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[00:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Mos Eisley - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:49] <exec> 08└─No ideas to keep it from becoming a wretched hive of scum and villainy? It's the Garden of Eden all over again. (TBL's web invention too.) You give humans something nice and they promptly get busy crapping all over it.
[00:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0264 bit - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe 64 bit address space would have pass.
[00:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Interesting) 02128 bit would have taken too many resources - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:53] <exec> 08└─When was the IP protocol accepted? "The Internet" did not at first use what we today recognize IP but it was sometime in the seventies. Back in those days, the extra 96 bits would have been a serious drain on resources, for example by making routers more expensive. To understand this, consider that...
[00:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Remember folks - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:55] <exec> 08└─This man works for Google now... and he's pretty good at peddling its worthless crap
[00:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02128-bit addresses and crypto - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:57] <exec> 08└─Using 128-bit addresses would have increased the size of the IP header by 24 bytes, a big consideration when bandwidth was much more limited, and how feasible the larger address space would have been for the routing hardware of the day to handle might have been another issue. As it is though, in the...
[00:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:44] <exec> 08└─I'll bet 420 Internets that Hillary defeats Trump. Bookmark this comment.
[00:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump's Father Was in the KKK - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:49] <exec> 08└─> Trump is a bigot and a known racist (he and his father had to enter into an agreement because of the racist housing policies that they had). His father was arrested for marching in robes at a klan rally. [vice.com]
[00:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Pardon - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:53] <exec> 08└─I can see why Snowden would get a pardon, but why Manning? There was nothing illegal in all the non-redacted stuff he leaked. Nothing about how US Citizens are being made the government’s bitch. I bet Snowden get’s offended as well when people put Manning on the same tier as him. It’s like say...
[00:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Attention Whore - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:58] <exec> 08└─Manning is a prisoner in military custody and under close scrutiny. I think they can intercede in the event of a suicide attempt. In any case, the ACLU says Manning lost consciousness [aljazeera.com] after the attempt.
[00:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Attention Whore - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:00] <exec> 08└─my point exactly. Lost consciousness while under supervision doesn’t sound like a serious attempt. Sounds like drama. If he was serious about dying he would have planned it out more and it would have said something like penetrating arterial rupture.
[00:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Most Depressing Guy on the Planet - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:02] <exec> 08└─> How many people do you know that, not an attempt purely to gain attention, want to kill themselves, and actually fail? How many people do you even know that have attempted suicide at all? If the sample size is large enough to draw anything remotely like a valid conclusion from then you must be the...
[00:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02That's nothing - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:04] <exec> 08└─Last time I was in the slammer I spent six months on suicide watch. I wasn't even suicidal however shortly after being release, I told some random couple that I met on the street that I was a Secret Service agent.
[00:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nope - 06Google to Launch its Own Wi-Fi Router (Again!) - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:28] <exec> 08└─Unless the device runs on 100% Free Software, I want nothing to do with this. What's sad is that companies like Google have more than enough resources to completely respect users' freedoms, and yet many of their products use proprietary software. A few small companies have products that won the FSF'...
[00:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02$129 - 06Google to Launch its Own Wi-Fi Router (Again!) - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:29] <exec> 08└─I thought that sounded like a lot for a router, then I saw this: http://www.newegg.com [newegg.com] Sheesh.
[00:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:20] <exec> 08└─Why? If your main concern is nation building, I can see why it would be all-important to know about cities like Aleppo in third-world shitholes. Johnson seems more concerned with problems in the US, so this Jeopardy! trivia nonsense matters much less. And if something like this disqualifies a candid...
[00:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can the NYT Google? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:43] <exec> 08└─If you live in a 'safe' state it would be a good idea to vote for Johnson simply as a long term project to make the LP viable, on the assumption that when that day does come they will have better candidates step up.
[00:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great article! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:54] <exec> 08└─I don't buy it. All signs point to Obama being a typical unprincipled politician who will lie to obtain more power, and then reveal himself as an authoritarian once he actually does obtain power.. Even his voting record from before he ever became president indicated this.
[00:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Secret - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:26] <exec> 08└─I gotta say, who ever marks this redundant, Thank you. Thank you for selecting the appropriate moderation instead of troll. It’s a well fitting moderation.
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[02:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the true test - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:01] <exec> 08└─plug it in [wikipedia.org]
[02:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02404 in your page - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:03] <exec> 08└─http://www.open.ou.nl/hjo/supervision/2016-e.v.schaijk,t.poppe-bsc-thesis/TestSuiteResults.,zip [open.ou.nl] gives a 404... and so does removing the comma near zip. TestSuite.zip is listed as 117MB, but download gives 71M, BTW.
[02:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Also other errors - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:05] <exec> 08└─There is no PDF but it's mentioned, and the last part says "FP-Block was created..." when that is a different project in the sidebar.
[02:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02(insert racist comment here) - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:07] <exec> 08└─Damn shame this was posted on a Saturday night in America, it's good stuff. Also, for those uniformed - although statistics can be abused, life follows them. You may have read something about Gaussians in there, rightfully because the standard normal statistical distribution is a Gaussian distributi...
[02:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Looks definitive to me - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:17] <exec> 08└─That would presume that was why they attacked you... Which it was not. Which you probably already know, but it needs to be said...
[02:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Looks definitive to me - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:19] <exec> 08└─The USA was, and is, considered the leader of the Crusaders, by every metric that mattered - political, economic, military, cultural. That's why Bin Laden went after us. ISIS doesn't seem to have the ideological depth of AQ so they just adopted that part of the program.
[02:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Bullshit - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:23] <exec> 08└─Saudi Arabia, mark my words: You're next. America's unanimous congressional support of the "Blame Saudi Arabia for 9/11" bill and rising anti-Islamic sentiment worldwide are no accident. You've outlived your usefulness to us, you're a dangerous and unstable liability, and now its time to take out th...
[02:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:25] <exec> 08└─Lol! Yawehawehawehawehawehawehaweh! This is gonna be fun!
[02:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Bullshit - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:27] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? Our current president just sent $400 million in unmarked, untraceable cash, without telling anybody, directly to the country his own State Department calls the 'world leader in state-funded terrorism'. Then he vetoed a bipartisan effort to allow 9/11 family members to sue for some m...
[02:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Bullshit - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:29] <exec> 08└─Baraq Hussein Soetoro walks a fine line. We can only hope for some truths to emerge, and fast.
[02:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Your Bullshit, Sir - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:31] <exec> 08└─> Are you kidding? Our current president just sent $400 million in unmarked, untraceable cash, without telling anybody, Are you kidding? Not only was it disclosed, it was reported in the New York Times [nytimes.com] the following day: Mr. Obama also announced the resolution of another argument betw...
[02:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:34] <exec> 08└─> [...] just sent $400 million in unmarked, untraceable cash, without telling anybody, directly to the country [...] This administration couldn't bow down more to Saudis if they tried [...] First off, the payment was made to Iran, not Saudi Arabia. There was a White House press release about the pay...
[02:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Bullshit - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:36] <exec> 08└─*Oops, "without paying 36 years' interest" should have said "without paying the full amount of interest that Iran had asked."
[02:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:3, Informative) 02re ZIka and Hunger - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:38] <exec> 08└─Nope, brought to you by a Congress who adjourned [statnews.com] without funding Zika prevention and still is thinking about it [motherjones.com] while the disease spreads [cdc.gov] through the U.S. Brought to you by a nation [feedingamerica.org], where: 13.1 million children lived in food-insecure h...
[02:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re ZIka and Hunger - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:40] <exec> 08└─And what is your solution to the Google problem?
[02:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:re ZIka and Hunger - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:42] <exec> 08└─Sally Struthers, is that you?
[02:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The title is subjective - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:46] <exec> 08└─Individual liberty? Personal satisfaction? Poverty?
[02:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The title is subjective - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:49] <exec> 08└─America has Snap Inc.
[02:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:The title is subjective - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:51] <exec> 08└─True, but considering where the US was in comparison to almost any other country on earth not that long ago, it's obvious it is on a painful downhill slide in nearly any metric you can think of (freedom, quality of life, etc.). Rankings give you an indication of what might be working better in other...
[02:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02The Top 30 - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:53] <exec> 08└─Typing to save you from RTFA [bloomberg.com]. 1. Iceland 2. Singapore 3. Sweden 4. Andorra 5. United Kingdom 6. Finland 7. Spain 8. Netherlands 9. Canada 10. Australia 11. Norway 12. Luxembourg 13. Ireland 14. Malta 15. Germany 16. Denmark 17. Cyprus 18. Belgium 19. Switzerland 20. Italy 21. Brunei...
[02:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Top 30 - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:55] <exec> 08└─"Honestly though, on what metric could the USA be considered the greatest country on earth?" Military budget.
[02:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:The Top 30 - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:57] <exec> 08└─Well, we have our military, but even that in its current state is being dismantled. Allowing trannies to serve, being PC, railroading out personnel for manufactured or otherwise bullshit reasons to avoid paying out retirements, fostering a dog-eat-dog rather than cooperative mindset (specifically, t...
[02:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old news - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:59] <exec> 08└─We've mentioned before how USA continues to slip. April 2014 USA is No Longer Number 1 [soylentnews.org] (Title before editing) [soylentnews.org] October 2014 China Overtakes USA as World's Largest Economy [soylentnews.org] . Singapore? Hope you like a police state where they outlawed chewing gum an...
[02:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Police State - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:02] <exec> 08└─Singapore? Hope you like a police state where they outlawed chewing gum and censor everything.
[02:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Hmmm, wonder why - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:04] <exec> 08└─We kill brown people with drones, too bad the bad guy was in a wedding party. Our cops shoot black people because reasons, too bad he had a legal CCW. One of our health providers raises the price of a life saving device from $100 to $600, even though the medicine is $0.10, and the device maybe $1. W...
[02:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Children - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 1823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:06] <exec> 08└─We're on the same boat, man. May or may not live much longer but I wish shit wasn't going so bad as it is now... The U.S. has the resources (both human and otherwise) to be a great nation, a lighthouse of freedom and liberty, but all has been captured by the military-industrial that president Eisenh...
[02:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:08] <exec> 08└─Mozart died at 35. Alexander the Great was 32. Van Gogh was 37.
[02:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:10] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows 27 is the age to die.
[02:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:12] <exec> 08└─I'm 58. I feel the fart of the century coming on now. Um, I mean. What's your point? Lots of influential people made their name before hitting 30. The running consensus is they do something good, get laid, have a kid or 3, decide 100 hour workweeks aren't all that good after all, and fade to black....
[02:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:15] <exec> 08└─Well, squirting out worthless crotch fruit isn't all that good either, and pales in comparison to the importance of significantly increasing humanity's understanding of the universe. There will always be plenty of people having children, plenty of people partying like morons, and plenty of people er...
[02:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:17] <exec> 08└─> Well, squirting out worthless crotch fruit isn't all that good either, and pales in comparison to the > importance of significantly increasing humanity's understanding of the universe. You sound like a sheldon cooper wannabee. Except not only will you produce no children, you aren't going to contr...
[02:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, maybe they are 28th - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:19] <exec> 08└─But who else can protect you from the Russians and Mongol Hordes? Who else made it even possible for there to be over 70 years of relative peace on the European Continent with their fancy-schmancy social democracies, and in the Far East? What else represents the great might of the British Empire tha...
[02:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is What Trump's Been Saying All Along! - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:21] <exec> 08└─Guys? Duh! Haven't you paid attention to a word that Trump has said? America sucks. He's going to make America Great Again! Under Trump's magnificent rule y'all gonna be #1 on this list. Yep, yep, yep!!!
[02:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is What Trump's Been Saying All Along! - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:23] <exec> 08└─People are going to get tired of the USA being ranked #1 in the Lancet poll every year, once Trump gets in there.
[02:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A Canadian speaks up - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:25] <exec> 08└─"When distant cities are hit by an earthquake, it's the United States that steps in to help." https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Mos Eisley - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:36] <exec> 08└─The original net-surfers embraced the internet because it was a wretched hive of scum and villany and the discourse was more free than Kim Kardashian's tits. However, if that is not your cup of tea, you can simply ignore the internet and go back to your exciting bowls of plain oatmeal every morning.
[02:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why wasn't 64 bit enough? - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:45] <exec> 08└─NAT breaks the end to end nature of the Internet and makes true peer to peer communication very cumbersome. Hackers (the good kind) would also love the idea that every device out there will have a routeable IP address, as it makes peer to peer applications much easier. And who says that IPv6 address...
[02:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why wasn't 64 bit enough? - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:47] <exec> 08└─How many permanent IP addresses does the world need? Probably less than 100 million. OK, we'd run out of them eventually, but a 64-bit address space would solve that problem for at least the next 30 years. You don't need a 128-bit address space when almost all of the IP addresses are transient.
[02:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Phone tracking? Sand tracking! - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:59:50] <exec> 08└─https://itsnobody.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/how-many-addresses-can-ipv6-hold/ [wordpress.com] They could track grains of sand in Earth beaches!
[02:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Cops - 06Goodbye Snapchat, Hello Snap Inc - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:58] <exec> 08└─This would be good for those time when interacting with law enforcement. Using the social site angle to justify wearing them.
[03:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Cops - 06Goodbye Snapchat, Hello Snap Inc - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:00] <exec> 08└─No such justification is needed. Recording the police in public is a First Amendment protected activity.
[03:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:What - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:26] <exec> 08└─They want Bradley to suffer. If they take away all of the easy ways to commit suicide and place you into a more stressful environment, then the only ways out from the intensified suffering are even more horrific methods of suicide which would be less likely to succeed but more brutal and self-harmfu...
[03:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:46] <exec> 08└─That being said, I'm sure of many, many, many things with Trump. None of them good.
[03:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:51] <exec> 08└─1. Why isn't HE dead already? We used to shoot traitors. When America is great again we will.
[03:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Pardon - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:00:56] <exec> 08└─Whistleblowing isn't solely about legality; it's also about ethics.
[03:00:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Username [4557] 02Attention Whore - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 642 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:00] <exec> 08└─First manning wanted to be the cool underground 1337 hacker secret leaking guy. When he was found, it was all about revealing the corrupt things the military is doing (yet everything that was leaked was kosher.) Then the leak was about tranny rights in the military. Now it’s about depression and m...
[03:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02who? - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:06] <exec> 08└─Seriously, who?
[03:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Clinton/Trump - 06Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:22] <exec> 08└─I disagree. This campaign easily exceeds the lofty standards of US presidential campaigns. It'd be even better with the turkey trainwreck. I'll fire that suggestion off to the Commission on Presidential Debates.
[03:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Climate Change is a Republican Talking Point - 06Questions For The Candidates - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:05] <exec> 08└─If there was so much confidence among the scientific community in what you say about temperatures consistently increasing, "climate change" would still be "global warming" like it used to be.
[03:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great article! - 06US House Report on Snowden is "Mostly Lies" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:54] <exec> 08└─Geez. If you are going to make comments like this at least back it up with facts. I say Obama is the greatest leader we have ever had.
[03:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:theater goes on - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:39] <exec> 08└─Whether it figured in the conclusions or not, harm to bees by the pesticides was observed--albeit at unusually high levels. However, claim Greenpeace, the companies denied that any evidence of harm existed.
[03:06:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:About that offer... - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:06:28] <exec> 08└─[horse head delivery] complete in 5 minutes ... 3 days ... 2 hours ... 5 minutes ... 34 weeks ...
[03:06:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Halfway there - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 474 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:33] <exec> 08└─Ok, so we don't have to keep a constantly updated list of 'updates to avoid' to prevent infection with Windows 10. We still need to keep a list of the updates that inject the 'telemetry' malware. Have they promised to stop reissuing those with new update numbers? Until then, nothing has really chang...
[03:06:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Halfway there - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 1486 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:06:38] <exec> 08└─You're way off base, and the game has changed significantly since then. Microsoft got rid of individual updates some time ago. They're all or nothing now. In order to get the update to remove the nag screen for updating to Windows 10, you also got the update to install telemetry into Windows 7, whic...
[03:06:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Ownership - 06Microsoft Finally Retires Get Windows 10 - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:42] <exec> 08└─Isn't it nice that they removed application from ... what seems to be *their* computers. They're certainly not owned by the users.
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[03:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great. Can it send me to Hawaii? - 06Applying Electron Beams to 3-D Objects - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:06] <exec> 08└─A laser dismantles the molecular structure of the object, and molecules remain suspended in the laser beam. Then, when the computer plays out the model, the molecules fall back into place, and voila.
[03:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where's the GitHub repo? - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:18] <exec> 08└─No one will use this, because it's not real code unless it's in a GitHub repo.
[03:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Looks definitive to me - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:29] <exec> 08└─The US attacked the middle east (and other Muslim interests) on multiple occasions. It supported violent coups. It meddled in all sorts of other ways. THAT is why he did it and why he managed to convince others to also. He was a crazy, murderous asshole but envy or the US being "in the lead" were no...
[03:58:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02re ZIka and Hunger - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 1019 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:39] <exec> 08└─Nope, brought to you by a Congress who adjourned [statnews.com] without funding Zika prevention and still is thinking about it [motherjones.com] while the disease spreads [cdc.gov] through the U.S. Brought to you by a nation [feedingamerica.org], where: 13.1 million children lived in food-insecure h...
[03:58:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Hmmm, wonder why - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:53] <exec> 08└─We kill brown people with drones, too bad the bad guy was in a wedding party. Our cops shoot black people because reasons, too bad he had a legal CCW. One of our health providers raises the price of a life saving device from $100 to $600, even though the medicine is $0.10, and the device maybe $1. W...
[03:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:re Children - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:55] <exec> 08└─Did we save the game back then so we can try over?
[03:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:02] <exec> 08└─You sound like a sheldon cooper wannabee.
[03:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Guess we have a lot of work ahead of us - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:08] <exec> 08└─Good thing we were already planning on making it great again!
[03:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lithium-ion batteries? - 06Amazon Has Been Fined £65,000 for Trying to Fly Dangerous Goods in Europe - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:47] <exec> 08└─"UPS Battery Fire Causes Crash"
[03:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So - 06Amazon Has Been Fined £65,000 for Trying to Fly Dangerous Goods in Europe - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:52] <exec> 08└─Right, for instance Libya paid a fine over Lockerbie.
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[04:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Sounds interesting - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:19] <exec> 08└─I am also curious about sharpening/deblurring video, given that one has access to previous frames as well as future frames at the time of rendering the frame under consideration. Given access to past and future data, with noise, looks to me like it could use algorithms similar to obtaining more prec...
[04:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Saves - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:56] <exec> 08└─I did! I did! But the freaking 8" floppy drive crapped out upon installing Win 10 build 1607 (anniversary update)! We are DOOMED I wish, really wish we could rewind and not elect Bush (43), which in mind is where the slide down began... And now, remember: Jesus saves but Buddha does incremental back...
[04:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02just typical liberal ratings - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:09] <exec> 08└─Choose what you value, and you determine the results. Suppose I instead value: 1. Strong freedom of speech, to include Westboro Baptist Church and the KKK 2. The right to carry a pistol, concealed or not, stand my ground, and defend myself 3. The right to drive an RV the size of a large bus, towing...
[04:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mos Eisley - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 3864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:19] <exec> 08└─A couple of people, not many, we decided that, well, wouldn't it be really swell if we planted a few gardens. We're gardeners after all. Why not come together and show each other what we know about gardening? We could connect our gardens to each other, have our plants grow together, maybe we'll find...
[04:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why wasn't 64 bit enough? - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:30] <exec> 08└─Right. And as Bill Gates once said, 640KB should be enough for everyone.
[05:00:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02Re:What - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:00:05] <exec> 08└─It was this bit of the sorry tale that got me: Studies have found that solitary confinement leads to increased risks of self-harm.
[05:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:google is the 'short attention span' company - 06Google to Launch its Own Wi-Fi Router (Again!) - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:07] <exec> 08└─google is the 'short attention span' company of the century. they ALWAYS lose interest in things they work on, especially hardware.
[05:01:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Sadly missing - 06Questions For The Candidates - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:35] <exec> 08└─"Will you, as president, direct your Attorney General to vigorously prosecute the rich and powerful who commit serious crimes, such as ordering torture of prisoners or banking fraud on unimaginably huge scales?" That's one of the bigger problems facing the country today, and as best as I can tell ne...
[05:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:theater goes on - 06Pesticide Companies' Own Secret Tests Showed Their Products Harm Bees - 1743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:19] <exec> 08└─> The company wasn't denying that insecticides couldn't kill bees at high doses. They were claiming that these insecticides wouldn't kill bees when used properly. Correct. This is what I saw on the Syngenta Web site just now: The group of chemicals that is suspected of causing bee losses is known a...
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[05:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02your Tar Baby gonna be a Lame Duck - 06Book Review: "The Golden Book of Springfield" - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:03] <exec> 08└─Your favorite Tar Baby the former Senator from Illinois will be a Lame Duck President real soon now when the Obamanation becomes Trumpland. But you go ahead and glorify Illinois the fucking flyover state that absolutely nobody will give one shit about as soon as Chicago becomes a ghost town deader t...
[05:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great. Can it send me to Hawaii? - 06Applying Electron Beams to 3-D Objects - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:11] <exec> 08└─There's no need to send molecules all that distance, as Hawaii has an abundance of atoms from which new molecules can be constructed. An Excel spreadsheet describing them will suffice. By the way, what should we do with the ashes?
[05:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great. Can it send me to Hawaii? - 06Applying Electron Beams to 3-D Objects - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:13] <exec> 08└─The correct response is, "Yeah, but you've got to purchase your program 30 days in advance." Not on approved list of well known movie quotes, apparently. Continue your regularly scheduled idiocy.
[05:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds interesting - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:26] <exec> 08└─curious about sharpening/deblurring video
[05:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:re ZIka and Hunger - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:51] <exec> 08└─how about confronting reality and doing something about it?
[05:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Top 30 - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:00] <exec> 08└─"We're a superpower, but financially screwed..."
[05:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Re:re Saves - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:09] <exec> 08└─I have several working Shugart SA801 and 851 drives here... I'd be glad to send you one if you'd be willing to do a full restore of that backup!!! ;-)
[05:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:1) 02re Saves - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:11] <exec> 08└─Believe or not, I do have some old 8" floppies around with important information (or so it I thought at the time), like Star Trek for the TRS-80! And no freaking 8" drive! Why do I keep them? Well, I'm a packrat. I have a huge (about 40 lbs) 10 meg hard drive from an HP minicomputer, several differe...
[05:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:19] <exec> 08└─And Albert Einstein died at 76. Genghis Khan lived to be at least 65. Your point?
[06:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:19] <exec> 08└─I always thought Kodos was a little off-green. But then again, I'm more of a moderate.
[06:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:20] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is if there is anyone worth voting for so we don't have to choose between evil green alien Kang and evil green alien Kodos here.
[06:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Not questions - 06Questions For The Candidates - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:39] <exec> 08└─Short of the government directly hiring and employing doctors, like it was in USSR, the government can only add overhead to the costs. High barriers of entry stop new practitioners; demand for zero errors causes expensive trials and even more expensive malpractice insurance; patents stop others from...
[06:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Test Results - 06Microsoft and Sony's Emerging 4K Pissing Contest - 3997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:16] <exec> 08└─So I ran the test requested by physicsmajor and can offer you my empirical results. Setup: * The TV set is a Sony Bravia 55 inch * I'm a late forties aged programmer who works with games and media * My head is about 6.5 - 7.0 feet from the TV set * Media tested was Sintel from the Blender Project H2...
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[06:58:51] <exec> 08└─Hello Julian, thanks for the reply. I have a problem with the current idea that you can be whatever you want to be, all you have to do is work hard enough. If you don't make it, then it's your fault for not trying hard enough! Well, there is the case of Usain Bolt. Do people really think that the gu...
[06:59:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02128-bit addresses and crypto - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 1357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:35] <exec> 08└─Using 128-bit addresses would have increased the size of the IP header by 24 bytes, a big consideration when bandwidth was much more limited, and how feasible the larger address space would have been for the routing hardware of the day to handle might have been another issue. As it is though, in the...
[06:59:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Why wasn't 64 bit enough? - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:36] <exec> 08└─128 bits lets the TLAs differentiate your printer from your phone from your laptop from your desktop from your fridge from your thermostat. It's why I don't upgrade to IPv6, my farking thermostat is my own business, I don't need the NSA learning I like to keep the heat off and crawl under a pile of...
[07:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Re:Pure idiocy - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:29] <exec> 08└─If I remember the numbers correctly, 90% or 95% of prisoners in solitary confinement have contemplated suicide.
[07:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Pure idiocy - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:30] <exec> 08└─I don't know the figures myself, but I suspect that you're already insane if you've been in solitary confinement for a long period of time and haven't attempted suicide.... if that makes any sense.
[07:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Re:''every reliable study'' - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:00:38] <exec> 08└─The numbers I've seen for satisfaction rates on reassignment surgery are extraordinarily high.
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[07:58:16] <exec> 08└─Think we need a new rating. '+1 woosh'
[07:59:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02re Children - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 1823 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:07] <exec> 08└─We're on the same boat, man. May or may not live much longer but I wish shit wasn't going so bad as it is now... The U.S. has the resources (both human and otherwise) to be a great nation, a lighthouse of freedom and liberty, but all has been captured by the military-industrial that president Eisenh...
[08:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Lithium-ion batteries? - 06Amazon Has Been Fined £65,000 for Trying to Fly Dangerous Goods in Europe - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:06] <exec> 08└─"These dangerous goods include lithium batteries, which are banned from being transported as mail or cargo on a passenger aircraft unless they are installed in or packed with equipment."
[08:02:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quintessence [6227] 02None - 06Questions For The Candidates - 544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:03] <exec> 08└─The problem with either of the major candidates is the answer you get going in will most likely bear no relation to the answer once in office. Neither is strongly principled, so in many respects they will mirror the disappointment of Obama (or Bush for that matter): even the best of intentions going...
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[08:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score:2) 02Brought to you by - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:59] <exec> 08└─The NoShitSherlock foundation.
[08:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Futurefulness - 06Book Review: "The Golden Book of Springfield" - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:14] <exec> 08└─Sometime in the 1960's, my grandfather said to me: "In 1914, we looked back on 1898, and so much had changed: in 1898, there were no cars, no planes, barely any phones, and women dressed in huge clothes (and a lot of things I forgot). By 1914, we had cars, the road numbering we have today, regular s...
[08:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Futurefulness - 06Book Review: "The Golden Book of Springfield" - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:15] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh. Your "futurefulness" is all about the cell phones. Star Trek of the 1960s predicted cell phones. Star Trek of the 1980s predicted asshats would use cell phones to annoy people. Star Trek of the 1990s predicted hackers would use cell phones to fuck up your shit. Star Trek also predicted primi...
[08:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:(insert racist comment here) - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:58:36] <exec> 08└─The story will still be here on Monday for those who missed it over the weekend. If you are suggesting that only low-quality stories should be posted at weekends, then you must remember that not everyone works 9-5, Mon-Fri, and what might be mid-morning for you is early evening for others. My own vi...
[08:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:3, Touché) 02You answered the question .... - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:15] <exec> 08└─Allowing trannies to serve, [...] fostering a dog-eat-dog rather than cooperative mindset
[08:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:The Top 30 - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:17] <exec> 08└─Honestly though, on what metric could the USA be considered the greatest country on earth? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in m...
[08:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:28] <exec> 08└─Been shootin' up drugs about an hour ago, Choking on my vomit in a Hollywood bungalow.
[08:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:33] <exec> 08└─Young whipper snapper - GET OFF MY LAWN :)
[08:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Health does not make you great - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:37] <exec> 08└─Health and greatness have no relationship.
[08:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, maybe they are 28th - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:40] <exec> 08└─How are you doing protecting the residents of Aleppo at the moment?
[08:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Mos Eisley - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:53] <exec> 08└─Where is this new garden of yours?
[08:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Mos Eisley - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:54] <exec> 08└─Ban all humans?
[09:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why wasn't 64 bit enough? - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:06] <exec> 08└─If you want to see why it is a terrible thing go look at the NAT code inside of most routers. It is a sight to behold. Most actual router code is pretty simple. NAT also creates another attack surface. Yep. Several recent attacks have been working around NAT to get into peoples networks. Instead of...
[09:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:What - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:48] <exec> 08└─It's Make America Great Again compassion. It encourages the "weak" to solve their own problems without any external interference.
[09:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:14] <exec> 08└─Is this what your Jesus tells you to do?
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[09:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't Quit! We need your Anger Energy - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 1853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:05] <exec> 08└─Header: We realized there was a lot of anger in the workplace. Man: "STAY OUT OF MY CUBE! IT'S ALL I HAVE!" Header: So we made a recreation room with punching bags hooked to dynamos. [ A man punches one of the bags ] Header: Within weeks, we were generating so much energy, we could sell it back to t...
[09:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Also other errors - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:58:39] <exec> 08└─Thanks! Apparently I hadn't updated the online page to the most recent version I have in the repository. I've fixed the errors.
[09:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the GitHub repo? - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:58:43] <exec> 08└─I realise that putting it on GitHub will probably increase impact. However, (1) it's not my code, and (2) I'm not developing it. If I think of a way of putting it on GitHub while making it plenty obvious that credits go elsewhere, I'll do it. First thing that comes to mind is a "student projects" gi...
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[10:58:01] <exec> 08└─Best of all the email quoted below offers no way that I can appeal this to some kind of living being.
[10:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Brought to you by - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:58:10] <exec> 08└─The first time I quit a job, I told my bosses I was looking to further my academic career (moving from contract engineering to research to a post-doc). They were understanding; they made some overtures to retain me, but the job wasn't intellectually challenging enough. We parted on good terms and I...
[10:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Bartleby, the Scrivener - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:13] <exec> 08└─Had one co-worker pull the "I'd rather not" for any demands made of him. Cool as a cucumber, didn't do anything, and gently refused any requests. Management finally lost their cool and went on a tirade, firing him amid much yelling. He then got unemployment. Smart bloke.
[10:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bartleby, the Scrivener - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:58:15] <exec> 08└─The Bartleby approach is a bridge-burning in reverse, so what did smart bloke do after unemployment ran out? You'll recall Bartleby never found work again and later died in prison.
[10:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03f4r [4515] (Score:2) 02Not exactly epic, but... - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:17] <exec> 08└─I once wrote my 2 weeks notice on the ripped-off cardboard lid from a corona box and kept it on me for a couple of days. When the manager in situ mouthed off at me again, I simply handed it to her and walked away from that argument. I only ended up working a few more days before leaving by mutual ag...
[10:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02This Wasn't Me... - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 1436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:19] <exec> 08└─But many years ago, I worked for a company whose products were quite popular because we'd "reverse-engineered" the big dog in the industry's proprietary code, thus relieving us of paying royalties to the big dog. Needless to say, our product was much less expensive than our competitors', and we sold...
[10:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks definitive to me - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:59:13] <exec> 08└─Trump: Making America 27th Again!
[10:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Visting the US is pefectly safe. - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:59:30] <exec> 08└─...Don't drink the water, and don't breathe the air...
[11:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:What - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:07] <exec> 08└─They should sentence her to death for attempting suicide. That'd teach her!
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[11:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:3, Informative) 02Thats cloud for you - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 1762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:02] <exec> 08└─(the following may read as cynical, but seeing how organizations think and work makes me just wonder) No more access to your own data? Someone "misplaced" or "misappropriated" part of your data? This is by no means a single problem. All cloudy services suffer the same problem. You have given control...
[11:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02talk about asymmetric warfare... - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:17] <exec> 08└─um, i realize this is impertinent for a mere prole, a technocrat of little import, a cog in the great machine of Empire, but why is it *I* a lowly nothing-burger of a droid is 'required' to give at least two weeks notice WHEN I *FIRE* THE COMPANY i work for; but THEY have ZERO expectation/requiremen...
[11:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:talk about asymmetric warfare... - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:58:18] <exec> 08└─And don't try COMBINING your POWER through COLLECTIVE BARGAINING because every little cog has DELUSIONS of EMPIRE. "The whole deal is some kind of crazy game. The name of the game is: Make it through life. Only everyone is out for themselves and looking to do you in. You do what you can, but I'm goi...
[11:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02angry negro - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:20] <exec> 08└─When I was a compufer tech many moons ago our repair shop, a big warehouse-style contractor which did warranty repairs for retail chains, had a pretty liberal policy about techs borrowing other techs' tools. Well, one day, the team lead decided to borrow a new negro employee's tools without asking h...
[11:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:angry negro - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:58:22] <exec> 08└─Racist crackers set up the negro to fail by not telling him about the tool borrowing policy. He obviously didn't belong so just let him chimp out and be rid of the nigger.
[11:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Epic link - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 2124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:24] <exec> 08└─I worked for a small company whose business model consisted of replacing company and state phone numbers with premium rate phone numbers; think tax office, welfare, utilities, telecoms, insurance, banks etc. It was a matter of putting them all on a directory website then getting said numbers to the...
[11:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Strange guidelines - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 2204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:59:45] <exec> 08└─Any set of guidelines that would produce this ordering must be pretty strange, or has been interpreted strangely. I've lived in a number of the countries mentioned, and visited several more. Spain ahead of Germany? The UK ahead of, well, anyone else in Western Europe? So I followed the chain of link...
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[12:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02landing location is hard to predict - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 1666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:05] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I'm by no means a 'rocket scientist' When an object falls out of orbit, it does not suddenly stop and drop straight down. An object in orbit has a huge horizontal component that provides an acceleration that matches the acceleration of gravity. Drag from the upper atmosphere gradually b...
[12:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Facebook account with fake info - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:15] <exec> 08└─Well I can't use a Facebook account I set up with fake information even though I have the correct password and access to the email account I associated with it. Been locked out for at least 2 years now. Somehow, Facebook decided the account was being misused and locked it. It will not unlock until I...
[12:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03lizardloop [4716] (Score:2) 02Bad Auth - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:17] <exec> 08└─I had a bunch of Outlook email addresses I was using for various purposes and ended up locked out of a couple of them. I forgot the passwords to some of the lesser used ones. Tried doing all the password reset stuff but then it wanted to tie the accounts to a phone number. My number was already tied...
[12:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Yahoo did this to me years ago - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:19] <exec> 08└─Refused to let me log in, with correct credentials. Demanding personal information. Which really shows that what they wanted was not 'authentication' at all. They had no doubt about my identity, of course, or else they couldn't possibly let me do this, you see. What they really wanted was simply per...
[12:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Think outside the box - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 1699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:21] <exec> 08└─I've not tried this so no idea if this will work, but these are my thoughts if I was in your shoes. I presume the account is locked or something if it won't let you in even with password. If you've provided _absolutely_ _everything_ the form asks for, you are 100% sure it is all correct, and they st...
[12:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Looking at it from another perspective - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:23] <exec> 08└─You have the account ID and password, and it won't let you login. I understand your frustration as it sounds pretty stupid, right? Consider the case that someone, whether by phishing or some other means, was able to get your account ID and password and was trying to access your account. The e-mail...
[12:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your Bullshit, Sir - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:43] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? Not only was it disclosed, it was reported in the New York Times [nytimes.com] the following day: Its as good as undisclosed, no one who votes Trump reads the New York Times. -- I defend my right to remain ignorant and stupid!
[12:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:re Bolt - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:52] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the guys at Wall Street and the upper echelons of corporations and goverment are not stupid, I am sure they don't think they are stupid. However, I am less confident. Remember the French Revolution? Yes, Virginia, It could be you!
[12:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re ZIka and Hunger - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:54] <exec> 08└─motherjones is not a reliable source about... anything
[13:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Top 30 - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:00:05] <exec> 08└─Military debt
[13:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Mos Eisley - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:00:38] <exec> 08└─The internet is not the web.
[13:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Mos Eisley - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:00:40] <exec> 08└─"And, as someone who knows how to see the constant stream of attempts to ssh into my box as root, when I don't even have an account named root, I would think the asshats are clearly not confined to the web." No, asshats are a general phenomena, but in this case I don't think there's anything specifi...
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[13:03:17] <exec> 08└─funny that you jump to politics when science doesn't support your view i'm not a republican. i'm not even american. but nice try at least you've confirmed my suspicions about your political motives though
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[13:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shoot it Down - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:05] <exec> 08└─Back in 2008 the US shot down a dead spy satellite [wikipedia.org] officially because it might crash into somebody (but there must have been some really good tech on it to warrant the effort). We can do it again.
[13:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation: - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:13] <exec> 08└─Its simple: This is Microsoft we're talking about here... What the HELL do you EXPECT?? Any company thats so "teflon-covered" to manage to skip past the anti-trust lawsuits in the 90s, and who, lately, has made it clear that "Your computer is NOW OUR COMPUTER" by their heavy-handed antics with the t...
[13:58:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02Thats cloud for you - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 1762 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:15] <exec> 08└─(the following may read as cynical, but seeing how organizations think and work makes me just wonder) No more access to your own data? Someone "misplaced" or "misappropriated" part of your data? This is by no means a single problem. All cloudy services suffer the same problem. You have given control...
[13:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook account with fake info - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:18] <exec> 08└─January 01 1970
[13:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook account with fake info - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:20] <exec> 08└─Tip for the future: if you're going to put bullshit info in an account, record it somewhere! What I do is make an encrypted file and write the fake info down, so that I can respond with whatever insane data I gave during account creation. I started doing this because of the prolific use of "recovery...
[13:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Happens everytime i travel - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:26] <exec> 08└─Have to remember to turn off my phone email everytime i head to some off the path place or I end up locked out of gmail & social media. Since i generally use a local sim to avoid insane roaming charges and i dont want to share my phone details anyway. I cannot remedy it until i get home which could...
[13:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Signup & login email difference = unusable account - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 1883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:29] <exec> 08└─This is my first place entry only because it literally made authentication impossible: One time, I attempted to sign up for an account on a site (from a large company that should know better) using an email of format foo+bar@example.com. I do this often for filtering purposes, plus a better idea of...
[13:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What? - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:42] <exec> 08└─Management antagonized and then fired the one guy who could tear down the company by proving he stole info from their competitor so they could clone their product? That seems unlikely.
[13:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:44] <exec> 08└─Some people are just idiots. Some of those idiots somehow find their way into management positions. So it seems plausible. That employee could (most likely) provide evidence of the stolen information, but given that he was directly involved in it he probably would have landed himself in jail by doin...
[13:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02technocrat - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:48] <exec> 08└─> a mere prole, a technocrat of little import, a cog in the great machine of Empire, That word does not mean what you think it means.
[13:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Just Ghost Your Former Employer - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:53] <exec> 08└─The Verge just had a guy quit to work for Apple and he didn't tell anyone. [theverge.com] He was at Apple for nearly 2 months before his previous employer finally figured out he was gone and fired him. That might be a record for the most douchey, passive millenial-style way to quit a job.
[13:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02To the submitter - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:34] <exec> 08└─To the submitter: thanks for a very interesting and informative story. And, an apology. I'll be the first to admit that there are aspects of the site's UI that are less than ideal. But high on that list is trying to submit a story where you want to present a grid of information (like in your matric...
[14:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Strange guidelines - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:20] <exec> 08└─In English lessons at school I remember us discussing a book called "How to Lie with Statistics". This report looks like a good case for such a text book. I am sure that I (or anyone) could live in Switzerland without getting into an avalanche. I could live in America without getting obese. I could...
[14:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:04] <exec> 08└─> The plans on her website do not match up with her voting record. Which ones? Specifically. I'm not fucking joking. You write like you actually bothered to read them. So let us in on what you discovered. Oh, you didn't? You were just playing "She's a bitch!" with nicer words? That's what I thought....
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[14:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sleeping outside... - 06Puerto Rico: 1 Substation Fire; All 3.5 Million People Lose Power - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:56] <exec> 08└─...is a great way to get bitten by mosquitoes. Getting bitten by mosquitoes in Puerto Rico is a great way to get Zika.
[14:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:landing location is hard to predict - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:04] <exec> 08└─GO KERBALS! Nothing wrong with what you said. The object will heat up and start tumbling. The combination of heat and g-forces from the tumbling it will be doing will cause all but the largest and most solid components to break up into small pieces. There might be a few chunks left that could be haz...
[14:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Shoot it Down - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:07] <exec> 08└─No, they shot it down because there were fears that its hydrazine fuel tanks could survive the landing intact, and hydrazine is highly toxic and not something you'd like a) to fall near inhabited land b) on crops or c) into the hands of terrorists. The intercept was to make sure the tank was rupture...
[14:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too Salty - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:09] <exec> 08└─The universe spat it out.
[14:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:2) 02Re:Signup & login email difference = unusable acco - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. the address+foo@ is a nice idea, but I don't see the point. Bad actors who resell email addresses can very easily strip the +foo or any periods from the username filed of your address. Personally I'd rather just generate a new address that directly identifies the org that's getting it. Var...
[14:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Signup & login email difference = unusable acco - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:30] <exec> 08└─Who says they're mutually exclusive? Making a separate account for every sign-up ever is unnecessary overkill, so I mix the two ideas. I have multiple accounts I use, but I also use the +foo thing along with it so that I don't have to check (and manage) dozens of separate accounts. I can have, say,...
[14:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PSN... - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:32] <exec> 08└─When PSN got hacked and said all users must go through the password reset procedure before they can log in again. I couldn't finish the password reset for some reason, it kept saying account couldn't be found. There was no way to get my account back, emails to Sony said I would have to create a new...
[14:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Bartleby, the Scrivener - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:45] <exec> 08└─It is, especially when you consider that many organizations have a policy to not say anything other than to confirm the dates of employment. As long as you can drag it out long enough that you don't have a million lines on your resume and manage a pay raise when you move, you could probably spend an...
[14:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not exactly epic, but... - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:47] <exec> 08└─I think the references are the only potential sticking point and that really depends upon the industry. Most employers refuse to comment on employees for fear of being sued, which means that there's not a whole lot of consequence for folks that don't handle the quitting completely professionally. Re...
[14:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:52] <exec> 08└─Suing would probably be overkill and not worth the effort but I think you began to get at what's unlikely here. What's slightly unlikely here is that the big company didn't catch onto the fact that one of their employees was taking code and giving it to their competitors and hence the big company di...
[14:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:What? - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:55] <exec> 08└─You can choose to believe it or not. I was there. The company (in fact the big dog too) is long lost to the dustbin of history. I wonder if anyone on SN was there too. If so, they'll know what I'm talking about.
[14:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Just Ghost Your Former Employer - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:59:04] <exec> 08└─There was a an exec at an Ad agency who took his accumulated vacation all at once and immediately started working for a different, competitor ad agency while on vacation. He timed this for the end of the year so he would receive his bonus too. That guy was a Boomer, so generation has nothing to do w...
[14:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just Ghost Your Former Employer - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:59:06] <exec> 08└─He earned that vacation time and the bonus for work already performed. Collecting on what he is owed is not the same as skipping out and still collecting a paycheck for work not performed. And the point is not that any generation is more douchey, but that ghosting is a millennial cliche.
[14:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just Ghost Your Former Employer - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:59:08] <exec> 08└─If it took his employer two months to notice he is no longer there then clearly he wasn't doing anything worthwhile anyways. Good riddance!
[14:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the GitHub repo? - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:59:47] <exec> 08└─Appropriate credit goes in the README.md file at the root level of a repository. That's what happened with a music player library called Pently that I developed for the NES. I had been releasing source zip files on NESdev, and someone else was maintaining a mirror on GitHub [github.com]. When the ti...
[14:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Balance tags with html5lib - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:59:52] <exec> 08└─Can't you balance tags by parsing the submission using the HTML5 rules (using something like html5lib [python.org]) and then reserializing the result to HTML5 or XHTML? If the objection is that html5lib is written in Python as opposed to Perl, you could run the balance operation in a separate proces...
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Problems... - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─On Ubuntu 16.04 It fails during "make" with... make[2]: *** No rule to make target '@ALL_LINGUAS@.po', needed by '@ALL_LINGUAS@.gmo'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/trunk/po' Makefile:728: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directo...
[15:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strange guidelines - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:41] <exec> 08└─"I am sure that I (or anyone) could live in Switzerland without getting into an avalanche. I could live in America without getting obese. I could live in the UK and be killed in an avalanche during a sking holiday in Switzerland, or more likely by a cyclist riding on the pavement back home." Yes, yo...
[15:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Mos Eisley - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:12] <exec> 08└─Many of the biggest problems with it are directly related to the plague of javascript and plugins and 'active content' being used on top of or in place of actual webpages (HTML.)
[15:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ankh [754] (Score:1) 02While yr at it Mr. C, Google's hooked up BACKWARDS - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:31] <exec> 08└─They promised us an effective search tool -- and could have built one (they're smart, right?) A tool that would let us look for, generally and then with increasingly specific focus, what we want and think we need, and find just that. Without a flood of approximations and wrong guesses and sheer lard...
[15:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:24] <exec> 08└─Isn't brain dead good enough?
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[15:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Population? - 06Puerto Rico: 1 Substation Fire; All 3.5 Million People Lose Power - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:15] <exec> 08└─Wow - I wasn't believing that there are only 3.5 million Puerto Ricans. A casual Google search says there are only 3.47 million. http://www.pewresearch.org [pewresearch.org] I really thought the island supported a lot more...
[15:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Population? - 06Puerto Rico: 1 Substation Fire; All 3.5 Million People Lose Power - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:16] <exec> 08└─If there's no jobs there, how many can it support? They're the starving Irish of today.
[15:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:landing location is hard to predict - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:26] <exec> 08└─To amplify a bit: The trajectory of a deorbiting object can be predicted accurately if we know the shape and mass of the object, because that's enough information to calculate the drag. It works well for an object that's designed to reenter, like a missile or a manned spacecraft. But these objects a...
[15:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's still here, ya twit! - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:31] <exec> 08└─Objects on earth are still in the universe. Materials in the atmosphere are also still in the universe. Keep an eye on your dumb-o-meter, or the universe may spit you out!
[15:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Yahoo did this to me years ago - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:46] <exec> 08└─What should people do for email, if not Google, Yahoo, or Hotmail? If you run your own email server, you still need an email address, and that's a pain, to say nothing of dealing with dynamic IP addresses. Don't want my contacts having their emails to me bounced because they arrived in between an IP...
[15:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Signup & login email difference = unusable acco - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:54] <exec> 08└─Use something like foo99bar@example.com. There's lots of software that filters for proper email addresses, and many of them work slightly differently. So if you push the envelope you're asking for trouble.
[15:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:PSN... - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:58:57] <exec> 08└─That's what you get for playing on a console. SCNR :)
[15:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Google - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 1673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:59] <exec> 08└─Had a Google account for almost a decade. Was one of the first people with a @gmail.com address, etc. I had tons of docs in the Google Cloud; was the typical Google fanboi. Linked to Youtube, G+, credit cards, wallet, you name it. Moved to a different country. Used the SAME PHONE, just changed SIM C...
[15:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Let the Games Begin - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:59:19] <exec> 08└─SCO?
[15:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Just Ghost Your Former Employer - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:59:31] <exec> 08└─You mean Apple and the iVerge are actually two different companies? Are you sure?
[15:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dance out the door and slam employer on Youtube - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4n84a2Mw4 [youtube.com] Depending on your situation, this might not be the best choice for some of you. BTW the music was switched b/c Kanye West asserted copyright.
[16:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Pardon - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:09] <exec> 08└─Manning is alleged by the state to have leaked his information because of an intent to do harm because of bullying. If that's true (and he deserves a public trial), then he is in a completely different category than Snowden.
[16:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:45] <exec> 08└─It shows an appalling lack of knowledge of current events. And yes, many of history's bad presidents were as ignorant.
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[16:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Population? - 06Puerto Rico: 1 Substation Fire; All 3.5 Million People Lose Power - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:58:16] <exec> 08└─Didn't your meathead son-in-law explain it to you?
[16:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Population? - 06Puerto Rico: 1 Substation Fire; All 3.5 Million People Lose Power - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:58:17] <exec> 08└─Visit San Juan on a holiday weekend, you'll swear that half of the people are right there in that one city!
[16:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Power to the people - 06Puerto Rico: 1 Substation Fire; All 3.5 Million People Lose Power - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:20] <exec> 08└─All 3.5 Million People Lose Power
[16:58:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02landing location is hard to predict - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 1666 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:27] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I'm by no means a 'rocket scientist' When an object falls out of orbit, it does not suddenly stop and drop straight down. An object in orbit has a huge horizontal component that provides an acceleration that matches the acceleration of gravity. Drag from the upper atmosphere gradually b...
[16:58:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02Re:landing location is hard to predict - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 1569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:58:30] <exec> 08└─To amplify a bit: The trajectory of a deorbiting object can be predicted accurately if we know the shape and mass of the object, because that's enough information to calculate the drag. It works well for an object that's designed to reenter, like a missile or a manned spacecraft. But these objects a...
[16:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:landing location is hard to predict - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:58:32] <exec> 08└─Duh
[16:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Thats cloud for you - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:58:47] <exec> 08└─I'd mod you up if you weren't already at five. That's exactly why I bought a 3 TB network drive. Its only disadvantage to "the cloud" is that I can only access my data at home.
[16:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook account with fake info - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:58:52] <exec> 08└─The same thing happened to my mcgrew@gmail.com address.
[16:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook account with fake info - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:58:54] <exec> 08└─Create a half dozen dossiers with information that you always use to lie in forms. My oldest alias is a german man two years older than me that loves to travel, works with agriculture and has a german sheppard named Max. Let's just say in the 15 years I've been using that profile it has become quite...
[16:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:2) 02Re:Signup & login email difference = unusable acco - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:05] <exec> 08└─Why not a new address per account? It's a bit more record keeping for new signups, but not much once you've got a system set up. Any new address is forwarded to (or mail alias is created for) your main address, one filter rule per address to sort to an appropriate folder, done.
[16:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brought to you by - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:18] <exec> 08└─I had a similar experience before. Each time I changed jobs, I helped with the transition and getting the new guy up to speed, even after I left. But one job I had, the boss started treating me like garbage and they gave me notice of termination. They even referred to me as "the boat anchor" in emai...
[16:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:angry negro - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:36] <exec> 08└─Did you hear about the jew whose tools were borrowed without asking him? I didn't either. No jew did anything considered useful.
[16:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just Ghost Your Former Employer - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:42] <exec> 08└─"Ghosting" is just the time honored tradition of the "Irish goodbye" or "French leave" it is definitely not a "millennial (snake person) cliche" http://www.slate.com [slate.com] You're...
[16:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sorry, no. - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:44] <exec> 08└─Ghosting isn't just about an unannounced exit, its about ignoring attempts at contact after you've exited. The irish goodbye isn't final, its just for that particular event. The expectation is you'll be at the next event. Unlike ghosting which is intended to be final.
[16:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Employment at Will - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:59:50] <exec> 08└─> Also the job was in a "Right to Work" state. SO then decided to leave with no notice "Right to work" means companies are forbidden from signing exclusive labor contracts with groups of people (aka unions). One of those cases where republicans think having big government interfere in private busine...
[17:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Futurefulness - 06Book Review: "The Golden Book of Springfield" - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:00:06] <exec> 08└─Star Trek also had transporters. Hugo Gernsback said [mcgrewbooks.com] in 1926 that by 1976 we'd have them. OTOH, Murray Leinster predicted the internet the year the first programmable electronic computer was patented. He actually got most of it right except for nomenclature. [baen.com]
[17:01:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02You answered the question .... - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:21] <exec> 08└─Allowing trannies to serve, [...] fostering a dog-eat-dog rather than cooperative mindset
[17:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:29] <exec> 08└─No. Reality. A is A. A dude is a dude. A traitor is a traitor. Insanity exists. I am cursed to live in a world where saying these obviously true things is rapidly becoming criminalized.
[17:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone to vote for besides Kang and Kodos? - 06Questions For The Candidates - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:04] <exec> 08└─It shows he never reads a newspaper or watches a news broadcast. It shows an abject ignorance of current events.
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[17:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02On that note - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:05] <exec> 08└─How's that Google-killer search engine (Nutch/Lucene?) coming along?
[17:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doubtful - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:07] <exec> 08└─I doubt they exist in a feasible form. I'm still waiting for https://cloud.open365.io [open365.io] to become a real thing that can replace Office365 or Google Docs/crap. But it's expensive to run these things. You need powerful servers that are up all the time in many geo locations. All too often,...
[17:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02viavoice... - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:09] <exec> 08└─there was a product from IBM for voice recognition (ViaVoice), which worked quite well - once trained. However, tried it on my father (not a native English speaker) - really bad. Retrained it in my father's language - a definite improvement, and perhaps 90% usable. That was 10 years ago... I am goin...
[17:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Crusaders - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:17] <exec> 08└─You have to look out for them. Sometimes they are fanatics willing to overlook contradictory facts and embellish supporting ones in order to advance their agenda.
[17:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Non-sequiturs - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:58:19] <exec> 08└─You have to look out for them too.
[17:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Yes - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 3177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:21] <exec> 08└─The head of dermatology at VU Medical (formerly Fletcher Allen) couldn't identify a topological yeast infection my wife got while at the hospital. When having heart surgery, she contracted an infection because the pacemaker they put it wasn't properly situated and caused a break in the skin. An infe...
[17:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shoot it Down - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:58:45] <exec> 08└─You can't really "shoot down" something that's in orbit. All you can do it spread it out a bit. Quite a lot, in fact.
[17:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Like Skylab - 06First Chinese Space Station Coming Back to Earth - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:50] <exec> 08└─So, free tacos [spaceref.com]?
[17:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Thats cloud for you - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:02] <exec> 08└─That's exactly why I bought a 3 TB network drive. Its only disadvantage to "the cloud" is that I can only access my data at home.
[17:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Signup & login email difference = unusable acco - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:19] <exec> 08└─the address+foo@ is a nice idea, but I don't see the point. Bad actors who resell email addresses can very easily strip the +foo or any periods from the username filed of your address.
[17:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Signup & login email difference = unusable acco - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:21] <exec> 08└─Variants on "companynamebilling@mydomain" is good enough for about everything.
[17:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Signup & login email difference = unusable acco - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:23] <exec> 08└─Odd characters can even be a problem on password fields. You know, the ones where these days you are encouraged or even required to use a "special" character or two. Hmm, what kind of password would little Bobby Tables use? Once managed to get a space character at the end of a password. Resulted in...
[17:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Google - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:28] <exec> 08└─get GoogleFi for now. Seriously, I had a similar situation as yours (moving trans-oceans a few times), and instead I got a SIP phone number that connects to a DTD. i.e. Vonage (there are others...). I plug the modem into the internet in whichever country I'm in and it hooks up to a regular phone. Bu...
[17:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02The real root of the problem. - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:30] <exec> 08└─From TFS (there is no article), "About three years ago someone established an outlook.com email for an organization. They passed the login info on to me." Seems to me the person that set up the account used some authentication information that they did not pass on to you. Your only chance to gain us...
[18:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you're not lazy you can make money - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 2650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:10] <exec> 08└─I think the point now a days is that the name of the game is to make money, not necessarily hunt for an impossible to find job for an employer that is going to end up being a jerk if he is generous enough to hire you in the first place. People have diversified the ways they make money. Think of a ca...
[18:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My Restaurant Job - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:11] <exec> 08└─Back in another decade, I worked in a restaurant as a cook, waiter, dishwasher, busboy, etc. It was minimum wage. My boss had told me for two months that he had put in for my vacation pay and a raise. He was lying on both counts. I waited until the worst possible moment to quit on a very busy night...
[18:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Steal Your Job - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 1951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:14] <exec> 08└─I was an employee of a company that HP acquired. I did engineering support. They had a position open up for on-site support at a major client. I decided to take it because it seemed cool. I ended up putting in a lot of over-time at the client site. I was salaried, but HP billed the client by the hou...
[18:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Problems... - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:00] <exec> 08└─Hmms. First thing that comes to mind (and that forgot in the install description) is that OpenCV is not installed. I've updated the install description for that. If it's not that, I'd like to hear.
[18:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:The Top 30 - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:50] <exec> 08└─If the US has different racial groups than the other countries (and it certainly does, especially compared to Iceland, Singapore, and Sweden), statistics that compare it to other countries are vulnerable to a Simpson's paradox [wikipedia.org] where even if each racial group does better individually...
[18:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:You guys wonder Why TRump? This is why. - 06Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Confinement for Suicide Attempt - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:48] <exec> 08└─No. Think a bit harder about the example that your nice Mr Jesus set Hint: it was to do with tolerance and forgiveness. And maybe you could think a bit about what the "traitor" exposed, and whether it might help you to look at yourself and improve.
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[18:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Doubtful - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:21] <exec> 08└─The true spirit of open source died a long time ago. Originally it was created to allow people to have the freedom to modify code as they pleased. But today, open source is used as a cheap tool or foundation to build a bigger proprietary product. You will never see open source services like o365, si...
[18:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doubtful - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:23] <exec> 08└─OP here You speak truth. A sad truth, but truth...
[18:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Do not want. - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:26] <exec> 08└─Will not build. Why assume sentence based natural language speech control is the future? I think most developers (like me) are not huge fans of such systems, or even hate them. Gaze based control or gesture based makes at least as much sense in the proposed scenario, as do simple sound and/or speech...
[18:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Kinda Offtopic But... - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:28] <exec> 08└─My friend has an Alexa. You can tell it to suck your dick (or any other boorish phrase) and it will tell you something like "I don't think I want to do that." You can also ask it for a black dildo and receive an instantaneous suggestion from Amazon. It will turn off if you yell at it, "Shut up!" or...
[18:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds Grrreat! - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:30] <exec> 08└─And every time you say something oddball or insulting to alexa, that action and the date and time will go into the permanent dossier that amazon is keeping on you, your family and friends. They'll eventually start looking for why you were grouchy, correlating the data from all the other devices that...
[18:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Informative) 02Sounds like - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:32] <exec> 08└─Solution looking for a problem.
[18:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't Look at Me! - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:35] <exec> 08└─There's a community, now, is there? And we're all one amorphous blob and we should all be doing what the pundits think we should be doing?
[18:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02Save your voice - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:37] <exec> 08└─I don't want a computer condemned to hearing my voice until I can hear its. Voice is an analog gesture, one more personalised than most. Why I would want to retrain it in exchange for a comparitively vacuum-like response, when as other posts have pointed out I can managebly learn to interact with th...
[18:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03garfiejas [2072] (Score:1) 02More than one way to skin a cat - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:39] <exec> 08└─Brute force approaches such as Siri, Alexa, Echo etc are fantastic at getting input into a "dumb" machine - if you don't mind the privacy and security issues of every command being analysed and viewable by third parties, some of whom may not have your best interests at heart* Newer systems like http...
[18:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-sequiturs - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:49] <exec> 08└─Your inability to extract facts from the summary doesn't make something a non sequitur. Here: The new estimates were developed by John T. James .... James has also written a book about the death of his 19-year-old son after what James maintains was negligent hospital care.
[18:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-sequiturs - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:51] <exec> 08└─Your ability create facts that don't exist doesn't make someone a crusader. > no one ended up sued or in jail so either the rest of the world disagrees Or... being the underdog is damn hard and lack of legal success is not proof of incorrectness. Nah, that couldn't be it. The world is perfectly fair...
[18:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yakima, WA, home of the Braindead - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:54] <exec> 08└─From http://www.yakimamedicalclinic.com [yakimamedicalclinic.com] "Yakima Medical Clinic provides a full range of family practice medical services for family members of all ages in the Yakima area. Our highly qualified care providers offer comprehensive well child and adult exa...
[18:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Yakima, WA, home of the Braindead - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:58:57] <exec> 08└─They make good roof-racks and other yuppie shit though, for those who are too poor to afford a good Thule. Though I doubt they're braindead -- but it does sound like they have a lot of pillhead junkies and illegal Mexicans, which would give one the impression of them being braindead. As an aside not...
[18:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Memory Care? - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:59] <exec> 08└─Have a look at http://www.fieldstonecommunities.com [fieldstonecommunities.com] Doesn't the phrase "memory care" seem a bit strange? Just reading that page gives me a creepy feeling that, behind-the-scenes, it's more like http://www.sickchirpse.com [sic...
[18:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bypass Surgery - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:01] <exec> 08└─I had quintuple bypass surgery at a hospital in Utah. After surgery I was fighting for every breath. I had my wife bring an emergency inhaler from home so I could get some relief (I was afraid to sleep). At discharge, they said "and here's the prescription for your beta blockers". My wife said "But...
[18:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How Many Die from Medical Mistakes...? - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:04] <exec> 08└─How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? Probably a much lower percentage than those who die from medical mistakes at home, such as attempting to cure cancer with magic crystals, homeopathic remedies, self-prescribed medication and not vaccinating children.
[18:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:1) 02Sure I'll Bite - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:06] <exec> 08└─It's not the hospitals that are the problem. The problem is the american lawmakers deem the insurance "corporations" remain THE most important "persons" in the american healthcare system and let them, the insurance lobby, write the most recent healthcare bill, what we have now. Now this turd of a he...
[18:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:2) 02Confirmation bias? - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:08] <exec> 08└─Quote the Summary: "The story describes additional studies that were performed and then solicited feedback from other doctors who supported the view that the 98,000 figure underreports the problem and that the situation warrants further investigation, reporting, and action." Did they solicit feedbac...
[18:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02House - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:10] <exec> 08└─As much as he almost kills his patients with crazy guesses most patients actually die because doctors can't be bothered to preform actual diagnostics or have medical knowledge greater than a random person with access to pub med, I have never seen or heard of a correct diagnosis from any doctor until...
[18:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation: - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:49] <exec> 08└─google did this to several of my gmail accounts. I've got the user name and password (a decent length random string of letters and numbers), and google won't let me log in, without entering a phone number to 'verify' my account (not the usual thing where you can click "no thanks") and it NEVER was g...
[19:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:The real root of the problem. - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 1714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:18] <exec> 08└─That's exactly it, although I'd add that trying to recall what "security" question answers I provided on my own accounts can be a real challenge, especially when most of them demand information that I'd already forgotten twenty years ago. The twentysomethings in Silicon Valley seem to be incapable o...
[19:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Have been through the same circle - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:19] <exec> 08└─The only way to ensure that you can regain access to an M$ domain, e.g. Hotmail, Live, or Outlook.com is to have a text enabled phone and/or another account setup as a recovery option ahead of time. Not that I have any great love for M$ or Hotmail, but they are as reliable as any other free webmail...
[19:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bartleby, the Scrivener - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:38] <exec> 08└─They may not be willing to go on the record. But in any industry there is lots of back-channel communication. You pull that stunt a couple of times and word will get around. People will gossip.
[19:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:What? - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:45] <exec> 08└─What's slightly unlikely here is that the big company didn't catch onto the fact that one of their employees was taking code and giving it to their competitors and hence the big company didn't simply fire the person that copied their code and gave it away.
[19:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:angry negro - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:55] <exec> 08└─Did you hear about the Muslim? He got very angry and exploded. Too much chapati flour.
[19:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score:1) 02Re:Problems... - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:59] <exec> 08└─I realise this isn't the place for FAQs, issues and whatnot but since yr asking... I tried to install this on my iMac and my Ubuntu laptop, OpenCV already installed on both. Both stopped after the ./configure with the following: checking for GIMP... no configure: error: Package requirements (gimp-2...
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[19:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02In other news - 06China Begins Operating World's Largest Radio Telescope - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:15] <exec> 08└─In other news, China reports achieving the Guinness World Record for largest serving of General Tso's Chicken ever cooked in a single wok.
[19:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:2) 02Re:Doubtful - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:27] <exec> 08└─Quoting AC: "I think that is the next step Open Source needs to take: get people to donate money to the projects that are crucial,". That's probably exactly the wrong approach. Build some huge project that takes mountains of money to sustain is never going to work in the FOSS world? What is needed i...
[19:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Do not want. - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:31] <exec> 08└─I'd definitely be more comfortable (not privacy wise or security wise, unless open source and trusted) with thought recognition so i could think something and have it happen. Talking into my tablet was cute for 2 seconds, and now unused. I hate phones (would have bought one of the ubuntu phones if i...
[19:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do not want. - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:33] <exec> 08└─"shitty natural language" - you obviously speak for yourself .
[19:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Re:Kinda Offtopic But... - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:37] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough one of my friends likes her Iphone for this very reason. She'll instruct the phone to address her as some form of "Goddess High Bitch Muckymuck" or some other demented title, then laugh her ass off when her phone addresses her in public & turns heads in classic "WTF?" whiplash. Or she'l...
[19:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:Kinda Offtopic But... - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:39] <exec> 08└─She'll instruct the phone to address her as some form of "Goddess High Bitch Muckymuck" or some other demented title Pffft. Thirty years ago I had a cow-orker called John, who was often referred to as "God" because he actually was right about everything 99% of the time. One morning we arrived at wor...
[19:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:1) 02open src vs infrastructure - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:45] <exec> 08└─Quote: "It takes around five years to train a PhD student, and five years ago there weren’t that many PhD students starting a career in deep learning. What this means now is that those few that there are are being prized very highly." (from Why Google Is Investing In Deep Learning [fastcompany.com...
[19:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Part answer - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:47] <exec> 08└─Check this out... http://lucida.ai [lucida.ai]
[19:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:58:59] <exec> 08└─I think part of the problem is that doctors are so overworked that they see too many patients all at once and they get little sleep. Little sleep plus little time to review the charts of each patient due to too many patients = disaster. One possibility is to make it so that more people can more easi...
[19:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:2) 02Re:Sure I'll Bite - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:59:07] <exec> 08└─"Let the insurance lobby write the most recent healthcare bill, what we have now." Is the sky purple in your world, or have you just been in a drug induced coma for the last 7 years? Since Obama care, the insurance industry is leaving the health care industry faster than shoppers at a mall shooting,...
[19:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure I'll Bite - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:59:09] <exec> 08└─What the hell are you talking about? Are you talking about insurers leaving AHIP?
[19:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Power to the people - 06Puerto Rico: 1 Substation Fire; All 3.5 Million People Lose Power - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:59:23] <exec> 08└─Alright - you got me. I read your post, rolled my eyes, and thought, "Wonky isn't THAT stupid!" I was ready to click the tab closed, when I realized you were pointing out poor grammar. Why does everyone always pick on Grammar? What about Grampar?
[19:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The overarching cause - 06Puerto Rico: 1 Substation Fire; All 3.5 Million People Lose Power - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:25] <exec> 08└─With the World Socialist Web Site being the source, it should come as no surprise that the topics of labor and economics came up in the article (though I left those out of the summary). The author points to Puerto Rico's economic doldrums, high unemployment, and USA's colonialism as underlying reaso...
[20:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook account with fake info - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, I've started doing that. They are getting more sophisticated at rejecting fake info. I didn't know the zipcode I pulled out of the air doesn't exist, and several times now, sites have rejected the fake info over that. Fake street names and phone numbers can be rejected. Found it was easier to p...
[20:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:2) 02Re:GoogleFi - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:00:21] <exec> 08└─"Here, let us sell you a solution to a problem we created for you!"
[20:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Woooo - 06Read the Files the FBI Kept on Nikola Tesla - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:18] <exec> 08└─*tumbleweed tumbles past*
[20:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problems... - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:02] <exec> 08└─You have to install libgimp2.0-dev in order to install gimp plugins from source.
[20:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stop Listening to Trump - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:40] <exec> 08└─True, but considering where the US was in comparison to almost any other country on earth not that long ago, it's obvious it is on a painful downhill slide in nearly any metric you can think of (freedom, quality of life, etc.).
[20:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You answered the question .... - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:48] <exec> 08└─Accept is a strong word. Tolerate. Maybe even just permit.
[20:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The two aren't even on the same planet. - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:02] <exec> 08└─> We have 2 asshats running for president, both are totally unsuited for the job. Do not even begin to equate the two. One is a ambitiously competent bureaucrat who has survived the kind of extreme vetting that only 100+ million of republican directed tax dollars could effect. The other is a profoun...
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[20:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news - 06China Begins Operating World's Largest Radio Telescope - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:06] <exec> 08└─Did someone say chicken?
[20:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Kinda Offtopic But... - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:27] <exec> 08└─Pffft. Thirty years ago I had a cow-orker called John, who was often referred to as "God" because he actually was right about everything 99% of the time.
[20:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confirmation bias? - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:55] <exec> 08└─Your pseudo-skepticism is an embarrassment. How about reading the actual story instead of making guesses based on one clunky sentence written by the submitter? Nah, that's too hard. Public masturbation is easier and more fun.
[20:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:House - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 2616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:58] <exec> 08└─True story. 35 year old woman walks into my practice complaining of quite acute abdominal pain. She had been to see 4 other physicians in the previous week, all of whom told her that she had gastritis, heartburn or colitis, and all of whom prescribed her basically the same medication - antacids and/...
[20:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A friend's dad went in... - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:00] <exec> 08└─For growths on his lungs at (I believe Sutter Medical) hospital in Sacramento or Elk Grove. Surgery went off without a hitch. However during recovery he was not catheterized. Some issue arose which caused him to be unable to urinate, and somehow the nurses and doctors ignored it for like 3 days as h...
[20:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Raw deal - 06Puerto Rico: 1 Substation Fire; All 3.5 Million People Lose Power - 1734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:15] <exec> 08└─I think Puerto Rico is getting a pretty raw deal out of its current "commonwealth" status with the US. All the taxes and very little of the benefit. You would think it would be a vacation paradise, and have hundreds of millions pouring in from tourists, and first class infrastructure like Hawaii. Pa...
[21:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:12] <exec> 08└─uhm... this sounds like your fault. googledocs? really? if something is important, you have to have a local copy. otherwise, i will mention that i've lived in several countries, i go to conferences and stuff in different places, and I've never had a problem with google locking me out. i think it did...
[21:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You left out the important parts at the end... - 06Is There a Right Way to Quit Your Job? Research Finds Some Ways are Better Than Others - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:50] <exec> 08└─Did they go under not long after? Did you start your own equivalent of that business and run them out of business? Did your next job pay better? Have it ever come back to bite you in the ass?
[21:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problems... - 06Developing a GIMP Deblur Plugin [Original Content] - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:56] <exec> 08└─OpenCV is already installed.
[21:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Strange guidelines - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:47] <exec> 08└─The authors make the strange decision to base their results on the geometric mean. This means that a single outlier (in this case, the score for disasters) carries disproportionate weight.
[21:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:2) 02Re:128-bit addresses and crypto - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:19] <exec> 08└─I have a hard time believing that Cerf actually thought about these things back then. Thinking about an address space four to eight times larger (in terms of bits) than that of computers (and many times bigger than the western population and many orders of magnitudes bigger than the intended militar...
[21:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02You are the 1.4% - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:27] <exec> 08└─Limiting the Internet to 100 million addresses that can accept incoming connections is like saying "Only one person out of 70 should be allowed to run a website or other publicly accessible resource."
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[21:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I don't know about Democracy, - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:58:04] <exec> 08└─This was barely a "trade" agreement. It's another attempt to "harmonize" the (lack of) regulations on businesses across the Atlantic. Here in the USA we give businesses huge amounts of leeway and freedom to operate even when their rent-seeking behavior is detrimental--and the corporations that influ...
[21:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"completely relaunch with a new name" - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:06] <exec> 08└─completely relaunch with a new name after the US elections.
[21:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Some interesting comments there - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:08] <exec> 08└─Interesting positions from the EU team regarding the UK's NHS. Unless the outcome of Article 50 is for the UK to adopt / maintain EU trade agreements with non-EU countries (entirely possible as an alternative to WTO defaults, at least until new agreements can be signed off), then in a little over tw...
[21:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's about the size of it. - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:10] <exec> 08└─Oh everything comes in its own special size I guess it can be measured by where you put your eyes It looks big when you're close And it looks smaller back a bit That's about the size of it. Oh the big becomes the little When you see it back a bit The huge becomes the dinky Which is just the opposite...
[21:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:open src vs infrastructure - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:58:44] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is open source AI, like every other cool technology, is just five years away from market? WooHoo!
[21:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-sequiturs - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:58:56] <exec> 08└─no one ended up sued or in jail so either the rest of the world disagrees or there's this massive conspiracy theory covering up doctors who commit these mistakes
[21:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:00] <exec> 08└─What is really amazing is that some one with such superior medical knowledge would need to submit himself to such quacks in the first place! They also didn't like me pointing out their errors and showing them in their data (which they didn't even give me all of it as they deleted data before I coul...
[21:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Tammy and the Doctor" (1963) - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:04] <exec> 08└─Great scene in a Sandra Dee movie. [imdb.com] A teenager signs up to be a hospital flunkie. Obviously-disinterested nurse assigns the teen the task of cutting bandage rolls into 3-foot strips--but doesn't give her a measuring device nor a pair of scissors, so the teen figures it out for herself. She...
[21:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A friend's dad went in... - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:16] <exec> 08└─For growths on his lungs
[22:00:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02Re:Thats cloud for you - 06Worst Authentication Experiences? - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:02] <exec> 08└─That's exactly why I bought a 3 TB network drive. Its only disadvantage to "the cloud" is that I can only access my data at home.
[22:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Tesla - 06Read the Files the FBI Kept on Nikola Tesla - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:26] <exec> 08└─I always liked the story of how Nikola was made fun of in his college class for suggesting the use of alternating current. Something about the professor pretended Nikola was trying to create a perpetual motion machine. Well guess who won in the end.
[22:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tesla - 06Read the Files the FBI Kept on Nikola Tesla - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:28] <exec> 08└─Well guess who won in the end.
[22:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tesla - 06Read the Files the FBI Kept on Nikola Tesla - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:30] <exec> 08└─yeah, its a shame there is not much effort to provide DC power to many home electronics, except, of course, via AC conversion. Its really inefficient to use an AC power source to charge a UPS (DC) to then convert that again to... AC, in case the power goes out, and then you boldly decide to charge y...
[22:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Strange guidelines - 06America is Not the Greatest Country on Earth. It's Number 28 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:16] <exec> 08└─My point was that this report has little to do with how good a country was to live in.
[22:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:128-bit addresses and crypto - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:50] <exec> 08└─Encryption is needed even at the IP level I think, at least strong authentication. Packet spoofing and connection hijacking becomes a lot harder to do if you have that.
[22:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As I have been pointing out recently: - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:51] <exec> 08└─IPX had this solved back in the 80s. 48bit network, 32 bit network ids. Where it broke down was that IPX didn't support netmasks, meaning you wasted most of those 48bits of LAN addressing rather than being able to subnet them. That was the key feature of IPv4 over any of the alternatives for interna...
[22:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Why wasn't 64 bit enough? - 06Vint Cerf's Dream Do-Over: 2 Ways He'd Make the Internet Different - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:02] <exec> 08└─How would you go about adding "a real firewall" to, say, a USB LTE modem?
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[22:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Both sides are wrong - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:58:10] <exec> 08└─The economy is the way things work. Not the way you want it to work. Not the way you think it should work. Not the way some influential thinkers thought it might work. Black markets? The real economy. Jurisdiction shopping? The real economy. Smuggling? The real economy. Frankly, every time you have...
[22:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't know about Democracy, - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:58:12] <exec> 08└─Focusing just on the TTIP is a straw man when so many agreements failed as well. There were medical relieve bodies that failed to pass appropriation committees. Malaria and Zika mosquitoes extermination that can't be agreed on... Syria's intervention... Climate change resolutions and regulatory work...
[22:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some interesting comments there - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:58:16] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that these trade agreements were written prior to the unanticipated outcome of the Brexit vote, and thus, did not contain the possibility that the UK would somehow no longer be able to participate as written.
[22:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02But.. - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:19] <exec> 08└─think of the corporations; they are people, too! This trade deal seems to want to force countries to accept the American approach to rights: the most money wins. Strangely enough, some Europeans think people are worth more than profit. Filthy anti-capitalists. They should just lie down and let thems...
[22:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02on national health care (sweden) - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 1951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:21] <exec> 08└─There are some problems with the tax funded health care, and one of the biggest of them is the fact that it is mostly about the elderly. There is a big taboo about talking loud about how the cost is distributed over the age of patients, but I will tell u my story. When I was student, I got a job as...
[22:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:viavoice... - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:58:42] <exec> 08└─Ibm has never been big in this field. Nuance (dragon dictate) pretty much owned it until Google launched Google Voice to obtain mountains of voice samples an built their own engine. Google's voice reco is at least as good as Nuance tech (which is used by Apple in the iphone and OSX).
[22:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Do not want. - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:58:46] <exec> 08└─Talking to my computer would be tiresome for me, i think. Probably give me a headache, and i'd be looking for a keyboard/else.
[22:59:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmoschner [3296] 02Yes - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 3177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:11] <exec> 08└─The head of dermatology at VU Medical (formerly Fletcher Allen) couldn't identify a topological yeast infection my wife got while at the hospital. When having heart surgery, she contracted an infection because the pacemaker they put it wasn't properly situated and caused a break in the skin. An infe...
[22:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sure I'll Bite - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:59:24] <exec> 08└─The insurance companies pulling out of Obamacare recently have pulled out for political reasons driven mainly by spite. They weren't allowed to merge, so they said they're taking their ball and going home by pulling out of regions where they are profitable. Not quite the indictment you make it out t...
[22:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:House - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:59:29] <exec> 08└─focusing too much on pure academic performance
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[23:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Wikipedia talk page - 06Tulsa, Oklahoma Police Officer Charged with Manslaughter - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:02] <exec> 08└─According to the Wikipedia talk page "Police initially claimed that he refused to show his hands and that he reached into his vehicle" Every police officer caught lying should immediately be fired!! And charged for obstruction. If you are a police officer and you lie to cover something up that makes...
[23:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wikipedia talk page - 06Tulsa, Oklahoma Police Officer Charged with Manslaughter - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:03] <exec> 08└─"Every police officer caught lying should immediately be fired!! " I don't think you understand the purpose of the police. They are there to keep the cattle pacified and in line while they are farmed for productivity and wealth. The only reason they threw this dog to the wolves is because the cattle...
[23:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Wikipedia talk page - 06Tulsa, Oklahoma Police Officer Charged with Manslaughter - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:05] <exec> 08└─He defied the cops orders to stop, get on the ground, the basic suspected felony stop procedures. Instead, he walked to his vehicle. That's asking for suicide by cop if you ask me. If he would have followed directions he would have been checked, released, and this would have been a non story. Now it...
[23:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good... - 06Tulsa, Oklahoma Police Officer Charged with Manslaughter - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:07] <exec> 08└─'cause she did slaughter a man.
[23:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't know about Democracy, - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:19] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point. This was a toxic "investor rights" agreement (like the TPPA) which had little to do with trade and more to do with strong-arming countries into having less control of their own economic laws while empowering multi-nationals to be able to sue said countries. It is good its...
[23:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:"completely relaunch with a new name" - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:22] <exec> 08└─Democrats will try to pass it.
[23:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But.. - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:28] <exec> 08└─As consumers, we want cheap, good quality stuff like we've come to expect AND as workers we expect to keep our good-paying jobs with nice benefits and 3.5 pct annual pay increases until we retire. If government can produce that then they're fucking incompetent, right? Throw them out.
[23:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:on national health care (sweden) - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:31] <exec> 08└─What some would like to see, is private insurance companies and private hospitals, so that the young people in need of healthcare can sidestep the admission rules of the tax funded hospital.
[23:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:on national health care (sweden) - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:33] <exec> 08└─Translation: They want their money to let them skip ahead of the people that are far more frail and likely to suffer complications. IE: Poor people should just die so the rich (relatively speaking) can get their sprained ankle looked at a bit faster. (This is why it's considered taboo by the rich to...
[23:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:on national health care (sweden) - 06TTIP Trade Deal Is 'Dead', Say EU Ministers - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:35] <exec> 08└─Some people I know who work in hospitals in Michigan state that there are hordes of wealthier Canadians who come across for care rather than wait for government hospitals. Likewise several Americans travel south of the boarder for cheaper medical care. Regardless of the system, it will serve some gr...
[23:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news - 06China Begins Operating World's Largest Radio Telescope - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:45] <exec> 08└─They say it's chicken, but I noticed there's no dogs or cats in the neighborhood.
[23:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Doubtful - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:58] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for https://cloud.open365.io [open365.io] to become a real thing that can replace Office365 or Google Docs/crap. But it's expensive to run these things. You need powerful servers that are up all the time in many geo locations.
[23:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Do not want. - 06What are the FLOSS Community's Answers to Siri and AI? - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:05] <exec> 08└─It is shitty though. Natural language was designed for flexible communication at the expense of precision. Usually close enough is sufficient. But with computers, you want fast and precise and probably don't need to be able to write poetry or discuss philosophy with a program to get your work done....
[23:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score:2) 02Re:Memory Care? - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:37] <exec> 08└─It's fairly straightforward phrasing. It's care specialized for persons with severe memory impairment due to Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Hogewey is a modern example of it.
[23:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02insurance[...]is leaving the health care industry - 06How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:44] <exec> 08└─Since Obama care, the insurance industry is leaving the health care industry faster than shoppers at a mall shooting Good riddance, parasites. Middlemen only bloat up costs. Maybe now folks in gov't will realize that Single-Payer was the way to go from the start. ...and it was Ronmeycare before it w...