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[00:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Humans - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in S.C. - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:47] <exec> 08└─Humans, we are our own worst enemy. The importance of bees cannot be overstated and their numbers have been plummeting for the last several years. So let's kill millions more because we're reacting in a knee jerk fashion due to lack of preparedness and watching Zika slowly get out of control for mon...
[00:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Suggested alternate dept. line - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in S.C. - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:48] <exec> 08└─From the collateral-damage dept.
[00:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is Peter Thiel's America - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in S.C. - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:50] <exec> 08└─Peter Thiel believes that freedom and democracy are compatible. [cato-unbound.org] Well, this is what you get when you let myopic technocrats run the show. They were so focused on zika they forgot to consider anything else. Democracy is about giving everybody a voice. Marginalize those voices at you...
[00:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Kool - 06Amidst NX Rumors, Nintendo Direct Focuses on 3DS Announcements - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:58] <exec> 08└─In the graphics race PCs always win. Nintendo's is the only viable long-term strategy.
[00:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Kool - 06Amidst NX Rumors, Nintendo Direct Focuses on 3DS Announcements - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:01] <exec> 08└─PS4 and Xbone are just non-upgradeable x86 PCs with more cores than average (8, up to 7 usable). An upcoming refresh (within the next 1-2 years) on both platforms will allow 4K at playable framerates and possibly 1080p ≥60 FPS for VR purposes. People will buy these because they "just work" and bec...
[00:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Queue them - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:13] <exec> 08└─" Consider an asylum seeker drowining in the Mediterranean. The Italian or Greek coast guard [wikipedia.org] fishes him up. To save his life, they wrap him in a flimsy thin metal foil blanket. Why do they do that? Does that really work? You know that they wouldn't do it, if that procedure didn't wor...
[00:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:26] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck cares if the earth continues on without us?
[00:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:At last a good reason to ditch Linux! - 06OpenBSD 6.0 Released - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:41] <exec> 08└─I still us my PDP-11 to keep my house warm in the winter, you insensitive clod!
[00:04:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:Men lives matter? - 06Celebrations Abound as Angela Corey, "Cruelest Prosecutor in America", Ousted - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, there's a massive disparity in terms of prosecution of women versus men. Men are more likely to be tried, convicted and when convicted see longer prison terms than women do for the same crimes. I don't hear feminists clamoring for parity in those regards.
[00:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hearing What You Want to Hear - 06Celebrations Abound as Angela Corey, "Cruelest Prosecutor in America", Ousted - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:50] <exec> 08└─In sum there is a strong case to be made that those who sentence women offenders are morally and ethically justified (perhaps even mandated) to ensure that the same sentence levied on a woman as on a male offender does not in reality, albeit inadvertently, impose far greater deprivations on her beca...
[00:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not half bad - 06Celebrations Abound as Angela Corey, "Cruelest Prosecutor in America", Ousted - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:05] <exec> 08└─> People who themselves are part of oppressed groups SHOULD NOT support it when someone else is suffering the same things. If you believed that you wouldn't be such a raging islamofoe. "Oh, but XXXX are different. They aren't decent people." Said every hypocritical bigot ever.
[00:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:not half bad - 06Celebrations Abound as Angela Corey, "Cruelest Prosecutor in America", Ousted - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:13] <exec> 08└─So, in other words, you're an idiot. Bottom line here is that there's ample reason to believe that women are getting off easy here where men aren't. Boys aren't provided with the kind of safe living environment that girls are, aren't provided with support growing up and if they do commit an offense,...
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[01:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The part that got me - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:57] <exec> 08└─The part that got me is that Naled is linked to reduced brain size in human fetuses. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The part that got me - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:58] <exec> 08└─Makes sense perfect why it was used in those specific locations then.
[01:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suggested alternate dept. line - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:01] <exec> 08└─Since they're using a known-hazardous chemical and not warning anyone ahead of time, mine went a different direction: from the city-boys-doing-dumb-things-with-dangerous-stuff dept. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Incomptabile - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:05] <exec> 08└─> Peter Thiel believes that freedom and democracy are compatible. It seems you meant incompatible.
[01:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02My emotions on this: - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:07] <exec> 08└─Concern, anger, misanthropy, in that order. People suck. Pretty hard.
[01:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Shocking - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:09] <exec> 08└─I am shocked that a chemical engineered to kill flying insects killed flying insects!
[01:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Queue them - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:30] <exec> 08└─oooo, except for the inconvenient factoid that it is US spoilt 4% of the population who are using about 40-50% of the resources, soooooo, the 'logical' conclusion is to save more low-energy refugees, and for more high-energy amerikans to die off...
[01:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Queue them - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:32] <exec> 08└─Shut up, Jew.
[01:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:44] <exec> 08└─Hence why we should keep off Titan, else we destroy a world's life development in many millions of years (billions?). Mine a place for resources and the galactic future of that world might shift. Course, that's all scifi right?
[01:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:47] <exec> 08└─but so is caring about literally anything
[01:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:2) 02Re:At last a good reason to ditch Linux! - 06OpenBSD 6.0 Released - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:04] <exec> 08└─We were finally able to switch the last VAX off this year.
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[02:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Don't encourage ignorance. - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:52] <exec> 08└─People need to know the truth about the speed and capabilities of today's technology. Don't add artificial delays to pacify the ignorant. The only delays you should ever add in software are delays necessary for it to function properly, e.g. game timing. Anything else is deceptive and aimed to fool t...
[02:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't encourage ignorance. - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:54] <exec> 08└─People need to know the truth about the speed and capabilities of today's technology. Don't add artificial delays to pacify the ignorant. The only delays you should ever add in software are delays necessary for it to function properly, e.g. game timing. Anything else is deceptive and aimed to fool t...
[02:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:56] <exec> 08└─Some cars now have "engine noise" piped through the entertainment system's speakers. The designers have suppressed the engine noise so well, that they now need to add artificial noise back into the "experience".
[02:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:58] <exec> 08└─Or to prevent blind people from getting hit.
[02:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:00] <exec> 08└─Nah, I listen for the sounds of tires on roadway when I cross the street.
[02:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:02] <exec> 08└─That is different. For example, my parent's new car has both. The car generates noise on the exterior between certain speeds, which I believe are 10 and 45 MPH. What the GP is talking about is the "quiet mode" setting in the car stereo. It has three settings: off, passive, and active. When set to ac...
[02:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's fucked. You'd have to be some kind of idiot to want extra noise inside the car.
[02:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Old code +old hardware = delays or locks. - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:07] <exec> 08└─New code + new hardware = it works fine on my test machine.
[02:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old code +old hardware = delays or locks. - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:09] <exec> 08└─This is a hipster app startup! If they have last year's phone, they're not trendy enough to be our customer.
[02:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't put out on the first date. - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:11] <exec> 08└─Make him wait for it. You're not a cheap slut. Make yourself appear valuable. Because you're worth it.
[02:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like Windows update... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:13] <exec> 08└─Any version from Win95 all the way up to Win10 has the slowest update I've ever seen. Ubuntu's synaptic package manager gets shit done in 1/100th the time. Heck, in the time it takes Windows to do an update, I could install Ubuntu from scratch in less time.
[02:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like Windows update... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:16] <exec> 08└─Windows updates can roll back if they fail. Synaptic just shits itself and leaves you no options except reinstalling from scratch. Windows users don't want to have to reinstall every other month.
[02:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like Windows update... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's why Windows is so popular. Everyone considers its sloth a good thing ...
[02:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I sprayed for Zika... - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:34] <exec> 08└─...and got a Rash on my Nads ("Zika" needn't be capitalized and and the spraying was against mosquitoes).
[02:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02the controversial pesticide Naled - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:35] <exec> 08└─> the controversial pesticide Naled Naled it.
[02:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02might have ... effects including on brain size - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:37] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder if the hypothesis that babies having small brains after exposure to Zika is indeed purely due to spraying of pesticides and then blaming birth defects on Zika? Two links to writings on this by Dr. Mercola: http://articles.mercola.com
[02:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Zelda dammit - 06Amidst NX Rumors, Nintendo Direct Focuses on 3DS Announcements - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:48] <exec> 08└─Just realse Wii U Zelda already, for feck's sake.
[02:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Zelda dammit - 06Amidst NX Rumors, Nintendo Direct Focuses on 3DS Announcements - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:51] <exec> 08└─*release :^)
[02:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Queue them - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:02] <exec> 08└─That communication strategy secured this year's GOP nomination.
[02:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:20] <exec> 08└─Well, our understanding of life in the universe is going to increase dramatically in the next hundred years or so, before many significant off-world bases/colonies are established. We have a number of next-gen telescopes [nextbigfuture.com] going up in the next 2 decades that may be able to spot lif...
[02:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:25] <exec> 08└─well takyon me old fruit, i fear thee is under a misapprehension. as a nihilist allow me to elucidate, nihilism only says their is no objective meaning, there is no $DEITY in the sky, no arbiter, nothing, but we are free to create our own meaning, indeed the only meaning is that which we create. as...
[02:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:Duke again? - 06Whistleblower Sues Duke University Over Fraudulent Science - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:08] <exec> 08└─Anil Potti, Erin Potts-Kant, Leonart Pottering. I'm beginning to see a pattern...
[02:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Hearing What You Want to Hear - 06Celebrations Abound as Angela Corey, "Cruelest Prosecutor in America", Ousted - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:53] <exec> 08└─Equal punishment by giving women a shorter sentence because men don't need all that freedom anyway? UhHuh I get what it's trying to say in general, but I notice that instead of calling for the elimination of mandatory sentencing and considering the individual circumstances of each and every crime an...
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[03:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the conservative fork - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:54] <exec> 08└─It would be a shame if OO shut down. I really admired the measured pace of development and bug fixing under Apache, as opposed to adding features and bloat[1] over at Libre. But if OO is down to a handful of people then it must feel pretty hopeless to work there. [1] Compare the download sizes, I th...
[03:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the conservative fork - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:55] <exec> 08└─[1] Compare the download sizes, I think LO may be double the file size of OO (??)
[03:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Apache Foundation - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:58] <exec> 08└─What do they do now? Write crappy library/server modules with even crappier documentation so that they can make living off consulting? Can't do that with end-user applications, can they?
[03:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apache Foundation - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:00] <exec> 08└─Yep, they are the Oracle of open source landscape.
[03:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:02] <exec> 08└─Open Office and Libre Office (sorry if I couldn't be bothered to get the punctuation right) is to MS Office, what ReactOS is to Windows and as Mono is to .Net. It's pointless and inferior. OK, maybe if they could get it exactly right then it would be worthwhile because it would be free as in beer, w...
[03:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:04] <exec> 08└─So says the drones who don't care about Microsoft abusing a monopoly position. Hey, why don't you explain how OO/LO is inferior to Microsoft's offerings? You DO REALIZE that Microsoft's own software fails to read, and sometimes destroys, documents produced by previous versions of the same software?...
[03:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:06] <exec> 08└─LibreOffice does enough to work for 90% of people, and runs on Windows. It's nothing like ReactOS.
[03:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02duplication of effort - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:08] <exec> 08└─Over the years, we've seen a lot of duplication, in research, engineering, coding, etc. Marketing too, I guess. Microsoft is responsible for shutting down a lot of good office suites - my all-time favorite was Word Perfect. Cumulatively, the world lost a lot of good ideas, as a result. Real competit...
[03:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just Don't Piss Me Off - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:19] <exec> 08└─> quite literally perception affects the thing itself. Perception is reality. As long as the delay doesn't piss me off, then so what? The difference between 100 milliseconds and 1000 milliseconds is nothing compared to the delay of inputting anything into whatever system we are talking about.
[03:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't encourage ignorance. - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:21] <exec> 08└─So the masses prefer delays but what amount of delay? How many milliseconds or seconds for an airline search? Maybe naive users prefer slower stuff: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] While advanced users don't need stuff that slow: https://www.youtube.com
[03:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Douche Patrol - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:28] <exec> 08└─Really? How many different window managers have funky graphical and sound effects for window zooming and other shit? Is anyone who turns that on also some kind of idiot? Let people enjoy their toys.
[03:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:31] <exec> 08└─You didn't really read what I posted, did you? Try again.
[03:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:33] <exec> 08└─Roll down your windows, or people are gonna die.
[03:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am totally OK with That - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:35] <exec> 08└─AS long as the fake engine noise is inside the cabin than I got no complaint. You can listen to whatever weird-ass industrial music you want inside your own car.
[03:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:37] <exec> 08└─As manufacturers changed the kinds of materials used to make the cars, customers complained that the sound of the door closing made the car feel cheap. Those sounds are now engineered to produce a satisfying thud, despite even lighter materials.
[03:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like Windows update... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:44] <exec> 08└─WRONG. You can roll back an update. I had to do that only one time in the last 6 years of using Ubuntu. It was an update that borked network manager ONLY because I had the "proposed updates" box checked.
[03:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like Windows update... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:46] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the Windows updates that brick your computer, some part in it, or peripherals.
[03:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Sounds like Windows update... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:50] <exec> 08└─I read an article about how that is actually bad design on Microsoft's part. For example, they check numerous settings that only need to be checked before each individual update in a loop inside the same code as their spinlock. So not only does the CPU just spin away doing nothing on one thread, but...
[03:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score:2) 02I expect this will eventually blow up in faces - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:53] <exec> 08└─Because right now you can claim "We are not bullshitting you, our software really is that fast.". Tomorrow, some competitor will clone your product, sans the delay, and claim their system is "optimized using current-era buzzword technology to deliver instant results". Will people believe "We are not...
[03:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Reminds me of cell phones 20 years ago - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:55] <exec> 08└─In the mid-90s I worked for Qualcomm. We discovered a big problem was complete silence when nobody was talking, people assumed the call had dropped and hung up. We had to add noise so people didn't hang up and dial again when the other party was thinking.
[03:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reminds me of cell phones 20 years ago - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:57] <exec> 08└─That happens to me all the time now. I wish it would inject low-level background noise while I was talking so I would know the other party was still connected. It totally throws me off my game because of that 1 in 100 time when they actually do get disconnected and I keep on talking for 30+ seconds...
[03:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reminds me of cell phones 20 years ago - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:59] <exec> 08└─If phones could reliably play a distinct sound when the call drops then people wouldn't assume that. But what should phones do during flaky connections?
[03:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reminds me of cell phones 20 years ago - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:01] <exec> 08└─What's that, sonny? You didn't learn anything from history? During the 1960s, in-band signaling was used, so the same line for both voice conversations and telephone connection management signals. Since a pause in a voice conversation would produce silence, another method was required for switches...
[03:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Queue them - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:47] <exec> 08└─Uuuuuuhhhhhhh! You made me cum so hard, Ethan.
[03:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:05] <exec> 08└─I'm free to create my own meaning for the term "complete nihilist" :^)
[03:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:07] <exec> 08└─If the options are between dead rock or a living planet,
[03:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:2) 02Re:Interstate commerce - 06Tesla Not Allowed to Sell Directly to Missouri Customers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:36] <exec> 08└─however it does in fact breakup monopoly pricing.
[03:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It kind of makes sense - 06Tasmanian Devils are Developing Resistance to Transmissible Cancer - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:06:12] <exec> 08└─They sealed off an area of territory to keep a small portion of the still healthy population disease free in Tasmania. Not sure the numbers sequestered, but I believe this population to be sizable. They, also introduced captive-bred non-diseased animals to Maria Island (in numbers too small and a te...
[03:07:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spook brat [775] 02Rules of engagement - 06Celebrations Abound as Angela Corey, "Cruelest Prosecutor in America", Ousted - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:08] <exec> 08└─Marissa did commit a crime, and it should be a crime. You aren't allowed to fire a warning shot. Life isn't a movie, she's not serving in the Coast Guard or Air Force, and so it just isn't OK to be firing bullets in randomish directions in a populated area. Somebody could get hit. If we allowed this...
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[04:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hm. - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:51] <exec> 08└─Still won't last as long as my tuner from the 80's....
[04:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02FLAC++ - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:52] <exec> 08└─They will be capable of playing Direct Stream Digital and pulse code modulated audio files.
[04:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:the conservative fork - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:02] <exec> 08└─On a Friday night, leading up to a three day weekend, fuzzy math works for most of us. 30% is roughly equal to 100%.
[04:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:duplication of effort - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:11] <exec> 08└─I never really did understand the difference between LO and AOO and OOo and what other forks there are. I've heard that it is the pace of development, features and politics but that became even more confused as I've never really saw a delineation of said differences. Plus, LibreOffice has two branch...
[04:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:duplication of effort - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:13] <exec> 08└─As for the Bloat, I haven't seen it, so it must not affect many people. LO works on evening I have, from my quad core desktop to this Raspberry Pi V3 I'm typing on at the moment. There are a few things that are just the dickens to find in LO without resorting to a google search., but otherwise its h...
[04:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good riddance if it goes. - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#History [wikipedia.org]
[04:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't encourage ignorance. - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:27] <exec> 08└─It's all well-and-good to say "give the users the truth," but that does no good if nobody actually uses the thing. I'm sure even a socialist like yourself can see the value in "giving people what they want."
[04:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02LOL - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:28] <exec> 08└─On a small scale that may seem fine and all, unfortunately it is that line of thinking that leads to people believing in magic sky fairies and then molesting their children in its name.
[04:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:38] <exec> 08└─They are going to die anyway: my electric vehicle is very quiet and I don't play loud music, so winding down the windows won't make a difference.
[04:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reminds me of cell phones 20 years ago - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:56] <exec> 08└─0) The problem you mentioned is unrelated and is regarding in-band signalling. 1) A 2600 Hz tone is not line noise 2) A pause on those old phones wouldn't actually produce silence, but the noise the OP mentioned.
[04:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:02] <exec> 08└─I'm free to create my own meaning for the term "complete nihilist" :^)
[04:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:05] <exec> 08└─Read the sentence I quoted again. I'm not saying that I don't care about human life, I'm saying that I do care about other life. We're quite a bit closer to Mars colonization than the octopuses are, and I'd rather we not go extinct yet.
[04:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zuck on it! - 06Tasmanian Devils are Developing Resistance to Transmissible Cancer - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:00] <exec> 08└─Drat, someone already registered facecancer.com, eleven years ago. Domain Name: FACECANCER.COM Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC. Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 9 Whois Server: whois.register.com Referral URL: http://www.register.com [register.com] Na...
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[05:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hm. - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:55] <exec> 08└─... because they don't fucking make them like they used to. ... because kids these days have no craftsmanship for shit. ... because it's made in China and chinks suck at everything. ... because it's not meant to be used but only shown off by idle rich yuppie hipster startup founder scum.
[05:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FLAC++ - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:58] <exec> 08└─CD's are still PCM. In fact, pretty much everything other than DVD-Audio is PCM at one stage or another. And even DVD-Audio is often transcoded from DSD to PCM.
[05:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oblig - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:00] <exec> 08└─Rootkit?
[05:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02A new collector's item! - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:02] <exec> 08└─I'm going to buy a dozen now - they'll be worth a fortune in 100 years!
[05:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03gumby [3079] (Score:1) 02hey, I came here to avoid slashvertising! - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:04] <exec> 08└─Is there any actual technical value in this article?
[05:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:hey, I came here to avoid slashvertising! - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:06] <exec> 08└─It's gold-plated AND oxygen-free!
[05:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:hey, I came here to avoid slashvertising! - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:09] <exec> 08└─Why should there be? There's none I can see in the product.
[05:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:49] <exec> 08└─Your public confession of disregard for life will be used against you in court when the charges are upgraded from vehicular manslaughter to vehicular homicide.
[05:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I do not believe you - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:54] <exec> 08└─http://www.howtogeek.com/94336/five-fake-sounds-engineered-to-make-your-feel-better-science/ [howtogeek.com]
[05:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reminds me of cell phones 20 years ago - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:11] <exec> 08└─I see. So you stupid kids are utterly incapable of learning from history because similar concepts that aren't exactly the same are too fucking difficult for you to understand. No wonder Reddit has a whole section for you called explain-me-like-I'm-a-shit-eating-fucktard.
[05:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02MacOS X - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:13] <exec> 08└─Ah, so this is why MacOS X, now renamed macOS, is so damned slow on my 8 year old iMac: it's pretending to work while its really just sitting there doing nothing. Wow... what a concept! Sort of like working a job in the Soviet Union: we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. But in all serious...
[05:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Natales [2163] (Score:2) 02We're fucked. - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:20] <exec> 08└─It's time to accept it. The threat is real, and no, we are not going to solve it. There is simply not enough political will at a global level to implement the radical changes that are needed at the speed they are needed. By the time shit gets in-your-face bad for a large segment of the population an...
[05:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It kind of makes sense - 06Tasmanian Devils are Developing Resistance to Transmissible Cancer - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:06:26] <exec> 08└─While you are generally right if a gene isn't any or that much less beneficial than another gene then it may remain in the population. There are genes that are neither beneficial nor detrimental relative to other genes, otherwise natural selection would make everyone identical. Some people may have...
[05:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It kind of makes sense - 06Tasmanian Devils are Developing Resistance to Transmissible Cancer - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:06:27] <exec> 08└─errr ... if a gene isn't any or that much less detrimental than another gene *
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[06:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lindsay Lohan used to be hot - 06Lindsay Lohan GTA V Case Kicked Out of Court - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:51] <exec> 08└─Now she's just a mean old girl.
[06:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lindsay Lohan used to be hot - 06Lindsay Lohan GTA V Case Kicked Out of Court - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:52] <exec> 08└─You can probably track her decline in appearance with mugshots.
[06:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:the conservative fork - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:18] <exec> 08└─30% is roughly equal to 100%.
[06:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Please merge! - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:28] <exec> 08└─OpenOffice's name is probably its biggest asset. I finally have coworkers who know it by name. I don't want to go through the process of saying that it is now Libre Office.
[06:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MacOS X - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:15] <exec> 08└─I've fixed that in my own applications by programming a context manager that introduces a delay before it ends. So you can use "with ArbitraryDelay(2): do_stuff()" and that line will take a minimum of two seconds. Basically, the enter special method takes the current time stamp and exit one makes su...
[06:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02I want to punch programmers in the face - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:16] <exec> 08└─and then set them on fire. To make it appear more convincing and valuable.
[06:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Shocking - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:33] <exec> 08└─Generally Bees are much more sensitive to insecticides then other flying insects. They're also one of the most important insects to our survival. As a aside, heard an interview, probably the same woman in the summary, on the way home today (CBC). Poor woman lost something like 84 hives, which were h...
[06:04:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02Re:It's a Chinese Conspiracy! - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:07] <exec> 08└─It's easy to blame the Chinese, but they are actually doing more to help than most other countries. They actually fund and build nuclear power plants. They are investing in energy research. Mark my words, in 20 years, we will be buying our power plants from the Chinese, where 20 years ago, they boug...
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[07:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Rockstar Games response - 06Lindsay Lohan GTA V Case Kicked Out of Court - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:58] <exec> 08└─"The strung-out toothless meth prostitute under the freeway was not based on Ms. Lohan. The resemblance is purely coincidental."
[07:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Hm. - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:07] <exec> 08└─Eh, in the grand scheme of things, with 10s of thousands of dollar cables and what not, these are small potatoes in the realm of "boutique" audio gear. The big question is how well will they perform compared to gear in a similar price range, and more importantly how well they compare to best buys in...
[07:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:hey, I came here to avoid slashvertising! - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:16] <exec> 08└─There's no slashvertising here, only soylvertising.
[07:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Please merge! - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:37] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about the name change. I've been using this suite since Sun owned it and called it Star Office. People will figure it out and make the transition. If they need help, here's a handy timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[07:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I do not believe you - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:05] <exec> 08└─So the reality is much less than the hype. They made it sound less flimsy by making sure it doesn't rattle and that all the connection points are intelligently aligned which is not the same as a "satisfying thud."
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[08:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02is your soap banned? - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:52] <exec> 08└─I have a 64 oz bottle of benzalkonium chloride based soap. It's in the 3 that they are deferring action on: In response to comments submitted by industry, the FDA has deferred rulemaking for one year on three additional ingredients used in consumer wash products – benzalkonium chloride, benzethoni...
[08:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02uh oh - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 2286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:53] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzalkonium_chloride [wikipedia.org] In 2011, a large clinical trial designed to evaluate the efficacy of hand sanitizers based on different active ingredients in preventing virus transmission amongst schoolchildren was re-designed to exclude sanitizers based on benza...
[08:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obama's pals get a free pass! - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:55] <exec> 08└─does not affect antiseptic products used in healthcare settings
[08:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama's pals get a free pass! - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:57] <exec> 08└─http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265044/ [nih.gov] This study was designed to assess exposure to triclosan in a representative sample ≥ 6 years of age of the U.S. general population from the 2003–2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). [...] We detected conce...
[08:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama's pals get a free pass! - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:00] <exec> 08└─What's in your disgusting American body?
[08:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:02] <exec> 08└─Like some of the other members here, I was born in the mid-1900's. We were taught as children to wash our hands. Teachers and mothers wanted hands washed several times a day, but they actually got one or two clean-hands moments each day. If you could still see what color your hands were, they were p...
[08:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02special snowflakes - 06Lindsay Lohan GTA V Case Kicked Out of Court - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:13] <exec> 08└─In the celebrity world, everything is about me, me, ME! Any similarities between me and anything is obviously about me, and I should be able to make some money off of it. Don't even try to tell Lindsay and freinds about reality. In reality, worn out old skanks aren't unique at all. You can buy and s...
[08:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:hey, I came here to avoid slashvertising! - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:31] <exec> 08└─It simply shows that Sony has not changed since the 90s, where it started using the brand recognition to sell overpriced and standard-disrupting stuff. Apple and Samsung, take note. In fact, I learned to appreciate standards thanks to the evil deeds of Sony, rather than from Microsoft. Disclaimer, m...
[08:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want to punch programmers in the face - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:42] <exec> 08└─>look Sauna You are in a sauna. There is nothing in the room except for a dial on the wall. A door leads out to west. It is normal room temperature in here. >inventory You currently have: A lamp An RMS statuette >examine statuette The statuette is of the likeness of Richard Stallman, the author...
[08:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comcast Effect - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:43] <exec> 08└─People are so used to Comcast and Windows they are confused when stuff works quick.
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[09:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama's pals get a free pass! - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Because now the addicts will need to go to the hospital to get their daily does of antiseptic. -> Huge profit!!!! Seriously, if it really takes an Obama to figure that the cost-benefit trade-off may be different in a healthcare setting, then I'm all for a third term.
[09:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama's pals get a free pass! - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:07] <exec> 08└─Hell yeah, if evvvvvvverybodyyyyyy writes-in Barracks O'Bummer for Prez, he can't lose! Fuck the Constitution!
[09:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama's pals get a free pass! - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:10] <exec> 08└─Soetoro Beamu~
[09:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama's pals get a free pass! - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:12] <exec> 08└─You're right. That is what I am calling for in my above comment, subject to that if-clause. But for extra clarity I'll amend that with "and Lord have mercy!" (While the real tragedy behind our conversation, AC, is that it's getting so hard to tell deliberate trolling from honest idiocy. Which am I r...
[09:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Employees Must Wash Hands - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:15] <exec> 08└─Because I didn't come here to eat your shit. Also when you're going to live at the public library because you're homeless and ain't no jerbs in the Obamanation, I would appreciate it if you washed your shitstained hands before you touch books I might want to read, because I didn't come to the librar...
[09:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Employees Must Wash Hands - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:17] <exec> 08└─It will be alright. I only look in books with words, you only look in books with pictures, so you have nothing to fear.
[09:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:19] <exec> 08└─Partially cult of the child (Is your child safe from the billions of bacteria out there?), partially lackluster science education, and mostly scares about drug-resistant bacteria (medicine has been big on all germs are bad, yo for a while now). As a society we are very isolated from the dirty jobs t...
[09:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:21] <exec> 08└─> if you're going to drop dead because your hands are dirty, please, walk out into the alley, and do it quietly. That's you in about 10 more years. When its your turn you'll be bathing in it like all internet tough guys.
[09:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:23] <exec> 08└─Wow, so you're 110 years old?
[09:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900s [wikipedia.org] activation: destroy everything
[09:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:28] <exec> 08└─WTF does any semi-healthy person need to "sanitize" their hands, anyway? Are we so very afraid of bacteria, germs, and whatever? FFS, billions of people managed to grow up, procreate, and sometimes even have long and healthy lives, before we even understood what germs were.
[09:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:the conservative fork - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:07] <exec> 08└─87% of all stats are made up anyway
[09:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OO is under Apache, not Mozilla... - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:17] <exec> 08└─That said Apache has turned from a highly focused team pushing the boundaries of web development into the place corporations send their formerly commercial/badly open sourced code to die. How many of apache's projects are still in the incubator and not the attic anymore? Harmony 5 and 6 were only 10...
[09:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:41] <exec> 08└─The idiots who want this kind of thing are the same kind of idiots who mis-tune their motorcycles to make them as loud as possible, to the detriment of everyone around them.
[09:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:46] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think that should be expanded to "cartones". Why shouldn't a silent electric car sound like George Jetson's car?
[09:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnampff [5658] (Score:2) 02Re:I expect this will eventually blow up in faces - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:04] <exec> 08└─Or you could abuse that kind of stuff for your own marketing. Just "optimize" your software with the next update, making half the querys have half the delay and repeat that over a few updates until you removed all the sleep()s.
[09:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:MacOS X - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:14] <exec> 08└─Are you using a guaranteed monotonic clock for the timestamps? If so what are you using? In some systems/environments it's not so easy to get a monotonic time source (more so if you want a low cpu, high performance and high precision one). If you are using something similar to "wall clock" time (e.g...
[09:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Were you born yesterday - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:58] <exec> 08└─Well you sure showed everyone how smart you are. Remember to always start with insults! That will sure prove all you arguments!
[09:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a little perspective - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:05:27] <exec> 08└─I wrote the sentence. At best your response was an unrelated tangent caused by you brainfarting on a syntax parsing error that context should have corrected. Its liked you pulled an "all lives matter" cop-out.
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[10:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Roddenbedding - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:48] <exec> 08└─Didn't Star Trek furnish bedrooms with metallic cloth everywhere for sheets and pillowcases? What effect does woven metallic clothing have besides staining space babes green?
[10:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Roddenbedding - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:49] <exec> 08└─Aluminium thread in socks helps keep your feet warmer... http://mobile.easylifegroup.com [easylifegroup.com]
[10:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Roddenbedding - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:51] <exec> 08└─Well then replicating woven metallic blankets for Bajoran refugees makes perfect sense.
[10:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Feel? - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:53] <exec> 08└─The unanswered question I have is whether it feels nice against skin. Many synthetic clothing materials are simply less comfortable. While I'd love cooler clothing, it's not enough of an improvement if it feels like plastic.
[10:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Feel? - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:56] <exec> 08└─That success gave the researchers a single-sheet material that met their three basic criteria for a cooling fabric. To make this thin material more fabric-like, they created a three-ply version: two sheets of treated polyethylene separated by a cotton mesh for strength and thickness. To test the coo...
[10:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Next questions.. - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:58] <exec> 08└─Is It BPA-free? Is it carcinogenic? What happens when you wear it through a scanner at an airport?
[10:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Next questions.. - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:00] <exec> 08└─If you don't want to travel naked for our freedoms, you're a terrorist.
[10:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Next questions.. - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:02] <exec> 08└─polyethylene = (C2H4)n BPA = (CH3)2C(C6H4OH)2
[10:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Prior Art - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:04] <exec> 08└─Its called "Linsey-woolsey", blend of cotton and wool. American Civil War tech, I believe.
[10:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prior Art - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:06] <exec> 08└─Abomination! The Bible says thou shalt not wear garments woven of two different kinds of yarn! God hates poly-blend flags!
[10:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prior Art - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:09] <exec> 08└─God hates fat! [smbc-comics.com]
[10:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:33] <exec> 08└─"Go die in a gutter, whiny drama queen..."
[10:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:34] <exec> 08└─That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Yeah, we washed our hands when we thought of it. I hit on that in my original post. And, we dealt with germs, bacteria, and viruses, just as every human and every human-like creature has done since before we climbed down from the trees. We develop res...
[10:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:48] <exec> 08└─Fags [wikipedia.org].
[10:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:49] <exec> 08└─Best of both worlds: middle-aged man in sedan gets "sporty" engine and exhaust noise, but everyone outside hears "normal" (likely quiet) car. Some people like a slightly... interesting.. noise from their vehicle (no, loud exhausts on motorbikes for the sake of noise are notnthe same thing at all)
[10:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This is Peter Thiel's America - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:38] <exec> 08└─Well, actions like this do explain why Thiel would publicly wonder if "freedom and democracy are compatible". Incompetent technocrats ran the show here because elected leaders are either more incompetent or cowardly.
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[11:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02OT: Checking the related links? - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:57] <exec> 08└─So, looking at the "related links" sidebar I saw: SoylentNews takyon is dead
[11:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Roddenbedding - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:08] <exec> 08└─Especially if you combine it with some iron oxide [wikipedia.org].
[11:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Infrared and cameras - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:17] <exec> 08└─How naked do you appear to near-infrared cameras? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Anyway might be cooler if the clothing can absorb the heat and radiate it at different wavelengths: http://www.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] http://www.nature.com
[11:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:44] <exec> 08└─The difference between living in the United States in the mid 20th and early 21st century is today we have imported millions of street shitters to the US. As for banning antibacterial soaps, this is the kind of pseudoscientific thought I would have expected from a President who campaigned on the ide...
[11:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Hm. - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:05] <exec> 08└─The question is did Sony do the engineering to make these best of the best (they have the resources and engineering to make the very best in the world), or are they selling buzzwords to an unsuspecting public.
[11:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Hm. - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:07] <exec> 08└─It's not exactly that easy. Higher sampling rates give digital filters more breathing room to operate, to where noise can be gently rolled instead of a hard cutoff. Bit density is a meh, but 24 bit is becoming the new norm for high end audio regardless of diminishing returns. You want your equipment...
[11:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 2445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:33] <exec> 08└─Drone....ROFL butthurt much? You DO know when you act like that you come off like this guy [penny-arcade.com] and that REALLY doesn't help your case....yes? Look you are gonna have to face a cold hard fact....you lost. Privacy is dead because the public is a bunch of self involved narcissist twits t...
[11:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:We're fucked. - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:05:53] <exec> 08└─The smart money was always on adaptation. There's too many bigger problems that are made worse when one neglects them in favor of pursuing an arbitrary climate level without regard for the cost.
[11:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FuzzyTheBear [974] (Score:1) 02Get rid of them - 06Tesla Not Allowed to Sell Directly to Missouri Customers - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:37] <exec> 08└─There's no sense in having to have to sell at raised prices by using a middle man. Customer looses .. Why keep dealerships at all ? I would rather let all the producers sell their cars directly and have them do the service than Joe Blow rake my pockets like they do today. Check the prices of the par...
[11:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:not half bad - 06Celebrations Abound as Angela Corey, "Cruelest Prosecutor in America", Ousted - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:56] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Even the most primitive systems of justice had a sense of proportionality (eg, "eye for an eye" justice among other things restricted how much punishment could be inflicted by making it equal to the original harm, at least how the lawgiver in question (such as Hammurabi) perceived the h...
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[12:02:03] <exec> 08└─The set of Star Trek was furnished by gay men. Gay men love their metallic fabrics.
[12:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Roddenbedding - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:05] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah I got an urge to watch the ep where Riker is repeatedy raped by aliens while he's sleeping. The aliens sample other crew but they can't get enough of Riker every night. Who could blame them for wanting him so badly.
[12:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Feel? - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:09] <exec> 08└─How about a three-way comparison including a standard golf shirt? I just wore one yesterday, was outside all day and it worked great.
[12:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Rockstar Games response - 06Lindsay Lohan GTA V Case Kicked Out of Court - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:52] <exec> 08└─Two words: Jewish Lawyers.
[12:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FLAC++ - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:08] <exec> 08└─Also audio files with extension *.wav and *.aiff files are encoded in PCM for instance. PCM is simply a sampled and quantized version of the analog audio wave. The equivalent of the RGB format for images (as in bitmap files *.bmp).
[12:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:hey, I came here to avoid slashvertising! - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe not technical value as in information about technology, but technically we are all benefiting because it gives us a chance to bash Sony again and that makes us feel better.
[12:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Humans - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:48] <exec> 08└─So let's kill millions more because we're reacting in a knee jerk fashion due to lack of preparedness and watching Zika slowly get out of control for months.
[12:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Glass half full: unemployment down - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:01] <exec> 08└─But if you look on the sunny side.. Unemployment in South Carolina will be way, way down, as agricultural workers crawl slowly through the fields, fertilizing every single plant with a small painting brush. P.S. my grandfather was a bee-keeper. People who had that as a hobby/occupation were quite we...
[12:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Queue them - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:23] <exec> 08└─That is true, that is true. All i can do i wonder.
[12:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Queue them - 06Nasa: Earth is Warming at a Pace 'Unprecedented in 1,000 Years' - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:33] <exec> 08└─I believe that it is highly possible that human activity is significantly heating this space rock Exactly. But what if it is no 'space rock'? There is no 'global' warming, because the Earth is a REALM, not a 'globe'- the Truth is stranger than fiction! Do your OWN research!
[12:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Rules of engagement - 06Celebrations Abound as Angela Corey, "Cruelest Prosecutor in America", Ousted - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:05] <exec> 08└─Snark aside, I'm quite serious about point (1) above: don't involve a weapon unless you actually have lethal intent. Shoot to kill or don't draw, there is no "wing" or "warning". Any application of lethal force in a less-than-lethal manner is misuse and/or torture, and there's no place for it in U.S...
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[13:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Next from Samsung - 06Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 due to Exploding Batteries - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:50] <exec> 08└─Given the costs associated to dumping electronics, I predict Samsung will present soon The Galaxy Note ISIS soldier edition.
[13:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02modern economy - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:59] <exec> 08└─If Google wanted it, Google would have had it. Modular concept are nothing more than "how we made stuff back in the 70s". Now, a reconstruction of what likely went on: Google> good news everyone averageGuy> here we go again! Google> we are developing an open, modular, repairable phone. Samsung> WHAT...
[13:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:modern economy - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:01] <exec> 08└─Modular concept are nothing more than "how we made stuff back in the 70s".
[13:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Parallel to microkernel - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:03] <exec> 08└─Seemed nice in theory, but impractical in ... practice.
[13:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02modular you say - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah I have a modular type phone thing. It's called carrying a hotspot and a tablet and a battery and tethering them together.
[13:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:03:45] <exec> 08└─+1 ad hominem +1 TODR
[13:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:MacOS X - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:48] <exec> 08└─The thing with the save-function is to disable the save-button when there's nothing to save. If there's no feedback on wether the program saved or not, then how is the user to know. I prefer feedback over timers, although pretty much all interactions with humans do need to make sure a human can noti...
[13:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mercola often knows what he is talking about - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:15] <exec> 08└─You must not have heard that adequate vitamin D helps prevent cancer, which is why tanning with the right wavelengths (UVB, which Mercola sells) is indeed good for you because the benefits outweigh the risks. "Higher levels of vitamin D correspond to lower cancer risk" https://www.sciencedaily.com
[13:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Details on Amiri - 06Iran Releases Physicist after Five Years in Jail - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:09] <exec> 08└─Well, you said Mossad. In my place the heads of the secret service were outed as members of the P2 lodge, who were not exactly sheep. I would consider secret services ruthless by default. Not to excuse Israel, but to give heads up to anybody thinking romantically. The agents might be as selfless as...
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[14:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02A corrupt politician won't be missed, but - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:55] <exec> 08└─The people pushing the impeachment hardest were even more corrupt and stand to gain power from it.
[14:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So she got eaten out by an intern? - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:57] <exec> 08└─Sex scandal is the only way an American president gets impeached. Breaking budget responsibility rules? Oh come on. That's not even an offense in civilized government.
[14:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So she got eaten out by an intern? - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:59] <exec> 08└─All I could think of when I read that was "We impeached our President and all we got was a Brazillian!" I have *Such* a dirty mind... *Grins*
[14:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So she got eaten out by an intern? - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:01] <exec> 08└─Unless she put her people in less debt than was expected. Debt is control, after all. Ask lincoln and his greenbacks, or kennedy and his messing with the fed reserve.
[14:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like it was a recall - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:03] <exec> 08└─that was shoehorned into an impeachment. She was blamed for her handling of the economy and the budget [bbc.com]. Of course, the Olympics and the Zika virus didn't help.
[14:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score:2) 02Integrates batteries - 06Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 due to Exploding Batteries - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:12] <exec> 08└─I wonder how they are feeling about the money they saved by integrating the batteries instead of making hem removable now...
[14:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prior Art - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:44] <exec> 08└─Polyethylene Leisure Suits.
[14:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Prior Art - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:46] <exec> 08└─God hates.
[14:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02it's worse than that - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:15] <exec> 08└─if we're going to have an fda they shouldn't have allowed this shit to begin with. As it is now, they should just ban this quackery all together. I think this "effectiveness problem" is actually just a whitewashing of what they know but are too compromised to say. That the use/misuse of these produc...
[14:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:07] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried using Impress? It's terrible, it's very difficult to figure out how to do anything. I have that installed as part of OpenOffice at work (Ubuntu 14.04) and whenever I have to create a slide deck, I go back home and make the slides on PowerPoint from MS Office 2010 that I bought on...
[14:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:10] <exec> 08└─people who use MS office over libre office (by choice) are ignorant whores.
[14:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like Windows update... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:00] <exec> 08└─Like I said, all of these are intentionally placed artificial delays intended to make Microsoft seem more reliable and trustworthy. It makes people buy Windows because they all think it works so hard.
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[15:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02in other news - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:55] <exec> 08└─george bush didn't won by popular vote, nevertheless he was president how many years?
[15:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Next from Samsung - 06Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note 7 due to Exploding Batteries - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:04] <exec> 08└─I was thinking along similar lines. No need to make a pipe bomb for your terroristic activities, just buy a Galaxy Note 7, overload the batteries, and toss it at your target. It can't be much more dangerous to you, than packing those pipe bomb grenades!!
[15:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Would have been nice - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:17] <exec> 08└─It might have been nice if they could have pulled it off right. Project Ara might have made the mobile phone market look a lot more like the IBM PC clone market of the eighties, but instead of Microsoft and MS-DOS we'd have Google and Android. Google though would not be in quite the same extremely p...
[15:02:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 903 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:59] <exec> 08└─Like some of the other members here, I was born in the mid-1900's. We were taught as children to wash our hands. Teachers and mothers wanted hands washed several times a day, but they actually got one or two clean-hands moments each day. If you could still see what color your hands were, they were p...
[15:03:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:06] <exec> 08└─WTF does any semi-healthy person need to "sanitize" their hands, anyway? Are we so very afraid of bacteria, germs, and whatever? FFS, billions of people managed to grow up, procreate, and sometimes even have long and healthy lives, before we even understood what germs were.
[15:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:10] <exec> 08└─That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger, unless it makes you weaker. I used to work in machine shops where at least one machinist never washed his hands after using the bathroom. I got sick at least once a month. Now I run a shop at a medical device company where people have a more sophistica...
[15:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rockstar Games response - 06Lindsay Lohan GTA V Case Kicked Out of Court - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:23] <exec> 08└─Wat
[15:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:special snowflakes - 06Lindsay Lohan GTA V Case Kicked Out of Court - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:25] <exec> 08└─But it was about her -- a flattering shape but carictured in parody. It was the the less than positive, clearly exploitative use of her image that she... well. I am guessing she wanted to profit from it. I am reluctant to believe she'd be offended, given some of the roles she's had, outfits she's wo...
[15:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:07] <exec> 08└─I'll be honest - I haven't had to do real office work in decades. Which translates to mean, I've never used an office suite to earn my living. Back then, and "office suite" would have meant an office with a window view, I think. Or, at least a port hole, to look out at the ocean. I've never used a c...
[15:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like Windows update... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:00] <exec> 08└─Windows 95 didn't come out with automatic updates. That was introduced later and popularized in the release of Windows 98, I thought... Windows NT 4.0 (both server and workstation) didn't have automatic updates, either -- those were the days when someone actually made a thoughtful decision as to if...
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[16:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:1) 02No, it wasn't - 06World's First Integrated Circuit Microcomputer Found - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:58] <exec> 08└─The rope memory from the first flight of an Apollo Guidance computer has been hacked upon. The hype around this is ridiculous.
[16:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:A corrupt politician won't be missed, but - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:06] <exec> 08└─She had her faults, but she had not gained a cent for herself. Unlike those against her, accused of robbing millions.
[16:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OT: Checking the related links? - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:28] <exec> 08└─If you keep reading you'll see the explanation: food truck delayed again
[16:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02sad but true - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:35] <exec> 08└─if the plugable modules would have birthed a industry standard and if the modules would have been maybe two sizes, like the size of a micro SD for one type of module and double micro SD in area and "fatness" for the second type, it might have worked. tho i doubt it's possible to have a (one type of)...
[16:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Prediction - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:37] <exec> 08└─Someone will release a modular phone five years from now, and lots of people will rush to say "But Google thought of it first!"
[16:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Roddenbedding - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:48] <exec> 08└─Probably does, but I'm not sure being exposed to neurotoxin on a regular basis is a worthwhile cost.
[16:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Prior Art - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:02] <exec> 08└─The gear that US military personnel were wearing during Vietnam is shockingly cool when you consider how thick and tough it is. I wore some hiking one time and I was very surprised how cool it kept me even though it's quite thick. Sometimes it's amazing what useful stuff they're selling at the local...
[16:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Prior Art - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:04] <exec> 08└─I think Polyester [wikipedia.org]-cotton blends may be prior art. Like the shirt I am literally wearing right now. Can't read the proportions on the tag, but it is also easier to clean the plain cotton.
[16:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Fire safety? - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:07] <exec> 08└─My training in firefighting emphasized the fact that natural fibers get hot, and smolder. All synthetic fiber clothes* tended to melt into your skin. This makes a huge difference to a person trapped behind a wall of flames. In wool or cotton or hemp clothing, you can make a dash for safety, and you...
[16:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only F - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:09] <exec> 08└─I was getting excited for a second, but then I kept reading and found it was only 4 American degrees.
[16:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Only F - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:11] <exec> 08└─I think you mean Polish Degrees, but, we're more than happy to accept credit for the obviously superior scale.
[16:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:39] <exec> 08└─If your understanding of why you were getting sick is a lack of handwashing, then clearly the place you're working doesn't have anymore sophistication in terms of beliefs about handwashing. I wish germ theory would die, it's an outmoded and dangerous world view. It's a superstition that's been aroun...
[16:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:42] <exec> 08└─They don't. I remember spending time in the micro-biology lab when I was in college and whenever I'd come or go from there, I'd wash the hell out of my hands. But, the thing people don't realize is that bacteria grow quickly and are very small. It takes an enormous amount of effort to completely rem...
[16:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:1) 02Good - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:45] <exec> 08└─The widespread use of antibacterial agents in houshold soaps has been making these agents less effective where they are needed, in hospitals
[16:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MacOS X - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, we do provide feedback. But like I said, if it pops up and goes away to fast or the disable period too short, people just ended up doing it again to "make sure it took." Which, multiplied across all users on our system generated unnecessary load, so we added the fake delay. The only real alterna...
[16:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:This is Peter Thiel's America - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:04] <exec> 08└─Can a technocrat be incompetent? By definition it seems like they couldn't be.
[16:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:might have ... effects including on brain size - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:14] <exec> 08└─More on the theme that things may be more complex: http://www.naturalnews.com [naturalnews.com] "For decades, Zika transmission was extremely rare. The virus didn't start spreading until after 2012 – right after the biotech company Oxitec released...
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[17:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:No, it wasn't - 06World's First Integrated Circuit Microcomputer Found - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:02] <exec> 08└─I disagree. It is a piece of computer history that was a milestone for the time. The technology was not always advanced, but they did stretch the possible with the nor-gate based computer in terms of size, performance and power consumption. Let alone the software... Surely, it does not compare anywa...
[17:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Progress - 06World's First Integrated Circuit Microcomputer Found - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:04] <exec> 08└─It really is amazing how far we've come in 50 years.
[17:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:sad but true - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:42] <exec> 08└─The EOMA68 Free/Libre and Modular Computing Devices [soylentnews.org] standarrd primarily uses USB for interfacing with the rest of the system. They do make USB cameras and cellular modems. The only problem is that It may be a little bulky for the cell-phone form-factor.
[17:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Feel? - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, my unanswered question is where was this professor in the 80s? This is not a exactly new concept, and you can hardly find any cotton in modern sports clothing these days.
[17:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:uh oh - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:26] <exec> 08└─I have several giant bars of lye soap bought in Mexico.... Rubber gloves are recommened.
[17:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:46] <exec> 08└─I'll grant that some people need to live in sanitized bubbles. Most people do not. There's a difference between sanitation measures like enclosed sewers, running water, and washing one's hands before eating. Now here comes triclosan! It's the take off and nuke it from orbit approach. Now, the hygien...
[17:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:49] <exec> 08└─Cool. Modded down for speaking the truth. If antibacterial soap is not effective, why the fuck does he medical community get an exemption to keep using them? Truth is: we imported a fuckton of people who were never taught good hygeine, and FDA decided that the potential risk of superbug antibacteria...
[17:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:48] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is very good at the more tedious aspects of UX. They sit users in front of a PC and have someone ask them to open one of their products and try to perform a certain task, and that person will be watched through a one-way mirror with researchers taking notes. Another thing MS has lots of mo...
[17:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just Don't Piss Me Off - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:12] <exec> 08└─I think they're talking about 1000ms vs. 18,000ms.
[17:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MacOS X - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:59] <exec> 08└─To be honest, the monotonic time in Python on Windows is weird and they don't translate units the way it really should. So I think we just use the current time stamp for the regular version because the instances where there would accidentally be adjustments over more than a few seconds are very few....
[17:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is Peter Thiel's America - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:19] <exec> 08└─> Can a technocrat be incompetent? By definition it seems like they couldn't be. Technocrats are experts within the very narrow range of their specific field. But real life is never so narrowly constrained so for practical purposes a technocracy is always incompetent. They just tend to be delusional...
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[18:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Progress - 06World's First Integrated Circuit Microcomputer Found - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:09] <exec> 08└─It's also really amazing how far we've retreated in 50 years... from lunar landings to LEO.
[18:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So she got eaten out by an intern? - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:20] <exec> 08└─Brazillians are dirty?
[18:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:OT: Checking the related links? - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:42] <exec> 08└─ISIS was just too attractive.
[18:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ara dead? More like Google killed it before birth - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:52] <exec> 08└─Every time I heard something about this, it was either not being released anytime soon or it was being shoved off for "testing" to one particular corner of Europe or something similar. If this is dead, then it's because Google killed it in the egg before it even hatched. Probably microwaved it, to b...
[18:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:54] <exec> 08└─That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Yeah, we washed our hands when we thought of it. I hit on that in my original post. And, we dealt with germs, bacteria, and viruses, just as every human and every human-like creature has done since before we climbed down from the trees. We develop res...
[18:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Kool - 06Amidst NX Rumors, Nintendo Direct Focuses on 3DS Announcements - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:43] <exec> 08└─It's as you say, Sony and M$ are making consoles that are increasingly resembling PCs, and as they continue to do so, developers begin to realize that with relatively minimal effort, a game for one of those systems can be ported to PC. The console exclusive is dissappearing, fortunately.
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[19:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:59] <exec> 08└─So by any reasonable standard, she withheld evidence in contempt of court and may have destroyed evidence. Five additional devices? Really? Anyone care to start a pool on why they were destroyed in the manner described? After all, information security is obviously at the forefront of this woman's th...
[19:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02A delicate balance must be maintained - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:00] <exec> 08└─The Trump thing is making things a bit difficult for the democrats. If they win too many seats in congress, they won't be able to use "republican obstructionism" as an excuse to break election year promises. So the democrats have to put their most corrupt politicians on the ballot to avoid too big a...
[19:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Higher ups are always worse with this stuff - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:02] <exec> 08└─Or at least that has been my observation. The political appointees are clueless. They haven't come up the ranks and lived this stuff like a career person. Those of us much further down the org chart handle this stuff much more delicately because we're afraid of slipping up and getting in trouble. We...
[19:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02This cannot be true - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:04] <exec> 08└─Hillary Clinton never received training on how to handle classified information.
[19:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:This cannot be true - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry... I don't know how that cut-and-paste of the quotation ended up in two places in my post. Should've caught it in preview... my bad.
[19:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Progress - 06World's First Integrated Circuit Microcomputer Found - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:23] <exec> 08└─You are referring to manned spaceflight, of course.
[19:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Progress - 06World's First Integrated Circuit Microcomputer Found - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:24] <exec> 08└─Building on what Tibman said, we have the Voyager probes going interstellar, and New Horizons has zipped past Pluto and is heading for 2014 MU69, which will be 43.4 AU away from the Sun. We've also orbited and landed on a comet. The "sky crane" used to land Curiosity on Mars could be used for future...
[19:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The timeslive page's layout is horrible - 06World's First Integrated Circuit Microcomputer Found - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:27] <exec> 08└─The first 60 percent of the page's HTML is unrelated crap. ...and, since I don't bother downloading CSS (or fonts or anything else that isn't readable text), that page looks to me like it was produced by an 8 year old. The link really deserved a fragment identifier [timeslive.co.za] from the submitt...
[19:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:A corrupt politician won't be missed, but - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:37] <exec> 08└─Impeached 60 to 20. No matter how you slice it, this was not a close thing even though cry babies who have power taken away from them will kick up a fuss. Good riddance. Let constitutional law and order continue.
[19:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:A corrupt politician won't be missed, but - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:39] <exec> 08└─"What do you call it, when the assassin accuses the assassin?"
[19:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So she got eaten out by an intern? - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:45] <exec> 08└─her offense was being leftist while residing in the western hemisphere
[19:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Feel? - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:34] <exec> 08└─Actually, my unanswered question is where was this professor in the 80s? This is not a exactly new concept, and you can hardly find any cotton in modern sports clothing these days.
[19:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:19] <exec> 08└─I work in a facility that provides services to families, with emphasis on children. Where I work, staff are constantly sick and gone for days at a time. I keep my own hands and face clean, and wash hands/face around a dozen times during work hours and I also keep an alcohol cleaner at my desk as I d...
[19:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:it's worse than that - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:26] <exec> 08└─These aren’t antibiotics, they’re antiseptics and disinfectants. Most of them will kill any living organism. We just use a less than lethal dose for humans. Main reason for the ban is that they kill the bacteria in septic systems and water treatment plants.
[19:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another attempt to limit competition? - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:29] <exec> 08└─If soap needed FDA approval to be anti-bacterial then, as usual, the FDA will limit approval to a very select few that provides it with backdoor dealings. The price of anti-bacterial soap will increase by 10X and, like with everything else that needs FDA approval (such as ultrasounds), consumers wil...
[19:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score:2) 02I concur with the ruling - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:31] <exec> 08└─I kind of agree with this ruling, they have been adding these chemicals as a gimmick, many are not aware of the possible health of effects of them, and it is somewhat difficult to avoid them. There is always the danger of creating super bacteria by recklessly using these chemicals in widespread cons...
[19:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Hm. - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:57] <exec> 08└─In addition to this, because of how the Fourier transform operates, transient responses - step functions, discontinuities - require infinite frequency response to reproduce entirely correctly. There are a lot of transients in music, from percussion to note attacks. We can't hear ultrasonic sine wave...
[19:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hm. - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:58] <exec> 08└─Even DJs that need to tempo and key match difference pieces only need 196 khz. I've never understood why more than 16 bits was needed. The loudness wars have already effectively made only 5 bits or so significant. What difference does 16 bit, 24 bit, or 32 bit make if we still only have 5 bits that...
[19:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like Windows update... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─Windows 95 didn't come out with automatic updates. That was introduced later and popularized in the release of Windows 98, I thought... Windows NT 4.0 (both server and workstation) didn't have automatic updates, either -- those were the days when someone actually made a thoughtful decision as to if...
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[20:02:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 506 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:01] <exec> 08└─So by any reasonable standard, she withheld evidence in contempt of court and may have destroyed evidence. Five additional devices? Really? Anyone care to start a pool on why they were destroyed in the manner described? After all, information security is obviously at the forefront of this woman's th...
[20:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:03] <exec> 08└─Ignorance of the law does not absolve one of violations of the law in America. Except for Hillary. She can escape prosecution of the most egregious crimes against the nation because: (1) She can blame it on her junior IT staff (2) She can blame it on her own senility (3) If she goes down, a lot...A...
[20:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:05] <exec> 08└─"(5) Ethanol-fueled stops posting anywhere because he was assassinated" More likely died due to illnesses relating to his obvious alcoholism and various mental illnesses...
[20:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:07] <exec> 08└─Hahahaha, suck my dick, you goddamn nigger.
[20:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:09] <exec> 08└─You think you response does anything but add further evidence to my hypothesis? Think again. You betray more about your character than you think you do with your posting.
[20:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02''fifth-columnists'' - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:11] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree with the tone of your comment but, to my eye, you used the wrong term. I think of a fifth column as an anti-establishment (sabotage) group. ISTM the term that you want is the Deep State [wikipedia.org] which seeks to more deeply embed the status quo and to resist reform. -- Original...
[20:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A delicate balance must be maintained - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:14] <exec> 08└─I remember when democrats held a supermajority in in all branches of government. Pressing on their list of concerns- bathroom equality for women! http://www.mcclatchydc.com [mcclatchydc.com] At this point, I have to imagine democrats are as use to disappointment as s...
[20:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Higher ups are always worse with this stuff - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:17] <exec> 08└─This is why they have staff and guidelines to walk them through it. Kinda goes to shit when they actively ignore it though, either through hubris or drowning-in-the-shower stupidity. As an aside, for all the doomsayers about Trump, these actions by Clinton really don't bode well for one of the most...
[20:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New disk wiping method: "a cloth" - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:22] <exec> 08└─Since I heard about this new disk wiping technique, "the cloth", I've never been happier. My files magically attach themselves to "the cloth" and they are gone gone gone.
[20:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New disk wiping method: "a cloth" - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:24] <exec> 08└─Is that the same cloth you use to wipe yourself off with after ejaculating? If so, your happiness is warranted: who would even handle a semen-encrusted disk?
[20:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Some excuse - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─I have a hard time seeing other people use this excuse. Sorry, I didn’t mean to sell heroin, I was relying on others to tell me it was illegal. I had no intention of distributing class I narcotics.
[20:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is super cool - 06Juno Snaps the First Images of Jupiter's Poles - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:34] <exec> 08└─Subject says it all :D
[20:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This is super cool - 06Juno Snaps the First Images of Jupiter's Poles - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:36] <exec> 08└─Especially the harsh radiation belts [wikipedia.org]!
[20:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sure - 06Juno Snaps the First Images of Jupiter's Poles - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:38] <exec> 08└─More NASA dragon poop. They are deceiving you. Start your disillusion by running this simple command: wget www.theflatearthsociety.org/library/books/Earth%20Not%20a%20Globe%20(Samuel%20Rowbothan).pdf Then read all about the "debunk" [wikipedia.org] (of just one of the experiments and observations),...
[20:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A corrupt politician won't be missed, but - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:01] <exec> 08└─Let constitutional law and order continue.
[20:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Corrupt? - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:04] <exec> 08└─If "breaking budget responsibility rules" is the worst she's committed she's practically an angel as politicians go. Heck in the USA the US Military makes up bullshit numbers in the order of trillions for its accounts, and who will get charged for that? http://www.reuters.com
[20:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So she got eaten out by an intern? - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't the west hemisphere on the left side?
[20:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:48] <exec> 08└─There is a theory out there called hygene hypothesis that the hypochondriac obsession with cleanliness and keeping children away from mud and so on is leading to allergies and so forth. The theory goes that the immune system expects to be exposed to some bacteria and viruses and needs this to develo...
[20:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:50] <exec> 08└─So you've admitted you're just a dirty old bastard? I would propose that we be a little less silly with the antibiotics everywhere, and just a little cleaner than you ;) It's all fairly foolish anyways. Here we are slathering crap on our hands, while our touchscreens still carry the feces on it from...
[20:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:52] <exec> 08└─I see a few people don't like what HF has to say. But he is 100% right. Open source has always been the loosing team. As much as people like myself wanted Linux to win, it just can't compete with corporate greed and an apathetic public who just want facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram and all the o...
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[21:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02POO IN LOO - 06How Bitcoin Users Reclaim Their Privacy Through its Anonymous Sibling, Monero - 3105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:53] <exec> 08└─P_O_O___I_N___L_O_O O__________________O O__________________L _____________________ I___________________N N__________________I ____________________ L__________________O O__________________O O_O_L___N_I___O_O_P Wagies mad don't have decade to devote to hobby 07:17 -!- Irssi: Join to #darkplaces was s...
[21:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:06] <exec> 08└─I think his response was appropriate, nigger.
[21:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:07] <exec> 08└─You betray more about your character than you think you do with your posting.
[21:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sell-out Bernie says... - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:10] <exec> 08└─Sell-out Bernie says, "The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails". Does anyone still believe that Bernie was a legitimate candidate? His primary campaign was all scripted by the DNC to give the naive Democrats the illusion that they actually had a choice in this electi...
[21:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Re:Some excuse - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:21] <exec> 08└─I would say its more like taking a drivers test while sick, being given my license, and then going drunk driving. When you are caught you poiint out that you were ill when you took the test that authorizes you to drive and you were counting on your passengar to make sure you knew the rules. The cop...
[21:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 021964 microcomputer - 06World's First Integrated Circuit Microcomputer Found - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:44] <exec> 08└─While poking about in a library once, I stumbled upon an article in a data processing magazine from 1964 that used the word "microcomputer" to refer to the flight computer on a Minuteman missile. Don't remember which magazine, sorry. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia...
[21:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There was another related submission on this - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:53] <exec> 08└─That other submission was "accepted" [soylentnews.org] ...except that if you click Link to Story [soylentnews.org] you get nothing. WTF?? This removal of (Progressive) Rouseff was a coup by the oligarchs of Brazil. You can expect Brazil's economy to do even worse in the coming months and years. Fasc...
[21:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So she got eaten out by an intern? - 06Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Impeached, Removed from Power - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:05] <exec> 08└─Depends what kind of map you're looking at. Knock yourself out! [nullschool.net]
[21:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Next questions.. - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:57] <exec> 08└─Other than the X-ray scattering seeming to spell out "Death to America", it's fine.
[21:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:31] <exec> 08└─But the scares about multi-drug resistant bacteria are one of the reasons I favor having anti-bacterial soaps be prescription only. I don't really think that's a good idea, but I sometimes wonder. I basically hate the idea that anything would be prescription only, and if people were only going to hu...
[21:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:41] <exec> 08└─The germ theory of disease is correct, and provably correct. It's not complete. You can't have a workable theory of disease without the germ theory, but you also need to understand the immune system, allergies, the differences between fungi, bacteria, viruses, and prions, etc. . Just because...
[21:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always had a problem with this - 06FDA Bans Antibacterial Soaps; "No Scientific Evidence" They're Safe, Effective - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[21:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:hey, I came here to avoid slashvertising! - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:34] <exec> 08└─Hey...the bills need to be paid! So why not?
[21:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:59] <exec> 08└─Don't upgrade to 2013. Suddenly LibreOffice becomes objectively better because 1.) It does not delete content from my documents 2.) It does not prevent users on 2010 from seeing content in my documents.
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[22:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02let 'em die - 06Heroin, Fentanyl? Meh: Carfentanil is the Latest Killer Opioid - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:53] <exec> 08└─You people know what the solution to this madness. You have the black and white evidence right in front of your fucking faces of what works and what doesn't. Please, keeping dying from increasingly dangerous drugs. Please, keep the addicts finding riskier and riskier ways to shoot up. And lock up an...
[22:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Next they'll be huffing souls - 06Heroin, Fentanyl? Meh: Carfentanil is the Latest Killer Opioid - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:54] <exec> 08└─So the response from the user's perspective is- 1. Supply a purer source. Nice if you can get it, but then they wouldn't be going through this if it were available. 2. Just say no. Didn't work the first time, but with a chance of imminent death, maybe you'll have added incentive to seek treatment. B...
[22:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:18] <exec> 08└─she's lying through her teeth and tried to cover it up. sadly, despite all of this dishonesty, she is still the lesser evil.
[22:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''goes to shit when they actively ignore it'' - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:23] <exec> 08└─...and especially when FBI/DoJ refuses to prosecute. Because Obama. Because Dubya. Etc. We really don't need a repeat of Nixon's "everything the President does is legal". I hope everyone is taking a close look at 3rd-party candidates--especially folks in non-battleground states. ...and, for folks wh...
[22:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02A streetcat named corruption. - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSTd1LuiVUs [youtube.com] Just late night random associations & connotations here don't mind me.
[22:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02!streetcat - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:33] <exec> 08└─It would be good if folks who frequent tech-related sites would learn to form a proper hyperlink with proper link text. The Kindness Of Strangers: Scene from the film "Streetcar Named Desire" [youtube.com] N.B. Some browsers these days allow you to mark text e.g. an example hyperlink, right click, s...
[22:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:!streetcat - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:36] <exec> 08└─You're spoiling my hipster drama & irony :(
[22:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Not to defend HC - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:38] <exec> 08└─Not in defense of HC or any politician but in reality so much of many of the things they deal with on a daily basis are far beyond the scope of any but a 'specialist' and CEO's and politicians are totally reliant on hired/appointed advisors. As a tech worker with 25+ years in the industry I can coun...
[22:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Insightful) 02She Gets My Vote - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:40] <exec> 08└─Hillary will be an adequate President. She has the experience and the temperament to keep advancing U.S. priorities without fucking anything major up. The next 4-8 years the economy will continue to recover and the U.S. will continue to be the greatest place to live on the planet. Trump is a fuck-up...
[22:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:She Gets My Vote - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:42] <exec> 08└─That's the funniest thing I've read all week.
[22:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure - 06Juno Snaps the First Images of Jupiter's Poles - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:53] <exec> 08└─But don't get TOO close to the edge, or you'll fall off!
[22:03:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02OT: Checking the related links? - 06Google's "Project Ara" Modular Smartphone Concept Dead - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:45] <exec> 08└─So, looking at the "related links" sidebar I saw: SoylentNews takyon is dead
[22:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Fire safety? - 06Plastic-Based Textile Woven Into Clothing Can Make Wearer Feel 4°F Cooler Compared to Cotton - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:30] <exec> 08└─I know the article says that the synthetic fabric keep you cooler, but I don't think they were talking about wearing them in the middle of a fire. Worst case, you can always strip before making the dash.
[22:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:FLAC++ - 06Sony's Costly "Signature Series" of Audio Equipment - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, that was the meaning I intended. However here is a list of supported file formats, from the specifications: Audio Formats AAC (Non-DRM), AIFF, ALAC, DSD, FLAC, HE-AAC, Linear PCM, MP3, WMA (Non-DRM)
[22:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:the conservative fork - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:11] <exec> 08└─"60% of the time, it works every time..."
[22:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Office software is dead - 06OpenOffice Could be Nearing Retirement - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:33] <exec> 08└─Office software is dead. If you wanted to write a document, you use Google Docs. Hold your horses, Google haters. Think about it for a second. When would you actually use a document processor, instead of plaintext, Markdown, LaTeX, etc? For me, only when I'm writing a small business document to shar...
[22:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:08] <exec> 08└─I drive a really old car, and I appreciate its engine noise. It gives me aural feedback on how much acceleration I'm getting, as well as when the automatic transmission kicks up/down. It'd be nice if modern cars incorporated more aural feedback in the UI. Visible dashboards are lethal when you're go...
[22:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news, cars ... - 06Adding Artificial Delays to Make Stuff Appear More Convincing and Valuable - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:10] <exec> 08└─I know where you are coming from. I have a roadster that was built in 1957 and a Nissan Leaf: complete opposite ends of the spectrum.
[22:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Suggested alternate dept. line - 06Bees Dead from Aerial Zika Spraying in South Carolina - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:51] <exec> 08└─As for me it wouldn't have occurred to me to call people in South Carolina "city-boys".
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[23:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02stop them - 06Heroin, Fentanyl? Meh: Carfentanil is the Latest Killer Opioid - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:00] <exec> 08└─frankly, i'm having a difficult time understanding why we are not putting big pharma execs behind bars for all the people that have died as a result of their lies. what's even more baffling is why opioids are still being prescribed. society deserves better than this.
[23:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:21] <exec> 08└─I like it when bigots out themselves. Makes it easier to discriminate against them. Tit for tat and all that. Also I find it hilarious that you think using the word nigger somehow hurts me. Like a naughty school boy mooning someone. Also, I am neither black or a yank. For the record I LOVE that he p...
[23:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Sell-out Bernie says... - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:26] <exec> 08└─It's Sheepdog Bernie. His job was to keep the "lefty" idealists and their money from wandering off the democrat corral towards the Greens or whoever. Worked like a charm, the idealistic democrats are sheared sheep.
[23:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Help me out here, fuska?! - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:28] <exec> 08└─> It's Sheepdog Bernie. His job was to keep the "lefty" idealists and their money from wandering off the democrat corral towards the Greens or whoever. And that's why the DNC leaked their own emails and then fired all those people including the director. It was just an elaborate charade to keep the...
[23:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolutely ridiculous - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:31] <exec> 08└─As Sec of State, her very job description is to handle classified info. It boggles the mind she can mount this kind of defense.
[23:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A delicate balance must be maintained - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:35] <exec> 08└─Damn fuska! Do you got some serious back-fitting skills! Is there any scenario that isn't the result of a gynormous deep conspiracy? The all-power illuminati run everything anyway, so why do they bother with the charade? Especially this charade. Entertainment value? What? Why didn't wait so long man...
[23:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Higher ups are always worse with this stuff - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:41] <exec> 08└─> Look at Gen. Petraeus as another example. You know, what he did isn't even close to the same level. Clinton received unmarked documents that originated from people who took them from classified systems and stripped the markings. Clinton used them as part of her official job. Petreaus knowingly too...
[23:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Hillary [...] has the experience...'' - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:53] <exec> 08└─As First Lady (the president's closest advisor), those years mostly saw the experience of Neoliberalism, which made poor people poorer and put more and more of the underclass in prison. As a Senator, she didn't sponsor one single meaningful bill. She did vote for more Neoliberalism and more war. As...
[23:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02So she's either a criminal, or an idiot... - 06Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:55] <exec> 08└─There's no excuse for being ignorance of technology in this day and age. If you are, and your compensation strategy(friends/consultants/magic 8ball) fails so badly you mishandle classified information that does not make it better. Personally--I think she was just mishandled it with knowledge. I unde...
[23:03:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02Re:No, it wasn't - 06World's First Integrated Circuit Microcomputer Found - 486 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:13] <exec> 08└─I disagree. It is a piece of computer history that was a milestone for the time. The technology was not always advanced, but they did stretch the possible with the nor-gate based computer in terms of size, performance and power consumption. Let alone the software... Surely, it does not compare anywa...
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