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[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They Did this in Compton - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─We covered this same company when it was revealed they were secretly recording Compton. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Brutalizing surveillance is always directed first at minorities because they don't have the social capital to fight back. In the past it...
[00:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A drone and a Web 2.0 site get you in the news. - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:32] <exec> 08└─The National Reconnaissance Office [facebook.com] has been taking pictures since the '60s, but with satellites. When they upload their pictures they still aren't as hip as this McNutt dork, because drone.
[00:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Drone Movies! - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─Not a drone. A cessna. RTFS FFS.
[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Time to paint my car Potholed Concrete Gray - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─1) Use money without telling why 2) Ingest everything without analysis, so it's not a "Search" 3) ??? 4) Profit (for 3, make appointment with Google, Tesla and Apple, who already record all their customers' movements)
[00:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the publishers - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:45] <exec> 08└─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. Why do we even need publishers like this.
[00:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How did nobody think of ITAR? - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─> I'm really curious as to the sequence of approvals and oversights which occurred to have this happen... not that we'll ever know. Heard Clinton approved it. If we say that enough it should be enough to get it multiple million dollar investigations.
[00:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02headline is inaccurate - 06U.S. Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:09] <exec> 08└─It needs to say something like "U.S. Regulator Approves ChemChina-Syngenta Merger" because the arrangement has not been approved [thevillagessuntimes.com] by the U.S. Department of Justice. Sorry for the error.
[00:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:23] <exec> 08└─There's no royal road to geometry.
[00:24:13] <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 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:13] <exec> 08└─On the other other hand, Don Quixote isn't fucking things up for them.
[00:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''in Minnesota or the deserts'' - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:23] <exec> 08└─Where it's cold: Super-insulated buildings. Do it right and you can keep the place comfy with a single candle. Where it's hot: Again, lots of insulation--with special attention to walls that face southward and westward. High ceilings; give warm air someplace to go where the people aren't. Lots of th...
[00:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Try some libre vidya - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:32] <exec> 08└─The best thing about that game is the vegetation.
[00:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Why make things difficult? - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not trying to be a pedantic asshole (at the moment), I just think this is useful to know: Disagree is +0.
[00:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In Twitter mode we use only the subject line. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:08] <exec> 08└─:P
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[01:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:23] <exec> 08└─...whilst the notion of having a keyboard has been abandoned.
[01:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:24] <exec> 08└─First they came for the keyboard, and I did not speak out, because touch screen. Then they came for the memory card slot, and I did not speak out, because cloud. Then they came for the headphone jack—and no one could speak with me.
[01:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:26] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for the follow-up study, Baidu vs. Full QWERTY and Dvorak.
[01:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:28] <exec> 08└─https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_iPad_Event03.jpg [wikimedia.org]
[01:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:30] <exec> 08└─...and while an expert at Morse code with a fast key beat some texting champions, nearly every one has forgotten that too.
[01:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:33] <exec> 08└─Obviously. Morse keying requires less muscle movement. It's a twich game. What everyone conveniently forgot is how shocked the stupid kids were when they lost to old people.
[01:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tapping is NOT Typing - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:35] <exec> 08└─Unless you're touch typing with all ten fingers on a full-sized touch keyboard, tapping does not count as typing. Tapping with one finger doesn't even count as hunting-and-pecking. When I was a child, before I learned to type correctly, I naturally used one finger from each hand, because I didn't ne...
[01:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tapping is NOT Typing - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:37] <exec> 08└─typing: noun the action or skill of writing something by means of a typewriter or computer. "they learned shorthand and typing" writing produced by typing. "five pages of typing" Nuff said so stop being pedantic.
[01:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tapping is NOT Typing - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:39] <exec> 08└─The pedantic distinction was explained in the comment, if you would read more than the subject. Tiny tapping keyboards are too small for ten finger typing.
[01:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Keyboard is Local - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─At least the keyboard is local to your device. Voice recognition ships everything the microphone hears off to some Big Data cloud server for processing and permanent storage. I'll take the minor inconvenience of slightly slower typing over feeding yet another personal data-stream into the infinite c...
[01:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Keyboard is Local - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:43] <exec> 08└─Well, since they either record the keystrokes directly or infer them via the motion sensor and microphone, you might as well give in and shout your porn URLs out loud.
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02only if it has a large vocabulary - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─This is only useful if the speech recognition has a large vocabulary because while you can type out "svelte," good luck ever getting speech recognition system to actually think you said it. Android thinks it's "smelt" every fucking time and it's using google to process this shit. Getting an offline...
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to paint my car Potholed Concrete Gray - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:59] <exec> 08└─...and only get out of the car when you are under a roof (garage, parking structure). Or do what I do, only come outside at night. It's been so hot here this summer (setting local records) that I haven't been outside much anyway.
[01:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to paint my car Potholed Concrete Gray - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:00] <exec> 08└─The likely hood that these cameras are only operating within the visible spectrum is extremely rare. Plus any decent motion analysis software will notice your bit of concrete behaving as a car so it'll be marked as such.
[01:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to paint my car Potholed Concrete Gray - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:03] <exec> 08└─1. Image anomaly detected during routine aerial surveillance. 2. Analyst sees your concrete clunker, decides to grab your license plate. 3. bob_super added to a watchlist for "special" anti-authority individuals. 4. A future government uses the lists to determine priority kill targets. 5. bob_super...
[01:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the current submission queue - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:15] <exec> 08└─Thanks, makes for better discussion when it's given and then taken back (partly).
[01:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:How did nobody think of ITAR? - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:22] <exec> 08└─Sad thing is, this isn't the first time something like this has come up: http://www.space.com [space.com]
[01:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Radiation... and distance - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:04] <exec> 08└─Just a deep enough atmosphere would ameliorate a lot of the radiation from flares. Even Earth's atmosphere is roughly equivalent to 10 metres of water as shielding. The main benefit of a strong magnetic field is to stop the solar wind stripping the atmosphere.
[01:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Radiation... and distance - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:05] <exec> 08└─mcgrew (701) wrote: 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 st...
[01:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:added link to previous article - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:15] <exec> 08└─If we discover an oxygen-rich atmosphere and liquid water on Proxima b, then we'll have another hint that there's potentially a LOT of life in the galaxy.
[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Thank you! - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─Thank you! PS: Thank you!
[01:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:25] <exec> 08└─Watch this Israeli-Jewish made documentary about the ADL and a lot of things will start to make sense about the Jewish perspective. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another possibility - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:23] <exec> 08└─Hey! There are countries in the southern Hemisphere and summer is coming you insensitive clod!... Well, ok, there's just Australia here.
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[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02$60/month - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:24] <exec> 08└─Is that a lot? This pill needs to be sold at a price point out of reach of undesirables, you see, but I don't know personally where that price point is, because I'm a millenial hipster unicorn startup billionaire, and money is for the poor.
[02:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:$60/month - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:26] <exec> 08└─Once the demand kicks in, they'll raise the price faster than you can say "EpiPen". Then the gutter trash will deteriorate and the new Nephilim will be born.
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─QWERTY and Dvorak weren't designed for entering Chinese characters. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:39] <exec> 08└─Why can't those barbarians just learn American like the ruling class of the world elite? The gutteral ping-ponging of their local barbarian speech has no place on computers.
[02:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─The study involved English. The study found that voice recognition was 3.0x faster than English hand input, and 2.8x faster than Mandarin Chinese. English-speaking users are interested in the performance with respect to the Latin alphabet, not Chinese characters. So my point (or was it a joke?) stil...
[02:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:45] <exec> 08└─Were they texting from a full physical keyboard, or from a 12-key pad or a touchscreen?
[02:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:47] <exec> 08└─This isn't so much that voice is so much better, as typing on a phone is a pain and seems to be getting worse. By the time you get used to a particular phone and the picky behavior of its keyboard and have auto-correct more or less tamed, it is time for a new phone and to start the process over agai...
[02:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:50] <exec> 08└─have auto-correct more or less tamed,
[02:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tapping is NOT Typing - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:55] <exec> 08└─If I were not in a coffee shop now, I would be using a real keyboard instead. When I go to coffee shops I bring a real keyboard [wikimedia.org] along. Why settle?
[02:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, well - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─"On-screen keyboard" sucks camel's ass. That's like saying you are smarter than a doorknob.
[02:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Old story - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:02] <exec> 08└─I've forgotten title and author, but I do remember a story I read long ago. The premise was that a child should grow up with his AI. The kid got his "first real AI" device at about age 4 or 5. To him, it was just another toy, but the thing was pretty much indestructible, and it accompanied the kid e...
[02:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old story - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:05] <exec> 08└─So exactly like a coder and Stack Overflow account?
[02:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I 4 1 - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─I 4 1 well come our knew come pewter over lords that can rack a noise peach.
[02:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I 4 1 - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:09] <exec> 08└─Butt doze it realty wok?
[02:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How about a REAL keyboard? - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:12] <exec> 08└─I think even a typist of middling average skill can still, using a normal keyboard, type faster than people can speak. Well, maybe an auctioneer might be able to outrun the keyboard...
[02:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to paint my car Potholed Concrete Gray - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:28] <exec> 08└─I think we have the answer to the question "should there be title to comments" when I get three fun answers on a silly char-limited title and none on the dumb comment.
[02:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's the publishers - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:38] <exec> 08└─So the question is who would grant money to scientists for work that's going to be locked up by copyright. The government? That should be illegal. Taxpayers already funded and paid for such work and so they should have full free access to it instead of having to pay twice. All research done with tax...
[02:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How did nobody think of ITAR? - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:50] <exec> 08└─Uploading your information to them is tantamount to putting it on a billboard. They regularly change the privacy settings so that what users have marked as private suddenly becomes public. I don't even have an account with them and I recommend that others close their accounts. Remember, you're not t...
[02:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Radiation... and distance - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:33] <exec> 08└─Well, the planet supposedly has a minimum mass of 1.27 M⊕, so hopefully it has attracted and held onto a nice thicc atmosphere.
[02:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid Everywhere - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:45] <exec> 08└─One idiot on TV last night informed us that a journey to "another galaxy" would take many years.
[02:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Another possibility - 06Peak Pokémon Go? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:52] <exec> 08└─There's New Zealand, you insensitive clod!
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[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─Q: What did the Linux user's girlfriend say in the middle of sex? A: --------------------\ | Don't be so ruff!! --- 🐩 --------------------/
[03:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:$60/month - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:25] <exec> 08└─For those with limited character sets, U+1F429 is a poodle.
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:$60/month - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─Welcome to 6 years old Unicode. What OS are you running that doesn't support Unicode 6.0. Sounds like it's a 💩
[03:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:$60/month - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─Linux user gangbang: 🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶 🚶🐩🚶🚶🐩🚶🚶🐩🚶 🚶🐩🚶🚶🐩🚶🚶🐩🚶 🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶
[03:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Nobel disease - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─Alas, the halo of six Nobel Prize winners is likely not enough to fully dispel any claims of it being next-generation snake oil. There is the phenomenon of the so-called "Nobel disease [skepdic.com]", where Nobel laureates degenerate into becoming pseudoscientific cranks, usually later in their care...
[03:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02English, Mothafucka - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─As for NR, by increasing NAD levels in our cells, it in turn appears ...
[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:English, Mothafucka - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─Seems obvious to me. They are using Dolby(tm) Noise Reduction techniques to pulverize your gonads so they can be injected into your cells. :D
[03:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:English, Mothafucka - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, NAD = Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide [wikipedia.org]. NR appears to be nicotinamide riboside [wikipedia.org]. Oddly enough, they don't expand on the term anywhere in that article, it just says "NR, one of the two compounds in Basis, is a precursor that converts to NAD in the body".
[03:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the name - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─Doesn't Elysium have to do with dying? As in going to the Elysian fields after dying?
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:the name - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:43] <exec> 08└─Shh, don't tell them about the film [wikipedia.org]!
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"To travel without moving!" - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:45] <exec> 08└─let's hope that taking these pills will make the unhealthy environment move away from you. i can see some real benefits in areas like, for example fukushima: taking these pills will make the radioactive particles move away from you, just like water perls condensing on a cold can of (who doesn't like...
[03:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tapping is NOT Typing - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, steampunk! Right, I remember that trend. It happened for, like, ten seconds back in 2000-and-are-you-kidding-me? Dude, seriously, you're sitting in a public place tap-tap-tapping on an oldie typewriter? [wikiquote.org] What are you? In The League of Extraordinarily Pretentious Gentlemen?
[03:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:only if it has a large vocabulary - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:12] <exec> 08└─Ok Google, how do you spell svelte. Works for me. The first time. Then most subsequent tries when to smelt or something close. Then I remembered languages that use sv at the beginning of words (Czech, principally) often sound them almost like two syllables, sss velt. Even though svelte is French or...
[03:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:headline is inaccurate - 06ChemChina-Syngenta Merger Cleared by Regulator, but Still Under DoJ Scrutiny - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:12] <exec> 08└─changed
[03:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:newfangled ESWL - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:03] <exec> 08└─You are a lucky woman! Make sure to get her something special next Valentine's Day. ;)
[03:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this real, or BS booking? - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:27] <exec> 08└─it's about you not finding out there is a big oil spill
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[04:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Did they remove the press. - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─By saying they need some muscle over here to get them to leave?
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Did they remove the press. - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─^ Pounds pug poon.
[04:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Fathers Rights is anti-Feminist - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:40] <exec> 08└─Mother Nature removes fathers' mitochondrial DNA because males are naturally inferior. This anti-Feminist research must be destroyed immediately and researchers executed.
[04:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mitochondrial DNA... - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:42] <exec> 08└─Is how the Jewish God tells proper lineage of his flock from the chattel. :)
[04:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Slaves become Slavers - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:44] <exec> 08└─What's this, Jews elevating themselves above chattel? Hebrews who were slaves themselves now fancy themselfs the slave masters? Irony, thy name is Israel.
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"To travel without moving!" - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:04] <exec> 08└─You should move to Detroit or Chicago, where you will lose the will to live, and the best these anti-aging pills will do for you is make you age at a normal rate.
[04:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:14] <exec> 08└─First they came for the keyboard, and I did not speak out, because touch screen. Then they came for the memory card slot, and I did not speak out, because cloud. Then they came for the headphone jack—and no one could hear me speak.
[04:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:21] <exec> 08└─From the Technology Review article: Voice queries are more popular in China because it is more time-consuming to input text, and because some people do not know how to use Pinyin, the phonetic system for transcribing Mandarin using Latin characters.
[04:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:I 4 1 - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:41] <exec> 08└─Me rikey flied lice!!
[04:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Wide Area Surveillance Systems - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:01] <exec> 08└─Also known as 'Wide ASS'
[04:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:54] <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...
[04:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score:2) 02Re:Feature Request: Colorize New Posts - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:32] <exec> 08└─What?! No way. Ted Turner ruined old movies. Soylents needs an all gray/monochrome theme, the way God meant movies to be watched...er, posts to be read.
[04:27:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] 02Article Reply Subject: good. Every other sux. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 1271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:27] <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...
[04:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:This subject left intentionally blank - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:31] <exec> 08└─My eye evidently uses titles as the EOF marker for the previous comment... I noticed earlier that I unintentionally skipped over the comments where someone had used WJ to dissolve the subject line entirely, and on first pass I only "saw" the last one in the chain, being bounded by the following subj...
[04:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is NLRB approval needed or wanted? - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:19] <exec> 08└─OK, cool. Obviously you have made an air-tight case that the american worker is strong, upright, virtuous, and unceasingly dicked over by some very cunning, conniving, bloodthirsty human parasites. Right, well, I have a proposal for you. I think you'll like this one. You ready? Establish workers' co...
[04:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not Very Observant - 06Mind the Arrows: Coding at Scale - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:17] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure this is just the Observer pattern explained poorly.
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[05:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CC: Everybody - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:27] <exec> 08└─Holy crap these morons really do love their chain letters.
[05:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:29] <exec> 08└─Anyone want to get some action going on whether any of this material sees daylight before the election? Not that it matters, we already KNOW (not think, not believe, not debate, know) she committed multiple felonies regarding the proper handling of classified material and I seriously doubt more than...
[05:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's better that they come out after the election. It seems like she would have a better chance of being impeached and thrown out of office than losing to Donald Trump.
[05:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:33] <exec> 08└─Hillary's going to win one for Feminists everywhere! Are you gonna vote Hillary or are you still a sexist?! Vote Hillary!! After 8 years of Hillary you'll get your chance to vote for Gay. Don't be a homophobe in 2024!!!
[05:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:35] <exec> 08└─Anyone want to get some action going on whether any of this material sees daylight before the election?
[05:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MRA Rules! (with itty-bitty testicles) - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:47] <exec> 08└─This is great news for Francis! At least, if we can get him to stop sitting on his balls.
[05:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Nobel disease - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:02] <exec> 08└─Kinda like Rossi's e-cat? I have seen no data yet that tells me he is actually onto something. Everything I have seen to date tells me this whole thing is a pipe dream. ( pun intended ). Yet scores of big-names and universities and PhD and claimed industry leaders seem to be falling for this? Seems...
[05:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nobel disease - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:03] <exec> 08└─Couldn't it be possible that even with winning a Nobel, you could be mistaken in other areas? My father is fairly distinguished, but is often mistaken (as my mother keeps reminding him).
[05:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Breakaway Civilization - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:13] <exec> 08└─Life extension, IT'S A COOKBOOK!
[05:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tapping is NOT Typing - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:37] <exec> 08└─I guess a strongly typed message is really hard on a keyboard...bent keys and all.
[05:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, well - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:46] <exec> 08└─To be fair, I'm not personally convinced that Clinton supporters are able to pass your door knob test. They still seem to think that voting for Clinton is somehow preferable to voting for Trump.
[05:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Yes... but where?? - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:54] <exec> 08└─Yes... but where is it better? In my car? In theory... because holding a phone is illegal and stupid. But voice doesn't work worth a damn in my car. Too much noise. Maybe your car. Maybe my next car. But not today, not in this car. And everywhere else... if I'm at home... I don't do much on my phone...
[05:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to paint my car Potholed Concrete Gray - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:12] <exec> 08└─We can't be sure of the answer until you make a silly comment under a stupid subject, as a control.
[05:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't get how this works - 06ChemChina-Syngenta Merger Cleared by Regulator, but Still Under DoJ Scrutiny - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:46] <exec> 08└─If they're wanting to do business in the US, then they need US regulatory approval. Being outside the US does not exempt corporations from antitrust laws for anything they do within the US. That being said, let's be honest, this is a rubber stamp. Worst case scenario they'll have to make promises to...
[05:31:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:00] <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.
[05:31:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02Re:why do we bother? - 06DPRK Fires SLBM - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:31:05] <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.
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[06:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CC: Everybody - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:23] <exec> 08└─Did anyone check the return addresses? Chances are fairly good they'll know where they came from if they just look.
[06:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─Got no problem voting for a uterus, IF the uterus has a mind. I've never met either a uterus or a testicle with a mind though. Want a woman in the White House? Vote Stein. Stein may or may not be the "best" woman for the job, but she'd damned good, and she's honest. No dead bodies, no scandals, no h...
[06:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:30] <exec> 08└─We found the Green voter! Jill should totally invite you to her Mensa meeting to celebrate her defeat.
[06:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:32] <exec> 08└─The establishment of his own party has split between damage control (Koch cash to Senate races, but not Trump [npr.org]) or outright opposition to his candidacy. The guy is flip-flopping all the time (even on his core issue [nytimes.com]), alienating on-the-fence supporters with his prideful pettine...
[06:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:34] <exec> 08└─> Maybe it's better that they come out after the election. They will be yet another non-story. They were collected off the email servers at State and other parts of the government so she explicitly wasn't responsible for preserving them. But Benghazi! or whatever....
[06:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:36] <exec> 08└─Amazingly incorrect. These are emails from and to Clinton and never made it past the scrubbing before being turned over to the State.
[06:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:38] <exec> 08└─If she gets anywhere near the ratio of spam to real messages that I get, those ~15K could easily be nothing but spam. Though I'm sure Judicial Watch could parse a few to cast a bad light on Hillary.
[06:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:42] <exec> 08└─> Not that it matters, we already KNOW (not think, not believe, not debate, know) she committed multiple felonies regarding the proper handling of classified material Ah, the jmorris royal "we." Trying to give yourself legitimacy by argumentum ad populum. > They want their free shit, Hillary promis...
[06:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:44] <exec> 08└─The female dog approved the sale of uranium to a Russian company - treason. Treason is a felony in almost anyone's books. The treasonous female dog is a good match for the treasonous dog it is married to. He sold tons of military secrets to China.
[06:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:$60/month - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:08] <exec> 08└─My OS is just fine, thankyouverymuch. I merely prefer to use a font which doesn't waste memory on useless crap.
[06:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:$60/month - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:09] <exec> 08└─which doesn't waste memory on useless crap.
[06:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:44] <exec> 08└─If it is that bad, you can disable it.
[06:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Tapping is NOT Typing - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:51] <exec> 08└─I don't touch-type. But I'm still at least an order of magnitude faster on a real keyboard (even on a crappy one) than on a touch screen "keyboard".
[06:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Misread as NSA releases research... - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:45] <exec> 08└─I was confused for a minute.
[06:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:''in Minnesota or the deserts'' - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:27] <exec> 08└─When using candles for heat, you need to include a vent-hole. Igloos and similar structures made out of piled snow (forget what they are called) are heated that way.
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[07:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Space Whales, ho! - 06Deep Space Industries Announces Asteroid Exploration Mission - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:27] <exec> 08└─I think I saw this movie. The probe flies off course, gets modded by extraterrestrial whales, and voyages home to contact its creators. In the process of refueling, it completely ionizes Earth's oceans, killing everyone.
[07:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02This is what I want to see more of! - 06Deep Space Industries Announces Asteroid Exploration Mission - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:28] <exec> 08└─Let's get out there and DO something. It's all well and good for the egg heads to put sensors and bots on new planets. They get to learn something, if they are smart enough to interpret the data coming back. I want to see us DO SOMETHING! And, yes, eating asteroids counts as "something".
[07:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is what I want to see more of! - 06Deep Space Industries Announces Asteroid Exploration Mission - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:30] <exec> 08└─Not self-replicating enough. Eating asteroids isn't interesting. A swarm of hungry bots devouring the entire solar system is interesting. Because humans need an unstoppable predator to compete with for resources.
[07:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:44] <exec> 08└─Jill doesn't really expect to win. She knows that most ill-informed voters have been brainwashed by one or the other of the big parties. Vote for her anyway. Or, vote for Johnson. Take votes away from the two major corrupt parties, that's all I ask.
[07:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─I'm voting for Stein personally. I don't REALLY expect her to win, but I hope if enough people stop voting against the wrong lizard, perhaps they'll realize that they could actually lose to a 3rd party one day.
[07:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:48] <exec> 08└─Want a woman in the White House? Vote Stein. Stein may or may not be the "best" woman for the job, but she'd damned good, and she's honest. No dead bodies, no scandals, no hundreds of millions of dollars from questionable donors
[07:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:50] <exec> 08└─Granted, some real idiots manage to get degrees. Stein isn't an idiot though.
[07:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:52] <exec> 08└─Stein is an anti-vaxxer and believes Wi-Fi may be harming American schoolchildren.
[07:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:59] <exec> 08└─Yes. That is the only reason there is even any suspense. I think we all know the government can and will delay past the election. But people who cross the Clintons have a nasty habit of dying under questionable circumstances.
[07:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Informative) 02Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:04] <exec> 08└─Trying to give yourself legitimacy by argumentum ad populum
[07:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:06] <exec> 08└─So she had 45,000 emails - unclear whether she wrote these or just received them though - and 110 were supposedly "classified". Aside from people looking for a political assassination, is there evidence that any of these actually contained information that was likely to do actual harm? Governments h...
[07:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:08] <exec> 08└─I am not American, and dont know anything about her
[07:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:02] <exec> 08└─Is it faster than entering stuff via stuff like Swiftkey? Since it's only 3X faster than "tapping" on a keyboard I think it's slower. It's a matter of whether you want Swiftkey to know your passwords or you prefer some cloud service to know your passwords (lots of this "free" voice recognition stuff...
[07:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Tapping is NOT Typing - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:15] <exec> 08└─That's not a real keyboard. That [wikimedia.org] is a real keyboard. ;-)
[07:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Keyboard is Local - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:20] <exec> 08└─Are you sure Autocorrect runs locally?
[07:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:not enough - 06 Costa Rica Gets 100% of Electricity from Renewable Sources for 113 Days in a Row - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:08] <exec> 08└─Yes
[07:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Self-policing or UDP overhaul? - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:22] <exec> 08└─ISPs need to prevent obviously bad traffic from their network, or UDP needs an overhual.
[07:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can't fire strikers? Insane! - 06Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:29:09] <exec> 08└─No [it isn't legal to fire union members who are on strike], provided that what they were striking for was a raise, benefits
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[08:22:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:41] <exec> 08└─Got no problem voting for a uterus, IF the uterus has a mind. I've never met either a uterus or a testicle with a mind though. Want a woman in the White House? Vote Stein. Stein may or may not be the "best" woman for the job, but she'd damned good, and she's honest. No dead bodies, no scandals, no h...
[08:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:49] <exec> 08└─You should really read the entire Snopes link you posted, not just the giant "FALSE" at the top. She's a waffler on the subject and uses many lines commonly used by anti-vaxxers to imply that the vaccine process is corrupt and vaccines are just being used to line the pockets of Big Pharma. This is t...
[08:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:51] <exec> 08└─How does that get modded informative? Snopes came down squarely on the fence, and the fence appears to run down the middle of the road.
[08:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:53] <exec> 08└─Stein is an anti-vaxxer
[08:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:55] <exec> 08└─Stein is an anti-vaxxer
[08:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:58] <exec> 08└─Most important and highly unlikely, he'll need to wag a civil tongue in those debates and keep his foot out of his mouth. While I don't support Clinton, her two attack adds asking if he can be trusted with "the button" and if parents want their children emulating him are spot on.
[08:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:03] <exec> 08└─Obama will "clear the air" and wipe the slate clean with a full presidential pardon, not only for this matter but all other sins over her lifetime. Wait and see. She will be the only candidate in history that is known for a fact to not be guilty of any crime what so ever. The election is pre-rigged...
[08:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 2781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:13] <exec> 08└─Clearly, you are not a lawyer. If you were, you might grasp that the entire classification system and the rules for handling classified information is entirely under the discretion and authority of the President. While Federal laws can and do prescribe punishments for breaking the rules, the rules...
[08:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Some scientists believe - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:25] <exec> 08└─"Some scientists believe some of these diseases may be caused by heteroplasmy, or cells possessing both maternal and paternal mitochondrial DNA.
[08:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02No one Remembers: The Classics - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, Cassandra got the gift of prophecy by giving in to the demands of Apollo, but he later made sure that no one would ever believe her. Perfect foreknowledge, zero credibility, better off just not knowing. Any Sybil! Yes, I will submit to you, if you give me immortality (and the foreknowledge thi...
[08:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:14] <exec> 08└─How fast is that expert at entering hash tags? ;) p.s. there's no code for # yet...
[08:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:How about a REAL keyboard? - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:40] <exec> 08└─David Weber - the scifi novelist - claims to be able to dictate to Dragon at a constant, steady 200 words per minute. Given how often the man releases huge-ass novels, and that he physically can't type, I'm inclined to believe his speed claim. (He can't type because he broke his right wrist in 57 pl...
[08:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:We should just have subjects and toss comments. - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:21] <exec> 08└─Spot the Twitter user...
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[09:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Changing format doesn't work sometimes - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:21] <exec> 08└─Excel can be stubborn: http://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] I've had similar experiences with Excel being stubborn - I've done stuff like select some cells/columns then set the format to General and yet Excel continues to treat the formulas in those cells as text. So...
[09:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02So Don't Use It - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:23] <exec> 08└─And don't use LibreOffice Calc, either. They should have at least one person on their team that can code. Have that person write R, Python, FORTRAN, whatever to process the data and spit it out as a CSV. Then open that CSV in Excel for display only, or, if you have a really enlightened workflow, tra...
[09:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:2) 02Re:So Don't Use It - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, spreadsheets totally suck in the scientific workflow. Nevertheless, the typical lab-oriented researcher has no other way of handling his or her data. However, your suggestion to work with CSVs sucks even more in my experience. Not only, does it not prevent the automatic conversions, you also st...
[09:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:So Don't Use It - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:27] <exec> 08└─They should have at least one person on their team that can code.
[09:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Extinguish? - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:29] <exec> 08└─Isn't extinguishing genes going a bit too far, Microsoft?
[09:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not news - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:31] <exec> 08└─Even I have sent an email alerting someone about this issue. I usually don't even look at these gene csvs. I am sure it is widespread, but nothing new unless you thought people doing bio research weren't relying on emailing around closed source spreadsheets.
[09:22:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:57] <exec> 08└─Want a woman in the White House? Vote Stein. Stein may or may not be the "best" woman for the job, but she'd damned good, and she's honest. No dead bodies, no scandals, no hundreds of millions of dollars from questionable donors
[09:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Jill Stein is pro-vaccination - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:04] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. As far as I can tell by reading about her, she is entirely for vaccinations. She objects to the approval process being bought and paid for, which happens to also be an argument that the anti-vaxxers make. The thing is: she's right: The approval boards for drugs and vaccines theoretically i...
[09:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:1) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:06] <exec> 08└─Stein is an anti-vaxxer and believes Wi-Fi may be harming American schoolchildren. Two fringe conspiracy theorist ideas that have been soundly debunked repeatedly by numerous legitimate peer reviewed scientific studies
[09:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:16] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/767544307003772928 [twitter.com] http://www.express.co.uk [express.co.uk] http://www.mirror.co.uk [mirror.co.uk] http://www.ibtimes....
[09:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Some scientists believe - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:36] <exec> 08└─What happens if ALL the maternal mitochondria are swapped out for paternal mitochondria mitochondria?
[09:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No one Remembers: The Classics - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:04] <exec> 08└─but you have no way to filter the fact that anyone who would pay for such measures probably does not really need to live any longer, since they are jerks
[09:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No one Remembers: The Classics - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:06] <exec> 08└─but you have no way to filter the fact that anyone who would pay for such measures probably does not really need to live any longer, since they are jerks
[09:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Misread as NSA releases research... - 06 NASA Opens Research to Public (Update: NASA Breaking Export Controls?) - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:35] <exec> 08└─Yup, the NSA's open research division is called "The Shadow Brokers" [google.com].
[09:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:10] <exec> 08└─I could explain in a clear paragraph what took me years to figure out
[09:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:newfangled ESWL - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was a whiff of your salty smell that overcame her in the first place?
[09:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin in 1! - 06Robert Heinlein Honored as Famous Missourian with Bust in State Capital - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:31:04] <exec> 08└─Certainly, first it can gets mangled through the screenwriter's brain, and then that gets concretised into the director's vision. And in the end, I like the end result of that process in this case. I suspect I'd not get more than 10 pages into the book, if even that much - I'm way too visually stimu...
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[10:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Don't Use It - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:37] <exec> 08└─Spreadsheets should never have been used as anything but toys.
[10:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Blaming the messenger when it's a user problem - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:41] <exec> 08└─Although Excel definitely has some problems, this really isn't one of them. It's entirely down to the people that are creating the spreadsheet, whether by entering the data directly or importing CSV files/whatever, failing to set a suitable format (e.g. Text) on the cells in question to prevent Exce...
[10:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blaming the messenger when it's a user problem - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:43] <exec> 08└─+1 Also, catching these 'errors' is rather trivial. Apply filter on the column with data and then see the filter value list. Any auto conversions as stated in the article are quickly spotted.
[10:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blaming the messenger when it's a user problem - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:45] <exec> 08└─You can also disable all these auto corrections in the settings. Ditto with LibreOffice (which does it's own nonsense of this sort).
[10:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re-inventing the wheel, rediscovering old problems - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─It seems each generation is condemned to making the same mistakes. When I was doing scientific programming three decades ago, it was very, very clear that data should be separate from programs. Data was input using text files, the format of which was documented extremely precisely, and your program...
[10:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Journals also at fault - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:49] <exec> 08└─the data *could* have been analyzed without problems, then dumped into excel for publication. Some journals insist on "standard" formats (ie: microsoft-compatible), rather than "raw" data. Racing to compete re-writes and submit on time, most researchers will confirm attachments are in the right form...
[10:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cyberthanasis [5212] (Score:1) 02Re:Pie in the sky - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:45] <exec> 08└─humans ain't never no way nohow ever going to find out what any other stars are made of, a prominent scientist said at the beginning of last century. Then spectroscopy did exactly that.
[10:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is anybody worried about earth's security? - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:55] <exec> 08└─Aren't we worried that aliens will come along and do a Hollywood sci-fi flick number on us?
[10:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new features eh. - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:08] <exec> 08└─ISPs need to prevent obviously bad traffic from their network, or UDP needs an overhual.
[10:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Why make things difficult? - 06Meta: Subjects are Good for You - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:17] <exec> 08└─You're merely highlighting how much of a paradox it would be!
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[11:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Fire All Of Them - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:32] <exec> 08└─Gas them and feed them to the dogs! It's the German way.
[11:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Re-inventing the wheel, rediscovering old probl - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:50] <exec> 08└─Just because the tool might not be "proper" for the job in that one case, does not mean that the tool can't have the same failure in other, more proper, jobs.
[11:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Sloppy users are sloppy users no matter the data - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:53] <exec> 08└─I'm always amazed for all the different things people use Excel for. It's a great program for making some simple spreadsheets and stuff but it becomes horrible after that as far as I am concerned. Pages filled with formulas and generally all around bad programming of referring to frames/cells and do...
[11:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Put *data* in *databases* - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:55] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not, you can have "tables" in databases. Use of spreadsheets where a database would be better is an ancient problem, though - I remember similar facepalms in the early 90s - and I don't believe it will ever be fixed. 99% of the people in front of computers, even if they're multi-degree...
[11:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:30] <exec> 08└─*sigh* another propaganda victim... i don't carry any water for stein, but she is not an anti-vaxxer, MORE lies from cliton droids... myself, i am going to do what i did last time: write in snowden/manning... again, i make my point: since the present system nets us a gummint which will vote against...
[11:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:33] <exec> 08└─All Hillary needs to do is stick to the script and avoid answering hard questions. Then she has to put up a decent performance in 3 debates, which she probably can.
[11:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:35] <exec> 08└─He killed at his debates when there were a lot less policy specifics from his campaign, and there were several Republican contenders on the stage with him (9-10 during some). That environment was conducive to the one-liners and zingers he specializes in. When he debates Hillary, the conditions will...
[11:24:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02Nobel disease - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 742 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:17] <exec> 08└─Alas, the halo of six Nobel Prize winners is likely not enough to fully dispel any claims of it being next-generation snake oil. There is the phenomenon of the so-called "Nobel disease [skepdic.com]", where Nobel laureates degenerate into becoming pseudoscientific cranks, usually later in their care...
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[12:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny) 02now let's not overreact now - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:38] <exec> 08└─IRC is used by botnets all the time, and we don't hate IRC for existing, because IRC is a geek's tool for geeks, and we're geeks. Twitter isn't evil just because botnets use it for nefarious purposes. No. Of course not..... TWITTER IS SOCIAL BULLSHIT FOR FUCKING MORONS Whoops. I think I overreacted...
[12:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SoylentNews is on Twitter - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:39] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is bullshit [twitter.com].
[12:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not "innovative" - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─Using twitter is about as "innovative" as using noip or pastebin or tinyurl or any other service that tends to be highly available.
[12:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Eow - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:44] <exec> 08└─So Twitter is actually useful? Hah!
[12:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Little to do with geeks or tech - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:53] <exec> 08└─So here's something that is: http://bbs.progrider.org [progrider.org] http://bbs.progrider.org [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
[12:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02CSV is not a panacea - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 1996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:03] <exec> 08└─Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files have other heartaches for those who are not wary. In my experience, there is no single, definitive format for CSV files — each vendor seems to have their own take on things. This most frequently tortured me when dealing with how different products 'escaped' certa...
[12:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Don't Use It - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:06] <exec> 08└─yeah. if you are familiar with the amount of funding going to researchers, you will not blame them for not paying programmers. furthermore, there are rules about how research grants are supposed to be used... for a whole bunch of categories of funds, you are not allowed to use them for paying anyone...
[12:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:2) 02Re:Extinguish? - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:10] <exec> 08└─You mean they first embraced: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com [microsoft.com] Then extended by means of mutation: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net [quoracdn.net] And are now trying to ext...
[12:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not news, so here's this. - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:21] <exec> 08└─ttp://bbs.progrider.org/prog/read/1471949120 http://bbs.progrider.org [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
[12:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stay away from Excel - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:23] <exec> 08└─I used it yesterday to edit a CSV file and it started shifting data into neighboring cells for no reason. No, I didn't report the bug. Fix your POS software, Microsoft.
[12:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BOOOOOGUS - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:25] <exec> 08└─It would seem to me that anybody going to the trouble of writing a scientific article would go to the trouble of checking their work. Excel is both a terrible and wonderful tool. Blaming it is just an excuse for being lazy.
[12:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:57] <exec> 08└─Yes - I've rarely seen anything anti-vax as sneakily worded as this: """ I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases — smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication ... We have a real compelling need for vac...
[12:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:58] <exec> 08└─Don't be coy. She plays both sides of the issue. Even if she is not anti-vax she courts anti-vaxxers by echoing their rhetoric. From a practical standpoint, that's the same thing. Its like Trump saying all that racist-friendly shit and then saying he's not a racist because he has hired some hispanic...
[12:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:12] <exec> 08└─>> They were collected off the email servers at State and other parts of the government so she explicitly wasn't responsible for preserving them. > > Amazingly incorrect. These are emails from and to Clinton and never made it past the scrubbing before being turned over to the State. You say that lik...
[12:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:23] <exec> 08└─45000 was over 4 years, wasn't it? That's 30-something a day (closer to 50 if you subtract holidays and weekends).
[12:24:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 2781 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:24] <exec> 08└─Clearly, you are not a lawyer. If you were, you might grasp that the entire classification system and the rules for handling classified information is entirely under the discretion and authority of the President. While Federal laws can and do prescribe punishments for breaking the rules, the rules...
[12:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Double-blind study? - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:09] <exec> 08└─If it works, and is so great, where is the double-blind study showing positive, reproducible results? If it ain't reproducible it ain't "science". On the one hand, you can say they are making it affordable and working to get it out there for everybody, not just charging a fortune and reserving it fo...
[12:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:I 4 1 - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:55] <exec> 08└─Grammar still above the average, though.
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[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:not "innovative" - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:37] <exec> 08└─It's also completely stupid, because you've handed control over to someone else. Twitter T&Cs allow them to unilaterally terminate your service for no reason, so as soon as anyone realises that this is happening then Twitter can shut it all down for you.
[13:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:47] <exec> 08└─Read the article, it is clearly all VW fault. Shift cost to suppliers, then cut contracts willie-nillie as if they still owned the suppliers. Then grand standing and fucking over the worker. Classic capitalism.
[13:23:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02Blaming the messenger when it's a user problem - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 1158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:05] <exec> 08└─Although Excel definitely has some problems, this really isn't one of them. It's entirely down to the people that are creating the spreadsheet, whether by entering the data directly or importing CSV files/whatever, failing to set a suitable format (e.g. Text) on the cells in question to prevent Exce...
[13:23:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:36] <exec> 08└─Anyone want to get some action going on whether any of this material sees daylight before the election? Not that it matters, we already KNOW (not think, not believe, not debate, know) she committed multiple felonies regarding the proper handling of classified material and I seriously doubt more than...
[13:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Misleading as Fuck - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:14] <exec> 08└─> FBI director James Comey stating that Hillary's unclassified email server(s) had 110 known-classified-when-sent emails That's misleading as fuck. The information in the emails was classified. None of it was marked classified. She didn't originate it, she received it from unclassified sources. Wher...
[13:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Misleading as Fuck - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:16] <exec> 08└─Key phrase from your own citation "has reason to believe." The information was not marked. It was sent to her by people outside of the government. She had no reason to believe it was classified.
[13:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:English, Mothafucka - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:53] <exec> 08└─OP AC here. Thanks for the elaboration - my bad for going off too harsh.
[13:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Old story - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:47] <exec> 08└─Because we have nothing close to approaching AI still? Literally the only surprising ability in the last 20 years was Google's Go machine and that's a ternary state game on a fixed size board (I'm a mathematician so I'm perfectly aware that that was still a heck of a leap in achievement). Fact is, w...
[13:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:added link to previous article - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:38] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'd be thrilled to find that all it takes is a bit of water and oxygen in the right orbit and "poof!" life appears in a billion years or so.
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[14:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Wow - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:43] <exec> 08└─Wow, just wow. I had no idea this person was still alive, nor did I even know his name, and that is a terrible shame. If ever there were a person to whom we all owe a debt, this is him! Rest in well-deserved peace, sir, and may your name and your contribution to civilization be remembered. Today sou...
[14:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02And this is why public health is so important - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you just can't vaccinate everyone. But this is why "herd immunity" is a thing. If you trap the virus into areas and vaccinate the people in those areas, and monitor when it gets out, you can stop the disease. Dr. Henderson and those working for this have saved countless lives. I think why...
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not "innovative" - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─True, but this malware checks multiple accounts, and I would assume it can update it's list of accounts to check, so it's going to be a cat and mouse game so it's not as simple as just shutting off one account.
[14:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not "innovative" - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah if I wrote malware I'd try to use search engines to look for new instructions (verified by sigs of course). That way you can post commands anywhere on the Web. Problem of course are captchas. But millions search for famous stars all the time without getting those, so perhaps a combination of ac...
[14:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not "innovative" - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─There have been malware in the past that did things like search for specific strings on Google or other search engines and link to the server that appeared as the first response. Sometimes they try to cover how they are linking to something using a search engine too.
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─Do I detect the original submitter - the artist formerly known as _gewg? He held the very same views that you did. I had to change the submission because submissions should be neutral and factual. Unfortunately, the World Socialist Web Site doesn't even pretend to be neutral and filled the story wit...
[14:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:CSV is not a panacea - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files have other heartaches for those who are not wary.
[14:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Blaming the messenger when it's a user problem - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:34] <exec> 08└─It's not hard to change the default format of Excel cell to avoid changes of this sort: you can get it done in a click or three.
[14:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:Put *data* in *databases* - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:40] <exec> 08└─"spreadsheet easy, database hard"
[14:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Put *data* in *databases* - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:42] <exec> 08└─Good call. For the last 10 years I've worked at companies where they give you a laptop and say "install whatever OS you like, just make sure you're good at adminning it". (Not true, the current one has said "chose whichever laptop you like, and then ...".) I appreciate that puts me in a very tiny mi...
[14:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stay away from Excel - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:46] <exec> 08└─Probably line breaks and tabs in your data it is interpreting literally instead of cell data.
[14:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dot/Comma decimals - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:49] <exec> 08└─What hilarious and/or cringe-worthy 'corrections' have YOU seen?
[14:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02water purity - 06Deep Space Industries Announces Asteroid Exploration Mission - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─So we know there is ice floating about up there, and in theory it could be used as propellant. What I'd like to know is how big are the engineering challenges between that theory and the reality. 1 - How pure is a typical lump of space ice? Does it have significant quantities of other materials mixe...
[14:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:36] <exec> 08└─Trump doesn't debate he rants.
[14:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─Trump was also berating people from his far far right position. It played well to the crowd. The crowd that a republican debate would draw. Not to mention he was on the stage with people who have a difficult time thinking in a straight line. He will rant and rave in these debates but your just being...
[14:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:39] <exec> 08└─All Hillary needs to do is stick to the script and avoid answering hard questions.
[14:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:46] <exec> 08└─A pardon is taken as a tacit admission of guilt, if the person accepts it. If they were innocent, they wouldn't need the pardon to begin with, right?
[14:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:54] <exec> 08└─Russia is not an enemy of the US, nor is China. They're trading partners, and trade was done.
[14:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:01] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight. You're saying... A) Anybody in the executive branch who screws up in regards to classified communications can have it swept under the rug by Obama saying "eh, whatever." (although I suppose this is technically true of anybody committing any crime via pardon) B) It's too...
[14:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misleading as Fuck - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:05] <exec> 08└─And there's still the matter of why Clinton used a private email server.
[14:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:07] <exec> 08└─"Gross negligence" is the legal term for
[14:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Think of the archeologists! - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─I'm imagining our descendants trying to use mitochondrial DNA to study human history ten thousand years from now, when our drowned civilisation is barely more than myth and our knowledge all but lost, This will really fuck with their heads. Why don't we just fake up some authentic-looking Indominous...
[14:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score:1) 02thanks - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe I don't see emoticons because I usually browse without images or javascript, for a list of reasons.
[14:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02I'll believe it when I see it - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:58] <exec> 08└─A lot of very very rich people would like to not have to get old and die. I get the impulse, but that doesn't mean that they have something real that works and doesn't have nasty side-effects. On the other hand, I can definitely afford $60 a month, and if it worked on someone like me I wouldn't mind...
[14:26:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmoschner [3296] 02Re:"voice recognition software has improved..." - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:23] <exec> 08└─This isn't so much that voice is so much better, as typing on a phone is a pain and seems to be getting worse. By the time you get used to a particular phone and the picky behavior of its keyboard and have auto-correct more or less tamed, it is time for a new phone and to start the process over agai...
[14:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Radiolab - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:59] <exec> 08└─wget "http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/radiolab_podcast/radiolab_podcast16eyeinthesky.mp3"
[14:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to paint my car Potholed Concrete Gray - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:08] <exec> 08└─ok, so LCD screens on the roof, cameras under the car looking at the road feeding them images. Adjust image for ambient light, motion, etc. Hey presto! invisible car!
[14:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Adapting - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:14] <exec> 08└─...an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq
[14:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:Adapting - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:17] <exec> 08└─In a police state the citizen is the enemy.
[14:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:13] <exec> 08└─I couldn't agree more. Most math books are abysmal. Given math's terrible reputation, and the difficulty of attracting people to it, you'd think the math community as a whole would write more popular books. Fraenkel's "Love and Math" a few years ago was really good (although not really in the areas...
[14:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:algebraic topology - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:18] <exec> 08└─I seriously thought about adding it, but I haven't looked at it much in a few months, and might write something that makes no sense. Algebraic topology is the study of whether two topological spaces are the same or not. To figure that out from the spaces themselves is not easy, so the idea is to use...
[14:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Is anybody worried about earth's security? - 06ESO Confirms Reports of Proxima Centauri Exoplanet - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:50] <exec> 08└─The ability to travel to another star system pretty much automatically includes the ability to wipe out life on any planet you can reach. If you have a starship drive then it is no big deal to drop a rock that makes the Chicxulub impact look like a pebble in a pond.
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[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─Is the fact that it's believed to be 99.99% dark matter not interesting enough to put in the summary? http://www.keckobservatory.org [keckobservatory.org]
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why public health is so important - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─It's not only about saving lives. It's also about saving some people from a life of crippling disease. Or being in a wheelchair for the rest of their life. Or maybe being in a hyperbaric breathing chamber for the rest of their lives.
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02We almost did this with Polio - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:52] <exec> 08└─But that goal is out of reach for the foreseeable future due to the middle east as they don't trust the vaccinations. Well I hope they like Polio instead.
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:We almost did this with Polio - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─I can't really blame them for not trusting vaccinations. Unlike American anti-vaxers where the problem is simply stupidity; the middle east is aware of CIA program(s) where vaccinations are actually for some other sinister purpose. Good job CIA! Undermine trust in vaccination for an entire region of...
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02session#131#authkey#0FAB238C# - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─update_core w7adiawuhd.cc/v.131.zip dl_payload auhfuaehfaw.cc/nub4nksc4m.jar exit
[15:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter how TFA is tilted. If you shift your part production to suppliers you have no leg to stand on. I am sure it is only a "coincidence" that the new part suppliers lie in countries with much cheaper labor. If you shift the supply chain away from your control to save few bucks you reap...
[15:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:23] <exec> 08└─I wasn't disagreeing with you or challenging your politics - I did say that I welcomed your views in the comments. However, I directed my other points to the original submitter (OS) - submissions have to be neutral - and it wasn't. It was just that you and the OS made exactly the same point which ma...
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:25] <exec> 08└─Well I was gonna post one thing then I read the article and posted something else. The submission didn't seem biased to me, maybe I had my biased glasses on.
[15:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02The benefits of being in the EU - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:27] <exec> 08└─Much of production has been outsourced to Eastern Europe, where wages are many times lower than those in Germany.
[15:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:CSV is not a panacea - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 1775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─> separators that are so likely to appear in data That's always the problem. Every time a new way to separate information was created, it became embedded, already used so that another method of separation had to be created to avoid confusion. Sometimes that leads to monstrosities such as HTML. Origi...
[15:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:CSV is not a panacea - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:43] <exec> 08└─In my experience, there is no single, definitive format for CSV files.
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Put *data* in *databases* - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:01] <exec> 08└─This is EXACTLY the problem and I've seen it over and over and over again. Most people don't stop at the beginning of the project and really think about what tool would be best for it. They grab whatever they are familiar with and start hacking. So we have millions of people using spreadsheets to ke...
[15:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:water purity - 06Deep Space Industries Announces Asteroid Exploration Mission - 2163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:18] <exec> 08└─1) Not very. Consider the "water" in Earth-bound rocks and even subterranean river courses. Incredibly impure, just happens to exist. 2) Quite. You can filter but then your filters need to clean themselves. 3) Nope. To make any kind of propellant (I think you're thinking of liquid oxygen and liquid...
[15:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:47] <exec> 08└─As a medical doctor of course I support vaccinations.
[15:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:51] <exec> 08└─They would just do what they always do and submit the same legislation again and again and wail until the coin comes up right.
[15:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:57] <exec> 08└─Same goes for Clinton, she was the zero substance candidate for low information voting Democrats. To this point, I'm still not eve sure about anything other than the fact that she's a felon that bribed her way out of an indictment. She's got more waffles than an IHOP and is significantly less popula...
[15:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:02] <exec> 08└─He's up against the velcro candidate. He'll do well, he might even win. The fact that coming into the conventions Clinton was only 5% up on him speaks volumes about how incompetent and narcissistic she is. She should have been killing him by then. Bernie was killing it, but we couldn't have that bec...
[15:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Raise Your Hand - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:04] <exec> 08└─Have you seen her debate? She'd do better pleading the fifth. No, not that kind. The kind where she drank one and is too drunk to debate. Trump, on the other hand, killed at his debates.
[15:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:11] <exec> 08└─You need a better spam filter.
[15:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:13] <exec> 08└─You make it sound like Judicial Watch is the bad guy in all of this. I don't generally like them or agree with their politics, but they're absolutely right in going after these emails. She broke the law in an unprecedented fashion and should go to prison.
[15:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pherenikos [1113] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:26] <exec> 08└─Considering she was Secretary of State for 4 years, that's about 31 emails a day, which really isn't that much, many of us get at least this many if not more. And 110 classified emails is one every two weeks.
[15:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 3362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:29] <exec> 08└─I completely agree with your assessment. Clinton cannot be nailed for having classified material as she has the authority to determine what is classified and the connections to ensure she won't be caught with classified materials. However, where she might be in hot water is the Federal Records Act....
[15:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misleading as Fuck - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:34] <exec> 08└─> Sad to see people excuse felony-level criminal negligence on such flimsy grounds. WTF? Are you so blinded by partisanship that you choose to deny the language of the statute? >> Puhlease! If he had meant gross negligence, he would have said it. > > He did. If he actually said "gross negligence" wh...
[15:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to paint my car Potholed Concrete Gray - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:35] <exec> 08└─How much of what LCD radiates is IR?
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[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─"Dark matter" just means "not stars", basically. Gas and dust clouds are dark matter. We're sitting on dark matter. It's a very general term. You're probably thinking of nonbaryonic dark matter. [wikipedia.org] But the galaxy isn't made of 99.99% nonbaryonic dark matter.
[16:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─The article does not say that at all. They don't say which "kind" of dark matter.
[16:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─Exactly this! For the most part the term 'dark matter' means ordinary everyday space dust that is not: Emitting lightReflecting lightblocking a background source of light If it were doing those things we would be able to more easily observe it. Since it is not doing those things we do not see it in...
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We almost did this with Polio - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─But I instantly have deep distrust when I hear "the ends justify the means".
[16:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:We almost did this with Polio - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:07] <exec> 08└─For example, the UK during WW2, they had cracked German military codes. As such they knew that the Germans were going to bomb a city. You are left with the choice of evacuating the city or not. If you evacuate the city or otherwise increase aerial defenses, you risk letting the Germans know their co...
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:We almost did this with Polio - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know there are difficult choices sometimes. I don't think inflicting diseases on a whole region of the world, because they now distrust vaccines, for valid reasons to distrust, was worth it just to catch Osama Bin Laden.
[16:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not "innovative" - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:23] <exec> 08└─Not to mention there've been other botnets that already did this...
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─think about this: capitalism has an ideollogy, if you force people to "neutral" titles or writing you only enable the hegemonic ideollogy then where is this touted neutrality?
[16:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Don't Use It - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:03] <exec> 08└─Spreadsheets are very useful for manually entering tables of data, and quickly displaying tables of data with colors and such, especially in situations where color-coding cells based upon their values provides valuable information. That stuff is quick to do, but is practically limited to a small amo...
[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Blaming the messenger when it's a user problem - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─Did like the dept line :) I would heap the blame on the march towards “user friendliness.” User friendly is in the eyes of the user. It turns out that Excel really isn't that user friendly. Except if it came out of the box in a way that scientists and others who need to work with data in a rigor...
[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blaming the messenger when it's a user problem - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─How do I submit a request for a "well duh" moderation?
[16:24:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02Re-inventing the wheel, rediscovering old problems - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 1290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:15] <exec> 08└─It seems each generation is condemned to making the same mistakes. When I was doing scientific programming three decades ago, it was very, very clear that data should be separate from programs. Data was input using text files, the format of which was documented extremely precisely, and your program...
[16:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:05] <exec> 08└─Alright, you've got ONE ISSUE which Stein appears to "waffle" on. Now, look at the competition, and count how many times they have "pivoted". FFS - in comparison, Stein is a glowing example of honesty.
[16:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:15] <exec> 08└─Most people who hold a doctorate's degree have a mind.
[16:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:22] <exec> 08└─You give to much credit to Hillary. Without handlers, teleprompters, and/or rehearsed questions, she's awash. To many fifths, I think. He gray matter was burnt out years ago.
[16:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Raise Your Hand - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:28] <exec> 08└─Well, answer the question - have you seen her debate? Instead of answering the question, you provide your own empty rhetoric. Imagine that . . . and you're an AC at that. You could anonymously CONTRIBUTE something to this discussion.
[16:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Raise Your Hand - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:30] <exec> 08└─> Well, answer the question - have you seen her debate? Oh look, runaway doesn't know what a rhetorical question is. Another checkin from the braintrust of brilliance! You guys are the best clinton collaborators because you so vividly illustrate the deep insight required to oppose her..
[16:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:41] <exec> 08└─In theory - yes. How 'bout Snowden? If he were offered a pardon for any and all crimes, real or imagined, do you think he would accept it? Someone wrote a line once that really resonated with me. "An exile may be happy, but he never forgets that he is an exile." Words to that effect. I THINK it was...
[16:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:49] <exec> 08└─What a crock. "Trading partners" don't get military secrets. Those are reserved for countries with the status of "ally". I'd love to see you in a debate with a box of rocks.
[16:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:56] <exec> 08└─It only takes mishandling ONE classified document to make you GUILTY. Her server, her responsibility. If classified documents crossed her server, she is responsible. That pretty much ends the debate. Now, if you want a scenario in which classified emails crossed her server, and she WAS NOT GUILTY, I...
[16:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─You entirely skip over one important detail. Not all those classified documents originated from the State Department. State has no authority to declassify documents that originate from Justice, Army, Navy, or any other agency with authority to classify documents.
[16:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Misleading as Fuck - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:07] <exec> 08└─Powell came out soon after, and said, "You're not pinning that on me!" Powell reminded us that the lying bitch lies. http://www.drudge.com [drudge.com]
[16:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Misleading as Fuck - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:10] <exec> 08└─Since you were never qualified to handle secret documents, it's easy for you to make excuses for someone who is incompetent to handle them. Bottom line - whether or not she committed the felonies which we all know she committed, SHE IS INCOMPETENT!! I use that word as a military person uses the word...
[16:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keep denying the blatant - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:13] <exec> 08└─Please name one person, literally one person, who was prosecuted for gross negligence with handling classified information. We can find numerous people who (for better or worse) were prosecuted for intentional distribution of classified information. We can find numerous examples of people losing sec...
[16:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02TFS is factually inaccurate - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:30] <exec> 08└─"However, children only receive one type of DNA, called mitochondrial DNA, from their mothers, while the fathers' mitochondrial DNA is naturally removed from the embryos. " That's misworded. Children receive one type of DNA, called mitochondrial DNA, only from their mothers while the fathers' mitoch...
[16:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02was expecting principal component analysis - 06How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:23] <exec> 08└─and some other deep statistics with some self organizing maps and recursive stuff... well, whatever... abstract algebra is fine too...
[16:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score:1) 02Re:details - 06soylentnews.org is now DNSSEC signed - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:18] <exec> 08└─Did you look at dnssec-tools?... https://www.dnssec-tools.org [dnssec-tools.org] In particular, rollerd handles automated key rollovers. It'll roll zone signing keys without needing input. Key signing key rollovers still need some manual handling as you have to get the dsset to your register then r...
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[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Why does the Navy do this? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─Warning shots? FFS - if you didn't have to kill anyone, then it wasn't even an incident. Back in the day of wooden ships, and iron men, people EXPECTED you to fire warning shots now and then. We fired a few warning shots at Colonel Khadafy, and accidentally killed one of his daughters.* THOSE became...
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─So, the US navy is preventing those Evil Iranians from getting too close to San Diego, that's good ... Where? Hormuz? Then why the fuck does a US navy ship think it's got the right to "patrol" and prevent the Iranians from coming near? They don't have maps on US ships anymore? Even more seriously: C...
[17:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─Seems like the Iranians haven't figured out that teasing a warship is a good way to get yourself dead. There is little difference between a "high speed intercept" and a ramming run; there's a reason that warships insist on maintaining a clear perimeter around them, namely, that if/when it's time to...
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:47] <exec> 08└─I love the contrast between your comment and mine...
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:58] <exec> 08└─Exactly this! For the most part the term 'dark matter' means ordinary everyday space dust that is not:
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─It's a very general term.
[17:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─That's right. Only 27% of the universe is made up of non-baryonic dark matter [wikipedia.org], as compared with 4.9% of ordinary matter [stackexchange.com]. What's more, no one suggests that matter, whether it's baryonic, non-baryonic or dark or not is evenly distributed. As such, what's your point?
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02AGN is not a euphemism - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:04] <exec> 08└─"AGN" is short for active galactic nucleus, a euphemism for matter falling into a supermassive black hole.
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dragonfly 44 has it together - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─They've already completed Dyson spheres around 99% of their stars. We've got to get it together and catch up!
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Dragonfly 44 has it together - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─It takes six months to budget filling a pothole...
[17:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Unsung hero - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:18] <exec> 08└─>may your name and your contribution to civilization be remembered He deserves to be remembered more than damn near any political leader or entertainer.
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Offtopic rant - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─There are some intelligence agencies with rules about this kind of thing, kinda like having an institutional conscience. Rules like: * never impersonate a doctor/medical specialist * never impersonate clergy The reason for these rules is that getting caught doing so has easily foreseeable, immediate...
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:We almost did this with Polio - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─Unlike American anti-vaxers where the problem is simply stupidity; the middle east is aware of CIA program(s) where vaccinations are actually for some other sinister purpose.
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Did he die from the pox? - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─Unless he died from smallpox, and this is irony, I don't see the news value in that people die of old age since mortality is 1.
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score:1) 02Re:Did he die from the pox? - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─It's an opportunity to remind ourseves that great good can come from great people applying great science. In a culture where the OD death of a performer makes the front page I need to keep believing that we are better than that. Thank you Soylent News for reminding me that we are..
[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry, "MSM" as a derogatory label has been taken by the other side.
[17:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02Re:CSV is not a panacea - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─What bothers me is that ASCII even has characters for exactly this purpose! If people had just used the characters specified by the standards properly in their file format, we could have embedded any kind of readable text in a record (newlines, quotes, tabs, commas, whatever), without having to reso...
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:So Don't Use It - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:26] <exec> 08└─Choose whatever CSV format you want, and open the CSV file in LibreOffice to avoid automatic conversions if you must open the CSV in a spreadsheet to export for display. As long as your own scripts are consistent about the separators you use etc., you'll be fine. The Python CSV library has never giv...
[17:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Put *data* in *databases* - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:49] <exec> 08└─One of the business register portals lists my company's phone number as 3.72569712e+10 I also think it tries to display a date as 0.545454545 rather than 6/11. Sturgeon was an optimist.
[17:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03three_sheets [6332] (Score:1) 02Re:Stay away from Excel - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:53] <exec> 08└─No line breaks. Maybe tabs. It was saved as CSV from an XLS file.
[17:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03three_sheets [6332] (Score:1) 02Bad headline - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:57] <exec> 08└─20 % refers to those papers with Excel data, not all papers. But it goes to show that Excel is not an appropriate tool for science. Every time I see an obvious Excel-generated plot, I cringe. Scientists should be smarter than that and have more pride in their work. To paraphrase: If the data is wort...
[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:37] <exec> 08└─You just got a direct quote which unequivocally paints her as a principled vaxxer. Are you going to give us a Jill Stein quote that disses vaccines (not the testing/approval process, but the vaccinations themselves), or are you going to admit you are astroturfing for Clinton campaign? Saying this no...
[17:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:53] <exec> 08└─There is another issue at play: who is organizing the debate and who the moderator will be? To answer the first question, CPD is "The organization, which is a nonprofit corporation controlled by the Democratic and Republican parties, has run each of the presidential debates held since 1988. The Comm...
[17:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─> The fact that coming into the conventions Clinton was only 5% up on him speaks volumes about how incompetent and narcissistic she is. Or... it speaks volumes about the kind of people who care about elections before the conventions. If you've been paying attention over the many election cycles you'...
[17:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Irony Man - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:03] <exec> 08└─You just ignored a rhetorical question in order to complain that the poster ignored a rhetorical question. LOL. Tell me that was deliberately meant to be ironic!
[17:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:newfangled ESWL - 06UCLA Scientists Use Ultrasound to Jump-Start a Man's Brain After Coma - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds like I'm not the salty one here =P Besides which, I shower at least once a day so that's not it.
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[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─So its the Iranian Persian Gulf then? Because the entrance is narrow? The Canadians own the great lakes for the same reason? The Straits of Hormuz is 21 miles wide. Gibralter is only 9. So who owns the Mediterraiian? Pull the ships out a bit?? Cede an entire shipping route to a bunch of thugs just b...
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware that an international shipping corridor didn't exist unless there is an American Warship patrolling it, even in peace time, to keep away the thugs of the adjacent countries' navies.
[18:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─The US Navy has taken to enforcing water-way rights as a matter of course. This is hardly the first time we've done things like this on behalf of other nations that have some disagreement with a nation we don't get along well with. For example, sailing carrier groups through a portion of the South...
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:1) 02Re:Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─I'm having trouble parsing your comment, but it is indeed the case that shipping in the region needs patrols from the US (or some other Western power) to keep shipping lanes open. From time to time there have even been "Persian gulf freighters" armed with CIWS of one sort or another, and it takes a...
[18:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnampff [5658] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:01] <exec> 08└─So would the US agree with Iran patrolling the Caribbean sea with warships? Because that is the rough equivalent of the shit going on down there.
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:03] <exec> 08└─Yup. The US would agree. So would the UN. Law of the sea. Rights of innocent passage. Freedom of navigation All these new things you've never heard of before, which have been around for hundreds of years.
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Well, can't read TFA - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─Because cnn.com is down at the moment. Just a white page. Great.
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, can't read TFA - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─As of this moment, it works for me. However, I will add these: https://news.google.com [google.com] http://www.reuters.com [reuters.com]
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Nothing to worry about - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─Nothing to worry about. After all, Hillary solved that whole Iran thing for us anyway, didn't she? [hillaryclinton.com] No wait, Donald will make a bigger and better deal for us there, right? [washingtonpost.com] Oh, well Gary Johnson thinks we should have trade with Iran, the nuclear deal was wrong...
[18:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02my parkign slot - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─geez, i totaly agree with the munitioned navy boat. this northern end of the Persian Gulf walmart parkign space totaly belongs to me. i have been waiting for days to get a parking space "5000 miles from home". no way i'm going to allow you cheap shot ballon-blow-up pick-up-like-truck dingy to snatch...
[18:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And this is why public health is so important - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:41] <exec> 08└─Prior to vaccination, Smallpox caused 1/3 of European cases of blindness (from the wiki link).
[18:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why public health is so important - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:42] <exec> 08└─> Dr. Henderson and those working for this have saved countless lives. Apparently, about 2 000 000 per year. Let's repeat that: Their work saved about 2 million lives per year . Holy bleeping bleep. If that's not a record, I'd like to know which other group also deserves a platinum statue, their nam...
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did he die from the pox? - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:53] <exec> 08└─Nobody has died from smallpox since 1978 - largely due to the efforts of this man. Since you didn't seem to realise from the summary, the news value is derived from his value to the world and not his actual death. If you'd rather see, "Man Dies from a Crazy Accident You Wouldn't Believe" on the fron...
[18:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''neutral'' - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:26] <exec> 08└─submissions have to be neutral I wouldn't give you a plugged nickel for a news source that doesn't have a point of view. Now, DISHONESTY is a different matter entirely. I challenge you to point to something in TFA which is a dishonest telling of the facts. - and it wasn't Folks who look at the Orig...
[18:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:CSV is not a panacea - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:45] <exec> 08└─We have an ongoing debate between fixed and variable width fonts. I have yet to see a programming language that is written in a proportional font. Think what a mess that would make of Python especially. For separation schemes that depend on spacing, placing symbols on a grid is essential. Can get aw...
[18:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Stay away from Excel - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:15] <exec> 08└─Or commas. I run into this all the time, where a program offers to save data into a CSV, where commas are in the data. Open it up and you end up with random cell shifts.
[18:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02Re:Dot/Comma decimals - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:19] <exec> 08└─Saw this recently on a bearing manufacturer's website... The ratings for the bearing were specified in both Pounds Force and Newtons. Whoever did the conversion from Newtons to Pounds used the wrong localization settings, using the comma as a decimal separator instead of a thousands marker. It was r...
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02misleading headline - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:44] <exec> 08└─People so tired of the email thing they're arguing about Jill Stein's vaccine stance suits my agenda just fine. But, to post something on-topic, this headline is quite the clickbait (attribute that to the source article) They are implying very heavily that these are 14k new emails. In reality, th...
[18:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:52] <exec> 08└─Vote for a uterus, or vote for a Johnson... funny choice! :)
[18:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:19] <exec> 08└─And it works.
[18:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Raise Your Hand - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:27] <exec> 08└─I wasn't talking about me, sweety. I was talking about The Public. Trump kills with them while Clinton blows goats no matter who's listening.
[18:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:36] <exec> 08└─It's not unprecedented. That she broke the law, however, appears clear...but that's based on a collection of slanted news stories which are all slanted either to achieve a political goal or to increase the number of readers (or clicks), so I don't know how trustworthy that appearance is.
[18:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:TFS is factually inaccurate - 06University of Missouri Researchers Create Embryos with Both Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial DNA - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:58] <exec> 08└─They make grammar no good. Changed.
[18:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:thanks - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:15] <exec> 08└─Emojis have nothing to do with Javascript. Moron.
[18:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:$60/month - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:16] <exec> 08└─Aint nuthin wrong with impregnatin' no poodle.
[18:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:No one Remembers: The Classics - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:33] <exec> 08└─to get rid of people you disagree with or people that have power over you.
[18:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll believe it when I see it - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:37] <exec> 08└─Even if it did work, it's not going to be the last anti-aging therapy. The question here is whether the effect is significant and positive enough to warrant its use. Are the early adopters getting $720 worth of better health, and are they adding any years to their lifespan, allowing them to live to...
[18:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tapping is NOT Typing - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:13] <exec> 08└─Unless you're touch typing with all ten fingers on a full-sized touch keyboard, tapping does not count as typing.
[18:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds terrible to debug - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:24] <exec> 08└─Debugging that sounds, uhm, time consuming. Make change, compile, wait for AI and child to grow to adulthood, test. Repeat?!
[18:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Call me when... - 06Study: Voice Recognition Better than Humans Using an On-Screen Keyboard - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:33] <exec> 08└─Call me when voice recognition can beat my peak touch typing score of 90 words per minute at zero errors.
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[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02FIRST STIFF POST! - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:35] <exec> 08└─no aliens no evil spirits no ugly women a flower for every crevice
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Most Excellent - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─So what is that? 1 down 300 million to go? what? It would be hope, beyond all hope, that every corrupt executive takes his own life. Good news, everybody!
[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Clinton - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─Rumor has it the chairman had evidence against Hilary Clinton.
[19:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Respectt - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:40] <exec> 08└─Unlike American executives, at least this guy did the honorable thing. In a just world, there would be a couple of CEO suicides every week.
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:54] <exec> 08└─> it is indeed the case that shipping in the region needs patrols from the US (or some other Western power) to keep shipping lanes open. Citation needed.
[19:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:00] <exec> 08└─And so would almost all the countries of the world who have sailing ships. You've got to be a pretty big dumbass to not know that laws governing the seas have been around as long as their have been floating trade vessels and navies.
[19:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing to worry about - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think you can make that statement about Jill Stein. “Hi I’m Jill Stein. I want to say a few words about why we must not go to war with Iran. We must use diplomacy to deal with the possibility of Iran being a future nuclear threat in the region. But we must also use diplomacy to deal wit...
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tl;DR - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─In other words, "false equivalency is false." News at 11.
[19:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:my parkign slot - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─Your posts shows us just how ignorant of international maritime laws you are. Bravo, bravo. And FYI, don't charge a warship, a tank, or a police officer without expecting a tragic end. But hey, you'll at least win a Darwin award.
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:my parkign slot - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:12] <exec> 08└─For an example of what happens when there's military dickwaving and people get nervous - https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─Its also probably wise to point out that to-date, nobody has been able to detect dark matter, otherh than indirectly, (like needing a fudge factor to get an equasion to balance). Even recent reports of dark matter detection earlier this year are highly suspect [sciencealert.com]. Dark matter remains...
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:27] <exec> 08└─(like needing a fudge factor to get an equasion to balance)
[19:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:29] <exec> 08└─And science would like to hear from you if you have ANY independently verifiable evidence of Dark Matter that exists in in the real workd other than a theoritical mathimatical model.
[19:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:32] <exec> 08└─I thought that [...] is believed to contain about the same mass as the Milky Way but is only 1% as bright. The low ratio of luminosity to mass [...] explanations for the dimness [...]
[19:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:33] <exec> 08└─think about this: capitalism has an ideollogy, if you force people to "neutral" titles or writing you only enable the hegemonic ideollogy then where is this touted neutrality?
[19:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:34] <exec> 08└─But unnecessary ideology in the story is, well, unnecessary. People can follow the link to the full story if that is what they want to read. The role of the editor on SN is to ensure that stories are factual, accurate (to the extent that it is possible) and neutral. The place for discussion about id...
[19:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:''neutral'' - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:37] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't give you a plugged nickel for a news source that doesn't have a point of view.
[19:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Labour is free to move within the EU'' - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:40] <exec> 08└─If that was true, refugees wouldn't be getting the abuse they are. ...and people picking up their entire existence and leaving all social ties behind in pursuit of employment in a distant place is NOT normal. Companies moving production|sourcing to the other end of the continent is an example of the...
[19:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Labour is free to move within the EU'' - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:42] <exec> 08└─The refugees originate from outside the EU. International law states that they may claim asylum in the first country that they come to that provides safety from the whatever is threatening their lives in their own country. It does not accept economic migration as a valid justification for claiming a...
[19:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02outsourcing - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:44] <exec> 08└─All industries do it. "Just get a contractor and if anything goes wrong get rid of them". Basically a way to shift blame onto another group that has less rights and you dont have to 'deal with the paper work'. I am usually doing computer stuff. I can not even count the number of times I have heard t...
[19:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blaming the messenger when it's a user problem - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:18] <exec> 08└─I don't blame the users when these kind of helpful features pop up unnanounced. This automatic data formatting has been a bane of mine as well, and it is something that gets foisted upon the user and get enabled by default. You also have to catch the error, which isn't always obvious when think that...
[19:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blaming the messenger when it's a user problem - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:19] <exec> 08└─I meant the default should be do as I want. Left that part out in haste.
[19:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:22] <exec> 08└─Why?
[19:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No one Remembers: The Classics - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:49] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what. We'll make a compromise and give every life extension customer a little baggy of suicide pills. We'll even print a little smiley face emoji on the bag.
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[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Plausible Deniablility Gone - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:38] <exec> 08└─I suspect CISCO knew about this issue all along, and failed to fix it out of some backroom deal with the NSA. Now that its an open secret business reasons force them to (pretend to) fix it. CISCO frequently alerted the NSA to shipments of equipment to certain governments which magically got intercep...
[20:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Plausible Deniablility Gone - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:40] <exec> 08└─> CISCO frequently alerted the NSA to shipments of equipment to certain governments Note that Cisco doesn't have to actively do that. I'm pretty sure the US Customs is already tasked with reporting and inspecting international shipments to various "interesting" actors. While Cisco may or may not hav...
[20:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:4, Interesting) 02What does the first Snowden think? - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:42] <exec> 08└─There is speculation that the hacks are actually leaks from a "second (third?) Snowden".
[20:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Respectt - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, the honorable thing would have been to not commit 500 million in tax fraud. If you couldn't do that then the next honorable thing would have been to admit you had done it and save the taxpayers the court expenses. Killing yourself would only be honorable if it was protecting other people a...
[20:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─I'll bite. Normally citations are used to support statements of fact, and this is clearly the writer's judgment based on the conditions and actions that are typical of the region. As to those conditions, since the GP didn't spell it out for you, here is a sample story of Iranians boarding a cargo sh...
[20:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:09] <exec> 08└─I don't like it, but that's Pax Americana for you.
[20:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:14] <exec> 08└─Yup. The US would agree. So would the UN. Law of the sea. Rights of innocent passage. Freedom of navigation All these new things you've never heard of before, which have been around for hundreds of years.
[20:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnampff [5658] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─I know that they should be fine with Iranian ships patrolling the US coast. I just doubt that they would be as cool about it as they would have to be if that ever actually happened. The US like to raise their finger from time to time and talk about what is right and good but when it comes to actuall...
[20:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:19] <exec> 08└─As a kid i did a caribbean cruise (senior trip). Our port of call had several non-US "warships" posted there. Dashed all my hopes of being a pirate. Those guns were serious.
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, can't read TFA - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─If CNN.com is down, it could be because the news is BREAKING. And on a different topic, to anyone who says that American news organizations just make stuff up and call it news, I would point out: You're wrong. They call it Breaking News.
[20:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:my parkign slot - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:32] <exec> 08└─It's more like me planting a sentry gun 5000 miles away from my house but across the street from your house, and if your stupid kids get too close to it, it's their fault for dying. After all the sentry gun is to protect "everyone"'s interests.
[20:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Offtopic rant - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:12] <exec> 08└─There are some intelligence agencies with rules about this kind of thing But if you told us which ones, they'd have to kill you?
[20:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Correct mod == SPAM - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:45] <exec> 08└─Parent post is more of his serial abuse. [soylentnews.org] Soylentils: In order to call it to the attention of TPTB, **don't** mod it Offtopic. [archive.li] (The S/N comment engine still strips out instances of %22 in URLs.) 8-( ...and to the site staffers: Just how many instances of repeated abuse...
[20:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:35] <exec> 08└─Her use of anti-vax adjacent rhetoric is documented in the cited snopes article.
[20:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Waffling is Not a Correction - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:36] <exec> 08└─Comparing waffling with changing a position is misleading. Waffling is about playing both sides simultaneously, not fully committing to any one position. That's Trump in a nutshell, he plays all sides of every issue so that in the future he can say he was "right." Changing a position is about correc...
[20:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Such Equanimity - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah "blows goats" is totally not a personal judgment. Your attempts to portray yourself as unbiased are hilariously transparent. You are so full of yourself you can't tell the difference between your own opinion and facts.
[20:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll believe it when I see it - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:11] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind having the body of a 30-something for a long period of time.
[20:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You've all got it wrong - 06Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:31] <exec> 08└─It wasn't police surveillance. It was just a crew doing aerial surveys of Pokemon Go adoption.
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[21:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Plausible Deniablility Gone - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:36] <exec> 08└─I couldn't agree with you more.
[21:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Backhanded Disagreement - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a really backhanded way of saying you disagree with him. As in "Its impossible for me to agree any more than 0%." Frojo is prone to making up conspiracies that don't pass the laugh test. This one doesn't pass either because newer versions of the cisco boxes are (a) not vulnerable bu...
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[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─There is speculation that the hacks are actually leaks from a "second (third?) Snowden".
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02All they had to do to make broken english - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─is use google translate and traslate the english to russion/japan/etc and thranslate that back and get badly broken english. :-)
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Respectt - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, but at least in parts of Asia there are consequences for that sort of thing. In the US, we might put the guy in a white collar prison for a few months if he didn't get his bribes in on time, then let him live out the rest of his life with most of the ill-gotten gains. Truly, we are barbarians a...
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bad memory - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─After a week in S. Korea around 1990, we spent our last night in Seoul at the Lotte Hotel. One of those giant, fancy places that had a long history. Might have been the first big "western style" hotel in Seoul? Not cheap. We were assured that all the food prepared in their restaurant had been washed...
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02It's really sad - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─For a couple hours I've been trying to phrase a comment to the effect of too bad HRC doesn't have the same integrity. But everything I can think of means the secret service will be knocking on my door RSN, and even this is skating it.
[21:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's really sad - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─I have a solution: don't be an asshole. Dilemma solved.
[21:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:15] <exec> 08└─> here is a sample story of Iranians boarding a cargo ship. Which turns out to be a seizure based on an unpaid judgement. Iran said the ship was detained because of a legal dispute between the Danish company chartering it, Maersk, and a private Iranian firm. Maersk says the dispute dates backs to 2...
[21:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But but but - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:58] <exec> 08└─I keep being told that unions are ambrosia culled from the hand of man, and if those evil capitalist would just adopt a more enlightened European view, all of our labor troubles would be solved! High minimum wage and there isn't even a hint of the possibility jobs would migrate. Where are those bril...
[21:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CSV is not a panacea - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:18] <exec> 08└─I have no clue what fonts have to do with it but I was waiting for the GP to complain that RPG columns don't line up with variable width fonts. Yes, RPG - I went there because I'm ooooold school.
[21:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CSV is not a panacea - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:21] <exec> 08└─I use 1C (FS), 1D (GS), 1E (RS) and 1F (US) in my data all the time, especially in Ajax data transmissions. Like you said, that's why they're there.
[21:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''commas [...] random cell shifts'' - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:54] <exec> 08└─Yup. My jazz station uses MICROS~1's app (and inappropriate separator characters) to drive their Most Recently Played list [kkjz.org], so Artist Lambert, Hendricks, Ross Becomes Artist | Tune | Disk Lambert | Hendricks | Ross . Not directly related, but amusing to me: On their...
[21:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Odds of release before Nov? Zero. - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:49] <exec> 08└─Just wanted to put this [wikipedia.org] here for general information. Not sure where the error started. In 1973, Stein graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, where she studied psychology, sociology, and anthropology. She then attended Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1979. After graduating...
[21:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Such Equanimity - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:09] <exec> 08└─Oh I'm not unbiased. I totally hate Hillary slightly more than I hate Trump. That's no secret. She still smokes pole at debating though. If she'd had anyone halfway competent and charismatic challenging her, she would have lost the nomination. Likewise if she hadn't had acres and acres of political...
[21:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wonks Suck at Sound-bites - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:12] <exec> 08└─Its particularly bad for a wonk like clinton. She doesn't do simple. But all anybody wants are sound-bite indictments. The more she tries to speak in depth on a topic, the more she gives persecutors fodder to take out of context. Given that her more recent woes are something I have in depth knowled...
[21:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:No one Remembers: The Classics - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:08] <exec> 08└─Techno techno handbag disco...
[21:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03godshatter [3912] (Score:1) 02Re:Double-blind study? - 06Elysium Health Pitches an Anti-Aging Pill - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:12] <exec> 08└─Prepare to be patient. Experiments designed to determine what affect a pill has on aging will likely have to run a long time before we can expect to see results.
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[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy - 06Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy Interior Minister - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:22] <exec> 08└─so, have the miners admitted culpability?
[22:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another Victory for human rights - 06Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy Interior Minister - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:23] <exec> 08└─It's such a shame IT nerds are too cowardly to rape, torture, and kill to earn the pay they deserve. Good for H1B though! Continue the outsourcing and insourcing until IT is a cheap shade of brown. And remember, for every eloquent social butterfly like Mike Dave Crowfard, there are at least a dozen...
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:All they had to do to make broken english - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─At which point Google can report to the NSA exactly who was translating that text before it was public.
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's standard American English. - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─!!! Attention government sponsors of cyber warfare and those who profit from it !!!! How much you pay for enemies cyber weapons? Not malware you find in networks. Both sides, RAT + LP, full state sponsor tool set? We find cyber weapons made by creators of stuxnet, duqu, flame. Kaspersky calls Equati...
[22:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bad memory - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:52] <exec> 08└─I've never tried their hotels, but their chewing gum is my favourite because it's so flavourful. The black kind is coloured with octopus or squid ink.
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bad memory - 06Lotte Group Vice Chairman, Facing Corruption Probe, Found Dead in Apparent Suicide - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─To earn my 500 ₩ for posting, I must mention the brand name, which is Xylish. Buy Lotte Xylish gum!
[22:23:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Patrolling what? - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 636 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:05] <exec> 08└─So, the US navy is preventing those Evil Iranians from getting too close to San Diego, that's good ... Where? Hormuz? Then why the fuck does a US navy ship think it's got the right to "patrol" and prevent the Iranians from coming near? They don't have maps on US ships anymore? Even more seriously: C...
[22:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:17] <exec> 08└─I'm encouraged by the comparisons that can be drawn. We each in our own way are saying we're suspicious of the Iranian motives, and that we need to be VERY careful to not get drawn into yet another war. The comparison, in my mind, is that you're asking whether the President and Joint Chiefs are doin...
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay for Rules of Engagement! - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─The Iranians have absolutely no interest in drawing the US into a real war with them. Regardless of how costly and unpopular such a thing might be to the US, it would be suicide for the Iranian government. I'm sure any confrontations are for "cold war" propaganda purposes. They can use our response...
[22:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Mare Liberum - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, the idea of "the ocean is for everyone" was worked out in detail about 400 years ago by Hugo de Groot [wikipedia.org] (a lawyer; but, a good one apparently). The book's called Mare Liberum [wikipedia.org] and caused quite a stir with its invention of international law. The reason why it wa...
[22:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02women in politics - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:33] <exec> 08└─Women in politics, eh! Let's all give a small cheer to: Helga Schmid [wikipedia.org] (Germany, European External Action Service), Baroness Catherine Ashton [wikipedia.org] (UK, former EC Vice President), Wendy Sherman [wikipedia.org] (USA, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs), and Federic...
[22:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:53] <exec> 08└─exists in in the real workd other than a theoritical mathimatical model.
[22:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic rant - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─There are some intelligence agencies with rules about this kind of thing But if you told us which ones, they'd have to kill you?
[22:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:We almost did this with Polio - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:22] <exec> 08└─Some Americans, I'm sure, are also aware of the CIA program(s). Some may even be aware of the Tuskegee experiment [wikipedia.org], the Guatemala syphilis experiment [wikipedia.org] or even other programmes [wikipedia.org] in which people were given injections of dioxin, plutonium, etc.: From the 19...
[22:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02rinderpest - 06Director of Smallpox Eradication Campaign Dies - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:27] <exec> 08└─As far as I could see from just looking at the Wikipedia article and the abstract [nih.gov] of one scholarly article, rinderpest is (was) a disease of cattle only. It didn't infect humans.
[22:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SoylentNews is on Twitter - 06Android Botnet Relies on Twitter for Commands - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:37] <exec> 08└─Only for fucking morons.
[22:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Little to do with geeks or tech - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:55] <exec> 08└─Play Mikee's "text based slot machine game which displayed messages encouraging the denial of women’s rights": https://kiwifarms.net [kiwifarms.net] More fun Mikee games: https://geekfeminism.org
[22:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Scientists should be smarter than that'' - 06Excel Hell Messes Up ~20 Per Cent of Genetic Science Papers - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:09] <exec> 08└─More specifically, schools that teach Science should put an emphasis on their students becoming proficient in a FOSS language (such as "R") intended to do these tasks. ...then again, M$ seems to be attempting to do an E,E,E on that. They "R" Coming: More Microsoft Money for the Linux Foundation [tec...
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[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Freedom To Express Your Obedience - 06UChicago Dean to Incoming Class: No "Safe Spaces" or "Trigger Warnings" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:26] <exec> 08└─Go to the UChicago campus and shout "fuck you nigger" at passersby, and just see how quickly the police will arrive to end your freedom.
[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom To Express Your Obedience - 06UChicago Dean to Incoming Class: No "Safe Spaces" or "Trigger Warnings" - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─Is that guy over there shouting things as part of a sociological research project to see which words cause offense this year? I want to check his blog later, maybe he'll post a preprint.
[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom To Express Your Obedience - 06UChicago Dean to Incoming Class: No "Safe Spaces" or "Trigger Warnings" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:30] <exec> 08└─You're both expelled. - The Dean
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom To Express Your Obedience - 06UChicago Dean to Incoming Class: No "Safe Spaces" or "Trigger Warnings" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─What's your point? That the U is still a safe-space for black people?
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I was thinking... - 06Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy Interior Minister - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:42] <exec> 08└─It sounds like a perfect way to get rid of a pesky 'honest' minister while also casting the parties he was going to negotiate with into doubt. How hard would it be for Bolivian police/military/special forces to dsiguise themselves as some miners, get into the picket lines, then capture, beat and mur...
[23:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy - 06Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy Interior Minister - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─I strike with the word "reportedly" (reportedly).
[23:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Boss Strike - 06Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy Interior Minister - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─So this is what it looks like when the boss strikes. Interesting, and bloody: Their list of demands also includes being allowed to sign contracts with private companies, the reduction of tariffs on imported machinery, and government subsidies to help defray energy costs. They also do not want their...
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shocking! - 06Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy Interior Minister - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─Shocked, I'm shocked I tell you! Gross brown mud people torture and kill? What will happen next?
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shocking! - 06Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy Interior Minister - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─Immigants crawl their way into the USA in search of money.
[23:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shocking! - 06Striking Bolivian Miners Reportedly Kill Deputy Interior Minister - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:54] <exec> 08└─We must build the wall! Trump 2016!
[23:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Backhanded Disagreement - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:05] <exec> 08└─I think that Cisco probably was aware of the problem, seeing as how it goes back to products that... well. They bought the PIX platform from another company way back when. The problem in question seems to have turned up shortly after they started releasing their own Cisco stamped code for it. Frojac...
[23:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02good! - 06Cisco Begins Patching an NSA Exploit Released by the Shadow Brokers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:10] <exec> 08└─this is how things should have happened from the very beginning!
[23:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing to worry about - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:04] <exec> 08└─I don't see a huge gulf between "a foreign policy that creates allies not enemies" and "we should make love not war to Iran and they could be our friends." The latter has a pejorative tone but they're not 29 miles apart.
[23:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Nothing to worry about - 06U.S. Navy Patrol Craft Fires Warning Shots at Iranian Vessel - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:05] <exec> 08└─We don't have enough reminders that there are stupid people on the internet. I too yearn to vote for the perfect US president and my sole criteria will be how well their immense unicorn herds tame the Iranians.
[23:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the dark matter? - 06More on Ultra Diffuse Galaxies - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:27] <exec> 08└─There is independently verifiable evidence that there is additional mass out there which can't be accounted for by normal matter. Is it proven? No. But no-one's come up with a better explanation yet, so it's reasonable to stick with it for now.
[23:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:All VW fault - 06Volkswagen Production Halt Affects Almost 30,000 Workers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:38] <exec> 08└─think about this: capitalism has an ideollogy, if you force people to "neutral" titles or writing you only enable the hegemonic ideollogy then where is this touted neutrality?
[23:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Such Equanimity - 06FBI Finds 14,900 More Emails that Weren't Disclosed by Clinton's Attorneys - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:55] <exec> 08└─> Oh I'm not unbiased. Wooosh! I'll spell it out for you: Even when you think you are being unbiased you are obviously not being unbiased. > Likewise if she hadn't had acres and acres of political clout. Yeah, a politician who is good at politics, obviously she's unqualified.
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