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[00:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tell it like it is! - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:32] <exec> 08└─Wait, if they're all closet gays, then coaxing them out of the closet will cure their PTSD? Hot damn. Volunteers needed to fuck the veterans queer!
[00:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Ignoring the troll... - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 2329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:34] <exec> 08└─Was married to someone with PTSD, who worked in medical field in US military. She experienced some on-the-job things that, well, left some pretty strong impressions... What seems to happen, at least from interpreting her experiences from what she told me about (not much), it's not a mental weakness...
[00:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignoring the troll... - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:36] <exec> 08└─If what you say is true, then shouldn't anyone with photographic memory be panicking all the time from any number of bad experiences. Or is that the problem in a nutshell. PTSD is like photographic memory for that one bad experience that just won't fade. Whereas someone with photographic memory for...
[00:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02only Our Troops can have PTSD, not you - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:38] <exec> 08└─The most serious problem surrounding PTSD is people assume only Our Troops can have it. So if you have suffered any kind of traumatic experience that resulted in debilitating intrusive memories, but you didn't suffer the traumatic experience WHILE SERVING BUSHBAMA, then you can't possibly have PTSD....
[00:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The real question is energy efficiency - 06Carbon Dioxide Converted to Ethanol Using Nano-Textured Catalyst - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:49] <exec> 08└─hmm... well, not really. Only short-term. Can it scale to industrial levels? How long does that catalyst material last? How fast is the catalyst process? How sensitive is the catalyst to input impurities? Those are close to the top of the list of "important questions" too as "energy efficiency", too...
[00:01:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Rigorous - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 1615 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:59] <exec> 08└─True, the fact checkers are often as biased as the original article writers. In fact they are usually the same group of "journalism majors" out of the same hopelessly biased schools. I foresee a new trend of "fact-washing" an article by submitting it to some impartial (cough) reviewer for fact chec...
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[00:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Make cannibis great again? - 06A Republican Lawmaker's Hat at a Marijuana Conference Says It All: 'Make Cannabis Great Again' - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:12] <exec> 08└─After somebody complained about me using the word "marijuana" in the first 4/20 article here, I switched to "cannabis" when writing headlines, summaries, and comments. It's (part of) the scientific name and doesn't have the racist/propaganda backstory. America has four syllables (three if you say 'm...
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[01:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rich People Country - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:27] <exec> 08└─Poor people get tossed in jail for one joint. God Bless America for Rich People.
[01:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:29] <exec> 08└─People who combust it obviously don't care too much about the flavor and aroma. Maybe those Colorado hillbillies haven't gotten access to the technology yet. It's not like Colorado is known for good food and wine, either. I'll stick to vaping it up in the bathroom at a Michelin 3-star.
[01:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:31] <exec> 08└─I always masturbate because no one else but me can please me to my high standard of sex.
[01:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:33] <exec> 08└─I hope you use an expensive, high quality vapo- I mean onahole.
[01:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:35] <exec> 08└─Vaping sucks IMHO. I've smoked, eaten, and vaped a lot of weed and there's nothing like rolling one up and burning it. Edibles are just food, and unless you cook it yourself or get high quality stuff it usually doesn't taste good and the high is not great compared to other forms. Good glass is ok, v...
[01:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:37] <exec> 08└─Hell yeah, back when I smoked tobacco nothing beat the synergistic effect of both the tobacco and weed at once. Whether you're mixing them and rolling them in a paper European-style, or smoking it in a blunt with some real authentic Blacks over a jug of Carlo Rossi wine, the whole process of the pre...
[01:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Gratuitous - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:40] <exec> 08└─That totally reeks of a gimmick. If you want to get the most out of a good meal, then eat a small but potent edible or smoke beforehand, then eat a good marijuana-free dinner after you get the munchies. The reason is that THC-infused food, frankly, tastes like ass. Okay, it's not terrible, but it's...
[01:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gratuitous - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:42] <exec> 08└─THC-infused food, frankly, tastes like ass.
[01:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Gratuitous - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:44] <exec> 08└─And probably gets asked on more second dates than you.
[01:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Ignoring the troll... - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 1615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:55] <exec> 08└─I've known sadists in the military who were kept by the military from returning to duty in Iraq because they were known to have enjoyed the battlefield (and the killing). My dad is a Vietnam vet who was shot-at plenty of times in the Vietnamese sticks and, although not a badass, has no PTSD and neve...
[01:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignoring the troll... - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I went through a psychology phase trying to understand why my momma went nutso.
[01:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Ignoring the troll... - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:58] <exec> 08└─If you saw her you'd know that's impossible, unless you have a fetish for Wayne Gretsky.
[01:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignoring the troll... - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:00] <exec> 08└─So you don't remember how you raped your mother... I can see we still have much work to do.
[01:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:only Our Troops can have PTSD, not you - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:03] <exec> 08└─Service guarantees citizenship!
[01:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:only Our Troops can have PTSD, not you - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:06] <exec> 08└─Gentlemen, you have eyes! but you cannot see! Galaxies surround us! limitless vistas! And yet the Federation would have us grub away like some ants! on some somewhat larger than usual anthill! But I am not an insect! I am master of the universe! and I must claim my domain!
[01:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Rigorous - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:32] <exec> 08└─There is also another Marilyn Manson song which describes the problems of America so eloquently: Virgins sold in quantity, African-American heredity. I'm playin' my guitar and I'm feelin' fine, Why are all the niggers in the unemployment line? [chorus:] White Trash get down on your knees; Time for...
[01:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:reuptation - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:41] <exec> 08└─All posters in this discussion who are critical of Google are tainted because they have revealed themselves to be anti-Semites. You can't insult Google's Jewish founders like that. Racists!
[01:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:47] <exec> 08└─What, why how could anybody believe that Google [macdailynews.com] could be biased towards a single party [wsj.com], its not like their chairman is working for the Hillary Campaign [qz.com] right? Oh wait...
[01:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:54] <exec> 08└─NO! No! Define "is"!
[01:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Google's Internet Fact-Checking Authority Network? - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:56] <exec> 08└─Is it rating for pieces of a media narrative? How is this fact-checking? http://pending.schema.org [schema.org] is some insane XML based horror, and i quote "potentialAction Action Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'ob...
[01:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Personally, Spotify - 06Amazon Enters the Premium Music Streaming Service Fray - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:11] <exec> 08└─Personally, I subscribed to Spotify Premium the day it became available in the United States, back in July, 2011. I now subscribe to its family plan. I love it. Ripping CDs is a pain in the ass, and it lets me discover new music. By now, Spotify has quite a proficient and detailed database on my mus...
[01:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:My sympathies to the Thais - 06Thailand's King Dies; Thailand Remains Under Military Rule Since 2014 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:27] <exec> 08└─and I can't convey (and neither can the press) the love the Thais had for their king
[01:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:That - 06J1407b: How "Saturn on Steroids" Keeps From Self-Destructing - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:36] <exec> 08└─Pretty cool!
[01:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Bernie appeals to stoners'' - 06A Republican Lawmaker's Hat at a Marijuana Conference Says It All: 'Make Cannabis Great Again' - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:44] <exec> 08└─Actually, Gary Johnson seems to have more appeal to those folks. (He's an acknowledged toker.) If those folks ever get straight for an hour, they should re-examine that. Gary Johnson Is NOT the Third-Party Candidate You’re Looking For [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [socialistalternative.org] As fo...
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[02:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rich People Country - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:39] <exec> 08└─*black people
[02:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:45] <exec> 08└─They say marijuana is not addictive but it seems you have been doing this for a while...
[02:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:47] <exec> 08└─Pinnacle of smoking, you say it yourself, and I agree. But nothing compares to the flavor that you get from a vape. High-tech! You can have rituals with it too: share it with your friends, wake 'n vape and use it on a transcontinental ;) I can highly [pun intended] recommend the grasshopper, but hea...
[02:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:49] <exec> 08└─Vapes are great, but in the so-called "progressive" state of California portable vape cartridges are a "concentrate" and so carry additional legal penalties if you are caught with one or more. [ Note: being caught with the vape itself doesn't carry that penalty, so if you if you sense that you're ab...
[02:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Gratuitous - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:54] <exec> 08└─Actually, if you use hash butter, it only tastes a bit; definitely not as overpowering as grinding weed directly into the food instead of oregano, parsley, or whatever... Difficult to gauge, though. True.
[02:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Greatest achievement in my lifetime - 06Carbon Dioxide Converted to Ethanol Using Nano-Textured Catalyst - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:19] <exec> 08└─The accomplishment is the scientific analog of Jesus Christ turning water into wine.
[02:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Greatest achievement in my lifetime - 06Carbon Dioxide Converted to Ethanol Using Nano-Textured Catalyst - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:20] <exec> 08└─I'd like to go on record as volunteering to help by disposing of all the converted CO2 they feel like shipping my way.
[02:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Rigorous - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:43] <exec> 08└─You and I agree that it is mostly the fault of the student, if he is poorly educated. (Parents and teachers bear some blame as well.) OK, so now what? We have a nation of people who are less educated than our parents and grandparents were. Now what? How do we make these suckers understand the import...
[02:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The truth of that case in 20 words - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:47] <exec> 08└─Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false.[1] [archive.li] The S/N comments engine -still- does nasty things to %22 in hyperlinks. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:01] <exec> 08└─Fact-checking isn't the job of journalists. If it belongs anywhere in journalism, it's in an editorial piece. If you're worried that Trump's lies are going uncorrected, the fault lies with the Clinton campaign. Of course, the Clinton campaign is calling Trump a liar on a daily basis; it's just that...
[02:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jpmahala [6065] (Score:1) 02Google Play - 06Amazon Enters the Premium Music Streaming Service Fray - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:21] <exec> 08└─I got in on the Google Play Music subscription when it was $8, and it's stayed there for me. New subscribers have to shell out $10. I'd be interested in signing up for their family plan, but I don't want to lose out on the deal I currently have. As for the service, There is VERY little I haven't bee...
[02:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Which music streaming service, if any, do you use? - 06Amazon Enters the Premium Music Streaming Service Fray - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:23] <exec> 08└─Youtube. It's not perfect, but the sound quality is decent and it's free. Plus, you can listen to anything you want (even weird esoteric shit not found anywhere else, including live bootlegs) without having to create an account. The big trade-off besides the ads is that other services are good for i...
[02:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:"1% of the total records" and scanning - 06Hacking Voter Registration Data in Indiana - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:06:10] <exec> 08└─I acknowledged that I was being inconsistent. I do tend to think that the Russian government is more competent than the FBI in this area. And again, I'm not asserting that the Russian government is not behind these attacks. I'm just saying that isn't necessarily what's happened. Conspiracies do exis...
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[03:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:41] <exec> 08└─Nope. I've abstained from pot many times, in fact now even. It is addictive, though only for a certain type of "addictive." You're not gonna be breaking your kids' piggy-banks for your next fix.
[03:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:43] <exec> 08└─Breathing is also addictive, and death is a withdrawal symptom.
[03:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Better yet... - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:51] <exec> 08└─Use a bong filled with cherry kool-aid. It tastes great, cuts the harshness of the smoke.
[03:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:The real question is energy efficiency - 06Carbon Dioxide Converted to Ethanol Using Nano-Textured Catalyst - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:20] <exec> 08└─They calculated a 63% Faradaic efficiency at 1.2 V. At other voltages, different products (carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and methanol) were produced, at lower Faradaic efficiency. Faradaic efficiency is the fraction of the supplied electrons that participate in the desired reaction. It's not the same a...
[03:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reuptation - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:49] <exec> 08└─Disregard that, I build bridges.
[03:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:56] <exec> 08└─I was mildly shocked to learn that Paul Ryan's wife is a fundraiser for Clinton. That reinforces the idea that the ruling class has no party, it's all just smoke and mirrors to confuse the voting chumps. https://www.bustle.com
[03:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:58] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump's current wife is an immigrant.
[03:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:04] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Journalists are supposed to report the news, yes. But we have an entire class of journalists, called "investigative journalists". These are the detectives of the journalism world. Editorial pages, you say? Sorry, the editorial page is where the editor dazzles you with bullshit, to sway y...
[03:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:08] <exec> 08└─Yup, there's a conspiracy theory right there at the top of the page. "Supramolecule" Created Using Two Negatively Charged Bisulfate Ions
[03:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:11] <exec> 08└─What is the point of the label? What does it tell the would-be clicker of the link that they need or want to know? You folks seem to think that this is subversive or corrupt in some way.
[03:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Who needs Google News? - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:14] <exec> 08└─For some reason, a lot of my Google News searches come up with a "403 forbidden" error. That's all right, though, as I've bookmarked www.kcna.kp where all the stories are thoroughly checked.
[03:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02medicinal use - 06Thailand's King Dies; Thailand Remains Under Military Rule Since 2014 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:47] <exec> 08└─Let's hope the corpse is properly dried and pulverized. King powder is highly valued in traditional Thai medicine.
[03:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not for me - 06A Republican Lawmaker's Hat at a Marijuana Conference Says It All: 'Make Cannabis Great Again' - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:59] <exec> 08└─You might want to go read the 10th amendment again. It is the basis for all of the states pro pot laws, right to try laws for terminal patients and experimental drugs and even a few states gun laws. The feds may try to overstep their bounds but that is not a shock to anyone who knows the constitutio...
[03:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Great Swim - 06A Republican Lawmaker's Hat at a Marijuana Conference Says It All: 'Make Cannabis Great Again' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:14] <exec> 08└─Seriously, who would miss California?
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[04:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02KILL THE HUMANS - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:22] <exec> 08└─ALL OF THEM
[04:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:KILL THE women - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:24] <exec> 08└─Grab em by the Pussy, then eviscerate them.
[04:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:50] <exec> 08└─Actually, the portables I was referring to [1] are for solid material, i.e. you can vape herb(s) (or solid concentrates) with it. (You could probably also put a drop of something on cotton and vape that too.) Theres a great (and aptly named) forum, where you can spend quite a bit of time at [2]. [1]...
[04:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02''The Great Communism Experiment'' - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 1695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:46] <exec> 08└─You're using the wrong word yet again. When Socialism is working so awesomely that you don't need a government any more, -then- you can call what you have "Communism"--if you're going by the stuff that Marx wrote. ...then there people like you who are purposely using terms dishonestly and are just t...
[04:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Rigorous - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:47] <exec> 08└─The problem seems to be education, interest and critical thinking:
[04:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waaah! - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:55] <exec> 08└─Truth is whatever my authority tells me it to be. Fixed that for ya.
[04:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Donald Trump's current wife is an immigrant'' - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:06] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention that she is an ILLEGAL immigrant. She came on a *tourist* visa and sought and found **employment** while she was here. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:13] <exec> 08└─Journalists ought to report on the facts. They should not be "checking" them. Journalists aren't objective arbiters of truth, no matter how much they like to believe they are. Report on what Trump said, if it's newsworthy.
[04:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:20] <exec> 08└─Just labeling something as a "fact check" doesn't imbue any special validity to the link, nor does it imply that it's "more" correct than any other link.
[04:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SoylentNews should follow suit. - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:24] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews, please do the same by putting "Fact Checked" near the top of the stories! TIA.
[04:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which music streaming service, if any, do you u - 06Amazon Enters the Premium Music Streaming Service Fray - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:42] <exec> 08└─It would be hilarious if YouTube started charging for music in a stupid way that let all of the free YouTube downloaders still download everything. Advertising and region restrictions and age restrictions are already total jokes. People who use YouTube downloaders are not likely to pay anyway, the g...
[04:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:another quickly dated tech - 06These Really Exist: Giant Concrete Arrows That Point Your Way Across America - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:27] <exec> 08└─The Pantelegraph was invented by the Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli. He introduced the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon in 1865 [...] The 1888 invention of the telautograph by Elisha Grey marked a further development in fax technology, allowing users to send signatures ove...
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[05:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Re:KILL THE men - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:47] <exec> 08└─Rip off their cocks and shove their own cocks up their asses.
[05:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Carbon release? - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:48] <exec> 08└─So, they think an impact may have occurred around the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum. That's plausible, although the article rightly points out some reasons for caution. Now, how do we go from a minor impact to a massive release of carbon? I don't see the mechanism here.
[05:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02i've got this one - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:50] <exec> 08└─I've got this one! the climate warmed more than 5 degrees Celsius over a period of 20 thousand years as a result of a surge of 2,000 gigatons of carbon released into the atmosphere.
[05:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02There is a molecular helium compound - 06"Supramolecule" Created Using Two Negatively Charged Bisulfate Ions - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:58] <exec> 08└─There is a cubical lattice with a helium trapped inside. It can't get out because it won't fit through the sides. It's trapped but not really bonded. Sorry I don't recall the formula.
[05:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is a molecular helium compound - 06"Supramolecule" Created Using Two Negatively Charged Bisulfate Ions - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:00] <exec> 08└─There's dodecahedrane [wikipedia.org] but that's pentagonal. I found some things about bcc (body-centered cubic) iron lattices. Perhaps this? [ornl.gov] I know next to nothing about chemistry so not sure if that will help jog the memory.
[05:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waaah! - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:24] <exec> 08└─Sig Heil Mein UberTrumpan!
[05:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Its OK, She's White - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:38] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with that. She's white after all. Never mind that a little over a century ago slovenian immigrants like here weren't white (just as the irish and italians weren't either). But now they are all one big happy whitey family!
[05:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Hypocrisy of Conspiracy Theories - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:39] <exec> 08└─And everyone in your family are members of the same political party? If its OK for the plebes to support different parties under one roof why should the powerful be expected to do otherwise?
[05:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Press Release Journalism - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:47] <exec> 08└─What you are describing is known as "press release journalism" and it is the lowest, least useful form of journalism. It is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. PR journalism is nearly the exact reverse of that maxim. And if you don't think that even PR journ...
[05:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Lèse–majesté - 06Thailand's King Dies; Thailand Remains Under Military Rule Since 2014 - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:25] <exec> 08└─What made England's Parliament so powerful was a combination of things, but mostly rights. The King had to have Parliaments agreement to raise taxes as the people had the right not to be taxed just because the King wanted to. This allowed trade offs, you get the tax, we get this. Then the King alway...
[05:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wait ... - 06A Republican Lawmaker's Hat at a Marijuana Conference Says It All: 'Make Cannabis Great Again' - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:51] <exec> 08└─Because only sober people want a Bush-Clinton dynasty [politico.com] that president that went beyond their duties as a lawyer to defend a first-degree rape of a 12 year old [thedailybeast.com] smeared and destroyed the lives of Bill Clinton's rape victims [thepoliticalinsider.com] uses the immoral 1...
[05:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score:2) 02Extending the life of a computer - 06SSDs in the Enterprise: It's About More Than Just Speed - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:47] <exec> 08└─In the past if a computer began to feel slow, we bought a new box. Now, if the computer feels slow, migrate your HD to an SSD. The HD has always been the performance bottleneck on a PC and an SSD makes it much less so. That old Core2 Quad with 8GB RAM, plus and SSD, zoom zoom zoom!
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[06:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:i've got this one - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:39] <exec> 08└─How can one make saying the truth sound so retarded? Sarcasm.
[06:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Rigorous - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:04] <exec> 08└─We have a nation of people who are less educated than our parents and grandparents were.
[06:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:41] <exec> 08└─Au contraire, mon frere. Not even close. Regardless of any markings, one must determine the "correctness" of an particular article or link for oneself.
[06:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:another quickly dated tech - 06These Really Exist: Giant Concrete Arrows That Point Your Way Across America - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, I did know the device existed but that doesn't mean you could just go down to the Western Union and actually use one.
[06:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make America Late Again - 06A Republican Lawmaker's Hat at a Marijuana Conference Says It All: 'Make Cannabis Great Again' - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:47] <exec> 08└─The pot-smoking gay vegan mooooooooslims are gonna getcha!
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[07:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Some moons of Jupiter and Saturn will not survive - 06Proximity to Stars Inflates "Hot Jupiters" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:26] <exec> 08└─On a more important note earth will be burnt to a cinder in this process
[07:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Some moons of Jupiter and Saturn will not survi - 06Proximity to Stars Inflates "Hot Jupiters" - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:28] <exec> 08└─Buy up Titan real estate.
[07:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some moons of Jupiter and Saturn will not survi - 06Proximity to Stars Inflates "Hot Jupiters" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:30] <exec> 08└─Naah, Miranda's where it's at. All those crazy vistas!
[07:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Charles' Law Applies In Space? - 06Proximity to Stars Inflates "Hot Jupiters" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:32] <exec> 08└─Whod'a thunk it? I'm going file a patent application! X, but in space! It's the next big area for patents!
[07:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dark Energy doesn't exist - 06Dark Energy Camera Finds New Kuiper Belt Object - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:41] <exec> 08└─Then think of it as a "dark energy falsification camera".
[07:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Carbon release? - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 1394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:51] <exec> 08└─Two things to note. First a layer of microtektites, if it really exists indicates a not minor impact. The impact has both hit the Earth's surface and spread around a bunch of ejecta over a geographically significant area. Second, a direct hit on limestone might do it. That is proposed as part of the...
[07:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02GiantMeteor2016 - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:55] <exec> 08└─Vote for a renewal of life forms of earth!
[07:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:There is a molecular helium compound - 06"Supramolecule" Created Using Two Negatively Charged Bisulfate Ions - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:04] <exec> 08└─You're probably thinking of the endohedral fullerene He@C60. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.sciencedirect.com [sciencedirect.com]
[07:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So people with PTSD don't interpret things - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:47] <exec> 08└─Correctly? is this even slightly new?, isn't this pretty much just a description of PTSD?
[07:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:''The Great Communism Experiment'' - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:23] <exec> 08└─What utter horseshit. Every single work place I have ever been, the majority of people suffer from one or more of the following problems: 1 - lack of motivation 2 - lack of understanding 3 - just pure lazy 4 - plain ignorance 5 - stupidity 6 - lack of vision 7 - greed 8 - drama llama 9 - hatred (bas...
[07:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:''Donald Trump's current wife is an immigrant'' - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:46] <exec> 08└─Is she now married to an American citizen? She may be a gold digger (or not) but the law and my own opinion says that she has the right to be here. Unlike about fifty million illegal invaders from Mexico.
[07:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The Hypocrisy of Conspiracy Theories - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:48] <exec> 08└─None of the members of my household are members of any political party, unless "independent" actually counts as a party. No member of my family has tossed money to a party, and few of us have donated to any candidates. Those candidates who have recieved money from my family have been mostly independ...
[07:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:another quickly dated tech - 06These Really Exist: Giant Concrete Arrows That Point Your Way Across America - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:05:09] <exec> 08└─You had written "at that time, they didn't have fax [...] A [t]elegraph cannot transmit a signature" so it appeared that you didn't know. Fax machines weren't in every home and office like they are today, but they were in commercial use. Western Union, in particular, developed at least one--although...
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[08:01:42] <exec> 08└─Nah, they just need to search for an answer and that is just the best they've got right now. There are some other theories of gravity people have tried out, maybe they'll be proven true, or maybe there is some extra matter and energy floating around we don't know about. Oh, did you hear? Quantum phy...
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[08:03:29] <exec> 08└─A bit of investigation (I don't trust Snopes) seems to validate your claim in a rather peculiar way. What it establishes is that there is no requirement in law not to intentionally lie and present those lies as truth, that FOX (a member station, not the main network) was accused of this but this was...
[08:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:57] <exec> 08└─So in your view, journalists are glorified secretaries?
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[08:04:36] <exec> 08└─Rights only exist when there is a balance of power. England's Parliament became powerful by the default of the British monarchs. (This may have been a net benefit to all parties, but that wasn't the reason it happened. It happened because the Kings didn't want to bother running the government.) FWIW...
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[09:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:The real question is energy efficiency - 06Carbon Dioxide Converted to Ethanol Using Nano-Textured Catalyst - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:01] <exec> 08└─Energy is abundant and free for the most part. Just pull up a solar panel \ wind turbine \ nuclear plant and harvest away. The problems are: 1. Burning ethanol releases CO2. The supposition is that you're reclaiming the CO2 when creating the CO2. But it could be like methane where escaped gas is ver...
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[09:03:58] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Who, What, Where, When, Why. Fox News got the motto right, they just failed to live up to it about as badly as everybody else playing at journalism. "We report, you decide." The purpose of the journalist is to be in all of the places where news happens and reliably report those events to th...
[09:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you're thinking of gift giving - 06Thailand's King Dies; Thailand Remains Under Military Rule Since 2014 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:43] <exec> 08└─I hear The King and I (1956) is very popular.
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[10:01:31] <exec> 08└─They just get worse and worse. Computers no longer belong to the users, but to the corps that sell the software. They wouldn't have dared do this years ago, but they've been steadily acclimating users to taking it rough and hard...
[10:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the assumption> evolution moves on blindly - 06Amoeba Stole Genes from Bacterium to Gain Photosynthesis - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:38] <exec> 08└─How likely it is for a number of such organisms to incorporate a number of that other organisms in a way so that the gene deficiency is covered? Can there be traces of the borked tries or the short term steps in other directions, or is the selection of fossils too limited? if so, what about now? are...
[10:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:4, Insightful) 02learn from the past - 06Amoeba Stole Genes from Bacterium to Gain Photosynthesis - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:40] <exec> 08└─About 126 billion milliseconds ago, a lowly blob of C pulled off a stunning heist, grabbing userland from an unsuspecting GNU/Linux system to replace the cash flow it had lost once that system started becoming actually easy to maintain. Now Rutgers and other scientists have solved the mystery of how...
[10:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:learn from the past - 06Amoeba Stole Genes from Bacterium to Gain Photosynthesis - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:42] <exec> 08└─Best systemd troll ever.
[10:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03b [2121] (Score:2) 02This is how all plants gained photosynthesis - 06Amoeba Stole Genes from Bacterium to Gain Photosynthesis - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:44] <exec> 08└─Probably just a poor summary, but this is how *all* eukaryotes (i.e. non-bacteria) gained photosynthesis. This includes all plants. Originally, a single-celled organism engulfed a photosynthetic bacterium, which eventually became a chloroplast. This organism evolved into green algae, then plants.
[10:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''The Great Communism Experiment'' - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:44] <exec> 08└─Take a tour of a Mondragon facility and replace your ignorance with knowledge. You might even undo some of your prejudice in the process. (Very tall order. Yeah, I know.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[10:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cargo, not people - 06Hyperloop One Raises $50 Million for Full-Scale Test - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:05:50] <exec> 08└─Any accident at 700 mph isn't going to leave much evidence. I don't think people will be riding in these on regular service for a very long time.
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[11:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:32] <exec> 08└─I got off this roller coaster narely 10 years ago. I've wasted enough of my live keeping M$ crap going, and they have made a fortune. But I won't waste my time being paid to deal with their crap. Today I just say "I don't do windows". Just go linux / osx / bsd , and keep going, even if it means you...
[11:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward ( 1000 Score:0) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:34] <exec> 08└─Just go linux / osx / bsd , and keep going, even if it means you have to change jobs.
[11:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:36] <exec> 08└─Well I'd like to install the Monthly Rollup on Windows 8.1, but Windows Update never finishes checking for updates. The wuauserv service just pegs one core of a CPU and does nothing. It's not downloading anything, it's not writing anything to disk, it's just eating CPU. I've tried resetting the Soft...
[11:01:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02learn from the past - 06Amoeba Stole Genes from Bacterium to Gain Photosynthesis - 1166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:44] <exec> 08└─About 126 billion milliseconds ago, a lowly blob of C pulled off a stunning heist, grabbing userland from an unsuspecting GNU/Linux system to replace the cash flow it had lost once that system started becoming actually easy to maintain. Now Rutgers and other scientists have solved the mystery of how...
[11:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Erm... - 06Proximity to Stars Inflates "Hot Jupiters" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:57] <exec> 08└─In what Universe is simple physics like this newsworthy?
[11:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:There is a molecular helium compound - 06"Supramolecule" Created Using Two Negatively Charged Bisulfate Ions - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:30] <exec> 08└─I don't know; could it be a calixarene [wikipedia.org]? That's not cubical though. The fullerenes mentioned in the other comment sound more plausible for Helium. It would stay inside the Buckyball, but drop out of the cup (calix==cup).
[11:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:51] <exec> 08└─Haha, I missed that good catch. It's pretty much a reflex to refer to everything weed-related as "smoking", just like "drinking" refers to alcohol. If 'm talking about cigarettes it's always "smoking a cigarette" (although nine times out of ten I'd actually say square), but with weed it's just "smok...
[11:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignoring the troll... - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:12] <exec> 08└─Someone with PTSD, the pucker-factor does not go away quickly or easily...
[11:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:''The Great Communism Experiment'' - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:55] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_rifle [wikipedia.org] I have little idea what you "Mondragon facility" is, but I suppose that you've found some exception to the rule. You believe that such exception proves that communism can work. Well, let me back up just a little - communism does work...
[11:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:cargo, not people - 06Hyperloop One Raises $50 Million for Full-Scale Test - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:06:06] <exec> 08└─Seems like a good idea for a dedicated freight system
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[12:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02I'M CAPTAIN KIRK! - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:27] <exec> 08└─I'm Captain Kirk... yes.... Captain... hahahahAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHHA
[12:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Get ready for less efficient AC units - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:29] <exec> 08└─So, when CFCs and HCFCs were phased out we went to HFCs. These were notably less efficient as phase change media and lead to increased power usage, which lead to more pollutants being dumped in the atmosphere from power plants/cars/etc... because people will not settle for using the same amount of e...
[12:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And hardware. - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:38] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure Intel/AMD are going to move back to timesharing rental agreements for processor features. You think I am kidding, but just look at those crypto unlock keys Intel did a few years back, and think about all the restrictions that the ME firmware can allow/disallow for the right price and per...
[12:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:42] <exec> 08└─I don't know, in 2001 I started doing Linux as well as being a windows admin. By 2003 I was making so much more money being a Linux admin (lots of work migrating NT boxen to Linux for SMEs), that I ended up specialising in Linux/Unix machines, and I "don't do windows" since then. The last windows I...
[12:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:44] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you've just managed to combine Linux advocacy, Microsoft bashing, celebrity hero worship, and the commonly held belief that the poor are poor because they choose to be poor, all in the same comment. You're agreeing with every popularly held belief here, dude. It's no wonder a trendy...
[12:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Good. - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:47] <exec> 08└─If "enterprise software" vendors think it's fine to save a few developer hours by holding off work and instructing admins to keep a security patch uninstalled, they have another thing coming to them. This change will either push some companies to deploy \ roll their own linux distributions, or keep...
[12:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Sadly for the bacteria, Monsanto already patented - 06Amoeba Stole Genes from Bacterium to Gain Photosynthesis - 0 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:58] <exec> 08└─
[12:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Myfyr [3654] (Score:1) 02Re:Ignoring the troll... - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:23] <exec> 08└─I recall reading somewhere (can't find it now, unfortunately) that childhood trauma is indeed highly correlated with later PTSD, suggesting increased susceptibility. Which yeah, certainly makes sense. Also, having a parent with PTSD seems to be a risk factor, due to epigenetic effects (although I im...
[12:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Irony, You are Doing it in Style! - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:15] <exec> 08└─> So the only thing incorrect about what I asserted was saying that Fox was the defendant Oh that is total bullshit and you know it. You completely mischaracterized the case in your original post in order to make a point about fox's motives. And now you are hiding behind a literalist defense in orde...
[12:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:36] <exec> 08└─They are members of the same party. I have personally seen Rupert Murdoch and Chris Ruddy (CEO of Newsmax, the downmarket Fox) doing business with Bill Clinton.
[12:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:another quickly dated tech - 06These Really Exist: Giant Concrete Arrows That Point Your Way Across America - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah we're both correct if you image google search for 1920 airmail stamp vs 1940 airmail stamp. I was aiming for immediate post WWI for no apparent reason. Also I bet they had different stamps for post cards vs envelopes.
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[13:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02couple tons of coal - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:36] <exec> 08└─So given the type of refrigerant in my central air at home, assuming all the math isn't fuzzy, it works out to a couple tons of CO2 assuming I vent it to air (accidentally, because that's quite illegal to do intentionally) One problem is my AC draws 4 KW, or 20 amps at 220 (240 whatever) so thats 4...
[13:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:couple tons of coal - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:37] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't sweat it. They're not talking about ripping out all the old AC units and replacing them. If they do it like they did the phasing out of R12/22, anything existing is grandfathered and the proper refrigerant is going to be produced for it for roughly its expected lifecycle and then some. They...
[13:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:52] <exec> 08└─Well I'd like to install the Monthly Rollup on Windows 8.1, but Windows Update never finishes checking for updates. The wuauserv service just pegs one core of a CPU and does nothing. It's not downloading anything, it's not writing anything to disk, it's just eating CPU.
[13:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:54] <exec> 08└─Have been suffering that problem since more than a year with the cpu pegged overnight with the wuauserv service when trying to manually get updates since was suicidal to let automated updates enabled.. Coincedentaly last month all problems went away and updates were found in matter of minutes. Now a...
[13:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not uncommon - 06Amoeba Stole Genes from Bacterium to Gain Photosynthesis - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:07] <exec> 08└─Just the other night, my wife engulfed me and harnessed my genes in her mouth, in the process converting protein into CO2.
[13:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02comma chameleon - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:42] <exec> 08└─(Not quoting the comma since it shouldn't be there. The part after the and can't be a complete sentence on its own. The PETM is associated with an enormous deep-sea mass extinction. The PETM is associated with diversification of life on sea and land. Hopefully Muphry's law doesn't strike me down.)
[13:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wait ... - 06A Republican Lawmaker's Hat at a Marijuana Conference Says It All: 'Make Cannabis Great Again' - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:03] <exec> 08└─Still better than a fraudulent sexual predator.
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[14:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02[meta] Editors? - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:36] <exec> 08└─so, to this naive person, it's hard to distinguish what he did from that of the large high-speed trading firms.
[14:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:[meta] Editors? - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:38] <exec> 08└─Not too big to fail.
[14:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02kids - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:40] <exec> 08└─leave that high speed thingy to us. Just pour your money in and keep slaving away, or get on the other side (warning, selling soul is required but no sufficient, as Evil has currently an oversupply problem) and get benefits without being able to taste anything out of them.
[14:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Face the music, goy - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:42] <exec> 08└─He is not a Khazarian/jew, so he will face the music. It does not matter what the "crime" was. If you're not a lizard, you face the consequences. Tough ones, custom-designed just for you. 380 years in his case. The crime is always double-plus if the "victims" are jews or jew bankers. And they know h...
[14:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:05] <exec> 08└─Just go linux / osx / bsd , and keep going, even if it means you have to change jobs.
[14:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Offline updates? - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:10] <exec> 08└─I heard of a tool wsusoffline or something, which claims to be able to download patches after you've selected them. Okay, so let's assume this works. Can I take a newly formatted and quickly restored backup of Win7 and use wsusoffline, select what I want, quickly update AND SAVE these updates OFFLIN...
[14:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:i've got this one - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:57] <exec> 08└─What's supposed to be wrong with that comma BTW? Here's the current sentence in its full glory: The PETM is associated with an enormous deep-sea mass extinction and with diversification of life on sea and land.
[14:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Rigorous - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:37] <exec> 08└─By education, I mean the people who can't even read an Archie comic... it's harder to be knowledgeable about things like politics, where you need to be able to read between the lines, when you can't even read the lines yourself. A few times I've encountered people who want me to read something to th...
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[15:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02wow - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:33] <exec> 08└─getting old: comedians Joe Rogan, Dana Carvey, Michael Che, Gabriel Iglesias, Reggie Watts, and Colin Quinn ( Jerry Seinfeld). Know about Jerry Seinfeld and Dana Carvey. The others? who the frack knows. Not me.
[15:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:45] <exec> 08└─The trading system is broken, deliberately so, to allow parasites to such value out of other people's trades. If organizations like the Society were interested in fixing the problem (which they are not), you only need two changes: Orders, once placed, cannot be withdrawn in less than 24 hours. Apply...
[15:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:46] <exec> 08└─Not quite, you get to withdraw say 2 orders a day. I take it you've never placed a buy order, hit 'submit', and got an 'aww crap' moment as soon as you do. Let the little guy make a mistake or two. Fark the big guys who do this thousands of times a day.
[15:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:48] <exec> 08└─I've never, but I'm not sure there'd be any real harm from allowing people to remove one or two orders a day, assuming the price hasn't changed in their favor. The system is set up in a way that favors two kinds of investment strategies, one is to go in with a ton of lawyers and millions of dollars...
[15:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:13] <exec> 08└─I was going to say something similar. It's thanks to Apple that the current "renting" of hardware to users is now palatable? They have to "approve" all software you install in iOS? Microsoft has been working towards that now since Windows 8 now that it's considered acceptable. Giving money to Apple...
[15:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Good. - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:19] <exec> 08└─... unless of course they use some commercial product that gets broken by one of the updates. In that case, they're basically screwed, because after all, it's not their computer anymore anyway.
[15:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:2) 02Unusable - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:22] <exec> 08└─I've being doing photogrammetric reconstructions for VR lately. They've taken up to 48 hours of continuous processing. At least once already, it's been impossible to complete a reconstruction without Windows updating and rebooting itself against my wishes.
[15:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:learn from the past - 06Amoeba Stole Genes from Bacterium to Gain Photosynthesis - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:33] <exec> 08└─> systemd troll Let me just settle for second place, after Poettering himself.
[15:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jpkunst [2310] (Score:1) 02Spotify free - 06Amazon Enters the Premium Music Streaming Service Fray - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:52] <exec> 08└─I use the free version of Spotify, but only to find out which cd's I want to buy. Cd's are ripped to lossless files to my music library on my NAS. I want to own the music I buy and not be dependent on any external party/corporation for listening to it.
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[16:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:[meta] Editors? - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:43] <exec> 08└─To editorialize?
[16:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:[meta] Editors? - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:45] <exec> 08└─Then why don't we call them editorializors?
[16:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:52] <exec> 08└─The system is set up in a way that favors two kinds of investment strategies, one is to go in with a ton of lawyers and millions of dollars worth of computing equipment and go the high frequency trading route and the other is to do it old school, actually understand what you're buying when you buy f...
[16:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:54] <exec> 08└─No. Such arbitrary restrictions would actually be very bad for trading and are usually only supported by those who don't understand investing. High frequency trading is great for liquidity. It has absolutely no detrimental effect on mom & pop investors who simply buy a stock and go to sleep for 30 y...
[16:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:56] <exec> 08└─The trading system is broken, deliberately so, to allow parasites to such value out of other people's trades. If organizations like the Society were interested in fixing the problem (which they are not), you only need two changes:
[16:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Poor Kid - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:59] <exec> 08└─Clearly he wasn't too big to fail. Had he done this in one of the big banks, he would've gotten a bonus.
[16:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:24] <exec> 08└─I'd used/supported MS products for close to 20 years, up till I retired in 2010. At that time, my home systems were dual-boot with Win7/Linux. I decided I was done with *my* computer being dictated to by MS. So, like pulling a festering tooth from my jaw, I deleted the Win7 partition and haven't loo...
[16:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Saturn density - 06Proximity to Stars Inflates "Hot Jupiters" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:56] <exec> 08└─such a low density that it would float in a bathtub.
[16:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mostly true, but look at silver lining - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:42] <exec> 08└─We humans mostly view time on a scale that makes little sense on a historical scale. The movement on rescinding MJ bans seem like it is picking up steam, much like the "shall issue" concealed carry laws: first, there was only Vermont (and perhaps also Alaska) - but then flash-forward to today and al...
[16:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:56] <exec> 08└─People who combust it obviously don't care too much about the flavor and aroma. People who talk like that have obviously never had the good stuff. BTW, Thai stick chopped finely and added to spaghetti is delicious. It will also get you wasted.
[16:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Rigorous - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:05] <exec> 08└─I'm interested what's in your 9/11 archive that didn't end up becoming part of the official story. And no, I don't obsess on the various conspiracy stories but I do remember two odd things from that day. 1. For a crime of such enormity, I was astonished that it was solved and the mastermind named wi...
[16:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0)< 1000 /span> </h4> </div> <div class="details"> by Anonymous Coward <span class="otherdetails" id="comment_otherdetails_414875">on Sunday October 16, @11:52AM (<a href="//soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=16011&cid=414875#commentwrap">#414875</a>) <small> </small> 02Re:I don't subsidize the RIAA, even indirectly. - 06Amazon Enters the Premium Music Streaming Service Fray - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews
[16:05:59] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows alternative rock attained perfection in 1988. It's a scientific fact.
[16:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:another quickly dated tech - 06These Really Exist: Giant Concrete Arrows That Point Your Way Across America - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, post cards were always cheaper. I don't know if they still are.
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[17:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Me chinese me play joke... - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:37] <exec> 08└─So everything is now gonna be cheap knockoffs?
[17:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Isn't it already? - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:38] <exec> 08└─How much of what Newegg sells now is made in China?
[17:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rickter [842] (Score:1) 02Re:wow - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:47] <exec> 08└─Iglesias was on the first or second NBC summer show Last Comic Standing more than a decade ago, and was hilarious (he's overweight, and did a lot of fat and food jokes), but was disqualified for texting somebody even though it was prohibited. Carvey was on SNL in the 90s, and is known for his Church...
[17:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score:1) 02Fewer movies - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:49] <exec> 08└─This high priced original content means that there will be even fewer movies and tv series on netflix.
[17:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:09] <exec> 08└─Ok, then why is this guy going to jail?
[17:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:10] <exec> 08└─He hurt the poor jew bankers.
[17:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Better refrigerants - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:21] <exec> 08└─The lunacy is we are replacing them with ever-more-expensive but less-efficient refrigerants. And now they are saying the newest refrigerants are toxic and flammable! That is just nuts. Stupid. If we went back to one of the oldest refrigerants we could dramatically increase efficiency, have zero tox...
[17:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcklspckl [830] (Score:1) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:39] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you say about iOS. I do not use Apple phones. However, I have Windows 10 installed on my MacBook Pro for work and in light of that, thinking of putting a Linux on there too. What you say may be true for iOS, but it's certainly not for OSX. I install third party software, Windows em...
[17:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:41] <exec> 08└─"Just go linux / osx / bsd , and keep going, even if it means you have to change jobs." I got off Windows for my personal computing over 20 years ago. But as for my work, I'm stuck with it. The applications that are critical in my profession are only available in MS Windows. I wish more could be don...
[17:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:46] <exec> 08└─Windows update is about as fast as a snail on flypaper. In the time it takes to do a simple Windows update I could have installed an Ubuntu flavor from a USB stick. I don't get why it uses 100% disc activity and downloads updates like it's on a 14.4kbps dialup connection. The only reason I still hav...
[17:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Unusable - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:53] <exec> 08└─If you're stuck with Windows, you're probably best off migrating it to a server version, which can disable the need for the autoreboot. Obnoxious none the less.
[17:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unusable - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:55] <exec> 08└─Can't you just disable the window's update service. IIRC msconfig->startup, then unchecked the service. I don't know if the newer versions disabled this, but it worked for Win8 and older. You can periodically re-ebable the service to get the updates when you want
[17:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:how barbaric - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:13] <exec> 08└─They say orange juice is not addictive but...
[17:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Gratuitous - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:23] <exec> 08└─The reason is that THC-infused food, frankly, tastes like ass. Crappy ingredients make crappy food no matter what you're cooking. Also, done wrong it will be terrible. But if you have good weed and the right recipe, it's great. The best spaghetti I ever ate had two whole bricks of Thai stick (that's...
[17:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Rigorous - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:30] <exec> 08└─Your implication was that lack of... education and critical thought... was some how responsible, at least in part, for Hillary v. Donald among other things. While I agree that full-out illiteracy is a problem where you find it, I don't think it's a factor here. Even in places where education is...
[17:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Rigorous - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:31] <exec> 08└─Do any of you people read anything that isn't SN, facebook, reddit, or twitter? Because there's been an awful lot written about fact checking and there are plenty of fact checking sites, very good ones.
[17:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03computersareevil [749] (Score:2) 02Re:When does competition kick in? - 06Amazon Enters the Premium Music Streaming Service Fray - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:30] <exec> 08└─Competition will kick in when there is more than one music licensing agency per country. Until then the Mafiaa sets the price floor.
[17:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03computersareevil [749] (Score:2) 02Digitally Imported - Offbeat sounds I need. - 06Amazon Enters the Premium Music Streaming Service Fray - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:38] <exec> 08└─After years of listening to their free streams, I finally coughed-up an annual subscription to DI.fm. They are the best streaming source for Liquid DnB and Vocal Trance that I've found. Streams are 100% commercial-free for subscribers. Importantly, they have low-bandwidth streams too since I use it...
[17:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How many passengers per hour? - 06Hyperloop One Raises $50 Million for Full-Scale Test - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:48] <exec> 08└─How many passengers per hour can it transport safely? e.g. passengers per pods, number of seconds between pods. The math doesn't work: http://greatergreaterwashington.org [greatergreaterwashington.org] His journey to Mars stuff also doesn't make sense....
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[18:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:3, Insightful) 02The good news... - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:46] <exec> 08└─The "good" news is that they can't get much worse than they already are. As I've posted elsewhere, here's what I've run into with my recent experiences with those asshats: 1. I still suffer through using the Firefox NoScript extension. No matter what I allow, the last two times I ordered, the checko...
[18:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Patent trolls - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:48] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, Newegg is a leader in the fight against patent trolls [law360.com]. They don't meekly write a check to those rodents and ask them to go on to their next victim.
[18:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Fiddler on the tin foil roof - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:50] <exec> 08└─If it has to be shipped through the mail, it's a no go for me. Especially if any part of the item(s) is electronic. In today's world, I wouldn't put it past shadow agency #500 to sneak in something to the hardware, or even a stuffed toy!
[18:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the mouth of evil - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:01] <exec> 08└─After an eight-year absence, the multiple Emmy-winning comedian has signed a massive pact with Netflix
[18:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:[meta] Editors? - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:13] <exec> 08└─Do you want the job? Step up...or STFU.
[18:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:24] <exec> 08└─Well, obviously, I disagree with you. You claim that HFT is what brings enough liquidity to the market to enable you to trade. This is obviously untrue, because trading worked just fine before HFT existed. Any normal investor, or even any serious investment fund, does not need liquidity on a millise...
[18:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:26] <exec> 08└─Thank you, I ahad this same discussion with a friend, but he's of the libertarian bent that sees nothing wrong with a LOT of human activity. In general I don't like the stock market because it functions as a very high level casino, but there isn't much of a way around it if you want to have such an...
[18:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what the fuck - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:29] <exec> 08└─How does on guy throwing at max 30/60 million cause a system wide crash? My money is on him being a goat. A scapey lowlife goat!
[18:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And hardware. - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:55] <exec> 08└─True innovation!
[18:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:03] <exec> 08└─It's still funding and rewarding the company that's doing it. I hate to pull a Godwin, but it's like saying "Yeah, Hitler's an evil, racist bastard and all, but he makes the trains run on time so he's okay".
[18:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:07] <exec> 08└─What's your profession? What are the applications?
[18:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not cool enough - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:09] <exec> 08└─“They have completely misinterpreted the data and missed the correct, and more cool, story.”
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[19:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Heard in a lab somewhere in Georgia: - 06Secret Spice in Primal Gene Soup may have been a Thickener - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:36] <exec> 08└─"My god ... Joe? Joe! It ... it's alive. "It's ALIVE! YESSS ... behold its rise ... wait, it needs room. "Ok, back off. Open that door. What do you mean it's stuck, oh no ... no .. noooooooo ...."
[19:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard in a lab somewhere in Georgia: - 06Secret Spice in Primal Gene Soup may have been a Thickener - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:38] <exec> 08└─and in a small prison cell
[19:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it already? - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:48] <exec> 08└─How much of what Newegg sells now is made in China?
[19:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it already? - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:50] <exec> 08└─The made is China stuff is the only reason I go to NewEgg anymore. It used to be a really good source for reviews, but with Amazon Prime I have no reason to pay for shipping anymore. NewEgg does have some unique fresh off the boat products though, and they are a little more reliable than random eBay...
[19:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:Fiddler on the tin foil roof - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:55] <exec> 08└─If it has to be shipped through the mail, it's a no go for me. Especially if any part of the item(s) is electronic. In today's world, I wouldn't put it past shadow agency #500 to sneak in something to the hardware, or even a stuffed toy!
[19:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Name change - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:58] <exec> 08└─To reflect the new business' goals of quality and pungency, the company's name and logotype shall be changed to: "Thousand-year-old egg" [wikipedia.org]. ;-)
[19:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:32] <exec> 08└─You claim that HFT is what brings enough liquidity to the market to enable you to trade.
[19:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:34] <exec> 08└─Ok, let me see if I understand your position: 1. HFT increases liquidity by decreasing spreads. 2. HFT does not make money at the expense of "normal" trading, but only at the expense of other HFT traders, presumably Have I understood your position correctly? If so, then I challenge you to explain th...
[19:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcklspckl [830] (Score:1) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know about any of that other stuff, but it's high time our trains ran right. Completely agree.
[19:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Good. - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:16] <exec> 08└─What is this, a welfare economy? Too stupid to fail? If they can't make smart business choices and intelligent acquisitions in infrastructure, let them fall. How many decades Red Hat been servicing workstations? How many admins and developers been warning corporations Microsoft is a consumer toy OS...
[19:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:The real question is energy efficiency - 06Carbon Dioxide Converted to Ethanol Using Nano-Textured Catalyst - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:28] <exec> 08└─Saying "energy is abundant" isn't exactly correct, though it's also not exactly wrong. Useful energy can often be difficult to come by. This was suggested as a way to "store" excess energy produced. It's not a terribly efficient method, but it does something useful (removing CO2 from the atmosphere)...
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[20:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Informative) 02fairy tale time - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:43] <exec> 08└─"and so," said the grandma while gently rocking her nephew's crib, "the baddie realized, as the hood of the car broke into his lower torso squashing his entrails, that old fashioned cars with carburetors and mechanical distributors do not care much about his nasty portable EMP generator. The End".
[20:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Range - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:44] <exec> 08└─How do I build this so it has more range? This EMP needs to be held RIGHT NEXT to what you're trying to pulse... This emp device is for whimps... I want something that can pulse shit in *at least* a 3 yard radius. THAT is how you make enemies...
[20:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Plot Device - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:47] <exec> 08└─Seems like it would make a great replacement of the smokescreen spy-gadget in a car chase - just put a directed EMP device facing out the back-window and fry the electronics of any car chasing you too closely.
[20:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I looked over the plans... - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:49] <exec> 08└─It looks like a poor design with little to no effect unless you use it very close to what you want to zap. It would work better using a picture tube coil out of an old CRT TV, giving you at least a somewhat directed pulse instead of an omni-directional leaking POS like this design has.
[20:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:41] <exec> 08└─The deck is stacked. Remember when Knight Capital screwed up and lost hundreds of millions of dollars in a few minutes? They got to reverse some of the trades. Think about that for a minute. Imagine that you were on the other side of one of those trades and you made a nice profit. All of a sudden, t...
[20:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:51] <exec> 08└─No. You just have a small tax on each transaction, and a large tax on each cancellation. 0.001% of the value for each transaction should be ok, but cancellation should be about 2% of the value. No limits on the number of cancellations would seem to be necessary.
[20:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 (1170) 1a69 (Score:2) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:53] <exec> 08└─Orders, once placed, cannot be withdrawn in less than 24 hours.
[20:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02And the terrorists win - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:07] <exec> 08└─We might as well surrender to ISIS now. Hillary has single handedly lost the war on terrorism, thanks Obama.
[20:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02For nuclear waste storage?!?!? - 06"Supramolecule" Created Using Two Negatively Charged Bisulfate Ions - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:43] <exec> 08└─That's an idiotic idea that someone must have felt would help get them a grant. No other reason is conceivable. That kind of structure would readily decompose under ionization. I'm not sure what it would decompose into, but whatever it was would probably be stabler under ionization. (I'm really thin...
[20:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Mostly true, but look at silver lining - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, but do remember that not being in the US Constitution just means the Feds aren't legally (as opposed to officially) permitted to do something. This says nothing about the rights of states and cities, which have a perfect right to limit, e.g., firearms....if it's in their constitutions or charte...
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[21:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02It's just a gap transmitter. - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:41] <exec> 08└─Very narrow frequency range. Very low power. Some 90s' kids toys had similar designs for sending morse code back and forth. Look up the mil spec standards for EM protected electronics and find the civilian-to-military ranges. Reach that much and it's an EMP. Bellow that, it's a jammer. You don't eve...
[21:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:It's just a gap transmitter. - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:42] <exec> 08└─What did you expect? It's set of DIY instruction found on Youtube ferchrissake... I made a more interesting "EMP generator" out of a doorbell and a car ignition coil when I was a teenager decades ago.
[21:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Incoming jail time - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:44] <exec> 08└─So, who will go to prison for helping a prankst.. *ahem* terrorist? SN? Phoenix666? Me for reading the summary??
[21:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incoming jail time - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:47] <exec> 08└─If you burn out some electronics of mine with one of these, you might not go to jail, but you will be pulling that "Ultra High Voltage 1000kV Ignition Coil" out of your ass.
[21:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not EMP - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:49] <exec> 08└─This device produces EMI (electromagnetic interference) not EMP (electromagnetic pulse).
[21:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:Not EMP - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:51] <exec> 08└─It produced a cheap Youtube video and an uninteresting article on SN - also called "internet noise".
[21:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 3223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:51] <exec> 08└─In response to your two numbered points: 1. HFT increases liquidity by increasing volume and open interest and by reducing bid/ask spreads. 2. HFT is not a detriment to non-HFT traders, because such trading usually involves split-second arbitrage and split-second one (maybe two) tic moves. HFT is an...
[21:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The BDFL and his choice of processor family - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:19] <exec> 08└─There have been recent articles mentioning that Linux's Benevolent Dictator for Life prefers Intel over ARM. [google.com] One wonders how long that will be the case with him. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[earn] at least a third more over [...][MCSEs]'' - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:25] <exec> 08└─I make at least a third more over my Windows admin colleagues, primarily because [MCSEs] are a dime a dozen ...and another piece of the zeitgeist: If your workplace isn't using Free Software *n?x, that place is in a distinct minority. We've also had some stories here which have mentioned how the wor...
[21:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''some commercial product that gets broken'' - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:41] <exec> 08└─MICROS~1 is way ahead of you. Buggy Excel patch panned [theregister.co.uk] Roll back the latest Excel patch, people: it's a crasher. Of course, not every Microsoft user will be able to roll it back, in which case you'll have to sit tight and hope nothing goes wrong before the next cumulative update...
[21:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''things I like about apt-get'' - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:44] <exec> 08└─I was hoping someone would mention The Linux Way before I got to the bottom of the page. Yeah, breaking the task into pieces which can be done separately is absolutely the way to go. (There's also something called "APT on CD".) . BTW, you should avoid inserting hard line breaks randomly in the middl...
[21:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score:2) 02Re:i've got this one - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the comma support. I had it in there because I was joining two opposing ideas: a) the deep-sea extinction, and b) the sudden diversification of life in the sea and on land. Without the comma it sounds confusing that there was an extinction event in the sea, but that there was a diversific...
[21:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not cool enough - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:41] <exec> 08└─He says first the story is correct, but also points out that it is also more cool. You can have the first without the second, but it is just that they go together in this case (in his opinion).
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[22:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? No Clowns? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:32] <exec> 08└─Do they not know the dangers of strange Clowns standing around and inviting them "into the woods"?
[22:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:What? No Clowns? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:33] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the recent clown-related hysteria was started as viral marketing for the upcoming movie remake of Stephen King's It.
[22:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Fire Clown - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:35] <exec> 08└─No. Its anxiety about the orange clown's performances on tv every day. He's literally been giving little kids nightmares.
[22:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Voters - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:37] <exec> 08└─My top fear is that millions of stupid people will be allowed to vote. Running close behind that is the fear that they will believe their vote has any effect whatsoever.
[22:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Voters - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:40] <exec> 08└─So you're saying that your own top fear is completely irrational. Got it.
[22:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Voters - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:42] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the nature of fear? But if they're allowed to vote, they will think the people control the country, which will simply delay getting anything really fixed.
[22:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02This ain't no Lottery - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:44] <exec> 08└─> My top fear is that millions of stupid people will be allowed to vote. My top fear is that millions of people won't be allowed to vote. > Running close behind that is the fear that they will believe their vote has any effect whatsoever. It will have an effect exactly equal to the effort expended....
[22:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:46] <exec> 08└─Under the Fear of Muslims page there is an infographic which includes other fears in that category. As an atheist, apparently 1 in 3 Americans distrust me (they shouldn't, but I would argue for other reasons). And those of you who believe in Jesus, well 1 in 5 Americans don't trust you. https://blog...
[22:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:48] <exec> 08└─"Strangers" is one heck of a select group. A 1000 nother way to look at how the atheists scored: they are 83.6% as mistrusted as MUSLIMS in America. Yet when atheists complain about the situation, they'll be dismissed as militant or euphoric fedora-tippers.
[22:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:50] <exec> 08└─Its very mysterious to me how so many are scared of atheists. Been awhile since I heard about a radical atheist trying to recruit for the faith (LOL) by machine gunning florida nightclubs or blowing up marathons or landing planes in skyscrapers or all that stuff. From what I understand, really old p...
[22:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Systemd 33.3% - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:53] <exec> 08└─"SystemD will infect and F up my favorite OS" 33.3% feared
[22:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02What "fears" to include? Survey bias? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 4017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:55] <exec> 08└─As linked in the summary, in 2014 there was a list of "top fears" too. They were: 1. Walking alone at night 2. Identity theft 3. Safety on the internet 4. Being a mass shooting victim 5. Public speaking These fears seem rather simple, personal, and parochial compared to this new list a mere two year...
[22:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Corruption, say what? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:57] <exec> 08└─The top item, corruption, is quite strange. You have a system that thrives on money to get elected to government positions and *then* you fear corruption of your officials? That is just so unbelievable and naive. It seems that propaganda, which was paid for by that same money, has brainwashed enough...
[22:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Corruption, say what? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:59] <exec> 08└─I suppose its "OK" if the president is completely powned as we've had for some decades now, but it would really suck for me personally if the city treasurer were bribed into foreclosing on my house for nonpayment of prop tax or the local cops expected daily protection money.
[22:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02fear vs acceptance - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:01] <exec> 08└─The survey screws up results WRT mixing two concepts, the whole fear / bargaining / acceptance stages of grief thingy or whatever its called, vs fear based on likelihood of it happening. So... I live in an area where its 100% certain we'll have a massive blizzard not just in my life, but next winter...
[22:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The conspirators can't count! - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:03] <exec> 08└─From the summary: The 2016 survey data is organized into five basic categories: personal fears, conspiracy theories, terrorism, natural disasters, paranormal fears, and fear of Muslims.
[22:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Explains a lot about anti-Hillary sentiment - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:06] <exec> 08└─If concerns about corruption in the government are a major issue, it's no wonder that Hillary is widely disliked, and any alternative to her viewed with more interest than would otherwise be the case. The charitable interpretation, that she's a competent politician who knows how to get things done w...
[22:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In other words, propaganda works! - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:08] <exec> 08└─The list of fears goes to show that propaganda works. When people are told something over and over, it becomes the truth. Terrist attacks and being a victim of such have very low chances of happening. Federal Reserve causing another financial collapse, starting new wars, creating enemies all over th...
[22:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Range - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:18] <exec> 08└─How do I build this so it has more range?
[22:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I looked over the plans... - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:22] <exec> 08└─The fact that it was pointed directly at his webcam, and yet he could still film it when demonstrating phone/gameboy resets, proved that it had a range of at most 1cm !
[22:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Incoming jail time - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:28] <exec> 08└─Someone with the skills/desire to make this will be "popular" in prison.
[22:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not EMP - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:33] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Back in the late 1970s I had a CB radio with a 100 watt linear amplifier, it did a good job blanking out TVs and radios in a 1 block radius, opened garage doors, and set off burglar alarms.
[22:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Built them high school - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:35] <exec> 08└─Great for krykian photogtaphy. EMP nope. We dropped 400 VDC (rube transformer) into primary if 12v to 50kv intuition coil. Made great sparks. Even had to go over my sink when one unit had a ground error. Feels like ants everywhere.
[22:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Built them high school - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:37] <exec> 08└─Sounds like that device had more than just a temporary effect.
[22:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The good news... - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:56] <exec> 08└─Payments sometimes have to go via verified by visa and their implementers cardinal commerce or whatever. I guess they are not as big as Amazon to eat the fraud. I like shopping at Newegg because it is not Amazon, and it does not charge sales tax.
[22:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The good news... - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:58] <exec> 08└─Newegg does charge sales tax if you live in one their states like California or Tennessee.
[22:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Biggest Chinese Export is Now Cash - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:04] <exec> 08└─That's an exaggeration. But China's been floating on the skin of a bubble for a few years now and the rich have been doing all kinds of stuff to get cash out of the country before it pops. Buying newegg sounds like one more example of money fleeing to high ground.
[22:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:25] <exec> 08└─They eventually put out an update to the Windows updater that could be user-installed, and should supposedly fix the problem,
[22:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:26] <exec> 08└─Looks like it helped bring attention to it, so I guess it did help after all. FWIW, I had to download a standalone update so I wasn't aware of a KB number to list. Plus this was months ago and an OS I infrequently use; expecting me to memorise that shit is as silly as me expecting you to remember wh...
[22:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mostly true, but look at silver lining - 06Gourmet Ganja? Marijuana Dining is Growing Up, Slowly - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:52] <exec> 08└─I certainly am open to views that differ from my own, such as yours, but here's likely the connundrum of the pendulum swinging back towards liberty from tyranny-land where it is now: All governments in the USA claim "the people" as the source of their authority. The authority of "the people" does no...
[22:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02you are the troll - 06What's Really Going on in PTSD Brains? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:30] <exec> 08└─A modest request: if you're going to not reply to somebody, could you please post your not reply as a response to them instead of a top comment?
[22:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One side - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:50] <exec> 08└─Hey cool a douchebag showed up to put words in my mouth because he disagreed with me. Dude just use the disagree tag.
[22:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Labels - 06Google News to Label Fact-Checking Articles - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:00] <exec> 08└─But you think one side is not being one sided. Ok fair enough. Count the number of positive clinton and trump items on this page. Now count the negative ones. https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] Then repeat on this page http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] I personally come to a differe...
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[23:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Fire Clown - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:44] <exec> 08└─They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll grab 'em by the pussy too!
[23:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:51] <exec> 08└─> Yet when atheists complain about the situation, they'll be dismissed as ... Communists Which was a remarkably noticeable statistic, noticeable through its absence. In the groups-of-people feared breakdown, where were the fear of gays, feminists, pacifists, intellectuals, and even foreigners - so m...
[23:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:54] <exec> 08└─It's simple. There's a certain class of religious thought that isn't content with "My moral code comes from $HOLY_BOOK. It is the correct one and people who get their moral code elsewhere will have different moral codes that are less correct", and instead reaches for "My moral code comes from $HOLY_...
[23:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:56] <exec> 08└─I am afraid of Christian "Universities" in Orange County, (God forbid!) compiling lists of fears. Notice they did not list fear of fear-lists in their list! Lord Russell would be very happy.
[23:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Corruption, say what? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:02] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that's only a concern when people have no money to save and have to sell their fishing boats to make ends meet. I doubt the people would give 2 shits about corruption as long as they could take comfortable family trips every Labor Day. Well, on the bright side, the people are less st...
[23:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02just be old - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:29] <exec> 08└─immediate dislike from anyone working on something electronic at the hackerspace
[23:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score:2) 02Re:The good news... - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:51] <exec> 08└─And I am on the other end of the spectrum. Through my workplace, I am a NewEgg Premier member. Between the free rush and free shipping on pretty much everything I order, I have never had any problems getting what I want that they sell. When something goes wrong with an item, like I ordered the wrong...
[23:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too Dumb to Post - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:07] <exec> 08└─> This high priced original content means that there will be even fewer movies and tv series on netflix. Oh please. If you don't think a metrics driven company like netflix hasn't analysed the shit out of how much revenue these productions will bring in, then you are too dumb to post. Netflix expect...
[23:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Crist who? - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:09] <exec> 08└─Ok, I must have been living under a rock. Can someone point out a stream of a show that showcases this guy talent?
[23:03:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 1522 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:33] <exec> 08└─Well, obviously, I disagree with you. You claim that HFT is what brings enough liquidity to the market to enable you to trade. This is obviously untrue, because trading worked just fine before HFT existed. Any normal investor, or even any serious investment fund, does not need liquidity on a millise...
[23:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02False Assumptions - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:52] <exec> 08└─> The lunacy is we are replacing them with ever-more-expensive but less-efficient refrigerants. The truth is that these new hydrocarbon refrigerants are generally more efficient, especially per unit volume. There is lots of research and commercially available products demonstrating this fact. [coolt...
[23:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02American Narcissist - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:55] <exec> 08└─> One problem is my AC draws 4 KW I know this is hard to believe, but this isn't about you. This is about India, China and Africa where they currently have very little air conditioning, where the very first appliance that most households buy once they've got the money is an A/C unit. Yes even before...
[23:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:19] <exec> 08└─I for one just want a final solution to the trains thing. And by Godwin, I declare this thread closed.
[23:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:27] <exec> 08└─OK let me explain the fix without using numbers. The version of Windows Update Client released in March was buggy, and Microsoft did put out a new version of Windows Update Client in June which fixed the problem of long update scan times, but the fix was hidden inside a large optional update. Of cou...
[23:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:29] <exec> 08└─I had a window 7 in vmware get the same stuck updating loop. How I fixed it was googleing the problem and eventually finding a blog page that describes how to update the updater itself manually. Had to do a few steps to fully disable the updater, reboot without networking at all, install the updated...
[23:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:31] <exec> 08└─That's funny. I just searched the Microsoft support knowledge base. I found the latest Windows Update installed by Windows Update was not the latest Windows Update. I downloaded and installed the latest Windows Update. Problem solved. Bloggers are goddamn idiots.
[23:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02XP - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:43] <exec> 08└─What about XP? I still run it in vmware due to hardware that requires it.
[23:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:i've got this one - 06Large Comet Might have Struck Earth after that Dinosaur-Killer One - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:32] <exec> 08└─What do you mean, "sound"? And why are you calling it "truth"? Tarbaby, bro! Tarbaby!
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