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[00:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ballmer's fault - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:27] <exec> 08└─He resigned in Feb 2014, when Nadella took over
[00:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Textbooks and Journals - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:41] <exec> 08└─It's a welcome development that colleges are moving to open-license textbooks. Likewise, open journals. With the latter nobody seems to make money except the publishers, who aren't the ones doing the hard work of the research. There are people who will feel the pinch of open license textbooks if it...
[00:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:42] <exec> 08└─For a student and his/her parents, the primary costs of a college education are typically tuition, room and board (and the interest on the student loans of course). The cost of books is significant, but is of an order of magnitude less. However, an excellent textbook can make a substantial differen...
[00:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─And since the textbooks are open licensed, those online course notes you mention wind up revising the open source textbooks and the next edition of the books improves beyond mediocre. As a result the books get better and better and eventually communities of professors grow up around them, bringing t...
[00:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Yawn... - 06Start-Up Lucid Motors Launches With 300-Mile Plus Premium Electric Sedan - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:54] <exec> 08└─The bigger brands are moving into EVs, which makes me think that the window for a Tesla clone might be closing fast. Its utility van could be a real winner, though. I don't think anybody's really making a push in that sector yet. No idea how many miles UPS vans and such rack up every day, so dunno i...
[00:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:11] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they went from skeptical about the present to skeptical about the future. I guess that's a sort of progress?
[00:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:15] <exec> 08└─I think you're describing a real process of homogenization, but I had to laugh out loud at "Gay Bay" and "New Joisey," because, man, you lost the thin-skinned right there.
[00:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Slow news day? - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:21] <exec> 08└─Plus, seeing as how the US is electing either a scary clown (but with fun balloon animals!) or a criminal who is untouchable, the info on how to overthrow a government may be useful to Americans.
[00:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thankfully rare - 06Video Shows USPS Worker Dumping Bins Of Mail In A Ditch - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:33] <exec> 08└─> but printing them from the internet "is not acceptable". In the US printouts have been acceptable for years. The last two times I moved cross-country the local banks and even the state driver's license office accepted print-outs.
[00:12:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02I do the same thing - 06Video Shows USPS Worker Dumping Bins Of Mail In A Ditch - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:36] <exec> 08└─with my mail after it's delivered.
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[01:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02At what point was Ballmer a coder? - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:29] <exec> 08└─The problem with MICROS~1's junk is that it is sludge piled on top of more sludge. It would be interesting to know how many times they have (re)implemented something in their codebase simply because they didn't know it existed somewhere else in there. Complexity kills Ray Ozzie, 2010: "Complexity ki...
[01:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Highly un-microsoft-like ... - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:30] <exec> 08└─My SO complained that my car only has an aftermarket system (and manual everything else. When I read the trouble of people with theirs, and the dumb disclaimers and warnings in others, I'm glad I've got a dumb NPR + MP3-USB easily-serviceable one.
[01:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Sounds about right - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:32] <exec> 08└─I have it in my Fusion. Overall, it's technically functional, though I've noticed that bluetooth syncing and the usb port don't tend to work right if the temperature is outside of about 32-100 F, which is really strange. In reality though, the voice recognition has about a 70% success rate and I've...
[01:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02First version - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:35] <exec> 08└─I have the first version of Sync in my 2009 Mercury and have been very happy with it. I have seen the later revisions and they do not seem to add much that's useful. The voice recognition works well enough and I haven't ever had crashing issues. The only pet peeve I have is that the Nav cannot read...
[01:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Proprietary junk - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:37] <exec> 08└─Users are helpless because none of this software respects their freedoms, so they are dependent upon their proprietary software masters to fix any problems. And of course, users must hope that their masters will not abuse their privacy and put malicious anti-features in the software.
[01:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Obvious What the Problem is - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:39] <exec> 08└─The lawsuit describes an IVI screen that would freeze or go blank; generate error messages that wouldn't go away; voice recognition and navigation systems that failed to work; problems wirelessly pairing with smartphones; and a generally slow system. Who knew that Microsoft was secretly selling Ford...
[01:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:What are they thinking? - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─instead of spending that $5M on textbooks, the students will spend that money on other things like pizza, beer, new clothes, music, etc.
[01:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Re:What are they thinking? - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:51] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree.
[01:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What are they thinking? - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:53] <exec> 08└─We get students; the intellectual cream of the crop fresh out of school
[01:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:00] <exec> 08└─Would you advise someone to begin their study of any level of mathematics or one of the basic sciences from Wikipedia? That's a committee gone riot.
[01:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:03] <exec> 08└─I certainly wouldn't advise someone to put their faith in greedy corporations who write textbooks. What are you even thinking?
[01:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:05] <exec> 08└─Right, greedy is always the other guy. You have never been greedy. I don't give a fuck about that, I just want a decent textbook. If it costs too much, let's say $150, then I'll log onto Amazon or B&N and look for an older edition that might cost $20 or less.
[01:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MikeVDS [1142] (Score:1) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:07] <exec> 08└─Is that a bad thing? Serious question.
[01:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:09] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with it, but it's a makeshift arrangement. Many of the textbooks I've kept have lists of acknowledgements in the front of the book with lists of dozens and dozens of colleagues who reviewed and submitted suggestions on different portions of the book. But the author(s) retained editoria...
[01:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 1561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:41] <exec> 08└─> First, you are begging the question that a city is the largest area a person can express concerns. I justified it, read what follows. You might not agree but you cannot call it begging the question. Compare the way Iceland and Greece (nation) dealt with the crisis. Did not the Greek want the same...
[01:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mexico is weird - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:49] <exec> 08└─Can't let the plebs learn there is a better way...
[01:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ugmo [5721] (Score:1) 02March of the Wooden Soldiers - 06Greeks May Have Influenced Terracotta Army - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:34] <exec> 08└─It had nothing to do with the Greeks. Laurel and Hardy got an order for 600,000 clay soldiers 1 foot high but instead made 10,000 clay soldiers 6ft high.
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[02:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Title vs content - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:38] <exec> 08└─The title of the article is in no way linked to the content of the article.
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02You are completely wrong - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:39] <exec> 08└─http://www.google.com/search?q=reading.comprehension.course [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02SN posts suck - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:41] <exec> 08└─And it's all by this spamming douchebag, phoenix, or the submission bot. We all need to step up, or else SN will shrivel away to death, without even a whimper.
[02:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:44] <exec> 08└─Um, you forgot to post the reason you think this submission sucks.
[02:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02This is insanity - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:46] <exec> 08└─So, Samsung (like pretty much everyone else) tries to poison the union well (for reasons both ostensibly good and bad). ... so their phones explode. What? Verizon pisses off unions and workers - oh noes! Teh Verizophones gonna assplode! AT&T pisses off unions and workers - duck and cover! Phones inc...
[02:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:This is insanity - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:48] <exec> 08└─which drew a direct line
[02:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ford in the 1930s - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:50] <exec> 08└─Based only on the summary, this sounds like the union bashing that Henry Ford engaged in before WWII. He hired goons to intimidate the union organizers and a variety of other unsavory tactics.
[02:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds about right - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:01] <exec> 08└─Probably depends on what voices and patterns the speech recognition was developed on. For example, I know multiple people who have Rhotacism. Some of the virtual assistants and voice recognition software recognize what they say immediately. Others require a few lines of training to get it. However,...
[02:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proprietary junk - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:04] <exec> 08└─Users can go fuck themselves. When we're done, they will turn around, bend over a little deeper and ask: "Can I have another one, sir?".
[02:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:28] <exec> 08└─I advise people to learn molecular and cellular biology from Wikipedia. There is a lot of terminology that gets in the way of learning higher level concepts and wiki links throughout an article make things much easier.
[02:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Thor Heyerdahl (the Kon-Tiki guy) - 06Greeks May Have Influenced Terracotta Army - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:55] <exec> 08└─But, if you had read the wikipedia article you linked to, Heyerdahl's first attempt got within 100 miles of the Caribbean Islands before breaking up. But that was after it made it 4,000 miles. There was a second attempt with a slightly modified design that included a key element they had neglected f...
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[03:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I prefer to think it's aliens - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:31] <exec> 08└─Just sayin. I'm pretty sure the astronomers should get laughed out of their Jr high school talks, but I prefer to think it's aliens.
[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:42] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't worry. Every time idiots like gewg or phoenix666 post their pathetic cries for attention get shredded and shat out like bran. OK, except for a few morons who believe them, but they're clearly in the minority.
[03:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 2246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:44] <exec> 08└─Do step up. I submit stories over morning coffee. Takes about 2-3 mins per. I have RSS feeds I scan for stories. When there are a lot I think the SN community will like discussing, I submit them all at once so the editors can bank them against the pipeline going dry. If others submit enough, you don...
[03:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:46] <exec> 08└─And it's all by this spamming douchebag, phoenix, or the submission bot. We all need to step up and stop whining like a little bitch, or else SN will shrivel away to death, without even a whimper.
[03:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:This is insanity - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:50] <exec> 08└─The presentation [PPT] [PDF] is dated 2012, but appears to have been used repeatedly by Samsung executives up until two years ago. It was unearthed by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which drew a direct line between the approach demonstrated in the presentation and the recent abo...
[03:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Buy American - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:54] <exec> 08└─I'd like to buy American, but I can't, because American corporate slavers implicitly condone overseas yellow slave labor.
[03:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02I dont get it - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:10] <exec> 08└─Ford is complaining that the product provided by Microsoft was of typical Ford quality. The only thing I've driven with a Ford badge that was actually reliable, was back when the Mazda 323 and 626 were rebadged as Ford Lasers and Telstars.
[03:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This should be a lesson to everyone - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:11] <exec> 08└─Who is contemplating using microshit software. Dont, just dont. Using the crap produced by them will simply drag you down into the cesspool their crap inhabits. Stay as far away from their shit as you can get.
[03:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Sounds about right - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:13] <exec> 08└─My younger brother is an engineer at Ford. He took me for a test drive at a dealership in Ann Arbor in one of their models that had the software, and it was pretty awful. Couldn't get it to do anything. He went on and on about how it didn't matter how well he and his fellow Mech-E's designed the har...
[03:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:42] <exec> 08└─Would you advise anyone to use the Linux or FreeBSD kernels as the basis for their operating system?
[03:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:45] <exec> 08└─So if they don't mandate open license textbooks, what makes you think that the "good" closed license textbook will be chosen. The relevant institution/person in charge may choose another also mediocre text for other reasons (author from that institution, layout follows existing curriculum more close...
[03:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:47] <exec> 08└─Um, no. When I went to college (I was 21 when I started) I had a job to support myself, an apt with a roomie, and the money to pay for college. It was tight, but I hate owing people money. My roomie turned into an asshole, so I moved to live by myself and from then on the money equation went "how ca...
[03:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:50] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of another big issue. Some instructors would ask if we wanted a test on friday or monday. About 1/3 of my class were like me, working full time and school part time. Weekends were for homework. We wanted the tests on monday. The other 2/3 were being carried by their parent's, they wanted...
[03:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:1) 02Re:Welcoming more competition ... - 06Start-Up Lucid Motors Launches With 300-Mile Plus Premium Electric Sedan - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:59] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly: making an electric car is probably a relatively simple thing to do (compared to piecing together the zillion moving pieces that make up heavy combustion engines). But that's where the challenges only start. To name just a few of them: extend its range quick recharge make it per...
[03:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Yawn... - 06Start-Up Lucid Motors Launches With 300-Mile Plus Premium Electric Sedan - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:05] <exec> 08└─It would never work commercially until you’re able to recharge the vehicle in the same time it takes to fill a tank of gas, and maintenance can repair it themselves. They would probably have to buy out one of the big established companies like unicarrier/nissan that have been making commerical/ind...
[03:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Can I buy one now? - 06Start-Up Lucid Motors Launches With 300-Mile Plus Premium Electric Sedan - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:07] <exec> 08└─If I can't buy one now, then it hasn't "launched" yet. It's yet more vaporware.
[03:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Wikipedia needs a "stable version" system - 06Anonymity of Tor Users and Wikipedia Editors - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:01] <exec> 08└─Many of the Wikipedia editors who use an account use a pseudonym, and the project is strict about what it calls "outing," but might elsewhere be called "doxing": connecting someone's Wikipedia account to the person's activities elsewhere or exposing the person's identity.
[03:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Harvest the teeth - 06No Sustainable Way to Harvest Ivory and Fulfill Consumer Demand - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:40] <exec> 08└─Get double benefit. Arrange special tour packages for KKK members, but tip the poachers off that they are on their way, and their base camp will be at coordinates XY on day Z. May the best douchebags win the day.
[03:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mammoth tusks - 06No Sustainable Way to Harvest Ivory and Fulfill Consumer Demand - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:18] <exec> 08└─You apparently missed the memo: while it was "global cooling" in the 1990s, "global warming" in the 2000s, now it's "climate change". IIRC, we started using "climate change" not because "global warming" was inaccurate, but because politicians insisted that it was alarmist and should not be used as i...
[03:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02How Long - 06Video Shows USPS Worker Dumping Bins Of Mail In A Ditch - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:13] <exec> 08└─Until Trump points to this as another part of the grand conspiracy preventing him from becoming POTUS, by claiming millions of his postal votes went missing? I'm guessing the 30,000 missing emails from Hillary's server are those sent out to the FBI/Liberal Media/USPS/local goat herders/people with a...
[03:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Genetic Engineering will Save Us - 06A Hotter World is Poorer and More Violent - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:03] <exec> 08└─Easier and more effective to engineer the land in most cases than to engineer plants I think. Anyway, the issue is less water than heat. Plant more trees to shade the more sensitive plants, and make rain more regular and temperatures cooler through tranpiration.
[03:16:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03t-3 [4907] 02No need for artificial intelligence - 06AI Expert: Super-Smart Cars Are Just a Glorious Beginning - 301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:35] <exec> 08└─Or at least, no need for the "intelligence" part. Dumb computers with advanced interfaces will be more productive and better at fulfilling human needs than true AI. No need for computers to make decisions, just make them better at doing what they're told by making the telling easier and higher level...
[03:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:GIGO - 06How to Solve "The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever" - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:29] <exec> 08└─There is extremely little evidence to the contrary. Other than her recent push to create Progressive policy, which can still be interpreted cynically, no. Listen to her speeches. Read what Wikileaks had provided. It's not a fatal blow, or even perhaps especially scandalous, but it shows how she feel...
[03:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:GIGO - 06How to Solve "The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever" - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:34] <exec> 08└─He isn't successful, but a con man. We don't refer to criminals as successful. Interesting, that despite his monstrous character flaws (pun intended), that you think objections must simply be due to jealousy. I can see the level of intelligence you possess, and no, I will no be joining you in the ki...
[03:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:GIGO - 06How to Solve "The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever" - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:36] <exec> 08└─I will fully admit he gets WAY more non consensual sex involving assault then I do, Sure :D Other than that, you made no substantive points whatsoever and effectively were nothing more than a monkey flinging poo around. Bad Monkey! Lol
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[04:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I prefer to think it's aliens - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:42] <exec> 08└─I love when non-experts wade into a discussion with grand pronouncements...
[04:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Borra (2012) - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:43] <exec> 08└─The 2016 paper references this 2012 paper [iop.org] predicting this type of signal, which was linked in TFA but not in TFS.
[04:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Borra (2012) - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:45] <exec> 08└─An oversight on my part. I've added a link to the 2012 paper in TFS. Thanks for the catch!
[04:09:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:SN posts suck - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 2246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:57] <exec> 08└─Do step up. I submit stories over morning coffee. Takes about 2-3 mins per. I have RSS feeds I scan for stories. When there are a lot I think the SN community will like discussing, I submit them all at once so the editors can bank them against the pipeline going dry. If others submit enough, you don...
[04:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''My reading of it..." - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:02] <exec> 08└─My reading of it indicates that[:] They stopped using this approach 2 years ago I took away a different reading: All their management types have previously consumed the presentation multiple times and are now fully aware of all of the recommended ways to abuse workers and have been for some time. --...
[04:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:This is insanity - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:05] <exec> 08└─Therefore, the GN7 started exploding because they stopped abusing their employees.
[04:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Title only half wrong... - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:09] <exec> 08└─I guess there are some haters with a hard on looking for somewhere to vent. The idea that corporate culture made the Samsung phones explode is pretty thin, but it is still plausible. Maybe an engineer got fed up with a shitty workplace... Still thin, but given some of the tripe that floats through h...
[04:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds about right - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:28] <exec> 08└─The manager who insisted on Micro$oft is probably VP now, while the peons who advised against it are still peons.
[04:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:SAIL! Orinoco Flow! - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:39] <exec> 08└─Sale away, sale away, sale away!
[04:10:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02Re:What are they thinking? - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:41] <exec> 08└─instead of spending that $5M on textbooks, the students will spend that money on other things like pizza, beer, new clothes, music, etc.
[04:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Textbooks and Journals - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:48] <exec> 08└─Capitalism wooooo! All hail the new slavery!
[04:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:57] <exec> 08└─Would you advise someone to begin their study of any level of mathematics or one of the basic sciences from Wikipedia?
[04:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:05] <exec> 08└─I like your name, very descriptive.
[04:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:07] <exec> 08└─Eventually I'm sure we'll have plenty of excellent "open source" textbooks, but for now, why tie the professors' hands when assigning textbooks to students who are already paying $20-55K/yr to attend college?
[04:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slow news day? - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:48] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing when I wrote it and forgot to write it. :) True ground up political change like this always fascinates me. Much like the socialist revolution in spain in the 30's (before it was crushed with the help of germany et al) it is an interesting way for people to participate a...
[04:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Transitional Technique - 06Greeks May Have Influenced Terracotta Army - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:26] <exec> 08└─That's... the ugliest Jesus I've ever seen, and that's saying something. She scuplted him to look like her ugly ass!
[04:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''it made it 4,000 miles'' - 06Greeks May Have Influenced Terracotta Army - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:39] <exec> 08└─The success or failure of the expedition wasn't meant to be a major argument in my comment. I will note that they launched from Morocco, not Egypt, so there's that to factor in. The biggest thing that affected their first try was that they saw a taut cord from the aft section to the mid section in t...
[04:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Am I missing something? - 06No Sustainable Way to Harvest Ivory and Fulfill Consumer Demand - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:23] <exec> 08└─Even if this doesn't produce enough ivory to curb demand, there is apparently big money in elephant meat [wikipedia.org] . Convince enough people that elephant ranching is good business and the problem might be solved.
[04:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06No Sustainable Way to Harvest Ivory and Fulfill Consumer Demand - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:30] <exec> 08└─I remember reading that this had been done in some areas, under the theory that if the elephant has no ivory, there's no point shooting it, thus it will be protected from poachers. I don't know how well it worked.
[04:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:more hard selling - 06A Hotter World is Poorer and More Violent - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:33] <exec> 08└─And apparently doesn't even take a cursory look at history, where it's fairly obvious that warm periods are more peaceful and prosperous, while cooler periods tend to correlate with famine and war.
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[05:09:46] <exec> 08└─I have read the 2012 paper a moment ago, and it looks like the author learned about the wonders of Fourier transforms only a week ago and is in a hurry to share their discovery with the world. The paper seems to be very naive and talks about pretty obvious things. A modern RF engineer deals with far...
[05:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Assume for a second - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:48] <exec> 08└─Assume for a second that it IS proven to be Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. When you wake up tomorrow morning, would you go about your day differently? I think it would fill me with hope. Hope that the human race could turn away from its selfish and adversarial ways and start living on a higher plan...
[05:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stop - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:50] <exec> 08└─And put down that crack pipe.
[05:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:Ford in the 1930s - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:10] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to say that's what caused the exploding Model T problem?
[05:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:00] <exec> 08└─Would you advise someone to begin their study of any level of mathematics or one of the basic sciences from Wikipedia? That's a committee gone riot.
[05:11:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02re 5 years - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 1711 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:50] <exec> 08└─It’s been five years of self-rule for the people of Cheran. First, Cheran is a small town and part of a larger municipality composed of different communities, many smaller than Cheran where most of the inhabitants are indigenous people, called purépecha. The political parties were seen as causing...
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[05:15:31] <exec> 08└─> That's pretty extreme and misleading. The USA Today article starts off by noting that they're talking about "a worst-case scenario." Perhaps I should have done the same. > Those articles were talking about 100% humidity and ~114F (had to guess because they don't actually say) temp. That's probably...
[05:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:more hard selling - 06A Hotter World is Poorer and More Violent - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:34] <exec> 08└─So, really, if scientists and their models could really be "bought" as frequently as skeptics like to imagine, who has the resources, lobbyists, etc. to do the "buying"??
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[06:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02I have known that. I couldn't get enough of it. - 06O'Reilly: Platform Software Developers are Now 'Managers', their Software is the 'Work Force' - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:28] <exec> 08└─Fuh, Lili is pussy, it's dope.
[06:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Borra (2012) - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:40] <exec> 08└─The 2016 paper came over as being just as naive, it's painful to read. The 2012 paper also has the great line "Consequently, a good way to let others know of their existence is to generate a signal that is so unusual that it can only be artificial (Tarter 2001)." Which basically disproves the 2016 p...
[06:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Borra (2012) - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:42] <exec> 08└─I also love his inability to simplify sin (2 pi nu tau / 2)
[06:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Assume for a second - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:46] <exec> 08└─Or extreme terror. Some people live afraid, and xenophobia is well known amongst our own species...
[06:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score:1) 02Re:This is insanity - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:05] <exec> 08└─Do you have read the article? Workers are deprived of sleep, of course, the quality of their work suffers!
[06:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds about right - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:30] <exec> 08└─Not too surprising. WinCE (which that whole mess is) was never that good. At a few points it was better than the competition but not usually. BMWs system is OK for what it is. Voice recognition is *very* particular in how it works. The whole iDrive system is much better than it used to be. However i...
[06:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SAIL! Orinoco Flow! - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:42] <exec> 08└─Visa and MasterCard accepted!
[06:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:SAIL! Orinoco Flow! - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:44] <exec> 08└─Truely, our abuse of a fellow Soylentil who only made a simple homophobic typo has already been sufficient. Perhaps it is time to just let it go, to sail away on the azure sea propelled by the winds of the clouds. . . Wait, did you say "Azure"? Batten down the hatches! All crew on deck! Man the rigg...
[06:11:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Slow news day? - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 23 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:49] <exec> 08└─SJW feminazi propaganda
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[07:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzw30 [4576] (Score:1) 02nullification - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:27] <exec> 08└─Yay for jury nullification.
[07:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score:1) 02War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:29] <exec> 08└─That is the only reason there are so many "wars": on drugs, on terrorism, to bring democracy, etc. Since marijuana is one of the least harmful things you can have a good time on, it took only a couple of years for "normal" people to see the light. Who knows, maybe there is still hope for the human r...
[07:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02False Advertising - 06O'Reilly: Platform Software Developers are Now 'Managers', their Software is the 'Work Force' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:38] <exec> 08└─(warning: open access may be withdrawn at a future date)
[07:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Assume for a second - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:55] <exec> 08└─Trump will build a Yuuuuge Dyson-sphere to keep them out, and make them pay for it in Quatloos.
[07:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Assume for a second - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:56] <exec> 08└─It means that the aliens managed to advance to the point where megastructures could be created. Which probably means that they are ruled over by a tyrannical government/overlord that can keep them from destroying themselves.
[07:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Accident? - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:59] <exec> 08└─If these star systems are "flashing", then we should be able study the period and spectrum of the flashes more closely. Unless maybe they were say laser signals that just happened to be pointed our way during observation. If that were the case, detailed followup could be tricky; it would be Whack-A-...
[07:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:2) 02Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:01] <exec> 08└─Looking in the electromagnetic spectrum for alien life is probably going about it all wrong [scienceblogs.com]. What we ought to be looking at is the neutrino spectrum. The use of nuclear power generates a very clear, and very specific antineutrino signature that cannot come from any natural source....
[07:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Theory S. - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:03] <exec> 08└─Ironically the galaxy is full of exploding Galaxy Note 7's. Try naming the next set Dark Matter 7 and see what happens...
[07:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02I decoded the message - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:05] <exec> 08└─Honorable Sir, My name is Qxrtzryx, son of the regent of the star system Nigarius. Due to some political turmoil we need to leave the system. In order to transfer our vast wealth out of our current bank accounts, I'm asking your kind support.
[07:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:19] <exec> 08└─But what if we get all of our news from SN?
[07:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Yay free markets - 06The Exploding Note 7 is No Surprise; Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:31] <exec> 08└─Japanese workforce, 1970: "We are tired of being poor. We can make a better product for less than the Americans can. They are rich and lazy." Japanese workforce, 2000: "Screw this. I'm tired of slaving away for a company. Life is too short. You want me to work, treat me fairly and pay a fair wage."...
[07:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly un-microsoft-like ... - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've got a Pioneer AVH4000NEX in my truck that I use with my iPhone, and the mic Pioneer includes with the radio, which I have mounted on the steering column so it is directly in front of me, gets terrible audio reception. I've given up on using it for either phone calls or even trying to use...
[07:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Sync - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:55] <exec> 08└─I have a 2016 Mondeo (I think it's called the Fusion in other parts of the world?). It has the Microsoft sync software. Even has a little badge to tell you so. I was dreading it but, I have to say, I don't have many problems with it. It's a little sluggish when you change functions. But it just work...
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[07:11:13] <exec> 08└─Basically, if you support this, you also support crushing the skulls of puppies with a brick.
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[08:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nullification - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:37] <exec> 08└─They don't want you to know about jury nullification. [wikipedia.org]
[08:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02It smells like, Soylent! - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:39] <exec> 08└─Just love it when g_weg stuffs the docket full of lefty stuff. Actual news, with facts and everything! Just think what SoylentNews could be, if only we could stop the censorship of Patriotic Correctness. (Actual thing, from This American Life)
[08:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Borra (2012) - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:02] <exec> 08└─Disclosure: I haven't read TFA. Could it be that the signals, while artificial, were not meant as a beacon. Sure, there are better ways to transmit a beacon or a SETI message, but maybe the signals weren't meant for us to receive. To prove alien intelligence we don't need to prove an intent to conta...
[08:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay free markets - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:38] <exec> 08└─I feel bad for you if you actually think people will be producing anything by hand in the near future, automation replaces these jobs every day.
[08:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds about right - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:01] <exec> 08└─To be fare, though,
[08:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score:1) 02Re:What are they thinking? - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:21] <exec> 08└─Why did you moderate the parent Funny? I think it's pretty insightful. All research papers should also be available on the internet (author's page maybe) free of charge, including code and data. From the abstract it is not possible to discern if the paper is crap or actually contains some interestin...
[08:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score:1) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:43] <exec> 08└─Nobody is stopping the students from purchasing the better books. They just don't have to.
[08:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:13] <exec> 08└─Apropos of nothing in particular, note that "direct democracy" was not at all what the Founding Fathers of the USA wanted. Just so you know.
[08:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:16] <exec> 08└─In other words, every rule is a mob rule, except for tyrannic dictator rule, but even tyrannic dictators need their supporting mob to exert their rule. Adherence of ruling mob to laws and principles is essentially voluntary, even the most "moral" governments have freedom to transgress them. Laws and...
[08:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:25] <exec> 08└─Problem is, such small entities live more or less in a constant state of war with their neighbors, which eventually leads to the collapse of society. Happened in Classical Greece, happened in Renaissance Italy, pretty sure there are other examples. Eventually one of those city-states calls in a powe...
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[09:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02female circumcision - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:32] <exec> 08└─Please tell me black young girls were circumcised to produce the cobalt in my phone. Because that would be AWESOME.
[09:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:34] <exec> 08└─How much culpability do regular people have when they do not have a choice of the source of the components that go into their devices?
[09:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:36] <exec> 08└─Not LUDDITE enough! Shame on you for using APPS!
[09:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cobalt miners - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:38] <exec> 08└─I would feel much better about myself if the cobalt miners didn't earn anything at all and starved instead of having a job and earning very little...
[09:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02There's only one fix - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:40] <exec> 08└─Some large militarily-capable nation needs to go into congo, G-15's blazing, and bring democracy and a free market to the people. What, you're saying that this abuse of the workers happened despite, in fact perhaps because of, the freeness of the market they already have - how can that be?
[09:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:51] <exec> 08└─I think a lot of it at the moment is distrust of the government is at an all-time high, and its having a collective effect of causing people to think more instead of listening to authority. I don't want to call it groupthink per-say, but there is a tendency in humans that when you hear something fro...
[09:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Borra (2012) - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:16] <exec> 08└─As the aliens have no obvious reason to choose exactly this spectral range for a beacon, it is equally - if not more - likely that the observed frequencies are produced by a natural process that is typical to stars in exactly this spectral range. If I were an alien in charge of that transmission, I'...
[09:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jtgd [4875] (Score:1) 02Re:Assume for a second - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:22] <exec> 08└─Heck, I'd be happy just to know that another intelligent civilization had managed to get this far without annihilating themselves.
[09:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Relativity Predictions - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:28] <exec> 08└─Look how many times Einstein's predictions based on Relativity have been proven correct.
[09:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:40] <exec> 08└─forgot to post the reason you think this submission sucks.
[09:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ford in the 1930s - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:53] <exec> 08└─They do not call it the Ford "Exploder" for nothing! Not to mention the S-Cape and the Extradition. Or was I thinking Dodge, or Bronco? Or Pinto, a cheaper Mustang, which is actually a valley in Tibet where the CIA funded Buddhists to fight the Godless Atheist Chi-coms? I forget, and so should you.
[09:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:"no one had an obligation to accept the offer" - 06Studies that Intentionally Infect Humans with Pathogens are Increasing - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:39] <exec> 08└─Is paying poor people a lot of money bad?
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[10:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02heh - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, I got a moon for ya.
[10:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uranus may have two moons - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:39] <exec> 08└─Butt mine only has one.
[10:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:41] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus#Exploration [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The last flybys were in the 80s. Exploration of Uranus and Neptune are on the agenda but w...
[10:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:There's only one fix - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:53] <exec> 08└─Impose democracy, you say? You are unlikely to get the result you seek. What is actually needed is the imposition of the rule of law, and once people have become habituated to the functioning of reasonable legal and judicial system, then that is the time to allow a fully functioning democracy. Once...
[10:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Assume for a second - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:34] <exec> 08└─Shut up Donald.
[10:10:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:38] <exec> 08└─Looking in the electromagnetic spectrum for alien life is probably going about it all wrong [scienceblogs.com]. What we ought to be looking at is the neutrino spectrum. The use of nuclear power generates a very clear, and very specific antineutrino signature that cannot come from any natural source....
[10:10:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02I decoded the message - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:41] <exec> 08└─Honorable Sir, My name is Qxrtzryx, son of the regent of the star system Nigarius. Due to some political turmoil we need to leave the system. In order to transfer our vast wealth out of our current bank accounts, I'm asking your kind support.
[10:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Relativity Predictions - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:44] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Nope, FatPhil's resignation highlights it - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:14] <exec> 08└─I applied for a job with Samsung at a new R&D office in Finland. It took 9 months for them to sort everything out. Me and 2 other ex-Nokia devs were employees 1-3 - initially we didn't even have a manager! After all that wait, by goodness I was excited by the new prospects. Until I saw Samsung from...
[10:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:44] <exec> 08└─I provided two sources separately discussing the high-medieval period and the later early colonial one precisely to demonstrate even the added burden of maintaining the colonial efforts didn't increase taxation. Besides, for every added governmental function, there been greater increases in producti...
[10:15:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Thankfully rare - 06Video Shows USPS Worker Dumping Bins Of Mail In A Ditch - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:17] <exec> 08└─For all we know, this brave hero could have been only throwing out pre-payed junkmail.
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[11:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:37] <exec> 08└─Shit, that's almost a quarter as much as Obamacare costs.
[11:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So what - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:38] <exec> 08└─But we got osama and obama And lots of unqualified idiots got paid really well Theo de raadt missed out. He could be a millionaire. Look at Linux and press backspace exactly 28 times.
[11:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Uranus may have two moons - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:48] <exec> 08└─Mine is limited only by the time it takes to moon someone and the unknown quantity of time that is my lifespan.
[11:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:51] <exec> 08└─You know you want to fund Uranus Pathfinder.
[11:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Moonlets around Uranus - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:53] <exec> 08└─(You know where this is going, right?) Dingleberries, not moonlets...
[11:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There's only one fix - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:06] <exec> 08└─(Un)fortunately, the cobalt market isn't controlled by a cartel like the diamonds or oil. All in a very democratic a free market way of course.
[11:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Child Slavery Produces Chocolate - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:08] <exec> 08└─If someone is so inclined this would make a good story submission. Most of our chocolate is produced by child slavery [foodispower.org].
[11:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''distrust of gov't is at an all-time high'' - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:19] <exec> 08└─Heh. I'll bet aristarchus could tell you some great stories along those lines--maybe even the one about when Andrew Jackson was running for president. [it's] having a collective effect of causing people to think more I would hope so. ...then I see people getting behind 3 of the 4 leading presidentia...
[11:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Individualists unite! - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:22] <exec> 08└─Just love it when [gewg_] stuffs the docket full of lefty stuff. {Deep theatrical bow} Actually, this one was more like a truth-vs-lies thing. Every time I see a news item that bucks the old trend, I'm reminded of how the state has been trying to feed us a streak of bullshit WRT weed (and many other...
[11:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Fuck O'Reilly - 06O'Reilly: Platform Software Developers are Now 'Managers', their Software is the 'Work Force' - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:32] <exec> 08└─O'Reilly can kiss my entire ass. I won't touch their books since they went full on SJW (imported an SJW blocklist on Twitter and invited Randi Harper to speak at OSCon).
[11:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:58] <exec> 08└─Just a question, how far would such "signal" travel before it would be undetectable/disappear (due to neutrino collisions or other causes)? (I'm not a sub-atomic particle physicist, so I'm not even sure if this is a dumb question)
[11:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relativity Predictions - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:02] <exec> 08└─it's not just failure of GR to predict, it's also the CMWB spectrum, where gravity doesn't really matter.
[11:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:18] <exec> 08└─The SN RSS feed [sylnt.us]. Check that and your statement will still be true, only you'll be helping filter that into submissions for the front page.
[11:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:16] <exec> 08└─Well, communal art was funded by wealthy families so it was more about status than art. See San Gimignano, to each his own tower. American culture, the individualist fraction, is even more local than communal stuff, but it has been hijacked to portray a simplistic good vs evil world, from old west m...
[11:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Thor Heyerdahl (the Kon-Tiki guy) - 06Greeks May Have Influenced Terracotta Army - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:14] <exec> 08└─So what about this one? http://www.sfgate.com [sfgate.com] It went much better than the attempt you mentioned. Of course it only proved that it could be done, not that it actually happened in ancient times.
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[12:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─Healthcare is useful. Militarism, as practiced by USA, is just a stupid waste of money. N.B. I'm not saying Obamacare would be my first choice for a healthcare system, but guns and bombs used for hegemonic aggression are completely off the list of useful spending. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[12:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:42] <exec> 08└─Militarism, as practiced by USA, is just a stupid waste of money.
[12:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Forgetting one.... - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:45] <exec> 08└─Is this ONLY the US foreign wars being counted? Why not add the costs of the War on Drugs to the tally for a more complete(Total, as the title claims) picture. The taxpayers are funding both.
[12:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:47] <exec> 08└─Afghanistan is where empires go to die. Don't matter if ten in a row did it "this time is different and we're gonna win" and plop there goes another dead empire. Its the imperialist version of the TV trope of jumping the shark... Soon as some idiot tries to invade Afghanistan best start looking for...
[12:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:50] <exec> 08└─I remember a documentary right after the Russians were kicked out, when an Afghan victoriously claimed that no foreign power had ever succeeded in conquering Afghanistan. What he didn't realize that even the name Afghanistan points to the fact that they've already been successfully conquered long ag...
[12:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:52] <exec> 08└─The religion came there through the khan's who used it because it made it easier to administrate an empire if everyone has the same belief in it.
[12:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:54] <exec> 08└─As if The Donald is such a peacenik? You counting on his love for Putin to keep us from going to war with Russia while we bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran? Or, who knows, maybe The Donald would start a war with Mexico if they refuse to pay for a wall. Hillary is a hawk. Who's going to stop her from go...
[12:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Incomprehensible - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:56] <exec> 08└─The amount of $4.79 trillion, "so large as to be almost incomprehensible"
[12:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Empires - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:58] <exec> 08└─How many of us understand how and why the uS won it's independence from England? Empires are expensive, in many different ways. It costs money, time, material, and lives to put down rebellions, to keep the colonials in line, to keep the natives subdued. The US doesn't exactly have an empire, but wha...
[12:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Moonlets around Uranus - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:12] <exec> 08└─Yup! ^ The solar system needs a giant roll of toilet paper.
[12:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''do not have a choice'' - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:23] <exec> 08└─Noting your grammatical correction and moving on... There is a cellphone maker that has made a commitment to avoid blood minerals: Fairphone. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[12:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''do not have a choice'' - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:25] <exec> 08└─Too bad their phone is still filled with proprietary software.
[12:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 4054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:27] <exec> 08└─Well, ahem, sorry for bringing chemistry to a gunfight or whatever, but somebody gotta mention most of the cobalt based batteries are pretty shitty and are going to be on the dustbin of history "soon enough". Sorry theres just no other way to put it. They do have good specific energy for those weird...
[12:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:2) 02Re:nullification - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:41] <exec> 08└─Yay for jury nullification.
[12:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relativity Predictions - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:27] <exec> 08└─This isn't really what I am looking for. Rather than prose, is there a list somewhere with links to the papers and data. Skimming through I see a dozen or so times predictions have matched with data. Is that it?
[12:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 2234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:46] <exec> 08└─Just adding in an addendum in case it might help anyone who's thinking of submitting. These are what I'm going to submit from that RSS feed, and why: How German nuclear scientists reacted to the news of Hiroshima [lukemuehlhauser.com] SN has a lot of history buffs. Most geeks have had an interest in...
[12:12:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Nope, FatPhil's resignation highlights it - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 1213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:02] <exec> 08└─I applied for a job with Samsung at a new R&D office in Finland. It took 9 months for them to sort everything out. Me and 2 other ex-Nokia devs were employees 1-3 - initially we didn't even have a manager! After all that wait, by goodness I was excited by the new prospects. Until I saw Samsung from...
[12:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Highly un-microsoft-like ... - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:14] <exec> 08└─Really? I have a Pioneer radio in my car with bluetooth, and the mic works perfectly... No problem at all with people hearing me. And my car is a '99, and has plenty of ambient noise inside. I've driven plenty of louder vehicles, but my wife's Accord (for example) is much quieter inside, too. I have...
[12:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:I dont get it - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:23] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I've owned several Ford vehicles, and I still own one that I love. I love picking on Ford, though. That was pretty much my thought when it was announced: "Ford and Microsoft together? It's a match made in hell!" But, the BSOD era was still fresh in our minds (if it had passed by that poi...
[12:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:48] <exec> 08└─I do that on purpose. The thin skinned generally have thin, fragile skulls, and they've managed to damage their brains, which seems to preclude any sort of intelligent discussion.
[12:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Not news. Everyone knows your history is all lies. - 06Greeks May Have Influenced Terracotta Army - 1579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:53] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, off the coast of Brazil, exploration of Roman shipwrecks are waylaid indefinitely [nytimes.com] after exploration of the first showed strong evidence that romans traded with South America long before the official narrative of Peruvians discovering Brazil. Wait, but if the romans were acti...
[12:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:2) 02Re:Thankfully rare - 06Video Shows USPS Worker Dumping Bins Of Mail In A Ditch - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:22] <exec> 08└─Why shred it?
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[13:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Security by Betteridge algorithm - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:40] <exec> 08└─The risk posed by toasters etc. could have been averted by applying Betteridges law. Too late. Will we go through this over and over with toasters, refrigerators, and every other connected appliance?
[13:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─I want the jobs in THIS country, building up OUR infrastructure. Blowing up shit over there and sending No-Bid Cheney's guys to build it back ain't any part of my plan. pointless jobs There was a time when USA was the envy of the world. Our stuff was way better than their stuff. It wasn't pointless...
[13:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:54] <exec> 08└─Cheney's guys are Americans. The guys who build the bombs and bullets and guns and everything else are Americans. The guys who fight the wars are Americans. Are they just not the right kind of Americans to be getting pointless jobs for you?
[13:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:56] <exec> 08└─Militarism has a very low multiplier effect. [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[13:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:58] <exec> 08└─Linking the SJW bible now? I figured you had more intellectual honesty than that, even if I do think you're wrong on most everything.
[13:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:00] <exec> 08└─It's not so simple. There's a lot of talk about oil since it can theoretically be replaced by solar, wind & nuclear while the pollution and climate changes are quite hazardous to our health and environment. But very few people track iron, coal, rare earths and the dozens other industry raw materials...
[13:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:08] <exec> 08└─I thought Russia was where empires go to die. You know, that whole, "Never invade Russia in the winter!" meme? Anyway, there are so many good choices for the next pointless war. Iran, since they've been laying the groundwork for that one for a long time. Syria, which is kind of a two-fer against Rus...
[13:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Incomprehensible ...to Joe Average - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:11] <exec> 08└─Most folk's biggest expense is housing. Take your monthly payment and spend that amount every second that passes. How long till you get to $4.79 trillion? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[13:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Empires - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:15] <exec> 08└─The USA obtained its independence, in part, due to the aid of France. Quoting from the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Because the French involvement in the war was distant and naval in nature, over a billion livres tournois...
[13:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Empires - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:17] <exec> 08└─It costs money, time, material, and lives to put down rebellions, to keep the colonials in line, to keep the natives subdued.
[13:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02But It Did a Lot of Good! - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:19] <exec> 08└─Just look at how Iraq has improved since Saddam was taken out, and Syria is now pretty much a paradise. The whole of the Middle East is now much more stable thanks to foreign intervention. The US taxpayer's money has been well spent. The only question is where to intervene next? Many western leaders...
[13:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't forget Libya - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:21] <exec> 08└─Muammar Gaddafi was the most progressive political leader in the world [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [paulcraigroberts.org] ...until USAian hegemony killed him. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[13:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:But It Did a Lot of Good! - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:23] <exec> 08└─A few trillion more won't be missed...
[13:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:But It Did a Lot of Good! - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:25] <exec> 08└─That's easy. It's sitting in accounts in the Caymans, and Switzerland, and Luxembourg, and a half-dozen other offshore banks.
[13:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Child Slavery Produces Chocolate - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:57] <exec> 08└─A child sex slave dipped in warm chocolate. Sweet.
[13:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Borra (2012) - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:39] <exec> 08└─Look at our "intentional contact" signals vs our random emissions, we've got more "I Love Lucy" going out than SETI, by orders of magnitude. Some of the SETI signals were intentionally strong, but mostly, they're just buried in a background of internal chatter that leaked out.
[13:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02two points - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 4265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:56] <exec> 08└─On other sites there are two points not being brought up on this site, so far 1) The ratio of stars where the transmitters (physical) are next to the transmitters (people, for lack of better word) vs where they make the transmissions come from a neighboring star (or distant star) is a measure of gal...
[13:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Title only half wrong... - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:28] <exec> 08└─Or maybe non-exploding phones requires the folks assembling them to care and provide attention to detail. This is hard to come by consistently unless your workers feel they are your partners. Kind of a repeat of Detroit versus Japan for cars a few decades ago.
[13:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:17] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really encourage any intelligent discussion, though, does it? It precludes intelligent discussion by trying to establish an echo chamber. That, or it will incite a flame war, which never leads to intelligent discussion. It seems to me that intelligent discussion is a place to employ sharp...
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[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02New Jersey - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:57] <exec> 08└─Can we deliver New Jersey to outer space next?
[14:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Security by Betteridge algorithm - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 1945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:07] <exec> 08└─Well... OK... other than you got Betteridge backwards, he says the answer is always no but in this case the answer is obviously yes. You can tell BTW that it was a professional hit. I know goofy as hell non-professional people and if they powned "all the worlds webcams" they would do something hilar...
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Security by Betteridge algorithm - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:09] <exec> 08└─the goatse guy... Remember that "art project" statue of naked Hillary Clinton? Yeah I ... I ... can't even say it.
[14:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Security by Betteridge algorithm - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:11] <exec> 08└─Well... OK... other than you got Betteridge backwards, he says the answer is always no but in this case the answer is obviously yes.
[14:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Security by Betteridge algorithm - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:13] <exec> 08└─Ah I get what you're saying. Although by the strict definition if you want to Betteridge, it should be rephrased to Do we want to go through this over and over with toasters, refrigerators, and every other connected appliance?
[14:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Of course we will. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:15] <exec> 08└─Will we go through this over and over with toasters, refrigerators, and every other connected appliance?
[14:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Best part about these shitty devices - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:18] <exec> 08└─Best part about these shitty devices is that the company was surprised the users never bothered to change the default passwords... really? You are an IT company and you are fucking surprised users don't change the default password? Someone needs to take your membership card like right now.
[14:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:34] <exec> 08└─Cheney's guys spent more on air conditioning than the entire NASA budget.
[14:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─And? You think heating and air guys don't have bills to pay too or something? They contribute a hell of a lot more to civilization than NASA does.
[14:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:39] <exec> 08└─Or, put another way, that's less than $14,000 per capita - spread over a 15 year period (with some costs not yet realized.) Since coffee is $3/cup these days, that's less than a cup of coffee per person per day.
[14:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forgetting one.... - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:43] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the first of the "wars" we started losing: the war on poverty. You have to add in all the money that's been channelled to funding the indolence of the lowest classes and their multiplication through breeding while the working middle class starves and sees its Obamacare tax rise 25% this...
[14:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Forgetting one.... - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:45] <exec> 08└─If the middle class has been forced to shop at WalMart these days, from what I can see, they're not starving.
[14:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forgetting one.... - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:47] <exec> 08└─What I'm still trying to figure out is that if being middle class is so bad right now, how does one become one of these lower classes that live completely and comfortably off government benefits? I'm gay, so I should qualify for something, right? Plus I'll be voting Democrat this year for the first...
[14:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Empires - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:58] <exec> 08└─We should just dissolve the twenty or fifty largest corporations, those with the most lobbying influence, and start all over. Get a couple banks, a couple aircraft manufacturers, a military vehicle manufacturer, and several credit companies. Just seize their assets, and tell them they are personna n...
[14:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Empires - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:00] <exec> 08└─We should just dissolve the twenty or fifty largest corporations, those with the most lobbying influence, and start all over. Get a couple banks, a couple aircraft manufacturers, a military vehicle manufacturer, and several credit companies. Just seize their assets, and tell them they are personna n...
[14:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:But It Did a Lot of Good! - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:06] <exec> 08└─Just google for: damascus before and after Then click Images. We should not be spending this much money to inflict this much misery throughout the world. We need to spend it domestically. To inflict misery here at home. How about prisons that are run for profit. And an education system that produces...
[14:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:18] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Only comment that isn't a butt joke. Unless it is and I'm wooshing. Waste of a comment section.
[14:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:20] <exec> 08└─If they can drop Pluto as an official planet in the solar system, then so too can they rename Uranus. It's time.
[14:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Item still in the on-deck circle - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:35] <exec> 08└─"Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices" Should be on the front page shortly. It specifically mentions Fairphone as supported hardware. The tool will install your choice of a few other OSes as well. ...and, of course, you can install compatible apps after that. . Now, if you'...
[14:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:37] <exec> 08└─Cobalt may no longer be used in batteries in the future, but it is not going anywhere soon from industry. A quick look at Wikipedia reveals the number one use for cobalt is high performance alloys. An easy example of this would be cobalt drill bits, they can chew through mild steel better than anyth...
[14:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Cobalt miners - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:40] <exec> 08└─I would feel much better about myself if the cobalt miners didn't earn anything at all and starved instead of having a job and earning very little...
[14:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:There's only one fix - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:44] <exec> 08└─Convincing the Chinese to do what the West wants is a challenging objective. In Chinese eyes, we are a flash in the pan compared to the long continuous history of Han civilization. The Chinese usually get what they want, in the end.
[14:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Child Slavery Produces Chocolate - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:50] <exec> 08└─I guess continuing to derail: Most of US chocolate is sugar not cocoa. Hell I would not care how many children were indentured if I could get more food in the US that didn't have sweetener as #1 ingredient.
[14:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope, FatPhil's resignation highlights it - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:23] <exec> 08└─Wow, FatPhil, I am glad you posted that. I was once interviewed to head up IT at some division of Samsung's. They turned me down because I don't speak enough Korean; I only speak enough to drink soju with my father-in-law. For years I've kicked myself for not having put more time into learning that...
[14:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds about right - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:49] <exec> 08└─Auto-complete on a smartphone is the most annoying feature...
[14:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02competition - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 2159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:52] <exec> 08└─The problem the IVI has is in an absolute sense its not that big of a deal compared to a leaking transmission or tires that explode or top heavy SUVs that always rollover in accidents, but that the competition (which I have) is a simple gasoline powered hundred watt bluetooth speaker. It just freaki...
[14:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:SAIL! Orinoco Flow! - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:07] <exec> 08└─I am not offended by anything I have read here. I am never offended by homophobic remarks directed my way. But did I miss a homophobic typo? Did I make one? Or did someone else make one? Whatever it may be, I seem to be unaware of what it is. Lost sails are due to piracy!
[14:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:26] <exec> 08└─In the STEM fields you need the very latest textbooks to keep up with all the changes, for example, to how the Cosine function works. In the humanities, you need the very latest textbooks to keep up with, for example, all the latest changes to Shakespeare. Those textbook companies can't keep up with...
[14:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Begging the question - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─Note: If you are thinking of using "begs the question" in the same way the state official did, that is a bad idea.
[14:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Begging the question - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:38] <exec> 08└─Just to say one more thing -- I wrote the preceding quickly and did not edit thoroughly. Upon re-reading, I'm aware of several places where I missed a word or punctuation or things like that. If anyone wants to disagree with what I've said, please let's make it about the content of the argument, rat...
[14:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Re:"Tor users are often not seen in postive..." - 06Anonymity of Tor Users and Wikipedia Editors - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:49] <exec> 08└─Anonymity breeds distrust. Period.
[14:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Wikipedia needs a "stable version" system - 06Anonymity of Tor Users and Wikipedia Editors - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:59] <exec> 08└─I checked 13 articles about African megafauna and 8 have semi-protection.
[14:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:No. - 06No Sustainable Way to Harvest Ivory and Fulfill Consumer Demand - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:20] <exec> 08└─But that is another thing that could be farmed without killing the animal, and indeed would be by far the most profitable method to do if the harvesters were not criminals on the run from poacher-killers.
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[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02"beautiful vehicle" - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─I wanted to see this beautiful vehicle myself but the article only has one 512x311 pixel image. Found the original 1095x616 image but it isn't much better. http://blogs.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02spacex - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─SpaceX is grounded. The California company is investigating why one of its Falcon rockets exploded in a massive fireball during launch pad testing on Sept. 1.
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course we will. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:06] <exec> 08└─Security isn't seen as a requirement when people develop products. When you buy a webcam, does it occur to you to care whether it's secure? Maybe. Does it occur to John Q. Public? Not at all.
[15:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Never thought I would see the day. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:08] <exec> 08└─I Was not expecting an IoT company to actually recall their product over lax security. What is the world coming to when manufacturers start taking responsibility for the security of their products? Of course, the cynic in me just told me that maybe they just re-branded the relatively common software...
[15:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pointless jobs. - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:28] <exec> 08└─> I thought you were all for spending government money to create pointless jobs. And that is how you beg the question.
[15:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Lives - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:30] <exec> 08└─There should be an important distinction to a human between "creating pointless jobs" and "creating pointless jobs KILLING PEOPLE". I realize the article is about money spent and that's important to discuss, but fundamental to the discussion of war is the fact that much of war is about killing peopl...
[15:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Lives - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:32] <exec> 08└─I absolutely agree. I'm just arguing with gewg_ because I like making him refine his position. Now please explain this to Mrs. Clinton.
[15:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:1) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:36] <exec> 08└─Obama care doesn't cost anything to you except your monthly mandatory insurance payment, which was thought up and implemented by republicans. The only thing Obama did to the insurance system was to prevent insurance companies from denying you coverage for pre-existing conditions. The rest is republi...
[15:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:38] <exec> 08└─You're claiming the Republicans wrote the vast majority of Obamacare? Seriously? Wow. I don't think I've read a more willfully blind statement in my entire time on the Internet. Congrats!
[15:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Backwards as Usual - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:40] <exec> 08└─> Shit, that's almost a quarter as much as Obamacare costs. As usual, the mighty blubberbutt has got his numbers backwards Cost of wars since 2001: $4.79 trillion Cost of obamacare for the next decade [time.com]: $1.34 trillion
[15:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:52] <exec> 08└─Only one candidate in this election promised to bomb Iran. And its not the Don.
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:55] <exec> 08└─I thought Russia was where empires go to die.
[15:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incomprehensible ...to Joe Average - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:59] <exec> 08└─uh. 303 years for $ 500/month, but that's excluding interest payments on the debt. With a 3 % interest rate, it would be 2.3 million years to pay back the 4.79 trillion + 37146.45 trillion interest. Maybe I made a miscalculation. Or, maybe, that debt is just going to be paid back in Zimbabwe dollars...
[15:11:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Empires - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 1455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:01] <exec> 08└─How many of us understand how and why the uS won it's independence from England? Empires are expensive, in many different ways. It c 6e3b osts money, time, material, and lives to put down rebellions, to keep the colonials in line, to keep the natives subdued. The US doesn't exactly have an empire, b...
[15:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:But It Did a Lot of Good! - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:12] <exec> 08└─Reading the link about the accounting problems, it sounds mostly like incompetence. The money was most likely spend correctly, but they made a total muck of the accounting. The government ought to hold itself to exactly the same accounting standards (GAAP) that it requires of companies. Failure to c...
[15:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02exponential.... - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:14] <exec> 08└─Some good and interesting points about empire and other stuff. But, it is hard to use models of the past when technology has been advancing at an exponential rate. The one advance I'll pick form the mix is the drones - the USA has almost perfected remote warfare, in a way that no nation has before (...
[15:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:29] <exec> 08└─Urectum?
[15:11:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 4054 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:45] <exec> 08└─Well, ahem, sorry for bringing chemistry to a gunfight or whatever, but somebody gotta mention most of the cobalt based batteries are pretty shitty and are going to be on the dustbin of history "soon enough". Sorry theres just no other way to put it. They do have good specific energy for those weird...
[15:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:47] <exec> 08└─better than anything
[15:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:What are they thinking? - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─What? That doesn't even remotely describe 99% of the people in universities and colleges
[15:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:37] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia is a horrible place to go for math or science topics because the articles are written to show off, or to be overly pedantic. They are certainly not written to give any kind of useful introduction to the topic that a student needs. Very rarely have any examples to show their usefulness.
[15:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score:1) 02Re:Begging the question - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─Your English teacher was a visionary. The language is a living thing. What most people are using every day is THE LANGUAGE, in spite of the grammar books and the academy. David Graeber has a very nice piece on this in his "The Utopia of Rules" book.
[15:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:"no one had an obligation to accept the offer" - 06Studies that Intentionally Infect Humans with Pathogens are Increasing - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:44] <exec> 08└─Paying poor people to do things that are potentially extremely dangerous in order for the wealthy to derive the benefits is wrong. Paying who are about to be homeless or have their power shut off aren't exactly in a position to make sound decisions about their future welfare when presented with a la...
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[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02While cool... - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─While this is cool, what is really needed is support for more recent devices.
[16:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:"beautiful vehicle" - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:59] <exec> 08└─TLDR is watch next episode of "TWAN". In more detail: The launch got second billing (still lots of coverage) on last weeks "This week at NASA" aka TWAN. The most recent episode was released before the vehicle arrived at the ISS. https://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] I...
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02This must make the astronauts nervous - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─there's going to come a time when they're delivering personnel via privately-operated rockets. Recall the scene in The Right Stuff where the astronauts are watching early launch attempt, but they all keep failing.
[16:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never thought I would see the day. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:18] <exec> 08└─Probably fear of litigation. When articles pop up claiming the internet lost MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in sal 1000 es because of the attack, lawyers get worried. Of course most likely the sales will materialize later, as people still have need, it just becomes pent up.
[16:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Never thought I would see the day. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:20] <exec> 08└─What is the world coming to when manufacturers start taking responsibility for the security of their products?
[16:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Never thought I would see the day. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 1755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:22] <exec> 08└─Read the article. It is just a downloadable update. Still gotta give em props for stepping up and owning the problem, always the right move from a PR standpoint. Amazing so many companies get that wrong. But as we move down the IoT foodchain we -will- see it, as the devices are built so cheaply they...
[16:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I don't want my Things to be on the Internet - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:24] <exec> 08└─We use computers inappropriately. As this webcam exploit demonstrates, the cost of device failure is far greater than its benefit to society. I don't like to fly on modern passenger jets. I am a physicist so it's not that I don't understand how wings generate lift. No. I'm afraid of computer program...
[16:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02why recall? - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─Cannot they secure the device remotely by using some other backdoor/flaw?
[16:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:44] <exec> 08└─WTH did you wake up and take an extra ahole pill this morning? Or is the realization that you are about to see hill take the election messing with your head.
[16:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:48] <exec> 08└─Broken windows. We could do so much better than that.
[16:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:54] <exec> 08└─None of those come from the middle east.
[16:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards as Usual - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:00] <exec> 08└─It's a fair cop. Though I do dispute the "As usual" bit. No code monkey can usually get his numbers wrong and stay a code monkey for very long.
[16:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Backwards as Usual - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:02] <exec> 08└─No code monkey can usually get his numbers wrong and stay a code monkey for very long.
[16:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Backwards as Usual - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:04] <exec> 08└─> No code monkey can usually get his numbers wrong and stay a code monkey for very long. That's absolutely true and exactly why you should stick to code. When it comes to anything non-technical, if you say it, 99% of the time its a fantasy. And maybe the reason you think otherwise is because you con...
[16:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forgetting one.... - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe they are not starving, but they are suffering from poor nutrition. It is just as damaging to their health as starvation (results in diminished life satisfaction and eventual death), thou not as immediate. Poor nutrition brought on by economic forces is very tragic. There are very good examples...
[16:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02It's not the dirt that does it. - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:21] <exec> 08└─It's the books. Lots of books, and a sheet of plywood or overturned table.
[16:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:07] <exec> 08└─> Quit trying to make people feel guilty about things they have no control over. Gee, Trump and Sanders have both been talking about trade restrictions. Even Clinton has said she won't support trade deals that are unfair. Why can't one of those restrictions be working conditions and environmental pr...
[16:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02false dichotomy - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:10] <exec> 08└─I would feel much better about myself if the cobalt miners didn't earn anything at all and starved instead of having a job and earning very little...
[16:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:31] <exec> 08└─I find people who need to use some substance to "have fun" defective in some way. Yes I realize Humans have a high defect rate, so maybe we have to play along till robots can do all the labor. After that I don't really care what happens to them.
[16:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2)</sp 234d an> </h4> </div> <div class="details"> by <a href="//soylentnews.org/~jdavidb/">jdavidb (5690)</a> <span class="zooicon"><a href="//soylentnews.org/subscribe.pl"><img src="//soylentnews.org/images/star.png" alt="Subscriber Badge" title="Subscriber Badge" width="15" height="15"></a> 02Re:War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition -
[16:12:33] <exec> 08└─I find people who need to use some substance to "have fun" defective in some way
[16:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02programs are the workers - 06O'Reilly: Platform Software Developers are Now 'Managers', their Software is the 'Work Force' - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:45] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. Who designed, wrote, and maintains the programs that are the workers? This either doesn't make any sense at all, or I'm not smart enough to figure it out. The human developers are the ones grinding out the software, not managers. Now the other woman is just blowing smoke. Please, "th...
[16:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Assumptions... - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:04] <exec> 08└─There's really no way around it: we make a lot of assumptions. We assume that any civilization will send using the electromagnetic spectrum. We assume that they will send us something intelligible, like prime numbers. We assume that they will format this information in a way that we can decode. We c...
[16:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:15] <exec> 08└─The nice thing about neutrinos is that they are subject only to the weak interaction and gravity, and as such they can go a very, very long way indeed and pass through a lot of material before they interact with anything else. A single high-energy neutrino of the sort I mentioned would be able to pa...
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[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:While cool... - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:53] <exec> 08└─More devices in general. Maybe the recently disclosed exploit that uses rowhammer to root practically all android phones will help?
[17:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:spacex - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:05] <exec> 08└─The thing I find odd is its all rumor and innuendo and they're gonna launch again soon but no official report on this incident. Which I bet will read very similar to the above paragraph.
[17:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This must make the astronauts nervous - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:07] <exec> 08└─Nervous compared to what? Almost everything up that comes from the US side is made by private companies.
[17:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:This must make the astronauts nervous - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:10] <exec> 08└─But they used to race the Ruskies in the name of the survival of all mankind, so their private explosions and sacrifices had Purpose.
[17:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Security by Betteridge algorithm - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:23] <exec> 08└─No, that wouldn't help. It would just cause one connected appliance to not have any issues, negating the "every" part.
[17:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course we will. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:27] <exec> 08└─If the rational purchaser in your example is John Q Public then the word security does not even enter the conversation. All they want to to watch their home from their smart phone. Everything else is magic as far as they are concerned. The manufacturer is responsible for security as they should be w...
[17:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Never thought I would see the day. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:32] <exec> 08└─> lawyers get worried Rule #1: Lawyers only get worried when a case looks lost and the customer is low on cash.
[17:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:03] <exec> 08└─None of those come from the middle east.
[17:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:05] <exec> 08└─So out of all of that, Afghanistan has some rare earths. But we mostly get them from China. We have plenty domestically but there's a lead time since we killed our domestic industry and because the Chinese rare earths are slightly cheaper. The U.S. produces more oil than the Middle East.
[17:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:07] <exec> 08└─No, Afghanistan also has a large share of the world's Heroin production, which is needed to keep the War on Drugs going.
[17:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:12] <exec> 08└─In an odd indirect way, yes. It is little more than Romneycare repackaged. That was because the Dems (winners of the lifetime rubber spine award) hoped the Rs might not fight so bitterly against an essentially Republican plan. Honestly, once it became clear the Rs would reject any D suggestion simpl...
[17:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:false dichotomy - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:22] <exec> 08└─...and could provide a better quality of life if invested in other work that kept more of the wealth in country
[17:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:false dichotomy - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:23] <exec> 08└─No, you seem to be assuming your point. Just because corruption can happen does not mean it will happen or even happen to the same degree. Different circumstances mean different results. For one thing, a local industry not based on extracting wealth to enrich foreign owners won't have as much free c...
[17:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Child Slavery Produces Chocolate - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:32] <exec> 08└─Knowing this, it will taste all the sweeter next time!
[17:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Individualists unite! - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:49] <exec> 08└─...and there's you with that heliocentricity thing. Now -that- was a real iconoclastic move.
[17:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Assumptions... - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:21] <exec> 08└─We assume that any civilization will send using the electromagnetic spectrum.
[17:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Borra (2012) - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:22] <exec> 08└─I have read the 2012 paper a moment ago, and it looks like the author learned about the wonders of Fourier transforms only a week ago and is in a hurry to share their discovery with the world.
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:35] <exec> 08└─If you see an antineutrino signature in the energy range above 10 MeV, it is difficult to imagine a natural process that could produce it.
[17:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Re:Relativity Predictions - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:41] <exec> 08└─It explains why Gold and Copper are not the silver/grey colo(u)r of most other metals.
[17:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:two points - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:45] <exec> 08└─I'm happy enough to say that I know so little about social media and these strange patterns (/pol/?), not to mention NAP, and the rest that I need an alien to help me decode the latter half of your post. If that is what social media is like, man, I'm missing nothing.
[17:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Random gold nuggets - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:21] <exec> 08└─Page (of the pdf), gaffe 15, mind control of our employees 19, dominate employees in ordinary ways 21, no-union policy 43, employee "drinking capacity" monitored etc ad nauseam What an ugly document, the mangled English, the always funky and everchanging layout, the overlapping and partially invisib...
[17:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds about right - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:48] <exec> 08└─I don't know who does both things well. Maybe Tesla? Who knows.
[17:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Really - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:52] <exec> 08└─Does it matter what OS you run if your application code is a confusing mess of crap ? You can take a turd and try and run it on any OS on any hardware and still get crappy output. Unless Ford is willing to give developers a chance to debug their code GIGO is the result, whether the calls are made to...
[17:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:16] <exec> 08└─Until your relatives decide that you should be gang-raped and burnt for not being frigid.
[17:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:25] <exec> 08└─I now live where there are hills and mountains ... but like in the midwest, the car, store chains, and suburb culture created a repeating pattern: "Generica".
[17:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:the root of politics - 06Cheran: The Town That Threw Out Police, Politicians and Gangsters - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:30] <exec> 08└─> Compare the way Iceland and Greece (nation) dealt with the crisis. Did not the Greek want the same things as Iceland, what went wrong? The Greeks are using the Euro, so they lost the ability to use currency tricks to reduce their troubles. But if the Greeks had been a small town with the same scal...
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[18:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02 - 06New Metamaterial Paves Way for Terahertz Technologies - 0 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org f13
[18:09:50] <exec> 08└─
[18:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:While cool... - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─It's an adb front-end shell-script with some git pull and apt-get invocations. If you want to add support to some other device, go to xda forum to see what foul brew of special steps your new-shinny needs, test them, fork the project, update the script, commit and push for a PR.
[18:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This must make the astronauts nervous - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:16] <exec> 08└─Also the Russians charged for it too. Those rides were not gratis.
[18:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Security by Betteridge algorithm - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:29] <exec> 08└─I'm remaining quietly optimistic about the upcoming Snow Crash movie. I can't picture Neuromancer being anything less than a couple season long series itself. "Extreme density" is a perfect phrase to describe to use for the it, and I say that enjoying detective novels myself. I agree with the idea o...
[18:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Never thought I would see the day. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:41] <exec> 08└─> Especially the Commies. They were Evil with the capital E Yup. Those Evil bastards supported dictators, torture, indefinite imprisonment without trial, foreign wars, massive weapons programs as their infrastructure crumbled, training kids to parade their flag, covert weapons sales to bad actors, s...
[18:10:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 744 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:57] <exec> 08└─I want the jobs in THIS country, building up OUR infrastructure. Blowing up shit over there and sending No-Bid Cheney's guys to build it back ain't any part of my plan. pointless jobs There was a time when USA was the envy of the world. Our stuff was way better than their stuff. It wasn't pointless...
[18:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:04] <exec> 08└─The figure wasn't for the heating and air guys, or their equipment, it was just the cost of fuel to keep the ACs running in-theater that exceeded NASA's annual budget within something like 6 months. Point being, war is a big operation, even small parts of it have significant costs. Main thing I thin...
[18:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Money pissed away - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:14] <exec> 08└─So out of all of that,
[18:11:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 426 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:18] <exec> 08└─In an odd indirect way, yes. It is little more than Romneycare repackaged. That was because the Dems (winners of the lifetime rubber spine award) hoped the Rs might not fight so bitterly against an essentially Republican plan. Honestly, once it became clear the Rs would reject any D suggestion simpl...
[18:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:34] <exec> 08└─Only one candidate has a known history of kicking it up with other countries. Still not the Don.
[18:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:01] <exec> 08└─The problem is not Uranus' name. The problem is the English language. Stop using "your" and use "thy" as God intended. Then thou will find that "Uranus" doesn't sound much like "thy anus". ;-)
[18:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''do not have a choice'' - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:18] <exec> 08└─I'm missing something here. What was wrong with the grammar in my earlier post?
[18:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:nullification - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:46] <exec> 08└─It's the most direct form of democracy we have. Ostensibly, we all come together as a group to decide the laws, and those laws should be representative of our will. When entering the court room, we get to *confirm* our support and belief for these laws each and every single time. To me jury nullific...
[18:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:52] <exec> 08└─Considering it's a nearly universal trait that even extends to our primate cousins have you ever considered that you are the defective one? Have you ever truly evaluated this position in the light of evidence or do you just accept it as fact?
[18:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It smells like, Soylent! - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:58] <exec> 08└─I am on him all the time to do better. This is one of his better submissions. It is well thought out and rational. Mostly he rambles. But gold star for this one! However, I would rather the queue run dry than listen to more political crap. Most of it is just opinion. When someone has had enough conf...
[18:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck O'Reilly - 06O'Reilly: Platform Software Developers are Now 'Managers', their Software is the 'Work Force' - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:09] <exec> 08└─Do you even register how fucking insane you appear? Here's a hint: very. I would forgive a casual observer for giving up and telling themselves, "smile, nod, and back away slowly." You're labouring under the delusion that there's an entire legion or two of evil miscreants under a single leadership t...
[18:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Assume for a second - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:39] <exec> 08└─It would give humanity a grand goal to shoot for
[18:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:44] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it make more sense for an alien race to send more "dumbed down" messages than limit their outreach to civilizations with advanced neutrino detectors?
[18:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:0) 02Re:This is insanity - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:20] <exec> 08└─The problem does not appear to have been the quality of the work as such. The problem appears to have been the battery sources, or more particularly that they cheaped out on those, with the result that a small proportion, but large enough to make headlines, have catastrophic failures. Next time (I'm...
[18:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What are they thinking? - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:25] <exec> 08└─Or, university administrators raise tuition by about the amount that textbook costs dropped. Their pay packages rise accordingly. I like the move to open textbooks. But I fear that unless we watch very carefully, the savings will be appropriated by others and students won't benefit. Greed is the pro...
[18:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:What are they thinking? - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:27] <exec> 08└─We need a new moderation, "Sigh". I moderated this interesting, but that's not quite right, and neither is insightful. The real mod should mean something like "unfortunately probable, sigh".
[18:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Textbooks and Journals - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:37] <exec> 08└─To be fair, sales is hard work, even if frequently quite immoral.
[18:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:48] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you're voting based on your feelings and directly opposed to your actual policy position, in this case.
[18:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can I buy one now? - 06Start-Up Lucid Motors Launches With 300-Mile Plus Premium Electric Sedan - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:15] <exec> 08└─It doesn't even have an official name yet.
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[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02The aquifer obviously was nowhere near Boulder - 06New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─If the scientists had been working out of Boulder, the new bacteria would have been named for local micro-breweries.
[19:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02I see more body scanners coming - 06New Metamaterial Paves Way for Terahertz Technologies - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:58] <exec> 08└─I see more body scanners coming: -Schools -Hospital -Shopping Malls Don't you just FEEL safer?
[19:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:While cool... - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe this will convince the networks to get phones patched faster.
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02XDA forum is a shit show - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:11] <exec> 08└─Man is that XDA forum a shit show. First the forum software itself is crap. Painful, tedious, barely fit for purpose crap. And the people there are almost all self-taught hobbyists which means they have their own vocabulary that only rarely overlaps professional software development terminology (and...
[19:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03a by RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02I never succeeded with the normal Nexus4 procedure - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:13] <exec> 08└─The same one here: https://github.com [github.com] never worked for me. I always had to decompress image-occam-lmy48t.zip and do a few things differently to circumvent no-space-left errors.
[19:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:spacex - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:25] <exec> 08└─The leading hypothesis right now (at least as far as I know) is that a change to speed up the loading procedures allowed the formation of solid oxygen between the carbon-fiber overwrap and the metal liner of the helium tank (which, for efficiency, is positioned inside the LOX tank (a design trick no...
[19:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course we will. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:48] <exec> 08└─More appropriately, chalk it up to "tragedy of the commons" Expecting companies to keep the security of the commons up to your snuff for free? I question your reasoning.
[19:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course we will. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:49] <exec> 08└─I've been seeing this for as long as I've been in IT. Security isn't seen as a requirement when people develop products. When you buy a webcam, does it occur to you to care whether it's secure? Maybe. Does it occur to John Q. Public? Not at all.
[19:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:35] <exec> 08└─Anything that gets through a Republican controlled congress is Republican legislation. Fox News et al knew this would be a contentious issue, so they granted ownership to Obama.
[19:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:36] <exec> 08└─Honestly, once it became clear the Rs would reject any D suggestion simply because tyhe Ds wanted it, they should have started over with an actual single payer system and fought it out very publicly.
[19:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forgetting one.... - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:47] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of politically correct drivel. People get fat because they eat too damned much. Some starving would do them good.
[19:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant (3937) 7bc0 (Score:2) 02Re:Forgetting one.... - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:48] <exec> 08└─If they are suffering from poor nutrition, it's due to poor choices of foods they stick in their faces. There's plenty of calories available, in many forms - nobody is forcing them to eat at McDonalds. However, having said that, the fast and unhealthy food industry is quite strong, and gained a lot...
[19:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:59] <exec> 08└─The problem with wars today is that they don't stack up a significant body count (as a proportion of the country's population) - so the classical population drop just doesn't happen. The whole 99% thing seemed like an awakening to the problems in Wall Street, somehow that got turned into a one-off f...
[19:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Uranus may have two moons - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:13] <exec> 08└─Yikes, how'd you lose the other one?
[19:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:''distrust of gov't is at an all-time high'' - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:07] <exec> 08└─Look again. NONE of the candidates running for President would make a good President. NONE of them. Some are worse than others. In my mind, Trump is the worst, but that doesn't make any of the others good. The current selection of presidential hopefuls is a good argument for replacing elections with...
[19:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:11] <exec> 08└─Why be open minded when you can be smug? I hope over the next few years he becomes severely depressed and kills himself. I hate people who are naturally high and energetic.
[19:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Borra (2012) - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:43] <exec> 08└─Also haven't read the article. What are the energy requirement for this kind of transmission? This is what causes me to be immediately skeptical. If the signals were produced by modulating their star, this would seem to do strange things to their weather. So I also guess that there are natural cause...
[19:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Title only half wrong... - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:46] <exec> 08└─The problem is that if you make it difficult to question management decisions, management will not get the information needed to make the right decisions. I would bet considerable that several of the Samsung engineers knew that there was a danger of this problem, but that either they didn't dare say...
[19:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a fan of this - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:04] <exec> 08└─In this case Wikipedia is not a good model. Each text is supposed to be written by a professor, but given the open license he'll be able to include material from prior versions as he sees fit. That *could* work out quite well, though it could also end poorly for any current version. Still, the best...
[19:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unsurprising finding - 06Greeks May Have Influenced Terracotta Army - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:01] <exec> 08└─Far more likely that if there was influence, it was indirect through artifacts moving along trade routes, which perhaps inspired Chinese sculptors to try something different
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[20:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:While cool... - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─It is nearly impossible to fix rowhammer in software. If the SoC has memory encryption then they might be able to turn it on, and that would probably mitigate rowhammer enough to make it infeasible. But turning on memory encryption may cause a lot of new bugs to fall out due to unexpected consequenc...
[20:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This must make the astronauts nervous - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─Charged A LOT as well.
[20:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02All space rockets are loaded with dynamite - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─The Range Safety Officer has the job of remotely blowing the rocket to smithereens if it should go out of control. I expect they even do that when carrying astronauts, but future US crew capsules will be equipped with escape rockets, then parachute safely down. Or so it is hoped.
[20:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:2) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:39] <exec> 08└─Under what grounds of the Constitution would a single payer work; or are you saying they should pass a Constitutional amendment?
[20:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards as Usual - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:44] <exec> 08└─This is an unfortunate tendency of coder-bros, from what I've seen. They're basically the triple-digit-IQ arm of the good ol' boys club. INT and WIS are not and have never been the same stat, and for some reason this particular clade decided to make WIS its dump stat. Oh, and CHA, but that's a given...
[20:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Uranus may have two moons - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:14] <exec> 08└─He kept getting his ass kicked, obviously...
[20:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:21] <exec> 08└─Down-modder clearly isn't a Futurama fan.
[20:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:false dichotomy - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:49] <exec> 08└─You can't be serious. You think corruption will go away when the money comes from inside? Or are we misunderstanding each other?
[20:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Child Slavery Produces Chocolate - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:58] <exec> 08└─And chocolate comsumption, Nobel prizes [scientificamerican.com].
[20:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02synthetic cobalt - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:01] <exec> 08└─So let's create synthetic cobalt. The real stuff is causing batteries to explode, after all. Can't we make a safer synthetic version? Wow, I don't even know if I'm being serious or trolling with this suggestion!
[20:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:''distrust of gov't is at an all-time high'' - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:17] <exec> 08└─Hell. anyone who wants the job shouldn't be allowed to have it. They should have to grab you kicking and screaming into the Oval Office. ...same for Senate and Representative positions, now I think of it.
[20:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:23] <exec> 08└─You might wonder then why many other animals have the same "defect". It's spread not only across species, but also across orders that are only vaguely related, so much so that one could easily conclude that it has a very long evolutionary history, and has not been selected out. If so, it's a very st...
[20:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neutrino astronomy - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:16] <exec> 08└─That may be technically true, but we don't know how to build cheap massive-scan neutrino telescopes yet. Maybe if some nice billionaire wrote out a check instead of purchasing a lame ball team. We can promise to name the aliens after them as an incentive: Gatites, Sorosines, Kochians, Buffites, etc....
[20:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buy American - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:57] <exec> 08└─Exactly! The yellow man loves his work-till-you-drop peon culture! Lazy Americans demand things like safety, sane working hours, employee benefits and worst of all, a decent wage. Disgusting. Thank god for the yellow man. He'll work himself to the bone and be proud of it! He will show his fellow yel...
[20:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay free markets - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:04] <exec> 08└─Repeat for China, Mexico, etc, until we run out of exploitable desperate people in poor nations.
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[21:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lexus is Toyota... - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─It's their Cadillac version of Toyota. I used to be a Ford man until the mid 1970s when they went to making nothing but crap. Then I was a Toyota man, but mid 1990s they too went to crap. I finally went to GM... first a few Saturns, then after Saturn was shut down I went with Chevy but only if it ha...
[21:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Not scientific - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:47] <exec> 08└─My only contact with a Chrysler vehicle is when my Sister-in-law bought a Jeep a few years ago, brand new. A good friend of mine who is a panel beater laughed at the quality of the paint finish, he said if his apprentice produced that quality of work, he would make him do the job again. Over the per...
[21:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:49] <exec> 08└─http://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability/the-most-and-least-reliable-cars-by-class/ [consumerreports.org] Looking at those ridiculous results, unless all of consumer report's subscribers drive Lexus' and Buicks, my guess is that people were given 30+ auto makers brand names and were asked to r...
[21:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Conservative - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:51] <exec> 08└─a reward for their conservative approach to new technology.
[21:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re: XDA forum is a shit show - 06Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:20] <exec> 08└─Terminology? I just assumed they're functionally illiterate.
[21:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:New Jersey - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:31] <exec> 08└─Only if you can master the concept that to turn left, you must turn right [wikipedia.org].
[21:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:1) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:29] <exec> 08└─Or maybe they were. They got tired of that joke and renamed it Urethrum
[21:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:false dichotomy - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:58] <exec> 08└─For one thing, a local industry not based on extracting wealth to enrich foreign owners won't have as much free capital to spend on bribery. When, say, 90% of the wealth generated goes out of country, then an industry that only produces 15% of that wealth but keeps it all in country will be a net wi...
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''NONE of the candidates running...'' - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:25] <exec> 08└─NONE of the candidates running for President would make a good President Green Party nominee Jill Stein has a platform that, in significant ways, is an update of FDR's New Deal. FDR's plan was what got us out of the previous giant hole. That is to say that it has a successful track record. -- Origin...
[21:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relativity Predictions - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:29] <exec> 08└─What are you looking for? You want a nice list of occurrences? Every time I knock my pencil off of my desk, I don't go and write a paper on the confirmation of Newtonian gravity and make a notch in the "confirmation" log. What more do you want from General Relativity? It predicted bending of light a...
[21:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Begging the question - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:37] <exec> 08└─Visionary? Maybe, but the "language evolves" is the biggest cop-out for the illiterate. Caught using a malapropism? No worry, "language evolves". There are no wrong uses because "when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." Alanis Morissette can write a popular...
[21:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Begging the question - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:38] <exec> 08└─So the best course of action when facing adversity is to suck it up, shut up, and fit in with the common masses. Go grab a Bud, watch some reality TV and pretend to like it, and above all, don't do anything to stand out from the crowd. It is far better to fit in than to be right.
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[22:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cool story bro! - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:44] <exec> 08└─That is all.
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─Well, they supposedly mixed other data in as well: big We weight the severity of each type of problem to create a Predicted Reliability Score for each vehicle. That score is then combined with data collected from our track testing, as well as our owner-satisfaction survey results and safety data, t...
[22:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─You clearly have no idea how CR's auto reliability reports works. They solicit all of their subscribers, there is no restriction on what vehicles are reported on. Frankly I am just plain fucking tired of idiots like you alleging conspiracy and manipulation simply because you know jackshit about a to...
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:52] <exec> 08└─http://giphy.com/gifs/tina-fey-4CpBWb5GPFm9i [giphy.com]
[22:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:The missing link - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:54] <exec> 08└─A much better alternative to Consumer Reports is True Delta [truedelta.com] With Consumer Reports, all they ask you is "Has your car had a serious problem in the last 6 months?" with the definition of serious to be left to the owner. If you sign up for True Delta, you get an email about every 3 mont...
[22:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Conservative - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:58] <exec> 08└─I typically joke that I can give my car to my kids when they head off to college in a decade, because there's just nothing in it that can get any more obsolete, break, or attract attention. Unsurprisingly, the SO keeps complaining about the manual doors and windows... I tell her the next one will ce...
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conservative - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─I finally bought a new car this year. My first with ABS, TCS, and all the gizmos on the infotainment system. The brakes are way too touchy, there's no feedback in the way the pedal feels like regular power brakes feel. I don't use and will never need 50% of the features of the infotainment system. I...
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not a Millenial - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:02] <exec> 08└─If you are posting here, you are too old to actually be a millennial.
[22:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a Millenial - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:04] <exec> 08└─I use and enjoy Twitter. That should be sufficient for credentials.
[22:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Non-scientific, not representational, etc etc - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:06] <exec> 08└─"... predicted reliability rankings for brands and vehicles in 2017. The vehicle rankings are based on a survey of the magazine's subscribers, along with road tests and added points for safety features." Self-selecting for people who either want to (possibly sub-conciously) justify buying whatever P...
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-scientific, not representational, etc etc - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:08] <exec> 08└─Don't forget selection that goes the other way. Get the wrong person with a minor flaw and all reviews out of them will be "wish I could give this zero stars." I know a person who had a muffler get ripped off from a large (and I mean LARGE) piece road debris 15 years ago in a Ford Mustang going at h...
[22:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Non-scientific, not representational, etc etc - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:11] <exec> 08└─True, so "good" cars get down-voted, "bad" cars that haven't caused any of the survey respondents problems get up-voted, and JD Power remains as a more reliable assessment of reliabiliy. http://www.jdpower.com(VDS)-by-Category/843ENG [jdpower.com] (There is s...
[22:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Audi is #4 !??? - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:13] <exec> 08└─CR needs to sort it out. Nobody accuses Audi for being reliable. I mean, compared to Audi, VW feels like Toyota.
[22:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Buick? - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:15] <exec> 08└─Buick? They still make those? Does it come with a free newspaper subscription?
[22:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Buick? - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:17] <exec> 08└─Must be a review of the Chinese market, which saved Buick from the Pontiac/Olds fate.
[22:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Alright, FINE MOM - 06New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:27] <exec> 08└─I'll clean up the basement before grandma visits. I promise.
[22:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Global deadness - 06New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:29] <exec> 08└─It's all a liberal conspiracy! Micro-organisms do not exist! Microscopes have secret chips in them that project fake wiggly things in the lens. Common sense tells you that something that small cannot be alive. How do you fit a spleen, heart, pancreases etc. into something smaller than flea poop? It'...
[22:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How can I get my DNA sequenced? - 06New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:31] <exec> 08└─I'd like to post my sequence on my website for the benefit of medical researchers. I can do all kinds of things that people with Schizoaffective Disorder are not supposed to be able to do. For example, when first informed I was having auditory hallucinations, I made them stop after two days of puzzl...
[22:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"scanning pills" - 06New Metamaterial Paves Way for Terahertz Technologies - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:41] <exec> 08└─I learned a while back that press releases such as this always provide specific applications, is that businesspeople are very concrete thinkers.
[22:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:New Jersey - 06Space Station Accepts First Virginia Delivery in Two Years - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:05] <exec> 08└─Completely off topic, but I first encountered this technique in the Detroit area [michiganhighways.org]. I used to travel there on business once a month. I was stunned at how dangerous it was. To make a left turn, you had to make a right turn. Then, going in the direction you don't want to go, work...
[22:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course we will. - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:36] <exec> 08└─Get a decent router, completely block internet access off to these devices. If you need to access them remotely, perhaps VPN in to your local network or access it through a remote connection to a secure computer on your network. You really can't trust these things to be secure, because your average...
[22:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't want my Things to be on the Internet - 06Webcams Used to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:45] <exec> 08└─But there is a lot of redundant safety systems overseen by two highly trained humans. Flying is the safest way to travel, the stats bear this out. You don't have to trust the computer programmers, trust the statistics.
[22:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well damn - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:31] <exec> 08└─Healthcare? Healing? That's like communism or socialism or Sharia Darwin heatheness or some other scary word. Bannit!
[22:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Forgetting one.... - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:40] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the first of the "wars" we started losing: the war on poverty. You have to add in all the money that's been channelled to funding the indolence of the lowest classes and their multiplication through breeding while the working middle class starves and sees its Obamacare tax rise 25% this...
[22:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Afghanistan where empires go to die - 06Total Cost of USA's Wars Since 2001 Approaches $5 Trillion - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:51] <exec> 08└─Awesome, Flamebait! Take note, everyone. If you do not love President Hillary, you will be sanctioned. Or maybe it's Wall Street and Washington DC that you must love, or get sanctioned. They are really all the same thing, though.
[22:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We'll call them... - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:01] <exec> 08└─Dingleberry Alpha and Dingleberry Beta :) Gotta find 'em all, Uranus' Dingleberries!
[22:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:exploration - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:14] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't know how to use the second person singular, 'Uranus' still doesnt have a 'y' in it.
[22:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moonlets around Uranus - 06Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:18] <exec> 08└─They should be named "pile 1" and "pile 2".
[22:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:None whatsoever - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─Carbide doesn't like shock cooling that much though so cobalt still wins in practice, sometimes.
[22:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:false dichotomy - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:45] <exec> 08└─You are misunderstanding the plain english of my post. Apparently "happen to the same degree" is too complicated for you to understand. The more money involved, the more opportunity for corruption. And industry with 85% less money is likely to attract a lot less corruption.
[22:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Total Fucking Dunce - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:48] <exec> 08└─> That wealth doesn't vanish down a hole. It enriches other parts of the world which need enriching as well. Yay! Autistic kallow joins the battle! Enriching other parts of the world is not the job of the locals. Especially when that enrichment is on the backs of their health and quality and of lif...
[22:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:synthetic cobalt - 06What You Should Know about the Cobalt in Your Smartphone - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and while we are it, lets make some synthetic gold too!
[22:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:War is a moneymaking machine - 06Cops and Juries in Drug War-Happy Kansas are Refusing to Enforce Pot Prohibition - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:23] <exec> 08└─Hey-yo! I just found the life of the party! Wooooo hooooo!
[22:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relativity Predictions - 06Either Stars Are Strange, or There Are 234 Aliens Trying to Contact Us - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:23] <exec> 08└─I see where you are coming from, but still think it is disingenuous of the people who keep saying "look how many times the predictions of relativity were correct" without mentioning the times they clearly aren't. In fact, a falsification means much more than a confirmation.
[22:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:SN posts suck - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:45] <exec> 08└─That's what I do because I'm lazy.
[22:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:SN posts suck - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:47] <exec> 08└─Dont be feedin dem trolls.
[22:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope, FatPhil's resignation highlights it - 06Leaked Samsung Doc Highlights Toxic Internal Culture - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:10] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention Korean pussy.
[22:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Proprietary junk - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:30] <exec> 08└─Another troll mod, for a post which might be considered insightful. How many years have consumers kept returning to Microsoft, for the privilege of running a turd of an operating system. Polished or not, MS OS's are turds.
[22:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Proprietary junk - 06"Microsoft Was Unable to Meaningfully Improve the Software" - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:31] <exec> 08└─Anti-features, such as the ability to have multiple users logged into the same machine? With *nix, any number of people can be logged in at once. With MS OS's, you may NOT log in multiple active sessions, unless you pay for a server OS. Why? Today's computers are fast enough to serve multiple users,...
[22:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:SAIL! Orinoco Flow! - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:00] <exec> 08└─Lost sails are due to piracy!
[22:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's pretty amazing - 06Rhode Island Universities' Move to Open-License Textbooks will Save Students $5M over 5 years - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:42] <exec> 08└─Who would have thought that there are seven universities in Rhode Island?
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[23:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Mitigation: do not use GOST 28147-89 - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─Problem: The availability of GOST 28147-89, a symmetric block cipher with a 64-bit block size, is an issue. This algorithm has been added in VeraCrypt 1.18. It is a 64-bit block cipher, contrary to the other block ciphers used in VeraCrypt. The XTS code has not been adapted for such ciphers, so Ver...
[23:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Link to the VeraCrypt Audit Report - 06Audit Reveals Significant Vulnerabilities for TrueCrypt and Successor VeraCrypt - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:44] <exec> 08└─For those who want to cut to the chase, here is a link to the VeraCrypt Audit Report [ostif.org].
[23:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Interesting) 02buick .. stunning .. - 06Lexus, Toyota and Buick Top New-Auto Reliability Survey - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:11] <exec> 08└─The worst car mistake I ever made was a Buick. I was backing out of the driveway and the transmission fell apart. Then a SECOND transmission fell apart about a year later. This was in the mid-2000s. They've either come a long way since then or this survey is questionable.
[23:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Global deadness - 06New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:22] <exec> 08└─It is much more mundane than that. They use a definition of species that simply does not work very will for the organisms under study here, so they can produce vast numbers of "new discoveries" that look like huge progress for grant monies. In reality, using the current definition there are probably...
[23:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nash learned to ignore them - 06New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:24] <exec> 08└─It took him decades, but Nash (of the Nash equilibrium) learned to ignore the voices.
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