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[00:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Dinosaurs - 06First Fossilized Dinosaur Brain Tissue Found - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:34] <exec> 08└─Heh heh, when I was a kid I had this illustrated children's book (forgot the title) which depicted the mating rituals of Iguanadons with a very complicated ritual and an illustration of a male mounting a female. I wondered how the writer of the book knew that much about dinosaur mating rituals (some...
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if I was a soldier who had sacrificed for his country and it was just some rich fuckers who didn't want to pay their fair share? They would lose the same toes along with me, in the same surgery. Either that, or they could pay for my surgery. Whatever would happen, somebody else would losin...
[00:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGClrsAN2aY [youtube.com]
[00:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:49] <exec> 08└─I can broadly agree with what you're saying - the remuneration for soldiers has long been a sticking point. Just one thing remains: Please define this "fair share" thing you're talking about. What are its salient characteristics? How will we know what constitutes a "fair share"? What markers are ava...
[00:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:55] <exec> 08└─Right, because the tories, bless their twisted little hearts, have tried to stem the bleeding. They didn't manage to actually reduce the NHS budget, but they sort of shuffled the money around and redefined a few things and managed to put a lid on the cauldron and sit on it for a while. If you draw t...
[00:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:57] <exec> 08└─Speaking of growing like a cancer, what are the effects of refugees and other unskilled dead-weight on Britain's healthcare system?
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:59] <exec> 08└─Insignificant.
[00:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─I found some data that does say NHS went from 3.5% from 1960 to 7.2% in 08. http://news.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] For the US, health spending went from 4.5% in 1960 to 17.8% in 2010. https://econographics.wordpress.com
[00:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:03] <exec> 08└─Do NOT compare any health system to the one in the U.S on a financial basis. We have the most hell bound pyschotic avaricious parasites in the world. THAT's why a fucking 2c band-aid costs $4.99 a piece and an Aspirin can cost $30. When you compare our costs against Cuba's costs for the same medicin...
[00:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:06] <exec> 08└─Apples and oranges. But even assuming those numbers are utterly comparable on every level (they're not, but what the hell ...) that mostly reveals that when you have a market strongly constrained by a buyer with the force of law, you're apt not to get a lot of price rises. The situation in the USA a...
[00:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Tin Snips? Really? - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:11] <exec> 08└─No way, man. Hold back the guard on a circle saw. Much quicker.
[00:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:18] <exec> 08└─I dunno about this particular AC or this story but I know I absolutely do intentionally submit bad articles sometimes just so we can have fun ripping on them occasionally. We're (all of us, staff and non) not here to curate what's good and what's bad in the news but to discuss what's out there being...
[00:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:1) 02Daily Mail headline generator results - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:20] <exec> 08└─These are the closest attempts to this story I could get, using the Daily Mail-o-matic headline generator [qwghlm.co.uk]: - will political correctness give taxpayers' money diabetes? - will feminism give hard-working families diabetes? - will lesbians give pensioners diabetes? Yeah, yeah, I'll go to...
[00:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:24] <exec> 08└─Everyone, but that last one could be a point in your favor :) I think they got one fact wrong, or I'm even more impressed with this gentleman's ability to make do with less.
[00:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 1700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:26] <exec> 08└─I was going to mod you down, but I'll comment instead using an underwear analogy - If you must wear a pair of dirty underwear, you generally wear the least dirty and stinky pair you can find. Or you can choose not to wear underwear at all. RT was never terrific, it's just that everybody else became...
[00:10:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02Alternative sci/fi short novel below. - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 941 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:37] <exec> 08└─The young alien's skin, we'll call him Bob, suddenly flashed a yellow glow of excitement. - "TEACHER TEACHER There is a pattern! radial coordinates .45565, .57634, towards the edge of the X23" The teacher concentrated telepathically for a brief moment (three earth's years, to be precise) and replied...
[00:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative sci/fi short novel below. - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:40] <exec> 08└─Modded you up, and you win the Internet today :)
[00:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:How could we possibly know? - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:43] <exec> 08└─Read your H.G. Wells. (Or was it Stapledon?) He once imagined that the Martians tried to communicate with Earth by building geometric constructions large enough to be seen with a good telescope...by which he meant just slightly better than Mount Palomar.
[00:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone FTL-capable won't comm over electromagne - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, if we're not living in an FTL universe it's a lot safer. The catch is we wouldn't know that we are until we invent the FTL drive, or have someone visit.
[00:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Dark Forest - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:50] <exec> 08└─Runaway's greatest fear: Mooslims from Outer Space!!!! With Sharia Ray Guns!!! Will humanity survive?
[00:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The Dark Forest - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:52] <exec> 08└─You're in my "safe space". Get off my lawn.
[00:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:The Dark Forest - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:54] <exec> 08└─Why would they even talk to us?
[00:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02No to gravitational waves - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:56] <exec> 08└─Gravitational wave signals, which, if there is one unique to intelligent life, would be detectable
[00:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Need mental training - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 2889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:59] <exec> 08└─My foot doesn't hurt anymore, so I'll treat you all to one of my better and more joyful unintelligible rantings: I have already thought up a necessary mental training that is a bit reflexive and self-referential: It is related to my 3 beliefs that (1) science is more communicable than (esoteric) mag...
[00:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useful Plant - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:10] <exec> 08└─They are seasonal. They also like semi dry to slightly moist soil. Basically the ideal conditions to grow grass is almost exactly the same for dandelions. For me they seem to thrive in slightly shaded areas. So they are not OK with intense sunlight for 10 hours straight. They grow better with 4-5 ho...
[00:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm shocked - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:25] <exec> 08└─http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/00/00ddce11eb42d72fd22ab4b7d9875eea4419fd39916dbe8dd946dfe8558ec180.jpg [quickmeme.com]
[00:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I sure know that I'm responsible for the sins of my fathers, all my mighty and unearned privilege and esteem. Wait - hold on; Jim on the back forty is acting up again. Okay, I'm back - goin' to have to switch off arms lest all that whippin' ruin my superior genetic symmetry. You do realize tha...
[00:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:47] <exec> 08└─As soon as you tried to play the irish slaves bullshit you eviscerated yourself. The indentured and penal servitude of the Irish is not even close to the hereditary chattel status of africans. That's stormfront quality tripe.
[00:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:49] <exec> 08└─[some desperate handwaving]
[00:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:51] <exec> 08└─modern slavery fueled by false accusations of "racism" is even more insidious than just openly calling it by its ugly name.
[00:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard That Before - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:14] <exec> 08└─Sound like? Bullshit. Valid advice is valid advice. Let's be clear here - I cannot pass for black or brown. If/when a few radical, militant black guys come after me for violating THEIR gaybo "safe space", I'm going to gun them down.
[00:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Heard That Before - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:15] <exec> 08└─Which part of the word "militant" did you fail to understand? No, I didn't say I was going to "shoot a black man". I stated that I would gun down an entire god-damned crowd of militant black men, just as I aimed my truck a an entire crowd of belligerent union picketers. And, race has nothing to do w...
[00:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard That Before - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:18] <exec> 08└─Which part of the word "militant" did you fail to understand?
[00:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Heard That Before - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:20] <exec> 08└─Get a fucking dictionary. And, be sure that it wasn't published by democrats. "militant" has one meaning, not some bullshit you might make up. Now, those assholes in California - did they TOUCH anyone? That's assault. You do understand the terms "assault" and "self defense"? Again - get a dictionary...
[00:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard That Before - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:22] <exec> 08└─> Get a fucking dictionary. And, be sure that it wasn't published by democrats. Oh, so now you have your own dictionary. Unable to explain away your literal words, you are trying to wish them away. You said "shouting obscenities. " You did not say threaten, you did not say attack. > You may choose t...
[00:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard That Before - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:24] <exec> 08└─what the hell does mlk fighting "the good fight" have to do with brainwashed, spoiled, dependents at colleges whining about their feelings being hurt and provoking violence by blocking foot traffic? not even close, dipshit.
[00:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Irony, You are Doing It with Style! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:46] <exec> 08└─> I do NOT believe in "safe spaces". Why does whatever you believe matter in the least? What makes your opinion worthy of citation? The rest of your post is apparently a violent fantasy that you hope to act out. So... not doing much for your credentials I'm afraid.
[00:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Irony, You are Doing It with Style! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:47] <exec> 08└─You are racist, so your opinion doesn't matter. credentials? WTF does AC know of credentials?
[00:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02so then... - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:25] <exec> 08└─... why fuck with random guy who you do not trust?
[00:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Incorrect" - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:35] <exec> 08└─are you unable to read? it's not "fucking up" if you go out of your way to do something that's completely unnecessary. They are concubines of MS, period.
[00:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would I buy it anyway? - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:39] <exec> 08└─Indeed. May as well buy a mac
[00:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Nearly meaningless - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:27] <exec> 08└─Good point, but it's not irony. It's corruption. Some animals are more equal than others. Kinda like how the Mob really will protect your business, but then Vinny is the one with pleasure of abusing you on a regular basis. It's either some street punk, or Vinny, and hey... he's a funny guy.
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[01:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tin Snips? Really? - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:08] <exec> 08└─A bladed hose cutter pliers will make a nice clean fast cut. Also good for penectomy.
[01:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Tin Snips? Really? - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:10] <exec> 08└─Through bone though? I'd think bolt cutters would be better.
[01:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:14] <exec> 08└─> ... they didn't call? They didn't suggest a follow-up appointment? They didn't check to see if there were side-effects? Who knows? We only have the word of an obviously crazy guy. Nobody else gets to talk because of medical privacy laws. Everything he says is suspect.
[01:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:20] <exec> 08└─What's the point of getting worked up over a lie? There is plenty of legit absurdity in the world, why submit fake absurdity?
[01:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:22] <exec> 08└─Strong word, lie. You got something in particular in mind and evidence to back up your claim or are you just talking shit?
[01:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:29] <exec> 08└─Only a few years ago people called me crazy for saying that the NSA is spying on everybody,
[01:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, you and I are intelligent enlightened people, I get that. Recall one of Frank Zappa's most famous comments: There are two things that are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity. But you'd be surprised how many government bootlickers are amongst us. A girl I dated awhile back actually said verbatim,...
[01:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 1680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:34] <exec> 08└─I'm terribly saddened by the current state of American media and am pretty damn-well convinced that there is a mass-organized collusion between government elements and news personnel, possibly even confidential plants. What these organizations are not telling us is they are all monetary failures at...
[01:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:36] <exec> 08└─What those idiots fail to understand is that even a retard can see what is going on. As an example close to me, the San Diego UT Paper. You see a mouthpiece of conservative establishment go liberal establishment overnight with a new buyer, and of course you're gonna see a death-spiral of subscriptio...
[01:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone FTL-capable won't comm over electromagne - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:53] <exec> 08└─or have someone visit.
[01:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Dark Forest - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:59] <exec> 08└─What if their talking fries the planet?
[01:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Dark Forest - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:01] <exec> 08└─Why talk to us? If they have religion, they, like us, would think it universal. Maybe they, like me, would be curious if they matched. Might bring sanity to both civilizations. Right?😅
[01:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:52] <exec> 08└─systemic racism is still the dominating factor
[01:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:53] <exec> 08└─Dictionary pedant. Stormfront fellow traveler And Connoisseur of strawmen.
[01:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a continuation of a trend - 06World Vertebrate Populations Have Declined 58% Since 1970, According to the Living Planet Assessment - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:48] <exec> 08└─We seem to be working our way down from Woolly Mammoths and Bluefin Tuna to ever smaller species that we're grinding into extinction. There are, of course, exceptions, but trees have been hit hard (North American Chestnut comes to mind, I'm sure a proper botanist could list a dozen large tree specie...
[01:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:The comments were also based in experience - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:31] <exec> 08└─Looking at that first link, the scratching appears to be caused by some shitty plastic film Wacom uses over the display. I would hope the MS device is just glass like every other modern touch screen. There is no way a digital pen designed for a touchscreen should be able to scratch glass unless the...
[01:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Congrats to Doctor Dunzel - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:22] <exec> 08└─"helping doctors find treatments for cancer patients" And someday maybe even helping patients find treatments without needing a doctor. Good work. Congratulations to Doctor Dunzel.
[01:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02that's great, geniuses - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:39] <exec> 08└─congratulations. now, how about removing the bios/uefi whitelists that prevents people from using non-lenovo (re)branded wwan adapters? Pages and pages of forum posts with no official response OR FIX from lenovo. You advertise a minipci port and then use firmware to restrict it, without disclosing t...
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[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory Dumbassery - 06Metamaterial Device Allows Chameleon-like Behavior in the Infrared - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:39] <exec> 08└─> Metamaterial Device Allows Chameleon-like Behavior in the Infrared So you can walk on walls and the ceiling if you wear it in under a heat-lamp? Yeah, I'm looking at you wanker_monkey.
[02:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:3, Funny) 02Dinosaur zombies! - 06First Fossilized Dinosaur Brain Tissue Found - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:47] <exec> 08└─And in completely unrelated news, the first dinosaur zombie has been found.... "Fossilized brraaaaiiiinss!! Chomp, chomp!"
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey! I know! - 06First Fossilized Dinosaur Brain Tissue Found - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:49] <exec> 08└─Calling jmorris! We evidently found something of yours! Please pick up the nearest courtesy phone.
[02:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:09] <exec> 08└─Again, NHS spending as a percentage of GDP has been falling every year since 2010. That's not "slowed the climb". That's a decreasing. You're still talking shite.
[02:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:14] <exec> 08└─So, don't compare a single payer approach with a market approach because the market approach is unfair due to avaricious pricing? That was sort of the point of my post. :p
[02:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:32] <exec> 08└─This story, duh.
[02:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:37] <exec> 08└─Do you hear that sound? That is the sound of an echo chamber. SoylentNews should not be part of it.
[02:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:42] <exec> 08└─I also saw all kinds of people dismissing mass surveillance as a mere conspiracy theory before Snowden blew the whistle. And then there are the bootlickers you mention, who actually applaud the unconstitutional democracy-destroying surveillance. I don't see why it would be hard for someone to believ...
[02:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02A bit more planning; options for less pain ... - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:46] <exec> 08└─I would find (pay) a person to assistant me. The surgery would be performed like this: - Swallow morphine tablets or inject morphine liquid (gotten from a doctor). - Wait till morphine kicks in. - Tell assistant to put me to sleep by MMA Rear Naked Choke Sleeper Hold. - While I am knocke...
[02:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:How could we possibly know? - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:01] <exec> 08└─I think you might be referencing something that's usually been attributed to Carl Friedrich Gauss [wikipedia.org], though that attribution is suspect. Yeah, I actually remembered that when you mentioned it. It wouldn't surprise me if Wells or somebody else appropriated it.
[02:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cock chafers - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:27] <exec> 08└─Hope this discussion won't descend into jokes about cock chafers like the last one did.
[02:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:06] <exec> 08└─Since all you are left with is mere ad hominem, I take it you feel unable to successfully defend your attempt to redefine the word "racism". Excellent. Go and sin no more.
[02:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:26] <exec> 08└─If we're now talking about cuts that happen at the beginning and end of a scene, and not in the middle, much less of an explanation is necessary. Those could simply be a matter of taste by the editor. Imagine for a moment that the events did transpire the way the video presents them -- the video sho...
[02:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:38] <exec> 08└─5 years? You need adea to pull your head out the sand. This has been going on for nearly 150 years, and in reality even before that. Black militism has never died, because black people have never had a fair shake; which makes my point for me: WHY is this getting media attention? It's about causing...
[02:15:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:They sure hope so - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:25] <exec> 08└─Also people tend to be selective about which areas (and nationalities) they care about....
[02:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:32] <exec> 08└─Somehow this will lead to an extension of rule 34 then. I'm dreadfully curious as to how that will pan out... (as in, I both dread it and am curious about it)
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[03:10:04] <exec> 08└─Stop hyperventilating. Read the words. The actual budget is not reduced; the relative budget as part of GDP is reduced, (although the budget as part of revenue is questionably reduced) and this is in an era of growth when they made a big noise about working hard to trim the NHS. And this is just the...
[03:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Tin Snips? Really? - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:18] <exec> 08└─I'd cut through the joint, as at least that way it won't pressure-splinter the bone and wind up with more mess than before.
[03:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:29] <exec> 08└─Be specific. What's untrue?
[03:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:32] <exec> 08└─I'm weighted more towards the middle, but I just need exercise! :) Anywho, I like a variety of stories: I don't care for something, I don't read something.
[03:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:44] <exec> 08└─^This! Is American media ANY better than, say Russian 'media'? Which one? I find I go to several sites in order to try to read between the lines and get to a truth, but a lot (most)people are sheeple, and they go to CNN and get CNN's 'truth'. How is America any different from Russia? The land of the...
[03:11:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Useful Plant - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does. You have to make the effort to have a nice field of grass. Only then do you get an excellent crop of dandelions.
[03:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm shocked - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:38] <exec> 08└─Thought it might be, actually. But then I thought you might just be using :) as a generic sarcasm sign, as some people do, rather than a face referent (which it seems some people forget "smileys" even are). Anyhow, sorry for trying to make a joke off of a misreading of your joke.
[03:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Screw that - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:26] <exec> 08└─Heh... I'm RTFA'ing (fap*fap*fap) and.... hmm. The side effects, and the rebound effect one guy reported, sound like it also fucks with thyroid function. If so, the long term side effects are way not worth it.
[03:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Precious - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:37] <exec> 08└─you don't hear of men poking holes in condoms.
[03:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:so then... - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:39] <exec> 08└─never heard of one night stands? i've heard that people even do them without even trying to learn each others' names sometimes.
[03:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02end of Soylent? - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:58] <exec> 08└─Well, Slashdot has improved greatly since it got out of DICE's clutches, so we might manage. It still lacks basics like Unicode support and has bugs like story links randomly going to "https://slashdot.org" instead of the real thing until you reload, but editing is back to a semi-reasonable quality....
[03:14:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Re:Yet some prefer normal Wacoms - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:49] <exec> 08└─Some prefer normal Wacoms or equivalent tablets: no hand obscuring anything, no scratches (IIRC some Cintiqs had that issue in serious way) or grease to get rid, not eyes at short distance of work or not crouching over, no all in one that must be replace if any part goes bad even if the rest is fine...
[03:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Um, no - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:59] <exec> 08└─What, by punching the touchscreen out of frustration?
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[04:10:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 1694 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:43] <exec> 08└─I was going to mod you down, but I'll comment instead using an underwear analogy - If you must wear a pair of dirty underwear, you generally wear the least dirty and stinky pair you can find. Or you can choose not to wear underwear at all. RT was never terrific, it's just that everybody else became...
[04:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:50] <exec> 08└─Our local Buffalo News is owned by Buffet, seems to be holding a steady course. The coverage isn't quite as good as it used to be, but there are still reporters that go out and research stories. No huge change in political outlook, fairly moderate, they often endorse local candidates from different...
[04:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02obligatory xkcd - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:19] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/638/ [xkcd.com]
[04:11:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:59] <exec> 08└─Non white students block white students from going to class. Oh, but it's not racist because it wasn't white people blocking non whites. Fuck that shit.
[04:12:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03t-3 [4907] 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 939 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:19] <exec> 08└─Treating everyone equally is the antithesis of racism. Unequal treatment = ine 1ff6 quality. Unequal treatment based on race = racism. It's not complicated. Reparations and repairing the effects of insitutional racism are another argument, and have nothing to do with what racism is. Even if racism a...
[04:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Son - 06In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:17] <exec> 08└─I walked to school in half the schools I went to and never came to any harm. As did millions of other kids.
[04:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Re:Screw that - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:37] <exec> 08└─Marduk, Buddha, Qi, Lao-Tse, Abaoji, Jesus, Horus, Mithra, Mithras, Krishna, Huitzilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, Alan Gua, Momotarō and Deganawida would argue that even abstinence isn't 100% proof.
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[05:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More Ray Kurzweil stuff - 06NMN Causes "Anti-Aging" Effects in Mice, Human Trials Underway - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:37] <exec> 08└─In addition to cancer, the other problem with anti-aging is that it would result in overpopulation. Unless we colonize Mars. Send all the people age 100+ to Mars.
[05:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"when ever (sic) megabit counts" - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:44] <exec> 08└─Ever[y] megabit counts, you say? I'm streaming video on a 128 kilobit connection, right now. First world motherfuckers have no fucking clue at all.
[05:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey! I know! - 06First Fossilized Dinosaur Brain Tissue Found - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:01] <exec> 08└─It's *brain* tissue; there's no way in Hell that's his. If we were talking coproliths, now...
[05:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey! I know! - 06First Fossilized Dinosaur Brain Tissue Found - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:02] <exec> 08└─I have heard of the condition "shit for brains", but seriously, Azuma, fossil shit for brains? That's harsh!!
[05:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:31] <exec> 08└─The "market approach" ... excuse me while I laugh so hard I cough up a lung. The "market approach" - where the government decides who can decide which universities may graduate how many doctors. The "market approach" - where the government deliberately puts monopolies in place and refuses to do anyt...
[05:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:46] <exec> 08└─From what I understand, amputation is a common occurrence with diabetics. Something about the immune system going bad that I'm either not sober enough or smart enough to grasp. A rat 2000 her large CS professor that I took classes from took a few months off some 10 years ago due to an infection in a...
[05:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Stop trying to be cable news - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:54] <exec> 08└─I'm responding assuming you either are staff, or are somehow speaking for them/known them. We're (all of us, staff and non) not here to curate what's good and what's bad in the news but to discuss what's out there being said.
[05:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Re:The Dark Forest - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:33] <exec> 08└─Actually they were here for quite a long time before they left. *Holds up my cut glass bowl with the inscription "So long & thanks for all the fish."* I'm afraid my 'thumb isn't picking up anything anymore. =-J
[05:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Continental Weed Smokers! - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:49] <exec> 08└─> German Engineering(tm). They are spreading, Conti just bought Hoosier race tires in Indiana. Hard to imagine two corporate cultures that are more different. Hoosier is rough and ready, get'er done, and they make & sell more racing-specific tires than any other company. Conti is high tech, not just...
[05:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:could be true - 06World Vertebrate Populations Have Declined 58% Since 1970, According to the Living Planet Assessment - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:36] <exec> 08└─I'm dubious, seems like this is not across the board. We have more deer around here (suburbs) than we ever had when I was a kid 50 years ago. Wild turkeys too, now they strut around in groups of 10-12 and intimidate the cat. There are less rabbits, we used to drive home at night and see red eyes all...
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[06:09:35] <exec> 08└─Send all the people age 100+ to Mars.
[06:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"when ever (sic) megabit counts" - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:44] <exec> 08└─Size != Rate. Your connection may be 128 kilobits per second. Note the "per second". The article does not say per second: it is stating the size is important, even if its just a megabit: this is different from saying that its important how many megabits they can get in a second.
[06:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old dogs and children, and dandelion tires - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:49] <exec> 08└─How about https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[06:12:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, but it's not racist because it wasn't white people blocking non whites.
[06:14:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02So true. - 06Trouble in Today's Academic Culture - 1188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:57] <exec> 08└─Self-promoters tend to succeed in Academia, as they do in business and all other areas. But they usually are not the ones who should have been successful. The technique in academia has always been to promote these hot-shot types into administration, where they could feel very important and have no a...
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[07:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02No - 06Additional Benefit of Omega-3 Fatty Acids for the Clearance of Metabolites from the Brain - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:32] <exec> 08└─So go fishing.
[07:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:"when ever (sic) megabit counts" - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:48] <exec> 08└─Shit, it's not like 128 kb is bad, I was on it until last year, and I wouldn't have upgraded except that it was free. Complaining about internet speed makes me think you're one of those first worlders you complain about in any case...
[07:10:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:24] <exec> 08└─NHS spending as a percentage of GDP has been falling every year since 2010. The rest of what you say is shite too.
[07:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:04] <exec> 08└─I definitely don't think this is black people protesting. I am not interested in the color of protesters, I am interested in the politics being played out here which is grandiose victimization of students and bullying of university administration by student unions under protection of federal governm...
[07:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Irony, You are Doing It with Style! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:28] <exec> 08└─The line from the 2nd Ghostbusters: "He is Runaway! You are like the buzzing of flies to him! The scourge of Arkansaws, the sorrow of Texarkana, the Prince of Fox News! Bow down before him, and weep! For Runaway has an opinion!!!"
[07:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Free-range parenting? - 06In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:44] <exec> 08└─I see, you prefer the parents to be locked up in cages. ;-)
[07:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Part deux - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:14] <exec> 08└─female birth control is known to cause depression and all kinds of other bad side effects
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[08:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uber! - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:33] <exec> 08└─Making the trillionaires at Uber even more trillions!
[08:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fatty acids in semen - 06Additional Benefit of Omega-3 Fatty Acids for the Clearance of Metabolites from the Brain - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:41] <exec> 08└─I get smarter by sucking my own cock.
[08:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:01] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, the cause is not well understood. For a long time the leading theory was that the excess blood glucose itself caused nerve and capillary damage. Now, the idea that the same immune malfunction that destroyed the beta cells in the first place might also attack the lining of the blo...
[08:11:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02How could we possibly know? - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 3021 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:33] <exec> 08└─Could humans a few centuries ago have imagined our modern methods of communication? Would they imagine aliens might make a giant signal flag or some other method of communication that would have been for long distances back then? Science and technology continues a relentless push forward. How can we...
[08:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02They're made out of meat ... - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:51] <exec> 08└─No ones posted one of my favs yet: http://www.terrybisson.com [terrybisson.com]
[08:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Part deux - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:27] <exec> 08└─Hmm lets play the 'guess my gender' game. I can get pregnant when I want. I can abort a child when I want. I get paid in the name of kid. I am not required to spend my money on my kid.
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[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─just do it
[09:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Flatpack making things _faster_?? - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:59] <exec> 08└─If you bundle your random version libraries with the rest of the download instead of sharing the same library you already have in your system, you're increasing your download size... And I didn't even say anything about the poor security model where you have millions of versions of a library never g...
[09:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:21] <exec> 08└─Only a few years ago people called me crazy for saying that the NSA is spying on everybody, and look what happened - when stuff like that occurs, it validates "conspiracy theory" websites such as Infowars.
[09:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score:1) 02Re:Anyone FTL-capable won't comm over electromagne - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:41] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. Assuming problems like impacting dust are solvable, if you could travel at velocities asymptotic to c you could get anywhere you want within your lifetime. (For the simpler case of constant velocity, the trip time you experience is shortened by the SR factor gamma.) Of course "going...
[09:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They're made out of meat ... - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:54] <exec> 08└─Some of them, like our dear Runaway1955, even have heads make of meat!
[09:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Heard That Before - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:18] <exec> 08└─I used the words "militants" and "shouting obscenities" in the same sentence. The KKK is notorious for having murdered a number of black people. They come drag you away from your home, and hang you under a bridge. Now a bunch of racist louts walking up your driveway to get you ARE NOT shouting obsce...
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[10:09:48] <exec> 08└─Terrigenesis.
[10:11:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:01] <exec> 08└─From the RT article, sourced from that source of renowned journalism, 'Celeb Starz News' — He says he then discharged himself from hospital and thought surgeons would call him in a few days to re-book an appointment, but claims they never did. ... Dibbins says he resorted to treating his own woun...
[10:11:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 530 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:09] <exec> 08└─I dunno about this particular AC or this story but I know I absolutely do intentionally submit bad articles sometimes just so we can have fun ripping on them occasionally. We're (all of us, staff and non) not here to curate what's good and what's bad in the news but to discuss what's out there being...
[10:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:22] <exec> 08└─Even the best of them presents an illogical story. We seem to have: Frostbite on toes In hospital to get right leg amputated below the knee. Surgery cancelled due to another patient having complications Given leave to care for himself until toes get bad Six months later, Toes get bad, told it's 6 we...
[10:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:32] <exec> 08└─And its +5 insightful on one of the most racially ignorant forums on the web.
[10:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02so then... - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:16] <exec> 08└─...where is the pleasure in fucking people u do not trust?
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[11:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Our pristine roadways... - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:59] <exec> 08└─I can imagine this turning cars into megawatt generators, considering what good shape, and how smooth our roads are. Hell, if they combine this with a 'wireless power transmission' function to put excess power into the 'grid', just an occasional trip to the store would make me rich beyond belief the...
[11:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:00] <exec> 08└─I would not have thought it very hard to implement, but the energy you would get out of it would be trivial compared with that being used by, say, the car engine. That's unless you live down a dirt road in the outback - but that would be a long way from Huddersfield.
[11:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:4, Funny) 02Ever megabit - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:29] <exec> 08└─This makes installing programs from the net when ever megabit counts much quicker.
[11:11:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:03] <exec> 08└─I've had people sit for MONTHS with gangrene as their other conditions made surgery too risky (interesting side note- the toes fell off and we had to store it in the fridge as they had a tradition of being buried "whole"). Yes, gangrene will kill you, but not in six weeks time. What we have here is...
[11:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:11] <exec> 08└─Speaking of growing like cancer, how'd that Iraq war turn out for you guys?
[11:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to be cable news - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:40] <exec> 08└─Something is not news just because news agencies are covering it. Frankly, there are better sources of echo chamber like news (e.g. cable).
[11:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm shocked - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:58] <exec> 08└─But then I thought you might just be using :) as a generic sarcasm sign, as some people do
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[12:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:33] <exec> 08└─And the lesson here is: if you're going to protest, be armed while you do.
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─> And the lesson here is: if you're going to protest, be armed while you do. Yeah. That worked out great for LaVoy Finicum [cnn.com] The actual lesson here is: Being white still rocks.
[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, being white will get you shot.
[12:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02"The Bundy gang" - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:39] <exec> 08└─"The Bundy gang" sounds like a group of old West outlaws. Seems like biased reporting to me. Also, it's called No Ma'am, Al Bundy founded it in the 90s.
[12:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:"The Bundy gang" - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─(cleans Dr. Pepper out of nose and off of keyboard and screen....) You win this thread AC...
[12:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:56] <exec> 08└─The engine does not exactly hiccup when I drive over potholes, and theres no free lunch, so obviously the power generated is deep in the error bars of MPG and performance. A good model is a car mechanic's lift. So the total impact of a mile of interstate is one foot thats the same energy as lifting...
[12:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Tertiary students? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:58] <exec> 08└─does anyone "make out" in a car anymore? Some horny teenagers could end up never needing to refuel...
[12:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Tertiary students? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:00] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty cynical attitude there.....uh....oh.....nevermind....
[12:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02seeing as how we crawled out of the sea... - 06Additional Benefit of Omega-3 Fatty Acids for the Clearance of Metabolites from the Brain - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:11] <exec> 08└─...still carry around the remnants of seawater in our bodies, it would only make sense our bodies got acclimated to the seafood we no doubt ate a lot of while we lay on the shore gasping for breath, waiting for our gills to complete their transformation into lungs... (sic) too bad we're fishing the...
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[14:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:33] <exec> 08└─For SN, a DDOS is more than 4 people logged on at the same time ;) Tee hee
[14:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:35] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the update. I noticed SN was a little slow, so did my usual thing -- rebooted Firefox. Now everything else is snappy.
[14:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:3, Funny) 02Comments? - 06DDoS of SN Underway - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:37] <exec> 08└─Have you been posting unpopular views in the comments section again, TMB? ;)
[14:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Comments? - 06DDoS of SN Underway - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:39] <exec> 08└─What, me? Never!
[14:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Busy - 06DDoS of SN Underway - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:41] <exec> 08└─Sigh, I hate working on weekends
[14:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah. That worked out great for LaVoy Finicum
[14:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:00] <exec> 08└─> It did in fact. Death should always be preferable to allowing your liberty to be infringed for any American. Lol. Big talk internet tough guy. > Racist fool. Takes one to know one.
[14:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:02] <exec> 08└─Oh noes! Your fourth grade level retorts have undone me entirely! However shall I go on?
[14:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:05] <exec> 08└─Apparently by posting more ego-defending whines.
[14:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:07] <exec> 08└─There are 2 other possible lessons here: 1. If you're going to protest, be white. 2. Opposing the government, even using threats of lethal force, is just fine, but opposing the megacorps, even without breaking any laws, that will get you into real trouble. Of those, #2 is more likely, because what t...
[14:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:09] <exec> 08└─1) Dude, racist much? 2) Dude, cynical much? The difference was a hell of a lot of angry people were paying attention to the Bundy incident. Right now the only thing getting paid attention to is the election.
[14:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02What causes the difference? - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 1998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know what causes the difference? Is there a large political difference between the governments of Oregon and Dakota? The *decision* to send in police to convince the protestors to move away, is probably out of the judicial system. But the choice and nature of the *amount of force used* in th...
[14:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:31] <exec> 08└─Submitters or Editors could have done more research before posting this as a breakthrough, the concept is old and various attempts have been made to "harvest" the damper energy. Levant Power http://levantpower.com [levantpower.com] is one company that is still chasing the problem. The...
[14:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:35] <exec> 08└─- Look Sandy we're flat out of fuel there's no choice! *unzips jeans*
[14:13:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Ever megabit - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:10] <exec> 08└─This makes installing programs from the net when ever megabit counts much quicker.
[14:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score:2) 02Angry face and blind people - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:52] <exec> 08└─If that is their angry face, it amazes me they were not wiped out by enemies a long time ago. Kidding asside, if you find this kind of small difference only in isolated small communities, I think it is easier explained by that specific culture changing and inate behavior than that behavior not being...
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[15:09:39] <exec> 08└─If I reply to this post, am I making things worse for the server load? Any comments, please reply below.
[15:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:41] <exec> 08└─Nah, we're all good now. The webservers can totally handle this load. It was the firewall at the load balancer that was having issues. It had a rule or three in it that it shouldn't have.
[15:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:46] <exec> 08└─Any idea how large the attack was? Not sure of what units would make sense, how about, "Fraction of the recent attack on Krebs"? Example: Was this a 0.1 Krebs attack? https://krebsonsecurity.com [krebsonsecurity.com]
[15:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:48] <exec> 08└─Big enough that the notoriously slow editorial staff noticed it....
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:50] <exec> 08└─Pretty freaking tiny as far as DDoSes go. Maybe a few dozen hits per second. It's still going on by the way. It just isn't actually big enough to slow us down after removing a couple rules that shouldn't have been in the load balancer's firewall.
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Thank You - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─Thought I'd take this opportunity to say "Thank You" to all the unsung heroes who 'hampster' away behind the scenes keeping the site up and running. Yes I know you don't do it for accolades but all the same "Ta Muchly".
[15:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thank You - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─Now everything is working, management has decided to increase shareholder value and reduce staff costs by 33%. Thank you for making this possible. Please bring your written answers to the question "What have I personally done to increase shareholder value this quarter?" to the all-hands compulsory m...
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02No - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─Ever wonder what it would be like if a device could decode your thoughts
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Solution looking for a problem - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─This is a solution looking for a problem. Do NOT want!
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02My cheeks would be red - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─from being slapped by all the women that walk by.
[15:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Do I have to think in Russian? - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/?ref_=nv_sr_1 [imdb.com]
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02It's the fleet mileage standards - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:54] <exec> 08└─The EPA gave the automakers essentially unachievable fleet mileage per gallon standards. Insanely, it is a fleet average MPG rating, not an energy efficiency standard. I.e., if a company sells 100 trucks weighing 6000lbs that get 20 MPG and 100 cars weighing 3000lbs that get 30 MPG, the overall flee...
[15:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:seeing as how we crawled out of the sea... - 06Additional Benefit of Omega-3 Fatty Acids for the Clearance of Metabolites from the Brain - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:06] <exec> 08└─Kids (in my father's era) used to be fed cod liver oil on a regular basis. I got some as a kid, foul tasting slime. No idea how this got started...or why it stopped. Now, I suppose it's hard to find cod...
[15:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Careful with those fish oil pills - 06Additional Benefit of Omega-3 Fatty Acids for the Clearance of Metabolites from the Brain - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:07] <exec> 08└─I've busted open fish oil capsules before. Some smelled bad- probably rotten and unfit for consumption, whereas others smelled like fresh fish (if you've had salmon eggs before it's a bit like that). Taking rotten fish oil is likely to not be as healthy or helpful as taking fresh fish oil: https://w...
[15:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Flatpack making things _faster_?? - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:27] <exec> 08└─As I understand the illustrations in the featured article: Each package depends on a "runtime", a packaged set of libraries. There's a runtime for GNOME 3 and an experimental one for Qt. Multiple applications can use one runtime, but all libraries that an application needs that are not in its runtim...
[15:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Ever megabit - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:29] <exec> 08└─Wha d yo thin Frenc speaker hav bee doin fo centurie?
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[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02can I actually BUY my roof? - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:41] <exec> 08└─I do not wish to rent my roof. This is non-negotiable. I probably want to find my own installer. Can I just buy the material? The way all the Elon Musk stuff is done, I'm guessing "no". He rents out solar panels. He makes you "buy" the car, but then changes the software afterward, remotely takes act...
[16:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:can I actually BUY my roof? - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─Even if SolarCity won't sell you a roof, I imagine it won't be hard to find someone who will. It looks here like the two big innovations are a durable roofing material and solar cells that look more like normal roofing material. One of the things about renting roofs, is that they don't have to compe...
[16:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02appearance - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─This stuff is fake tile, fake shingles, and fake slate. We had ugly boxes at funny angles covering just part of the roof, and now we're doing fakes. This is all wrong. There is a middle ground. Solar roofs need to look nice, but they don't need to look like something they are not. They just need to...
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:01] <exec> 08└─Pretty freaking tiny as far as DDoSes go. Maybe a few dozen hits per second.
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:03] <exec> 08└─We had a rate-limiting rule that's appropriate for the TOR gateway but extremely inappropriate for the load balancer loaded in iptables on the load balancer. It was causing us to drop outgoing packets over a certain rate. That's a good thing to have on the TOR gateway because it keeps people from sl...
[16:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:05] <exec> 08└─But, yeah, it was definitely a DDoS attempt. Requests coming in from a repeating multitude of addresses for comment pages, journal pages, user pages, and the like but no requests for the images or css on the site like browsers would generate.
[16:10:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02Thank You - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:07] <exec> 08└─Thought I'd take this opportunity to say "Thank You" to all the unsung heroes who 'hampster' away behind the scenes keeping the site up and running. Yes I know you don't do it for accolades but all the same "Ta Muchly".
[16:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02why all the negative comments? - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:19] <exec> 08└─this is actually something fantastic. even if you ignore the sick people who actually need it, hasn't anyone fantasized about using a computer like this? ok, using vim is great for coding, but if I could just think what needs to be written in various places, I think I could actually do better than u...
[16:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:2) 02LaVoy Finicum murder tapes - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:40] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention LaVoy Finicum's death - turns out one of the FBI guys shot him in the chest with a "rubber bullet", and only afterwards is LaVoy seen "reaching for his chest" multiple times. Don't take my word for it, though: we can look at the FBI's video for the evidence. One of the passe...
[16:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02in the way of something - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:44] <exec> 08└─Nobody was about to build anything in Oregon. Law enforcement could just wait, like a medieval siege. On the newly "sacred" land (oh please) there was a need to get stuff done.
[16:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oregonian violence - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:49] <exec> 08└─the local government of Oregon should be congratulated at their success of ending the protest without violence.
[16:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:48] <exec> 08└─Amputation in diabetics is usually a matter of circulation and nerve damage. Basically, if you've got pain insensitivity you're more likely to hurt yourself without knowing that you've hurt yourself, so you're less likely to clean the wound or even know it's there. That's one of the main reasons tha...
[16:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:49] <exec> 08└─Nope, I've seen pictures of those kinds of infections and amputation isn't usually necessary unless there's more than just a massive infection. If a 2nd world country like Georgia doesn't need to amputate for that, then I'm not sure why a developed place like Britain would still be doing it. The onl...
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02getting rid of them - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─Forget the zoysia. Almost anything non-grass will do far better. Plant pine trees. You'll get a nice carpet of pine needles that stop all weeds. Plant oak trees. They have some effect like the pine trees, and they also block all the light. You'll have nearly bare dirt. Plant English ivy, strangler f...
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[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:40] <exec> 08└─This is just a local way to get from one process to another, without even gaining privilege. It's no worse than having a debug capability.
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02boon - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:42] <exec> 08└─The rise of catastrophic and hyped exploits targeting hundreds of millions of smartphones, PCs, and servers is exactly what the industry needed. Planned obsolescence is now forced obsolescence. Can't patch it? Good! Throw that two year old Android phone and Windows 7 box in the trash and get new one...
[17:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02mcmansions - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:53] <exec> 08└─People spend a lot of time trying to create an attractive home
[17:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:mcmansions - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:55] <exec> 08└─McMansions are normally designed to look acceptable from most angles. Cheap houses and traditional mansions generally look poor from most angles. The mismatched windows and complicated roofs of McMansions are required to ensure that the house isn't especially ugly from any angle, at the expense of n...
[17:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:06] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the serious feedback, but it shows up a sarcasm fail on my part. :/
[17:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:16] <exec> 08└─Amateurs, if you want to DDOS a site you want to pull in all the bandwidth heavy stuff like images in your hit :-P
[17:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Agreed - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:20] <exec> 08└─You have enemies? Good, it means you have stood up for something in your life.
[17:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:why all the negative comments? - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:33] <exec> 08└─Damn right I have. I am limited by my abilities with the computer because of the poor suitability of my eyes and hands for interfacing with the computer. As I get older it gets harder and harder to keep my pace of work, as my eyes are getting weaker and I put them under constant strain. My mind lite...
[17:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Private property and water rights - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:59] <exec> 08└─On the newly "sacred" land (oh please) there was a need to get stuff done.
[17:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, mister FBI or ATF agent, I totally agree. In fact, I am now loading my illegal unserialized fully-automatic military-style assault rifle's 200-round magazines full of baby-killing ammo and readying my molotov cocktails and flaming arrows. And I will also bring nunchaku, because in addition to b...
[17:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Oregonian violence - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:07] <exec> 08└─You're right; I'm sorry. But you have to admit that it could have been much more than 1 casualty in that situation. Even in Europe we have heard of Waco Texas [wikipedia.org].
[17:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oregonian violence - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:09] <exec> 08└─you have to admit that it could have been much more than 1 casualty in that situation. Even in Europe we have heard of Waco Texas.
[17:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:27] <exec> 08└─The point of this is as a replacement for the dampeners that shocks usually have. I wouldn't expect to see much improvement in efficiency from this, but every little bit you can scavenge from things like braking and the shocks does make a difference over a large enough number of cars. The relevant q...
[17:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:28] <exec> 08└─The point of a technology like this is that it could be used as a replacement or adjunct to the dampeners that people generally have in their shocks. Shocks are supposed to absorb the impact of uneven road surfaces to keep the tires on the road and hopefully make for a smoother ride. However, since...
[17:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:31] <exec> 08└─> ... a replacement or adjunct to the dampeners that people generally have in their shocks. Not only have you been misled by popular (incorrect) descriptions of suspension, you also tripped one of my pet peeves: dampen (dampener) - make damp or wet (something or someone that makes things wet) ...
[17:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:It's the fleet mileage standards - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:37] <exec> 08└─They're not impossible standards. How many of the people buying penis trucks are actually buying them because they need to move large heavy stuff on a regular basis? Not many are, the reason this has become such a problem isn't because those trucks have poor fuel economy, it's because you've got a l...
[17:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:54] <exec> 08└─Pretty shitty, but then again, I was always against both the Iraq war and opening the floodgates to refugee scum.
[17:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:17] <exec> 08└─I have seen phage therapy and it does look promising for infections. However, in diabetes the problem is generally loss of circulation due to damage to the blood vessels and nerve damage. Frostbite is similar It is not not an infectious process. Diabetic ulcers might be helped by hyperbaric oxygen,...
[17:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:33] <exec> 08└─So was his leg to be amputated for funsies? Apparently so if his foot healed up after removing his toes.
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[18:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:45] <exec> 08└─...and a quite convoluted way of doing this. Normally you use CreateRemoteThread paired with WriteProcessMemory or VirtualAllocEx to write your code directly into another process.
[18:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─But...but... it's called ATOMbombing... it must be a big deal! Years of being subjected to marketing and advertising has taught me that marketeers never lie and only tell me things that are true and of interest to me. Why would they lie to me about this being a big deal? </sarcasm>
[18:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:boon - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:50] <exec> 08└─..from my cold, dead hands. Especially after corporations begin explicitly forcing obsolescence and making you "lease" your gadget under threat of disabling it. And then there's the issue of both software and hardware "bugs" mandated or placed by government plants -- for example, Lenovo's beaconing....
[18:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─Time to run Windows only in VMs?
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:54] <exec> 08└─It depends how you're running it. If you're only using a couple programs in there like I do, then there's not much damage they can do without breaking out of the VM. Most crackers aren't going to bother with that unless they're targeting me specifically. They'll get whatever they can out of the comp...
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─When I had a Windows VM, I generally reverted it back to a snapshot anyway, except for the times I ran it just to install updates. (As a side note, I'm amazed at how long it takes to install Windows updates, even without the repeated reboots that are sometimes required. Do they throttle their downlo...
[18:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─Nope, they reparse a gigantic dependancy tree, spinlock, make repeated expensive calls to unchangeable metadata and do other anti-patterns.
[18:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:01] <exec> 08└─But those programs are usually things you use for work (why else do people use windows? It's because there's a thing they need for work that doesn't run on Wine) which means their value as a target (to you, that is, if you lose it) is high. So it's not so much about what any attacker gets out of it,...
[18:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─There's a small number of programs I run that depend upon hardware drivers that don't exist outside of Windows and OSX. The DVD software I use to play my foreign language DVDs only exists on Windows, the scanners I use for scanning books and receipts only have drivers for OSX and Windows. And then t...
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─This whole 'run it in a VM' is a non-answer because you still end up with a compromised environment.
[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─Show me someone who actually does this. Show me an actual real person who does this. No-one I know does this because "I just bookmarked a page in stupid Edge and I don't want to lose it"
[18:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:31] <exec> 08└─So, this was actually a GOOD thing! Keeps you on your toes and keeps your skillz up! :) Congratulations on your fame! May your life be filled with DDOS, as the Chinese say, lol.
[18:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agreed - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:45] <exec> 08└─For some reason, I thought of pop divas that nobody's thought of for awhile (e.g. Janet Jackson), suddenly hitting the top of the Yahoo news crawl for an embarrassing "wardrobe malfunction".
[18:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Agreed - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:47] <exec> 08└─I blame you Ethanol, not sure why, but it just seems fitting. What have you been doing lately that would cause this ? Did you push some old lady into traffic :) But then again maybe it was me, The NSA is investigating me regarding keyword postings and have decided this is a terrorist supporting hub....
[18:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:LaVoy Finicum murder tapes - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:22] <exec> 08└─The FBI also carried out a summary execution of Chris Dorner -- although I think that was a fake op to test whether or not the public would tolerate summary executions as well as public support of the law in general (by seeing how much support Dorner garnered). Then you have Waco and Ruby Ridge and...
[18:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:26] <exec> 08└─Dude, racist much? Realistic, not racist. He's pointing out the racism that's inherent in the system. When blacks or Hispanics or indigenous people protest, they're in far more danger of physical harm from the authorities than whites. Racism is a tool of the rich to keep the poor at each other's thr...
[18:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:57] <exec> 08└─First off, if you're too lazy to summarize your point, then don't bother to post. I'm not going to buy a book in the hopes of figuring out whatever your bullshit point is. Secondly, yes, this is how shocks. You have some sort of spring and you have some method of dampening the spring. It could be a...
[18:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:58] <exec> 08└─I would not have thought it very hard to implement Or expensive. Just a coil around a magnet moving in tandem with the shock absorber, and you have an alternator. I don't see it making much sense on a carbon car, but it would extend the battery before necessary recharge. I haven't done the math so h...
[18:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Careful with those fish oil pills - 06Additional Benefit of Omega-3 Fatty Acids for the Clearance of Metabolites from the Brain - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:17] <exec> 08└─I used to take the fish oil pills but was concerned with the issue you described, and with regulation in general. While I believe any fish oil capsule sold in the USA will be safe for consumption it might not be as potent as they claim. Instead I started eating the fish directly. Canned sardines (pi...
[18:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative sci/fi short novel below. - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:24] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of They're Made Out of Meat [terrybisson.com].
[18:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:How could we possibly know? - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:28] <exec> 08└─This isn't the story you're talking about, but Theodore Sturgeon's The Martian and the Moron [mcgrewbooks.com] is certainly about the difficulties of communicating with an alien civilization.
[18:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:How could we possibly know? - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─Could humans a few centuries ago have imagined our modern methods of communication? Of course not. The earliest inkling I've seen in print is Murray Leinster's A Logic Named Joe [baen.com], written the year the first programmable electronic computer was patented. The only mention of anything resembl...
[18:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02almost exclusively on the fourth possibility - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:48] <exec> 08└─And finally, actual, macrobiotic space probes, either robotic, computerized, free-floating or inhabited, which made its way towards Earth. How remarkable that our science-fiction imaginations focus almost exclusively on the fourth possibility, which is by far the least likely ! I don't recall a lot...
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[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:38] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand. Cranberry juice was never a folk remedy. It is an practice adopted by crones to excuse their own bitter behavior.
[19:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─I hear vodka and cranberry reduces urinary tract infections.
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─Bloodwine and prune juice! The cocktail of warriors!
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Applies not just to "older women" - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─Before someone jumps in with the obvious, "But you can't generalize to the overall population from a study of nursing home women!" please note that this isn't a "new" finding at all. It's following dozens of other studies that have shown this remedy to be ineffective for all populations. (See, for e...
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Wrong conclusion - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─It often happens that something works, but doesn't work for the reasons supposed. Cranberry juice concentrate capsules aren't at all equivalent to cranberry juice. One guess as to how it might actually work is that it flushes the bacteria out because of a higher volume of urine. If that were the cas...
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong conclusion: addendum - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─"Was not done" is too severe. The accurate statement is "There's no indication in the summary that this was done.".
[19:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:59] <exec> 08└─Don't you know debuggers are illegal? Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge rul...
[19:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:10] <exec> 08└─I do it. My parents do it, too. Thanks to Patch Tuesday, it doesn't really matter what day you run you machine as most software gets patched on the same day. In fact, it is really easy to do nowadays due to bookmark and favorite sync services.
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03len_harms [1904] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─VM becomes useful because of the idea of rollback and snapshots. Basically cleanup and restore is a snap. However, if you are dependent on the data residing inside that VM like you point out VM does not do much for you. Just depends on your use case.
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02a question ? - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:14] <exec> 08└─So as I read, 'the malicious program writes malicious code'... Where does the end user get the malicious program from ? Is it compromised when coming from the publisher, or does someone have to download something stupid from a compromised site ? This seems another case of over hype, any computer is...
[19:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Grow up - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:24] <exec> 08└─> They can take it back in and destroy it rather than having to worry about a secondary market in used roofing materials. I don't like it, but it works. No, that isn't how it works at all. But for you, facts have never really been an obstacle, have they? The only time the a company like solarcity w...
[19:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Agreed - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:55] <exec> 08└─If its not something Buzzard posted, then it was probably my comment about Hillary arming terrorists with Stinger missiles. It may have even been a friendly doing it as a joke.
[19:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Watch out! - 06Asthma Study Provides 'Paradigm Shift' in Understanding of Life-threatening Condition - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:15] <exec> 08└─Anything that has a "paradigm shift" likely has a PHB behind it!
[19:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:36] <exec> 08└─Why is it that a rich man can brag publicly about sexually assaulting women and still have half the country rooting for him to be president?
[19:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Should make a mint - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:13] <exec> 08└─at least with the state of the roads around here....
[19:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Anyone FTL-capable won't comm over electromagne - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:41] <exec> 08└─Safer? If we stay on this wet rock long enough we're dead whether or not aliens are there.
[19:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re: 78a9 Anyone FTL-capable won't comm over electromagne - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─Not having FTL doesn't mean you can't have colonies elsewhere, it just means you can't rule colonies elsewhere...and getting anywhere is going to take a long time. Personally I think MacroLife is the better option, but even if you insist on living on planets it's still nearly as possible...it's just...
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[20:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─Only if administered anally...
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:45] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, cranberry is the bomb-diggity. It's the fruit juice of real men with taste buds of steel, and when combined with a little sparkling water it makes an outstanding soda as well. But more to the subject - I noticed that the article stated that the patients were taking capsules rather than dri...
[20:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─Suck a raw lemon, you fucking pussy.
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:50] <exec> 08└─I sucked your momma's raw lemons last night, but they weren't tart at all - in fact, they tasted like passionfruit.
[20:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks Eth now we know wrinkly octogenarian tits are your fetish.
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─She's still got that sexy swing when she walks, though. There's nothing more sexy than an aged woman who refuses to become unsexy, especially when she wears something sheer and tight. That's one of the better things about older women -- the more they age, the less they give a fuck. That's one dirty...
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Wrong conclusion: addendum - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─Still, that's kind of like trying to prove that vaping Marijuana causes lung-cancer by having your test subjects smoke joints.
[20:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cranberry juice didn't prevent my UTI - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─Taking cranberry juice daily for four years didn't do squat to prevent that awful infection. It must be an old wives tale, propagated by the juice manufacturers. Well, OK, I didn't actually drink it for four years straight. But then, I'm not a woman either.
[20:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:21] <exec> 08└─There are many things Francis does not know, but this: The DVD software I use to play my foreign language DVDs only exists on Windows, the scanners I use for scanning books and receipts only have drivers for OSX and Windows.
[20:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03len_harms [1904] (Score:2) 02What is an atom - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:28] <exec> 08└─https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms649053(v=vs.85).aspx [microsoft.com] https://msdn.microsoft.com(v=vs.85).aspx [microsoft.com] Been awhile since I had messed with them so I had to go refresh myself on what they were. It is a leftover f...
[20:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is an atom - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─HIPS kernel drivers can just hook the API globally, Microsoft doesn't even need to offer this functionality because it's already present.
[20:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:51] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah? Well I reinstalled Windoze...
[20:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumb shallow hype - 06Asthma Study Provides 'Paradigm Shift' in Understanding of Life-threatening Condition - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:32] <exec> 08└─If TFS cut out the BS and went straight to pp5, it might have attracted some decent comments, unlike comments like this.
[20:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:55] <exec> 08└─I suspect most Clinton supporters will be the same - relieved when trump loses, but not particularly excited by more status quo. On the other hand people were excited by Obama and hardly anything groundbreaking appear to happen
[20:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:56] <exec> 08└─1) Dude, racist much?
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[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02See Foot; Pull Trigger - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:38] <exec> 08└─According to this story, [mic.com] Twitter stupidly refused to pay their top content creators on Vine, leading a to a mass exodus.
[21:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:See Foot; Pull Trigger - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─Content creators? You misspelled grifters. The grifting economy continues as grifters grift elsewhere.
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─Some people can't figure out why the NFL's ratings are dropping so fast, and just finally admitted that its players protesting the national anthem had a lot to do with it, because most of the players are ridiculously overpaid plebes while the primary consumers of NFL games are boorish military types...
[21:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─Twitter is a decent concept, if they were apolitical
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02sorry - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─Vine is dead. Six seconds of silence, please.
[21:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong conclusion - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:06] <exec> 08└─One guess as to how it might actually work is that it flushes the bacteria out because of a higher volume of urine. If that were the case, then cranberry juice concentrate wouldn't be expected to work.
[21:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02There was a time it hurt when I peed - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:08] <exec> 08└─I told a friend and she said "You have a urine infection!" I went to a urologist. He poked a swab in my William Jefferson Clinton then attempted to culture it. "No you don't," he assured me. I told another friend. She said "Go to UC San Francisco". UC San Francisco handles all the weird stuff, like...
[21:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:21] <exec> 08└─source?
[21:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:22] <exec> 08└─I think it is Stallman's "The Right to Read", certainly reads like Stallman's writing.
[21:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:32] <exec> 08└─OK, so now I know that the guy that's been trying to troll me is actually retarded. You're laughing at me, but you're not actually addressing the point at all. The scanner I use is a batch feeding model that is IRS approved for storage of tax documents, so I can throw the originals away after I have...
[21:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:38] <exec> 08└─One thing you can do to mitigate that is to use a network operating system or the built-in software that lets you mount a local folder in the virtual machine.
[21:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:a question ? - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:41] <exec> 08└─So as I read, 'the malicious program writes malicious code'... Where does the end user get the malicious program from ? Is it compromised when coming from the publisher, or does someone have to download something stupid from a compromised site ?
[21:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a question ? - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─It is total overhype. The "exploit" is basically "if I run an application it can make API calls". I bet this "exploit" was submitted to M$ who shot it down and the "researchers" got butthurt so they decided to spam about it everywhere.
[21:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:why all the negative comments? - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:41] <exec> 08└─I concur. Typing and mouse work have left my tendons and nerves inflamed and flayed. I would jump on this if it were even 75% as fast. I would guess it would only get better and better with time.
[21:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Got one already - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:42] <exec> 08└─I've got one already. It's great. It's so much easier than typing. Boobs.
[21:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hmm - 06Asthma Study Provides 'Paradigm Shift' in Understanding of Life-threatening Condition - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:52] <exec> 08└─I want the people associated with this press release to stay away from me.
[21:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:15] <exec> 08└─Why is it that a rich man can brag publicly about sexually assaulting women and still have half the country rooting [urbandictionary.com] for him to be president?
[21:14:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] 02Stop trying to be cable news - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:41] <exec> 08└─I'm responding assuming you either are staff, or are somehow speaking for them/known them. We're (all of us, staff and non) not here to curate what's good and what's bad in the news but to discuss what's out there being said.
[21:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not 'defending' anything. That was accomplished when I posted the definition from the actual dictionary. After that, all I've done is fuck with an obvious dipshit.
[21:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:57] <exec> 08└─> Those could simply be a matter of taste by the editor. Your willingness to make up explanations has convinced me you are past arguing in good faith. If you honestly believe that baloney, then I'm confident that even the unedited video would fail to convince you. > We agree that if the protesters w...
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[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A sign of the times - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:37] <exec> 08└─This may have more to do with the state of Linux and the software industry, than with the merits of the individual publications (which I admit I've never heard of). When a technology or platform becomes part of the mainstream, then it is covered by the larger business and technology press, so platfo...
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─Indeed, and I think the Internet needs something *like* Twitter,
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─Twitter is like the loudmouth guy or gal in the social group who can be counted on to say something provocative at the restaurant table or gathering, thus providing plenty of conversational fodder for the others long afterwards.
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:52] <exec> 08└─Holy shit, being an American fat fuck watching football, I have something never before reported to you to report. Trump is running ads during NFL games, and letting hill fags know that they're threatening World War III.
[22:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Users are accustomed to getting everything free - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:55] <exec> 08└─Twitter was absolutely free of charge for quite a long time, then started charging for such things as having lots of followers. Much of Google's services are free of charge. Most of the sites on the web are free of charge. They are supported by advertising, but there are too many free sites and not...
[22:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Users are accustomed to getting everything free - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:57] <exec> 08└─I'd like a link to the rms software tax proposal, if you have it. Otherwise I'll come across it at a later time :P
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Users are accustomed to getting everything free - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─True, twitter never had much of a business plan. (I'm astounded to learn somebody actually PAYS to have a twitter account, but if you say so, It must be true). They've now started selling topical tweets to TV news programs, and news sites on the web. I don't know a single person who uses twitter AT...
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02PornHub? - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:02] <exec> 08└─I heard that PornHub wanted to buy Vine, saying that "six seconds is more than enough".
[22:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:14] <exec> 08└─Self-administered, or can you get someone to help?
[22:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Wrong conclusion - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:25] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. It might mean that the active ingredient in the pill isn't making its way into the small intestine when it's taken as a pill. That wouldn't be the first time changing the delivery mechanism changed the efficacy. That's a problem that comes up fairly often when generic medications ar...
[22:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There was a time it hurt when I peed - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:29] <exec> 08└─Glad it wasn't lupus.
[22:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:44] <exec> 08└─Right to read [gnu.org] Richard Stallman, February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2)
[22:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:55] <exec> 08└─DVD region coding? libdvdcss or something, decrypts DVDs. Of course it is illegal for anything else than reading your own DVD, and in some nazi places it is probably illegal for that, too.
[22:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─IIRC, that one doesn't work. Or at least it didn't work for me last time I tried it. The optical drive is w 2000 here that conversion takes place and it requires the drivers to cooperate and I couldn't get it to actually read the disc. It might come down to which specific OS you're running it on, bu...
[22:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:59] <exec> 08└─You are not going to know this, or even believe it, but there is standard software called SANE that runs scanners, fairly standardized, nothing like twenty years ago when it was all proprietary. And of course you realize, just mentioning the IRS has scam all over it. What model, precisely, is it th...
[22:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:01] <exec> 08└─Sigh, more name calling and no actual useful information. First off, I'm familiar with SANE, I've used it in the past and it works fine for basic flatbed functionality. It does not handle document feeders, OCR, organization and it does not result in a copy that's accepted by the IRS during audits. P...
[22:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:03] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit surprised that you're willing to post this bullshit under your name.
[22:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:05] <exec> 08└─It does not handle document feeders, OCR, organization and it does not result in a copy that's accepted by the IRS during audits.
[22:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 3025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:52] <exec> 08└─That would really just saturate the outgoing bandwidth, and if the site is hosted on Amazon or similar, it's going to take a lot to saturate the bandwidth. It's more effective to find the pages that take the most server resources to serve up and slam those. You want to target ones that are hitting t...
[22:12:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:30] <exec> 08└─And the lesson here is: if you're going to protest, be armed while you do.
[22:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LaVoy Finicum murder tapes - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:40] <exec> 08└─#ChristianExtremistLivesMatter
[22:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:20] <exec> 08└─Well here's my take. Let's say you're going down the interstate and every 1 second you hit an expansion joint that raises the car (one end at a time anyway) .01 meters. So if the car weighs 12,000N we multiply force by distance over time and get 120W. So maybe 1-1.5% of the power that the engine is...
[22:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Logan's Run - 06NMN Causes "Anti-Aging" Effects in Mice, Human Trials Underway - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:48] <exec> 08└─Let's make all the old buggers renew themselves at Carosel instead! Oh wait, I'm an old bugger...scratch that idea.
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[23:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:A sign of the times - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:38] <exec> 08└─I suggest It has far more to do with the state of physical publications in general.
[23:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:3, Informative) 02Back in the Day - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:40] <exec> 08└─Back in the day (the '90s and early '00s to be specific), I used to read boot (which eventually became Maximum PC), and PC Gamer. I haven't read either in years, mostly because there's little point now. Back then, they were useful for reviews and such. Now, with the speed of the web, that stuff is a...
[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Back in the Day - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─Agree. I used to buy various Linux magazines for the disc: I was on dialup. Now, if I want to check out a distro, I download (although my distro hopping days are gone for the foreseeable future.... no fracking time (Hulk sad))
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:55] <exec> 08└─Try going to home depot only to find that they banned hammers, or nails, or a specific size of nail, or a specific size of drill bit; arbitrarily. That is why people hate Twitter.
[23:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Users are accustomed to getting everything free - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─A new business model for web content is emerging (think: Amazon Prime and Netflix), but you aren't going to like it.
[23:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PornHub? - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:05] <exec> 08└─If you look at their Insights blog, according to their own numbers, a huge chunk of people just watch collections of gifs, especially women.
[23:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:PornHub? - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:08] <exec> 08└─The only person I knew who used Vine was a rather perverted indigenous Mexican ex-girlfriend from Oaxaca [wikipedia.org] who used it to see what kinds of filthy gay sex her male homosexual friends were getting into. Especially her dark-skinned friend who was known by the nickname "Indio Joto."
[23:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Greed/cronyism - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:10] <exec> 08└─The main problem is that people were put in charge that just wanted money out of it, and they hired all their friends on to milk out that investor money while it lasts.
[23:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Applies not just to "older women" - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:28] <exec> 08└─Was this EVER suggested as a remedy for infections? I have heard it recommended for kidney stones as a preventative, simply because some of its acidity persists into the urine stream.
[23:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Wrong conclusion: addendum - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 1858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, it wasn't done in this study. See the linked Cochrane review in my previous post, or see the JAMA editorial [jamanetwork.com] which accompanied this article for details of other studies which did use actual cranberry juice. For a brief history, originally cranberry juice was hypothesized to hel...
[23:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:There was a time it hurt when I peed - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:40] <exec> 08└─Another high quality post from MichaelDavidCrawford.* I had never heard the euphemism "William Jefferson Clinton" for Gentleman's Sausage before. +1 informative. *No sarcasm intended.
[23:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03garlicbready [6388] (Score:1) 02Cranberry Juice is a pain killer - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:42] <exec> 08└─I've had problems with UTI's in the past myself (for some reason a reaction to white bread and caffeine) What I discovered is that cranberry juice acts as a pain killer when you have a UTI (it masks the pain) But it doesn't get rid of a UTI, it just hides it
[23:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:53] <exec> 08└─Well, it is an easy and interesting way to get chrome to run code. I didn’t know people actually used atom, or actually thought about using atom other than for setting windows global hotkeys.
[23:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:15] <exec> 08└─Truly, this frojack knows a few things.
[23:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:a question ? - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:25] <exec> 08└─I should submit a research paper to window companies that if I throw a brick at a glass window it might break the window.
[23:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Grow up - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:37] <exec> 08└─No, that isn't how it works at all. But for you, facts have never really been an obstacle, have they?
[23:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Grow up - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:39] <exec> 08└─> You do realize that recycling of building materials is a thing, right? Seriously, have you been diagnosed with autism? Or is it just a combination of ego-maniacal narcissism and stupidity? > And buildings routinely failed or are condemned before the duration of a PPA would expire. 'Routinely?' Dud...
[23:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:appearance - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:42] <exec> 08└─I've never been able to wrap my brain around the reality that solar decreases property value or "looks ugly."
[23:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:09] <exec> 08└─In practice, that attack would be extremely difficult to pull off on SN. Right now, only logged in users actually touch our application servers, everything else is shunted into a varnish cache (ACs basically get 5 minute snapshots of the site at any given moment). If push came to shove, we could ena...
[23:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:11] <exec> 08└─Oh, and to answer, we're hosted on Linode. Amazon might be better to better wither a DDoS (we've gone into degraded performance because someone blasted Linode's data centers off the net before), but we'd loosing IPv6 capability. We could also deploy a CDN or a LOT of other things before we'd run out...
[23:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:13] <exec> 08└─Heh, right now I'm pretty certain I could knock us off the net entirely with as little as half a dozen hosts. But then I know exactly what hits the DB the hardest and there's a pull request fixing it sitting on github as we speak.
[23:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Agreed - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:21] <exec> 08└─Nah, it was me challenging the IOT source claims in the popular press. All 278 Alexa users decided to sic her on Soylent.
[23:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03gOnZo [5184] (Score:1) 02Old news... - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:37] <exec> 08└─Trump has been using one of these since the start of the campaign!
[23:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:11] <exec> 08└─Funny, whenever I'm realistic about race, I get called a racist. I guess it's okay to shit on white guys simply because of the color of their skin but anyone else you're a racist.
[23:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:12] <exec> 08└─I guess it's okay to shit on white guys simply because of the color of their skin but anyone else you're a racist.
[23:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:16] <exec> 08└─False dichotomy. Many, many more white people are killed by cops every year and nobody thinks that's racially motivated.
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