simply use it as a bludgeon to stop innovation. Not all change is bad, and some improvements actually are good. Microbeads made of plastic was not a good change. When they previously had used grit made of silica (sand), th...
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is NLRB approval needed or wanted? - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:57] <exec> 08└─I think you're mixing two different things. Either that, or I wasn't clear in my post. Firing people for being a member of a union is obviously illegal, and should be. When I talk about firing union members, I mean firing them for striking. That absolutely *is* legal. They're your employees, and if...
[14:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02need more! - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 2092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─Employees everywhere are getting screwed, hard, and the decline in union power has contributed. Yes, sometimes unions have demanded too much, and used stupid tactics. I grew up in an anti-union Republican household. My father's employer moved from the north to Texas to get away from the unions. We w...
[14:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Or... - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─This is a slippery slope. Next thing you know these Graduate Assistants or now Unpaid Interns will start asking for human rights.
[14:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hard to say what effect this will have - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 1548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:06] <exec> 08└─When I was a graduate student, we officially only worked 20 hours a week. If we worked more than that, we would have been eligible for the benefits that the "regular" employees got. It was always a joke because as a grad student you're working much more hours than that, but for those on departmental...
[14:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Good thing too - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:08] <exec> 08└─Grad Students Win Right to Unionize
[14:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Justice - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:10] <exec> 08└─Graduate students do most of the work that universities charge outrageous tuition for: teaching, writing, and research. They teach the classes while the professors jetset around to speaking engagements and earn honoraria, ghostwrite the papers the professors publish, and do the labwork the scientist...
[14:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So fire them all - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:12] <exec> 08└─And bring in a fresh new crew. We'll see how much the customers of the university complain. Oh, the grad students *are* the customers. Well then, maybe customers shouldn't go on strike.
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Driving like a human: weather considerations - 06Auto Part Suppliers Team Up for a Cheaper Self-Driving System - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:21] <exec> 08└─5. Brake randomly in the rain to encourage the car behind to maintain safe a following distance. 6. Keep driving 10 over the limit on snow, that's why we have 4-wheel drive. Act surprised when we end up in the ditch. 7. If the rain/snow/fog is too dense for the sensors to see, turn on the high beam...
[14:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Well deserved - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:44] <exec> 08└─I read everything he wrote, too. He was a strange mix of hippie free love (Stranger in a Strange Land, Number of the Beast), rigid militarism (Starship Troopers), and capitalist cheerleading (The Man Who Sold the Moon). Many of his ideas from stories like Friday and Methuselah's Children I carry to...
[14:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:00] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you have seen the movie, not read the book. This kind of commentary is like someone seeing Judge Dredd with Stallone and deciding that the comic book wasnt a tale of authoritarianism and a parody of our society.
[14:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad press a factor? - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:16] <exec> 08└─How many have done idiotic things
[14:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:20] <exec> 08└─It is a bit early to be comparing it to MMOs.
[14:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─Niantic made it that once you get up to about level 15+
[14:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02China and Russia - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:57] <exec> 08└─I’m sorry if it was not clear that I do agree with your comments. My observation was that the context is much larger than simply US-China-DPRK, as it involves other countries in the region, possibly including Russia. And if Russia is involved, automatically NATO is dragged in as well. Now, your th...
[14:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Outlaw math! Good idea! - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:31] <exec> 08└─Outlawing mustard gas is not the same thing as outlawing chemistry.
[14:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprising - 06Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:15] <exec> 08└─I will say the pressure is nearly insane. I know whole subcultures where women who don't breastfeed are shamed, where women teach their children that another mother with a bottle is a "bad mommy." And my wife couldn't breastfeed due to surgery, but we received countless admonitions from people telli...
[14:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Remember when Google promised Nice ads? - 06Google to Disparage Pop-Up and Interstitial Adverts - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:12] <exec> 08└─I think it's convenient. A lot better than the alternatives: Here's a full page, in your face, difficult or impossible to dismiss, deceptive ad, about something you have no interest in. Will never have an interest in. And maybe even find offensive. Here, let me cram it down your throat for you.
[14:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Threats - 06Google to Disparage Pop-Up and Interstitial Adverts - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:16] <exec> 08└─Sites featuring pop-up windows or interstitial adverts may appear lower in the results than they now do.
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[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02There's the punch line I was looking for - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─"very low per-capita energy usage." Train of thought was, "Well with the earthquake and all, and with Hillary using their misfortune to enrich herself . . . oh, wait, Costa Rica, not Haiti." But the punch line still applies. Costa Ricans aren't spoiled Americans, so it's comparably easy to meet thei...
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─It's called the Special Period (Período especial). It wasn't a great time to be a cat, or a zoo animal.
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Try some libre vidya - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─http://bbs.progrider.org/lounge/read/1471946796 [progrider.org] Try some libre vidya Tired of being tired, but don't want to de-bed? Try something new (to you): Info: https://lgdb.org [lgdb.org] [lgdb.org] http://www.moddb.com [moddb.com] [moddb.co...
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Why does the wagecuck w/rage? - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 3096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:44] <exec> 08└─Wagies mad don't have decade to devote to hobby 07:17 -!- Irssi: Join to #darkplaces was synced in 1 secs 07:19 Xonotic stand alone mod: https://lgdb.org [lgdb.org] 07:19 Has reached release 93. Over 100 weapons, city generation, buildable buildings (like RTS) and ...
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Then on Day 114 - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─The 'Discovery' crew came in to do some filming.
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Works well for me so far - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:01] <exec> 08└─Congrats on the improvements. Don't go too nuts with new features though, I really like the way the current site works, and it works well in my oddball browser. I can't even begin to count the sites that have turned in to useless rubbish because they wanted some new fangled "HTML5" or whatever fancy...
[15:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simile. Possibly useful. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─And web pages without titles.
[15:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This subject left intentionally blank - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─My eye doesn't see/read them
[15:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Why make things difficult? - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─I don't know how many others find it difficult to follow some threads in which the actual topic under discussion changes slightly but the subject headers are just Re:blah blah blah, but I find it spoils the flow of some conversations when commenters are not all talking about the same thing but haven...
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02No subject - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 1597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:37] <exec> 08└─See, with no subject I "forced" you to read this comment, because otherwise you might be missing some of my legendary wit and wisdom (or you might be missing the chance to make fun of one of my rare mistakes...). Anyway "no comments" is very thinly veiled astroturfing from legacy social media that s...
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02I like subjects, but the text limit is too short. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─Like someone else here said, subjects make a nice summary of the comment, at least in theory. In my opinion, the problem with them is that the character limit is too low, so instead of "TL;DR" all you get is "TL;" I don't know why the limit was chosen, but it's shit. It's not even 80 characters, whi...
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score:1) 02Subjects are useful. On THIS article. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─I think this is the first article in which I've looked at all of the subjects on the comments in... forever.
[15:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02You won't believe what happened next - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:43] <exec> 08└─If you can't write a good subject line, you should leave commenting to us experts. It takes a very tiny fraction of a second to scan a subject line and get its meaning, and for the writer, it helps focus the point. Assuming you have a point, which in my case is not always true.
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:3, Insightful) 02The worst is when... - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─...people start a sentence in the subject and complete it in the message body. Drives me nuts. We seem to have weeded that behavior out of this community with peer pressure, though, so that's happy ;) Despite my comment above, I like having subjects for comments. I browse at threshold/breakthrough o...
[15:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I put the set-up in the subject. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─The punch line goes here.
[15:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02make 1st line of comment into the subject - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:50] <exec> 08└─I suppose this is an old idea. Seen it in email apps and web pages for years. Why not just take the first line or sentence or 140 characters of every comment and display them in a larger font in bolder colors? People would get used to the system. Can still have subjects for those who want to write t...
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02This isn't Twitter - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:52] <exec> 08└─I can see why some kids these days would want to do away with subjects. They have gotten used to using shit services like Twatter, or "texting" people on their toy cell phones. They no longer know how to write a full, coherent, paragraph fully describing what they have to say. Instead, they want to...
[15:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As Long As ... - 06UK MPs Propose Banning Microbeads - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─As long as they don't ban anal beads I'm OK with it.
[15:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is NLRB approval needed or wanted? - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:14] <exec> 08└─When I talk about firing union members, I mean firing them for striking. That absolutely *is* legal.
[15:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:need more! - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:16] <exec> 08└─My pay was $10,000/year, for 20 hours/week
[15:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Justice - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:26] <exec> 08└─I buy most of my math and science textbooks on Amazon or BN's used books network, so I'd say it's flourishing.
[15:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Justice - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:28] <exec> 08└─Not everyone re-writes text books for extra profit. Our book came out 20 years ago, is being used for an engineering elective. It has stayed the same with only typo corrections between printings (reprinted every year or two). Except during the "great recession", sales have stayed around 1000 copies/...
[15:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Driving like a human: weather considerations - 06Auto Part Suppliers Team Up for a Cheaper Self-Driving System - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:38] <exec> 08└─8. Care about your mobile communication, not about what happens on the road.
[15:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:1) 02Re:Did I miss something? - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you missed something (you are, ofcourse, not alone in just skimming the article -- after all, this is the interwebbythingy we're passing electrons back and forth on). The whole article is about [code] maintainability. Reactive programming is a natural fit if you've got some async functionality...
[15:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:1) 02Re:Small problems are not trivial - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─Whooossshhh!!! (It never occurred to me that looking at the pics alone would be a good way to summarize an entire article. A brave new world opens.)
[15:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:58] <exec> 08└─Except for the blind. They use Haptic Basic instead.
[15:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:China and Russia - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:15] <exec> 08└─I’m sorry if it was not clear that I do agree with your comments.
[15:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NK has the largest army - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:17] <exec> 08└─Because North Korea has one of the world's largest armies; its paramilitary is roughly five times larger than the United States' entire active army. As active armies go, NK has about 1.2m to the USA's 1.5m. With our global commitments, we can't commit our entire active army to attack them, but they...
[15:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You don't mean....? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:20] <exec> 08└─You don't mean the Chinese would have to pay for a very big wall.....?
[15:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:51] <exec> 08└─You're not going to spend 'infinite dollars'. You're just spewing idiocy. You're also forgetting that once rehabilitated, the individual's contributions to society now also have a cascading/multiplying effect. Not only do you no longer have to incarcerate them, but the individual starts producing, p...
[15:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Getting better - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:57] <exec> 08└─private prisons are being phased out (at the federal level)
[15:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:34] <exec> 08└─maybe you're the ACTUAL problem.
[15:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:38] <exec> 08└─Right now the average length of employment is less than 18 months at a go.
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[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02newfangled ESWL - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─This "sounds" like extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, but for one's brain. Where do the loose bits go once they've been dislodged? In my day, a whiff of smelling salts was enough to revive a lass who had been overcome by passion.
[16:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:newfangled ESWL - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─I find a big glass of ice water, a quick pee break, and a shower work rather well in that case. Once my knees can support me.
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There's the punch line I was looking for - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:03] <exec> 08└─That post is a case of being so far up your own butt that you find shit and think its gold.
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re: consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─So CR generates >14% of what a lazy pampered American would use using renewable energy. But the US only generates only 10% (2014) of what the lazy pampered Americans use using renewable energy. So CR is still doing >40% better than the US at utilising renewable energy. I'm pretty sure Norway (hydro)...
[16:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:details - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:25] <exec> 08└─By hand? No, a tiny shell script with a generous sprinkling of rand(); works for that. Sysadmins, remember? We have tools for that sort of thing =P
[16:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:✉✂✖❌❎ - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:51] <exec> 08└─Shaka, when the walls fell.
[16:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:✉✂✖❌❎ - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:53] <exec> 08└─😂✅✅
[16:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Why make things difficult? - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:04] <exec> 08└─So tempted to do an ironic -1 Disagree mod, just for the paradox that would ensue! :-D
[16:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:No subject No Read - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─> See, with no subject I "forced" you to read this comment, No. You only forced me to read that first sentence fragment and then I realized you had gone full narcissist and stopped reading.
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Sort of the wrong question. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─A referendum on a question like "do you like having subjects on an article?" is the wrong question, to me. Some people read the subject line, and some don't. But quite a few probably don't care. If (as is slightly implied) you want to make a decision "Should we remove the feature to have a subject f...
[16:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no more combos - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─seems we hit peak "subject". newspapers and magazines are complaining:"stop using up the precious limited subject space!"
[16:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Are you sure about this? - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:20] <exec> 08└─
[16:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Objects without Subjects! - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─there. it'd be crazy to drop them. inherit them from the parent (including the op's title) and allow overrides so people can indicate nuance. p.s. stop listening to people that don't understand what they are trying to simplify. its hard enough to bear seeing my window manager, browser and distro...
[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Great for weeding - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:24] <exec> 08└─While moderation points are a major tool to make interesting replies more visible, the title adds a more personal touch to the filtering. I will only read a comment if the subject is a not piece of crap, and the first sentence is ok. Keep them!
[16:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:US has already banned them - 06UK MPs Propose Banning Microbeads - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:34] <exec> 08└─I've never knowingly bought the microbead one, as the whole idea sounded a bit gimicky. I'm sure I wouldn't digest them, so if I swallowed enough of toothpaste, would I shit white turds? Like the lower-class dog poop of the 70s, but possibly spanglier.
[16:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Cautionary Tale - 06UK MPs Propose Banning Microbeads - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:39] <exec> 08└─In the summary, I didn't mean to convey certainty that plastic fibres from clothing are harmful to wildlife. As far as I know, that hasn't been proven. However, one researcher has said that they are very common along the seashore. The Guardian paraphrased him as saying: [...] 85% of the human-made...
[16:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Cautionary Tale - 06UK MPs Propose Banning Microbeads - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:41] <exec> 08└─I actually speculated the same concerns he has written, about microfiber cloths losing such fibers in the laundry or doing vigorous use (as well as simple rinsing under a faucet) but chose to edit that out since I tend to write overly long comments... I wonder what the static cling of these microbea...
[16:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Long As ... - 06UK MPs Propose Banning Microbeads - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:44] <exec> 08└─We can store the banned microbeads inside your anus then?
[16:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hard to say what effect this will have - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:02] <exec> 08└─::It is easy to fall into the "permanent student" mode and delay moving on and becoming an adult. Imagine if college was free, and you were paid to be a student, not a lot, but enough for food and pizza money; I'd wager a huge number of students would not graduate in 4 years.:: Except most civilized...
[16:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dependency management - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─Neither coupling or cohesion are well-defined. And in practice, things naturally intertwine in the domain. Intertwining is both the power and Tums of software.
[16:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:dependency management - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:32] <exec> 08└─Coupling is a measure of how much two separate components depend on each other to function. This is a proxy for how many quirks a component has to maintain exactly as-is because other components depend on it working that way. Cohesion is a measure of how often code within a single component is reuse...
[16:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Small problems are not trivial - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:40] <exec> 08└─It's easy to forget that the hard problems exist, because we tend to drink until we forget when we don't get to work on them.
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─[VB] the blind. They use Haptic Basic instead.
[16:25:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 1008 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:55] <exec> 08└─I realize you have a right to an opinion but I don't see any anti-Semitism in starship trooper, but rather a satirical story about the world under a dominating Federal government that controlled all aspects of life. Want to know more... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org...
[16:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:03] <exec> 08└─It's one of those movie adaptations where the movie is good, the book is good, but they have little to do with each other except superficial details (other examples that come to mind are What Dreams May Come or I Am Legend's latest film attempt). If you haven't seen it yet, Starship Troopers 3: Mara...
[16:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:33] <exec> 08└─I think this is the reason it's declining. It's just not a Pokémon game. There's no PvP. Capturing pokémon doesn't involving weakening them first. Does it even have the element system? An element system? Any strategy in gym fights? Anything? I'm kind of surprised it was popular for as long as it w...
[16:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 2024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:06] <exec> 08└─You are assuming "we" is the US, or a proxy there-of. I was thinking that the parent post was proposing "we" as the entire international community, and most specifically, South Korea and China (North Korea's two neighbors), and possibly Japan. To this end: 1) China: They would face substantial conde...
[16:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:47] <exec> 08└─Because we as a nation prefer retribution and punishment over compassion and rehabilitation.
[16:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In Germany? - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:44] <exec> 08└─So basically Merkel has been drifting towards the Nationalistic in recent past, especially in regard to upcoming elections, and everything shifts as a result? Thanks for the summary.
[16:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No surprises - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:52] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, it's the same security theater consulting firms that lobby all western governments.
[16:31:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02good for the goose/gander - 06Google to Disparage Pop-Up and Interstitial Adverts - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:36] <exec> 08└─When I go to google.com on a mobile device using Safari for a quick search, I get a popup telling me about the Chrome app. Doesn't cover the whole screen, but it's annoying.
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[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02It's real... but there's a catch - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─Are they generating 100% of the energy themselves, or is this one of those BS "credits" things where they "buy" green energy from some other country but still generate "dirty" energy themselves, like how someone in New York can get their energy from wind farms in Texas? If it is the former, then it...
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re: consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─Here is a quick list of all countries of energy usage per capita: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Looking at the countries I believe Costa Rica is below average (less than China but more than India), but not an outlier. However, very r...
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re: consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─and the highest non-Western nation
[17:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Then on Day 114 - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:14] <exec> 08└─And on Day 115 someone found high grade bauxite. Then an Aluminum smelter was established...along with a fossil fuel multi megawatt power plant. If not in Costa Rica, then it will be somewhere else and blow up any attempt to keep power consumption per capita down.
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02What 'oddball' browser do you use? - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:31] <exec> 08└─Don't go too nuts with new features though, I really like the way the current site works, and it works well in my oddball browser.
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:3, Interesting) 02The Register - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:33] <exec> 08└─Someone please tell The Register. On much less funding you've done ten times more "IT stuff" than they have. No IPv6, no SSL\TLS, no DNSSEC and their authors still use ancient home webmail services rather than just a damn email forward. How do you take a geek/IT site seriously if they can't even do...
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Mostly useful - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─Compromise, make them optional
[17:23:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02Re:Meaningful Subjects - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─Slashdot does a good job - if its just a "re: Subject" they hide the subject. But if a post has a brand new subject, then they display that. Sounds like a good thing to copy/plagiarise/rip off.
[17:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Problem with Fitts's Law - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:53] <exec> 08└─There is a problem, the link becomes tiny because it's just "Re:". Of course they "solved" it by making all the line load the reply. But if you want to do something, say open in new tab to split that conversation, the tiny size is still a problem. See Fitts's law.
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02 - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:26] <exec> 08└─
[17:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Can be quite useful - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:29] <exec> 08└─Even when it's just the continuation subject in a thread, it's useful, but when someone changes the subject, rather than starting a new thread, it can be quite useful...if, of course, the changed subject reflects a change in content. Forking a thread that way is often the only appropriate way to com...
[17:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score:1) 02Re:Or... - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:01] <exec> 08└─We can't have that! Best to start petitioning for academic prisons now. :)
[17:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Driving like a human: weather considerations - 06Auto Part Suppliers Team Up for a Cheaper Self-Driving System - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:20] <exec> 08└─9. If installed in a BMW, never use the turn-indicators
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Kill! Kill! - 06Auto Part Suppliers Team Up for a Cheaper Self-Driving System - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─I thought Bender was a weird name for this system but it all makes sense now!
[17:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Small problems are not trivial - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:42] <exec> 08└─> ... easy to forget that the hard problems exist... My tiny company / engineering consultancy specializes in hard problems -- we model highly nonlinear systems with multiple inputs and multiple coupled outputs. No shortage of work. Not for the faint of heart. Pay is OK (less than lawyers) but we ge...
[17:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well deserved - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:56] <exec> 08└─...the key takeaway was his constant insistence on critical, independent thinking...
[17:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:11] <exec> 08└─What, you think you can hand over NK to SK and happily reunite them with more war? South Korea, Russia, and especially China would not be happy. Once the NK regime is gone, then what? Who fills the power vacuum? A that point you will have ~25 million ungoverned people. What percentage will attempt t...
[17:27:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02Sort of correct - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:56] <exec> 08└─I write to prisoners so I know something about how things work in those places, certainly more than most of you. In prisons there are three basic forms of currency: ramen noodle soups, instant coffee, and postage stamps. A soup; a "shot" of coffee, enough to make one large cup; and postage stamps ar...
[17:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02want a patriot missile sandwhich? - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:05] <exec> 08└─"The US authorities and most citizens prefer a punitive instead of a rehabilitative approach" please do STFU. if you want to criticize america/americans then you could say we don't have control over our government. As if americans are ever asked direct, specific questions with the facts being fully...
[17:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Control - 06Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:40] <exec> 08└─Apparently Francis needs to keep adjusting those.
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[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Radiation - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─Being so close to its sun, the planet must be blasted with a ton of radiation. Best to send the Hulk first.
[18:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Radiation... and distance - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:37] <exec> 08└─Being so close to its sun, the planet must be blasted with a ton of radiation. Best to send the Hulk first.
[18:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02ESO confirms - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:39] <exec> 08└─OK, it's nice that ESO confirms it, but … Does Netcraft confirm it?
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the unpublished bit: - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─the comatose man briefly gained consciousness and said, "no, you get your baby. you wanted it, ya fuckin' bitch," and then lost consciousness once more. ;)
[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02sufficiently advanced - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:52] <exec> 08└─I always wondered how Star Trek medical devices would work. It's not magic, it's ultrasound!
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re: consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─He's also implicitly counting New Zealand and Israel as non-Western. New Zealand is about as far East as you can get on a map, and I would have a hard time arguing that Israel is Western in a geographic or cultural sense.
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re: consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─Emphasis added: He's also implicitly counting New Zealand and Israel as non-Western.
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02not enough - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─while this is a good start, it's not enough, not yet at least. they need to switch to electric car and charge those from the grid using renewable electricity only and then it will be a great feat. alternatively, hydrogen fuel using only renewable power to extract the hydrogen would work too.
[18:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:What 'oddball' browser do you use? - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:35] <exec> 08└─Don't laugh too hard: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8.1.25pre) Gecko/20110912 SeaMonkey/1.1.20pre It is the last Mozilla browser that will run under 95/98/ME/NT 4 (and even NT 3.51!) without something like KernelEX (98 only). And it includes a fix that for a while made that... other ne...
[18:23:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03damnbunni [704] 02I like 'em. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:46] <exec> 08└─Keep the subjects; they're handy. Especially on those wall-of-text comments.
[18:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:2) 02Oh, micro *beads* - 06UK MPs Propose Banning Microbeads - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:47] <exec> 08└─I thought it said "microbeards" at first and that maybe hipsters had permeated the "Westminster bubble" to annoy MPs. I have cleaned my glasses now though and can read it properly.
[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Justice - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─The picture is bit different for STEM and other technical fields where the demand for labor is relatively high, unlike humanities. Top-notch graduate programs in engineering, for example, are usually full-rides with stipend.
[18:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Driving like a human: weather considerations - 06Auto Part Suppliers Team Up for a Cheaper Self-Driving System - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:26] <exec> 08└─and have painfully-bright LED headlights
[18:28:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Borders - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:29] <exec> 08└─As Stormreaver pointed out, thus far, encryption hasn't been a factor at all in their problems, so they have no legitimate reason. Next up, they've apparently been living under a rock. The NSA losing it's tools demonstrates that the gold key will likely leak sooner or later (I'm guessing sooner) and...
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[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02exponents... - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─add the exponents....1010 and 1014
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sigh - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─Add AT to the list of stuff I need to catch up on.
[19:22:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02Radiation... and distance - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─Being so close to its sun, the planet must be blasted with a ton of radiation. Best to send the Hulk first.
[19:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Pie in the sky - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:51] <exec> 08└─Keep dreaming. It's like exoplanetology is sort of a new religion. But heck, no problem in sending a small probe, if it doesn't cost too much.
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:There's the punch line I was looking for - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:12] <exec> 08└─At the same time, they don't have nearly as much money per capita to build windmills with as countries with higher energy use.
[19:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:It's real... but there's a catch - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:15] <exec> 08└─True, but they're also introducing biofuels, so they're working on it.
[19:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:not enough - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:29] <exec> 08└─They are slowly expanding the use of biofuels.
[19:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:new features eh. - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:41] <exec> 08└─DDOS attacks against DNS aren't anything new;its an inherent problem in UDP. Hell, you could already get a reply like that against some cloudflare servers just asking for the NS set without DNSSEC. ISPs need to prevent obviously bad traffic from their network, or UDP needs an overhual.
[19:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:details - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:48] <exec> 08└─Short version: BIND9 inline signing, and not bothering with key rotation (we're signed using SHA256). BIND will automatically regenerate the RRSIG records as needed and bump the serial on the fly to make it happen. Both the KSK and ZSK are SHA256 keys. I could script key replacement on the fly, but...
[19:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:What 'oddball' browser do you use? - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─It probably won't be hard to get the newer Firefox's/SeaMonkeys to compile for antique NT if there was an actual demand for them. I actually got Firefox to recently compile for IRIX, only to be killed at the last possible moment by the linker being unable to handle >2 GiB of stuff at once which no a...
[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:What 'oddball' browser do you use? - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, it won't load in Mosaic anymore. No HTTPS support in most branches, and the few that do have it tend to only support SSLv3. Mosiac-ck MIGHT work. I dunno if he added TLS support into it. Course, you could always use a proxy to get around that if need be or load it from tor (which uses...
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:The Register - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:58] <exec> 08└─DNSSEC isn't bad if you're using your own BIND master. Just make a signing key and turn on inline signing. Problem solved. Just make sure you generate RSASHA256 keys vs. the default of SHA1 ones.
[19:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:The Register - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, on the topic of webmail, we actually use Squirrelmail still here since the staff have a preference for it, complete with frames! If The Register want to hire me for freelancer work, well, point them at my email :) (and honestly, I get a huge amount of kicks of replying to people saying "When wil...
[19:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03godshatter [3912] (Score:1) 02Re:This subject left intentionally blank - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:39] <exec> 08└─I was going to mention this as well. When scanning the page, my eye jumps directly to the next comment text and I don't even register the subject line, which is why comments that start in the subject are so annoying to me. I think my eye skips it because I read all the comments from top to bottom an...
[19:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02 - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[19:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seems unicode "word joiner" eats subjects - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:56] <exec> 08└─unicode "word joiner" [fileformat.info] in the subject line seems to be responsible for this thread's worth of missing subject links when the child posts are collapsed to just subject lines.
[19:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Conditioned subject behaviour - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:02] <exec> 08└─If you want to alter how people use subjects, there are user interface tweaks that can be done for this. One example would be to clear out the subject line when posts are written (to encourage people to put in their own subject). A checkbox (default unchecked) could be used to repopulate with the su...
[19:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Or... - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─Only if they can be "for profit" prisons.
[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:44] <exec> 08└─The fact that you didn't name the book, nor link to your company, does add to your argument. On the other hand, now that you've done that, you should give the name so we can check it out. (or was it your nefarious plan all along? In this case, I can still use the name and reward you for your advance...
[19:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Justice - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:48] <exec> 08└─Well, actually, things may have changed since with the prevalence of H1B labor pool.
[19:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dependency management - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:15] <exec> 08└─How exactly does one measure dependency? What is the unit of measure?
[19:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:47] <exec> 08└─The film, as I and others noted, bears only a cosmetic resemblance to the novel. In fact, I found the movie almost nauseating. Given that as a reader, I'm the director of my own internal movie, whereas, movie adaptations generally reflect the prejudices and vision of the screenwriters and director....
[19:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're right. I forgot about that. My mistake.
[19:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Two Kilotons nominal yield - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:56] <exec> 08└─I somehow missed reading Starship Troopers -- it's going on my "gotta read it" list right now. As for your bolded text "two Kilotons nominal yield", I'd like to point out just how massive a bomb that is. I grew up in the era of A-Bomb and H-Bomb testing and so I grew used to the use of the terms: ki...
[19:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Two Kilotons nominal yield - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, 2 Kilotons of TNT is a big blast. It would be (leaving aside any radiation/fallout issues) about 2/3 he size of The Halifax Explosion [wikipedia.org] in 1917. This article [wikipedia.org] gives a good overview of the destructive power of varying amounts of TNT equivalents -- with examples. My p...
[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:03] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is that Starship Troopers is not a work of his later years, that Heinlein's racism of his earlier years was far, far more pronounced than anything he had in later years, and that Heinlein explicitly took care to make books with diverse cast of protagonists early on, including Je...
[19:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right about then. That's when the game was last opened on my Galaxy S6 Active. /r/pokemongo was full of rants. I'm still subscribed to that sub because its fun watching people think the world is ending.
[19:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:27] <exec> 08└─It's the normal curve, indeed. It has also attracted a lot of people who were not going to play any game more than a few days, but wanted to know what the buzz is about. (some people may have noticed how expensive their July data plan was) It's also the end of summer vacation, so people's ability to...
[19:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Outlaw math! Good idea! - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:45] <exec> 08└─Wait till you tell them that multiplication is just a lot of addition really fast :D
[19:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Outlaw math! Good idea! - 06France & Germany to Propose Encryption Back Doors in EU - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:48] <exec> 08└─Bad analogy. If people have knowledge about mathematics, backdoor-free encryption will not vanish. In fact, with all the FOSS encryption projects that exist, they don't even need knowledge of math. Any takes about encryption back doors are a complete waste of time, and more importantly, the idea is...
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[20:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:exponents... - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:54] <exec> 08└─I wish someone would write a book that explained the WHY behind algebraic topology. All the books I've seen tell the HOW in mind-numbing detail, but never explain why they're doing anything or what it's for. I needed two years to figure out the basic "why" of algebraic topology. I could explain in a...
[20:23:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Is this real, or BS booking? - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 1040 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─It's mostly the former. There is a "trick" or two that they're not making a big part of the PR releases, but I'd argue it's not really dishonest. 1. They have very low per-capita energy usage. That mostly comes down to economy. If everyone in Costa Rica had a washing machine and an air conditioner,...
[20:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:The Register - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:09] <exec> 08└─But if you're not using your own BIND master, it's an absolute pain in the butt. I find it disappointing that most domain hosts don't even offer it as an option at all. It's the sort of thing they should be managing for most people.
[20:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Mostly useful - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:25] <exec> 08└─Poifect.
[20:24:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Burma Shave - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─(Somebody had to do it. Sorry.)
[20:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Light bulbs and other groups - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:40] <exec> 08└─Ten Heh. You should see how many it takes when management tries to screw the workers and they decide to react by doing every action called out for that task in the Standards and Practices book that the company gives out to every new employee. Now, how many Supply-Siders does it take to change a ligh...
[20:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Am I on the wrong side of the pond or something? - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:49] <exec> 08└─He who laughs last, didn't get the joke. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:56] <exec> 08└─Not everyone does. As you say. But some people do. It's their class. They can use whatever book they want. So they write their own book. And be sure it changes every year. (cynical sarcasm mode . . .) This is especially important in fields like STEM fields. Textbooks must keep up with fast moving ch...
[20:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Two Kilotons nominal yield - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link! Apparently, I made a mistake in my assumption that a kiloton was 2,000 pounds of TNT; apparently, from your link [wikipedia.org], it's 1,000 kg, or closer to 2,200 pounds. Later on that page, they state: "A kiloton of TNT can be visualized as a cube of TNT 8.46 metres (27.8 ft)...
[20:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:32] <exec> 08└─As an active Pokémon Go player since release, I can say that the only thing from your list that it does have is strategy in gym fights - between choosing which to attack which with, as well as when to dodge and when to attack. I've gotten good enough at it to be able to beat Pokémon several hundre...
[20:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Another possibility - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:42] <exec> 08└─The game was released during summer vacation for most of its core demographic. Now that the 5- to 21-year-old crowd is heading back to school, I'm guessing there's a lot less time for them to devote to it every day like they did at first.
[20:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste of Tax Dollars - 06Ramen Noodles Supplanting Cigarettes as Currency Among Prisoners - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:47] <exec> 08└─Can't believe I reached the bottom of this article's comments before finding this. At least someone fucking gets it...
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[21:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One World under US - 06U.S. Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─America continues economic terrorism through regulatory pressure.
[21:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─This is a problem with most math books IMO. Only a few really teach well.
[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─i suppose everybody climbing mount mathematics arrives bruised, marked and sometimes maimed, so i guess no one is going to install a lift (or just share a map of the most daring pitfalls) 'cause you'd look better then the rest, arriving at the summit (smart AND good-looking? that's a NO-NO).
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:49] <exec> 08└─And yet no one can seem to explain it coherently.
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aliks [357] (Score:1) 02Re:algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─There is a tremendous amount of machinery (tools and techniques) in the world of algebra, not just groups, but rings, fields vector spaces (and modules if you like). Before the 1950s this machinery was not available to geometers and topologists. With the growth of algebraic topology, mathematicians...
[21:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Radiation... and distance - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:01] <exec> 08└─According to the article I read, the exoplanet is getting the same amounts of radiation as the Earth does, in the same frequencies despite its small distance. But that's because a dwarf doesn't radiate much; you can't see it without a telescope from Earth, and it's the nearest star to the sun. Since...
[21:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Radiation... and distance - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:04] <exec> 08└─They have assigned this object a minimum mass of 1.3 Earth masses, which could actually enhance its chances of habitability. Hopefully it turns out to be spinning and have a nice magnetosphere. Here's a comment I wrote on last week's Proxima Centauri article [soylentnews.org].
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Pie in the sky - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:08] <exec> 08└─What's "pie in the sky"? Sending humans there? All that's really needed is life extension or a little deep freeze. We'll likely have that worked out before the century is over, or even before 2050. 5% speed of light average (going from 0 to 0.1c and back to 0 maybe?) would be an 85 year trip. There...
[21:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Pie in the sky - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:10] <exec> 08└─If exoplanetology is a religion, I am the high priest who is going to ra... Oops, that's politically incorrect. Err... pray with me, child.
[21:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02added link to previous article - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:12] <exec> 08└─"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri [soylentnews.org] Yes, it MIGHT be habitable. If nothing else, it's a chance for us to focus our scopes on a relatively close exoplanet. One in Five Stars Has Earth-sized Planet in Habitable Zone [keckobservatory.org] Most stars have...
[21:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Stupid Everywhere - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:14] <exec> 08└─I was struck by how poor the reporting has been about this. Not the links above, but the TV news in particular. One idiot on TV last night informed us that a journey to "another galaxy" would take many years. As if Proxima is in another galaxy.
[21:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is anybody worried about earth's security? - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:16] <exec> 08└─Look how quickly humans have developed technology since the steam engine was invented less than 320 years ago. Aren't we worried that aliens will come along and do a Hollywood sci-fi flick number on us?
[21:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:sufficiently advanced - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:27] <exec> 08└─They've used ultrasound to cure plantar warts since before 1964, because they used it on mine. I was 12, it hurt like hell!
[21:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re: consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:47] <exec> 08└─Which shouldn't be used as an excuse when Americans could probably drop their energy consumption by 20 or 30% fairly quickly by being a bit more reasonable (as they had to during the oil embargo). CA just demonstrated that people could cut their water usage by 25% by having more reasonable expectati...
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re: consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─If a location in the middle of the Western Hemisphere isn't enough to qualify as a Western nation
[21:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re: consumption & per capita consumption - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:54] <exec> 08└─I actually did take a moment to consider how to make that statement and figured Western was reasonable. I didn't want to say Costa Rica was Third World, but now that I think about it developing would have been a better statement. Since I enjoy linking Wikipedia so much, there is an article which dis...
[21:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Islands of the Future - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:02] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of an excellent alternative energy mini-series out of Norway called 'Islands of the Future' [monstersandcritics.com]. It's cool seeing these places taking advantage of who they are to free themselves from traditional (and expensive) power sources. The shows occasionally pop up on Piv...
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[21:24:17] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention that...
[21:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:What 'oddball' browser do you use? - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:27] <exec> 08└─Ummm, yeah. That does qualify as an 'oddball browser' in my book. Sadly, I have no system that I could run it on. That said, if you do notice an unexpected change in site behavior, please let us know. (Probably the easiest approach would be to give a shout out on IRC [soylentnews.org].) No guarante...
[21:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:The Register - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:33] <exec> 08└─To an extent, I do get why its not common. Key management in DNSSEC is not trivial, and you don't want your signing keys controlled by a third party if it can be avoided.There's plenty of misinformation around; for example, most guides state that SHA1 is the only supporting signing algorthim. It isn...
[21:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Mostly useful - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:49] <exec> 08└─TL;DR=="I'm aliterate". Fight aliteracy, READ! (Odd how the stupid spell checker thinks I'm misspelling "illiterate" and "illiteracy". Is my spell checker aliterate?)
[21:25:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:Doesn't have to be all or nothing - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:06] <exec> 08└─For replies, yes, that could be an option, it would indicate "same subject as parent". For new top-level posts, definitely not. A post without a subject (inherited or not) is like a commit with no commit message. Laziness should not be encouraged.
[21:25:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02This isn't Twitter - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 1130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:25] <exec> 08└─I can see why some kids these days would want to do away with subjects. They have gotten used to using shit services like Twatter, or "texting" people on their toy cell phones. They no longer know how to write a full, coherent, paragraph fully describing what they have to say. Instead, they want to...
[21:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is NLRB approval needed or wanted? - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 2898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:03] <exec> 08└─The NLRB is pure corruption, and its genesis came from the fact UNIONS WERE FUCKING WINNING. All of the strongest tools that strikers had such as general strikes, sister strikes, hot cargo, etc. were causing the real problems. It didn't matter that the employers refused to sit down and talk. Scabs h...
[21:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''text books [...] an active used market'' - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:20] <exec> 08└─In addition to the traditional markets, we've also mentioned open works here. Professor Adds Open Knowledge Chemistry Textbook to OpenStax College's Collection [soylentnews.org] Open Knowledge Textbooks Not Flunking Out [soylentnews.org] US Education Department Encourages Schools To #GoOpen With Edu...
[21:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:36] <exec> 08└─You have to realize that during most of Heinlein's life almost every American was racist, no matter what race they were. We simply didn't know each other; I was five when I saw my first black man because America was segregated. Even as late as 1972 when I was in the service (I doubt anyone who's bee...
[21:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:The game sucks - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:09] <exec> 08└─I agree that a lot of the basics seem broken. Gyms are easy to take and difficult to defend. Higher level players have difficulty capturing even the most worthless of pokemon (constantly escaping). You can't actually hunt down any specific pokemon even if it is near you. The game feels like a polish...
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[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's the publishers - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─The issue isn't just with the scientists. The issue is with the publishers. The publishers reserve the copyright, they don't pay the scientists for their research, and they don't pay peer reviewers for their work either. They just retain monopolies on other people's work and charge a fortune for it....
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02From the current submission queue - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Editors missed a chance to combine stories: Nasa's Free Research Trove May Have Broken Arms Trafficking Rules https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=Nasa%27s+Free+Research+Trove+May+Have+Broken+Arms+Trafficking+Rules [soylentnews.org] Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the...
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Time to buy Monsanto stock... - 06U.S. Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─After Trump becomes president, that evil chinese company's rejection will mean one less competitor in the US market. I need to find a way to make some profit, before the inflation spike.
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Pie in the sky - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 2530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry to burst your bubble, but humans ain't never no way nohow ever going to any other stars, period, full stop, end of story. The energy budget to send a spacecraft the size of the shuttle (which has about as much living space as a schoolbus) so it arrives in a mere decade is roughly the same as o...
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:added link to previous article - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─You can't say that! There can't be other viable planets in the whole universe! See: "This planet is a very special place custom-made for us by God Herself" - extract for the Proximabian Koran.
[22:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:added link to previous article - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─One thing that might help explain the Fermi Paradox: Red dwarf stars are the predominant star type in the galaxy and the Universe. Life is less likely to form on planets orbiting red dwarf stars because of some combination of low energy (low T!), tidal locking, and deadly flare-ups, but if macroscop...
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Is anybody worried about earth's security? - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 4253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─Nah. We've already had retired Air Force officers speak out at places like the National Press Club and say that UFOs are probably alien spacecraft and have caused nuclear missile sites to malfunction. In the light of allegations like that, there are a few questions to consider: 1. Are we being visit...
[22:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sufficiently advanced - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:36] <exec> 08└─Ultrasound eh? About the same time some guy cut my plantar warts out, than a few years later a different doc used liquid nitrogen to freeze them out. Both hurt like hell!
[22:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this real, or BS booking? - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:50] <exec> 08└─Hydroelectric power(the main renewable there) in Costa Rica is pretty seasonal. They get heavy rains in the hottest parts of the year, but less other times. You can expect as we get into November and December for a good third to half of their power to come from non-renewables.
[22:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:It's real... but there's a catch - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:53] <exec> 08└─True, but they're also introducing biofuels, so they're working on it.
[22:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''OriginalPoster [doesn't] even have accounts'' - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:18] <exec> 08└─...but I do use the search engine from time to time and subject lines are useful there. A No-subjects paradigm would make that more cumbersome. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is NLRB approval needed or wanted? - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:12] <exec> 08└─Interesting position. Unions were winning (because they were enacting violence on those who disagreed with them, what in other words would be called assault, often extending to the point of murder) but it's an outrage if they can require payments? Persuading people to beat, mutilate, maim and kill i...
[22:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:21] <exec> 08└─I grok why they are honoring him. One of the best and amongst my personal favorite authors ever. I grew up reading his Sci-Fi.
[22:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Important! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:22] <exec> 08└─BEWARE: I just finished checking the rest of the issues, and it appears that all parts of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" are there... with one major caveat there is a mixup between issues and files on archive.org! https://archive.org [archive.org] contains the APRIL, 1966 issue...
[22:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Re:most games... - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:12] <exec> 08└─It has also attracted a lot of people who were not going to play any game more than a few days, but wanted to know what the buzz is about.
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[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Radiolab - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─Anyone who is really interested in this topic should listen to the Radiolab episode that covered this topic: http://www.radiolab.org [radiolab.org]
[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02This ain't - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:29] <exec> 08└─your daddy's 'The Wire'
[23:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02No one does a slice like Big Rico. No one. - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:31] <exec> 08└─No public disclosure of the program had ever been made. Outside the courthouse, several of the protesters began marching around the building, chanting for justice. The plane continued to circle overhead, unseen. And now, the weather.
[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:From the current submission queue - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─That was thrown in the sub list after this story was added. I guess I'll incorporate it now since there are just 2 comments here.
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:From the current submission queue - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─updated
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the current submission queue - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─I know NASA didn't invent Tang, but this talk of a "potential ITAR violation" makes me think they have the recipe for it.
[23:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:From the current submission queue - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─Derleth is quoted as saying "We've had to remove the studies because of a potential ITAR violation by one of our fellows, so now we're going through and doing all of the ITAR checks to make sure that everything is perfectly legal."
[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:From the current submission queue - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─> You could tell them to get off your lawn, but they've already launched. It did indeed get his lawn off, weeds and all... as well as the top soil, and half of the neighborhood. Attila has nothing on NASA when it comes to gardening.
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How did nobody think of ITAR? - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:52] <exec> 08└─I'm somewhat surprised that ITAR even came up. I would have thought that some administrator (or even engineer) would have asked the question of providing international access to their data if anything had been potentially sensitive. NASA is full of military/civilian dual-use technology (e.g. rockets...
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02I don't get how this works - 06U.S. Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:02] <exec> 08└─so, an American board has to approve of a sale from a Swiss company to a Chinese firm? Why do they need approval?
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02crazy, but fair - 06U.S. Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─The EU keeps messing with Microsoft and Google. Why shouldn't the US mess with EU companies?
[23:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get how this works - 06U.S. Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:06] <exec> 08└─I was going to give a pithy "well, 51% ownership by a US company" or something like that... but a quick online search came up with nothing. So great question... why does the US regulators have any say in this? The only thing I can think of is if they threaten to stop the company from selling to the...
[23:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pherenikos [1113] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:I don't get how this works - 06U.S. Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:08] <exec> 08└─Considering both Chinese and EU regulators are regularly having to approve mergers between foreign companies which do substantial amounts of business in their respective territories, needing US regulators to sign off on a merger which will have a significant US presences is only natural. If you don'...
[23:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get how this works - 06U.S. Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:11] <exec> 08└─This is a good comment, but FYI Switzerland isn't in the EU. It's in the Schengen Area, which is a much looser agreement.
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get how this works - 06U.S. Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─I don't understand it either. However, I see that Syngenta does business in the U.S. or has a U.S. subsidiary: http://www.syngenta-us.com [syngenta-us.com] Article I of the U.S. constitution says The Congress shall have power [...] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the...
[23:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Essential Tremor - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:02] <exec> 08└─Also, Canadian researchers are having success using MRI guided ultrasound on the thalamus to treat Essential Tremor. CBC story. [www.cbc.ca].
[23:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does the wagecuck w/rage? - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:32] <exec> 08└─This guy is giving pedophilia a bad name. https://kiwifar.ms [kiwifar.ms] https://geekfeminism.org [geekfeminism.org] http://www.whatwillweuse.com
[23:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not enough - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:38] <exec> 08└─is there an echo in here?
[23:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Similarity to another word - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:26] <exec> 08└─For a moment, I though you had left out an L. [google.com] I was waiting for something like Whacko wows whole wide world with wanton wordplay. 8-) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Slashdot does a good job'' - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:33] <exec> 08└─Disagree strongly. Their page display engine has not impressed me for a very long time with the way it slices and dices comments--with lengths dependent on score and how deep in the (sub)thread a comment is. I swung by there the other day[1] and on 6 tries to get pages, I got a a Connection interrup...
[23:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Assuming you have a point...'' - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:01] <exec> 08└─Assuming you have a point, which in my case is not always true Well, Your Holiness, I think it's useful when you say that Capitalism is an obsolete system. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Why is NLRB approval needed or wanted? - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:44] <exec> 08└─Unions were winning (because they were enacting violence on those who disagreed with them, what in other words would be called assault, often extending to the point of murder) but it's an outrage if they can require payments?
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