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[00:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 025-7-5 - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:45] <exec> 08└─Apple lost jack plug. Samsung found DC lighter. The Force found balance.
[00:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02ya its an oldie - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:48] <exec> 08└─Is that a Galaxy 7 exploding in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
[00:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I for one will purchase a Galaxy Note 7 - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:50] <exec> 08└─Winter's coming soon.
[00:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:20] <exec> 08└─People dislike neither about Adolf Hitler. These people have been 'told' to dislike. Over and over again. Those who 'told' the people over and over again are called propagandists. These propagandists are paid good money for their propaganda. These propagandists have no conscience and openly lie and...
[00:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:22] <exec> 08└─ask them _what_ they dislike about the man and _why_ they dislike him so much. They don't know! Not one of them.
[00:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I own an English translation of Mein Kampf - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:26] <exec> 08└─just so you know I'm not a NAZI.
[00:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Hitler wanted a "Racial State" - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:28] <exec> 08└─that's what he called his plan for Germany - it was explicitly racist.
[00:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing of value was lost - 06Stylish and Userstyles.org Having Corruption Issues - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:39] <exec> 08└─I don't get the closing joke a the end, but maybe I'm taking it too literally: I’m just going to move back to the backend. I just can’t handle these many changes and versions and editions and compilers and transpilers. The JavaScript community is insane if it thinks anyone can keep up with this...
[00:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Obsolete - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I have one of those sitting in my cart at Amazon. I was hoping I'd run into a first-hand user of one.
[00:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:22] <exec> 08└─People I can work with quite well. Stupid work I can do quite well too. Pointless work is what I'm not down with. Give me an actual, useful task and I'll save your guys a few minutes of work. If you like it, hire me. If you don't, I erase the whiteboard or take the paper, allow that I hope you have...
[00:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:23] <exec> 08└─Others wouldn't want to discuss "real" problems in an interview because they are concerned the "work" might be used in production without them getting payed. Because apparently in their mind it is cheaper to pay human resources to schedule an interview and a manager to ask bullshit questions to slip...
[00:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:28] <exec> 08└─I understand where you are coming from. However, there are a *lot* of fakers out there as in can not do a simple for loop or an if statement. The firms I am working with to find a new job. 3 different people who do not know each other all said the same thing. 'about 1 in 10 actually can do the work...
[00:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gotta get that average product lifetime down! - 06The Smart Home may not be a Thing, But the Smart Kitchen Might Be - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:06:45] <exec> 08└─No, you'll have to pay a monthly fee to allow the fridge to access the company's online database where they keep track of everything food-related you buy. That way you can access the data on your smart phone while you're at the store. Version 2: Buy our new fridge (compared to a software update even...
[00:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anonymity serves a purpose - 06SoylentNews Comment Moderation Statistics [Updated] - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:22] <exec> 08└─"At the time of publication the authorship of the articles was a closely guarded secret, though astute observers discerned the identities of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. Following Hamilton's death in 1804, a list that he had drafted claiming fully two-thirds of the papers for himself became public, i...
[00:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Popularity Contest of Mutual Admiration - 06SoylentNews Comment Moderation Statistics [Updated] - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:53] <exec> 08└─But I was trying to troll!
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[01:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02One Barrier To Rule Them ALL - 06Security Researcher to Microsoft: Powershell's Admin-Lite Scheme is an Open Door - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:27] <exec> 08└─The only barrier Microsoft cares about is the one in between the user's telemetry and Microsoft. Security? Only unless Telemetry is at risk, and only if it doesn't put Telemetry at risk. Microsoft has never, at any point in time, been a secure operating system once you had access. Privilege escalati...
[01:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02old saw.. - 06Lichens Did Not Grow on Homo Naledi - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:35] <exec> 08└─"a non-rolling bone, in the dark, gathers no moss"
[01:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:"tarnish the brand" - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:44] <exec> 08└─Human lives are important, which is why they are recalling and replacing as required, However, they are still a company and they need to carry out damage limitation, hence they want to limit any adverse 'tarnishing' of the brand. The two things can occur at the same time and doing both is a sensible...
[01:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad link. - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:53] <exec> 08└─Fixed - thanks.
[01:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:I for one will purchase a Galaxy Note 7 - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:00] <exec> 08└─the trouble with using one of these to light a fire is that it single-use.
[01:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Interesting) 02I actually feel for Samsung - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:02] <exec> 08└─They did not intend for this to happen. Sounds like the problem phones are maybe 0.001% of those shipped, and for the updated units even less. Other than spontaneously catching fire they are good phones from what I hear. A few years back I worked on the charging code at Qualcomm. It's pretty simple,...
[01:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:I take it all back - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 2010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:18] <exec> 08└─I think "like Hitler" was a term tossed around too cavalierly and without much care as to the facts. Similar with labeling something fascist. It turned into more of an insult, than a serious observation. That being said, Trump is literally Hitler. Unlike all of the other elections I'm sure, this par...
[01:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I take it all back - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:19] <exec> 08└─OTOH... Living History [amazon.com] It Takes a Village, Tenth Anniversary Edition [amazon.com] Hard Choices [amazon.com] Stronger Together: A Blueprint for America's Future [amazon.com]
[01:02:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 1836 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:27] <exec> 08└─There is actually something VERY wrong with dictators. They literally control the lives of their citizens and all freedoms are based on the dictators goodwill. I'm pretty sure you live in the US, so the ideas you just endorsed are very disturbing. However they are not surprising, fascism has been a...
[01:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:39] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention that Soviet Russia took half of Poland, and had no plans to return it. Soviet Russia also took Finland, from which it was driven out eventually. Soviet Russia had bigger plans for the world, and Uncle Joe was getting ready at full speed. Do you remember the Katyn Forest Massacr...
[01:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:40] <exec> 08└─They don't know! Not one of them.
[01:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:42] <exec> 08└─holocaust
[01:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hitler wanted a "Racial State" - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:48] <exec> 08└─I suppose you mean Hitler wanted a "Racially pure state". And what made him want that in the first place? Was it because his people were well-off or was it because his people were taken advantage of, barely scraping a living, paying unjust, illegal war reparations (for a war his country was NOT resp...
[01:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Obsolete - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:16] <exec> 08└─Oh you mean during the Windows Millennium build? And before that Win 95 (remember plug and pray), then 98 (which needed 3 versions). They finally made a decent OS with XP, but then went wacko with Vista. Then reverted to a slimmer version of XP in Win 7 which was pretty decent. Till they started run...
[01:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:And the hits just keep coming - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:16] <exec> 08└─and how mang times can you forget the foreign relt ations power that Trump would have. My God, what heve we done, is what we'd say after he sends a missle at Mexico for giving Trump the finger.
[01:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprising? - 06SoylentNews Comment Moderation Statistics [Updated] - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:59] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if someone that knows for sure can clarify that point with regard to how these statistics were compiled. It could make a big difference in how these statistics should be interpreted.
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[02:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:40] <exec> 08└─but whatever, fucking USA has been helping saudis' genocide on Yemen
[02:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Is this really a flaw or not? - 06Security Researcher to Microsoft: Powershell's Admin-Lite Scheme is an Open Door - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:48] <exec> 08└─I mean, is it like a safety harness for window cleaners? Where if they try they can easily defeat it and fall to their deaths? If JEA are like that, a 'safety' line that you can circumvent, that doesn't make it less of a safety line; and it can still be very useful -- you launch JEA and do your thin...
[02:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this really a flaw or not? - 06Security Researcher to Microsoft: Powershell's Admin-Lite Scheme is an Open Door - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:50] <exec> 08└─It means you have to understand that the JEA profile users ARE still effectively sysadmins/domain admins/etc with full permissions, and the JEA profile just keeps honest people honest.
[02:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:And hopefully a good outcome will appear - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:17] <exec> 08└─false. the charger circuit is never inside the battery and that could easily be at fault, too. but I do agree, taking away user-swappable batteries was evil and there was NO other reason but vendor lock-in and profits.
[02:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I expect they will be had cheaply - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:21] <exec> 08└─sadly I do not have a fireplace.
[02:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:I actually feel for Samsung - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:25] <exec> 08└─if you charge a VERY cold battery, that's also very bad. I wonder if you checked if the batter was in RANGE before deciding to apply current to it (?) btw, all this is done via simple 5cent charger chips, these days. and measuring voltage is usually not a great idea since the voltage changes become...
[02:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:I actually feel for Samsung - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:27] <exec> 08└─I don't feel at all bad for samsung. it was a long time coming. they are THE cheap-assed company of the decade. find the cheapest parts, many of them fake (fake china caps that last a year or two instead of 5 or more) and build circuits with them. don't know how many sammy lcd displays I fished out...
[02:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:51] <exec> 08└─There's nothing inherently wrong with dictators. Rodrigo Duterte is one of the good guys, a hero of the 2010s decade, a savior to his people. Lee Kuan Yew was a great man who was relatively nonviolent and a great organizer and economic savior of his people. Augusto Pinochet was a wise leader who did...
[02:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:I own an English translation of Mein Kampf - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:11] <exec> 08└─Educate me.
[02:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:Obsolete - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:40] <exec> 08└─Windows ME wasn't where the talent was. Windows 2000 was great - a proper multi-process desktop OS with a solid GUI for the masses. Remember, back then Gnome and KDE were barely viable. 2003 XP came out. Office was also still making progress in the early 00s. Microsoft was making real progress in 20...
[02:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:59] <exec> 08└─Every major software employer these days is primarily focused on coding (and design) in interviews (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, all the second tier size-wise as well). It's the only thing that means anything. Do you write maintainable, robust code with good variable names and so on i...
[02:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:00] <exec> 08└─S'fine. I'd never stoop to working for a major or even large company anyway. The pay's not enough for the amount of shit you're forced to eat.
[02:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:11] <exec> 08└─Yup, that is why I said erase the whiteboard or walk out with the paper. Really though, you're not going to get quality code if the person writing it has no idea about the preferred styles for the project, what libraries they can make use of, what constants mean what, and the like. You can get a ver...
[02:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:24] <exec> 08└─Get hungry enough that they get less whiny, picky, and entitled and start acting like responsible human beings.
[02:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:25] <exec> 08└─fuck you. I was out of work for more than half a year and I was willing to do MOST things that ego-based coders would not. the lack of jobs is real and the hiring process is against you if you are not currently employed. again, go fuck yourself. the fact that you have had an easy time getting jobs d...
[02:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:28] <exec> 08└─Who said it was easy for me? I fully expect to have to take a job that's beneath me when I get tired of burning through my savings and go back to work. You certainly won't hear me whining about it though.
[02:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:TMB missed an opportunity - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:19] <exec> 08└─He's not that awesome. I just think the slogan's funny.
[02:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:''Stein isn't really worth a shit IMO'' - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:42] <exec> 08└─You're never gonna win me over telling me she's a fan of the New Deal. That alone would keep me from ever voting for her.
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[03:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Guided by Samsung - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:39] <exec> 08└─My guess is the guidance was via Samsung phones GPS co-ordinates, and when the phones burned the missles went into the ocean. / not really, I think Samsung is an unlucky victim with the exploding phones // iPhones are also burning /// sux, I plan to buy a phone next month and would prefer one that d...
[03:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:41] <exec> 08└─The Yemenis are apparently claiming the missile attack on the Saudi Base - and also another strike against a Saudi base inside Yemen - but not claiming any attack on the US ship. Even the US military doesn't seem to be sure it was an attack on the US ship, a couple of missiles fell out of the sky so...
[03:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:43] <exec> 08└─Do we know if they fell out of the sky outside the threat perimeter, or are we just very politely not pointing out that they were shot down by the Phalanx guns or laser cannons or whatever now provides the outermost layer of the point-defense network on a modern destroyer?
[03:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One Barrier To Rule Them ALL - 06Security Researcher to Microsoft: Powershell's Admin-Lite Scheme is an Open Door - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:52] <exec> 08└─Use NAT? Bollocks. Get yourself a real honest to goodness stateful firewall and you'll have all the safety that NAT supposedly gives and more. Repeat after me: NAT is NOT a security measure! It only looks that way because in order to implement NAT you need to have some of the functionality of a stat...
[03:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:I actually feel for Samsung - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:28] <exec> 08└─Yep, you feed the battery a small amount of current for a few minutes and watch the temp. Part of why this guy's state machine was so sweet, he took into account all sorts of edge cases.
[03:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:I actually feel for Samsung - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:31] <exec> 08└─I should also say, if the Samsung phone has a Qualcomm chip I'll bet not a single Samsung engineer looked at the charging code. Just like they never looked at any of the low level code, the chip vendor supplies all that and Samsung et all sticks Android on top of it and goes from there.
[03:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Check out the jerks on craigslist - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:33] <exec> 08└─Jerks on Craigslist selling Galaxy Note 7 with "safe" battery. We should go on CL now and post a PSA to tell everyone that there is currently no safe Note 7.
[03:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Never, ever... - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:35] <exec> 08└─I would never buy anything made by Samsung.
[03:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Duterte is Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:00] <exec> 08└─There's nothing inherently wrong with dictators. Rodrigo Duterte is one of the good guys, a hero of the 2010s decade, a savior to his people.
[03:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:context... - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:55] <exec> 08└─The book smart PhD dude was totally crushed by the street smart coder. This should be made into a movie or a cartoon or something.
[03:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Only post! - 063D-Printed Hyperelastic Biomaterial Used for Bone Growth - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:08] <exec> 08└─Only post!
[03:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Either women are mindless or you're deceitful - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:06:16] <exec> 08└─“I’ve got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” Trump says. “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.” “And when you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump says. “You c...
[03:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:And the hits just keep coming - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:06:29] <exec> 08└─Oh Lordy, Lordy, let there be a God who hugs you! (And gives you beer!) Yes it would be nice to finally have your vote REALLY mean something when voting 'outside the box', so to speak. Pirate party for Canada! Arrrr!
[03:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymity serves a purpose - 06SoylentNews Comment Moderation Statistics [Updated] - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:21] <exec> 08└─I like to see aristarchus as the Batman to Ethanol-fueled's Joker. Like Ledger and Leto, Eth is a method actor. Ethanol-fueled didn't create aristarchus (contrary to Nicholson's portrayal), but he did kill the proverbial Jason Todd. [soylentnews.org] Eth, thank you for the response. I will try to l...
[03:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Surprising? - 06SoylentNews Comment Moderation Statistics [Updated] - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:46] <exec> 08└─All I did was tally the number of up-mods and the number of down-mods, and generated the tables based on that.
[03:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Why aren't they worried about cows? - 06Study Says Methane Emissions Higher than Previously Thought, but Industry Gas Leaks Decreasing - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:15] <exec> 08└─Why convert methane into CO2 Equivalents? Doesn't Methane have a shorter atmospheric life-time as well?
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[04:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Watch out, it's from google - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:32] <exec> 08└─It will probably want access to your contact list, location, and search history.
[04:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:2) 02Re:Watch out, it's from google - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:33] <exec> 08└─Actually it's released under the SIL open font license [wikipedia.org] so I wouldn't worry about that. It'll probably quickly be packaged and placed into the default repos of many Linux and BSD distributions.
[04:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A lot of self congratulation here - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:35] <exec> 08└─Makes me suspicious right off the bat. from TFS: "It was this really phenomenal, daunting project," says Google internationalization expert Bob Jung. "Looking back at it, I'm even surprised myself how ambitious we were."
[04:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:44] <exec> 08└─I've heard that a hospital and clinic were bombed, and according to an NGO there was no valid military reason. That sounds like war crimes have been committed. But why do you use the term "genocide"? http://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com] https://...
[04:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:49] <exec> 08└─What I have is this: http://www.usatoday.com "Two missiles fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen landed near a U.S. warship in the...
[04:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02What's the significance? - 06Lichens Did Not Grow on Homo Naledi - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:07] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain to me what the significance of this finding is? Is this more or less relevant as nerd news and stuff that matters than "Idiopathic Acquired Osteosclerosis in a Middle-Aged Woman With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus"?
[04:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soon... - 06Lichens Did Not Grow on Homo Naledi - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:09] <exec> 08└─The Dinaledi Chamber, directed by Oliver Stone, opens in theatres everywhere.
[04:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:truthful hyperbole - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:54] <exec> 08└─Have you read Mein Kampf??? It makes Trumps rambling look deep, scholarly and thoughtful! Get a copy and try to read it: you can't.... honestly... it is baaaaaad. Hitler was probably ADHD to the max, or SOMETHING.... ...baaaaaad.....
[04:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hitler was a meth addict. - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:55] <exec> 08└─> Hitler was probably ADHD to the max, or SOMETHING.... Well, Hitler was a meth addict. [usatoday.com]
[04:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:08] <exec> 08└─I look at it as 1. Vote Hillary. Result, you get a kick in the nuts (or you get your pussy grabbed) 2. Vote for Trump. Result, you get a kick in the nuts (or you get your pussy grabbed) It's funny: this whole election is about "who kicks harder/grabs more hair". I'm voting Hillary cause she kicks li...
[04:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:26] <exec> 08└─Neither. Just the dictator who invaded most of Europe in his dreams of empire and killed millions along the way.
[04:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:47] <exec> 08└─If you voted for Johnson then the invisible hand would grab you by the pussy and put you to work on the best jobs. The best.
[04:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Here comes Vista 7 ^W 10 - 06Fill Your Home with that New Mac Smell, Courtesy of this Candle - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:58] <exec> 08└─If anyone wants something to fill their home with 100% Old Sock Smell, get in touch. I'll be kickstartering the product in about a week once I've finished wearing it.
[04:05:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WillR [2012] 02New Mac Candle - 06Fill Your Home with that New Mac Smell, Courtesy of this Candle - 305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:04] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the smell is a mix of hydrocarbons with unpronounceable 14-syllable names that probably all cause cancer, not "mint, peach, basil, lavender, mandarin and sage" But the more important question is: if I light it and say 20 Hail Steves, will they freaking release a new MacBook Pro alr...
[04:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:1) 02iSmell - 06Fill Your Home with that New Mac Smell, Courtesy of this Candle - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:16] <exec> 08└─Get the sensation of "new" for only $24.99. If that seems a lot, just remember that this is still 99% cheaper than the actual "new" thing. And for an additional small fee of $99, we throw in an empty box, to complete your simulated "unboxing" experience. Hurry now! Only 99 left.
[04:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the hits just keep coming - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:29] <exec> 08└─"Proof" for the alt-right crowd means dozens of links to alt-right sites repeating the same rumors and claiming they're fact. The exact same they did with the Obama birther story.
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[05:01:28] <exec> 08└─Many Linux and other OSes that don't have long stable periods already use it as a fallback if their primary fonts don't have the character in question.
[05:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Watch out, it's from google - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:30] <exec> 08└─Already comes as part of my Linux distro - a monster of a "font" and a pita of the 1st order. On the other hand, maybe my distro can now drop those other 500+ irritating fonts from around the globe that I always first delete after an install.
[05:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02But does it have a decen screen-font? - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:34] <exec> 08└─Sounds great but why do I have a sinking feeling that despite their name 'monotype' probably produced yet another font that's optimized for paper and doesn't work well on screen? When are these font designers going to get over their digital inferiority complexes and quit trying to pretend they work...
[05:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:44] <exec> 08└─Check out https://en.wikipedia.org(2015%E2%80%93present) [wikipedia.org] for more detail, but this is basically a civil war along Sunni/Shia boundaries. Both sides haven't been playing nice with local populations. Saudi Arabia has been using US supplied weapons, including clus...
[05:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Guided by Samsung - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry to bring Physics to the discussion, but the speed of a Scud missile is 1.1 miles/second, which is 3960 mph. The maximum speed shown by GPS units is 999 mph. Also the height at which GPS receiver can work is severely limited.
[05:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:52] <exec> 08└─Do we know if they fell out of the sky outside the threat perimeter, or are we just very politely not pointing out that they were shot down by the Phalanx guns or laser cannons or whatever now provides the outermost layer of the point-defense network on a modern destroyer?
[05:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this really a flaw or not? - 06Security Researcher to Microsoft: Powershell's Admin-Lite Scheme is an Open Door - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:03] <exec> 08└─Well according to this article [microsoft.com] the purpose is that... JEA allows specific users to perform designated administrative tasks on designated servers without giving them full administrator rights.
[05:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And hopefully a good outcome will appear - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:33] <exec> 08└─The other reason is always-on population tracking. Especially of white mmaaallleess
[05:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:1) 02Re:I actually feel for Samsung - 06Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:43] <exec> 08└─they are THE cheap-assed company of the decade. find the cheapest parts, many of them fake (fake china caps that last a year or two instead of 5 or more) and build circuits with them.
[05:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NRx dumbfucks - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:15] <exec> 08└─> There is actually something VERY wrong with dictators. VLM is just parroting the alt-right party line [wikipedia.org] that democracy is a failure and that we'd be better off with a dictator. I am not making it up. That's what passes as intellectualism among that crowd of dim bulbs.
[05:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:38] <exec> 08└─That's why I usually ask for a very simple function only, which shouldn't require any external library. Amazingly, 90% of the candidates are still not capable to provide it. The whole idea was initially to have a discussion on how to test, identity corner cases etc. External libraries - good if you...
[05:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:51] <exec> 08└─I recall a comment where you referred to shitstain employees. You sir are an asshole, and everything and everyone you touch will become shitstained. So many people are struggling, with a recent story about precisely that thing, and here you have the bootstrapping gall to insult hard working g good p...
[05:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:53] <exec> 08└─Responsible human beings? How does that enter into unemployment? Oh right, only people with successful careers are decent human beings. Pay no mind to reality, or to the fact that accepting a job below your skill level greatly hurts future prospects. They're all lazy good for nothings because you ha...
[05:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Here comes Vista 7 ^W 10 - 06Fill Your Home with that New Mac Smell, Courtesy of this Candle - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:07] <exec> 08└─What does the Samsung Note 7 candle smell of?
[05:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the hits just keep coming - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:52] <exec> 08└─Oh boy. It's an anonymous fucking douchebag who offers nothing and makes character attacks at the person he's trying to discredit. Here on SN, the vast majority of readers aren't as fucking retarded as the usual low information idiots you guys target. We understand that when Russia drops tons of cas...
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[06:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score:1) 02Egyptian Hieroglyphs - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:37] <exec> 08└─It has Egyptian Hieroglyphs. I've been looking those for a while. I want to respond to emoji characters in kind.
[06:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:39] <exec> 08└─Until GOOG pushes this on everybody they will be seeing boxen.
[06:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''targeted Shia civilians on a number of occasions - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:49] <exec> 08└─From today's news: Thousands protest Saudi bombing that killed and wounded over 700 in Yemen [wsws.org] Tens of thousands of Yemenis, many of them armed, took to the streets of Sanaa, the country’s war torn capital, Sunday to protest the savage bombing of a packed funeral hall the day before [Oct...
[06:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:57] <exec> 08└─With how much those suckers cost I'm gonna go with "happy" they didn't let one loose. There's plenty of waste so it would be a drop in the bucket, but hey why add the extra drop?
[06:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:21] <exec> 08└─> 3. "Why can't we use [nuclear weapons]?" That's not a platform; it's a question. Supposedly, it was asked in a private meeting with the anonymous source who was advising Mr. Trump on foreign policy. His campaign chairperson denies that it was asked: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort denied th...
[06:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:23] <exec> 08└─link from which I took the quote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com]
[06:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking Web 'Community' - 06Stylish and Userstyles.org Having Corruption Issues - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:57] <exec> 08└─I completely agree. Reading this white text on black background this very moment. The Reader view in Firefox is a weak attempt to make it so for the masses. Too bad the column width can't be easily manipulated.
[06:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There was a similar South Park for this - 06Fill Your Home with that New Mac Smell, Courtesy of this Candle - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:31] <exec> 08└─While kind of funny. Car companies actually manufacture the perfume that they put into their cars. So do department stores. Real new car smell smells like melted plastic. Most cars have a 'hint of green tea' that they use to coverup the real smell. I would not be surprised in the least to find out A...
[06:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't macs smell like anal lube? - 06Fill Your Home with that New Mac Smell, Courtesy of this Candle - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:34] <exec> 08└─Sure do but are much more hazardous to your health. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Compare and contrast with stats - 06SoylentNews Comment Moderation Statistics [Updated] - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps 'sheer volume' indicates a need. I would be very sorry to see AC go away. I rarely use it, but when I do, it's because the alternative is to not post at all (having judged the risk too high). As to the quality of discourse, it's good enough. Evidence: We're still here.
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[07:01:42] <exec> 08└─Have you not seen the examples visible on any of the posted links? Are you having problems reading any of the images? Surely you're not printing them out ("Oh, this font looks much nicer on paper!"). I'm not even quite sure where you mean to go with this diatribe. "Digital inferiority complexes"? "1...
[07:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02decent proportional screen-font w/o hinting? - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:43] <exec> 08└─I sometimes turn hinting and anti-aliasing off, for better performance on slow computers. Makes a noticeable difference on a 133Mhz Pentium. Terminus is a great monospace font when running without hinting and anti-aliasing. Most monospace fonts look horrible without hinting. So far, I have not come...
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[07:01:59] <exec> 08└─In 1960, Aerospace Corporation was founded for the purpose of applying then advanced technology to space and ballistic missile problems. In 1963, the company started work on Project 621, the Global Positioning System, a scheme for replacing strategic aircraft astro-navigation systems with satellite...
[07:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yesses in OSS OSes - 06Security Researcher to Microsoft: Powershell's Admin-Lite Scheme is an Open Door - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:16] <exec> 08└─> It might not be a huge problem In *nix/BSD-land, escalation from "restricted sudo" (as you put it; suid or stickybit or setuid root would be a more common phrasing) to full root is considered a major bug. Concretely, many moons ago, there were exploitable bugs in passwd in Linux (it's suid to run...
[07:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fortunes - 06Security Researcher to Microsoft: Powershell's Admin-Lite Scheme is an Open Door - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:18] <exec> 08└─Fortune I got for this article: "There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity. -- General Douglas MacArthur" Very astute, SN resident AI.
[07:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:32] <exec> 08└─You have my profoundest consolations. May you find your way away soon. I am afraid for my Filipino friends. They have gone dancing. Some have travelled and partied. Some have enemies. Not knowing if or why they might be targetted is sickening.
[07:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:34] <exec> 08└─Don't even get started with Pinochet. Maybe you're going to blithely say "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" when I mention the 30,000 or so people he tortured and/or disappeared. I'd rather live in a shithole run by idiots and thieves who have laws restraining the worst of their exce...
[07:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking Web 'Community' - 06Stylish and Userstyles.org Having Corruption Issues - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:11] <exec> 08└─To remove all style elements, Firefox has a special option (you can choose "no style"). In the German version on Linux, it's in the menu "Ansicht" (should be "View" in the English version) under the submenu "Webseiten-Stil" (maybe it's "web page style" in the English version). So for that, you don't...
[07:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Stein isn't really worth a shit IMO'' - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:06:40] <exec> 08└─The only way a country has ever gotten out of a depression and back to a normal economy in under a decade is building/rebuilding infrastructure. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Ugh - 06The Smart Home may not be a Thing, But the Smart Kitchen Might Be - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:31] <exec> 08└─Better throw out that one too. U doesn't work, and A seems intermittent.
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[08:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02"Anonymizes the information" eh? - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:32] <exec> 08└─This statement always makes me all warm and fuzzy whenever I read it from companies that engage in datamining...
[08:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:56] <exec> 08└─Hieroglyphs are for hipsters. Real men respond in Cuneiform, not some modern set of graphical symbols!
[08:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Guided by Samsung - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:12] <exec> 08└─For cluster munitions they could just drop crates of Galaxy Note 7's.
[08:02:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 944 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:13] <exec> 08└─The Yemenis are apparently claiming the missile attack on the Saudi Base - and also another strike against a Saudi base inside Yemen - but not claiming any attack on the US ship. Even the US military doesn't seem to be sure it was an attack on the US ship, a couple of missiles fell out of the sky so...
[08:05:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Re:New Mac Candle - 06Fill Your Home with that New Mac Smell, Courtesy of this Candle - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:45] <exec> 08└─will they freaking release a new MacBook Pro already Since Steve Jobs died, every apple release has been a step backwards, away from "it just works" to "change for changes sake". Sadly the PC industry is no better. I'm typing this on a 2010 Thinkpad T410s as it was the last one that had a proper key...
[08:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Cap patent "tax" - 06FTC Releases Big Report On Patent Trolls; Says The Patent System Needs To Change - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:07] <exec> 08└─Or how about we give everyone a pony and have christmas every day of the year?!
[08:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Cap patent "tax" - 06FTC Releases Big Report On Patent Trolls; Says The Patent System Needs To Change - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:08] <exec> 08└─Another idea: Forbid the selling of patents. The only way you are able to hold a patent is if you are the/an inventor, which has to be a natural person (so, no companies holding patents, and nobody can amass patents by buying them). You can still monetize your patents by licensing them, so you canno...
[08:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Compare and contrast with stats - 06SoylentNews Comment Moderation Statistics [Updated] - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:31] <exec> 08└─How do you see this opinion of yours squaring with the statistics for moderation on AC posts listed in the article? It seems that AC posters are moderated positively with a ~6:1 ratio
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[09:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Re:"Anonymizes the information" eh? - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:28] <exec> 08└─If anyone says data is anonymous I reflexively think "no it isn't". So strongly that when someone says it out loud I often interrupt them by blurting it out.
[09:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Pfft - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:53] <exec> 08└─Doesn't even cover Marain. Not impressed.
[09:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:05] <exec> 08└─Brits too: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] Fuck the tories.
[09:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Guided by Samsung - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:09] <exec> 08└─That is a bold affirmation based on ignorance and arrogance - Physics, yeah sure. Only true for consumer units or COTs chips. Military (or custom discrete designs) have no such arbitrary restrictions at all.
[09:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:17] <exec> 08└─"a couple of missiles fell out of the sky somewhere vaguely near the US ship but apparently outside its threat perimeter" I've seen that before, first hand, with guns. 1981, we were tasked with keeping tabs on Iran's "Million Man Army" and Hussein's Merciless Mothers. We went in closer to shore one...
[09:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Hitler wanted a "Racial State" - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:07] <exec> 08└─So what did the powers that won WWI (who for the most part were neither Jews nor coloured) imposing unfair conditions on Germany have to do with the races of people inside Germany? Indeed, I'd say one of the main reason why Germany lost WWII is Hitler's racism. I mean, the people who were conquered...
[09:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:I own an English translation of Mein Kampf - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:10] <exec> 08└─Counter question: What is not wrong with being a Nazi?
[09:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:05:31] <exec> 08└─Oh sure, if you truly want a job, McD is always hiring. But the discussion was about tech jobs jobs. Claiming that there are no tech jobs in a discussion about tech jobs does not make one a whiny, picky, entitle little bastard. One can even take the job at McD and still say there is no tech jobs.
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[10:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Doc Holliday - 06Facebook Gets £11M Tax Credit, After Vowing to Pay More to UK Taxman - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:32] <exec> 08└─He could have been speaking for The Zuck: "It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds." https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[10:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02next,, - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:41] <exec> 08└─"discounts" for agreeing to use one of these cameras (and not *ever* turn it off) already happening in the UK: http://www.confused.com [confused.com]
[10:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02progressive - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:43] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the same thing as that progressive insurance obd2 dongle?
[10:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Re:progressive - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:46] <exec> 08└─The progressive dongle in the commercials does not have a camera component.
[10:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CA scheme is broken - 06Heads Roll as Qihoo 360 Moves to End Wosign, Startcom Certificate Row - 2217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:53] <exec> 08└─If Mozilla is really interested in security for users they should make it easier for users to trust certs from certain sites even if the users don't trust the CAs, or only trust them to sign certain certs. And also help keep track of the different certs for the same site (warn them if they change un...
[10:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02At least one horse has already left the barn - 06Heads Roll as Qihoo 360 Moves to End Wosign, Startcom Certificate Row - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:56] <exec> 08└─Apple is apparently revoking trust [threatpost.com] in WoSign's Free SSL Certificate G2 intermediate CA in a future MacOS security update, with no wiggle room like Mozilla has put on the table. That's only the intermediate used for Free SSL (Apple doesn't trust WoSign's root anyway), but that's stil...
[10:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:2) 02Re:Watch out, it's from google - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:07] <exec> 08└─Eh, it's a font. No embedded executable code, no direct request to download more rendering software that could be compromised. I get the reflexive mistrust of Google, and largely agree. But, in this case, this really is an attempt to do a good thing ... that also furthers their own goals. Let it be.
[10:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:17] <exec> 08└─Not to worry, cuneiform is in there! Thank you Google, this is the best thing you've ever done!
[10:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfft - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:20] <exec> 08└─I'd actually be a bit surprised if it wasn't. Would be simple for any native speakers to get a request to the nearest GCU to just drop the data over to GOOG. Not like that would be unprecedented.
[10:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never, ever... - 06UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah do what I do, buy cheap Chinese c e27 rap instead (e.g. Huawei, Xiaomi). If you're going to get cheap crap, don't pay high prices for it ;). If you're getting an iPhone it might be hard to avoid Korean stuff.
[10:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:05:41] <exec> 08└─Think we're mostly on the same page. I just want what I do to actually be used instead of given a letter grade and trashed. I don't get any money for good report cards any more.
[10:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:06:00] <exec> 08└─WTF are you even talking about? Get a tech job that you're overqualified and underpaid for. It's what the rest of the world outside tech has been having to do for a long time rather than be unemployed.
[10:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:''Stein isn't really worth a shit IMO'' - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:24] <exec> 08└─[Citation Needed] That aside, unlike you I'm unwilling to take out a mortgage on the next generation's solvency to prop up my own now. Which is exactly what you're talking about doing.
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[11:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02equivalent of... - 06Facebook Gets £11M Tax Credit, After Vowing to Pay More to UK Taxman - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:38] <exec> 08└─> the equivalent of £104,105 for every member of its UK workforce. What's the betting those bonuses weren't so equitably distributed.
[11:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Then change the bloody rules... - 06Facebook Gets £11M Tax Credit, After Vowing to Pay More to UK Taxman - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:39] <exec> 08└─"It doesn't matter to me who you are. If you're a tax-dodger, we're coming after you," she promised. "An economy that works for everyone is one where everyone plays by the same rules.
[11:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Then change the bloody rules... - 06Facebook Gets £11M Tax Credit, After Vowing to Pay More to UK Taxman - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:41] <exec> 08└─> ffer the best tax deals to multinationals to attract personal bribes and favours to well connected politicians FTFY
[11:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CA scheme is broken - 06Heads Roll as Qihoo 360 Moves to End Wosign, Startcom Certificate Row - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:00] <exec> 08└─Its a bit more broken then that inside the Firefox. In Firefox, certs are compiled into an .so object. Thereby preventing non-technical user from permanently removing them. Sure, you can distrust them, but you have to click like 300+ times in order to distrust all of them. There is NO good reason at...
[11:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score:2) 02Oh startcom how I loathe thee - 06Heads Roll as Qihoo 360 Moves to End Wosign, Startcom Certificate Row - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:03] <exec> 08└─Good riddance. I've used this registrar before for free certificates. They issued but would not renew a certificate with the word salesforce in the sub domain because it "could be used for spoofing". They told me I had to get permission from salesforce.com owners to use "salesforce" as a subdomain....
[11:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Watch out, it's from google - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:15] <exec> 08└─I've been using it on Arch from the AUR for over six months. Ars was a little late to the party with this story.
[11:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Watch out, it's from google - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:18] <exec> 08└─Your post sounded very important and informative, so I actually bothered to check the license, and you're right. It sounds like they went out of their way to license their font in a FLOSS-compatible way, for maximal freedom of usage. I just browsed the license (I am not a lawyer!), and the only thin...
[11:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:But does it have a decen screen-font? - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:27] <exec> 08└─It's not quite what I want in a gui elements font but it's passable as an in-application font. It's not fine where you need a monospace font though. For that go with unifont [unifoundry.com]. A bit ugly but even more complete than noto.
[11:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfft - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:35] <exec> 08└─There's still a part of me convinced that Google is nothing more than a front company for Contact.
[11:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfft - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:37] <exec> 08└─We should be so lucky.
[11:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02'Noto Monospace Regular' is GOLD!!!! - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:39] <exec> 08└─Fuck yeah! the monospace version of this font is highly highly highly recommended! I like saving text of non-English websites --Russian, Japanese, Chinese, etc-- from my browser in their original characters (Save Page As -> Text files). Up till now, the only font which allowed me to view and edit al...
[11:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:03] <exec> 08└─Oh look, there's a battle over there. Let's get involved! You guys are fucked in the head.
[11:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the significance? - 06Lichens Did Not Grow on Homo Naledi - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:26] <exec> 08└─Now that we have the bones of both Homo Floresiensis and Homo Naledi, work can begin on resurrecting both the Hobbits and Dwarfs races to join the new fellowship to fight the return of Sauron. I for one, welcome our newly incubated dark lord.
[11:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And hopefully a good outcome will appear - 06UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:49] <exec> 08└─taking away user-swappable batteries was evil and there was NO other reason but vendor lock-in and profits.
[11:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I take it all back - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:04:24] <exec> 08└─I think "like Hitler" was a term tossed around too cavalierly and without much care as to the facts.
[11:04:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 349 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:04:35] <exec> 08└─There's nothing inherently wrong with dictators. Rodrigo Duterte is one of the good guys, a hero of the 2010s decade, a savior to his people. Lee Kuan Yew was a great man who was relatively nonviolent and a great organizer and economic savior of his people. Augusto Pinochet was a wise leader who did...
[11:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:06:23] <exec> 08└─You sir are an asshole
[11:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:06:25] <exec> 08└─Responsible human beings? How does that enter into unemployment?
[11:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:06:33] <exec> 08└─There's a shortage of jobs across the workforce as a whole, but for competent (or even mostly competent) programmers? No. I still get quite frequent pings asking if I've changed my mind about wanting a new job or if I know anyone I'd recommend from people I've previously worked with in several large...
[11:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:And the hits just keep coming - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:19] <exec> 08└─Ad-hom. Ignored.
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[12:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02social investors are entitled scum - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:29] <exec> 08└─Just like social media users.
[12:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02in other news - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:30] <exec> 08└─My date stood me up, then dumped me! I'm suing for the cost of dinner for an estimated five dates, because I'm a golddigging bitch.
[12:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Nah, it's fraud - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:32] <exec> 08└─In almost all cases like this, projected numbers are based on mathematical fallacy: "infinite growth at X%/qtr forever!". However, in April and July of 2015, Twitter released two disappointment quarterly reports in a row, showing that user growth was basically flat
[12:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02You didn't make me rich! - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:34] <exec> 08└─You didn't make me rich - it's your fault I'm not rich! I'm just a stupid investor who thinks that companies can always lose money, year after year, and yet still be profitable. Numbers, I don't understand numbers. Now pay me. /sarc
[12:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CA scheme is broken - 06Heads Roll as Qihoo 360 Moves to End Wosign, Startcom Certificate Row - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:03] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's approach is even more broken: https://www.proper.com [proper.com] Basically CA certificates that are signed by Microsoft or another suitable CA in your trusted store will get automatically added to your cert store and trusted. With this approach, unknown/future certifi...
[12:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh startcom how I loathe thee - 06Heads Roll as Qihoo 360 Moves to End Wosign, Startcom Certificate Row - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:07] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's really clueless. When was this though? Startcom used to be OK-ish, if slightly shady (lots of certs issued outside of their ToS), while they were still operated out of Israel, but one of Mozilla's issues with WoSign implies they may have moved the StartCom certificate issuing systems ove...
[12:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02Mmmmm... after further testing - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:37] <exec> 08└─My further testing of 'Noto Monospace' vs 'GNU Unifont', trying to render the Japanese text saved from this webpage [virginia.edu], the text renders correctly with 'GNU Unifont', and in 'Noto Mono' I see rectangles! It looks like I am going back to 'GNU Unifont' size 12 ; I still haven't found a rep...
[12:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:49] <exec> 08└─...but this is basically a civil war along Sunni/Shia boundaries. Ah. So they are fighting over which version of their fairy tail is the better version.
[12:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:01] <exec> 08└─Because I'm not getting more hooker and blow money you selfish clod! -Raytheon exec
[12:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:05] <exec> 08└─Alas, it's what you do when you consider yourself "World Police".
[12:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Hitler was a meth addict. - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:20] <exec> 08└─Stop trying to smear Hitlers good name!
[12:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:41] <exec> 08└─Can we get a score 1, mentally disabled? I feel bad for this guy and I don't want to mod him troll. He is seriously ill and needs help, not shunning.
[12:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:44] <exec> 08└─4. Explicitly supporting middle eastern dictators, implying Saddam Hussein was a good thing.
[12:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:58] <exec> 08└─You father was used by evil powers hell-bent on world domination. Your father fought for the bad guys. Its nothing to be proud of.
[12:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:01] <exec> 08└─When did a quick war (Blitzkrieg) become a bad phrase?
[12:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:06:31] <exec> 08└─No, what pisses people off is that you're an asshole about it.
[12:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here comes Vista 7 ^W 10 - 06Fill Your Home with that New Mac Smell, Courtesy of this Candle - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:06:51] <exec> 08└─Mine smell like cum :(
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[13:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02That theme is perfect. - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:37] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the article or really care about anything Javascript related, but that theme the site was running was great. Oddly, I think I just said something about Javascript and web-design... Not sure what though.
[13:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That theme is perfect. - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:38] <exec> 08└─It's about the state of JavaScript. I couldn't find out if it is red, blue or a swing state, though. ;-)
[13:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02JavaScript Is ... - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:40] <exec> 08└─JavaScript is whatever it is to you. If you're a developer it's good and bad, if you're a site visitor it can be good and bad, yadda yadda yadda. There are web applications that require it, which is fine because those web apps are serving a specific purpose for a specific clientele. Overbloating you...
[13:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:42] <exec> 08└─The idea that you would let any random asshat worldwide take control of your browser is so insane I don't know why it wasn't laughed out of the room the minute someone proposed it. Oh, yes I do. Marketing. But those of us who understand how things work know better. Right??? It isn't whether the lang...
[13:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So ... - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:53] <exec> 08└─So Apple, who historically make very conservative predictions about upcoming growth, profitability and products, are blasted for lowering expectations. Twitter, which would have been just fine if someone would have made a bid for them over the last few weeks is now getting sued for missing forecasts...
[13:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Anonymizes the information" eh? - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:13] <exec> 08└─Especially I wonder how they anonymize the camera images. I guess it's along the lines of "the images are anonymous as long as you wear a burka and a Guy Fawkes mask."
[13:02:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02Re:But does it have a decen screen-font? - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:46] <exec> 08└─Have you not seen the examples visible on any of the posted links? Are you having problems reading any of the images? Surely you're not printing them out ("Oh, this font looks much nicer on paper!"). I'm not even quite sure where you mean to go with this diatribe. "Digital inferiority complexes"? "1...
[13:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:55] <exec> 08└─And this is not to troll VLM. This is just laughing at the state of the States. Door #1 or door #2.... surprise, a kick in the nuts!
[13:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:56] <exec> 08└─You'll think it's funny until millions of American political refugees swarm over the Canadian border.
[13:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:24] <exec> 08└─Not again! Bring some evidence to back-up the Holocaust thing. Please? "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" It is not for the accused to prove himself innocent. Its the accuser's job.
[13:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:25] <exec> 08└─Good morning, resident SoylentNews true-believer Nazi! There's the little bit about Hitler starting WWII and running an extermination campaign against all kinds of people he didn't like--communists, gypsies, evangelical Christians, gays, the handicapped, etc--, but in person I'm sure he was a lovely...
[13:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:context... - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:06:05] <exec> 08└─I agree , there is quite a gap between "publication saying X possible" and downloading code for X. Reproducibility, might be due to publishers limits - but it also be down to devious authors leaving out *just* enough detail you *cant* reproduce the work. There's a running joke in the biosciences abo...
[13:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Seeing you, not your code. - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:06:49] <exec> 08└─Would you like me to change your diaper? Maybe powder your little bottom? Grow up.
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[14:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:44] <exec> 08└─To frame it a different way, the risk/reward tradeoff is good enough. Propose an alternative that is better.
[14:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:45] <exec> 08└─The idea of JS isn't insane. Dynamic client side stuff is somewhat necessary like changing a displayed number without having to reload the entire page. But the problem I have with it is that JS should have no access outside of the page content itself. It should never have any ability to manipulate t...
[14:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:47] <exec> 08└─You don't like running unknown code from the web, because it's a security risk? No other reasons? That genie is never going back in the bottle. And what's the big deal anyway? Use a sandbox. Run your browser in its own virtual machine or something. I sometimes run a browser under a different user ac...
[14:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah, it's fraud - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:59] <exec> 08└─My first reaction too, but as you actually READ the posting... ...the company is accused of making misleading statements to defraud investors.
[14:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:next,, - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:23] <exec> 08└─Dashcams just make sense... as long as you are the one controlling it.
[14:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Watch out, it's from google - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:52] <exec> 08└─Eh, it's a font. No embedded executable code,
[14:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:22] <exec> 08└─It looks like that at a glance but it's not all that accurate. It's kind of like Northern Ireland, the combatants are mostly identified with religions but what they are actually fighting over isn't religious as much as national at root. The locals in much of Yemen are Zaydis, have been for centuries...
[14:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:24] <exec> 08└─Genocide still isn't the correct term because Iraq which was previously Sunni under Saddam's dictatorship is now a Shia democracy because of the US.
[14:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:40] <exec> 08└─Dude, life is just a temporary condition. Fucked in the head, you say? I say, "What's to worry about?" Besides, didn't I make it clear that those silly assed Muslims can't hit anything? I've been told that they don't aim, they point the weapon down range somewhere close to the target, close their ey...
[14:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fortunes - 06Security Researcher to Microsoft: Powershell's Admin-Lite Scheme is an Open Door - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:54] <exec> 08└─Actually the one I got also somehow fits (I take the freedom to re-insert the missing line breaks): Oh don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and none goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
[14:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah they say that every year, but no one ever moves. Its a campaign trail tradition. Just like calling every Republican candidate "literally Hitler". It isn't a real election until the checkboxes are checked.
[14:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:NRx dumbfucks - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:17] <exec> 08└─We're indoctrinated to say dictators are bad, and we're indoctrinated to carefull 2000 y avoid noticing who fills the cemeteries faster. I'm well aware of giant piles of indoctrination and elaborate logic puzzles and sophistry, but pragmatically for example "bringing democracy to Iraq" has filled th...
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[15:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Anything to get Opdivo to pan out... - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:42] <exec> 08└─Nivolumab is the generic name for Opdivo. Opdivo's been tanking in the field compared to Keytruda. So much so that Bristol-Meyers Squib stock sank about 10% today due to this. So they're trotting out anything they have that this drug might stick to. And, who knows - it might actually fight kidney ca...
[15:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Anything to get Opdivo to pan out... - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:43] <exec> 08└─Right. Game changer for Bristol-Meyers Squib if enough people buy into the hype.
[15:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:58] <exec> 08└─r.e. Sandboxing: I find this kind of thing is truly scary: Researchers this week turned up a new ransomware-as-a-service operation that pushes the first ransomware coded entirely in JavaScript. [threatpost.com] Ransom32 is available for download on a Tor hidden server to anyone with a Bitcoin addre...
[15:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Degrades gracefully? - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:59] <exec> 08└─I missed the point at which the subject became women. Let me go back and read through it again . . .
[15:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Degrades gracefully? - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:01] <exec> 08└─Can you recommend a good marriage counselor?
[15:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:04] <exec> 08└─I've worked with a lot of scripting languages over the years, including awk, sed, perl, tcl/tk, python, bash. Some I liked more than others. The only one I actively hated was javascript. Damned code would run fine on my machine, then crash on another machine because reasons. Or worse, it would look...
[15:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:You didn't make me rich! - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:16] <exec> 08└─In my 30's and still don't understand why Twitter, Facebook, even Google have so much money tied up in them. Google I can understand somewhat - they have a bunch of employees and they have a good revenue stream from AdWords. But a market cap of 559 Billion USD? That just makes things worse when some...
[15:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So ... - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:18] <exec> 08└─I tried having a discussion with a friend about how I don't like the stock market cause its basically gambling with real people's livelihoods, but all I got was flak. Any thoughts about how to remove the gambling aspect?
[15:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Today's Lesson: Orders of Magnitude - 06Facebook Gets £11M Tax Credit, After Vowing to Pay More to UK Taxman - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:30] <exec> 08└─First: 11.3m compared to 4.97bn is .23%. (Not 23%, 23 hundredths of one percent.) So, amount compared to worldwide profit: meaningless. Second: If earned revenue walked out their door in the form of bonuses, then they weren't recorded profit to the company, correct? Third: "This compared to £28.48m...
[15:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mattwrock [3835] (Score:1) 02I got to check my Eyes - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:44] <exec> 08└─I thought it said Naruto! Why would I want a nine tailed demon in my car watching my every move?
[15:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Watch out, it's from google - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:11] <exec> 08└─FSF has the following to say about the license [gnu.org]: SIL Open Font License 1.1 The Open Font License (including its original release, version 1.0) is a free copyleft license for fonts. Its only unusual requirement is that when selling the font, you must redistribute it bundled with some softwa...
[15:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blame the uniform. - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:44] <exec> 08└─> So they are fighting over which version of their fairy tail is the better version No. And religion is never the cause of war, at most it is just the uniform that the sides wear. But understanding that takes effort. Easier to blame the uniforms.
[15:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:03] <exec> 08└─> I've been told that they don't aim, You've been told a lot of things. You seem to be extremely credulous.
[15:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:04] <exec> 08└─That's nothing new: Back in 1961, at the First Battle of Bull Run / Manassas, a bunch of members of Congress packed a picnic lunch and rode out in their carriages to watch the carnage unfold in person. This stopped seeming like a good idea right about the point when the Union army retreated and the...
[15:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:06] <exec> 08└─1961?
[15:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02This is not an act of terrorism - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:08] <exec> 08└─I'm sure some will try to paint this as part of the "War on Terror" and how this is showing that those Yemenis are dangerous terrorists. But those weren't terrorist attacks at all: This was the group of people that more-or-less are the government of Yemen, going after military targets of nations tha...
[15:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Check out the jerks on craigslist - 06UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:07] <exec> 08└─But, the modded battery IS safe. Nothing is said about the note itself I guess? Anyway IMHO it is stupid to sell it, you may get a new unit or even a better specced model.
[15:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I take it all back - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:33] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the things that Trump/Hitler *says*.
[15:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:56] <exec> 08└─Fun fact: Syria gets both a petty dictator and ISIS at the same time. The nature of the Iraq War and the carelessness with which it was waged did, in fact, lend a lot of momentum to the creation of ISIS, but the line doesn't need to be between openly supporting the kinds of dictators who create larg...
[15:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking Web 'Community' - 06Stylish and Userstyles.org Having Corruption Issues - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:06:32] <exec> 08└─Does anyone else remember that Mosaic had a built-in function to add comments to web sites?
[15:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:18] <exec> 08└─Here's an implementation of FizzBuzz in the FizzBuzz programming language I just invented (sorry, no implementations yet — anyone wants to volunteer?): do it!
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[16:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:50] <exec> 08└─We've been debating migrating the SN servers from Ubuntu 14.04 to FreeBSD, and every time I see their release notes, I like it more and more. I may rebuild dev/lithium in the near future to a FreeBSD base so we can experiment with it and change over one of the two production frontends (hydrogen/fluo...
[16:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 1773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:59] <exec> 08└─I googled up the cost and its roughly 4000x as expensive as gold per unit mass. Of course in bulk production and use it might eventually be cheaper. Although, "hey you gonna die without this" "I'll pay anything not to die" "Good because you get one guess how much it gonna cost?" Right now that 5 mon...
[16:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:01] <exec> 08└─> I googled up the cost and its roughly 4000x as expensive as gold per unit mass. What you missed is that nivolumab is under patent protection. When it goes generic, it won't be crazy expensive any more. BTW, that's a crap metric anyway. I googled up the cost of a morning after pill - Altavera: [dru...
[16:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:3, Informative) 02Immune Checkpoints - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 1779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:04] <exec> 08└─The drugs mentioned in TFA are antibodies that neutralize the immune checkpoint proteins PD-1 and CTLA-4. Both proteins are involved in down-regulating the immune response in order to prevent excessive damage to healthy tissue ("friendly fire") as an infection is being cleared or to prevent unwarran...
[16:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Immune Checkpoints - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:06] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I feel like sometimes I'm the only one who comes here for this and not the "exuberant editorials" (see comments above, or really, every SN comment section).
[16:02:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 1054 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:18] <exec> 08└─The idea of JS isn't insane. Dynamic client side stuff is somewhat necessary like changing a displayed number without having to reload the entire page. But the problem I have with it is that JS should have no access outside of the page content itself. It should never have any ability to manipulate t...
[16:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:20] <exec> 08└─We have come round full circle indeed. You can develop webapps using the traditional desktop model by now (event loop, oo-widget hierarchy, etc.). E.g. http://www.cappuccino-project.org [cappuccino-project.org] (mostly) re-implements the Apple cocoa API. As browser/Javascript is the only true cross...
[16:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:24] <exec> 08└─I thought the automated push of Windows 10 upgrades was over? Now you're telling me there is still automated push ransomeware? Windows 10 has been installed on this computer. To restore this computer to a usable state please send 3 bitcoin to Microsoft.
[16:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:26] <exec> 08└─People are oblvious because marketing forces prevent the real message of its dangers getting out, and many sites are nearly impossible to use now without it. getting people not good at IT things to actually do more than click next... By making it easier for everyone, we made it easier to slip on the...
[16:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Degrades gracefully? - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:30] <exec> 08└─Degrades gracefully means it says: JavaScript is required for this site. The mean things that Clinton says are Trump's own words replayed.
[16:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:33] <exec> 08└─All of my Javascript: newVariable = (oneVariable+anotherVariable) * 1; And if you take out the " * 1 ", it assumes your variables are all strings, adds them as strings, then uses them somewhere else to position an element, which winds up off the screen by five miles.
[16:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So ... - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:48] <exec> 08└─VTSAX. Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Admiral Shares. You will own shares of every company traded on the NASDAQ and NYSE. You are betting on the profitability of 3000+ corporations, some of them multinational. If you want to bet on the entire planet, Vanguard has an index for that as well. I don'...
[16:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Their projection of 10x year-over-year growth - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:50] <exec> 08└─was based on a random sample of user accounts that happened to include @realDonaldTrump.
[16:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0)</sp 1000 an> </h4> </div> <div class="details"> by Anonymous Coward <span class="otherdetails" id="comment_otherdetails_412963">on Tuesday October 11, @11:25AM (<a href="//soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=15933&cid=412963#commentwrap">#412963</a>) <small> </small> 02Re:A lot of self congratulation here - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:48] <exec> 08└─can you? shut up or put up, then, if it is so "easy".
[16:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:But does it have a decen screen-font? - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:54] <exec> 08└─Why do you always use monospaced anyway?
[16:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfft - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think they are more likely a front for Special Circumstances.
[16:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfft - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:06] <exec> 08└─or Esperanto. au Esperanton.
[16:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:44] <exec> 08└─Sorry, typo, I of course meant 1861.
[16:05:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02A poem for you - 06UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:29] <exec> 08└─Apple takes out the headphone jack Samsung installs cigarette lighter Balance restored to the force
[16:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Re:Never, ever... - 06UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:49] <exec> 08└─Well, personally, I sill haven't worked my way through my stack of Nokia 5300s yet, I can break a few more before I'll even consider a "smart" phone for myself and then I would probably get a Blackberry... However, to answer your question, since my favorite, Nokia, got "Microsofted", that doesn't wo...
[16:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Either women are mindless or you're deceitful - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:22] <exec> 08└─They also just let you do it when you have a gun aimed at their head. Is that also consent?
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[17:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:49] <exec> 08└─Well, not that my opinion alone should matter, but I've come to the point where I prefer it to pretty much any flavor of Linux you stack it up against. And only somewhat because of systemd.
[17:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:51] <exec> 08└─Just my two cents, but I'm a believer in IIABDFI. But I suppose diversifying the servers might actually be a benefit in comparing the relative headaches in a meta post. Goodness knows I trust your opinion more than random people I find on the internet.
[17:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:03] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's a great metric if you want to know how crazy overpriced something is. In the case of Altavera, it just happens that you need so little it's affordable in spite of being marked up to crazy heights.
[17:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:04] <exec> 08└─Get back to us when there is a standard dose for gold medication.
[17:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:06] <exec> 08└─The math is not nearly that obvious or clean. I'm going to be making up numbers, but consider the following. Cost to treat disease is $10000 Cost to prevent the disease is $1 Cost to diagnose somebody potentially has the disease is $1 (say it has a 90% accuracy rate) Percentage of the population whi...
[17:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:08] <exec> 08└─I agree with your line of reasoning, but this kind of biological research broadens our body of knowledge and will certainly be useful in many yet unknown ways and in treatment of non lethal and other diseases which are not in oncology domain. Besides, isn't it applicable in early cancer treatment as...
[17:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:25] <exec> 08└─I get the cross platform part. But hammering the square peg in the round hole is what modern web design is all about. There are better ways to do this. If you want a VM/OS then build one. Don't take a text/graphics layout engine and bolt on run times with hooks into the OS. It's dangerous, backwards...
[17:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:26] <exec> 08└─You might as well make a word processor into an OS.
[17:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:31] <exec> 08└─That link is not that scary. It's not a drive-by thing. You have to download and run an exe, manually. They modified the open-source Chromium browser to add more JS commands. The ransomware is written in JS and has to run on this specially modified browser.
[17:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Degrades gracefully? - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:38] <exec> 08└─The mean things that Clinton says are Trump's own words replayed.
[17:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:42] <exec> 08└─Next time use Number(variable) to explicitly tell it what you want to do.
[17:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Even Debian has it - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:46] <exec> 08└─Debian has it in Jessie and says the package version provided is 2013-04-11-2 https://packages.debian.org [debian.org] The current Sid version shown is 20160724-3 (they changed the naming at some point). Other packages like fonts-noto-mono only appeared in Stretch as 2016..., witho...
[17:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:27] <exec> 08└─Ok... Help me out. What is a Zaydi and how will I know if I meet one?
[17:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:31] <exec> 08└─> Iraq which was previously Sunni under Saddam's dictatorship is now a Shia democracy because of the US. You mean The Sunni minority used to control Iraq, but boycotted elections (which they can only lose) after the US intervention, giving full control to the Shia, who then made a clear point about...
[17:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting details omitted - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:47] <exec> 08└─And who is the unarmed black person in this scenario? Oh wait it fits, all the innocent civilians that the US bombs.
[17:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is not an act of terrorism - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:55] <exec> 08└─Saudi Arabia are the biggest sponsors of terrorists, if you don't count the US sponsoring them. They deserve to be bombed even further back into the stone age than they already are.
[17:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the significance? - 06Lichens Did Not Grow on Homo Naledi - 0 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:19] <exec> 08└─
[17:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:5-7-5 - 06UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:40] <exec> 08└─Burma shave.
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[18:01:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:52] <exec> 08└─We've been debating migrating the SN servers from Ubuntu 14.04 to FreeBSD, and every time I see their release notes, I like it more and more. I may rebuild dev/lithium in the near future to a FreeBSD base so we can experiment with it and change over one of the two production frontends (hydrogen/fluo...
[18:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:55] <exec> 08└─Its not a change we're making lightly, but none of the sysops staff like where current Linux distros are headed, and we don't want to use a rolling release for our server (which excludes most systemd free Linux distros). As it stands, we have 2.5 years left of security and support for on Ubuntu 14.0...
[18:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:57] <exec> 08└─Just my two cents, but I'm a believer in IIABDFI.
[18:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:01] <exec> 08└─I've been running FreeBSD for a small server (currently 10.2) and a desktop (currently 10.3) on fit-PC 'Mintbox2's for about a year now. They each have two USB3 ports on them and I haven't had any trouble at all with them. I do a weekly ZFS backup to a portable USB3 drive and haven't seen any issues...
[18:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:03] <exec> 08└─Although ZFS is RAM heavy
[18:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 1816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:05] <exec> 08└─Still using linode? I am. Just checked and its possible to run an install of freebsd by supplying your own install stuff, but its not as simple as selecting "freebsd 11.0" in the dropdown instead of Debian 8 like I use. More like you select an ISO file and do an install. Its like my last old time De...
[18:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02docker and other virtualization - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 1932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:07] <exec> 08└─Anyone actually try the docker support? As a host not a client? I'm always up for virtualization fun. Openstack never quite seems able to run. Or maybe it does now. CBSD works great for me now other than the main dev being Russian and I don't read Russian and sometimes I feel I'm the only user other...
[18:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:22] <exec> 08└─So you'd break even if you spent $300K per person preventative, but lets go a tenth, $30K/person is a hell of a lot of dough to convince people that suntanning isn't cool or smoking crack isn't cool or dipping tobacco isn't cool or WTF causes this kind of cancer to begin with.
[18:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:24] <exec> 08└─Same AC here. Ignore my previous comment; I just went back and re-read your post.
[18:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:26] <exec> 08└─Haven't you heard? If you were virtuous enough, you'd live forever.
[18:02:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe [2583] 02Immune Checkpoints - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 1779 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:28] <exec> 08└─The drugs mentioned in TFA are antibodies that neutralize the immune checkpoint proteins PD-1 and CTLA-4. Both proteins are involved in down-regulating the immune response in order to prevent excessive damage to healthy tissue ("friendly fire") as an infection is being cleared or to prevent unwarran...
[18:02:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fishybell [3156] 02Re:Immune Checkpoints - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:30] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I feel like sometimes I'm the only one who comes here for this and not the "exuberant editorials" (see comments above, or really, every SN comment section).
[18:02:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 896 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:40] <exec> 08└─The idea that you would let any random asshat worldwide take control of your browser is so insane I don't know why it wasn't laughed out of the room the minute someone proposed it. Oh, yes I do. Marketing. But those of us who understand how things work know better. Right??? It isn't whether the lang...
[18:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:58] <exec> 08└─So to save us from having to type out the type when declaring a variable, we have to type it out each time the variable is used. Excellent.
[18:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:00] <exec> 08└─hah, nice jab : ) Only when you need to be explicit about type though. If you don't care, then don't bother with it. Most of the time it doesn't matter. Values you get from html forms or JSON should probably be Number()'d. But "var someValue = 3;" wouldn't need it. http://www.w3schools.com
[18:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:02] <exec> 08└─Did you just say that most of the time you don't need to worry about what type a variable is when you use it? Cuz that has to be the single most stupid thing I've heard in years. No wonder you like Javascript with this kind of mentality. If I ever interview you for a job I'll escort you right out th...
[18:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:You didn't make me rich! - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:15] <exec> 08└─Your stock didn't go up enough for me, and you're in big trouble, but this minute you still have some cash...
[18:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Anonymizes the information" eh? - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:41] <exec> 08└─interesting juxtaposition
[18:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:next,, - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:44] <exec> 08└─Expect it to be "mandatory" within a few years, if you want to exercise the privilege of driving. (You will be able to opt out, but that would classify you as a risk-taker with 50x premiums)
[18:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I got to check my Eyes - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:49] <exec> 08└─I think I'd rather the nine tailed demon instead of the insurance companies, all things considered.
[18:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:I got to check my Eyes - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:52] <exec> 08└─I think I'd rather the nine tailed demon instead of the insurance companies, all things considered.
[18:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfft - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:41] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'd been hoping to be able to type in Voynichese.
[18:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:58] <exec> 08└─Just as the Shia and Sunni split over Ali, the Zaydis and the rest of the Shia split over his grandson, Zayd ibn Ali. If you can't tell the difference between a Sunni and a Shia you just met you probably wouldn't tell a Zaydi from either of them.
[18:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:03] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, but i don't think you were there when we were digging up tens of thousands of Shia corpses from their failed rebellion after Gulf War 1. There is a good reason why those Sunni didn't vote, they were Ba'ath party and literally couldn't. If non-Ba'ath Sunni did not vote then that is on them...
[18:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:05] <exec> 08└─Just trying to figure out if you're misinformed or confused... It's like you see all the pieces of the puzzle but you seem to be hammering them at odd angles.
[18:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:07] <exec> 08└─A lot of my information is first-hand. There can be a blindness when standing too close. So let's call it confusion for now : ) To get back to the original argument, i say that the US can't be committing genocide on the Shia when they helped create a nation of (mostly) Shia. Genocide isn't the right...
[18:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Noise in URLs - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:18] <exec> 08└─In that URL, all of this is unnecessary to get the page: ?utm_source=feedblitz &utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss &utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[18:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Noise in URLs - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:20] <exec> 08└─Join the editing team and you can be our special URL processor. Did the URL cause your computer to catch fire, crash, or otherwise cease to function correctly? No? Then there is no problem. If it did, please join our very small and busy team and support us by preventing this sort of problem for occu...
[18:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Date off by a century (Typo) - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:33] <exec> 08└─...though it wouldn't surprise me a bit to know that there were reenactors on the 100th anniversary out there, giving it all they had (including spectators in antebellum garb). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[18:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:I take it all back - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:04] <exec> 08└─No, you dipshit. I haven't heard a politician make the statements that Trump has made, that are eerily reminiscent of the nationalist sentiments in World War II Germany. If you really think that there are no parallels right now to Nazi Germany, you have your head stuck in the sand. Unlike character...
[18:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:31] <exec> 08└─- has been involved with arms trafficking When was Hitler involved with arms trafficking? Somehow, disturbing society's safe spaces ... You mean like r/The_Donald, where "no dissenters allowed" is rule #6?
[18:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02open source? - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:39] <exec> 08└─I actually would trust open source less than industrially 1ff6 verified one-off code with proper documentation
[18:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And the hits just keep coming - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:00] <exec> 08└─Trump is hardly fit to be president, we all know that. But, Trump will be a lame duck president from day one. He lacks the political clout to do the crazy shit he might want to do. He won't convince very many people of anything, and he can't coerce congress.
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[19:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unrelated... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:57] <exec> 08└─SN has been down for me most of the day, was there an outage or something?
[19:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Manifest Destiny - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:58] <exec> 08└─Additionally, the cabinet minister in charge of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), along with a number of scholars, believes that there are undiscovered scrolls that are being found by looters in caves in the Judean Desert. The IAA is sponsoring a new series of scientific surveys and excavation...
[19:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Manifest Destiny - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:00] <exec> 08└─In case you hadn't noticed, Israel captured the West Bank (including the Judean desert) in 1967. Plus, inhospitable desert is inhospitable.
[19:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:02] <exec> 08└─Just for giggles, replace bible, thorah, qu'ran,.... with "Harry Potter" or your favorite work of fiction and re-read the sentence. Suddenly the true value and importance of it all becomes apparent. Suddenly these 'scholars' show their true worth and contributions to society.
[19:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Name one other equal written work... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:04] <exec> 08└─Name one other equal written work (e.g. before the advent of the Internet and modern mechanized printing) with one-tenth the distribution and human investment in terms of work and preservation effort than that expended on the collection of works that make up the Bible.
[19:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Always FreeBSD... - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 2169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:22] <exec> 08└─I've been using FreeBSD since 1994, from the first time I logged into wcarchive.cdrom.com and saw the ftp server readme... There was a free UNIX available for i386?! I downloaded the floppy images for version 1.1 (and put them on 5.25" floppies, I might add) and installed it on a spare 40 meg MFM ha...
[19:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cost - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:38] <exec> 08└─"For an example, see the efforts of the TSA, the attempts of the government to install backdoors into all systems, etc. After all, "if we can save just one life, it's worth it"... isn't it?" Those are... outrageously bad examples. The security theater has absolutely nothing to do with (attempts to g...
[19:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Immune Checkpoints - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:45] <exec> 08└─As one of the originals to this site, and one who threw one of the first fuckBeta on the day of revolution, I can say I've been let down by this community. This is not a troll. There are good people here, but there are too few regular posters that really want to say something interesting or informat...
[19:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:07] <exec> 08└─Nice :-)
[19:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 1571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:20] <exec> 08└─Way to get personal about something technical. Right tool for the job, man. We were specifically talking about JS. If i'm writing C for some embedded work then i have no choice but to care about types. Every variable is type explicit and it generates compile-time errors if typing is incorrect. If i'...
[19:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:21] <exec> 08└─If i'm writing php, javascript, or C# then a lot of typing is "magic" and you really don't care.
[19:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score:2) 02Or read the humorous take - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:24] <exec> 08└─https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f [hackernoon.com]
[19:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You didn't make me rich! - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:38] <exec> 08└─You didn't make me rich - it's your fault I'm not rich! I'm just a stupid investor who thinks that companies can always lose money, year after year, and yet still be profitable. Numbers, I don't understand numbers. Now pay me. /sarc
[19:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Anonymizes the information" eh? - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:05] <exec> 08└─"The company, which was founded just last year" That plus yours is the one that would make me run screaming in the other direction. Bet they hire 'rock stars'.
[19:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:next,, - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:10] <exec> 08└─We have this in the States already. An OBDII plug-in stalking unit that tracks your speed and habits can be used for a discount in auto insurance. I don't know if lawfulness is required to get the discount yet or not.
[19:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:progressive - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:14] <exec> 08└─And they're also totally optional for your average driver. I believe when I was signing up and offered the option, my approximate response was "hahahahaha FUCK NO."
[19:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Mmmmm... after further testing - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:09] <exec> 08└─What are you trying to do, number 6? the only typeface, as far as you are concerned, is this [theprisoneronline.com]. Signed, the newly automated number 2.
[19:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:34] <exec> 08└─Actually, bob_super, that's exactly what democracy always is. Oppression of minorities by the majority. The thing is, looked at properly, everyone belongs to a minority. Democracy guarantees everyone will have their rights trampled.
[19:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Didn't you get the memo? - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:01] <exec> 08└─Any resistance to 'us' is terrorism now, regardless of circumstance, and any action by 'us' is virtuous, again regardless of circumstance. Get with the times!
[19:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:I take it all back - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:31] <exec> 08└─So Hitler didn't like the Jews very much. Trump of course has one of his kids married to a jew, done business for decades with others... I'm just saying if you think investing in crematoria is a wise financial investment, you're likely to be horribly disappointed after the trump victory. The odds of...
[19:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Code in interviews - 06Just Shut Up and Let Your Devs Concentrate - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:13] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't ask you to do that. I'd hand you our ORM and ask you to do some basic CRUD operations and demonstrate you can figure out the system from the documentation. Or something like that. But odds are that if I'm hiring you specifically, I already know who you are, and I might not ask for code at...
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[20:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Unrelated... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:53] <exec> 08└─Been fine for me for the last 12 hours or so.
[20:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Unrelated... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:54] <exec> 08└─SN has been down for me most of the day, was there an outage or something?
[20:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Name one other equal written work... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:00] <exec> 08└─Euclid's Elements [wikipedia.org]? Also, it's not because lots of energy has been spent on it already that it is valuable. We've spent multiple hundreds of thousands of hours on astrology and it's rubbish as well. It just means that lots of energy has been spent on it and that's all. (Some of that i...
[20:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name one other equal written work... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:02] <exec> 08└─Having a book shoved at you at the business end of a sword/gun does not a great publication history make. At least from a PR standpoint. Does the counter roll backwards when I burn them? I just can't wait for the new "hidden truths" in the Dead Sea scrolls to justify torturing, killing, and enslavin...
[20:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Re:Name one other equal written work... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:04] <exec> 08└─Just what I was thinking ... great, new fuel for religious zealots.
[20:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Name one other equal written work... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:07] <exec> 08└─Aesop's Fables. Predates the Bible by several hundred years. I guarantee you that you've read and heard of dozens of the stories in there, or their derivatives. Don't believe that the Bible is special just because lots of people believe it is. It's nowhere near the oldest, not even close to being th...
[20:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name one other equal written work... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:09] <exec> 08└─For those interested, I'll leave this right here: https://en.wikipedia.org's_Fables#List_of_some_fables_by_Aesop [wikipedia.org] As OP points out, there are indeed many that you'll recognize...
[20:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:11] <exec> 08└─Sure, understanding humanity's past is a pointless pursuit and adds nothing of value /s All hail science, the answer to everything! Now get out there and produce some profit!
[20:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, that's not what I meant... Understanding humanity's history most certainly is a worthwhile endeavour. It's a science a well, even... I think it's similar to dismissing the Greek Pantheon of gods, yet still be able to appreciate the culture, literature, architecture, accomplishments of the ancien...
[20:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:15] <exec> 08└─Ok thanks, that is more clear. I am still going to play devil's advocate and say that it is worthwhile for the exact reason that so many people believe in it. At least they will have (hopefully) insightful feedback instead of taking some of the more disturbing passages literally. Our society is a pr...
[20:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:17] <exec> 08└─At least they will have (hopefully) insightful feedback instead of taking some of the more disturbing passages literally.
[20:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:20] <exec> 08└─How many wars have been fought over Harry Potter? How many people burned at the stake? How many crusades? Will these scrolls spill the beans about Jesus' family? How many children did he have? Wives? That will be truly entertaining.
[20:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:22] <exec> 08└─> Believing books cause wars We are at a cargo cult level of naivety here.
[20:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, believing in those books does indeed require a high level of naivety...
[20:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─W 1a59 ill these scrolls spill the beans about Jesus' family? How many children did he have? Wives? That will be truly entertaining.
[20:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Treasure - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:28] <exec> 08└─I saw a documentary recently about the Copper Scrolls [wikipedia.org] which are considered part of the Dead Sea scrolls. Not a literary work, its pretty much a treasure map of where the community hid all their goods in response to a coming invasion. Stamped int copper/tin, and rolled up, and hidden,...
[20:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Have you considered Devuan? - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:39] <exec> 08└─It isn't a 'rolling release' distro, has stable and unstable branches, eliminated systemd, seems to cross-migrate fine from ubuntu (just make sure it is a clean ubuntu install without launchpad packages.), and generally seems to make a good fill in for other distros, with support on pretty much any...
[20:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, unfortunately all the hardware I have is identical, as it is usually cheaper to buy hardware in bulk. So identical motherboards, all of which have USB3 from the same chipset. FreeBSD acts the same on all of them, hence why I added the "at least on my hardware" bit. I can imagine that in the las...
[20:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Always FreeBSD... - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:50] <exec> 08└─I prefer "do it within twelve months as best you can". If FreeBSD could manage that, I'd seriously consider them. They've never been able to reliably hit that target though and that's just unacceptable.
[20:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Immune Checkpoints - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:12] <exec> 08└─You are talking about a 36% success rate for $300,000. Most people wouldn't take those odds. The few immunotherapy drugs I'm familiar with have insane side effects, are tricky to administer, and as such are usually used as a hail marry on the way to the grave. It maybe a step forward with further de...
[20:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think there's anything wrong with your complaint. It's very valid. Especially for people coming from a strongly typed background. But in javascript you cannot say "int x = 3;". The language doesn't permit you. So, you have to be a bit more flexible and cavalier in your thinking/programming f...
[20:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:50] <exec> 08└─The point for me is this - you can't produce reliable code without very careful testing. Why go through the hell of C++ syntax when you need to be thorough and careful at the testing point anyway. The weakly-typed cycle of is faster than the strongly-typed cycle of and gets no worse results in ter...
[20:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fat Client == Fat Mess - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:53] <exec> 08└─Fat clients are a bad idea. Thin clients may be boring, but more reliable and easier to deploy on, assuming eye-candy-fad-chasing is not your primary goal. We just need a decent thin-client standard. For one, just make the client a dumb vector coordinate processor and put the layout engine on the se...
[20:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Growth other than in user count? - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:11] <exec> 08└─new products and initiatives mentioned in the February report were having no significant effect on user growth,
[20:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Anonymizes the information" eh? - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 2226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:32] <exec> 08└─I saw yesterday a group of dudes figure out where an ISIS base is using nothing more than google maps and 3 pictures from the camp. Then russia blew it up. Bet those dudes thought they had anonymized the data too. Side channel attacks are common for people who think they know security. Take for exam...
[20:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But does it have a decen screen-font? - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:27] <exec> 08└─Just to be a dick. Mod him Troll and move along.
[20:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:04] <exec> 08└─In a perfect democracy filled with fair humans (don't wake me up if you find one), the boundary between oppressed and oppressors would be constantly changing depending on the topic of that day. Only people constantly in the minority in behavior and opinions would find themselves permanently represse...
[20:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"tarnish the brand" - 06UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, i'd rather buy products from a manufacturer who didn't care about their brand and wouldn't recall their defective products.
[20:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I take it all back - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:03] <exec> 08└─I haven't heard a politician make the statements that Trump has made, that are eerily reminiscent of the nationalist sentiments in World War II Germany.
[20:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TMB opposes public works & stimulus - 06UPDATED: WikiLeaks Releases Hillary Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta's Emails - 2265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:52] <exec> 08└─[Citation Needed] It's so sad that you slept through History class. Without direct gov't intervention, The Long Depression lasted 23 years. [1] [archive.li] [1] It would be a good idea to fix the brokenness of the S/N comments engine so that things like %22 in hyperlinks don't get monkeyed with. N.B...
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[21:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Grasping at straws - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:38] <exec> 08└─The liberals are just grasping at straws now, anything to make us believe the Chinese conspiracy and usher in a new era of Communism. It's pathetic and I won't fall for it.
[21:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:1, Troll) 02Great - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:40] <exec> 08└─Great, now the fucking hippies/hipsters will bitch whether I'm smoking a cigarette or a slab of ribs. S'okay. I know their weaknesses. Soap is like kryptonite to hippies and all you have to do to get rid of a hipster is say their outfit looks very trendy.
[21:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:42] <exec> 08└─I read it the opposite way. There use to be more particulates in the air. So fire up that charcoal grill! Or plant a tree. The tree thing seems like a better long-term plan than having to grill out every day rain or shine. I love that the atmosphere is so complicated : )
[21:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2) 022 Mbit/s link - 06ExoMars arrives at the Red Planet on Sunday - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:50] <exec> 08└─I know people (on Earth) who would kill for that kind of bandwidth (yeah yeah I know, latency...)
[21:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:2 Mbit/s link - 06ExoMars arrives at the Red Planet on Sunday - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:52] <exec> 08└─On top of which their bits travel a lot faster than mine. I demand vacuum-fille fiber now!
[21:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Unrelated... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:03] <exec> 08└─> was there an outage or something? No just an outrage. Same as every day.
[21:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Manifest Destiny - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:06] <exec> 08└─In case you hadn't noticed, Israel captured the West Bank (including the Judean desert) in 1967.
[21:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:22] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, I work with three Zoroastrians and as far as they're concerned the Jesus stories are lifted almost wholesale from their traditions. There is no doubt the ancient Jews had contact with Zoroastrians, as it was the dominant religion of the various Iranian empires up until the Musli...
[21:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:24] <exec> 08└─How many wars have been fought over Harry Potter? How many people burned at the stake? How many crusades?
[21:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:26] <exec> 08└─I, for one, look forward to the ravening horde of Hufflepuffs sweeping through the major populated areas of Antarctica.
[21:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:46] <exec> 08└─I don't have any problem at all running ZFS on CentOS6 with 16 GB for several years so far. Two 6-disk RAID-Z2 storage pools; 36 TB of total storage. I have had no problem with RAM exhaustion after multiple uptimes > 100 days.
[21:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Always FreeBSD... - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:51] <exec> 08└─Why? Seems like an utterly pointless object to me.
[21:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Always FreeBSD... - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:53] <exec> 08└─Primarily because I'm not going to buy outdated hardware on purpose just so FreeBSD can run on it. If an OS can't keep up with the hardware that's on the market, it's a toy not a tool.
[21:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Upgrades already done - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:55] <exec> 08└─I'd been testing out the betas in a few VMs without any problems noted. Upgraded the home NAS last night and four VMs at work today, plus created an openstack image for future use. I started using FreeBSD with the release of 10.0, after 15+ years of Debian. systemd was the thing which motivated me t...
[21:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:Immune Checkpoints - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:19] <exec> 08└─In this trial, there were less severe and life-threatening (grade 3 and 4) adverse events in the immunotherapy treatment group (13%) compared to standard therapy (35%). One of the reasons why immunotherapy drugs are being used in patients "on the way to the grave" is because they've been shown to st...
[21:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mobile code is still evil - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:42] <exec> 08└─Problem is that bzipitidoo and loRdTAW are both correct. This will never, never happen for many different reasons, but might be nice to have a "trusted" cdn for js code, vetted by some volunteer group, with functionality that enables a bag of client-side conveniences but is relatively limited in fun...
[21:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Degrades gracefully? - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:49] <exec> 08└─You're right. There is that. I take the "she's mean" comments to be from Trump. The things you describe are what I would call "fascist dictator".
[21:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:00] <exec> 08└─it gobbled my text. Must be javascript? > The weakly-typed cycle of is faster than the strongly-typed cycle of and gets no worse results in terms of reliability. Should have been The weakly-typed cycle of "code" "test" is faster than the strongly-typed cycle of "code" "compile" "test" and gets no wo...
[21:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Javascript required - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:04] <exec> 08└─... and does not require Javascript to be enabled.
[21:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:You didn't make me rich! - 06Twitter Sued by Shareholder Over Growth Predictions - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:19] <exec> 08└─If it is #2, then they should have the proverbial book thrown at them.
[21:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong market segment? - 06UPDATE: Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:50] <exec> 08└─Get it while it's hot!
[21:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:1) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:07] <exec> 08└─Fair points, friend. Hillary's explicitly stated platforms include the following: 1. Hugs, kisses, and love for everyone. (Wow, that's great!) - Her actions include supporting ISIS. (Oh.) 2. Loving our international allies and supporting women. (Amazing!) - Her actions include supp...
[21:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic: - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:10] <exec> 08└─How many people did Hitler personally kill? I hope that rhetorical question makes it very clear to you how inane your cherrypicking of my statement is. Had I directly accused Hillary of murder (as most people do of Hitler) you would have claimed I was "Another one of those crazy right-wingers who be...
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[22:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:38] <exec> 08└─Ya, jokes aside I'm a big fan of having trees around. Wood's valuable and I'm rather fond of oxygen and shade in the summer as well.
[22:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only trees? - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:39] <exec> 08└─No grasses? Or forbs? Or lichens? Or .... nope, just trees? Is there a magnitude change? A qualitative difference? What about different trees - larch versus maple, or fir versus pine?
[22:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Only trees? - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:41] <exec> 08└─Burn them all. It will release tiny particles which will help to form clouds. The scorched earth will also be more prone to releasing dust in the wind and form clouds. In fact, when it turns into a desert of fine sand, there will be more particles and therefore more clouds. The more desert, the more...
[22:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dvader [1936] (Score:1) 02Atmospheric Chemistry at CERN? - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:43] <exec> 08└─I was very surprised to see that they were doing these experiments at CERN since there's no particle physics involved. But, they also study the effect of cosmic rays on cloud formation so it makes perfect sense after all. Creating strong radiation is what CERN does best. Apparently they have 26 m³...
[22:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Devastating news for AGW cultists? - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:45] <exec> 08└─This could be devastating to the currently orthodox AGW models, which assume that positive feedback (more co2 in atmosphere = higher temperatures = more co2 released into atmosphere)* is stronger than negative feedback (more co2 in atmosphere = increased plant growth = more co2 taken out of atmosphe...
[22:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Devastating news for AGW cultists? - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:48] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing. This research certainly wrecked some models.
[22:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:2 Mbit/s link - 06ExoMars arrives at the Red Planet on Sunday - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder though, is that 2mbit symmetrical? Or shared? Or do they have a separate channel allocated for up, and if so how much will that carry?
[22:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Historical event - 06ExoMars arrives at the Red Planet on Sunday - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:00] <exec> 08└─The US is the only nation to successfully land on Mars. The Soviet Union and the UK have both tried, but failed. If this lander works, it will be the first successful non-US lander. Mars is tricky to land on because it has strong enough gravity to require significant braking energy, yet an atmospher...
[22:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Unrelated... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:11] <exec> 08└─Is that a feature? Will it appear on your next Comcast bill?
[22:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Name one other equal written work... - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:21] <exec> 08└─Having a book shoved at you at the business end of a sword/gun does not a great publication history make. At least from a PR standpoint. Does the counter roll backwards when I burn them? I just can't wait for the new "hidden truths" in the Dead Sea scrolls to justify torturing, killing, and enslavin...
[22:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sed s/Bible/Harry Potter/ - 0625 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:32] <exec> 08└─Not BOT person, but its not the books which cause the wars, they are only the justification some assholes use for war. GOD WILLS IT! ** God wills it ** Its all for the greater good! ** The greater good ** SHUT IT!
[22:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always FreeBSD... - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:04] <exec> 08└─Because if you don't have some sort of deadline, you turn into HURD. They were infamous for fights and rewrites over relatively minor things in the endless pursuit of "best." Now its to the point where numerous developers beg for something, anything, to be written in certain areas so that progress c...
[22:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ycombinator has no Heart. - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:28] <exec> 08└─I left ycombinator over shadow-banning before Soylent even existed. Shadow-banning is the most heartless and inhumane 'fix' for spam that I have ever seen. I saw one guy who had been posting for months without any idea that no one else could see what he had to say. Apparently he got shadow-banned b...
[22:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Ycombinator has no Heart. - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:29] <exec> 08└─I am fairly new to that site, so I haven't heard of the banhammering. I'll keep it in mind. Thanks
[22:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Immune Checkpoints - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:34] <exec> 08└─And how successful were the treatments to those adverse reactions comparatively? Standard chemo has more side effects, but can be treated usually. You are projecting a dispassionate and rational perspective on people who are dealing with a very emotional topic.
[22:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:2) 02Re:Javascript sucks - 06The State Of JavaScript: Introduction - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:14] <exec> 08└─I have not experienced this. If both variables of the operator are number types, you will get numerical addition. If one variable is a string, then the other is converted to string for purposes of operator evaluation. I have never had the problem you cite. What I have had to do is explicitly stringi...
[22:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I got to check my Eyes - 06A Company Called Nauto Has Partnered With Toyota, BMW to Log Driver Habits - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:11] <exec> 08└─Have it in my car watching my every move, as in the post it was in response to? Sheesh, you gotta spell everthing out, nowadays.
[22:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:But does it have a decen screen-font? - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:52] <exec> 08└─I like for spacing to be predictable. I like clarity (including things like distinguishing 0 and O properly which technically isn't part of being monospaced but still coïncides closely.) Munge not 9 by nine four rows my array. I remember getting graph paper and having to calculate kerning and make...
[22:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FYI Islam is Not Monolithic - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:24] <exec> 08└─Islam is far more diverse than Christianity. There are hundreds of different sects within the broad umbrella. All it really takes to be muslim is to practice the five pillars of faith. Everything else is up for debate. One effect of being such a broad and inclusive religion is that it is considered...
[22:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too bad they failed! - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:34] <exec> 08└─> Actually, bob_super, that's exactly what democracy always is. That's direct democracy which doesn't exist in any group much larger than a town.
[22:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:This is not an act of terrorism - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:02] <exec> 08└─Just in case people in the US were under the delusion that their news media told them the truth about what was going on in faraway places.
[22:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:This is not an act of terrorism - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:04] <exec> 08└─The Houthi were rebels once, but they control the capital city and much of the country, and the president (who was elected in what was decidedly not a free election, since he was the only candidate) fled to his good buddies in Saudi Arabia. Regardless of Saudi Arabia's or the United States' motives...
[22:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wonder what people dislike so much in Hitler - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:16] <exec> 08└─My father fought in Africa, on the other side. I dunno who are the good guys, but the bad guys do not go fight, they count the money. Make a one article martial law, "who makes one penny or earns a square inch of property from the war gets his head chopped off", if you hate wars.
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[23:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02mandatory reading - Donald Knuth - 06Crypto Needs More Transparency - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:36] <exec> 08└─If you mess with computer, his books are fascinating and essential reading to understand the basis for many of the computer problems supporting today's technology. In case you don't know, he invent Latex (previous Tex), the only decent way to render mathematics in published form....!
[23:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:mandatory reading - Donald Knuth - 06Crypto Needs More Transparency - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:38] <exec> 08└─Donald Knuth is an elderly old man who didn't invent Linux. Knuth is not relevant to the young trendy hipster coderz who rule the world. Go back to your science academy where Knuth is "required reading at the academy." Egghead.
[23:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So many ways to dolt.............................. - 06Crypto Needs More Transparency - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:40] <exec> 08└─Key escrow! It's cool cause it sounds like scarecrow! Use old-timey methods to keep them terrrists away. Ban encryption! Plain text is transparent! Well we tried that but it was bad for the illusion of security. Ban long keys! Shorter keys are like more transparent! Well we tried that too but again...
[23:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Chicken and egg problem? - 06Crypto Needs More Transparency - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:42] <exec> 08└─I'll admit I'm terrible at advanced math...but I *think* I have a vague understanding of what's going on. So due to mathematical properties, it's easier to "crack" some 1024/2048-bit numbers, and some encryption suites just come with a pregenerated list of said numbers, which could be pre-cracked...
[23:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02France, oh those silly frogs! - 06Crypto Needs More Transparency - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:44] <exec> 08└─Remember when France outlawed all forms of encryption? Those were the good old days, LOLOLOL.
[23:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Great - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:56] <exec> 08└─There use to be more particulates in the air.
[23:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:57] <exec> 08└─Great! Hoping that trees will increase in value (not timber, but living trees). Now maybe it will be possible for small forest owners to get carbon credits, like the big timber companies are already doing. Our family has 110 acres of forest in Fingerlakes part of NY State. Not worth a lot of money i...
[23:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Devastating news for AGW cultists? - 06Trees Are Much Better at Creating Clouds and Cooling the Climate Than We Thought - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:04] <exec> 08└─This could be devastating to the currently orthodox AGW models, which assume that positive feedback (more co2 in atmosphere = higher temperatures = more co2 released into atmosphere)* is stronger than negative feedback (more co2 in atmosphere = increased plant growth = more co2 taken out of atmosphe...
[23:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score:1) 02Re:Looking forward to trying it - 06FreeBSD 11.0 Released - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:03] <exec> 08└─The sensible thing to do is to go fully Centos6, and just wait for SystemD to be stabilized and the "ecosystem" of tools, scripts and tricks around it to grow. I would not touch FreeBSD for anything, unless I already was a FreeBSD expert for some reason. The "ecosystem" for FreeBSD is to narrow.
[23:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:Immune Checkpoints - 06Immunotherapy Cancer Drug Hailed as 'Game Changer' - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:46] <exec> 08└─I fully agree that there should be more reason involved in healthcare decisions, but I recognize that many people are not very rational about it or do not fully understand the cost/benefit of these decisions. And how successful were the treatments to those adverse reactions comparatively?
[23:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02TrueType instructions and FreeType's autohinter - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:36] <exec> 08└─The instructions in a TrueType font that align the control points of glyphs to the pixel grid are written in an interpreted bytecode patented by Apple. But it turns out that this isn't quite necessary, as FreeType includes an autohinter [freetype.org] to guess where the glyph edges should go. This a...
[23:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:But does it have a decen screen-font? - 06More Than 800 Languages in a Single Typeface: Noto - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:47] <exec> 08└─Well for programming, sure. If I were quoting a section of code on SoylentNews I'd monospace it. But we aren't. And I thought using tables to lay out webpages was considered passe? *shrugs*
[23:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:This is not an act of terrorism - 06Missle Attack from Yemen Targets US Navy Destroyer, Saudi Air Base - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:58] <exec> 08└─Quite right, all I'd like is for my local media to make the effort to explain those simple facts to their audience. None of the people involved are reality TV stars however, so I don't imagine it will happen.
[23:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You can't possibly be that evil - 06Early Biography of Adolf Hitler May Actually be an Autobiography - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:43] <exec> 08└─You have to have your tongue firmly in your cheek while writing that stuff. the good news is you don't disagree with me about Lee Kuan Yew ...the thief who stole the soul of Singapore and made the people automatons. By 1993, [caning] was mandatory for 42 offences and optional for a further 42 [wikip...
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