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[00:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:I'm OK with that - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:20] <exec> 08└─The ULA, the ultra-ripoff-price conglomerate composed of military industrial complex heavy-hitters, sabotaged SpaceX's last "failed" launch. You can see in the video that a projectile flies towards the rocket before the explosion and as with 9/11 there are small secondary explosions before the big o...
[00:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Talk is cheap - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:22] <exec> 08└─So you would consider ULA a different entity than Boeing? Yea, it isn't Boeing proper, but I would say Boeing is very experienced in the field of rocket launch systems. And beyond that they are the sole manufacturer of the X-37. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ht...
[00:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Going to Mars - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:24] <exec> 08└─While the idea of going to Mars is appealing, am I the only one who feels it may be premature? We have huge environmental challenges on this planet that could use the expertise and funds currently being expended on the Mars missions. I also think there may be a bit of defeatist thinking going on, we...
[00:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02photoluminescence - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:34] <exec> 08└─In the Netherlands there's a pilot project where a road was marked with photoluminescent paint. http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[00:02:01] <exec> 08└─I really wonder if Jeff Bezos actually considers the whole Blue Origin program his ?
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[00:03:09] <exec> 08└─Boss: How was your weekend Ethanol? Ethanol: Two niggers, a wop, and a Jew walk into a bar... Boss: Shut up and go stock aisle 7 you jackass.
[00:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:Kickin butt - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:02] <exec> 08└─He's come into #folding a few times, I forgot what hardware he's throwing at it and we don't have logging on the channel.
[00:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''red socialists (ie, communists)'' - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:27] <exec> 08└─You're *still* repeating the Cold War propaganda. If you -mean- "Stalinists", you should -say- "Stalinists". Neither Socialism nor Communism is a top-down thing--despite the efforts of both sides who spewed the Cold War nonsense trying to convince weak-minded people that Totalitarianism is synonymou...
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[01:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Tyco Car - 06GLM Enters Electric Battlefield with Twin Motor Luxury Supercar - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:30] <exec> 08└─Remember those old Tyco radio control cars? Or, for that matter, all battery pack-powered radio-control cars? They jumped off the line instantaneously and were fast as fuck, at least for 2 minutes until the battery pack ran out. Then you had to buy another expensive battery pack (or two or three), w...
[01:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02At best a concept car.... - 06GLM Enters Electric Battlefield with Twin Motor Luxury Supercar - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:31] <exec> 08└─As noted in one of the comments, you could never get in or out of the car (OK, I'd never be able to get in or out of the car) with those doors.
[01:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Bogus - 06GLM Enters Electric Battlefield with Twin Motor Luxury Supercar - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:33] <exec> 08└─Yet another article that compares the NEDC range of the car with the EPA range of a Tesla. It's bogus. It's not quite apples and oragnes, but it isn't an honest comparison either.
[01:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Talk is cheap - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:44] <exec> 08└─Competition is great, but this guy is puffing. The ULA is separate from Boeing. His statement that it would be on a Boeing rocket is false, unless Boeing is developing something behind closed doors that is human rated with heavy lift capability. I doubt it. Disregarding that, the ULA has absolutely...
[01:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to Mars - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:47] <exec> 08└─On Mars, there's very little margin for waste or inefficiency. Designing a functioning Moon/Mars/Ceres/Europa habitat that doesn't need periodic resupply could teach valuable lessons that can be applied to Earth.
[01:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:57] <exec> 08└─Sounds like town full of losers, first Palin, then these panels...not sure which one is more ridiculous.
[01:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:59] <exec> 08└─What's hilarious is they are using standard 4-way trailer connectors for the panels power connection. I can't think of anything more amateurish and lacking in good design. You can see where they clipped off the unneeded wires. Molex, Amphenol and Te all have low cost weather tight low voltage connec...
[01:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02errr... - 06'World Robot Summit' Coming to Japan in 2020 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:11] <exec> 08└─I appreciate your interest in the event, but I sadly have also to inform you that meatbags are not allowed to attend.
[01:02:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 461 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:52] <exec> 08└─Not only that, we also don't hear about how: The government intended to lose money because if they only invested in "safe" tech startups, then they wouldn't be doing anything to advance the market, just replacing banks. The renewable energy fund that last money on Fisker and Solyndra is actually abo...
[01:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not a movie... - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:15] <exec> 08└─The ONE sequel I'd LOVE to see is a sequel to Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.. I recall the first time I saw that movie in 1977, I walked out of the theater (the old Valley Circle Theater in San Diego California) and my jaw drug along the ground.. That movie blew my 27 year old mind.. I'd LOVE to...
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[02:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going to Mars - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:54] <exec> 08└─Humanity has always pushed boundaries and explored new areas. So its just in our nature to go to Mars. The thing I don't understand is why not get a base on the moon first? Getting a functioning colony has big advantages, and could actually shift a lot of industry into space stations while reducing...
[02:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:05] <exec> 08└─It does make a very nice art project! While the overall idea is stupid, I do think they were right to use hexagons. Any thing simpler, like squares, would give you much weaker fault lines.
[02:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:sample text - 06Molecular Machines Win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:47] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanocar [wikipedia.org]
[02:02:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jummama [3969] 02Great idea - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:55] <exec> 08└─Fisker's effort aims to revive his rivalry with Tesla
[02:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02to a point - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:55] <exec> 08└─Humor works to a point. That is right up until you meet/hire the 'stick in the mud'. Everyone is getting along. Inside jokes abound. Then this dude shows up. Everything must be serious, dead serious. Look dude it is a inventory program for a few people to use, not a critical life saving device. They...
[02:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's See... - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:30] <exec> 08└─And tried to talk over the movie. You had the fix in your hands. Popcorn and candy and ice. Say 'hey turn it off or get out' if he doesnt, start throwing. Trust me everyone will join in. (4th one so far and it worked). Every time I have used this tactic *everyone* around me joined in. If there is no...
[02:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02disposable income - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:31] <exec> 08└─My reason for not going is disposable income. For a not too out of line sum of money can have a 60+ inch screen with a decent enough speaker setup to go with it. If I 'just want to see a movie' netflix is not terrible not great but very watchable. If I want good quality bluray is usually pretty awes...
[02:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Federal Government: The Tip of The Iceberg - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:08] <exec> 08└─Poe's law strikes again.
[02:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Roe vs. Wade as a decision - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:06:37] <exec> 08└─Roe vs. Wade is literally the best decision possible on the topic - in a completely dispassionate analysis. I will not accept your language 'living child' for any fetus with less than a 50% chance to survive if emergently delivered. Nor will I accept that such a thing has any hold against or over th...
[02:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:06:39] <exec> 08└─If the occasional doctor chooses not to perform abortions due to their own personal beliefs, that's fine. That's only part of the problem here. The real problem is that the government intends to codify that objection into law, preventing ALL doctors from performing abortions, regardless of their bel...
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[03:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03f4r [4515] (Score:3, Informative) 02Bollocks - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:02] <exec> 08└─Anything involving solar roadways should be discarded. David Jones has done multiple videos spanning a few hours [youtube.com] debunking, disproving and overall showing how bad the idea of solar roadways is. The mathematics simply don't add up. The ultra TL:DR is that it generates less power and cos...
[03:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bollocks - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:04] <exec> 08└─Agreed, I know an older guy who keeps trying to convince me that installing water pipes in roads to capture the heat would be a good idea. The sheer scale needed is ridiculous and as you sayy there are so many easier methods.
[03:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:errr... - 06'World Robot Summit' Coming to Japan in 2020 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:16] <exec> 08└─Kiss my shiny metal ass!
[03:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re: max-Q is nowhere near the max forces - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:37] <exec> 08└─I appreciate the correction &dash; you are absolutely right! The story has been updated, accordingly. Looking into this further, I highly recommend Wikipedia's entry on Max Q [wikipedia.org]. Thanks for keeping us on our toes!
[03:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Security theater, now in actual theaters - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:03] <exec> 08└─Also--Kick people out for screaming children. I'm sure it's rough raising children and all but if you can't control them rather quickly you need to go somewhere else rather than inflict their misery on everyone around you.
[03:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Lysistrata - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:59] <exec> 08└─The gifts were massive indeed, but they did not start the war. The concept of lebensraum [wikipedia.org] did - and it was easily sold to eager masses, to men and women alike. Soldiers - their families, actually - believed that they will get a large property in Russia and many hundreds of slaves to w...
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[04:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Good - 06Samsung Buys Viv Labs to Counter Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:34] <exec> 08└─SVoice is garbage. They need all the help they can get.
[04:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 023-D printed pharmaceuticals - 06Technique Mass-Produces Uniform, Multilayered Particles - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:41] <exec> 08└─One pill makes you larger; the same pill makes you small!
[04:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:3-D printed pharmaceuticals - 06Technique Mass-Produces Uniform, Multilayered Particles - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:43] <exec> 08└─... and the ones that mother... takes, do a great job at relieving symptoms of Parkinson's disease. My mother is on a time release of Carbidopa and Levodopa brand name Rytary, which I believe is made by encapsulation. It's made a huge difference in her quality of life. Hopefully this new manufacturi...
[04:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:1) 02I can't wait /s - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:07] <exec> 08└─I'm just waiting for mars to become the destination for the masses... That way I can ride in a spaceship designed similar to our current planes. Our new spacelines(?) will continue the quest to pack as many people in at once like sardines. I can experience an entire trip to Mars with the person in f...
[04:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:16] <exec> 08└─Why do you think they're installing them in Sandpoint, Idaho?
[04:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:photoluminescence - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:22] <exec> 08└─Photoluminescence is quite different from this retardation.
[04:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:errr... - 06'World Robot Summit' Coming to Japan in 2020 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:37] <exec> 08└─Round one: Bender man vs. vs…. *clicks article* It's a GUNDAM! *gets blown up*
[04:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:55] <exec> 08└─Because I am actually curious about the people and the minds behind the privatization of space exploration. It is a HUGE dollar investment with little promise of short term commercial success. Something that is generally totally opposite the understanding of successful business ventures these days....
[04:03:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:27] <exec> 08└─Because typically when the government handouts handfuls of cash to business, it's seen as corruption regardless as to whether it is the alternative or fossil fuel companies.
[04:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:28] <exec> 08└─Show me the first person here arguing for fossil fuel subsidies, and you may have a point. Since there is none, beat that strawman.
[04:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03webnut77 [5994] (Score:1) 02Re:Like this? - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:13] <exec> 08└─... walk into a bar. They all four received concussions but the building is ok.
[04:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:You're telling me... - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:16] <exec> 08└─It's impossible to ever have more than 50 points at any given time. If you're already at 50 and somebody mods you up, you're still at 50. If somebody mods you down, that does stick though. I'm not sure what the lower limit on that is, if it's zero or if there isn't one.
[04:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:05] <exec> 08└─To which the same idiots railing against doctors having moral compunctions against performing abortions, citing law, Hippocratic oath and other things they are only dimly aware of; will these same people have the same revulsion against doctors who perform abortion in spite of the law? You are a bunc...
[04:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I get what your point is here. We idiots who want women to be able to get abortions when they need them would applaud a doctor violating an oppressive law to perform them. Of course we'd never know about it, because the doctor sure as hell would be secretive about what s/he does.
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[05:01:55] <exec> 08└─I'd be willing to make the sacrifice. (I don't actually think they'd be that bad anyway).
[05:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait /s - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:14] <exec> 08└─But at the end of it all, you'll get to live and work on a desolate planet with little to do, no close contact with most of your loved ones, big duststorms, no breathable atmosphere, and no hot natives. At least your lardass will only weigh 38% as much as on Earth.
[05:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:25] <exec> 08└─The video says they could be used in dance floors. That seems plausible. The video also says they could relieve famine. That seems less plausible.
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[05:02:46] <exec> 08└─n/t
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[06:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re War - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:08] <exec> 08└─I do hope that you are willing to hear arguments for the other side. I agree with you, Earth needs a lot of attention right now but, but, but there are a lot of interests (oil industry, car industry, armament industry, banks, etc.) which are perfectly happy to let Earth die, so long as it happens a...
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[06:02:57] <exec> 08└─There's a saying in the machining trade: "first make it good, then make it fast." I think that applies to rockets just as much.
[06:02:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 2221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:58] <exec> 08└─Blue Origin was founded almost two years before SpaceX was. In that time, SpaceX has: Developed a two-stage light lift orbital rocket and a two-stage medium-lift rocket Developed four engine families, one having four main iterations in both atmospheric and vacuum versions Developed an orbital spacec...
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[06:03:02] <exec> 08└─I see it this way: If you had more money than any sane person would know what to do with, what would you do with it? I would want to do something that would help the human race in a lasting and significant way. This fits the bill.
[06:05:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Re:Fifth Amendment - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 3265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:23] <exec> 08└─It is absolutely ridiculous and you are right, it's so contradictory to both the letter and the spirit of the constitution it's impossible to see how it could have ever been done 'in good faith.' And yet our courts have repeatedly upheld it. The thing you may be missing is context. Virtually everyth...
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[07:05:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Celestial [4891] 02Let's See... - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 2553 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:10] <exec> 08└─During Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, at the start of the huge battle between man, Aragorn's ghosts, and the trolls, some jerk's phone rang about three rows behind, and he answered. And yapped throughout the entire battle scene. And tried to talk over the movie. Before seeing Pacific Rim...
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[08:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Facebook - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:29] <exec> 08└─Facebook doesn't own Twitter yet? Social media is a natural monopoly. Facebook should own all of it. Just like Microsoft owns the monopoly on computers and Google owns the monopoly on internets.
[08:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Google already have a social network. - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:31] <exec> 08└─It's called Orkut.
[08:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google already have a social network. - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:33] <exec> 08└─Sure, man. Next, tell us all about how we should use Google Code instead of GitHub.
[08:02:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03f4r [4515] 02Bollocks - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:35] <exec> 08└─Anything involving solar roadways should be discarded. David Jones has done multiple videos spanning a few hours [youtube.com] debunking, disproving and overall showing how bad the idea of solar roadways is. The mathematics simply don't add up. The ultra TL:DR is that it generates less power and cos...
[08:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ls671 [891] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm in - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:12] <exec> 08└─Hehe, I remember running distributed.net (still on-line) back in 2000 which the goal was just showing how supposedly secure keys were. Long live Soylent folding team!
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[09:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Hot on the heels - 06The Company Formerly Known as Snapchat may be Worth $25 Billion - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:28] <exec> 08└─Hot on the heels of us finding out that Twitter ain't actually worth that much, we have a story telling us how some barely different company is worth gazillions. Are we just pawns in someone's pump and dump?
[09:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hot on the heels - 06The Company Formerly Known as Snapchat may be Worth $25 Billion - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:29] <exec> 08└─Remember when tech companies developed technology, instead of financial fraud? No, I don't remember, either.
[09:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Makes Sense - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:40] <exec> 08└─Google of all companies already know social media is fickle. There is no reason to buy out a competitor who will die off if left alone. It’s like buying out myspace. Then again the coolest and most popular guy on G+ is Tom.
[09:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Someone should buy it just to shut it down - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:41] <exec> 08└─/o/ -- Ahh! They're evacuating us so they can search our homes! | / \
[09:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Someone should buy it just to shut it down - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:43] <exec> 08└─If they want my porn collection, the joke's on them because of my stick figure fetish! Fap, fap, fap.
[09:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm OK with that - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:23] <exec> 08└─They never said the man was alive.
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[10:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Time to redefine Human Specialness - 06Bumble Bees Can Use "Tools" and Pass on Knowledge - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:24] <exec> 08└─Humans are an invasive species that have spread further than any other. Straight to the Moon. Soon to plant Musky seed on Mars.
[10:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Predictive marketing - 06The Company Formerly Known as Snapchat may be Worth $25 Billion - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:33] <exec> 08└─Predictive marketing (the thing google and facebook and these other companies) are selling, just doesn't work. It never has and it never will. At best it is reactive, evidenced by you getting bombarded with ads after you've bought the thing instead of before you know you want to buy the thing. This...
[10:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Predictive marketing - 06The Company Formerly Known as Snapchat may be Worth $25 Billion - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:36] <exec> 08└─How many "social" companies need to die until geeks can take back the internet from people who assume the internet exists for marketing? Before SEO became a snappy acronym, search engine optimization was considered unethical. Naturally the business scum made SEO business as usual. Of course, cyberbe...
[10:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google already have a social network. - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:47] <exec> 08└─+1 on orkut... would social again!
[10:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Someone should buy it just to shut it down - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I needed a yearly reminder to see if sexylosers has updated.
[10:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Someone should buy it just to shut it down - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:54] <exec> 08└─sexylosers
[10:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oblig - 06Hubble Spots Stellar Plasma Cannon - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:02] <exec> 08└─That's no moon...
[10:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:3-D printed pharmaceuticals - 06Technique Mass-Produces Uniform, Multilayered Particles - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:17] <exec> 08└─Hopefully this new manufacturing technique can lower the price (eventually) -- currently lists at $900 for a month supply, although her co-pay is significantly less.
[10:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:''red socialists (ie, communists)'' - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:14] <exec> 08└─There's something of a fascist coup going on in the UK just now. The Conservative Party is turning National Socialist [theguardian.com]. They've already all but broken the unions, decimated the Welfare State and now they're coming for the foreigners. National Socialist is such an oxymoron, isn't it....
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[11:01:31] <exec> 08└─Who jizzed in your milk?
[11:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes Sense - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:54] <exec> 08└─Truth be told, I've been kinda amazed that Twitter and Facebook have the staying power they have. Twitter I kinda expected a rather big bang, and that was going to be that. Then again, what honestly killed MySpace is it sucked compared to facebook of the time, and as soon as Facebook dropped the .ed...
[11:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Good Films - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:38] <exec> 08└─There are very few good films, it's too expensive, the other people are noisy and generally disruptive and they usually have the soundtrack turned up so loud that your ears and head hurt. Then there's at least half an hour of stupid adverts to watch before the film starts.
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[12:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Offtopic) 02First Poast - 06FCC Waters Down Internet Privacy Proposal - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:28] <exec> 08└─Niggers.
[12:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:First Poast - 06FCC Waters Down Internet Privacy Proposal - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:29] <exec> 08└─Dude, I know you can do better than that.
[12:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02That depends on your definition of "worth" - 06The Company Formerly Known as Snapchat may be Worth $25 Billion - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:48] <exec> 08└─The Company Formerly Known as Snapchat may be Worth $25 Billion
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[13:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Non-sensitive - 06FCC Waters Down Internet Privacy Proposal - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:37] <exec> 08└─"non-sensitive" information, such as names and addresses... Given the wording "such as, I'd love to know what else is considered "non-sensitive". But my Google-fu is weak today, and I could not find the actual FCC proposal. Anyone have better luck?
[13:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Makes Sense - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:10] <exec> 08└─Twitter will die soon. Facebook is only as popular as it is because it is receiving money from the CIA, for obvious reasons -- although I would let even that slide if both weren't engaged in heavy-handed censorship...which they are.
[13:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes Sense - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:11] <exec> 08└─Twitter gets a lot of product placement on legacy media like network TV. Especially reality/gameshow TV. Of course legacy media might save twitter for a couple more years, but legacy media is going away too, eventually. So I think we agree twitter is doomed but due to legacy media support it won't b...
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[14:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Non-sensitive - 06FCC Waters Down Internet Privacy Proposal - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:40] <exec> 08└─The Washington Post article [washingtonpost.com] gives slightly more detail: The revised proposal, which will be put to an FCC vote on Oct. 27, says broadband providers do not have to get permission from customers to use “non-sensitive” information, such as names and addresses. This time around,...
[14:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-sensitive - 06FCC Waters Down Internet Privacy Proposal - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:41] <exec> 08└─And slowly, but gradually, we erode what is 'sensitive data'. It's death by a thousand cuts. Soon enough, dick/vag picks will no longer be sensitive data.
[14:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02(C)AS - 06FCC Waters Down Internet Privacy Proposal - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:43] <exec> 08└─Careful, or this "privacy" bill will give the Copyright Alert System a longer arm. Wouldn't take much more info for them to link an IP address to a name and phone number. If I had a choice I'd use an ISP that is not part of (C)AS.
[14:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Smarter than Republicans - 06Bumble Bees Can Use "Tools" and Pass on Knowledge - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:53] <exec> 08└─Who are the tools, and are incapable of acquiring new knowledge.
[14:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Now - 06Samsung Buys Viv Labs to Counter Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:37] <exec> 08└─If only they can keep their phones from exploding..
[14:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Talk is cheap - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:08] <exec> 08└─Boeing was the constructor of the S-IC first stage and the constructor and operator of the Delta III lift vehicle. McDonnell Douglas, which was wholly bought by Boeing, was responsible for the S-IV and S-IVB stages, and the Delta and Delta II lift vehicles. As part of United Launch Alliance, Boeing...
[14:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I can't wait /s - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:15] <exec> 08└─you'll get to live and work on a desolate planet with little to do
[14:03:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 588 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:24] <exec> 08└─The lights are on all the time, so judge their claims of how visible they are in daylight based on what you see, or don't. Plus look at the picture with the kids taken on a professional camera with a professional photographer for the best case claim of what they look like. 18 of the panels don't wor...
[14:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:32] <exec> 08└─What's particularly dumb about all this is that there was always a much simpler alternative: Put the solar panels beside the road, not in the road, you idiots! That way, you don't have to account for what happens when an 18-wheeler runs them over hundreds of times a day. Not enough room to do that?...
[14:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:03] <exec> 08└─Blue Origin has so far lost two boosters. PM-2 was destroyed in flight - no footage has been made available, and the flight was only announced via an FAA filing. New Shepard 1 flew successfully, but failed to land due to mechanical defect, and was destroyed on impact. Footage of the flight is availa...
[14:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:12] <exec> 08└─Because I am actually curious about the people and the minds behind the privatization of space exploration.
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[15:01:31] <exec> 08└─Imagine a cube farm where everyone is talking to their computer. I once received a phone call from a Navy Chief who was chewing tobacco. Couldn't understand a word he said. I doubt that a computer would understand it either.
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[16:01:36] <exec> 08└─Or imagine how lossy things like facial recognition and voice commands are. The keyboard is going to be around for a long long time.
[16:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Imagine - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:37] <exec> 08└─Have you ever had an assistant who lived in your computer? You will.
[16:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Death To Machines! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:39] <exec> 08└─If there's ever an assistant in my computer, i'm going to bludgeon him/her/it to death with my ibm model M with a din-9 connector!
[16:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mind control - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:42] <exec> 08└─One thought I had: imagine a situation like on the TV show Star Trek - notice how the bridge officers can do such complex things with limited buttons - one way I thought that could work is with brain pattern analysis and various "do what I mean" button variations. "select ship subsystem" could be on...
[16:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mind control - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:44] <exec> 08└─They often pushed more buttons, and the panels always had a lot of information.
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[16:01:46] <exec> 08└─Yes they did, but if you think about the complexity of the tasks they were often doing (for example, improvising some new technology on the spot by pushing only a handful of buttons), seems to me there aren't enough buttons pressed to explain all the necessary data points, and that some connection w...
[16:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02infer on my behalf my intent, meaning and objectiv - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:48] <exec> 08└─Will it also be able to infer the text you intend to input? swype sure can't
[16:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score:3, Funny) 02Microsoft - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:50] <exec> 08└─This is the company that almost entirely missed the significance of the Internet in the early 90s and put a tablet OS touch user interface on a desktop and server OS.
[16:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02So Bizarre! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:52] <exec> 08└─Dave Coplin, the technology giant's chief envisioning officer, said it was bizarre that 21st-century workers still relied on typing technology invented in the 19th century.
[16:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Funny) 02Keyboard is the best input device - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:55] <exec> 08└─(I'm using one now...) Microsoft has been wishing they could get rid of the keyboard for decades. Which is precisely why I have been wishing I could get rid of Microsoft for decades.
[16:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Keyboards... - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:57] <exec> 08└─I hate it when testing equipment manufacturers use alphabetic (abcde) keyboards. You shell out $20k and it comes with a proprietary non-replaceable abcde keyboard, idiotic.
[16:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Obligatory - 06The Company Formerly Known as Snapchat may be Worth $25 Billion - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:36] <exec> 08└─I think this guy [xkcd.com] finally cashed out
[16:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now - 06Samsung Buys Viv Labs to Counter Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:09] <exec> 08└─lp0 on fire
[16:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait /s - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:49] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for "Naked and Afraid on Mars" , "Survivor: Mars" or "Big Brother: Mars".
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[17:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02After what? - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:39] <exec> 08└─Facebook is interested in bringing zero-rated "Free Basics" Internet access to Americans, after its failure in India
[17:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Mind control - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:54] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't work for Data.
[17:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mind control - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:55] <exec> 08└─A good point, but really at some point you have to take a step back and realize it isn't a documentary...
[17:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Mind control - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:58] <exec> 08└─Galaxy Quest.
[17:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mind control - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:00] <exec> 08└─Then how did they work with Data? But in all seriousness, what they did isn't too hard if it is context-based. For example, the one to adjust the shields would be the engineer or tactical station, which probably already have buttons for the shield. It is like placing a call to someone. How can you d...
[17:02:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03goody [2135] 02Microsoft - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:03] <exec> 08└─This is the company that almost entirely missed the significance of the Internet in the early 90s and put a tablet OS touch user interface on a desktop and server OS.
[17:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Moof123 [5927] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:05] <exec> 08└─They thought Clippy was the future, they still are all in on the Ribbon interface, and so many awful examples of sucking at UI prediction.
[17:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:07] <exec> 08└─To even invent a "blue screen of death": why not just have it fall back to a nice 'Dos' type screen of black with white characters. Instead, you got that glaring blue. Dumb.
[17:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02He's right and he's wrong - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:12] <exec> 08└─Keyboards suck. They're loud, fragile, and take up space. There's also nothing more convenient generally available. Gestures and voice are less convenient for most people (people with arthritic or missing digits are obviously an edge case, here, and we already have voice control to help them). But f...
[17:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02bandwidth... - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:14] <exec> 08└─the problem is , the keyboard as awful as it may be , is still the highest bandwidth mechanism for getting information from my brain to the outside world - speaking might be faster, but I doubt it is more precise. Imagine trying to use dictated Latex....!!! That said, maybe when AR becomes a real th...
[17:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:bandwidth... - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:17] <exec> 08└─When I read the headline, I thought he was predicting that Dvorak or some other arrangement of keys was the way of the future, but nope, he's predicting that we'll move away from keyboards in general. Which as you noted is rather ridiculous. A mouse only has 5 points that you can reliably hit withou...
[17:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:bandwidth... - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:19] <exec> 08└─well I had one of those "touchstream" (name?) with the mouse/keyboard combination - fantastic for avoiding CT Of course, Apple bought them up took the keyboard off the market, and instead released the magic mouse/trackpad(?) I bought 2 of them immediately - they are bluetooth, run under linux using...
[17:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score:1) 02Real World will slap this idiot in the face! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:21] <exec> 08└─This idiot has obviously never worked in a noisy environment, or a military environment. There are far too many cases where a keyboard is simply going to be the most convenient way to handle things.
[17:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02I'd like an example of how his HID works ... - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:23] <exec> 08└─I have a text file (file.txt) containing this one long string: <embed>||$directory_path(%path%)\folder*||$directory_path(%path%)\%filename%*||$directory_path(%path%)\01*||$directory_path(%path%)\02*||$directory_path(%path%)\03*||$left($directory_path(%path%),$sub($len($directory_path(%path%)),$add(...
[17:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'd like an example of how his HID works ... - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:25] <exec> 08└─You: Computer, run sed.exe Computer: running "sex ed" You: Ugh. Fuck my life Computer: running "sex with ed" You: Hey, look, my computer just failed a gravity test
[17:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds great - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:27] <exec> 08└─Except not... I do t want to talk out loud to my computer, and hand gestures could get annoying. Sure there is a place for these things, voice interface while driving or writing/dictating anything. But I wouldn't be able to code that way, and I guarantee the few times it screws up and won't let me d...
[17:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:1) 02Time for a rebranding... - 06Samsung Faces the Prospect of a Second Galaxy Note 7 Recall - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:35] <exec> 08└─Introducing the new Samsung Galaxy Pinto
[17:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Google already have a social network. - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:20] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly sure that Orkut is no longer a thing. It was dissolved in 2014.
[17:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Makes Sense - 06Tech Giants Don't Want to Buy Twitter, Twitter Shares Plummet 20% - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:25] <exec> 08└─The only reason they have had any staying power is that they were able to grow large enough to effectively bully people into joining. A lot of companies have FB only contests and a lot of groups only exist on FB, so if you want to have anything to do with those things, then you have to join FB. The...
[17:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:3-D printed pharmaceuticals - 06Technique Mass-Produces Uniform, Multilayered Particles - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:56] <exec> 08└─Rytary should have a cost equals or lower than the cost Effexor XR. Compared to venlafaxine, Rytary's molécules are smaller, have similar synthesis complexity(http://www.chemdrug.com/file/upload/SYNTHESIS/SYN/10/10072103a.gif vs https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedi...
[17:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 1000 2) 02Re:3-D printed pharmaceuticals - 06Technique Mass-Produces Uniform, Multilayered Particles - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:57] <exec> 08└─I found the price using Google is someone have better numbers please post them. I was on 300mg/day of effexor XR when it was still under patent protection, about 15yr ago, and it used to cost around 250$cad before my insurance reimbursement.
[17:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 023D printer and model - 06Technique Mass-Produces Uniform, Multilayered Particles - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:00] <exec> 08└─For anyone curious about what type of 3D printer was used, here is a quote from the research paper [rsc.org]: The devices were fabricated using a high-resolution SLA printer (pixelation ∼25 μm) with a layer height equal to 25 μm and absolute tolerances in the x–y and z directions equal to 50...
[17:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to Mars - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:27] <exec> 08└─Musk wants to go to mars, not the moon. When you put your billions into a company with the goal of building your own lunar base (with hookers and blackjack) then I'm sure "we" will go there too.
[17:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:43] <exec> 08└─Because someone got hold of some federal funding?? Sandpoint gets a lot of snow, cloud cover, sand and gravel used on the roads in winter... yeah, this'll be real durable and practical, riiiiiight.
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[18:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:After what? - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:32] <exec> 08└─Americans' personal vanity knows no bounds. Just after the Jew Marissa Mayer was caught sucking up to a mass-warrant with Yahoo, here we have another Jew attempting Jew bullshit. Jews are destroying Europe, and you pantywaists are not doing a goddamn thing about it. To elaborate: Merkel was caught t...
[18:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vokbain [2372] (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:56] <exec> 08└─This must be their guy: https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[18:01:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02So Bizarre! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:57] <exec> 08└─Dave Coplin, the technology giant's chief envisioning officer, said it was bizarre that 21st-century workers still relied on typing technology invented in the 19th century.
[18:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He's right and he's wrong - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:01] <exec> 08└─I agree with most of what you say but my experience has been that unless you are buying ultra cheep, most keyboards are not fragile. I'm still using a middle of the road Logitech keyboard I bought 15 - 20ish years ago. Its been pulled/knocked off the desk countless times, been through a number of mo...
[18:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Microsoft 'Will Die Out' - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 1619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:10] <exec> 08└─And in other news: a Qwerty Keyboard Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Microsoft 'Will Die Out'. It's just Microsoft running out of things to sell, so they try to make something up that is impossible or impractical but sounds good, and hope people will think they are still relevant. Pfff, p...
[18:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02In other news … - 06Samsung Faces the Prospect of a Second Galaxy Note 7 Recall - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:19] <exec> 08└─In other news, Syria just ordered a big batch of Galaxy Note 7.
[18:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02The wonders of space never cesse to amaze me - 06Hubble Spots Stellar Plasma Cannon - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:21] <exec> 08└─I am a relatively cynical bourgeois, yet wonders like that periodical plasmaballs shooting dual star system have kept their ability to amaze me. Please continue to post articles like this, they are a refreshing break from the apparently endless stream of earthly tales of greed and corruption....
[18:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02!Sports car - 06GLM Enters Electric Battlefield with Twin Motor Luxury Supercar - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:54] <exec> 08└─A sports car has 2 seats maximum and 2 door maximum. Back in 1964, Ford offered the Mustang, a 4-seater, 2-door car, which was the first of what came to be called Pony cars. Plymouth followed with one named after a fish; Pontiac brought out one named after a mythical bird; the name Chevy used for th...
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[19:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score:1) 02Time wasted - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:45] <exec> 08└─I just spent some minutes just to understand what this "Free Basics" is. And what it turned out to be was some smartphone app that is called "Free Basics". What a waste of my time reading details on how some company of the 'Internet Bubble 2.0' kind is trying to convince the government on having a m...
[19:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the first hit is free - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:46] <exec> 08└─so they want to make it so that people who don't know anything about the net get free access but only to these asshole's sites? kind of like advertising cigarettes to kids. get them while they're young. also dovetails nicely with the government's aim of surveillance of rural people. you know, the pe...
[19:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How it goes - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:48] <exec> 08└─Facebook: "Hey, can we have a lot of money to pretend to help poor people while really making ourselves more profitable?" Government: "Sure! It's not our money anyways! Also: thanks for the campaign bribe!"
[19:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So slow lanes - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:50] <exec> 08└─Yup help the poor and give them limited internet with ALL the spying. Yup get idea
[19:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ghettobook - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:52] <exec> 08└─While self-serving as fuck, I'm sure lots of people in facebook can't see anything wrong with it. After all, it is good thing for wikipedia to be freely available to everyone. But in the end, it is nothing more than making the internet into a ghetto for poor people and a full-featured place for tho...
[19:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Imagine - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:05] <exec> 08└─Clippy, is that you?
[19:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Mind control - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:14] <exec> 08└─- try to think about shields - press button - image of green chick in skimpy bikini appears on main viewscreen
[19:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03calzone [2181] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:So Bizarre! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 1767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:22] <exec> 08└─And we're still using (modern equivalents to) stone tablets with hieroglyphics (pen and paper). Fact is: TEXT matters. It is an encapsulation of language that humans have NO OTHER WAY TO ACHIEVE. Even if all the wonderful amazing most outlandish concepts about facial tracking and mind reading came t...
[19:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03calzone [2181] (Score:2) 02Re:So Bizarre! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:24] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention: how often do people choose to write letters (email/messages) over talking face to face for certain matters? Do politicians give speeches off the top of their heads or write them first? Do novelists go into a recording studio and dictate an entire novel or write them? There's a rea...
[19:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03calzone [2181] (Score:2) 02Re:So Bizarre! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:26] <exec> 08└─One last thing. Had computers been introduced to the public as a way to talk to your toaster, they would have been relegated to the Sharper Image catalog. But what made them must-have for regular people was DESKTOP PUBLISHING.
[19:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:bandwidth... - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:35] <exec> 08└─I used to have a Thinkpad and I wish those little joystick buttons would become more popular. It's really handy once you get used to it, and I pretty much immediately disabled the trackpad as it has the typical problem of reacting to the wrist and heels of the hands.
[19:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02SLOOOoooooow - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:42] <exec> 08└─It's going to be really fucking slow, until thought control is 100%. As everyone here has said, those techs are not able to replace keyboard. The guy is incompetent, not unlike the rest of Microsoft execs.
[19:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02So it will go like this : - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:44] <exec> 08└─Let me interpret that statement for you :- We're looking at ... voice and gesture recognition, and facial tracking .... We think that computers in the not-too-distant future will be able to interpret those things and infer what they mean in a way that is most beneficial to Microsoft's business mod...
[19:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So it will go like this : - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:47] <exec> 08└─Let me interpret that statement for you Let me interpret this for you 'one guy at MS is working on something kinda interesting thinks his stuff is so cool everyone will use it'. MS throws a lot of stuff at the wall and see what sticks. All big companies do that. This dude is working on something kin...
[19:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news … - 06Samsung Faces the Prospect of a Second Galaxy Note 7 Recall - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:57] <exec> 08└─A clever terrorist could rig a Samsung device to blow up at an opportune time and blame it on Samsung. Oh it was just a faulty product, if they rigged it properly who would tell the difference? Now a days everything Samsung seems to be exploding so just pick something.
[19:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-sensitive - 06FCC Waters Down Internet Privacy Proposal - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:09] <exec> 08└─i wonder how they would feel about the sensitivity of their address if people started going to their house to "talk" to them.
[19:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02competition - 06FCC Waters Down Internet Privacy Proposal - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:11] <exec> 08└─i don't want the feds to tell ISPs what to do but we have to smash the monopolies and then make it so they can't borg again. If i had 10 ISPs to choose from none of this shit would matter.
[19:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:08] <exec> 08└─That's probably the other reason why they're trying it there. It's a small town and it's got horrible weather, so they can get their testing data in without the possibi 1000 lity of causing gridlock all over a major city.
[19:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:10] <exec> 08└─So cause gridlock in a smaller city instead! Progress. [Considering the construction gridlock that's routine around Los Angeles, their little bit would probably go unnoticed.]
[19:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02It's a complete scam... - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:20] <exec> 08└─Everyone here knows this crap is a well-known, complete farce, right?! Solar panels in roadways is a ridiculous idea for many reasons... {Groan} http://www.eevblog.com!/ [eevblog.com]
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[20:01:38] <exec> 08└─What are the advantages compared to conventional wetsuits or dry suits? Lower drag? If you dive deeper doesn't the trapped air get squished making the insulation less effective? How about exposure to stuff that makes the fur/feathers get wet/sticky (surfactants, oil?)? One major advantage of real fu...
[20:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time wasted - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:48] <exec> 08└─Its not about trust, money, or public service. Its about control, and the powerful in all countries realize that data mining their citizens will help them stay in power. Is the happiness quotient too low? Roll out some perks, maybe spread around a little money, and they're back in business with a ci...
[20:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Job tease - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:54] <exec> 08└─Jobs, what jobs? You mean the deceptive advertising of companies that post every position they have on every job board even when they're not hiring for any position? Those jobs? Facebook is colluding with Human Resources to promote the fiction of jobs in America now?
[20:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02Re:So Bizarre! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:25] <exec> 08└─To be fair, it was a super shallow article. For most computer users, the interface won't be a keyboard. Typing doesn't matter so much when consuming content. Voice recognition is going to be "good enough" for sending text messages and posting on facebook... that is an obvious trend. As a percentage...
[20:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Bizarre! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─As a percentage of computer users, fewer and fewer people will be involved in creating content.
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[21:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02at this point - 06Windows 10 Marketshare Fell in September - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:30] <exec> 08└─At this point anyone who wanted 10 probably got it for free (I mean why not). Those who do not care or have something else will just snag it on their next computer. Nothing terribly out of line here. It is like watching the polls and people say one person or the other is 'crushing it' when it is wi...
[21:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:at this point - 06Windows 10 Marketshare Fell in September - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:31] <exec> 08└─Or people are now putting Win7 back on because they don't have to worry about it auto-installing Windows 10 any more. For now...
[21:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''(Fingers crossed for luck)'' - 06Windows 10 Marketshare Fell in September - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:33] <exec> 08└─Apparently, I was a bit behind the curve on M$ news. Detested snooping patch KB 2952664 reappears [infoworld.com] Reappearance of patch designed to provide telemetry stokes users' fears about a return of 'Get Windows 10' nagware Perhaps the world has gone truly mad. Or maybe Microsoft's trying to p...
[21:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02obligatory Female Genitalia joke - 06How Beaver Pelts Are Inspiring the Development of Wetsuits - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:42] <exec> 08└─
[21:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:How it goes - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:55] <exec> 08└─The thing that really matters though, is whether they can outbid the telcos that will oppose it.
[21:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02technical curiosity says bring it on - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:59] <exec> 08└─American hackers will get the opportunity to escape from the walled garden of Free Basics without needing to travel to use it.
[21:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Mind control - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:22] <exec> 08└─And the captain says: "Scotty, beam that alien directly to my quarters. I've got to explore where no man has gone before."
[21:02:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03calzone [2181] 02Re:So Bizarre! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 1767 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:29] <exec> 08└─And we're still using (modern equivalents to) stone tablets with hieroglyphics (pen and paper). Fact is: TEXT matters. It is an encapsulation of language that humans have NO OTHER WAY TO ACHIEVE. Even if all the wonderful amazing most outlandish concepts about facial tracking and mind reading came t...
[21:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03calzone [2181] (Score:2) 02Re:So Bizarre! - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:35] <exec> 08└─I had a similar thought. We may be seeing the beginning of a new class-based society where content creators run the wold, are well off, literate and use keyboards and other "professional" tools while the consumer class spends all its money on content and service subscriptions (like self driving cars...
[21:02:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Keyboard is the best input device - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:37] <exec> 08└─(I'm using one now...) Microsoft has been wishing they could get rid of the keyboard for decades. Which is precisely why I have been wishing I could get rid of Microsoft for decades.
[21:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Re:bandwidth... - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:47] <exec> 08└─Eye tracking won't do a damn bit of good for anyone with visual issues such as low vision, blindness, or tunnel vision. If we can't see the screen then tracking our eyes for anything is utterly pointless if not counter productive. Gesture tracking is just as useless to the blind since we can't see t...
[21:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Price Reduction? - 06Samsung Faces the Prospect of a Second Galaxy Note 7 Recall - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:05] <exec> 08└─I hope they'll reduce the price of the phones. I'd take my chances with it catching on fire as long as it was discounted enough and replacements were free.
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[22:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Complete with glasses that sense stress - 06Intel Fashions Stress-Sensing Glasses and a Belt-Based Projector - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:27] <exec> 08└─Next step - peril sensitive sunglasses! Douglas Adams should have got a better patent lawyer...
[22:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:at this point - 06Windows 10 Marketshare Fell in September - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:37] <exec> 08└─Agree. I mean for all we know this is just 100s of 1000s of elementary, middle, and high school computers that weren't being used much over August few of which were upgraded over the summer, being fired back up in September. Plus kids are at home less, and at school more. Or as you said, straight up...
[22:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''It is like watching the polls'' - 06Windows 10 Marketshare Fell in September - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:39] <exec> 08└─Heh. Yeah. (The editor saw fit to keep the dept. line suggested in the original submission but omitted the part that mentioned the proximity of the numbers to the margin of error.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:at this point - 06Windows 10 Marketshare Fell in September - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:41] <exec> 08└─At this point anyone who wanted 10 probably got it for free (I mean why not).
[22:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''(Fingers crossed for luck)'' - 06Windows 10 Marketshare Fell in September - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:45] <exec> 08└─Its like users don't understand that computers are being subverted to work against the users... How many god damn examples do we neeeeeeddddddd????
[22:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Hey aliens and hybrids, we're onto you! - 06Windows 10 Marketshare Fell in September - 1929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:47] <exec> 08└─I would recommend according to sources on the net to be on the look out for shape shifting aliens disguised as humans, who, like the hybrid humans+aliens, must consume human flesh to maintain their human appearance. Hey aliens and hybrids, we're onto you! Human flesh is being found more and more in...
[22:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:After what? - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:03] <exec> 08└─You got serious issues, man...
[22:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Mind control - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:33] <exec> 08└─Oh yes it would, and it would work much, much, much, faster. Data can directly connect to LCARS, which is akin to us directly interfacing our brains to the ship's computer core. As Data can actually understand the programming at a lower level, he can "think" with LCARS in a more sophisticated fashio...
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[23:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:at this point - 06Windows 10 Marketshare Fell in September - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:45] <exec> 08└─Even at $0 and no effort put into getting the update it was still too expensive and too much work to justify. I tried it for a few days, saw it was complete garbage and upgraded back to 7 for my Windows install. It's amazing to me that people are still willing to give MS money for such incompetently...
[23:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:After what? - 06Facebook in Talks With U.S. Government About Bringing "Free Basics" to America - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:07] <exec> 08└─Day by day I wonder If I will be torn asunder By these things that I know that nobody else knows Or maybe it’s the drinking I guess we should consult a Bible Everybody needs a sign - or Bless the birds and the bees The flowers and trees And blessed be the slacker
[23:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Imagine - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:31] <exec> 08└─"No one will every need more that 640K." Bill Gates "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates If there is one company with a proven track record on predicting the future, it is Micro$idious~!!
[23:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:46] <exec> 08└─Really? The background COLOR is all you can find to complain about in the BSOD? Wow.
[23:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 021995: "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:48] <exec> 08└─1996: "The Road Ahead: Now with Internet!" by Bill Gates
[23:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack (1554) 2000 (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:50] <exec> 08└─They also can't seem to tell the difference between 30 people typing on keyboards in a conference/class room, and 30 people talking at their computers in that same setting. Basically one person can talk to one computer at a time, and nobody with in earshot can say anything or messages get mixed. Bad...
[23:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:bandwidth... - 06Microsoft Expert Who Predicts Future Technology Says Qwerty Keyboard 'Will Die Out' - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:07] <exec> 08└─They may have fixed it, but I haven't had a laptop in quite a while. The only fix I've seen that actually works is disabling it automatically whenever there's a mouse plugged in the way that Apple does.
[23:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Personal Annoyances - 06Samsung Buys Viv Labs to Counter Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:39] <exec> 08└─Does anybody use these personal assistants? I've never seen anyone using siri or Cortana. Annoying when I accidentally press that button in my phone.
[23:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:38] <exec> 08└─The point is that they have to test the product somewhere if they have any intention of bringing it to market. And installing it in a small town where the damage is likely slower would help significantly in terms of predicting how durable the panels are and how long they're going to last. LA isn't w...
[23:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:40] <exec> 08└─Ya know, we've already got vast flat areas where we could deploy solar panels without having to worry about durability, and right where we need it most -- the roofs of commercial buildings in every city in the sun belt. BTW Sam's Club has already deployed little wind generators atop parking lot ligh...
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